At dusk, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was ordered to send all kinds of nourishing products, ginseng, bird's nest, and ejiao, and I was afraid that Lu Yuan would be bored staying in the house. When it was time for dinner, Yu Lin came over to take a look again, and saw that she had used some soup and rice before leaving with confidence.

Early the next morning, Li Zhong had already investigated the front and back of Lu Yuan's fall into the water, and the bamboo bridge on the Qingfu Canal was in disrepair, and the bamboo stem was rotten, and it was difficult to bear weight before it broke and collapsed.

After Yu Lin Zao, after listening to Li Zhong's advice, he was furious and ordered that all the personnel in charge of the garden repair be dismissed, and the nearby guards were punished for half a year.

In Yurun Hall, Lu Yuan was sitting on the warm kang near the window, using a ginseng black chicken soup, and Xiao Yunzi slowly reported the results of Li Zhong's visit to her.

Lu Yuan only cared about stirring the soup in the bowl, was speechless for a long time, and when he looked up, he saw Xiao Yunzi standing aside and looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, so he motioned for him to continue.

Xiao Yunzi said: "With all due respect, the slave feels that this matter is not so simple. ”

Lu Yuan asked, "Do you also feel strange?" ”

Xiao Yunzi nodded and said: "Laymen can't see anything, but the bamboo bridge is rotten and broken, which is a very accidental thing." But the slave grew up in the southern mountains since he was a child, and the mountains are full of bamboo forests, and he can see the strangeness at a glance. Each of the bamboos of the bamboo bridge has the thickness of a bowl, the bamboo is hard, and it is usually maintained by a gardener. ”

Biluo beside him said: "The little lord has been favored since the day he entered the seal, and there must be people who are jealous and have the wrong idea." ”

Lu Yuan thought for a while, and said to Xiao Yunzi: "You and Xiao Lianzi secretly investigated this matter, pay more attention to the movements of Yaohua Palace and Yanfu Palace, and report to me immediately as soon as there is a clue." Xiao Yunzi paused and took the order.

Lu Yuan gently paced to the parrot stand in front of the window of the moon cave, picked up a small spoon and scooped rice worms from a small porcelain jar to feed the parrot. She sighed and said, "Why do you have to fight me in this harem? ”

Biluo stepped forward to put on a flowing cloud brocade cloak for her, and said: "There are many women in the harem, yin is heavy, and there are many jealous people, everyone wants to compete for favor, and there will naturally be more fights." ”

Lu Yuan read softly: "One muscle and one appearance, the posture is extremely beautiful, and the man is far-sighted, and he is lucky. There is no one who does not see, thirty-six years. The women in the harem are really pitiful and pathetic. All I can do is protect myself, and I won't hurt others or be harmed. ”

Biluo said: "Imperial Doctor Liu told me to rest in bed more, so let the slave and maid serve the little master and lie down." ”

The wind blows and the bamboo moves, the sky is high and the dew is thick, the jade glow is light, Lu Yuan is lying on the lily bed, looking at the bright moon hanging high outside the window, and sighs in her heart, she is going to fall into this quagmire after all, how much do you know about the new love and old hatred, and get drunk on the east wind a few times.

I slept very unsteadily all night, one seemed to be awake, and the other seemed to be in a dream, vaguely, as if a very young child was crying, Lu Yuan stretched out his hand to hug him, but the child was getting farther and farther away, and he couldn't touch it.

She woke up suddenly, felt a strong throbbing pain in her lower abdomen, involuntarily curled up, and suddenly a warm current in her lower body, she knew that something was wrong. She tugged the side of the bed and screamed in pain, and finally saw Biluo, Chunhua and others running over in a panic, so she didn't know anything.

Everything is so unreal, one will be the imperial doctor taking her pulse, one will be Bi Luo holding her head and feeding her to drink the decoction, one will be the urgent call of Yu Lin in her ear, people come and go, it is very noisy. After a while, the surroundings quieted down, and she felt less uncomfortable, so she fell asleep deeply.

When she woke up again, it was dusk, she had been asleep all day, Chunhua who was sitting on the edge of the bed was dozing, heard the movement, opened her eyes and said in surprise: "Little master, you are awake!" ”

Lu Yuan's hand gently stroked her lower abdomen, her eyes looked at Chunhua tentatively, Chunhua's eyes dodged, lowered her head and whispered: "Sister Biluo is making ginseng soup for the little master in the small kitchen, I'll call her." After saying that, he bowed his head and walked out.

After a while, Biluo took a ginseng soup, walked to the bed and said, "The little master is awake, and after sleeping for a day, your stomach should be hungry, I'll help you get up and drink some soup." ”

Lu Yuan muttered, "Is my child gone?" ”

Biluo's eyes were slightly red, and he smiled and said: "The little master is still so young, and he will have another child, now he has to take care of his body." ”

Tears rolled down like beads with broken threads, although he was purposefully close to the emperor, but the child in his womb was his own blood and bones, and he only stayed in his belly for less than two months and lost it, how could he not be sad.

