Chapter 45

Rao Tu was carried into the tub by Shen Zhu, her body was cold, and after soaking in hot water, her skin was tingling and itching. Shen Zhu personally served her to bathe and wrapped her in a quilt when she was done, and the zongzi generally only showed her head.

He wiped her hair with a cotton towel. Seeing that she closed her eyes and bit her lip, he couldn't help sneering: "Next time, if you dare to mention the place of Fireworks and Willow Lane, get out of here."

Rao Tu still closed her eyes and said tiredly, "I just talked about it, but you really don't mind."

The movement of Shen Zhu's hand paused slightly, yes, he minds, how could he not mind? She's pregnant with another man! He could not wait to slash that person with a thousand swords.

Rao Tu shrank back into the bed, "I'm tired, I'm going to rest. Sir, please do it."

Shen Zhu looked at her lying face inward, unable to see her expression, but what she said was deep fatigue. He couldn't help shrinking in his heart, regretting that he shouldn't have splashed her with tea.

He twitched the corners of his mouth and wanted to say something, but after all, he didn't say a word. He covered her with a thick quilt, turned and walked out of the room.

Shan Gui and Liu Xing were still kneeling outside, and Shen Zhu waved his hand, "Go and cook a bowl of ginger water for Madam to drink."

Shan Gui and Liu Xingru were granted amnesty and stood up with difficulty. From time to time, Liu Xing brought a large bowl of ginger water in, and Rao Tu was lying on the bed smelling the ginger water and frowned, saying, "I don't drink this."

Liu Xing smiled and said, "Miss Shen doesn't drink, and Lord Shen should blame us!"

Rao Tu snorted, "He left?"

"Yeah, I went back to the academy overnight."

"I don't think he's going back to the academy, he must have gone to Fangcuiyuan to find comfort."

The mountain ghost limped in, "I'm going to the academy. I heard from Yang Qian that the emperor will leave the matter of hosting a banquet to receive the mission from the northern border to Shen Zhu. He has been busy recently."

Rao Tu heard some doubts, "Receiving foreign envoys, this is something that the Ministry of Rites should worry about. How can he let Huang Menlang do it?"

Shan Gui said: "Huang Menlang is out of the capital, I am afraid that he will be promoted to the servant of the Ministry of Rites."

Rao Tu listened and pondered, and said slowly: "Huangmenlang, Minister of Rites, and then to Zhongshuling... Is the emperor paving the way for him?"

"Everyone with discerning eyes in the court can see that the old emperor has a lot of respect for Lord Shen." Shan Gui said indifferently.

Rao Tu narrowed her eyes, "How can an ordinary Tanhua Lang climb so fast in the court?"

The mountain ghost knew that Liu Xing was not an outsider, so he simply said bluntly: "I heard Shen Zhu's nineteen strategies for governing the country, and the emperor was shocked when he saw it. The girl thought, what an honor for Lord Shen to be treated like this by the Son of Heaven?"

Rao Tu was suspicious and pondered: "He once traveled abroad to study, and he must have had a great opportunity, otherwise he would not have been in this situation."

The mountain ghost heard what she said and asked softly, "What do you think, girl?"

"Let's make a break with the woman in the inner courtyard first."

The next day, Rao Tu lay on the bed and didn't get up. She only felt a headache. Although she didn't have a fever, she still caught a cold. The mountain ghost was frightened: "Girl, didn't you drink ginger water?"

Rao Tu smiled and said, "It's because of drinking ginger water that it's not that serious. You and Liu Xing'er, go to the pharmacy to get some medicine."

"Would you like to let the government doctor come and take a look?"

"No need, you go grab two kinds of medicines, one for palace cold and one for colds."

The mountain ghost frowned: "Why do you still need to treat the palace cold?"

"Yang Qian will definitely stay on the shore. After you see it, you don't have to hide it and tell him both the medicines I want. Saying that I am worried about my children, I saw Mrs. Pei's warming medicine in the pharmacy a few days ago. If you want to imitate the effect of drinking and drinking.”

The mountain ghost came to his senses and nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, girl, I will definitely tell him not to tell Shen Zhu."

Rao Tu smiled and nodded: "Smart."

Shan Gui and Liu Xing went, Rao Tu read books in the house for a long time, but had no appetite by lunch.

When Shen Zhu pushed the door and came in, he saw that she was drinking a bowl of porridge. He stepped forward and touched her forehead. There was no fever, and he felt a little relieved. He frowned and said, "Did you drink ginger water last night?"

