Chapter 281

Zhong Lihao finally nodded: "it's nothing to regret my rotten life. Come on, what do you need me to do?"

Chen Jia whispered, "it's an absolutely confidential matter for me to treat the third prince. I need a lot of medicinal materials and my brother's money."

Zhong Lihao thought for a moment and replied, "it's not difficult. I'll let your sister-in-law say she's ill at home, then play the name of treating her, and look for famous drugs all over the world."

Chen Jia replied: "well, I entrust this medicine list to my brother. I will take advantage of the gap between the procurement of the harem on the first and fifteenth days of each month. My brother rents a shop on the East Street, and we hand over the medicine under the guise of the shop."

"Yes."

"One more thing." Chen Jia approached Zhong Lihao and whispered for a moment.

Zhong Lihao was slightly surprised and asked, "is your friend really so magical?"

Chen Jia nodded: "he is very capable. He still needs to do a lot to help the third prince win the throne. But he doesn't have enough experience in wandering in the Jianghu. During my days in the palace, I asked my brother to let him live in the Marquis house in the name of distant relatives."

"What's the difficulty?" Zhong Lihao answered immediately.

The two settled the matter, and Chen Jia hurried away at night.

Zhong Lihao did not dare to delay immediately. He called his wife and talked secretly late at night.

Here, Chen Jia returned to the Qianyi hall. Xia Houyu was waiting for him in the hall: "is it going well?"

In this way, Chen Jia told Xia Houyu the process of just now.

Xia Hou Yu was very moved and said, "the ministers in the dynasty are selfish and full of their own pockets. It is the greatest irony of the kingdom of Xia that those who really think of the country of Xia are relegated to deep alleys."

Chen Jia replied: "my eldest brother and I are not loyal and good. If we could not avenge our father, my eldest brother would not agree to take his family into danger."

Xia Houyu asked, "since you mentioned this, I'll ask again. Your sister-in-law is also reliable?"

"My eldest brother and sister-in-law have been married for more than ten years and have a deep relationship. My eldest brother is unable to have children, and my eldest brother is determined not to marry. Even I envy this emotion. They can risk their lives for each other, and my sister-in-law must be trustworthy."

Xia Houyu nodded, her eyes deep, probably thinking of the changeable and strange of the harem, and yearning for the family atmosphere of Zhong lihou's house.

Seeing that he thought deeply and didn't bother him, Chen Jia left silently.

On the 15th day of this month, Chen Jia went out of the palace with the eunuch he bought. According to the plan, he went to the East Street and found the shop of Zhongli Hou's house. I've been listening to people all the way here. It's said that the wife of Hou's house has a strange disease. The son of the world is looking for famous doctors all over the world. He's looking for medicine for his wife these days

Chen Jia entered the shop on the East Street. Zhong Lihao met him in the back and sent the medicine: "these are the things you want. According to the prescription, QIANZI grass is seven yellow, and the snake skin is the first molting... Have a look."

Chen Jia carefully counted it, confirmed it and said, "yes, on the first day of next month, my brother will prepare another set according to this prescription."

"No problem."

"Also, my friend is safe at home?" Chen Jia asked.

"He wanders around during the day. He is very clever. He has made friends with all the dandies in the capital these days. He seems to be having a good time." Zhong Lihao replied.

Chen Jiawen smiled and said, "it's so good. The time is urgent, brother. I'll go first."

"Well, be careful. I have no power in the palace. I can't find out anything for you. Only one thing. If there is any crisis, you can go to find master Jiang."

Chen Jia was stunned: "isn't Jiang Fuzi devoted to learning without asking about power struggle?"

Zhong Lihao replied, "that's because you don't know him. In troubled times, which of the great scholars who have read sages' books are willing to learn? They just have no place to show their ambition and have to save themselves."

Chen jiaruo thought.

