Chapter 47
After returning home, Lin Qingyu went to the mourning hall alone. There is only one person's tablet enshrined in the mourning hall. He looked at the three crudely carved words "Jiang Da Zhuang", standing alone and lost in thought for a long time.
"You told Xu Junyuan but didn't tell me." Lin Qingyu said softly, "Tell me, are you a beast?"
The warm wind blew, but no one responded.
There was a knock on the door, and Huan Tong said from outside: "Master, Manager Zhang is here."
Before Lin Qingyu left, he said to the tablet: "But as long as you can come back on time, I won't scold you."
Zhang Shiquan was called by Lin Qingyu. He didn't know why Lin Qingyu wanted to talk to him in the evening, so he first reported the latest situation of Nan'an Marquis Mansion truthfully. In just one month, the Marquis' Mansion underwent a tremendous change. It was no longer lifeless, simply because - Mrs. Pan was pregnant.
This was something Lin Qingyu had never thought of. He had underestimated Nan'an Hou. Even with his state of mind devastated like that, he still struggled to get up and leave a legacy for himself.
"After the doctor diagnosed Aunt Pan with a pregnancy pulse, the Marquis's illness can be said to have been cured without medication. Now he no longer needs to stay in bed, and I think he will be able to return to the court soon."
"He wants to return to the court, but there may not be a place for him in the court now." After saying this, Lin Qingyu got back to the point, "During the months you were in Xuzhou, in addition to investigating the illegal salt business for me, you also did a lot of things for the young marquis."
Zhang Shiquan was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "You can't hide anything from the young master."
"Tell me about it."
Zhang Shiquan said: "The young marquis asked me to find a person in Suicheng, Xuzhou, and then find a way to get a token from him."
Lin Qingyu asked: "Who is that person?"
"I only know that he goes by the alias Zhu Yongxin and is a butcher. As for his true identity and real name, I'm afraid only the young marquis knows it."
Lin Qingyu nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Go to the storehouse and get some tonic medicine to give to Aunt Pan later."
Zhang Shiquan said: "Yes, Master."
The next day, from the moment Lin Qingyu woke up in bed in the early morning, he felt an emptiness in his chest, and he didn't know where his heart was. Hualu walked into the room and saw Lin Qingyu sitting on the bed in a daze. She called out, "Master?"
Lin Qingyu suddenly said: "Go back to the Lin Mansion today."
Not everyone may know that he has moved.
After arriving at the Lin Mansion, Lin Qingyu had a meal with Lin's mother and then stayed in the study. Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Lin's mother stopped Lin Qinghe who wanted to stick to his brother: "Your brother wants to be alone."
Lin Qingyu sat alone from day to night until the lights came on. Huantong came in and reminded him: "Master, it's time for you to enter the palace."
Tonight, Lin Qingyu will be on duty at the Imperial Hospital for six hours.
Lin Qingyu asked him: "What time is it?"
Huantong responded: "It's already the hour of Xu."
"Then there is still..." Lin Qingyu stopped talking, collected his thoughts, and said, "Please change my clothes for me."
The night falls and the palace gates are locked. Most of the imperial physicians on duty at night in the Imperial Medical Bureau were young physicians with little experience, with only one or two senior physicians in charge.
Hu Ji was preparing medicine according to the prescription. There was a medicine he was unsure of the dosage for, so he looked up and asked Lin Qingyu beside him: "Doctor Lin, would it be better if there was a little less storax? Doctor Lin?"
Lin Qingyu came back to his senses and asked, "What?"
Hu Ji put down the square and asked, "Have you been worried about something these days? I feel like you're always absent-minded."
Lin Qingyu pressed his brows: "Nothing."
"You must tell me if you have anything to say," Hu Ji said sincerely, "I can..."
Before Hu Ji finished speaking, a panicked voice came from outside the hospital: "Doctor Hu! Is Doctor Hu here?!"
The person who came was a young eunuch who was in charge of cleaning the Qinzheng Hall, named Xiao Fuzi. He came to the Imperial Hospital in the middle of the night because a eunuch who lived in the same room with him suddenly fell ill. He had unbearable abdominal pain, vomited until he was dizzy, and became unconscious. As eunuchs, no one cared when they were sick. Only Doctor Hu would treat them wholeheartedly.
Doctor Hu packed his things without saying anything else: "I'll be there right away."
Lin Qingyu said, "You still need to prepare beauty pills for Concubine Chen, I'll go."
Doctor Hu was surprised and asked, "Are you willing to go?"
Lin Qingyu nodded. He wanted to find something to do, and only when facing patients could he get a brief moment of peace.
Xiao Fuzi only trusted Hu Ji, and felt uneasy when she heard this: "Doctor Hu is not going?"
Hu Ji smiled and said, "Don't worry, Doctor Lin's medical skills are better than mine. With him here, there will be absolutely no problem. Don't you know that the medicine for the epidemic was prepared by Doctor Lin?"
Xiao Fuzi's eyes lit up: "Really? Thank you, Doctor Lin!"
Lin Qingyu said: "Lead the way."
Lin Qingyu followed Xiao Fuzi to the Silijian where the eunuchs lived. The other side of the magnificent and solemn palace is the eunuchs who are crowded into one room with seven or eight people. The room he arrived at was relatively good. All the people living in it were eunuchs serving in the Qinzheng Hall. People around the emperor were at least clean and had no odor. The eunuchs who did the lowest level of hard labor often had a strong sour smell on their bodies.
