"Who said Zhao Chongyi was unlucky?" Taohua was very speechless that public opinion finally came to such a conclusion.

So the fetal malformation blames the woman for being unlucky? Well, in this era, if the fetus is unsatisfactory, it must be the woman's fault, for example, if you can't give birth to a child, blame a woman, and blame a woman for only giving birth to a daughter and not giving birth to a son, even if you give birth to a rabbit lip, it is also caused by a woman eating rabbit meat indiscriminately during pregnancy. The general environment is like this, coupled with someone fueling the troubles, it is conceivable that Zhao Chongyi has fallen into such a situation.

"Then what's going on with Zhao Chongyi now?"

Mint didn't have a good impression of Zhao Chongyi, but now she couldn't help but feel a little pity for her: "I heard that I fell ill all of a sudden." ”

According to the news sent by Shen Shu, the queen mother said that the family affairs of King Anjun are imminent, and she is about to go to the six ceremonies, at this time Taohua should wait at home, if it is contaminated with the blood of the mother, it is not conducive to marriage.

It is indeed one of the customs that people who are about to marry should not visit their mothers, not to mention that Zhao Chongyi is now regarded as "unlucky", but the person who said this is the Queen Mother, but she can't help but disrespectfully guess that the Queen Mother is afraid that she will go to the clinic and find something?

Regarding the matter of pregnancy, Taohua has written a medical case in detail for Shen Shu to take to the emperor, originally wanted to let the imperial doctor who served the Chunhua Palace compare to see if he could find anything suspicious, who knew that after a careful investigation, he found that Zhao Chongyi was suspicious, and he did not pass on the imperial doctor if he was unwell, and the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor was not good to eat raw, which made the emperor angry, and after sending the imperial doctor out, he gave Zhao Chongyi a two-word evaluation in front of Shen Shu: nonsense.

Although these two words have not been passed on, the emperor's dissatisfaction with Zhao Chongyi can be seen by everyone in the palace, and now the Zhao family is wilting, and there is no scenery at all when Zhao Shilang was just promoted to Shangshu. As for Zhao Chongyi's life in the palace, it was even more difficult, but the Queen Mother came out very kindly to comfort her at this time, and even ordered Chunhua Hall to supply according to her own share, so that Zhao Chongyi could take care of her body and give birth to a healthy child for the emperor in the future.

"Anyone can say something good." Momoka sneered softly. The Queen Mother specially mentioned that she had a "healthy" child, wasn't she reminding everyone that she had given birth to a freak? This stab is really a place, so you can't scream when it hurts. As for what Chunhua Palace's share of the rules is according to the Shouxian Palace, the examples of this thing, it's useless to just have face, you have to have a lining. In Zhao Chongyi's current situation, it is estimated that the example sent over is that it looks good on the outside and is light on the inside.

"Girl, don't care about others, these things are really unlucky, don't mention it." Mint didn't want to mention anything about the freak, and although she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she felt her scalp tingle just by thinking about the description on the outside. Many people are privately discussing whether the freak really died of natural causes or was killed by someone. But Mint felt that the poor baby was alive or really not as good as dead.

"It's a good day for a girl, don't mention those things." Today is the day when the Ministry of Rites comes to Nacai, although there is no need for Taohua to come forward, but it should also be dressed up beautifully, and only say happy things.

"That's right." Aunt Zheng walked in from outside, with a smile on her usually serious face, "The people from the Ministry of Rites are here." ”

The Nacai Rite brought by the Ministry of Rites was decent, completely in accordance with the regulations of the county king, neither reduced nor added anything extra, but the pair of geese in it was very eye-catching, because it was a pair of live geese, full of fat and meat, and rich feathers.

The bellflower was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth all day, and only under Aunt Zheng's serious gaze could she barely flatten the corners of her mouth, but it didn't take long for her to go up again: "The goose was personally beaten by the prince, and it was raised on the Zhuangzi after it was beaten, and I heard that it was a dozen pairs, and when you want to use it, you will pick up the best one." ”

In recent years, there are very few live geese that have been recruited, let alone beaten by themselves. The six arts of the gentleman are no longer in fashion, and it is good for scholars to be able to ride a horse, and they still want to draw a bow and shoot arrows, which is a dream. Therefore, this live goose is rarer than a pair of solid golden geese.