"Drinking the ginger water will not dispel the cold that came from kneeling all night." She said indifferently while drinking porridge.

Shen Zhu sat down and shook her hand, "Since I'm not in good health, I don't know how to ask the government doctor to take a look? I go to the doctor in a hurry, so how can the medicine in the pharmacy be taken casually?"

"People say that long-term illness is self-sufficient. I know how Rao Tu's body is, and I don't want to invite those gentlemen to toss me." Rao Tu was still indifferent.

Shen Zhu was rarely good-natured, but he was not angry, but said, "A long illness has become a doctor, you can just grab the medicine for the cold, what's the matter with the cure for the cold in the palace?"

Rao Tu heard the words and said: "I just feel that the future is dark. The concubine is planning for herself, and it has nothing to do with you."

He stared at her angry appearance, but somewhere in his heart softened for no reason, "Even if you are pregnant, it is my seed, so why has nothing to do with me?"

Rao Tu raised her eyes and glared at him, "Who said I'm going to conceive your seed, I just think that I will be divorced by you one day, and I can find a peddler and marry him, and take advantage of the conditions now to take good care of it, no As for the future, there will be no children."

Shen Zhu's face sank: "It's the woman I don't want, which peddler dares to ask for it?"

Rao Tu slammed the bowl on the table, got up and was about to go back to the inner room, but was grabbed by Shen Zhu, "What are you running for? Sit down and let Mr. Lu check the pulse!"

Only then did Rao find a young man in a green robe and a robe standing outside the door. She couldn't help frowning, the surprise in her eyes flashed, and then she asked casually, "Which Mr. Lu?"

The elegant-looking young Taoist turned around and walked into the house, with a whisk hanging on his arm and floating in the wind, holding an immortal style, respectful and courteous.

He bowed his head and saluted with a single palm, "I know my life in Xia Lu, I have seen my wife."

Rao Tu asked, "Where does Mr. Lu practice in Taoism?"

"When you travel around the world, the world can be viewed."

Rao Tu smiled and asked, "Why does the teacher say 'under' instead of 'pindao'?"

"A Taoist priest is a person who has attained the Tao. I haven't attained the Tao, so I dare not claim it in vain."

Rao Tu smiled and looked at Shen Zhu, "Where did you find this master? If it wasn't for a monk, I would regret not getting to know him sooner. If I had met this Mr. Lu earlier, how could the lard be confused? about you?"

What Shen Zhu said was irrefutable, he sneered, got up and looked at Lu Zhiming, who was blushing, and said, "This concubine of mine is very frivolous, and my foul language stains the ears of Mr., please don't blame me. At some point, please, Mr. Trouble, to see if there is any problem with her brain."

Rao Tu smiled and didn't take Shen Zhu's words seriously, her eyes twitched on Lu Zhiming's body.

Lu Zhiming smiled gently, "Sir Shen, don't make fun, Madam is a person of temperament."

He gestured to Rao Tu, "Please, Madam, please stretch out your left wrist and ask for a pulse."

Rao Tu stretched out his hand, he tapped it carefully, and then looked at the pulse of his right hand. Rao Tu smiled and said, "Mr. Lu's way of seeing the pulse is very simple, doesn't he mean that even a genius doctor can cut a pulse by hanging a thread?"

Lu Zhiming said gently, "So I'm not a genius doctor."

Shen Zhu watched Rao Tu make fun of Lu Zhiming, and suddenly felt a headache. It seemed that this woman was not only ignorant, but also very shameless.

Lu Zhiming looked at the pulse, and Liu Xinger brought a prescription, "Sir, please take a look at our wife's illness, is it okay to take this medicine?"

Lu Zhiming took it and took a closer look, then smiled and said, "This prescription is given by a woman with a blood deficiency in Gong Han, and it's not the same as Madam's symptoms."

Rao Tu said "Oh?" and asked casually, "This is Mrs. Pei's medicine. I heard that she often takes it, so I thought I'd try it too."

Lu Zhiming shook his head: "Just looking at this recipe, it's all about warming and nourishing methods. It's not that people who take the medicine can't get pregnant, but..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly fell silent. Shen Zhu picked up the prescription, looked at it, and asked, "What is it?"

"Even if you are pregnant, it is stillborn, and the fetus will be blue and purple after birth, and it will not last long."

