Gu Jiao played chess with the old beggar for a while and then left. Of course, she did not forget to take the gold ingots and "part-time wages" she earned.
However, she also had a bit of conscience, and the old man left those coins and pieces of silver.
It was still early, so Gu Jiao went to the Hanlin Academy. She originally planned to wait for Xiao Liulang to finish his duty, but only when she asked Kong Mu of the Hanlin Academy did she find out that Xiao Liulang had gone to the countryside again.
But this time, I didn't go very far, it was in the capital, and I could come back at night.
"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked politely, turned and left the Hanlin Academy.
Today, Xiao Jingkong is going to play at Xu Porridge's house. She said hello in the morning. She doesn't have to go to the Imperial College to pick him up. In the evening, Xu's family will send him back to the hospital.
Gu Jiao decided to go directly to the hospital.
What even Gu Jiao didn't expect was that on the way back to the medical center, she encountered a gangster.
Gu Jiao snorted in confusion. It's still a long way from the Chinese New Year. Did you open for business so early
There are six gangsters in total. From their clothes, they look like grass bandits and refugees. However, several of them are strong and strong, and they look a bit like holding knives and swords. They should indeed have some martial arts background.
Several people covered their faces with cloth towels and stared at her.
Gu Jiao thought for a while and asked, "Robbery?"
Her current honor is not a robbery, right? But it's hard to say, some men won't care so much if they don't open meat for a long time.
Ugh.
Gu Jiao was not interested.
Gu Jiao turned around and left, not even bothering to fight.
"stop!"
The little bastard headed by him drank vigorously.
As a result of Gu Jiao's standing, several thugs were beaten with bruises and bruised faces, crying for father and mother.
Gu Jiao didn't bother to report to the officials. Given their current state of misery, it is estimated that the officials nearby will be alerted soon, so she doesn't need to do anything.
Gu Jiao brushed off her wide sleeves and walked back to the hospital.
The reason why she chooses to walk is not because she is very busy, nor because she is distressed about the money of hiring a carriage, but purely because she is observing the shops along the street.
On the way back to the hospital, I finally did not encounter any minor troubles.
"Little Gu! I'm back!"
It's the second home.
The business of the hospital has improved a lot, and the number of orders from the pharmaceutical factory has also increased. In addition to making their own brand of gold sore medicine, they also made some pills to nourish qi and nourish blood.
Er Dong's family was so busy that he was bald, and it was rare to meet Gu Jiao.
"Uncle Hu." Gu Jiao greeted him, "What's the happy event today?"
Er Dongjia smiled mysteriously: "I'll show you something!"
"What?" Gu Jiao asked.
"This!" Er Dongjia took out a golden post in his arms, "This is what I finally won. Originally, our Miaoshoutang was newly opened, and we were not qualified to participate in this kind of party, but who made me so powerful? Woolen cloth!"
Gu Jiao still didn't quite understand.
The second owner did some popular science with her, and Gu Jiao finally understood. This was actually an exchange meeting organized by a chamber of commerce in the capital. Although Miaoshoutang was a medical center, it was not a welfare institution of the imperial court, and was also eligible to join the chamber of commerce. .
More development opportunities and partners can be sought in the chamber of commerce, and there are formal members and informal members.
It is true that the second owner took a lot of effort to get the invitation from the Chamber of Commerce, and the date is next month.
He didn't expect to become a full member of the Chamber of Commerce all of a sudden, after all, the Huichun Hall that year also went to the ranks of the Chamber of Commerce for several years.
"The first time is born, the second time is familiar. This time we mainly go to gain knowledge, what do you think?" The second owner asked.
"Okay." Gu Jiao has no opinion, she trusts Er Dong's wholeheartedly in business matters.
I have to say, this feeling of being trusted is very good.
Er Dongjia smiled and said: "Then I'll arrange it, you remember to spare these days!"
"Yeah." Gu Jiao nodded in response.
"Okay, go get busy, oops!" Er Dongjia suddenly looked at Gu Jiao's cuff and shouted, "You're hurt!"
