Chapter 90: The Front Dynasty and the Harem
"Back to Niangniang's words, the slave maid is currently on an errand in the Li Xing Hall and Hanxian Palace, and it is not a brainstorm to do some rough work on weekdays. There are ten days a month to be responsible for the palace maid's meals, and today is the day to go to the kitchen, who knew that such a good fortune happened to meet the mother in this place, and the slave maid was overjoyed........."
Jing'er, who used to be bold, is a little restrained today, and she has been talking to her with a suppressed throat and not panting, and her eyes are always looking around as if she is afraid of being seen.
Shuangshuang was a little puzzled: Jing'er has been in the palace for more than ten years, and according to her qualifications, it is not wrong to be sent to the palace of the prince and princess to be a housekeeper and aunt, why has she now become the last miscellaneous maid in the East Palace?
No wonder she speaks so carefully now, she no longer has the momentum she had when she was a palace maid in the past, and she was worn out by life after such a big change.
looked down at the palms of the two of them, and sure enough, Jing'er's palms were full of calluses, and the clothes on her body were replaced by the service of low-class maids.
It was really unbelievable to be downgraded by eight levels suddenly. Shuangshuang asked with some confusion, "What did you do?" Why are you sent to do the rough work of sprinkling? Aren't you an eight-rank female official?"
"Back to Niangniang, the slave maid was implicated in Xiaoshuang's matter. Last time, His Royal Highness was furious and ordered the rectification of the East Palace, in addition to arresting a group of minions involved, he also sent a number of female officials back to the Sixth Bureau, and the substitute female officials had to go to the East Palace on an errand after midsummer, and it was currently the time when there was a shortage of people and manpower, so the slaves and maids were ......"
Jing'er lowered her eyes and calmly recounted the ins and outs of the matter.
And since Xiaoshuang was deposed by His Royal Highness last time, her current identity has reverted to being a maid, and she can't even be called a female official, everyone else calls her a maid, only Jing'er calls her by her name without any title.
"Why did the female officials of the Sixth Bureau not serve in the East Palace until after midsummer?"
Both tilted their heads and looked serious.
Although she has been in the palace for several months, she has never actually taken care of things, especially about personnel transfers, and she has not studied hard, so she is a little foggy and does not understand well.
"Niangniang, don't you know, since the last time the East Palace found such a dirty thing as Mei Xiang, His Royal Highness has ordered that people from the Sixth Bureau will not be used in the future, and directly ordered Manager Li to select people from the people. Originally, the day of entering the palace was set on the 25th day of the lunar month, but somehow this matter was known to the queen mother, who was furious and scolded His Royal Highness. He spoke on the spot and ordered these newcomers to be sent to the Sixth Bureau for training immediately, and they could only be sent to the East Palace to serve after six months. Speaking of this, Jing'er finally raised her head, with some indignation in her eyes.
At the end of the year, it was the busiest time, but the East Palace was short of manpower. The work of the past few days is obviously more tiring than before, and it is really about to toss to death these palace maids who run errands.
"I see. Then let me ask you, are the palace people in the East Palace also under the control of the queen? ”
Both frowned slightly, always feeling that something was wrong.
"How can it, all the palace maids and eunuchs in the East Palace are specially allocated to the crown prince by the Sixth Bureau, and His Royal Highness has the right to send anyone down. It's just that Mei Xiang's matter leaked the rumors, and it spread to Jingren Palace, so it fell into the handle. The queen mother is the lord of the harem, and such a big thing happened naturally to ask, and the next day he made a prelude to the emperor, blaming His Royal Highness for his incompetence, and also cutting His Royal Highness's three-month silver, now it is the New Year's pass, and money and silver are needed everywhere, if this matter is brought forward by the virtuous concubine, it may be able to cover it up, but the queen is powerful and does grasp the handle, and the emperor is not good to be partial, so His Royal Highness had to carry the black pot, and even the New Year's reward is His Royal Highness opened a private treasury and took a lot of silver to make up for the vacancy this time......"
Jing'er chattered endlessly, and Shuangshuang's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
"Why didn't anyone tell me about such a big fuss!" Both of them were angry in their hearts, and they almost roared out with anger.
Why didn't His Highness mention a word, even Lu Yi? How much else is Your Highness hiding from yourself!
"Niangniang is angry, His Royal Highness doesn't say it....... I'm afraid I'm worried about Niangniang's body, so I ........."
Jing'er knelt down in fear and pleaded guilty, some regretted saying too much, and began to speak.
"No, you tell me clearly at 1510, what else happened after the twenty-third day of the lunar month!"
Shuangshuang pulled Jing'er up from the ground, as if she was afraid that she would run away and hold on to her palms tightly, forcing her to tell the truth.
Shuangshuang guessed correctly, Jing'er was indeed looking for an opportunity to slip away, but if she didn't make it clear in this situation now, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to leave today.
She knows the temper of the master in front of her too well, and it is useless for anyone to persuade her when her stubborn temper comes up.
There was no way, Jing'er had to tell Shuangshuang everything she knew, from the court to the East Palace, and she explained everything word for word.
When she said that her mouth was dry, there was really nothing to say, and Shuangshuang already had an idea in her heart.
"What about the Xin'er people?" Shuangshuang suddenly asked such a sentence, almost choking Jing'er.
