Feng Miao has been reading ancient books all night lately, and she can't fall asleep until dawn, and Dong has been accompanying her, helping her change candles, adding tea and water. But this matter has been carried out in private, and it is not easy to mention it in front of everyone.

"Auntie doesn't have to mind, these things should be asked clearly. Last night, my maid Honeysuckle and I have been in the Huayin Palace," Feng Miao replied calmly, "I couldn't sleep at night, so I ordered a palace wax and flipped through the book casually." The Yulin guards on duty at night, if they pass by the gate of Huayin Palace, they will see the lights of last night, and my aunt will ask someone to ask, and you will know. ”

"With a lamp, people may not be in the Huayin Palace," Feng Qing sat on the Hu bed, his toes touching the ground, "Maybe someone deliberately went out at night, but lit a candle in his own hall to cover it." She smiled lightly and said to Feng Miao, "I just think about it plainly, not that sister, sister, don't be careful." ”

When she said this, Feng Miao didn't have a good seizure, so she paced to the other side and sat down, facing Feng Qingyao from afar, but she faintly felt that something seemed wrong today. At this time, Chuntong came out of the inner hall and said to Aunt Cui, "Niangniang has drunk the decoction that calms the nerves and has fallen asleep." Fortunately, Niangniang didn't see any ghost shadows last night, and her spirit is okay today, please tell my aunt on her behalf to reassure the Queen Mother. ”

Yuan Yingyue happened to sit beside Feng Miao, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and whispered, "It's early in the morning, but I called us all over and asked if there are any of them, and the baby inside is too uneasy to raise." She suddenly remembered something, and then said, "I have already done the embroidered shoes for my sister, and the upper of the shoes is embroidered with lotus flowers." Yesterday I sent the finished embroidered shoes to the weaving and dyeing workshop, and asked them to dye the whole pair of shoes with a layer of floating color, which will look better. When they are done, they will be sent directly to their sister's Huayin Palace. ”

Feng Miao smiled and replied, "Let my sister bother." ”

After sitting for a while, Zhang You, the steward and eunuch of the Fengyi Palace, walked in the door and replied to Aunt Cui, "The road outside the Guangqu Hall just leads to the palace maid's residence in the Inner Sixth Bureau, and there are many people coming and going. The shoe prints on the bluestone pavement have long been invisible. "Zhang You has been serving in the Fengyi Hall for many years, doing things safely, and he usually does not serve in the inner hall, and when he encounters something important, the Empress Dowager will ask him to come out with Aunt Cui.

"However," Zhang You paused, and then said, "there is also a row of shoe prints left on the dirt floor near the root of the palace wall, which went around most of the way from under the palace wall on the east side of the Guangqu Palace, until it reached the southwest corner, and then disappeared. ”

Zhang You's words were enough, this route happened to pass the place where the mysterious figure appeared last night, and the medical woman who went out to pour the medicine residue went out from the small door in the southeast corner, and the slag smashed by the medicine jar was still there and not cleaned up.

Aunt Cui didn't know what she was thinking, so she muttered and didn't speak. Feng Qing couldn't bear it anymore, and said, "What's so difficult about this, please ask this father-in-law to go and bring back those shoe prints at will, and compare them." No matter how bad it is, the people who came here today for questioning also went to walk around the dirt floor, and if the shoe prints were different, at least they would have cleared their suspicions. ”

Since Concubine Gao's illness, the affairs of the Inner Sixth Bureau have been taken care of by Feng Qing, although most of the affairs are handed over to the chief manager of the Inner Sixth Bureau, but after all, Feng Qing has to make ideas on major matters, and his words and actions are more and more refreshing than before.

When she said this, Aunt Cui naturally couldn't refute her face, so she asked Zhang You to go and bring back a shoe print, and confessed to the palace concubines and concubines present, "It's not that the slave maid intends to offend all the maids, but the empress dowager has a strict order, this time we must find out the matter clearly, I'm afraid I have to ask all the ladies to compare with the mark one by one later." ”

The ladies present hurriedly nodded in agreement, and hurriedly said that it would be great to be able to clear the suspicion. Women's feet were originally the most noble and could not be easily seen. But firstly, it is just to compare the shoe prints, and there is no need to bare feet, and secondly, those who are in the Guangqu Hall at this moment are either female dependents or palace maids and internal supervisors, and they are not outsiders.

I don't know what method Zhang You used, but after a stick of incense, he took a piece of slightly wet tissue paper, and a woman's embroidered shoe mark was faintly visible on it. The shoe print is very small, it looks no bigger than a palm, and the sole of the shoe seems to have a hollow cloud pattern, which is a style that only palace concubines can wear.

Feng Qing glanced at it and sneered, "What a small foot, I don't know which sister it is." She was the first to step forward, pulling up the hem of her skirt slightly, revealing the upper of her shoes embroidered with begonia flowers. Feng Qing's feet were a moderate size, but they were still obviously slightly larger than the shoe prints on the thin paper.

