Chapter 70 Stepping on the high and praising the low, Lin Bihan quarreled over charcoal (1)
After that, the court continued to criticize Ye Pei, but the official Zhao Zhen didn't seem to hear it, and this kind of slash was left behind. Not long after, another incident happened that made things even worse.
Severe winter weather, dry weather, Yuqing Zhaoying Palace was struck by lightning, ignited a fire, the huge Yuqing Palace was completely burned by fire overnight.
Yuqing Zhaoying Palace was built outside the Tianbo Gate in the northwest of the imperial city, and it was the highest Taoist palace built by the first emperor when he was alive, which was used to place the "Book of Heaven" found during the Dazhong auspicious charm.
This Yuqing Palace took eight years to complete, cost nearly 100 million taels of silver, covered an area of 480 acres, and had more than 2,600 houses, and the degree of luxury even exceeded that of the Afang Palace when Qin Shi Huang was in time.
At this time, it suffered from the fire of the sky, and it was burned overnight, and the poor scorched earth was pitiful.
When the officials heard the news, they were immediately in an uproar.
Jiang Tang and others, who supervised the imperial history, immediately went to the table, saying that the official family had a moral defect, and that this fire was an early warning from heaven, and the officials were asked to introspect. There were dozens of officials who seconded the proposal, and the fire became the fuse for a while, and the fire burned to the official Zhao Zhen and the county lord of Le'an.
In the end, the official Zhao Zhen had to compromise and issued a "Guilty Edict" to settle the matter.
Later, someone exposed the arrogance of the county lord of Le'an, Zhao Zhen had to remove Ye Pei's county lord title, restore Ye Pei's status as the adopted daughter of the empress dowager Zhang Xian, and reduce all the preferential treatment during the county lord period.
As the lord of the Six Palaces, Guo Furong naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and she revoked all the clothes, furniture, and weekday supplies in the Qifeng Pavilion. If it weren't for the fact that Da Nei always knew that Chen Zhongyi would coordinate with each other, there would not even be any slaves and maids left who were waiting, and in the end only agreed to leave Miao Jinhe and Lin Bihan behind.
The rich and elegant Qifeng Pavilion in the past became a village residence in an instant, and Ye Pei had to wear the big cloth coarse clothes of ordinary palace people, and the hairpin ring jewelry on his head was confiscated, and the commonly used Ru porcelain and Jun porcelain were replaced with coarse porcelain bowls.
The life of the widow did not have much impact on Ye Pei, and even the books they thought were completely worthless, but Ye Pei's favorite things were kept.
It's just that when the Zaozuo came to collect things, he wanted to carry away the box of treasures left by the master to Ye Pei, but Ye Pei was anxious. She kicked over the little eunuch who wanted to carry the box, and everyone was stunned.
Ye Peiyuan opened his eyes and said angrily: "This is a memorial left to me by my master, not something in the palace, you are not allowed to move!" ”
Many little eunuchs didn't know who Ye Pei was, so they saw how powerful she was, and they didn't dare to step forward.
Feng Chun, the former supervisor of the Shangyi Bureau, was demoted to the Zuozuo Institute by Empress Guo to do rough work because he said the wrong sentence, and he was moving things in the Qifeng Pavilion at this time.
When he saw Ye Pei like this, he hurriedly drove away the little eunuch who was carrying the box, "You don't have long eyes, and you don't look carefully, you made Miss Ye angry!" Go, go, you go over there to pack up your things, and leave it to me here! ”
He said to Ye Pei flatteringly: "Miss Ye, don't be like this newcomer, he doesn't know that you are the queen mother and the celebrity around the official family." ”
Ye Pei's anger did not subside at this time, and he glared at Feng Chun without being angry.
Feng Chun's words fell to the ground
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rolled his eyes, and said unevenly in his heart: "The phoenix that fell on the shelf is not as good as a chicken, do you still think that you are the county lord when the queen mother is alive?" Now that the queen has the final say in the harem, the official family snubs you, and the queen sees you as a thorn in the side, will you still have room to turn over? ”
He glanced at Ye Pei with disdain and walked with the other Yellow Gate attendants.
A few days later, the Eighth King ordered Mrs. Wei to visit Ye Pei in the palace, and when Ye Pei saw his aunt, he endured his grievances and bowed down.
Mrs. Wei Guo hugged Ye Pei, "Silly child, what etiquette do you want to tell your aunt." If you don't live well in the palace, I will beg your uncle to intercede and let you go back to live in the palace. ”
Ye Pei's emotions exploded, and he threw himself into his aunt's arms and burst into tears.
Ye Pei and her aunt haven't seen each other for more than a year, and she is afraid that her aunt will blame her for killing her eldest brother Zhao Yunxi, so she doesn't dare to face her aunt and uncle. Her evasion seemed to outsiders to be ungrateful, and she was afraid that her aunt would think the same way about her, and the more she didn't see her, the more she didn't know how to meet.
Now that she is in trouble, the first person to come to see her is her aunt, who is really related by blood, and broke her bones and tendons. Ye Pei's grievances were heartbroken, moved, and a burst of tears poured out.
