The road of the king, the minister and the husband

Chapter 18

What Xiao Yiran said about the empress changing the emperor's medicine, Yin Tianqi didn't ask someone to investigate, firstly, this matter may not be accurate, and secondly, he didn't have much affection for the emperor to be honest.

Even if some father-son relationship has been worn away in the past two years, he still remembers that the first lesson the emperor taught him was to be a superior person, and he must be ruthless.

He hadn't realized what it was to be cruel before, but now he can try to be cruel.Yin Tianqi is very clear about the importance of the weak family relationship between father and son and the supreme position.

Xiao Yiran didn't care about his way of pretending not to know at all, and his own son didn't care about it. He, a slave who had been taught many times by the emperor for excuses, cared so much about what to do.

and……

Looking down at the book in his hand, he smiled.

Kong Yan made a special trip to Qiyang Palace on the second day after he left, and sent over the names and uses of herbs and the formulas of various poisons and antidotes that he had written back then. You can tell from his reluctance. It is Kong Yan's life-saving thing.

It's also thanks to Xiao Yiran's clever mind, not to mention his photographic memory, he can probably remember eight or nine of them after scanning it once.Holding a brush in his little hand, he wrote and drew on the side of the paper to make records, and wrote down some things he didn't understand, and waited for Kong Yan to ask him together next time he came to do acupuncture.

As for the herbs painted on the picture, Xiao Yiran curled his lips, tilted his head and glanced at a bamboo basket stacked in the corner, which contained all dried herbs, and these were just secretly taken out by Kong Yan from the pharmacy of the Supreme Hospital. The next ones can only wait for the opportunity to go out of the palace and find them slowly.

But for a beginner like him, it's pretty good. If he wasn't smart, he wouldn't be able to learn these things even if he was given them.

Just as he was concentrating on memorizing what was written in that book, he heard someone knock on the door lightly, "Young Master Xiao, Concubine Hua sent someone to send a message, please go over and ask you for something."

Xiao Yiran frowned lightly, glanced at the book in his hand and rolled his eyes, tilted his head and looked outside the door and shouted: "Understood, I'll go right away."

While shouting, he got up and went to the bed, opened the mattress that made the bed and put down the book in his hand. After thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, then picked up the book and looked around the bed, and finally sandwiched the book between the bed and the wall middle.

While changing clothes, he glanced at the bamboo basket in the corner, looked around, stuffed the basket under the bed, and then nodded in satisfaction.

It can be said that these things were brought in by Kong Yan for his treatment, but it is hard to say that they are left alone with him and looked at by others.This Qiyang Palace is not as safe as it looks, so we have to guard against it.

"Mr. Xiao, have you changed your clothes yet?" Seeing that he hadn't come out for a while, Xiao Qingzi raised his hand and knocked on Xiamen again to ask softly.

Hurriedly went to open the door, blinked at Xiao Qingzi who was looking up at him, Xiao Yiran turned to look at the eunuch who was waiting by the side with an obviously impatient face, and bent down with a smile, "Let Eunuch Sun wait for a long time , it’s already packed, let’s go.”

Eunuch Sun is quite satisfied with his politeness, but in fact Xiao Yiran is the master and he is just a slave.

However, the master and slaves are also divided into levels in this palace. From the current point of view, the eunuch next to Concubine Hua has a higher status than the companion next to the prince.

"Your servant greets Mr. Xiao. Concubine Hua is waiting for you. Mr. Xiao will go with this servant."

Xiao Yiran nodded, and winked at Xiao Qingzi to tell him not to follow, and walked out behind Eunuch Sun.

Except for Xiaoqingzi who has been serving him all the time in Qiyang Palace, there is no servant worthy of his trust.

Xiao Qingzi bowed slightly and sent the two of them out of the gate of Qiyang Palace, then turned around and walked back quickly.He had to go to Young Master Xiao's room to have a look quickly, so that no one could sneak in and take things.

Huaning Palace, the main palace where the Concubine Hua lives, has several side halls where other nobles live.

Xiao Yiran glanced at Eunuch Sun who was walking in front, rolled his eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Eunuch Sun, do you know why your mother is looking for slaves?"

Eunuch Sun didn't turn his head back in front, and said in a cold voice, "The servant is only responsible for passing on the message, the empress must have something to do with the young master, and the young master will know when he goes."

Cursing his lips and not opening his mouth to find himself uncomfortable, Xiao Yiran snorted coldly in his heart, a group of bullying guys will use you to test the medicine sooner or later.

There was no conversation along the way. After arriving at Huaning Palace, he went directly to the main hall. After entering the door, Xiao Yiran lowered his eyes and knelt down to salute, "Greetings to Concubine Hua, the servant is late, please punish her."

"Yiran is here, get up." Concubine Hua sat on the top seat, raised her hand slightly, and looked at him with a smile on his head who stood up from the ground and lowered his head slightly, "I haven't seen you for a long time, but the longer I am She is beautiful, compared to all the maids here in this palace."

Xiao Yiran bowed his waist, bowed again, and said, "Your Majesty loves you, but you are so beautiful and graceful." In his heart, he has already been scolded, what he hates the most in his life is when someone says he is beautiful, Concubine Hua just poked him where he hurts, not looking for trouble!

"It's also true that I've been feeling unwell recently. I didn't come to pay my respects to my majesty. It's no wonder that my majesty is also ignorant of etiquette." Under the gesture of Concubine Hua, he sat on a chair beside him, only sitting on one side, with his hands on his knees, and the corners of his mouth curled up. Looking at Concubine Hua with a smile.

