Volume 2: Case within a case, the granary of the world Chapter 33: Where did Little Firefly come from?

  After the rain, a rainbow floats above the lotus pond.

  Suddenly, Yuanchen stood up, his face slightly pale, and his drooping eyelids made it impossible to see his expression. However, from his tightly knitted eyebrows, one could sense that he was entangled in some kind of painful struggle. His plain white sleeves rose, covering his slightly tense and handsome face.

  "Feeling unwell and dusty all over, I'm taking my leave now." He... left.

  The world that had just cleared up still had a vague, ink-wash painting-like quality to it. The white figure with a hint of yellowish tint in the distance gradually disappeared into this vague world. Did I say too much today?

  Furrowing her brow slightly, had she been too impatient?

  But perhaps Far Chau won't suddenly understand what I'm saying; it's probably that my words broke the calm in a certain part of his heart, which is why he reacted this way.

  She turned to look at Feng Qingya, who was smiling while picking flowers: "The Buddha said that a smile while picking flowers is the greatest joy, but I never thought that we are not as carefree as a woman of humble origins... haha..." Feng Qingya stood up and looked at me, "Thank you, Xiao Xiao."

  "I feigned surprise: 'Madam, your words are too serious. I, Piao Piao, have received Madam's kindness and see that Madam always has a worried look on her face, which makes me very concerned about Madam.'"

  "Is that so... sending you to the palace, I really sent the wrong person..." For some reason, Feng Qingya sighed and said this, as she turned around, her skirt lightly swayed.

  "Xiao Ruo, let's go, the sky is clear. It's been a long time since we last went for a stroll." Feng Qingya stretched her waist lazily under the warm sunlight and walked forward with big strides.

  "Madam!" Xiao Ruo hastily picked up the umbrella and bowed to me, "Thank you, Feifei. The madam hasn't been so happy in a long time."

  "Uh..." Before I could finish speaking, Xiao Ruo had already run far away. Alas, I wanted to say take me shopping with you. What a heartless thing.

  The dust has gone, the elegant breeze has gone, and now I'm the only one left. Heh.

  Fingers slightly moved, bringing out a sound. Suddenly, a dog's head appeared on the opposite side of the piano case. I was startled and looked around before refocusing my gaze on the dog's head - it was Long Huang!

  "How did you get here, it's too dangerous."

  The dragon's front claws rested on the stone table, opened its mouth, and a paper ball rolled out of it. Then, it left the stone table and walked to my side, raised its head and crouched down.

  The dragon king sat upright with a serious expression, his blue-green eyes staring straight at my face, the atmosphere became eerie.

  Looked at the thing spat out from the Dragon Emperor's mouth and said. Still carrying the Dragon Emperor's... smell.

  Black lines, all over his face. I naturally know what it is. Apart from the note, I couldn't guess anything else, and it's impossible to be a love letter. This note was probably brought by Hou Xuan calling Long Huang, because Long Huang's master can't possibly give me a note.

  "Uh-huh." Long Huang lowered his voice and let out a low growl. Reminding me to look at the note, I rubbed my forehead: "I know, I know, I'm waiting for it to dry, it's all your saliva on there." I glared at Long Huang with a dark face, he blinked once, turned away, too embarrassed to admit it, just like his master, stubbornly insisting on saving face.

  With the thumbnails and index fingers. He carefully lifted the thing to his face, opened it with care, fortunately it was cowhide paper, the words were not blurred by Long Huang's saliva, I guess Long Huang had been blowing all the way here and only put it in his mouth now.

  The characters on the strip are a row of coarse and bold words. Saying coarse is to give face to the back, this little guy wants to learn from others to write big characters, but the result is not like four. Uglier than my handwriting.

  "Carrots are urgent. Save me——"

  Black lines, once again filled with his face. He rubbed his forehead, more and more regretful of knowing Hou Xian, who not only treated him as an ATM, but now also as a pharmacy! However, since Hou Xian said ginseng was urgent, it's clear that all the ginseng in the capital had been bought by them.

  Ginseng... Consolidating and Nourishing the Original Qi...

  "Why doesn't Hou Xian come?" I asked, and then regretted it a bit. Even if Long Huang knew, he couldn't say anything.

  But unexpectedly, the dragon emperor stood up, its two front paws resting on my legs, then pushed and fell down, sticking out its tongue, panting heavily as if it was about to die.

  And I was left with my jaw dropped and my whole body petrified.

  Before I could react, Longwang had returned to normal and was staring at me: "Oh!"

  A clever dragon, the Dragon Emperor has really become a spirit. The Dragon Emperor should be saying that Hou Xuan is exhausted from treating Nan Gong Autumn Leaf's injuries and can't get up. What kind of injury did Nan Gong Autumn Leaf suffer from, that even the person treating him is so exhausted they can't get up?

  Really?!

  Nangong Qiuyue absorbed their vital energy!

  Accidentally, my mind drifted towards deviant literature again. In countless martial arts, romance, danmei (boys' love), and other genres, the following plot will appear:

  The male lead practiced OOXX skill, after being injured he must XXOO with someone to recover, this is the absolute recovery and rebirth method of attacking from above.

  However, in the YY world, in order to avoid being identical to predecessors but still achieve the same effect, there emerged the absolute Replenishing Qi, Absorbing Yang and Refining Essence Great Method.

  Is Nangong Qiuyue a top or bottom?

  Uh... Now it's a matter of life and death, so let's be serious for once! Seriously!

  "Alright, I'll send it over this afternoon."

  The dragon emperor blinked his eyes, got up, and with a speed that was too fast to cover one's ears, he rushed into the flower bed by the side of the road and disappeared. So fast!

