Volume 2: Ten Years of Life and Death [89] Overboard
After Feihua Ling was defeated by Chu Changting, Yao Meiren has always been unwilling, and from time to time she cast resentful glances at her. Chu Changting felt the gaze that Yao Meiren had been staring at, and frowned a little uncomfortably, the actors on the stage were babbling and singing, and she felt a tightness in her chest when she listened to the sad tune of flowing water. Under the table, Yi Lunhuan's generous hand was still holding her somewhat cold little hand, Chu Changting gently poked the back of Yi Lunhuan's hand with his fingers, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the concubine is a little stuffy, I want to go outside the banquet for a while." β
Yi Lunhuan squeezed her little hand, and then allowed her to go out. Chu Changting finally had a chance to go out to breathe, and while walking on the gravel road by the river, he scolded the Yao beauty's eyes for being so fierce. While she was lying on the railing of the pavilion and counting the lotus flowers in the heart of the river, suddenly a pair of rough and powerful hands on her back pushed her hard, and she couldn't dodge and leaned forward and fell into the river. Before entering the water, she looked back briefly, only to see the woman who pushed her dressed in orange and dressed as a servant.
Chu Changting didn't know how to be watery, and struggled desperately in the water. It's just that at this time, it was a banquet, and most of the maids and eunuchs were serving beside their masters, and the stage was noisy with gongs and drums, which directly overshadowed Chu Changting's cries for help. The icy water kept choking into her nose, and just as she felt her body sink more and more, she jumped into the water in a blue suit, wrapped her arms around her waist, and dragged her from the water to the shore.
After going ashore, Chu Changting couldn't stop coughing water, and it took a long time to recover, and after wiping the water on his face, he saw the appearance of the person in front of him clearly. She rubbed her eyes and said, "Thank you girl for saving me just now." β
Han Miaoting painfully brushed the wet hair that stuck to the tails of her eyes from her sideburns for Chu Changting, and said softly: "It's okay, it's all what slaves and maids should do." β
Han Miao's voice was light and floating, like a spring breeze passing through the bamboo forest, which made Chu Changting's heart beat slightly, she reached out and took Han Miao's hand, and asked with a look of anticipation: "Girl, did I recognize you before?" β
"Niangniang's clothes are wet, let's hurry back to the palace to change my body, it's easy to get cold." Han Miaoji knew that this was not a good time to reveal her identity, so she cleared her throat, turned her face away, and helped Chu Changting up. At this time, Yi Lunhuan, Concubine Zhang and a group of concubines hurried over when they heard the news, and seeing that both of them were standing wet in the wind, Yi Lunhuan hurriedly ripped off his coat and draped it on Chu Changting, and without waiting for her to speak, he picked her up horizontally and hugged her back to Yuanchen Palace.
Chu Changting was flattered and shrunk into Yi Lunhuan's arms, but he felt that this embrace was safe and warm, so he rubbed it in his arms like a cat, making Yi Lunhuan's eyes soft for a while.
The cold breath in his arms reminded Chu Changting of the lingering night, but the seemingly thin body had such solid abdominal muscles and a broad chest, which really made people look red and weak. Chu Changting thought, his heartbeat was inexplicably faster.
Yao Meiren stood in the crowd, looking at Chu Changting with a gaze like a poisonous snake.
Concubine Zhang also stepped forward, and while instructing the maid to take another thin shirt for His Majesty, she grabbed the wet Han Miaoxi and asked what happened just now. After Han Miao's explanation was 1510, Concubine Zhang patted her shoulder appreciatively, and then said, "You go back to Cihe Palace first to change your clothes, drink some typhoid medicine, and then come to Yuanchen Palace." β
Here, Yi Lunhuan just carried Chu Changting back to Yuanchen Palace with his front foot, and the back foot of the Imperial Doctor Bingfu followed, Yan'er took a dry towel to wipe the water on Chu Changting's body, and after changing a set of clean clothes for her, Bingfu took her pulse.
