Volume I, Chapter XXIII, Spices

In the blink of an eye, the excerpt of Jiang Pei's execution had been in the Qianyuan Hall for two days, and the voice of the court was still high, but in the face of such pressure, Emperor Cheng's attitude was always vague and ambiguous.

If it is said that he protects Jiang Pei, he can directly pardon or reduce Jiang Pei's punishment, if it is said that he intends to act impartially, and the holy decree of grace and judgment has not been issued, it is really confusing.

In the midst of the righteous indignation of the clear stream in the court, Jiang Song entered the palace.

He had a secret conversation with Emperor Cheng in the Qianyuan Hall for about an hour, and he didn't know what to say, but his face was very relaxed when he left.

In such a special period, this alone is enough to make people think about it.

In fact, Jiang Song's entry into the palace was indeed to intercede for Jiang Pei, and it could not even be said to be a plea, but a clear threat.

In the Qianyuan Palace, Emperor Cheng sat on the chair of Panlong Golden Silk Nanmu, his face was gloomy as water, his hand tightly held the intricately carved handle, trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart.

If Wei Yu was here, she would be surprised that he was so faced, in her heart, her father was open-minded, and Wei Yu had never seen him make a big fuss about things.

Emperor Cheng thought about Jiang Song's seemingly respectful, but in fact rebellious words, and the anger in his chest surged more and more.

The reason why he has not made the decree these days is precisely because of the rat trap.

Jiang Pei's case is full of human and material evidence, and he was born under his nose to harm the people and filthy the court like this, how can he tolerate it? But behind Jiang Pei is Jiang Song, the Jiang family, and he can't move intellectually now.

He closed his eyes, and finally didn't hold back, raised his hand and smashed the azure Ruyao teacup in front of him, and Li Dehai, who was still staying in the hall, saw him so angry, and knelt down with a thud.

Emperor Cheng grimaced, and only asked for a long time: "The whereabouts of that thing, do you have eyebrows?" ”

Li Dehai attached himself and buckled his head, lying on the ground and not daring to raise it, and said tremblingly: "The slave is incompetent, please forgive your majesty." ”

The news in the palace has grown its own legs, and Jiang Song has just stepped out of the Qianyuan Palace, and the news has spread to the Hanzhang Palace.

Without thinking about it, Wei Yu knew that he must have come to intercede for Jiang Pei

Jiang Song may not care about the life or death of Jiang Pei's own son, but he will not ignore the vital interests of himself and Jiang Fu.

If Jiang Peizhen is convicted, he will lose a son or second, and the hat of huge greed will be firmly fastened on the head of the Jiang family, and he will never be able to break free.

Now that the wind direction of the DPRK has begun to criticize Jiang Song and Jiang Fu, it is impossible to sit idly by and ignore Jiang Song's character.

But he didn't know that when he entered the palace, he was in the arms of Wei Yu, giving her a good time to start the next plan.

Wei Yu listened to Dawn's report, yawned, and said with tears in the corners of his eyes: "Tell Xiang Siyuan that you can start moving." ”

I don't know what's going on lately, but not long after she got up from her nap, she started to get sleepy again.

Dawn lowered her head and replied, "Yes." ”

Wei Yu added: "Be quick. ”

The time for the court battle was fleeting, and if her father sent the holy decree to pardon Jiang Pei out of the palace, and everything was settled, it would be too late.

Wei Yu finished telling him about the relevant matters, covered his mouth and yawned, and said lazily: "I'm tired, light a soothing incense for me, I want to sleep again." ”

Dawn wanted to speak and stopped, looking at her increasingly sluggish look, her eyes were a little worried, "The palace has only woken up for less than an hour from a nap, why are you sleepy again?" ”

Recently, Wei Yu is really sleepy, and it is not enough to sleep for seven or eight hours every day, even when he wakes up, he is also groggy, and he can't even wait to eat while sleeping.

She also looked for the Taiyi Pulse, but the pulse was not abnormal, and she could not diagnose any symptoms.

