Chapter 182: The Harem Turmoil (II)
Yuande Palace, the fourth hall outside the Ganlu Palace, Chengde Palace, and Lizheng Hall in the inner courtyard of Taiji Palace, is not much different from other halls, it is also beautiful, but when it comes to the near place, it can be found that this hall has a unique ingenuity in the arrangement, whether it is the flowers blooming in front of the palace, or the emerald green bonsai arranged in the corners of the palace, or the light yellow yarn that ripples lightly in the wind, all of them show a kind of gentle and elegant elegance, lingering in it, and suddenly make people have a kind of fresh and refined elegance, Coupled with the dressed palace maids shuttling back and forth among the flowers, everything looks so wonderful, like a fairyland in heaven and earth, not to mention living here, even if it is closer, it can be regarded as a visual enjoyment.
In the spacious and translucent hall, there are several pots of tall green bonsai in the corner by the window, and a small and delicate dressing table is clustered in a cloud of emerald green, a woman is sitting idly on a round chair in front of the stage, wearing a light-white round-necked light shirt with an open chest, wearing a light yellow long skirt, and the long hair of the wet shawl hangs down to the ground, and the two palace maids in white dresses behind them are busy using combs to take care of the long hair like a waterfall, a good picture of a beautiful woman's makeup, but unfortunately a rush of footsteps sounded out of time, breaking this elegant tranquility.
"Niangniang, it's not good, something happened to Xiaoshunzi! Niangniang ......" A palace maid ran into the main hall in a panic, panting and reporting loudly.
"Hmm." The palace beauty snorted coldly without replying, and suddenly frightened the panicked palace maid to stop talking, her legs and feet were weak, and she fell to the ground on her knees, her head was very low, let alone speak, and she didn't even dare to raise her head. The two palace maids who were busy combing their hair did not dare to stop the work in their hands, and they were still busy on their own, and after a long time of being busy, they finally got a clue about the wet long hair, and were just about to coil up the long hair, but they saw the woman sitting upright raised a jade hand, and gently waved it, and the two palace maids hurriedly lowered their hands and retreated to the side.
"Say." The woman sitting upright turned sideways, revealing an elegant face, snow-white skin, melon seed-shaped face, willow eyebrows, danfeng eyes, and a cherry mouth, the end is fresh and refined, if it weren't for the wrinkles left by those years on the corners of the eyes, no one would have seen that this woman had already passed the age of confusion, she was the mother of King Wu and King Shu, Concubine Yang Shu!
Yang Shufei is strict, and she has never been lenient on the palace maids and eunuchs who have made mistakes, and the people in the palace are all afraid, and the palace maid who knelt on the ground knew that she had behaved misbehaps, and she was afraid that she would not escape punishment, at this time, seeing Yang Shufei speak, how dare she be lazy, she hurriedly raised her head, and said in a trembling voice: "Qi Yu Niangniang, Xiao Shunzi went to the Inner Servant Province to receive ice cubes according to the rules today, but the emerald red of Min'an Palace cut the queue indiscriminately, and also started beating people first, Xiao Shunzi was angry and fought with her, and then, and then ......"
"Huh, then what?" Seeing that the little palace maid didn't explain the matter clearly, Concubine Yang couldn't help frowning slightly, and asked in a calm voice.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes." The little palace maid was so frightened that she shuddered, and hurriedly said: "Then, there was a fight, and all the people in each palace moved, and then the head of the Ice Charcoal Division Hu came, and ordered the people of the Ice Charcoal Division to hurt the people in each palace, and they were all locked up, and the slave and maid hurried back to report the news, and the peony was still guarding there, just waiting for the mother to speak." ”
"Go down, slap your mouth for thirty." Concubine Yang frowned slightly, waved her hand to let the palace maid retreat, and sat silently for a while, then raised her eyebrows and ordered lightly: "Wind chimes, go and see the movement." ”
"Yes." A middle-aged palace maid standing in the corner with her hands hanging down whispered a promise and walked out of the hall, Yang Shufei no longer spoke, just sat silently, and her good-looking willow eyebrows inadvertently wrinkled into the word "Sichuan". The wind chimes went fast and came back faster, but after a while, the light in the hall dimmed, and she had appeared beside Yang Shufei, leaned down, leaned in Yang Shufei's ear, and reported in a low voice, but seeing that Yang Shufei's calm face gradually sank, and there was a trace of cruelty in her eyes. ”
"The child knocks on his mother." Li Ke, the king of Wu, was not slow to come, and when he saw Yang Shufei, who had already dressed up, he immediately knelt on the ground meticulously and bowed to the courtesy.
