When the maid saw the two eunuchs' attire, she asked politely, "Why are the two eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department blocking our way?"
One of the eunuchs said to Yu Jiao, "Master Cheng knew that Miss Liu San had come to the palace, so he specially ordered us to invite Miss Liu San over for a chat."
Even though the little maid was from Changle Palace, she did not dare to say anything after hearing that it was Cheng Ying who wanted to invite someone.
Yu Jiao didn't want to see Cheng Ying at all. She still remembered what she heard in the back hill of Lianxi Temple. Cheng Ying obviously knew that Xue Rong couldn't have a child, and she still wanted to send the girl who raised rabbits into the palace. If Cheng Ying knew that she had ruined his plan...
I'm afraid it's not as simple as dissecting a rabbit.
"My brother is still waiting outside the palace gate. He will be worried if he doesn't see me leave the palace for a long time. Please tell Master Cheng that Yu Ning is really inconvenient today." Yu Jiao bowed and said politely, then took a step forward to leave.
The two eunuchs stretched out their arms to block Yu Jiao's way. The eunuch who had just spoken said with an unchanged expression, "Miss Liu San, please don't embarrass me. I am just following orders. Miss Liu San, please don't force me to use violence!"
There was a hint of threat in the eunuch's words, and the young maid in Changle Palace became quite anxious after hearing that. The imperial concubine then ordered her to escort the person out of the palace properly, and she even chose a secluded path. Who could have thought that someone from the Imperial Household Department would suddenly show up, and the person they wanted was Cheng Zhangyin.
The young palace maid had no choice but to bring up Xue Rong, hoping that this would at least make the two eunuchs more cautious. "My two eunuchs, Miss Liu is the distinguished guest that our Imperial Concubine has invited into the palace today. If I scare Miss Liu, I won't be able to report to the Imperial Concubine."
The eunuch smiled sinisterly at the young palace maid who was speaking, and said in a high-pitched voice, "Dare you stop our Lord Seal Master from meeting someone?"
The little palace maid was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat and said in a trembling voice, "I dare not, I dare not."
Yu Jiao felt helpless. She had seen that Cheng Dugong did whatever he wanted, so she could only say, "I will go with you to see Cheng Dugong."
She turned to the little palace maid and said, "You go back to the palace and meet with Lord Supervisor Cheng. I will leave the palace on my own."
The two eunuchs' expressions changed instantly. They smiled, bowed, made a gesture of invitation, and led the way.
The little palace maid hurriedly turned around and walked towards Changle Palace to inform Xue Rong.
The two eunuchs led Yu Jiao to the waterside pavilion beside the Taihu Lake. Next to the waterside pavilion was a small hill made of huge rocks. There was a stone staircase that could accommodate two people walking side by side. Standing beside the stone staircase, the two eunuchs stopped and said, "Young lady, go up by yourself."
Yu Jiao lifted her skirt and walked up the stone steps very slowly. She really didn't want to deal with someone like Cheng Ying who was moody, unpredictable, and powerful.
The left knee that was injured in the fall yesterday was now aching slightly. Every time she lifted her foot to climb a step, it hurt sharply. Originally, Yu Jiao wanted to delay on purpose, but now, because of her left knee, she was really crawling like a turtle.
The rockery was not very high, and it took Yu Jiao a quarter of an hour to reach the top of the mountain.
A pavilion was built on the top of the mountain. Cheng Ying, dressed in a bright red python robe with gold-woven flying fish patterns, was leaning against the railing in a lazy posture. She held fish food in her hand and glanced at the lake surface with a very casual movement.
"I should have asked someone to carry you up." Cheng Ying pinched the fish food and turned his head to look at Yu Jiao, with a playful smile on his sharp eyebrows.
Yu Jiao walked up to him, knelt down and said, "Yu...Yu Ning greets the Governor. I wonder if the Governor wants to ask Yu Ning to come here for anything."
Cheng Ying looked at her, threw away all the fish food in her hand, clapped her hands, and took out a white silk handkerchief from her sleeve, slowly wiping her fingers, "Do you see the plate of pomegranates on the table?"
Yu Jiao looked towards the stone table in the pavilion. There were four or five bright red pomegranates on a plate. She wondered where they came from in the dead of winter.
"I want to eat pomegranates." Cheng Ying wiped his hands, sat down at the stone table, and spoke concisely.
Yu Jiao: ...
If you want to eat it, just eat it. The pomegranate is right in front of you. Who dares to stop you from eating it? Yu Jiao couldn't help but complain in her heart, but she didn't have the courage to say it out loud.
Cheng Ying stopped talking and just stared at her. Yu Jiao thought about it and suddenly realized a deeper meaning. She asked tentatively, "Do you want me to peel a pomegranate for you?"
Cheng Ying raised her eyebrows and asked, "What else?"
Yu Jiao had no choice but to sit down in the pavilion, put the medical box aside, picked up a pomegranate from the plate, and began to peel it obediently.
Everyone knows that pomegranates are the hardest to peel. There were no tools in the pavilion. Yu Jiao kept her nails very short because she was a doctor, so it took a lot of effort just to make a slit.
She suddenly had an idea and took out a scalpel from her medical box. "If you don't mind, can I use this to peel a pomegranate for you?"
Cheng Ying frowned in disdain, "How dare you? This knife has been used to perform laparotomies on countless people, and you actually use it to peel a pomegranate for me!"
He pulled the food box on the table, opened the lid, took out a pair of silver sticks and a knife, and handed them to Yu Jiao.
Yu Jiao readily took the knife and cut off one end of the pomegranate, made a cut from the cut surface to the bottom, broke the pomegranate open along the cut mark, and used a silver stick to peel the pomegranate into the bowl. Her movements were quick and decisive, and she quickly peeled the pomegranate. Yu Jiao handed the bowl to Cheng Ying and took another one to continue peeling.
Cheng Ying picked up the pomegranate seeds and ate them slowly. "It tastes good." He glanced at Yu Jiao and said, "You are getting bolder and bolder. Do you know what will happen if you go against me?"
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