Chapter 178 Taking the Pulse
When the news reached Shen Fu, by the time she came to her senses, it had already spread like wildfire.
After all, Shen Qingru suddenly died before His Majesty began to order punishment. This matter was very strange no matter how you looked at it.
Shen Fu tried to stand up several times, but finally sat down. She clenched her palms tightly and took a few deep breaths: "How did the person die?"
The young eunuch knelt on the ground, his forehead pressed against the ground: "Hang...hang yourself."
"The servant who delivered the food early in the morning found it. I heard that the person was hanging on the door beam. When he found it, the body was already stiff."
Shen Fu's upright body collapsed completely.
Hanging...
The kick from His Majesty yesterday had made Shen Qingru gasp for air and spit out blood, leaving him half dead.
Shen Qingru looked like she had trouble even standing up, let alone crawling up to hang herself.
Moreover, based on Shen Fu's understanding of Shen Qingru, even if it came to such a situation, Shen Qingru would not be willing to die like this.
Who is this obviously directed at? Need I say more?
Shen Fu felt waves of pain in her arm, and she quickly tapped the table twice with her uninjured hand, her tone sounding a bit irritable.
"Does His Majesty know?"
"I know." The young eunuch knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately: "Now all the concubines in the harem have gone."
"My lady, what should we do then?" Zi Su was completely panicked after hearing Chen Fu's explanation.
Whatever you fear will come true.
Shen Qingru disappeared in such a strange way. No matter how stupid she was, she knew that this matter was directly aimed at their master.
"What should we do?" Shen Fu calmed down quickly.
"Shen... Shen Qingru is gone. Everyone, I'm afraid they will suspect you, young lady." Zi Su's face was filled with obvious worry: "All the concubines in the harem have gone there. Young lady, should we go there too?"
"What am I going to do?"
Shen Qingru's death was clearly aimed at her. After Shen Fu was convinced, she was no longer worried.
The person behind this obviously wanted to make her panic, and the more this happened, the more Shen Fu couldn't let herself panic.
"Do you all think I should go over there?" Chen Fu sat down and tapped the table with her fingertips a few times.
"I think you should go." Zi Su was still scared. "We didn't do this. If you don't go, they will definitely suspect you did it!"
Zi Su's face was filled with indignation when she thought of this. She didn't know who was so cruel as to use these conspiracies and tricks to frame the young lady!
"What do you think?" Chen Fu smiled and glanced at Zi Su, then turned to look at the little eunuch on the ground.
The young eunuch knelt on the ground, and after realizing that the young lady was asking him, he raised his head and glanced at Chen Fu: "I think it's better not to go."
"Oh?" Shen Fu raised her eyebrows, obviously interested.
She looked at the person on the ground with a smile in her eyes, and there was an obvious smile in the corners of her eyes: "Why not go, tell me?"
The young eunuch raised his head from the ground, first glanced at Zi Su quickly, and then smiled at Chen Fu and said:
"This commoner Shen has been so disliked by His Majesty that her death should have been silent, but since the discovery of her death this morning, the news has spread like wildfire."
The young eunuch was not very old and was dark and thin, but his voice was pleasant, which seemed out of place with his whole personality.
"So what?" Zi Su stood behind Shen Fu and asked, "Aren't the people outside still suspicious that it was Xiao who took the initiative?"
"The innocent will be cleared." The young eunuch had calmed down completely from being a little shocked just now.
"If it wasn't done by the young lady, then it wasn't done by the young lady." The young eunuch said, "What's the point of letting others talk about it?"
"You're using twisted logic!" Zi Su stamped her feet in anger: "Are we just going to pretend we don't know and let others say whatever they want?"
"We can't stop others from saying anything!" The little eunuch still smiled.
"What if the young lady goes there? What if she doesn't? Those people may behave differently in front of others and behind their backs." The young eunuch said, "The more we care about their thoughts, the more we will fall into their trap!"
"It's better to just ignore it and not care about it. No matter what they say, we just pretend we don't know. After a while, this trick will become useless and no one will bring it up anymore."
"Besides, the young master is still injured, no one will blame you if you don't go!"
After the young eunuch finished his speech, he carefully raised his head and smiled at Chen Fu: "These are my humble opinions, my lady, just listen to them."
Shen Fu had been watching him from the beginning, and now seeing his remarks, it really hit home with her.
The little eunuch just said everything she wanted to say.
