Chapter 23

After returning to the palace that day, I saw that the door of Li Guiren's hall was still tightly closed, and from the slightly opened diamond window of the east side hall, there seemed to be a smell of roasted pigeons wafting out.Chu Jin hated greasy and meaty smell the most, and felt like throwing up after smelling too much.

Just as he was about to go back to his room, he saw an imperial physician coming out of the east side hall, holding a medicine box in his hand, and he was muttering something in his mouth without looking at the road, and almost bumped into Chu Jin.

The imperial physician took a step back, cupped his hands and said, "I'm being impolite, I wonder which young master it is?"

Linglong said: "My young master is Chu Changzai."

The imperial physician bowed again to apologize and was in a hurry to leave, but Chu Jin called to stop him, "Is Mrs. Li in trouble?"

"It's nothing serious." The imperial physician shook his head with frowned eyebrows, then said after a moment of silence, "It's just that I was overly frightened, and my mind is at a loss. This minister hastened to tell the emperor about it."

Chu Jin sent the imperial physician out of the palace gate with a smile, and then went back to the West Side Hall with Linglong and closed the door.

"This time, Li Guiren was really scared." Linglong lifted the ice from the jade urn, and fanned Chu Jin to cool off, "Although the Li family's official position is not as good as the master, it is still a decent family. Li Guiren She is not a golden branch and a jade leaf, but she is still a small family jade. I am afraid that she has never been on the couch by mice, and there are many mice crawling on the couch, and I am afraid that the panic in her heart will not be relieved for a moment."

Chu Jin chose a green fruit to eat, looked at Linglong with raised eyebrows and asked, "Did you just smell the smell in her east side hall?"

Linglong held her chin for a while and said, "Looks like roast chicken?"

"It's roasted pigeon, it's greasy than roasted chicken."

"Miss is the most taboo of those foods, and she will feel sick when she smells them. Perhaps Li Guiren is weak, and the palace servants went to the imperial dining room to get these nourishing things for her to use."

Chu Jin shook his head and smiled and said, "I still remember when you were wronged and stole things when you were young, and Mrs. Lin locked you in the woodshed and didn't give you food or drink. I ran to look for you secretly, and brought a greasy I gave you the chicken legs, but you couldn’t eat a bite of the chicken legs, you just said you were scared and had no appetite.”

Linglong nodded slowly, and said hesitantly, "You mean Li Guiren, she is pretending to be afraid?"

Chu Jin nodded and remained silent, Linglong said again: "Why?"

"You'll see why later."

After taking a lunch break, Chu Jin called Linglong to play chess with him in his room after eating some fruits.

After three rounds, Linglong always loses a lot of Chujin, so she can't stop yelling.

At this moment, there was a lot of commotion in the courtyard, and the gatekeeper called out that Eunuch Liu had arrived, so Chu Jin and Linglong went out to have a look.

Coincidentally, Li Guiren, who was lying on the couch with palpitations and couldn't get up and down, came faster than them, but his complexion didn't look good, and his brows and eyes were drooping and listless.

Liu Qi saw that Li Guiren came out to greet her in person, and leaned forward to give her a hand with a flattering smile, "Oh, what a nobleman~ Why did you come out in person when you were sick?"

Li Guiren vainly said: "Eunuch is here at this time, is there something wrong?"

"The emperor is concerned about your illness, so he ordered his servants to come and tell you, and come to accompany you during dinner. The nobleman rests now and waits for the emperor to come."

Hearing this, Li Guiren seemed to have taken a panacea, his brows and eyes did not droop and he spoke with energy, he smiled and wanted to greet Liu Qi to sit in the hall.

Liu Qi only said that he was rushing back to do business, and left without staying too long.

Li Guiren glared at Chu Jin, snorted arrogantly, and squirmed into the door of the Eastern Hall.

"Where does she look sick? That pale complexion is clearly painted on. Who is she pretending to see?" Linglong couldn't help but said angrily: "No wonder Miss just said that the servant will know what she is putting on after a while. , It turned out that she wanted to use this to invite pets. Miss, look at her appearance of being a villain just now, if she invites the emperor, why don't you roll your eyes at us?"