  Ginseng... can only be returned to the palace.

  The summer breeze is warm, but after the rain, it's a scorching hot day. Looking up at the sun, I didn't expect that the hottest days of summer have already arrived. There's no air conditioning here, how can we endure? Now that I need to return to the palace, I'm leaving half a day earlier than usual, so probably won't run into Chunyu Zi Chen coming to meet me. At this moment, I kind of miss the bamboo forest in Yuandu.

  Suddenly, a clear and melodious zither sound came from the air, that crisp zither sound seemed to be just in front of me, it's my recent "Two Two Forget", Li Ge learned it really quickly.

  Farewell Song...

  The flute sound is very close, right in the depths of the hundred flowers across from me. I walk forward and see the back of the world's number one handsome man. He sits among the hundred flowers after the rain, his robe with blooming hundred flowers blending into one with the surrounding fresh flowers, making it hard to distinguish whether he used the jade flute to make the hundred flowers bloom or if the hundred flowers created this flower-like handsome man.

  A beautiful profile with a pipe of emerald green jade flute, this is a perfect combination of elegance and simplicity, making anyone who sees it for the first time unable to move their eyes away.

  But I wasn't the first to notice this handsome man. Moreover, Hou Xuan is still waiting for me to save his life, and I cannot abandon my friends for romantic entanglements. Standing in front of the flower bed for a while, I turned around and left. The zither sound gradually disappeared behind my lightly fluttering skirt.

  I went back to the palace to fetch ginseng, such a strange thing that I'm afraid Xuan Yuan Yi Fei will ask about it tonight. I don't plan to hide it from him, and he's not the first person to know about my "affair" with Hou Xian, so I didn't go see Xuan Yuan Yi Fei first, but instead went straight to the Imperial Hospital.

  As I entered, a small eunuch was just carrying out a bowl of stewed goods. I slightly moved to the side and heard someone inside shouting: "Is the emperor's cool tea ready?"

  "Not yet - wait a bit longer"

  "Hurry up then."

  "Got it—"

  Some little medicine boys cooking medicine in the yard. The whole garden is full of medicinal fragrance.

  "Lao Liang, the Emperor has been having a lot of virtual fire lately and has been constipated for a long time. Could it be related to this summer heat?" said the old imperial physician standing in the courtyard.

  "It's not like that, the emperor has never had a heat stroke before. The eunuchs in charge of attending to the emperor's daily life also have records, and everything seems normal, without any clues. It seems that the fire started after the emperor entered the Jingxiang Pavilion. I'm afraid it's because the beautiful woman's eight characters are not compatible with the emperor?"

  "Oh! That's something for the national teacher to see. If this beauty's eight characters clash with the emperor's, it's better for the emperor to keep his distance."

  Exuberant fire? Constipation?

  Pfft! I almost spat out laughing, yeah, indeed the eight characters don't match. Maybe Xuan Yuan Yi Fei is a wood destiny, and I'm a fire destiny, this flame of mine will burn him clean to the point where not even ashes are left.

  This won't do. For Xuan Yuan Yi Fei's physical condition, it's better not to let him sleep in my room tonight. If anything happens to him, I won't be able to bear the responsibility.

  "Excuse me... " A small eunuch appeared in front of me, looking at me with a puzzled expression, unsure how to address me because I wasn't wearing palace maid attire.

  "I am a beautiful woman from Ningxiang Temple, and I'd like some ginseng."

  "Are you the beautiful fairy?" Little Medicine asked, tilting his head and blinking. Then he scratched his head. "Oh, I'll go report to him first. You wait."

  The little medicine boy kept looking back at me three steps at a time, while I walked into the yard and looked around. The little medicine boys who were busy cooking medicine in the yard all curiously looked at me, I smiled and nodded, they laughed even more happily, and they were all just children.

  Then, I looked inside the house, and Xiao Yao Tong was reporting to two old imperial physicians. Xiao Yao Tong pointed at me with one hand, and the old imperial physician looked at me in surprise, then hit Xiao Yao Tong's head, scolding him a few words. They hastily came out to greet me.

  "Please forgive the young one's offense, little fellow doesn't understand etiquette, and has been slow in serving his master." The old imperial physician was obviously more worldly than those young medicine boys, but I didn't care about these superficial things.

  "It doesn't matter about Lao Yu Yi, Piao Piao wants some ginseng."

  "Carrot......" The two old doctors looked at each other in dismay.

  "What? Can't I?"

  "This is not the case, the beautiful woman doesn't know that the taking of this medicine must go through the Pharmaceutical Department's filing process for management convenience. Without a single from the Pharmaceutical Department, it cannot be taken at will."

  "Oh, where is the pharmacy?"

  "The pharmacy belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such things beautiful women only need to instruct their subordinates."

  I listened and nodded, as if it was a bother.

  "Moreover, this ginseng is a precious medicinal material, and the approval process might be quite troublesome. If the beautiful lady wants to obtain it, it would be better to go through His Majesty..." The old imperial physician was very good at reading people's expressions and knew that I was currently in favor.

  "Your Majesty..." I didn't want to find Xuan Yuan Yi Fei, just didn't want to trouble him. Who would have thought that in the end, I still had to rely on him? I smiled and thanked: "Thank you, Old Imperial Physician, I'll take my leave."

  "The beautiful woman is waiting, recently the emperor has been having dinner in Xiangning Palace, is there a phenomenon of biased diet?" The old imperial doctor asked very carefully, I remembered their previous conversation and smiled: "I will advise the emperor to eat more vegetables."

  "Then I'll have to trouble the beautiful lady." The old imperial physician revealed a relieved smile.

  Eating vegetables? Haha ~ That's also treating the symptoms but not the root cause.