Jian Yuheng often walked around the palace, and the concubines did not avoid it. He knelt down and asked Da'an, but he didn't dare to look up, only vaguely knowing that someone had accused him of having an affair with Er Qi, which affected Concubine Chun. Erqi was kidnapped from the Punishment Division, and his hair was scattered, and he almost used a big punishment. She won't say anything, and she won't say anything if she is killed.

One is his own brother, and the other is a personal maid who has been with him for more than ten years, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, Qingcheng can't bear the punishment of the two, and looks at the emperor with pleading eyes. The emperor picked up a kumquat, peeled it unhurriedly, and said, "Do you know why I summoned you?" Er Qi often served in front of the palace, and he was bolder, and he raised his voice: "The slave knows that it is because someone accuses me of having an affair with Imperial Doctor Jian. Please long live Lord Mingjian, Master Jane is a skilled doctor, honest and polite, and the slave is upright, and there is no ambiguous affection, this time it is completely slandered. ”

So far, she can only bite her lip and be sure that she has nothing to do with Jian Yuheng.

It's good for Jian Yuheng, and it's good for the pure master.

A grandmother stepped forward with a gold-inlaid enamel azalea pattern spittoon, and when the emperor threw the orange peel, she quietly retreated to the side. The emperor broke the oranges, gave half of them to the Queen Mother, and left half of them in his hands, and said, "The oranges on the south side of Caigong, have the Queen Mother tasted them?" The Queen Mother took the orange and said leisurely: "The taste is very sweet." He also said: "Don't worry about the mourning family, it's important to judge people." ”

The emperor replied and said, "Imperial Doctor Jian, do you have a personal relationship with the palace maid in charge of Yikun Palace?" ”

If he could, Jian Yuheng couldn't wait to show his heart to the emperor immediately, and if he wanted to kill or chop, he would listen to him. But Erqi had something to say first, his heart was like a river overturning, pondering again and again, Fang said in a deep voice: "Weichen and Erqi have no selfish feelings. As soon as the words came out, I felt that my tongue was numb, chaotic, and my ears rumbled, and I didn't know what the emperor had said.

Seeing that the emperor was partial, Concubine Xian suddenly said: "When asked like this, they naturally refused to say that it was necessary to use torture." The emperor still had a smile on his face, but a chill overflowed in his eyes, and he said, "Isn't it necessary to make a trick in front of everyone?" Concubine Xian hurriedly said: "Your Majesty...", the emperor waved his hand and said: "You don't have to say it anymore, I originally intended to marry Imperial Doctor Jian, he is the brother of the pure concubine, even if he is a palace maid, what can I do?" What's more, it's still something out of nowhere! ”

No personal affairs are allowed in the palace, it is the rule of the ancestors, and it is understated by the emperor, but it is like a trivial matter.

The Queen Mother turned sideways and said sharply: "It's one thing to refer to marriage, and it's another thing to have a private relationship, how can you say the same?" ”

The emperor hurriedly smiled and said, "The Queen Mother is right, I lost my words." He added: "However, even I believe that Master Jian is telling the truth, who else should doubt it?" After that, he looked at Concubine Xian fixedly, and in front of all the concubines, Concubine Xian was neither left nor right, so she had to be silent.

The hall was silent for a moment, and Fang heard the emperor shout: "Yunhuang, you are so bold, you dare to pour sewage on your master, the disloyal and unrighteous people are really hateful!" Tell me, what evidence is there that Jian Yuheng and Er Qi have an affair? If there is a lie, I will not spare it. Yun Huang broke his courage and kowtowed again and again: "The slave should die, the slave should die... The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life! ”

The emperor said, "Who instructed you?" ”

Yun Huang trembled and said, "And... And no one instructed the slave maid, yesterday the slave maid heard the emperor say that it would take a few more years, and the slave and maid were finally able to serve in front of the master, really... Really... I was afraid that I would be transferred back to the kitchen as an errand boy, so I would show the master of Mingxian, thinking that if Er Qi was gone, I would be able to become the palace maid in charge of Yikun Palace... The slave regretted it this morning, she really shouldn't... Shouldn't... Slaves and maids are ashamed of their masters, and they are ashamed of their cultivation of Erqi..."

