Chunman Palace

Chapter 130
After Concubine Sui arrived at Fengyi Palace, she first received a warning from Xuan Yin, then her monthly schedule and expenses were reduced, and she had to reflect in Qingyan Palace for three days.Although she expressed fear and apology, in fact, there were thousands of reluctance in her heart.

As soon as she stepped into the gate of Qingyan Palace, Concubine Sui couldn't help complaining: "I didn't know the Queen's body was so weak before, but I have seen it today! After eating a bowl of peach blossom cheese, I felt so painful that I couldn't get out of bed. It's a joke!"

Xiao'e said: "This peach blossom is a product of great cold and great coolness. Even ordinary people will not be able to bear it if they take too much. Its effect is comparable to pepper."

Concubine Sui twirled the handkerchief and said, "The empress's body is too weak, she just took one mouthful and exaggerated like that."

Xiao'e said in a low voice: "I heard that the Queen's health has not been very good. In the past two years, I have used more soups and medicines for tonic, but it still doesn't have much effect."

Concubine Sui taunted: "As a queen, but always unable to help the emperor to host due to illness, what this queen has done is really dereliction of duty."

Xiao'e smiled and said: "Yes... Whether the position of empress can be secured is another matter. The empress will use the dragon fetus to move forward more. The higher your status, the more blessings you will have."

Hongxiao served tea, and when she heard the two discussing here, she couldn't help feeling chills down her back, she approached Concubine Sui and reminded: "Your Majesty, be careful that the wall has ears."

Hearing such words that ruined the atmosphere, Concubine Sui couldn't help scolding sharply: "When is it your turn to talk about Bengong's affairs? Get me out of the way! Don't obstruct Bengong's eyes!"

Hong Kao bowed her head and said: "This servant just wants to remind your empress that you are now a concubine, and you should be more careful in everything you do and say...there are more and more people in Qingyan Palace." After finishing speaking , She added: "The emperor said that you should copy the Lotus Sutra ten times and send it to Linxian Hall to pray for the empress."

Concubine Sui said sharply: "I need you, a lowly servant, to remind me? Don't think that I don't know what you're thinking! Go and copy the Lotus Sutra ten times for me, go now!"

Hongxiao said in a soft voice: "But... the handwriting of the servant girl is different from that of the empress. If the emperor finds out, wouldn't she blame the empress even more?"

Concubine Sui frowned and said: "The Emperor has never seen Ben Gong's handwriting, how did he find out? You lowly servant girl wants to be lazy and you still find many excuses. It seems that Ben Gong has been too generous to you recently?"

Xiao'e lowered her head and snickered, then said softly: "Madam, Sister Hongxiao has been very lazy recently, the servants often saw her either in a daze or sleeping in the house, even her own work was done by the servants. "

Concubine Sui sneered, and said: "Oh, it seems that I am really too lenient towards you! Go out and kneel down for me for two full hours, you are not allowed to be in the shade, and you are not allowed to drink water. When you come back, I will copy it for you. !"

Hongxiao raised her eyes in shock, and then bit her lips tightly.

Concubine Sui felt offended, and slapped her back firmly, "What are you doing staring at Bengong? Do you think that the punishment I gave you is too light? Get out and kneel! Don't be an eyesore to Bengong here! "

"Yes..." Hongxiao wiped away the tears on her face, got up and backed out.

She felt the blood from the corner of her mouth was overflowing from her mouth, and the soft place where her teeth collided was painful, as if she had been sprinkled with a handful of salt, she couldn't help frowning, and she closed her lips not daring to move.

She has been enduring this kind of life ever since she entered the palace with Concubine Sui, she endured Concubine Sui's resentment and endless torture, all of which were about to drive her crazy.

Endless insults and tortures made the resentment in her heart suddenly swell. She hated why Liu Ruozhao didn't choose her to be a concubine in the palace, hated Concubine Sui's blind bullying and bullying her, and even more hated all kinds of things in the deep palace.

Everything in this Qingyan Palace has become so glaring now.

She knelt in the place where the sun was the most venomous. The sun was scorching hot and glaring, and it was itching on her body. She wanted to raise her head to have a look, but she couldn't see anything. Everything in front of her was buried in the light, making it difficult to distinguish.