"Madame's over there......" After happily describing the wild goose, Kikyo still couldn't help but mutter.

Mint waved his hand generously: "Mrs. is naturally happy, this is not something we can discuss." After speaking, he raised his eyebrows at Kikyo.

Kikyo was stunned for a moment, and then understood: "What my sister said is true." "Don't say that this pair of live geese is incomparable to the pair of hollow silver geese of the Liu family, even these two marriages, in fact, there is no comparison. In this case, the person who lives above is not as generous, but there is no need to care so much about the Cao family, thinking that she is not comfortable now, it is really pitiful.

Cao's heart is indeed very uncomfortable. She wasn't for the live geese. In her opinion, it's not a big deal to fight a pair of geese by herself, is King Anjun a military general. What made her care was that the Nacai gift sent by the Ministry of Rites was placed in half of the courtyard, and in a few days she would come to ask for the name and Najib, and she would also give gifts. According to this trend, when it is time to pay for the levy, how much dowry will be sent? In contrast, the so-called "ancient rites" of the Liu family's gifts are really unseeable.

"What do you want to do?" Jiang Yanhua was holding a list and looking at it with a frown, "My sister is married to the county king's mansion, and all the ceremonies are purchased by the Internal Affairs Office, how can the Liu family compare." "What she has to focus on now is not this matter, but how to quickly get the shop down.

It seemed impossible for Poria's family to go with her, and she could only choose a room in Wuxi's family. This family is also honest people, among which the son has studied in the pharmacy for three years, although he has not learned, but what he has to do in the shop on weekdays, he still knows a little. Now, she doesn't worry about the people outside, so she has to catch the ducks on the shelves.

This person is only familiar with the pharmacy, but Jiang Yanhua can't open a pharmacy, not to mention that she doesn't have it, even people who understand medicinal materials can't find it, so in the end they can only decide to open a tea shop, so they can buy some fashionable flower tea from Wuxi to sell. Taohua originally cooperated with a tea shop in Wuxi, and borrowed Taohua's favor to buy some tea, at least he would not be deceived.

Jiang Yanhua was originally ambitious and wanted to open a shop, not to make money every day, but to at least add a lot of money. However, when this thing was really done, she found that there were too many places to spend money, and the profit was not as big as she imagined. So in the past few days, she has taken the list of various things in the shop and felt sorry for her purse, and she no longer even has the strength to envy the gifts sent by the Ministry of Rites.

"But I heard that the prince of the county gave your sister a lot of things in private...... "Cao's envy is this. The county king's mansion is not like ordinary people, there is no mother-in-law who stare at it every day, and you can be the master of your own house when you enter the mansion. Now that the husband values it, Taohua's life is better. In contrast, except for the marriage date discussed once in the past few days, the Liu family has not moved much on weekdays, and even the Dragon Boat Festival only sent a box of zongzi.

The so-called is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods. If there was no Anjun Palace, the Cao family probably wouldn't be picky about the Liu family, but now that the two are compared, the gap is so huge that it can't help but make her feel sour.

"What's the use of that!" Jiang Yanhua threw the list on the table with some irritation, "Mother has this kung fu, why don't you help me think about how to save some silver." If you only stare at the county king's mansion, I'm afraid that my mother won't have a good life in the past few months. ”

There is a way that is a good spirit but not a bad spirit, Jiang Yanhua unfortunately became a prophecy, and then asked for the name and Najib two salutes, and every time the Ministry of Rites entered the door with something from half of the yard, plus a pair of fat geese jumping around, the Jiang family's yard would not be able to raise it. When it came to the recruitment, that is, the day of the dowry, there were so many boxes at the entrance that the Cao family was shocked.

This time, it was not only the people from the Ministry of Rites who came, but also a middle-aged man with a goatee. The Cao family recognized that he was the one who brought the box that day, obviously, this was someone from the Anjun Palace.

