After a good night's sleep, Chu Lingke woke up at the end of the day, and after getting dressed, he saw Yulong pushing the door in

"The prince woke up, I went to carefully investigate the surroundings of the Imperial History Mansion, although this Imperial History Mansion is not heavily guarded, in fact, He Hu's army is hidden in the dining room, firewood room, backyard and other hidden places in the mansion."

"These troops are well hidden, I was about to come back and accidentally found a man in armor putting water under the pear tree in the backyard, I thought it was strange and followed them all the way until the firewood room found them."

Chu Lingke sat down and poured a cup of tea for Yulong, "It's hard work, since Wang Qiwen didn't let us know that He Hu's army was protecting his residence, there must be some taboo, then we should treat it as if we didn't know about it."

A figure faintly appeared on the door and window, the two stopped talking and made eye contact, Chu Lingke looked at the figure there should be a woman, and motioned for Yulong to continue talking

"Shizi, when I came yesterday, I saw a lot of Huizhou specialties along the way, and I thought... I want to go and see it today and bring some back to my mother."

Naturally, after breakfast, I went to the street with my son, and my sister had long said that Huizhou's specialty clay figurines had a unique style and pestered me for a long time!"

His eyes looked at the figure meaninglessly, and he waved his hand to the jade dragon, who gently got up and held his breath and moved to the door, and touched the dagger on his waist with his right hand to pull the door open

There was a woman in a pink brocade dress standing outside the door, and when she saw the door open, she said embarrassedly with surprise on her face, "Childe, the meal is ready, the official family ordered me to call Childe."

Chu Lingke got up and walked over, clasped his fists and said, "Fang Cai has a lot of concerns, and I hope the girl won't blame him."

The woman's face was flushed, "It was the slave family who didn't dare to confirm whether the son was in the room, so they waited at the door for a while... It should be the slave family who begs the son not to blame."

"The girl looks the same age as Ah Mei, but the lady in the house?"

The smile on the woman's face froze, and gradually an expression of pain and struggle appeared on her face, "Slave... She is the eighteenth concubine of the official family..."

Chu Lingke looked at the woman in front of him, she and Ah Mei had the same age but different fates, and he also saw the hands she deliberately hidden, the fingers that should have been delicate were full of scars, and I don't know what kind of experience I experienced...

Frowning, he leaned over and said something in Jade Dragon's ear, and Jade Dragon nodded and turned back to the room

I don't know what to call the girl? In the Lower Chu Lingke "

"The slave's surname is Zhao, the name is Ying'er, and the son can call the slave Yingniang"

At this time, the jade dragon has come back " Childe, found " "Well, give it to me"

Chu Lingke looked at her and said gently, "Fang Cai didn't mean to see Yingniang's hand... Then he took a bottle of scar removal ointment and handed the small white jade bottle in his hand to Yingniang, "Wipe it three times a day, and you can eliminate scars and swelling in half a month"

Yingniang looked down at her hands hidden in her sleeves, red and swollen and ugly, full of scars... Since she was forcibly occupied by Wang Qiwen and married back to the Imperial History Mansion, she has been bullied by several other wives and concubines every day, and her work is even worse than that of a small servant... Wang Qiwen physically abused her, and she lived in dire straits every day...

"Thank you, son" Yingniang's eyes were full of tears and trembling to take the small jade bottle, and a maid ran in the distance to find Yingniang and shouted menacingly, "What are you doing here!" Why don't you go and pour the Gong bucket now! ”

Yingniang put the vial in her sleeve and saluted Chu Lingke, "The slave family will say goodbye first, don't forget to go to dinner, don't forget to eat" After speaking, she left with the maid, Chu Lingke looked at the figure in the distance and felt inexplicably uncomfortable, Wang Qiwen did how many bad things He Hu had done! It seems that this trip to Huizhou is not as simple as imagined

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Pavilion

Today's draft is a talent show, and after Wang Meidie returned home yesterday, she told Wang Yingshu about the day's events. Including when she rolled the dice, she was helped by Mama to win.

Wang Yingshu leaned on the wooden chair and drank green tea and said slowly, "She dares not to help, Die'er can have confidence in tomorrow's talent??"

Wang Meidie thought that Liang Qi's face was crimson, and she gently touched it with the back of her hand, and it was hot like a fever "My daughter is ready, and the emperor will pay attention to her tomorrow when she sees it."

"Oh? The emperor actually went to watch the draft? Wang Yingshu was still quite surprised, and he didn't say in the court whether he cared about the draft, according to the experience of previous years, he would definitely not go, but this year was unexpected...

"Die'er must behave well in front of the emperor tomorrow, Daddy will look at you!"