"Your child is just out of sight. Tianqi already said when he came to pay his respects yesterday that you are unwell and you should rest well, otherwise Tianqi is also worried about you." Concubine Hua picked up her teacup and took a sip , It sounds like there is no big problem, but if you taste it carefully, why is it so unpleasant?

The master was worried about being a slave, and the master's mother told the slave about it. This is too high a view of him, and pushed him into the fire pit in a different way.

"Your Majesty is also terrified of what she said. It is a blessing for a master to think highly of a slave. How dare you make him worry about it." He quickly got up and fell to his knees, with a frightened expression on his face.

Concubine Hua couldn't make up her mind when she saw his terrified look, she winked at the court lady Lan Xin who was standing beside her, and said, "Hurry up and help Yiran up, didn't the imperial doctor say that he can't kneel with this leg?" .”

Xiao Yiran, who had already stood up slightly, knelt down again when he heard this, his face turned pale because of too much force.

Enduring the pain in his legs, he kowtowed, "Your Majesty is flattering this servant too much, and this servant knows how much he is worth, so he dare not hold him up in front of your Majesty and the Third Prince."

The imperial doctor said you can't kneel?Which doctor said it?Why doesn't he know!If His Majesty hears this, his little life will be lost!

"Look at your child, get up quickly, I don't have any other intentions, why are you so frightened, Lan Xin quickly helps you up." Concubine Hua held the silk handkerchief in her hand and shook it twice, standing Lan Xin next to Xiao Yiran reached out to help him up.

"Thank you Sister Lan Xin." Tilting his head slightly and smiling at her, Xiao Yiran lowered his head and bowed to Concubine Hua, "Thank you, Madam."

When Concubine Hua saw his pale face, she knew that he must have knocked his leg while kneeling just now, so she hurriedly called for someone to invite the imperial physician.

Eunuch Sun, who was guarding the door, just nodded in agreement, turned around to go out, and bumped into Yin Tianqi who was coming in, and knelt down and kowtowed in fright to confess his guilt.

"The slave didn't see the third prince. I begged the third prince to punish me. The slave knows his mistake." Hearing the sound of kowtow, Xiao Yiran frowned slightly. He was much more skilled at this trickery than he was.

Yin Tianqi glanced at him expressionlessly, and beckoned him to get up.

Taking off the cloak on his body, he handed it to Xiao Lizi who was beside him, and then he looked at Concubine Hua with a smile on his face, "I greet my concubine mother."

"Come and sit down, you are a bit late today." Raising her hand to greet him to come to her, the smile on Concubine Hua's face was obviously much more real.

Xiao Yiran raised his eyes to look at Yin Tianqi, frowned slightly, stood up and saluted, "Greetings to the third prince."

"Well, why are you here?" Yin Tianqi sat on a chair beside him and looked at him, his eyes unconsciously aimed at the knees of his legs.

"Your Majesty was worried about my slave's health, so I asked her to take a look at her to rest assured. The slave came just as she was about to thank her and return to the master of Qi Yang Palace." Xiao Yiran pursed his lips and lowered his eyes not to look at him, with his hands tucked into his sleeves But he was holding it tightly, and some tiny beads of sweat emerged from his forehead.

Yin Tianqi nodded, "Let's go back then." He waved his hands to make him retreat first, Xiao Yiran saw it, and quickly got up to salute the two of them, "The slave will leave." He bowed his waist and stepped back a few steps, then went out .His movements are natural and not sloppy at all. If Yin Tianqi didn't know about his awkward personality, he would have been deceived by him.

Concubine Hua didn't say anything, she just pulled Yin Tianqi to chat about her recent studies for a while, checked the time and asked to keep him here for dinner, but Yin Tianqi spoke first.

"Mother and concubine, it's getting late. The emperor told my son to go out of the palace tomorrow to see how the refugees will be resettled. My son will go back to Qiyang Palace first and prepare to leave early tomorrow morning."

After hearing what he said, Concubine Hua couldn't stay any longer, she could only nod her head and tell him to pay attention to safety, and then watched him leave.

She waved her hands to make all the waiters retreat, leaving only Lan Xin by her side. Concubine Hua changed her loving mother's look just now, and frowned at Lan Xin, "Did you find anything?"

Lan Xin shook her head, with a confused look on her face, "Madam, Mr. Xiao must have not taken the medicine, or he would not have responded at all. The servant just secretly checked his pulse. Although it is a little weak, it is not the weakness of the patient. pulse."

Concubine Hua waved her hand to signal her to stop talking about being careful that the wall has ears, and to lower her eyes and think about her thoughts.

After about half an hour of silence, she beckoned to Lan Xin, Lan Xin approached, and Concubine Hua whispered something in her ear.

Lan Xin nodded, bowed her legs and left the palace.

After Xiao Yiran left Huaning Palace, he didn't walk back by himself, not because he didn't want to go, but because his legs couldn't walk anymore.

Gritting his teeth and enduring the pain just now, he moved out of the main entrance of Huaning Palace, but now his legs were as heavy as lead, and he could only move little by little with small steps.

"Come up." A sedan chair stopped in front of him, and Yin Tianqi's voice came from inside the sedan chair.

Puckering the corners of his lips, Xiao Yiran lifted the arrogance curtain with Xiao Lizi's support, and watched Yin Tianqi's legs soften and rushed over, "Master~~!"