Chapter 32 Yixue
Rui Wang Li Chenfeng didn't come alone, he was followed by a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman wearing a water-green cape.
The woman is tall and delicate, and there is a bit of arrogance between her eyebrows and eyes.
In front of the Changle Palace, Li Chenfeng asked the little palace maid guarding outside the hall to go in and pass the word, and he looked at Guan Qiao'er with his residual eyes.
In the past, Guan Qiao'er in the Rui Wang's Mansion was coarse cloth and plain clothes, and her hair was just a simple bun, if it wasn't for fixing her hair, I am afraid that she wouldn't even have a hairpin.
Today, in order to enter the palace to meet the Empress Dowager Cui, under Li Chenfeng's repeated requests, Guan Qiaoer finally let go and let the grandmother in the house pull a falling horsetail, except for the small hairpin used for fixation, only the Empress Dowager Cui rewarded the phoenix hairpin.
Li Chenfeng asked Guan Qiaoer to put a few more beaded flowers on his head, but Guan Qiaoer said that he was unwilling. Angry, Li Chenfeng said fiercely, "Such shabby, go out and lose the face of the Rui Palace." ”
Guan Qiao'er looked at Li Chenfeng with empty eyes for a while, then slowly took the eight-treasure phoenix hairpin off her head and said, "Then I won't go out and embarrass your face." ”
In the end, Li Chenfeng had to compromise and let Guan Qiao'er go.
However, such a plain dress brings out Guan Qiaoer's own spirituality, the kind of spirituality that dwells in nature.
Guan Qiao'er felt that Li Chenfeng was looking at her, so she also tilted her head to look at Li Chenfeng. Since marrying Li Chenfeng, Guan Qiaoer has not dared to look at him squarely, and on the second day of the wedding, he was confined to Qingfeng Pavilion by Li Chenfeng for a full month before he was released. Although Li Chenfeng did not beat her, she felt that Li Chenfeng made her more timid than her stepmother Zheng.
Except, except for blowing out the candle after bedtime. Guan Qiao'er's face turned red, and her hand was on her lower abdomen.
There, she and Li Chenfeng's flesh and blood are being nurtured. It is precisely because of this that Li Chenfeng will take her to see Empress Dowager Cui.
Li Chenfeng was embarrassed when Guan Qiao'er looked at him like this, and quickly withdrew his gaze and coughed a few times in embarrassment.
Not long after the little palace maid entered, Lingxi came out. Lingxi blessed King Rui and said, "The Queen Mother invites Lord Rui to come in." ”
Li Chenfeng snorted from his throat, and was just about to raise his feet to walk in, when he saw Guan Qiao'er still standing there without moving. Li Chenfeng's brows furrowed, and he turned around and took Guan Qiao'er's hand and entered the Changle Hall together.
Guan Qiaoer's hands are not as smooth and delicate as everyone's ladies, weak and boneless. On the contrary, the knuckles were full of calluses, and there were several scars on the palms of the hands.
Li Chenfeng took that hand, there was no dislike, only full of distress, he blamed himself for not appearing in Guan Qiaoer's life earlier, so that she suffered so much.
Lingxi did not follow Li Chenfeng in, but turned around and entered the side room of the Changle Palace.
She didn't dare to face Li Chenfeng now, because she didn't know how to talk to Li Chenfeng about the nameless princess. Lingxi thought about telling Li Chenfeng all these things, but when he thought that Li Chenfeng couldn't stay in this harem for a long time, and he didn't know what would happen to this matter in the end, he was timid.
Who can't get along with their own heads? Isn't that a fool?
Right now, Lingxi just wants to hide for a while, an obvious ostrich mentality.
Zhiqiu had already made tea and went to the inner hall to wait, so only Zhihua and Zhiye were in the room.
The two of them sat on their knees with their backs to the side door, constantly watching to see if anyone in the hall came out, and did not notice that Lingxi walked in.
Zhihua is younger than Zhiye, and there are no other palace maids who are usually stable, so she is whispering to Zhiye at this time, "Zhiye, do you see that woman?" That is the commoner princess of King Rui. ”
Zhiye nodded, and said with a little disappointment on his face, "I thought what kind of beauty she was, there are more of them in our palace with such a posture." ”
Zhihua couldn't help nodding and catering, "I haven't known that Sister Ye is beautiful yet." ”
Hearing this, Lingxi looked at Zhiye. Zhiye has reached the end of the day, the palace clothes he is wearing are tied up with a slender waist, the skin is white and tender, a small melon seed face has a pair of big eyes like grapes, the eyebrows are green without painting, the lips are red without dotting, and with the peach on the face at this time, Zhenzhen is a beauty embryo.