Shen Zhu's hand trembled slightly when he took the prescription, and he looked up and said, "Stillbirth?"

Lu Zhiming nodded: "This is not the case with Mrs. Rao, but because Zeng Jin injured her body in a miscarriage, she is not very good in this way, but I want to come to the palace to be skilled in this way, or I can adjust it."

Shen Zhu slowly put down the prescription in his hand, "How is the poison on her body?"

"It's a strange poison that has no cure. There is no antidote. However, it can be resolved by cutting blood."

Shen Zhu gave a "hmm", "We'll discuss this later, you come with me first and see for another person."

Rao Tu picked up half a bowl of clear porridge and continued to drink, and she muttered quietly, "In a hurry to see Mrs. Pei? Your lord is really a good husband!"

Shen Zhu glanced at her sideways, didn't answer, and said to Lu Zhiming, "Please."

Lu Zhiming went with him, Rao Tu got up and looked at the figures of the two, and said slowly, "Even you are here?"

The mountain ghost whispered from the side: "Mr. Lu once said that if he found a cure for the poison, he would come to rescue the girl. It seems that he really found it."

Rao Tu frowned slightly, holding the door and said, "Let Chun Xia Qiu Dong go to Fangcui Garden to inquire about the news. After so long, it's time to give the princess a gift."

The mountain ghost agreed and asked again, "Can you kill it with a stick?"

"cannot."

"Yeah, beaten to death with a stick, it's too cheap that prostitute!"

In the afternoon, Rao Tu wrapped a cape and took Shan Gui and Liu Xing to swim the lake. Shan Gui advised her to stay in the cabin and let Liu Xing go rowing. Rao Tu ordered the boat to row north all the way to the north bank, and there was a white wall facing the water.

Liu Xing snorted and pointed at the withered reeds: "There is a small raft in there!"

Rao Tu looked out of the cabin and smiled: "It turns out to be hidden here. Mountain ghost, fly up to the wall to see what the scene is outside."

The mountain ghost said with a sad face: "Girl, I just got 30 slaps, and my butt still hurts!"

"Did Yang Qian beat him?"

"Yes."

"Then it's fine, go see it, limit you to one incense stick time."

The mountain ghost sighed, pressed his hands on the cabin, flipped a few times in the air, and jumped out of the white wall.

This was the first time Liu Xing saw the mountain ghost show off his kung fu, and she covered her mouth in shock.

Rao Tu waited for half an hour before the mountain ghost stuck his head out from behind the white wall. Rao Tu lowered her face and said, "If I smell beef shochu on you, you will think about the consequences yourself."

The mountain ghost jumped down from the white wall and landed on the bow. "Girl, you smell."

Rao Tu asked, "Then what are you dawdling for?"

"I have an amazing and important discovery!" The mountain ghost said proudly: "Guess what I saw?"

Rao Tu raised her hand and patted her on the forehead, "Come on!"

"Outside of this white wall is a narrow alley with no people. Weeds are overgrown, and there is still a high wall on the other side of the narrow alley. I turned over and saw that it was the mansion of the five kings. Do you think it's amazing?"

Rao Tu was thoughtful, it turns out that Xiao Yanning is so convenient to visit the lake, just jump over a narrow alley and two walls. She asked: "You said that there were people around the Five Princes' Mansion who used the magic of disgust to set up the ghost realm and wear down his luck, so what is the point of this lake's clear water here?"

Shan Gui shook his head: "I don't know much about witchcraft, but if you have a chance, you can ask Mr. Lu for advice."

Rao Tu said: "Lu Zhiming is an indifferent person. It is very uncomfortable to drag him into this pool of sewage."

"Then I'll go back and ask the master?" The mountain ghost asked with his head tilted.

Rao Tu was shocked and said decisively: "It's even worse! No one can mention this except the three of us. Mountain ghost, life is at stake, you have to believe me."

Seeing her being cautious, Shan Gui nodded seriously, "I see."

"Go back, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter should also be back from Fangcui Garden."

Several people rowed back to Plum Blossom Pier, in the warm pavilion, spring, summer, autumn and winter were waiting early, and both of them had joy on their faces.

Rao Tu smiled slightly, "Why, what's the good news?"

"We went to Fangcui Garden and saw that Mrs. Pei was crying miserably. She didn't want to let Mr. Lu feel the pulse. Mr. Shen said that if he didn't want to take a look, he would have a sense of what happened back then. Mrs. Pei cried and said what she said. What happened now is all because of that bitch named Aheng back then."

