Chapter 121

The Empress Dowager's headache was cured, and she was in a great mood. She asked Lin Jiaojiao: "Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Lin Jiaojiao never thought that curing the Empress Dowager's headache could get a reward!

Could it be that she didn't have to pretend to be sick and could use this reward to exchange for a chance to leave the palace!

"Empress Dowager," Lin Jiaojiao knelt on the ground directly, offering the jade pendant given by the Emperor with both hands: "This subject does not need a reward, I only want to beg the Empress Dowager to let this subject resign from the position of Imperial Physician and leave the palace to practice medicine!"

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager sat up straight on the couch. She looked at the jade pendant, her brows slightly furrowed, "I heard about what happened last night. You don't want to be taken into the harem by the Emperor. Is it because you don't want to stay in the palace because of this?"

"Your medical skills are so brilliant. I will directly appoint you as my Imperial Physician. If the Emperor comes to ask for you again, I will block him for you."

Lin Jiaojiao still held the jade pendant, kneeling on the ground steadily, asking the Empress Dowager to let her go.

The Empress Dowager sighed softly, "You are the adopted daughter of my close friend Ru Niang. If you are willing to stay by my side, I can guarantee you a lifetime of glory and wealth. You should go back and consider it again, and give me an answer in three days."

After saying this, she lay back on the couch, "I still need to rest. Imperial Physician Lin, please go back. Maidong, you send Miss Lin back."

"Yes, Empress Dowager." After Maidong received the order, she said to Lin Jiaojiao, "Imperial Physician Lin, please."

Lin Jiaojiao shook her head slightly. She could only take back the jade pendant, bid farewell to the Empress Dowager, and follow Maidong away from Shoukang Palace.

She originally thought the Empress Dowager could help her, but she didn't expect that curing the Empress Dowager's headache would add an obstacle to herself!

In the end, the only way left was to pretend to be sick!

When she returned to Qingju Pavilion, Qingdai was already waiting for her in the room, and Fu'er was also standing beside Qingdai, looking grateful.

"You finally came back. I have heated this lunch no less than three times!" Qingdai said, pulling Lin Jiaojiao to the table. She saw that it was full of dishes she loved to eat, such as pork knuckles, golden steamed buns, sea cucumber and shark fin soup, etc.

Although Lin Jiaojiao was empty in her stomach, she didn't have much appetite. Thinking of the Empress Dowager's words just now, she sighed helplessly, "You guys eat first, I don't have much appetite."

But how could Qingdai let her go hungry?

Qingdai first filled a bowl of sea cucumber and shark fin soup and brought it to her, coaxing her, "Imperial Physician Lin, I heard from Xiaofangzi in front of the Imperial presence about what happened in the court today. This case involves major issues. I don't know what things need to be dealt with in the future. If you don't eat and starve yourself, won't you have no strength to fight them to the end?"

"Okay," Lin Jiaojiao could only respond, took the soup Qingdai served, and sent it to her mouth. After drinking two sips, she tasted it: something else was added to it!

"Why does this soup taste a bit strange?" Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but be a bit puzzled. She looked at Duan'er standing beside her with the corner of her eye, only to see her hurriedly turn away her gaze that had been looking at her.

Even if Lin Jiaojiao was dull, she realized that the soup was wrong!

"Is this soup wrong?" Qingdai was a bit strange. She served a bowl for herself and smelled it, but didn't smell any strange taste, "I don't smell it spoiled? The things in the Imperial Kitchen can't be tampered with every day, right?"

But Lin Jiaojiao didn't think so!

At this time, she felt a wave of dizziness, and a wave of unbearable cramping pain came from her stomach. In a hurry, she reached out and poked her throat!

"Vomit!" With a violent sound of nausea, she vomited the soup she had just drunk!

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing this, Qingdai hurriedly stepped forward to help pat her back, but Fu'er moved faster. She took advantage of Qingdai's back being turned to her and quickly picked up a vase next to her and smashed it on Qingdai's head!

With a "bang," the vase smashed Qingdai's back of the head. She cried out in pain, and before she could react, she fell to the ground unconscious!

At this time, the guards guarding outside the door had already heard the movement in the room. The guards looked at each other, but soon heard what Fu'er said loudly to the outside: "Imperial Physician Lin! Be careful not to get hurt! Sister Qingdai, you really are, how could you be so careless to break the vase? Did you cut your hand?"

The guards looked at each other again, only thinking that this was caused by Qingdai serving Lin Jiaojiao improperly and breaking the vase, so they didn't plan to enter the room to check the situation.

But seeing Qingdai fainted on the ground, Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but tighten her heart!

She wanted to open her mouth to call the guards guarding the door of Qingju Pavilion, but there was another violent contraction in her stomach. She turned over and vomited again, actually vomiting a mouthful of blood!

"You... you poisoned it..." Lin Jiaojiao stared at Fu'er, and the story of the farmer and the snake suddenly appeared in her mind!

It was just that now she felt as if half of her body was about to be emptied by the bleeding in her stomach, and she couldn't use her strength. Even when she spoke, her voice was hoarse. Every word she said, blood would overflow from her mouth!

"This medicine is called Gut-Piercing Poison," Fu'er stood on the spot, changing from the cautious look she had when she saw Xi Pin in the morning. Her eyes were full of revenge pleasure, "Rather than waiting for you to take me to test medicine, I might as well remove you first..."

"She promised me that only if I died could my family have a way to live. Imperial Physician Lin, don't blame me for being ruthless... If you want to blame, blame yourself. It was you who insisted on saving my life..."

Fu'er said, grabbing Lin Jiaojiao's hair, pressing her head, and picking up the soup to pour into her mouth!

Lin Jiaojiao only hated that she didn't have Xi Pin's combat power and couldn't directly turn around and knock Fu'er down!

But she still had a trace of clarity in her mind. Enduring the violent pain of her stomach churning, she desperately pursed her lips and shook her head, reaching out and struggling to push Fu'er away, not letting the soup enter her mouth again!

"This way of death is ultimately too cheap for you!" Fu'er looked ferocious, only using all her strength to pour the sea cucumber and shark fin soup into her mouth, not noticing that her hand was groping on the table...

Lin Jiaojiao only felt a pair of silver chopsticks in her struggling hands. Without thinking, she gathered her strength and inserted the silver chopsticks into Fu'er's eye!

"Ah!" Fu'er cried out in pain, letting go of Lin Jiaojiao, covering her right eye with the silver chopsticks inserted, and kneeling on the ground wailing!

This wail finally attracted the attention of the guards guarding outside the door of Qingju Pavilion!