Chapter 67: Fueling the Flames
Yin Lingyuan immediately closed his eyes, trying to pretend that he was not awake.
"Pretending to be asleep when you wake up?" Yu Ze's voice was close at hand, Yin Lingyuan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
"Still uncomfortable?" Yu Ze leaned in to observe her face.
Yin Lingyuan shook his head, his voice was hidden in the quilt, and he was a little muffled: "How can I get sick?" ”
This question was strange, but Yu Ze understood what she meant: "Although you have cultivation, you are still a mortal in the flesh, how can you not get sick?" It's me who carelessly, and you've been messing around all day. ”
"I'm doing serious business, what's wrong with me?" Yin Lingyuan muttered quietly.
Yu Ze heard it, but when she didn't hear it, she asked her to go and get a pill by herself and take it.
Yin Lingyuan refined so many pills, or the first time to eat for herself, she got up and went to the cabinet to take out a small box, there were three bottles of medicine in it, since Yu Ze said the value of these pills, Yin Lingyuan treasured them: "Which one to eat?" ”
"One in a blue bottle."
Yin Lingyuan obediently obeyed, and got another cup of spiritual spring water for himself to drink, and suddenly felt a lot more comfortable, and his complexion improved significantly.
"How does it feel?" Yu Ze asked.
"It's much better," Yin Lingyuan said, "It's really not a panacea." ”
"Then let's talk about it", Yu Ze suddenly approached, looked directly at Yin Lingyuan, and said quietly: "Why are you avoiding me?" ”
"What? I didn't. Yin Lingyuan immediately denied it, and subconsciously took a step back.
Yu Ze crossed his arms and looked at her, the meaning was self-evident, he didn't hide from me, what did you retreat.
Yin Lingyuan was weak-hearted: "Don't get so close, it's weird and scary." ”
"Am I scary?" Yu Ze came closer, and even though he knew that he couldn't touch him without a physical entity, Yin Lingyuan couldn't help but lean back.
Yu Ze looked at Yin Lingkite's neck with a little redness, and whispered, "Could it be...... Dreaming of me? ”
"I'm not! I didn't! You are talking nonsense! Yin Lingyuan denied the three companies and quickly fled from Yu Ze's side.
The latter straightened up, with a smile on his lips, and looked her up and down: "What did you dream of me?" Is it spring ......?"
"Ahh Yin Lingyuan couldn't listen anymore, quickly turned around and climbed on the bed, fingers against his temples: "Why do you feel that your head still hurts a little, no, I want to sleep again." ”
Yu Ze chuckled, and finally let someone go with great mercy, and his voice sounded directly in her troubled sea: "You should really learn acting skills from those concubines of Qi Ye." ”
Yin Lingyuan's eyes were closed, and he made up his mind not to open his eyes and ignore people.
Originally, I was pretending to be asleep, but after pretending to be asleep for a long time, I was awakened by Hanlu's whisper: "Master wake up, it's time to drink medicine." ”
Yin Lingyuan opened his eyes and felt refreshed all over his body, thinking that the effect of the pill had been fully exerted and he had cured his illness, and he couldn't see Yu Ze's figure in front of him, and he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm better with green", Yin Lingyuan pushed away the medicine bowl, "No need to drink medicine." ”
"How can anyone be so fast", Han Lu was helpless, "You can't talk nonsense because you are afraid of the bitterness of the medicine, and call it a joke of the concubine." ”
Only then did Yin Lingyuan notice the concubine standing behind Hanlu and greeted her: "Why is my sister here?" ”
"I heard that my sister is sick, come to see you", Concubine Xian smiled softly, "I usually see that you are old, how can you be sick like a child, and you are afraid of hardship and refuse to take medicine." ”
Yin Lingyuan really has nowhere to complain, the conscience of heaven and earth, she is really cured because of her illness, although there is such a reason for losing it is that she is afraid of suffering, but how can there be healthy people who drink decoction?
"Sister Xian, sit down", Yin Lingyuan took the medicine bowl and put it aside, and sent Hanlu to serve tea to Concubine Xian.
"Then master, you must drink it while it's hot", Han Lu told him uneasily.
"Got it, go quickly" Yin Lingyuan waved his hand to drive people away, provoking the concubine to chuckle again.
"This girl, I'm spoiled", Yin Lingyuan smiled embarrassedly.
"You", Concubine Xian shook her head helplessly: "Originally, He Jieyu was going to come, but she was a month old, it was inconvenient to move around, and she was afraid of being sick, so I didn't call her." ”
Yin Lingyuan nodded and expressed understanding: "It's not a serious illness, Sister He's body is inconvenient and not suitable to move, when I get better, I'll go see her." ”
"Why did my sister suddenly get sick? The day before was fine", Xian asked the concubine.
"Maybe it's a cold at night", Yin Lingyuan said nonsense, he can't say that he ran out in the middle of the night to listen to the corner of the wall.
"The concubine said that she wants you to take care of it, and you don't have to go to ask for peace these days", Xian Concubine said.
Yin Lingyuan cheered in the bottom of his heart, it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, and he can sleep for a few days.
"Then, what about the emperor?" It's already afternoon, and I don't know how things are going in Xianmengju.
