Chapter 120
At the end of July, the empress dowager's stroke was healed after half a month of treatment. Even the illness of forgetting things was relieved a lot. She even remembered that it was Jiang Yun Zhu who asked the doctor and offered the medicine to her. She remembered that Jiang Yun Zhu’s cooking was especially tasty.
Therefore, Jiang Yun Zhu often went to the palace to cook for the empress dowager.
Every time she entered the palace, Shen Feng Ming would definitely accompany her, lest she encounter any trouble in the palace.
The royal palace was divided into the outer palace and the inner palace. The inner palace was where the harem concubines live. Ordinary people and even some unfavored princes weren't allowed to enter. Of course, the Empress Dowager favored Shen Feng Ming and he could walk freely.
It was just that Shi Liu wasn't allowed to enter the inner palace and could only wait in the outer palace every time.
It was already the beginning of August. Empress Dowager's body was getting stronger and stronger. Jiang Yun Zhu knew that she had avoided the misfortune in her dream and felt relieved.
On this day, Shen Feng Ming gave Jiang Yun Zhu a bracelet. This bracelet looked like an ordinary silver bracelet, but it had a delicate hidden weapon. As long as the yellow gemstone on the bracelet was pressed, a flying needle would be shot out of the bracelet. The flying needle was coated with anesthetics. Those who were hit by the flying needle would faint within a few breaths.
And if the blue gemstone was pressed, the flying needle shot out was highly poisonous and those who got hit would quickly die from the poison.
Having experienced being tied up that night, Jiang Yun Zhu didn’t refuse his kindness and put the bracelet on her hand.
Not to mention, this bracelet was pretty good-looking. She liked it.
Two or three days later, the Empress Dowager wanted to eat Taibai duck made by Jiang Yun Zhu. Jiang Yun Zhu entered the palace early.
Shen Feng Ming rode on the horse and stayed at the side.
When the two arrived at the gate of the palace, they happened to meet Lin Ting An.
Xiao Li Yu was grounded and couldn’t leave the Chonghua Palace. Now Lin Ting An could only enter the palace to see her.
"Commissioner-in-chief Shen." Lin Ting An bowed Shen Feng Ming.
Shen Feng Ming nodded and had no intention to bother with him.
Lin Ting An lowered his long eyelashes to hide the emotions in his eyes.
Jiang Yun Zhu and Shen Feng Ming went to the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace, while Lin Ting An went to the Chonghua Palace.
An hour later, Jiang Yun Zhu finished making the meal and Attendant Qi came over and said, "The emperor is here today. He is having dinner with the Empress Dowager, Commissioner-in-chief Shen was with them. County Master..."
Every time Jiang Yun Zhu came, Shen Feng Ming would follow. Both of them came and left together. Attendant Qi and even the Empress Dowager could vaguely sense something. The Empress Dowager was more and more kind to Jiang Yun Zhu. Sometimes, she even let her eat together.
But it was different when the emperor was present.
Jiang Yun Zhu understood that and was hesitating whether to leave first by herself or to wait here and wait for Shen Feng Ming to leave together.
"County Master must be hungry too. Why don't you take a rest first and I'll ask them to prepare something for you. We'll decide after you finish eating." Attendant Qi contemplated.
One, Jiang Yun Zhu had been cooking for so long. It was hot in summer and she was sweating all over her body. She should take a break and have some food. Even though it was already evening, the sun was shining. It would be too hard for her to go back like this.
Second, maybe after the emperor leaves, the empress dowager wanted to see Jiang Yun Zhu.
After she said that, Jiang Yun Zhu nodded in agreement.
Attendant Qi asked a young eunuch to come over and lead Jiang Yun Zhu to rest in the side hall, while she was going to serve the Empress Dowager.
Jiang Yun Zhu followed the little eunuch to the side hall, where ice was placed. As soon as she entered, the cool air hit her. Jiang Yun Zhu sighed comfortably.
The little eunuch was tactful. First, he brought Jiang Yun Zhu a pan of hot water, then brought her towels and other things, and finally brought her hot tea. Only then, he retreated.
Jiang Yun Zhu put the towel into hot water, soaked it, wrung it dry, and wiped the sweat off her face.
At this moment, someone knocked on the door. It was a palace maid who came to deliver food to Jiang Yun Zhu.
So fast? Probably due to being meal time, the royal kitchen had already prepared the meals. Jiang Yun Zhu didn't think much about it and let the maid in.
The palace maid held a tray with four dishes and one soup on it.
"Put it there." Jiang Yun Zhu casually said while wiping her face.
"En." The palace maid agreed, put the tray on the table, and quietly eyed Jiang Yun Zhu while laying the food on the table.
Seeing Jiang Yun Zhu lower her head and twist the towel, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and shook it lightly.
