Chapter 043: Xue Qing
Li Xueqing is one of the few female officials remembered by the princess.
When she was sent to the palace, it was when her father began to squeeze out Li Deyu's party, including Li Deyu himself, who was also dismissed.
The Li family hurriedly sent Li Xueqing to the palace, hoping to give her the grace of the Holy Grace, so that she could speak for the Li family and leave them a way to live.
Unexpectedly, Li Xueqing ran to the saint and said that she would rather be an inferior female official in the palace for a lifetime than a concubine.
She made such a resolute statement, but the Holy Lord admired her very much. Not only did she not blame, but she was asked what she wanted to do? She chose a Si Nong Si who female officials didn't like to go to.
Therefore, Li Xuaner is not familiar with her, but she is very impressed by her.
It was this inadvertent choice, after Li Deyu was demoted to Qiongzhou, died in a foreign country, and almost all the men of the Li family were wiped out, the saint let her go in the harem.
From the admired minister of the humerus to the out-and-out officialdom cannon fodder, the dispute between Niu and Li seems to be over, but in fact, it was just turned over by Xuanzong.
The overcorrection of the saint has made some villains hollow out their minds to establish themselves and their new status in the new court. The one who was used as a stepping stone was Li Deyu, who was ousted by the Holy Lord because of his opposition to Wuzong.
Li Xueqing grew up in the Prime Minister's Mansion, how could she not know the risks of party strife in the court? She doesn't hate the saint for rain, but hates the villain who relies on the lower trap to fish out the evidence of her ancestor's bribery.
It is precisely because of the bribery case that Zujun, who has been deposed as prime minister, has been degraded again and again, not to mention traveling thousands of miles from Chang'an to Qiongzhou, and has suffered a lot of hardships along the way, and finally embarked on the road of no return with hatred.
The ice did not end until noon, and Li Xueqing was wearing a thick robe, going in and out many times, but she was also frozen enough.
"Li Fu, it's hard work, you go back and rest, clean the rest of the ice well, just let them do it." Dong Jing sneezed two more times and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Li Xueqing's face was as usual, but there was some absent-mindedness in her eyes, she held the booklet and hurriedly walked on the way back to Si Nongsi.
When she passed by Wensi Academy, she was not paying attention, and she was walking with her head buried in it, and she hit someone else's back.
"Hey! How do you walk? You can hit people from behind......"
Li Xueqing didn't dare to raise her head, but kept bending down to apologize: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ......"
Li Wen, who was hit, saw that the person who hit him was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old female official with a standard appearance, combing a simple high bun, and only a delicate velvet flower. It was still very hot, but she was wearing an untimely silk robe.
He smiled: "It wasn't intentional, did you mean it?" ”
When Li Xueqing heard the voice, she raised her head, and saw Cui Jinyun beside King Yun at a glance, and recognized that it was His Royal Highness King Yun who was bumped into by herself, and her face immediately turned red, and she said eagerly:
"The servant collided with His Highness, and the crime deserves death."
"Bump into it, it won't be a crime that deserves death, walk carefully in the future, go ahead."
Li Xueqing saluted Li Wen and Cui Gongzi again, and left in a hurry as if she was running away.
"She bumped into her from behind, does Your Highness really think she didn't mean to?" Cui Gongzi said disdainfully: "Do you know who she is?" ”
"I see that her clothes are not palace maids, like a female official, but I don't know why she is dressed so thickly."
"She is Li Deyu's granddaughter, what is her name, I didn't pay attention. Li Deyu has been a powerful minister for many years, and once he fell, he fell and killed his family. This Li lady was hiding in the palace, but she was preserved. Perhaps, she wants to befriend you, the prince, and find a backer for herself. ”
Hearing him say this, Li Wen couldn't help but glance at her back twice: it turned out that the Li family, who was sent to the palace by the Li Mansion, but ran to tell his father that she would rather die than be a concubine, was her.
Born in the prime minister's house, it is no wonder that she has an extraordinary temperament.
He shook his head and smiled: "She doesn't want the biggest backer of the Celestial Empire, how can she take a fancy to me, a prince who is not taken seriously?" Most not, it was not intentional. I'm going to Wensi Academy, are you going back to the Academy? Tell Saburo that I'll go look for him after lunch. ”
Li Xueqing, who returned to the Si Nong Division, was a little distracted, and after handing over the registration book to the record, she kept sitting by the window in a daze.
When she first came to Si Nong, what she wanted to do the most was Si Yuan. Si Yuan is in charge of flowers and trees all over the palace, in addition to eliminating the cumbersome dealing with people, there is also a linkage between it and the medicine garden.
For example, the willow tree in the palace is under the management of Si Yuan, but the medicine garden will ask her for catkins, crush them, and then use them as medicine to treat jaundice, hemoptysis, blood in the stool and women's sunflower irregularities.
Pharmacist Cui is in charge of the medicine garden.
Li Xueqing has known Cui Jinyun since she was a child, but he has always had his eyes on the top of his head, and the only time he said to her was when his leg was broken and he was in a wheelchair.
That time, his book was dropped, and she picked it up for him, and he said lightly: Thank you.
Later, he disappeared for several years, and when he returned, not only was his leg cured, but he also learned a medical skill, and the two never crossed paths again.
However, many years have passed, and these things have become no longer important, at least her current soul is not for Cui Jinyun who she just met.
At this time, Li Xueqing was not the only one sitting by the window in a daze.
"Princess, Sushan is ready, it just so happened that last time His Royal Highness King Yun asked someone to send a bottle of red jam, sweet and sour is the most appetizing, you can taste it."
No matter how good the Lantian ice is, of course the princess will not directly eat the mashed ice.
Bai Zhi put a small iron bucket in the wooden basin, and the water in the iron bucket was turned into water by Lantian ice, and then boiled boiling water, and then put ice cubes around the iron bucket, and after a while, the boiling water froze out of the ice slag again, stirred evenly and then frozen for a while, and it was completely frozen into ice.
At this time, the ice in the iron bucket is mashed, piled into the shape of a hill, poured with honey, syrup, jam, and garnished with grapes and cherries.
The princess's mind was not on this beautiful and delicious crispy mountain, she ate a spoonful, looked up and said to Mu Xiang:
"You send a bowl of Sushan to the third princess, and by the way, invite Xiaoqing, the maidservant girl in her palace, to come over, and say...... The hibiscus leaves in our yard are yellow, so let her see what's going on. ”
Mu Xiang muttered: "Aren't the leaves yellow in autumn?" What's so nice about this......"
"If you want to go, you will go, so many words."
The princess hadn't finished her bowl of crispy mountains yet, and Mu Xiang ran back nervously and said:
"Princess, it's not good, an hour ago, Xiaoqing accidentally sprayed General Ma Da who was passing by because she sprayed water on the leaves, and was caught by the eunuch and sent to the inner chamberlain to be punished."
The princess put down the spoon and sighed softly: it was too late to think about it, and she didn't care about these things that had nothing to do with her at that time. When I saw Li Xueqing today, I wanted to find out the reason for her disappearance, so I carefully searched in my memory.
Xiaoqing is the palace maid in Li Shuang'er's palace, she has been a flower girl before, and she knows how to take care of flowers and trees best, so the flowers in Princess Guangde's palace are more beautiful than other places.
Li Xueqing disappeared because the princess later learned from the palace maid that it happened to be close to the time when Xiaoqing made a mistake and committed suicide in shame in the Inner Servant.
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