Chapter 3 Fortune and Misfortune Are Unexpected
Su Mi came out of the Tai Hospital with the medicine, walked past the Weiyang Pond and couldn't help but slow down his steps, looking east from a distance. That's the direction of the plum blossom forest.
I don't know what kind of beautiful scenery is sparse and sloping, dark fragrance floating, but unfortunately only faintly visible white on the branches from so far away, and I don't know if it is a plum blossom in full bloom, or the remnant snow a few days ago.
It's just a small piece of Merlin, and I don't know how many anticipating figures are hidden in it. If the Ninety-Five Supreme really went, I don't know if it was a person or a plum blossom.
It's been two days since Xiao Luzi sent the news, and in the past two days, Hui'er always got up at dawn, carefully groomed in the mirror, and then disappeared for a day.
Su Mi naturally knew where she had gone and what she was going to do. Everyone has their own ambitions, she is too lazy to pay attention to such idle things, and let Hui'er make trouble by herself.
After standing for a while, Su Mi left quickly, and Wei Qing'er was still waiting for her medicine.
When he returned to Caiwei Palace, he saw the scene in front of the courtyard on their east side from a distance, and Su Mi was stunned.
The palace room of the originally disgraced concubine, the courtyard is indispensable, usually at this time, even at the door of the main hall of Caiwei Palace, only occasionally see a few errand maids walking by, not to mention their side courtyard. But in front of me......
Dozens of guards lined up all around, guarding the palace gate tightly, and there were many inner supervisors who knew that the grade was not low just by looking at the color of their clothes was walking back and forth around, they were either looking from afar, or whispering.
When Su Mi was stunned, a little eunuch with a pointed chin ran over, looked her up and down a few times, and asked sternly, "Where is the errand?" What for? ”
Su Mi hurriedly lowered his head and reported the reason, looking at the scene in front of him, Su Mi could roughly guess what was happening. It was unexpected.
After hearing her words, the little eunuch's face changed a little, and he asked in a low voice, "You mean, there is still a master who lives in this courtyard who has been sick?" ”
Su Mi nodded, "I still have to go in and boil medicine for my master." And handed the medicine in his hand.
The little eunuch took it unwillingly, and returned it to Su Mi after a little inspection. Then he pointed to the bottom of a big locust tree not far on the left, "Let's go and wait there, and boil medicine...... At this time, big things have to be delayed first. Then he turned and left.
Su Mi turned his head and saw that there were already a lot of palace maids standing there, all of them were standing solemnly, all of them were people from Caiwei Palace, Xiao Luzi, Xiangluo, and Xianglin were among them.
Su Mi had no choice but to walk over and ask Xiao Luzi softly, "What's going on?" ”
"It's Hui'er's little girl," Xiao Luzi said in a low voice, "It was said that when I went to the east of the plum forest to fold plum blossoms today, I just let the Lord Long Live see it, and now I am inside...... Hehe, Cheng Huan, I don't know which of her ancestral graves has green smoke coming out, why let her give it to ......"
"Hui'er originally looked like a first-class talent," Xiangluo said on the side, "I often say that she is a blessed person, and now that she has this creation, we will add another master to the Caiwei Palace." It's a great event. ”
"Who scolded the day before yesterday and said that Hui'er, this girl is lazy and gluttonous, and she doesn't do her job, so she should really be sent to the Forced Labor Division......" Xiao Luzi couldn't help but roll his eyes and muttered in a low voice.
Xiangluo's face turned red and she stopped talking.
Su Mi had calmed down after being surprised, and couldn't help but be secretly amused when she saw this scene. She turned her head slightly and saw Xianglin standing there, she was dressed up today and bothered enough, wearing a small thin jacket with a red placket, with mercerized waves, a pomegranate red skirt on the lower body, rippling water, the moth eyebrows on her face were lightly swept, and her red lips were lightly studied, which was really a bit of "eyebrows won daylily color, and red skirts were jealous of pomegranate flowers".
