Chapter Seventy-Seven: In the Palace
"Today I have a headache and brain fever, so I asked the personal palace maid to go to the hospital to invite the doctor to come and take a look, who would have thought that there was no doctor in the hospital. I called an internal supervisor of the Tai Hospital to come and ask, only to know that the concubine Niangniang was sick again last night, and she shouted that she had a headache, and called all the doctors on duty to go over to see her. It's really a big battle! ”
Yu Niangzi was like a cannon, and immediately explained it to Miao Niangzi.
Miao Niangzi didn't speak, glanced at Queen Zhao sitting on the Luohan couch, and saw that the queen's face was not displeased, so she turned her head and said to Yu Niangzi.
"Sister Yu, the queen mother is sick now, so let's say a few words less about these things that shouldn't be said. No matter how noble the concubine is, she is also the person in the heart of the official family, and she is still the person you and I can't afford to provoke. ”
Miao Niangzi finished talking, only to hear a familiar voice outside the hall, which entered the hall.
"It turns out that the queen is so lively here! Hongu is late, late. ”
Immediately afterwards, I saw Sheng Guifei being held by palace maids of all sizes, and the stars entered the hall like the moon.
"The concubine is well!"
Miao Niangzi got up and bowed to Sheng Guifei, and said.
"Isn't the concubine Niangniang sick? Why are you going out again? Why don't you stay in your own palace, what are you going out for? I have invited so many imperial doctors into your palace, it seems that the imperial doctor's medical skills have improved, and the body of the noble concubine looks very good. ”
Yu Niangzi has three princes by her side, so she is naturally not afraid of Sheng Guifei, who has no prince in front of her, only a princess.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, but Mrs. Yu's speech is still so clever. But this palace doesn't like it, so clever and articulate. But no matter how eloquent Yu Niangzi is, even if you have an imperial heir, how many times will the official family go to your palace all year round?"
Concubine Sheng sat down at the head of Empress Zhao.
Today's Sheng Guifei's dress is very gorgeous.
Wearing an extremely tall bun, in addition to wearing a luxurious pearl flower crown, Sheng Guifei's hair was covered with a pair of hairpins inlaid with red gold peony and jasper glass.
The glass is very transparent, and the sun shines on it, and I only feel that it is colorful.
Lined with Sheng Guifei's gorgeous clothes, from a distance, Sheng Guifei looks like a fairy in the sky.
"Guifei Niangniang, your clothes are new, right? The queen said that it is necessary to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and all palaces and halls must reduce their consumption. ”
"I haven't been in the Qing Ning Palace, and the usage is getting bigger and bigger than before. I don't know if the official family heard about it, but they are still happy?"
Mrs. Yu fell behind, and now she has to take advantage of Sheng Guifei's clothes to move back.
"Yu Niangzi, your mother's family is stingy and reluctant to send you silver into the palace, do you just say this to others?"
"The queen said that she would save money in the palace and raise funds, but even if she saves it, the money that should be spent will still be spent. This bit of silver, my own mother's family will come out for me. ”
Sheng Guifei finished speaking, and glared at Yu Niangzi opposite viciously.
Yu Niangzi was not to be outdone, and then said.
"Who doesn't know, the Shengguo Mansion is rich and rich! Naturally, there is money. Unlike our Yu family, there is a room of scholars, and a room of poor and sour people. ”
"But although our Yu family is poor, in the end, people are not poor, and several children are all motivated. Unlike your Sheng Guo Mansion, I heard that Sheng Guo Gong has been involved in the theft of military pay these days, I don't know if you can get out?"
Yu Niangzi was born in the Yu family.
Most of the family are scholars, and both father and brother are officials in the court.
The official family attaches great importance to scholars, and she naturally has the confidence to argue with Concubine Sheng.
Although the Shengguo Mansion is the first family of Da Chen, it only relies on the Sheng Guifei in the palace.
The children and grandchildren of the family are not motivated, and few of them have entered the court as officials.