Yi Lunhuan glanced at Yan'er coldly with a gloomy face, Yan'er knew that he was ashamed and took all the people in Yuanchen Palace to kneel in front of Chu Changting's bed, Chu Changting wanted to get up and stop him when he saw this, but he was pressed by Yi Lunhuan and lay on the bed with his head, he sighed and said helplessly: "Jin'er, you better take care of yourself first." β
Chu Changting rubbed his forehead aggrievedly with his other hand, looked at Yi Lunhuan with a blank eye, and said in a low voice: "But this is really not their business, it is the concubine herself who does not let them follow." β
At this time, Bing Fu finished his pulse, bowed to Yi Lunhuan and said: "Your Majesty, Concubine Chen is just frightened and cold, just drink some typhoid medicine, and her body is fine." β
Yi Lunhuan nodded, and the ice floated down to prescribe medicine. Looking at Chu Changting's little face trembling in the quilt due to the cold, Yi Lunhuan's eyes were dyed with a trace of anger, he took Chu Changting's hand and asked gently, "Jin'er, how did you fall into the water?" β
Chu Changting then remembered that someone had pushed her, and for some reason, she always felt that her memory was getting worse and worse recently. Recalling the panic and helplessness at the moment when she fell into the water and the rudeness of pushing her hands, Chu Changting couldn't help but shudder, she held Yi Lunhuan's hand with her backhand, Xinghua's eyes flashed with fear, and said, "Someone pushed me!" It's a maid dressed up, dressed in orange! β
Someone else wanted to harm Chu Changting. Yi Lun's handsome face burned with anger, he turned around and glanced coldly at all the concubines and palace maids, big and small, and his voice was as cold as a rakshasa from hell: "Who is it?" β
All the palace maids wearing orange palace clothes shrank their necks, resenting that the person who pushed Chu Changting was wearing orange clothes, and worried that they would become unlucky ghosts who took the blame, and they were very nervous for a while.
"Jin'er, do you remember what that servant girl looked like?" Yi Lunhuan turned around and looked at Chu Changting, his eyes instantly gentle.
"No, it's too fast, I can't remember." Chu Changting pouted in frustration.
The palace maids underground breathed a sigh of relief.
"The slave remembersβ"
In one sentence, the hearts of the whole room were raised to their throats.
Seeing that it was Han Miao, Yi Lunhuan's face sank. Suddenly remembered that she saved Chu Changting just now, and just now she cared too much about Chu Changting and almost forgot about Han Miaoting. He took a deep breath, his face softened, and asked, "You said you saw it, who is it?" β
Han Miao's face swept over all the palace maids in the Yuanchen Palace, and after looking at the faces of all the orange-clothed palace maids for a long time, she pointed to a palace maid behind Yao Meiren and said, "It's her." β
The palace maid even took Yao Meiren's face pale in an instant, Yao Meiren frowned, and pretended to be calm: "Bold slave maid, dare to spew blood!" β
Qiu Cairen really glanced at Yao Meiren speechlessly, thinking to himself, shouldn't the first reaction of a normal person be to reprimand his palace maid to get rid of his own involvement, why should this stupid woman protect her first?
"The slave and the maid don't know each other, there is no injustice and no hatred, and they don't even know that this palace maid is from the Niangniang palace before they are identified, why does the maid say that the slave and maid spew blood!" Han Miaoxi looked coldly at the pale Yao beauty, with an aggressive awe.
Yao Meiren snorted and said coldly: "Who knows which palace maid you are suspicious of, and you want to frame the master!" β
Concubine Zhang raised her head slightly when she heard this, and said with some anger: "What does Yao Meiren mean by this, this girl is from the palace of the mourning family, what reason does she have to frame you in the palace?" β
Concubine Zhang's majestic appearance made Han Miaoxi panic, she knelt on the ground as soon as her knees were weak, and hurriedly explained: "Concubine Niangniang, no! No! How dare the concubine casually suspect the people in the concubine's palace! It's just that this palace maid acted sneakily, and everyone was enjoying the drama at the banquet at that time, so why did she run out alone? The owner is the self-thief, and she rescued Concubine Chen again when she saw someone coming! β
"Shut up! It was the mourning family who asked her to go out to see if the elixir and jade dew in the imperial dining room were brewed, and it was a vicious person like you who would tell right and wrong! Concubine Zhang was really angry with Yao Meiren's nonsense, she stepped forward and slapped Yao Meiren hard, directly fanning Yao Meiren over, a room of people knelt down when they saw the concubine angry, Yi Lunhuan stared at Yao Meiren coldly, thinking of what she did at the banquet just now, she was even more angry.
