"This is our family's job, so don't thank me."
Su Xuan smiled, did not respond, straightened his back and walked into the garden, but was stopped by Eunuch Wei.
"Physician! Wait!"
Su Xuan turned around and looked at Eunuch Wei in confusion. When he saw that the other party was coquettish and stopped him, he stopped talking and asked first, "What's the matter? Eunuch Wei, do you have anything else to pay attention to?"
Eunuch Wei approached Su Xuan in small steps, whispered a few words in a low voice, and left in a hurry. Su Xuan's face became solemn after hearing this, and he walked towards Shengmei Garden with half-closed eyes.
There were no maids or eunuchs to serve the emperor personally in the garden. The emperor was the only one sitting in the pavilion in the middle of Shengmei Garden. The entrance of Shengmei Garden faced the south and its back was to the north. The surrounding walls were not too high and could just cover the few people in the courtyard. The sunshine of the plum blossoms only left a few around the pavilion, as if they were deliberately putting pressure on the environment to prevent them from growing wantonly.
Normally, there should be more than a thousand guards around the emperor, not to mention a hundred steps away. There should be at least a hundred people. But this time, there was only the emperor waiting in the courtyard. Su Xuan glanced around with his peripheral vision, and there was no one there. What kind of secret whistle was found? It seems that this meeting is something that the Holy Emperor does not want people to know about.
Walking within ten steps of the emperor, Su Xuan knelt down on one knee and saluted.
"I pay my respects to Your Majesty!"
The emperor, who seemed not to notice Su Xuan's approach at all, broke away from the wonderful moonlight.
"Ai Qing is here, please get back on your feet."
Su Xuan stood up and did not approach.
"My dear, look at the moonlight tonight. It is indeed the most beautiful moon that the palace has seen in recent years." The emperor's tone was very soft. The courtesy corporal in ancient books was just like this, but Su Xuan still mentioned it. One heart.
"My beloved, please take a seat and enjoy the full moon with me!"
Su Xuan pursed his lips and smiled briefly, sitting on the stone bench opposite the emperor. On the stone table were still warm cakes. Su Xuan could even smell the faint fragrance of the osmanthus cake.
But what Su Xuan didn't understand was that it was rumored that the emperor in front of him was very taciturn as soon as he entered the palace. Whether it was on state affairs, in the morning, or in life, the eunuchs and maids who served him rarely heard the emperor say a few words a day. In other words, why do you come to me and talk so secretly?
"Aiqing, I stayed at Yonghe Palace after my rounds. You haven't eaten snacks yet. I sent someone to make them for you. I didn't know Aiqing's appetite, so they were all cakes. Aiqing's ancestral home is in the south and she likes sweets. of?"
When he said these words, the smile on the emperor's face seemed to make Su Xuan feel like a spring breeze. If the historian who was recorded saw this scene, there would be another allusion of a loyal minister and a wise king in history, but Su Xuan listened to the emperor's words. His words were full of murderous intent, and his back was soaked in cold sweat. Now not only was his whereabouts controlled by the emperor at all times, but the emperor knew exactly where his hometown was!
Su Xuan bit the tip of his tongue and forced himself to cheer up, thinking in his heart that you, the empress, had finally figured out this emperor's mental tricks.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Your Majesty is very considerate of Wei Chen. However, Wei Chen has been influenced by his mother and learned some Taoist methods of immortality. He does not eat at night!"
In fact, Su Xuan's stomach was empty for a long time. After a day of medical rounds and the incident at Yonghe Palace, Su Xuan had no strength left. He was just holding on, and before entering Shengmei Garden, Eunuch Wei's words still lingered in his ears.
"Mr. Su, if we say something inappropriate, be careful about the snacks on the stone table!" '
The emperor nodded slightly, and did not force Su Xuan. He just casually said: "So the imperial physician, who is full of knowledge, has also studied the Taoist method of immortality?"
Su Xuan didn't want to continue chatting like this anymore. He had to get to the point quickly and leave here. If the 'Polygala' he took out from the warehouse was refined with other medicinal materials, what kind of bullshit cake would it be? Arsenic, even the most poisonous poison in the world, can suppress its effects for an hour!
"Your Majesty, although the moonlight is beautiful, it is quite humid at night. The grass in Shengmei Garden is lush and the humidity is even worse. Your dragon body has not recovered yet, so don't stay outside for a long time."
"Ai Qing is young and appears to be very talented, but why does she sound like an old master when she talks? Is it because of the influence of the old doctors at the Imperial Medical Office? The older generation have stubborn ideas!"
The emperor said as he picked up the cup of tea in front of him and took a sip. There was a natural gap between his gestures and gestures that could not be resolved with kind words. Su Xuan could really feel this, and he also It can be detected from the emperor's phoenix eyes that she does not seem to like the heritage of the older generation of this dynasty.
Su Xuan did not dare to express his attitude, so he could only muddy the waters and pretend to be dumbfounded.
"The seniors at the Imperial Medical Office have taught Weichen a lot! Weichen's current achievements are the result of the seniors!"
"I don't like Aiqing's talk! Now I and Aiqing are admiring the moon and drinking tea. We are not discussing state affairs. There is no need to be so cramped."
Su Xuan cursed in his heart, what if this isn't a conversation from a superior? You speak of me and love me, how can I answer? I curse in my heart, but I still have to follow the words of the Holy One.
"It's Wei Chen's fault."
"Okay!" The empress tapped the table, her expression returned to a cold look, as if she had been suppressed for a long time.
"Since I have no intention of admiring the moon, I will discuss the 'state affairs' with you!"
Su Xuan didn't hesitate at all. He quickly knelt down and buried his head deeply. His eyes could only slightly glimpse the empress's legs tightly closed under the dragon robe under the stone table. She was indeed accompanying a king like a tiger. Su Xuan was both I don't know what I said was wrong, which made the emperor unhappy.
"Wei Chen is guilty! Wei Chen deserves to die!"
The emperor smiled coldly.
"My dear, what are you guilty of?"
"Weichen...Weichen..." Su Xuan's mind was working rapidly, and suddenly he had an idea and said: "Weichen is the one who disturbed Your Majesty's mood of admiring the moon. Weichen deserves death!"
"Get flat!"
The empress put her hands on the stone table on her knees and stared at Su Xuan's face, trying to find something from the other person's slight expression.
"Yesterday, there were many people in Weiyang Palace. Does Aiqing have any reservations about my condition?"
Su Xuan pondered without saying a word. The emperor waved his hand, and the sleeves of the dragon robe flew, extremely heroic.
"Aiqing, there is no one within a hundred steps outside Shengmei Garden! Aiqing, you can say this boldly and safely!"
Su Xuan still had reservations, and some sweat stains on his forehead slid down his cheeks.
"Weichen may have been a little nervous yesterday, and his word choice was not so accurate."
"Okay! Then tonight, I will ask you to take your pulse again and say it again!"
The empress put her hands on her, and Su Xuan gritted his teeth and said, that's it, he'll give it a go.
