The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 195 Queen
"Your Majesty!"

When Jia Rong arrived outside the Queen's palace, he saw that the gate was locked and looked thoughtful.

The eunuch guarding the door quickly said, "Your Highness, the Queen has been feeling unwell these days and cannot see guests."

Jia Rong looked at the eunuch.

The eunuch's expression froze. After two or three seconds, he lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. This is the order of the Emperor. The Emperor..."

Jia Rong could have kicked the door open or jumped over the four-meter-high wall.

But he was a man of rules, and at this moment he said seriously: "Feeling unwell? Using this excuse in front of me, are you looking down on me? Open the door! Otherwise, I will make you suffer castration again!"

The eunuch was frightened and responded tremblingly: "Yes!"

The eunuch guarding the door quickly opened it.

Jia Rong quickly brought Xiaohong and Xiaolu in.

Although the emperor did not allow anyone else to enter here, Jia Rong entered anyway.

From head to toe, Jia Rong is a heretic with extremely wild ways.

"You two wait at the door. There is a lot of resentment in the palace. Your weak yang energy is not suitable for you to go in."

Jia Rong said something to the two maids and raised his hand again.

Xiaohong and Xiaolu were both capable people. They quickly handed the remaining two boxes of medicine and a shoe box-sized box to Jia Rong.

Soon Jia Rong went in with the things.

As soon as I reached the door of the house, it opened.

When Jia Rong saw that it was the veiled queen who opened the door for him, he went straight in.

"Go in and talk."

The queen quickly closed the door. She was wearing a plain and monotonous green Taoist robe, and her hair was simply tied up and fixed with only a shabby wooden hairpin.

Seeing Jia Rong coming with things and sitting directly on the bed in the room, the Queen wiped her tears and walked over.

"Uncle..."

Jia Rong was delighted to see the queen in such a miserable state, and said with a smile: "Today is the day of the full moon and family reunion. I sent the emperor some medicine to treat his skin, and asked my family to make moon cakes and send them to him."

"I also sent you two boxes of medicine and a box of mooncakes. Come and try them."

The Queen came over wiping her tears and said, "Thank you, uncle. Since we last met, the emperor has locked me up here and I can't go out. Even the medicine that uncle gave me was taken away."

Jia Rong was a man who was happy to listen to other people's sufferings, so he hurriedly said, "Sit down and tell me if you have any grievances."

The Queen came and sat down.

Jia Rong sat on the bed, reached out to pick up the teapot on the middle table and poured water, then made himself a cup.

There was only a cup of water on the table. Jia Rong picked up the cup and took a sip, and found that it was cold.

"Come, eat something and drink some water." Jia Rong put down the water cup and opened the mooncake box.

Inside is a row of golden and crispy mooncakes, twelve in total, each quite large and enough to last a month.

The queen sat down and continued to wipe her tears. "Now only the uncle remembers me. My family and the emperor don't care about me anymore. Every day here feels like a year. Even the eunuchs and palace maids bully me. When they see that I have no money, they only bring me cold water."

Jia Rong said quickly: "How can this be possible? Tell me quickly!"

The queen looked up at Jia Rong and nodded with tears in her eyes.

Jia Rong said, "Take off your clothes first. I will help you apply the medicine. You don't even have a maid here. Let me help you and see how well you are recovering."

The queen was a little shy again, but she still nodded her head and agreed. "Uncle, I am very grateful for your kindness, but I am afraid that my ugly body will offend your eyes."

Jia Rong didn't care. "It doesn't matter. It will be fine once it heals. Besides, it's been several months. You're not even twenty years old yet. It's a good time to recover. Take off your clothes quickly."

"Yes..." The queen quickly took Jia Rong to the inner room and took off all her clothes in front of Jia Rong.

Jia Rong looked at her from head to toe and said with a smile, "It's much better now. I estimate that there will be no trace left in one or two months, and it will be almost recovered by next year. You can't let your fair and tender body suffer. Kneel down on the bed and I will apply medicine to the smallpox pits on your back and buttocks. You should also walk around in the yard more during the day, so that you can recover faster."

The queen quickly knelt on the bed obediently.

While applying medicine to her, Jia Rong listened to her recent tragic story.

She knelt on the bedding with her back to Jia Rong, and could not see Jia Rong's smiling face as he listened to the story.

After waiting for an hour, Jia Rong let the wound scab over and the ointment dry up, and then the Queen put on her clothes.

Jia Rong looked at the queen's rosy face.

"You are just like the emperor. Your body hair, soles, heels, and backs of your feet, as well as all over your body, have accumulated a lot of toxins due to smallpox."

"Fortunately, I was here to help during that period, and we responded in time and got through the critical period. Now, in addition to applying ointments to relieve itching and remove pus, the more important thing is to improve the vitality in your own bodies and grow new skin to replace the old skin."

"This requires food supplements. The emperor has recovered quickly recently because he eats well. You are in this cold place with no one to take care of you. Don't even think about getting well. If I don't take care of you, you will get sick and die within a month."

The queen put on a veil that looked like a mask and looked at Jia Rong anxiously and nervously.

"Please, uncle, save me!"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will have someone secretly send you some suitable food and drink. Your former maids should still be here. I will ask them and have them transferred over to help you."

The Queen started to cry when she heard this. "Uncle, you don't know, the maidservant beside me followed me into the palace. Now my family is hoping that I will die quickly, at least I can still have dignity. If I continue to live, I will only bring trouble to my family."

Of course the queen knew that the emperor didn't like her.

Jia Rong was puzzled and thought: "Because you are ugly? This is not right. The emperor knows that he can cure it. Besides, I have been helping you all the time. How can he have so little confidence in you?"

The queen blushed and did not blame Jia Rong after being humiliated by him. She only felt that Jia Rong dared to tell the truth and did not lie.

"The emperor's uncle is kind-hearted and doesn't understand the intrigues in the palace. The emperor is actually afraid that seeing me will remind him of the emperor and the empress dowager."

Jia Rong was even more confused, "Is he so filial?"

The queen smiled and found Jia Rong very interesting.

"Of course not. I am the concubine chosen by the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Retired for Your Majesty. Your Majesty has done so many wrong things himself, and he is both afraid and respectful of the Emperor Retired. Especially since he knows that I know who he is, he naturally doesn't want to keep me."

Jia Rong was thinking about something and sat down on the bed to ponder over it.

"Then he will dislike me too? It just doesn't seem like it..."

The Queen came over and sat beside Jia Rong, leaning against him and saying, "Your Majesty must rely on your uncle now. Your uncle doesn't have to worry about these things. Just based on your uncle's medical skills, your Majesty won't think of alienating him."

As she spoke, the Queen placed one hand on Jia Rong's leg and sat leaning on his arm.

A single man and a single woman were in the same room, sitting on the same bed.

This is not a bed, it's inside the bed curtain in the bedroom.

Jia Rong quickly reached out and hugged the woman, "Don't worry, I'll come to see you more often in the future."

The queen finally breathed a sigh of relief, leaned directly on Jia Rong's arm, and said with a red face: "Uncle, when I feel better, can you come and see me again..."

"Okay." Jia Rong had no objection. He was not afraid.

(End of this chapter)