Five
At noon, Dream sat in the courtyard, and everywhere in this Changchun Palace was well-cultivated flowers, which made people greedy to see.
"In spring, a hundred flowers are blooming, and this begonia is blooming red and gorgeous, and it is very beautiful." Qin Xiangxiang walked out and saw that he was staring at a bunch of begonias in his dream, so he accosted.
"Begonia flowers are beautiful, after all, they are not as dignified as peonies." Seeing Qin Xiangxiang coming, the dream stood up and saluted, "I've seen Lady Qin." ”
"Although the peony is beautiful, isn't my sister still just staring at the begonia?" Qin Xiangxiang returned the salute and smiled at the dream.
"It is precisely because the begonia is too gorgeous and covers the peony that the palace maids will prune it." The dream realm smiled at Qin Xiangxiang, but the deep meaning was revealed in his eyebrows, "Yuzhi, I'm a little sleepy at this moment, let's go back and rest." ”
Dream nodded at Lady Qin and went back. Qin Xiangxiang stood in the courtyard, caressed the pendant around his neck with one hand, and said to himself: "With the national color of the peony, it can't suppress the beauty of the begonia." Queen, you don't care about me Qin Xiangxiang Liwei, as long as the emperor favors me, what can you do to me? Mother, you need to help me. ”
In the afternoon, the ladies should have been busy learning the rules from Mama, but Wang Qiao and Li Jinghan were so bored that they led Mama directly to Changchun Palace to find a dream, saying that the three of them had a company and studied together.
It was getting late, and Dream wanted to leave them for dinner together, so he asked Yuzhi how much she could eat.
"Slaves and maids can go to the catering department to say hello, and there are two more ladies in Changchun Palace for dinner."
"What does this chef do?" Wang Qiao asked.
"The Catering Division is under the jurisdiction of the Food Bureau, and is in charge of the diet of the harem, and the meals of the harem ladies are uniformly sent by the Catering Division. In addition, each palace has its own small kitchen, and sometimes the little masters want to eat snacks and desserts, and the palace maids who can make it can also go directly to the small kitchen to make it. Changchun Palace has been empty since the new emperor ascended the throne, and the small kitchen has been dusty for a long time. ”
"Okay, I have a headache when I hear it, you can go quickly." Wang Qiao stroked his head.
"My sister has a headache now, and it was too difficult to learn the rules from my grandmother earlier, but I was worried!" Jinghan covered her mouth and smiled, and the dream also smiled.
"Don't you know, my father is a brocade guard, and he told me that there are many rules in this harem, and I can be regarded as knowledgeable!" Wang Qiao shook his head with a sad face, and Li Jinghan smiled even more happily when he saw it.
"Oh, no wonder my sister knows the rules of the draft, I think that's the reason." The dream remembered yesterday's draft.
"Not really. Hey, speaking of the draft, Sister Dreamland is famous, the little palace maids in our palace all know that yesterday's draft, Sister Dream spoke for Sister Jinghan, and in a few words, Mama chose the ...... with birthmarks on her body."
Before Wang Qiao finished speaking, he felt that he hadn't said it well. Glancing at Li Jinghan again, the smile on her face seemed to decrease.
"Sister, I didn't mean that......" Wang Qiao hurriedly took Li Jinghan's hand and looked at her with guilt.
"I ...... I can come in, or I owe it to the dream to speak for me......" Li Jinghan spoke in a low voice, listening to grievances.
"My sister is too careful, even if you don't talk about the dream, my sister is good-looking, and Mama will let you come." Dream hurriedly said.
"Yes, yes, look at my unabashed, I really said it unintentionally, don't blame me!" Wang Qiao also apologized.
Fortunately, Li Jinghan got better immediately, and the two breathed a sigh of relief and continued to laugh. After a while, Miss Yuzhi came back and told her that the Dream Meal was about to arrive.
The three of them sat in the small Yixue Pavilion, forgetting the rules and everything, only talking and laughing while eating, just like ordinary people in their homes. The night breeze was slow, and occasionally some leaked in, blowing the three people's flowers with a crisp sound.
Shortly after the meal was served, a sharp scream was heard, causing the three of them to stop moving. It's like a woman's scream, and it's in Changchun Palace. Dream quickly called Yuzhi out to have a look, and Yuzhi came back after a while: "It seems to be from Lady Qin's house." ”
"I'm afraid something happened to Lady Qin, let's go and see." The dream went out first, Wang Qiao followed, and Li Jinghan was a little reluctant, but she also went out.
When he arrived at Qin Xiangxiang's Sishui Xuan, he saw that the meal on the table had hardly been touched, and Qin Xiangxiang's palace maid Cuilan fell face down on the ground, still holding a spoon in her hand.
Qin Xiangxiang sat on the ground, his expression was very frightened, and when he saw a few of them coming over in the dream, he howled and cried, crying and shouting: "Someone is going to kill me!" ”
The dream picked up Qin Xiangxiang to reassure her not to panic, Li Jinghan was so frightened that she trembled and pulled Wang Qiao tightly, the room was in chaos, and the dream came forward to touch Cuilan, but when she saw that there was no sound, she simply turned Cuilan over.
Cuilan was turned over, and everyone saw her holding the clothes on her chest with her other hand, her mouth was full of white foam, her eyes were white, and her expression was hideous.
Li Jinghan screamed in fright when he glanced at it, and Wang Qiao didn't dare to turn his head away. Zheng Mengjing was calm, thinking that this situation was like poisoning, and he was holding a spoon in his hand, afraid that it would have something to do with the meal on this table. She picked up the chopsticks and scraped some of the white foam in Cuilan's mouth, put it on her nose and smelled it, there was a fishy smell. This move made Qin Xiangxiang's eyes widen, and he said after a while: "Sister Dream Realm, you are really bold. ”
"Sister Li, Sister Wang, go to Yixue Pavilion with Sister Qin first, Yuzhi, you go find two eunuchs to come over, quickly." Dream got up, looked for the bowl of soup on the ground again, and said without raising his head.
Li Jinghan and Wang Qiao went out with the depressed Qin Xiangxiang, and Qin Xiangxiang was still muttering: "Someone must be trying to harm me...... Somebody is trying to harm me......"
The dream found a bowl for the poisonous soup in a corner, and then looked at the meal on the table, except for the different portions, the rest of the dishes were exactly the same as the dishes sent to Yixue Pavilion, it should be that the palace maid Cuilan was poisoned after using this soup. But how could the palace maid use the master's soup, and the reason for it may have to be understood by asking Qin Xiangxiang carefully.
After Qin Xiangxiang went out, she also calmed down a little, she turned around and took Wang Qiao's hand, and said with tears in her eyes: "I was not feeling well today, I didn't want to eat, thinking that this table of food could not be wasted, so I asked Cuilan to come over and taste it, who knew that Cuilan tasted a bite, and fell to the ground, which scared me...... I ......" Qin Xiangxiang choked up and couldn't speak.
Wang Qiao patted Qin Xiangxiang's back: "Fortunately, you are fateful, such a terrible thing will be revealed to the queen mother, and the person who poisoned will be arrested!" ”
Li Jinghan looked at Qin Xiangxiang, who was crying and miserable, but didn't say anything, she was only worried about why the dream didn't come out, and she kept looking back.
"Sister Wang is right, she must tell the emperor to know!" Qin Xiangxiang listened to Wang Qiao's words, and immediately called another palace maid, Cuifang, and asked her to immediately run to explain the situation to the queen.
Wang Qiao was vague in her heart: I was obviously talking about the queen's mother, how did I become the emperor in her mouth?