When Zhenliang woke up, he was really shocked by his own appearance.
Her face was still covered with a kerchief, but the rest of her body was naked. Her entire body, from her neck down, was soaked in a large bathtub.
The water in the bathtub was not cold water, but it was not very warm either. It had a slight relief effect on the itching all over her body.
Zhenliang had no memory of how he got into the bathtub. He could only remember the miserable scene of being itchy and cold in the carriage until he fell asleep.
Looking up at the room he was in, Zhenliang was able to quickly determine that the place he was in now was definitely not the palace.
In other words, Nangong Lie still has some humanity. He knew that she should not continue on the road after she was wet, and also knew that she should not touch overheated hot water if she was itchy, so he brought her here to soak in extremely low temperature water.
only……
Zhenliang stared blankly at her beautiful naked body, wondering to herself, who took off her clothes? It couldn't be Nangong Lie, right?
In the eyes of others, she was his imperial concubine, and it was a blessing for her to be taken off her clothes by him in person. However, she felt unhappy, extremely awkward, and not surprised at all.
Zhenliang understood that this must be due to her mental mysophobia. Nangong Lie's hands had moved up and down the bodies of countless women, so she felt creepy and uncomfortable all over her body.
With a creak, the door was gently pushed open. Zhenliang was startled, thinking that Nangong Lie had come in. He quickly grabbed the cloth in the water and quickly covered his upper body.
The tub was backed against the wall, and the front was blocked by three screens. Therefore, Zhenliang was not sure for a moment whether the person who walked in was Nangong Lie. However, being in a strange place, she could not think of anyone else except Nangong Lie for the time being.
"Hey, girl, are you awake?" The visitor walked around the screen, and what appeared in front of Zhenliang was a woman of about thirty years old. She was holding a bucket of hot water in her left hand and a ladle in her right hand, smiling at her. Have a gentle look on your face.
Zhenliang's heart skipped a beat. After nodding, he immediately blurted out the doubtful words in his mind, "Did you take off my clothes?"
The woman leaned over and put down the bucket, and nodded with a smile, "That lover of yours may seem difficult to get along with, but he is more sensible than the average man. He understands that you should not offend a girl who has not yet been married."
Zhenliang felt a chill in his heart. Did he know the general situation? He obviously didn't bother to touch an ugly girl like her, okay?
The woman checked the temperature of the water in the tub and felt that the water was a little too cold, so she took a scoop of water from the tub, slowly poured it in and mixed it thoroughly, while muttering to herself.
"Girl, your lover cares about you. He asked me to always pay attention to the water temperature and add hot water in time, lest you freeze. Oh, my man also went out to find the best doctor in our town at his request. , I think it will arrive soon."
Hearing this, Zhenliang curled her lips. She didn't expect that Nangong Lie would hire a doctor for her. She thought he wouldn't take it into consideration.
The woman continued to adjust the warm water in the bathtub, while Zhenliang sat silently in the bathtub, deliberately suppressing the itching all over his body and not touching it.
The rash on her body had been seen by the woman a long time ago, so she was not afraid to touch it because she was shy, but she was extremely upset.
She was obviously intent on escaping, but what messy things had she done up to now? Not only did she not make any move to escape, she even had the bad feeling of losing her wife and losing her army.
When she was in the wilderness, if she could endure the itching on her body, don't just use stream water to relieve the itch. She might have escaped Nangong Lie's control by now.
When the opportunity came, she only cared about her own discomfort and did not cherish it. It was too late.
Fortunately, Zhenliang, who has always been optimistic and upbeat, soon found a reason to comfort himself.
What does it mean that she did not arrive at the palace at the scheduled time? It means that she still has a chance to escape.
She knew that her top priority was to get rid of the itching on her body first. Otherwise, if she continued to be entangled and tortured by the ever-increasing itching, how could she have the energy to plan an escape? So she must hurry up.
Time, make good use of this hard-won opportunity.
"Sister, can you bring me a bowl of salt water?" Zhenliang suddenly spoke to the woman.
She knew that if she asked this woman for something, Nangong Lie would definitely know about it. Once the thing she asked for was salt, Nangong Lie would definitely become suspicious, so she changed the salt to salt water.
The woman was startled and asked curiously, "What does the girl want salt water for?"
Zhenliang smiled slightly, pointed to his mouth and said, "I have a toothache and I want to rinse my mouth with salt water."
Salt water can indeed kill bacteria and fight inflammation. This is a fact that is almost universally known among the people. The woman nodded clearly, adjusted the water temperature in the bathtub, and then carried the bucket out of the guest room.
After a while, the woman brought in hot salt water.
While the woman was leaving, Zhenliang had already gotten up from the bathtub and put on the brand new clothes placed beside the bathtub.
It was a milky-white dress, and it also came with a milky-white face towel, which was obviously intended to cover her face.
