chapter 107

Mr. Zong was feeling the itch for gossip. The moment Jun Qianye left, he could not control himself any more.

“Miss Nangong, what is all this about? Our lord didn’t leave the palace with you, but why did you and he come back together?”

“I want to know, too.” Until now, Nangong Ning didn’t know why Jun Qianye had suddenly appeared in the imperial palace.

“So why you were in our lord’s arm when entering the palace?” Mr. Zong stared at Nangong Ning fixedly. His chubby face was filled up with excitement.

Nangong Ning felt pins and needles on her head under his sight. She hastened to say, “My leg aches.”

“Where? It seems to me that your legs are quite normal.” Mr. Zong was very serious, and even put out his hand in order to knock at Nangong Ning’s ankle.

Nangong Ning moved away immediately. She felt not a little depressed.

The excuse that her leg ached came from Jun Qianye’s misunderstanding. In fact, her leg was truly normal.

“I see. It is all your cute act for me. What a cunning and naive young girl.” Mr. Zong wore an appearance at once, which meant that he knew everything well. His smile was so strange that Nangong Ning felt sick all over.

She cast a stern glance at him and said, “Old fat man, are you going through climacteric?”

“What is climacteric?” Hearing that, Mr. Zong asked subliminally. He hadn’t heard this word for real.

“A kind of disease. Though you are a physician, you’d better check yourself to see if you are suffering from this.” Nangong Ning sulked.

“Impossible. I am perfectly healthy.” Mr. Zong declared with confidence.

Nangong Ning was truly speechless. She didn’t want to say any word.

Mr. Zong didn’t notice Nangong Ning’s embarrassment at all. He suddenly recalled something, so he put aside the gossip and said in a humourless grin, “Our lord had instructed that you should be carefully nursed. I also have found that your body is quite weak and has a cold tendency. It is true that you should be nursed for some time, or things may go bad.”

Nangong Ning was in a fog, and finally couldn’t help asking, “What do you mean? What will go bad?”

“Miss Nangong, though you major in toxicology, you must know that a girl who has a cold body is not easy to give birth to a child.” Mr. Zong gave a look at her and said grandly.

Nangong Ning blushed in a second. She turned a sharp eye on him and said, “Shut up! Old fat fool!”

“But I’m serious. Your body is on the cold side. When you are married to our lord, you must bear him children. It cannot be like this.” Mr. Zong reasonably said.

Hearing that, Nangong Ning somehow began to follow his statement further.

She bore Jun Qianye children?

With his appearance, Jun Qianye was truly the Mr. Right of most of girls in her previous life, and many pussy cats were likely to want to bear him children. But as for herself…Nangong Ning shivered at once.

SHE DARED NOT!

What was more, Jun Qianye had announced that he would not marry her.

When she thought about it, Nangong Ning quickly felt kind of depression.

“No more gossips here. You’d better make your prescription for me at once if you really want to do it. I am exhausted. I want to rest.” Nangong Ning said. At the same time she stood up and pushed Mr. Zong out.

Mr. Zong was about to leave, too. Since his lord had instructed that he should nurse Nangong Ning’s health, he would do it himself. The prospective princess consort must be nursed well, for the lord’s offspring could not be affected!

Having shooed Mr. Zong away, Nangong Ning let Wen Wan and other maids get out, too. She closed the door, entered the inner room and changed clothes.

When she just had changed her clothes, she heard some knocks from behind.

Nangong Ning was taken aback, but quickly she knew it. She felt a tide of excitement rose in her heart.

“Are you Su Yuan? Come in!”

The window was opened. As was expected, Su Yuan was at the window.

“I guess there are some messages from Wenren Yao.”

Su Yuan nodded indifferently. He took out an envelope from his sleeve which was sealed well in wax, and handed it to here.

Nangong Ning took it hastily, unfolded and skimmed through it. She lifted her face up with excitement. “Wenren Yao said that the matter has been done!”

Holding his poker face, Su Yuan silently nodded.

Nangong Ning gave him an angry stare and said, “You just respond like this?”

“So what?” Su Yuan didn’t show any response as well.

Nangong Ning was speechless. She thumbed up to Su Yuan to show that she was convinced.

Su Yuan was still quite calm. “Do you think we should go to visit him?”

Nangong Ning nodded, letter in her hand. She frowned and said, “Not until the night falls.”

Su Yuan got it immediately. “You want me to take you out of the palace by night?”

“What’s the matter? You cannot make it?” Nangong Ning asked apprehensively.

Su Yuan shook his head and stated decisively, “Yes, I cannot make it.”

Nangong Ning took a deep breath at once. She was so disappointed.

Su Yuan added, “Though these days I can go in and out of the palace, I think people in the palace know it. They don’t care because they think my right of access doesn’t matter. However, it may be different if I leave with you.”

Nangong Ning also considered it. That was why she was worried.

“Do I have to tell Jun Qianye?”

“Tell him?” Su Yuan looked at here in surprise.

