The Apothecary Diaries 4 (Hero Bunko) [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] Neko Neko learns that her friend Syaoran is looking for a job after leaving the palace. Neko Neko and Zisui go to a large bathhouse in the inner palace to try to find a job for Syaoran. Then, Nekoneko hears that the timid Princess Liju has seen a ghost, and sets out to solve the problem. Meanwhile, at the Jade Palace, Queen Jadeha's baby is found to be breech. In the Jade Palace, Queen Jadeha discovers that her baby is a breech baby, and she proposes that her adoptive father, Luo Men, be admitted to the palace, but a new problem arises. Nekoneko realizes that there is a law about the incidents that have occurred in the palace, and when she tries to investigate it, she is abducted. The lees that have been blackened and muddied in the court for many years solidify and cause a national uproar.

猫猫は友人の小蘭が後宮を出たあとの就職先を探していることを知る。猫猫と子翠はそんな小蘭のために伝手を作ろうと後宮内の大浴場に向かう。その折、気弱な里樹妃が幽霊を見たという話を聞いた猫猫は、それを解決すべく動き出す。一方、翡翠宮では玉葉妃の腹の子が逆子だとわかる。ろくな医官もいない後宮でこのまま逆子を産むことは命に関わると、猫猫は自分の養父である羅門を後宮に入れるよう提案するが、新たな問題が浮上する。後宮内で今まで起きた事件、それらに法則があることに気が付いた猫猫はそれを調べようとして―拉致される。宮廷で長年黒く濁っていた澱、それは凝り固まり国を騒がす事態を起こす。