Chapter 45: Resentment
"The girl is really blessed, such a dangerous situation can be safely passed, and it can be regarded as a great calamity."
On the way to Hanyu Palace, the gentle palace maid Xiaoya and Zhiwei joked.
As early as a few days when she was recuperating from her illness, Wen Meiren sent her to visit Zhiwei once, but she hadn't woken up yet, and after waking up, another little palace maid came. Therefore, this is the first time the two have met after the poisoning incident that day.
After accidentally ingesting the tea mixed with blood-invigorating medicine, Wen Meiren became very weak, and the imperial doctor even let her stay in bed to protect the fetus, and she didn't even go out of the house for a while. Despite this, after learning that Zhiwei had detoxified and basically returned to normal, she still sent the palace maid to ask Zhiwei to come over to see her once, saying that she wanted to apologize.
Zhi Wei naturally didn't dare to accept it calmly, but Xiao Ya said it sincerely, she refused to leave if she couldn't invite Zhi Wei, plus Zhi Wei was really good to her when she was "on a business trip" over there, not only did she be treated in the same way as Xiao Ya in life, but she was even allowed to use her spare time to read books in her small study on weekdays, so that she had the most comfortable days since she entered the palace for more than half a month.
Thinking of the kindness of Wen Meiren, Zhiwei could only take leave and go to Hanyu Hall again.
She had no intention of responding to Xiaoya's jokes and the faint temptation in it, so she only smiled and said nothing.
When she was brought into the hall, Xiaoya's tone was slightly heavy: "You must have been frightened that day, and I guess I felt uncomfortable when I saw that garden again, so I took you through this small gate, and I hope you don't blame you." ”
Zhi Wei naturally had no opinion, but subconsciously looked in the direction of the "crime scene", even if there were several eaves in the middle, she couldn't see anything at all.
When she saw Wen Meiren, Zhiwei was startled.
Before the incident, although the other party's appearance was not too outstanding, she was still a gentle and beautiful demure woman, but now, her whole person is as thin as skin and bones, and the previous homely clothes are now loose on her body, and she is reclining on the chaise longue with her eyes closed, her face is white and miserable, like a crescent moon hanging high in the cold winter wax moon, no matter how you look at the situation, the situation is not very good.
Zhi Wei subconsciously glanced at Xiao Ya, a trace of worry flashed on the latter's face, and quickly changed to a brisk tone.
"Master, Miss Zhiwei is here. Didn't you keep thinking about seeing her? The slave will help you up, take the medicine first, and then you will talk to Miss Zhiwei slowly~"
Wen Meiren opened her eyes, first stunned for a while, and suddenly her eyes rolled, and a surprise light shot out of them, and there was a little more smile on her pale face.
"Where to use your help, I'm not the porcelain doll! I can do it myself! ”
As she spoke, she really straightened up and looked at Zhi Wei with burning eyes.
"Miss Zhiwei, I haven't seen you for a long time. I heard that you are now in good shape, and I am relieved. Although we haven't known each other for a long time, I always feel in my heart that the two of us are a little fateful. If it were because of me, I would have let you suffer, and I would not have let it go......"
Xu said it eagerly, and Wen Mei said a few words, but was stopped by a burst of rapid panting.
Xiaoya hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her, and persuaded her to speak slowly.
Zhi Wei also felt in her heart: "Don't worry, little master, the slave and maid have taken leave, you can say it slowly, even if it is dark, it doesn't matter, as long as you don't think the slave and maid have a big appetite, you can eat here......"
After Wen Meiren laughed, she drank the warm decoction handed over by Xiaoya, and then sent everyone else down.
Zhi Wei intuitively felt that what this gentle beauty wanted to say to herself seemed to be only now starting to get to the point.
"What does the Lord say to the slaves? If you ask about the events of that day, the slave and maid may have to disappoint the little master. After all......"
Wen Meiren sighed and shook her head.