Wu Wang Li Ke has always been a very free and easy character, but he always looks calm and detached in front of people, and he has the bearing of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him without being surprised, in fact, no one has ever seen Li Ke have the slightest abnormal behavior that does not conform to his identity, even in front of his own mother, he is so polite, people can't figure out where his mind is, of course, all this is the opinion of outsiders, but Yang Shufei knows very well what her eldest son is thinking, so Yang Shufei is not polite, After waving his hand to signal all the palace maids waiting on the side to retreat, he got up and slowly paced in front of Li Ke, who was kneeling on the ground, and immediately did not open his mouth to shout, but walked around Li Ke, and then said very calmly: "Do you know why my mother wants you to come?" ”
Although Li Ke often entered the palace to greet his mother, he never talked about the court situation and government affairs in front of his mother, let alone showed his plot for the position of the East Palace, and Yang Shufei In addition to the due mother-son etiquette, even the family affection is not too strong - this is not unique to Li Ke, in fact, most of the children of the Heavenly Family are like this, at this time, listening to Yang Shufei's words, Li Ke was stunned for a moment, and then replied respectfully: "Mother Mingjian, the child really doesn't know, Please make clear what the mother's lesson is, and the child listens. ”
"Ke'er, you are also a father, it stands to reason that you don't need your mother to tell you anything, but there are some things that your mother still has to say, my mother knows, you are very ambitious and have ideas, but some things are not enough to have ideas, Ke'er, what do you say?" Yang Shufei raised her hand very calmly, motioned for Li Ke to be flat, and said casually.
Li Ke is a sober person, when he heard Yang Shufei say this, his heart suddenly chuckled, but his face was full of respect, he kowtowed, got up, and replied with his hands down: "The lesson of the mother concubine is that the child should be remembered." ”
Yang Shufei nodded with satisfaction, waved her hand and said, "Well, that's good, Ke'er is a sensible person, and my mother has nothing to advise, there is only one: the skin does not exist, and the hair will be attached?" Ke'er must know what to do, so she doesn't need to say anything more. ”
Li Ke was shocked, and suddenly looked up at Yang Shufei who was smiling at the corner of his mouth, and was stunned for a moment, before he spoke: "Yes, the child knows." ”
"That's it, Ke'er is busy with official business, so my mother won't delay your business, just go." Concubine Yang Shu glanced at Li Ke meaningfully, and waved her hand to signal Li Ke to retreat.
"Yes, the child is gone." A layer of fine sweat appeared on Li Ke's forehead, and he didn't bother to wipe it, knelt on the ground, kowtowed respectfully, turned around and exited the hall, and hurriedly went home......
