The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

“Well, the person who could teach you such a great medical skill must be a remarkable person. I just didn’t expect that he could also brew such a good liquor.” Emperor Jing turned the wine glass in his hand, then picked up the glass and drank a small amount.

This time the spicy feeling was not as strong as before, and Emperor Jing slowly enjoyed the sensory experience brought by the liquor.

"In two days, there will be a palace banquet. Several envoys from foreign countries will come to Dayong to submit their letters. You can come and take a look then." Emperor Jing said to Su Tang.

"Okay, should I prepare something?"

"No, but please dress yourself up and don't wear so plain clothes."

Su Tang then realized that she was still wearing the ordinary dress she wore when she went out early this morning. She was not used to dressing up on weekdays, and her plan to go to the palace today was a sudden decision. Chunmei and the others didn't know about it, so no one reminded her.

"Yeah." Su Tang responded, and talked with Emperor Jing in the imperial study for a while before leaving again.

After all, Emperor Jing still had a lot of things to do. In fact, being an emperor was sometimes quite sad. While they were enjoying the best support, they also paid much more than ordinary people.

For a good emperor, time does not belong to him. Sometimes he has to review memorials submitted by his ministers overnight, or discuss some difficult matters with his ministers.

What's worse is that they even have to consider the affairs of the previous dynasty when deciding which concubine to favor every day. They really have no choice.

When I came out of the imperial study, it was already late.

Su Tang rushed out of the palace in the sedan chair she came in. The sedan chair stopped after a while but had not yet left the palace.

"The Queen has summoned the Princess to Fengyi Palace for an audience." A eunuch outside the sedan chair said loudly.

Su Tang, who was sitting in the sedan chair, rolled her eyes. This Queen Xie was really pitiful. She hadn't gone to settle the score with her yet, but she took the initiative to come to her.

Forget it, let’s go and take a look.

Su Tang said to the eunuchs carrying the sedan chair outside, "Follow us."

The eunuchs carried Su Tang to Fengyi Palace. The nanny at the gate of Fengyi Palace asked Su Tang to wait outside the palace while she went inside to report.

However, Su Tang had to wait for a long time before the nanny came out again.

Su Tang had seen many such tormenting scenes in movies and TV dramas in her previous life. While she was waiting outside, she did not let the eunuchs and sedan chairs that accompanied them leave.

Seeing the nanny enter the house, she returned to the sedan chair to rest.

When the nanny came out, she didn't see Su Tang at first glance, and asked the eunuch guarding the door outside in surprise.

A young eunuch raised his hand and pointed at the sedan chair in the courtyard and whispered, "Mammy, the princess is in the sedan chair."

The maid was stunned. It was the first time she saw someone who was summoned sitting and waiting.

The Queen also wanted to set some rules for the Grand Princess, so she called someone over and asked her to wait outside for a while.

But unexpectedly...

"Your Highness, the Queen wants you to come in." The nanny walked to the sedan chair and said.

There was no sound coming from the sedan chair.

The maid came closer and raised her voice again, "Your Highness, the Queen wants you to come into the palace."

"Hmm, who's outside? It's so noisy." Su Tang seemed to have just woken up. She lifted the curtain of the sedan chair from the side and looked out with squinted eyes.

He met the incredulous eyes of the nanny and asked, "Who are you?"

"Princess, I'm Nanny Liu who serves the Queen. The Queen is in the palace. You should come out quickly and don't keep her waiting for too long." The Nanny swallowed her saliva and then spoke a complete sentence to Su Tang.

Today, she finally opened her eyes.

It turned out that the princess fell asleep in the sedan chair.

"Queen, Queen... Oh, the Queen is looking for me, right?" Su Tang quickly came out of the sedan chair as if she had just remembered what happened before.

Su Tang stood outside the sedan and patted the wrinkles on her clothes.

Then he didn't even look at the maid, and walked quickly towards the hall in front.

"Hey! Princess, please wait a moment." The nanny shouted behind her.

But for some reason, Su Tang's movements were extremely fast, and in a short while she had already walked a very long way.

The maid quickly followed.

Su Tang entered the main hall of Fengyi Palace, where several women were sitting and chatting together.

Several women in gorgeous palace costumes sat around a woman in a yellow phoenix robe.

The woman in the phoenix robe was Queen Xie, whom Su Tang had met once.

Su Tang smiled and bowed slightly to the women in the room, "Su Tang greets the ladies."

After saying that, she stood up automatically, walked to the side of the women, and asked curiously, "What are the ladies talking about? They seem to be having a good time."