"That matter is almost clear, you go out from me with the front foot today, and the news of the back foot is estimated to spread throughout the six palaces. The mastermind is Wu Cairen, who bought the poison of a little girl here in me, heh. As for the motive, it is naturally a very common reason to be jealous that I have an imperial heir. ”
Zhi Wei asked: "Wu Cairen?" Is that your eccentric, out-of-home neighbor? ”
Wen Meiren nodded, and then smiled bitterly: "Now you can't be considered a neighbor anymore." The queen has ordered someone to lock her up in the North Third Institute, just before you come, otherwise you can hear the movement. Wu Cairen is a talented woman with a high chest, and she scolded loudly in the house early this morning, quoting scriptures and classics for a while, so that a layman like me who is coarse and well-versed in literature and ink does not understand what she is scolding. ”
Zhi Wei didn't think that Wen Meiren called her over to talk about gossip.
"Forgive the slave maid bluntly, the little master doesn't seem to have any resentment when he talks about Wu Cairen?"
Wen Meiren watched her quietly.
Zhi Wei continued: "Although I have not been with the little master for a long time, the slave can vaguely see that the little master is a soft on the outside and a strong temperament on the inside. If it was really Wu Cairen who harmed the little master like this, the little master would inevitably be too calm? ”
Wen Meiren said quietly: "If Xiaoya and they had your two points of wit and three points of loyalty, maybe I wouldn't have to suffer such a crime." ”
Zhi Wei was about to open her mouth to ask, but the other party suddenly changed the topic.
"You should have heard of it, right? The doctor told me to stay in bed every day to nurse the baby, but now it is less than four months, which means that I may have six months to suffer. However, the doctor said that even if my fetus can be saved, it may not be full-term. If you are born prematurely, it will take at least three or four months to form...... Miss Zhiwei, do you think this child can be born safely? ”
Zhi Wei hesitated before saying: "The little lord is naturally a blessed person, with His Majesty and the queen in charge, the little prince can naturally be born safely." That Wu Cairen ......"
Wen Meiren smiled softly, but her tone was sharp, and it was timely to interrupt her.
"You see, you don't even believe what you say. Don't excuse yourself, it's not so polite in front of me! Alas, don't coax me, I've heard all the rumors in the palace, and eight out of ten people think that I won't survive this year's Obon. I often think that maybe next month when the hell door is opened, it will be me ......."
"Little Lord be cautious!"
Zhi Wei suddenly raised her voice, and quickly softened her tone: "With the adults of the Tai Hospital, you will be fine, and the little prince will be fine!" ”
Wen Meiren turned her head, as if staring at a certain point in the void in a daze, and sighed again.
"Look, you all shout little princes, I think this will make me happier, but I wish I was a princess. Even if she is an inconspicuous third princess, she is better than the title of the eldest son of the emperor. ”
Zhiwei didn't know what to say.
Wen Meiren seemed to already know the mastermind behind this incident, or at least guessed, but she was unwilling to tell Zhiwei, so that the latter wanted to change the topic as soon as she mentioned it. She asked Zhi Wei to come over to meet today, not to find out any news from her mouth, as if she really just wanted to talk to her and express the bitterness in her heart.
Looking at the last sentence alone, Wen Meiren is a person who sees very thoroughly in her heart, but this thoroughness may make her more painful.
"Little master, relax a little, with the lessons of the past, most of those ghosts and ghosts don't dare to take action easily. If you are so worried every day, if you don't take good care of your body, you are afraid that your original good body will collapse. ”
Zhi Wei hesitated, but still whispered what she wanted to say.
"Not to mention the palace, it is the ordinary people's homes outside, and the children without their mothers are sad, how can the little lord bear to let the little prince and princess in your womb be born with her own mother forever? The princes of the first emperor were among the people who could live peacefully to adulthood, and there was only one who believed in the prince without a mother. But in the palace, not everyone can be Concubine Cui. You should understand the truth here better than the slave! ”
After hearing these words, Wen Meiren was stunned for a while before she smiled more like the previous warm smile.
