“It really dirty my hands.”

Miss Jiang raised her chin, becoming more and more arrogant, like a red rose with thorns.

She took a handkerchief from the maid, wiped her hands slowly, then threw it on the ground in disgust and said to Miss Gong and her little cousin, "Let's go!"

The three of them left first, and the other noble ladies looked at each other. A girl in yellow was the first to catch up, "Miss Jiang, let's go for a walk on the horses."

The other few noble girls followed immediately for fear of being left behind, and they left talking and laughing, as if they had completely forgotten about Yuan Zhitong.

Yuan Zhitong looked at the backs of everyone leaving and stood there alone, feeling embarrassed and annoyed. She held the hydrangea in her hand even tighter, and the golden bell was pulled, making a tinkling sound.

The originally clear ringing sound seemed particularly harsh at this moment.

"Young lady." the maid called timidly.

Yuan Zhitong seemed not to hear anything. After a while, she moved. She couldn't help but look back at the bamboo shed where Gu Jue and Chu Qianchen were, her eyes deep.

She thought Chu Qianchen would at least look at her twice, maybe gloating over her being ridiculed, maybe mocking her for not knowing her own limitations, maybe...

She didn't believe that Chu Qianchen really didn't care about her at all...

However, what she saw were two intimate figures, the two people in purple riding clothes were standing shoulder to shoulder and head to head.

The couple were making shuttlecocks while whispering to each other. No one knew what Chu Qianchen said, but Gu Jue raised his hand and touched her head.

Yuan Zhitong: “!!!”

Yuan Zhitong couldn't stay there any longer, so she stuffed the hydrangea in her hand to the maid, said "Let's go", and strode towards the palace.

The head maid hurriedly trotted to catch up, but she was holding the hydrangea in her hand. When she ran, the golden bells on the hydrangea jingled, attracting several people nearby to look at the master and servant.

Yuan Zhitong was extremely sensitive to other people's gazes at this moment. She felt as if everyone was laughing at her, so she walked faster.

After a while, the master and servant disappeared.

Yuan Zhitong didn't leave any ripples in Chu Qianchen's heart at all. She was concentrating on making her second shuttlecock.

The couple finished the work one after the other. Chu Qianchen placed the three shuttlecocks together. The cloth used for the bases was different colors, one rouge, one bright red, and one royal blue.

The royal blue one was made by Chu Qianchen for Chu Yunmu, and the other two were made by Gu Jue for her.

Great! Chu Qianchen happily fiddled with the two shuttlecocks made by Gu Jue, and he had the urge to take them back and put them away.

Gu Jue picked up one of the shuttlecocks and threw it to her lightly, "Didn't you say you wanted to play shuttlecock?"

Chu Qianchen suddenly forgot the thought just now and said happily: "I am very good at shuttlecock kicking!"

Chu Qianchen is indeed very good at kicking shuttlecock. The simplest way to kick it is that she can kick it for an hour by herself and the shuttlecock will not fall to the ground. She also knows various fancy ways to play it, such as single flying swallow, double flying swallow, mandarin duck kick and so on.

She was as light as a swallow, with graceful movements. She kicked, jumped and turned. The shuttlecock decorated with pheasant tail feathers flew up and down in the air, as if it were a part of her body.

Gu Jue stared at her intently. Her snow-white cheeks were faintly flushed, her smile was bright, her eyes were shining, and a pair of shallow dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth, which was indescribably sweet.

Gu Jue likes to see her like this, this is how she should be at her age, carefree, innocent and full of energy.

Chu Qianchen played with shuttlecock for a while before being called back by Gu Jue, and then he sat down obediently.

She looked at him with a smile, her eyes clear and reflecting his face.

"Don't move." Gu Jue took a handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat from Chu Qianchen's temples. The handkerchief moved down her cheek and gently wiped her chin.

There was a faint scent of agarwood on the handkerchief, which was faintly visible and was the smell she was most familiar with.

She couldn't help but sniff it, her nostrils flared, her eyes curved slightly, and her red lips slightly opened.

At this time, a few fallen leaves floated over with the wind, spinning and falling slowly.

