Chapter 104 Slip into the Imperial Hospital!
"Sister Qingcheng, you are here. Let's hurry up." Seeing Yang Zijin coming, Chushi Yingying hurriedly pulled Yang Zijin to the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility.
Palace of Compassion and Tranquility.
Before they walked in, Chushi Yingying yelled outside, "Grandma! Grandma! Look! Who is here!"
Empress Dowager was taking a nap. She could not help frowning when she heard Chushi Yingying's yell.
Then, Chushi Yingying ran into the house first, and walked quickly towards Empress Dowager. She walked so fast that she stepped accidentally on the corner of her skirt. She staggered and almost tumbled. She stood up straight immediately, smiled at Empress Dowager, and said, "Grandma, guess who comes?"
"You are always behaving boldly. You are just not like a princess!" Seeing this, Empress Dowager couldn't help but criticize Chushi Yingying, and tapped her forehead gently.
Hearing Empress Dowager's words, Chushi Yingying couldn't help pouting. She fawned and said, "Grandma, my dad says so every day. Then, I hope you do not say so anymore."
"Your father is right. You are such a brainiac. Who is there?" Empress Dowager said grumpily.
As she was saying, Yang Zijin also entered the house.
"Grandmother." Yang Zijin said and saluted to the Empress Dowager.
Seeing that it was Yang Zijin, Empress Dowager couldn't help but smile and praise Yang Zijin, "Look. Look. Qingcheng is more thoughtful than you!"
"Grandma now has sister Qingcheng. You don't like Yingying anymore." Chushi Yingying couldn't help saying after hearing that.
Seeing Chushi Yingying being jealous, Empress Dowager smiled, "I like both of you. Come here. You two both come here."
Yang Zijin and Chushi Yingying sat down on either side of Empress Dowager.
"You haven't visited me for such a long time. How can you be free today?" Empress Dowager held Yang Zijin's hand.
Then Yang Zijin smiled and replied, "Qingcheng is recently busy with the business of the Blossoming Peach. I come to visit grandmother as soon as I am free."
"I know that you can't give up your business, but don't strain yourself." Empress Dowager was concerned after having heard what Yang Zijin had said.
Then, Yang Zijin got up and stood next to Empress Dowager, kneading her shoulders, "Thank grandmother for the concern. I won't."
"Alright. Remember to spend more time with me in the future." Empress Dowager said to Yang Zijin seriously.
Then she said, "It's not early now, so, have dinner with me before you go back."
"Everything is up to grandmother." Yang Zijin said with a smile.
Chushi Yingying, who was always naughty, heard the conversation between Empress Dowager and Yang Zijin. She could not sit there anymore. She said with a pout, "Grandma, you ignore me since you have sister Qingcheng with you."
"Today, Yingying also stays for having dinner together!" Empress Dowager couldn't help laughing when she saw Chushi Yingying's jealousy.
Then she ordered Eunuch Liu beside her to prepare the dinner.
While having dinner, although Yang Zijin talked and laughed with Empress Dowager and Chushi Yingying, her heart was not there. Seeing the sky getting dark outside, she wondered about the situation of Runyu.
...
When the sky was finally dark, Runyu walked out of the compartment. He walked in the direction that Yang Zijin mentioned in a flash.
Jiang Wei, who had been staying outside the carriage, felt that Runyu's internal power was hidden very well, which was hard to determine by others. She couldn't help but be curious about Runyu. She could feel that the power of Runyu was definitely much higher than her.
Thinking of this, Jiang Wei frowned slightly and wondered how the infanta knew a man of such great power. However, this person looked gentle and elegant. Since there was such a dangerous person staying around the infanta, it seemed that the Marquis should pay more attention.
Jiang Wei couldn't help thinking of Shuo Ling.
After having hidden from the guards on duty at night for several times, He finally saw the words: imperial hospital.
Runyu slipped into the imperial hospital in a flash when the guards walked past the entrance of it.
Then, Runyu glanced at so many houses in front of him, frowning slightly. Among so many houses, which of them was the house where the antidote of the grass of fear and illusion was stored?
When he was wondering, a young boy walked towards him.
Certainly, the teenager saw Runyu who was standing in the courtyard, "You are..."
The young man just opened his mouth, and before he could finish speaking, Runyu held the sword at his throat. It was so fast that the medical boy trembled with fear!
The boy was the disciple of Qiao Shu's father Qiao Yanlin, who was called Huimin. Qiao Yanlin had no son. He always regarded Huimin as his own son. He taught him everything that he knew and put great expectations in him.
However, Qiao Yanlin was exasperated at his failure to make good, because Huimin had dispensed the wrong medicine in the day. So, he was fined for reading a thick medical book carefully, and for going back whenever he could memorize it well.
After the people in the imperial hospital all had gone, Huimin looked at the thick medical book in his hands, and he realized that he couldn't remember all the things on it in a short time.
Thinking of this, Huimin put down the book and stretched himself. After reading it for such a long time, he decided to go out to clear his mind.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the house, he saw that someone was in the yard. What happened next was the situation now. If he had known it, he would never have come out. But it was too late now.
Then, Huimin asked tentatively, "Hero... Why... What do you come to the imperial hospital for?"
"Where is the antidote to the grass of fear and illusion?" Runyu asked without hesitation.
Hearing Runyu's words, Huimin was stunned at first. When he checked the medicine the other day, he found that the box containing the grass of fear and illusion seemed to have been moved by someone.
He had also mentioned this matter to his master Qiao Yanlin, but at that time, his master told him that perhaps an imperial doctor had touched it accidentally when looking for medicine.
At that moment, he scratched his head and agreed after thinking about it. Then he didn't care about it anymore.
