Chapter 20: Concubine Shu

After Su'er left, Yu'er began to think calmly, what way can solve this situation. Jinxin saw that she had been puzzled and came over to her and said: "Little master, two days ago, the slave maid heard from the little palace maid who came to deliver lunch that the emperor held a banquet in the palace to celebrate the birthday of the eldest prince, which is really lively!" Yu'er glanced at her and suddenly mentioned it for some reason. Seeing that she was puzzled, Jinxin curtled her knees and said: "Little lord, Concubine Shugui is not very favored, but it is also fate, the emperor found out that she was pregnant soon after she ascended the throne, and gave birth to the eldest prince safely, so the mother has come to this day with her son." ”

Yu'er was shocked: "What do you mean?" ”

"Little master, how precious it is that the emperor only has this one prince at the moment, but if someone else gives birth to a prince, this big prince and concubine will not be favored, and it will be difficult to say in the future!"

"Jinxin, you don't have to detour like this when talking to me."

"Little master, it stands to reason that this internal affairs office file has no right to view it except for the queen who took the power of the sixth palace, and now the queen will do something in order to hide people's eyes and ears, so it's better to ......"

"You mean ......, but innocent people are involved......

Jinxin didn't wait for her to finish speaking, and interrupted: "Little master, the emperor's heir is fine after all, the emperor will not study it in detail for the sake of the eldest prince, let alone let others know, let's pass this level first." ”

"But if she knew......"

"She will only know that someone is framing her, and this person is either a noble concubine or a queen, and it has nothing to do with us. Moreover, although the emperor has been on the throne for more than three years, no one in the harem has ever been pregnant, but she is the only one who gave birth to the prince safely! The little lord thinks that she must be innocent and good. ”

Oh, yes! If you want to gain a foothold in this harem, there is a real clear conscience!

"Jinxin, you find an opportunity to tell Xu'er about this, remember that you must go in person and don't fake others, the fewer people who know about this matter, the better."

"Yes! The slave understands. ”

"Tell Su'er to be careful in everything, the queen is not easy to get along with, don't be in a hurry."

"Yes! Little Lord. ”

In the past few days, Yu'er has been waiting for news, and sure enough, a little eunuch came to report this afternoon that it was the queen who sent a message to let her go to Fengyang Palace. Although Yu'er's face was calm, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, it seems that this matter is done! The queen doesn't like Concubine Shu in the end, she didn't give birth to the prince but let Concubine Shu take the lead, how can she not mind! I'm afraid that the queen is looking forward to the concubine's trouble, and now there is such a good opportunity to fan the flames, and this matter is mostly stable.

When Yu'er arrived at Fengyang Palace, it happened that Concubine Shu had just arrived, she was busy bending her knees to say goodbye, and the concubine glanced at her and didn't say much. The queen was sitting in the main hall, Li Xiyue and Chen Lixin were also there, and the queen did not give the queen a seat after inviting her, so Yu'er and Concubine Shu stood in the hall to listen to the queen.

"What do you know when this palace called you here today?"

"Ministers and concubines don't know."

"Okay, this palace will show you something." As he spoke, he motioned to pick up the stars and handed a booklet to Concubine Shugui. Concubine Shugui's eyes were puzzled, and she just held it and didn't move.

The queen picked up the teacup, floated the floating tea powder with the lid of the bowl, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Open it and take a look." ”

Concubine Shu immediately looked down, until the last few pages to see the clues, her face suddenly turned white and immediately knelt down and said: "Niang Niang Mingjian, the concubine palace received some musk some time ago, it was just a little palace maid in front of the concubine who loved to put incense, and the concubine saw that her skills were good, so she ordered someone to receive some rewards for her, and it was not used for anything else, if Niang Niang didn't believe it, she could ask her to come to confront her." ”

"The people in your palace are naturally talking to you, what is the use of confrontation."

Concubine Shu kowtowed and said, "Niang Niang Mingjian, the concubine really didn't do anything to hurt the imperial heir." ”

"But the only one in this palace who has received musk in the past few months is you Yongfu Palace, how can you tell me to believe you!"

"Musk is precious, maybe someone has received it before and kept it unused!"

"Lan Ronghua has only been in the palace for more than two months, do you mean that someone knew that she would be pregnant before she entered the palace, so he deliberately wanted to poison the emperor's heir."

"That's not what the concubine meant."

At this moment, a little eunuch came in to reply, and after kneeling, the queen asked, "What did the emperor say?" ”

"Back to Niangniang, the emperor said that there is something important that can't leave, and everything is up to Niangniang."

"Okay, Hongu knows."

"The emperor also said that everything must not hurt the face of the eldest prince."

"This palace knows in his heart, you go down."

Concubine Shugui's back, which was still straight just now, is now slightly arched, her eyes are deep, and she still has some inexplicable smiles, as if she is laughing at all this and as if she is laughing at herself. Yu'er was a little unbearable, and said that the emperor was ruthless, and the emperor didn't even look at her when she faced such a difficult thing, how could it make people not feel cold.

After the little eunuch went down, the queen spoke again: "Concubine Shugui, what the emperor means is the meaning of the palace, the emperor likes the eldest prince and doesn't want to publicize this matter, do you recognize it or not?" "The queen deliberately added a few words to the eldest prince, which meant to tell Shuguifei that everything she did was just to give birth to a son. This is undoubtedly another stab in Concubine Shugui's heart, and the whole person is depressed all of a sudden. She kowtowed again and said, "The concubine knows that she is wrong, and the concubine is lost for a while and begs for mercy!" ”

"Tell me, how do you do that?" The queen played with the red gold armor on her little finger and had a confident smile on her face.

"That day, Jinxin went to send a purse to Lan Ronghua, and happened to meet the concubine with Qin'er, and Qin'er saw that Jinxin's purse was festive and noisy, so the concubine ordered someone to bring it to Qin'er to play for a while, and took the opportunity to write down the style and color of the purse, and gave it to Jinxin's concubine to return to the palace to make an identical one, and ordered someone to sneak into Yingyue Palace and drop the purse made by Yucairen." Yu'er glanced at Jinxin, and she nodded imperceptibly. It turns out that there is still this one, no wonder Jinxin thinks of Concubine Shugui, she is also suspicious in the end, and now the purse has been crushed by Li Xiyue's order, and there is no way to check the workmanship of the stitches.

"According to the edict of the palace, the concubine Zhou was not careful, she was demoted to the position of concubine, and she was fined for a year and thought about it behind closed doors, and she was not allowed to go out if she had nothing to do."

Concubine Shu immediately kowtowed and thanked her, and went back to the palace to be punished.

Poisoning the imperial heir, such a punishment is very light.

After Concubine Shu left, the queen said to Yu'er: "Yucai people have been wronged, so the grounding will be lifted from now on, so let's go back and rest." Yu'er immediately thanked her and retired, and when she turned around, she saw Chen Lixin looking at her viciously, so she smiled at her and strode away.