Han Miaoxi was stunned - she was not instructed by the concubine to see any elixir and jade dew, she secretly ran out by herself, why would the concubine be willing to excuse herself? But it is true that if it weren't for the concubine opening her mouth just now, she would have been a little difficult to get out of the face of Yao Meiren who was full of nonsense.
Could it be that Concubine Zhang also hates Yao Meiren?
didn't have time to think about it, Han Miaoxi took advantage of the direction of the wind and continued: "If this palace maid still wants to quibble about something, first stretch out her hand and let Concubine Chen feel whether those hands are you." β
"No need to argue anymore!" Yi Lunhuan got up and walked in front of Yao Mei and the palace maid, snapped his fingers, and Mei Makeup flew in, pulled out a sword from his waist and handed it to Yi Lunhuan. Yi Lunhuan pointed at Yao Meiren and the palace maid with a sword, and the cold and sharp sword light swept away, making Yao Meiren cry in fright, and she kept kneeling and kowtowing to say that she was wronged. The palace maid behind her was also so frightened that her whole body trembled like a sieve, she swallowed and spit, as if she had made a great decision, quickly knelt and moved to the front of Yao Meiren, and then cried and said, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty's mercy, Your Majesty! It's a slave who is confused for a while, Your Majesty! This, this is all instructed by Yao Meiren, Your Majesty! The slave is forced to be helpless! β
Yao Meiren's face turned blue and purple after hearing this, and she was so frightened that her body was paralyzed, but she still rushed forward and grabbed the palace maid's arm fiercely, and said viciously: "This master treats you well on weekdays!" Why do you do this to the Lord? Why do you want to frame your master! β
The maid just kept crying and didn't respond.
Concubine Zhang snorted coldly and said to Yi Lunhuan: "Emperor, things are clear and clear now. It was this cheap maid and Yao Meiren who had ill intentions, and saw that Concubine Chen had a bad heart and tried in vain to cause Concubine Chen to drown. Make up your mind. β
Yi Lunhuan's long sword was about to be inserted into Yao Meiren's throat with a shake, but he hesitated, looked back at Chu Changting, who was looking at him with wide eyes and some fear, and then stuffed the sword back into Mei Xiang's hand, and said, "Don't let Concubine Chen see blood, take Yao Meiren out of Yuanchen Palace to solve it." β
The rest of the concubines didn't dare to take a breath, and their fear became deeper and deeper when they saw the women in the harem die one after another.
Yao Meiren cried and was taken out, and the palace maid was also taken out, but she kept shouting for the emperor to save her life and the concubine to help, Yi Lunhuan and Concubine Zhang glanced at each other, and the two of them were silent.
Qiu Cairen's little face turned pale with fright - she really underestimated and underestimated Yi Lunhuan's favor for Chu Changting.
Yi Lunhuan stood in front of Chu Changting's bed with his hands in his hands, looked around coldly at the remaining three concubines in the room, and said sharply: "From now on, in this palace, if anyone wants to persecute Concubine Chen, I will strip her bones and cramp her, and even the nine clans." β
The entire Yuanchen Palace fell into a deathly silence, and the concubines were silent. Chu Changting's heart swelled with a warm current, and she looked at Yi Lun's long back, and her eyes were red unconsciously.
After dismissing the concubines, Yi Lunhuan sat beside Chu Changting, brushed the broken hair on her forehead for her, and said softly: "Jin'er, don't worry, from now on, I will protect you." β
"Okay." Chu Changting's nose was sour, satisfied and happy.