Chapter 169 There are insects
Xia Qiaoru delivered the medicine to Changchun Palace, received the reward, and just as she turned the corner, she saw a familiar figure. She hurriedly took two quick steps and asked, "Liu Zheng?"
Hearing the voice, Chu Liuzheng, who was carrying a lunch box, turned around with a look of surprise on his face: "What a coincidence, why are you here?"
"I've been ordered to bring pregnancy-preserving medicine to the Empress. Why are you here alone?" Xia Qiaoru reached out and took the food box from her arm, carrying it herself, while supporting her with her other hand. "The food box is so heavy, the road is slippery, and your hand is injured. Why don't you ask Miss Moxiang to come with you?"
"I'm not a child. I don't need Sister Moxiang to accompany me wherever I go." Chu Liuzheng smiled. "I wanted to go to the imperial kitchen to look for Eunuch Chen, but unfortunately he went to the Imperial Hospital. I have to go again tomorrow."
She looked at Xia Qiaoru and said, "When we get back, please ask for me if Eunuch Chen is ill. If you get a positive answer, let me know. If he is, I'll bring him some herbs when I visit him tomorrow."
"You only say that I'm worried, but you're also worried." Xia Qiaoru said, "I'll ask for you when I get back. I'll take you back to Nongyun Garden first."
"Okay." Chu Liuzheng responded lightly.
The two of them haven't had a good talk for a while, so they can take this opportunity to have a good chat.
As they were chatting and about to reach Nong Yunyuan, Xia Qiaoru suddenly remembered something.
She looked around cautiously and whispered to Chu Liuzheng, "I saw something strange a few days ago and forgot to tell you."
[Strange thing? I wonder if it's what Yuzhui mentioned.]
Chu Liuzheng looked at her curiously and motioned her to speak quickly.
Xia Qiaoru whispered, "I happened to see it while delivering medicine. It was near Changchun Palace. A white shadow flashed by and then disappeared. Luckily it was broad daylight. If it had been at night, I would have been scared to death. Do you think I encountered a ghost?"
[White shadow? Didn't the jade pendant say it was hanging on the rope? One second it wasn't there, and the next it was hanging there.]
Chu Liuzheng suppressed the urge to open the system right now and said softly, "You said it was broad daylight. If it really was a ghost, it would come out at night, right? Don't scare yourself."
"But I wasn't the only one who saw it," Xia Qiaoru said. "Qiluo, who went with me to deliver the medicine, also saw it."
Qi Luo was also a palace maid working in the pharmacy. She was timid, dull and didn't like to talk. When Chu Liuzheng was still working in the pharmacy, the two of them had almost no communication.
Therefore, when Xia Qiaoru mentioned this person, Chu Liuzheng thought for a while before he remembered what Qi Luo looked like.
Xia Qiaoru said, "We both saw it. It's impossible for both of us to be wrong, right?"
"Maybe it was just a piece of white gauze that was blown over, and you just happened to see it." Chu Liuzheng signaled her to relax.
"That's a possibility." Xia Qiaoru nodded, put it behind her, and sent Chu Liuzheng back to Nong Yunyuan.
Moxiang had just boiled the medicine and was about to go into the house when she saw the two of them coming over and greeted them with a smile.
The three of them went into the house together. Moxiang poured some hot tea, handed one cup to Xia Qiaoru, and fed one cup to Chu Liuzheng.
"I thought I'd put the medicine away and then go to the imperial kitchen to find you, and get the chicken soup back. I never thought you'd come back so soon."
Chu Liuzheng said, "Eunuch Chen is not here, I will go tomorrow. The chicken soup is already cooked, I will bring it back on the way."
Moxiang nodded.
Xia Qiaoru finished her tea and was about to leave when Chu Liuzheng stopped her: "Why are you in such a hurry? Eat your bowl first so I don't have to send it back to you."
Moxiang went to get the bowl and chopsticks, scooped out a bowl and placed it in front of Xia Qiaoru.
The chicken soup was so delicious that it made Xia Qiaoru's appetite surge.