I don't know if she will get seriously ill after dressing like this now? I'm afraid that she has worked hard enough in the past two days, but her luck is not good, and she can't complain about others. Su Mi turned her head and thought.
Xianglin stood there at this time, his face turned blue, his lips trembled incessantly, and he almost looked like he was about to faint. I can't tell if it's because the weather is too cold and freezing, or because I'm angry because I'm the first to get there. Her hand was unconsciously tugging at the silk handkerchief, but her heart was pulling at the little slut's hair, and the silk was almost torn by her.
After waiting for a while, a prison guard dressed in a brown steward's uniform came running from far away from the west.
"That is the big red man next to the emperor, Gao Shengnuo, the head of the Qianqing Palace," Xiao Luzi pointed over there and whispered to Su Mi.
Gao Shengnuo is about thirty years old, white and chubby, with an ingots face, full of kindness.
When they saw him coming, they were immediately greeted by several people. The little eunuch who interrogated Su Mi just now was also among them, he walked to Gao Shengnuo's side, leaned into his ear and whispered in his ear that he didn't know what to say, Gao Shengnuo's eyes rolled, he groaned slightly, nodded, and didn't say anything more, he came to the palace gate and waited with those minions.
After waiting for almost half an hour, there seemed to be a sound inside, the palace door opened, and Gao Shengnuo immediately bent down to enter.
After waiting for a while, three or five well-dressed inner eunuchs respectfully surrounded a man in a bright yellow robe.
Immediately, the guards waiting outside looked at the dust and bowed, and the people on Su Mi's side had already knelt down in unison.
Su Mi knelt in the crowd and secretly raised his head.
Daqi's current son, the Ninety-Five Supreme Qi Long, looks like he is only in his twenties, his face is clear and handsome, and he can be called "bright as jade", but in the eyes of a person like Su Mi, who is good at medical skills, his face is slightly pale, and his steps are a little vain.
Gao Shengnuo followed closely behind the emperor, and said half-bitterly and half-happily: "Your Majesty, you have taken the life of a slave, now the weather is cold, just now the queen mother and her old man called the slave over for a good reprimand, for fear that we will not serve, and there is something wrong with the emperor's body." Why does the emperor not cherish his body so much? Now there is a master who has been sick for many years in this courtyard, and if there is any unclean illness to the emperor, it is not enough to peel off the skin of the slave ten thousand times. ”
The corners of the emperor's eyebrows moved, and then he asked casually in an impatient tone, "What did the Queen Mother summon you to say?" ”
"The queen mother asked the emperor about the diet and daily life in the past few days, instructed the servants to serve well, and asked again......" Gao Shengnuo secretly raised his head and looked at the emperor's face, and then said: "I asked about Concubine Yun's birthday again, and I didn't say anything more and sent the slaves out." ”
"Hmm......" The corners of the emperor's mouth moved, but he didn't say anything after all, and got up and walked towards the imperial chariot.
Gao Shengnuo hurriedly followed, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, look at today's matter......" As he spoke, he looked at the east side of the courtyard.
The emperor was slightly stunned before he realized what he was talking about. After a little hesitation, he waved his hand and said, "Just ...... No need to keep records. With that, he turned around and went to the palace.
No need to keep records!
Although this sentence was light, it also reached Su Mi's ears word for word, and in an instant, everyone's expressions were very different.
Before they could react, Gao Shengnuo had already arrived in front of them. "Did you hear that? What does the emperor mean? You don't need to say anything more, right? He squinted at the crowd.
"Father-in-law Gao, you have worked hard, of course we understand, the emperor is busy, and occasionally going out to breathe is naturally to enjoy the flowers and chant poetry at the masters, our Caiwei Palace is located in the middle of nowhere, and there is no relaxing and pleasant scenery, how can the emperor be lucky." Xiangluo smiled all over her face and nodded busily.