He shouted so loudly that the whole hall heard it, as did Eunuch Wei, who had just gotten off the carriage.
"What's the matter? Who is injured? Is Miss Gu injured?" Eunuch Wei trotted in anxiously and came to Gu Jiao's side.
Gu Jiao lifted the cuff that Er Dong's family was looking at. There were indeed a few drops of blood on it, but she was not injured. She should have accidentally rubbed the other party's blood on her clothes when cleaning up the gang of gangsters.
"It's not mine." Gu Jiao said.
"Then what happened to the blood?" Eunuch Wei pointed to her sleeve and asked worriedly.
Gu Jiao snorted: "I just met a few gangsters and taught me a lesson."
Uneasy, Eunuch Wei pulled Gu Jiao's wrist, blocked the view of the others with his body, pulled up her sleeve, and checked it carefully.
After confirming that there were no wounds or bruises, Eunuch Wei breathed a long sigh of relief.
He pulled up Gu Jiao's sleeves. He was a eunuch, and he didn't have too many men and women to guard against, but in public, he still didn't want Gu Jiao's arm to be seen by others.
"Eunuch Wei, why are you here?" Gu Jiao asked.
Wei Gonggong said: "Your Majesty asked the servants to come here. Previously, His Majesty was in a bad mood in the palace and ignored the girl. Afterwards, His Majesty calmed down and felt sorry, and ordered the imperial pantry to make some snacks that Miss Gu likes to eat. "
It's about the morning.
The emperor misunderstood that Concubine Jing pushed Eunuch Wei, was angry and complicated, and turned around and entered the study.
After taking the black medicine, only the bad side will gradually remain in the memory of that person, but the memory of others will not change. Gu Jiao is still the emperor's highly regarded little doctor.
Gu Jiao accepted the snacks, and Eunuch Wei returned to the palace to return to the palace. By the way, he told the emperor about Gu Jiao's attack: "...It's a few thugs, and Miss Gu was not injured."
There is a high probability that a gangster of this level should be a local gangster in the capital, and it is unlikely that it is a black hand sent by a big man to assassinate Gu Jiao.
After all, it's too dishy, and it can't cause any harm to Gu Jiao at all.
However, the emperor did not know what to do, and suddenly there was a figure lingering in his mind.
A terrible thought came to his mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
Reason told him that this was impossible, but the more he thought about it, the more that thought became infinitely magnified in his heart.
In the end, he seemed to be stunned, convinced of this guess.
He put the fold in hand on the table and went to the nunnery with a cold face.
At this time, it was in the evening, and all the palaces began to eat, and it was time for dinner in the nunnery. The chimneys of the small kitchens wafted green smoke, and the pavilions and pavilions added a bit of folk fireworks.
The sunset was supposed to be a very warm scene.
But the emperor's heart was cold.
"Your Majesty?" Huian, the little nun who was sweeping the courtyard, saw the emperor, her eyes became bright, she put down her broom and bowed.
The emperor didn't even look at her and went to the small Buddhist hall of Concubine Jing with a cold expression.
Concubine Jing is not in the Buddhist hall, but in the meditation room next door.
She sat down on the polished wooden floor, with a small desk in front of her, with several bottles and jars and a few fresh ingredients on the desk.
She was holding a pestle and mortar and carrying something in a small jar in her arms. A white gauze was wrapped around the thumb of her left hand. There were fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead. do this.
Mama Cai stood beside her and gave her a hand.
Suddenly, a dull footstep sounded, and Cai Ma's action of cutting the taro stopped, and she glanced at Concubine Jing beside her.
Concubine Jing lowered her head and rubbed the taro paste, as if she didn't hear any movement outside.
Mama Cai gently placed the knife and taro on the desk, intending to go over to see what was going on, but the emperor had already entered the room as soon as she stood up.
He left his shoes outside the door.
Mama Cai bowed and bowed, "Your Majesty."
Concubine Jing finally seemed to know that someone was coming, she raised her head calmly, her eyes were gentle, but she also had a touch of melancholy.
