Chapter 278: Expediency
"It's just a maid who went crazy and was beaten into the cold palace, she died when she died, what does it have to do with the imperial concubine? The imperial concubine's gaffe today is only because Concubine Lin's death day is approaching, and she touches the past! ”
"Yes!" The head of the guard bowed his head in response, his eyes twining slightly, obviously in disbelief.
Mama Wang took a deep breath and said leisurely: "Everyone knows this truth, if Concubine Lin's death is really strange, the emperor will not endure it to this day!" ”
"We don't dare to question the imperial concubine, it's just that the people in the palace are spreading falsehoods, and if there is gossip when the time comes, please don't misunderstand our brother!"
"You are also an old man in the palace, and you know best what kind of character the imperial concubine is. This is the end of today's business, and you are all gone. With that, Mama Wang turned around and ignored the guards.
The chief guard pursed his lips, waved his hand at the people behind him, and retreated together.
walked out of the house, spat and scolded: "It's really bad luck! ”
The injuries on his body were still faintly painful, and the chief guard looked down, and heard the brother next to him slander: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is a ghost in this matter, but Mama Wang also threatens us not to say it, there are so many people in this palace, she has the ability to warn one by one, otherwise even if our brothers don't say it, there will always be someone chewing the root of the tongue behind their backs!" ”
"Shut up!" The head of the guard had a gloomy face, raised his hand and slapped the guard, and scolded angrily: "I don't want the black gauze hat anymore, do you? How can you arrange the imperial concubine? ”
"I ...... I'm also unwilling, we can't get hurt even if we get hurt, I shouldn't have taken care of this matter if I knew it! The guard looked unwilling.
The chief guard couldn't help but sneer when he heard this: "No matter? If something goes wrong with the imperial concubine, we will all have to accompany the funeral at that time! ”
"Come on, lift your spirits and get through tonight!"
The head of the guard rubbed his sour eyes and walked forward, and when these people left, the two people who had been hiding in the shadows also walked out.
Zhong Ling's eyes were slightly gloomy, and he asked Jiang Zi, "Did you hear it too?" ”
"I heard it, let the concubine go out in the past two days, she must not be able to stand it." Ginger Seed could barely hide the smugness in his eyes.
Zhong Ling poured a basin of cold water on her and said, "Mama Wang is a good person, she was defenseless when she succeeded a few days ago, and I am afraid that it will be difficult next." ”
"I can't just let her go, she has caused me to stay in the cold palace for so many years, and I always have to ask her for this account to come back!" Ginger seeds have a hideous face.
"It's up to the concubine." Zhong Ling looked up at the sky, it was already the second half of the day.
After tossing for so long, I felt tired, and after a few words of advice to Jiang Seed, I turned around and walked back.
When she returned to the house, Yu Ying was already asleep, but she still kept the lamp for her, and Zhong Ling's heart was also put down, but fortunately, she didn't see the scene tonight.
After a hurried wash, he closed his clothes and lay down, and when he woke up on the second day, the sky was bright, Zhong Ling opened his eyes and smelled a fragrance.
There is a crisp sound of birds by the windowsill.
When he sat up unhurriedly, he saw a fat pigeon foraging on the balcony, and he couldn't help but rejoice, and without putting on his shoes, he went over and took down the letter tied to the pigeon's leg.
Unfolding the paper, there was a fragrant fragrance, Zhong Ling was a little curious, suppressed the confusion and looked at the letter.
My wife Ling'er personally opened.
Read it out in a whisper, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, there are as many as three pages of the letter, the first page is written about the recent life, they have arrived at Yuyun, and they have also joined the lady, turn to the second page, and write that their whereabouts are exposed, Lu Chaoge has sent someone to search for their traces, and they have to stay at the border of Yuyun now, in order to prevent unnecessary trouble.
Zhong Ling's heart was raised, and when he looked down, he changed his words and talked about her.
Luo Yuling had found an herb that could cure her sense of taste, and he had already sent someone to find it.
She doesn't have to think about it to know that the medicine is precious, she has adapted to it now, and it doesn't matter if her sense of taste can be restored, but she was worried about Shen Yichi's safety, and hurriedly turned the third page, but changed her note, which was from her third brother Zhong Huaining.
The words reveal his dislike for Shen Yichi, first vividly describing how he picked flowers and mashed them into flower juice, and then added them to a wooden paddle to make paper.
No wonder the paper in his hand was red, it turned out that he had added flower juice, and he could still have such leisure and leisure, which showed that their current situation was safe enough.
looked down further, but saw a line of warning, signaling her not to look down further, which he wrote to Yu Ying.
Zhong Ling pursed his lips and was about to look down when Yu Ying's voice came from behind him.
"Little Wu, are you awake?"
Zhong Ling looked away, turned around and handed the paper to Yu Ying, and said with disgust: "You also warned me not to read it, and I don't know what is written, it's mysterious." ”
Yu Ying took the letter and stared at her: "Your third brother wrote it?" ”
"The carrier pigeon is sent from thousands of miles away, you have to look closely." Zhong Ling quipped.
Yu Ying put away the letter paper and pulled Zhong Ling to have breakfast.
