Chapter 12: Emerald
Coming out of Changle Palace, there is a medicine garden through the Imperial Garden. In winter, the flowers wither, but the plants and trees grow luxuriantly, and the arrangement is also very careful, the height is uneven, the staggered falls, and the fragrance of herbs is refreshing.
Mu Yudai doesn't like the taste of pear blossoms, and every time he comes out of Changle Palace, he has to spend some time here.
It's just that Mu Yudai today is extremely depressed, sitting at the cold stone table, his hands unconsciously stirring together.
Since Linglong was reprimanded in Changle Palace, it was Jade who accompanied Mu Yu Dai in the morning and dusk. She is an old man, after Mu Yudai entered the palace, Mu Xiang chose her to assist and help Mu Yudai, and she really lived up to her expectations and achieved the effect that Mu Xiang wanted.
Jade saw that Mu Yudai was silent, her face was gloomy, and she asked hesitantly, "Niangniang, but are you worried about that Muzi?" ”
At the end of the day, because the palace maid in the Changle Palace died for no reason, and died in that way, it woke up the calm Chu Palace, and the wind quickly blew all over every corner of the palace, making people panic.
In order to appease everyone, the king went down to the court early and went to Changle Palace in a hurry to comfort and admonish the concubines.
Everyone in the harem was overjoyed, who expected that the queen introduced a beauty to the king in public during the banquet, which was the top of the beauty list - Muzi.
Jade sighed lightly in her heart, in her opinion, Muzi and the concubine have their own merits in appearance, but Muzi's detachment is not possessed by all the concubines in the palace, and she seems to have an innate sense of mystery that makes people involuntarily explore and conquer.
"Niangniang doesn't have to worry too much about that woman, the king has never been beautiful, isn't she an ordinary woman when she sees her."
Mu Yudai shook his head, and finally mustered up the courage to look at the loyal servant in front of him, and said, "I'm not worried about her, the king is not that kind of person...... But...... Do you know the dead palace maid? ”
Jade was shocked in her heart, but her face did not show anything, and she said suspiciously, "She used to be the sweeping palace maid of our Chang Palace, but later committed an accident and was kicked out." Mother, what's wrong? ”
"Then her death has something to do with our people?"
"No, the mother is too careful, her death has nothing to do with us at all."
Mu Yudai stared at the person in front of him for a long time before he said, "It's me who has a lot of heart." We've been out for a long time and it's time to go back. ”
As he spoke, he got up and walked forward, not noticing the sudden relaxation of Jade's back.
Mu Yudai has a pure nature, and when he first entered the palace, because of the favor of the king, he suffered a lot from other concubines, and it was not until Mu Xiang secretly helped that he got better.
Jade knows her temperament, and most of the things she has done over the years have been hidden from her, and she doesn't even go into details about such a big thing as installing people. In addition, they acted carefully and thoughtfully, and rarely left a handle, and Mu Guifei only had the king in her heart, so she had no time to take care of the rest of the palace, so she only had an impression of what Jade had done, but she didn't know much about it, let alone how far they had come.
Later, when the evening entered the palace, the two clashed for the first time, and it was only then that Mu Yudai realized that she was too sharp in this harem, which made everyone disgusted, and then she consciously corrected her attitude and put away the light. But she is also a smart person, compared with her embarrassment when she first entered the palace and the fear and hatred of the concubines today, she doubted what Jade did for the first time.
The master and servant had different thoughts, and walked one after the other, until they reached the front of the Hechang Palace.
A woman in green walked up quickly without waiting for the two of them to enter the door, and after a little blessing, she quickly got up and said, "Niangniang, why did you come back?" The king has been here for a while. ”
Thinking that the woman in green had been waiting for a long time, a little sweat oozed from her forehead, and she happily urged, "Niangniang, go in quickly." ”
Mu Yudai also unconsciously put a smile on his face, and walked in briskly with his skirt.
The woman in green was just about to follow, but she was pulled by Jade.