Zhiye pinched Zhihua's armpit with his hand, and said shyly, "Don't talk nonsense, if you talk nonsense, I won't spare you." ”
Zhihua dodged Zhiye's outstretched hand and whispered, "Sister Zhiye, I'm telling the truth. Saying that, he grabbed Zhiye's hand and didn't let Zhiye move again, his eyes flashed with mystery, and said, "Didn't my sister hear?" ”
Zhiye saw that Zhihua had something to say, so he stopped making trouble, and asked back, "What did you hear?" ”
Zhihua poked her head in the direction of the inner hall and glanced a few times, and when she saw that no one came out, she whispered, "When we didn't come to the Queen Mother's palace to wait, the Queen Mother liked two palace maids the most, one was called Jasper and the other was called Green Jade." ”
Zhiye shook his head. The palace maid can't chew the root of her tongue in private, and she doesn't dare to ask.
Zhihua frowned, and said with a discouraged expression, "Why don't you care about anything?" If you are not careful one day, you don't even know how to die. ”
Zhiye was Zhihua, his face immediately turned pale, and he hurriedly begged, "Then you can talk about it quickly." ”
Zhihua saw that Zhiye listened to his words, and continued to whisper, "I heard that those two palace maids were originally favored by Empress Dowager Cui to be a concubine for Prince Rui. ”
Zhiye exclaimed, "Really? That's a great grace! ”
"The jasper and green jade are as beautiful as my sister." Zhihua's tone carried a few ridicules, "Maybe one day, Empress Dowager Cui will give her sister a grace and give her sister to be a concubine for the prince." gave birth to a son and a half daughter, and that is to carry a wife. ”
Lingxi stood behind and couldn't listen anymore, and said coldly, "Maybe one day, before you can lift your wife, your head will be lost first!" ”
Zhiye and Zhihua were frightened when they heard Lingxi's voice, and hurriedly stood up to give Lingxi a blessing, their little faces turned white with fright.
Lingxi turned around and walked out of the hall, beckoning to Xiao Xiazi who was standing outside the Changle Palace. Xiao Xiazi walked over quickly, and asked Lingxi flatteringly, "What do you want from Ling'er girl?" ”
Lingxi looked angry and said to Xiao Xiazi, "Grandpa Xia, where is Grandpa Qian now?" ”
Xiao Xiazi replied, "The master is arranging the main hall in the Wutong Palace, and the Queen Mother said that there are many things in the palace after the New Year, and she plans to stay in the Yongshou Palace for a few days. Seeing that Lingxi's face was not good, Xiao Xiazi asked cautiously, "Miss Ling'er, what happened?" ”
Lingxi frowned, put on a small face, and said to Xiao Xiazi, "Bother Father-in-law Xia to find two little eunuchs to tie up the two subordinate things in the middle room to Father-in-law Qian and hand them over to Father-in-law Qian for disposal." I don't know the rules like this, and sooner or later we will lose our lives together. ”
Zhihua Zhiye, who came out with Lingxi, was already shocked, and when she heard that Lingxi was going to send them away, she fell to her knees with a pop and begged for mercy again and again.
Lingxi glared at Xiao Xia Zi and said sharply, "What are you still doing in a daze?" Did they make them noisy and noisy here to startle the Queen Mother? Premeditated to tempt the prince, I didn't let them beat them to death is already merciful! ”
As soon as the premeditated temptation of the prince's six sons came out of Lingxi's mouth, Xiao Xiazi was so frightened that he almost knelt on the ground.
Mei Jieyu's matter is a thorn in the heart of the Empress Dowager Cui, if this matter is brought to the ears of the Empress Dowager Cui, how can the minions up and down in the Yongshou Palace be good?
Zhihua shouted while kowtowing to Lingxi, "Girl, girl." The slave and the maid do not have a heart, and the slave and the maid do not have that mind. ”
Zhiye was even more wronged, crying so much that he hit the pear blossoms, and he couldn't say anything except spare his life.
Lingxi shook off Zhihua's hand holding the corner of his skirt and said sharply, "The palace rules have been read into the dog's belly!" is so ignorant of the rules, how can he be worthy of waiting in the Yongshou Palace. ”
Xiao Xiazi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, stuck the floating dust behind his neck, picked up Zhiye with one hand, and saw that Zhihua was still crying there, so he kicked it up, gritted his teeth and scolded, "If you cry again, if you cry again, you will be beaten to death with a stick!" ”
Zhihua struggled to avoid Xiao Xiazi, and suddenly pointed at Lingxi and cried, "I'm not wrong, why do you say I'm wrong and I'm wrong?" ”
When Xiao Xiazi heard this, he secretly said that Zhihua was hopeless. Where the palace rules are placed, they don't repent. If she is willing to go with her obediently, Father-in-law Qian will send them back to Yeting Palace at most, even if she can't match another master in the future, at least she will save her life. At this time, isn't it incompatible with your own life?
