Chapter 75: Concubine Lu
The grandmother collected all the riddles, and did not go to the eunuch in front of the palace, but went straight to the Dongzhao Palace, Qi Qiuli was still wearing a middle coat, kneeling in front of the steps, and a grandmother hurriedly greeted her and called: "Mama Zhang, you are too grinding, and the mother is about to get angry." ”
Mama Zhang looked apologetic and whispered, "Let me kneel here again?" ”
Mama Fang glared at Qi Qiuli with a look of disdain, pulled up Grandma Zhang, went up a few steps, and whispered into Mama Zhang's ear: "Evil, she is also a prodigal, how can Niangniang let such a scourge stay by her side!" ”
"I only entered the palace yesterday, I went out to do errands in the morning, and I wasn't in front of me, how could this palace maid let Niangniang see me?"
"You don't know, this was in front of the water tank outside the hall this morning, scratching her head back and forth, squeezing her eyebrows." Mama Fang said.
"That's what made her kneel here, and in the winter, she was careful to kill her. Children love beauty, and they can't break her. Mama Zhang saw that Qi Qiuli was already so cold that she wouldn't shiver, and she couldn't bear it in her heart. In addition, we walked together for a night last night, and I felt that this palace maid was still well-behaved.
"You can be quiet, don't let the inside hear you."
"I heard that my mother died yesterday." In the morning, Mama Zhang also heard some rumors, about as if the mother had just died, and the little palace maid wore red and green, which made the mother stabbed her heart. So the mother punished her to kneel in front of the temple to admit her mistakes and reflect. I didn't expect it to be the palace maid I saw last night.
"Fart, that's nonsense." Mama Fang knew the truth and denied Mama Zhang's words.
"What the hell is going on? You make it clear before I dare to go in. In case Niangniang is still having a seizure, I don't know what's going on, don't say anything about eating a gray nose, where will this old face be put in the future! ”
"I'm telling you, don't tell anyone that I said it."
Mama Zhang waved her hand and said, "Then don't say it, when you can save it, you will say it when you see someone yourself, and I have leaked it if you have wronged you." ”
Mama Fang's face was embarrassed, and she said, "You person, go straight, do you listen or not." ”
Mama Zhang said: "If you're afraid that others will know that you said it, don't tell me!" ”
Mama Fang said to her mouth, she couldn't say it, she was very uncomfortable, and coaxed and said: "Okay, okay, you are a serious person, I wronged you before, I will only tell you this time." ”
Mama Zhang knew that this was a sentence, just like a fart that disappeared when she smoked, and she didn't speak, just waiting for Mama Fang to continue.
"It's also her back, you said that she took a picture in the water tank, but let the mother see it, see it, but she is still scratching her head and making a gesture, you say that such a frivolous slut is in front of you, can you rub the sand in the eyes of the mother?"
"I said. She just came, and she definitely couldn't enter the temple to serve, so why did she bump into Niangniang. ”
"I deserve it, I don't look like a good thing, I'm so frivolous when I first enter the palace, maybe how to seduce the emperor in the future, can Niangniang keep her?"
Mama Zhang's heart was half cold when she heard this, and then she saw Qi Qiuli's little face turned purple from the cold, and sighed helplessly, there was no way. is still precarious, how can he save her from fire and water.
"It's been punished at noon, why did it happen again now?" Mama Zhang pointed to the inside of the hall and whispered.
"It's not all the emperor's trouble." Mama Fang pointed to the embroidery plate in Mama Zhang's hand.
"Because of the lantern riddle?"
"Isn't it! Our emperor sees one and loves the other, how can the mother not be angry? Half a year ago, I said that it would snow at the beginning of this year to accompany our mother to enjoy the snow, but the fox of the spring concubine had a headache yesterday and pestered the emperor to stay in her palace overnight. Let our mother wait all night. If it weren't for the report of the little eunuch in front of the emperor, wouldn't Niangniang have to wait until midnight? ”
"That's right, I went to the small kitchen yesterday to fill the soup woman, and I saw the little eunuch in the small kitchen holding broken dishes and broken bowls, and I thought that the little eunuch slipped his foot and smashed the dishes."
"Niangniang is domineering for the spring concubine fox, she can't swallow this breath, this crashed in, who do you blame?"
The two were whispering in a low voice, and Mama Li opened the curtain and came out. This Mama Li is the person who summoned Qi Qiuli with Mama Zhang just now. Because the two grandmothers Zhang and Li are not in harmony with each other, the doubts in Mama Zhang's heart can only ask Mama Fang, who is good friends with her.
Zhang and Fang, the two grandmothers, quickly closed their mouths and took advantage of the curtain to enter the main hall of Dongzhao Palace.
Mama Zhang grovelled and placed the embroidery plate next to Concubine Lu's elbow.
Concubine Lu's peach blossom eyes squinted and said, "It's all here?" ”
Mama Zhang folded her arms and lowered her hands and said, "If you go back to your mother, it's all here." ”
Concubine Lu's jade hand slapped the thick tablecloth, and the beaded gold bracelet in her hand slammed on the table with a muffled sound. is not angry and arrogant, and the five or six grandmothers in the hall dare not speak out.
"Open them all!" Concubine Lu said with the anger in her heart.
Several grandmothers didn't dare to step forward, after all, this was a matter explained by the emperor, and no one dared to take the holy oracle as a deaf ear.
"This palace told you to open it." Concubine Lu seemed to have suppressed her anger, and her tone was much lighter.