The meals served to the palace maids and eunuchs in the pharmacy were even worse than those in Nong Yun Garden. She didn't bother being polite with Chu Liuzheng. She reached out and picked up her chopsticks, picked up a piece of chicken, and was about to eat when she heard Mi Yue's voice from outside, "Sister Moxiang, are you in the room?"
"Inside the house." Moxiang responded.
The door was not bolted, and Miyue pushed the door open and came in with a food box in his hand.
She smiled and said, "His Majesty gave me some snacks, including kidney bean rolls, golden red bean cakes, and rose cakes. I'll bring them to my two sisters."
Seeing Xia Qiaoru was there too, she quickly greeted her.
Xia Qiaoru was not familiar with her, so she just nodded while holding her chopsticks.
Mitsuki placed the food box on the table and brought out three plates of snacks.
Chu Liuzheng glanced at the overflowing snacks and asked, "They've all been sent back. How about you guys?"
"Two of each were sent from the imperial kitchen," Mitsuki said. "There's more in the tea room. This one is for the sisters."
Glancing at the three plates of dim sum, Xia Qiaoru sighed inwardly at the good treatment she received from serving in the imperial court. She picked up the chicken again and was about to put it in her mouth when Miyue suddenly pointed at her chopsticks and exclaimed, "Bugs!"
After shouting, he reached out and hit the chicken on the chopsticks and knocked it to the ground.
The chicken rolled on the ground several times and was covered with dust.
There were no bugs on it.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. Xia Qiaoru looked up at Siyue, suspecting that Siyue did it on purpose.
Not only she had doubts, Chu Liuzheng and Moxiang also had doubts.
"Where are the bugs in this weather? Even if there were bugs, there's no reason Moxiang couldn't see them when she was scooping the chicken soup."
[Miyue has always been more stable than Chenxing, but suddenly doing this, could it be... there's something wrong with this chicken soup? I remember Miyue learned how to make and detoxify poisons in the Dark Guard Battalion.]
Chu Liuzheng stared at the steaming chicken soup on the table, a layer of cold sweat seeping out of his back.
She hurriedly opened the system to search, and the moment she saw the answer, she was so scared that her hair almost stood up.
[Holy crap! After twelve hours, the poison takes effect and he loses his mind and turns into a madman?!]
She was shocked that someone would use such a high-level poison against her.
What qualifications does a little palace maid like her have?
"The bug is here." Mitsuki stretched out his hand, and there was a black bug wriggling in the palm of his hand, which looked like a maggot.
She said, "I just grabbed it from the chicken."
Three people: "..."
Chu Liuzheng gave a thumbs up in his heart.
[This patch is awesome! ]
Xia Qiaoru, who had nearly swallowed the bug, turned her head and covered her chest with her hands as she dry-heaved. Moxiang quickly poured her a glass of water so she could rinse her mouth, complaining, "The people in the imperial kitchen must have been careless when they filled the soup. It looks disgusting. Don't even eat the chicken soup today."
Chu Liuzheng responded, "Yes, yes, yes. Who knows what this bug has crawled through? Don't eat it."
"I can't let my sisters suffer." Mitsuki reached out and picked up the soup bowl and put it into the food box. "I'll ask the people in the imperial kitchen."
She picked up the lunch box and left at such a fast speed that she didn't even give Chu Liuzheng and the other two a chance to stop her.
Chu Liuzheng looked at the wide-open door and gave Siyue a thumbs-up in his heart again.
[Siyue was sent by the tyrant to monitor the palace servants. If she discovered that the chicken soup was poisonous, she would have to report it to the tyrant immediately.]
She suddenly realized that it was a good idea to have secret guards disguised as palace maids. Troubles could be reported directly to the tyrant, and she didn't have to deal with it herself.
She turned on the system again.
"Let me see, the person who poisoned the chicken soup is...Wa Qu! It's actually Yuko!"
"We don't have any grudges against each other. I even paid him for the errand. Is he so bored that he wants to poison me?"
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