Chapter 237: Conflict
After sending Cuifen away, Mrs. Ni returned to her courtyard.
Not long after she entered the house, a cyan figure appeared in the room.
Mrs. Ni didn't have a look of surprise on her face, as if she took this person's appearance for granted.
"Duan Chen gave me a packet of medicine, it should be a chronic poison, he is not that stupid."
Mrs. Ni took out the medicine bag in her hand and smiled self-deprecatingly.
"You're right, there is indeed someone by my side who was planted by Duan Chen. I just didn't think this person was Cuifen. ”
"Sometimes the more impossible the answer, the closer to the truth." The mysterious man in the room said in a low voice.
"Does the medicine you gave really work?" Mrs. Ni frowned, she had been drugged King Funan for half a year, but apart from being more irritable and irritable, no doctor had seen anything abnormal.
"The world-famous Doctor Lou personally dispensed the medicine, what do you think?"
The mystery man raised an eyebrow.
Mrs. Ni's line was just done casually by herself at that time, or it may have been out of compassion for the same woman, but she didn't expect that it would help her a lot now.
"That's good. There is also this package of medicine given by Duan Chen, do you want to find a Lang Zhong to take a look? ”
Mrs. Ni opened the medicine bag, which was wrapped in white powder, and it was impossible to tell what kind of medicine it was from its appearance.
"It is the most common arsenic, frost." The mysterious man picked a little with his fingertips, put it on the top of his fingertips and rubbed it.
"It's arsenic and frost that are the most common." Mrs. Ni sneered, and said, "It seems that Duan Chen is going to let me be the scapegoat." ”
"Wen Taowu, the second son of the Duan family, is not good at everything, but the conspiracy and tricks are slippery. Relying on women to get on top, tsk ......"
The mysterious man's words were full of disdain.
"I'm afraid, I worked hard, and in the end I made a wedding dress for Duan Chen."
To say that what Mrs. Ni hates the most in her heart is not the King of Funan who forcibly took her back to her house, but Duan Chen, who lured her into the trap step by step!
"Don't worry, we'll take care of everything." After the mysterious man finished speaking, he took the medicine bag that Mrs. Ni put on the table and turned it out of the window.
Cui Fen came in with hot chicken soup, and when she saw Mrs. Ni sitting at the table, a smile naturally appeared on her face, and she said softly, "Madam, the chicken soup has been cooked." ”
"Cuifen, if I remember correctly, your father went early, and only one mother and younger brother can't survive in the family, so they will sell you to the palace."
Mrs. Ni said in a voice.
Cui Fen was stunned by what Mrs. Ni said, as if she didn't understand why Mrs. Ni suddenly mentioned her family.
"The second son gave me arsenic and frost, right?" Mrs. Ni didn't need Cui Fen to understand.
"Madame......" Cuifen heard this, and raised her head with a "brush".
After smiling at Mrs. Ni, Cui Fen secretly swallowed her saliva and said timidly: "Madam, the second son has arranged everything, and he will never let you fall into it." ”
"You're loyal." Mrs. Ni's eyes were full of mockery. After saying everything so clearly, this Cui Fen is still obsessed.
"You might as well put the matter of the second son on the go first, and Mrs. Ben will show you something first."
Madame Ni smiled lightly and opened the wooden box on the table.
Cui Fen's eyes widened instantly, and the look in her eyes as she looked at Madame Ni was full of horror.
……
In the Imperial Study.
An eagle falcon flew into the house through the open window and landed firmly on Wei Zhao's left arm.
Wei Zhao pulled out the holder tied to the Saker's feet, took out the letter inside, and swept it through the lines at a glance. He then took a piece of raw meat from his plate and fed it to the Saker, patting it on the head with a gentle motion.
The falcon flapped its wings and flew back down the window.
Wei Zhaomo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he pondered for a while, and then raised his voice and called, "Feng Hui." ”
"The minions are here."
Feng Hui, who was standing on the side, hurriedly responded.