If it was irrelevant to other people, Yun Huang was a first-class palace person beside Qingcheng, the emperor was angry, and he didn't want to be caused by a joke last night, so he suddenly became angry and said: "Foolish things! Concubine Xian didn't want this Yunhuang to be so useless, how could she have the heart to protect her again, so she turned against her and knelt down and said: "It's the concubine who did not do things properly, and she was used by the slaves and maids first, and almost killed the pure concubine, please ask the emperor to condemn her." ”

The Queen Mother said: "What are your crimes? It's the minions who are too scheming and have nothing to do with you. And he said, "Get up." ”

Concubine Xian glanced at the emperor cautiously and did not dare to get up. The Queen Mother protected Concubine Xian, and the emperor understood it very well. The reason for this matter, how much Concubine Xian knows and how much she has planned, no one can say, but there is nothing to investigate at the moment.

The Emperor said, "Get up." Only then did Concubine Xian dare to get up.

In addition to Jian Yuheng, Er Qi and Yun Huang, there was also a white medicine woman who testified. The white doctor girl was on an errand in the imperial hospital, and she did see Jian Yuheng and Er Qi talking and laughing from time to time, and she also knew that Jian Yuheng often made some medicine bags for women to ward off the cold and warm their bodies, but they were not used by the masters, and what medicine the concubines used was recorded and checked. When the Shen Criminal Division asked her before, she answered fifteen and ten, but she didn't dare to say anything, even if the emperor asked, she could only help Jian Yuheng speak.

After all, I don't know whether Jian Yuheng is a blessing or a curse, and she, no matter how good she is, is just a doctor girl after all.

The emperor didn't ask again, and said to Erqi: "You have been wronged, and you will let the pure master compensate you." Er Qi thanked him, and the emperor ordered the four of them to retreat until they left Shoukang Palace, and Er Qi didn't dare to look at Jian Yuheng.

The Queen Mother said: "Since someone makes a mistake, it should be punished well, how can it not be stopped?" The emperor said: "Punishment is to be punished, but since it is a matter of Yikun Palace, I want to leave it to Concubine Chun herself." He glanced at Concubine Xian intentionally or unintentionally, and then said, "The others will not be held accountable." Naturally, he handed the remaining half of the orange to the green orange, got up and said, "Don't disturb the queen mother's rest, my son will retire." "Qingcheng is not connected, and it is not acceptable, but I feel embarrassed.

The emperor shoved it heavily into her hand, and said tenderly: "It's sweet." He smiled and went out.

The concubines saw it in their eyes and were silent.

Back in Yikun Palace, Hai'an had already tied Yunhuang to the platform and knelt, stuffing cotton cloth in her mouth, so as not to annoy her master by crying and crying. Qingcheng went into the back room to change into soft silk shoes, took Zhu Hai, and Fang Ming Yunhuang stepped forward. Erqi was frightened, went back to the next room to wash and dress, and still went back to the house to serve. As soon as Yun Huang saw Erqi, he whined, but he couldn't speak. Qingcheng ordered someone to take the cotton cloth from her mouth, only to hear her plead: "Erqi, I'm sorry for you, I know it's wrong, can you help me ask my master for intercession?" He cried to Hai'an again: "Sister Hai'an, please, I won't dare to do it again..."

A mellow voice came from outside the house, saying, "Backwards? Want to have another time? ”

Hai'an Erqi hurriedly lifted the curtain to greet him, and Qingcheng also walked to the door and said, "Why are you here at this time?" The emperor went around the Heart Nourishing Palace, couldn't settle down, and came back from his shoulder. He said: "I am afraid that you will be soft-hearted and smash things, even if it is worth thousands of taels, it can be forgiven, but this betrayal of the master must not be tolerated." ”

He sat down on the kang, saw the half of the orange he had stuffed into the green orange on the plate, and asked, "Why don't you eat it?" ”

Qingcheng said: "Where is the kung fu to eat oranges." His thoughts were put aside by her. The emperor didn't mind, he broke the orange petals and ate them, and said to Hai'an: "You go and wait for everyone in the palace in the courtyard." Haian didn't know why, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he agreed to bow down and retreat. But after a while, from the grandmother who served the two elder brothers, to the eunuch on duty at Yikun Gate, the hundred and ten people, all stood in the courtyard, silent.

The emperor ate the orange, cleaned his hands and face, and went into the study to take the book to read. Qingcheng didn't know what he was selling, so he followed the emperor like a little tail and asked, "The palace people are waiting outside, do you want to lecture?" "Yun Huang is still young, just give a lesson." "The kitchen is going to prepare dinner, you can't always ask them to wait, I'm so hungry..."