Mama Liu waited in the pavilion for more than an hour and didn't see the emperor coming, and finally couldn't help but send a palace maid to ask, and the palace maid came back very quickly " Rong Gonggong said that the emperor will not come to the pavilion today Rong Cheng said that the meaning is very vague, not indicating whether the emperor will come tomorrow, only telling you not to come today.

Knowing that Liang Qi would not come today, Wang Meidie was inevitably very disappointed, and her carefully prepared talent was not seen by him! Then she won't be able to impress him! Yu Xiangxiang next to her was still talking to her, and she was upset, thinking about what she told her about Liang Qi's preferences yesterday, so she asked, "Sister, have you gone back to prepare for what my sister said yesterday?"

Yu Xiangxiang was stunned for a moment, then nodded frantically and said with a smile, "My sister is ready, just as my sister said!"

"Just get ready, my sister is here to wish my sister all her wishes come true" Wang Meidie's smile hid a deep sinisterity

"Talent competition begins——-"

The process of the competition is the same as yesterday, but Wang Meidie's position is in front, and the second round will be to her. The woman who fought against her yesterday was also very powerful, and her strength should not be underestimated.

"Wang's Meidie, where is your instrument?" Mama Liu asked curiously

"Back to Mama, the musical instrument is in this pavilion." Wang Meidie slowly walked to a willow tree and took a leaf from the long willow branch

"This is the instrument"

Everyone in the pavilion made a sound of amazement, and Mama Wang nodded with satisfaction, "Then let's start."

Wang Meidie closed her eyes and raised her slender jade hand, her slender fingers were holding a leaf as thin as a piece of paper, and the tender green leaf was placed on her red lips to form a sharp contrast Everyone in the pavilion waited quietly for the performance, and a unique voice with a thin and sweet voice sounded in the air, making people feel like entering a paradise to experience the world of immortals, and it was like a mountain flowing in a mountain stream

At the end of the song, everyone under the steps applauded and praised, and Wang Meidie walked down triumphantly, proud like a peacock, as if everyone below was not worth seeing. Obviously, she won this one, so that she could successfully reach the third round, as long as she passed tomorrow's physical examination, she would be able to successfully enter the Long Forbidden Palace, Chu Xiang, it was just a passing scene, she would be the master!

Yu Xiangxiang's instrument is a two-stringed guqin, but it is only two hands big, Wang Meidie has never seen it, I don't know where it came from... The sound of the guqin is a little like the guzheng, but there is a hint of flute sound in it, Yu Xiangxiang played a song "Remembrance" and won the victory, and asked Wang Meidie curiously after going down

"What's the name of my sister's music? My sister really likes it."

"Hehe, this is what I wrote myself, so I don't know how to call it "Burning""

""Searing" is a good name, can my sister write a song for my sister when she has time in the future?"

Wang Meidie looked at her and was so annoyed that she was going to die, write to you? Who are you? Just because your father is a county magistrate, you don't look at how many pounds and taels you have!

"Nature" If you still have a life...

After the second wave of the draft, everyone followed the eunuch to the outside of the palace, Yu Xiangxiang deliberately walked in the last corner and walked to another place while others were not paying attention, Wang Meidie looked at her leaving figure, and a cruel smile rose on the corner of her mouth...

"Where is the Ming Luan Palace? Didn't Wang Meidie say that you can get there by following the gardenias? Yu Xiangxiang wiped the thin sweat on her forehead and scolded Wang Meidie many times, but the gardenia along the way is good, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing, and the smell is not an ordinary gardenia, but like a variety in the South China Sea

After walking for another cup of tea, Yu Xiangxiang finally saw a towering pavilion, which was obviously different from the other pavilions she had seen in the palace, each carved rosewood window lattice had an amethyst about the size of a copper basin, shining in the sunlight, and small wind chimes hung at the corners of the eaves on each floor, and the gentle sound of the wind blowing through the rhythmic ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding was not forgiving

"This should be the Mingluan Palace..." Yu Xiangxiang was very happy in her heart, she could finally meet the emperor!

A maid came from the path with her robe in her arms, and when she saw her, she asked, "Who are you?" Why at the gate of the Mingluan Temple? ”

Yu Xiangxiang looked at her with a smile, "You really don't know who I am?" The palace maid saw that her outfit should be a draft girl, so she said, "You participated in the draft, but you got lost and got here?"

"Hehe, how can it be, the emperor ordered me to come here to find him, the emperor is here?"

The palace maid nodded suspiciously, "Then you wait a minute, I'll go in and report it" " "

In the hall, Liang Qi was leaning on Chu Xiang's chaise longue and looking at her notebook, I don't know how Xiang'er liked these boring conversations, and they were not as interesting as his plays.

