Chapter 21: The Bitter Magnolia
"Auntie, have you heard Xin'er mention Sun Cainu's past?"
“…… What do you want to say? ”
"Auntie said this, aren't we just chatting. If you really have to say everything to people, how can you be so vigilant? ”
“……”
"Pinch your fingers, Qingming doesn't seem to be far away, my aunt has inconvenient legs and feet now, and she doesn't want anyone to do anything like burning paper?"
"You-"
Aunt Xi Yue was speechless about this endless kraft candy.
God knows who she dug out of her old stories and guessed the general story with a little clue!
She sneered and pushed the person out of the door: "I want to ask you this and that, I want to ask you, what is the benefit to you if you care so much about a little girl?" Don't look at my old eyes dizzy, everyone says that you climbed the dragon bed and couldn't be sent down by the queen, but I think you are quite happy here! ”
Zhi Wei laughed dryly, and Aunt Xi Yue took advantage of the victory to pursue.
"Since you are so capable and quite good at making up stories, why don't you guess what kind of story Sun Cainu is. If you guess correctly, maybe my aunt and I will be kind enough to satisfy your curiosity. ”
Zhi Wei's face was bitter: "My aunt is really good at teasing people, do you still need to say it if she guesses correctly?" ”
Aunt Xi Yue closed the door solemnly: "Of course." If I don't tell you, how do you know if you're right? Go ahead, don't make my old man sleep. ”
Zhi Wei moved to the small window sill next to her without giving up, and smiled embarrassedly: "It's still early, my aunt will definitely not be able to sleep, why don't I accompany my aunt to pass the meeting again?" ”
She stared at the white eyes of Aunt Xi Yue, and began to say: "First of all, Sun Cainu has been dead for half a year, and she didn't see much favor from His Majesty in the past, but now she is secretly investigating, and there must be a reason for it." If this matter is not related to the important people in the harem, it is related to the Sun family. However, the latter is less likely, and the Sun family is not very powerful......"
Aunt Xi Yue didn't pay attention to her, but she listened slowly, nodded slightly, and motioned for her to continue.
Zhi Wei said again: "Secondly, as my aunt said, Xin'er's death was obviously killed. Regardless of who is behind the master, the motive for this murder has always been to cover up something. Well, if Xin'er didn't betray the master and conspired with outsiders to kill Sun Cainu, or Xin'er knew that Sun Cainu's death was strange and was cut down and eradicated. ”
Aunt Xi Yue smiled: "Then what do you think, which is the most likely?" ”
Zhi Wei didn't guess this time, and smiled a little wistfully: "Who knows? I haven't seen Xin'er again, I don't know if she's a honey-bellied sword or something else, my aunt guesses. However, there are not many slaves in this palace who can end up well, if Xin'er is a smart person and has no handle to be pinched, she will not do such a stupid thing. ”
"You can see it clearly, then you say, why did a grandson Cainu who has no obvious family background and meager favor die?"
Zhiwei sighed softly: "What else can it be?" The concubines in the palace are going to die, either blocking other people's paths, or becoming other people's pawns. Judging from the results, there was no big movement in the harem after Sun Cainu's death, and it could even be said that it was quiet, it could only be the former. As my aunt said, Sun Cainu's family background is not favored, so there is only one thing she may have. As a palace maid, Xin'er will definitely not be unaware of the existence of that thing......"
Aunt Xi Yue had a wooden face, and suddenly snapped the window shut.
"It's time to sleep!"
Zhi Wei didn't speak, stood quietly in front of the windowsill, looked at her shadow for a long time, and then slowly walked back to the room at the other end.
Tonight's moonlight shines brightly on the ground, and there is also a semi-circular moon floating on the water in the large water tank in the courtyard, and the two reflect each other.
When she saw the moon on the water, Zhi Wei was in a trance, as if it was not the moon, but a face as round, as big, and as white as the moon ring, floating on the water, looming at her.
