Chapter 20: The Flame (1)
As soon as Aunt Zhao returned to the house, she waved her hand and asked the maids who were serving her, "Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, let's all go back to play when we get hot water, and you don't have to eat wine and wipe cards." ”
After that, I rewarded some silver buns.
The girls all rejoiced, and after a while not only hot water was brought in, but also a few small plates of snacks, and a pot of scalding fruit wine.
But she didn't have the heart to eat or drink.
clutched the round-waisted purse given to her by Aunt Lin in her hand.
Embroidered with sparse and elegant orchids and fine pleats, Aunt Lin pretended to help straighten her hairpin when she gave her purse, and gently spit out a word in her ear.
"Demolition!"
Aunt Lin's fingertips touched the tips of her ears when she brushed her hair bun, and the cold fingers made people tremble, and the delicate and gentle and charming voice on weekdays also became cold.
Her fingers holding the purse trembled a little, but she quickly opened it to look at it. Inside is a red gold shrimp bracelet, which can be seen to be solid when weighed. Because her brother worked as an errand in the imperial merchant, the Lin family has become very wealthy today, and it is understandable that she is generous.
There is only this shrimp bracelet, and there is nothing else in the purse.
Remembering that Lin specially told her to open her purse, did he tell her to open the needle and thread?
The fingertips holding the purse suddenly felt a little strange. In the layer of cloth between the purse and the lining, it is obviously the tactile feeling of paper!
Aunt Zhao quickly found a pair of small scissors, carefully unpacked the mezzanine of the purse, and took out a thumb-length note in the middle of the orchid leaf embroidery.
"The palace is in danger, and Sui Hua should be headed by Shen Guifei, so as to save the lives of the mother and son in the future, remember."
On the back is written a small word "burn".
After reading it, her hands trembled like chaff, and she poured a cup of tea in a confused expression, but she didn't expect that the fruit wine on the table was indeed in her mouth.
Although it was sweet, it was wine, and after a while, her throat was hot, and she coughed in the house. The maids in the wing room were eating and chatting, knocking melon seeds and wiping dominoes, laughing and laughing, so lively.
The smell of wine burned her throat before she slowly sobered up.
Aunt Lin has always been good friends with her, what is such a warning for? Didn't she just find out she was pregnant? Why don't you take care of the baby in the house, and pass on such a sentence so hard?
Her gaze rested fixedly on the solid gold shrimp bracelet. Lin's brother was an errand boy in the imperial merchant, and the imperial merchant was the official of the Shen family in the capital.
The Shen family, the imperial merchant in the capital, is it not the Shen family that came out of the concubine?
Could it be that Shen Guifei meant?
The queen is seriously ill and depressed, Shen Guifei covers the sky with one hand in the palace, and the high-ranking concubine ignores everything.
It is reasonable to be reasonable, when you enter the palace in the middle of the year, you should move closer to the concubine in order to be rich and prosperous for a long time.
What is Aunt Lin going to such lengths to spread such news? Could it be that there is something hidden in the palace? Or is the concubine particularly worried about her girl?
But Aunt Lin mentioned "mother and son".
The emperor's heirs are not abundant, except for the second prince who died young, now there are only three princes, His Royal Highness the Prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince, in addition to the princes, the princess is only Duanhe and Pingning. And the emperor has been on the throne for more than ten years, so it can be seen that the harem fight is even more harsh and ruthless than imagined.
Aunt Lin's meaning should be that only by following Shen Guifei closely can she give birth to the imperial heir safely in the future, otherwise could it be that the queen of the middle palace, in order to protect the position of the prince, actually killed the heirs of the palace concubine?
The more Aunt Zhao thought about it, the more she felt that her analysis was very correct, Shen Guifei must have felt that her Suihua was born in the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, and her identity and character were extremely valuable, so she took a lot of trouble to sell Aunt Zhou Zhangtong Guò Lin to Suihua, so that Suihua could accept her affection, remember her grace in the palace in the future, and be able to carry each other.
The more Aunt Zhao thought about it, the more she felt that it was right, and the more she felt that the fruit wine that burned her throat fell on her stomach and was unusually sweet. Suihua is the meat that fell from her stomach! Before entering the palace, the concubine in the palace could be valued so much, and she was looking for someone to deliver the message.
She drank a lot of wine at the dinner in the evening, and she was very fond of drinking on weekdays, so she was happy and drank cup after glass, and drank all the fruit wine on the table.
In a daze, he stuffed the note into his clothes, roughly removed the hairpin ring, scattered his hair and clothes, and lay on the carved step-up bed.
