The sedan chair moved forward under the moonlight and stopped in front of the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The curtain was lifted and Pei Zheng got off the sedan first. His face looked abnormally pale.
Shen Jiujiu slowly poked his head out of the sedan chair and saw Pei Zheng standing next to it, as if waiting for him. Shen Jiujiu did not dare to delay and quickly jumped off the sedan chair.
Shen Shijiu didn't stand firmly the moment he landed and fell directly towards Pei Zheng.
Pei Zheng put his hand on his waist and held him firmly.
The blush on Shen Shijiu's ears reappeared, and he said in a voice as small as a mosquito's, "Thank you, sir."
Pei Zheng suddenly coughed twice, which made Shen Shijiu frightened.
"Sir, please follow me, quickly."
Shen Shijiu pulled Pei Zheng's sleeve, stepped into the mansion, and walked through the courtyards to Pei Zheng's room.
Shen Shijiu found his clothes hanging behind the screen, rummaged through his sleeves for a long time, and finally found the bottle of miraculous pills. He quickly poured out a pill and handed it to Pei Zheng's lips.
Pei Zheng looked at him without moving his lips.
Shen Shijiu said anxiously, "Sir, please open your mouth. You have taken this medicine before. You will feel better after taking it."
"When did I eat?"
"It was last time when you fainted in the small building, and then I gave you the medicine..." Shen Shijiu's voice became lower and lower as he spoke.
Should he tell the adults how he fed the medicine to them
No, that's too embarrassing.
"Just believe me, okay? I swear I will never harm you!" Shen Shijiu raised his finger to the sky with a sincere expression.
Pei Zheng finally opened his mouth and swallowed the medicine from Shen Shijiu's hand. His tongue seemed to touch his fingers accidentally.
Shen Shijiu's fingertips seemed to be burned and he quickly retracted them.
After swallowing the pill, Pei Zheng indeed felt the true energy in his body begin to slowly flow around.
Shen Shijiu didn't want to disturb Pei Zheng's rest, so he left the room and went back to his own room.
—After returning home, Shen Shijiu lay straight on the bed, his head feeling a little dizzy, and he kept thinking back to the feather-light kiss he had received in the carriage.
It wasn't a kiss, just a light touch. But it was enough to make Shen Shijiu's mind confused at that moment, and he even forgot what he wanted to ask.
Feeling his cheeks starting to burn again, Shen Shijiu whimpered and raised his hands to cover his face. Then he noticed that he was still wearing the embroidered white robe and fiery red cloak, and that he had left his clothes in Pei Zheng's room and forgot to take them back.
Shen Shijiu patted his head, stood up and changed back into his clothes. He didn't know what to do with the white robe, so he folded it neatly and put it under the suitcase, pressing it tightly together with Pei Zheng's black robe.
I went back to the bed, wrapped myself in the quilt and fell asleep, and slept until noon the next day.
After Shen Shijiu opened his eyes, he secretly cried out, "Oh no!" He thought that he had not delivered medicine to the Second Princess this morning. I hope the princess will not blame him.
He quickly got up and prepared the medicinal soup for after lunch, and Shen Shijiu wanted to send it to Shuixieju.
Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, he met the housekeeper Li Yu.
Li Yu asked the servant beside him to take the medicine bowl from Shen Shijiu's hand.
"This morning's medicine has been delivered to the princess according to the prescription. You don't have to worry. Also, you don't have to deliver the second princess' medicine in person in the future. Just give it to the servants."
Shen Nineteen said, "But the Second Princess said before that she would only drink the medicine if I personally delivered it to her."
"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it." Li Yu said, "Just take good care of the adults in the future."
Shen Shijiu asked hurriedly, "What's wrong with you, sir? Are you feeling unwell again? Are you vomiting blood again?"
Li Yu smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, the master is much better now. He went out of the house this morning to do some work and may not be back for a few days."
When Shen Shijiu heard this, there was obvious disappointment on his face. It was all his fault for sleeping in and not being able to see how the adults were recovering before they left.
Li Yu patted his shoulder and said, "My Lord has already told you to wait obediently in the mansion these few days."
Shen Shijiu nodded.
Li Yu smiled at him again, and took the servant with the medicine to Shuixieju.
In the next two days, Shen Shijiu did not go to Shuixie Ju in person. The medicinal soups were delivered by other servants.
I heard that when the second princess first saw that the person who came was not Shen Shijiu, she was very angry and spilled the medicine.
Now Qi Bingzhi was too lazy to hide his disgust and hostility towards Shen Shijiu any more. Everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion knew about it anyway.
Shen Shijiu was happy and free. He had nothing to do every day, so he played with the little black cat again.
That day, Shen Shijiu sat on a stone bench in the yard, held the kitten in front of his eyes, and rubbed his nose against its soft belly, causing the kitten to meow "卩苗兀惟兀" non-stop.