It should have been an extremely terrifying illusion, but Zhiwei was not afraid to retreat, but walked steadily to the water tank step by step.
She frowned and looked at the white jade plate inside that was not round enough, but her eyes were a little reminiscent and sad.
"I was wrong. After all, it's not autumn yet. ”
The palace wall is deep, and in the cold night wind, I don't know who is sighing quietly.
In the lower palace room of Shangyang Palace.
Dianqing was already a little confused, his face was red, his eyes were closed, his lips were so dry that they almost cracked, and a moan or two escaped from his lips and teeth from time to time.
She was the only one in the room, and suddenly the door opened, and someone looked at it and shrank back.
The door closed again, and there was a faint sound of "still angry" talking and footsteps.
The room was musty, cramped, and apparently uninhabited for a long time, and if it weren't for the fact that she was so sick, she wouldn't have been thrown here to die.
The wind blew the worn-out window paper whirring, and the sleeping Dianqing suddenly opened his eyes in a daze, and slowly closed his eyes after a few breaths, and a few aggrieved and incomprehensible tears oozed from the corners of his eyes.
She really didn't understand what she had done wrong, her aunt taught her to do more things and talk less, she listened, and since she entered the Shangyang Palace, she was almost regarded as half a mute. Just when she thought that she had barely taken root, the lady suddenly hit her hard, and punished her for kneeling in the garden for a whole day and a night.
"I didn't really do anything except fertilize the peonies in the garden. Why? I don't understand ......."
When the news of Dianqing's death came, Aunt Qing of the Siyuan Bureau sighed and didn't say anything, but she was silent day after day.
The atmosphere in the palace was a little calm and strange, and the palace people who were waiting for them were trying to slow down their steps, for fear of making a little more noise and annoying their masters.
This is even more true of Kunxu Palace.
They didn't understand if they wanted to break their heads, obviously His Majesty didn't enter the harem for a long time, but on the fifteenth day, he came to Kunxu Palace to stay overnight, and the next day why was the queen's face so weird, and she also picked bones in the eggs that day, and almost all the little palace people who served tea and water, and the little eunuchs who took meals.
Aunt Lin knew this, but she couldn't stand the fluctuating thoughts of the palace people below.
A few days ago, she urged the queen to make small moves, but now, she can only persuade the queen not to be anxious.
"Niangniang, the coming day is long, we don't have to rush for a while. In the past few days, hasn't Your Majesty gone to other people's palaces? ”
As soon as she said this, the queen's face became a little more strange.
"Ahem, aunt, you said, did Your Majesty damage his body because of the injury of the moon, otherwise how could he ......?"
Aunt Lin understood the meaning of the queen's words in seconds, and immediately said that she would go to the imperial dining room to explain to the chefs, saying that now that the spring is warm and His Majesty has just taken care of his body, it is really a time to replenish his vitality, Yunyun.
So, His Majesty the Emperor in the Qiande Palace didn't pay attention, so he ate himself to a dry mouth.
Zhao Jiufu came up with a very eye-catching look: "Your Majesty wants to turn over the cards today?" ”
Huo Yanzhi hesitated and didn't squeak.
He is a bit of a shadow when he enters the harem, and he can still arrange in advance in his own dormitory, so that people can move out those chattering flowers and plants in advance. But when he entered the concubine's bedroom, such a toss was a little conspicuous.
It's not that he's thin-skinned and can't do anything under the gaze of the flowers and plants, but ......
Thinking of what Wan Nianqing said when he summoned that little concubine over a few days ago, "Your Majesty is mighty, nine thousand years old is mighty" and something like that, Huo Yanzhi fell into his appetite, and he couldn't even look at the flowery face of the little concubine.
What's worse is that he went to Kunxu Palace on the night of the fifteenth, and not long after he sat down, he heard a pot of peony muttering beside him, saying that the queen asked for the secret recipe for giving birth to a child from her mother's family, and she ate it for seven days in a row, and her eyes were almost green after eating, so she was waiting for the dog emperor to come over......