Lingxi laughed angrily, nodded and said, "Okay, good, you don't know what to do." My kindness really fed the wolf! ”
Zhou An and the two little eunuchs had just come back from outside, and when they saw this, they ran over and covered Zhihua's mouth, and said to Lingxi, "Miss Ling'er can't afford to lose such a big temper with them, if there is a mistake, just punish them." They don't know what to do, even if you want to let them go, it will be a disaster in the future. ”
Lingxi was so angry that his ears were buzzing, and he knew that what Zhou An said was right, so he said to Zhou An, "Drag it down, and beat it to death." He turned around and said to Xiao Xiazi, "I'll go with you to see Father-in-law Qian." ”
Zhiye was so frightened by Lingxi's words that he fainted, and Zhihua wanted to say something, but Zhou An choked his neck......
Ruixue presses new branches, and falls into a different red.
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By the time Lingxi returned to the Changle Palace, it was already evening. King Rui and Lin Qiao'er had already left the palace, and Empress Dowager Cui was in a very good mood, and she had half a bowl of terrier rice porridge for dinner than before.
Lingxi served the warm flower tea and smiled at Mama An, "Mama, you should let Prince Rui have more time to come and see the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother's appetite today is better than before." ”
Mama An was holding a short-handled incense burner to smoke the screen with ninety-nine number of plum pictures painted on the inner hall, and said with a smile after hearing this, "No, King Rui often comes to see it, but it is much stronger than the tonic that the Queen Mother takes every day." ”
Empress Dowager Cui took the teacup and deliberately said to the two of them with a straight face, "Arranging the mourning family in front of the mourning family, there are really no rules." ”
Lingxi grinned and said, "If the Queen Mother can be as happy as she is today every day, then the slave and maid will be so unruly every day, no matter how the Queen Mother punishes her!" ”
"Look, look!" Empress Dowager Cui pointed to Lingxi's pretty little face and said to Mama An, "Look at this little mouth, the more you talk, the more energetic it becomes." ”
Mama An filled the incense burner with two pieces of jade pear incense, and said with a smile, "This slave doesn't dare to say it, it's not what slaves and maids are used to." ”
Empress Dowager Cui pointed at Mama An and smiled, "You, you! In this way, it's really mourning, isn't it? ”
Lingxi dared to let Empress Dowager Cui say that she was not, and hurriedly said, "It's a slave or a slave, a slave is a little monkey, a little monkey who loves to play." ”
Empress Dowager Cui laughed, pointed at Lingxi and said, "It's really a little monkey!" ”
Lingxi took advantage of the situation to help the Empress Dowager Cui up with her right arm, and said with a smile, "Then please ask the Empress Dowager to hold the paws of the little monkey and let the little monkey go." ”
Lingxi saw that Empress Dowager Cui had eaten half a bowl of terrier rice porridge, and was afraid that Empress Dowager Cui would always sit and accumulate food.
Empress Dowager Cui was relieved, but she still said, "Little monkey, you ran out this afternoon, and you haven't played enough outside?" ”
Lingxi replied, "Queen Mother, the little monkey is a naughty character, and he must not have enough fun." ”
In the afternoon, when the cane killed the flowers and leaves, Qian Weishi called the palace people in the Yongshou Palace who were not waiting in front of the Queen Mother to watch. Some timid palace maids were so frightened that they sat on the ground and wept. Even if he is bold, he is also so frightened that he trembles like chaff, and his face is pale.
Although Lingxi insisted on reading it with a cold face, he still lay in the room for a long time. If it weren't for the fear that Empress Dowager Cui would ask her about involving this matter, she would have wanted to take sick leave.
"Little monkey, what do you want?" After Mama An put a cloak on the Empress Dowager Cui, the Empress Dowager Cui asked Lingxi with a smile.
Lingxi was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned his mind back, and said, "Back to the Queen Mother, the slave is thinking about how to freeze some clean ice in the winter." ”
"What do you want to do, there is a full-time craftsman in the palace who goes to the river to fetch ice and store it in the ice storage for the next summer." Empress Dowager Cui held Lingxi's hand and walked slowly.
