Chapter 31: Harem Dispute
It was dark, so I arrived before the palace gate closed.
Because I was in such a hurry, my hair bun was loose, and I didn't have time to clean it up.
At night, the green garden is generally not allowed to enter the idle people, which are all precious flowers and plants, and any one of them is the expenses of the people for a year, so there are special people to take care of them.
After a tired day, only the road in Biyuan was closest to the bedroom, so I weighed it and decided to take a shortcut.
The reason why Biyuan is called Biyuan is because most of the plants and trees planted in it are evergreen, lush all year round, but it is dark at night, except for the special aroma of pines and cypresses, you can't see anything.
When he was about to reach the end, a large group of people came from the side, their footsteps were chaotic, and they were frightened, and hurriedly turned to leave, trying to avoid these people.
"Stop! What the hell are you doing. The little eunuch shouted in a strange way, and I had to stop, not daring to turn around.
They walked in front of me, a woman in her thirties moved lightly, the crested hairpins on her forehead tinkling, the cloud sideburns appliquΓ©s, complex and dignified. The beautiful woman standing beside her was none other than Mercy Yi Fengyu.
"The slave maid greets the Queen Mother." Plopped down and knelt down, but the secret path was fortunately responsive.
The Queen Mother used her gilt armor to flick the decal on her temples, and said slowly: "The little girl's eyes are bright, which palace are you from?" β
I glanced up at Feng Yu, who had a dark purple shawl on her plain clothes, and her expression was as usual.
"Lafayette, this is Liu Sujin in that paddock." The aunt who was the housekeeper next to her replied.
The Queen Mother nodded, and her gaze fell on me, sharp and unstoppable. "Shouldn't you follow the emperor in the paddock? I heard that I just transferred you away from Mu Meiren's side, why did you leave your post without permission? β
The news in the palace is really faster than the wind......
How should I answer? Send a letter to Zuo Xiang and spy on Concubine Li by the way? I'm afraid that before I finish speaking, I will be dragged to a mass grave in the name of interfering in politics.
"Back to the Empress Dowager, there are still many unclear places where the slaves and maids are transferred to the Longcheng Palace, so please go back to the palace first to ask the etiquette aunts to learn how to serve the emperor." After some words, he sweated profusely, his palms were sticky and slippery, and he quietly rubbed his clothes. "I just lost the earrings, so I came to Biyuan to look for them."
Feng Yu smiled slightly, as if he was disdainful, but he didn't say anything.
"Why are you still veiled over your face? Take it down and look at the mourning house. She stepped forward and got closer.
Fortunately, I didn't want to be lazy and go back to the palace to paste the scar again, so I generously lowered the veil and tightened my eyebrows.
"What's the matter with the wound on the left side of your face?" She came interested and had no intention of leaving.
"Back to the Queen Mother, she was accidentally burned by fire when she was a child."
A faint breeze rises, and the hems of the clothes of the people who blow them fly. Feng Yu took the cloak from the palace people and put it on the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction.
The green garden is full of gravel roads, and my knees hurt on the ground but I dare not move.
"If you heard me right, you were expelled from the house for stealing the Liu family's prescriptions, why did you enter the palace later? Ever since you were on duty with Yanagi, Yanagi's health has been getting worse and worse......"
What a shrewd queen mother, Liu Meiren's death has already been suspected of me. "It is difficult for slaves and maids to make a living outside the palace, and fortunately they are taken in by Liu Meiren, in the past, in the Liu family, our feelings are like siblings, if it weren't for Liu Meiren, slaves and maids would have been living on the streets a long time ago." In order to show his sincerity, he specially pinched his thighs, and tears were not falling in his eyes. Liu Shuxin has long been buried in the ground, and no matter what I say now, whether it is black or white, I can't confirm it.
The Queen Mother coughed twice and didn't say anything more.
"What's in this package?" Feng Yu pointed to my package, his eyebrows full of provocation. "Open it and I'll take a look."
The bag contains a changed men's suit, if it is opened, how to explain it?
The movements of the hands slowed down, and the package opened little by little.
"Queen Mother! Dowager! "There was a little eunuch who hurried over, out of breath.
"Panic, talk well." The aunt on the side said angrily.
The little eunuch was smooth, knelt down and replied, "Li Shuyuan, Li Shuyuan is happy." β
The Queen Mother excitedly squatted down and grabbed the little eunuch's shoulders and asked, "Is this true!?" β
Beiyu Jinchen only has a daughter in Yuejiu, and the later heirs are either pregnant or born and died, and the queen mother can't wait for the birth of the prince.
However, this news is not good news for the Night Pavilion.
"It was diagnosed by the imperial physician of the Qianjin Gynecology Department, there will be no fake, and the slave congratulated the Queen Mother." The little eunuch kowtowed three times on the ground and replied.
The Queen Mother smiled, my hand to unwrap the package stopped, and things took a turn for the better.
"Yu'er, hurry up and accompany the mourning family to see Li Shuyuan, and leave now." The Queen Mother patted Feng Yu's hand, turned around to leave, and suddenly remembered something and turned back to me and said, "You should also get up, Li Shuyuan is happy, all the minions will go to the secretary's room today to receive the reward!" β
"Slave thanks the Queen Mother for her grace." Everyone knelt down with a smile on their faces.