Rao Tu sneered, "Look, up to now, I haven't given up. A mad dog is addicted to biting people."

Chun Xia continued: "Mr. Lu spoke at that time, and said that although he didn't find Madam's pulse, but when he saw Madam's complexion and the flow of breath, he knew that Madam's disease was born and had nothing to do with others."

The mountain ghost hurriedly asked, "How about Lord Shen after hearing this?"

"I didn't get too excited. I just laughed a few times and turned to leave. The slave maid looked at him, not angry, but very desolate."

Rao Tu looked at Merlin outside the door, "Where is he now?"

"I went to Meilin Green House alone, and no one was allowed to follow."

"I understand, please tell Her Royal Highness all these news. You go back to the princess' mansion and ask the princess to send some dead soldiers. Pei Qingwei may kill me."

Xia Xia Qiu Dong glanced at each other, returning to the Princess Mansion to report good news, maybe there will be a big reward, the two girls were quite happy, and hurried away.

The mountain ghost asked in a low voice, "Does Pei really jump over walls?"

"Falling down in a landslide, how can I let her jump? It's not that I don't want to, it's impossible."

"What does that girl mean?"

"As soon as Mrs. Pei dies, Princess Xunyang will definitely kill me to silence her. Instead of letting her dead man hide in the dark, it's better to take it to the bright place and see it clearly, so that you and I can be prepared."

"The girl is smart."

Rao Tu looked at the green-robed Taoist priest walking slowly outside the door, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Mr. Lu, are you okay?"

"Very good."

"Mr. is originally a person of Qingfeng Jiyue, why did you come to this beach of sewage? Rao Tu is uneasy."

"It was Lord Shen who found me."

"Oh?"

"Suzhou has a severe drought and epidemics are rampant. When I was practicing medicine in Suzhou City, I was approached by Master Shen."

Rao Tu smiled and said, "It turns out that it is because of its reputation and provoking right and wrong."

"The master's suicide note contains the method of cutting blood to cure poison. I used this method on a dying man who was poisoned by snakes, and it worked wonders. Maybe you can try it on the girl."

"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Rong Raitu, please think about it again."

Lu Zhiming said calmly: "If the girl delays it any longer, there is not much time left."

"I know, I'm running out of time."

Rao Tu's eyes drifted to the piece of Merlin behind him, and smiled slightly: "But it's enough in the end."

"The meaning of your life is not revenge."

"Sir, you don't need to persuade, Rao Tu has made up her mind... Can you understand the word of luck, sir?"

"Under the repair of the lonely heaven, I know a little."

"Please help me take a look at a place, mountain ghost, lead the way to Mr.

Lu Zhiming looked at her and had to go with the mountain ghost first. Rao Tu walked into the depths of the plum forest and stopped in front of the small house.

The wooden door was open, and a person was sitting faintly in the dark room. He was leaning halfway against the wall, all his strength seemed to be taken away, and he just sat there in a daze, not crying, not laughing, not speaking.

Air, suppressed to the extreme.

Rao Tu walked into the room, he just looked at the withered plum on the table, without turning his head, he said lightly: "Go out."

Rao Tu ignored him and sat directly beside him.

"I'll let you out."

"My lord's heart is not here, why should I care if I am here?"

Shen Zhu slowly covered the position of his heart and smiled bitterly, "Yes, not here."

When he said these words, his tone was like that of an old man with a sullen mood, without any strength.

"I heard that "Red Luo Ru" was not sung for Mrs. Pei, but a woman with the same name as the concubine. Her name is Xu Heng. She waited for five years in a bamboo forest in Qingzhou, waiting for your break. Book."

"do not talk."

"Some say she's a femme fatale because she killed a child."

"I told you to shut up!" Shen Zhu turned around suddenly, pinched her neck and said angrily, "I told you to shut up!"

Rao Tu's throat was clamped, and she couldn't breathe, her face flushed red. The fist that fell on him became lighter and lighter, but his eyes became more and more cold, and he suddenly laughed.

Shen Zhu was taken aback, he quickly retracted his hand, put her in his arms and said nervously, "Aheng, I'm sorry! Aheng..."

Rao Tu relieved her breath and sneered: "I am Ah Heng, but not your Ah Heng. Shen Zhu, you will never get her again in your whole life."

