The autumn day is cool, and with Master's generous gift, Yuan Zhao seems to be very peaceful in recent days. After morning classes, he goes back to his hospital in the afternoon to read medical books and medicinal books. When he encounters something he doesn't understand, he writes it down and waits for Master to come back.

ask.

So far, she has only been able to talk about medicine and pharmacology on paper.

It doesn't matter, the master has long said that these books are for her to pass the time. A few days ago, the Taoist priest left a message saying that he went into the mountains to collect herbs, and when he came back, he asked her to identify which ones were medicinal herbs and which ones were poisonous weeds.

Therefore, she reads very carefully these days.

I don’t dare to be lazy when it comes to the internal skills taught by my master. I practice them at a fixed time every day, which makes me even busier. Especially at night, after practicing weapons and practicing internal skills, I have to go to the library to copy books and practice calligraphy. After practicing calligraphy, I can go to bathe and change clothes.

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After changing clothes, I returned to the dormitory, crossed the couch, bypassed the screen, and came directly to a small pavilion by the window.

The elegant pavilion is quiet and the candlelight is flickering.

Leaning on the railing and looking far away, you can only see a lush forest and the obstruction of the high platform and corridor in the front yard, but you can't see the wall beside the house.

This mansion is not big. If you cut down the landscape trees in each courtyard, you can see the edges at a glance.

She picked a leaf-shaped wooden board hanging on the wall with a bamboo forest pattern carved on it, placed it on a low table near the window, and then spread it out leaf by leaf. Soon, a simple wooden eight-door biochemistry diagram was completely completed.

Place it in front of her.

This is her last homework today. She doesn't need to finish it. She will go to sleep when she feels sleepy.

Because there are Bagua directions in the picture and the interweaving of the heavenly and earthly phenomena recorded in the Nine Palaces, there are countless changes, so I have not finished explaining them all.

I usually hang it on the wall so that no one will notice it.

Auntie said that it is just an ordinary eight-door drawing board. It is useless for ordinary people because they can't understand it. Experts have arrogance and make their own more complicated and interesting ones, so they don't have to steal children's toys.

Yuan Zhao can play because she can read quickly, and her mother-in-law taught her the formulas since she was a child.

It's entry-level, not profound at all, but Third Brother can't understand it.

The third brother said that apart from the eldest brother, she was the most skilled at playing with this toy. The second brother had lasted longer than the other brothers, and now he has put it away.

Yes, grandma treats everyone equally. All her brothers and sisters in the family have played with her toys.

In the past, Yuan Zhao could only move the cubes according to her grandmother's method. As she grew older, she read more books and often read her father's military books. Inspired, she had her own ideas and was able to deduce different patterns.

This game has endless variations, which kept her interested and continues to play it to this day.

As for the wooden ball and Liubo chess that she used to play when she was a child, they have been eliminated for many years and she stopped playing them for a long time.

Unknowingly, the night became quieter. The occasional breeze blew in the courtyard, and the chirping of insects mingled with each other. It seemed to be vaguely accompanied by the sound of rolling wheels... Huh? Yuan Zhao looked up in surprise. Where did this come from in the middle of the night?

The sound of wheels?

Thinking that he was hearing something, Yuan Zhao closed his eyes and listened. The tips of his small ears moved. Huh? After listening for a while, it turned out to be movement coming from outside.

"Someone is coming!"

A call from inside the room jolted the two maids who were napping outside the dormitory door to wake up and quickly opened the door and entered.

"What happened outside?" Yuan Zhao asked the two of them.

The two maids were stunned and looked at each other involuntarily. Their heads were lowered and they did not dare to say a word. Steward Ji had ordered that no one should talk about what happened outside in front of the princess.

"To tell the truth, if Uncle Ji punishes you, I can protect you; if you lie, I will punish you, but Uncle Ji cannot protect you." Yuan Zhao stared at the deduction diagram and thought about it, and wrote lightly.

