Chapter 13: Riding the Dragon
When she returned to Qinghua Pavilion, when it was already half the night, she yawned and climbed into bed, remembered something again, and hurriedly got up again to go to the plum tree in the courtyard and began to dig.
After digging for a while, she dragged out a black sack, opened it, and saw that the cat's hair, which she had cut open with a dagger on the second day of her arrival, was shiny, and its internal organs were still fresh, and its flesh was not damaged at all, as if it was asleep.
She smiled with satisfaction, the corpse of the palace maid should be fine.
Originally, she was worried about the efficacy of Immortal San, so she used this cat to conduct experiments first, and it turned out that Immortal Powder was really effective, even better than formalin.
She didn't bury the cat again, but took it back to the bedroom with the bag and threw it into the dark room, thinking that she would find a good place to bury it.
Two days later, when waiting in front of the palace, Bai Qingting looked for what seemed to be a good day and told the emperor that she wanted to go out of the palace to personally buy some melon seeds, walnut flesh and other ingredients to make rice brocade cakes.
Long Xuan first glanced at her meaningfully, and then teased her: "Are you worried about those little pets in your house outside the palace?" Rest assured, starvation does not die. ”
She is not afraid of starving to death one or two, even if she starves to death, it doesn't matter, otherwise sooner or later she will have to become the soul of her sword.
The original owner of Tsinghua Pavilion raised a cat and a small parrot, the cat she had to choose a good day to bury it and then set up a monument or something, as for the parrot as long as it did not talk nonsense, she was thrown on the plum treetops outside the yard, thinking that the disappearance of the cat made it aware of something, these days it is the most honest and quiet, she will keep it idle.
There are cats, dogs and chickens in my memory, why didn't she see any when she went last night?
Bai Qingting felt strange in his heart, and replied with a straight face: "As Your Majesty said, those little animals will still starve to death for a while, and the slave maid really wants to do a good job of making rice cakes, in order to thank Your Majesty for your holy grace, please fulfill Your Majesty!" ”
Long Xuan didn't say a word, got up after eating, and finally said slowly what she wanted to hear when she left the Qianxin Palace, "Go ahead, don't play crazy." ”
This time, she added a little excitement to her face, bowed down and said, "Slave and maid, thank Your Majesty!" ”
On the way to the imperial food room, seeing that Qin Cainu and Chen Imperial Chef of the imperial food room were talking happily, she stood quietly for a while and left, Qin Cainu has been looking for her in the past few days, and she has also confirmed that the murderer is not the queen's order, but the imperial concubine, so where did Qin Cainu hear that the queen wanted to kill her?
Originally, she wanted to go to the Imperial Dining Room to leave the palace with the purchaser as soon as possible, but now it seems that she should have a good talk with Qin Cainu first.
Bai Qingting stood on the road that Qin Cainu had to pass on weekdays and waited for her, and after waiting for a while, he saw her coming over in a good mood, "Hui'er." ”
Qin Cainu obviously didn't expect to meet Bai Qingting, and said, "Sister Bai, are you waiting for me?" ”
"Yes, I'm waiting for you." Bai Qingting took Qin Cainu's hand, walked along the road, went to a secluded place, and said after making sure that there was no one around: "Hui'er, before you said that the queen mother wanted to harm me, where did you hear that?" ”
Qin Cainu didn't understand what she meant, Bai Qingting had no choice but to say again: "I mean, what makes you sure that the queen wants to kill me?" ”
Although Qin Cainu still had doubts, she had always said something to Bai Qingting, these days she felt guilty because she couldn't share the hardships with Bai Qingting in her heart, and now Bai Qingting finally took the initiative to come to her, how could she not let down Sister Bai, who had always been respected.
She thought for a while and said, "This has to start after Sister Bai was carried back to Qinghua Pavilion from the platform, and at that time it was said that Sister Bai was hopeless, and even the capital of the Junyuan was decided. I was very sad when I heard this, and I didn't believe it, and when I went to get dinner for my sister, some people in the imperial food room pointed at my back and discussed, saying that my sister was dead, and what effort did it take, and that the queen mother was going to destroy the people, and the king of Yama didn't dare not accept ......."
Bai Qingting raised his forehead, "That's it?" ”
Qin Cainu also realized that she was a little arbitrary at this time, and muttered: "In addition, when I thought about it later, I remembered what Sister Bai told me about Bai Cainu, so I ......."
Bai Qingting sighed silently, "So it's decided?" ”
Qin Cainu nodded embarrassedly, and then affirmed: "Sister Bai, I think there is no other way to ...... the queen."
"It's not." Bai Qingting said, "Don't worry about this matter anymore, and don't think about it again." ”
Qin Cainu sighed, although she was still very curious about who it was if it was not the queen's mother, but Bai Daizhao said so, she must have listened to it.
Bai Qingting asked again: "You are very familiar with Imperial Chef Chen?" ”
"Fortunately, I don't know him very well, but every time I go back to the imperial food room, I will talk about a word or two."
"Was it when I could talk to him after I fell off the platform? The discussion behind that was also inadvertently told to you by him? Bai Qingting asked tentatively, seeing that Qin Cainu's face turned pale after listening, she already knew the answer, "Okay, it's okay, you go back on an errand, you shouldn't have talked about the things between you and me today, remember?" ”
Qin Cainu nodded her head mechanically, and her pace back was a little unsteady.
Bai Qingting was silent, although Qin Cainu understood a little, but how could the deep palace be completely untouched if she understood a little? After this incident, I hope she can understand the reason and grow up a little.
