Jinghaihou's birthday banquet was not held as scheduled, because there was an accident in the capital again, and the matter has been implicated in the inner palace, even the emperor and the queen mother have been interspersed, how dare Jinghaihou hold any birthday banquet?

May may be destined to be a lively month, the Dragon Boat Festival of the King of Anjun was punished for copying books has not completely cooled down, there is another incident, coincidentally, and it is related to the King of Anjun - the county king's mansion built for him was found to be shoddy, the original Zongren Mansion allocated 100,000 taels of silver, according to the half that has been renovated, after all the completion should not cost 50,000 taels, so where will the remaining 50,000 taels go? The answer is obvious: corruption!

It is the Zongren Mansion that is in charge of this matter, but the corrupt people are not just the people of the Zongren Mansion. King Anjun himself doesn't know the suffering of the world, and he can't even tell the truth from the fake, but the new account room sent by the Dingbei Hou Mansion is a shrewd person who knows the goods, and he doesn't know how he got it.

This fire was first burned on the head of the Zongren's mansion, because they sent the overseer. After that, it was burned to the Ministry of Works, because the eunuch in charge of the renovation bought some things that had been listed as losses in the accounts at a cheap price from the Ministry of Works, and used them to fool the county king's mansion.

That's where it gets interesting. Since it has been listed as a loss, it is gone, how can it be sent to the county king's mansion? So the Ministry of Industry also checked.

The so-called following the vine to touch the melon, sometimes a vine touches down, and a large string of radishes can be dragged out with mud, which is the case in this case. The eunuchs sent by the Zongren Mansion are greedy for money, so are other eunuchs greedy or not?

Nature is greedy. The eunuch is a disabled person, and the pleasure of life is probably only money and power. Especially those eunuchs who are powerful in the palace, they not only have money to collect in the palace, but also buy houses and land outside the palace, and some even have wives and fake sons. If it's just a property, it's better to say, there are also relatives who use their power to bully men and women, and even force out their lives!

In the second half of May, and throughout June, the capital was searching. Everyone knows that today is a person who advocates frugality, in addition to worshiping the queen mother is extraordinarily rich, the harem concubines are all to follow the thrift, I didn't expect the master to be thrifty, the slaves and maids are busy making a fortune, how can the emperor tolerate it?

"You've done a good job!" In the Shouxian Palace, the Queen Mother threw a cup out and smashed it on Huang Gonggong's head.

Huang Gonggong knelt upright, and didn't dare to hide: "The slave is a capital crime, and the slave is a capital crime." ”

The Queen Mother gasped fiercely: "I really should have cut you too!" ”

In this case of embezzlement, the officials in the imperial court dealt with it more lightly, after all, it was an official with meritorious reputation, and according to the amount of corruption, they were demoted or dismissed, because the amount of money was not yet so large that it was not so large that it was at most, at most, it was to confiscate the family property to offset the stolen silver, and the head had not been lost.

However, the inner prison is a slave of the Son of Heaven, and there is no comparison with the officials. The slave and maid are greedy for the master's family wealth, and there is no negotiation to kill them! Even if you lose two or three times the money, it is useless, because you should not have personal wealth as a slave or maid, and every qiē you get is given by the master's family.

There are not many really powerful eunuchs in the palace, Huang Gonggong next to the Queen Mother of Shouxian Palace, Li Gonggong next to the Empress of Fengyi Palace, and the two great eunuchs Su Gonggong and Zhao Gonggong next to the emperor, one is counted as one, all of them have families and businesses outside the palace, and there are relatives who are tyrannical.

"You, why did you do such a thing!" Huang Gonggong took a fancy to a cemetery, which was originally a family's field, and his parents were buried in it, and it was said that the feng shui was excellent. The family naturally refused to sell, but they were falsely accused of drinking the wine sold by the small wine shop and killing people, and finally the man's family died in prison, the woman hanged, and the cemetery naturally belonged to Huang Gonggong, and even the original grave was dug up.

"It's okay to do it, and leave evidence-" The Queen Mother was so angry that her hands were shaking, and her eyes were a little black.