Nangong Nong quickly shook her head and said, “We cannot do that. Otherwise we don’t know what will happen. I can never foresee Jun Qianye’s idea.”

Su Yuan looked at her without any word. Obviously he meant something like “So you think of your way yourself. Once you get one you call me”.

Nangong Ning looked outside, and then asked, “What is the time now?”

“The end of Shen period.” Su Yuan answered.

Nangong Ning calculated some time in her head and finally realized it was about to 5:00 PM.

“Well, there is still time. Su Yuan, you’d better leave the palace and wait for me in Shennongtang.”

Su Yuan gave her a look, but didn’t aske anything till the end. He stood up and disappeared in a single jump.

Nangong Ning closed the window neatly, and turned to go outside.

Outside she asked Wen Wan the direction of Mr. Zong’s yard. Then she refused Wen Wan and others’ appeal to follow her, and left the yard.

The Regent’s palace was quite big, so Nangong Ning hadn’t know all of it though she had been living in it for not a short time. Now she just knew the front yard, the yard she was living in and the yard in which was Jun Qianye’s study.

She rambled for a long time, but failed to find Mr. Zong’s yard. Yet she suddenly met Wei Chu.

“Miss Nangong, are you finding something?” Wei Chu was going back to give reply to Jun Qianye when met Nangong Ning at here by accident. At that time it seemed that Nangong Ning had lost something and was looking for it, which made him feel weird.

The moment Nangong Ning saw him, she began to tell excitedly as if she met the saviour, “Grand Wei Chu, the palace is really big while there are too few people at here. I even cannot find someone to ask the way. Luckily I meet you.”

Seeing Nangong Ning’s excited appearance, Wei Chu’s face was rigid for a second. He somehow took a step back, and asked, “You say you want to ask the way, so where are you going?”

“I’m looking for the old fat man. Where is his yard?” Nangong Ning said calmly.

Wei Chu pointed to a direction. Nangong Ning gave her thanks without any pause, “I got it. Thank you very much. So I’m leaving.”

Wei Chu frowned, feeling that Nangong Ning was kind of weird. Why did she look for the old Zong in a hurry?

While thinking, he turned and went to another direction quickly.

Outside the study, Wei Chu said to Jun Qianye in it, “My lord, Miss Nangong is somehow strange.”

“What happened?” Jun Qianye in the study raised his head and looked at Wei Chu with some surprise.

Wei Chu took out a confidential letter and handed it over to him. “I also am not so clear. Miss Nangong is looking for Mr. Zong. She seems to be quite worried.”

“This comes from there?” Jun Qianye took the letter and unfolded it.

Wei Chu nodded. “Yes. If Nangong Ning has got the message, Mr. Zong is not the one whom Nangong Ning looks for now.” said him, still puzzled.

Jun Qianye, on the contrary, slightly lifted his lip as if he smiled. Then his sight focused a little and said, “Maybe she wants to exploit Mr. Zong.”

“Exploit him?” Wei Chu winced a second, and quickly got it. He looked at his lord in surprise, “If so, then you are…”

Jun Qianye’s voice was indifferent, “She has been painstakingly plotting, so I’d better not let her down.”

Wei Chu understood when he just heard this. He nodded and said, “I will arrange it.”

On the other hand, Nangong Ning had caught Mr. Zong, who was reading medical books and making prescription carefully.

Mr. Zong was so terrified, for he didn’t expect Nangong Ning would go to find him.

“Miss Nangong, you are still weak so you should not have many exercises. If you have any matter, you can let others to tell me. The lord have asked me to nurse you well, so I must…”

Nangong Ning gave him a withering look angrily!

“Have you finished your prescription?”

Mr. Zong nodded, and then shook his head. “Almost. But I’m a little…” Mr. Zong’s look on his fat face showed he was entangled, “Miss Nangong, do you think I should add this medicine in it?”

Nangong Ning looked there and she saw Mr. Zong wrote “blood lotus” on the paper.

“What’s that?” Nangong Ning was also experienced and knowledgeable, but never had she heard of this. She lifted her brow and said, “It sounds quite weird.”

Mr. Zong wore a mysterious smile on his fat face and said, “This is a kind of fantastic medicine, which is very good for women.”

“You say it is very good, but in which aspect?” Nangong Ning doubted it very much.

But Mr. Zong replied, “Every aspect.”

Nangong Ning gave him an reproachful look, and said sulkily, “Well, if it is good in every aspect, why do you hesitate?”

Mr. Zong shrugged and said helplessly, “We don’t have it in the palace. It is extremely rare. In face, I just have heard of this but haven’t seen it.”

Nangong Ning was speechless. But then she had a second thought and was clear in mind. “Then do you know whether Shennongtang has it?”

“I haven’t thought of it. As for there, I am also not sure. Maybe…” Mr. Zong shook his head to show that he didn’t know it.

Yet Nangong Ning felt happy in mind. She had been searching for a reasonable excuse to let Mr. Zong leave the palace with her. Jun Qianye should not stop her when Mr. Zong went along with her, and those who wanted to kill her would not dare to get close.