Listening to what Yu Niangzi said, Concubine Sheng's face became flushed, her lips moved, and when she was about to speak, Queen Zhao, who was sitting on the side, suddenly opened her mouth.
"Two ladies, now that Beijing is not peaceful, you two, it's better to say a few words. Instead of bickering here in the palace, it is better to go to the Funing Hall and wait beside the official family. ”
"Since the queen mother has said so, then the palace will retire first. The official family must be tired of reviewing the folds in the Funing Palace, so I brought the lotus seed soup and went over to see the official family. ”
Sheng Guifei said, she didn't even do the courtesy, and withdrew.
Watching Sheng Guifei swagger out of Kunning Palace, Yu Niangzi pointed to Sheng Guifei's back, and was angry for a while, and said.
"Queen Mother, Concubine Sheng is too arrogant now. If the queen mother does not punish Sheng Guifei, she is afraid that the sisters in the palace should not accept it. ”
Hearing what Yu Niangzi said, Queen Zhao didn't pick her up.
"She's always been like that, not once or twice. The official family spoils her and allows her to do this, is it difficult for me to do it, what else can I do?"
"You are also a person with a prince, the third prince is not favored in front of the official family, you are a mother, you only know how to fight all day long. What about what you said about her? Her status is still not affected in the slightest. ”
Empress Zhao reprimanded Yu Niangzi again.
Seeing this, Miao Niangzi, who was sitting on the side, finally opened her mouth and pleaded for Yu Niangzi.
"Queen Mother, Sister Yu is also a momentary loss, don't blame her. It's really Concubine Sheng these days, it's too arrogant. ”
"The queen said that she would raise military salaries in the palace, so that all palaces and courtyards would reduce the cost, and the other palaces would reduce the use, but the Qingning Palace would become more and more extravagant. Seeing that the Qingning Palace was extravagant, those palaces that had reduced their use naturally had ideas in their hearts. ”
Miao Niangzi explained to Empress Zhao.
These things, in fact, don't need Miao Niangzi to talk to her.
Someone had already sent her the message.
Even if she knew, what could she do?
Behind Sheng Guifei is the Shengguo Mansion with a lot of wealth.
With the subsidy at home, no matter how extravagant she is, as long as she doesn't use the silver from the treasury in the palace, she can't say a word.
Now I can only watch her extravagant.
Listening to Yu Niangzi and Miao Niangzi below, they chattered for a while. Empress Zhao was finally tired.
"I'm tired, if you two don't have anything to do, just step down!"
As soon as Empress Zhao's words fell, Xiao Han, who was waiting on the side, hurried over.
helped up Empress Zhao, who was resting on the Luohan couch, and prepared to carry Empress Zhao into the palace.
"Queen Mother, Concubine Sheng may be a fake pregnancy to compete for favor!"
Empress Zhao was about to enter the apse, when she heard Yu Niangzi below, and suddenly said this.
Empress Zhao thought that she had misheard, turned around, and asked Yu Niangzi again.
"I didn't hear what you just said, you tell me again!"
Yu Niangzi took a deep breath and gave the things she had investigated these days to Queen Zhao in front of her.
"The queen mother, the concubine mother, maybe it's a fake pregnancy to compete for favor! The eldest princess was born by the concubine Niangniang, but the eldest prince was born in the first year of the concubine's entry into the palace, and in the next few years, although the concubine Niangniang was constantly favored, the concubine Niangniang was never pregnant. ”
"I invited a lot of well-known doctors to enter the palace to see the concubine Niangniang, and the concubine Niangniang took hundreds of medicines to maintain her body intermittently, but she was never pregnant."
"I also heard these things from the Tai Hospital, but you said that the concubine may be a fake pregnancy and compete for favor, what is going on? Now that the concubine is in full bloom, if you accidentally say the wrong thing and offend her, I'm afraid she won't let you go easily. ”
Miao Niangzi was worried that Yu Niangzi would take revenge on Concubine Sheng, so she made up a lie to remind her.
Hearing what Miao Niangzi said, Queen Zhao also reminded her.
