Chapter Forty-Eight: Extinguishing the Mouth
Meng Xiruo has believed in Buddhism since he was a child, and often goes to the Fahua Hall to worship, although the flawless real person of the Fahua Hall is named Daogu, in fact, he has studied Buddhism and Taoism, and Meng Xiruo can talk about it very much. Recently, the harem has not been peaceful, and Meng Xiruo is neither favored nor bored, so he simply moved to the little master of the Fahua Hall alone for a while. Today is also a lack of copying Buddhist scriptures, so I came out by myself to wander around, and walked around and came to the rockery of Quhe Garden. Coincidentally, Meng Xiruo's route happened to be Xiao Xiazi's blind spot, and no one noticed her approach. If the honest and honest Meng Xiruo heard such a pickled thing, he was so frightened that his legs trembled and his hands trembled on the spot. accidentally stepped into the water and crushed a purple lotus on the shore, and the falling pebbles rolled into the Qinxin Lake, and the pop pop sound was particularly crisp and loud in this quiet environment. Meng Xiruo was extremely frightened, and at this time she just wanted to escape from this place where the conspiracy was brewing, but unfortunately, the sound of stones falling into the water just now had already revealed her whereabouts......
Three days later, Meng Xiruo's body was salvaged from Youyue Lake by several little eunuchs, and everyone was frightened enough by her swollen appearance, if it weren't for the orange blossom plate button lotus silk pipa skirt on her body that made the maid in the palace Bang Xin recognize it, I am afraid that she would be treated as an unknown female corpse. Because no one can understand how a talented person could come to such a remote Youyue Lake, which is a long distance from both the Qiutang Palace and the Fahua Palace.
"Your little master can't think of committing suicide?" One of the eunuchs who recovered the body, Xiao Gaizi, asked Bang Xin.
"How is that possible? My little master believes in Buddhism, how can he not think about it when his heart is clear and open? And I once heard the little master say that it is a sin to commit suicide in Buddhism, so how could she commit suicide against her faith? Bang Xin feels that although his little master is introverted, he is not a narrow-minded person, and there is no reason to do stupid things!
"That's drowning. Due to the sparsely populated area, the surrounding protective facilities are in disrepair, and it is even more dark at night, and it is difficult to see. This explanation sounded very reasonable, but Wan Xin was still very puzzled, she didn't think that Meng Xi had any reason to go out and hang out at night. If only she had insisted on living with the little lord in the Fahua Palace; If only she could be more careful and go to the Hokke Hall every day to see the little master...... She really regretted it! However, no matter how much she doubted and regretted, she couldn't change the outcome of Meng Xiruo's death. And the pretendence was even more perfunctory, and even accepted the small cover and their statement, and hastily decided the case with the accident of drowning. Later, when Bang Xin told the whole story to the flawless real person, the flawless was also sad, and she also blamed herself for being careless, and if she didn't see Meng Xi come back that night, she only went back to her palace when she was tired of living. Now the only thing she can do is silently pray for Meng Xiruo's spirit in the sky in front of the Buddha statue.
The truth of the matter can be imagined, if Meng Xi inadvertently broke Shao Feixu's secret, and when he escaped, he made a noise and was discovered, but he was naturally caught by Xiao Xiazi and Furong together. Xiao Xiazi hugged Meng Xiruo and dragged her into the rockery, while Furong suffocated her face with a water-soaked silk handkerchief. The corpse was guarded by Xiao Xiazi until the night, and Shao Feixu immediately took Furong to the vicinity of Yilan Palace, and sure enough, she met Shen Xiaoxiang who was out for a walk, so she deliberately found fault with Shen Xiaoxiang, and after everyone had gone to bed, Xiao Xiazi secretly transported the body to Youyue Lake and threw it into the lake to pretend to drown. Although this murder method is simple but extremely effective, it is difficult to guess the real cause of death and time of death after the body has been soaked for three days, even if she can guess that she is quarreling with her rival Shen Xiaoxiang during this time period, then Shao Feixu can use Shen Xiaoxiang's testimony to make a perfect alibi and skillfully clear the suspicion.
Shen Xiaoxiang was holding back his anger for Shao Feixu's inexplicable provocation three days ago, when he heard the news that Meng Xiruo had lost his foot and drowned. Shen Xiaoxiang didn't connect the two things together at the moment, she just felt that they were all from Qiutang Palace, they were all raccoon dogs, and she was happy when everyone died. Binghe still sensed that something was wrong: "Little master, don't you think it's strange? At night, what did Meng Cairen do when he went to that remote area? ”
"Whatever she does, she's dead anyway. If this Meng Xi makes it clear that she is with Shao Feixu, as soon as she dies, Shao Feixu will have one less follower, and it is too late for me to be happy! "When I calmed down and thought about it, there were indeed many doubts about this matter, but it was none of her business, and she didn't love that god. Even if Meng Xiruo's death was not an accident, it should be her Shao Feixu's business to find out the truth, after all, it was a person in her palace.
"What the little master said is, as long as it's none of our business, it's better to take care of it." It is true that the master should not bother with such trivial matters, and the top priority now is how to have a child of his own. Concubine Ke didn't go out of the palace much since she gave birth to the Eighth Prince, and she also had a lot of good sisters to maintain, which made it difficult for them to start.
