Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 476 The Gentle Concubine Shu

"Huh?" The Empress Dowager stared at Pei Cairen in front of her.

Pei Cairen simply lifted up his skirt, knelt and sat down in front of the phoenix couch, while pinching her legs for the queen mother, he said softly: "Before this concubine was too impatient to do such a reckless thing as buying off bandits. ...You are different, Queen Mother, you have great power in your hands, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to make her fall out of favor?"

She raised her head slightly, approached the Empress Dowager's ear, and said in a low voice: "I heard that Liu Jishan is back..."

The Empress Dowager's eyes brightened sharply: "Liu Jishan? He's actually back?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect that he dared to come back..." Pei Cairen smiled, his expression a little dazed: "This time, I'm afraid His Majesty's heart disease is going to happen again for a while—"

The Empress Dowager's eyes flickered, and there was a hint of murderous intent, and she asked, "What does this have to do with the Crown Princess?"

Pei Cairen was surprised, but he didn't think too much about it. After all, that foxy son didn't know how to restrain himself. It wouldn't be strange if the Queen Mother killed her.

She shook her head and said slowly: "Have you forgotten? The last time I tested her poison with wine? Her symptoms are obviously poisonous in her body!""

"Oh?"

"Then Liu Jishan is the number one medical immortal. When the time comes, you can use him to do a little tricky investigation, and you will know what the Zhao family has done—" Pei Cairen smiled triumphantly, "Think about it, the crown prince hates it the most. This is the kind of thing that happened back then, even my uncle and my cousin were able to do it for a glass of wine! If the crown prince knew all this, would he still be able to keep her by his side? Without such a vicious girl, the Zhao family would have another Why do you keep blocking your eyes?"

……

After the New Year's greetings, the crown prince and the emperor changed their attires again. Accompanied by the officials of the Taichang Temple, a group of people went to the ancestral temple to offer sacrifices.

Zhao Xiwei didn't need to participate in this kind of worship, and when he left the Tai Chi Hall, Concubine Shu suddenly grabbed his sleeves: "Since the princesses have entered the palace, why not go to the Pearl Mirror Hall for a cup of tea?"

Zhao Xiwei stood on the white jade steps in front of the hall, slightly taken aback.

But Concubine Shu blinked at her, and said in a low voice: "I have something to say to you in private."

What can you say that you have to say in private?
Full of doubts, Zhao Xiwei stepped into the Pearl Mirror Hall.

Concubine Shu served the tea with her own hands, and brought a bowl of steaming sweet-scented osmanthus wine stuffed balls, and said softly: "You entered the palace so early in the morning, you must have eaten nothing, eat some hot pad first Pad your stomach."

Zhao Xiwei took the small bowl of sweet white porcelain and stirred it gently with a spoon, but it took a long time to bring it to his lips.

She has been to the Pearl Mirror Hall several times, but she has never eaten here.

Compared with a delicate and willful woman like Xu Yunjiao, Concubine Shu's just right gentleness made her even more defensive.

Experience told her that the more willful a person is, the simpler he is.Their emotions are all written on their faces, what they like and what they hate can be seen through at a glance.

But the more gentle and obedient a person is, the more careful and cautious their thoughts will be. They are good at hiding their true emotions. Even if they are together day and night, it is difficult to observe their true thoughts.

Concubine Shu is obviously such a person.

Under the eyes of the emperor, she was able to use her daughter who was less than one year old to bring down the imperial concubine, and after that, she would clean herself up—even if the emperor knew the truth, he would only choose to forgive her.

Because this game is not too complicated to say the least, it's just a series of coincidences that come together.

How deep the city must be to be able to grasp the hearts of the people so accurately?

Anyway, Zhao Xiwei boasted that she was not as good as she was. If it were her, she would not be able to use her own child as a pawn. Even if she had a foolproof layout, she would not take the risk.

Some things are not impossible to do, but unwilling to do.

"Thank you for your kindness, ma'am, but I just ate two extra pieces of glutinous rice cakes, and I can't eat anything else." Zhao Xiwei put down the bowl, and his eyes fell on the side of the green screen, where there was a half-person-high blue flower A porcelain vase with a white ground, with a few branches of green pruning bamboo inserted obliquely inside.

Concubine Shu likes flowers, and there is a large sea of ​​flowers as bright as clouds in front of the palace.

The palace walls are deep and heavily guarded. These clusters of bright flowers are a touch of tenderness that cannot be ignored.

But Zhao Xiwei knew that not all plants, trees, flowers and trees were gentle, because living in the mountains, she knew from an early age that some flowers and plants were more dangerous than swords and deadlier than beasts.

There was a strange feeling in her heart, and she looked around casually again.

The ornamental objects in Concubine Shu's Hall, apart from jade and antiques, are evergreen plants, and there is no vase of flowers.

This is very worth thinking about.

In fact, her expression was not obvious, it was just that her eyes froze a little, but a person as meticulous as Concubine Shu was still able to capture it keenly.

It's just that Concubine Shu is very smart, so she didn't explain anything directly, but calmly picked up the bowl, and said to the outside: "Mingyu, the princess is not hungry, give this bowl of glutinous rice balls to the little girls to eat." .”

"Yes." Mingyu walked in.

Concubine Shu handed the bowl to her, pointed at the bottle of green bamboo, and said angrily: "How many times have I said this, this green bamboo is very delicate and needs to be changed frequently, why don't you remember it? Look at the leaves Turned yellow."

"Did you remember wrongly? This green bamboo just changed the water yesterday!" Mingyu immediately replied with a smile.

"Really?" Concubine Shu's voice paused for a moment: "Why haven't I seen you change it? You should go and change it soon!" She joked again, "I think the princess has looked at the bamboo several times, it must be I think the people in the Pearl Mirror Hall are lazy!"

Mingyu was smart, and quickly responded: "Your Majesty taught me the lesson. Yesterday, the slaves ordered the little palace maids to change the water. Maybe they forgot for a while. It was because the slaves were negligent in discipline and let them be lazy. "

He smiled and said to Zhao Xiwei: "The princess thinks this green bamboo is ugly? The servants also think it is not good-looking, so I persuaded the empress to fold a few red plums and put them on the table. It looks generous and elegant, but the empress said, Princess Nanxing is lively. She is very active, and the flowers on the table are bound to be played with by her, smashing the vase is a small matter, but hurting the princess's palm is a serious matter, so we are not allowed to grow any flowers, only choose this heavy bamboo. "

With a few words, the suspicion that had just sprouted was dispelled without showing any trace.

"The empress loves her daughter very much." Zhao Xi smiled lightly, and said kindly: "Princess gold is precious, and you really need to pay attention to it."

"That's right." Mingyu laughed, and immediately a few young maids came in, and carefully carried the heavy vase out to change the water.

Princess Nanxing also ran in from outside the palace.

"Crown Princess, Princess Concubine." Nan Xing saw Zhao Xiwei, threw away the nurse's hand, and flew into her arms: "Nan Xing missed you so much, and wanted to go to pay New Year's greetings to you, but you came unexpectedly !"

(End of this chapter)