"The concubine is now in full bloom, and the official family is often by her side, if there is no evidence for what you just said, I am afraid that the official family will also blame you."
Empress Zhao was afraid that Yu Niangzi would not understand the truth of this, and she was afraid that she would go astray in order to compete for favor.
"I also know what the queen mother and the virtuous concubine are worried about. It's just that the concubine is really pregnant, or fake pregnant, or ask the queen to take the imperial doctor to Qingning Hall to have a look! ”
"A few years ago, the imperial doctor who helped the concubine Niangniang to regulate her body was Imperial Doctor Bao, and when she left the palace last year, Imperial Doctor Bao was afraid that she would be killed after leaving the palace, so she came to me and sought my protection. said that he himself knew a secret of the concubine, and after he left the palace, he would not be able to live. ”
Listening to Yu Niangzi's words, the more bizarre it became, Queen Zhao gradually became a little unconvinced.
I think she should have made it up.
"Tell me, what did that Imperial Doctor Bao tell you?"
After retiring the palace maids who were waiting in the palace, Empress Zhao took Yu Niangzi and Miao Niangzi into the inner hall.
"There is no one in this inner hall, and there are my own people guarding the outside of the hall, so don't worry. If what you said was related to the royal bloodline, no matter what, I would have begged the official family to save your life. ”
Empress Zhao reminded Yu Niangzi first.
Yu Niangzi nodded, slowly opened her mouth, and told Queen Zhao everything she knew, fifteen and ten.
"Queen Mother, what the concubine said next is about the royal bloodline. Since the concubine gave birth to the eldest princess, her body has not been conditioned well, and even if she is pregnant, she will have a miscarriage inexplicably. ”
"After giving birth once or twice, the concubine has never been pregnant. Over the years, the concubine Niangniang has always sent the palace maids who served her closely to Liuzhou, Jiangzhou, to purchase medicinal materials for such and such reasons. ”
"On the surface, I went to procure medicinal herbs, but in fact, I went to find a strong man for the concubine, and then found a way to bring it into the palace. In recent years, the health of the official family has become worse and worse, and there are very few concubines in the palace who are pregnant, and it is not strange that Concubine Sheng is pregnant this year. ”
Yu Niangzi said cautiously, while speaking, she carefully looked at the queen mother in front of her.
Yu Niangzi said this, but Queen Zhao didn't believe it in her heart.
Yu Niangzi said that Sheng Guifei brought a strong man back to the palace, so what about those people?
Where did you go?
Qingning Hall is so big, is it possible that there are still Tibetans?
Could it be that in addition to the Qingning Palace, Sheng Guifei hid those people elsewhere?
"Sister Concubine Yu said that the palace maid who was waiting next to the concubine found a strong man to return to the palace for the concubine, so what about those men? Where have they gone?"
Miao Niangzi felt strange in her heart, so she asked Yu Niangzi.
"This is also what I think is strange, obviously my informant is in Liuzhou, Jiangzhou, and I personally saw the palace maid who was waiting next to the concubine, and transported the strong men back to the palace, but when I arrived in Beijing, those men disappeared inexplicably."
Mrs. Yu didn't dare to deceive Queen Zhao, so she had to reply truthfully.
"Sister Concubine Yu didn't say that the concubine was fake pregnant and competing for favor, why has it become a concubine Niangniang smuggling a foreign man into the palace, Sister Yu's words are really hard to believe!"
Miao Niangzi felt that Yu Niangzi's words were really full of loopholes.
In addition, Yu Niangzi was not on good terms with Concubine Sheng, so there was nothing strange about these words coming out of her mouth.
It's just that Yu Niangzi shouldn't say that Sheng Guifei is a fake pregnancy to compete for favor, which is not good for Sheng Guifei.
If these words were handed to Concubine Sheng Guifei, I was afraid that Yu Niangzi's life would be in danger at that time.
"What Concubine Xian said is, whether the concubine is really pregnant, or fake pregnancy to compete for favor, you still have to think about it and explain it to us again!"
Empress Zhao stopped talking and paused for a moment, letting Yu Niangzi think about it.