At the end of July, after half a month of treatment, the Empress Dowager's stroke was cured, and even her previous forgetfulness problem was alleviated a lot. She even remembered that it was Jiang Yunzhu who asked for medical treatment and provided medicine for her, and also remembered that Jiang Yunzhu's cooking was particularly delicious.
Therefore, Jiang Yunzhu often went to the palace to help the Empress Dowager cook.
Every time she entered the palace, Shen Fengming would accompany her, fearing that she would encounter some difficulties in the palace.
The palace is divided into the outer palace and the inner palace. The inner palace is where the concubines live. Ordinary people and even some unfavored princes are not allowed to enter without permission. Of course, the empress dowager loves Shen Fengming, so Shen Fengming can walk freely.
But Sixteen was not allowed to enter the inner palace and could only wait in the outer palace every time.
It was already the beginning of August, and the Empress Dowager was getting stronger and stronger. Jiang Yunzhu knew that she had avoided the misfortune in her dream, and she felt relieved.
On this day, Shen Fengming gave Jiang Yunzhu a bracelet. This bracelet looked like an ordinary silver bracelet, but it was actually an exquisite hidden weapon. As long as you press the yellow gem on the bracelet, a flying needle will shoot out of the bracelet. The flying needle is coated with anesthetic, and the person hit by the flying needle will pass out in a few breaths.
If you press the blue gem, the needles that are shot out will be extremely poisonous and the person hit will die quickly.
Having experienced the kidnapping incident that night, Jiang Yunzhu did not refuse his kindness and put the bracelet on her hand.
You know what, this bracelet is actually quite nice, she likes it.
Two or three days later, the Empress Dowager wanted to eat the Taibai duck made by Jiang Yunzhu, so Jiang Yunzhu went to the palace early.
Shen Fengming rode a horse and accompanied them.
When the two arrived at the palace gate, they happened to meet Lin Tingan.
Xiao Liyu was under house arrest and could not leave Chonghua Palace, so now only Lin Tingan could go into the palace to see her.
"Governor Shen." Lin Ting'an saluted Shen Fengming.
Shen Fengming just nodded and ignored his meaning.
Lin Ting'an lowered his eyelashes to hide the emotions in his eyes.
Jiang Yunzhu and Shen Fengming went to the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, while Lin Tingan went to Chonghua Palace.
An hour later, Jiang Yunzhu had prepared the meal, and Nanny Qi came over and said, "The Emperor is here today, dining with the Queen Mother, Governor Shen is accompanying us, and the County Lady..."
Every time Jiang Yunzhu came, Shen Fengming would follow her, and the two of them would come together and leave together. Nanny Qi and even the Empress Dowager vaguely noticed something, and the Empress Dowager became more and more kind to Jiang Yunzhu, and sometimes even let her dine with them.
But it’s different when the emperor is here.
Jiang Yunzhu understood, and she was hesitating whether to leave first or wait here and wait for Shen Fengming to come together.
"The county lady must be hungry too. Why don't you go and have a rest first? I'll ask them to prepare something for you to eat. You can talk later after you finish eating." Madam Qi said carefully.
First, Jiang Yunzhu had been cooking for such a long time. It was hot in summer and she was covered in sweat. She really should take a break and eat something. Otherwise, even though it was already evening, the sun was still shining brightly. It would be too tiring for her to go back home like this.
Second, maybe after the emperor leaves, the empress dowager still wants to see Jiang Yunzhu.
Since she said so, Jiang Yunzhu nodded in agreement.
Nanny Qi asked a young eunuch to come over and take Jiang Yunzhu to a side hall to rest, while she went to serve the Empress Dowager.
Jiang Yunzhu followed the eunuch to a side hall where there was ice. As soon as she came in, she felt a cool breeze and she sighed comfortably.
The young eunuch was very capable. He first brought Jiang Yunzhu a basin of hot water, then gave her a towel and other things, and finally brought her hot tea before leaving.
Jiang Yunzhu put the towel into hot water, soaked it, wrung it dry, and wiped the sweat off her face.
Just then, someone knocked on the door. It was a palace maid who came to bring food to Jiang Yunzhu.
So soon? It was probably dinner time, and the imperial kitchen had prepared the food. Jiang Yunzhu didn't think much about it and let the maid in.
The palace maid was holding a tray with four dishes and a soup on it.
"Just leave it there." Jiang Yunzhu said before she finished wiping her face.
"Yes." The palace maid agreed, put the tray on the table, and while placing the food on the table, she secretly looked at Jiang Yunzhu.
Seeing Jiang Yunzhu lowering her head to twist the towel, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and shook it gently.