After an unknown period of time, she felt the hot sun shining on her face, her brain began to sink, and the strong dizziness made her body involuntarily lean to the side.

At this time, a shrill voice sounded beside her ears: "You don't kneel properly, you dare to be lazy here, be careful and I will tell the empress again!"

Hongxiao only heard a buzzing sound, she frowned to look, and saw Xiao'e's thin figure flickering in front of her eyes, then she felt something was stuffed into her ears, she grabbed the man's arm upwards , grabbed it hard.

Xiao'e screamed immediately, and then pushed the person, Hongxiao lost her balance and fell to the ground.

The ground was also scorching hot, and the red silk jumped up the moment her body touched the ground, and she became more awake.

She looked up weakly to meet Xiao'e's fierce eyes, and asked weakly, "What are you doing..."

Xiao'e said arrogantly: "What am I doing? I should be the one who asked you this sentence! Obviously, the empress ordered you to kneel under the scorching sun for two hours, and after only one hour, you sneaked here Rest in the shade!"

"Where am I...!" Hongxiao looked down, and she was indeed staring at the scorching sun just now, and was pushed by Xiao'e directly to the shady and cool place just now.

"It was you who pushed me just now, I obviously..."

Xiao'e rushed to talk: "You are clear? What are you clear about? Just now I saw you hiding in the shade and loafing. I came here to remind you, but you scratched me!"

Hongxiao frowned and said, "Right and wrong are in people's hearts, you can't turn black and white with just one mouth!"

"Okay, since you said that, let everyone distinguish together." Xiao'e snorted nonchalantly, and said, "Fang'er, let me ask you, what did you see just now?"

The cleaning lady at the side whispered: "Just now when I was cleaning the yard, I saw sister Hongxiao secretly... secretly...drinking water!"

Hongxiao asked hoarsely: "You are talking nonsense! When did I drink water!"

Xiao'e proudly said: "Sister Hongxiao, the empress has already ordered you not to drink water no matter how thirsty you are, and you actually disobeyed the order of the empress? It seems that this matter must be told to the empress."

"I was framed, and I didn't drink any water at all! She framed me, I, I..." Hong Kao's throat was swollen and sore as she argued, and the dryness spread from her mouth to her throat. Severe pain.

Xiao'e sighed softly, and said: "Just now everyone saw that it was Sister Hongxiao, you were lazy. I kindly remind you that you still scratched me, and now you secretly drink water against your mother's will. This matter , you have to let the empress do justice!"

Hong Hom retorted weakly: "Don't go...I didn't!"

But how could Xiao'e listen to her, so she turned her head and reported to the main hall, and then brought the imperial concubine's order: "Hongxiao violated the mother's will, and then knelt for two hours, and she is not allowed to eat or sleep tonight." Let's clean Qingyan Palace inside and out."

Seeing Hongxiao being punished, the rest of the palace members started discussing lively like watching a play.

At night, Xuan Yin went to Qingyan Palace to visit Concubine Sui.

Concubine Sui was very pleasantly surprised, and ordered the palace staff to prepare a large table of dishes early, and also thought about what to say about the Queen's affairs, and only waited until Xuan Yin came to handle the government affairs, and immediately said: "My concubine pays my respects to the emperor, and the emperor's best wishes Kim Ann."

Xuan Yin responded lightly, and asked, "How do you feel physically? Do you feel unwell?"

Concubine Sui said tenderly: "The concubine thanked the emperor for his concern, the concubine and the baby in her womb are fine, but the concubine misses the emperor very much."

"Didn't I come here?" Xuan Yin took the man's hand and walked to the table, "Did you prepare all these meals?"

Concubine Sui smiled coquettishly: "That's right, when the concubine heard that the emperor was coming, she specially asked the palace servants to make this table of dishes, including lychee pork belly, steamed silver carp, honey glutinous rice cake, lotus leaf soup, emerald celery shrimp , Your Majesty, taste it quickly."

"It's hard for you to worry about these things while you're pregnant." Xuan Yin sat down, looking at a table of sumptuous dishes, slightly curling his lips.

Concubine Sui picked up a piece of shrimp meat for someone, and said: "The concubine just chooses fresh ingredients and watches the palace servants prepare these dishes, it's not hard work."