"You are a clever one," Gao Shengnuo nodded, looking at the trembling and kneeling people in front of him with satisfaction, but the still kind smile revealed a hideous meaning, "Just remember to keep your mouth tight and do your part well." If I hear a man with a lot of tongues, hum, don't blame our family for being polite with him. He pointed to Xiangluo casually, "Okay, you can take a few people to clean up inside." After saying that, he led his inner supervisor and left.
When they were gone, the people got up from the ground and began to talk again.
"Even a little girl wants to be the master, phew, let's dream, we have suffered here for half a day in vain." An inner supervisor beside Zheng Guifei spat and scolded.
Everyone immediately said yes.
"Don't think about what you look like first, you can see that you don't have the life of being the master."
"When their ancestral grave is smoking, I think it's black smoke."
“……”
“……”
"Don't say it, what did Gonggong Gao say just now, don't you want to die?" Su Mi was bored of hearing it and couldn't help but say.
Thinking of Gao Shengnuo's words just now, everyone shuddered, didn't dare to say more, and dispersed.
Xiangluo took Su Mi, Xianglin and a few little girls into the east courtyard.
Wei Qing'er lives in the West Warm Pavilion in the east courtyard of Caiwei Palace, and the East Warm Pavilion is where they want to clean up today.
The door was still open.
Xianglin pushed the door into the house first. Su Mi and Xiangluo followed in, and they couldn't help but blush when they saw the situation in the house.
The neatly packed red futon that had been uninhabited was now spread out messily on the bed, and the small pool of blood faintly exposed on the bed was also particularly vivid and dazzling in the red silk and purple satin that flowed all over the bed.
The charcoal fire in the room was warming, and Hui'er's satin-smooth thighs stretched out, revealing a delicate complexion, and even though she couldn't see it through the futon, she could guess that her body was completely naked.
She was still sleeping soundly, in those soft and smooth fabrics, and in that luxurious and luxurious dream.
Xianglin sneered, and didn't wait for others to tell her, immediately rushed up and grabbed Hui'er's exposed arm and dragged her out, pinching her fiercely.
Hui'er immediately woke up in pain, and before she could react, Xianglin had already scolded her. "Little slut, this is the rule there, you dare to sleep on the master's bed! Don't look at what you are! Where is a bed like this? ”
Xianglin scolded again and again, and dragged Hui'er down vigorously over and over again, as if it was her bed that was occupied and defiled at this time.
"I'm a bedchamber, I'm the emperor's person, why can't I sleep here." Hui'er reacted and immediately struggled.
"Bah, it's up to you, and you also have a place to sleep? Don't dream about you! Xianglin's hand and words continued to tear and ravage Hui'er, "I don't pee and take care of myself, the little prostitute who is under ......"
Xiangluo listened to her scolding more and more unspeakable, and hurriedly stepped forward to interrupt: "Okay, okay, Hui'er didn't mean it." While pushing Xianglin away, he pulled up Hui'er, who had fallen from the bed to the ground.
Hui'er's naked body was covered with bruises and filth.
Xiangluo's face was about to burn, and she didn't dare to take a closer look, so she turned her head slightly and said, "Today's matter has passed, you quickly prepare hot water, go take a bath first." ”
"What do you mean it's already gone?" Hui'er's eyes widened in horror. Xianglin's scolding just now had already given her a bad premonition.
"It's just ......" Xiangluo wanted to say and stopped, and she didn't know how to say it.
Before she could explain, Xianglin had already spoken in the back. "It's that the emperor has already ordered it down, so there is no need to keep records." She smirked.
No need to keep records!
No need to keep records!
No need to keep records!
Hui'er only felt that the world was spinning.
That's impossible!
How is this possible?
Just now, the emperor was still so gentle and enthusiastic to her, saying that her skin was graceful, which many of his concubines could not match. said that her voice was clear and beautiful, as moving as a yellow bird, and said that her ......