Shen Xiaoxiang also discussed the child's matter with Binghe, and finally they came to the conclusion that since the road of killing the mother and snatching the baby would not work, it was better to support a low-status concubine and let her voluntarily hand over the child to Shen Xiaoxiang to raise. So, recently, Shen Xiaoxiang and Binghe have been in frequent contact with the unfavored little lord in Chuxiu Palace and the maids in each palace to see if there are any suitable candidates. Compared with the little master, Shen Xiaoxiang prefers to be a servant, because even if she is a girl, as long as she is selected through a serious draft, she is at least from a six-rank official family, and no one dares to guarantee whether she will cross the river and tear down the bridge after being favored; But the servant girls are different, most of the good ones are high-ranking officials and domestic servants, and the bad ones even have ordinary people, such people have small ambitions and are easy to control. Even if it is a backbone, it is easier to clean up the powerless and powerless servants.
There is another thing that Shen Xiaoxiang has a headache for, that is, the disappearance of Wu Yin and the difficulty of frostfall, and the people she sent to find Wu Yin found nothing. Shen Xiaoxiang guessed that she must have been arrested by someone, but this person has not used the fog to attack her so far, proving that this person is probably not her enemy, but why should they intercept her without injustice or hatred? No matter what, she still couldn't stop searching, otherwise once the fog fell into the hands of the Shen family's opponent, she wouldn't dare to imagine it; Then there is Frostfall, she has repeatedly arranged assassination but can always be luckily avoided by Frostfall, and as a result, she also mistakenly killed another innocent palace person in Ming Cuixuan, and she feels annoyed when she thinks about it.
Just when Shen Xiaoxiang and Shao Feixu were desperately looking for an "insider", Wu Yin had already been "invited" to another courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing and placed under house arrest. Wuyin was intercepted by Ah Mo, and it has already been said, and Frost fell only after discovering that someone had poisoned her food one night, and only believed that Shen Xiaoxiang wanted to kill her, and under the effect of hypnosis, she ran to Si Zhen's room overnight to ask Zixiao for help. Zixiao swapped identities with disguise and frostfall, and frostfall hid in Sizhen's room every day with Zixiao's face and pretended to be sick; And Zixiao did it as a frost fall, pretending to have no intention of blocking all the assassinations. At the same time, Mo found Frostfall's relatives in the home of a pair of servants of the Shen family and rescued them, and then informed Zixiao to persuade Frostfall to be ready to flee at any time. Fog and Frostfall play a crucial role in the future plans, but that's another story.
Meng Xiruo died inexplicably like this, Shao Feixu was a thief, and he felt that Wan Xin's eyes were wrong when he looked at her, and then he casually found a reason to send her away. Bang Xin, who returned to the Internal Affairs Office, was soon transferred to Lihua Hall as an errand, Lihua Hall only had a master of the long-sick lady concubine, and her personal maid Mu Zhu had a very high status among the palace maids. Meng Xiruo's sudden death made Bang Xin always sullen, Mu Zhu saw Bang Xin sitting alone at the door of the side hall in a daze several times, out of concern for the newcomer, Mu Zhu asked casually, but she didn't expect Bang Xin's answer to shock her.
"Sister Muzhu, I think Meng Cairen died strangely, I don't think it's an accident." That's how Bang Xin answered her.
"Don't dare to talk nonsense! Even the test said that it was a drowning accident, what evidence do you have to question it? Listening to Bang Xin's words, Mu Zhu couldn't help but be shocked.
"Where did that work be seriously examined? He just glanced at it, and it was very perfunctory! I just don't have evidence, if I do, I have to sue the queen to avenge the little master. Bang Xin's role couldn't be changed for a while, and he still regarded himself as Meng Xiruo's close attendant.
"Bang Xin, my sister advises you to forget about this matter. Also, you remember, now you are the slave of Lihua Palace, and your master is only one concubine, understand? Seeing that Mu Zhu was a little harsh, Bang Xin had no choice but to nod aggrievedly. Although Mu Zhu told Bang Xin to forget about this, she herself kept all kinds of suspicions in her heart, maybe these doubts would be of great use in the future, this was Mu Zhu's first reaction.
In the backyard of Guan Ju Palace, Zimo sat under the porch, staring at a miserable "invitation" in his hand in a daze. This piece of paper was brought to Amber by Wu Ren, a close attendant of the Crown Prince, when Xianyuan Hong entered the palace to meet St. Xie En a few days ago, and Amber handed it to her. Zimo was still strange at first, she had never met Xianyuan Hong, how could he send a letter to her? When she opened the strangely folded piece of paper and saw the wild scribbled handwriting on it, she completely understood that this was a handwritten letter from the "Demon King of the Mixed World" Xian Er Shao, or a simplified version of the invitation, which invited her to attend the wedding of Xian Yuanhong and the county lord at the end of this month. Naturally, there would not be a little maid like her on the banquet list of the immortal family, so Xian Yuan Shao simply made an "invitation" himself, and it was written on white paper! It really made Zimo cry and laugh, but at the end of the letter, he asked her very concerned whether the sprained foot was good, which made Zimo feel warm in his heart.
Speaking of which, Li Jingxi should have known the county lord of Pingting before leaving the cabinet, and these ladies from high-ranking families will inevitably meet on some occasions. Zixiao and Frostfall have exchanged identities for a long time, and if they don't send Frostfall out, they are afraid of long nights and dreams. So Zimo hinted that it was time for Li Jingxi to go home and take a look, and Li Jingxi didn't demolish her, but only when Zimo wanted to go out of the palace to play again, he simply agreed.