After returning to the palace, Chen Jia carefully processed the medicinal materials on her hand according to the poison medicine manual. After working so hard, it was the tip of the moon in the twinkling of an eye. He remembered that it was time to cook dinner.

Xia Houyu and he were grounded, and the guards outside the temple would deliver food on time, but they were all thin food that the imperial dining room treated badly, which was worse than eunuchs. Xia Houyu wants to detoxify and heal her wounds. Obviously, she can't do without nutrition. Chen Jia decides to cook in the small kitchen of Qianyi hall. It's not difficult to take some broken silver to dot the bodyguard and let them deliver some fresh ingredients.

Chen Jia's cooking skills have been systematically trained, but due to the restrictions of food materials, he can only fry some simple vegetables every day. Pork is a very luxurious thing. Whenever there is such a piece, he cuts it up very carefully and divides it into three meals. The minced meat was scarce and expensive. He had to concentrate on cooking every time. Each meal could be served with two vegetables with complete color, flavor and one and a half meat dishes. Even so, Xia Houyu still ate very little.

His long illness had consumed his body and left him without food.

Chen Jia advised him, "in the first three months of healing, we'll take a medicine bath to strengthen your physique. But if you don't eat, the best pill can't help you."

Hearing the speech, Xia Houyu emptied the food in front of him silently. Even now swallowing is particularly difficult for him.

Watching him finish his meal, Chen Jia gave him a cup of hot tea.

Xia Hou Yu habitually hesitated and said, "I'm not thirsty."

Chen Jia's eyes were dark and asked him, "are the three princes afraid of inconvenient toilet?"

Xia Houyu was stunned, then her eyes became sinister, and her hands clasped the table.

Chen Jia stretched out her hand and put it on the back of Xia Hou Yu's hand. Compared with Xia Houyu's skinny, Zhong Liqing's hands look much better, with even bony joints and warm palms.

At the moment, Chen Jia put aside the identity of the master and servant, held Xia Houyu's hand and said, "the third prince, it's amazing that you can persist to this day. No matter how painful and weak your body is, it's all caused by disease. If the third prince can't even see this, how can you talk about doctors and patients being One-minded?"

When Xia Houyu heard the speech, her clenched fist gradually loosened. As a seven foot man, he had difficulty even going to the bathroom because of his illness. It was like his last layer of dignity, which was firmly held in his hand. But now in front of Zhong Liqing's words, it seems that they are not important.

If we talk about dignity, Zhong Liqing has suffered even palace punishment at the moment, what is he worth hiding?

Chen Jia patted his hand and said, "get ready. I'll move the medicine bath bucket."

Xia Houyu's physical foundation is too poor. Let alone acupuncture, she can't afford medicinal materials with slightly heavier drug power. She can only rely on medicine bath to gradually improve her physique.

The huge tub was moved by Chen Jia to the side hall of the Qianyi hall, which is smaller than the main hall. It is easier to keep warm and not easy to be disturbed. Several buckets of hot water went down, and the bath bucket was white. Xia Houyu didn't need to be served, so she took off her clothes. The bath barrel is very high, but Zhong Liqing has put a footstool on the edge of the barrel to facilitate him to enter.

Xia Houyu looked at the footstool and the back of the busy Zhong Liqing. A moment of emotion flashed in her heart. Then she held her breath and sat in the bath bucket.

Chen Jia poured the boiled medicine from the medicine pot into the bath bucket. The medicine didn't smell as bad as ordinary Chinese medicine. There was nothing special except the smell of grass. When the medicine juice was sprinkled into the hot water, the dark green color dissolved instantly and gradually integrated into Xia Houyu's body through the open pores.

At the beginning, she felt nothing. Slowly, Xia Houyu felt that the cold wave that had shackled her for many years was slowly fading. This feeling was very wonderful. It was clearly an invisible feeling, but Xia Houyu felt that she could see it. One hot and one cold breath was burning in his body, and finally the heat brought by the medicine juice dissipated the cold.

——Content from [Migu reading]