Jiang Yun Zhu smelled a sweet fragrance. That fragrance... wait, this fragrance was good... She lost consciousness before she could think of more.
Seeing that she had fainted, the maid hurried over to pick her up and went outside.
Jiang Yun Zhu only felt hot. So hot. So uncomfortable. Impatient, she opened her eyes and only saw a bunch of flowers. And a man?
The man looked very ordinary. He was wearing the clothes of a guard, but he was taking off his clothes at this moment.
Jiang Yun Zhu's face turned pale with shock. Her mind was much clearer. Looking carefully, it seemed to be behind a bush of flowers. It also seemed to be inside the palace. But she didn't know where this was.
Seeing that she was awake, the man on the opposite side looked guilty at first. Then gritted his teeth, took off his shirt, and walked toward Jiang Yun Zhu.
"Who are you?" Jiang Yun Zhu wanted to stand up, but she felt that her body was very soft. With all her strength, she retreated back a little.
The man didn't speak, and grabbed her arm.
Jiang Yun Zhu hurriedly said, "You know Shen Feng Ming, Commissioner-in-chief Shen? Do you know that I’m his person? You know the result if you hurt me." The situation was urgent, she knew that talking about most things was nonsense. So she could only talk about Shen Feng Ming and hope his vicious reputation could deter the other party for a while.
Sure enough, fear flashed across the man's face.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jiang Yun Zhu struggled to stand up again. In fact, she had adjusted the direction of the bracelet. If the other party refused to let her go...
Of course the man wouldn’t let Jiang Yun Zhu go. He came here with the determination to die.
Jiang Yun Zhu wanted to press the gemstone button on the bracelet, but at this moment, a rush of heat surged up. She felt her head was dizzy and her hands had no strength. In her panic, she didn't know if she pressed the button or which button she pressed.
The man was already close at hand. Jiang Yun Zhu felt sick and flustered. She couldn't even call for help.
Seeing that the man had reached out to tear her clothes off, she exhausted her last bit of strength and pressed the button on the bracelet again.
The man suddenly widened his eyes and fell to the side.
If Jiang Yun Zhu was conscious, she would know that the flying needle she shot before had already worked. But her mind was currently in a mess and she was subconsciously pressing the button on the bracelet until she saw the man fall to the ground.
She remained limp there. Her mind was blank.
Suddenly, there was a stabbing pain in her arm and she regained consciousness for a short time. It turned out that her arm touched the flowers next to her just now. There were thorns on those roses and the thorns scratched her skin.
Jiang Yun Zhu seized this opportunity and directly reached out to hold the rose thorn.
More tingling sensations came and she became more awake. She knew that her condition wasn't right. She was probably given some kind of medicine.
She had to leave here quickly and find Shen Feng Ming or Shi Liu. Only then would she be safe.
She tore off a branch from the rose, held it in her hand, barely stood up, and looked around.
This was a garden. It didn't seem to be a royal garden. Don't know where this was.
There was no one around.
Just as she was anxious, she saw the sparkling lake in the south, and hurriedly staggered toward it.
At this time, in Chonghua Palace, Lin Ting An and Xiao Li Yu were admiring the flowers together. But the two’s minds had wandered elsewhere. Neither of them spoke.
Suddenly, a palace maid came in a hurry, seeming to be anxious.
"I'm not feeling well, I want to rest." Xiao Li Yu directed to Lin Ting.
"Okay." Lin Ting An empathetically replied.
Xiao Li Yu left quickly, but Lin Ting An did not.
After eating with the empress dowager, Emperor Qinglong got up and left.
The empress dowager was getting old. She wanted to lay down after eating.
Seeing this, Shen Feng Ming got up and said goodbye.
"County Master Yunrong is in the side hall." Attendant Qi waited for the Empress Dowager to lie down, and whispered to Shen Feng Ming.
"Thank you." Shen Feng Ming left and went to the side hall to find Jiang Yun Zhu to go back with her.
Unforeseen, the side hall was empty. The meal was on the table, but not a bite was taken!
Shen Feng Ming's face immediately changed, "Where's County Master Yunrong?"
His voice was as sharp as a cold sword.
No one answered. No one saw Jiang Yun Zhu.
Shen Feng Ming was about to look for Attendant Qi when at this moment, a eunuch tremblingly spoke out, "I saw County Master Yunrong enter the room and a guard knocked on the door shortly later.
County Master Yunrong asked, 'Who is it? '
The guard said, 'It's me. '
County Master Yunrong opened the door and left with the guard. "
Everyone could detect what he was conveying. He meant that the guard had something to do with Jiang Yun Zhu, and Jiang Yun Zhu followed him and left.
Shen Feng Ming grabbed his neck and almost strangled him to death, "Where did she go?" He didn't believe that Jiang Yun Zhu would go with someone else, but he knew that Jiang Yun Zhu must be in danger.