That Chen Imperial Chef is just the right age, dignified, and a good man, but it's a pity that he is the person of the imperial concubine.
On the one hand, the imperial concubine used Qin Cainu's mouth to mislead her, and on the other hand, she used Concubine Lin Xian to send people to kill her, and both pointed the finger at the queen.
The head-on conflict between her and the queen is nothing more than Bai Yaoguang's incident, so did the imperial concubine know about this matter or was it just a coincidence?
No, it can't be a coincidence.
In this deep palace compound, what is most lacking is accidents, and what is most lacking is coincidence.
Even if there were, nine times out of ten it was a man-made coincidence.
The Imperial Cuisine sent two palace maids to follow her and leave the palace together.
Not far from the palace walls, there are four of Kyoto's most famous streets.
Bai Qingting's eyes lit up, the streets at night are really nothing to see, and it is very different to look at this bustling Kyoto during the day.
Nanyan Street usually houses some idle nobles, Beiyan Street lives the real royal family, the Prince's Mansion is among them, the Xiyan Street in the northwest is inhabited by the powerful people in the DPRK and China, and Dongyan Street is mostly a place for ordinary people, including many rich businessmen.
After buying melon seeds, walnut flesh and other things, the two palace maids looked at the rouge shop, their eyes flashed, but she was not interested, not to mention that it was difficult to come out, she had to go shopping for something else.
After she repeatedly assured that she was okay and that she would not say that she was hanging out alone when she returned to the palace, the two palace maids happily ran to the rouge shop.
She picked a cloth village to enter, not because it was special, but because the surname of this cloth village was Li.
The Li family made clothes, one of the royal merchants.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, the Li family collected the entire royal clothing.
This alone is enough to make the Li family enjoy endless wealth and glory for several generations, and the word "imperial businessman" makes the Li family superior in the business world and honored.
As soon as I entered the store, I heard two young men lying on the counter whispering, one was talking sideways, and the other simply turned his back to eat refreshments behind the cabinet, eating with relish, and the two were so focused that they didn't even know that she had entered the store.
"Hey, you don't know that the fifth lady has been making trouble for several days, and she went on a hunger strike and hanged herself.
"You know what!" The guy on his back swallowed a mouthful of pastry in his mouth, and said: "I heard the embroidery lady of Ming Gong Houfu say that the wedding dress of the fifth lady has been measured!" ”
"Huh? Isn't that a foregone conclusion? ”
"Who knows! How can we know the thoughts of this powerful family, it's none of our business anyway, we just need to eat and drink well! The guy who stood up and wanted to eat finally found Bai Qingting, and after being surprised, he quickly came back to his senses, and asked with a smile: "Girl, but do you want to buy ready-to-wear clothes?" ”
Bai Qingting nodded, and the guy introduced again: "Girl, you are really the right person!" Our Li family garment has the best embroidery, the best craftsmanship, the best materials, the most advanced dyeing technology, and ......"
"Show me the best ready-to-wear." After Bai Qingting finished speaking, he added, "Let's talk about the point." ”
The guy's smile is a little stiff, is this because he is so stupid?
He didn't dare to say anything else, and saw that although Bai Qingting was not wearing gold and silver, he couldn't help but have an elegant temperament, talk extraordinary, and most importantly, be polite.
He has seen a lot of such people, not to mention wearing a felt hat, he must be the arrogant lady of the powerful family.
The other guy was busy putting all the refreshments in the inner room, and when he came back, he was also full of smiles to see what she needed, and the guy motioned for him to go to the inner room to get the best ready-to-wear clothes, and he didn't hesitate, thinking that he had been used to listening to this guy's orders for a long time.
When another guy took the ready-to-wear clothes, it really made Bai Qingting's eyes shine, not only the style was novel, the color was beautiful and unique, but more importantly, the stitching method was very similar to the stitching method of the dragon robe on the emperor's body.
The next man's explanation confirmed her guess, "Girl, this is the treasure of our store!" Look at this stitch, I won't say much about the style, this stitch is amazing! That is the stitch method used in the dragon robe worn by the saint today, which is called the five-mess double-sided embroidery......"
She didn't listen to or care about what the guy said next, and after spending a lot of money to buy the treasure of their town store, she found a teahouse to sit in a private room, and carefully studied the so-called five-messy double-sided embroidery on the ready-to-wear.
After two hours of research, she finally came up with a needle.
In modern times, in order to stitch up the fresh corpse more perfectly, she has been learning acupuncture for a long time, and there is no stitch to stump her since.
Although it took her a lot of time to embroider these five messes, she was very happy in her heart and learned another kind of stitching!
However, the study is clear, to be skilled in stitching still needs to practice, after she returns to the palace, she has to hurry up and practice, and must strive to be exactly the same as the five messy double-sided embroidery on this ready-to-wear.
Bai Qingting finally had time to raise his head and glanced at the untouched lunch on the table, this was still the second time when the shopkeeper saw that it was lunch time, and kindly reminded her that the dishes she ordered, but as soon as she studied her favorite things, she completely forgot the time, and now it was cold and inedible.
After lunch, she stroked Fang Jue's hungry stomach at the moment, so she had to get up and leave the private room, and wanted to call the shopkeeper outside to make a new one for her.
As soon as the crack was opened, I heard footsteps, and a slightly deliberately lowered voice: "...... You don't want to think about it, if you really become the fast son-in-law of Bai Daizhao, you kid will have peach blossom luck and official luck...... Okay, let's talk about it in detail in the private room......"
The manuscript is gone, so I have to change it every day, hehe~