Chapter 37: A Thousand Waves
Listening to the hurried footsteps, Situ Ningbing knew that there would be nothing to do with this play today, and a grandmother dressed in lake blue palace satin walked quickly in front of Situ Ningbing, and whispered a few words beside the concubine with a nervous expression.
The concubine's face, which had been waiting for a good show, suddenly became stern, and her already somewhat cold eyes became even more fierce when she looked at the concubine.
"What's wrong, but what's wrong?" Concubine De looked at the concubine inexplicably.
The concubine, who had always been close to her, ignored her this time, and only asked the grandmother in a deep voice: "Can this matter be reported to Your Majesty?"
The grandmother shook her head and said carefully: "This matter is very important, and the slaves and maids don't know what to do, so they came to ask the mother first." ”
The concubine frowned and looked at the curious Concubine De and the somewhat uneasy Concubine Shu, and after a little silence, she suddenly got up and said to the second concubine: "Something happened in my palace, and I will come when I go to the two sisters here." As he spoke, he took the grandmother's hand and hurried away.
Situ Ningbing secretly looked at the first two concubines, Concubine De's acting skills were in place, even if no one paid attention, she maintained a surprised and puzzled look on her face, as if she really didn't know the inside story, in comparison, Concubine Shu's appearance was much more real, and she pretended to be calm on her face, but secretly gave her henchmen and palace maids around her a look. The palace maid was also clever, and after receiving the master's eyes, she quietly shrank up, and sneaked out of Anren Hall while no one was paying attention.
Situ Ningbing looked at the back of the palace maid trotting with interest, and silently snapped her fingers. One, two, three, four... When she reached the tenth green jade finger, the palace maid shrank back again, whispering in the ear of the concubine.
This time, Concubine Shu couldn't calm down anymore, although she didn't know what was going on, but after surviving in the palace for so many years, she instinctively told her that something was wrong, and it must have something to do with her, she couldn't sit still here!
"Someone from the East Palace came to spread the word that the Cui family doesn't seem to be doing well, and there is no main thing to do there at this time, so I have to go there in person, and it will be troublesome for my sister to take care of it here. Concubine Shu got up and explained apologetically.
Concubine De didn't mind her leaving halfway, and said with a very understanding smile: "Sister has something to do and is busy, I'll chat with Mrs. Situ and a few juniors here, and we'll continue the trial when you and Sister Guifei are done." ”
Concubine Shu was so creepy that she laughed, and her heart was even more panicked, and her steps were a little unsteady when she went down the steps.
Seeing that Concubine Shu was leaving, a young woman who was originally sitting next to her in a short jacket with silver-red butterflies couldn't sit still, so she hurriedly stood up and grabbed Concubine Shu's arm and said coquettishly: "Even if something happened to Cui's side, I can't sit here, so it's better for me to go back with my aunt to take a look." ”
Concubine Shu glared at her with some annoyance, secretly hating that she had been bent on promoting her mother's family and had brought such a fool into the East Palace! But now is not the time to regret it, resisting the urge to train people, Concubine Shu didn't say anything more and let the young woman walk out of the Anren Hall quickly.
As soon as she left, the entire Anren Hall suddenly quieted down, and in order to ease the atmosphere, Concubine De smiled with Mrs. Situ. "Miss Situ's wedding date is coming soon?" Concubine De's voice was full of concern, and there was a bit of suppressed joy in Situ Ningbing's ears.
"Back to the mother's words, I have already communicated with the Anguo Mansion to get the news that the wedding date is set for the day when the second dragon raises its head in February. "For the bad thing of being called into the palace early in the morning and having a small birth in the Cui family, Mrs. Situ is naturally not in a good mood, but Concubine De has always been a good person, no matter when the queen is alive, she has always been respectful, and Mrs. Situ has a good impression of her, and she doesn't stretch out her hand to hit the smiling person, although Mrs. Situ is unhappy, her tone is rare and submissive.
"Time flies. Concubine De said with emotion: "When I first saw Mrs., she was only four or five years old, and in the blink of an eye, she was about to marry a wife." If the queen is still there, I don't know how happy I am. ”
Mrs. Situ couldn't help but wet her eyes when she heard her mention her dead sister, and just as she was about to speak, Situ Ningbing had already rushed to say: "The courtiers have never seen the deceased queen, but they also know that the aunt is extremely loving and gentle. ”
Concubine De felt that she had something to say, and couldn't help but raise her eyes to look at her, but saw that Situ Ningbing's eyes that looked like the former queen were also looking at her. It's just that it's not as clear as the first queen, Situ Ningbing's eyes are as deep as a deep pool, you can't see through what she's thinking, but she can see your thoughts. Thinking of what she had done back then, Concubine De felt weak for a while, and she couldn't look away and didn't dare to look at her.
"Hmph!" Situ Ningbing sneered in her heart, it wasn't that she deliberately couldn't get along with Concubine De, it's just that she used her dead aunt to fool her mother in front of herself, and she couldn't help but deceive people too much!
"This kid! let you usually study hard with Mr. Meng, but you don't want to, and now you use idioms and throw people into the palace!" "Mrs. Situ is not really stupid, she is still very confident in her daughter's talent, after all, the only one who can make friends with the Meng family, who is known as the "world's first genius girl", is her own daughter. Although I don't know why she wants to save the face of Concubine De, it's not good to offend everyone, so she came out to play a round, "Let Niangniang laugh." ”
Situ Ning Bing stopped at the point, and he cooperated with a shy expression and hung his head again without saying a word.
