Chapter 121: The Jade Seal Case (5) The Hidden Lover
"Yueru girl? She and Wanmei and Hongyu are both temperamental, they don't like each other, they look like black-eyed chickens when they meet, and they don't have a good relationship. ”
Lian Sheng came to the Bright Moon Pavilion alone to understand the situation. Because Xu Qi is currently the most important suspect, as a sister, Xu Yan cannot participate in this case. They are also women, and the girls of Mingyue Pavilion are much less vigilant when they see Liansheng, and they are willing to gossip with her about some little secrets between women.
"Sister Mingyue, but why do these three people use the same spices? Do they all like gardenias? Liansheng blinked his round black eyes, looking exceptionally well-behaved. This Mingyue girl can't tell her age, it is said that it has been more than ten years since she opened this Mingyue Pavilion, Liansheng guessed that she was probably an ageless beauty like Lin Chiling, and she was very concerned about her appearance and age. After entering the Mingyue Pavilion and asking to see the boss, Liansheng took the initiative to call her sister. was called sister by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, and at the same time this girl was also a seven-grade female official, the proprietress Mingyue was in a good mood, pouring beans on the bamboo tube, but everyone who knew it said it in one go. At this moment, she shook her fan and sighed: "Actually, my girls have their own favorite incense." Yueru loves gardenia the most, Hongyu usually uses agarwood ambergris, but the day before yesterday she and Wanmei went to Yanwangfu to sing songs, because she was worried that she would annoy the nobles with agarwood, and asked me to change the spices, it happened that I had gardenias and osmanthus on hand, and they both used gardenias in unison, gardenias have always been Yueru's favorite, and these two little hooves didn't know what to do crazy the day before yesterday. ”
"Sister, they didn't go crazy on purpose." Lian Sheng chuckled: "No wonder my sister said that they have a big temper, these two girls are deliberately facing Miss Yueru." ”
Mingyue thought for a moment. Fluttering smiled: "It's not, it's really all the little girl's thoughts, the banquet in the Yanwang Mansion is very famous, there are a lot of dignitaries and nobles, and if the moon doesn't go to it, she sulks in the room." These two little hooves were dressed in the fragrance of gardenias and went to Yueru's room for a walk, yesterday Xu Gongzi invited Yueru to go out, and Yueru also deliberately wore gardenia fragrance to run around the two of them, and sure enough, it was behind these little hooves. I'm so old that I didn't even think of this twist and turn. “
"This pavilion needs to be dotted by my sister. Naturally, there is no time to take care of these mundane things. ”
"Oops. You're not a very old man, but you're really good at talking, and to be honest, those officials come to me to have fun, and they smile brightly. Which is not the eye up. Look at us. In fact, many of our girls are also official ladies. It's just bad luck, something happened to the family and was sold to the Teaching Division, otherwise who wouldn't want to be innocent. Master Gu is also a woman. Nature understands our suffering. ”
"Miss Guan? The three girls who were killed were from an official family? ”
"Yueru and Hongyu are both, Yueru's father turned out to be a prefect, and later the corruption case died within a few days of entering Dali Temple. The whole family was sold, Hongyu's grandfather Laozi is the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, five years ago, because the upper fold said that Wang Guifei was originally a member of the Empress Dowager Cimu's palace, and the six palaces were in charge of the ceremony, so she asked the concubine to move to the palace, and the title angered the long-lived lord, and she was imprisoned for a crime. Unexpectedly, some family members sued him for communicating with foreign countries, found out the correspondence with North Korea, and directly sentenced Ling Chi, punished the men of the three ethnic groups, and sold the women. Do you think this person is tired of being crooked, long live the people, who does the Lord like, who loves him, and who has to report to the civil and military officials? Pity this red jade from a young lady to an official prostitute, she can't be expelled for life, and I heard that she was married in her early years. When Mingyue said this, she took out a handkerchief and pressed the corner of her eye: "Who would have thought that it would end up like this." I've lost too much, three red girls. ”
"This red jade girl turned out to be the daughter of the Sanpin official family, no wonder the party is so big, she actually uses agarwood and ambergris, it's amazing. Hey, Sister Mingyue, she is bigger than your sister. ”
Liansheng deliberately turned his words around, provoking Mingyue's jealousy, and sure enough, Mingyue's eyes rolled, and she covered her mouth with a fan and smiled: "My lord really exalted her, she was born as an official prostitute, and how much silver money is not her own, how can she have any spare money to buy agarwood ambergris, and there is no place to buy it." ”
"Huh? Why is that? Sister, you're so good, you know so much, what spices are, I really don't know anything. Liansheng pretended to be embarrassed.