Wei Zhao quickly wrote a note of Chen, sandwiched it in the fold, and then ordered: "Go and see if the queen has cleaned up?" If that's right, let's go. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty." Feng Hui took the order and left.
……
Inside the Qianyuan Palace.
Xie Yanhe was holding a scroll in his hand and was checking his niece's homework.
I only listened to Tao Tao recite intermittently: "The so-called sincere person does not deceive himself, such as a bad smell, such as lustful, this is called self-humility, so the gentleman must be cautious of his independence!" The villain is not good at idleness, he goes to everything, and when he sees the gentleman, he is disgusted and hides his ...... Cover up its inadequacy, human ...... The form of man is ...... outside"
Xie Yanhe frowned frequently when he listened.
Tao Tao recited quite fluently at first, but when she got to the back, the preface did not match the afterword, and when she heard it, she knew how loose her homework had been in the past few days.
"For two whole days, you didn't even memorize one of the paragraphs?"
Xie Yanhe has always been tolerant of this niece, but this little girl is too unlearned
Tao Tao knew that she was at a loss, and she didn't dare to be coquettish in Xie Yanhe's arms like before, she stood in front of Xie Yanhe, wringing her fingers helplessly, looking quite pitiful.
Xie Yanhe repeatedly warned himself that he must not be soft-hearted, otherwise he would not be "beaten with a stick" by this little girl!
She rubbed her eyebrows, her beautiful face did not show a hint of a smile, and said very seriously: "I will do another spot check tonight, if I don't memorize this article again, I can only punish you for copying books and beating hands like my sister-in-law." ”
Tao Tao didn't expect that he would be able to escape, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She has been smart since she was a child, and it is not difficult for her to memorize this article, but she has been messing around for the past few days, and she doesn't want to do her homework more and more, but she didn't expect to be caught by her aunt.
"Auntie, I was wrong, I will definitely do my homework seriously next time."
Tao Tao hurriedly ran to Xie Yanhe and gave Xie Yan a good meal, rubbing his shoulders and pinching his legs.
Xie Yanhe was still angry, but he was troubled by Tao Tao and couldn't hold back his laughter.
She poked Tao Tao's forehead with her fingers with love and hate, and said hatefully: "Next time, I will not only punish you, but also tell your mother!" ”
Xie Yanhe's threat was more effective than anything else, Tao Tao nodded vigorously, and hurriedly promised: "Auntie, I won't dare to do it again next time." Don't tell my mother. ”
"It's like a rat seeing a cat." Xie Yanhe pinched Tao Tao's little face amusedly, and said softly, "Are your cages all placed?" ”
Although Xie Yanhe was asking Tao Tao, his eyes glanced at Linglong on the side.
"Back to the queen, the county lord's clothes, jewelry, and books are all in the box, and nothing is missing."
Xie Yanhe nodded.
"Queen Mother, everything has been arranged, when do you think you will leave?" The mandarin duck walked into the hall with two columns of palace maids.
When the queen travels, no matter what time she can't do without pomp.
"When news comes from His Majesty's side, we'll leave." Xie Yanhe blew the tea soup in the sweet white porcelain tea cup and tasted it elegantly.
At this time, Feng Hui happened to come to the Qianyuan Hall to deliver the message, he bowed in the direction of Xie Yanhe, and said respectfully: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty sent a servant to ask, is it appropriate for Niangniang to be here?" ”
Hearing this, Xie Yanhe put the teacup on the table and said lightly: "Get off." ”
The palace people in the main hall suddenly moved like a tide......
This time, I went to Tangshan Palace to escape the summer, and all the ministers and nobles who had other courtyards in Tangshan followed.
Along the way, Jin Wuwei and Yu Linwei opened the way, hundreds of palace people followed, and the emperor and queen made a total of one chariot, and went out of the palace in a mighty way.
Outside the Zhengyang Gate, the ministers who had already been prepared for a long time also joined the royal team, followed the emperor's imperial chariot, and headed in the direction of Tangshan.
From a distance, the long queue is like a long dragon, endless.
