The purge of Fengyi Palace began at the end of the year.

"Someone is doing something evil, Queen Nightmare?" Taohua was taking a bath and changing clothes for Brother Xu, and was suddenly startled when she heard this exciting news, "Who, find out who is so bold?" No, is this news true or false? ”

There has been such a thing as a nightmare since ancient times, but whether it can work or not is really believed or not. The reason why they have always been severely beaten is because people are afraid of the unknown after all, and secondly, because this nightmare is committed, so it must be punished from the heart and dealt with severely.

However, from the beginning of this dynasty to the present, there has never been such a thing, although the emperor who founded the country kept saying that he was ordered by heaven to get the throne, in fact, he did not believe in ghosts and gods, his dynasty, even the royal temple was not repaired, or his son succeeded to the throne to build.

If something is good at the top, it will be bad at the bottom, and vice versa. The emperor himself doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and the people below naturally don't dare to talk about ghosts and gods, so the palace has never heard of any witch Gu nightmare, so this time such news broke out, Taohua was really surprised, but a little suspicious.

"It's being investigated, all the palace people in Fengyi Palace have been arrested." Yuzhu replied eloquently, "It is said that the queen mother sang and danced endlessly like a few days ago, and she couldn't sleep peacefully at night, and she always said that she saw some dark shadows dangling in the palace, and the palace people lit the lamp, but they couldn't find it." Later, a small chamberlain was cleaning in the imperial garden, and found that there was a puppet hidden under the rockery in the middle of the imperial garden, and one hand pointed in the direction of Fengyi Palace. The puppet was wearing a palace costume, making a singing and dancing appearance, and there was a strand of hair stuffed in his stomach. ”

"Oh-" Taohua was originally going to listen to a palace fighting drama, but when she heard this, she suddenly felt bored, "Nonsense." ”

"Huh?" Yuzhu didn't expect that his vigorous report only changed the two words of the princess of the county, and he opened his eyes and was confused, "What the slave said is the truth......"

Momoka smiled: "I know you're telling the truth. But this is just a "truth" coming from the palace.

Brother Xu put on the small clothes inside, and found that his mother's hand was no longer on him, so he immediately turned over and lay on the bed, flexibly arching his little buttocks and crawling forward. He's been almost nine months now, and it's a soothing, swishing fast. Tao Hua flashed his mind, he was already about to climb to the edge of the bed, Yuzhu quickly stretched out his arm to stop him: "My master, go back quickly." ”

Brother Xu can't speak yet, but he can roughly understand what others mean, knowing that Yuzhu is not letting him climb out, he raised his head and smiled at her, turned his head and climbed to the other side.

Taohua hurriedly grabbed his little feet and dragged him back: "Stinky boy, I haven't worn the clothes outside!" ”

Brother Xu kicked his little feet and didn't want to wear clothes. He was born in late spring, and then in the hot summer, he only wore a belly pocket when it was hottest, and his limbs were free. Now that the weather is getting colder, the clothes on his body are more and more every day, which makes him feel very bulky and inconvenient, and he struggles to let people put heavy clothes on his body every time he takes a shower.

However, this kind of thing is not up to him. Now at this time, a wind chill can kill even an adult, not to mention that he is a delicate child. Taohua held him down, and while putting on a small padded jacket and small cotton pants for him, she reprimanded him: "If you are so disobedient again, you will be spanked." ”

Brother Xu was spanked, and Taohua would not be too light when he should have started, and he also cried when he was beaten. However, children always remember to eat and not remember, and now they still have no idea about the threat of Taohua, and their little feet are kicking and resisting, and they think it's funny while resisting, and they giggle out loud.

Taohua tossed a sweat for him, angry and funny: "You stinky boy...... "The boy is lively and has a lot of strength, this is not yet a year old, so even she can't clean it up."

The nurse next to her looked at Taohua's face before she dared to come forward to help. However, they didn't dare to catch people like Taohua, so they could only coax them with flesh in their mouths, while carefully holding their little arms and legs, and letting Taohua put on her clothes and pants. After a long time, he finally wrapped Brother Xu into a ball and threw it on the bed.

