Chapter Thirty-Eight
Tan Zhiting came up with an evil fire, and sneered at each other without thinking: "Speaking of sparrows, I also hate this kind of bird the most, not to mention the ugly call and ugly appearance, but I just want to fly on the branch and become a phoenix, and I don't weigh how many catties and taels I have." Wencai girl, don't you say it's ridiculous? ”
Wen Zhiqiong really couldn't bear Huanyue's arrogance, and echoed Tan Zhiting: "What Tan Baolin said is very true, as the saying goes, a plucked phoenix is not as good as a chicken, but in my opinion, a pheasant with feathers can't become a phoenix, it's better than a phoenix without hair!" It's so noble that the phoenix bloodline is noble! Saying that, the two laughed out loud, so angry that Huanyue was furious, she hated others to talk about her background the most! Anyway, the emperor has been favoring her recently, and she decided to teach Tan and Wen a good lesson.
"Who do you say are the sparrows or the pheasants? Stop me! Huan Yue was angry, Tan Zhiting and Wen Zhiqiong also turned around and looked at her contemptuously when they heard this, and replied: "Whoever talks will talk about whom!" What's the matter, Yue Cai Nu admitted it? "Huan Yue naturally refused to suffer, the two sides quarreled with each other, and at this time, several other little masters also arrived, and saw that the three of them scolded angrily, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.
"What are the sisters arguing about? This public is really insulting, so let's stop it quickly. Meng Xiruo, the highest-ranking among a group of concubines, took the lead in persuading her, and of course she bore the brunt of Huanyue's anger.
"Which one are you? Dare to meddle with my business? "Meng Xiruo has only been favored once since she entered the palace, and she usually lives in a simple house, Huan Yue has no impression of her, and thinks she is just a nosy girl. Everyone was secretly surprised by Huan Yue's boldness, and although Meng Xiruo herself didn't have a temper, how could she be despised by a talented woman? What's more, she is still a girl who used to be a slave.
Without waiting for Meng Xiruo to teach him a lesson, the righteous and awe-inspiring Liu Youmeng couldn't stand it anymore, and said first: "I heard that Yue Cainu was born in the palace, and she must know the rules of the palace best, have you forgotten the rules that your subordinates should have for your superiors?" How can you say such a thing! On weekdays, Tan Zhiting and Liu Youmeng have many discords, but today in the face of a villain like Huanyue, they rarely united the front, Tan Zhiting followed Liu Youmeng's words: "Liu Baolin's words are wrong, Yuecai women used to observe the etiquette of slaves, and I don't know that there are also etiquettes between masters." After finishing speaking, all the concubines unabashedly showed contemptuous smiles.
Huan Yue was so angry that she trembled all over, and shouted and ordered the maid Cuihu next to her to take down Liu Youmeng, where did Cuihu dare to be as dizzy as her, and stood aside without moving. Seeing that Cuihu didn't help her, Huanyue was so angry that she didn't care about it, and personally grabbed Liu Youmeng, Youmeng's maid Fan Dai protected her master like a chicken's blood, and pushed Huanyue to the ground with her strength. The audience was silent all of a sudden, although everyone felt that Huan Yue deserved it, but they also marveled at Liu Baolin's maid who was really bold. And Fan Dai didn't realize that she had caused a big disaster, and she was still complacent about her behavior of standing up for the protector.
"What a bold! How dare you push me? This is what you call a rule? Cui Hu, don't you even dare to take her?! This time, Cui Hu had the courage to twist Fan Dai's arm, and Fan Dai reacted and began to struggle, shouting "Little Lord save me".
"What are you doing with the noise!" Fang Yushan, who was holding her stomach, appeared in time to stop this farce.
"See Concubine Lan!" The women saluted, and Meng Xiruo got up and explained: "Back to the noble concubine, Yue Cainu was disrespectful to the concubine, Liu Baolin couldn't look at it, so he helped the concubine reason with Yue Cainu for a few words. Unexpectedly, Yue Cainu was so angry that she was about to pounce on Liu Baolin, Liu Baolin's maid protector accidentally pushed Yue Cainu, and Yue Cainu was about to twist her to the Shen Criminal Division. ”
"Oh?" Fang Yushan glanced sideways at Liu Youmeng and Fan Dai who was being held, turned her head and said sternly to the gaffe Huan Yue: "You are disrespectful to Meng Cairen and Liu Baolin, you should be punished, and you dare to play tricks like this?" You came out of the palace, and the palace doesn't want others to say that you have bullied others by taking advantage of the power of the palace, and I should teach you a lesson today. Yue Cai's female offender was guilty of the following offenses, with twenty palms and mouths, and the punishment was spent on the wall for one month. Fang Yushan pointed at Fan Dai again and scolded her: "No matter how the slave is, he shouldn't do anything to the master, otherwise wouldn't the slaves all have to climb to the master's head one by one?" This sentence seemed to mean something, she glanced at Huanyue and said to Liu Youmeng: "Keeping such a slave is also harming the master, Liu Baolin, this palace will be the master to help you send it today." Someone came, put this bold slave and maid in the Shen Penal Division, and wait for the palace to ask the queen mother before she was released. I thought that the matter could come to an end, but unfortunately Huan Yue was not enough to hug Fang Yushan's thigh and cry and wipe her tears: "The noble concubine is the master of the concubine, and the concubine's disrespect to the two sisters should be punished, but it is also because Tan Baolin and Wen Cainu provoked first, if they didn't provoke the concubine first, the concubine would not have spread her anger on the two sisters!" After speaking, she grabbed the corner of her clothes and cried silently, Fang Huanshan looked at her pretentiousness, and couldn't help but feel nauseous, she coldly kicked away Huanyue's hand holding her ankle, and ordered: "Tan Baolin and Wencai Nu are making trouble and picking quarrels, each with twenty palms and mouths, and they will be fined one month." After speaking, he took Yaoguang's arm back to the palace, and Huanyue also wiped a handful of tears and followed Fang Yushan back to receive the punishment.
