Chapter 41: Dark Arrows Strike
Shuangshuang was still worried about Yanxi, she wanted to send someone to find a letter to her father, but she was afraid that he would be worried if he found out.
"Jing'er, do you have any acquaintances in the palace? Ask someone to find Yanxi. It's best to have a guard who can leave the palace often, and remember to stuff him with more silver. ”
Shuangshuang asked Jing'er, who was cleaning up the teacup, but what he thought in his heart was: For the sake of stability, I really need to cultivate a few people who can do things in the future, so as not to run around like headless flies when something happens.
Jing'er stopped what she was doing, tilted her head and thought for a while, her eyes rolled several times before she replied, "The slave knows a few people, but I haven't seen them for a long time, and I don't know if they will help me?"
In fact, Jing'er lied.
She knows that this thing is not easy to do, in case there is a bad pool, not only will her life be difficult to protect, but even the crown princess will be caught by someone and be punished for a crime of lax governance, a slave in Yanxi, or the eyes of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent to monitor the master, it is better if he can't come back, it is not worth the princess's trouble to catch him.
Jing'er quietly glanced at the crown princess, and saw that she was really anxious and worried, and sighed in her heart, I don't know how long the master is going to vomit with the prince.........
A good person like the crown princess, why can't His Royal Highness the crown prince see it?
This year is not as good as in previous years, and there is already a princess in the East Palace, but the prince's birthday banquet is still presided over by the frost waiter. Xiaoshuang is good at winning people's hearts, and if she casually gives a little favor to Xiaohui, she forgets about the east, west, north and south, and rushes to flatter her.
The master's temper is too stubborn, and he has made himself embarrassed, and now he doesn't even have a messenger. With such a master, I really don't know what to say......
On the morning of the sixteenth day of the lunar month, both of them woke up from the cold.
The door of the inner palace of the North Champs was wide open, and the mist drifted into the inner room, and the morning mist was everywhere.
She got up suspiciously and called for silence, but no one answered.
She got up slowly, and saw a gorgeous palace dress spread out on the soft collapse, and then both of them remembered that today was the prince's birthday banquet, and the East Palace was busy. Weiyang Hall is not manpowered, Jing'er is afraid that she will go over to help in the early morning. Before leaving, she also prepared the palace clothes in advance, reminding her not to forget the time and go to the banquet on time.
Both smiled bitterly, Jing'er was her personal palace maid, but the frost waiter was in charge of the prince's birthday, and under the pretext that the kitchen was not manpowered, she insisted on asking people to go.
When Jing'er saw someone from Hanxian Hall passing on her, she was reluctant in her heart, and spit on the ground: "Phew! When will it be her turn to call the shots in the East Palace! Frost Attendant is getting more and more presumptuous! Dare to put your hand into the palace of the crown princess! ”
Frost Attendant's man was not a fuel-efficient lamp, standing there immovable.
The chin was raised high, and he said lightly: "The crown princess is favored by His Royal Highness the prince, and the drudgery of holding a birthday banquet naturally does not fall on the princess's head, His Royal Highness has to let the frost waiter do it for her, and now the birthday banquet is short of manpower, and the princess is known to be magnanimous. You know Your Highness's temper, if the birthday banquet is not well organized, the servants will not be able to afford it. ”
Shuangshuang sneered, worthy of being the person of the frost waiter, and his words were not leaky. let go of people, it seems that she is easy to bully; If she doesn't let people go, the birthday banquet will not be done well, and Shen Mushi will definitely blame her for embarrassing the frost waiter and deliberately messing up his birthday banquet.
Jing'er was really looking at it on the side, Frost Waiter Ji deliberately came to find trouble, and when she was short of manpower, she looked for an important person from the Internal Affairs Office, why did she go to the North Champs to spread wild! Dog minion! It's too much of a deception! Jing'er was about to push back with angry eyes, but was stopped by Shuangshuang and promised to let her help. It's enough to choke Jing'er's anger.
It's just that Yanxi still hasn't returned, and they are afraid of being known, so they only promise to let Jing'er and the other two palace maids help, and Yanxi can't take them away anyway.
The eunuch saw that the people of the North Champs were withered, and the only three people were taken away by themselves, and the errand was completed. He was no longer embarrassed and walked away proudly.
As soon as the eunuch left, her hard-nosed hands suddenly became weak, and she knew in her heart: Frost Shiji was ordered to hold a birthday banquet, and Shen Mushi must have known about her important people, Shen Mushi didn't say much about this matter, I'm afraid it was also acquiesced, and her heart was sour, but she pressed it hard. She silently recited in her heart: the heart has no right and wrong, and the heart is self-determined, then the honor and disgrace are not shocked.........
The cold wind creaked the door of the temple, pulling them back from their thoughts. Frowning slightly, the North Champs is freezing in the middle of winter, why is the door of this dormitory open? Her teeth rattled from the cold.
He put on his rabbit fur coat and got up and was about to close the door, when a hand stopped him.
It was cold and foggy, and a hand was stretched out in the fog, so frightened that both of them screamed in surprise.
"The crown princess is not surprised, she is a slave." A palace maid with a raw face is blessed with a hot ginseng porridge in her hand.
Both of them were shocked, and when they saw that it was indeed a living person, they stroked their hearts and asked:
"You are?"
"The slave is a pear. Zhenzhen, who was delivering the meal when she was preparing the meal, suddenly had a stomachache, and specially asked a slave to deliver breakfast for her. ”
Kneeling on the ground, Xiao Li lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly, listening to the voice, she was not very old, and she should be a newcomer who had just been assigned to the East Palace in the sixth game.