"You have a point, I wrote it down."
After that, Wen Meiren blinked again, saying that she wanted to fall asleep to the sound of her reading, and smiled to make sure that the books were clean this time, so that Zhiwei didn't have to worry about anything else.
Zhi Wei read a few pages of the Book of Songs to her in a kind way, and Wen Meiren listened to it with great interest, and even wanted to choose a few spare names for the child from it.
Xiaoya persuaded her, saying that the names of the princes and princesses have always been given by the emperor, and now that they are ready, they are afraid that it will be useless.
Wen Meiren was not very happy to hear it, but she still stopped Wei and played a round, saying that she could take a few innocuous nicknames, and the big names were naturally from His Majesty, so that the best of both worlds, Wen Meiren smiled again.
When she fell asleep, Zhi Wei gave Xiao Ya a few suggestions euphemistically, asking the latter to relieve the bitterness in Wen Mei's heart, and then she left with a handful of sweat.
On the way back to Qiande Palace, she really heard a palace person in a corner whispering about Wu Cairen's being beaten into the cold palace, and also got the news from another group of flower and plant "informants" that "there are indeed concubines who are singing about Wen Meiren in private, and even betting on when she will return to heaven".
Some people even secretly lamented that this incident failed to get rid of the child in Wen Meiren's belly, and did not tear the virtuous concubine from the position of palace power, which is really regrettable.
As for the fact that Yuling had mentioned to her that "key witnesses had identified He Baolin, Concubine Shu, the queen and others", almost no one mentioned it. If it weren't for Zhiwei's belief that Yuling was not a person who played right and wrong at will, I was afraid that she would be suspicious at this time.
If this matter has nothing to do with Zhi Wei, it would be fine, she has always adhered to the principle of self-preservation, even if she ran before for Sun Cainu when she was in the Huanyi Bureau, it was just a choice after weighing interests. But Wen Meiren's matter has already involved her, and she was almost killed by the mastermind behind the scenes, and she got some specious hints from Wen Mei's mouth, Zhi Wei really can't hide her ears and steal the bell!
The evildoer is obviously one of the harem concubines, and the motives are nothing more than two, one is to do harm because he is jealous of a lucky concubine, and the other is to use this matter to achieve some ulterior purpose. It's not for pets, it's for power. The mess in the palace will never escape these two routines.
But in the final analysis, such chaos is inseparable from one person.
So, when Zhiwei was named and left behind by the "culprit" after serving tea at night, she held her breath in her heart.
Half of it is for women like Wen Meiren and Wu Cairen, and the other half is for innocent palace people like herself. Not to mention, the culprit emperor still has a black halo of a "calculating man" on his head.
However, the emperor was unaware of her resentment, and asked her in the same tone as he had listened to the report and done business before.
"You went to the Hanyu Hall today, did you notice anything abnormal?"
Well, Wen Meiren is also his concubine, and she is pregnant with a child for him, so she doesn't even ask, she only cares about other things!
Zhi Wei replied bluntly: "The slave maid walked through the small gate, and she didn't pass through the garden, and she didn't hear anything that shouldn't be heard. ”
The Emperor looked at her in amazement.
"I haven't had time to ask you, what other signs were there before the poison broke out that day?"
Zhi Wei knew that the emperor meant that it was not difficult for the poisoners to hide from the human eye, but they would not pay attention to the flowers and plants that were dead in their eyes. However, it's a pity that-
"The slave doesn't know, but the man must have done it very skillfully, avoiding all eyes and ears."
The emperor pondered for a moment, and was about to ask again, but Zhi Wei opened his mouth.
However, the slave maid went to the outside of Wu Cairen's house today and heard some gossip. I wonder if Your Majesty has the leisure to listen? ”