Chu Jin smiled lightly, and told Linglong to go back to her room to clean up the chessboard, and said that she was going to the Imperial Garden for a walk, so she didn't need to follow her.

After leaving Zhaochun Palace, I ran all the way towards Chaoyang Palace, and after a while, I saw Liu Qi's hasty figure.

Chu Jin called from a distance: "Eunuch Liu~~~~~"

Liu Qi stopped when he heard the words, and saw that Chu Jin was sweating from running, so he turned back to meet him, "Chu Chang is here, why are you here?"

"Hoo hoo." Chu Jin gasped for a few rough breaths, and after calming down, he said: "I heard that the emperor will come to Zhaochun Palace to have dinner with the noble sister at night, isn't it?"

Liu Qi flicked the whisk in his hand, thinking that Chu Jin wanted to get something from him, so he just nodded and didn't speak.

"Your father-in-law just looked at the noble lady's sister, how are you looking?"

Liu Qi shook his head, and Chu Jin said again: "Pale complexion, weakness, night sweats, and lack of vision, these are the initial symptoms of the plague. The plague in 59 years of Keyuan killed one tenth of the people in Zhaodu. It was dangerous. The degree can be seen. At that time, Zhaodu was littered with corpses. I think Eunuch Liu had seen the severity of the disease. When the plague first appeared, he had symptoms like Li Guiren's. Come on. You can only tell when the disease comes out. But by then, people are hopeless."

Chu Jin saw that Liu Qi's face was a little flustered, and continued: "The elder sister crawled on the bed last night with more than a dozen rats. If any rat bites her, how can she be cured of this disease? The nobleman has nothing to do. , if there is something to do, the eunuch welcomes the emperor at night, and then gives the emperor his sickness, then you will become Dazhao's sinner?"

After hearing this, Liu Qi nodded thoughtfully, didn't say anything more to Chu Jin, and left in a hurry.

Chu Jin went to the imperial garden for a while, and when he returned to the palace, it was just in time for dinner, and he saw that Li Guiren had painted exquisite pear blossom makeup, changed into a sky-blue silk gown, and was standing in the courtyard in good spirits, waiting The emperor arrives.

This appearance is pleasant to look at, not even half sick.

The woman serves others with color, if she is still sick at noon, she will be disappointed when the emperor comes.

Being in the way of his position, Chu Jin gave her a salute before walking towards his side hall.

Li Guiren stopped her from behind, and said with a wanton smile, "What? You heard that the emperor is coming, are you rushing back to dress up and make a decent appearance?"

Chu Jin said with a slight smile: "Whether the emperor loves to come or not, I don't need sleep, so I'm not in a hurry."

"You..." Chu Jin's words made the palace people laugh secretly. Li Guiren was at a loss for words for a while, his face flushed with shame, and he only shouted after Chu Jin knew it in the Xibian Hall, "Look at your appearance, the emperor saw you It's disgusting, entering the palace is also a widow's life!"

Chu Jin was sitting in the room eating dinner, listening to Li Guiren's intermittent scolding, he just found it funny.

The night was getting darker, it was almost two hours since Chu Jin finished his dinner, looking out through the Ling window, Li Guiren was still waiting in the courtyard.

Her expression turned from hopeful to ashamed, and she looked at the palace gate with tears in her eyes.

Chu Jin didn't bother to pay attention to her, and took a rest early.

In the morning of the second day, when I got up to take a shower, I saw Li Guiren standing in the courtyard all night, all the palace people accompanied her, all with sleepy eyes, it was quite spectacular.

Chu Jin snorted, stretched her waist and jokingly said to Li Guiren: "Yo, my sister has served the emperor all night, and she still thinks about dressing up like this in the morning and standing in front of the door to send the emperor off. She really has the intention."

After saying that, he covered his mouth and smiled, and went back to the room with Li Guiren's weak and hoarse abuse.

(End of this chapter)

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