Chapter 155(1/3)
Ji Ting slept until noon, and when he woke up, his mind felt a burst of pain. The little palace maid found that she was awake and hurriedly brought the sobering soup to him: "Empress, you are awake."
Ji Ting frowned and drank a bowl of soup. When he finished his last sip, his mind gradually became clear. When he remembered what happened yesterday, her mind roared, and her whole body felt as if she was struck by lightning.
"Empress, Empress, what's wrong with you?" The little palace maid looked at her worriedly.
Ji Ting suddenly came back to his senses, looked at her in a daze for a long time before panicking: "No, it's okay, you all go down first, let me calm down."
"...Yes." The little palace maid hurriedly called the others out, and there was only one Ji Ting left in the room.
When the door was closed, Ji Ting whimpered and buried his face in the quilt until his face turned red, then he felt hopeless and stared at the bed curtain with his eyes dazed.
...She actually, after she got drunk, she would just impolite Shen Tuchuan, but she would still talk nonsense. The reason why she pretended not to hear Shen Tuchuan's previous words was simply that she felt that she had him in her heart. Once she made it clear, she would have to communicate with each other and never interact with each other.
But she is a concubine and the emperor's concubine. If she had been with Shen Tu Chuan, wouldn't she be a morally corrupt woman? Ji Ting didn't want to do this, but she was even more reluctant to part with him since then, so she could only temporarily pass over and tell him personally after she came up with a solution... But she didn't expect that after she drank too much, she actually leaked the matter! Combined with the things she did, Shen Tu Chuan must have thought that she had seduced her intentionally to leave the palace!
Thinking of Shen Tuchuan's expression at that time, she felt more than regret.
She has always been unable to control herself after drinking, so after discovering this problem, she rarely touched alcohol. Unexpectedly, she drank once yesterday and caused such a big disaster!
In fact, she felt very wronged after hearing that Lin Lang was about to leave the palace. Over the days, she had already deeply understood the power of Shen Tuchuan, so she was puzzled. If he had the ability to send Lin Lang away, why didn't he stop her from entering the palace? If she had not entered the palace, maybe the two of them would not have been in a dilemma.
At that time, drinking alcohol relieved her depression. She kept thinking about leaving the palace in her mind, but in the end she actually said nonsense. This time, Shen Tuchuan misunderstood, and she really couldn't explain it clearly.
When Ji heard that Shen Tu Chuan was thinking of Shen Tu Chuan, he could no longer sit still. He got up and changed his clothes to go to the side hall to find someone. However, when she entered the house, everything about Shen Tu Chuan in the house was gone, and her heart suddenly became cold.
"When did he leave?" Ji Ting looked at the guard at the door in a daze.
The guard hurriedly said, "After the Lord came back from you last night, he packed up his things and left."
Ji Ting's heart suddenly became a clump, turned his head and walked out, and the guard hurriedly caught up: "The Supervisor said that he is busy with official duties these days. If you have something to do, just ask someone to inform him..."
Before he could finish his remaining words, Ji Ting had already lifted up his skirt and ran out.
She was already quite familiar with the way to Silijian. She arrived there in a short time. Just as she was about to enter, she was stopped by an old eunuch: "Empress Concubine, why did you come suddenly?"
"I am here to look for Lord Supervisor." Ji heard that and was about to walk in.
The old eunuch hurriedly took a step back and stopped her again: "The Lord Supervisor has just gone out. My son is not here now. If you have any trouble, please tell the slave. I will tell you to the Lord Supervisor at that time."
Ji Ting frowned: "If he is not here, why would you stop me?"
"The Imperial Concubine asked clearly, didn't you?" The old eunuch chuckled, with a strong aura of neither yin nor yang.
Ji Ting was silent for a moment and suddenly fell down: "He doesn't want to see me."
"It's good if the Imperial Concubine knows it. It's getting late. I'd better go back." After staying in Silijian for a long time, everyone knew that Shen Tuchuan had a perfect personality. Now that he doesn't want to see Ji Ting, it means that the relationship between the two has no room for maneuver. The old eunuch has no previous politeness when he spoke.
Ji Ting stood for a long time and took off the red rope around his neck: "You handed this thing to him, just say, "Just say that my words yesterday were nonsense after being drunk. I never thought of using him. The reason I begged him was because..." Because I felt that if I could leave the palace, the two might be together openly, so I kept entangled.
But these words cannot be told to outsiders. She stopped halfway through her words and wanted to explain them to him personally. However, when she saw the person who was not in front of her, she only said "I'm sorry" for a long time and turned around and left.
