Mu Qingchao shook his head, forget it, don't think about it if you don't understand.
Regardless of Jiang Bo's good intentions or bad intentions, after all, she has taken advantage of him, and their little friendship is probably over.
In fact, she shouldn't have contacted him in the first place.
How could such a clean person like him get involved with someone as dark and cunning as her?
Fortunately, the two of them don't have a close relationship. It would be the best choice for them to go their separate ways and not interact with each other now.
Mu Qingchao thought so and quickly entered Chaoyun Palace.
In the hall, Qiangwei came out holding an umbrella. Seeing how miserable she was in the rain, she quickly put the umbrella over her head.
"Why did it get rained like this?"
"It's true, Queen Mother, why don't you know how to find a place to hide from the rain for a while before coming back, or ask Chun Ya to send a message and ask the slaves to send you an umbrella.
What will happen if you catch the cold?"
While Qiangwei was chattering, she hurriedly greeted the little maids: "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you quickly prepare two clean clothes for the Queen Mother?"
Mu Qingchao was stunned as he looked at the handful of lotus leaves in his hand.
The lotus leaves are all pretty, so it’s a pity that we definitely won’t be able to make lotus leaf cakes.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard "Ah Qiu" and sneezed.
Qiangwei muttered to the side: "Look, you don't have a cold anymore, do you?"
"Slave will set up a small stove for you to bake in later, and I'll make you a bowl of ginger soup to warm you up."
At this time, outside Chaoyun Palace, Jiang Bo stood in the rain for a while, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a moment, he turned around and left.
But suddenly I heard a voice behind me: "Your Majesty, please wait a moment."
Jiang Bo turned around and saw the little maid from Chaoyun Palace hurriedly coming out with an umbrella.
The little maid also had an umbrella in her hand, which she stuffed into Jiang Bo's hand.
"It's raining heavily. The Queen Mother asked this slave to be given to the Prince. The Queen Mother said that the road is slippery in rainy days, so the Prince should be careful on the road."
The little maid only said this, held up her umbrella, and hurried back through the rain.
**
Maybe the last time he had typhoid fever, he had damaged his foundation, and his foundation was not as strong as before. However, after being caught in the rain, Mu Qingchao actually became seriously ill.
A fever broke out last night, which frightened the girls to death. They kept fussing for half the night and called in the doctor, but the fever finally subsided.
Just after he was about to rest, he heard the maid come in and announce the news.
"Queen Mother, King Wu'an is here and wants to see you."
Mu Qingchao was lying on the bed sickly, his whole body was weak and tight. Didn't he explain everything clearly yesterday? What else was he doing here?
With this thought in mind, I finally went out to meet Jiang Bo.
The rain outside had not stopped yet. As soon as Mu Qingchao went out, he saw Jiang Bo standing there with an oil-paper umbrella. Perhaps because of his Qinggong, the mud on the ground did not stain his white clothes at all.
Jiang Bo was shocked when he saw her.
We haven't seen her for just one day, why is she so haggard?
"What's going on, Queen Mother?" Jiang Bo asked.
Mu Qingchao sniffed: "It's okay. Prince Jiang came to visit the Ai family. Is there something wrong?"
She asked, only to see Jiang Bo hand an umbrella in his hand to her: "Return this to the Queen Mother."
Mu Qingchao stretched out his hand to take the umbrella and said, "This is what the prince is here for? It's just an umbrella, why should the prince just make a trip?"
"It's not just for this." Jiang Bo took over her words.
"Anything else?"
"besides……"
But she saw Jiang Bo hand two paper packages to her.
"This is the hibiscus cake that Mrs. Mu asked me to bring to the Queen Mother. It was urgent that day and I forgot about it."
However, Mu Qingchao saw the bag of pastries with the words "Suxiangzhai" written on them at a glance.
"Mrs. Mu also asked you to bring this butter candy to the Ai family?"
"No, this is what I want to give to the Queen Mother."
Jiang Bo's answer was very direct, making Mu Qingchao's eyes twitch.
"What do you want to give?"
"Why?"
"There's no reason." Jiang Bo couldn't explain. It was on that day when he was going to court and riding past Suxiang Zhai, he suddenly remembered the night banquet and the way her eyes fell on the plate of Suxiang.
He said: "All the noble ladies in Jinling City like to eat this, and I thought the Queen Mother would also like it.
It's not a good thing. The Queen Mother is catching a cold right now. She might as well eat some sweets. If she doesn't like it, just throw it away. I don't care."
He said "I don't care", which inexplicably made Mu Qingchao's heart move. He didn't know what he was talking about.
She blankly took the cake from his hand and said dryly: "Thank you."
"It's a small thing, not enough to express my gratitude."
Jiang Bo replied, paused, seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "I have submitted my resignation to Your Majesty. After today, I will no longer be the commander of the imperial army."
Hearing this, Mu Qingchao's heart skipped a beat.
But I heard him continue: "In the future, the queen will not come to patrol the palace anymore, and we will probably have less time to see each other in the future."
He will never come to the palace again...
It turns out that I came here to say goodbye to her today.
Yes, in fact, Jiang Bo has been patrolling at the entrance of her palace for more than half a month every day. At first, she was annoyed, but now she suddenly felt a trace of reluctance.
But where does her identity come from that she is reluctant to let go of?
This should have been what she had planned, everyone should return and perform their duties.
When she came back to her senses and wanted to say something else, Jiang Bo said, "Queen Mother, take care."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
The white figure holding a green umbrella turned around and disappeared on the other side of the palace wall.
Mu Qingchao looked blankly in the direction where he disappeared, and for a moment, he lost his mind.
Until... Shen Muchi unexpectedly stood next to her at some point.
Mu Qingchao was startled and hurriedly knelt down towards Shen Muchi: "See...see...see your majesty..."
Mu Qingchao was in shock, but luckily Shen Muchi didn't seem to notice anything. His expression was gentle and he seemed to be in a good mood. He stepped forward to support her.
"I heard that you caught the cold, so I came here to see you."
"Tell me, why did you just run to the palace gate to greet me when it rains so heavily? Didn't I tell you earlier? There is no need to be so polite between you and me."
Shen Muchi had completely misunderstood.
Naturally, Mu Qingchao was not stupid enough to explain anything. He just pulled his lips and said, "It's all what we should do. It's what a daughter of the people should do. Ha, ha ha..."
Shen Muchi arrived suddenly and brought several boxes of good tonics.
Even Chaoyun Palace was unprepared, but the servants were very busy.
Busy warehousing rewards, adding cushions to chairs, serving tea...
Shen Muchi looked at the servants going about their business and said to Mu Qing, who was sitting opposite him: "You are not feeling well. You must be tired from sitting like this with me, right?"
When Mu Qingchao heard this, he thought he was planning to leave, and he just breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, he followed immediately: "Come, I will support you and go to the back room to lie down."