imperial psychologist

Chapter 401 Initial Appearance
In this way, for the first time ever, Emperor Qitai did not ask Zhen Shi to stay, but asked her to go to the side hall to rest.

Zhen Shi complied - she was indeed very tired, very tired.

After watching Emperor Qitai close her eyes to rest again, she slowly walked out of Sanxi Hall.

This small palace is just behind the Hall of Mental Cultivation. As soon as you go out, you can see the cornices of the Hall of Mental Cultivation not far away. There are still ladders there, and palace people are knocking on the eaves, repairing the fierce battle that night. left traces.

The sound of clanging hammers accentuated the tranquility of the surroundings. Standing in the sunlight for a while, Zhen Shi suddenly saw Qiu Shi come back a little depressed.

She stopped walking towards the side hall, and waited on the spot with some concern.

"Ah, ma'am..." Qiu Shi didn't see Mrs. Zhen standing on the stone steps until before the steps, and he quickly knelt down.

"Come back from Qinyuan?" Mrs. Zhen asked softly.

"That's right," Qiu Shi scratched his face, "I'm a servant... I didn't finish my mission... I can only hurry back and apologize to the empress and the emperor."

Zhenshi blinked, "What's wrong?"

"The rewards sent by the slaves these days...Mr. Hengyuan has not accepted them even once."

Qiu Shi said with a mournful face - when he was announcing the good news for Emperor Jianxi, no one had dared to openly express that he would not grant a reward.

"I didn't ask for it once..." Zhen repeated in a murmur.

"Hey." Qiu Shi nodded, "However, according to the order of the empress, the servants asked the people from the House of Internal Affairs to change the layout of Qinyuan's room and re-measure the size of his clothes. The new clothes are estimated to be ready in two days. Do it."

Zhen Shi nodded, "Is Eunuch Huang okay?"

As soon as Huang Chongde was mentioned, Qiu Shi's eyes suddenly turned red. After suppressing the rebellion, his first reaction was to rush to the poison prison to save people. Poor Huang Chongde, a kind-hearted old man, was tied to a torture pole alone, with scars on his body. Tired, head down unconscious.

Qiu Shi bowed his head and said, "Thank you, Empress, for thinking about it. Eunuch Huang is fine, but he is getting older, and the injuries on his body are not so easy to heal. The palace doctor has prescribed all the medicines that should be prescribed, and the slaves will take care of them every day... ..."

"If the medicine prescribed by the palace doctor doesn't improve," Zhen said softly, "Go to the imperial hospital and ask the imperial doctor."

"Hey, good... good!" Qiu Shi nodded again and again, and choked up for a moment, "Thank you, Madam..."

Under Qiu Shi's watchful eye, Zhen Shi slowly left Sanxi Hall, she pushed back most of the palace people, and walked slowly towards Qinyuan with only two maidservants close to her.

The road from Meridian Gate to Qinyuan, Mrs. Zhen followed her father many times when she was a child.

Now it is midsummer again, amidst the faint chirping of cicadas, everything seems to be back to the past, but the stone bricks on the ground are getting more and more dilapidated, and the stone walls on both sides of the corridor are getting more and more mottled.

At the end of the quiet path, she saw a half-closed gate covered with layers of iron locks.The old wealthy family can now clearly see the wooden texture on it.

I don't know how many chains have been replaced over the years, leaving dark brown rust on the door.

"Your Majesty, be careful where you step." The servant girl at the side reminded her in a low voice, and Mrs. Zhen looked slightly in front of her, and saw a few scattered broken bricks not far away.

Zhen Shi bypassed them.

"Do you want the servants to communicate first?"

"Go." Zhen Shi nodded.

However, before the maid approached the gate of Qinyuan, the two heavy wooden doors opened from the inside with a "squeak".

Han Chong walked out from inside, "I'm humble, I've seen the empress."

Zhen's gaze did not evade, she whispered, "Is Mr. Hengyuan there?"

"Besides this place, Minggong has never had anywhere else to go." Han Chong replied directly, "I heard that the empress is here, and he sent me to meet her."

"Ming Gong..." Mrs. Zhen repeated the title in a low voice, and laughed a bit self-deprecatingly, "Is it fun to hide behind the scenes?"

Han Chong took two steps back to the side, and after Mrs. Zhen stepped into the Qinyuan, he followed slowly back to the yard.

The maidservant following Zhenshi couldn't help shivering the moment she crossed Han Chong's body - even though they had never seen this tall man before, they still instinctively felt it when they approached. Danger.

The courtyard of Qinyuan has been completely renewed.

The weeds in the yard have been removed and refurbished, and there are still a few mud marks on the ground that have not been completely removed. The swings are still shaking under the thick branches of the white banyan tree, but the whole yard is empty and there is no one.

Zhen Shi stood in the yard and stopped moving forward.

At about this time, she smelled a strange fragrance of tea coming from the room.

This tea fragrance was mixed with a very strong aroma of cinnamon, and Zhen Shi was slightly taken aback - she almost forgot about this smell.

In fact, except in Qinyuan, there is no such fragrance of tea in other places.Among all the people Zhen Shi met, only the first prince would throw these strange things into the tea soup, and the taste of the cooking was not so much like drinking tea as drinking soup.

Zhen Shi doesn't like to drink this kind of tea, but she loves the lotus flower sweets served with this kind of tea. For this kind of sweets, she often drank several large bowls of tea soup when she was young, and she still can't get enough of it.

And every time she comes to Qinyuan, the palace people here will specially prepare two servings of sweet pastries for her, one to eat here and the other to take home to enjoy.

The memories of the past are gone, and now almost everything here is shouting to her that "things are different".

Zhen Shi did not speak, she silently stared at the deep door.

The maidservants stood behind Zhenshi somewhat at a loss, they didn't understand what Zhenshi was waiting for.

After a while, Mr. Heng Yuan slowly walked out of the house.

He changed his clothes again, it was a silk dress that he seldom wore before, the color of the clothes was very light, with a little bit of light blue in the silvery white at dawn.

"Aren't you going to come in?" He said with a smile, "I have prepared your favorite Xianggu tea."

"Come out and talk." Zhen said softly, "You should have a lot to say to me?"

A brief moment of disappointment flashed in Heng Yuan-jun's eyes, but soon he regained the smile on his face, and slowly stepped out of the threshold into the sunlight.

Mr. Heng Yuan faintly felt a little nervous.

This feeling is quite strange...

He didn't know where to put his hands. He always felt that it would be a bit strange for them to hang on the sides, and it seemed a little stiff to clasp them in front of him.

But if you want to carry it behind your back, it seems a bit too arrogant.

He endured the corners of his mouth that were about to rise, and slowly walked to Zhen's side.

Zhen's complexion is a little pale today, she looks even more haggard than last time in the Hall of Mental Cultivation - Mr. Heng Yuan heard that this is because she has been taking care of Emperor Qitai day and night these days.

And her wrinkles... the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and mouth, Mr. Heng Yuan stared at these strange lines.

Under the pressure of these times, he can still recognize Zhen's original face.

(End of this chapter)