Chapter 2 The Pretty Concubine Fights the Eunuch and Escapes into the Deep Valley (1)
Tonight's happy banquet made He Zihan feel very happy, she drank a few glasses of wine, and still felt very excited after returning to the residence, she didn't feel tired at all, but she didn't know why, at this time, she didn't want to be lively, she just wanted to stay alone, she didn't let Ao Lei accompany her to the residence, she wanted to stay alone in the residence.
He Zihan's residence is a very leisurely and elegant place, especially suitable for staying alone and thinking quietly.
Her dwelling was not in a wooden house, but in the innermost part of a cave, in front of which was a small valley, and in front of the small valley was a cave, and from this cave came several wooden houses in front of it, and in front of the wooden house was the flat land of the great valley.
This is a rare natural place, leading from a cave behind the wooden house to a valley, and then into a cave, He Zihan lives in this cave. Walk in from the cave behind the wooden house, after walking ten zhang away, it will suddenly open up, enter a small valley, during the day, the sun will shine in; at night, the moonlight or starlight will often shine into the valley, the valley is by the rocky place there is a stream, gurgling water through the valley, this water comes from the mountain, is a clear and transparent spring, on both sides of the cave where He Zihan lived, on one side on the steep slope there is a tall green bamboo, on the other side there is a row of cypress trees, under the cypress tree, there are dozens of heavenly fairies.
This fairy was specially transplanted here, the fairy is also known as buttercup, wild kudzu, its stem spread slender, the leaves are round, the calyx is tubular bell-shaped, the corolla funnel-shaped, the flowers are yellow-green, and the fruit has a lot of pubescence. The whole plant is both earthy and beautiful, and of course, the heavenly fairy is poisonous.
When He Zihan first came to the valley, once she and Lao Langzhong Lin Pinghe went to the mountain to collect medicine, and they found the heavenly fairy on the slope under the tree, Lin Pinghe took a closer look at this heavenly fairy, and praised it for spreading and growing, elegant shape, and beautiful flower color, just. He felt pity for the poisonousness of the beautiful Celestial Fairy.
He Zihan listened to Lin Zhonghe. Instead, she became interested in the fairy, and she looked at the fairy carefully, and saw that the spreading stems were very simple, and the leaves and flowers were very well matched. The shape and color of the flowers are very beautiful. She suddenly felt that she liked this fairy very much. Later, after Lin Zhonghe returned to the valley, he told Ao Lei about He Zihan's liking for the heavenly fairy, and Ao Lei told Ao Shan again. After that, many female disciples in the "Burial Valley" knew that the sect leader liked the Heavenly Fairy.
Once, a young disciple who had just entered the valley looked at He Zihan very carefully, and was surprised by He Zihan's beauty, she sighed and said, "Sect Master He is really beautiful, beautiful as a fairy!"
This was heard by He Zihan, and she said to the young disciple: "The years are not forgiving, when I reach middle age, I have become haggard and ugly, and I am very depressed and wandering to this valley, what can I talk about 'beautiful as a fairy', don't make fun of this sect leader in front of you young and beautiful people, I am only like a 'heavenly fairy' instead of a 'heavenly fairy' at most!" Since then, the saying that He Zihan is like a "heavenly fairy" has spread, and gradually, "heavenly fairy" has become He Zihan's nickname.
He Zihan accepted the nickname "Heavenly Fairy" and became more and more fond of the Heavenly Fairy, so she asked Ao Lei to arrange for someone to transplant the Heavenly Fairy on the mountain to the small valley at the entrance of the cave where she lived, accompanied by green bamboos and pines and cypresses, making the small valley appear lush and full of vitality.
He Zihan lives in a cave, usually, she often walks out of the cave, admires green bamboo, cypress, and fairy in the small valley, listens to the sound of spring water, bathes in the sun or admires the moon, and the small valley is like a fairyland.
In the cave where He Zihan lived, the furniture in it was either wooden or made of bamboo, and there was a large bed made of mahogany near the back wall of the cave, and a rocking chair made of oak at the front.
Outside the bedroom, there is a place for intimate assistants and tea drinkers, and there is a table and several chairs, all made of bamboo, which looks clean and elegant.
The cave where He Zihan lived was clean and beautiful, fresh and elegant, completely different from the magnificent and noble bedroom she lived in before.
After He Zihan returned to the residence, although she said goodbye to the noisy environment of the banquet, her mood did not calm down, her wine had not subsided, she was still very excited, she lay on the rocking chair, gently shaking, at this time, her body was very comfortable and quiet, but her thoughts were churning violently, perhaps because of the wine, she thought a lot, the past experience appeared in front of her one by one, she couldn't help but think surging, thousands of feelings surged into her heart.
He Zihan's original name was He Zhihan, her grandfather and father were both imperial doctors in the palace, her grandfather was a skilled doctor, saved the life of one of the old emperor's brothers, and was very respected by the old emperor.
He Zhihan grew up in a medical environment since she was a child, she studied medicine and pharmacology, and had brilliant medical skills when she was young, she aspired to be an outstanding girl, but fate affected her, her dream of being a medical officer failed to come true, and she seemed destined to experience a complicated life with ups and downs.