She just looked at the emperor, and without saying a word, she lowered her head to mash the taro again.
"You retire first." The emperor said to Mama Cai in a cold voice.
Madam Cai turned her head and glanced at Concubine Jing. Concubine Jing didn't speak. She lowered her head and said, "Yes, this servant will retire."
Mama Cai got up and left the house.
Knowing that she hadn't gone far, the emperor might have been listening at the door, but he didn't care that much anymore.
He sat down in front of Concubine Jing, looked at this face that he had missed day and night, and said sadly, "Why did Concubine Mother do this?"
Concubine Jing stopped the action of mashing taro, holding the jar in her arms in one hand and the pestle and mortar in the other, her eyes full of doubts: "What did I do?"
The emperor looked at Concubine Jing for a moment, and slowly clenched his hands on his knees: "Mother, don't pretend to be crazy anymore. There is no airtight wall in the world, and you know exactly what the mother has done."
"I know what I've done? Your Majesty, this is a sin that you want to add." Concubine Jing said lightly, and threw the pestle and mortar into the jar angrily. on the desk.
Her expression clearly did not have a trace of guilty conscience. It stands to reason that she should have done nothing, but the suspicions in the emperor's heart were like bamboo shoots after a rain.
The emperor said solemnly: "Okay, if the concubine wants to listen, then I will tell it to the concubine. The little genius doctor was assassinated today and was almost injured. If it wasn't for her cleverness and some skills, I'm afraid she would have been brutally murdered."
Concubine Jing was surprised: "So Your Majesty thinks that I ordered this matter?"
"Isn't it?" the emperor asked through gritted teeth.
"Why did I do this?" Princess Jing asked.
The emperor sneered: "Why? I still want to ask the concubine why! Is it that as long as the person I love, the concubine will all be driven away from me! I used to be Empress Zhuang, and now she is a little genius doctor. In my heart, I can't get close to anyone except my mother and concubine!"
Concubine Jing suddenly raised her voice: "I never thought about it like that!"
The emperor taunted his lips: "Really? Why did the concubine stop me from seeing the queen mother?"
"When am I..." Concubine Jing stopped abruptly in the middle of her words.
The emperor looked at her coldly: "Does the concubine remember? To be honest, I also forgot about this matter, but I suddenly remembered it in the past few days. I and Ning An secretly went to the cold palace to visit the queen mother. , Mother concubine punished us to kneel in the snow for a night, and Ning An became seriously ill because of it."
Concubine Jing closed her eyes and explained in a forbearance: "It's not because I don't want Concubine Liu Gui to take hold! The Queen doesn't want you to visit her in the cold palace! She doesn't want to hurt you, so why am I? My child's body hurts in my mother's heart, and when you kneel in the snow, isn't it uncomfortable for me as a mother?"
The emperor said indifferently: "Really? I don't remember the mother and concubine being half uncomfortable."
Concubine Jing squeezed her fingers.
Madam Cai outside the house was so anxious that she held a sigh of relief in her chest.
She knew the situation at that time. While Concubine Jing punished Her Majesty and Ning An, tears rolled in her eyes. No one could see that she couldn't bear it.
The emperor even said that he did not remember.
That medicine... must be that medicine...
"What your majesty says is what you say." Jing Taifei lowered her eyes, her expression and tone were hurt.
"Your Majesty!" Grandma Cai couldn't help but walked in, knelt down and said, "The concubine will not do this! The lady is someone who is reluctant to step on an ant! How could she send someone to assassinate Miss Gu? !"
The emperor's eyes suddenly flashed endless sarcasm: "An ant is reluctant to step on it? Who killed Fuqing next to me then!"
Concubine Jing's pupils shrank: "What did you say?"
The emperor said in a cold voice: "I said, the mother concubine killed my Fuqing!"
The name Fuqing has been around for a long time, and no one remembers his existence as far as the imperial palace. His Majesty served him by his side when he was a teenager.
Only after his death did the emperor have Eunuch Wei by his side.