Concubine Xian thought that she minded that the emperor didn't come to visit, so she hurriedly explained: "Sister, don't worry too much, the emperor still feels sorry for his sister, but I heard that something happened in the previous dynasty, and the emperor was angry, so I didn't come to visit my sister." ”
Yin Lingyuan's spirit was shocked: "What's wrong?" ”
Xian Concubine saw that there was no one left and right, so she lowered her voice and said: "I heard that there is an official prostitute, and when the early dynasty was deliberating, a hairpin ring fell out of the sleeve, but this hairpin ring is not ordinary, it is said to be the Linghua hairpin of the famous prostitute Liu Lingsha in the imperial capital, and some ministers couldn't help but shout it out in court." These days, there is a disaster and famine in the south, and the emperor is anxious about the disaster relief, and he is in a bad mood, but now he has made a fuss in court, and the emperor is angry, and he directly took the person's official position, and called it a strict investigation. ”
Originally, the official prostitute was found out to be fined at most, and then it was not good to reduce the product, which is really rare to directly take off the official position, Yin Lingyuan accidentally bumped into it, caught up with Qi Ye in a bad mood, and made a big deal: "What can be found out?" ”
"It's so easy, the imperial capital is so big, this kind of thing comes from the secret, once it is found out, it will be a catastrophe, so naturally you have to hide it desperately."
Yin Lingyuan chuckled, if he wanted to hide, he had to see if he could hide it.
After Concubine Xian left, Yin Lingyuan wrote a letter to Yin Anlu, informing him of the true situation of Xianmengju, and the emperor was investigating the matter, so he asked him to quietly point out the direction to the investigators outside and provide some evidence.
"Hurry up and send it to the second brother", Yin Lingyuan instructed Han Lu, "Don't delay." ”
"Yes." Hanlu went to arrange the delivery of the letter, and Yin Lingyuan only had to wait patiently for the news.
was forcibly poured bitter medicine for three days, Yin Lingkite's "illness" was finally cured, but Hanlu and they were still not at ease, she wanted to go out for a walk, and knelt down one by one from the dormitory to the gate, as if she was about to be terminally ill when she stepped out of the palace gate, Yin Lingyuan was helpless, so she had to go out of the door and continue to be stuffy at home.
Fortunately, Yu Ze didn't mention the events of that day again, and the two resumed their previous relationship, but there seemed to be a difference.
On the fifth day, news finally came from outside the palace that Xianmengju was blocked by a group of fireworks women in broad daylight and made trouble, saying that Xianmengju owed them money and came to ask for it.
How can a place that eats tea and listens to music owe them money? Originally, so many women were eye-catching, and now they attracted countless onlookers.
The little guys wanted to stop them, but these women were all spicy, crying, making trouble, and hanging themselves, and shouting indecent when they got closer, and they couldn't do it.
From their crying, the onlookers understood the truth of the matter, it turned out that these people were quietly invited to pick up guests by Xianmengju at night, and the people who served were all errands and officials, originally Xianmengju promised to pay their respective mothers the money, and a sum of silver was given to the girls alone, but afterwards Xianmengju did not admit the account, and served people but did not give money, so there was today's out.
"Someone from the onlookers reported to the official on the spot, and it just so happened that the emperor investigated this matter, Xianmengju is considered to have hit the muzzle of the gun, and now the emperor has been called sealed." Han Lu spoke to Yin Lingyuan with great interest.
She didn't expect that she asked her second brother to secretly provide some evidence, and the second brother would be so ruthless and stab him directly in front of the world, so that even if the emperor took care of the Zhongyi Palace, he couldn't cover it up.
Qi Ye actually didn't have the intention of covering up at all, on the contrary, he was trying to use this matter to suppress the Zhongyi Palace. Over the years, there have been many things where people in the Zhongyi Mansion have done evil and bullied people by virtue of their status, and Qi Ye has long wanted to clean up these people.
The men of Xianmengju were all arrested and interrogated, and the old bustards of several Qinglou in Dijing were also called for questioning, at first they still refused to admit it, and when they heard that Qi Yan, the second grandson of Xianmengju's house, was arrested and imprisoned, they were scared, and they all confessed.
On the surface, Xianmengju is taking advantage of the momentum of the cyclamen building and the immortal tea building to do the teahouse restaurant business, but they neither have the good taste of the cyclamen building, nor do they have the new flowers of the fairy tea building, how can they compare with others? So he secretly operated and started the business of secret prostitution, and the people he received were people who ordinary people did not dare to receive - officials from the DPRK and China.
According to the confessions of these people, a list of prostitute officials of the imperial court was also compiled, which was simply a reminder for those who were on the list.
For the Zhongyi Palace, this matter can be big or small, just look at what the emperor thinks, to put it mildly, Xianmengju's interests are consumed, and he will do whatever it takes to make money; To put it mildly, controlling court officials through prostitutes, and then controlling the overall situation of the court, his heart can be punished!
Don't forget, the Zhongyi Mansion is three generations ahead, but it is also a royal lineage, and it is not impossible to say that they intend to take the throne.
Zhongyi Palace.
Qi Shijing, the son of King Zhongyi, although he is almost old, is still the son of the world because his father is here. He knelt in front of the old Zhongyi King, blaming himself and remorseful: "It's all because of the bad teaching of the son that caused such a disaster, please ask my father to save Yan'er for the sake of your own grandson." ”
The princess on the side, that is, Qi Yan's mother, was a little unaccustomed to it, and stepped forward to help her husband up: "According to the concubine, this is not a big deal, Yan'er is still young, and she is ignorant and messing around for a while, and when the emperor is angry, he will naturally release people, they are all flesh and blood of the family, how can Yan'er say that he is also the emperor's cousin." ”
"Women, what do you know!" Qi Shijing scolded sharply and shook off his wife's hand, "It's all because you are used to him not knowing the height of the sky, and now he has made such a big disaster, I'm afraid that our whole family will be affected by this rebel!" ”
"This ......" the princess looked stunned.
"Ask my father to save Yan'er!" Qi Shijing kowtowed heavily.
The crutches in the hands of the old Zhongyi king slammed on the ground, got up and sighed: "That's it, let go of my old face, enter the palace, and meet the saint, but ......" He glanced at his kneeling son, "You guys...... Be prepared. ”