Chapter 36: The Affair of Lianchun Pavilion
The news of Chen Cairen's death went out of the palace smoothly. Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and I didn't see the Chen family's relatives hand a word into the palace, and the queen and Chen Qiuhe understood what the emperor meant, and didn't dare to speak out.
Where do they dare to tear their faces with the emperor? Besides, Chen Cairen is just an inconspicuous chess piece in their hands, but there are four words to describe her as good.
However, Chen Cairen's death completely sounded the alarm for Chen Qiuhe.
In the past two years, Chen Cairen has more or less reported some things in the palace, large and small, into the ears of Chen Qiuhe and the queen, even if the things in the back garden are pressed and died, they can know a rough idea.
Like Yao Chuxi's pregnancy at that time, it was the queen who Chen Cairen was a little sure of and found someone to inform her.
Otherwise, the emperor would not kill a person casually, unless this person did something that made him murderous.
Lian Chun Pavilion was quiet for a while, a master died and a master went crazy, where can he stay in the palace to serve? Therefore, Ji Linghai returned all the palace people to the inner palace supervisor and let the inner palace supervisor redistribute.
Bai Baolin has been in the palace for almost five years, and he thinks that he has seen the wind and waves, although he has not been favored, he can be regarded as open.
Which alley in this deep palace has not encountered blood? Which well hasn't had anyone dead?
But Chen Cairen's death made her feel that death was really a momentary thing for the first time, and it was the first time that death was so close to her.
When the courtyard door of Lianchun Pavilion was suddenly knocked open that day, Bai Baolin was walking in the courtyard when several eunuchs rushed in and broke directly into Chen Cairen's house.
Bai Baolin still held back a sentence in his throat, but before he could ask, those people hurriedly left Lian Chun Pavilion.
At that time, she was so frightened that her hands and feet were weak, and she vaguely heard screams coming from Chen Cairen's house, but she didn't have the courage to look inside.
After a few eunuchs left, even Chun Pavilion regained its calm, just like those people had not broken in just now, the palace people under Chen Cairen were silent, hiding in their own residences in silence, and then they were all taken away by Ji Linghai.
Bai Baolin's palace maid Hong Shu had the courage to go in and take a look, and when she came out, she collapsed directly on the steps, trembling and holding on to the pillar under the corridor to prop herself up, and staggered to Bai Baolin's side.
"How's the house?" As soon as Bai Baolin spoke, he could hear that something was wrong, and he almost cried when he said a few words.
A few tears fell out of Hongshu's eyes, and at this time she couldn't care about any taboos or not, "Chen Cairen fell to the ground, and his body... There's blood on the body... It's all blood! ”
Bai Baolin later went in again.
The main door was half-hidden, and the light in the front room was not very good, Bai Baolin grabbed the hand of the other palace maid Hongwei tightly as he walked, and walked until he walked to the door of the inner room.
The door was closed, and although Bai Baolin hadn't seen the scene in the house, she had already guessed half of it.
Her left hand was raised in mid-air for a long time, and she gritted her teeth and pushed open the door of the back room.
Not long after Chen Cairen died, the blood in the room was thick, and Bai Baolin almost made him nauseous after taking a sip.
Hongwei first saw Chen Cairen, and she kept blocking her master's eyes with her hands, so much so that she saw the tragic situation in the house at a glance.
Immediately afterwards, Bai Baolin also saw it.
All the furnishings are fine, and there is no sign of rummaging, which refutes the claim of murder and robbery.
But how could Bai Baolin have thought that Pan Zhenan would use this reason to explain Chen Cairen's death.
When she focused on Chen Cairen, she saw the head that had been strangled off half of her neck rushing at her, looking at her with her eyes open, she couldn't bear it anymore, staggered outside, and fainted in the front room without running two steps.
After waking up, Ji Linghai locked her in the firewood room, and told others that she was crazy, and she didn't find anyone to treat her.
Hongshu Hongwei is still waiting for her, and the palace people are waiting outside, except for Bai Baolin, who can't get out, the rest of the people can come in.
"Little Lord, take a sip!" Hongshu said with a bowl of porridge.
Bai Baolin was disheveled at this time, and she couldn't eat or sleep for a few days, which made her age rapidly, as if she had suddenly aged more than ten years.
"Little master, the slave begs you, just open your mouth!" Hongwei knelt on the side and cried to persuade her, but she was still unmoved.
"The slave maid has inquired, we are not in Lianchun Pavilion now, you don't have to be afraid!" Hong Shu's sudden mention of the sentence gave Bai Baolin a glimmer of light in his eyes.
She looked up at Hongshu.
Hong Shu continued, "Manager Ji said, in the past few days, I will pack up a new yard and come out, and I will live in with you, the little master." It is also said that it is unlucky to live in Lianchun Pavilion, and he is not ready to let you go back. ”
A sense of escape rose in Bai Baolin's heart.
She still didn't eat much at noon that day, and in the afternoon, Hongshu got the news that the northwest corner had cleaned up a yard and would be able to move in tomorrow, so she was relieved.
can also clean up the yard for her to live in, at least it shows that she doesn't want her to die.
For dinner, she ate two large bowls of rice and a whole chicken, which looked like a wolf and a tiger as if she wanted to chew all the chicken bones.
The next day, Bai Baolin took the palace people to this 'new courtyard'.