After the palace maid put away her robe, she said to Liang Qi, "Your Majesty, there is a woman outside the door to find you."

Liang Qi paused as he turned the page, woman? After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that Imperial Physician Liu had a female disciple who was very accomplished in women's body coordination, so he introduced it to him, Liang Qi thought about it, it was good to have a female official, who could give Xiang'er a good condition, so that their children would be healthy!

"Xuan"

Yu Xiangxiang was waiting anxiously outside the palace, could it be that the emperor didn't want to see her? Still is...

"Girl, the emperor summoned you" The palace maid's words were like a reassurance, Yu Xiangxiang smiled and thanked her, and then walked to the palace gate with her skirt

When she stepped into the Mingluan Palace, she felt what is called the gap, from the door to the depths of the inner hall are priceless velvet rabbit blankets, wearing embroidered shoes on the feet feel the softness of the velvet rabbit, the palace maid shouted in surprise, "Why don't you take off your shoes?!"

Yu Xiangxiang took a few steps back and saw that there were already a few mud footprints on the white soft blanket, she just saw that the gardenia was beautiful and walked inside to look carefully, at that time the soles were stained with mud, and the main thing is that she didn't know how to take off the embroidered shoes...

"It's... How that should be! I love this blanket on weekdays! The palace maid squatted down with a sad face and stroked the stains with her hands

Liang Qi in the inner hall heard the sound outside and said dissatisfiedly, "What? So noisy? ”

The palace maid got up and walked back to the inner hall and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, the velvet rabbit blanket that Niangniang loves is dirty... Please forgive the emperor! Liang Qi frowned and slapped the notebook in his hand on the desk, with anger in his cold voice, "Why is it dirty? ”

"This... It was the woman outside the door, and she entered the temple without taking off her shoes, and the blanket was dirty..."

Liang Qi got up angrily and walked to the outer hall, how could the Yu Xiang incense in the outer hall have the arrogance of a genius, and he knelt on the ground when he saw a bright yellow color coming out of the rosewood door

"Who are you? But the disciple of Imperial Physician Liu? Liang Qi asked directly and straight to the point

"Back to the emperor.. I'm not a disciple of Imperial Physician Liu..."

"Not? So why are you here? ”

"I... I'm Yu Xiangxiang, we met at yesterday's draft! I wanted to see the emperor and found this place that offended the mother, and I didn't know how to take off my shoes when I entered the palace."

Liang Qi looked at the woman in front of him and felt angry in his heart, Lao Shizi was fragrant, and when he saw her, he felt disgusted and waved his hand, "I don't know what kind of incense you are, but your trespassing on the Mingluan Palace is a crime of invasion, so you will be imprisoned and beheaded one day!" His words could not be questioned, and as soon as he finished speaking, a group of men in black dressed in strong suits appeared outside the hall

"Such a big person walked into the Mingluan Hall in a flash, don't you feel derelict as a shadow guard? How can I rest assured that the safety of the Mingluan Hall will be entrusted to you! ”

"Your Majesty, this time it is a dereliction of duty on the part of my subordinates, this woman should have come from Niangniang's gardenia path, and my subordinates have not paid attention to it."

"That's it, one person receives a penalty of 50 boards! Not an example! ”

"No"

Yu Xiangxiang knelt on the ground, everyone was stupid, and asked for a beheading day? How can you just ask about it? hugged Liang Qi's thigh again and again, crying, "Your Majesty! I'm here to see the emperor! I am happy with the emperor! I have prepared something for the emperor that I like! As he spoke, he took out something from his bosom

Liang Qiben's dissipated anger suddenly came up again, kicked Yu Xiangxiang out of the hall and hit a gardenia tree, the petals fell one after another to form a flower rain, and there was something shining on the ground not far from the place where Yu Xiangxiang lay down, this thing was according to Wang Meidie said that she made a glass lamp overnight

Wang Meidie spit out a mouthful of blood, and watched Liang Qi step by step with confused eyes

"How do you know this? Who told you? His voice was already full of anger, and his eyes were red as he looked at Yu Xiangxiang lying on the ground

"I... Ahem.. The emperor spared his life.. I don't know.."

Liang Qi couldn't hear what she said clearly, and the golden silk embroidered dragon boots stepped on her wrist fiercely, and in an instant, Yu Xiangxiang let out a scream of pain and fainted

"Take to the dungeon and torture it"

"No"

The guards dragged away the fainting Yu Xiangxiang, and Liang Qi looked at the gardenia tree and ordered the tree to be uprooted, the tree was already dirty... The palace maid knelt on the ground and asked tremblingly, "Your Majesty, the velvet rabbit blanket in the palace..."

"Throw it away, dirty things, how can you let Xiang'er see it?"

"No"