Originally, Huo Yanzhi was suspicious of the queen because of Sun Cainu's matter, and when he heard such a secret, he was even more embarrassed, and the little anger aroused by the mutton Huaishan soup that night also disappeared without a trace, and he was even more cold and indifferent to the queen, and he fell asleep without touching the other party with a finger at all.
As a result, the queen actually sent someone to the imperial dining room to "add vegetables" to him, but it was when he was anxious about the pirate invasion for the governor of Jiangnan and Guo Shoufu!
Huo Yanzhi's already poor perception of the queen is now plummeting in the direction of negative scores.
He grinded his teeth, flipped through a sign casually, and threw it aside without even looking at it: "Send it to Xinuan Pavilion, don't leave flowers and plants inside." ”
After speaking, he began to calculate the incident again, and his mind was all poured into the right thing.
Well, King Shin has been on his journey for five or six days, so he should have go, right? Take the waterway, go all the way south along the Grand Canal, and if the wind and water are smooth, you can also receive an urgent report in the next two days, right?
Zhao Jiufu glanced at the brand, oh, it's a gentle beauty, this one doesn't seem to have seen her face for a long time, but it's similar to Jia Baolin, she was selected purely by stepping on shit, and I don't know if her luck will be a little better than Jia Baolin.
As for the command in the second half of the sentence, it is a bit strange, but Your Majesty's temper has become more eccentric since the secret conversation with the prince on that day, and this is nothing.
His old god went to arrange it on the ground, and it didn't take long for Wen Meiren to receive the news.
Her palace maid was so excited that she almost didn't cry, and choked up: "Master, the master has finally come out, and Your Majesty finally thinks of you......"
Although Wen Meiren was also happy, she thought of a few gossip in the harem recently, and her heart quickly cast a shadow.
She smiled reluctantly: "Naturally, it's a good thing, don't cry, come and dress me up." ”
The woman in the bronze mirror is gentle and feminine, just like when she first entered the palace two years ago, she is still so young. But Wen Meiren knew that she was no longer the innocent and innocent little girl she was at that time.
The open and secret battles in the palace, His Majesty's favoritism, and the queen's cold eyes have already shattered her sharpness.
Now she can only pretend to be gentle and indifferent and live in the palace, after all, she has no favor and no children, who will save face for her? Like the last flower god sacrifice, if she is really a little self-righteous, and she picks up the queen and lets her make her own decisions, isn't it self-inflicted?
But in front of the bright cake of repeting, which palace concubine dares to say that she can withstand it?
Wen Meiren touched her hair bun, her eyes moved slightly, and she turned her head and ordered the palace maid.
"I remember, isn't the magnolia at the back of our house blooming just right? Go, pick one and put it on my hairpin. ”
The palace maid was stunned for a moment, immediately understood, and trotted out with a smile.
Half an hour later, Huo Yanzhi saw a gentle beauty with a shy face in the Xinuan Pavilion.
However, before noticing the beauty's delicate face, smooth skin, and slender figure, his eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the elegant white magnolia on the beauty's bun.
Seeing this, Wen Meiren was even more surprised and shy, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, when the concubine saw that this magnolia flower was blooming just right, she thought...... The concubine's dress does not conform to the palace rules, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive ......"
Huo Yanzhi glanced at Bai Magnolia, who was sighing and screaming that he was going to die, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice inconspicuously.
He laughed dryly: "The concubine is more beautiful than the flower, and this flower complements each other, why should I forgive my sin." Still, let's take a break. ”
The hibiscus tent is warm, and the spring night is short.
From the moment she was hugged and walked to the bed, Wen Meiren's little face turned red with excitement, and when she arrived, she was even more dizzy, almost not knowing what His Majesty was saying or doing.
Naturally, she did not notice the tragic fate of the magnolia that His Majesty ruthlessly plucked, crushed, and threw under the bed......