The people who stood on the ground in the court, you look at me, I look at you, and no one dares to speak. The more silent it is, the more frightening it becomes. Especially if something happens in the palace, the emperor is in a bad mood, and he may not be angry, so no one should think about it. After burning two pillars of incense, the emperor walked to the platform, he didn't say much, and directly asked people to tie Yunhuang on a small stool, and he was punished with a hundred rods. Even Qingcheng's intercession is useless.

He sat peacefully on the kang and read a book, and the terrible screams outside the court whimpered, startling the birds and finches in the woods and flying into the sky, refusing to return to their nests. Qingcheng sat opposite the emperor and pleaded: "There is really no need to be so ruthless..."The emperor turned a page of the book and said lightly: "I just want everyone below to see what the end of betraying the master is." After a pause, he smiled and said, "Do you think I don't know?" Erqi and Jian Yuheng... You can figure it out, how can I not understand? ”

It turned out that the two of them were tacitly tactual.

The emperor threw away the book, let Qingcheng sit beside him, gently hugged her shoulder, and said, "Today, just Yun Huang dared to run to Concubine Xian to cause trouble, and Ming'er doesn't know who it is." You are easy to trust people, and you always worry me. There is no owner in the harem, and there are people who want to make waves, and you don't want to punish your subordinates, I understand. Let me take care of this black face. The voice of mourning gradually died down, and I don't know if I had lost my strength or had been killed.

In this night, Yikun Palace was quiet, and it was the first time that Qingcheng saw blood under his eyes.

The courtyard was quickly cleaned up as if nothing had happened. And Yun Huang has disappeared without a trace, and there is no such person in the world. Hai'an begged for the grace of Qingcheng, rewarded Yunhuang's family with twenty taels of silver, and asked someone to buy paper money and burn it on the grave. Er Qi also felt guilty, but when she thought about it, she almost dragged Jian Yuheng down, and felt relieved.

Late at night, Qingcheng couldn't sleep, she nestled in the emperor's arms, and said without words: "When did I force Yongzhang Yongying to read and write?" The emperor stroked her full of black silk and said: "I coax the queen mother, she is happy, you have a good life..." ”

Even so, it was not until dawn that Qingcheng fell asleep with his eyes closed.

After all, it was a person from the kitchen, and as soon as Yun Huang died, he was so frightened that the people in the palace below were terrified for days. Huang Er has been in the palace for decades, what has he never seen? I was talking to myself in the morning, and as soon as I turned around, I was arrested by the palace maid who never came out of the Shen Criminal Division... Or someone who has just met jumped into a well and drowned for no reason... The list goes on and on. But it was the first time to see people beaten to death in front of him. It's poignant and indescribable.

Autumn dry throat, pure master wants to drink wild duck porridge to defeat the fire, Huang Er personally went to Qingfeng Division, picked two fat ducks, let the little eunuch carry them, bowed down and walked back to Yikun Palace. On the palace street, he bumped into the old brother Gu Dayong in the imperial dining room, and the two hid in a hidden place to greet each other. Gu Dayong took out a plain white porcelain vase from his cuff and said with a smile: "Go to the south to procure, the Jiangning Chen family gave it to the prince, I divided half a jar, and that's all there is left." He said as he shoved the yellow second-hand into the water.

The fragrance of wine was fragrant, Huang Er was well-informed, and he smelled that it was his ten-year-old daughter, and grinned: "You are willing to give it to me, it is better to stay at home and drink it yourself." Having said that, the hand has already been taken. Gu Dayong saw that he had accepted the gift, and he knew in his heart, and felt that the matter was half done, so he smiled and said: "I went to Yikun Palace to talk to you just now, but I knew that the concierge was becoming stricter and stricter, saying that you were not there, and you didn't even give me a place to stand, and blindly drove me away." ”

Huang Er smiled proudly: "Yikun Palace has big rules, and the people in the gatehouse have high vision, and even the nobles dare to stop them, not to mention that we are slaves." Gu Dayong nodded again and again, smacking his tongue and said: "The pure master is pampered and generous, and it is normal to have rules, but I don't want to be even bigger than the rules of Jingren Palace..." You are a celebrity in front of the pure master, and it should be easy to do. ”

Finally got down to business, Huang Er listened to his flattery, felt very useful, and said with a smile: "You can say it." ”

Gu Dayong said: "I won't tell you, I am also entrusted by others." He leaned into Huang Er's ear again, and whispered: "Someone wants to know what the pure master eats and does every day, when he gets up, when he goes out, and what he does..." Yun Huang is gone, who in the palace doesn't know what she committed? I advise you to be more appropriate, don't lose your life for a few taels of silver! Gu Dayong looked left and right, pushed the wine bottle to Huang Er, and said: "It's not that you are asked to go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot, as long as you tell me what you have seen and heard..."

