After avoiding Chong Ximo, Chu Qiao felt much more relaxed because she no longer had to worry about embarrassment. She carried the lunch box into the door of the Tisu Department and found that it was very quiet here, with no one moving around.
The Li Tai Hospital in the Imperial Palace was just a place where the Li Ji masters worked. Its main body was in a house in the capital, which was specially used for the lifting of doctors and medical women.
In the Lifting Department, there are several mahogany bookcases placed in a hall more than ten meters square. There are several books on each bookcase, and the pages are open. You can imagine that someone was reading here in the morning.
I passed the book and didn't have time to put it away.
She carried the lunch box and continued walking in, until she came to a door. There was a young eunuch standing outside the door.
"Why are you so slow? Come in quickly. You haven't eaten anything since the morning."
"Yes." Chu Qiao responded.
Since the door was open, she didn't have to knock on the door and walked in.
Chu Qiao wanted to avoid it, but she couldn't. It was Chong Ximo who delivered meals to the Royal Pharmacy, and it was him who delivered the papers in another place.
At this time, the man was sitting in front of the desk in the room, holding a book in his hand. He was thinking about it. It was strange, what was he busy with? He was in the imperial pharmacy the day before yesterday, and now he was filing a lawsuit.
Chu Qiao was stuck there, unable to describe her mood at the moment. When she wanted to see him, she couldn't see him. When she didn't want to see him, she faced him like this for two consecutive days.
With a sigh, Chu Qiao accepted her fate. Since God arranged to meet like this, she must let go of the relationship she had. He was just an adult in the palace, and she was just a palace daughter with a fake name.
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"Sir, bring me some food." Chu Qiao said in a low voice and then lowered her eyes.
Hearing the sound of the palace maid delivering food, Chong Ximo slowly raised his head and saw it was Chu Qiao again. His thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he was a little confused. He had seen this palace maid for two consecutive days. Couldn't this be a coincidence?
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"Are you in charge of delivering meals to the Tai Hospital now?"
"No, Palace Lady Liu is ill. Chunxiang will provide food for the time being." Chu Qiao replied in a low voice, still standing there with her head lowered.
Chong Ximo's eyes never left her, he seemed to be looking at her carefully, and finally his eyes fell on the hem of her skirt. The plain fabric covered her shoes, and the skirt was trembling slightly. No doubt, she was very nervous.
Chong Ximo coughed lightly and asked in a deep voice.
"Is your leg feeling better?"
He suddenly asked about her leg injury. Chu Qiao couldn't help but think of the scene in the Royal Pharmacy yesterday. He lifted up her skirt to help her check the injury. The scene was still a bit embarrassing to this day, and her face turned red again.
, the sound is also a little unnatural.
"Okay, okay."
"How could it be so fast? In the afternoon, I will ask Eunuch Chen to come over and let you rest for a few days." Chong Ximo said.
"No, no need!"
Chu Qiao hurriedly shook her head and said no, her heart was beating in panic. It turned out that the last time Eunuch Chen went to the imperial kitchen, it was Chong Ximo who gave the order. No wonder Eunuch Ping did not dare to speak and looked abnormal, so he directly changed her
Because of her work, she was not allowed to go to Yuquan Mountain to fetch water.
Chu Qiao stared at the ground, thinking about the purpose of Chong Ximo's explanation, but he was grateful to her for telling the secret of spring water diarrhea. Apart from that, in his eyes, she was just a palace maid, and nothing else.
If he knew that this little palace maid was the fourth Miss Chu from Qingzhou, he would surely be very disappointed, right?
"Since that meeting at Yuquan Mountain, I left the capital and never had the chance to say thank you in person. However... I'm a little confused. You seem to know a lot about it?" His voice paused for a moment and then rang again.
He stood up with a hint of contemplation.
"Sir, actually Chunxiang only knows a little bit, nothing more." Chu Qiao explained quickly, hoping that Chong Ximo would think more and pursue Li Chunxiang's identity.
"That little bit helped a lot." Chong Ximo added.
Well, after hearing this, Chu Qiao was very happy, and even a little proud. She is the daughter of the king of spices. She knows the various properties of spices and is already more passionate than blue. This is really not bragging.
Can be blown out.
"Chu Qiao was just a little curious, so she spoke out boldly. If it weren't for the rosin problem, I'm afraid it would have delayed the Lord's business." Chu Qiao's voice became much more relaxed.
"Are you humble?"
There was confusion in Chong Ximo's eyes. If it were any other palace maid, she would have taken advantage of this opportunity to make a fuss, but wasn't her performance a bit too quiet? It seemed like there was something hidden in this quietness?
It is undeniable that although this palace maid is dressed in simple clothes, her expression is shrewd, and she also has a temperament that is deliberately concealed but cannot be concealed.
modesty?
Chu Qiao never thought of deliberately making people feel that she was very humble. What she just said was from her heart. On Yuquan Mountain, Liu Zhang was shouting to be beaten and killed. She had been worried that it was not the rosin. Fortunately, she found out afterwards.
She felt a little relieved that she was out of the way. Now that she heard what Chong Ximo said, Chu Qiao inevitably became more cautious. She didn't know what was wrong with what she just said.
The calmer the tone of Chong Ximo's words and the more polite his attitude, the more uneasy Chu Qiao became.
"Are you going to keep your head down and talk to me like this?" he asked suddenly.
"Ah? This is the palace, the rules in the palace." In the palace, when speaking to people of higher rank than themselves, the maids must be respectful and serious. They cannot look directly at each other and must stand quietly with their eyes lowered.
"Don't be restrained here, just raise your head." His voice became softer, even a little conniving.
Chu Qiao bit her lip. She was nervous when she lowered her head to speak. If she raised her head again and looked at him, wouldn't she be even more nervous? Why don't she raise her head? He said this again.
After gathering some courage, Chu Qiao raised her head. When she came into contact with Chong Ximo's deep eyes, the courage she had just mustered up disappeared again.
"Aren't you tired of standing there holding the lunch box?" He smiled slightly, pointed at the desk and asked her to put it over. She had been there for a long time since entering the door.
Only then did Chu Qiao realize that she had been carrying other people's food. The little eunuch at the door said that Chong Ximo hadn't eaten since morning.
Fortunately, Chong Ximo looked away from her, so she breathed a sigh of relief and walked over carefully. This time she must not knock over the lunch box.
Just when Chu Qiao was about to put the lunch box on the desk, a person suddenly ran in from outside the door and almost bumped into her. Chu Qiao raised her eyes and saw that the person who came in was a woman in strange clothes.