Chapter 39: Drawing Wages from the Bottom of the Cauldron (2)
I answered this proposal, and Qingyun took my leave, saluted in an orderly manner, and left Xianfu Palace in the early morning, which was still a little gray, and returned to Changchun Palace. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info I also went back to the bed and sat down with the support of Si Kite and Nian Yang. As soon as Qingyun left, I lost all the strength in my body as if I had fallen apart. Si Kite held my arm, and through the clothes on my body, I could even feel Si Kite's cold hands, and there was a little trembling.
I gently patted the back of her hand holding my arm to soothe her. When I touched her hand, I suddenly noticed that my hands were also unwarm. Even colder than her. Si Kite obviously also noticed this, she tried her best to hide her emotions, and said with a little choked up: "Little master ......"
I forced the corners of my mouth to give her a smile, but I smiled very stiffly. Si Kite continued: "Little Lord...... You have never been so wronged in the house...... The slave is really useless! I couldn't protect the little master......" As he spoke, he couldn't help it, and crystal clear tears spilled from his dark eyes and fell on my cold hands, which brought me a trace of warmth.
"Sister Si Kite, don't blame yourself...... If you want to blame me, you still have to blame meβ" Dong'er came in through the door at this time, and it was obvious that the movement in the room had also alarmed her, so she came to see what was going on. As a result, as soon as I came in, I heard Si Kite complaining about herself, and the guilt couldn't help but come to my heart, and Dong'er said to me: "Little master...... This time it's all a strange slave and maid, and I couldn't see through her true face as soon as possible...... Second, ......" lowered his head as he spoke: "Second... I didn't have a sense of vigilance, and I was tricked by her, and the master of the harm fell into such a situation......"
I looked at a room of girls, Rong Yan, Si Kite, Nian Yang, and Dong'er. Say to them, "You don't have to blame yourselves. You're just a palace maid, what can you do? If you're to blame, I'm still to blame. Indisputable...... What's the use of not fighting? Isn't the result of indisputable suspicion and the root cause of unwarranted suspicion? Even you can't protect it...... I'm not a qualified master......"
He also said: "The matter has come to this point, what Concubine Jing said is still feasible." Recently, I have been close to Concubine Jing...... On the bright side, I don't know if anyone thinks I'm defecting to Concubine Jing...... If I lose my ugliness at the palace banquet, or something has happened...... The emperor and the queen mother may not be suspicious of Concubine Jing. Suspicion is easy to arise and is not easy to dispel, even if there is no evidence, it is not good for Concubine Jing. After a pause, he said firmly: "Therefore, Concubine Jing Niangniang helped me." It's to help herself. It's doable. β
Rong Yan added on the side: "Besides, if you help the little master, the little master will naturally be grateful to the mother and loyal to Concubine Jing. It is equivalent to Concubine Jing having one more helper. On the contrary, Niangniang will not get anything, but if the little master fish dies and the net is broken, she will bite her back. β
I nodded, and continued, "In that case, then just do what you want." A few of you, you are ready, and after a while, Si Yuan will go to Concubine Jing Niangniang and ask Niangniang to pass on the imperial doctor...... My position is too low, I don't have that qualification, and I am so close to the Changchun Palace of Concubine Jing Niangniang, and I have said it in the past. β
Then he turned his head to Nian Yang and said, "I will go to the queen mother in charge of this palace banquet in a while...... Well...... I'll go later, and I'll go back after the doctor leaves. When you take leave from the queen, remember to act as if you were a fact. Don't panic so much that it looks like it's a fake. β
Nian Yang nodded and said to me: "Don't worry, little master, the slave and maid are provincial." You can rest assured that the slave and maid will do it seamlessly. I also nodded, and left this matter to Nian Yang to do, precisely because she is more clever and smart. I can only rest assured that this matter is handed over to her.
After explaining this matter, I said to Rong Yan again: "After the imperial doctor came for a while, Nian Yang went to take leave, you remember to let Xiaofuzi Xiao Chenzi grab the medicine to decoction, the medicine should be caught according to the prescription, and then fried and sent to the room." Do not dispose of the residue casually, but handle it carefully. β
Rong Yan is an old palace maid in the palace, and I am naturally relieved that these things are arranged for her. Rong Yan also nodded in response, and I breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the edge of the bed, and sat blankly, thinking about what happened from yesterday to today. So much has happened in just one night, and I feel a little breathless. Suddenly, I remembered one more thing, and I wanted to call Rong Yan, but I remembered that she was arranged by me to do other things. The outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, and then fell weakly, and fell heavily on the knee.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve. I leaned against the bedpost, gently closed my eyes, and fell into the memory. I remember when I was a child, my mother often held me in her arms on this day and told me about the origin of the New Year Festival and the origin of Chinese New Year's Eve. When I was young at the time, I vaguely remember my mother's gentle face and the appearance of the monster "Xi". I remember the way I locked myself in my mother's arms and refused to come out, clutching my mother's sleeve tightly, and the way my father laughed when he saw me.
I remember that after eating the family banquet of the clan, my mother would ask the small kitchen to cook an extra table of dishes and send them to my yard, and Si Yuan and Nian Yang would be pulled by me to sit down and eat at the same table with me. This is a little secret from my mother and me, which even my father doesn't know. Because one year I heard that there was a reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, but Si Yuan and Nian Yang had no family, because of this, my mother and I quarreled to let the two girls eat with me, and finally my mother promised me that on this day, she would cook me an extra table of dishes, and in my yard, we quietly completed this sisterhood.
The reason I told my father was that because there were many people at the family banquet and I was pampered since I was a child, I was not used to eating these meals. So make extra dishes that I like to eat and send them to the room, and when the etiquette is complete, go back to the room and use it again. Neither hungry nor rude. Since I was a child, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, I have come like this. The relationship between me and Si Yuan Nian Yang is also accumulated in this way.
"Little master?" Rong Yan's voice came to mind, I opened my eyes, saw Rong Yan who had just walked in the door, beckoned to her, and then said to him: "Rong Yan, you go and help me do something." Rong Yan nodded and walked over to me to listen to my arrangement. I told her what I just remembered, she answered, went out to do it, I looked through the window, saw Rong Yan's blurred figure going out of the room, sighed softly, and thought to myself, tonight, it's not peaceful.