Chapter 111: Sudden Inspection
Kunxi Temple.
The charcoal fire was burning, and in a large bathtub, two flesh-colored figures were hugging, and anyone would be surprised if they saw this scene, because these were two sleek women, with no hair on them.
In the midst of the murmuring, a woman spoke: "You say, Lin Zhaoyi fell this time, and there is no day to turn over, what will the emperor do with her?" β
"Your Excellency, Hong'er thinks that Your Majesty should give her poisonous wine or three-foot white silk, because Your Majesty loves those calligraphy and paintings too much, and this is his life's collection."
It turned out that this woman was actually a fake Baili Concubine, and opposite her was the palace master of Qihua Palace.
"Lin Zhaoyi is too arrogant, since she was favored, she was destined to have today's ending, but no one thought that she would be planted in the hands of Concubine Duan."
"The palace master is right."
Concubine Baili said, her lips resting on the palace master's chest.
The palace master snorted, hugged Concubine Baili's head, pressed her hard to her chest, and said: "That Concubine Duan is really fateful, this time she knocked down Lin Zhaoyi, next time she can deal with Concubine Shu Xian, right?" β
Baili Concubine whined twice.
"Concubine Shu Xian, is it early?"
"Let's provoke their conflicts first."
"Palace Master, Hong'er doesn't understand, if we can't kill her, why don't we use the Immortal Pill to directly control Concubine Shu Xian and lead her by the nose?"
The palace master shook his head.
"The Ascension Pill doesn't have much control over the strong-willed people, and this palace is afraid that she would rather die by herself than be obedient, and when the secret of the Qihua Palace is revealed, we will have nowhere to stay!"
"Well, the palace master is extremely worried."
"Remember, you must be careful in the palace, the number of Ascending Immortal Pills is limited, and we must see that people can use it, and, no matter what, we must have two months' supply."
"Yesβ"
"By the way, when will the big red pill enter Beijing, and are all the pharmacies ready now?"
"It's ready, just wait for the big red pills to arrive and start selling, I hope they can arrive before the end of this month, otherwise the venue we mortgaged out will be in jeopardy."
The palace master hummed, turned around, and turned his back to Concubine Baili, who stretched out her hands and massaged her back.
"Is this mortgage a deal between Sunrise Money and the casino?"
Baili Fei nodded.
"Yes, it's basically these ones, but there is a mysterious little buyer who wants to buy the Frost Leaf Pavilion for only 30,000 taels, and the people below wanted to refuse, but he said that there is no interest for a month of redemption, and only three points of interest for two months of redemption, Hong'er thinks that it can be earned back in two months at most anyway, so he mortgaged it to him."
The palace master straightened up, and his voice was a little cold.
"This matter, you still have to report it to the palace next time, you can't just make the decision, that mysterious little buyer, you must find out what the origin is, there will be no pie in the sky, you have to remember!"
"Yes, yes, Hong'er won't dare next time."
"What is the identity of the mysterious little buyer, have you checked it?"
"Checked, the people around him called him Eighth Master, and I didn't find out which gang boss in Windy City called Eighth Master."
"Keep looking!"
"Yesβ"
Seeing Concubine Baili's sincere and frightened look, the palace master's tone was slightly softened.
"Well, by the way, today the emperor changed the residence of Concubine Duan, do you know?"
"Hong'er doesn't know, where is it?"
"Anhua Temple."
"Ah, where did Jing Guiyi move?"
"She was moved to the Shanglin Palace."
"Hey, isn't Shanglin Hall Chen Jieyu's residence, Jing Guiyi moved to Shanglin Palace, so where will Chen Jieyu come back and live?"
"Hmph, it's impossible for Chen Jieyu to come back."
Baili Concubine sighed.
"She's dead?"
"Yes, Chen Jieyu died in Zongzheng Mansion, saying that she couldn't stand the beating."
"Oh, it seems that the prince's power is really great, and this incident not only did not shake his position, but also killed the person who reported him!"
"Who said it, the crown prince was also grounded, and the emperor ordered that all ministers should not approach the prince without permission."
Baili Concubine was very pleased.
"So, if the prince wants to get money, it will be very troublesome in the future?"
"Yes, so as long as we get money, we can build momentum and buy people who need to be bought, in this world, there is nothing that money can't do!"
"Yes, then I really have to thank Chen Jieyu, if it weren't for her, the prince wouldn't have hurt his vitality so quickly."