The person behind this wanted to use public opinion to suppress her, and what Chen Fu was going to do now was exactly what the little eunuch said.
No matter how much she cared, after a while, those people would see that she didn't care and naturally wouldn't talk about it in front of her.
Another thing is that Shen Fu went there and saw Shen Qingru's body. How should we face it then?
Should she cry or laugh?
Cry, it's obviously too fake. Shen Qingru even pretended to have a miscarriage to frame her, and Shen Fu cried when she went over. Anyone would think this was too fake.
But if I don't cry, I will definitely be caught and scolded.
Except for His Majesty, everyone else around there must be either crying or acting.
Everyone has a mask on their face. When Chen Fu goes there now, she can either watch the show or go on stage herself.
Why did she go there?
"Get up." Shen Fu was very satisfied with the little eunuch's answer. , hurting his hand, he could only hold the teacup with his other arm, lowered his head and gently sipped the tea, and asked: "What's your name?"
The young eunuch was obviously stunned. He stood there for a long while before he could reply: "Slave, my name is Baoning, you can also call me Xiao Guizi."
"Xiao Guizi." After the young eunuchs entered the palace, their names were randomly given by the eunuch in charge.
Shen Fu muttered the three words "Xiao Guizi" in her mouth, and then said: "Xiao Songzi is injured, you will follow me for the time being."
If your master is willing to call you and remember your name, it means he is promoting you.
Bao Ning understood everything. He stood there blankly for a long time before kneeling down, his tongue tied with excitement: "Thank you, my lady."
Xiao Guizi looked dark and thin, and he looked like he had never eaten enough. Chen Fu asked Zi Su to go down and arrange a place for him to live, and specifically asked someone to bring him two new sets of clothes.
When Zi Su came back, she was still talking: "I don't know how happy that little eunuch was. He kept calling me Sister Zi Su."
Without outsiders around, Zi Su was obviously more active. Chen Fu sent all the palace maids out of the palace, and then gave the tonic in her hand to Zi Su: "He has a sweet mouth."
She has a quick brain, is smart, and has a clever tongue. This little Guizi is quite a character.
"My lady, you want me to drink again." Zi Su had a bitter face. She said, what did the lady ask the other servants in the room to go out for just now?
Zi Su looked at the large bowl of tonic in front of her, her face wrinkled with worry: "It's just that His Majesty specifically ordered you to drink it, but you stuff it into my mouth every meal, how can this be allowed?"
Shen Fu really didn't want to drink this extremely sweet tonic, so she coughed and pretended not to hear it.
"Just drink it first."
How could Zi Su dare not agree? He held the bowl of soup and swallowed it in small sips.
"But my lady..." Zi Su felt happy as she drank the tonic soup.
"The death of Shen Shuren's young master is not acceptable, and we don't care what outsiders think of us."
Zi Su asked cautiously, "But what should I do with the Emperor?"
This really stumped Shen Fu.
Shen Fu didn't care at all what others thought. But Chen Fu had to care about what His Majesty thought.
All the grace and glory of her life belonged to His Majesty. If His Majesty doubted her because of this matter, he would even... distance himself from her.
In that case, Shen Fuke would lose more than she gained.
"I don't want to either." Shen Fu sighed deeply and raised her hand to pinch her eyebrows.
But looking at her injured arm, Shen Fu's face was full of helplessness. If she could have used her beauty to get a visit to the Emperor on normal days, but she was injured and it would be useless to go.
“Things don’t go my way.”
Shen Fu said calmly: "I will leave for the palace soon, let's take it one step at a time."
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Shen Qingru died quietly.
She just happened to have made a big mistake, and the Emperor was disgusted with her.
In addition, now that all the palaces were busy preparing to return to the capital, Shen Qingru's death had only been publicized for a few days. After seeing that it did not cause any waves, fewer people talked about it gradually.
Shen Fu did hear a few words before she left. It is said that His Majesty was too lazy to take care of this matter and gave it entirely to Concubine Rong.
But in the end, Concubine Rong had her buried as a commoner, right on the spot in Yuquan Mountain, which did give her a little face in a subtle way.
The carriage had been on the road for a whole day, and Shen Fu felt dizzy sitting in the carriage.
"What's wrong, my lord?"
After the carriage had been traveling for a while, Chen Fu vomited once. It had only been less than half a day, but now she was vomiting so much acid that it was about to come out.