Extremely angry, it took him a lot of effort to control himself and didn't break the eunuch's neck immediately.
The eunuch was so frightened that he peed on his pants. He couldn't speak. He stretched out his hand and pointed west.
Shen Feng Ming squeezed him a little harder and he passed out, "Watch him, don't allow him to commit suicide, or you are all accomplices."
Leaving this sentence behind, he jumped westward.
The look in his eyes before he left scared everyone into silence. In the summer, everyone felt cold.
Shortly after he left, the crowd hurriedly bound the eunuch's hands and feet and dislocate his chin, for fear that he would commit suicide and Shen Feng Ming would come back and send them to the Division.
In that place, few people who went in came out in a whole piece.
The place where Jiang Yun Zhu was located was West Court, not too far from the Cining Palace.
It seemed that there was no one in West Court. Actually, there was someone watching from a distance, waiting for Shen Feng Ming to find out that Jiang Yun Zhu had left with someone, come over to search, and bumped into that beautiful scene.
It was that there was no movement behind the flowers for a long time. Logically speaking, there should...
Someone went to check, but only found the man's eyes wide open and had collapsed to the ground. While Jiang Yun Zhu had disappeared.
"Where did she go?" "Quickly search!"
Several people immediately went searching, but they didn't find any trace of Jiang Yun Zhu.
"Don't search. Commissioner-in-chief Shen is coming soon. At that time..." The speaker shuddered.
A few people didn't dare to stay any longer and left quickly.
After they left, a person came out from behind the big tree. It was Lin Ting An. He eyed behind the flowers thoughtfully. Suddenly, he picked up a piece of fabric from a rose next to him. His pupils shrank slightly. If he remembered correctly, Jiang Yun Zhu was wearing this seven treasure lotus blue dress when he entered the palace today.
He grabbed the cloth and looked around. The lake in the south caught his eyes and immediately remembered the last time Jiang Yun Zhu escaped under his nose. She traveled by water at that time.
Unexpectedly, she fell into his hands again.
Lin Ting An's heart beat. He held back his excitement as he examined the lake. Immediately, he quickly headed toward the southwest corner of the lake. He concluded that if Jiang Yun Zhu was in the lake, she would definitely come ashore from there.
Not long after he left, Shen Feng Ming came to West Court and found the dead body.
He immediately recognized that this person died from the poisonous flying needle on Jiang Yun Zhu's wrist.
Jiang Yun Zhu had been here before and the situation was definitely not good.
There were a few drops of bright red blood on the flowers nearby, and the blood color stimulated Shen Feng Ming's nerves.
He stood up and looked around. Soon, his eyes fell on that lake and then jumped toward the southwest corner of the lake.
Jiang Yun Zhu was indeed in the lake. She knew that she must have been poisoned by something like a love potion. After getting into the water, she could stay awake temporarily. Moreover, going with the water, she could leave this dangerous place first.
In midsummer, even the lake water seemed to become warmer. After Jiang Yun Zhu went into the water, she felt comfortable for a while. Then the suppressed heat surged up again.
She didn't dare to delay any longer and swam toward the southwest corner of the lake.
As she was about to arrive, she suddenly noticed someone on the shore and hurriedly dived into the water.
Lin Ting An had already seen Jiang Yun Zhu. She was like a fish swimming in the water, agile and beautiful.
And he was about to catch this fish!
He stopped his body and stood on the shore, waiting for Jiang Yun Zhu to show up.
Jiang Yun Zhu vaguely discerned that the person on the shore was Lin Ting An. She felt anxious. The heat in her body became more and more intense. The strength in her body disappeared. She was unable to support herself to swim elsewhere.
The more anxious she became, the more she couldn't endure the breath inside.
Without a choice, she could only surface.
As the sun set, the warm sunlight shone on the lake and the lake shimmered like gold.
Jiang Yun Zhu slowly emerged from the water. Because of the blush on her delicate face, her eyes appeared watery and her skin was fragile.
A head full of beautiful hair stuck to her body, outlining her graceful figure.
She was wearing a long blue skirt embroidered with seven treasure lotuses today. Now that the long skirt was attached to her body, the seductive peaks and waist were undoubtedly revealed as she moved out of the water.
And because her body was full of water droplets and the sun shone on her, her whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light.
Gorgeous and holy. Fallen god came out of the water. It wasn't enough to describe the beautiful scenery in front of him. Lin Ting An only felt that his blood was throbbing and only the person in the lake was left in his eyes.
While Shen Feng Ming, who came over from the side, happened to see this scene. He lost his mind for a moment. Then he fixed his eyes on Lin Ting An, his eyes full of killing intent.
Yes, kill. To eliminate future problems.
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