"Oh. Get up. ”
Both of them were a little cold, and they replied with a lack of interest, and they were about to go back to the bedroom wrapped in a rabbit fur coat.
"The North Champs is really cold and tight, how can the people who serve them be so careless, they don't even close the door of the palace. Fortunately, the chef's dining room has prepared ginseng porridge, so the master should drink it quickly and warm up. ”
Xiao Li followed Shuangshuang into the inner room, placed the tea porridge on the small table of carved fir wood in the four directions, looked around with two eyes, and muttered endlessly, so noisy.
Shuangshuang frowned and listened to her chatter, sat down at the tea table after quietly washing, picked up the tea porridge and drank it carefully, and secretly praised in his heart: This porridge is good, and drinking it can really warm the stomach. After a while, several female officials rushed in, holding delicate jewelry in their hands.
This is the rule of the palace, when there is a banquet in the palace, the concubines above the concubine are dressed up by the special person of the Si Zhen Bureau, although she has fallen out of favor, but the name is still there, and the Si Zhen Bureau naturally does not dare to slack off.
Shuangshuang didn't sleep well last night, the weather was too cold, she woke up several times in the middle of the night, her sleepy eyes couldn't be opened, she simply took a nap with her eyes half-closed, and let everyone toss on her head.
The female official combed the fairy phoenix bun for her, picked up the phoenix crown and was about to put it on her head, when she caught a glimpse of it from the corner of her eyes, and hurriedly blocked it with her hand and whispered to stop it: "This phoenix crown is not proper, it has transgressed." ”
"Niangniang, today is the birthday banquet of His Royal Highness the Prince, this phoenix crown was personally selected by His Royal Highness for you, if you don't wear this phoenix crown, I'm afraid it will ......."
The dressing lady was a little embarrassed and held the phoenix crown and explained the reason to her softly.
Shuangshuang only felt strange in his heart, which tendon was wrong in Shen Mushi, this phoenix crown represents the queen, and asking the princess to wear a phoenix crown is an arrogant move, isn't it afraid of provoking criticism?
The birthday banquet of the emperor's relatives and relatives, civil ministers and military generals all gathered together, if someone participated in him in front of Emperor Chu Wei, it was very likely to connect himself and the Lu family.
Even if the prince is ambitious and anxious to succeed to the throne, it is impossible for her to wear a phoenix crown.
She couldn't help but think of what Shen Mushi told her in the bath that day, and secretly became vigilant, and her eyes swept over this group of people lightly.
Unexpectedly, open arrows are easy to block, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent.
Shuangshuang's gentle eyebrows and eyes immediately straightened, and he said in a solemn voice: "How could the prince be so confused! You must have heard it wrong! What are the people doing with their heads! Go! Take the golden crown of the palace, dismantle the fairy phoenix bun, and comb the fairy bun. ”
Everyone exchanged glances.
Seeing that they were unmoved, Shuangshuang slapped his little hand on the table, and the momentum came up all of a sudden, and he shouted in a stern tone: "What? Hongu's words didn't work? ”
Seeing that the crown princess was angry, everyone trembled, one by one, you look at me, I look at you, and exchange glances with each other: no matter how unfavored, she is also the crown princess, and she has a bit of momentum when she puts up a shelf, and everyone has to bother to offer it. At this time, an inconspicuous female official said:
"Niangniang is angry, this phoenix crown is indeed ordered by His Royal Highness, if you insist on not wearing it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will blame it at that time........"
"Yes, yes, Niangniang, it's almost time, and recombing your hair will miss the time to go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to meet the saint, so you better put on the phoenix crown and set off quickly."
Another female officer also interjected.
Shuangshuang secretly carefully looked at the appearance of this group of people, remembered them one by one, and decided to hold the troops for now, and wait for the banquet to end.
She looked at this group of people expressionlessly, and said with a cold look in her eyes: "Which is the heavier crime of missing the time or wearing a phoenix crown, does this palace still need you to teach?" Or do you think that I, the unfavored princess, is a concubine who doesn't know what to do, or do you think that His Royal Highness the crown prince is a mediocre fool! ”
Everyone looked at each other, and it was rumored in the palace that the princess was gentle and gentle, but her temperament was as strong as fire.
"Could it be the fault of this palace that you missed the hour? A bunch of rubbish, what's the use of this palace leaving you! ”
Their contemptuous eyes shot at everyone as coldly as arrows.
Shuangshuang sincerely gave Shen Mu a thumbs up in his heart, he was right, he must stand up in front of the palace people, otherwise she will pinch it when she wants to pinch it when she is a soft persimmon!
Unexpectedly, she hid in the cold palace, and some people stared at her, and wanted to pull her and the prince to dismount. The calculations in the palace are really endless, and if you are not careful, you will be on the road.
Fortunately, she is different from ordinary women, no matter how weak she is, she is not really raised in the depths of the boudoir.
The two generations of the Lu family have produced such a girl as her, and she is the youngest and most favored one, there are many brothers in the family, and they often pester them to sneak out to play in disguise, which can be regarded as having seen the world.
Both of them are full of poetry and books, they have shown their faces, they are thoughtful, and they are scheming, otherwise how can they get along with Yunliushui equally, and how can Yunliushui be fascinated?
It is precisely because she thinks too much about some things that Shen Mushi feels that she is scheming, and she thinks in the worst direction every time, and the misunderstanding is getting deeper and deeper.
Xiao Li, who was watching from the side, didn't expect the princess to train people so well, not like Xiaoshuang scolding, but more refreshing than Xiaoshuang, stabbing everyone without even having a chance to fight back.