"It's probably because people are lazy in the spring." Wei Yu said.

In fact, she could also feel that she was a little unusual, but she trusted Feng Yuanzheng's medical skills, since he said that she was not sick, then she must be fine.

She had some doubts in her heart if it was the Soul Leaving Disease, but she hadn't tried to divulge anything lately, she didn't feel dizzy, and she didn't know if there were new symptoms.

Dawn sighed and said: "The ashes in the incense burner are full and haven't had time to clear yet, so the slave and maid will go and call someone, Your Highness will wait for a while." ”

Wei Yu has always had a habit of soothing incense when he goes to bed, this incense is calming, it can ensure a sweet and dreamless sleep, and it is harmless to people, and many concubines in the palace are using it.

It's just that she has burned this soothing incense a lot recently, and the ashes that used to be cleared only once in a few months are now full in only seven or eight days.

Wei Yu was already sleepy and drowsy, leaning on the table with his hands on his temples and closing his eyes to recuperate, and slowly responded with a "hmm".

After a short time, dawn invited a few small palace people into the hall and worked around the thigh-thigh-high golden lotus furnace in front of the bed.

Because the incense burner is not small, there are several groups of people back and forth.

Wei Yu waited patiently, and suddenly heard a voice say, "Hey, Aunt Dawn, something doesn't seem right with this fragrant ash." ”

She opened her eyes and looked at the source of the voice, only to see a small palace maid in pink who was not tall and was carefully examining it with a handful of incense ashes, her face was a little hesitant, it was the little palace maid Chun Tao she saved from Concubine Shu that day.

Because she used to be the palace maid of Chuxiu Palace, and she was still young, after she was brought into Hanzhang Hall by Wei Yu that day, she was only sent to do some trivial things to serve flowers and plants, and did not serve in the dormitory.

Recently, Wei Yu was in a hurry to sleep before he was called to help in the palace.

She stretched out two fingers and picked up a small wisp of incense ash and put it on the tip of her nose to smell it, wrinkled her nose, and said more and more certainly: "Auntie, this incense ash is really not right." ”

Xiaoxiao frowned, leaned over and looked at the small bucket in her hand, and didn't find anything abnormal, "What's wrong?" ”

Chun Tao said: "The slave maid remembers that my aunt said that the princess has often burned soothing incense recently, and the incense ash of ordinary soothing incense is purple in the ash, but this incense ash is not only not purple, but also some blue, if it is not mixed with other incense ashes, it must be wrong." ”

When she said this, Dawn also felt that her gray eyes seemed to be much lighter than before, and her heart sank, and she said: "It's spring now, and the temple usually doesn't smoke incense, only soothing incense." ”

Her face turned a little pale, and she turned her head to look at Wei Yu, who had already opened her eyes and looked at them for a long time, "Your Highness...... This ......"

Spices can be big or small, perfumery and perfume making involves pharmacology, and it is something that has been used for many years, so you need to be extra careful, if someone really does something to her spices, it is indeed impossible to prevent it.

"Go to the Tai Hospital and recruit Feng Yuan to come and take a look, don't talk about it." Wei Yu's face was gloomy.

Dawn hurriedly said, "Yes! ”

The palace people in the palace looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Wei Yu's sleepiness was mostly gone, her spirit was gone, and her mind was much clearer, she sat up straight and ordered: "Take out the rest of the soothing incense and find a clean small incense burner to light it." ”

The palace people took out the small stove on the case and lit the incense, Wei Yu asked people to move closer, sniffed carefully, I don't know if it was because they had doubts in their hearts, but they really felt that this fragrance was slightly different from before.

The familiar sleepiness was surging again, her face changed, she covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and hurriedly asked people to turn off the window for ventilation.

Not long after, dawn came with Feng Yuanzheng.