It is said that it is a new yard, but in fact, it is just a broken yard that no one has lived in for many years, and the word "tidying up" is only reflected in sweeping the floor and wiping the ashes, and the plaque hanging in front of the door is missing.
Bai Baolin saw the word Yang on the plaque, searched for a long time in his memory, and then remembered that there was a courtyard in the back garden called Yan Yang Pavilion.
She vaguely remembered that when Chen Cairen first entered the palace, once the two of them went out for a walk together and walked in front of the Yanyang Pavilion, at that time she also laughed at this courtyard that no one lives all year round and the location is not good, and even cats and dogs will not come.
But now, everything is wrong.
Yao Chuxi feels that her body is not very comfortable in recent days, the imperial doctor is afraid that she has an accident, the imperial doctor comes once every two days, the ordinary imperial doctor comes once a day, and she has to be diagnosed two or three times a day just to diagnose the pulse.
Isn't this the imperial doctors pretending to be diligent and running to Yunyan Pavilion, and it's not the emperor's order?
It may be that it is almost time to show his arms, but Yao Chuxi feels that he has slept more and more in the past few days. She rested early in the evening, and she didn't wake up when breakfast ran out elsewhere in the morning.
Han Shanggong was vaguely worried, and secretly told the emperor.
Jiang Liu was also a little worried, and told Han Shanggong what the master said last time.
But the Chen family is pressing down tightly, the queen shouldn't dare to do anything to Yunyan Pavilion, right?
This must be the idea of ordinary people, but Han Shanggong doesn't think so.
"Jiang Liu, in the future, you should be careful when taking food, don't let others touch the food box, I always feel that something is wrong." Han Shanggong said.
"Fengluan Hall has had a lot of things recently, and the Chen family's affairs haven't been solved yet, what can she do? He Jieyu's grounding hasn't been lifted yet, Concubine Qing may not have shown up for a long time, are you too worried? Luoxue asked.
"That's why the queen dared to do it." Han Shanggong glanced at Luo Xue a little helplessly, "If everyone thinks like you, then something is really going to happen." ”
"Han Shanggong, her brain is like a white one, don't be like her." Falling rain played a round on the side and stuffed a red date ball into Falling Snow's mouth.
"Of course I do." Han Shanggong smiled at the falling rain and snow, "I'm afraid I can't prevent it!" ”
The last sentence was very meaningful, but none of them thought about it when it rained.
After taking a nap, Yao Chuxi read the book for a while, and then asked Han Shanggong and Luoshuang Luoxue to accompany him and walked to the Imperial Garden.
"It's getting cold, and this chrysanthemum can't hold it." Yao Chuxi said.
"But no, the emperor specially asked someone to raise a few pots of chrysanthemums and send them to Yunyan Pavilion a few days ago, can the little master see it?" Falling Frost asked.
Yao Chuxi thought about it, as if when he got up one morning, he saw a few pots of chrysanthemums in the wall of the front house, white, yellow and purple, blooming just right in the season that did not belong to them.
She nodded.
"It's a pity, the flowers that are specially raised don't have a long lifespan." After Luoxue finished speaking, she probably felt taboo, and spit a few more times on the gravel road.
Luoshuang and Han Shanggong hid their sleeves and laughed at her on the side, and she was not angry.
"Flowers bloom regularly, no matter how beautiful the chrysanthemum is, can it bloom for a whole year?" Yao Chuxi said.
"That's right, it's good to have fresh flowers every season."
After walking for a while, they may be a little tired, and they are led by the falling frost and the falling snow, and a few people go to the pavilion to rest for a while.
The person sent by Yuan Shaoyu followed behind him, and after seeing Yao Cairen resting in the pavilion, he immediately came over with a food box, and quickly put two plates of hot dim sum.
Frost loosened the knot of the thin cloak at the neckline for her master, so that she could pull her hand out.
Today's weather is not bad, and I am sweating after walking for a while wearing a cloak. At this time, the sweat can not be fanned, and the wind cannot be blown, otherwise the wind will be cold.
This time, Yao Chuxi wore clothes that Luo Yu took from the closet casually, and wore a particularly thin cotton cloth shoulder over the thick palace dress embroidered with mandarin duck patterns, and a water-blue slippery cloak, and a blue skirt darker than water-blue on the lower body, which looked decent and warm.
From the Chen family's accident to the present, the emperor has not given a disposition or explanation. may be because there are many political affairs and annoyances, and I didn't arrive at the back garden for three days in a row.
However, Duan Kui came every day, went to Yunyan Pavilion at noon, Changming Pavilion in the afternoon, and then to Yunyan Pavilion at dusk, and ran to the back garden three times a day, but he couldn't keep him busy.
The next day, the emperor did not have an early court, so he specially rushed to Yunyan Pavilion to accompany Yao Chuxi for breakfast.
As soon as breakfast was withdrawn, Guan Shanggong came to deliver clothes, and the emperor happened to check Yao Chuxi and choose one.
"This one is a little gray, take it down." The emperor pointed to a light gray skirt embroidered with butterflies and said.
Although the color of this skirt is older, there is no lack of dignified atmosphere after wearing it, especially the butterfly pattern on the skirt, which is even more colorful, and the flowers are green and beautiful.
Yao Chuxi liked this article more, and persuaded the emperor to come back again.
Guan Shanggong breathed a sigh of relief.