When she was fourteen years old, she was unexpectedly included in the list of women who were candidates for the court draft, and she was selected for the court.
One day, He Zhihan was taken to the Imperial Garden, with her there were nearly 100 young women, six of them in a row, was personally selected by the Queen Mother, He Zhihan was lucky, in this selection, she became one of the sixteen young women who were left behind, and a few days later, she was selected to enter the harem, became a candidate for the concubine, and after "introduction", "re-view" and "name", in the end, she was lucky to be "re-registered" , It was an honor to be left by the emperor himself, and He Zhihan, a good thing that many young women dreamed of at that time, soon experienced it, and she "stayed in the palace for accommodation" with fear and expectation.
He Zhihan's road to the harem is very smooth, and he stays in the "palace" Half a year later, she became a concubine, quite favored by the emperor, and after another year, she was promoted to a concubine, at this time, there was a queen in the harem, and the position of the imperial concubine was vacant, and there were four concubines below, two of which had lost the qualification to compete for the imperial concubine, the concubine was seriously ill and bedridden; Concubine Hui fell out of favor and was banished to the laundry room as a punishment; the remaining competitive qualifications were Concubine He Zhihan and Concubine Sun Xianglan, Sun Xianglan was named Concubine Xian earlier than He Zhihan was named Concubine De, she was He Zhihan's "sister" , Sun Xianglan has the appearance of a shy flower in the closed moon, she is delicate, intelligent, and deeply sophisticated, good at winning people's hearts, she knows how to flatter the queen, she is coquettish and obedient to please the emperor, the appearance of the virtuous concubine in the harem is very good, everyone thinks that she is the best candidate for the promotion of the imperial concubine.
However, Concubine De's sleek and old-fashioned and pretentious coquettishness gradually borered the emperor, and the emperor went to her bedroom less and less. Kuanren's character was favored by the emperor, when Concubine Xian often held the jade pillow and guarded the empty room, Concubine De's bedroom often had the figure of the emperor, after some time, Concubine Xian couldn't stand it, she felt that it was Concubine De who robbed the true dragon son who should have belonged to her with her young beauty, and since then, Sun Xianglan regarded Concubine He Zhihan as her mortal enemy.
Concubine Sun Xianglan's family background is extraordinary, his grandfather is a brave general who fought the world with the old emperor, is the founding general, her father once served as the head of the household, and the eunuchs of the inner court are very close, after the concubine was canonized as a concubine, relying on the prominent power of her mother's family, plus she is smart and sleek, she can be said to be like a fish in water in the harem, she has almost all the conditions to win the throne of the imperial concubine in the harem, of course she can't allow He Zhihan to forcibly occupy the position she should get, so she began to make plans, pull relationships, play tricks, and implement the plan to frame Concubine De step by stepใ
On the surface, Sun Xianglan and He Zhihan have a very harmonious relationship, in front of everyone, she regards Concubine De as a very close "sister", not only in front of other concubines to say good things for Concubine De, but even in front of the emperor to praise He Zhihan in front of the queen, and often go to Concubine De's bedroom to give gifts, and many people in the harem praise Concubine Xian and Concubine De's intimate relationship.
However, behind the scenes, Sun Xianglan has been engaging in conspiracy and trickery, she used the power of her family to preach for her in the court, and secretly squeezed He Zhihan's father, so that He Zhihan's father lost the position of judge in the imperial hospital, so that he lost the opportunity to contact the emperor and his relatives; she bribed and co-opted all the concubines, so that He Zhihan lost his popularity in the harem; she rewarded and bribed the eunuchs with palm prints to make them speak well for herself in front of the emperor and subtly belittled He Zhihan; she looked for an opportunity to flatter and brag about the queen and win the favor of the queen; she repeatedly spoke good things for the powerful princes and ministers in front of the emperor, won the praise of the emperor's relatives and ministers, what she could do in the position of the concubine, Sun Xianglan did it beautifully, and what she couldn't do in the position of the concubine, she also did it quietly and even unscrupulously, her goal was to drive He Zhihan away from the position of the concubine, and even wanted to get rid of her.
However, Sun Xianglan also knows that the emperor is not easy to fool, he is pampering He Zhihan, Sun Xianglan can only act cautiously, she knows the truth that things must be reversed, she knows that if the emperor knows that she is framing He Zhihan, not only will her efforts come to naught, but also, she will be beaten into the laundry room of the harem, and even thrown into prison, and she may also harm her family because of this, Sun Xianglan knows that she can't be in a hurry, her plan must be implemented slowly.
However, something unexpected happened to Sun Xianglan, the queen suddenly became seriously ill, she quietly inquired with the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor privately hinted to her that the queen's illness this time was difficult to treat, and it was very likely that she would die in Huangquan, and this sudden event disrupted Concubine Xian's plan to frame Concubine De, and Concubine Xian felt that the current situation no longer allowed her to implement the plan slowly, and she decided to take action as much as possible.
At this time, Concubine De still thought that Concubine Xian was a very kind and tolerant "sister", she didn't expect that Concubine Xian was viciously framing her, and she was in a very terrible danger. (To be continued......)