Mama Li took a cup of tea and handed it to Concubine Lu and said, "Niangniang take a sip of tea." ”
Concubine Lu took the tea and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"It's better for the slave to comb the mother's hair and change clothes, and the mother will personally send these lantern riddles to the emperor, which also shows that the mother is sincere, doesn't it?" After Mama Li finished speaking, she quietly carried everyone behind her back and gave Concubine Lu a look.
Concubine Lu understood and said with a pleasant face: "You all go down." Just leave Mama Li here to serve. ”
Everyone was ordered, eager to fly out of the cage earlier, hold back the joy in their hearts, and salute respectfully goodbye.
In the main hall, only Concubine Lu and Mama Li remained. Mama Li said: "Niangniang, these little hooves have to be guarded against." ”
"Isn't that the case? Only you, Mama, understand my heart. ”
"The slave understands that the mother loves the emperor in her heart, so it will be like this."
"Mama, you asked Bengong to send everyone away, but you have something to say to Bengong?"
"Niangniang, the slave thinks selfishly for Niangniang, I don't know what to do? Can't do it? ”
"Mama, but it's okay to say."
At this time, Concubine Lu, where can she calm down, there is the infatuation of the queen in the palace; Concubine Chun is also very flamboyant and domineering with her beauty; Tong Zhaoyi, who has been demoted, although she is not willing to do it now, was also a concubine who was favored every night before. There are also several noble concubines, all of whom are wrapped around their fingers and eager to wrap around the emperor's neck.
His appearance is not as good as Concubine Chun and Tong Zhaoyi, and his family background is not as good as that of the queen, and now the flower-like show girls have entered the palace! a talented and beautiful Hua concubine; the county lord of Huizhen, who has a prominent family; There is also a noble teacher appointed by the emperor...... The emperor has not set foot in Dongzhao Palace for more than half a year, and more than a dozen show girls have entered the palace, and they have not broken the emperor's foot, where can they still think of themselves?
Waves of unevenness rose again and again, out of thin air, and let the emperor bump into a beauty in the snow. Looking at the emperor's infatuated and fascinated appearance, this woman's ranking as the fourth concubine is just around the corner.
Concubine Lu thought sadly about her current situation, and only heard Mama say: "The emperor said that it was the palace maid in our northeast institute, why must it be us here?" ”
"Mama doesn't know, the emperor met in our garden, why isn't it from our palace?" When Concubine Lu said this, her intestines were repentant.
This morning, Concubine Lu took a silver ticket of three hundred taels and asked Mama Zhang to privately check the eunuchs in front of the palace, and the emperor decided to come to Dongzhao Palace to visit him, but he didn't expect to spend money, but he paved the way for the scourge. How can you make people swallow this breath? If you don't break the evil into thousands of pieces, how can you solve the hatred in your heart? What's more, if you are really in your own palace, you will raise tigers by yourself, and if you don't take advantage of the current time to get rid of the scourge, the tiger will hurt people in the future. It's too late!
"According to the slave, it may not be. The emperor asked the new palace maids in each palace to write the riddle, is there no one who wants to get ahead? "Mama Li's words are precisely because she understands Concubine Lu's 'seven inches' that she dares to prescribe the right medicine.
"But the emperor said that the weather is cold and slippery, and the road is not easy to walk, so it must be from our side. This palace is the chief of the Northeast Institute, and if this happens, I won't let others laugh at me. It's cheap, and it's hurt your face. ”
"Mother, think about what the slave said!"
As soon as it was mentioned, Concubine Lu suddenly realized, and her approving gaze, wave by wave, was given to Mama Li, saying, "What does Mama mean?" ”
"The scourge in our palace is naturally for us to take care of quietly and by ourselves. There is a scourge in other palaces, and when the time comes, there will be other mothers to cook for the mother, are you still afraid of the disaster? ”
Concubine Lu showed a smile and said, "According to Mama, what should I do?" ”
Mama Li pointed to the embroidery plate and said, "Just take it apart and take a look." ”
Concubine Lu smiled and said nothing, and Mama Li put the mysteries in front of Concubine Lu. Slippery flattery: "It's not the slave who makes the mother feel hearted, look at these hooves, folding this mystery like a flower, for fear that the emperor will not see himself." ”
Concubine Lu's smiling face that had just bloomed was immediately covered with a layer of frost and mist, and her inch-long white jade nails pinched out a few small patterns from the show plate, some in the shape of cranes, some in the shape of lanterns, and some in the shape of flowers...... The more he picked his face, the more ugly he became, and he said directly to Mama Li: "Open it all, open it all." ”
Mama Li got the order, and hurriedly opened the folded letter folds one by one, and the wrinkled furrows on her face were crowded with treacherous smiles, as if it was not the letter fold that was opened, but a blocked door, and a pair of cheating men and women were hidden in the door.
The complicated origami patterns made Mama Li a little irritable, but 'catch the thief and catch the stolen goods, catch the traitor and catch the double', Mama Li insisted that Qingshan would not relax, and she must catch the rape in bed.
The hard work paid off, and after dismantling a few, she finally let her 'catch', hold it in her hand, and hand it to Concubine Lu.
Concubine Lu Niangniang read the words on the letter fold, and the slender Yuanshan Dai was almost connected, and said tremblingly: "What a beautiful mind, I dared to seduce the emperor before I entered the palace, and ate the wolf's heart and leopard's gall!" Write it down, write it down, and send it all together in a few days! ”
Mama Li saw that her kung fu was effective, and she was even more like a divine help. Among more than a dozen letters, a total of three palace maids were found who openly handed love messages to the emperor.
Concubine Lu Niangniang has already lost her face, but she didn't expect that there would be so many foxes under her nose, if she was sent to the emperor, would she be able to do it? He took out the letters of the three men, wrote down their names one by one, walked to a bronze beast hearth, threw them into the fire like a louse.