Kusuriya no Hitorigoto

XIV. Apricot Prequel

There's noise all around me on purpose.

Walk towards the entrance to the palace, wondering what it is.

Ladies had already gathered on the doorstep of the luxurious creation. Forget to wipe the columns dry too, some of the younger ladies are standing there with rags on them.

"What can I do for you now?

I frowned and one of the ladies said. At the end of his gaze there was just one doctor in the rear palace.

Unusual.

That doctor doesn't come out of the medical department as hard as he can. Hasn't it been nearly another year since you appeared in this palace?

An incompetent doctor said there was no way he could come here after the death of a young East Palace, awkwardly. I keep staying in this woman's garden without blame for not having a replacement.

I wonder what it's for now.

The doctor has a bath wrap on his back and a woman behind him.

She is a skinny woman officer, slender and followed by a doctor in a thorough move. On her tightly closed lips, she wore bright red and her cheeks were also pounding powder on peaches.

Was there such an officer?

That's what I thought. I thought it would be normal to be a medical officer of a magistrate as well, but isn't that so?

No, there are 2,000 female officers in the backhouse. It would be strange to think that you had one or two faces you didn't know about.

Everyone decided they had no choice but to do so in a whisper.

"What can I do for you?

I notice my voice and the movement of the ladies who were chatting stops. Don't miss the pussies rushing back to their original place of business. Whatever the whole backyard is, those who serve this palace know it.

That's what I do, apricot.

And when the pear blossom (Rifa) was decided with the queen, she entered the house, and came to earn the blessing of the emperor.

"I'd like to see Lady Xian."

To the words of the doctor, the apricot narrows its eyes. I didn't want to hear the words' Lady Xian 'or anything like that from this man's mouth.

"I'm sorry. Pear blossoms don't think I want to see you."

Speaking a gentle but clear word of rejection, the physician with the poor mustache lowers his brow. It's a pitiful beard, like a eunuch who doesn't already have the function of a man. It is the difference between an emperor with a fine beard and a cloud mud.

The eunuch looks in trouble and looks back. A woman with a face like Nobu gently slaps her in the ear.

He took something out of his nostrils.

"This is how I get my letters."

Spread the letter written on parchment. It was written there in streamlined letters so that I could keep this doctor inside. The last name mentioned was "Mr. Nong".

That beautiful magistrate is the first person I can think of in this rear palace.

If you are a woman, you are the beauty owner, but you are not a woman. And I'm not even a man.

Apricot is definitely a person who leaks sighs unexpectedly, but unlike other female officers, there is no further emotion.

Apricots don't have time to be distracted by what they came for in the rear palace, given that.

It's important to get the Emperor's favor for the sake of the clan. That's what apricots and pear blossoms have been told since they were younger.

The mother of apricots is the sister of the father of pear blossoms. Being the same age as pear blossoms, I am thus in a position to bind the Crystal Palace that I entered and now live in.

All the ladies of the Crystal Palace are the daughters of a famous house, of a lineage worthy of serving the Emperor.

"... ok"

Apricots didn't fall in their hearts, but I had no choice but to take them to the back. I could have left it to the other ladies, but if the doctors were to come here with the lives of those who control the rear palace, the story would be different.

What does it mean?

If a doctor were to come to the queen's house, it would be about the time the queen was ill.

It's not like that.

There's no way I can't fail to notice the apricots beside the pear blossoms all the time. She was feeling well today and was eating morning meals as well.

I wondered what it meant, and as I put my neck around it, I couldn't hear the footsteps following me from behind. When the apricot turns back, the doctor and his companion are stopped.

Looking at the cabin at the end of the garden. The Pear Flower Room is far away, on the top floor of the deepest part of the palace. It's one of the storage cabins on the way.

"What is it?

"No, I thought that was some kind of cabin"

"Nothing. It's a regular storage shed."

Apricots wonder why I'm asking you this if you want to take me there fast.

The Crystal Palace is heavily remodeled as a place for the East Palace to grow. It's not strange if there was a hot water hall or a storeroom. Besides, last year a strange little girl came and made something weird into a hot tub. A steam bath (sauna), but I don't really like apricots, to the extent that pear blossoms occasionally use them.

She says it's just a storeroom, but the other woman is staring at something. What is interesting? There's just a plant with yellow flowers by the window, which shouldn't be a particularly unusual place either.