In fact, the clothes worn for Brother Xu have been made very finely, and it is impossible to be as heavy as the big cotton jackets worn by the people, but to choose good silk cotton, which is finely flocculated, warm and light. And the room is burning with earth dragons, so there is no need to wear too much. After Brother Xu was put on cotton clothes and pants, he found that his arms and legs could still move, so he lay on the bed and grabbed his feet to play, and did not protest.

Taohua wiped the fine sweat on her forehead casually: "I really should beat you up, so that you don't have a long memory!" "Wearing clothes is like fighting, in fact, it's good to wear it, but I have to toss it like this every time.

"Why did you hit Brother Xu?" Shen Shu's voice sounded outside the door, and Brother Xu immediately sat up, stretched out his little hand and got up.

Shen Shu took off his coat and came in with his hands rubbed. He first warmed his body in the outhouse with a charcoal basin before entering the inner room, and then he picked up Brother Xu and lifted it up a few times: "Brother Xu made his mother angry again?" ”

The nurse next to her was frightened, lest she startle the child, but Brother Xu smiled like a little hen, and was put down by Shen Shu, and he was still holding Shen Shu's shoulder, and his mouth was endless, obviously he wanted to lift it up.

"Don't let him laugh too hard." Taohua also laughed when she saw it, but when she saw Brother Xu'er's excitement, she stopped Shen Shu again, "He wants to sleep in a while, and he can't sleep if he laughs too much." It's you, why did you come back at this time? "The Spring Festival will soon be in the Spring Festival after the New Year, and the things of the deputy chief exams must be arranged in advance, and there are many entertainments under the New Year, and Shen Shu generally can't come back at this time.

Shen Shu walked to the bedside with the child in his arms: "It's not for the sake of the nightmare in the palace." ”

"By the way, this nightmare thing-" Taohua glanced at her, and saw that the nurse and the maids had already retreated with each other, so she said, "I'm afraid it was directed and acted by the queen herself, right?" ”

The term self-directed and self-acting was a little unfamiliar to Shen Shu, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood what Taohua meant: "You can see through it." "But the plays are all written and acted by themselves, where is this self-directed and self-acting?

"I'm a healer." Taohua sneered, "Whether the queen is sick or evil, how can I not see it." "The time when Tonghuatai fell was a serious illness, how could there be any nightmare problem, but this time in front of me, ten out of ten is pretended.

Shen Shu laughed: "Then according to you, who will be found in the end this time?" ”

Speaking of this, Taohua was a little uneasy: "You won't find the Autumn Cool Palace, right?" "If it is Queen Lu Yingzhen, then after she is disposed of, the queen will raise her son, and she can change her good reputation regardless of her previous suspicions, it is really a double win.

"The queen may not have that scheming." Shen Shu also sneered, "If she can think so deeply, she won't be ......" has fallen to this point. Speaking of which, if the queen has the queen mother's scheming, I am afraid that the emperor is in a more difficult situation now.

"In my opinion, most of them are not Zhongxiu Palace, or Chunhua Palace."

Seeing that this is about to be the New Year, of course, you have to do things as soon as possible, and it is not appropriate to delay the New Year. This is true of everyone outside, and of course the same is true in the palace.

The Anjun Royal Mansion held a happy event for Gu Cong and Dieyi a year ago. Shen Shu gave Gu Cong the small courtyard he had set up at the beginning, and the young couple settled there, not very far from the Anjun Palace. Gu Cong may have to arrange for another person to deal with the pox after the New Year, and when the time comes, Dieyi will be close, and it will be better to take care of each other if there is anything.

This happy event was also lively. attracted the envy of many subordinates in the house - Taohua bought a dowry of thirty-six lifts for Dieyi, after all, Gu Cong is now also a serious eight-grade imperial doctor, and Dieyi will be called a wife when she marries. And seeing that Gu Cong can be promoted again, when the court envoy is old, the people behind him will be promoted, and there may be one of the seats judged by the court, that is, Zhengliupin.