Su Tang sat down on an empty chair with a smile on her face, looking at everyone.

But no one in the room answered her. They all looked at Su Tang as if she were a monster.

Queen Xie, who was in the lead, looked at Su Tang with an unchanging expression. If looks could kill, Queen Xie would have poked a hundred holes in Su Tang.

Empress Xie suppressed her anger, pursed her lips into a straight line, and looked at Su Tang with a gloomy face, "Didn't your nanny tell you the rules of the palace? Since you have been recognized by His Majesty, a princess must learn some etiquette."

"Oh, about that. Father, considering that I haven't lived in the palace for many years, has exempted me from learning these complicated etiquettes."

These were indeed what Emperor Jing said to Su Tang. When Emperor Jing saw Su Tang, who looked like Concubine Su, many past events of his time with Concubine Su immediately came to his mind.

Emperor Jingdi felt very guilty towards Su Tang because he did not raise a daughter who looked exactly like Concubine Su with him.

There are indeed many complicated rules in the palace. Emperor Jing was afraid that Su Tang would not be used to them for a while, so he exempted her from learning the palace etiquette.

"How is that possible? Once you enter the palace, even if you're a palace maid or eunuch, you have to learn all the rules of the palace." A concubine in pink palace dress said in surprise.

"My father said so. If you don't believe me, you can go ask him." Su Tang raised her eyebrows and glanced at the concubine, silently memorizing her appearance.

"Hehe, Princess, you're joking. I just never heard of any wealthy and noble lady who doesn't have to learn the palace rules." The concubine hurriedly explained.

"No other princess is like me, who was forced to leave her father and wander outside since childhood." Su Tang looked at Queen Xie with slightly raised eyebrows while speaking.

Empress Xie gripped the armrests of the chair tightly with her hands, and the joints on the back of her thin hands were exposed.

She was still maintaining the demeanor of a queen, but her expression was already looking too ugly to be suppressed.

After a long while, the Queen finally spoke, "Since His Majesty has exempted you from learning the palace rules, I have nothing else to do here, so you can leave the palace and go back."

Queen Xie called Su Tang over because she originally wanted to use palace rules to suppress Su Tang and find various ways to discipline Su Tang.

"Oh, then I'll go back first." Su Tang bowed slightly to everyone in the room, turned around and walked out of the main hall of Fengyi Palace.

Su Tang came out of Fengyi Palace and unexpectedly met the second prince who was entering the palace on the way.

"Second Emperor Brother."

"Well, did Tang'er go to the palace to see the Queen?" Wasn't the direction that Su Tang and the others came out from the direction of Fengyi Palace?

Su Tang responded, "Well, the queen said she wanted to see me, but when she saw me, she didn't say a word and asked me to leave."

The second prince approached Su Tang and asked quietly, "Did she embarrass you?"

"No, she must have been pissed off by me." Thinking about Queen Xie's expression just now, Su Tang couldn't help but smile.

"That's good. You must not eat anything from her palace." The Second Prince breathed a sigh of relief and gave another instruction.

"Well, is Second Brother going to the palace to see Father?"

“No, I usually don’t go to the Imperial Study unless my father summons me.

I'm going to the palace where I used to live to get something, Tang'er, why don't you come with me?"

"Okay." Su Tang agreed happily.

On the way, the second prince explained to Su Tang from time to time the approximate locations where the people in each palace lived.

After listening to it, Su Tang felt that the layout was similar to the Forbidden City in her previous life.

The map of this palace is probably only in the hands of the emperor, so if Su Tang wants to get familiar with the roads inside the palace, she can only rely on memorizing them as she passes by.

Fortunately, she met the second prince today, and he explained everything to Su Tang in detail.

Soon they arrived at the palace where the second prince lived when he was a child. It was not very big.

"Next door is the courtyard where the eldest prince lives." The second prince pointed to the east and said.

Su Tang looked to the east. The wall here was quite high, so she couldn't see what was going on over there at all.

The second prince took Su Tang to the room where he lived and took out a small box from the secret compartment under the wardrobe.

He held the small box and walked carefully to the table and opened it.

The box contained all of the Second Prince's childhood things, including some exquisitely carved small jade objects and a purse.

The second prince took out the purse and handed it to Su Tang.

"This belongs to mother. When she was pregnant with you, she gave it to me and asked me to give it to you after you reach the age of 15."

"What is it?" Su Tang took the purse. The purse in her hand was not heavy. Su Tang squeezed it and felt a hard object inside.

"A jade pendant carved with two fishes." said the second prince.

Su Tang opened her purse and found only a piece of white jade inside.