Feng Yu glanced at me with a complicated expression, and helped the Queen Mother to gradually leave.
When they were all gone, I slowly got up. My knees were numb because I had been kneeling on the ground for a long time, and I was half-bent over, and my legs couldn't stand upright, so I had to sit on the ground, regardless of the dust on the ground.
There was a false alarm, and the sweaty clothes on my back were blown by the early autumn breeze, and they were cold to the bone.
Li Shuyuan is happy, how many women in the palace can't sleep tonight, thinking about the plan, whether it will hurt innocent lives for their own profit, I am not qualified to say them, I am just such a person.
When he returned to his dormitory, he burned the men's clothes on fire, and the flames licked the fabric and turned it to ashes little by little. The fire at the age of thirteen was like that, the burning pain, and in the end it didn't feel the heat, only the pain to the bones and the helplessness of despair. Even if they selfishly ruined my face, I didn't think about revenge, but step by step, breaking my hands, living on the streets, and going to prison, I endured pain that others may not have had the opportunity to endure in their lifetime.
Because of them, I don't trust anyone anymore and treat the world with hatred, is such a bad Yoo So Jin what they expect?
The moon is like water, sleeping with clothes, and the long night is fleeting.
The next day, most of the leaves on the trees in the palace were blown off, and the thin palace clothes could no longer withstand the cold, and only by adding another coat could they feel better.
The palace was a lifeless place, and when autumn came, the feeling was even worse, withered and decayed, except for a few pots of colored chrysanthemums cultivated by craftsmen swaying alone in the cold wind. Slaves don't like autumn and winter, because the masters can burn the silver charcoal without smoke and dust in the refined stove, and wear warm cotton jackets to chat about daily life, and we can only do heavy work in the biting wind, if it is a personal maid, it is better, and can accompany the master in the house, but the others are not so well treated.
Bei Yuliang also asked me to spy on Concubine Li, although I don't know what she means, but I still need to do it.
The pain of Concubine Li's loss of her child has not passed, and there are happy events in the palace, so she must be uncomfortable.
Pretending to pass by, I lingered at the door of her Yiju Palace, and I couldn't find a reason to go in for a long time, in case she was upset and gave me a rouge brand like last time, it would be more than worth the loss.
Just as she was about to leave, a little palace maid walked out of Yiju Palace, looking a little flustered, observing her words and expressions for so many years, she knew that there was something wrong with her actions at a glance. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to follow along. This palace maid walks on a remote path, but fortunately, the people in the palace are diligent, even the path is very clean, and there are very few fallen leaves, otherwise it will make a noise when you step on it, and she will definitely find me.
Turning around, she stopped in front of a palace that had fallen into disrepair, the vermilion walls had fallen off, revealing a gray color, and the remaining vermilion wall paint was like dried bloodstains, shocking. The palace bells hanging on the cornices made a monotonous and repetitive sound, the sky here looked darker than elsewhere, the gate was tightly closed, the door here was much stronger than other palaces, and I vaguely heard someone singing Kunqu opera in the faint voice.
There were three or four guards guarding the door of the palace, and they didn't know what the maid had stuffed for them, so they easily went in.
The only thing I can think of in such a scene is the cold palace, which turns out to be in such a remote and cold corner.
After staying at the door for a while, the palace maid hurried out with something in her arms.
Then he followed her footsteps, and when he arrived at a noisy place, it was very close to the Yiju Palace, and if he didn't take any action, he could only watch her go in.
Walking quickly in front of her, she was walking with her head down, and I turned around and hit it hard, and the contents of her arms were scattered.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Squatted down and pretended to help her pick up something on the ground.
"You don't have long eyes! Don't touch my stuff. She snatched it up, shoved me, and moved on.
Those things are wrapped in silk cloth, it seems that they are all books or something, I only saw one of them called Liulimeng, and there are a few words in the back, and she took it away before she could see it clearly, why are there books in the cold palace? What kind of books can't be found in the library in the palace, so you have to go to the cold palace? The fog could not be dissolved, and I only felt very uncomfortable in my heart.
I couldn't find a clue for a while, so I could only go back and think about it slowly.
Bei Yu Liang and they will return to the palace the day after tomorrow, although there are only one or two days left, but my intuition tells me that something big will definitely happen in these two days. You have to find a way to go to the cold palace once, maybe you can find some clues.
"Sister Su Jin, tell me about it, what's so fun in the paddock?" Yinyue sat next to me with a pot of vegetables that hadn't been washed yet.
"Nothing, just some animals."
She was obviously not satisfied with my explanation, and moved the stool to this side, "How did the emperor notice you?" Won't you come back? β
I raised my hand and rubbed her long hair, and smiled, "I'll come back to you often." β
She smiled, washed the vegetables seriously, and said while washing: "I only have one relative here, Sister Sujin, sister, you must come back to see me." β
Close relatives...... How long has it been since I heard this word, so that it is so unfamiliar that I need to think carefully about what my relatives are, Yinyue didn't notice the change in the mood on my face, just washed the vegetables seriously, and I replied softly: "Okay." β
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