Gonggong Huang was so frightened that he couldn't take care of kowtowing, and hurriedly knelt down and climbed up to support the Queen Mother: "Niangniang is angry, Niangniang is angry, don't be angry!" ”

Occupying people's graves, digging people's graves, this is simply outrageous. Even if an official does such a thing, I am afraid that he will not be able to save it, let alone a eunuch. It's just that Huang Gonggong didn't die, because the emperor signaled that he put this charge on the head of Eunuch Su who was serving by his side, and publicly got Huang Gong out, and even the largest property under his name was distributed to Zhao Gonggong, and what was left to him was a small mansion, which was not enough for a big crime.

Eunuch Su has been publicly beheaded, and Eunuch Zhao was not so guilty in the first place, but he was disposed of by the emperor at his insistence. The emperor also blamed himself for this: "I neglected the emperor, so that the people were crippled, and I was wronged." As for some people's doubts about Huang Gonggong, he firmly said, "The queen mother has always been lenient, and she will never use such slaves and maids around her." ”

As a result, the emperor's reputation was greatly damaged, but the queen mother saved face. Huang Gonggong saved his life, although his property was confiscated 8-9 out of ten. Of course, Su Zhao's property was also confiscated, and Gonggong Li, who was next to the queen, was more shrewd, he didn't have too much to bully the people, and he neatly donated all his family property, and the emperor took care of the queen's face and gently let him go.

The Queen Mother rubbed her eyes, only to feel a burst of flowers in front of her. Huang Gonggong looked at her with blank eyes: "Take care of the Queen Mother, take care of the Queen Mother!" If the queen mother damages the phoenix body, the slave and maid will die and cannot be redeemed! ”

The confidant palace maid Qingyu brought the tea, and the queen mother drank a few sips, and then slowly eased up: "You really lost my face!" "Although it is not a big crime to Huang Gonggong, who in this palace does not know? Even if the Queen Mother sits in Shouxian Palace and pretends not to know, can Huang Gonggong himself still have the face to spread the word for the Queen Mother? This is the Queen Mother's Holy Birthday in a few months, and at this time, it is like this, and the Queen Mother feels that she has no face to see those foreign women.

Huang Gonggong didn't dare to speak, and saw that the queen mother's face was calmer, so he said cautiously: "Fortunately, the emperor saved his face for the sake of the queen mother, and saved his face for ......the slave maid."

The Queen Mother rubbed her forehead and said sullenly: "Yes, fortunately, the emperor is filial to me......" But in this way, the two big eunuchs around the emperor were all finished, and those two were arranged by her for the emperor. She was in her thirties, and when she was using it, she died all of a sudden, and she couldn't find a suitable person to replace her for a while. The internal eunuch of Shouxian Palace, except for Huang Gonggong's foreign qualifications, is shallow, even if it is given to the emperor, he cannot deserve the position of the great eunuch.

Qingyu saw that the Queen Mother squinted her eyes uncomfortably, and hurriedly said softly: "Niangniang, is it a medicine?" ”

The Queen Mother's eyebrows suddenly wrinkled even tighter, and she barely opened her eyes and looked at it for a while, but she still said, "Just bring the medicine." ”

This is still talking about the medicine for the eyes. A while ago, the Queen Mother used medicine with good results, but since the matter of fighting the eunuch for corruption, the Queen Mother's eye disease has also become serious. The imperial doctor came to check the pulse, saying that the liver was on fire and the medicine had to be eaten, so the little palace maids had already prepared it, and when they heard this, they hurriedly ran to bring it.

The Queen Mother looked at the bowl of brown medicinal soup with a look of disgust, and swallowed it in one gulp with a frown for a long time. But it didn't take long for her to suddenly lean forward, and with a wow, she vomited all the decoction she had just drunk, and she vomited Huang Gonggong's head and face.

When the Shouxian Palace was busy passing on the imperial doctor, the emperor was commenting on the folds in the Mingguang Palace. The newly promoted eunuch Du stood beside him and whispered the news of the harem: "...... The queen said that Lu Baolin had a cough that did not stop, and the medicine did not work, I am afraid that her daughter had tuberculosis, and she had to be removed from the Qunxiang Palace, so as not to even Wang Chongyuan was sick. Originally, he was going to move directly into the cold palace, but later changed his mind and moved to Tingyuju. ”

The emperor sneered: "She even knows the face." The big eunuch around him was almost disposed of, and the emperor saved face for the empress, so that Lu Ying did not enter the cold palace.