And the dowry is not only a matter of counting, but also of the content. There is a 60-acre Zhuangzi in the dowry of Dieyide, and a shop, these things can't be bought without a thousand taels of silver, and the girls of ordinary people's families get married, and there is no such a rich dowry, not to mention that she is just a slave, and the family was so poor that she was almost starved to death before she was sold.

For a while, there was a trend in the house of comparing each other's work, and everyone said that as long as they were loyal and capable, the master would not be treated badly, so they were all diligent, so that the New Year's Festival, which should have been busy, made Taohua extra worry-free.

Compared with the peace of mind of the Anjun Palace, the palace is not so worry-free. At the end of the investigation of the nightmare, it really pointed to the Chunhua Palace. The palace people and the attendants who guarded the imperial garden all said that Zhao Chongyi went to the imperial garden the most at that time, and the weather was not warm at that time, and there were not many flowers, so why did Zhao Chongyi go in and out of the imperial garden frequently?

It's hard to explain. In fact, Zhao Chongyi went in and out of the Imperial Garden because the Zhao family bought a palace person, and any news would be quietly passed on to Zhao Chongyi in the Imperial Garden, so as not to always go to the Chunhua Palace to attract too much attention.

Zhao Chongyi used the pretense that she was not in good health, and Taohua suggested that she take more walks. Although the Chunhua Hall is good, there are too many flowers and trees in the yard, and the place for walking is too small, so I always go to the imperial garden. This reason can stand up when there is nothing to do, but now that something happens, it is a little unstable, and of course she can't admit that she is secretly communicating with someone in the imperial garden, so she can only hold on to this reason and not let go.

At this time, a palace man in the Chunhua Hall committed suicide by jumping into a well. After the person fished it up, he found that he was stunned first and then thrown into the well, and now Zhao Chongyi was even more intelligible. The queen only said that Zhao Chongyi was going to kill people, and as soon as the body was examined, she dragged Zhao Chongyi down in the courtyard of Fengyi Palace and beat her with twenty palace staffs.

The palace concubine was beaten by the palace staff, this is not a trivial matter. First of all, the palace concubines are all of high grades, and secondly, they all have their own backgrounds, and there are people in the family who are officials in the court, but they are no better than ordinary palace maids, and they are killed if they are killed, and there is no one in the ordinary people who dare to complain. This hit the palace concubine, but someone was going to come out to speak.

In the founding of this dynasty for several generations, there were very few things to beat the palace concubines, even if they did commit capital crimes such as rebellion, they were all routinely demoted or sent to the cold palace, and even more so given three feet of white silk or a cup of poisonous wine, there is no precedent for beating the skin and flesh. Therefore, Zhao Chongyi's twenty palace staff shocked the entire palace.

The Queen Mother is not very comfortable these days. In the past, she still had five points of pretending to be sick, but after the weather cooled down, she felt headaches and dizziness more often, even if the doctor did not tell her to recuperate, she had to recuperate. However, she wanted to recuperate, but the queen didn't let her live in peace, and suddenly heard the palace people run in to report that the queen had beaten Zhao Chongyi, or moved the palace staff, the queen mother almost didn't jump up, only felt that there were two fierce beasts in the temples on both sides, as if something would rush out of there in the next moment.

"Go, go to Fengyi Palace!" The Queen Mother held Qingyu's hand and stood up twice in a row.

Qingyu hurriedly asked the palace people to take the pills made by the hospital envoy, and pressed two under the queen mother's tongue, only to see that the green tendons that jumped up on the queen mother's forehead disappeared slightly, so she dared to pass someone to the warm sedan chair and hurriedly went to Fengyi Palace with the queen mother.

Fortunately, Shouxian Palace is not far from Fengyi Palace, but when the Queen Mother went, the twenty palace staff was also finished. Zhao Chongyi lay on the spring bench in the courtyard and had fainted.

It is the palace attendant who gives the palace staff, and the strength of the man is greater than that of the woman, even if the chamberlain can no longer be regarded as a serious man, it is not the strength of the palace people. Fortunately, they all know that it is not a small matter to blame the palace concubine, not to mention that Zhao Chongyi is now favored, if the emperor investigates it, the queen will probably be fine, they are ready-made scapegoats, so they also have strength in their hands when they fight.