Although the palace is the most disciplined place, but on weekdays, the palace maids and eunuchs still fight and quarrel in private, but there are never such "excellent deeds" as the matter of the inner service province. No one wants to make a random move when they don't see the direction clearly, and the courtyard was quiet for a while, but well, others are others, but Wu Meiniang doesn't care what others think, as soon as she got the news of the brawl in the Inner Servant Province, she immediately rushed to the Min'an Palace, and shouted regardless of it: "Sister, when is it, you still have time to embroider, if you go on like this, won't Yuande Hall climb to my sister's head, no, this matter was provoked by Yuande Palace, even if there is a mistake, the big head is also in Yuande Palace, Why do you want my sister to be angry with the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sister, I will wait to reason with Your Majesty, and I have to explain things clearly! ”
Although Concubine Yan De is peaceful by nature and rarely pays attention to the miscellaneous matters in the palace, she is not a weak and incompetent person, and the palace is naturally covered with a certain amount of eyeliner, coupled with the report of the "person with a heart", not only the matter of the Inner Servant Province cannot be hidden from her, but the matter that Li Shimin has just ordered by the Inner Servant Province to take charge of the harem is also well known, but Concubine Yan De did nothing, not only did not meddle in the affairs of the Inner Servant Province, but did not even send someone to inform Li Zhen, just quietly embroidered flowers in the palace, at this time, I saw Wu Meiniang running away in a hurry, did not stop the embroidery work, just smiled indifferently and said: "Mei Niang, sit down, there is no need to say much about this matter, that is, it violates the palace rules, and it deserves to be punished, the people are not sensible, and it is not worth it to be angry for this, Your Majesty is busy with government affairs, so you don't have to add to the chaos." ”
Seeing Concubine Yan's impassive appearance, a look of disappointment flashed in Wu Meiniang's eyes, and she stomped her feet and said: "Sister, that's not what you said, if you really let the subordinates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs be a slave to take charge of the harem, not to mention that the sisters have lost face, even sister, you have no dignity, right?" If you want me to say, this harem doesn't have a master, sister, you don't know, the previous Yuande Hall invited King Wu into the palace, maybe he went to that position, hmph, that cheap embryo ......"
"Mei Niang, don't talk nonsense!" As soon as she heard Wu Meiniang's words, she became more and more arrogant, Concubine Yan's face suddenly sank, and she interrupted Wu Meiniang's words with a wave of her hand, and said calmly: "Meiniang, how many times has my sister told you, Your Majesty is in charge of the affairs in this harem, and we must not act arbitrarily, if you really want to act nonsense, don't blame my sister for not being emotional." ”
"Sister, I'm ......" Wu Meiniang saw that Concubine Yan said so unkindly, her eyes immediately turned red, and she choked up and said: "Sister, little sister just can't look at that person rampant, little sister is also for sister's good, isn't it?" ”
knew that Wu Meiniang's words were not true, but Concubine Yan didn't break it, sighed, put down the scarf she was embroidering in her hand, walked to Wu Meiniang's side, and said in a pitying tone: "Mei Niang, this matter is not so simple, listen to my sister's words, don't meddle in this matter, everything is as it is, just go back." ”
Seeing that Concubine Yan said so resolutely, Wu Meiniang understood that she was afraid that she would not be able to convince Concubine Yan, so she didn't say more, nodded obediently, and retreated, but after leaving Min'an Palace, she called the personal palace maid beside her to her side, and whispered a few words, and then turned back to her residence.
"Niangniang, this matter is very important, should I inform His Highness?" As soon as Wu Meiniang left, Qin Wuyong, who had been standing silently on the side, couldn't help but stand up and asked tentatively.
Concubine Yan sat silently on the chair and thought for a long time, then shook her head and said, "No need, Zhen'er has always been assertive, and he should know what to do." ”
Qin Wuyong was not very relieved, and said hesitantly: "But ......"
"Needless to say, this palace has no such thoughts, Zhen'er should know, don't mention this matter again!" Concubine Yan shook her hand very resolutely, interrupted Qin Wuyong's words that were about to be spoken, picked up the half-embroidered scarf before, lowered her head and continued to embroider......
"Ahh Li Zhen, who was burying her head in the official documents, suddenly felt an itch in her nose, and couldn't help sneezing, this movement was not small, not to mention that the official documents on the table unfortunately flew everywhere, that is, the officials of the military department who were waiting for Li Zhen's instructions in the lobby were all taken aback, and everyone couldn't help but laugh at the appearance of the official documents flying all over the hall, but they didn't dare to laugh in front of Li Zhen, and they were stunned one by one, their faces were flushed, and their faces were full of embarrassing expressions.
Depend on! Who is cursing Lao Tzu behind his back? Li Zhen glanced at the uncomfortable officials in the lobby, some of them shrugged their shoulders helplessly, waved their hands and motioned to the guards standing around them to clean up the mess on the ground, but he walked down the hall slowly, and he didn't care about the officials' greetings, and walked out of the hall of the military department.