Eunuch Du stood up and said in a low voice: "The few imperial doctors who went to diagnose Lu Baolin's pulse all prescribed tuberculosis prescriptions, perhaps-" Maybe Lu Baolin is really tuberculosis? In that case, the Emperor would not be able to see her again.

"How many of these Imperial Doctors work!" The Emperor was a little agitated. Today, he can finally say what is in his heart a little more happily, "Change to a doctor!" ”

Eunuch Du bent his waist lower: "The first few in front of me are all doctors with internal symptoms in the hospital, if they are replaced, I am afraid that they will be alarmed to the hospital." "The imperial doctors who can be used by the concubines in the palace are also graded, such as Lu Baolin and other low-level concubines, so they can only use ordinary imperial doctors, such as the hospital envoy and the court judge, the chief and deputy leaders of the imperial hospital, who have always only served the emperor and the queen mother, and usually even Yuan Shufei did not dare to call them to ask for a pulse at will. If Lu Baolin uses it, not to mention anything else, the queen can immediately deduct her from the charge of insolence and transgression.

The emperor raised his hand to pat a few cases, but his hand was lifted and slowly put down. He has been taught all kinds of rules in front of the Queen Mother since he was a child, and after he ascended the throne, he deliberately restrained. It has been ten years now, and the word prudence has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow day and night, and even if it can be relaxed now, it still subconsciously will not get carried away.

"Your Majesty, according to the foolish opinion of the slave maid, it is better to find a way to summon someone who understands medical skills from outside the palace to diagnose Lu Baolin's pulse."

This is a good building, but it's very difficult to operate. The harem is where the concubines live, and there are still procedures for the doctors of the hospital to enter the palace to ask for a safe pulse, and if the concubines temporarily invite the imperial doctors, they need to keep a record, and it is almost impossible to quietly get someone into the palace from outside the palace.

"How do you figure it out?" The Emperor smiled wryly. Now he just got rid of a few eyeliners around him, and it's still early for him to be in charge of everything, does he have to watch an innocent woman leave him again?

"Give that box of Korean ginseng to Lu Baolin and send one quietly, and in addition, go and knock on the Tai Hospital, and ask them to treat Lu Baolin with their hearts!" The king of a country can only do this now.

There is nothing in the palace that can really hide from everyone, Yuhui Pavilion is not far from Tingyuju, Eunuch Du went to listen to Yuju, Yuhui Pavilion is the first to know.

"Don't worry, mother." Sandalwood saw Jiang Meihua sitting in front of the mirror and looking at herself, thinking that she was sad because the emperor was concerned about listening to Yuju, "The emperor didn't go to listen to Yuju either." Besides, Lu Baolin is afraid that his daughter has tuberculosis, and the emperor takes care of her more, which is also ......, "People who have tuberculosis are afraid that they don't have much to live, so what can they do if they take care of some?"

"You think I'm jealous of Lu Baolin?" Jiang Meihua smiled self-deprecatingly at the person in the mirror as if she had just woken up from a big dream. The bronze mirror is newly polished, and I can clearly see the woman inside, although she is a little slimmer than a few days ago, but it is far from the skinny and clear of plum blossoms at the beginning, "Who can I be jealous of like this?" ”

Agarwood said softly: "How can Niang Niang say such frustrating words? Niangniang used this medicine for herself, and the slaves and maids looked much better at Niangniang's complexion, and the letter sent by the old lady didn't say it, but Niangniang followed the letter - exercise, and her body would naturally be slimmer. ”

Jiang Meihua shook her head in frustration. She's foot-bound.

Foot binding, in fact, is not exactly the kind of cruel method of breaking the toe bone as condemned by later generations, and even letting it rot in order to thin the flesh and bones. This method is generally used for women who have grown their feet and insist on making them look small, so they have to get bloody.

Nowadays, the general people pay attention to people, but since the girl is four or five years old, she always wraps her feet in a cloth, so that she does not grow arbitrarily, and tries to grow as slender as a moon hook. This kind of foot binding method is not so painful, but after all, it also hinders the free growth of the feet, although you can walk, but after all, it is not as healthy as a pair of natural feet.

Jiang Meihua likes to be quiet and does not like to move since she was a child, and at that time a pair of crescent lotus hooks, Yingying and fine steps, natural and beautiful. But now it is extremely difficult for her to exercise, and walk in the yard for half an hour every day. Don't say that the speed of walking at least two steps a breath is as mentioned in the letter, that is, walking slowly, her feet are tired and sore at the end of the day, and even her calves are sore, she can't stand it.