Sure enough, the people from the Ministry of Rites were singing the details on the list of rites in the same way, and the man came over and smiled at Cao's family: "Mrs. Jiang, here are the things that our prince has added to the mansion for thousands of dollars, and they are not on the list of the Ministry of Rites, there is another list, please Mrs. See." ”

Cao Shi took a look at the sandalwood screen, the jade bonsai, the porcelain of the Jun kiln, and the calligraphy and painting of the Tang and Song dynasties. However, on such a good day, she didn't dare to sweep Jiang Xi's excitement, so she had to squeeze out a smile and say: "The prince really has a heart." It's just that our family's financial resources are limited, and I'm afraid that the dowry given to Sister Tao can't be compared with the dowry sent by the prince......"

Goatee smiled indifferently: "Don't worry, madam." In addition to the dowry prepared by the Ministry of Rites for the house, our prince also added some to the girl, which is acceptable. ”

Cao Shi felt that he was choking on his chest in one breath, he couldn't spit it out, he couldn't swallow it, so he could only nod with a wooden face - it can be seen, those boxes sent over that day are just passable? If this is reasonable, then what is Jiang Yanhua's? Can't even look at it?

Taohua has almost stayed at home during this time. At the Lu family, Mrs. Lu's legs were completely light after the summer, and Taohua had done three more moxibustion moxibustion for her, and now the old lady was so relaxed that she could almost dance the tango—if she could dance, of course.

With such an effect, Mrs. Lu was obedient to Taohua, and she didn't even dare to eat her favorite cold melon this summer, so she smiled when she saw Taohua, and personally picked a pair of golden-headed noodles in her box to add makeup to her.

In contrast, Mrs. Lu has lost a lot of weight - in early June, news came out from Lu Xuan's mother-in-law's house that the maid who was stuffed into her by her mother-in-law already had good news. After Lu Xuan cried a lot, she had to go back to her mother-in-law's house and bow her head to be a man, hoping that if this girl gave birth to a son, she could take it to her room to raise.

The daughter lives such a life, even if her mother-in-law's legs are good enough to go to heaven, Mrs. Lu can't be happy. When she thanked Taohua, she was absent-minded, which made Mrs. Lu very displeased.

Taohua sympathized with Mrs. Lu, but she couldn't do anything, so she didn't say anything comforting, and drew up a prescription for Mrs. Lu, and then she disappeared and stopped going to Lu's house. That prescription was the most suitable treatment plan for Lu Xuan that she could think of, but whether it would work in the end depended on the will of God.

Therefore, Taohua is still quite idle now, at least there must be time to read the dowry list carefully.

Mint and bellflower are also very enthusiastic about this activity, huddle together to watch, and from time to time let out amazements.

Taohua was a little crying and laughing: "Haven't you all seen these things?" "The dowry gift is to be counted and put into storage, otherwise you will write a mutton fat white jade Ruyi on the list, and you will be given a gray and white jade Ruyi inside, which is too bad. Of course, taking inventory is the job of the girls, so mint and bellflower, as well as ginkgo seeds, have already had a sneak peek, okay.

Kikyo smiled and said, "The slave and maid were only concerned with work that day, and they didn't remember what good things were." "That's what the Ministry of Rites sent, and what the prince added in is a good thing.

"Ming'er will tell you to take care of the treasury." Taohua said angrily, "Let you stay in it every day, and see enough." ”

Kikyo grinned: "There is nothing rare in the treasury, if it weren't for the fact that those were sent by the prince of the county to the girl, the slave wouldn't have seen it." "Although things are good, what is even better is the prince's heart for the girl!

Taohua smiled slightly, and turned her gaze to the head of her bed.

There hung two jade rings, the larger one had been bound by dark gold threads, and in the center was a ruyi knot made of gold and silver threads, and the long tassels hung down, shaking slightly when the wind blew.

The small jade ring is only half connected, but it can already be seen that the pattern is exactly the same. This is her heart.