……
After a long journey, Xie Yan and this sleep were very heavy, and he didn't even know when Wei Zhao left.
After Tao Tao finished breakfast, he came to greet his aunt, but was stopped outside the dormitory by the mandarin ducks.
"County Lord, the queen hasn't woken up yet, Your Majesty has ordered, no one is allowed to disturb, do you want to go around?"
"Aunt has always been very sleepy these days, doesn't it matter?"
Although Tao Tao is arrogant and domineering, it is all for outsiders. In front of her relatives, she is a sweet little girl, although she is a little willful, but she is harmless.
Tao Tao's meticulous observation made the mandarin duck stunned. But then came a deep sense of emotion.
The mandarin duck helped Tao Tao straighten his somewhat loose sideburns, and said softly: "Our county lord has really grown up. I don't know how happy the Queen would be if she knew that you cared about her so much. ”
"Sister Mandarin Duck, am I so ignorant in your eyes?" Tao Tao shook the mandarin duck's arm, delicately sprinkling Jiao.
Even the method of pleasing people is exactly the same as that of his master. The mandarin duck was amused in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it, and said in his mouth: "The county lord used to be very sensible, but now he is more sensible." ”
"Does it really matter to my aunt?" Tao Tao made a fuss about the mandarin ducks for a while, and then turned the topic back to his aunt, with a pair of watery eyes revealing a trace of worry.
The mandarin duck didn't want to say it, but looking at Tao Tao's worried appearance, in order to make Tao Tao feel at ease, the mandarin duck bent down and whispered a few words in Tao Tao's ear......
"Really?" Tao Tao exclaimed with surprise on his face.
The two mandarin ducks hurriedly covered her mouth, lowered their voices and said, "Little ancestor, you are quiet, it's not sure yet." ”
Tao Tao nodded vigorously, and after the mandarin duck let go of his hand, Tao Tao made a gesture to cover his mouth, and also said in a very small voice: "Sister Mandarin Duck, you are fangxin, I will definitely not talk nonsense." ”
"The county lord is the most sensible."
The mandarin duck praised Tao Tao's sentence, and said to the palace maid beside Tao Tao: "Linglong, there is a forest halfway up the mountain, in which peach blossoms, apricot blossoms and plum blossoms are planted, and now the hanging fruit should also be ripe." Although you can't eat apricots, there are still peaches and plums, and you take the county lord there to play. ”
The mountain forest halfway up the mountain belongs to the Tangshan Imperial Palace, and no one should dare to pick the fruit there except for the royal people.
There is also a small stream next to the forest, the water is sweet, clear, and not very deep, but there are live fish in it, which is a good place to pass the time, and children should like it the most.
Tao Tao really showed a very surprised expression, took Linglong's hand and ran, halfway through, only to remember that she didn't say goodbye to the mandarin duck, she waved at the mandarin duck, and said in a small voice: "Sister mandarin duck, I'll go out to play first." ”
The mandarin duck nodded with a smile on his face, turned around and instructed Basho: "You follow the county lord." That's the queen's eyes, and you can't make a mistake. ”
When Basho heard this, he hurriedly kept up with Tao Tao's pace.
Linglong was afraid that Tao Tao's small body would not be able to stand it, and wanted to call a soft sedan chair for Tao Tao, but Tao Tao refused.
"Sister Linglong, if I can't walk, Sister Basho will carry me."
Tao Tao jumped down the hill, followed by four tall guards in addition to Linglong and Basho.
"County lord, if you can't walk, tell the slave maid immediately, you can't be reckless." Linglong, as a five-grade female official, was assigned by the queen to take care of the lord of Yunyang, but she didn't dare to take it big at all, not only was she very respectful to Tao Tao, but she also served very thoughtfully, lest she make a mistake and be asked by the queen.
Tao Tao also knew that it was not easy for these palace people, and nodded extremely obediently when he heard this, and said sweetly: "Sister Linglong, don't worry, I won't be reckless." ”
When Tao Tao was in the northwest, he grew up on horseback, and learned kung fu with his two brothers.
