The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 374: Abuse of Scum (Part 1)

Gu Jiao played chess with the old beggar for a while and then left. Of course, she did not forget to take away the gold ingots and "work wages" she had earned.

But she also has a little conscience, so the old man left those copper plates and broken silver.

It was still early in the morning, so Gu Jiao went to the Imperial Academy. She originally planned to wait for Xiao Liulang to be on duty, but she asked Kong Mu of the Imperial Academy to find out that Xiao Liulang had gone to the countryside again.

But this time I didn't go to a very far place, it was in the capital, and I could come back at night.

"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked politely, turned and left the Imperial Academy.

Xiao Jingkong is going to play at Xu Porridge's house today, and he has already said hello in the morning, she doesn't have to go to the Imperial College to pick him up, the Xu family will send him back to the hospital in the evening.

Gu Jiao decided to go directly to the clinic.

It's just that what Gu Jiao didn't expect was that on the way back to the medical clinic, she encountered a small gangster.

Gu Jiao murmured suspiciously, it's still far away from the Chinese New Year, did you come out for business so early?

There were six gangsters in total, and they looked like bandits and refugees from their attire, but they were muscular, holding knives and swords, so they should indeed have some martial arts background.

Several people covered their faces with cloth scarves and stared at her covetously.

Gu Jiao thought for a while and asked, "Robbery?"

With her current honor, she can't be a robbery, right? But it's hard to say, some men won't care so much if they don't eat meat for a long time.

Ugh.

Gu Jiao is not interested.

Gu Jiao turned around and left, not bothering to fight.

"stop!"

The leading gangster shouted loudly.

As a result of Gu Jiao standing still, a few punks were beaten up until their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, crying for their father and mother.

Gu Jiao didn't bother to report it to the officials. Given their current miserable situation, it might not take long for the nearby officials to be alerted, so she didn't need to do anything.

Gu Jiao brushed off her wide sleeves and walked back to the clinic.

The reason why she chose to walk was not because she was free, nor because she cared about the money to hire a carriage, but because she was looking at the shops along the street.

On the way back to the hospital, I finally didn't encounter any small troubles.

"Little Gu! You're back!"

Is the second master.

The business of the medical clinic has improved a lot, and the order volume of the pharmaceutical factory has also increased. In addition to making their own brand of sore medicine, they also made some pills for nourishing qi and blood.

The second owner was so busy that his head was bald, it was rare to meet Gu Jiao.

"Uncle Hu." Gu Jiao greeted him, "What's the happy event today?"

Erdong's family smiled mysteriously: "I'll show you something!"

"What?" Gu Jiao asked.

"This!" The second boss took out a golden post from his pocket, "I managed to get this, originally our Miaoshou Hall was newly opened, so we were not qualified to participate in this kind of party, but who made me so powerful Woolen cloth!"

Gu Jiao still didn't quite understand.

The second boss then talked to her about science, and Gu Jiao finally understood that this is actually an exchange meeting organized by the chamber of commerce in the capital. Although Miaoshoutang is a medical center, it is not a welfare institution of the imperial court, and it is also eligible to join the chamber of commerce. .

In the Chamber of Commerce, you can seek more development opportunities and partners, and there are formal members and informal members.

The second owner really spent a lot of effort to get the invitation card from the chamber of commerce, and the date is next month.

He didn't expect to become an official member of the chamber of commerce all at once, after all, the Huichuntang also went to join the ranks of the chamber of commerce for several years.

"The first time is raw, and the second time is acquaintance. This time we are mainly going to learn a lot. What do you think?" The second owner asked.

"Okay." Gu Jiao has no objection, she trusts the second boss wholeheartedly in business matters.

I have to say that this feeling of being trusted is very good.

The second owner smiled and said: "Then I will arrange it, you remember to spare these few days!"

"En." Gu Jiao nodded in response.

"Okay, go get busy, oops!" The second owner suddenly looked at Gu Jiao's cuff and shouted, "You're hurt!"

His cry was so loud that the whole lobby heard it, and Eunuch Wei who had just got off the carriage heard it too.