"It's time to come in a few days." Mint was also very happy in her heart, "Aunt Zheng said that the girl has to take care of herself these days, and she needs to take some medicine to moisturize the skin, and the girl has to use these baths often." ”

Thinking of the wedding regulations for the princess of the county to marry in this era, although Taohua was full of expectations, she couldn't help but twitch a little at the corner of her eyes. According to Aunt Zheng's popular science, she had to wear an auspicious dress embroidered with gold and silver threads embroidered with Luan and phoenix patterns inside and three layers outside, and wore a flower crown weighing several pounds on her head, and tossed for a whole day. Fortunately, when she got married, it was already the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, and if the auspicious period was set in midsummer, I was afraid that she would suffer from heat stroke just by wearing auspicious clothes.

After the marriage is completed, after her princess orders to come down, she will put on the dress of the princess of the county again, and enter the palace to worship the temple, the queen mother, the queen, and the emperor - it will take a whole day to worship the strings.

When you think about it, it makes people feel like their scalp is starting to hurt.

"Take it off for me." The scalp pain is not completely fantastical, Aunt Zheng said, Taohua doesn't like to wear too much jewelry on weekdays, this habit is not bad, but on the day of marriage, suddenly put on a heavy flower crown, it will definitely be unbearable. Therefore, it is necessary to start practicing from now on, that is, to insert a bunch of heavy heads on your head every day, so as not to be unable to persist and lose your temper when you get married.

Therefore, Taohua now has a high snail on her head, six golden hairpins, a big hairpin on the front, and a bunch of flowers at the bottom, although the weight is not as heavy as the flower crown, it also makes her scalp hurt.

"If you do this all day, you will have to become bald for many years." Taohua touched the top of her head and felt deeply worried - should she write a hair growth recipe now and use it for herself first?

Aunt Zheng came in from outside with a cup of bird's nest, and when she heard this, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but move suspiciously slightly. This girl from the Jiang family has a gentle temperament and seems to be an excellent master, but there are some things in her bones that can't be changed no matter what, and occasionally they will flash in a flash, revealing something different.

For example, in the sentence just now, there are not a few women who think like this, but very few can say it. Some people may think that she said this because she did not have the upbringing of the girls in the big families, but Aunt Zheng always felt that there was something else here—this girl learned all kinds of rules quickly, but she didn't seem to think that these things were particularly important and worthy of her to learn hard.

Aunt Zheng has been in the palace for many years, and she has also been sent to teach the rules to the show girls to be selected. The women were so precious to her, and so obedient to the rules she taught, that they were eager to make themselves into the image she said they were—they really felt that what she was saying was right.

However, this Jiang girl is different. She will learn the rules taught to her seriously, but from the eyes that occasionally appear, Aunt Zheng feels that she should not be constrained by these rules at all, she learns just to put on a layer of protection for herself, so as not to be picked on, just like wearing thick clothes when winter comes.

Quite a quirky girl. Aunt Zheng thought so. However, this master is easy to serve, and he is the person whom the emperor has signaled to take care of, so Aunt Zheng will naturally not investigate it deeply. Anyway, as long as people can't find fault with it, right? Although some show girls have a positive attitude, they may not be as good as the master in front of them in the end.

"Drink it while it's hot, girl." Aunt Zheng decided to pretend that she hadn't heard anything bald.

Taohua grimaced at the bird's nest, she didn't like to drink this thing. Helplessly, Aunt Zheng was very persistent in this matter, and she was not allowed to go out casually since the summer, and she couldn't even accompany Jiang Bohua to play in the yard, so as not to tan her skin and not look good when she got married. On weekdays, various supplements take turns to fight, and you must feed a qualified bride who is both white and ruddy.

"Girl, there is a letter." Kikyo went out for a spin at some point, and came back with a letter and a smile.

Needless to say, this was sent by the Anjun Palace, and Aunt Zheng found an excuse to quit with great interest. After serving this noble man this time, she didn't want to go back to the palace again. Calculate that her age is also to the time when she can go out of the palace to retire, and she came out on the emperor's order this time, and she will be disgusted by the queen mother and queen when she returns to the palace in the future.