Damn, they're all laughing, hey, it's okay to make them laugh, they've been tired for so many days, even if it's okay to relax! Hearing the loud laughter from behind, Li Zhen was not very angry except for a little embarrassment, without him, these days due to the follow-up matters of the rebellion, the entire military department from top to bottom is tired and half dead - the daily work of the military department is not light, and counting the return of the army in Qizhou to quell the chaos of the military department The supply of grain and grass needs to be planned by the military department, the meritorious people need to make a book, the promotion of the sixteen guard officers in the turmoil in Beijing also has to be taken care of by the military department, and the military affairs need to be coordinated with the Ministry of Rites, so many affairs are gathered together, not only Li Zhen himself, The officials below were also busy, and they were already exhausted.
Tired is tired, but Li Zhen is very satisfied, not to mention that he can get a rare exercise in government affairs, not to mention that he took the opportunity to envelop a group of military officials, and more importantly, Li Zhen took the opportunity of quelling the chaos in Beijing to insert a group of sub-guards who have made military achievements, of course, Li Zhen is not stupid enough to place all these sub-guards in the sixteen guards, on the contrary, most of the positions that Li Zhen plans for this group of sub-guards are middle-level official positions such as the commander of the border army or the lieutenant of Zhichong Mansion in a slightly remote place, As for the mystery, it is very simple to put it bluntly, Li Zhen is arranging the back hand, just to prevent his old man from unloading the mill and killing the donkey.
"Your Highness, there are people outside asking to see you." Just as Li Zhen was thinking about it, Chen Liang, the captain of the personal guard, walked over and whispered a word, and at the same time handed Li Zhen a small token in his hand.
Well? What's going on? Li Zhen only glanced at it, and recognized that the token was owned by Wu Meiniang, and was immediately stunned, and for a while she couldn't understand why Wu Meiniang sent someone to find her, she frowned and thought about it: "Bring people in, oh, forget it, it's better for this king to go out." As soon as the words fell, he walked out of the yamen of the military department with his hands behind his back, and walked straight to the place where he parked the sedan chair, and saw a "man" in green clothes standing in the dark place in the corner, but the face was obviously Wu Meiniang's personal palace maid Yingyu - Wu Meiniang is just a talented person in the palace, and there is no exclusive dormitory, but she lives in the Mingde Hall with several other low-level concubines, and there are very few palace maids and eunuchs around her.
"See Your Highness." As soon as she saw Li Zhen coming, Yingyu, who was dressed as a man, hurriedly bowed down and gave a fist salute, but her movements were very awkward, obviously not the material for the "spy" business, Li Zhen was secretly amused, and she was too lazy to be verbose, she just nodded her head and said, "What is the matter with the king?" ”
"Your Highness, my mother asked the slave maid to pass a message to His Highness: When it is broken, it will be broken." Although it was not the first time that Yingyu had seen Li Zhen, it was the first time she had talked to Li Zhen, and when she saw Li Zhen's unsmiling appearance, she immediately panicked and replied in a hurry.
What? When it is broken, it is broken? Damn, what does this Wu Po Niang want to say, there is no beginning or end, let Lao Tzu guess the dumb riddle, dog's day, it's really not a worry-free goods! Li Zhen has always been wary of Wu Meiniang, and when she heard this sentence at this time, she was a little nonsensical, she suddenly became angry, frowned, swept her eyes and said, "Is that all?" Wu Niangniang has anything else to explain? ”
"It's gone." Yingyu shook her head and said: "My mother-in-law said that His Highness will know what happened, and I hope His Highness will not lose the first hand." ”
Bullshit, what the hell are you talking about! The more Li Zhen listened, the more confused she became, seeing that she couldn't get a name, and she didn't bother to talk nonsense with Yingyu, she casually handed back the token in her hand to Yingyu, nodded and said, "This king knows, go back and thank your mother for this king." ”
"The slave and maid are gone." Yingyu saw that Li Zhen didn't mean to talk more, so she didn't stay longer, took the token, bowed again, and left in a hurry.
Damn, it looks like something must have gone wrong in the palace, damn it! Li Zhen frowned and thought about it, and waved her hand
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