"What's the matter? Who's injured? Is Miss Gu injured?" Eunuch Wei trotted in anxiously, and came to Gu Jiao's side.

Gu Jiao lifted up the cuff that the second owner was looking at, there were indeed a few drops of blood on it, but she was not injured, it should be that she accidentally rubbed the other's blood on her clothes when dealing with those gangsters.

"It's not mine." Gu Jiao said.

"Then what's going on with the blood?" Eunuch Wei asked worriedly, pointing to her sleeve.

Gu Jiao snorted: "Just now I met a few punks, so I taught them a lesson."

Eunuch Wei was worried, pulled Gu Jiao's wrist, blocked the sight of others with his body, rolled up her sleeves, and checked carefully.

After confirming that there were no wounds or bruises, Eunuch Wei heaved a long sigh of relief.

He pulled up Gu Jiao's sleeves. He is an eunuch, so he doesn't have much protection against men and women, but in the public, he still doesn't want Gu Jiao's arms to be seen by others.

"Eunuch Wei, why are you here?" Gu Jiao asked.

Eunuch Wei said: "It was His Majesty who sent the slave over. He was in a bad mood in the palace and ignored Miss Gu. Afterwards, His Majesty regained his composure and ordered the imperial kitchen to make some Miss Gu's favorite snacks. "

It's about the morning.

The emperor misunderstood that Concubine Jing had pushed Eunuch Wei, and was annoyed and complicated, so he turned and went into the study.

After taking the black drug, the memory of that person will gradually only have a bad side, but the memory of others will not change. Gu Jiao is still the little genius doctor who is highly valued by the emperor.

Gu Jiao accepted the snacks, and Eunuch Wei returned to the palace to report to the emperor. He told the emperor about Gu Jiao's attack: "...it was a few gangsters, Miss Gu was not injured."

There is a high probability that a gangster of this level should be a hooligan in the capital, and it is unlikely that he is a black hand sent by a certain big shot to assassinate Gu Jiao.

After all, it's too good to do any harm to Gu Jiao.

But the emperor didn't know what happened, and suddenly there was a figure in his mind that couldn't get rid of it.

A terrible thought came to his mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

Reason told him that this was impossible, but the more he thought about it, the more that idea magnified infinitely in his heart.

In the end, he seemed to be dazed, and he believed in this guess.

He slapped the folder in hand on the table, and went to the nunnery with a cold face.

At this time, it was in the evening, all the major palaces began to eat, and it was time for dinner in the nunnery. Green smoke wafted from the chimney of the small kitchen, adding a bit of folk smoke to the pavilions and pavilions.

The setting sun was supposed to be a very warm scene.

But the emperor's heart was cold.

"Your Majesty?" Huian, a little nun who was sweeping the courtyard, saw the emperor, her eyes became bright, she put down her broom and went forward to salute.

The emperor went to Concubine Jing's small Buddhist hall with a cold expression without even looking at her.

Concubine Jing is not in the Buddhist hall, but in the meditation room next door.

She sat squatting on the polished wooden floor, in front of her was a small case, on which were several bottles and cans and some fresh ingredients.

She was holding something in a small jar with a pestle in her bosom, her left thumb was wrapped with a circle of white gauze, fine beads of sweat ooze from her forehead, it can be seen that she is working hard do this.

Nanny Cai stood by her side and helped her.

Suddenly there was the sound of dull footsteps, Mammy Cai stopped peeling taro, and she glanced at Concubine Jing beside her.

Concubine Jing lowered her head to pick the mashed taro, as if she didn't hear the movement outside.

Mammy Cai gently put the knife and taro on the desk, intending to go over to see what was going on, but the emperor had already entered the room as soon as she stood up.

He left his shoes outside the door.

Madam Cai bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty."

Concubine Jing finally seemed to know that someone was coming, she raised her head calmly, her eyes were gentle, but also with a hint of melancholy.

She just looked at the emperor, didn't say a word, then lowered her head to pick the taro paste again.

"You step back first." The emperor said to Nanny Cai in a cold voice.

