Qing Jialu

After the Laba Festival, it will be the end of the year in a blink of an eye.Every household starts to prepare new year's goods, clean up, sweep away the dust of the year, and welcome the arrival of the new year.The same is true of the court, the cabinet and the six ministries have also sorted out the affairs of the year for the Holy Majesty to check.Although the emperor is still ill and unable to govern, under the leadership of the cabinet, everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Now that the cabinet has Han Chang's help, Shen Jia no longer has to worry about it.The time spent in Xiyuan to accompany Xiao Yi every day was also longer.Shen Jia saw that Xiao Yi's daily life was very regular. In the morning, he listened to Eunuch Chen read the scriptures and deal with the affairs of the court.If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, read a book, or go to the meditation room to read scriptures and meditate.

Shen Jia had nothing to do that afternoon, so she followed Xiao Yi to the meditation room.He looked at the quiet and secluded meditation room, smelled the burning incense in the room, and felt sacred and mysterious.He is not a cultivator, he only sits on the futon with Xiao Yi, but he doesn't know how to meditate, and finds that the more he sits, the more boring he gets.

An hour later, Xiao Yi opened his eyes and saw Shen Jia beside him looking impatient.He couldn't help laughing: "Aren't you bored if you insist on following me?"

"A little bit." Shen Jia admitted, "But I just want to be with you, even if I'm bored."

Xiao Yi smiled and said nothing. He was dressed in a Taoist robe, surrounded by curling cigarettes, as if he was about to become a fairy.

Shen Jia looked at him and asked curiously: "Why does Your Majesty pursue Taoism? It seems that you don't make pills, unlike those foolish kings who pursue immortality."

"My body is too murderous, and I practice Taoism only for meditation."

Shen Jia looked at Xiao Yi, he was clearly a seasoned general, but he didn't have a trace of murderous intent.When he saw His Majesty for the first time, he felt the peaceful aura around His Majesty.

"It seems that cultivation is really useful." Shen Jia said with a smile, "It doesn't look like a general who has been on the battlefield at all."

After Xiao Yi finished his meditation, he met Dr. Fan in the meditation room.Now Miracle Physician Fan is also wearing a Taoist robe, with his hair tied up in a bun, holding a dust whisk in his hand, and dressed like a Taoist priest.It was the first time Shen Jia saw Doctor Fan like this, and burst out laughing.

Doctor Fan is also very depressed, and he doesn't want to change his career to become a Taoist priest.But who made the palace so crowded, he had to pretend to be one or two.

"Doctor Fan, that's not right, Daoist Fan." Shen Jia smiled, "Although you are wearing a Taoist robe, you don't have any sense of immortality. Instead, you look like a charlatan."

Miracle Doctor Fan: "..." I really want to kill this guy who gloats.

But for His Majesty's sake, Dr. Fan held back his hand that wanted to beat someone up.

Xiao Yi has seen a lot of Daoist Fan's Taoist attire, but he is the calmest.He stretched out his wrist, asking Doctor Fan for his pulse.

Shen Jia also stopped laughing, for fear of disturbing Dr. Fan's diagnosis.

Doctor Fan took his pulse for a moment, then nodded to Xiao Yi: "Your Majesty's condition has improved, and the dosage of the medicine can be halved from tomorrow. It seems that the medicine is expected to be completely stopped before the Lantern Festival."

Ten days ago, Dr. Fan reduced the dosage of the medicine by [-]%. Xiao Yi could finally move his hands and eat by himself, but he couldn't lift heavy objects and had no strength.Now hearing what Dr. Fan said, both of them feel much more at ease.

"After completely stopping the medicine, will your majesty's hands and feet return to normal?" Shen Jia asked again worriedly.

"Yes." After Dr. Fan finished speaking, he told Xiao Yi, "Your Majesty asked your servants to massage your limbs more. I haven't moved for a long time. I'm afraid my legs will be weak when I first get off the ground."

"I see, thank you, Doctor Fan." Xiao Yi nodded.

After the diagnosis and treatment, Dr. Fan glanced at Shen Jia, and said with a half-smile: "Master Shen, are you free recently?"

When Shen Jia heard Doctor Fan's tone, she suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.

Sure enough, Dr. Fan said: "Why don't you help me make medicine?"

"Pounding medicine?" Shen Jia was depressed, isn't this the job of a medicine boy?