Unexpectedly, someone came here today to find the antidote to the grass of fear and illusion. There must be someone who had been poisoned by the grass of fear and illusion. So, it seemed that he was right at that time. It had been definitely touched by someone.
Thinking of this, Huimin's trembling body calmed down since he knew that this person came to find the antidote, and he had no other attempt.
Huimin then replied, "Young Master, if you trust me, go with me to get the antidote. The earlier the poison of the grass of fear and illusion is detoxified, the better it will be."
Seeing that, the young man in front of him who had been afraid while now he was calmed down, Runyu had some good impressions on this young man.
So, he removed the sword from his neck and signaled him to show the way.
After having turned several corners, Huimin stopped in front of a building.
Runyu looked up at the board on the building, and it read: Depositary of Medicine.
This Depositary of Medicine was the place where medicines were stored in the imperial hospital.
Then Huimin said to Runyu, "The antidote is here. If you don't trust me, you can go with me to take it."
"Okay." Runyu said briefly.
He followed Huimin into the Depositary of Medicine.
The Depositary of Medicine is divided into three stories. The first floor was where the commonly used medicinal materials were stored. The second floor was where the precious medicinal materials and supplements were stored. And the third floor was where some rare herbs developed by some imperial doctors and those which were still under research were stored.
The grass of fear and illusion and its antidote were stored here.
When they arrived on the third floor, Huimin walked straight to the place where the antidote of the grass of fear and illusion was stored.
Huimin couldn't help but widen his eyes when he had opened the cabinet where the antidote of the grass of fear and illusion was stored.
Looking at the empty cabinet, Huimin wondered what on earth had happened? When he was checking on that day, he only found that the cabinet of the grass of fear and illusion had been touched, but the antidote was still well stored.
Why? Why now... Now even the antidote was gone?
Huimin had to turn around and said to Runyu, "Hero, the antidote to the grass of fear and illusion was stolen."
"Stolen?" Runyu frowned slightly after hearing it.
Then Huimin hurriedly said, "If you don't believe it, you can come over to see it."
Runyu walked ahead. It was true that the cabinet marked "the antidote of the grass of fear and illusion" was empty.
He was stunned for a second, and then he flew down from the window of the loft. Since there was no antidote, he did not have to waste time here.
He wanted to return immediately to inform Yang Zijin and let her find another way.
Before he could leave the imperial hospital, Runyu was stopped by a man.
Runyu took the sword in his hand and pointed it at that man.
They both made moves and stopped after a while.
The man sneered at Runyu. "You are truly the Ghost Immortal. You are of no ordinary talent."
"We are alike." Runyu also chuckled.
In their battle just now, although there were only a few simple moves, both of them used internal force to suppress each other. They were about the same.
That man took out a bag, and threw it to Runyu, "This is what you are looking for today. Take it."
Then that man turned around and left.
Runyu took out two bottles from the bag with the word "antidote" on them. At this moment, Runyu frowned and wondered, "Who was this man? Why did he know what he was looking for it today? Could it be that man who had stolen the antidote?"
Could this man have other intentions? So, he was going to find the boy that he had met just now to see if this antidote was fake!
As soon as he turned around, he saw that the young man was standing not far behind him. Presumably, he had also seen the scene just now.
So, he walked forward and handed the bottle in his hand to Huimin, "Is this the antidote to the grass of fear and illusion?"
"Hero, this is the antidote to the grass of fear and illusion!" Huimin took the bottle, removed the lid, put it under his nose to smell it, raised his head, and said.
Then he put the lid back and handed it to Runyu.
Runyu took the medicine bottle and put it in the previous bag. He was just about to leave.
Huimin said at this moment, "After taking the antidote, the poisoned person's brain will always be working, and he might be sleeping for a few days. But he will be better after waking up."
"Thanks a lot!" Then Runyu disappeared in Huimin's sight.
After Runyu left, Huimin couldn't help but feel that today's things were very weird. Just now, the figure of the person who gave Runyu the antidote looked like Marquis Shuo.
Why Marquis Shuo also came to find the antidote of the grass of fear and illusion, and gave the antidote to the person just now?
Huimin thought about it again and again, but he still couldn't figure it out.
He simply didn't want to think about it anymore. When his master came tomorrow, he would tell him about it.
Then he went back to read his medical book.
As for Yang Zijin, when she was having dinner, it was already dark outside. However, her mind was not here.
Seeing that Yang Zijin held her chopsticks and didn't move, Empress Dowager couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Qingcheng, don't you like the dishes?"
"Ah... No, grandmother. It's because Qingcheng is full!" Yang Zijin replied with a smile.
As the dinner was more than halfway through, the sky was getting darker and darker. She didn't know whether Runyu's action was successful.
So, she got up and said to the Empress Dowager, "Grandmother, it's already late. Qingcheng would like to go back first. These new skin care products which are sold in my shop are for you. I wonder if grandmother could get used to them. So, I brought a box of them first."
"Grandma, the skin care products of sister Qingcheng are quite effective. You will definitely be ten-year-old younger after using them." Chushi Yingying who was having the soup aside advertised for Yang Zijin.
Empress Dowager said with a smile, "You are such a naughty girl. You are just smooth-tongued. Okay, then I will accept it."
She turned to Yang Zijin when she was speaking.
"Grandmother, then Qingcheng will retreat first." Yang Zijin said again.
Then the Empress Dowager nodded, "Remember to often come to spend time with me."
"Yes, grandmother." Yang Zijin saluted to Empress Dowager and then walked out.
At this moment, Chushi Yingying, who was already full, also got up and said to Empress Dowager, "Grandma, I am full too, so I will go first."
"Go ahead." Empress Dowager said with a smile.