Huang Er simply threw the wine bottle into his arms and said, "Even if it is four hundred taels, I can't do it, in case something goes wrong, do you still expect the people above to protect you?" After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, saying: "If you are eating and chatting, or if you have any difficulties, I can help you, this betrayal of the master... Especially when it comes to pure masters, my brother advises you, it's better not to mess with it. ”

Gu Dayong still wanted to chase and persuade, but Huang Er actually ran up, and disappeared from the palace corridor as soon as he turned around.

The little eunuch who brought the wild duck back to the kitchen had already killed the duck, plucked the duck feathers, and was disemboweling. Huang Er was panting, tired and sweating, and advised: "Grandpa goes back to the room to change clothes, and the duck feathers are going to be plucked clean." If there's a little bit of dirt, see how grandpa cleans you up! The little eunuch nodded and said with a smile: "Grandpa, don't worry, just rest for a while and come back to prepare for later." ”

Huang Er just went, and Er Qi came and asked, "Where is Huang Er?" ”

The little eunuch wiped the dirty water on the blouse with both hands, and said with a smile: "Aunt Qi Erqi, Grandpa Huang went back to the room to change his clothes, and he will be here soon." If you have any orders, if you are not in a hurry, wait for grandpa. If you're in a hurry, tell me the same. ”

Er Qi saw that he was still smart, and said: "In the evening, the master wants to eat cold vegetables, you ask Huang Er to make two cold mushroom fungus, as well as cold salad kelp shreds, put more crushed mustard and crushed peanuts, put less soy sauce, coriander, and a little sugar." Accompanied by two kinds of wild duck porridge and braised pork soup, there is nothing next to it, let your grandfather make up his own mind. ”

The little eunuch silently memorized it, and Fang smiled and said, "I have written it down, aunt rest assured." ”

Er Qi returned to the house, and it happened that Wang Jinbao of the Internal Affairs Office was talking to Concubine Chun. Qingcheng said: "The Trojan horse is placed under the locust tree in the east corner, the swing is not limited to where it is, you can look at where it is suitable, and the two seesaws are placed next to the swing." Wang Jinbao stood quietly and listened respectfully to Qingcheng's orders. He asked again: "Long live the lord said that two more grapevines should be planted, and the slaves dare not call the shots. ”

Qingcheng said casually: "You can do it." ”

Wang Jinbao answered yes and knelt down. When he saw Er Qi at the door curtain, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said indestructibly: "I made the girl feel wronged that day." Erqi didn't bother to pay attention to him, didn't say anything back, and went straight to the back room. Wang Jinbao knew Er Qi's temperament, and he didn't care too much, thinking that she was going to leave the palace anyway, and she would never get along with each other in the future.

The genius was dark, and the little eunuch in front of the emperor came to pass the word and said to Hai'an: "Long live the lord said, I won't come to Yikun Palace today, let the pure master sleep early, no need to wait." Hai'an paused for a moment and asked quietly: "But whose brand did you turn over?" The little eunuch often went in and out of Yikun Palace, and he also got a lot of benefits from Hai'an, so he whispered the truth: "The master is sick, and the Queen Mother ordered the Lord to visit." Hai An nodded quietly, and casually took out a handful of copper coins from his cuffs and threw them to the little eunuch.

The little eunuch was not polite, and when he received the money and arrived at Sheng'an, he left quickly.

Qingcheng was writing in the house and meditating, Hai An tiptoed to the side to wait, and when Qingcheng stopped writing, Fang said: "Master, just now the Yang Xin Palace sent a message, saying that Long Live Lord is not coming today, let you go to bed early, you don't have to wait." Some palace people cleaned up their pen and ink, and another palace person took warm water before carrying it, Qingcheng cleaned his hands, wiped them dry with a towel and asked, "Whose brand did you lift?" ”

The emperor has a bad habit, maybe he doesn't know it himself, every time he lifts a sign in the Palace of Nourishing Heart, or wants to go to the womb of another concubine, he always announces someone early to spread the word. If he can't come just temporarily, it's going to be later.