When he arrived in the forest, Tao Tao looked at the red and bright peaches on the peach tree and the purple plums on the plum tree, and exclaimed in surprise: "Sister Mandarin Duck is really right, there are a lot of fruits." ”
As soon as Tao Tao's words fell, he heard a sneer from the forest, followed by a crisp and sweet voice: "Where did you get the soil buns?" Some of the most common fruits are worth shouting about. ”
Tao Tao squinted when he heard this, followed the prestige, and saw a group of gorgeously dressed girls coming out of the forest, the oldest of whom was also young, but the younger one was about the same as himself, but he didn't know who the person who laughed at him was.
"Who are you?" Tao Tao watched the group of girls come over coldly, with a look of pride in her peach blossom eyes.
"You're so rude, shouldn't you report yourself before asking others?" One of the girls dressed in green grabbed the white way.
Another girl dressed in red said in a weird manner: "Sister Wang, what kind of etiquette do you expect her to know when she even screams when she sees peaches and plums?!" ”
The girl looked Tao Tao up and down with disdain, and sneered, "I don't know how this kind of person got in." ”
Tao Tao immediately heard that this girl in red was the one who laughed at her "dirt bun".
She glanced down at her own clothes.
The skirt on Tao Tao's body is cut from silk worth 100 gold, woven into the autumn geese outside the clouds, and dyed as the spring water color of the south of the Yangtze River. This skirt alone is the income of a small rich family for five years.
What's more, because she is still young, although she does not wear a hairpin ring, the string of pearl beads wrapped around the double screw bun is the size of lotus seed rice, round and flawless, shiny and transparent, and it is worth a lot of money at a glance.
The girl who had just made a mockery of herself was not as expensive as the skirt on her body, and Tao Tao wondered if she was blind.
Only Linglong, who served behind Tao Tao, knew that not everyone could be lucky enough to see the silk silk worth 100 gold.
The skirt on the county lord of Yunyang, although it looks light in color, but under the sun, it is from shallow to deep, like a sparkling lake, with a sense of beauty.
Linglong dared to say that there were only one or two people who could afford to wear silk clothes in this group of official daughters opposite the county lord of Yunyang.
"Although I am a newcomer, I have never seen peaches and plums."
Tao Tao knew that she was still a fresh face in the beauties circle in the capital, especially after she intimidated the daughter of Qi Shangshu's family, she was even less in the mood to socialize with this group of ladies of Laoshzi.
"So, you admit that you're a dirt bun? How the hell did you get in? ”
The girl in red looked at Tao Tao opposite coldly, especially after seeing that face that was many times more beautiful than herself, she added a layer of jealousy to her heart.
Linglong took a step forward, and just wanted to break Tao Tao's identity, but was stopped by Tao Tao's look.
Seeing this, Linglong had no choice but to retreat behind Tao Tao.
Tao Tao said crisply: "Why are you only allowed to come, and I can't come?" ”
Tao Tao's cold eyes glanced around the girls, she hooked her pink little mouth, and said slowly: "Do you think you are the queen mother?" ”
"Presumptuous!" The girl in red seemed to have been stepped on by the tail, and she shouted: "You dare to be disrespectful to the mother, after I see the queen mother, I must let the mother punish you!" ”
Tao Tao originally just didn't like the domineering attitude of this group of girls, so he teased them a few words. But the words of the girl in red touched her scales.
Tao Tao stretched a small face, the banter in the peach blossom eyes was gone, but the bottom of her eyes was cold, and she said sarcastically: "What kind of thing are you, and you want the queen mother to cure my crimes!" Could it be that you can still order the queen mother?! ”
The girl at the head felt that the maid behind Tao Tao was a little familiar from just now, and now she finally remembered that this maid was an ordinary maidservant, and she was clearly a female official in the palace.
Looking at the girl's pomp and circumstance again, although the maid brought two, there were four guards behind her, and the girl thought that this was the guard in the forest at first, but now it seems that she is clearly following the little girl.
can have such pomp, and the identity of this little girl is about to come out @!