"That's right, but the most unlucky thing is that Jing Guiyi, who was inexplicably rectified by Lin Zhaoyi, just softened, and was implicated by Chen Jieyu, although she has Concubine Hui's help, but Concubine Hui is too busy to take care of herself, and she is afraid that it will be difficult for her to turn over in the future."
"What the palace master said is extremely true, in fact, there is another person who will be even more unlucky."
"Who?"
"Chu Meiren, she is close to Chen Jieyu, this time something happens, even if she has nothing to do with Lin Zhaoyi, Zongzheng Mansion will beat her back to the identity of the palace maid!"
When the palace master heard this, his body was stunned.
Concubine Baili pressed Concubine Yuan's shoulders and said with a smile: "A palace maid, who was fortunate to be visited by the emperor once, was promoted to a beauty, did she think she was going to heaven, didn't she return to her original form!" β
At this time, someone outside the temple began to speak, and it seemed that someone had entered the temple.
The palace master's face changed sharply.
"Who will come to Kunxi Hall at this time?"
"I don't know, palace master, go quickly!"
"Okayβ"
The palace master climbed out of the bathtub, put on a bath towel, picked up his clothes, opened the blackened landscape painting on the shrine, pressed it quickly on the three green bricks, clicked the ground, a secret door appeared on the wall, and a passage appeared in front of him, the palace master drilled into the passage, the passage door was closed, and there was no trace of it, it turned out that behind this shrine was a mezzanine, which hid a hidden secret passage.
There were footsteps outside, and then Su Zi's voice said: "Zhaoyi Niangniang, Yu Shanggong is here to inspect." β
"This, this concubine is bathing, can you wait a while?"
With a snap, the door of the palace was pushed open, and Yu Shanggong broke in with two palace maids.
Baili Fei was standing in the bathtub, and she had a bath towel draped over her.
Yu Shanggong glanced at him coldly, and his brows furrowed.
"Baili Zhaoyi will really enjoy it, there are so many charcoal fires in the hall, it's so warm!"
"Yes, Lord Shanggong, I don't know why you came to Kunxi Hall at night?"
Yu Shanggong was arrogant and didn't answer, and the two palace maids beside her walked around the hall and said, "Lord Shanggong, nothing suspicious has been found. β
At this time, the door of the main hall was open, and although there was a charcoal fire in the house, the temperature dropped as soon as it fell.
Concubine Baili was so angry that her body trembled, her body was half immersed in the water, and asked, "What, do you suspect that I stole something?" β
"Lin Tingting stole the perilla incense from Chun Nuan Pavilion, the queen has a will, the palace must check the residence of the concubines, and whether there is anything that does not belong to her!"
"Okay, okay, then please check!"
Yu Shanggong showed an angry look on his face, and said, "You get up, this palace wants to check if there is anything hidden in your bath tub!" β
Baili Concubine almost blurted out a curse, but she still stood up, Su Zi and Shunzi hurriedly took a dry bath towel to wrap her, but Baili Fei was still shivering with cold.
The bathtub was flipped to the ground by the two palace maids, and hot water splashed on the ground, but there was nothing in the tub except for some flower petals.
Yu Shanggong was a little disappointed, but her eyes rolled, and she suddenly asked sharply: "This palace asks you, where did your charcoal come from when you light so many pots of charcoal?" β
Baili Fei's teeth trembled, and she said hatefully: "I was shivering with cold a few days ago, if it wasn't for Sister Duanfei who saw me pitiful and sent some coals, maybe she would have frozen to death, and I wanted to take a hot bath today, what's wrong?" β
Yu Shanggong snorted, waved her hand, and the two palace maids walked out with her, and when they arrived at the door, she stopped again and said: "Recently, the atmosphere in the palace is not good, and it will be cleaned up well, so don't move around if you have nothing to do, so as not to cause trouble!" She flicked her sleeves and walked away.
When Yu Shanggong left, Concubine Baili gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "Queen Mother, you can't fix Concubine Duan, but you come to fix me, let's see!" β
Yue'er didn't know these things, and she was still glad to bring down Lin Zhaoyi at the moment.
The next day was very peaceful, there were no other concubines in Anhua Hall to congratulate her, Yue'er was a little strange, she didn't know that many concubines had received warnings from Yu Shanggong.
Lan Qiu and Ji Hong looked pleasing to the eye, and when they saw Yue'er, they were all respectful.