Zhong Ling was a little itchy by the content of the letter, and asked out loud, "Aren't you curious about what he wrote?" ”
Zhong Ling really couldn't imagine that a rough man like Zhong Huaining could write any delicate love words, and was about to use Yu Ying's reaction to read the letter to make fun of her again, but he didn't want the other party to put the letter away.
"What? Shen Gongzi's letter hasn't been read enough, haven't you seen enough? So I care about what your brother writes? Yu Ying smiled slyly.
Zhong Ling couldn't help but be annoyed: "Okay, you are now laughing at me!" ”
Zhong Ling stood up and walked to her side, stretched out his hand to tickle Yu Ying, Yu Ying had no backhand, and even laughed with tears.
"Little Wu, don't make trouble!"
was making a fuss, and the sharp voice of the chamberlain came from the opposite side: "The emperor has arrived!" ”
Zhong Ling's heart was a little weak when he heard this voice,
The movements in her hand also stopped, Yu Ying pushed her, and scolded with a smile: "When I see your third brother in the future, I will definitely sue you!" ”
"He doesn't dare do anything to me." Zhong Ling stuck out his tongue.
Yu Ying turned to look at the windowsill and wondered: "Now is the time of the early dynasty, why did the emperor come here?" ”
Zhong Ling thought secretly, but she was afraid that she didn't know about what happened last night.
He lowered his head and picked up the bowl and said perfunctorily: "I'm afraid that the sacrificial ceremony is approaching, so there is something important to discuss!" ”
As soon as the words fell, a little palace maid came outside the door, and Zhong Ling recognized that the person was with the imperial concubine on weekdays.
Yu Ying got up to greet him and asked, "The emperor just went to my aunt's palace, why did you come to me at this time?" ”
The palace maid knelt on the ground and choked up: "The girl doesn't know, something big happened last night!" ”
"What's the big deal? Hurry up and speak! Yu Ying hurriedly greeted him.
Zhong Ling secretly said that it was not good, but it was inconvenient to stop Yu Ying at this juncture, so he could only watch her welcome the palace maid in.
The palace maid wiped away her tears and said: "In the past few days, there have been rumors in the palace, saying that the death of Concubine Lin was related to the imperial concubine, last night the imperial concubine didn't know what she saw, she was so frightened that she was hysterical, and fainted after injuring Mama Wang and the guards. ”
"How serious is that?" Yu Ying was a little surprised, the dignified concubine was so frightened that she had hysteria, what happened yesterday?
The palace maid choked twice: "Mama said, the sacrificial ceremony is coming, and the imperial concubine is now unconscious, if there is something she doesn't understand, she will ask her, but there are some things, the girl has to make her own decisions." ”
"You go back and thank Mama for me." Yu Ying admonished.
"Then the slave and maid will retreat first!" The palace maid trotted out.
Zhong Ling lowered his head and made a posture of burying his head in hardship, just as if he didn't notice the sight above his head.
Yu Ying stared at her directly, and asked in a deep voice, "Little Wu, do you know something?" ”
"What can I know, I came back yesterday after going to the Emerald Palace, and I just woke up today, and like you, I just knew."
"If you really just found out, I'm afraid you're going to drag me to the Emerald Palace with you, anyway, what happened?" Yu Ying looked at her intently, obviously not believing her words.
Zhong Ling always treats outsiders exquisitely, but after staying with Yu Ying for a long time, she has long regarded her as her own person, and she can't lie calmly when she treats her own people.
He sighed lightly and said, "There are some things you still don't know." ”
"Even if you don't say it, I can guess that Concubine Lin's death is inseparable from her aunt, and the rumors in the palace these days were done by the concubine?"
Zhong Ling secretly thought, can't let Yu Ying know that she did this, so he nodded along with her words, but fortunately Yu Ying didn't think much about it
, only sighed and said: "I want to repay it once and again, since my aunt has done something wrong, she naturally wants to pay it back, and I don't plan to slaughter this matter." ”
Zhong Ling had already thought of a set of rhetoric to persuade her to give up, but she didn't want her to give up so easily, she was slightly stunned for a moment, and then opened her mouth to comfort: "This matter has nothing to do with you, you don't have to blame yourself, even if we don't enter the palace this time, the concubine will have to do something to the imperial concubine sooner or later, but now it's just a little ahead." ”
"I know, it's just that seeing my aunt in such a situation, it's still a little unbearable, but with my father here, my uncle won't do anything with her and the two, not to mention that Yun'er is the eldest son and the future prince." Yu Ying sighed lightly.
Having said that, the knot is difficult to solve.
Zhong Ling didn't know how to persuade him, so he could only speak: "After this sacrificial ceremony leaves the palace, we will not come back. ”
"I've been here long enough!"
"They don't know about the things in the palace yet, and I don't plan to tell them when I leave the palace this time, Miss Yu, I'm going to cut it first and then play it, go to Yuyun to join them, do you want to go with me?" Zhong Ling winked at Yu Ying.
Yu Ying smiled helplessly: "I said Fifth Girl, now that I'm on the thief ship, can I still have a chance to regret it?" ”
"Naturally no, you can only choose to go with me obediently, or be knocked unconscious by me and taken away!"
The two looked at each other and smiled, each with anticipation.
(End of chapter)