Drunk Bamboo

"Your Majesty."

Zhang Xinghe felt a sense of oppression, and when he looked up, he saw Hua Qinfeng walking towards him aggressively with anger in his eyes.

"Zhang Xinghe, isn't the Ministry of Justice busy? Come to West Street when you have time?"

Zhang Xinghe said truthfully: "I have a case to ask the princess for help, and I just came back from outside the city."

Hua Qinfeng said coldly: "I didn't ask anything, why are you explaining?"

He walked over to Xie Yuzhu, who had been silent, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to go home to eat or eat at Yungui Pharmacy?"

Xie Yuzhu looked at him and said, "I've eaten."

He smiled, as if he wasn't angry at all, "Then I won't eat it."

Turning around, there was a blazing fire in his eyes.

Xie Yuzhu pulled his sleeve and said, "I'm not full..."

Turning back, he smiled and asked, "What can Zhang Xinghe take you to eat?"

Xie Yuzhu didn't have a smile on her face. "I ate a bowl of fresh meat wontons."

Hua Qinfeng was still laughing, "It's full of soup, so I guess you've eaten it."

Xie Yuzhu kept staring at him. The anger in his eyes and the forced smile on his lips showed that he was very angry at the moment.

He held it in and didn't explode.

Zhang Xinghe bowed and said goodbye, "I won't disturb you, my lord and princess. I'll go back to the Ministry of Justice first."

Before leaving, Hua Qinfeng threatened in a cold tone, "Zhang Xinghe, I can choose not to ask or pursue the matter you have concealed from me, but you cannot take Xie Yuzhu to take risks."

Zhang Xinghe was stunned for a moment before he said, "I've never thought about it."

He said coldly: "That would be best."

After Zhang Xinghe left, Hua Qinfeng faced Xie Yuzhu and said softly:

"The food is cold. Let's go to Anhe Restaurant to eat fresh food."

Before she could say anything, a big hand had already tightly grasped her hand, leaving her no chance to refuse.

Chaoyang said to Yunling, "The prince has just been to Renjitang and Yungui Pharmacy."

Yun Ling was worried, "That's not a discovery..."

Hua Qinfeng roared, "Hurry up and catch up!"

Chaoyang Yunling and an insignificant Qiu Feng hurriedly quickened their pace.

In Anhe Restaurant, there was a table full of steaming and fragrant delicious food, but neither of the two people had an appetite in front of the delicious food.

Xie Yuzhu was the first to break the silence, "Your Majesty, do you have anything to ask me?"

"eat first."

Hua Qinfeng picked up the chopsticks and stuffed whatever he saw into his mouth.

Xie Yuzhu stopped him, "If Your Majesty doesn't want to eat, don't force yourself to eat. This is also disrespectful to the food."

"Snapped!"

The chopsticks were slammed on the table.

The Huaqin wind finally broke out.

"You care about food, you take Yunling with you. Even Qiufeng, who I've only known for a few days, knows what you're doing, but you're hiding it from me?"

"What can Zhang Xinghe do for you that I can't do?"

"Tell me about it. I want to hear it."

He crossed his arms over his chest, staring straight at Xie Yuzhu with his dark eyes, waiting for her to speak.

Xie Yuzhu looked him straight in the eyes and said calmly, "Yes, I don't want the prince to know. I don't want to tell the prince now."

In a questioning tone, "Shi Qianjin saw you guys together for three consecutive days, what were you doing?"

Xie Yuzhu's eyes trembled slightly, "You don't believe me and Zhang Xinghe?"

He knew that Xie Yuzhu had misunderstood his meaning, but he was unwilling to explain.

"Xie Yuzhu, I trust you too much. If I didn't trust you, would I have been able to endure until now?"

Xie Yuzhu turned her head away from him and said, "I am studying the poison in ginkgo. I asked Zhang Xinghe to help me find the ginkgo, and I will help him investigate the case. Today I am going out of the city to check the body."

Hua Qinfeng didn't believe it. "Didn't you say you didn't plan to tell me? Is it necessary to hide it from me for such a legitimate reason? Would I object?"

She was also a little angry, and her tone became hard.

"You are busy investigating Lin Haixuelian in the palace, I don't want to bother you. I will figure out my own affairs."

They were two people who clearly cared about each other and were polite, but they said things that broke each other's hearts.

The last sentence completely angered Hua Qinfeng.

"Your own business? It turns out that you are still yourself. Have you never considered me as your own?"

