Chapter 39: Scratching the ear and scratching the cheek
Just when the Jinyi guards wanted to stop Chu Qiao again, the man in front suddenly stopped, turned his eyes, and said something in a low voice.
"Let her come over."
"Yes, sir." The guards in brocade clothes accepted the order and moved out of the way.
Chu Qiao raised her neck in protest at the guard, and Eunuch Chen even said it. Seeing how he still intercepted him, the guard in brocade frowned. Although he looked unhappy, he did not reach out again.
"Eunuch Chen, I've been waiting for you all morning." Chu Qiao shouted first, then walked up with a wooden bucket in one hand and a cotton coat in the other.
"Are you waiting for me?" The man looked at Chu Qiao with a slightly confused look. He was startled for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth raised slightly. He recognized her, the water-carrying maid who hugged his thigh yesterday.
The maid kept calling him Eunuch Chen. Didn't she know that Eunuch Chen was almost fifty? But it didn't matter. Who he was was really not important to her.
"I am, am, the one who... fell down yesterday..."
Chu Qiao scratched her hair in embarrassment, and said that yesterday was really embarrassing, so she didn’t mention it, so she handed over the cotton-padded clothes and said embarrassedly: "I am waiting for you because I want to return the cotton-padded clothes to you, and thank you sir."
, father-in-law’s kindness yesterday, and then..."
Chu Qiao lowered her head, feeling really awkward. How could she look at it? They were all so polite, but there was nothing lecherous about them. There were some things that were hard to say for a while. Do you want her to say directly, "Hey, Eunuch Chen, are you going to do it again?"
When you meet Eunuch Ping, Eunuch Li, Eunuch Wang, etc. in the imperial kitchen, can you say that you don't know Li Chunxiang? It seems inappropriate to say so.
Just when Chu Qiao was scratching her head and scratching her head, not knowing what to say, the man had already taken the cotton-padded clothes and threw them to the guards in brocade clothes beside him. He withdrew his eyes calmly and strode up the mountain.
"Hey, father-in-law, I haven't finished speaking yet..."
Chu Qiao quickly picked up the barrel and was about to catch up when the guard in brocade clothes became rude this time and said coldly.
"What an ignorant little palace maid. Why are you still following me after I've given you my cotton coat?"
Yes, after giving away the cotton-padded clothes, why is she still following?
Chu Qiao opened and closed her mouth, pointed at the mountain, and squeezed out a harsh sentence.
"No, no, I...I went up the mountain to fetch water. There is only one road here."
"Then stay away and don't get too close." The guard in golden clothes dropped such a cold sentence and took a few steps to catch up with the man.
"The road is not for you to walk alone..." Chu Qiao muttered displeasedly, but slowed down, kept a distance, and followed them.
Chu Qiao followed for a while and found that the route they took was consistent with the route for carrying water. Could it be that they were also going to the spring mouth?
Sure enough, in the middle of the steps, they turned around, and Chu Qiao followed them step by step. Several eunuchs carrying water came out to carry water. When they saw the three men, they all stood there one after another.
He lowered his head to avoid them, waited for them to pass by, and then hurried down the mountain.
When they reached the mouth of the spring, the three people stopped, and a guard in brocade clothes whispered.
"Sir, this is where the imperial dining room carries water."
"From the end of summer to now, there has been no improvement. It probably has nothing to do with the spring water here. People at the Imperial Hospital said that someone is afraid that someone wants to disturb Chao Gang..." Another guard added.
Chu Qiao came up, put the barrel in the spring water, and listened with her ears straight up. It seemed that something big happened in the palace, and it was related to the spring water of Yuquan Mountain.