Chapter 25: Killing (1)
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As Concubine Zheng frequently took Zhu Cai's 'daughter' to 'show' her face in front of the emperor, I was more sure that there must be a 'trade' between them, and I could probably guess that Zhu Cai's 'girl's trajectory might change, but this made me feel faintly excited, since she can change, then what about me, I think, when Qihuai comes back, I will definitely be able to see my hope.
After all, I am weak, and it will take some time to find out the discord between Concubine Zheng and Zhu Cai's 'daughter', but Concubine He's efficiency has always been very fast, and she came to my palace to sit idle in a few days.
"Your big red robe here is good, the 'color' is golden, and the fragrance is refreshing. Concubine He took a sip of tea and praised with a smile.
I smiled and said, "It's not worth anything, my sister has so many good things, it's hard for my sister to see it, it's good to bring some back later!"
"How can I favor your stuff. Concubine He smiled and put down the sweet white porcelain tea bowl, tapped her nails on the table twice, and said, "The weather in Beijing is like this, it is so cold that people shrink their hands and feet, if it weren't for my sister, I wouldn't be too lazy to get out of the 'door', but some people have jumped up and down these days, and I don't know what to do!"
She started talking, and I followed her words: "It's strange to say, didn't she give people a lot of 'color' at the beginning, why did she get like this in the past few days!"
Concubine He covered her lips and smiled: "You don't know yet!"
I smiled and said, "Where do I have my sister so well-informed, tell me quickly, and I can solve my doubts!"
Concubine He said: "You also know what Zhu Cai's 'daughter' is, what is the richest of them, money, now that the year is approaching, what she lacks the most is money!"
"Is it ......?"
Concubine He leaned into my ear and whispered, "I've heard that the Zhu family has sent her so many silver tickets before and after!"
Seeing her gesture, I was shocked: "One hundred thousand taels!"
"Yes, although I don't know how much the Zhu family brought from her own family, but the 100,000 taels are true, for the sake of money, she naturally wants to help the Zhu family plan a thing or two, as for whether it can be done, she doesn't care!"
"But I see that she is still 'very' interested in the Zhu family!"
Concubine He smiled: "What about her heart, then our emperor has to have a heart, in short, no matter what the outcome is, the 100,000 taels of silver can't run!"
As he was talking, Jin Rui walked in, saluted us, and said, "Qi Qi two mothers, today's people from the Shang Sleep Bureau have replaced Zhu Cai with Zhu Cai's 'girl' on the grounds that Zhao Baolin is unwell!"
I glanced at Concubine He, and Concubine He raised eyebrows at me, which means: Silver is not a white 'flower'.
I smiled and lowered my head to drink my tea.
100,000 taels of silver for a night's 'waiting' sleep, but it is the day of Zhao Baolin, the biological mother of the eleventh prince, Zheng Guifei seems to want to vomit our queen mother all the time.
Concubine He conveyed the news she wanted me to know, sat for a while and left, when I left, I asked people to wrap some big red robes for her to take back, and the gifts were exchanged, and she went back and asked people to send some monkeys and snacks.
A few days later, Concubine Zheng Guifei moved the 'waiting' day of a talented person who was not very favored to Zhu Cai's 'daughter', and within a month, Zhu Cai's 'girl' had already 'served' bed twice.
Although the emperor still goes to the queen every five days every month, the days of Concubine Ya alone have four days a month, Zheng Guifei has two to three days, and Concubine and I have two days each, but a last-class 'girl' has two days a month, so that the palace has set its eyes on the Zhu family.
Entering the wax moon, the weather is getting colder and colder, this morning to go to the queen to say goodbye, the queen is busy, we sat for a while and then dispersed, Zheng Guifei and Concubine He left a discussion.
When I walked down the steps of Zichen Palace, I suddenly slipped under my feet and threw myself forward, and it was Wang Zhaoyi who walked in front of me, it happened so suddenly that I couldn't react at all, so I had already knocked Wang Zhaoyi down, and I myself rolled down from the steps.
The cries of the 'women' came and went, I was thrown into a lot of meat, fortunately I wore more in winter, and I didn't feel how painful, I was in a hurry for a while, I was helped up by the 'spring' and Gu Yu, Wang Zhaoyi was also helped up, glared at me angrily and said: "You, can you walk, don't have long eyes, what's the matter, hit me!"
I was speechless for a while, so I had to carefully apologize: "It's all concubines, isn't it, my sister is not hurt!"
Wang Zhaoyi said angrily: "How do I know if there are internal injuries, if you are injured, I can't spare you, welcome 'spring', dead girl, what are you still doing here, don't pass on the doctor quickly!"
The palace 'girl' beside her hurriedly ran away, and the noise outside had already alarmed the queen and others, and when they came out to take a look, Concubine Zheng immediately smiled and said: "Yo, this embarrassing look, what kind of play is it singing!"
Wang Zhaoyi's face was red and white, and when she saw the queen standing behind Concubine Zheng Guifei, she opened her mouth to look at me, my face was flushed, and I pleaded guilty: "It's all the concubine's fault, it's the concubine's carelessness......"
"Look, Queen. Concubine Ya suddenly picked up something from the steps, and it was still shining in the sun, "It's an ice cube, Sister Ji slipped when she stepped on the ice just now, but how can there be ice cubes here, and it didn't snow today!"
Her question is also my question, just now I did feel that I stepped on something under my feet to slip, today it is difficult to find the sun, the steps of Zichen Hall are always up and down, clean and clean, how can there be ice cubes on it.
The queen's face changed, and she said in a deep voice: "Who is in charge of sprinkling and sweeping today!"
Concubine Zheng immediately said: "Queen Mother, no matter who it is, the matter is in your Zichen Palace, you must always give the two sisters a 'handover' generation!"
The queen glanced at her and said, "Sister, rest assured, this palace will never be biased towards 'selfishness', Wei Zi, the palace people who are in charge of sprinkling and sweeping today will reward twenty boards!"
The queen spoke, we were not good at making a sound, not long after, the imperial doctor came, looked at Wang Zhaoyi, and helped me take the pulse, to make sure that we were all right, but I fell again today because of the last time I broke my foot, I am afraid that it will cause the wound to recur, it is better to go back to recuperate.
The queen was about to speak, but Concubine Zheng said again: "Since this is the case, it seems that Ji Jieyu will not be able to 'serve' to sleep this time, it just so happens that Zhu Cai's 'daughter' told her concubine that she misses the emperor very much, so it is better to let Zhu Cai's 'daughter' and 'waiter' sleep tonight!"
Everyone changed their faces, and only Zhu Cai's 'woman' looked 'color' and thanked her shyly.
I changed my eyes with Concubine He, Concubine Ya and others, and everyone in the harem was not confused, and after thinking about it, I naturally knew that from the ice cubes on the steps of Zichen Palace, to my fall, to Zhu Cai's 'woman' and 'waiter' bed, it was a good show arranged by someone.
It's just that she clearly wants Zhu Cai's 'girl' to occupy my place, looking at the number of birds with one stone, but it is inevitably too deliberate.