Chapter 304: Calm on the surface
"Sister, are we going to hand over this Laoshzi's Chijin Bu to my aunt?" The little palace maid snatched the red gold from the older palace maid's hand, took it in her hand and said, "This look is what went out of our mother's treasury, you said that the eldest lady used the objects rewarded by the mother to reward her aunt, isn't this clear that she wants to show it to her aunt?" ”
"You're talking more and more." The older aunt glanced around, and there was already a hint of warning in her tone, "You must know that the palace is a place where there are many words and mistakes, and if you are listened to carefully, your aunt will not be able to protect you." ”
"Sister, don't worry." Seeing that the older aunt was a little angry, the little palace maid pulled her sleeve and begged for mercy, "I know that the palace is a place where you can't rap, but I dare to say a few more words when I see that it is now the dead of night and there is no one else." ”
"Tomorrow morning, I will personally go and hand over the eldest lady's red gold step to Niangniang, so you don't have to follow." When the older palace maid saw the little palace maid begging for mercy, her heart softened.
The little palace maid thought that it was quiet in the dead of night, so she talked about the master unscrupulously, but she didn't know that in the shadow behind her, Yunwen and Aunt Sun were standing.
"Girl, Tong'er is the youngest among the palace maids, and she has a sweet mouth, so she is very pleasing to the imperial concubine, and her words are inevitably frivolous, and the slave maid will take the time to restrain and admonish her." Aunt Sun saw that Tong'er's words were really frivolous, so she hurriedly confessed to Yunwen instead of her.
"The little girl is inevitably more lively, and she looks like an elf." Yunwen looked at the little palace maid's eyes but was not annoyed, but inadvertently revealed a soft color, "No wonder the imperial concubine will like her, she is innocent and likable." ”
"That little palace maid is just a sweet mouth to please the imperial concubine." Although Aunt Sun is also an old lady who has been around the imperial concubine for many years, her status is far inferior to that of Moire, and she naturally wants to please her when she speaks on weekdays, "Where can you be as good as the girl, you are relied on by the mother!" ”
Yunwen faced Aunt Sun's hard-working whiskers and horses, but she only smiled lightly, and then asked, "What is the name of the older palace maid next to Tong'er?" ”
"That's the new Yunzhu, I saw that she had a calm temperament, so I specifically pointed out that she accompanied Tong'er to meet the people around the eldest lady." Aunt Sun continued to pat the horse and said, "The eldest lady's arrogant temperament is also well known to everyone, so naturally we have to find someone with a stable personality to deal with the maids around the eldest lady." ”
"Aunt Sun has a heart." Moire glanced at the dark sky and said, "It's not early at night, Aunt Sun should go back and rest early." ”
"The girl should go back and rest early." To be honest, Aunt Sun served the imperial concubine earlier than Moire, and her qualifications and age are longer than Moire, so the little palace maids in the palace are all called Moire Aunt, but Aunt Sun still calls her girl.
After Aunt Sun walked away, Yunwen whispered to the corner of the courtyard: "You are all vigilant these days, don't ask someone to sneak into the prison of the Criminal Department and kill the second lady of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion." ”
Moire has always been a clear-minded woman, and naturally knows that she and the Bai family and Ning Banghua have already formed a bond in secret, and Ning Banghua is such an intolerable mind, and now before the official entry, it has already asked someone to send a red gold step to beat the moire, if she is lucky enough to give birth to a concubine in the future, and sit firmly in the position of the concubine, I am afraid that Moire will not even have a place in front of her.
Not long after Shangguan Qingqiao watched the autumn cicada beside Ning Banghua leave, there was a black-clothed shadow guard in Changchun Palace who went all the way from the eaves to the direction of the prison of the Criminal Department.
The next few days will be calm, and whoever is more resilient will have a better chance of winning the game.
Ziyun City Criminal Department Prison.
Ning Zhiwen was locked up in the Tianzi cell of the Criminal Department, there were clean bedding in the cell, and even the tables, chairs and benches were complete, and even the hot tea was served for twelve hours a day.
Now who in the imperial capital doesn't know that although Ning Zhixuan does not have Ning Banghua's status and dignity, he can also use his friendship with Shangguan Hanyue and Shangguan Yunxin to speak in front of Emperor Qi, and the jailers in the prison of the Criminal Department do not dare to deliberately embarrass Ning Zhiyun in small matters.
"Second Miss, you moved the meat at night, and the little one thought that drinking some chrysanthemum tea is the most greasy, so I made a pot of chrysanthemum tea for you." Before the jailer handed over the teapot to Ning Zhiyun, he had already tried the poison again and again with a silver needle, after all, the upper authorities had explained openly and secretly, and there were not a few people who did not allow Ning Zhiyun to have any mistakes, if Ning Zhixuan really had something to do, I am afraid that the jailers of the entire criminal department would be buried with him.
"Brother Jailer has a heart, thank you!" Ning Zhixuan took the chrysanthemum tea and raised her head to drink it all.