But... Fuqing was bought several times by Concubine Liu Gui to frame the emperor, and it was more than enough to die. Moreover, it was not Concubine Jing who ordered him to be executed, it was Zhuang Jinse, the virtuous queen at that time!
"You have all shown this palace to see clearly, this is the end of backing the Lord to seek glory!"
"Your Highness... Your Highness, please save the slave... The slave knows he is wrong..."
"Mother..."
"Execution!"
It's what Zhuang Jinse did, why should it be counted on her head!
Concubine Jing's hands clenched into fists little by little. Because of the force, the knuckles were faintly white.
Grandma Cai choked and said, "No, Your Majesty! It's not the Empress Dowager—"
The emperor didn't even go to see Grandma Cai, and stared at Concubine Jing like a torch: "Okay, the concubine doesn't admit the matter of the little genius doctor, and the concubine doesn't admit the matter of Fuqing, then the concubine Yuerou's affairs should always be taken off. It doesn't matter!"
Yue Rou, Concubine Rou, when the emperor was still a prince, went to the south of the Yangtze River with the previous emperor, brought back a beauty, and named her Concubine Rou after ascending the throne.
Concubine Rou died in childbirth.
The emperor gritted his teeth and said, "On the day before Concubine Rou's death, Concubine Rou summoned her to the bedroom. What did Concubine Rou say to Concubine Rou, which actually caused Concubine Rou to give birth prematurely!"
With the conscience of the world, Concubine Jing did not summon Concubine Rou at all. Concubine Rou came to greet Concubine Jing herself. As for why she gave birth prematurely, she was also in poor health, and it had nothing to do with Concubine Jing!
Concubine Jing looked at the emperor in disbelief, her fingernails digging into her flesh.
When you get used to a person's kindness to yourself, you will forget that the goodness actually comes from a medicine, and even have a kind of self-confidence and delusion that even if the effect of the medicine dissipates, he will still be kind to himself as always.
"Don't touch the little genius doctor, don't touch anyone around me, and don't use up the last bit of mother-son relationship between us!"
After the emperor finished speaking coldly, he stood up and walked away without looking back.
Concubine Jing was so angry that she kicked the jar on the table to the floor!
That was the mashed taro that she had smashed all afternoon. She originally planned to make mashed taro cakes for the emperor.
The emperor liked to eat the desserts she made, such as jujube paste, taro paste, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and thousand layer cakes. He liked them all.
"Niangniang..." Grandma Cai was wronged on her behalf. In order to mash the taro paste, the concubine's hand was injured.
Concubine Jing looked at the gauze-wrapped thumb and murmured, "He didn't even notice that my hand was hurt."
A person who is being held with great care suddenly becomes a person who doesn't care. The gap between them is huge.
Madam Cai said distressedly: "Niangniang... The slaves have persuaded you long ago, it's useless, you might as well do nothing..."
Concubine Jing's eyes were deep and said: "Zhuang Jinse didn't do anything back then, and I often wonder, why didn't she do something? Does she not want to save her? She doesn't know that His Majesty is drugged, why is she so cruel? Heart, she is so proud? How can she let it go!"
After Zhuang Jinse found out that this son was no longer close to him, she didn't do anything to hold her back. She was like a proud phoenix, flying away without any reluctance!
He walked so decisively, walked so simply, as if he had never hurt this son!
Concubine Jing covered her heart that was stabbing with a sharp knife: "... Isn't she sad?"
Madam Cai secretly sighed: "How could she not be sad? It's just her temperament. She would rather be sad to the point of death than be humble and pity from anyone. The same is true for the late emperor, and the same for His Majesty."
How many sleepless nights does Zhuang Jinse have to hide in the dark and lick his wounds
She may have suffered, cried, and pierced her heart, but she will not let people see her weakness.
Since she turned the late emperor's harem into leeks in her own pot, she has long ceased to be the Zhuang Jinse she used to be.
Concubine Jing returned to her meditation room and took out the imperial decree.
Mother Cai's expression changed: "Niangniang, what are you doing! Don't be impulsive!"
(End of this chapter)