He was stunned for a moment, then started laughing, "Get her? Why get her? From the beginning, I didn't want to get her."

He laughed: "Yes! What I want is destruction! Completely destroy the Xu family in Qingzhou!"

Rao Tu was digging at the cracks of the blue bricks on the ground, trembling: "Why? Why? What did she do wrong?"

"Wrong! Of course she is wrong!" Shen Zhu suddenly pushed her out, he got up and picked up the porcelain vase with a thick layer of dust on the table, and said with a smile, "Her birth was a mistake, and her existence is a mistake!"

With a bang, the porcelain bottle smashed to the ground, and the splashed slag flew to the corner of Rao Tu's eyebrows, and a trace of blood slipped out, Rao Tu trembled and picked up the dead plum on the ground, sneering: "So Shen Zhu, you What are you doing now, you have destroyed her. The concubine heard that she is dead."

Shen Zhu stared at Rao Tu, "Who said she died? Her body is gone, but her soul has entered your body, and you are her."

Rao Tu laughed loudly: "It turns out that the concubine is just a substitute." She nodded and said, "Don't you like this kind of substitute? I am like her, so you can feel your love; I am not her, so you don't feel guilty. It's so good!"

Shen Zhu pulled her up from the ground, "You have to know that you are just a prostitute, just a substitute, I treat you well, you should know how to lift it up."

Rao Tu said coldly, "I just don't know how to lift things up, how are you doing?"

His eyes were hot and he looked at her fiercely, but he couldn't find the slightest bit of timidity in those peach blossom eyes. What he saw was cold irony.

This annoyed him greatly.

"Rao Tu, you know my methods."

"Although my lord can use all means to deal with Rao Tu, you can try anything you have done to Xu Heng on me. But I want to tell you that I am not Xu Heng, and I am not afraid of you."

Shen Zhu stared at her blankly for a while, his expression suddenly became very lonely, he smiled lightly, and slowly squatted on the ground to pick up the broken pieces of porcelain on the floor. His slender fingers cut out bloodstains, and he picked up the pieces of porcelain meticulously, with a focused and desolate expression.

Rao Tu continued to sneer: "What did she do wrong, you hate her like that? Now, because you hate her, you are torturing Ratu in every possible way. Haha, Huang Menlang, the dignified emperor's valet, is not as good as the meanest woman in the world! "

Shen Zhu ignored her sarcasm, picked up the porcelain vases, placed them on the table, and gently pushed them up one by one.

The snow outside the window reflected on him, very dazzling.

Rao Tu felt a piercing pain and held onto the door frame before barely standing.

Shen Zhu suddenly raised his head to look at her, "Ratu, let's go."

Rao Tu was stunned for a moment, he smiled slightly, and said softly: "I will give you freedom. The child you rescued named May, I sent them to Wuji Island in the East China Sea. You can go."

Rao Tu held the door frame tightly and said with a smile: "Since Lord Shen is enlightened, Rao Tu will not bother. Let's go now." She turned and left. Shen Zhu only saw her decisive back, but not her. The moment he turned around, tears rolled out of his eyes.

Snow outside the window.

Shen Zhu casually sat on the threshold, looking at the plum blossoms in his eyes, he gently closed his eyes.

Among the plum forests in Qingzhou, there is a peach tree. Every year, when the spring breeze blows the plum blossoms, the peach tree grows suddenly, and the branches are crowded with flower bones. After the third spring breeze, the peach blossoms are full of branches.

In the 29th year of Zhaoxing, the woman was under the peach blossom tree, dressed in red, as beautiful as peach blossoms.

Peach blossoms, he smelled the faint fragrance of peach blossoms, and the blue silk on his head turned gray.

Shen Zhu suddenly stood up and hurried back to the warm pavilion, empty. Only Lu Zhiming was standing at the door. He was only slightly surprised when he saw that his head was gray and white, and then he said to Shen Zhuzuo: "Mrs. Rao is gone, I'll be waiting here specially, like an adult saying goodbye."

Shen Zhu turned around and walked towards the water bank, but saw that there was no moored boat on the bank. On the opposite bank, the woman was dressed in blue and riding on a white horse.

Shen Zhu jumped into the water with a thud and tried his best to swim towards the opposite bank.

The mountain ghost tugged at the corner of Ratu's clothes: "Girl, look."

Rao Tu smiled coldly: "The jackal eats vegetarian food, the tiger leopard recites Buddha, what can I say to Shen Zhu?"