Speaking of poisoning, Ning Zhiyun in the previous life was adrift and lonely for half of her life, in order to pass those lonely years, most of the time in the previous life was used by her to study medical skills and medicinal materials, so that the person who can poison Ning Zhiyun unknowingly in this life is afraid that she has not yet been born.
"Second Miss, this cell is really boring, it's better to tell Second Miss about some strange things in the palace." The jailer saw that the nobles who had privately confessed to Ning Zhiyun who were kind to him were stubble, and he thought in his heart that if Ning Zhiyun could really turn over in the future, thinking of his kindness today, he might be able to get a court lieutenant or something for himself.
Ning Zhixuan ate a stewed elbow and half a roast goose in the evening, and drank a large cup of chrysanthemum tea, and now she must not be able to sleep, so she nodded and said: "It's rare that the jailer brother is interested, and I'm bored, so let's listen to the story of the jailer's brother." ”
When the jailer saw that Ning Zhiyun agreed, he was very happy in his heart, so he talked about the fox ghost legend he knew about Ziyun City.
Ning Zhixuan was bored listening to the jailer telling some secret legends in the palace, but they were all vulgar stories of the concubines of the cold palace who had miscarriages and the little palace maids were forced to throw themselves into the well, or either the favored concubine fell out of favor and was given three feet of white silk by the emperor, or the sound of women crying quietly was often heard in the well of the imperial garden.
Now Ning Zhixuan, who is a person in two lives, knows that Ziyun City is a place where red faces bury dry bones, if there is really any powerful ghost asking for his life, I am afraid that it is Emperor Qi, and the imperial concubine has already been killed eight hundred times.
"Second Miss, have you ever heard these stories told before?" Seeing that Ning Zhixuan looked drowsy, the jailer wondered if she had heard someone else talk about it.
"It's just that I heard about it from the little eunuch in the Nine Princesses' Palace." Ning Zhiwen can't say that she has lived one more life than the jailer, and she is used to seeing life and death, so she will not be moved.
"Second Miss, the little one has a story that no one else knows." The jailer saw that Ning Zhiyun didn't have the heart to listen to the story, so he thought in his heart that it was time to come up with a unique job.
"Could it be that the jailer's eldest brother knows something that no one else knows?" Ning Zhiyun looked at the jailer's mysterious look, thinking that she had nothing to do here, so she deliberately pretended to be interested and said, "If it's convenient for the jailer, can you tell me about it?" ”
"Convenient, naturally convenient." The jailer originally wanted to use this to please Ning Zhixuan, so after glancing around, he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "It's a story about the late Concubine Rong and the little prince." ”
Ning Zhixuan, who was already drowsy, immediately cheered up after hearing the words "Concubine Rong", she was already curious about Concubine Rong's secret past, but because Concubine Rong was a taboo in the palace, even if she secretly investigated with Su Xin, but because it was the old yellow calendar more than ten years ago, she did not find any valuable clues.
"Didn't Concubine Rong die of illness shortly after being beaten into the cold palace by the emperor?" Ning Zhiyun told everything she knew, so that she could get out of the jailer's words.
Sure enough, when the jailer saw that Ning Zhiyun also knew about that secret past, he looked around again, and after finding that there was no one else, he had already moved the entire small square table to the cell where Ning Zhiyin was being held, and then moved a low stool to sit at the small square table.
The prison of the Criminal Department is a prison dedicated to the detention of prisoners of the imperial court, and its scale and grandeur are naturally superior to the prison cells of Jingzhao Mansion Yin, who detains civilians outside the palace.
Because of Ning Zhiyun's special identity, the jailer locked her in Tianzi No. 1 cell, you must know that the cells of the criminal department are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the Tianzi No. 1 cell is generally imprisoned by big people who are either rich or noble.
Tianzi No. 1 cell is an independent cell for one person, with clean bedding, tables, chairs and benches. The difference between the No. 1 cell and the No. 1 cell is that the latter is two people living in the same cell, and there are also clean bedding, tables, chairs and benches. If you can afford the money, you will naturally have food and drink.
Ning Zhiwen was first imprisoned in the Criminal Department, and she was also surprised when she saw this scene in the prison, although Emperor Qi was not close to people in her mind, but there were a few emperors in the past dynasties who were affectionate and righteous, if the emperors were all affectionate and righteous, then there would be no sentence in history that the ruthless emperor family since ancient times, it can be seen that the emperor is the real person who is high and low.
In the previous life, in the impression of Ning Zhiyun, Emperor Qi was still a good emperor in his early years, expelling the Northern Barbarians, pacifying the Quartet, even if he later married the princess, it was all to appease the Northern Barbarians, so that the people in the border areas could avoid the devastation of war.
Emperor Qi was criticized by the world, starting from letting Shangguan Qingyu and Shangguan Hanyue fight each other, until Emperor Qi was in his twilight years, when the two emperors in the north and south frequently fought and rioted, the people were displaced, starved all over the wilderness, and the lives were devastated.