There is also kung fu in playing the board, these inner servants are trained, if it is yin, there are not many scars on the outside, but the five internal organs will be broken. Now they are doing the opposite, Zhao Chongyi looks like he is bleeding from his clothes and fainting to death, but in fact, it is only a flesh wound, and it will not hurt the muscles and bones.

The queen mother has been in the palace for a long time, and she also knows these doorways, and she felt a little relieved when she saw this, but then she became angry again, and took Qingyu's hand and strode into Fengyi Palace.

At this moment, all the concubines in Fengyi Palace knelt on the ground to intercede for Zhao Chongyi, the queen stood high, her yellow face was swollen red, and the corners of her forehead were also green tendons, looking at it was almost the same as the Queen Mother just now. Although he saw the Queen Mother come in, he also stood up, but his face was still angry.

The Queen Mother saw that she was a little different from usual, and swallowed back the rebuke on her lips, and waved her hand to the concubines first: "Go back to your palace, don't talk nonsense!" He also asked Qingyu to arrange for someone to immediately send Zhao Chongyi back to the Chunhua Palace, and then he sent the envoy to see the injury, and then said to the queen, "What are you doing!" ”

The queen was still angry: "Zhao's slut, dare to contradict me!" She had the idea of taking advantage of this nightmare incident to demote Zhao Chongyi to Jieyu, who knew that Zhao Chongyi was not afraid, not only defended herself, but also brought out the last time she was pregnant, implying that she had conceived a dragon for the emperor and could not be punished at will.

People are afraid of slapping the face and peeling the skin, the most taboo thing for the queen is childbirth, Zhao Chongyi said that she was pregnant so she had merit, doesn't it mean that the queen has never been pregnant? The queen was furious, and she didn't care about the rhetoric she had thought of first, so she directly asked someone to pull it down and beat it.

"She confronted you, just demoting her position, why do you want to move the palace staff!" The original script was not like this, why did it change again in the middle of the performance?

The queen was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that her original purpose was to demote Zhao Chongyi's position, why did she forget it as soon as this anger came up? However, the matter has been done, and the queen doesn't want to admit that she has lost her mind for a while, so she has to say stubbornly: "This is so guilty, first beat and then demote!" ”

The Queen Mother was half angry: "One mistake is not punished, you have beaten everyone, what position do you have to demote!" "If there is a mistake in this, or admit to beating, or admit punishment, and there is no one who is beaten and punished, and now he is beaten, how can he be punished? What's more, it is not a small matter to blame the palace concubine, Zhao Chongyi's matter of Zhen Xiao is just a little suspicious, and he has not yet sat down, so if he fights now, it will become unreasonable.

The queen stiffened her neck and kept silent, and the queen mother was in a hurry, so she sneered: "Zhenxiao Palace, she can't escape suspicion, just beat it, what can she do!" ”

Now the Queen Mother has nothing to say. On the one hand, she has already been beaten, and she can't take back the twenty palace staff, and on the other hand, she doesn't admit that she is wrong, and you really can't do anything to her. In this way, what is the use of talking and scolding? It's better to shut up and save yourself from being angry.

The Queen Mother thought indignantly in her heart, but she couldn't let go after all: "This matter, can you go and report to the emperor?" ”

The queen's confidant palace people whispered: "Someone has already reported it...... "How can it not be reported to the emperor, even if Fengyi Palace does not report it, Zhao Chongyi's people will also report it."

"Since it's a nightmare, someone has to collude—" The Queen Mother said slowly. This kind of thing is either to be the birthday of the Nightmare Suppressor, or to get close objects or hair nails and other things. Birthday, the queen didn't dare to reveal it, although it was fake this time, it was hard to guarantee that no one knew about her eight characters, and she really did something, so she got a strand of hair. However, Zhao Chongyi can't get this hair, and he must have an internal response in Fengyi Palace.

The henchman nodded with some difficulty. The queen has already been decided, that is, a small palace person who has just come in Fengyi Palace, because her mother is a combing aunt, she has also learned a little craft, sometimes the queen is tired of combing her hair, and she will also ask her to comb her hairstyle, but in the end there are not many times.