Cai Momo turned her head and glanced at Concubine Jing, but Concubine Jing didn't speak, she lowered her head and said, "Yes, this servant will leave."

Madam Cai got up and left the house.

The emperor knew that she hadn't gone far, maybe she was listening at the door, but he didn't care that much anymore.

He sat down in front of Concubine Jing, looked at the face he had missed day and night, and said sadly: "Why did Concubine Mother do this?"

Concubine Jing stopped the movement of smashing taro paste, holding the jar in her arms with one hand, and the pestle and mortar with the other, her eyes full of doubts: "What did I do?"

The emperor looked at Concubine Jing for a moment, and slowly clenched his hands on his knees: "Concubine Mother, stop pretending to be crazy. There is no impenetrable wall in the world. I know what Concubine Mother has done."

"I know what I did. Your Majesty is trying to commit a crime, so there is no reason to worry about it." Concubine Jing said lightly, throwing the pestle and mortar into the jar angrily, and then poured the jar indifferently. Put it on the desk.

There was clearly no trace of guilt in her expression, logically speaking she should have done nothing, but the suspicion in the emperor's heart was like mushrooms after a spring rain, the road grew for a while, and when she saw her, she sprang up again.

The emperor said sternly: "Okay, if my concubine wants to listen, I will tell her. The little genius doctor was assassinated today and was almost injured. If it wasn't for her cleverness and some skills, she might have been murdered."

Concubine Jing was surprised: "So Your Majesty thinks I ordered this incident?"

"Isn't it?" the emperor gritted his teeth and asked.

"Why did I do this?" Dowager Jing asked.

The emperor sneered: "Why? I still want to ask my concubine why! Is it true that as long as someone I love, my concubine will be driven away from me! In the past, she was the queen mother of Zhuang, and now she is a little doctor. In my heart, I can't get close to anyone except my concubine!"

Concubine Jing suddenly turned up the volume: "I've never thought about it that way!"

The emperor twitched his lips mockingly: "Really? Why did the concubine mother stop me from meeting the queen mother?"

"When will I..." Dowager Jing stopped in the middle of her words.

The emperor looked at her coldly: "Mother and concubine remember it, right? To be honest, I also forgot about it, but I suddenly remembered it in the past few days. Ning An and I secretly went to Lenggong to visit the queen mother." , the concubine punished us to kneel in the snow all night, and Ning An became seriously ill because of it."

Concubine Jing closed her eyes, and explained forbearance: "That's not because I don't want Concubine Liu Gui to get caught! The empress doesn't want you to visit her in the cold palace either! She doesn't want to hurt you, why don't I? My body hurts in my mother's heart, you kneel in the snow, don't I, a mother, feel uncomfortable?"

The emperor said indifferently: "Really? I don't remember that the concubine mother is even half uncomfortable."

Concubine Jing clenched her fingers.

Mammy Cai outside the house was so anxious that she held her breath in her chest.

She knew the situation at that time, Concubine Jing was punishing His Majesty and Ning An, while tears were rolling in her eyes, anyone could see that she couldn't bear it.

The emperor even said he couldn't remember.

That medicine...it must be that medicine...

"What Your Majesty says is what it is." Concubine Jing lowered her eyes, her expression and tone were hurt.

"Your Majesty!" Cai Momo couldn't help but walked in, knelt down and said, "The concubine would not do this! Your majesty is a person who is reluctant to step on an ant to death! How could she send someone to assassinate Miss Gu?" !"

Endless sarcasm suddenly flashed in the emperor's eyes: "Ants are reluctant to be trampled to death? Then who killed Fuqing beside me at the beginning!"

Concubine Jing shrank her pupils: "What did you say?"

The emperor said coldly: "I said, my mother and concubine killed my Fuqing!"

The name Fuqing has been around for a long time, and no one even remembers his existence as far as the imperial palace. His Majesty was by his side when he was a boy.

Only after his death did the emperor have Eunuch Wei by his side.