The girl at the head hurriedly grabbed the girl in red who wanted to sneer at her, and bowed to Tao Taofu, the arrogant look on her face was not only gone, but very respectful.
"The little girl has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, so I meet the lord of Yunyang."
As soon as the girl's voice fell, the ladies who came with her were all shocked.
Tao Tao's peach blossom eyes narrowed. She just wanted to teach the girl in red a lesson, but she didn't expect to be called out of her identity, and she couldn't do it if she wanted to set the girl in red again!
Seeing that Tao Tao did not deny it, the faces of this group of arrogant daughters were red and white, and the faces of the girls in green and red were even more ugly, but since they knew the identity of the county lord of Yunyang, they could only swallow the unwillingness in their hearts and ask the county lord of Yunyang for guilt.
"The little girl has offended the county lord of Yunyang by making disrespectful remarks, please forgive the county lord of Yunyang."
The attitude of these people was only exchanged for a sarcastic smile from Tao Tao, and she said lightly: "Wasn't it very majestic just now? It turned out to be bullying the soft and afraid of the hard. ”
Tao Tao's face is immature, but she has a momentum that is not angry and self-threatening, and she can bluff people outside.
At the very least, among these girls, there are the older ones, and when they see such a Yunyang county lord, their hearts can't help but flutter.
"You want the queen to cure me for my crimes?"
Tao Tao didn't let go of these people. If she is really an ordinary lady with an inconspicuous family background, I don't know how she will be ridiculed by these people!
Tao Tao chuckled lightly and said lightly: "Trouble comes from the mouth, if you think about whether you are worthy or not, think about it in advance." ”
After Tao Tao finished speaking, he raised his hand to brush away a fallen leaf on his shoulder, and said to Linglong: "Sister, this place is very noisy, let's go to a clean place to save dirty eyes and ears." ”
"The lord of the county, please come with the slave maid." The little girl was just arguing, as long as the person who suffered the loss was not the county lord of Yunyang, Linglong didn't take it to heart at all.
As for whether the county lord's words are mean? Since you hit the muzzle of the gun, you deserve it.
When Tao Tao and his party walked away, the ladies who stayed in the forest dared to speak out.
The girl in red said with a look of shame: "Look at her frivolous appearance, what about the niece of the queen mother?!" Isn't it a soil bun from the northwest? When I got closer to her, I could smell the sand smell on her. ”
The girl in red didn't like Tao Tao at first, because they had fun in this place, but they were taken by someone else, and the girl who made the first move was a new face, so they wanted to squeeze her out. Who would have thought about it, but kicked the iron plate!
But the group of people who echoed the girl in red just now not only died down, but some people also silently stayed away from her, for fear that they would be dragged away by her unconcealed mouth.
Seeing this, the girl in red looked annoyed and angry, and she said without hesitation: "Just now, the county lord ridiculed all of you, what's the use of drawing a line with me now!" ”
"You can't say that. The people who oppose the county lord are not us. One of the purple-clothed girls said, her eyes glanced at the green-clothed girl intentionally or unintentionally, and she curled her lips and smiled: "We have no grievances with the Lord of Yunyang in the past, and we have no enmity in the near future, you have caused your own trouble, don't drag everyone into the water." ”
After the girl in purple finished speaking, she beckoned to a few female companions who were good with her, and walked directly in another direction.
The girl in red stomped her feet angrily, looked at the girl in charge, and said angrily, "Sister Cheng, look at their attitude." ”
"I suddenly remembered that I had an appointment with the Du family's sister, so let's go first." The girl surnamed Cheng smiled warmly, saying sorry words in her mouth, but the pace of departure was not slow at all.
The group of people who were chattering when they came, now only the five people led by the girl in red and the girl in green remain.
The girl in red is called Cui Lanyi, a member of the Cui clan in Qinghe, and this time she entered Beijing with her parents, but she offended the county lord of Yunyang within a few days of coming.
She said to the girl in green: "Sister Wang, I just remembered, is that Yunyang County Lord your cousin?" ”