When Zhenliang saw this dress, she thought it must be brand-new clothes provided by the inn where the woman was staying. Even if not, they were bought casually from a small town. However, when her hand touched the texture of the dress,
After seeing clearly the embroidery work and embroidery on the dress, I vaguely understood that this was definitely not a dress that an inn or a small town could afford.
Obviously, this dress came from the palace. Even though it is light and low-key milky white, it looks luxurious up close.
Just as Zhenliang took the salt water from the woman's hand, there was a knock on the door.
A man with a deep voice knocked gently on the door, "Mother, the doctor has invited me."
That was the woman's man. The woman smiled brightly at Zhen Liang and said, "Girl, the doctor is here, please invite him in?"
Zhenliang nodded, "Please invite him in, thank you."
The woman walked out of the screen. It was so cold that she quickly drank the salt water in a big gulp, then wiped her mouth and walked out of the screen.
Not long after, the woman came in with an old man with gray hair and a boyish face.
Before he could sit down, the old doctor looked at the woman displeased, narrowed his eyes and ordered her to be kicked out, "There is a rule for this old man to see a doctor. All other people should be avoided."
Thinking that people with good medical skills have a lot of rules and tempers, Zhenliang winked at the woman, and the woman left without saying a word.
Zhenliang made a polite gesture towards the old doctor asking him to sit down. He thought to himself that the salt water she had just drank should not have taken effect so quickly. She wondered how good this old doctor was in Chinese medicine and whether he could diagnose what was wrong with her.
question.
Although this old doctor looks very arrogant and has very senior qualifications, she believes that Ju Chenguang, as a rising star, must have his own strengths. As the saying goes, "It takes no effort to find a place if you step through iron shoes." Who knows?
Can you imagine that the antidote for such a powerful "very itchy day and night" is actually the most common salt?
The old man was slightly hunched. He raised his eyelids towards Zhenliang for the first time after entering the door, and took a half-hearted glance. I don’t know whether it was on purpose or because of bad eyesight. He seemed to have not seen Zhenliang pointing at him.
He deliberately sat on the chair that Zhenliang was going to sit on.
Zhenliang curled her lips, didn't care about him, and walked around to another chair to sit down.
Immediately afterwards, the old doctor had no intention of treating Zhenliang immediately. Instead, he poured himself a cup of tea and started drinking it himself.
Weird! What a weird old man!
This old man behaved rudely and strangely, but Zhenliang was not angry. Instead, he dragged his chair and sat close to him. Then he looked at him patiently and thought about his thoughts.
How to escape from Nangong Lie's nose?
The old man raised his eyes again and glanced at Zhen Liang, who was in a state of fugue, and suddenly ordered in a deep voice with a bad tone, "Come here and give me a pat on my back."
What? A slap on the back?
Zhenliang suddenly came back to her senses and looked at the old man in surprise, fearing that she had heard wrongly. This old man only had a high and arrogant attitude, but now he actually ordered her to serve him? Is there any mistake?
Why does she feel that there is something wrong with this old man the more she looks at him?
Seeing that Zhenliang was motionless and showed no intention of agreeing, the old man simply scolded her and said, "Since you are asking for something from me, shouldn't you be more attentive? You don't understand the principle of reciprocity?"
Zhenliang felt that this old man had sharp eyes, as if he could see through her superficial thoughts.
Although he secretly felt that something was wrong, and felt more and more unreasonable, Zhenliang still stood up obediently, walked behind the old doctor, and beat his back again and again, and his wandering mind slowly turned to
On the body of the old man.
After a moment, Zhenliang's eyes narrowed dangerously.
She had never seen this old man before, but she was sure that these strong and broad shoulders could never belong to an old man who was over sixty or seventy years old.
This was clearly a young male body, and she could accurately identify it without taking off his clothes and taking a closer look.
However, Zhenliang frowned slightly as she thought of the old man's old face full of vicissitudes of life.
Deliberately intensifying the movements of her hands until even she felt pain, Zhenliang pretended to be unaware and asked, "Doctor, how was my beating?"
The old doctor nodded slightly and sighed comfortably, "Comfortable! Continue!"
Zhenliang pouted and thought to herself, this man is really thick-skinned and fleshy, but he still feels comfortable when she hits him so hard? Is it true?
Gradually, Zhenliang changed from beating to kneading, using all his strength.
And the old doctor didn't raise any dissatisfied objections, as if he was enjoying himself so much that it was unnecessary to say anything more.
Zhenliang kneaded and squeezed, while her eyes were wide open and she looked carefully at the old man's head. Finally, she discovered a suspected loophole!
Near the base of the old doctor's ears, there are two areas of skin that are slightly different in color. You can't tell it at all unless you look carefully.
Obviously, this is a sign of disguise. Most of the old man's face is covered with a human skin mask or the like.