A pair of carps with their heads and tails intertwined are carved on the white jade. The two fish are carved in yin and yang, and the position of the fish's eyes is carved in the opposite way to the fish's body.

Su Tang inexplicably felt that the Pisces in front of her looked like the Taoist Tai Chi symbol.

She felt the pattern on the jade pendant and looked up to ask the second prince, "Did mother say anything when she gave you the jade pendant?"

"She instructed me to give it to you after you came of age. I was wondering at the time why mother didn't keep it for herself and give it to you personally." The second prince shook his head.

"Oh, this can't be a jade pendant passed down from our ancestors." Su Tang joked with a smile.

"I asked someone to look at it, and it is indeed an ancient jade."

Su Tang raised her eyebrows. Could this be a jade pendant that could command some secret organization?

Concubine Su's father, Su Tang's grandfather, seemed to be a tutor.

How could a family of civil officials like this be involved with any mysterious organization?

Su Tang put the jade pendant back into her purse and put the purse back into the space.

However, in the eyes of the Second Prince, Su Tang simply put the purse into her sleeve pocket.

The second prince closed the wooden box and hid it back in the secret compartment of the wardrobe.

Su Tang guessed that the reason why these things of the Second Prince were still kept in the palace and not thrown away was probably because they were little toys he played with when he was a child, and the nobles in the palace didn't even look at them.

After all, it's not of much value.

After leaving the palace with the second prince, Su Tang went straight back to the princess's mansion.

She looked at Professor Tian again. At this time, Professor Tian was directing the guards and eunuchs of the princess's mansion to help him tidy up the courtyard where he lived. There were many large pieces of furniture piled outside the courtyard.

"What do you want to change this place to?"

Professor Tian was in the west wing room, which had been emptied out, leaving only four walls.

"Let's set up a pharmacy. I'll make some medicine on weekdays." Professor Tian came out of the house. "I guess you'll need medicine a lot in the future."

"Yes, indeed. What herbs do you want? I'll buy them for you."

"Here, take a look and buy whatever you can. If there's nothing left, I'll go back first." Professor Tian handed Su Tang a piece of paper, which he had written last night.

"Okay, but don't rush back. I want to go back with you."

"That's fine, but some medicines can't be made."

"It's okay." Su Tang shook her head.

Su Tang also found craftsmen to renovate the west building according to Professor Tian's ideas.

In the end, the two rooms were finally transformed to look like a pharmacy.

That night, Su Tang saw Qi Lingheng sneaking into the princess's mansion in the middle of the night.

"If you are brave enough, you can get in here."

The number of guards in the Princess's Mansion is several times more than that in the Plum Courtyard, and the outer courtyard is mostly guarded by palace guards sent by Emperor Jing.

"I can't help it. Some people don't want me, so I have to come here in person."

"Oh, it seems like our relationship is very similar."

"Is not it?"

"Not that close yet." Not so close that a day without seeing each other would feel like a long time.

Su Tang didn't say the second half of the sentence, fearing that someone would get angry on the spot.

"It seems that your husband still needs to work harder." Qi Lingheng looked at Su Tang with a burning gaze, "If you are not satisfied with the betrothal gift list that your grandmother gave you, you can tell me and I will revise it."

"That's good. It's such a long list, and all the items on it are Qi family's property. Could it be that Qi family has written most of their assets on it?" Su Tang said jokingly.

"When you marry me, the entire Qi family will be yours." Qi Lingheng said seriously.

"Oh, I don't want to be troubled. Are you going to let me be the housekeeper? I'm not the kind of good wife who only sits at home and takes care of the husband and children."

"No, I just said that all the property of the Qi family is yours. There are housekeepers to do the work, so you don't have to worry about it." Qi Lingheng said it sincerely.

"By the way, I'm going on a long trip in a few days. Northern Xinjiang has finally agreed to redeem Nalan Jinlu, so I'm going to Northern Xinjiang."

The snow on the snow-capped mountains in northern Xinjiang has melted for a long time, and Su Tang almost forgot about this person.

I didn't expect that they would agree to Dayong's conditions in exchange for Nalan Jinlu. It seems that Nalan Jinlu is really not very popular in Northern Xinjiang.

"Well, then you should be careful. Those people go back on their words and are not trustworthy people."

"Yes, and there is also the iron ore over there. I plan to find someone to mine it. I have reported this to Emperor Jing before, and Emperor Jing also agreed to mine the iron ore over there at that time."

After all, it was a mine on the border, and the officials of Dayong thought it would be better to mine it as soon as possible to avoid any accidents in the future.