No one else knew that since Xin'er was kicked out of the palace, Jing'er hadn't seen her again.
After all, I used to be on an errand in a palace, and I still have affection. She privately asked someone about Xin'er's whereabouts, and she especially remembered that she shook her head vigorously when she heard her fate, only sighing that hateful people must have pity.
It's just that Jing'er never thought that everyone didn't remember Xin'er, but there was never such a person in the palace, but the high-ranking princess still remembered the useless maid, and Baba ran to ask her whereabouts, so that she couldn't help but sigh a little that the princess's simplicity is indeed rare in the world.
Jing'er sighed faintly, and had no choice but to tell the situation:
"I was first sent back to the sixth bureau, and finally I was kicked out of the palace for some reason, I heard that I was asked to go by the prince of the deed, and now I am a servant girl in the palace of the king of deed."
On that day, Xin'er cried so much that it didn't quiet down until His Highness gave the order to pull out his tongue. She has always been straightforward and open-mouthed, and it must have been hard to serve Xiaoshuang in Hanxian Hall during that time, but then I don't know where she was sent, His Royal Highness never refused to tell Shuangshuangxin'er the whereabouts, and the more he was like this, the more strange she felt, and she kept secretly inquiring.
It's just that after asking for so long, I still haven't found anything, and today is just trying my luck to see if Jing'er knows the truth.
Unexpectedly, there was nowhere to find it when I stepped on the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it, so I really asked the right person this time.
"Jing'er, tell me honestly, what is the reason? If she was kicked out of the palace just because she collided with the crown prince's holy face, I wouldn't believe it anyway. ”
Shuangshuang now has a very bad impression of Shen Yuanan, for fear that Xin'er will be bullied in the palace, and his heart is full of emotions.
"Niangniang, your expectations are good, the slave maid listened to the palace people with Xian Dianli say, it seems that Xin'er and Xiaoshuang did an unsightly deed and were discovered by His Royal Highness, and also, .........."
Jing'er's pretty face flushed with shame, and she secretly looked at Shuangshuang's face and hesitated to continue.
"What's there? What do you mean? Aren't both of them daughters? ”
Shuangshuang was a little dumbfounded, did Jing'er have a fever, how could she speak so upside down?
"This ...... It is...... Belch...... His Royal Highness hasn't been to Hanxian Hall for a long time...... So Xiaoshuang ...... And then they ........"
Jing'er really couldn't say any more, she pulled out her palm to cover her face and didn't dare to look at Shuangshuang, and kicked her legs twice indiscriminately.
Shuangshuang didn't know what Jing'er meant at first, but seeing her like this, she gradually reacted, a red cloud floated on her cheeks, and the roots of her ears began to burn, and there was an unclean picture in her mind.
She hurriedly shook her head and drove away those pictures: "Okay, okay, I understand, don't talk about these things in the future." ”
Then regardless of Jing'er's reaction, he took her hand and walked towards Liuyun Palace, and chattered when he left: "What kitchen are you going to, follow me back to Liuyun Palace." You don't know, I'm suffocated to death in your absence........."
However, after a stick of incense, Shuangshuang took Jing'er back to Liuyun Palace, and when she entered the hall, she didn't even drink tea, and immediately ordered her to run errands.
Jing'er is worthy of being the one who brought her up with both hands, and she is absolutely obedient to her words. The footsteps rushed to spread the word, and all of a sudden Li Chuntang, Lu Yi, Ning Yi, Ning Li and others gathered in Liuyun Hall to listen to the training.
Both of them slammed their glasses with grim faces, and broke through the defense line one after another, forcing them to spit out all the things about the prince.
When the people saw that the crown princess was furious, they shrank their heads one by one and didn't dare to make a mistake, so they had to explain obediently.
Li Chuntang was the chief eunuch of the East Palace at the time, in addition to managing the affairs of the East Palace, but also responsible for the daily life of the prince, and rarely inquired about the miscellaneous trivial matters on weekdays.
The situation of Lu Ling's report is more serious, His Royal Highness the Prince, who was originally in a stable position in the court, finally had to marry Rugong in the middle of the year in the brocade garden to calm down the rumors, and the matter was so popular that everyone knew about it, and the ministers of the court and the central government had a lot of complaints about the prince's virtue. As for Xiao Pinyan's matter, although the prince asked the Shangyi Bureau to present a red single coat to clarify the innocence of the crown princess. But the courtiers were very uproar about the prince's amorous words, and even several ministers jointly played the prince as not only cowardly and incompetent, but also brutal and unkind, forcing Xiao Pinyan to commit suicide, chilling other courtiers and shocking the people, hoping that the emperor would think twice about the position of the prince.
In addition, the queen mother played the matter of Mei Xiang to Emperor Chu Wei, and some courtiers even discussed in private, how can the Qi family govern the country without a way?
Lu Yi said in embarrassment: "The queen mother said that what kind of person will mess with what kind of woman." If you had killed Frost Acolyte earlier, there would have been no such thing. What's more, the matter of falling red singles has lost the face of the heavenly family. Seeing the subtle knowledge, the benevolence of the prince's wife and the spoiling of the concubines are too much, and they are not enough to bear the great responsibility of the prince........"