The old eunuch looked at the broken silver strung with a red rope in his hand, and his first reaction was to throw it away. However, after thinking about it, he went to the gate of Shentuchuan, knocked on the door and whispered: "Sir, the Imperial Concubine has just arrived. Let me give you something."
The room was silent for a long time. When the old eunuch thought no one would talk, he heard him say lightly: "What?"
The old eunuch hurriedly said, "It's a broken silver strung with red ropes."
This time, the house was silent for a longer time. The old eunuch waited patiently and finally waited for his second sentence: "What did she say?"
The old eunuch thought about it carefully and repeated her words without missing a word. After a long time, Shen Tuchuan opened the door and stared at his hand with a cold look.
When a layer of sweat broke out on the old eunuch's forehead, Shen Tuchuan took the thing over, held it in his hand for a long time, and then returned it to the old eunuch with a blank expression: "Take it and throw it away."
"Take it, where to throw it?" The old eunuch trembled when he spoke. Although he had always known that the Supervisor was imposing, it was the first time he was facing his low pressure, and his calves were about to cramp for a moment.
Shentu Chuan was quiet for a long time before he said indifferently: "Just find a pond and throw it away." He shouldn't have been soft-hearted and left behind when he was supposed to fall to the bottom of the lake seven years ago.
"...Yes." The old eunuch looked at his face and felt that he shouldn't have thrown the thing away, but he was frightened by his momentum. After a while of confusion, he decided to listen to him, so he found a pond near the Silijian and threw it away.
That night, Ji Ting came again, but the old eunuch still stopped her: "Imperial Concubine, why are you here again?"
"I'm here to find Shen Tu Chuan... is he still unwilling to see me?" Ji Ting asked carefully. He was a little disappointed when he saw the old eunuch shaking his head. He asked for a long time, "Have he taken over the things?"
The old eunuch was silent for a moment, but he still answered truthfully: "Confiscate."
...I refused to accept the things. It seemed that I was so angry this time. Ji Ting felt uncomfortable, but there was no good idea for a while. After a while, he stretched out his hand at him: "Since he doesn't want it, then return the things to me."
“…It’s gone.”
Ji Ting was stunned: "What's gone?"
"The thing is gone," the old eunuch coughed, "The Lord Supervisor asked the slave to throw it away."
"Where did you throw it away?" Ji Ting was anxious.
Although the old eunuch was not as respectful to her as before, she was a concubine, and he didn't dare to be arrogant. Seeing that she was anxious, he was a little scared for a moment and hurriedly took her to the pond: "Just, it's here..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a plop, and the woman who was still beside him had jumped into the water.
The old eunuch was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he hurriedly called someone: "Come here! Come here! The concubine is in the water!"
"Shut up!" Ji Ting paddled speechlessly, "What are you calling? I'm just coming down to find something."
"Empress, are you okay?" the old eunuch asked hurriedly lying beside the water.
Ji Ting glanced at him: "What can I do? Go back, I'll look for it myself... By the way, don't tell Shen Tuchuan, have you heard?" She just wanted to get the money back, but she didn't want him to misunderstand it for deliberately selling misery.
The old eunuch was stunned for a moment: "Why don't you tell the governor, aren't you diving just to gain sympathy?"
...Look, an outsider thinks so. If Shen Tuchuan really knows, he will definitely think so. Ji Ting sighed: "I don't have that idea, I just want to get back the money."
"Then you are so infatuated." The old eunuch sighed.
Ji Ting was stunned for a moment, and a little heat suddenly appeared on his face: "What are you talking nonsense!"
The old eunuch realized that he was saying the wrong thing and quickly apologized: "It's a slave who talks too much, but it's a slave who talks too much. I haven't known the words for a few days. Some people don't know how to use words. Please don't blame me."
"...Forget it, I won't be allowed to talk nonsense in the future." Ji Ting said with a tense face.
The old eunuch responded embarrassedly, and turned around and left after finding an excuse. Ji Ting took a deep breath and plunged into the water.
Since she fell into the water when she was ten years old, the most common thing that the Ji family has done is to urge her, the young lady, to learn to swim. Not only did she expel her fear caused by drowning, but she also made her develop a good body of water. So it is easy for her to pierce a fierce look and dive into the bottom of the water.
It’s a pity that these are easy, but it’s not that easy to find something at the bottom of the huge pool. Ji Ting floated up and down and fell, exhausted and hadn’t found any of it. Now the sky is completely dark, and the bottom of the pool is even darker. She can only rely on her hands to scoop back and forth, and only find a small place for a long time.
When she floated up for the last time, she almost drowned because of her strength. She lay down by the pool for a long time before she took a break, and then dived into the bottom of the water again.