One of the withered yellow leaves happened to fall towards Gu Jue's temple, and Chu Qianchen subconsciously raised his hand to grab the leaf.

Gu Jue: “?”

Gu Jue tilted his head slightly in confusion.

When he moved, her hand happened to be hooked around his neck.

“……” Gu Jue’s Adam’s apple rolled up and down, and his eyes became a little deeper.

When Amber came back, she happened to see the two people's weird postures and felt it was difficult to look at them.

Chu Qianchen quickly withdrew his hand, and still remembered pinching the fallen leaf that fell on his shoulder between his fingers and turning it, meaning that she did it for this.

Her face felt strangely hot.

"Princess, I personally gave the shuttlecock you made to the county lady." Amber reported without looking away.

"Is Qi Niang okay?" Chu Qianchen asked.

Amber immediately replied: "The county lady seems to be in good spirits, but not very lively... She likes the shuttlecock very much."

Amber said that Gu Zhiyan was "not very lively", which was already a very euphemistic statement. Gu Zhiyan didn't say a word from beginning to end, just holding the shuttlecock and looking at it.

Chu Qianchen picked up the teacup and slowly took two sips of tea.

Last night, Amber went to Yunxiangzhai where Shen Wan lived, and came back to report to Chu Qianchen, saying that Shen Wan seemed fine, but she, Prince Jing, and others were not in good spirits, and Shen Wan looked worried.

At that time, Chu Qianchen realized that Gu Zhiyan might be sick.

That's why she just used the excuse of sending the shuttlecock to ask Amber to go to Yunxiangzhai again.

Since she went to the Duke's Mansion with Shen to visit Gu Zhiyan on August 20, she has not seen this little cousin again. After that, she also wanted to ask Shen to call Shen Wan and Gu Zhiyan to the Duke's Mansion, but Shen Wan did not come.

At that time, Chu Qianchen had already realized that Shen Wan was deliberately avoiding him.

Chu Qianchen was not ignorant of the ways of the world. When she thought about the embarrassing situation of Prince Jing's Mansion, she understood Shen Wan's helplessness.

People living in this world have to deal with many things, various concerns and scruples. No one can say that they can live their whole life according to their own wishes.

Later, Chu Qianchen learned from Shen that Gu Zhiyan's health had improved, so he didn't ask any more questions.

After a pause, Amber added, "Although the Princess did not say so, I saw that the County Lady was indeed ill, but she should have recovered now."

"I'm glad you're okay." Chu Qianchen said casually, his eyes cold and his expression calm.

That's not right either.

Maybe she was a gentle little girl before she was fourteen in her previous life?

Thinking of that time which was so far away from now, Chu Qianchen's eyes became slightly dazed.

She had almost forgotten what kind of person she was before she was fourteen in her previous life. She seemed very weak, humble, and easily sad...

Ever since she was expelled from the Chu family in her previous life, she has changed and is no longer the same person she used to be. After the prince died, her heart turned cold and she completely became a cold-hearted person.

In her previous life, her master Lin Miao once said that she could become a miracle doctor, but not a good doctor.

She knew that her master was keeping something to himself and that she did not have a compassionate heart like a doctor.

Chu Qianchen didn't care what her master thought of her, nor did she care what others thought of her. She was a very selfish person anyway. She had studied medicine for the prince, otherwise, she would not have studied medicine at all.

In this case, all the people who have been treated by her should be grateful to the prince, and these merits should be credited to the prince, right?

As Chu Qianchen thought about it, he looked towards Gu Jue with a scorching gaze, brighter and more dazzling than the morning star rising at dawn.

Then, she felt a darkness before her eyes.

Her eyes were covered with hands.

Chu Qianchen: “…”

amber:"……"

Jiang Yuan: “…”

Chu Qianchen stood still obediently.

Amber felt like she was fed a mouthful of sweets again and silently turned her eyes away.

After a while, Chu Qianchen's eyes lit up again, and Gu Jue moved his hand away.

Chu Qianchen's eyes were still a little uncomfortable with the light. Her beautiful phoenix eyes blinked and met his narrow and deep eyes, as if asking him why he blindfolded her.