The emperor will naturally ask someone to protect her, but the harem is the world of the queen mother and the queen, and there is always a chance to rectify her. Instead of going back and worrying, it is better to take this opportunity to come out. Speaking of which, this future princess is not difficult to serve, and she also needs a person like her who is well versed in the rules of the palace, can she think of a way to stay?

If you want to achieve the purpose of staying, the first thing is not to dislike this girl, so it is a bit unruly for unmarried couples to frequently pass letters like this, and it is better for her to treat it as if she does not know.

Taohua was indeed very satisfied with Aunt Zheng's actions. She opened the letter while drinking the bird's nest, and felt that the tasteless bird's nest seemed to become a little more delicious in her mouth - she couldn't get out of the door these days, and she relied on Shen Shu's letter to relieve her boredom.

But after looking at a few lines, her face became serious, and the corners of the mouth of the bellflower, who had been smiling, were flattened, and she said cautiously: "Girl, but what's the matter?" ”

"Oh, nothing." Taohua drank the remaining bird's nest in one gulp and handed her the bowl, "Clean it up." ”

Mint motioned for Kikyo to go out and guard the door, and then asked, "Girl—"

Taohua raised her head and saw her as if she was facing a great enemy, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not our business to be so nervous." It was Wu Cairen in the palace who committed suicide. ”

"Wu Cairen?" Mint immediately remembered that it was the person who had reported Taohua before and got the benefit, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, "She, she- why?" "Isn't this person accustomed to camping and trying his best to climb up, and such a person is willing to commit suicide?

Tao Hua raised the letter in her hand: "She drugged Zhao Chongyi, so that the dragon fetus changed." ”

"Is it really drugged?" Mint's eyes widened, "How can she be so bold?" Besides, how did she get the drug? ”

"That's a good question." Taohua chuckled, "In order to please the queen, Wu Cairen pretended to be close to Zhao Chongyi, often ran to the Chunhua Palace, and secretly gave Zhao Chongyi medicine to hurt the fetus. Now that the imperial doctor has found out some clues, Wu Cairen committed suicide in fear after hearing the news. According to the confession of the palace man who was waiting next to her, Wu Cairen wanted to go to Fengyi Palace several times to flatter the queen, but the queen refused to solicit him, so Wu Caicai went to Chunhua Palace, thinking that if he could kill the dragon fetus in Zhao Chongyi's womb, he would be able to make meritorious contributions in front of the queen, so-well, that's it. ”

Mint blinked when he heard this: "What kind of medicine is that?" Where did this medicine come from? ”

Taohua spread her hands: "So the question you asked is very good." It is said that this medicine was brought in by Wu Cairen from home, and as for where to put it on weekdays, the palace people can't tell it. ”

"What is this-" Even if Mint has never seen the county lord's judgment, he knows a little bit of drama, "I don't know what kind of medicine it is, and I don't know how to take it, so how can I think it's Wu Cairen?" ”

"Because Wu Cairen committed suicide in fear of sin." Momoka sneered softly. Those who commit suicide in fear of sin are naturally guilty, otherwise why would they commit suicide? As for whether this is suicide or not, then two will say.

"Could it be—" Mint said cautiously, "the queen's hand, and then frame Wu Cairen?" ”

"I think it's the Queen Mother." Momoka said lightly. The drug is so secretive, if the queen can do it, Jiang Meihua will not have been hit by a cat and has a miscarriage.

"But that's not right either." Peppermint muttered, "Now the palace people say that Wu Cairen is going to harm people for the queen, and this-the queen's reputation is not good......"

Momoka didn't answer the question. Wu Cairen's suicide in fear of guilt should be the hand of the Queen Mother, and as for the confession of the palace people in the back, I am afraid it is not completely under the control of the Queen Mother. The Zhao family is not as good as the Jiang family, since it has been found out that Zhao Chongyi was drugged and injured the fetus, the Zhao family will not swallow it so stubbornly.

However, Taohua doesn't care much about this, she cares more about what kind of drug Zhao Chongyi was given. I don't know why, she always had a vague premonition - she should understand this problem, this matter is very important to her......