"Before the slave maid entered the palace, every summer day was unbearable heat, and he would beg his father to take the slave and maid to the warm garden of the uncle's mansion. There's a lot of ice in the summer, and the slaves and maids will drop a piece of it to eat when they're not looking......"
"Eat ice?" Empress Dowager Cui was slightly surprised. There is no precedent for eating ice in Dashun Kingdom, and ice has always been used to ice food.
Lingxi bent his eyes into crescents and smiled back, "Exactly, it can relieve the heat, if you smash the ice and add juice or minced pulp to it, it will be very delicious." ”
After hearing this, Mama An smiled and said, "Little greedy monkey! ”
Lingxi smiled, "Mama, when it is summer next year, the slave will make something to eat with you." ”
The busy days passed quickly, and it was the 29th of the lunar calendar in a blink of an eye. Lingxi was ordered by the Empress Dowager Cui early in the morning to go to Qingle Palace to send Mei Jieyu a pair of high-quality official kiln plum bottles. It happened that the red plum of Luomei Xuan opened, and the spirit rhino broke a few branches and inserted the bottle, allowing the little palace maid to carry it directly with her.
Mei Jieyu saw that the red plum was blooming, and she liked it in her heart. At this time, the fetus in her womb was more than five months old, and her belly was already bulging.
After sending the palace people, Lingxi sat on a low stool and chatted with Mei Jieyu for a while before getting up and retiring, the next day was Chinese New Year's Eve, and there were still many things to be busy in the Yongshou Palace.
Mei Jieyu knew a lot about the things in the Yongshou Palace, so she didn't stay long.
Outside the Ruyi Palace, it snowed like goose feathers in the sky. When the spirit rhino came, the sky was still sunny, so there was no umbrella. When he was hesitating whether to walk back in the snow or borrow an umbrella from the palace maid in the Ruyi Palace, he saw someone pulling and pulling on the snow outside the corridor.
When Lingxi squinted and looked closely, he saw that the person who was pulling was none other than Cui'er, the second-class palace maid of the Ruyi Palace, and Yixue, the palace maid of the Yizhu Palace.
Cui'er grabbed Yixue's ear with her right hand, and her mouth moved and closed without knowing what she was saying. Yixue's figure is not as tall as Cui'er, she purses her lips tightly, protects her ears with her left hand, and slams her right hand into Cui'er's face, and even Lingxi hears the snap.
Cui'er was obviously stunned by this slap, and Yixue took advantage of the situation to knock Cui'er to the ground, pressed on her and hit her.
Seeing that Cui'er was at a loss, a few little palace maids from afar also ran over and joined the camp and began to kick and fight against Yixue. The battle was fierce, but no one shouted.
Lingxi was frightened, raised his leg and rushed out. Yixue can fight with Cui'er, I'm afraid that Cui'er will go to Yizhu Hall again to be arrogant. Although the palace rules repeatedly stipulate that palace maids are not allowed to fight in private, there are still many fights in private among palace maids. As long as you don't recruit the steward, whether you lose or win, you will go back to your room and lick your wounds. No one dares to do such a thing, because it would cost them their own lives.
A little palace maid was clever, and when she saw the spirit rhino running towards them from a distance, she hurriedly beckoned everyone to stop.
When Lingxi walked to the front, Yixue fell to the ground and was already unconscious, her hand tore a big hole, and blood droplets fell on the white snow, red and white.
Although Lingxi is not a person in Qingle Palace, she is the most powerful palace maid next to Empress Dowager Cui after all. Therefore, after seeing her, Cui'er first blessed Lingxi and asked for peace, and then said, "Let Ling'er girl smile, this cheap maid is the inferior palace maid of Qingle Palace, and her hands and feet are not clean, so I will teach you a lesson here." ”
Lingxi sneered in his heart, and he didn't know who it was if his hands and feet were not clean.
Seeing that Lingxi didn't speak, a palace maid named Le'er next to him said, "If you tell the eunuch in charge of this matter, you will be beaten to death with a stick." We are merciful, and it is enough to vent our anger in private. ”
Mercy to the subordinates, mercy to the subordinates, how many people together beat a good person to faint?
Cui'er saw that Lingxi still didn't speak, and she was a little annoyed in her heart, but she didn't dare to accuse loudly, so she only said, "Miss Ling'er, Mei Jieyu will take a nap every day......
Meaning, there's nothing you can do to go.
Lingxi didn't speak because she wanted to wade into this troubled water, but after listening to Cui'er's words, the anger in her heart suddenly rose. No one in the Yongshou Palace dared to talk to her like this, what kind of onion is a small second-class palace maid in Qingle Palace?!