Gu Jue's eyes were as calm as the sea. Instead of answering, he asked, "Do you want to go see Qi Niang?"

"I'll ask Amber to go again later. I won't go." Chu Qianchen shook his head and muttered sarcastically, "How can a monarch of a country be so petty?"

As early as in the last life, Chu Qianchen knew what kind of person the Emperor of Daqi was, so he just said it casually. Isn't the Emperor just trying to prevent Chen Wangfu from connecting with other palaces? ! Gu Jue patted Chu Qianchen's shoulder soothingly, then waved to Jingfeng and ordered: "Go and ask Zheng Yuanpan to check whether Jing Junwangfu has invited the imperial physician, and bring a pulse record of Hui'an County Master."

Zheng Yuanpan is from the Prince Chen’s Palace.

The Court Judge is the second in command in the Imperial Medical Bureau, second only to the Court Envoy, and it is easy for him to adjust a pulse case.

Jingfeng was gone, Gu Jue pulled Chu Qianchen up and put a cloak on her.

The two of them walked hand in hand towards the palace, strolling leisurely.

The two returned to Zichen Palace hand in hand.

There were two charcoal braziers burning in the room, making it warm. As soon as Chu Qianchen entered the warm place, he began to feel lazy, yawning and leaning lazily on the soft big pillow.

She had just sat down when Gu Zhiyan's pulse case was delivered to her by Jiang Yuan.

Of course, this pulse record was not the one written by Doctor Wang, but was copied by someone else.

Chu Qianchen held his chin and read through Gu Zhiyan's pulse case at a glance.

Judging from the child's pulse, he just has a fever and loss of appetite, there is nothing special else.

The pulse case was written very clearly. After Chu Qianchen finished reading it, he handed it to Gu Jue.

Gu Jue also glanced at the pulse case and told Jiang Yuan, "Ask Judge Zheng to take the pulse himself."

Jiang Yuan responded and withdrew.

Chu Qianchen stared at Gu Jue with curved eyebrows and a smile on his face.

She was very happy, so she expressed her joy directly: "My Lord, you are so kind!"

She likes the prince the most.

Thinking of this, Chu Qianchen's eyes lit up again, so bright and scorching that Gu Jue could hardly look directly at them.

His right hand moved, and he couldn't help but want to cover her eyes again.

This girl always makes him feel overwhelmed.

Gu Jue sighed in his heart, but his thin lips curled up, and his smile was as light as ripples on the lake.

At this moment, Jingfeng came in with a thin bamboo tube and said, "Your Highness, a letter has just arrived from the capital via carrier pigeon."

This hunting palace is the emperor's temporary palace, and the entire area around it is under the eyes of the imperial guards. So this letter sent by carrier pigeon was not sent directly from the Prince Chen's Mansion to the palace, but was first sent to the Prince Chen's Mansion's stronghold in a nearby town, and then forwarded here by the people in the stronghold.

Gu Jue took out a piece of silk paper rolled into a long thin strip from the wax-sealed bamboo tube and slowly unfolded it.

A familiar font came into view. This piece of silk paper was much more complicated than the pulse record with only a few numbers on it. Half a page was covered with densely written words.

Gu Jue raised the corner of his lips almost imperceptibly and said, "There is some movement in the capital."

He spoke vaguely and without a beginning or an end, but Chu Qianchen knew what he was talking about. He pinched his sleeve curiously and asked, "What happened next?"

She almost had "enjoy the fun" written on her face.

Gu Jue handed her the letter sent by carrier pigeon.

Chu Qianchen didn't take the letter. She pulled Gu Jue's sleeve and shook it coquettishly, waiting for him to tell her what happened.

What's so good about the letter? She likes listening to him talk.

His voice was clear and cold, like a spring flowing under the moonlight, very clear, very quiet, and very pleasant to hear... But he usually didn't like to talk, so Chu Qianchen always liked to find ways to tease him to say more.

She smiled coquettishly and sweetly, with such flattery and expectation that it was hard to refuse.

(End of this chapter)