Chapter 40: Intrigue Inside and Outside the Court - Yoon-hee and Others
After sending Wen Ying away, Yun Xi immediately summoned the four eunuchs under his command. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 When he asked the little eunuch to pass them on, although Yun Xi was uneasy, he was still distracted and felt: Everyone else is under his hands what "Four King Kongs", "Five Tiger Generals" and "Thirteen Taibao" sound energetic; I only have the "four eunuchs" now, which is really funny. He could only comfort himself: I'm only fourteen years old, why Liu Bei and Yang Lin are not as good as me when they are fourteen years old.
After a while, the four eunuchs who were now in charge of the Dongnuan Pavilion, Wang Jin, Wang Xi, Wang Gong and Wang Bu, who received Yun Xi's message, came to Yun Xi's study together. In fact, Yun Xi also thought about whether to trust them, but because these four eunuchs were all people who were directly selected to his side, if he had any three strengths and two weaknesses, these four people would not be happy, and Yun Xi could be said to be tied together, so Yun Xi trusted them, including Wang Bu and Wang Gong, who were newly promoted.
When Yun Xi saw the four of them, he didn't talk nonsense, and without waiting for them to finish saluting, he said directly: "Concubine Lu may want to poison me, have you found any signs?" "He's already dead once, so he's still not calm, but he's not too flustered.
Wang Xi immediately shouted: "Concubine Lu wants to murder His Highness!" ”
And Wang Jin asked, "Where did the news of His Highness come from?" Can you have a trust? I don't have any indication here. ”
Yun Xi said: "There is no trust. But even so, be prepared. ”
Wang Gong suddenly realized and said, "It turns out that His Royal Highness didn't eat the palace meal tonight because of this. The exaggeration of his movements provoked Wang Bu to squint at him. Others also ignored Wang Gong's exaggerated movements.
Wang Jin pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness should indeed be prepared; But you can't always bring food back to the palace from outside the palace every day to eat, and you can't always go to His Majesty for dinner. Moreover, first, there is no confirmation that Concubine Lu will murder His Royal Highness by poisoning the food; Second, usually His Highness's meals are similar to ours, only a few of us know what kind of food His Highness eats, and the four people present are the closest people to His Highness, and His Highness is prosperous, and a loss is a loss, I believe that no one will take refuge in Concubine Lu; And Concubine Lu can't poison all of us, that would be too obvious. ”
Yun Xi said: "Then you mean that it is unlikely that Concubine Lu will murder me by poisoning the food?" Yun Xi thought about it himself, and it was indeed like this, and it was not easy to determine the goal without internal response. But he immediately thought of another point, and continued: "Now that Dongnuan Pavilion can get close to my eunuch, is it possible that there will be people who have taken refuge in Concubine Lu?" ”
Everyone habitually stared at Wang Jin again. But Wang Jin gestured to Wang Xi with his eyes: This is the scope of your work, don't let me do everything for you, okay? Besides, this time is so busy, how can I have time to care about this anymore?
When Wang Xi saw Wang Jin's face, he suddenly realized, and hurriedly said: "It is said that this Dongnuan Pavilion can get close to His Highness, and it is both prosperous and loss-in-law with His Highness, and now His Highness has a bright future, and no one will take refuge in Concubine Lu." But if you can't keep it, someone's family will have the handle to be obtained by Concubine Lu, so in the future, only the four of us know how to eat that and wear the food and clothes of His Royal Highness in this palace. ”
Wang Jin was a eunuch brought back by the army when he conquered Guangxi, and he had no relatives, let alone any handles to catch; Wang Xi's hometown is probably from the Jiangxi Mountains, he was sold at the age of five, and it took several times to get to the palace, and he couldn't remember where his hometown was, and there could be no problem; Wang Bu and Wang Gong are also similar to Wang Xi. At this time, it was not like the middle and late Ming Dynasty: in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, being a eunuch was a very promising job, there was no need to invest any capital, and the competitive pressure was smaller than that of the imperial examination. At this time, eunuchs had no future, only the poorest people would sell their children to human traffickers, and only human traffickers would sell boys as eunuchs.
So Yun Xi trusted these four eunuchs very much, and said, "Then arrange it according to Wang Xi's words, you will work hard for a while." ”
Wang Jin hurriedly said: "I don't dare to be the hard work of His Highness, this is what we should do." ”
Yun Xi thought about it carefully, and also felt that he had made himself too much by relying on an unclear reminder with no evidence at all, after all, he was affected by the memories from the afterlife, and he couldn't adapt to the rhythm of paying careful attention to saving his life at any time. The four eunuchs below have not seen these because the inner palace has not been relatively clean since the Ming Dynasty was founded, so although they are also very nervous, they are not nervous.
Of course, this time I will teach Yunxi and his subordinate eunuchs a good lesson.
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Wen Ying returned to Xinuan Pavilion, and her mother, Concubine Li, was still waiting for her. Moon Young hurriedly stepped forward to get close to her mother.
Concubine Li wanted to get down to business first: "Yun Xi left you for dinner?" ”
Seeing that her mother was talking about business, Wen Ying also adjusted to a serious state and said, "Yes, mother concubine." ”
Concubine Li asked again: "Yun Xi just listened to the reminder that he might be poisoned, and he still has the heart to eat the food in the palace?" ”
Wen Ying smiled: "No, the third brother is very careful, we eat the 'steamed buns' he brought back from outside the palace, but the third brother calls them buns, which is very strange." ”
Concubine Li didn't care about the names of 'buns' and 'steamed buns': "That might be the name of the place." ”
She said again: "I knew that Yun Xi would definitely not eat the meal of the Wenhua Hall calmly tonight; You can't eat it. ”
Wen Ying joked: "That's it, I'm also afraid that Concubine Lu will poison me to death today." ”
Concubine Li also smiled and said, "But Yun Xi can't bring food back to the palace from outside the palace every day; And in a few days, Yun Xi will definitely relax his mind because he has never seen anything like this. Although I don't believe that this Lu family will do anything about the meal, this is the safest and easiest place to start; She doesn't have to poison Yun Xi, she just needs to make Yun Xi weak and sick and not die. ”
Concubine Li's statement was right, if Concubine Lu couldn't find a suitable poison to weaken Yunxi's body and become ill and immortal for a while, she wouldn't have taken the risk of using Gu poison.
Concubine Li continued: "I expect that the Lu family will start in these few days, you go to the Dongnuan Pavilion every day, regardless of the time, don't have a rule, I will let you remind Yunxi immediately if I find the signs; But be careful not to eat anything from there anymore. ”
Wen Ying said: "My daughter remembered. ”
Concubine Li nodded, and the two of them talked about something else for a while, and at two o'clock in the morning (8 o'clock in the afternoon), Concubine Li returned to her bedroom.
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At three o'clock in the morning (half past eight in the evening), a palace maid from Wenyuan Pavilion quietly walked to Concubine Lu, who was taking care of his clothes for Yun Wei, and said, "Yu Niangniang, the news from Xinuan Pavilion that Concubine Li Fang has returned to her bedroom from Xinuan Pavilion. ”
Concubine Lu said quietly: "I know, you go down, and tell the eyeliner to continue to stare carefully." The palace maid stepped aside.
When the palace maid was completely gone, and Concubine Lu was the only one in the bedroom, Concubine Lu gritted her teeth and said: "Li, we have been fighting for more than ten years, let's see if you can win this most important battle; If you lose, I want you to die a good death. ”