Chapter 2567: Things Between Men and Women
Nan Yan nodded and turned to leave her room. Just as she reached the door, she stopped and looked back at Xue Yun. She said with a half-smile, "It's strange. The medicine was stolen, so why is the smell of medicine still so strong in your room, Doctor Xue?"
"Well?"
Xue Yun was taken aback by the question. After thinking for a moment, he immediately said, "As an imperial physician, the luggage I carry with me is mostly medicinal herbs, so the medicinal smell is naturally stronger."
"oh……"
Nan Yan nodded, as if she suddenly understood something.
Then he smiled and said, "Don't mind me. I don't understand, I'm just asking."
"What are you talking about, Madam?"
Nan Yan smiled and turned away.
Xue Yun stood at the door, bowed to the ground, and did not stand up slowly until Nan Yan's back disappeared at the door of the east wing.
His forehead was covered in cold sweat.
Nan Yan did not go back directly, but walked around the Duwei Mansion. Although it was her first time in Handongwei and she was not very familiar with the place, it was just a Duwei Mansion after all, and it couldn't be that big. After walking around a few times, she had a general understanding of the location and layout of the Duwei Mansion.
Like Shazhou Wei, Handong Wei was actually just a garrison in the northwest, but Zhu Feng mobilized a large number of military households to station at the border and cultivate land, and built cities for defense, and gradually it grew stronger.
The Duwei Mansion is located just north of Handongwei. The front half of the mansion is an official office, with a meeting room, a study, and warehouses for storing documents and weapons. People come and go in these places at all times, making it difficult to hide their tracks.
The back half of the Duwei Mansion is the wing room prepared for the resident officials.
Several courtyards have now been cleared out to serve as residences for the emperor, imperial concubines and others.
According to his status and rank, Duwei Chen Zixiao could have opened his own residence, but Chen Zixiao came from a Taoist temple and did not care about enjoying false fame. He was not married yet, so he directly moved into the wing room behind the Duwei's residence.
Although there are not many people coming and going here, there are guards at every door and on both sides of every road.
There are also three shifts of patrolling guards passing by at any time.
Stealing things in a place like this is not a smart choice.
Unfortunately, the thief was so smart that he managed to do it without any leaks and no one knew about it.
Nan Yan walked around for a while, then returned to Zhu Feng's room and sat waiting for him. As she waited, the sun outside began to set, and Zhu Feng came back stepping on his own shadow.
Seeing her lying on the table playing with cups and plates, he smiled and said, "Are you hungry?"
Hearing his voice, Nan Yan immediately stood up: "Your Majesty!"
Zhu Feng reached out and stopped her as she was about to salute, then took her hand and sat her down again, saying, "I should tell you that the meeting time over there is uncertain, so you should eat early."
Nan Yan said, "I'm not too hungry either. I'll wait for the emperor to come back and have dinner together."
But just as he finished speaking, a "gurgling" sound was heard in the quiet room.
“…”
Nan Yan's face suddenly darkened.
How come again——
Zhu Feng looked down at her shrunken belly, a look on his face that was about to smile but not smile. He hurriedly waved at Xiao Shunzi, "Hurry up and have dinner delivered. If it's any later, the imperial concubine will scold us."
"emperor!"
Nan Yan was so ashamed and angry that she wanted to die.
Although this wasn't the first time she had been embarrassed in front of him, she would never get used to this kind of thing.
I had such a full meal at noon, why am I hungry now?
She forgot that although she was full, she had been walking around the Duwei Mansion all afternoon and had digested the little she had eaten long ago.
Fortunately, the food was always prepared in the kitchen. After the order was given, the food was delivered immediately. Nan Yan sat at the table, gritting her teeth and chewing fiercely, as if she had a deep hatred.
Zhu Feng watched and laughed.
After laughing, he picked up some more food for her and asked, "Did you find out anything when you went over there just now?"
Nan Yan looked up at him.
Zhu Feng said, "I didn't ask her to hide anything from you. I told her everything. If you still can't find out anything, then it's your fault as the Imperial Concubine."
Nan Yan said, "Your Majesty also said that I didn't let Doctor Xue give you acupuncture and detoxification on the way because it was for the sake of your health. Does Your Majesty still want to blame me for taking the initiative?"
Zhu Feng glanced at her.
"You didn't act on your own, but Xue Yun was an official from the previous dynasty. As the imperial concubine, aren't you meddling too much?"
Nan Yan said: "That's easy, just let her enter the harem as a concubine. I have already -"
"Okay,"
Zhu Feng seemed unable to bear it any longer: "Stop mentioning your 'Medical Concubine'."
"snort."
"Tell me, did you find out anything?"
"As for the medicine, I'm not familiar with medical theory, so only Doctor Xue can explain it clearly. But the strange thing is, a thief risked his entire family being executed to break into the Duwei Mansion and steal just one pill. How can that be justified?"
Zhu Feng asked, "Is it the thief outside?"
Nan Yan said, "I've been in the Duwei Mansion and have been watching the surroundings for the entire afternoon. Unless you're a god, it's impossible for you to enter the Duwei Mansion and steal without alerting anyone."
"so--"
"It's an inside thief."
"The thief within..."
Zhu Feng repeated these two words, his expression becoming serious.
Nan Yan said, "Imperial Physician Xue is the only imperial physician accompanying the emperor this time. Unless she has other uses for the medicine she brewed, it's obvious that it was brewed for the emperor. It's strange that someone from the Duwei Mansion would steal the emperor's things."
“…”
"What's important now is not the pill, or even the person who stole it, but what the person's purpose was in stealing it."
Nan Yan said, looking at him: "I'm afraid the emperor's detoxification was not concealed."
Zhu Feng thought for a moment and said, "I have summoned Xue Yun to my side several times. We have been alone together for such a long time. Most people would have evil thoughts in their minds. However, there are also some people who don't have so many dirty thoughts in their heads and would think in the right direction."
Nan Yan nodded gently.
Some people's eyes were fixed on Xue Yun because she was a woman, so the emperor summoned her just for matters between men and women.
But some people's eyes are on Xue Yun, who is an imperial physician. The emperor summoned her for the sake of the doctor and the patient.
Speaking of which, the perspective from which one looks at a problem depends, to a large extent, on the kind of person who is looking at the problem.
People who can look at things this way have very pure minds.
And direct.
Such people can see through the essence of things through phenomena, so when they steal again, their target will be very clear.
It is to prevent the emperor from detoxifying and recovering his memory.
Thinking of this, Nan Yan frowned.
She had stopped him before because she was afraid that Zhu Feng would fall into the same kind of obsession with the past again because of the detoxification, but she was not opposed to Zhu Feng recovering his memory.
But who wouldn’t want the emperor to regain his memory?
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