Because of this skill, she can occasionally come forward to serve, and some people in this palace feel that this small palace person wants to soar, and they are jealous of her. Originally, the queen fell ill that day, and this small palace person was not qualified to enter the inner hall to serve, so she was not among the cleared.

The Queen Mother glanced at the queen again, and she didn't know what to say. The queen actually used this matter well, obviously she had a strange illness, if it was spread out, it would damage the majesty of the middle palace, but she could twist it into a nightmare thing, and seized the opportunity of Zhao Chongyi to go to the imperial garden, which made her difficult to argue.

If this arrangement continues, even if there is no empirical evidence, Zhao Chongyi will not be able to wash herself away, and it will be possible to demote her from nine concubines to Jieyu. Who knew that the queen had arranged it well in the front, but in the back she did something bad and beat Zhao Chongyi - this has not been proven, so she beat people, even if she is in the emperor's place, she can't say it!

"Now that it's arranged, let's do it quickly." The Queen Mother felt that her head hurt badly again, and she raised her hand and pressed her temple. She really wanted to go back to Shouxian Palace now, and she didn't care about anything, but she couldn't......

Zhao Chongyi was beaten, and many concubines were shocked. Jiang Meihua returned to Yuhui Pavilion, and felt that her legs were a little weak. In the past, I only saw the palace servants, but today I am fighting the concubine, and she is the same nine concubines as her, and her family background is better than her. In this way, Zhao Chongyi was beaten, so isn't she also in danger?

"Niangniang—" Sandalwood cautiously brought the tea and stood aside tremblingly. Last time, she had the courage to ask Taohua for help, and after that, Jiang Meihua never mentioned that she should serve the emperor, but looking at her face again, she was always unkind, so she was frightened when she stepped forward to serve now, for fear that if she said a bad word, Jiang Meihua would take the opportunity to attack.

Jiang Meihua glanced at Sandalwood with some mixed feelings. When Xiaoshi came to the palace to persuade her not to force Sandalwood, she was angry and angry, but she was afraid that Sandalwood knew too many things, and in the end she didn't dare to force her, but she also had thoughts in her heart about whether to dispose of her, but thinking about how many henchmen she had in the palace, she didn't do anything in the end.

It's just that looking at sandalwood at this moment, I feel a little lucky. If she gave sandalwood to the emperor in private, she would definitely annoy the queen, in case it was the same today...... She didn't know how to beat people, and when she saw that blood was oozing from Zhao Chongyi's thick cotton skirt, she didn't know what the fight had become, and she was really frightened. If she was the one who was beaten......

"Niangniang-" Agarwood came in from outside, "The emperor went to Fengyi Palace, I heard that it was a big fuss." ”

"Have you disposed of the queen?" Although Jiang Meihua also felt that this was unlikely, she still had a glimmer of hope.

Agarwood shook her head in embarrassment: "The Queen Mother is also there, I only said that Zhao Chongyi was suspected of being the Queen of Nightmare in front of her, and then she contradicted the queen, which was a crime, so according to the palace rules, she must also be punished......"

Jiang Meihua sat down with some disappointment: "Do you just let the queen ......" In the past, the queen wanted to murder the concubines, at least she was still secretive, but now it has reached the level of openly moving the palace staff, and the emperor still can't control it?" Then she decided to fall to the emperor's side, was she wrong again?

"I heard-" Agarwood said in a low voice, "Someone has been found to have colluded with Zhao Chongyi in the Queen's Palace......"

Jiang Meihua didn't want to hear this: "Whether it's true or not, the queen herself knows." It's just that she is so frustrated, today is Zhao Chongyi, and tomorrow I don't know who it is...... "If she is still attached to the queen now, there is no need to be so afraid, but there is no benefit in relying on the queen in the past, and now that the Jiang family has voted for the emperor, it is impossible to turn back......

"The queen mother, it really seems like crazy...... I heard that the people who were waiting in Fengyi Palace were going to change...... "Agarwood is also afraid." The so-called change, nine times out of ten is lifeless, she is also a palace person, the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, and she is worried about her own life.

The master and servant looked at each other, and the entire Yuhui Pavilion did not make a sound, like a grave......