The small episode that happened in the imperial garden was still known to Duan Yulin, because Duan Yulin wanted to summon Huanyue to sleep but found that she was grounded, and only after careful questioning did he know the origin of the incident. He felt that Fang Yushan had behaved appropriately and punished her impartially in the whole matter, and rewarded her for it. However, in order to rectify the atmosphere of the harem, Duan Yulin felt that the punishment of several other people was obviously not enough to set an example. Therefore, Duan Yulin added another punishment, and Fan Dai stayed in the Criminal Division for life to serve in the Criminal Division, and he could not be released until he died; Her master, Liu Youmeng, was also implicated and was charged with lax control and fined for a month; Tan Zhiting and Wen Zhiqiong each added thirty more palms; Huanyue's grounding has also been extended from one month to two months. This is the past of the peach turmoil. However, this turmoil also left sequelae, that is, after Wen Zhiqiong received fifty slaps, she was terrified, and her long-term mental stress made her body weaker and weaker, so that a typhoid fever in late spring took her young life. And Wen Zhiqiong's death also stimulated Tan Zhiting, causing her to fall into the abyss step by step, of course, this is all a later story.
In April, the spring rains in the south were still delayed, and large areas in the south were hit by spring drought, and the crops planted by farmers would be worrying if they were not moistened by the rain. The house leak happened to rain overnight, and bandits broke out in the mountainous areas in the southern part of Chuzhou at this time, which made the entire southern residents panic. For this reason, Duan Yulin even canceled the Wanshou Festival on the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, and simply celebrated a birthday, and all the silver taels saved were used for disaster relief and bandit suppression in the south. On the 10th day of the first month of April, Duan Yulin appointed Xianyuanhong, the eldest son of the hussar general, as the general of Sanpin Yunlu, and led 5,000 elite soldiers to Chuzhou to suppress bandits, and Lu Wensheng, the prefect of Chuzhou, sent local officers and soldiers to assist in quelling the rebellion. If there is anything that can make Duan Yulin a little happier during this time, it is that on the evening of April 12, the crown princess gave birth to a baby boy safely, which is the first eldest grandson of the emperor, Duan Yulin personally gave the name - Duan Maoqi.
The emperor is so busy with political affairs that he has no time to take care of the harem, and Huan Yue happens to be in the grounding again, when will he not wait for this time? Shen Xiaoxiang and Fang Huanshan discussed it privately, and they must do this matter neatly and not let anyone suspect them. They have been planning for a long time, and now the natural and man-made disasters in the south can just become the first to get rid of Huanyue*, sometimes thinking about it, Shen Xiaoxiang feels that Fang Yushan's life is really good, and even God has to help her.
This time to send troops to the south, the concubine Qin Yan and several ministers donated a total of 5 million taels of silver for disaster relief and military salaries, and the emperor greatly appreciated this behavior. However, there was an accident during the delivery of the disaster silver. The disaster silver was led by the escort officer to lead a team of men and horses to set off before the army, and the Horse Mansion also selected a group of guards to join it, due to the small number of people and faster travel, the army arrived at the Chuzhou state border seven days in advance, but on the same night all the disaster silver was looted by a mysterious organization. According to the description of the only survivor, Mo Jian (Ah Mo's real name), a first-class guard of the Horse Mansion, the mysterious organization is about fifty people, black-clothed and masked and highly martial arts, all of them have the ability to be ten of them, and the soldiers escorted have almost become powerless wastes in front of them! If it weren't for Amo's light efforts and quick escape, I'm afraid that the escort team would have been wiped out at this time. Ah Mo escaped to the Chuzhou Mansion to escape, and the information was transmitted back to Yong'an, and Duan Yulin was furious! Yang Qiwei, the squire of the Ministry of War, and Yuhai, the squire of the Criminal Department, were appointed as ministers of the Qin Mission to be fully responsible for investigating the case, and it was necessary to find out the origin of the mysterious organization. On the other hand, the loss of silver did not stop the march of Xianyuanhong's army, which entered Chuzhou on time, and the emperor then allocated a million to support disaster relief.
Due to the tense situation in the previous dynasty, the harem also showed a cloudy low pressure.
The windows in the Yilan Hall were blown open by a gust of wind, looking at the gloomy weather, Shen Xiaoxiang muttered to himself: "The mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings!" Binghe entered the house and saw the window that was blown open, and hurriedly went to close it tightly, and blamed Shen Xiaoxiang for not caring for himself: "How can the little master blow the wind like this? When the window is opened, he does not call the slave or maid to come in and close it. ”
"It doesn't matter. How is the arrangement in Chuzhou? "Originally, I was worried about how to get rid of Huan Yue in order to completely stay out of the matter, thinking about it, it is best to let the emperor do it himself, so I must give Huan Yue a charge that has to die - disaster Yan Guozuo, is there a reason not to die for such a crime of threatening the society?