Hui'er was stunned, no matter how Xianglin mocked and how Xiangluo persuaded her, there was no response.
Su Mi watched this scene quietly, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly imperceptibly.
Xiangluo saw that she was persuaded for a long time, and Hui'er was completely distracted. I was also impatient, so I pushed her and said, "Don't be distracted......"
Before she could finish speaking, Hui'er suddenly woke up, jumped up and rushed out of the door, shouting: "I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor, the emperor will not treat me like this, the emperor will definitely make me a concubine ......." Her voice was poignant and sharp, like a demon, like a mad tiger, which frightened Xiangluo Xianglin.
Su Mi reacted quickly, hurriedly hugged her, and shouted to the two who were at a loss, "Don't stop her yet." ”
The two of them came back to their senses, if Hui'er went out like this and made things bigger, I was afraid that they would have no way to live.
But Hui'er didn't know where the strength came from, and the strength of the three of them couldn't pull her. Xiangluo hurriedly called a few little girls waiting outside to come in, and everyone pressed Hui'er back to the bed.
"What are you running, you still want to see the emperor, let me tell you the truth, the emperor has left early, where do you want to go?" Xianglin pressed his cheek with a handkerchief while saying hatefully. When Hui'er struggled just now, she just scratched her face, and although she didn't see blood, it hurt hotly.
Hearing her words, Hui'er struggled even more, her mouth had been blocked by a few little girls with towels, and she still kept making a "woo" sound.
"Alas, Xianglin, you just don't have to say a few words." Looking at Hui'er, who was still struggling on the bed, Xiangluo was anxious, "What can I do?" ”
"What else can I do, lock it in the firewood room first, when will it be honest, when will it be released." Xianglin said leisurely. "A little girl also wants to ascend to the sky in one step, hum!"
If it weren't for listening to Xiao Luzi's eavesdropping that day, Su Mi couldn't help but admire her, she looked around and said, "This is the master's house, and it's not in accordance with the rules to be messed up like this." Besides, it's not a way to always press people like this now, so in my opinion, it's better to send them to Hui'er in her own room first, and wait for her to calm down. ”
"That's all there is to it." Shanluo couldn't think of any other way.
A few little girls set up Hui'er as instructed. Su Mi saw that Hui'er was still naked, so she casually pulled a sheet and surrounded her.
"My sister is kind," Xianglin said lukewarmly.
"Sister Mi, this is also for the dignity of our Caiwei Palace, if Hui'er goes out like this, how will she be in the future? Even our master's face is not good-looking. Xiangluo couldn't help but say.
"She's been disgraced and thrown home a long time ago, be a man? Will she still have a role in being a human being in the future? Xianglin screamed, she was angry that Hui'er had robbed her of the "opportunity" to soar. She believed for no reason that if the person who was favored today was her, there would be a different result.
Will she still have a chance to be a person in the future? When this sentence entered her ears, Su Mi couldn't help but move in her heart, and she glanced at Xianglin intentionally or unintentionally to make sure that it was just an unintentional remark under her resentment.
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Xiangluo was robbed of a white sentence, glanced at Xianglin, and stopped talking, and commanded the little girls to pull Hui'er to the door.
Hui'er didn't have the strength to resist anymore, she just struggled to look back at the bed full of silk brocade, and the small red glare that could not be concealed in the full glow of her eyes, this was the place where the shortest dream of her life was realized and shattered.
Even though Su Mi felt that he was already hard-hearted, he couldn't help but be touched when he saw that look.
Maybe it was because she knew better than anyone else in the room that this would probably be the last time she would see this girl's vivid eyes.
She closed her eyes, Su Mi, Su Mi, how many more tragic, more desolate, and more desperate eyes have you seen than this, why do you have to sympathize with them at this time?
Don't you understand?
Look at everything in front of you, you can't fail, you can't fall into being like her, you can't, you still have to do something, you must not fail.