Her compliment made Mingyue smile: "Sister, although you are an official, this woman's things can't be left behind, this daughter's fragrance is the most intoxicating." This agarwood and ambergris are extremely strict, only high-ranking officials and nobles can use them, you think, Hongyu is not a fool, how dare to use ambergris when you go to Yanwang's Mansion, you can only cover it with gardenias. I guess her incense was given to her. ”
"What my sister means, she has a lover, and she is still a nobleman!"
"Yes, I guess it's expensive, I heard Huan'er say that she got the best fragrance a few days ago. Oh, Huan'er is the maid who serves her, these little maids have nothing to do and like to get together to brag, I heard that the best fragrance still comes out of the palace. You say, "Who is this good person?" Mingyue pointed up mysteriously: "Maybe it's a prince who can't say." ”
She smiled eatingly: "I heard that the current prince of England is very suave, but he has never been to my pavilion, oops, I have no chance to meet......" Mingyue's words stopped before she finished speaking, because she saw that the eyes of this experienced adult suddenly looked like knives, she stood up and said coldly: "Excuse me." Turning around and leaving, Mingyue offended the adult for some reason, chased after her, leaned against the curtain and shouted: "Sister, sister will teach you to make incense another day." ”
Huan'er is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, not tall, and her appearance can only be said to be delicate, and she is really inconspicuous in this Mingyue Pavilion where beauties gather.
"Are you Ruby's maid? What is the relationship between your girl and Yueru and Wanmei? ”
"It's okay. My girl has a good temperament and never argues with others. ”
This ring has a pair of eyes purring, and at first glance it looks like a clever person.
"Are you sure she doesn't argue with anyone?"
Liansheng's voice instantly became stern.
Huan'er then remembered that the girl in front of her, who was a few years older than herself, was an official, and she had a reason to drag herself down the board at any time, so she lowered her head, and the fingers of her two hands were constantly twisting and twisting. Liansheng noticed her action and knew that she was very complicated and entangled at the moment. How can I fool the past by digging out my thoughts?
"Who gave it to her? Who is her lover? ”
Liansheng didn't give her time to think, and threw out two heavy questions one after another, Huan'er was startled, raised her eyes and asked, "My lord...... How do you know? ”
"I know a lot. Huan'er, your girl is dead, you tell me the truth, in order to help your girl redress her grievances, you always lie here, say good things about your girl, but you can't survive if you praise her as a flower. You tell me? ”
Huan'er thought for a while and said, "What the lord said is right, it's the slave who wants to be left." My girl was killed, could it be that the person who killed her was the one who gave her incense? ”
"It's impossible to know for sure at this time, but there must be a reason why a person wouldn't be killed for no reason. This reason has to be found from the people around her. The person who gave her incense was her lover, right? ”
Huan'er hesitated and nodded: "I don't know who that person is, every time there is a sedan chair to pick it up, until the day before yesterday, I went to Yanwang Mansion with the girl, and I saw at the door that every time I went to pick up the girl, it turned out to be a descendant of Lin Yuma's family......" Huan'er said this, and hugged his shoulder in fear: "Could it be that my girl was killed by Lin Yuma?" That's a relative of the emperor, didn't the girl die in vain? . ”
"Did the red jade see anything unusual about that person?"
"Anomaly?" Huan'er thought about it carefully, "I didn't care about it at the time, but now I think it's really abnormal." When we got out of the car, the girl suddenly tripped over something, and the man stepped forward and helped the girl, and then we went in. After singing a song, the girl said to go to Dengdong (to go to the toilet). I said I'll accompany you, and the girl said you stay here and don't go there. After waiting for a long time and not seeing the girl come back, I went out to look for it, and found the place where the palace was ascending to the east, but I didn't see the girl. I was in a hurry, and somehow I went around to the garden, and watched my girl hurry, and took me by the hand and said to go, and I knew what was going on, and trotted after her. ”
"Where was Miss Wanmei then?"
"Evening girl? She really went to Dengdong. I met her on the road. ”
"Your girl likes red dresses?"
"Yes, the girl said that this life is over, and there is no chance to wear a red wedding dress, so she wears a red dress all day long, which can be regarded as a thought for herself."
"The two girls of Mingyue Pavilion went to Yanwang's Mansion to sing, and naturally the Mei girl couldn't wear red that night?"
"That's natural, she is wearing pale green clothes, and she laughs at our girl like a bride, hmph, her kind of green, like a toad skin that has just popped out, and she dares to laugh at me and our girl?"
Huan'er was indignant.
In the results of the investigation in Mingyue Pavilion, Liansheng went through it: Yueru did not have a good relationship with Wanmei and Hongyu. Yueru and Hongyu are both from official ladies, and Hongyu's family is likely to be convicted for offending Wang Guifei, and she has a secret lover who may be Lin Yuma. Something must have happened at the banquet in the Yanwang Mansion the day before yesterday! (To be continued......)