Xiao Yi watched the two of them quarreling with a smile, and added fuel to the fire by saying, "Yes, he is very free."

"Your Majesty!" Shen Jia was wronged, he just wanted to be with his sweetheart, why was it so difficult?

Shen Jia followed Dr. Fan to his residence sullenly. As soon as he entered the courtyard, Dr. Fan dragged him into the back room, and asked furtively, "You...have you done it?"

"What?" Shen Jia didn't understand at first, but seeing Doctor Fan's wretched expression, she woke up suddenly, "What are you talking about!"

"Did you do it?" Doctor Fan asked persistently, "Have you used the ointment?"

"Ointment?" Shen Jia thought for a long time and suddenly realized, "The ointment you forced on me last time was for this purpose?"

"Otherwise?" Doctor Fan said disappointedly, "It seems that they didn't do it."

"We were busy reforming the law at the time, so we didn't have time." Shen Jia's face was full of embarrassment.

"Aren't you free now?" Doctor Fan said with a smile, "Let me help you again, I have formulated a new ointment, try it."

Seeing that Dr. Fan was juggling, Shen Jia took out a small bottle from his sleeve. He really wondered if Dr. Fan was spoiled by someone when he was in the palace. How could he be so keen on making such medicines?

"Take it."

"No." Shen Jia refused, "Your Majesty is ill."

"It's okay." Doctor Fan pressed it to him again.

"He can't move again." Shen Jia lowered her head and said.

"You can do it if you don't move."

Shen Jia looked at Doctor Fan with a blushing face, and thought to herself what kind of bullshit words this is.He didn't want to argue with Doctor Fan anymore, put the medicine on the table, and fled in a hurry.

When it was New Year's Eve, Eunuch Chen ordered people to decorate Xiyuan in a festive manner.Pasting couplets, hanging sky lanterns, worshiping the door gods... Yuxi Palace has a new year flavor all of a sudden.However, since the emperor celebrated the New Year in Xiyuan this year, the Forbidden City was much quieter.Coupled with the fact that the emperor was seriously ill, people canceled the dinner, so the palace did not invite the theater troupe, and they sang for a day like in previous years.

Although the foreign banquet was cancelled, the emperor set up a banquet in Yuxi Palace and invited Shen Jia and Doctor Fan to spend New Year's Eve together.Shen Jia and Dr. Fan had no relatives in the capital, so they readily accepted.

The three ate, drank, talked and laughed, and the dinner was warm.Shen Jia, in particular, was the happiest and drank a few more glasses of wine which was rare.This was the busiest New Year's Eve he had ever had since his parents passed away.

After tonight, it will be Qingjia four years.Tomorrow, on the first day of the first lunar month, King Su will take the place of His Majesty and receive congratulations from all officials in the main hall of the Forbidden City.Thinking of this, Xiao Yi asked King Su how he learned etiquette and whether he was nervous during the rehearsal.

Shen Jia smiled wryly when he heard the words: "I don't know if he is nervous or not. Anyway, I was watching from the sidelines, and I was so nervous."

"Did you speak?" Xiao Yi asked again.

"No. The Ministry of Rites finally canceled it. I heard that King Su would retch when he was nervous, let alone speak in public."

Xiao Yi also smiled bitterly and said, "It's hard for the Ministry of Rites."

At midnight, fireworks were set off in the palace.Both Doctor Fan and Shen Jia were shocked, and looked out the window obsessively.

"Fireworks!" Shen Jia stood up unsteadily, wanting to go to the window to watch.

Dr. Fan was afraid that he would not be able to walk steadily, so he hurriedly gave him a hand, and persuaded him with a smile, "You are drunk."

"Not drunk, not drunk." Shen Jia said not drunk, but her body fell back uncontrollably.

"Put him on the bed." Xiao Yi said upon seeing this.

Doctor Fan understood, he half dragged and half dragged Shen Jiaan to the only dragon bed in the room, and then said very wittily, "I...well, I also drank too much, so I won't keep watch with His Majesty."

"Okay, I'll let Eunuch Chen see you off."

"No, no, I'll go by myself." Doctor Fan thought, not to disturb your good business.

He walked out the door quickly, nodded to Eunuch Chen outside the door, and then smiled uncontrollably at the corner of his mouth.When he was helping Shen Jia to bed just now, he secretly stuffed the new medicine he had prepared into Shen Jia's arms.