It's just a storeroom, you should just go.

The woman is talking about something again when she pinches the sleeve of the eunuch.

And he lowered his eyebrows, and said unto the apricot.

"Have you messed with this garden lately?

"No, I'm just asking the gardener to come all the time"

"Really?"

That, and the apricot thought. Speaking of which, I was wondering if there would have been such garden trees.

Did the gardener plant it at some point?

……

When the policeman shuts up, the policeman turns to the policeman.

The eunuch inflated her cheeks plainly, but the look on the woman's face remained the same, turning to the apricot.

Black eyes stare at the apricots. The apricot was nothing but a gentle attempt to look away.

"Today, you're wearing incense"

I heard a familiar voice somewhere.

The voice can be heard from the mouth of a sweeping woman.

Then the woman widened her lips. It was a rather evil way of laughing when it came to laughing, as if the beast had found its prey.

……

"It's been a while. Apricot, I apologize for the other day."

A well-coated white powder, a well-separated line of eyes (line), and then a face with long lashes approaches.

Though eye-catching on the flashy decorations, their contours were round and young shaped.

I looked familiar to the white eye I stared at.

The whole body of the apricot freezes. Experience with apricots shows that it is generally not even the case when it comes to this guy.

Last year, this girl came to the Crystal Palace. He became tight with pear blossoms and was in medical care, but he has repeatedly made no clapping along the way.

Because of this, half of the women officers in this palace can't stand up to this girl.

Apricots don't do that. I was the other half, but this girl who came the other day suddenly almost stripped me of my clothes.

That's why I'm a person I don't really want to deal with.

My daughter is staring at the apricot. Apricots slipped backwards unexpectedly.

That was the time.

Suddenly the eunuch jumped out into the garden. At the end of the run, which manages to move the little fat body, is that storage shed.

Apricots tried to go after it, but there's a little girl in front of me who doesn't like it. Still, I went after him, but it was already too late.

He holds the door and stands with a flashing face.

There is a unique smell at the end of the open door. The unique smell that pear blossoms used to emit, the smell of a sick man trying to make his way to eternity.

My daughter rubs her buttocks when the apricot peels off, but she doesn't have a particularly rushed face. Just put a wrinkle between your eyebrows and grab the bath that the eunuch had.

"Little Father! Hot water! Bring the water to a boil"

Now when I say it without ear punching, I go into a cabin of more stomping air.

There was a coarse bunk just overlaid, and a sick man lying there. She's a servant of the laundry lady.

"I get it. Lady."

Running again as the coroner rocks the flesh of his jaw.

My daughter looks at the apricot as she gives her youngest a drink of something that looks like water.

"Why are you treating me like this?

"There's nothing wrong with that. It would be common sense to isolate the disease so that it does not occur."

My daughter doesn't say anything back. I have something to say, but it won't be anything.

"I guess. But"

My daughter puts a hand tug on the mouth of her weird cough. The red pattern appeared when I put it on.

"This is a nasty disease. Although less infectious, it would lead to death if such a procedure continued. Of course, it would be a minor problem where one of my youngest daughters died."

My daughter puts down her sick youngest daughter and tries to get further into the back of the cabin.

Apricot does not think, grabbing her daughter's shoulder and trying to stop her, but the daughter then slips out and goes into the back.

Stop it, behind it.

I tried to stop my daughter while I caught my luggage (kouri) on my leg, but it was too late.

My daughter has something in her hand. There, there was a little box.

"When I entered this room, I remembered that time. When Lady Pear Flower was sick."

"What's wrong with that?

"The smell of the sick was so fragrant as to mislead the unique smell."

That's what happened. Give it back quickly, and the apricot reaches out.

"When I came in here, I felt the same way. Now I disagree."

My daughter opens the box. There were colorful vials lined up there.

"He said it was like a sick man was being placed, to mislead the smell of incense"

And he opens the lid of the vial, and his daughter cracks her nose open.

"The Crystal Palace samurai really has a lot to hide. Also, a pathetic eunuch gets whipped."

My daughter opened a bottle of fragrance oil. Recently, it is a trade item obtained from the merchant squad. Most of them were recovered by the magistrates.

"Every little poison, I don't know what will happen if it mixes"

Her daughter narrowed her eyes and laughed as she sang a ravishing song.