Chapter 52: A plan to deliver medicine and hide poison when you are sick
The sealing ceremony is completed.
Liu Quan sat there, squinting his eyes and listening to the two young eunuchs reporting the accounts to him.
"Little Sanzi, I understand your account. You can go down first." Liu Quan said to one of the young eunuchs.
The little eunuch quickly thanked him and went out with the account book.
Liu Quan looked at the remaining one and said nothing for a long time.
The little eunuch was still laughing at first, but then he felt awkward and awkward, and swallowed uncontrollably, and the smile dried on his face, like jujubes shrinking from the branches in winter.
Liu Quan slowly drank a cup of tea and just called the little eunuch by his nickname: "Glass Monkey, your account is wrong!"
The Glass Monkey quickly said: "I think I was in a hurry when I was keeping accounts, so I'll take it back and go through it all over again."
As he said this, he took the account book and left.
"Stop," Liu Quan lowered his voice, showing a bit of anger, "Did I tell you to leave?"
The Glass Monkey hurriedly slapped himself on the mouth and said, "The little one has lost his rules! He deserves a slap!"
"Can I not know what kind of character you, Glass Monkey, are?" Liu Quan tapped his fingers lightly on the table, which was the beat of his favorite "Ba Sheng Ganzhou", "Tell me about you
A miscalculation is like my master getting angry. Will anyone believe it?"
"Manager Liu," Glass Monkey plopped down and knelt down, "it's the little lard that has deceived me! If you don't dare to do it again, please forgive me this time!"
Liu Quan half-closed his eyes and just tapped the time with his fingers.
The glass monkey knelt there and begged, but he remained unmoved.
After finishing a piece of music, he spoke: "According to the palace rules, you should be pulled out and beaten fifty times with a cane. Tsk, tsk, with your small body, can you carry it?"
"The little one can't. The little one is made of paper. If you pinch it in the middle, shit will come out at both ends. Please show mercy! From now on, the little one will be your dog!" The glass monkey was born thin and small, relying solely on his intelligence and quick thinking. He can't carry it.
Can you bear the responsibility of the rod?
"I never like to make things difficult for others, let alone you have been under my command for several years." Liu Quan's expression gradually returned to its former gentleness.
When the glass monkey heard that there was something going on, he quickly kowtowed on the ground and said, "Good brother, you are a living Bodhisattva! You have saved my dog's life."
"When you said you were willing to be loyal to me, were you telling the truth or did you say it in a moment of impatience?" Liu Quan asked with a smile.
"It's true!" Glass Monkey raised three fingers and swore, "If I tell a lie, the sky will strike like lightning!"
"That's it! You can't be guilty of swearing." Liu Quan shook his head, "I've taken a fancy to your cleverness and want to promote you. I wonder if you are willing?"
"What are you talking about? What kind of idiot am I to be ignorant of appreciation?" The smile on Glass Monkey's dry face was full of wrinkles, "As long as you say a word, a small fire will come and go, and water will come out."
In and out of the water!"
"There's nothing serious at the moment. It's just that Xue Hengzhao from the Needlework Bureau has been ill for a while. Just give her this bowl of medicine and watch her take it." There is a bowl always placed on the table next to Liu Quan.
At this time, he gently opened the cover, and there was indeed seventy percent black medicinal soup inside.
The reason why Glass Monkey is named "Monkey" is not just because he looks like him.
Liu Quan asked him to take the medicine to Xue Heng and watch her drink it.
This thing is inherently unusual.
There is no shortage of helpers around Liu Quan, and anyone he can ask to come over and deliver the medicine will be able to do it.
Why do you have to hold your own handle first and then do it yourself?
"What? You don't want to go?" Liu Quan asked him with two short eyebrows raised.
"Go! Go!" Glass Monkey replied repeatedly, and then asked tentatively, "I just don't know if Miss Xue is willing to drink. What if she doesn't drink..."
"Xue Hengzhao has very weak bones and has been ill for several days now. I dare not say whether this medicine will work or not. If it does, it will be fine. If he dies...it is no one's business." Liu Quan looked at the glass monkey.
The smile on his face grew stronger, "You understand this, right?"
The glass monkey's two round eyes turned and he understood everything.
There must be something wrong with this bowl of medicine, but Liu Quan was also hinting to him that no one would notice anything unusual.
The palace maid named Xue has been ill for a long time, and her body and bones are weak. There are many palace maids like her who die young every year.
And he couldn't figure out why Liu Quan wanted to harm Xue Hengzhao, considering that people said that she and the prince were a little unclean.
Maybe it was the princess who ordered Liu Quan to do this, or... it was Princess Rong.
A despicable palace maid wants to become a dragon and a phoenix, it would be strange if she is not killed!
In this way, I am doing something for the princess or dowager.
If that's the case, there's really nothing to worry about.
The people above will definitely handle this matter properly, and there will never be any trouble.
And just like Liu Quan said, if you handle this matter, you will definitely be promoted.
"Come over here, little one." The glass monkey stood up and put the medicine bowl into the food box next to it.
"She lives in the room with the mahogany sign behind the original silk warehouse. That place is remote!" Liu Quan's last words were quite meaningful.
The place was remote and there were few people. If Xue Hengchao refused to drink the medicine, then the Glass Monkey could force her to drink it.
"I understand, little one." The glass monkey nodded, bowed, picked up the food box and walked out.
"Don't say I gave this medicine to her." Liu Quan warned, "Just say it was sent by people from Tai Hospital."
The Glass Monkey walked all the way to Xue Hengzhao's residence and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered.
"She must have died of illness, right? That way, it would save a lot of trouble! But even if she dies, I still have to give her this medicine. Otherwise, how can I claim credit?" Glass Monkey was thinking about it while stretching out his hand.
Go push the door.
When the door opens, you can see two beds inside.
One bed was empty, and someone was lying on the other. The quilt was tightly covering his body, even his head.
"Miss Xue! Miss Xue! The people from Tai Hospital have brought medicine. Please drink this." Glass Monkey put the medicine on the table and reached out to pull the quilt on Xue Hengzhao's head.
Suddenly he felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the coldness penetrated the edge of the sword and forced him to shiver.
He didn't dare to look back and simply knelt on the ground with a plop.
Xue Hengzhao lifted the quilt and sat up. She was neatly dressed and her face looked good. She didn't look like she was sick.
The Glass Monkey secretly glanced at her and thought that Xue Hengzhao was really pretty, no wonder he was fascinated by it.
Suddenly, the person behind him picked up the back of his neck and pulled him away from Xue Hengzhao.
The Glass Monkey saw a corner of the flame-patterned brocade robe and recognized it as the clothes of the leader of the palace guards, and couldn't help but secretly cried out that it was bad luck.