When she opened her eyes again, she was as light as a breeze, and she was no joy or worry.
"Sister Xianglin, is she going to clean up here with her sister, or will she go back to Zheng Niangniang to serve?" She asked with a smile.
"Ah, Niangniang also asked me to go over and dry my clothes today, look at my memory, I will work my sister first." I don't know why, Xianglin felt inexplicably a little frightened when Su Mi's eyes saw it at this time, and she didn't even have the mood to see Hui'er's excitement, so she hurriedly found a reason to push it out.
Su Mi's gaze followed the corridor and looked at Hui'er's corner room, indeed, Hui'er may not have a future. She has no way to save her, and there is no need to save her, since Hui'er has chosen this path, she should understand the consequences of failure, all she has to do is to keep herself from falling into this step.
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The next day, news came from the palace that Hui'er was found to have committed suicide by throwing herself into the river in Weiyang Pond.
No one is interested in exploring how Hui'er opened the door of the room that was locked from the outside with heavy copper locks, and how she ran through the snow to the distant Weiyang Pond to throw herself into the river while wearing only a sheet.
Besides, Wei Qing'er had been sick, and Su Mi had slept very deeply that night......
The last thing Su Mi saw was the miscellaneous servants and inner supervisors of the Shangyi Bureau carrying the straw mats where Hui'er's body was placed, and came to the gate of the courtyard on the east side of them. Because according to the practice of the palace, the dead palace people must wear at least one of their own clothes when they enter the ground, otherwise they will be a slave ghost who is bullied and called.
And Hui'er's body is only a soaked sheet.
The miscellaneous eunuchs who carried the corpse stomped their feet at the palace gate and complained that this troublesome palace maid would not let people be idle even if they died, and they would have to make more trips. However, when they saw what Su Mi had brought out, this complaint immediately stopped.
Su Mi cleaned up all Hui'er's clothes, and took them out.
She gently placed Hui'er's favorite green palace dress over the body of the corpse, which had turned purple from the cold, and placed the baggage and jewelry box full of clothes on her head.
It was the only thing she could do for her. Although she also understands that these things may not accompany her for a long time.
The eyes of several little eunuchs were already staring at the burden and the box, and they originally thought that the drudgery of not having much oil and water had such a windfall. It's a pity that the fine dress covers the dead man, and it can't be moved.
A few little eunuchs looked at Su Mi, rubbed their hands, and said with a smile, "Sister is not afraid of this, the few girls I met just now were so scared that they didn't even dare to raise their heads, my sister was not afraid?" ”
Su Mi smiled faintly, didn't say anything, and was about to order a few little eunuchs to carry people out, but saw a figure running hurriedly in the distance.
When she got closer, she recognized that it was the little eunuch with a sharp chin who asked her yesterday next to Gao Shengnuo. Holding two pieces of cloth in his hand, he came to Su Mi, glanced at a few handymen in disgust, moved his body slightly, and moved a little away from the straw mat before asking, "Are you from this courtyard?" ”
Su Mi nodded yes and asked, "...... is this?" "It won't be yesterday's reward.
"This ...... It's a reward, this is what Gonggong Gao ordered me to send over," he stuffed the silk into Su Mi's arms, "Wasn't there a master here who was sick all the time yesterday?" Let these pieces of red satin be hung to remove bad luck, so as not to stain the nobles, understand? He glanced around, "This is a serious errand, and if you are negligent, you will suffer." After saying that, he immediately turned around and left, as if staying a little longer would be stained with the bad luck here.
Su Mi looked at the silk in his hand, and the blood-like color was almost flowing down the satin. Not far away, Hui'er's bruised face seemed to be brought to life by this brilliant red light.
Su Mi finally couldn't hold back anymore and chuckled......
What's the joy of life? What is the sorrow of death? In this palace, what is the difference between me and her? What is there to fear?