While she was busy, Shen Tuchuan sat quietly in the room. The candles on the table made a sound of beating from time to time. When the candlelight shook, the shadows cast on the wall also shook.
After not sleeping all night, Eunuch Li came to the house and asked him to go to the previous court to discuss matters. He stood up expressionlessly and walked out. When he passed by the pond, he paused and his eyes swept towards the wet big rock beside the pond.
Eunuch Li also looked over and said, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Shen Tuchuan continued to walk forward with a cold face. Eunuch Li didn't dare to speak anymore, and Xiaobu followed behind and left.
Shortly after they left, Ji Ting quietly showed his face behind the stone. After realizing that he had avoided it, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She took a moment to go back to Fengqi Palace, and soon broke back. This time she changed into lighter clothes, and simply tied her hair in a bun. After looking around, she thrust into the water again.
She was busy all morning and still found nothing until noon. She had been soaking in the water for a long time without any strength, and she sat on the stone by the pond to rest.
Before she could rest, her eyes suddenly swept to a distance and a familiar figure came to her. She hurriedly entered the water and looked out quietly at the corner of the stone. Sure enough, not long after, Shentuchuan passed by here, as if ice was ripped on her whole body. When she walked past the stone, Ji Ting obviously noticed the coldness.
Shouldn't he be busy with the government at this time, why did he suddenly return to Sili Supervisory? While Ji Ting was confused, he hid in the water, leaving only half of his face exposed on the water to breathe.
After he left, Ji Ting began to dive into the water again to search. I don’t know what time it was, Shen Tu Chuan came out of the Sili Prison.
She hurriedly hid behind the stone like before, waiting for Shentu Chuan to leave.
Unexpectedly, Shentu Chuan suddenly stopped when he walked nearby and left after a long silence.
Ji Ting dared to breathe a sigh of relief when he walked away, and felt a little sad. The idle people he said should be himself.
But this is not the time to be lost. Ji Ting started looking for things again after resting.
I have been searching for several days, but I haven't found anything. Ji Ting is much stronger. Not only did the little fat that I had produced because of the pampered place, I have disappeared, and my body is getting better and better... But what's the use?
In the evening, after eating dinner, Ji Ting held his face and sighed quietly.
The nanny who was serving her looked at her with distress and finally couldn't help but persuade her: "Empress, you should not go to the pool tomorrow. The Lord Supervisor is not a change of mind. You should stop working hard. It's useless to call someone to joke."
She didn't know that Ji Ting was looking for something, and she just thought Ji Ting was doing a clumsy trick, so she persuaded her.
Ji Ting was shocked: "How do you know?"
"Who doesn't know that the Empress has been running there all these days," the nanny sighed, "Empress, it's not me who is in charge of the palace now? This is a tacit matter. How can you make a fuss with the Supervisor at this critical moment? If he advises the emperor to take back the ninth prince, you will have no children."
The emperor is now terminally ill. If the concubines have no children, there is no need to say what will happen.
Ji Ting pursed his lips and felt a little uncomfortable: "It turns out that everyone in the palace knows it." He has many eyes and ears in the palace, and now everyone else knows it. He can't not know. He is afraid that he really doesn't want to pay attention to him, so he deliberately pretends not to know that she is outside the Sili Prison all day.
Seeing her sad, the nanny couldn't help but sigh: "It's no secret that you had a quarrel with the Supervisor. In the past two days, there were always concubines coming to provoke him. It's just that you went out early and came back late, and you didn't meet him... I want my servant to say that you have done this and the Supervisor hasn't softened it at all. Don't waste your time."
"...Well, I understand." Ji Ting was listless.
The nanny said a few more words to her. After she was sure she could not eat, she asked someone to remove the things on the table and turned around and walked out. She walked straight outside Fengqi Palace. After a while, she saw the little eunuch waiting there. She hurriedly smiled and said, "I have advised the Empress, and the Empress should not go there again."
"Should?" The little eunuch's voice was sharp, obviously not very satisfied.
The nanny smiled awkwardly: "The Empress is the master, and we servants can only persuade us. If she insists on not changing her mind, then there is nothing she can do about it."
The little eunuch stared at her for a long time, and finally snorted and turned around and left. The nanny secretly cursed and turned her head back to Fengqi Palace.
After the little eunuch returned to Silijian and reported his orders, Shentu Chuan was quiet for a long time, and after giving a word, he started to work on the previous dynasty again.
The next morning, Ji Ting stood up and walked towards the Silijian. She didn't sleep well last night and her mind was full of words to persuade her. But at dawn, she still wanted to get the money back.
To be continued...