At this moment, Yixue frowned twice and woke up. The blurred eyes swept around, and when they saw the spirit rhino, they suddenly became clear. Yi Xue crawled with a roll, stretched out her right hand full of blood and grabbed the corner of Xin Lingxi's skirt, tears fell in large pieces, and she cried and said, "Miss Ling'er, Miss Ling'er, save my girl, save my girl." ”
Cui'er stepped forward to pull Yixue's hand at the corner of Lingxi's skirt, but she didn't want Yixue's hand to be dragged to death, as if she had exerted all her strength. Cui'er just wanted to raise her foot to kick, but was glared back by Lingxi.
Lingxi squatted down, held Yixue's blood-soaked hand and asked, "Yixue, what's wrong with your girl?" You say slowly, why are you here? Does Xiruo know that you are coming out? ”
Yi Xue grabbed Lingxi's hand tightly, her strength was amazing, she handed her head to Lingxi's ear, and said with a slight cry, "Ling'er girl, the charcoal is gone, the girl's fever does not go away, we can't find anyone...... I'm here for charcoal, I'm here for charcoal......"
"Pass on the Imperial Doctor, pass on the Imperial Doctor!" Lingxi asked Yixue, "Why don't you pass on the imperial doctor?" ”
From Yixue's desperate eyes, Lingxi saw the answer.
With such an embarrassing identity and a nameless princess, which imperial doctor is willing to come to treat her?
Lingxi wanted to help Yixue up from the snow, but Yixue's figure was too heavy for Lingxi. She tried several times but couldn't pull Yixue up. Every time Yixue slipped from Lingxi's arms, the palace maids around her would take a step back, and by the time Lingxi couldn't exert any more strength, those palace maids were already more than ten steps away from them.
The snow was falling, and Lingxi had never felt so helpless. After glancing at the palace maids led by Cui'er, Lingxi shouted viciously at Cui'er, "Come here!" Help us up! ”
Cui'er was frightened by Lingxi's fierce eyes, but then she straightened her chest and said without humility or arrogance, "Miss Ling'er, since you are a first-class palace maid beside the Queen Mother, you will definitely hear about the affairs of Yizhu Palace." Do you think the Queen Mother would like someone else to save her? ”
When Yixue heard this, she grabbed Lingxi's hand and said, "Please, leave me alone, save our girl." ”
Lingxi closed his eyes, struggling for a long time. In the end, she put Yixue on the snow, stood up and looked directly at Cui'er, and suddenly sneered, "As a slave, it is a capital crime to speculate on the master's thoughts." As a slave, he argues about the master behind his back, and he is guilty of death. Disrespectful to the Queen Mother, a capital crime. As a slave, stealing the master's degree is a capital crime. As a slave, he framed Mei Jieyu for injustice and capital crime. As a minion, he ignored the rules of the palace and committed the following crimes, capital crimes. As a minion, he fights in private and is a capital offense. Wounding the first-class palace maid in front of the princess is a capital crime! ……”
Every time Lingxi spit out a dead word, Cui'er felt cold, and the eight dead words smashed into her heart, making her completely confused.
When Lingxi said that she had injured the first-class palace maid in front of the princess, Cui'er immediately replied as if she had seen a bloody fly, "How can you come to the princess, you privately call the person the emperor hates a princess, which is a big capital crime!" ”
"Get on your knees!" Lingxi suddenly shouted angrily, "The emperor's thoughts, how can you be a lowly slave to speculate? The rules and regulations are still out there and you don't repent, I immediately went back to Mei Jieyu to ask her to send you to the explosion room! ”
Where is Cui'er willing to kneel, doesn't kneeling admit those crimes?
Lingxi gritted her teeth, knowing that this was not her own realm, she didn't count. She hated herself so much that she was just a little palace maid, if she was a master, even if it was just from the five-grade Baolin, she could instruct the slave to take down this bastard thing first.
Since Cui'er has the courage to go to Yizhu Hall to embarrass the nameless princess, she has an idea in her heart. She clearly knew that what Lingxi said in this Qingle Palace didn't count, and the palace maids around her were her own people, as long as she stabilized her position, she wouldn't dare to do anything to Lingxi. The embarrassing identity of the nameless princess was there, and she didn't believe that Lingxi really dared to provoke this matter to the Empress Dowager Cui.
Looking at the wolves in human skin in front of him, Lingxi suddenly smiled with relief, turned around and ran desperately towards the Ruyi Palace......