"It's okay for the mother to walk slowly." Sandalwood hurriedly said, "Slave maid, look, Niangniang has lost a lot of weight now." ”

Jiang Meihua still shook her head. Sandalwood couldn't read a few words, and she didn't read the letter carefully, but it was written clearly that this so-called "exercise" must meet the requirements written in the letter in order to have an excellent effect. She understands this truth, just like taking medicine, if the amount of medicine is not enough, the effect of the medicine will not be good. Her "cutting corners" exercise is still effective, but it will never achieve the goal she wants. What's more, even if it can be reached in the end, how long will it take? Don't say three or five years, it's half a year, and I'm afraid that the emperor won't know where to forget her.

Agarwood pulled the sandalwood, sent her out to boil the medicine, closed the door by herself, and whispered: "Niangniang, you still have to let Mrs. take the third girl into the palace." ”

Jiang Meihua was a little irritable: "Why don't I want to?" But my grandfather just wouldn't! She had already asked someone to send a message out, signaling Xiaoshi to bring Taohua into the palace again, but she was stopped by Mrs. Jiang.

Because of the matter of the golden cherry cream, the Queen Mother not only sent someone to reprimand the concubines of Chengenbo Mansion, but also asked someone to send a message to Yu Ge Lao, telling him to restrain Yu Sirui and not to go to the flowers and willows unscrupulously. Therefore, during this time, Yu Sirui was also much more honest. Catch up with the Queen Mother because of Eunuch Huang's bad mood, he didn't dare to flirt with the tiger's whiskers at this time, and he didn't go out much.

Since this is the case, of course Taohua doesn't want to enter the palace again. Although Mrs. Jiang felt a little unsafe, she was very disgusted by Taohua's appearance of entering the palace, so she blocked it for her. Let Xiao Xiao be in a hurry, and all kinds of reasons have been thought of, but it is useless.

"This, now it's an opportunity......" Agarwood was a little anxious, "Zhong Xiu Palace, but he has already summoned his family into the palace once." ”

Zhong Xiugong refers to Concubine Yuan Shu, Mrs. Yuan brought a girl from her family into the palace a few days ago, saying that her sisters miss her sister, but in fact, everyone doesn't know why.

Jiang Meihua couldn't help but become anxious: "Didn't I know that this was an opportunity!" But what if my grandfather refuses? "The queen was also slapped in the face because of the big eunuch around her, and she was not embarrassed to be powerful in front of the concubines these days. And the queen mother is unwell, she is both a daughter-in-law and a nephew, and she is about to serve the sick.

Agarwood thought for a while and said in a low voice: "The slave thinks that maybe there is a way for the third girl to come by herself." She raised her hand and pointed in the direction of Yuju, "Last time the third girl entered the palace, she once asked the slave maid about Lu Baolin's news. She said that it was an old acquaintance in Wuxi, but the slave maid saw that if it was just an acquaintance, it would not be so. ”

Jiang Meihua's eyes lit up: "You mean, sue the third sister, Lu Baolin is seriously ill?" ”

"The three girls will check the pulse, if they know this news, they will definitely want to enter the palace to see Lu Baolin."

"That's a good idea." Jiang Meihua muttered, "The third sister knows medical skills, if she can ask her grandfather to cure Lu Baolin's illness, I will also make a contribution in front of the emperor." ”

Compared with letting the sisters be favored to stabilize their position, it is naturally better to leave a position in the emperor's heart, even if it is not favored.

"Lu Ying has tuberculosis in her daughter?" Momoka looked at He Su in surprise, "What you said is true?" ”

"How dare the slave coax the third girl." He Su stood in an orderly manner, "It's the news handed over by Jieyu Niangniang in the palace." Lu Baolin has now moved from the side hall of the Qunxiang Hall to listen to the rain residence, because he is afraid that he will be sick and too angry with Yu Zhaorong and the eldest princess. Jieyu Niangniang was close to Tingyuju, because she heard that the third girl and Lu Baolin were old acquaintances, so she sent Agarwood to see Lu Baolin. Lu Baolin coughed heartbreakingly, I heard that Jieyu Niangniang was the sister of the third girl, and said, and said that the third girl should not worry about her......"

