I became the tyrant's only belief.

Chapter 248 Shock
"Why did you come back so soon?" Inside Yiran Garden, Moxiang added two pieces of charcoal into the brazier and motioned Chu Liuzheng to sit over and warm himself by the fire.

"Chef Qi is off today." Chu Liuzheng sat next to her, put his hands above the brazier, and stretched his neck to look at the peonies she was embroidering.

The warm warmth melted the coldness in the body, making me so comfortable that I wanted to sigh.

"Wouldn't it be a wasted trip?" Yuzhui sat up wrapped in the quilt and yawned.

"It wasn't a wasted trip." Chu Liuzheng went to the table and poured a cup of hot tea. "I'll ask Eunuch Chen to ask Chef Qi for me first. I'll just wait for his reply."

Yuzhui yawned again and asked sleepily, "Why did you suddenly want to learn how to cook?"

"It's always good to have many skills, just in case they come in handy." Chu Liuzheng handed her a cup of hot tea, "Drink some tea to wake yourself up, and then go to sleep after lunch. You and Sister Moxiang will be on duty tonight, so don't fall asleep again and let the stove pick up your hair."

Yuzhui took the teacup and drank two sips, then looked up at her: "We worked together last night, and you didn't sleep for long. How come you're not sleepy at all?"

"I can't sleep." Chu Liuzheng raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, "I haven't slept much recently."

"You should go to the Imperial Hospital and ask Doctor Li to check you out." Moxiang looked at her with some concern. "Look at the dark circles under your eyes. If they continue like this, even makeup won't be able to cover them up."

Chu Liuzheng also felt that this was not a solution. Maybe she really had a health problem. She didn't want to die young.

She said, "It's almost time for lunch. I have work to do in the afternoon. I'll go tomorrow when I have time."

Moxiang said, "I will go to Wenhua Palace with you this afternoon. I will take care of it for you. You can go to the Imperial Hospital first and come back after you are well."

Yuzhui raised his hand: "I can do that, too—ha!"

Before he finished saying "OK", he couldn't help yawning.

"You should go to sleep." Chu Liuzheng smiled and patted her shoulder. "If you keep yawning like this in front of His Majesty, you will get at least twenty lashes."

"That would be great." Yuzhui leaned against her, "I'll just wait for you to take care of me then, and I won't have to do anything."

"You're just dreaming." Moxiang spat at her. Who wants to be beaten?

Chu Liuzheng went to the Imperial Hospital in the afternoon and came back with two packets of medicine.

Moxiang poured her a cup of hot tea and asked, "What did Doctor Li say?"

"He said my pulse was weak and my qi and blood were insufficient, and told me to relax and get more sleep." Chu Liuzheng put the medicine on the table and sat down beside it. "If the medicine doesn't work after I take it, go find him again."

"Then I'll go back and boil the medicine for you. You can take it after dinner." Moxiang stood up with the medicine bag.

Chu Liuzheng stood up and said, "I appreciate your kindness, sister, but you and Yuzhui still have to be on duty tonight, so you should go back and rest. I can save this medicine for you to boil when I go back next time."

"It's not a big deal. It's still early. How much time will it take to decoct the medicine?" Moxiang smiled and pinched her cheek, then turned and left.

Chu Liuzheng chased after him and sent him out, and by the way, he stopped by Eunuch Zhou to show that he was back and did not slack off by using the medical treatment as an excuse.

After dinner, Moxiang and Yuzhu were about to go to Wenhua Palace to take up duty, but Siyue said that Eunuch Zhou arranged for her and Chenxing to take up duty at night, and asked them to rest in Yiran Garden.

Eunuch Zhou often changed his mind, but Moxiang and the others didn't find it strange and just thought of it as a day off.

Chu Liuzheng was sitting at the table drinking medicine from a bowl. It tasted bitter and sour and was really hard to swallow.

She held her breath and drank the tea. She was just rinsing her mouth with the tea when she heard someone outside shouting, "Is Miss Liu Zheng here?"