Wei Yu stopped the imperial doctor's salutation, asked people to bring out the small box containing spices, and said coldly: "Feng Yuan is looking, what is unusual about this incense?" ”

Feng Yuanzheng is not confused when he is young, he already has a white beard, but he still has to do everything himself, and the affairs of the Tai Hospital are all in his hands, and even the incense recipe of this soothing incense is mixed by him himself, so he naturally can't be more familiar with it.

He picked up a small spoon and scooped a little bit on the tip of his nose and smelled it, then dipped a little more and twisted it on his fingertips, frowned, and said to Wei Yu: "Please light this incense Your Highness and let the old man smell it." ”

Wei Yu nodded, and motioned to the palace people to take the incense burner under the window and relight it.

The fragrance was faint, but Feng Yuanzheng felt that something was wrong when he smelled it, and his face changed: "Your Highness, there are several spices in this incense with different proportions, although it is still a prescription for soothing incense, but the effect of helping sleep is greatly enhanced, and it is easy to make people feel sluggish and sleepy all day long." ”

Feng Yuanzheng's face was solemn, and he bowed down and hugged his fists and said, "Your Highness has been sleepy a lot lately, I'm afraid it's because of this incense." Smelling the spice into the body is the accumulation of effort, the effect of the moment is not strong, and it is not poisonous, and the pulse can not be diagnosed, but if you light this incense all the year round, the light will be confused, drowsy day by day, and the heavy will be confused, like madness. ”

Wei Yu sat up straight, her face was pale, she was really fine, if it weren't for Chun Tao's little palace maid who found out that something was wrong today, she would really be on the road.

Dawn heard that it was so serious, and lost his voice: "But this tranquility incense is taken by the unified neighbors of the Internal Affairs Office, and the six palaces are all the same, and I haven't heard of anything wrong in other palaces." ”

Since it is not an external cause, it can only be an internal ghost, Wei Yu glanced at her and asked, "In addition to you recently, there are others who have touched this spice?" ”

The palace people of Hanzhang Hall were all personally selected by the Queen Mother, and they were as strong as iron buckets, and there was never a betrayal of the palace people.

Dawn thought for a moment, and suddenly thought of a person, his face turned pale, "After this incense was brought back, except for the slave and maid, only Su Xin was touched." ”

She said that although she could not come to His Highness to serve, but people could not be idle, and insisted on dividing the spices, and the slave and maid felt strange at that time, she never paid attention to these little things in the past. But because there were other things to do at the time, I didn't think much about it and gave it to her. ”

"Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it's not ......"

Wei Yu didn't expect it to be this person.

She was suspicious of the things in her previous life, and after she came back, she didn't let Su Xin serve in front of her, but only let her do some leisure work with peace of mind.

After all, she still has some hope for Su Xin, and she no longer trusts him like before, but she never thought that one day she would want to harm her.

In both previous and present lives, she made the same choice in both lives.

Wei Yu really couldn't understand it, she treated her well, although she didn't let her get in touch with important matters, she still retained her position as a first-class palace maid, and she was treated as usual, and she also asked Dawn to tell other palace people not to look down on her and embarrass her.

Without Gu Jiaqing in this life, why did she still betray her?

Feng Yuanzheng added: "Your Highness, although this spice is harmful to the human body, but the materials are cautious, Your Highness does not use much, it should be no big problem, just stop using it." ”

Wei Yu couldn't tell whether he was angry or disappointed, nodded and said: "This palace knows, thank you Feng Yuanzheng, it's just that this matter is very important, please keep it secret." ”

As soon as she winked, Dawn immediately understood, turned around and took out a bag of silver the size of two palms, and stuffed it into Feng Yuanzheng's hand.

After serving in the palace for many years, Feng Yuanzheng certainly didn't know that it was a matter of royal secrets, and keeping his mouth closed was the most important thing to save his life.

He knew that he would not be able to accept the money, so he took it silently, bowed, and withdrew.

Wei Yu sent Feng Yuanzheng away, sat in His Highness for a long time, closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Check out, this palace knows who moved the hand and how to move." Remember not to startle the snake. ”