But... Fuqing was bribed by Concubine Liu Gui to frame the emperor several times, and he deserved to die. Moreover, it was not Concubine Jing who ordered him to be executed, but the virtuous Empress Zhuang Jinse at that time!

"You all have shown me clearly that this is the fate of betraying the Lord and seeking glory!"

"Your Highness...Your Highness, please save this servant...Your Highness, I know I was wrong..."

"Mother..."

"Execution!"

It was Zhuang Jinse who did it, why should it be blamed on her!

Concubine Jing's hands were clenched into fists little by little, because of too much force, the knuckles were faintly white.

Choking with sobs, Cai Momo said, "No, Your Majesty! It's not the Empress Dowager—"

The emperor didn't go to see Nanny Cai at all, and stared at Concubine Jing with fiery eyes: "Okay, the concubine mother doesn't admit the matter of the little genius doctor, and the concubine mother doesn't admit the matter of Fuqing, so the concubine mother should always take off the matter of Yue Rou It's nothing to do with it!"

Yue Rou, concubine Rou, when the emperor was still a prince, he went to the south of the Yangtze River with the late emperor and brought back a beauty. After ascending the throne, he made her Concubine Rou.

Concubine Rou died of dystocia.

The emperor gritted his teeth and said: "On the day before Concubine Rou passed away, Concubine Mu called her to the bedroom. What did Concubine Mu say to Concubine Rou, which caused Concubine Rou to give birth prematurely!"

In the conscience of heaven and earth, Concubine Jing never summoned Concubine Rou. It was Concubine Rou who came to pay her respects to Concubine Jing. As for why the premature birth was due to her own poor health, it had nothing to do with Concubine Jing!

Concubine Jing looked at the emperor in disbelief, her nails were digging into her flesh.

When a person is used to being kind to himself, he will forget that the kindness actually comes from a medicine, and even have a kind of confidence and illusion that even if the effect of the medicine wears off, he will still be kind to himself as always.

"Don't touch the little genius doctor anymore, don't touch anyone around me, and don't waste the last bit of mother-child bond between us!"

After the emperor finished speaking coldly, he stood up and walked away without looking back.

Concubine Jing was so angry that she brushed the pot on the table onto the floor!

It was taro paste that she had spent the whole afternoon, originally planning to make taro paste cakes for the emperor.

The emperor likes to eat the dim sum made by her, he likes jujube paste cakes, taro paste cakes, osmanthus cakes, and mille-feuille cakes.

"Your Majesty..." Cai Mama was wronged for her, and the Empress Dowager's hand was injured because of the taro paste.

Concubine Jing looked at the gauze-wrapped thumb and murmured, "He didn't even notice that my hand was hurt."

A person who is being held in high regard suddenly becomes a person who does not care about it. The gap is huge.

Cai Momo said distressedly: "Your Majesty... I have tried to persuade you a long time ago, but it's useless, you might as well just do nothing..."

Concubine Jing said with deep eyes: "Zhuang Jinse didn't do anything back then. I often wonder why she didn't do something? Does she not want to make it up? She doesn't know that His Majesty has been drugged, so why is she so cruel?" Xin, is she so proud? How can she let it go!"

After Zhuang Jinse found out that her son was no longer close to her, she didn't do anything to keep her. Like a proud phoenix, she flew away without hesitation!

He walked so resolutely, so simply, as if he had never hurt this son before!

Concubine Jing covered her heart that seemed to be pierced by a sharp knife: "... Isn't she sad?"

Cai Momo secretly sighed: "How can it be possible not to be sad? It's just because of her temperament. She would rather be sad to death than beg for mercy from anyone. It's the same for the late emperor, and it's the same for His Majesty."

How many sleepless nights did Zhuang Jinse have, only hiding in the dark and licking his wounds?

She may have been in pain, cried, and heartbroken, but she will not let people see her weakness.

Ever since she turned the emperor's harem into leeks in her pot, she was no longer the former Zhuang Jinse.

Concubine Jing returned to her meditation room and took out the imperial edict.

Cai Momo's face changed: "Madam, what are you going to do! Don't be impulsive!"