Jiang Yunzhu smelled a sweet fragrance, that fragrance... No, this fragrance was good... Before she could think of more, she lost consciousness.
When the palace maid saw her faint, she hurried over, picked her up and went out.
Jiang Yunzhu just felt hot, very hot and uncomfortable. She opened her eyes reluctantly, but saw a cluster of flowers and a man
The man looked very ordinary. He was originally wearing the clothes of a guard, but now he was taking off his clothes.
Jiang Yunzhu was horrified, but her mind became much clearer. After looking carefully, she realized that this seemed to be behind a bush of flowers, and it seemed to be still inside the palace, but she didn't know where in the palace it was.
When the man opposite saw that she woke up, he looked a little guilty at first, then he gritted his teeth, took off his shirt, and walked towards Jiang Yunzhu.
"Who are you?" Jiang Yunzhu wanted to stand up, but she felt her body was very weak. After trying her best, she could only move back a little.
The man said nothing and grabbed her arm.
Jiang Yunzhu said hurriedly, "General Shen Fengming, you know, I am his man. If you hurt me, you know the consequence." The situation was urgent, and she knew that saying anything else would be nonsense. She could only talk about Shen Fengming, hoping that his reputation for evil would scare the other party for a while.
Sure enough, fear flashed across the man's face.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Yunzhu seemed to struggle to stand up. In fact, she had adjusted the direction of the bracelet. If the other party still refused to let her go...
Of course the man would not let Jiang Yunzhu go. He came with the determination to die.
Jiang Yunzhu wanted to press the gem button on the bracelet, but at this moment a heat surged up her head, and she felt dizzy and heavy, and her hands had no strength. In her panic, she didn't know whether she pressed the button or which button she pressed.
The man was now very close to her. Jiang Yunzhu felt sick and panicked, and couldn't even shout for help.
Seeing that the man was about to tear her clothes off, she used up her last bit of strength to press the button on the bracelet again.
The man's eyes suddenly widened and he fell to the side.
If Jiang Yunzhu was conscious, she would know that the flying needles she had shot before had taken effect. However, her mind was in a mess now, and she was pressing the button on the bracelet subconsciously until she saw the man fall to the ground.
She lay there limp, her mind going blank.
Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her arm, and she regained consciousness briefly. It turned out that her arm had just touched the flowers next to her, and those roses had thorns, which scratched her skin, and blood was oozing out from there.
Jiang Yunzhu seized this opportunity and reached out to grasp the rose thorn.
More tingling sensations came, and she became more awake. She knew that she was not in the right state, and she must have been drugged.
She had to leave here quickly and find Shen Fengming or Sixteen, only then would she be safe.
She pulled a branch off the rose, held it in her hand, struggled to stand up, and looked around.
This is a garden, it doesn’t seem to be the imperial garden, I don’t know where it is.
There was no one around.
As she was anxious, she saw the sparkling lake in the south and staggered towards that direction.
At this time, in Chonghua Palace, Lin Tingan was appreciating the flowers with Xiao Liyu, but neither of them was paying attention to this, so no one spoke.
Suddenly, a palace maid came hurriedly, as if she had something urgent to do.
"I'm not feeling well and want to rest." Xiao Liyu said to Lin Tingan.
"Okay." Lin Ting'an said sympathetically.
Xiao Liyu left quickly, but Lin Tingan did not leave.
Emperor Qinglong finished his meal with the Empress Dowager before getting up and leaving.
The Queen Mother is old and she has crooked thoughts after dinner.
Seeing this, Shen Fengming stood up and said goodbye.
"County Princess Yunrong is in the side hall." Nanny Qi helped the empress dowager lie down and whispered to Shen Fengming.
“Thank you.” Shen Fengming left and went to the side hall to find Jiang Yunzhu, wanting to go back with her.
Who would have thought that the side hall was empty. There was food on the table, but no one had eaten it.
Shen Fengming's expression changed immediately, "Where is County Master Yunrong?" His voice was as sharp as a cold knife.
No one answered, and no one saw Jiang Yunzhu.
Shen Fengming was about to go find Madam Qi, when a eunuch trembled and said, "I saw that Lady Yunrong was in the room, and soon a guard came and knocked on the door.
Yunrong County Lady asked, "Who is it?"
The guard said, 'It's me.'
Princess Yunrong opened the door and left with the guard.
Everyone could hear what he said. What he meant was that there was something going on between the guard and Jiang Yunzhu, so Jiang Yunzhu followed him and left.
Shen Fengming grabbed his neck and almost strangled him to death, "Where did she go?" He didn't believe that Jiang Yunzhu would go with someone else, but he knew that Jiang Yunzhu must be in danger.