"Linglong, you wait," Jade said in a low voice, "Can you find out?" ”
"It is indeed the crescent moon that died. On the fifteenth day of each month, the crescent moon should have reported the situation in the Changle Palace to the slave maid, but she did not show up last night, and the slave maid made a special inquiry today, and the population in the Changle Palace was very tight, only saying that she had committed an accident and drove out overnight, but there was no record of her transfer in the palace. I went out of my way to ask the Praetorian Guard, and it was finally confirmed that it was her. ”
Linglong frowned, the crescent moon martial arts were far superior to others, and he was one of the few masters placed by Mu Xiang in the harem, and he was specially sent to Changle Palace to monitor Luoxi, but he didn't expect the queen to die after only one month in the palace.
Jade was also depressed, and said, "Do we still have people in Changle Palace?" ”
"There should also be two palace maids, who are usually dispatched by the crescent moon, and the crescent moon died suddenly, and we have lost contact with these two palace maids."
It's also strange that Jade is big, and he trusts the crescent moon too much, thinking that he is just a pampered and willful little girl, so he only sent the crescent moon to be responsible for the exploration of Changle Palace, but he didn't expect Luoxi to marry in and quickly control Changle Palace, and the palace people in his palace were obedient, and several banquets held during the New Year were also extremely beautiful, and they were praised by courtiers and kings, and gradually gained a firm foothold.
"Find a way to get in touch with those two palace maids, there must be our people in Changle Palace."
"Yes," Linglong thought for a while and said, "The crescent moon once mentioned that the martial arts of Zhen Zhen next to the queen are not weak, could it be that the queen killed her?" She is a thief and shouts to catch a thief."
Jade thought about it carefully and shook her head, "This...... It's hard to say. However, it has been handed over to the eldest prince to investigate, and it must not be harmful to us and Changgong, at most, it is just to find out that we have planted eyeliner. ”
Then he said, "If a person dies, he will die, as long as it will not lead to us, we don't have to care anymore, the top priority is to fill the people in Changle Palace in time." Judging from today, the queen is not as capricious as in the data, she was deliberately hiding herself before, and we should not underestimate such a person. ”
"Yes, the slave knows"
"There is one more thing," Jade suddenly asked, "Is Li Li here?" ”。
At the mention of Li Li, Linglong paused for a moment, and subconsciously replied, "No." ”
"I heard that he is sick, and you are a fellow villager with him, so go and see him more. I'll take care of it here. ”
Linglong understood the meaning of her words, and her face fell. What a character Jade is, knowing that she is dissatisfied in her heart, she didn't say much, just let her go early and return early.
In the Chu Palace, Li Chengyong was ordered to lead the inner servants, when the first king was alive, he had been serving by the side of the first king, the first king died and left the palace to live in seclusion, allowing the queen mother to control the government, and had no time to take care of the young King of Chu, and invited Li Chengyong back to take care of the king.
Li Li is his adopted son outside the palace, and he entered the palace with him, and now Li Chengyong is old and weak, and the king understands him and retains his position, but all the affairs in the palace are handed over to Li Li. Therefore, although Li Li does not have a famous position now, he is the most talkative person around King Qishan, and he is greedy for a little money, so he is more liked by the harem concubines than the upright and meticulous Li Chengyong, and there are more people who ask him to do things.
On weekdays, because of serving the king, Li Li does not live in this house often, but there are people who often disturb, he is sick today, thinking about his previous good, thinking about his future good, and there is an endless stream of people, and the lower grade and the ones who come to the knot are blocked by the little eunuchs under Li Li, but the palace people sent by the palace Niangniang are saying that they can't stop it, and they can't stop it, fortunately, the other palace maidens have to avoid suspicion, and there are only two palaces to come, and Chang Palace and Changle Palace, the former is a perennial palace dominant, naturally not afraid of gossip, No one dares to gossip, as for the latter, as the queen, Luo Xi naturally ...... I didn't think about avoiding suspicion at all, and Jingjing had to come.