[Fuck! Why did the counterfeit send someone again? ]

Chu Liuzheng quickly lay down on the bed and gestured to the jade pendant at the door: Just say I'm asleep.

Yu Zhui nodded, opened the door and went out to answer, while Chu Liuzheng pulled the quilt over his head, covering half of his head and pretending to be asleep.

There were faint voices coming from outside the door.

After a while, footsteps were heard and the door closed.

Yuzhui walked to the bed and pushed Chu Liuzheng: "Send them away, get up." Chu Liuzheng, who was pretending to be asleep, immediately opened his eyes, sat up and asked: "What does King Rui want to see me about?"

"Here." Yuzhui raised his hand and pointed towards the table.

There was a small red food box on the table, containing a bowl of pearl bird's nest.

"His Royal Highness Prince Rui specially ordered the imperial kitchen to cook it for you."

Chu Liuzheng: “…”

[If someone shows kindness for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief! ]

She secretly looked through the system, trying to find evidence that the imposter had sent someone to add information, but the result was the same as the previous times, nothing unusual.

This is a bowl of ordinary pearl bird's nest.

"Your Highness Prince Rui is so kind. Come and eat it while it's hot." Yuzhu walked over and took out the porcelain cup from the food box, then raised his hand to greet Chu Liuzheng.

"I just took some medicine and have no appetite. You can eat it." Chu Liuzheng felt sick whenever she thought that the bird's nest was a counterfeit. She lay down on the bed and recalled the messages she had found in the system.

[The Fifth Prince's wife is really good at buying off Xixia's spies for her own use. Judging from the conversation between Madam Qi and the imposter, the two seem to be teaming up to deal with an important person, but I have searched the system and have not seen who they are going to deal with. Could it be the tyrant? ]

[If it's a tyrant, should I find an opportunity to warn him...]

Feeling sleepy, Chu Liuzheng yawned and his eyelids gradually closed.

Her last thought before falling asleep was: The medicine prescribed by Doctor Li is more effective than sleeping pills.

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[Uh, what is this place? ]

Chu Liuzheng woke up from his dream as usual. He wanted to go to the table to pour a cup of cold tea, but found himself sleeping on a stone bed. When he raised his eyes, the entire wall opposite him was covered with skulls.

In the dimly-lit room, a pair of dark eyes were staring at her silently.

Chu Liuzheng:!

【ah!!!!!】

She covered her mouth and screamed in her heart. She instinctively wanted to run away, but when she turned around, she saw a male corpse lying on the stone bed next to her.

It was a male corpse with its stomach ripped open and its internal organs exposed!
Chu Liuzheng was so frightened that he couldn't catch his breath. He rolled his eyes and fainted.

Mitsuki, who came in with a bottle of medicine, was startled, flew forward to catch the person, and carried him to the stone bed.

She patted Chu Liuzheng's face and found that Chu Liuzheng didn't react at all, which made her feel confused.

She knew best what kind of sleeping pills she had used. They should be enough for Chu Liuzheng to sleep until tomorrow noon. How come he woke up after only two hours?

"What's wrong?" A thin and pale young man dressed in black came in.

"She just woke up." Miyue poured out a red pill from the medicine bottle, pinched Chu Liuzheng's mouth open and fed it into her mouth, using his internal force to help her push it down.

Coach Li frowned: "How could he wake up suddenly? How many drugs did you feed him?"

"A fingernail is enough for her to sleep until tomorrow noon." Mitsuki said, "When she woke up and saw your drug tester fainted, she probably didn't see anything else. If she is sent back in time, she can think of it as a dream."

Coach Li walked to the stone bedside and glanced at the unconscious Chu Liuzheng: "You woke up so quickly, if you can..."

"The master values ​​her very much." Mitsuki said before he could finish, "She cannot be used to test medicine."

Coach Li glanced at her and said, "Is there no possibility at all?"

Mitsuki shook his head decisively and said, "If you try to do something to her while I'm not paying attention, the master will probably skin you alive if he finds out."

Hearing this, Coach Li regretfully put away the thin needle with a blue tinge on his fingertips, "Alas, what a pity."