After Lin Qingyu's diagnosis, the sick eunuch found out that he had eaten something bad. Lin Qingyu prescribed him a dose of emetic, asking him to vomit out everything in his stomach. After that, he would drink stomach-nourishing medicine for a few days and he would recover.
Xiao Fuzi thanked him repeatedly and said, "I will take Doctor Lin back to the Imperial Hospital."
Lin Qingyu said: "No need."
"But it's already midnight, and it's dark and hard to walk."
Lin Qingyu was stunned: "Is it already midnight?"
Xiao Fuzi said: "Yes."
The last piece of Lin Qingyu's heart was also empty. This day finally passed.
He still didn't show up.
It is extremely rare for the dead to come back to life and for the soul to change bodies. He had never heard of it before that person. It is incredible to experience it once, so how can he have a second time?
Once dead, you are dead. After death, there is nothing.
He actually believed that man's lies, so stupid.
Lin Qingyu stared at one place for a long time, and suddenly closed his eyes, as if he could escape something. Afterwards, he carried his brand new medical kit and said, "I... I can do it myself."
When he reached the door of the room, the eunuch sleeping beside him turned over in his sleep and muttered incoherently: "Odd changes to even but not odd...odd changes to even..."
Lin Qingyu suddenly stopped, lowered his head in disbelief, and stared at the handsome young eunuch.
The young eunuch was completely unaware in his sleep, and was still muttering the words: "Odd things change, but even things don't..."
Lin Qingyu's pupils suddenly contracted and his body felt numb from head to toe. He no longer cared about anything else, grabbed the eunuch by the collar and arrested him.
The eunuch opened his eyes sleepily and looked at Lin Qingyu blankly: "Did I dream about an immortal...?"
Lin Qingyu's mind went blank for a moment, and he instinctively said the five words he had silently repeated countless times in his mind: "Do you look at the quadrant for the symbol?"
The eunuch was even more confused: "...What?"
Lin Qingyu was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't know what to say for a moment. He looked down at the eunuch's body and said in a trembling voice: "You... have realized your lifelong dream..."
It was worn by a eunuch? Became a real husband?
"Doctor Lin?" Xiao Fuzi wanted to hold him back, but felt that her hand was not worthy of touching such a beautiful doctor. "Doctor Lin, this is Xiao Songzi from the Qinzheng Palace. Do you have anything to do with him?"
Lin Qingyu was in a trance for a while, and then gradually regained his senses. If that person was in the palace, he would have come to find him long ago. Xiao Songzi knew this sentence, most likely because someone else told him.
Lin Qingyu's hands suddenly became fierce, his expression was cold, and he asked sternly: "Where did you hear this from?"
Xiao Songzi was grabbed by the collar and could hardly breathe: "Wh-Which words are you saying…"
“Odds change but evens don’t!”
"I don't know, I know nothing." Xiao Songzi's face flushed red, "I just heard the scholars imprisoned in the Qinzheng Hall repeating this sentence from morning to night, just like chanting scriptures, and I memorized it unconsciously..."
Lin Qingyu slowly let go of his hand, his mind was in a state of confusion, with the joy of regaining what he had lost and the anxiety of not knowing the truth coexisting at the same time.
But now is not the time to be surprised or nervous, he must calm down and find out more information.
Hu Ji had mentioned Xiao Songzi to him many times, and they heard a lot of information from him. According to Hu Ji, Xiao Songzi is a simple-minded person who knows how to repay kindness and is a trustworthy person. If what Xiao Songzi said was true, then how did the scholar from the Hanlin Academy know this?
Lin Qingyu's expression lightened up a bit, and he asked, "What else did you hear in the Qinzheng Palace?"
Xiao Songzi took a breath and said, "That's all. The door of the side hall of the Qinzheng Palace is always closed, and no one can get out. I can go in because I have to deliver meals to them three times a day... Oh, by the way, I also heard them mention Xixia several times."
Lin Qingyu asked again: "Since when were the scholars from the Hanlin Academy imprisoned in the Qinzheng Hall?"
"About three or five days ago. I don't know what they were doing."
Now that the emperor is seriously ill and the crown prince is acting as regent, all the scholars have gathered in the Qinzheng Hall, surely under Xiao Cheng's orders. So, the source of the news is Xiao Cheng? Did Xiao Cheng learn about this from Xixia?
In any case, that person is still alive, possibly in Western Xia or on the border of Dayu. There was constant war on the border between Xixia and Dayu. Perhaps that man knew he couldn't come back on time, so he resorted to this desperate measure.
He is still alive, but has not come to find me yet. Instead, I don't know how he used to pass the secret code to Dayu's court. This is enough to show that he is either unable to escape or has to hide his identity. He let Xiao Cheng know the secret code not to ask him to respond, but just wanted to convey the fact that he was still alive through Xiao Cheng's mouth.
In this case, he should not reveal himself, at least not respond to this secret code in front of Xiao Cheng.
Lin Qingyu pondered for a long time, and his violently beating heart finally calmed down. He said to Xiao Songzi: "I owe you a favor for this matter."
Xiao Songzi smiled shyly: "Doctor Lin is a friend of Doctor Hu, and he is willing to come to the eunuch's residence to treat us. We don't know how to repay you, so we can only tell you some insignificant gossip."
Lin Qingyu suddenly felt that it wasn't bad to be a good person occasionally.
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