She forgot to blow out the candles on the table, and the little girls opened a window for fun, and suddenly the wind came in the evening, and they blew down the candles, and lit the silver-red Ruyi double-sided brocade table covered on the table, and the flames lit up.
When Aunt Zhao was woken up by a pungent smell of smoke, the door of the house was wide open, and the maids and maids hurriedly went in and out of the house, and the basins and buckets were splashed into the house, and the fire was extinguished for most of the hour.
The newly replaced carpet under the table was also burned, but fortunately it did not burn to the floor tent in the inner room, otherwise Aunt Zhao was terrified in her heart.
Aunt Lin from the long room went back to the house and asked people to lock the door early, and after freshening up, she sat on the bed and carefully recalled the news she had delivered.
Aunt Zhao is a smart person, as long as she does what those people say, the Zhao family will definitely be able to follow the road they paved step by step. Sui Hua Ping Su Li is also close to her aunt, and when she speaks, Sui Hua will obey.
What's more, the queen's cruelty to the heirs of the palace concubines is an ironclad fact. Shen Guifei had a miscarriage back then, Concubine Li's second child with a slippery tire, Jing Zhaoyi's second prince who died early, and those low-ranking palace concubines, the queen can't get rid of it, and now the prince is in decline, the queen is seriously ill, and Anzhi is not retribution?
As long as Sui Hua enters the palace and respectfully follows Shen Guifei, she will be able to have a good future. This is an errand that can be pleased by both sides, but it is just a matter of bothering to make a few purses, and the Zhao family will also be grateful to her in the future.
She touched her stomach and fell asleep with a smile, but she didn't expect to be woken up in the middle of the night by the bustling movement outside the window, and Green Willow pushed the door and walked in.
Huang Ying, who was used on weekdays around her, was sold to the northwest after being punished by his wife with a cane, and he heard that the injury on the road had recurred and died.
Huang Ying's girl also asked for her own whereabouts like this, who let her bite back, causing her to be almost disgusted by Hou Ye. Fortunately, the pregnancy was diagnosed in time, and the child came in time.
Who knew that the green willow eyebrows were tightly twisted, and as soon as she came in, she reported: "Aunt Zhao in the second room had water in her room and almost burned into the inner room, this fire has just been saved, and the second lady is catching the girls on duty at night to punish it, and even Aunt Zhao was scolded and moved to the west to have a small courtyard." ”
Because Aunt Zhao gave birth to a son and a daughter, in the second room, except for the good concubine Sun, she is the most faceful, and now she wants her to move to the small cross-courtyard on the west side of the courtyard
Although there is no other punishment, it is difficult to move back after moving the house, which is really a slap in the face.
After walking through the water, Lu Liu saw Aunt Lin's face suddenly collapse, as if she had thought of something extremely terrible.
She wrote the word "burn" on the back of the note, could it be that when Aunt Zhao burned the note, she accidentally burned the tent in the house? Wouldn't this be discovered by the second lady? If the second lady forced Aunt Zhao to ask, would she tell herself?
Even if it is a good intention, this news was handed over by the Shen family. Deliver a message to the girl who is going to enter the palace, she is just an aunt in the backyard, it is really more serious, it is true that her hand is too long.
What if, what if the Hou Ye knows? Aunt Liu is stupid and knows how to read but can't write, she used to like to fiddle with her handy in front of Hou Ye, if Hou Ye or Mrs. Wang found out that she still had contact with Shen Fu
The concubines who are not loyal to the family, in a family like the Hou Mansion with strict rules and loyalty, it is not too much to kill them. No one will plead for her.
If the green willow is just ambiguous, Aunt Lin has thought of this.
The fingers she grabbed her sleeve were getting closer and closer, the thoughts in her mind became thicker and thicker, her face became more and more pale, those thoughts moved her whole body, and she even thought that if Shen Guifei knew that she didn't do a good job, would she take revenge on her brother?
But in a few moments, Aunt Lin's face turned white and transparent, and Lu Liu was about to pour a cup of hot tea, when she saw Aunt Lin holding her stomach.
Lu Liu hurriedly went out in fright, and asked the little girl to tell her to ask the doctor to come and see.
The courtyard was also noisy, and when it was dawn, the doctor checked the pulse and prescribed medicine, saying that it would not hinder the big thing.
"Pregnant women should not think too much, otherwise it will not be just a red abdominal pain. This aunt's pregnancy is not very good, so she has to give birth to a good child. ”
Aunt Lin nodded her head in agreement, and the doctor left, but she was still frowning and sullen.
In the Yuhua Pavilion, at dawn, the three girls were ushered in.