"Bam—"

"Crackling——"

He stood up and split the dining table with one palm, leaving a mess on the floor.

"You still don't believe me! I studied so hard, but I still can't make you feel at ease. You don't even want to tell me the truth. Do you really think I'm a fool?"

After saying that, he turned and left.

Xie Yuzhu stared blankly at the broken pieces on the ground.

He has quite a bad temper.

Chaoyang quickly caught up with Hua Qinfeng.

I just heard him order, "Tell the secret guards to follow the princess closely."

Yunling ran into the house to stay with Xie Yuzhu.

She smiled coldly, "Hua Qinfeng, you are a big fool."

Yun Ling was worried, "Princess, the prince seems really angry, why don't you tell him?"

Xie Yuzhu: "Being angry is better than being heartbroken."

……

Imperial Guard

"Your Highness, why are you here to practice martial arts at the Imperial Guards today, isn't it your day off?"

"This is the first time I've seen martial arts practice using tree branches as swords. That broken branch has become a precious sword in the prince's hands!"

"The prince is so skilled in martial arts and is still practicing. We can't fall behind."

……

The soldiers of the Imperial Guard looked at Hua Qinfeng with admiration as he practiced swordplay with a tree branch.

"What are you looking at? Why don't you go practice?"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

When Shi Qianjin arrived, everyone dispersed.

Song Chi didn't mind asking, smiling, "It seems that Commander Shi knows something?"

"I don't know." Shi Qianjin said coldly, "What are you doing here at this time?"

"I heard that His Majesty gave the prince an extra day of rest. Didn't the prince promise me that he would come to my house for dinner next time he has a day off?"

Shi Qianjin reminded, "You'd better not offend the prince today."

Song Chi looked at Shi Qianjin, then at Hua Qinfeng, and indeed felt it was strange.

He turned and left, "Commander Shi is right. I will go back to Shihu first. I will come to invite the prince next time I have a day off."

Late at night, Changfengyuan.

After Xie Yuzhu washed up, Hua Qinfeng did not return to Changfeng Courtyard.

"Is he back?"

Yun Ling said truthfully: "The prince is back. I heard that he spent the whole afternoon in the Imperial Guard Department practicing martial arts with a tree branch."

Xie Yuzhu was stunned.

The two had an agreement in the past that if they got angry, they would practice sword fighting with tree branches.

Hua Qinfeng always remembered it.

Xie Yuzhu lowered her head and murmured softly, "He is indeed angry."

"The prince is sleeping in the guest room, princess. How about I ask the prince to come back and sleep? If you say a few soft words, the prince will surely calm down."

"Forget it. Yungui Pharmacy sent some purple eggplants over. I need to make the antidote for Wuchang Powder. I haven't had time to comfort him in the past two days."

Yun Ling was still worried, "But I think the prince is different now than before. Maybe it's not so easy to calm down."

"Now that I'm saying that we're working together with Zhang Xinghe to investigate the plague of that year, I'm afraid he won't believe me. He might think I'm lying to him again. After the Double Ninth Festival, I'll find out where the batch of Lin Hai Xue Lian in the palace went, and then I'll explain it to him."

Xie Yuzhu always had a feeling that Lin Hai Xue Lian might be related to the plague.

Perhaps the key to making plague poison.

I really wish I could have a Linhai Snow Lotus so I could do some research.

As he was thinking, Xie Yuzhu fell asleep.

At night, a black figure quietly appeared in the study of Changfeng Courtyard. He saw the semi-finished pills developed by Xie Yuzhu, as well as the bottles and jars on the desk, and the medical records of plague patients ten years ago.

His black eyes stared at these for a long time.

Then he walked out of the study resolutely and jumped into the main room through the window.

Xie Yuzhu was lying on the bed in the room, sleeping.

Hua Qinfeng stood beside the bed, watching her sleeping peacefully, feeling angry and reluctant.

After a moment of inner struggle, he finally let go.

He took off his cloak and climbed quietly into bed.

Xie Yuzhu turned over and hugged his arm out of habit, sleeping more peacefully.

He stroked her hair gently and said softly, "Xie Yuzhu, do you really think I don't know what you are investigating?"

"The plague back then was my father's Achilles' heel. How dare you touch it?"

The voice became even softer, "You are so smart, why don't you know what I am angry about?"

Naturally there was no response.

He sighed softly, his voice full of resentment, "How can you still sleep?"

In the following days, Hua Qinfeng climbed through the window every night, sneaked onto the bed, and left before Xie Yuzhu woke up.