Haian didn't dare to hide it, and said: "It was said that the master was sick, and the Queen Mother ordered the Lord to visit." ”

Qingcheng let out a shallow sigh, stagnated with a warm towel in his hand, and said, "Let's call for food." Hai'an retreated in response to the order, and went to the tea room to tell Er Qi, Er Qi immediately went to the kitchen to spread the word, and within half an hour of tea, the people of the palace brought boxes of dishes to the table. The emperor didn't come, and the green oranges ate simply, but they also set up two tables neatly. What made her move the chopsticks was actually only two dishes in front of her, and she couldn't finish eating them, except for the sub-examples that were rewarded to Yongzhang Yongying, the rest were rewarded to the palace people.

After running late, Qingcheng coaxed Jiao'er to sleep, wore bed clothes and nested on the couch to read idle books, and gradually fell asleep, so she threw away the book and fell asleep. The palace attendant on duty put down the curtain, made the quilt for Qingcheng's armpits, blew out the lamp, and sat outside the door with the bed, unable to sleep all night. In the middle of the night, there are cooks who send sub-typical dim sum, most of which are steamed buns and steamed buns, and the palace people on duty at night swallow dates, swallow a few mouthfuls of water, and never dare to make a sound.

The emperor stayed in Jingren Palace for three nights in a row, and there were rumors in the palace that the pure concubine was angry with the emperor for the matter of Yunhuang, and she might fall out of favor. Er Qi went to the Internal Affairs Office to withdraw the silver, listened to the palace people talking about it, and was so angry that he argued with others, his face was purple and red, and he quarreled with the palace maid in charge of Jingren Palace for a few words, and then returned to Yikun Palace angrily.

She doesn't understand, even if she is angry, it should be the emperor's anger with the concubine, how can there be any reason to snub the pure concubine?

Anyway, for her, all the people who say bad things about Yikun Palace are really hateful.

When she turned around, she complained to Hai'an, and Hai'an couldn't help but teach her a lesson, saying: "The master has said many times that you should restrain your temper outside and argue with others less." Over the years, I have seen that you have done things neatly and your temperament has been much calmer, why have you quarreled with others again? Don't forget, you're going to be out of the palace in a few days, but don't make any extraneous troubles and cause any trouble..."

Er Qi smiled: "Just because I am going out of the palace, I can have revenge and revenge." ”

Hai An couldn't help her, and said with a heavy breath: "It's okay if you leave, don't you want them to remember the grievances on the master..." Hai An said: "Even if it's over today, I also want to teach those who chew the root of their tongue indiscriminately." It's just that in the future, it's not allowed anymore. ”

Er Qi raised her eyebrows and smiled, "It turns out that you can't help it." He patted Hai'an on the shoulder again and said, "Don't worry, I will keep to myself in the last few days and never cause trouble for my master." She took the tea and entered the house, and saw Qingcheng looking at the autumn shadow on the palace corridor in a daze, and said with unbearable pity: "Master, where is the master sick, obviously pretending." Don't you have stomach acid when you have dinner? It's also sick, otherwise the slave maid will go to the Heart Cultivation Palace..."

Qingcheng smiled and interrupted: "If you are sick, you should go to the Imperial Hospital to announce the imperial doctor, what is the use of going to the Heart Cultivation Palace?" ”

Er Qi stomped his feet and said, "Master, you are just too kind-hearted to let others be bullied." Qingcheng said: "Don't worry, no one dares to bully me." Over the years, even Queen Daxing hasn't said anything serious to me, Concubine Xian? Can she compare to the queen of Daxing? After a pause, he said: "As for the emperor... I believe in Him. ”

Qingcheng Qiang cheered up and said: "I heard that many palace people in the palace are sick these days, and even Concubine Xian has a cold, I saw a medicinal diet in the book, you might as well learn it, let the kitchen make it, and distribute it to the people below." "After that, I really picked up the book, and according to the record in the book, I spoke to Erqi one by one. At the end, he told her again, saying: "If you suffer a loss, you can't recognize half of it in a basket of words, although you have learned a lot from me in the past few years, but it is not enough." When you leave the palace, you must marry a scholar, learn to read, and then raise your children well. ”

Speaking of getting married, Er Qi's whole face darkened.