Yuan Yingyue, Lu Qingran, and Wang Wan all stepped forward to compare them one by one, but the sizes were not suitable. When it was Feng Miao's turn to step forward, she lifted the hem of her skirt slightly, exposed the embroidered shoes on her feet, and stepped lightly next to the tissue paper. Through the thin embroidered shoes, only the outline of her feet can be seen, slender and beautiful.

Feng Miao gasped in her heart, the size of the shoe print was exactly the same as her feet.

"My sister's feet are small and cute, and they look very similar to this shoe print." Feng Qing looked over, as if he was unintentional, and attracted everyone's attention.

At this time, Zheng Roujia was left to compare, and Aunt Cui sighed and said, "Please Zheng Niangniang also come to compare." "Almost everyone has decided that the footprints are Feng Miao's.

Zheng Roujia stepped forward slowly, pulled the hem of her skirt lightly, and also stretched out an embroidered shoe. The upper was made of smooth soft satin, with no embellishment, and the slender foot was very small, about the size of a shoe print on tissue paper.

Someone said "huh" softly, and Aunt Cui glanced at Feng Miao and Zheng Roujia's embroidered shoes a few times, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Aunt Mingjian," Zheng Roujia suddenly opened her mouth, "I have a few words I want to ask this father-in-law, and after asking, I will ask my aunt to return to the Empress Dowager." She turned to Zhang You and asked, "May I ask my father-in-law, are the footprints on the outside smooth and clear, or are the toes forceful, but the back is blurry?" ”

Feng Qing snorted a little disappreciatively, coming out in the middle of the night to pretend to be a ghost, naturally he had to walk lightly, and he must have stood on tiptoe. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yougong replied respectfully, "Back to Zheng Niangniang, the soil under the root of the palace wall is a little damp at night, and those shoe prints are evenly used before and after." ”

"In that case, these footprints are not mine." Zheng Roujia blushed slightly, "Can you ask your father-in-law to avoid it, I have a way to prove it to Aunt Cui." Zhang You bowed and withdrew from the hall, and Zheng Roujia saw that only the maids of the inner palace were left in the house, so she sat down with the handmaid's hand and pulled down the embroidered shoes on her feet.

The small soles of the feet are bent into the shape of a crescent moon, apparently deliberately corrected by wrapping them in a cloth from a small age. The other palace concubines had never seen such soles of their feet, and they all looked at them curiously.

Zheng Roujia became more and more embarrassed, but she still said to Aunt Cui, "My biological mother is not from a good background, and she didn't expect me to enter the palace as a concubine." Thinking that I want to please my husband's family in the future, my mother taught me to dance with my waist and palms since I was a child. My feet have also been wrapped in cloth since I was a child to prevent them from growing. ”

It is said that Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede sisters in the Han Dynasty were the best at this dance, and it is rumored that Zhao Feiyan is light and can dance in the palm of a man's hand. The dances handed down from later generations are naturally not so magical, but those who dance well can also dance on a one-foot square platform. To dance this dance, the most important thing is not only to have a soft waist, but also to have a pair of slender and small feet.

"Because of this," Zheng Roujia bit her lip, but she had to talk about her secrets in front of so many women from noble backgrounds, "When I walk, I always touch the ground with my toes, and I don't use the whole soles of my feet to exert force. If it is a footprint left by me, it will only be clear on the toes, not so flat on the whole soles of the feet. ”

Lu Qingran exclaimed, "What a skill, bend your waist and dance in your palms, no wonder the emperor has bent his waist for you." "Because of the last time Zheng Roujia was preempted by Zheng Roujia halfway, she is still haunted. The other Han women also understood what she meant, and laughed meaningfully.

The waist and palm dance has been passed down to this day, and it is no longer a palace music dance, because the dance posture is too enchanting and charming, and the famous ladies disdain to learn this dance. On weekdays, Zheng Roujia never mentions it. At this moment, in order to clear the suspicion, I had to say it as a last resort.

Shoe prints are flat...... Feng Miao didn't care to listen to the ridicule of others, and only focused on these few words. Zheng Roujia has proved that the embroidered shoe mark was not left by her, so now, the only one who is most suspicious is herself. She suddenly woke up in her mind, and also walked up to Aunt Cui, "I also have something, I want to ask my aunt to return to the Empress Dowager, and tell the truth together." ”

"A few days ago, Sister Yuan took a pair of old shoes from me and helped me sew new shoes," she glanced at Yuan Yingyue, "I naturally don't suspect Sister Yuan, but Sister Yuan sent the shoes to the weaving and dyeing workshop to dye, maybe someone took my shoes and deliberately left those marks." ”

She looked directly into Aunt Cui's eyes and said bluntly, "Although I don't know who did it, but this person has ill intentions and wants to make people suspicious, I deliberately stimulated Sister Gao, so that she was not in good spirits and could not give birth to a child smoothly." Ask my aunt to send someone to the weaving and dyeing workshop to get the two pairs of shoes to compare. ”

She deliberately said it seriously, doubting her motives, that is, doubting the motives of the entire Feng family. The Empress Dowager already has the eldest son in her hands, and she is not sure whether she will be given up by the Empress Dowager at this time.

Aunt Cui ordered someone to call Zhang You and sent him to take someone to the weaving and dyeing workshop to retrieve Feng Miao's shoes.

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