"Miou, tell me, why hasn't the master come back yet?"
Shen Shijiu put his ears on the kitten's belly, as if listening to the kitten talking.
"Oh, you said the adults are busy, so do you miss the adults?"
Shen Shijiu leaned over and listened for a while.
"Oh, you said you were right, me too."
Shen Shijiu held the kitten's paw and rubbed it for a long time. As if he had thought of something, he said, "Xiao Xi Miaowu, tell me, where did my master go? Why hasn't she come back to find me? I miss my master too..."
Counting the days, it has been almost a month since Shen Huan disappeared. In the beginning, Shen Shijiu was looking forward to Shen Huan coming to pick him up every day, but now he misses his master and is reluctant to leave.
Shen Shijiu sat in the yard with the kitten for a long time before he realized it was time for dinner, so he put the kitten down and waited for the servants to bring him dinner.
But after waiting for a long time, dinner did not come, but people from Shuixieju did come.
Those men looked very serious. They grabbed Shen Shijiu and headed towards Shuixieju without saying anything.
Shen Shijiu struggled several times but failed to break free. The men holding him used great strength and squeezed his delicate wrists until they turned red.
He ran into Li Yu head-on. Li Yu stopped the servants from Shuixieju and pointed at Shen Shijiu and asked, "What are you guys doing?"
The leading servant said, "Butler Li, Her Royal Highness the Princess wants to see him, we are just following orders."
"Under orders?" Li Yu said in a serious tone, "Who has the final say in the Prime Minister's Mansion? I only know that according to the order of the Lord, no one is allowed to touch him."
The servant still refused to let Shen Shijiu go, and even wanted to bypass Li Yu directly, but it seemed that Li Yu did not intend to let them take Shen Shijiu away.
"Butler Li, please don't make things difficult for us. We don't know why the princess summoned him. It could be that the princess's headache has come back. We can't afford to waste time."
Unexpectedly, Li Yu was used to all kinds of tricks and didn't fall for it at all.
"I will immediately send someone to the palace to find Imperial Doctor Jiang. Since the princess's illness has not improved for such a long time, we can only ask Imperial Doctor Jiang to take a look. As for Shen Shijiu, you must release him now."
The servants were obviously hesitant after hearing this. Li Yu said sternly, "Why don't you let them go? Do you think you can handle the blame from the master?"
Those people immediately let go of Shen Shijiu.
As soon as Shen Jiuyi was free, he quickly hid behind Li Yu and rubbed his wrist.
"Why hasn't he been brought here for so long? The princess is about to faint from the headache!"
It was Xiaomei next to Qi Bingzhi. The red marks from the five fingers on her face had not completely disappeared, but she seemed to look even more sarcastic and mean.
Those servants seemed to be very afraid of Xiaomei. After seeing Xiaomei, they hurried over and captured Shen Shijiu.
"We were just about to rush over, but we were stopped by Butler Li..."
Xiaomei gave the servants a look, and they quickly left with Shen Shijiu.
Li Yu was about to catch up, but was stopped by Xiaomei.
"Butler Li, although you have some status in the Prime Minister's Mansion, don't forget that you are nothing without the Prime Minister's Mansion. Don't ignore my princess just because you rely on Lord Pei's support every day."
Li Yucai was not going to give Xiaomei a good face, "Oh, I'm just a housekeeper in the Prime Minister's Mansion. What about you? You're just a little maidservant beside the Second Princess. You're no different from me."
When Li Yu walked past Xiaomei, he deliberately bumped into her shoulder and said, "Also, let me remind you that since you are now living in the Prime Minister's Mansion, don't use the intrigues in the palace."
After saying that, Li Yu turned and left. He was unable to confront Qi Bingzhi head-on, so he had to quickly find a way to inform Lord Pei.
In a small town far away from the imperial capital, there is a prison where many prisoners are held.
The long and dark corridor in the prison was lit only by a few dim candles.
After the prison door was opened, two dark shadows walked in.
"Sir, that's him."
The footsteps stopped in front of a cell, the door opened, and a dark shadow walked in.
The prisoners held inside were covered in scars and tied tightly to wooden frames.
A jailer came in and respectfully lit the candle, but the man's face was still hidden in the darkness.
The jailer only knew that the man in front of him was not ordinary, so he explained carefully, "This man seems to be a tattoo artist. He was imprisoned here because he killed the concubine of a certain master when he was tattooing her..."
Stabbed someone to death
If such advanced tattooing skills can kill someone, there must be someone behind this.
"Put it down." The man with the cold voice trembled in his heart.
The jailer quickly took the criminal down from the shelf and then walked out wisely.
After the cell door was closed again, Chengfeng walked over and dragged the person on the ground up.
The tattoo artist slowly opened his eyes, and after seeing the person standing in front of him, he widened his eyes slightly, "Pei, Master Pei."