He was so angry that he had to use a lot of effort to control himself and not break the eunuch's neck immediately.
The eunuch was so frightened that he wet his pants and could not speak. He pointed to the west.
Shen Fengming squeezed him hard and made him pass out. "Keep an eye on him and don't let him commit suicide, otherwise you will all be accomplices." After saying this, he jumped to the west.
The look in his eyes before he left frightened everyone into silence. In the middle of summer, everyone felt cold.
After he had been gone for a long time, everyone quickly tied up the eunuch's hands and feet and removed his jaw, fearing that he would commit suicide. Shen Fengming came back and asked them to enter the Zhenfu Division.
In that place, few people who go in come out intact.
Jiang Yunzhu was in the West Garden, not too far from the Cining Palace.
Although there seemed to be no one in Xiyuan, there was actually someone watching from afar, waiting for Shen Fengming to find out that Jiang Yunzhu had left with someone else, and come to look for her, only to run into that ** scene.
But why is there no movement behind the flowers for a long time? Logically, it should be...
Someone went to check, but they only saw the man lying on the ground with his eyes wide open. Jiang Yunzhu was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is the person?" "Search quickly!" Several people immediately looked around for her, but found no trace of Jiang Yunzhu.
"Don't look for him anymore. Governor Shen will be here soon. Then..." The person who spoke shuddered.
A few people didn't dare to stay any longer and left quickly.
After they left, a man came out from behind the tree. It was Lin Ting'an. He looked behind the flowers thoughtfully. Suddenly, he picked up a piece of cloth from a rose next to him. His pupils shrank slightly. If he remembered correctly, Jiang Yunzhu was wearing this Seven Treasures Lotus green dress when she entered the palace today.
He held the cloth and looked around. When he saw the lake in the south, he immediately remembered the last time Jiang Yunzhu escaped from under his nose. She had escaped by water at that time.
Unexpectedly, she fell into his hands again.
Lin Ting'an's heart was beating fast, he suppressed his excitement and looked at the lake. Then, he quickly went to the southwest corner of the lake. He concluded that if Jiang Yunzhu was really in the lake, she would definitely come ashore from there.
Not long after he left, Shen Fengming came to Xiyuan and saw the dead body.
He immediately recognized that this man died from the poison from the flying needle on Jiang Yunzhu's wrist.
Jiang Yunzhu has been here and the situation must be bad.
There were a few drops of bright red blood on the flowers next to him, and the color of blood stimulated Shen Fengming's nerves.
He stood up and looked around. Soon, his eyes fell on the lake, and then he jumped to the southwest corner of the lake.
Jiang Yunzhu was indeed in the lake. She knew that she must have been poisoned by something like **. Going into the water could keep her awake temporarily. Moreover, by following the water, she could also leave this dangerous place first.
In midsummer, even the lake water seemed to become warm. After Jiang Yunzhu went into the water, she felt comfortable for a while, and then the suppressed heat surged up again.
She didn't dare to delay any longer and swam towards the southwest corner of the lake.
Just as she was about to reach the destination, she suddenly saw someone on the shore and quickly dived into the water.
Lin Ting'an has already seen Jiang Yunzhu. She is like a fish, swimming in the water, agile and beautiful.
And he is about to catch this fish!
He stopped and stood on the shore, waiting for Jiang Yunzhu to show up.
Jiang Yunzhu vaguely saw that the person on the shore was Lin Tingan. She became anxious and the heat in her body became stronger and stronger. Her strength also disappeared, and she was unable to support herself to swim to another place.
The more anxious I became, the harder it was to hold back the breath in my stomach.
She had no choice but to surface.
As the sun sets, the warm sunlight shines on the lake, and the water ripples like gold.
Jiang Yunzhu slowly emerged from the water. Her pretty face was flushed with red, making her eyes look more watery and her skin more tender.
Her long hair stuck to her body, outlining her graceful figure.
Today she was wearing a water-green long skirt embroidered with seven-treasure lotus. The skirt stuck to her body, revealing her alluring breasts and waist as she emerged from the water.
Because her body was covered with water droplets, when the sunlight shone on her, her whole body seemed to be stained with a layer of golden light.
Gorgeous and holy, "the goddess of Luo River emerging from the water" is not enough to describe the beautiful scenery before his eyes. Lin Ting'an only felt his blood rushing, and the only thing in his eyes was the person in the lake.
Shen Fengming, who had rushed over from that direction, also happened to see this scene. He was distracted for a moment, then fixed his gaze on Lin Tingan, his eyes full of murderous intent.