Chinese New Year's Eve is coming, and the most important event of the year is the family sacrifice, and the royal family sacrifice is more elaborate and grand. The preparations for the family sacrifice should have been handled by the queen herself, but who knows, one of the little prince's nurses ate the wrong thing, and there was a problem with the milk, causing Zhaoyang to vomit and diarrhea.

The queen was furious, scolded the nurse with a cane, and drove her out of the palace, this time she was busy asking the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat, re-selecting and filling the nurse, where to take care of anything else, and the family sacrifice was handed over to the concubine Xian to take care of.

Concubine Xian knew that the matter of the family sacrifice was very important, and she did not dare to be careless, so she bowed to everything, and went to the queen mother and the queen to ask for advice if she was not sure, and took the palace people busy until late at night every day, and finally prepared everything the day before the sacrifice day.

On the day of the family sacrifice, the palace concubines are dressed in palace clothes according to their grades, and enter the temple after the queen mother, the emperor and the queen. On the platform, there are green bronze tripods and other instruments. A Kowloon gold plaque is hung on the front of the building, which reads: Chase far away in the end. The incense candles inside are brilliant, and the brocade curtain is embroidered.

When the time comes, the family sacrifice starts, the main sacrifice, the queen mother and the queen accompany the sacrifice, the carpet is displayed, the burning pond is guarded, the music of Tsing Yi is played, the three offerings are made, the worship is finished, and the silk is burned. After these ceremonies were completed, Yu Lin said to the queen: "Please take out the jade plate." ”

This jade dish was offered before the ancestors were ranked during the family sacrifice the previous year, and then taken to the Baohua Hall to be offered by the monks to chant and pray day and night before the bodhisattva, and on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve family sacrifice, the emperor again offered it to the ancestors before the ancestors, in order to pray for the safety of the family and the prosperity of the children in the coming year. This jade disc had been picked up by Concubine Xian herself to the Baohua Hall the day before.

The queen walked to the treasure containing the jade plate, opened the lid of the box, reached into the jade plate, didn't want to touch the air, and hurriedly picked the probe to check, only to see that the box was empty, where was there a trace of the jade plate, she suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and looked at the concubine blankly.

Seeing that something was wrong, Concubine Xian also hurriedly stepped forward, looked into the box, and suddenly her face changed greatly, and she screamed out unconsciously. The two picked up the box and checked it repeatedly, but the box was only so big, and there was no mezzanine compartment, and it was clear at a glance that the jade disc was gone, and the two were helpless.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother and Yu Lin also hurriedly came forward to check, and Yu Lin asked the queen: "What's going on?" How could the jade disc be gone? ”

The queen said in fear: "Because the concubine took care of Zhaoyang, she entrusted the matter of the family sacrifice to the sister of the concubine Xian, I really can't think of ......it."

Concubine Xian hurriedly said: "The concubine personally went to the Baohua Hall yesterday to invite the jade plate, and put it into this box with her own hands. ”

Yu Lin was just about to get angry, but the Empress Dowager Xiaochun stepped forward to stop it and said calmly: "Don't be angry before the ancestors. The jade dish is very important, no one dares to steal it, I think it was accidentally lost somewhere, but now the family sacrifice has not been completed, and it is not allowed to search for it. The emperor first presided over the completion of the family sacrifice and then ordered someone to search for the jade plate, and then made up for the matter of the jade plate. ”

When Yu Lin heard this, he completed the family sacrifice according to the instructions of the Queen Mother, first confessed to the ancestral tablet, and then ordered the guards and eunuchs to search for the jade plate in the temple, but there was no trace of it, and the people who had seen the jade plate were all interrogated, and there was no clue. Because I was afraid that it was lost outside, it was picked up by the little eunuchs and the little palace maids, and I didn't know what it was, so I searched around the palace again, and searched for the palace people, only to turn it upside down, and the jade disc was like evaporating in the world.

Yu Lin was greatly annoyed, the loss of the jade disc is not a trivial matter, it is related to the fortune of the coming year, in case it angers the ancestors and blames the royal family, it is not a small disaster.

Due to her unfavorable affairs, Concubine Xian lost the jade plate, and was stripped of the power of the assistant six palaces, and was confined to the Chenming Palace, waiting for it to be released. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager also knelt down in the temple every day to pray and pray for the ancestors' forgiveness and not to condemn their sins.

This matter came suddenly, and the stakes were very high, Lu Yuan was deeply worried about Concubine Xian, and immediately came to Qinfangzhai to discuss with Concubine Shun.

Concubine Shun pondered: "Isn't it that Concubine Xian offended someone, someone deliberately stole the jade plate and hid it to harm her?" ”

Lu Yuan shook her head and said: "Sister Xiao treats people very generously on weekdays, and she has not had any friction with others, so she may not offend people. ”

Concubine Shun said again: "The person who can touch the jade disc is either in a high position, or the person next to the concubine, will it be Concubine Zhen or Concubine Rong?" ”

Lu Yuan said: "Concubine Zhen's goal is the queen, and she will not attack Sister Xiao, if you want to say Concubine Rong, there may be some suspicions, the power of the assistant six palaces originally belonged to her, but Sister Xiao seized the power, and the position was higher than her, she was narrow-minded, and it was possible to be jealous and revenge on her sister." It's just that we're just guessing, and there's not a shred of evidence. ”

Shun Concubine said: "If she really did it, she will definitely show the fox's tail, and you only ask people to watch the movements in her palace carefully." Concubine Xian don't worry too much here, although the loss of the jade disc is a big deal, but it is okay for her life, the emperor just grounded her. You are still pregnant, and you must put your body first. ”

Lu Yuan gently stroked her bulging belly and said softly: "This little thing kicks in my stomach every day, it is very naughty, he is a little life, I will be careful, sister rest assured." ”

The two sat down and talked again before they parted.