Mrs. Wei Guo hugged Ye Pei and burst into tears, she didn't resent Ye Pei, but she knew that her own son deserved it. Among the people she is living now, only Ye Pei is her closest person, how can she not come to see her and save her?
The two hugged their heads and cried for a long time, and they both restrained their tears.
Ye Pei said: "I can't even affect the eight kings now, I just wait for the official family to marry me out of the palace." ”
"Silly boy, we are close relatives, how can we talk about it or not. When I go back, I will beg your uncle to go to the official's house and let you out of the palace as soon as possible. ”
Mrs. Wei Guo looked around Ye Pei's inner room and sighed, "I didn't expect that Sixth Brother was so ruthless and forced you so hard. ”
She took out a bag of silver and said, "I can't stay long in the palace this time, I can only say something quickly." Here is a bag of silver, and I have brought the little ring that served you in the garden building, and you can keep it with you.
The palace is different from the outside, there are more places to use money, which of the minions in the palace is not stepping on the high and low, you don't have a caring person around you. If you need anything again, I am familiar with Ling Shanggong of the Shanggong Bureau, and I have helped you take care of it, you go to the Shanggong Bureau to find her, and if you need anything, you can let Xiaohuan go out of the palace and find me to get it. ”
Ye Pei listened, and the tears he had just held back kept flowing down again, "Auntie......"
Mrs. Wei said: "Okay, no need to say any words of thanks, I'll go back, you can do it yourself!" ”
Ye Pei nodded, and Mrs. Wei Guo pulled Xiaohuan over and instructed, "Xiaohuan, you serve Miss Ye well in the palace." Zhang reluctantly left.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and in the blink of an eye on the winter solstice, charcoal began to burn in all palaces and pavilions, Lin Bihan went to make charcoal from the house, and when she came back, it was full of smoke, so angry that she poured the charcoal brazier into the yard on the spot, and scolded:
"These dog-eyed minions, the county lord used to use golden charcoal, where have I seen a little smoke, light one
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The night is still hot. Now it's not like this to bully people, where is this charcoal for heating, it's simply charcoal for cooking! ”
Miao Jinhe hurriedly went to clean up the charcoal basin, and said to Lin Bihan angrily: "If you are quiet, isn't it just charcoal." Later, I'll get some good charcoal for some silver to keep the county lord's house warm, and we'll just use this. ”
"You know how much money is left after taking money, do you see how much silver is left after the eighth princess sent so much? The price of vegetables outside is only how much, and the palace will rise dozens of times, and we can't even eat meat if we spend a tael of silver. ”
Lin Bihan complained unconvinced. "I'll go to Chen Zhongyi again to try it." Lin Bihan said again.
"You can't trouble Chen Duzhi in everything, now that people have been promoted to the head of the inner house, you can't always take care of our sesame mung bean affairs, you will be settled!"
Miao Jinhe was afraid that Ye Pei would hear it, so he didn't dare to raise his voice, and said while cleaning up the charcoal brazier.
Who knew that Ye Pei heard it, she took out a jade ornament made of Bashan, came out of the house and said, "Let Xiaohuan go out of the palace tomorrow to take this as a treat, it will be enough for a while." ”
Lin Bihan just wanted to take over the jade ornament, Miao Jinhe snatched it over, rubbed his hands on the apron and said, "This is unacceptable, this is the thought left to you by your master, no matter how hard the days are, you can't take this seriously!" ”
Ye Pei said indifferently: "What do you think about or not, what Master left me is what I have to spend the most difficult days." You bear with me, maybe it won't be long before we can leave the palace. ”
Ye Pei looked at the blue sky in the courtyard of the Feng Pavilion, the winter sky was especially clear and transparent, what was the world outside the palace like? What kind of life awaits Ye Pei?
At that time, Ye Pei tried every means to sneak into the palace, thinking that what was waiting for her was sweet love, but now she tried her best to get out of the palace, leaving only bitterness and heartache.
Ye Pei didn't dare to think about it, but this blue sky gave Ye Pei infinite beauty and hope.
Miao Jinhe had already entered the house at this time to put away the jade ornaments, and came out with some silver coins, "I'll go to the workshop to see if I can exchange some smokeless charcoal and come back." ”
Lin Bihan took the purse in Miao Jinhe's hand and said, "Let's go, you're too easy to talk, they raise the price to you, won't you bargain?" ”
Lin Bihan said, three steps and two steps out of the courtyard of Qifeng Pavilion.
When he arrived at the workshop, Lin Bihan happened to meet Feng Chun, the waiter of Huangmen. Since the last time Feng Chun hit a nail at Ye Pei, he was thinking about revenge, and he caught the opportunity today.
Feng Chunpi said to Lin Bihan with a smile: "What kind of goods did my sister come to pick up today?" ”
Lin Bihan said: "Add some charcoal to Miss Ye's house, it's okay, don't bring me those cigarettes out to fool around!" ”
"How dare the little one fool you, who doesn't know that you are the person from the Qifeng Pavilion? Back then, the one in the Qifeng Pavilion was majestic, how could he have taken us villains in his eyes?
But now the price of charcoal is higher than the price of rice, according to the rules of the palace, Qifeng Pavilion can only distribute ordinary bamboo charcoal now, if my sister wants to be better, it is not impossible to ......"
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