Concubine De is Concubine De Although she was flustered in her heart, she didn't miss anything, and naturally went down the steps, "Where does Madame say, as the saying goes, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, as long as her daughter's family is familiar with "Women's Ring" and "Women's Rules", she will be used for life if she knows some needles and cheats. ”
Mrs. Situ didn't think so, but she didn't plan to talk to Concubine De, and she was going to echo the meaning, but there was a noise outside the hall.
"What's wrong?" Concubine De frowned and looked at the palace maid beside her, "You go and take a look." ”
"Yes" The palace maid squatted down and hurried away, and after a while, she trotted in all the way in and reported respectfully: "Back to Niangniang's words, I don't know why the concubine Niangniang ordered someone to guard the Anren Hall and no one was allowed to enter or leave, and the concubine Niangniang wanted to go out, and the palace people who guarded it did not let her quarrel. ”
"What?!" Concubine De stood up and walked out of the hall with a "pout", holding the palace maid's wrist. The ladies who were sitting here were not good at sitting anymore, so she hurriedly stood up and followed Concubine De to the outside of the hall.
"The dog slave won't let me get out of the way! You dare to stop the lady Niangniang!" Before I could see the figure, the sharp shouting and scolding came into everyone's ears, followed by a crackling and crisp slapping sound, as if someone had been beaten.
Turning a corner, I saw that the young woman in a silver-red butterfly and a short jacket was slapping a kneeling inner supervisor with a bow left and right.
"Stop!" Concubine De scolded, and the young woman who was fighting vigorously glanced over and withdrew her hand stupidly.
"Xiao Chenghui!" Concubine De looked at the inner eunuch who was beaten to the point that her cheeks were swollen and the corners of her mouth were bloody, and she immediately lowered her face and reprimanded: "You are also a young lady from an official eunuch's family, why do you know the rules so much?! What is the place in the palace? It is your turn to beat and scold the palace people! Even if you want to beat and scold, why do you need to do it yourself? You are the prince Chenghui, not a shrew in the market, your words and deeds represent the royal family, where are you doing this today, where is the face of the prince? Where is the face of the concubine?!"
Xiao's background is not high, but she is the niece of Concubine Shu, even if there is any rudeness in the palace on weekdays, no one in the palace concubine cares about Concubine Shu's face, as for the second concubine of Guide, one is high and arrogant and disdainful, and the other is a honey-bellied sword waiting to see the joke. Concubine De uncharacteristically reprimanded Xiao Shi today, firstly, because of the word "reason", and secondly, because she believed that she was in her hands, she was inevitably a little carried away.
Concubine Shu couldn't get out of Anren Palace, so she held back the fire in her belly, and after listening to Concubine De's words of scolding Huai, where could she still endure it!"It turns out that my sister still knows the rules, then I want to ask, the concubine imprisoned us here without authorization, but I don't know which family's rules are respected?!" Although the ban on people in the Anren Palace was an order from the concubine, Concubine Shu faintly felt that this matter had nothing to do with Concubine De!
"Sister, don't be angry yet. Concubine De smiled ill-willedly, "The concubine knows how to act in a measured manner, and she must have her own reasons for this order. Now there is no owner in the middle palace, although the concubine is young, she is the head of the four concubines, and I am the head of the horse. There are still imperial doctors on Cui's side on the left and right, and there is nothing big to do if she thinks about it, and she takes 10,000 steps back and says that life and death are fate, even if she is really not good, it will not help if her sister goes, right?"
"My sister can speak well, from the head of the harem to life and death, it's just a sentence, I can't get this Anren Palace!" Concubine Shu looked at her villainous face and couldn't wait to slap her, after all, she still had some sense, knowing that the more times like this, the less impulsive she was. "I know that I am not as noble as the concubine, but I am also the biological mother of the concubine prince of Zhengyipin, even if I obey the order of the concubine and cannot leave this Anren Palace, I can always say something?"
"This..."Concubine De glanced at the inner prison palace people kneeling at the entrance of the hall, and said lightly: "Does the concubine have any orders not to exchange news inside and outside the Anren Palace?"
The inner supervisor who looked like the leader of the beating immediately replied: "I haven't replied to my mother's words. ”
Concubine Shu's face finally looked better when she heard this, and she was about to call someone to call Fuyao in her palace, but she didn't want to run over from afar, wearing a light brown elastic flower dark pattern brocade jacket, combing a simple flat bun and a jasper hairpin obliquely, who is not Fuyao?
Fuyao hurriedly ran to the front of the hall, but wanted to enter the palace but was stopped by the palace people at the door, and looked at the concubine with an anxious face, "Niangniang!"
"Why are you here?, but what's going on in the palace?!" Her panicked appearance made Concubine Shu look shocked, and she wanted to follow her for many years and also went through a big storm, and today she is so helpless, it must be a big accident!
Fuyao also saw that something was wrong, could it be that her own master was actually locked up? She was flustered and couldn't care much about it, so she raised her voice and shouted: "Niangniang is not good! The dragon robe and puppet were found in the East Palace, and the Holy Dragon Yan was furious and ordered the Imperial Forest Army to surround the East Palace, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also imprisoned in Dali Temple!"
"You... What do you say?!" Concubine Shu only felt dizzy for a while, and her whole body was chilling, if it weren't for the palace maid beside her who quickly supported her, she would have collapsed to the ground by now.
"You... It's you..."Concubine Shu leaned half of her body on the palace maid, trembling and pointing at Concubine De, and the cuckoo cried out like blood: "You framed my son!"