Seeing Chen Fu holding her throat again and looking extremely uncomfortable, Zi Su immediately asked someone outside to bring in a mouthwash basin: "Young Master, why do you keep vomiting?"
Chen Fu felt really uncomfortable from vomiting. After she stood up, she quickly took some cold tea to rinse her mouth, and immediately waved her hand to have the basin taken away.
"I don't know either." He had fainted three or four times since he got on the carriage.
Chen Fu was so upset that tears came out and she wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.
"I felt dizzy the moment I got on the car." She looked down at her injured shoulder and guessed that it was because of the injury.
She has had a weak constitution since childhood, and now her arm was badly injured, so her mood was naturally different from the happy mood when she came here.
As for vomiting as soon as she got on the carriage, it was the first time for Shen Fu.
Seeing that Shen Fu started to cover her throat again, Zi Su quickly brought the cooling ointment borrowed from an outsider to Shen Fu.
It would have been fine if he hadn't sent it, but after this, Shen Fu covered her throat and vomited even more uncomfortably.
“Stop the car. Stop the car.”
Zi Su could only shout outside. The carriage had been barely following at the back, and if it stopped again, it might not be able to catch up with the team.
"What should I do?"
Zi Su looked at the young lady with a worried look on her face. Just as I was worrying, there was a knock on the door outside the carriage.
"Mistress Shen Fu, Mistress Shen Fu."
Zi Su opened the window and her eyes lit up when she saw the person coming: "Eunuch Lin?"
"Eunuch Lin, why are you here?" Zi Su said, leaning half of her body forward and looking towards the front.
Shouldn't Eunuch Lin be following His Majesty, at the front?
Lin An had a smile on his face and looked inside through the window: "It was His Majesty who sent me here."
"Your Majesty heard that the young lady was not feeling well, so he came to ask me to invite her over."
Lin An pointed at the sedan chair behind him and said with a smile, "My lady, follow me."
Chen Fu was still dazed as she sat in the sedan chair and was carried step by step to the Emperor's palanquin.
It was not until her cheek was gently pinched that she came back to her senses.
"What's wrong?" His Majesty was sitting next to her, with a teasing smile on his face: "Don't you recognize me?"
He was busy with matters related to returning to the palace these days and did not go to Chen Fu during the day. I only went to take a sneak peek twice at night.
Chen Fu was good, she was quiet and didn't come to see me at all.
Xiao Yu felt unhappy when he thought of this. The hand that was pinching Shen Fu's cheek tightened a little bit until Shen Fu felt pain and covered her face to avoid him, then he stopped.
"Your Highness." Shen Fu covered her face and murmured.
Xiao Yu looked her up and down before asking, "I heard that you were not feeling well and were vomiting?"
There was obvious concern in His Majesty's tone. Shen Fu looked at His Majesty's face and nodded obediently.
"Yes, there are some, but your Majesty, don't worry."
As soon as she finished speaking, His Majesty smiled. He pointed at the imperial physician in the corner of the palace and waved his hand: "Let the imperial physician take a look at you."
"It's just some vomiting, Your Majesty, don't worry too much." Shen Fu wanted to explain, but looking at the look in Your Majesty's eyes, she could only stretch out her hand obediently.
The imperial physician had been waiting there, obviously summoned by His Majesty in advance.
He half-knelt on the ground and stretched out his hand towards Shen Fu. When his fingertips landed on Shen Fu's wrist, he couldn't help but look at Shen Fu twice more.
"What's wrong?"
His Majesty was waiting by the side the whole time. He looked into the doctor's eyes and asked, "But is there any problem?"
Chen Fu was also a little nervous. When she saw the imperial physician didn't say anything, her heart skipped a beat.
"Imperial Physician...
"The time is too short, and my pulse diagnosis is not accurate..." The imperial physician was obviously undecided, and he considered for a while before speaking cautiously.
"How about you wait until we return to the palace and ask the Imperial Doctor He from the Qianjin Department to take your pulse?"
The imperial physician's words were vague, but Xiao Yu and Shen Fu both clearly understood the underlying meaning.
The time is too short... In addition, there is He Baokun from the Qianjin Department. Doctor He is an expert at taking the pulse of happiness, regardless of other pulse conditions!
“You…” His Majesty looked at Chen Fu, with a flash of surprise or something in his eyes.
He shouted out of the carriage window: "Hurry back to the palace!"
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