Chapter 71: Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of family reunion, and on this day every year, whether inside or outside the palace, moon cakes will be made to pray for the blessing of the moon god. Since Zhaojun, there has been a tradition of worshipping the moon and asking the sky and worshipping the moon god.
This is especially true in the palace, where a palace banquet is held every year, as lively as Chinese New Year's Eve.
Xia Nishang took Yun Yi and Dye Tian early and arrived outside the Mohan Pavilion.
Tonight, Mohan Pavilion is dressed up very well, surrounded by a fine juan veil, under the bright moonlight, it looks particularly blurry and hazy.
This is Xia Nishang's suggestion, the autumn is cool, and the gauze curtains are white or pink, blue or purple, just like Chang'e's arrival.
Leng Yexuan only said a few words at the banquet, even if it officially began.
For a while, the wine and delicacies, the staggered selection, the maids were full, and the aroma was overflowing, but it was really like entering a fairyland.
Xia Nishang sat in her place, tasting the fine osmanthus wine. October cinnamon, a hundred miles of fragrance, is indeed worthy of the name. The stinging aroma made Xia Nishang fall in love.
Looking at the concubines around them, they were either laughing, or drinking by themselves, or sitting together in twos and threes, not knowing what to do. All of them are dressed exquisitely and enchantingly, eye-catching, and it is a beautiful scenery.
The palace banquet was soon carried out for most of the time, and it was already full of wine and food. Xia Nishang's cheeks were slightly red, and she was slightly drunk.
"One-book-read-novel xstxt Yunyi, this palace is a little drunk, go to the side hall to sit down, you stay here, so as not to have anything." Xia Nishang whispered to Yun Yi beside her, and seeing her nodding, Fang walked out from behind with a look at Ran Tian.
It's just that there has always been a beam of eyes, staring at Xia Nishang's departing back, and a smile rose between her lips.
Xia Nishang walked out of the pavilion, and as soon as the cool breeze blew, the smell of wine had already dissipated a lot. It's just that she really didn't want to go back, so she walked around the pavilion with Ran Tian.
"What are you going to do?" Xia Nishang was walking when she suddenly heard a sharp voice and was startled. She quietly glanced back at Ran Tian, motioned for her not to make a sound, and then walked over to the source of the voice.
"What am I going to do? Now that you've done it, what are you afraid of? Another voice followed. The voice was so low that it was inaudible to men and women.
"What has Hongu done? Don't talk nonsense! "Walking past the sound, it was a remote palace. Xia Nishang hadn't been here, and she didn't know where it was, but when she looked back at Ran Tian, she also shook her head, I don't know where it was.
Anyway, let's see. Xia Nishang thought to herself, so she found a bush and hid.
"Hongu? It's ridiculous. That's not what you said when you asked me! Who is the child in your womb, God knows, you know and I know! ”
Child? In Xia Nishang's head, two names flashed in an instant. Now that there are only two children in the palace, Concubine Yu and Concubine Hui, so that means that the female voice must be one of the two of her.
"If you talk nonsense again, this palace will kill you! In the belly of this palace, it was the emperor's child at the time, and it was the future prince, which green onion are you, and you dare to threaten this palace? ”
This time, Xia Nishang finally heard clearly, that woman was Concubine Yu, Su Qinhan!
"Kill me, and your child will have no father! Don't pretend to be a chaste martyr, dare to do it! The man smiled sarcastically, and in the dark of the night, it looked particularly terrifying. But don't worry, I'm not going to say it. ”
"What the hell do you want!" Su Qinhan's voice was very sharp, as if he was going crazy.
And Xia Nishang listened to it beside her, and she was even more frightened into a cold sweat, and the remaining trace of alcohol was also completely disappeared because of the fright.
The child in Su Qinhan's belly was not Leng Yexuan's, so who was the man beside her? Xia Nishang knew very well that she had not heard this voice, nor did she know this person.
"I don't do anything, it's just that this hush money is indispensable. If this kid ascends the throne in the future, then you say, am I the emperor? The man's voice sounded very uncomfortable, as if he had been thirsty for many days and had not drunk water.
"You're dreaming!" Su Qinhan snorted. "How much do you want, say!"
"Concubine Yu is always pampered, and now she is pregnant, so naturally there is no shortage of money." The man also accepted it when he saw it, and he didn't embarrass her anymore. "One hundred thousand taels, not a single point less."
"One hundred thousand taels? You are blackmailing, where is this palace going to get you so much silver! Su Qinhan was so angry that even his voice was trembling.
"Come less. Prince Su has been an official for so many years, if you say that there are no 100,000 taels, I don't believe it. The man obviously didn't believe Su Qinhan's words. 100,000 taels, I'll give you three days, after three days, I'll go to you, if you don't give it to me, you should know the consequences, it's a big deal, we will die and the net will be broken, and no one will be able to end up! ”
"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you, and this palace will give it to you!" Su Qinhan saw that there was really no negotiation, and he was afraid that he would say it, so he had to agree.