Bi Luo hurriedly comforted: "The little master must not be too sad and hurt his body, Xiao Yuezi must do a good job, otherwise he will leave the root of the disease." This child may not have a relationship with the little master, the little master is still young, and there will be another pregnancy in the future. When the little master was asleep, the queen mother, the emperor, the queen and the concubine all came to see and told the slaves and maids to serve the little master well. After so many persuasions, the sadness in Lu Yuan's heart decreased a little.

In the evening, after some dinner, I lay down on the couch to rest. Mingqing walked in, holding a plate of things in her hand, and replied: "Little master, the little girl in Qinfangzhai just sent this plate of red dates and ejiao cakes, saying that Concubine Shun asked her to send it over to make up for the little master." ”

Lu Yuan was quite surprised, she has lived in Jingxi Palace for nearly two months, except for the first time she went to visit and was rejected, she has never crossed paths, and she has never seen Shun Concubine step out of Qinfangzhai half a step, Shun Concubine is just a dispensable person in the harem, and even many people have forgotten that there is such a woman, she doesn't care about anything, but now she has sent supplements after her miscarriage, which is really a bit incomprehensible.

Lu Yuan instructed: "Take the golden melon seeds and reward Zhihua, let her go back and thank Concubine Shun, and say that when I get better, I will come to the door to thank you in person." Ming Qing went out as she said.

After two or three days, Lu Yuan's body has almost recovered, and the emperor comes to Yuruntang every morning to sit for an hour and chat with her to relieve boredom. The Queen Mother and the Queen Mother exempted her from morning and dusk and ordered her to take care of her. Lu Yuan personally went to the Baohua Hall to chant and pray for blessings, and spent more time for the unborn child, so the sadness in his heart gradually decreased.

In the afternoon of this day, Xiao Yunzi saw that there were no outsiders and walked into the hall and said, "Little master, the slave has found his eyebrows." ”

Lu Yuan's expression tightened, and he ordered him to speak quickly. Xiao Yunzi said: "In the past few days, the slave has been ordered by the little master to secretly investigate, and sure enough, he found something suspicious. The slave first went to carefully inspect the fracture of the bamboo bridge, and found that the bamboo was eaten by insects and ants very badly, the slave felt strange, it is said that there is no fierce insect ant in the northern region to gnaw on the bamboo so much, and the gardeners will spray the bamboo bridge with insecticidal potions every three months, the little master fell into the water a month ago just sprinkled, can eat the bamboo bridge into this within a month, according to the slave only saw only a kind of insect in the south, called the bamboo worm. ”

"Bamboo eaters?" Lu Yuan and Biluo glanced at each other and repeated.

Xiao Yunzi continued: "This is a kind of insect that grows in the bamboo forest in the south, it is the size of a thumb, resembles an ant, and feeds on bamboo, which is generally not seen in the north due to the climate. The minions continued to investigate according to this clue, secretly observing the movements of each palace, and found this among the debris thrown by the minions of the Xianyue Pavilion of Yanfu Palace. As he spoke, he pulled a small cage out of his sleeve and placed it on the table.

Chunhua hurriedly said: "Isn't this just a glamour cage?" When I was a kid, my dad used to play with me. "Different from the ordinary bamboo cage, this small cage is made of the wood strips of the redbud tree, which is very strong.

Xiao Yunzi said: "Sister Chunhua is wrong, this is not suitable for pretending to be a grasshopper." Look what it is. As he spoke, he took out a black, round thing the size of a grain of millet from the gap in the cage.

Lu Yuan was confused, shaking her head and not knowing. Xiao Yunzi said: "This is the feces of the bamboo worm." Because of the special smell of this redbud tree, the bamboo-eating insects are reluctant to eat it, so they use it to make a cage to hold the insects. It is conceivable that someone specially got this insect from the south and put it in the bamboo bridge. The slave went to carefully inspect the fracture of the bamboo bridge, and although he did not find any live insects, he also found some feces, presumably the live insects had been cleaned up after the incident. ”

After listening to this, Biluo's face showed a little indignation, and said: "The little master expected it well, and sure enough, someone paid attention." ”

Lu Yuan groaned: "You just said that this cage was made by the palace people of Xianyue Pavilion?" Xiao Yunzi nodded and said, "Yes." And the servant asked the guards who were guarding nearby, and there was indeed a small inner eunuch of the Xianyue Pavilion who came to walk around this bridge in the past two days. ”

Biluo said again: "Xianyue Pavilion lives in Rui Guiren, and the slave maid heard that Rui Guiren's father, Ji Yuanji, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, has been working abroad in the Jiangnan area before, and he has only been ordered to bring his family to Beijing in recent years. ”

Lu Yuan said slowly: "Since the day the Rui nobles were promoted together, they have been quite hostile to me. Now that the evidence is conclusive, I'm afraid there is no doubt about her. ”

Biluo was indignant and said: "Little master, let the slave and maid go to the emperor and the queen's mother, and treat her for the crime of killing the concubine!" ”

Lu Yuan thought for a while, shook his head, and said: "I just entered the palace, I don't want to provoke a bloody storm, I think she is a first offender, and I won't pursue it, if she is smart, she will be safe, if she is confused, and if there is any wrongdoing, don't blame me for being unkind." ”

Although Biluo was unwilling, she saw that she had made up her mind, so she didn't say anything anymore.