Taohua stood up with a sigh: "Didn't the eldest aunt say that she was going to enter the palace a few days ago?" ”

"I was about to enter the palace...... "He Su lowered his eyes, "Because the old lady didn't like it, he put it down again." ”

"I'm going to see my aunt right now!"

He Su raised his eyes and looked at Taohua: "Third girl, tuberculosis is afraid to pass people's ......"

"I'll be careful." Taohua raised her feet and left, and when she reached the door, Kikyo ran over, "Girl, the fifth lady came with her cousin, crying and crying, looking at the strange wolf." ”

"Mrs. Five?" Taohua can't take care of them at this time, "Let Bai Guo take a look, and I'll talk about it when I come back from my aunt's yard." Take a good look at Bai Ge'er, don't scare him. "Jiang Bohua was scared by Yu Sirui in Xingjiao Temple last time, although he was not sick, his courage has become smaller, and he will be scared when he hears the sound of someone crying and shouting, Taohua has no choice, and can only slowly coax him, hoping that when he is a little older, he will forget about it.

Kikyo is stupid in reading and literacy, but she is careful in these things, and when she heard Mrs. Cao Wu's cry, she had already coaxed Jiang Bohua to the room to play with literacy cards. At this time, he withdrew after Taohua's words, and walked under Cao's window by the way, only to hear Mrs. Cao Wu snort and tears inside: "Sister, you must save your brother this time!" ”

The amount of this embezzlement incident is not amazing, but tens of thousands of taels of silver, but the turmoil caused by this is extremely widespread, and Shang Baosi has also been affected.

Shang Bao Si is in charge of the imperial treasures in the palace, and they are all in charge of the seals, seals, charms, and cards, as well as the affairs and activities of using these imperial treasures, and they can also intervene, which can be regarded as a place with oil and water. If there is oil and water, how can anyone not be greedy? Shang Baosi's Zhengqing and Shaoqing were originally at odds, and they took this opportunity to fight each other, and Cao Wu's top boss was kicked down, and he was not spared along with his dogleg, and he was imprisoned together.

Speaking of which, Cao Wu is not a big crime, the little silver he shared is a drop in the middle, as long as he compensates the silver and gives the official in charge of the case a little bit or two, it will be fine. It's just that Mrs. Cao Wu has no money.

Since Cao Wu entered Beijing, he has indeed reaped some benefits, but he wants to take money to give gifts to his boss, and Mrs. Cao Wu has to go to the Jinghai Marquis Mansion to honor Mrs. Tai and reward people, the family still wants good food and clothing, where can I save money?

Since the last time the matter of the jade carving narcissus was revealed, Mrs. Cao Wu came to the door again, and Mrs. Jinghaihou refused to see her on the pretext that she was unwell. This time, when she asked to go to the Jinghai Marquis Mansion again, Mrs. Jinghai Marquis simply stopped their mother and daughter at the door, and sent someone to tell them clearly: The Jinghai Marquis Mansion will never shield those who violate the law, and tell them to hurry up and pay for the silver. But Mrs. Cao Wu couldn't even make up five hundred taels of silver in her hand, so in desperation, she had to come to ask Cao's again.

"Sister, sister-in-law, I have a thousand things, but your brother is sincere to you." Mrs. Cao Wu covered her face with a handkerchief and let out a sad voice, this is not a fake cry, thinking that if something happens to a man, the family will be doomed, she really cried heartbreakingly, "Now the boss said, hand over two thousand taels of your brother will be fine, but in my hand, I have all the clothes and jewelry, and the patchwork is only five hundred taels...... Sister, if you don't help, your brother will have to be exiled! Exile, three thousand miles in the northwest, is that place a place for people? Your brother's body, I'm afraid it won't take a year to die in the northwest! ”

Although the Cao family hated Mrs. Cao, they still cared about their brother, and they couldn't help but be frightened when they heard the words: "Exile? Why, just exiled? ”

Mrs. Cao Wu secretly hated her sister-in-law for being confused, she couldn't hear the point when she was obedient, why was there anything to ask about being exiled, wasn't it because she was greedy for money?

"Sister, the important thing now is to raise money to save your brother out, I went to see it yesterday, and everyone else has lost a lot of weight. The prison is dirty, smelly, and full of rat bugs, and if you delay it for a few more days, I'm afraid that he won't be able to stand it without exile! ”

Cao was at a loss: "Two thousand taels!" How can there be so many? ”