"Alright, I'm leaving! Take care of your kids! The man finished and left.
The direction he left was where Xia Nishang was squatting, and when he walked over, he seemed to look back at Xia Nisheng, so scared that Xia Nishang didn't even dare to breathe.
And Su Qinhan, after the man left, looked around, and when he saw that there was no one, he also left quickly.
"Mother." Seeing the two of them leaving one after another, Xia Nishang's master and servant dared to stand up, Ran Tian was already scared, she couldn't have imagined it, but she was accompanying her master to come out to sober up, and she would encounter such a thing, if Concubine Yu knew about it, Ran Tian didn't even dare to think about it anymore.
"Ran Tian, today, you haven't heard anything, and you haven't seen anything, is it clear?" Xia Nishang glanced at the trembling Ran Tian and said solemnly. "Otherwise, neither you nor this palace will end well."
"Slave, slave and maid, listen to the mother." Ran Tian also knew that Xia Nishang was for her own good, so she quickly knelt down and said with assurance.
"Alright, get up." Xia Nishang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her like this. "Let's go back too, it's been so long since we've been out, it's time to go back."
When Ran Tian heard this, he immediately got up and helped Xia Nishang to go back.
Xia Nishang walked a few steps, but still involuntarily looked at the place just now, and there was a trace of unknown things in her eyes.
"Mother, you're back." Before Xia Nishang and the others arrived at Mohan Pavilion, Yun Yi hurriedly greeted them.
"What's wrong?" After what happened just now, Xia Nishang still had palpitations, and her face was very bad. Fortunately, it was dark, and Yun Yi didn't see it clearly.
"Shuncai people are poisoned. Now everyone followed to the Pure Yao Palace. Yun whispered in Xia Nishang's ear.
"Poisoned?" Xia Nishang was stunned.
The wine and food and all the matters of the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet were all handled by her and Concubine Lan, although she was just a starter, but now that something has happened, I am afraid that she will not be able to get rid of suspicion.
Xia Nishang couldn't help frowning secretly, what happened today, it was so unsmooth.
"Let's go to Chun Yao Palace too."
No matter how uncomfortable she felt in her heart, she had to follow everyone to Chun Yao Palace to see who it was, and then put her together.
Shun Cairen, who is a new person in this draft, was named a promise at the beginning, and after accepting the favor, he was promoted to a talented person and was titled Shun. Shuncai people have always been gentle and polite, and when they see Xia Nishang on weekdays, they are also polite and tight, such a lovely person, I really don't know who wants to harm her.
When their master and servant arrived at the Chunyao Palace, it was already full of people, all sitting in the main hall, and the emperor was at the top, not knowing what to think.
After Xia Nishang saluted, Fang found a place to sit down. As soon as she sat down, she saw Lan Guifei look at her.
"Your Majesty." After doing it for a while, Liu Yuan of Tai Hospital came out.
"What's wrong with Shuncairen?"
"If you go back to the emperor, Shuncai people have been poisoned by arsenic, but fortunately, the poisoning is not deep, and now there is no major problem." That hospital was the imperial physician when Empress Xianjia had a difficult birth.
Arsenic? Xia Nishang looked at Concubine Lan. Where did the arsenic come from, everything, both people checked and checked again, how could there be arsenic. This person who harms people is the one who wants to harm Shuncai, Xia Nishang, or Lan Guifei. It's really confusing.
"Well, then I'll hand over the Shuncai to you." Leng Yexuan stood up and said.
"Yes, Wechen obeys."
"Alright, it's getting late, so you all stand down." Leng Yexuan said to the concubines below. "Tomorrow, Concubine Lan, Concubine Chun, you come to Ruiyu Palace."
"Yes." Xia Nishang and Concubine Lan glanced at each other, and Gu Shi agreed.
"Alright, let's all disperse." Leng Yexuan waved his hand and walked out first.
Seeing that Leng Yexuan had already left, everyone also felt that there was nothing lively to watch, so they all went back to the palace. It's just that there is something more in the eyes of Xia Nishang and Lan Guifei.
The corners of Xia Nishang's eyes twitched slightly, she was not in Mohan Pavilion at that time, not to mention, she didn't know Shuncai, so she had nothing to do with her.
Back in Xiao Jue Palace, it was already late time, and after a day of tossing, Xia Nishang didn't even want to speak, and after taking a bath, she lay on the bed.
It's just that when I think of what I heard in that remote palace today, my scalp is still tingling. It has been almost four years since Su Qinhan had a miscarriage last time, who would have thought that she would do such a thing. Thinking of what happened to her in her previous life, Xia Nishang really felt that her heart was strong enough, otherwise she would not be scared to death.
If such a thing is discovered by Leng Yexuan, how can it be solved by giving death, this is a great sin of the Nine Clans. Despise the royal family and confuse the royal bloodline, it's really thanks to her to do it. I don't know if the Queen Mother knows, if she doesn't know, then whether she wants to give her a big gift, if she knows, then what she means is really intriguing.
Xia Nishang turned over, it seems that tonight, it is another sleepless night.