"Returning to your Majesty, I am going to help a palace maid see a doctor." As soon as Song Zihua finished speaking, Mrs. Gao immediately asked: "Which palace is the palace maid, what is her name, and what disease does she have? You prescribed it for her."
What medicine?”
Facing Mr. Gao's questioning, Song Zihua panicked and prevaricated: "Wei Chen has never asked her name, and I don't know which palace she is from. As for the disease she has, it is wind-cold and fever."
Song Zihua reported the names of the prescribed medicinal materials one by one.
Mr. Gao didn't understand medical science, so he couldn't tell whether these medicinal materials were right or wrong. However, there was already a huge problem in Song Zihua's words just now. He raised his slender eyebrows and said: "Mr. Song, you saved people's lives, but you didn't even save people's lives."
No one knows that person’s name, don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”
Song Zihua lowered his head and said, "I was only focused on saving people at that time. I really didn't think of this. Please forgive me, Concubine Hui."
Mrs. Gao nodded noncommittally, and then said: "In that case, you always know where to save her. Take me there now, maybe you can still see her."
Song Zihua didn't dare to agree, so he quickly excused himself: "It's hot outside. If the empress gets heat stroke when she goes out, what can she do? It's better to wait for the minister to bring her tomorrow."
Gao's eyes turned, and he said with a half-smile: "The Imperial Physician Song naturally wants to find someone to deceive me tomorrow, right?"
"Why do you say this, I'm a humble minister..." Before Song Zihua could finish his words, Mrs. Gao said sternly: "Song Zihua, I have given you opportunities time and time again, but you have deceived me again and again. How brave you are!"
Song Zihua's face turned pale and he said in a panic: "Everything I said is true. I don't know where I deceived the empress?"
"Are you still lying?!" Mrs. Gao said in a stern tone: "You didn't go to treat the palace maid at all, but went to the cold palace, Song Zihua, and broke into the cold palace without permission. Do you know your crime?"
What Song Zihua had been worried about finally happened. He suppressed the panic in his heart and said: "Why did the empress say this? How could a humble minister break into the cold palace without permission?"
Mrs. Gao pointed at him and shouted: "Someone has seen it with your own eyes, so you can't deny it. Moreover, when I asked you before, you knew nothing about that palace maid. In other words, you are basically lying."
Song Zihua remembered Xiayue's instructions and gritted his teeth and said: "Wei Chen, no, Wei Chen did go to see a doctor for the palace maid. As for the matter of breaking into the cold palace without permission, Wei Chen has never done it. Besides, there are people guarding the cold palace, Wei Chen
How could I possibly go in?"
Gao sneered and said: "Nala's former palace servant Qi Kuan has now become the eunuch guarding the cold palace. If he takes you in, there will be no problem."
No matter what Mr. Gao said, Song Zihua said firmly: "I am indeed wronged. Please tell me clearly."
"Okay!" Mrs. Gao spat out this word coldly, "Since Imperial Physician Song is so stubborn, I have no choice but to report this matter to the Emperor and ask for His Majesty's Holy Judgment!"
Song Zihua's face was as pale as paper, but he still gritted his teeth and did not say a single word related to Leng Gong.
Gao saw this in his eyes, called Tang Jiu, and gave a few instructions in his ear. The latter nodded and left quickly.
After Tang Jiu left, Mrs. Gao said coldly: "The Imperial Physician of the Song Dynasty, please come with me."
No matter how hard-spoken Song Zihua is, as long as he goes to the cold palace to check it out, he will immediately know the truth and falsehood. When the time comes, let’s see how much more sophistry this person named Song is going to do.
At that time, Hongli had just finished his dinner at the Yangxin Hall. After rinsing his mouth, Sixi handed the newly brewed Yuqian Longjing to Hongli and said, "Your Majesty, how many bites have you had?"
,Shall I ask the imperial kitchen to stew another blood swallow for you?"
Hongli took the tea cup, shook his head and said: "No need, I have no appetite."
Si Xi said worriedly: "But you haven't eaten anything in the past few days. Are you feeling unwell?"
"I'm fine. Maybe it's because the weather is hot, so I can't eat much." As he said that, Hongli put the tea to his thin lips and took a sip. As soon as the tea touched his tongue, he frowned and asked: "
Whose tea is this?"
Xiao Wu didn't know what happened, so he quickly said: "If you go back to the emperor, it was brewed by the imperial tea room. If they brewed it wrong, I will take it out and brew it again."
Hongli didn't speak, he just looked at the light yellow tea soup carefully. After a long time, he said: "Go and call the tea maker. I want to see him."
Xiaowu didn't dare to ask any more questions and hurried down. When he reappeared in Yangxin Palace with a palace maid, he looked a little strange and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this servant has brought you here."
As soon as Xiao Wu finished speaking, the palace maid who had been lowering her head immediately knelt down and said: "Slave, please see the emperor. Long live the emperor. Long live the emperor."
Si Xi looked at the palace maid with some surprise. The voice sounded so familiar, as if it was A Luo who had served Nala in the past, but why was she in the imperial tea room?
"Raise your head." Following Hongli's words, the palace maid slowly raised her head so that everyone in the palace could see her appearance clearly. Who else could she be if she wasn't A Luo?
Hongli nodded slightly and said: "It is indeed you. Only you and your former master would put thinly sliced white chrysanthemum petals into the Longjing before the rain to enhance the fragrance of the Longjing."
When he drank the tea just now, he noticed that it was different from the tea brewed by the Royal Tea House. Upon closer inspection, he found that the tea was mixed with fine white chrysanthemum petals. He vaguely guessed the person who made the tea, so he ordered the fifth general to make it.
Call here.
A Luo knelt down and said: "This slave knows that the emperor likes it, so I added white chrysanthemum silk to the Longjing before the rain without permission. Please forgive me."
"You did nothing wrong, so why forgive me?" After signaling her to get up, Hongli said, "It was the Ministry of Internal Affairs who sent you to the imperial tea room? Where are the others?"
A Luoyi replied: "Yes, Manager Zhang said that there is still someone missing here, so he asked the servant to come over; as for the other people, the servant does not know."
Looking at A Luo, the figure of Xianyue suddenly appeared in Hongli's mind, along with the happy days of the past. I wonder... how is she doing in the cold palace?
Hongli couldn't remember when he no longer hated Xianyue, or the woman who had become his side through despicable means; if she hadn't been so stubborn and vicious, a couple of years would have passed.
In the next year, he will definitely make her a noble concubine, and even promise to co-manage the power of the Sixth Palace. But now, everything is meaningless. She has ruined it all with her own hands. Such a vicious woman is not worth thinking about anymore. Let her
To fend for itself in the cold palace.
Thinking of this, Hongli's expression turned cold, and just as he was about to order A Luo to retreat, Xiao Zhengzi came in and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Hui and the Imperial Physician of the Song Dynasty are outside asking for an audience."
Hongli raised his long eyebrows, with a bit of surprise in his eyes. It was not surprising that Mr. Gao came to see him, but why did he come with Song Zihua?
"Let them come in." Not long after these words were spoken, Gao and Song Zihua appeared in the main hall. After bowing, Hongli said: "Concubine Hui, why did you and the imperial physician of the Song Dynasty come here to see me?