When the two maids heard this, they immediately poured the beans into bamboo tubes and shook them all out——

"Back to the princess, the plague was introduced from Yanshu a few days ago, and I heard that many people died in the border guards. Although the government posted announcements all over the people so that the people should not panic, yesterday someone saw Governor Wu secretly leaving with his family through the East Gate...

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He Chun and Jin Niang, who were hiding in the dark, couldn't help but roll their eyes towards the sky at the same time.

Alas, these two are useless, they all resorted to them once they were scared...

It turns out that Governor Wu's prestige has always been higher than that of the Marquis, and his family's stewards are always cheered and cheered when they go out. Unlike the Marquis and the Third Young Master, who only take one or two people with them when they go out. The little princess is even more outrageous, often running alone.

Go out and run wild.

The departure of Governor Wu means that the border epidemic may be serious and may spread to Nanzhou or even Yansai at any time.

For a time, the people's morale was in chaos, and even the soldiers guarding the city were in fear all day long, and discipline was extremely loose. No, many people took advantage of the evening market to take their families and luggage and fled overnight with the merchants from other places, hoping to take refuge in Yansai.

I heard that Yansai City plans to close the city gate. If we don’t go there, it will be too late.

Oh, I see. Yuan Zhao understood. He dismissed the maid and continued to study his deduction diagram. As for the plague, she was not worried. If the situation was critical, Uncle Ji would have moved her out of the city.

The reason for staying means that the situation is still under control.

If Governor Wu really escapes, it will be a serious crime and his head will be beheaded. Oh, yes, I forgot that he is related to the royal family, so he should not die.

The Beiyue family is different. Once the border epidemic gets out of control, she can leave, but her father and brother have to stay and live and die with the people.

Thinking of this, she raised her eyes and stared at the floor in front of her, her eyes thoughtful.

If her guess was correct, Master was invited by her father to the military camp to deal with the epidemic, right? What about picking herbs? It was just to stabilize her.

It doesn't matter, she is not an ignorant child.

The elders had business to do, so she didn't want to cause any trouble to them and just went to class in the house... Just as she was thinking, there was a sudden pinging sound from the roof, and the two maids who had just returned outside the door rushed in in a panic.

Come in:

"Princess, it's bad, there are assassins outside!"

"I heard it." Yuan Zhao stood up calmly, stepped into the dormitory, and took his sword from the black orchid (the built-in weapon rack), "Stay here and don't run around."

The two maids leaned against each other and promised with trembling voices.

Just in time for He Chun who came in to hear it, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to stop her, and said with a speechless expression:

"Princess, you are the master..."

How could the master go out to fend off the assassin and the maid hide in the inner room?! Where did Steward Ji find these slaves? They are not big or small, and they don't understand the rules.

Yuan Zhao: "..."

She understands the truth, but is too lazy to explain it.

What's more, these maids don't have any skills at all. If they go out, they will kill someone and block the way. They just go out and see what's going on.

Under He Chun's cold gaze, the two maids timidly walked to the door, not daring to open the door and go out. Yuan Zhao sighed and asked them to find a place to hide near the door, and then asked He Chun about what was going on outside.

information.

"Female assassin?" After hearing He Chun's description, Yuan Zhao frowned, "Could it be the one who was kneeling at the door a few days ago?"

"I'm not sure at the moment." He Chun said, went to the window and took a few peeks. He was relieved when he found that there was no movement on the roof. "Okay, he was beaten out."

Despite this, we cannot take it lightly, for fear that there will be more than one person coming, He Chun has to stay here for personal protection. The other party is very skillful, not only bypassing the numerous guards in the mansion, but also reaching directly to the bedroom where the little princess is.

Either it was an accidental collision, or there was an internal response and we had to guard against it.

Soon, Jinniang came back and stayed on duty with He Chunlun. The two maids were taken away for interrogation, and they were silent all night.
Chapter completed!