Xuan Yin picked it up and tasted it, nodded and said: "It tastes good, it's no better than the dishes made by the imperial dining room."

Concubine Sui couldn't hide her smile, and said again: "Then the emperor can use another bowl of lotus leaf soup, it tastes refreshing, it has both the fragrance of rice and the faint fragrance of lotus leaves, the concubine feels good after drinking it."

"Okay." Xuan Yin took the jade bowl and tasted a few mouthfuls of lotus leaf soup.

Taking advantage of the meal, Concubine Sui slowly faded her smile, "Your Majesty, it was purely out of kindness that I sent peach blossom cheese to you and the Empress, and I didn't know that the peach blossom cheese would make the Empress feel unbearable...The concubine just Thinking that the peach blossom has a mild aroma, I just want to add more petals to make the peach blossom cheese more fragrant."

"I know you didn't mean it, so I came to see you today." Xuan Yin raised his hand backwards, and Li Qiao came up from behind carrying something. Concubine Sui took a closer look and found that it was a red jade stick. Chinese rose jade hairpin.

Concubine Sui was surprised and speechless: "Your Majesty, is this hairpin...?"

Xuan Yin smiled lightly and said: "Don't you like roses? This hairpin was specially made for you, do you still like the appearance?"

Concubine Sui just wanted to reach out her hand, but thought of something, she put her hand back in the air, "Your Majesty, my concubine likes roses, but didn't you say last time that my concubine's clothes were outdated in terms of color and embroidery? Concubines dare not accept red jade hairpins."

Xuan Yin said: "I thought about it later, everyone likes this rose, and usually I put it in a corner to enjoy it, so I can't blame you. And the jade used to make the rose hairpin is pink, pink jade Embedded with crimson, you won't get in the way if you wear it."

"The concubine will thank the emperor for the reward." Concubine Sui picked up the jade hairpin with a smile, stroked it lovingly, the more she looked at it, the happier she was.

"By the way, I have one more thing to tell you."

Concubine Sui nodded: "Your Majesty, please tell me."

Xuan Yin picked up a piece of pork belly and said: "You have worked hard during pregnancy, after dinner, I will go to the side hall to rest."

"The concubine, go and order someone to clean up the side hall." Concubine Sui turned her head to look at Xiao'e, and said, "Go and tell Hongxiao to let her clean out the side hall, and leave the rest here. Do it later."

"Yes." Xiao'e nodded, then turned around and left.

After leaving the hall, Xiao'e called people up: "Hongkao! Hongkao! Where is Hongkao?"

Fang'er ran over and said, "I just saw Hongxiao scrubbing the palace gate."

"What is she doing cleaning the palace gate at night!" Xiao'e frowned, then walked towards the palace gate, saw the red silk rubbing the palace gate from a distance, and said angrily: "What are you doing here? ? Who are you going to clean the palace door at night for? "

Hongxiao said in a low voice: "Your Majesty ordered me to clean the inside and outside of Qingyan Palace, and this palace gate is naturally included."

"Okay, you still dare to talk back now...!" Xiao'e Fang wanted to teach a lesson, but then she thought of Sui's order, and said instead: "Forget it, I don't care about it with you! Your empress has an order, and I want you to get rid of it immediately. Clean out the hall, and put the rest away in advance."

"I'll finish wiping the palace door first, there's still some left." Hong Kao threw the rag into the bucket, almost splashing Xiao'e all over.

"Why do you need to wipe?" Xiao'e sternly said, "Didn't you hear me? There are more important things for you to do now, so you should clean the side hall first, and put aside such trivial things as cleaning the palace gate." There will be no less meat!"

Hongxiao continued to wipe the palace door without raising her eyelids, "If you can't wait, you can clean up the side hall yourself."

"You...!" Xiao'e turned her head to look at Fang'er at the door, and said, "Fang'er, come here and wipe the palace door for her."

Fang'er said "Ah?", then reluctantly walked over, "Sister Xiao'e, I can't even wipe the palace door."

"You won't step on the bench to clean it? Don't ask me such stupid things in the future!" Xiao'e glanced at Hongxiao and said, "Now you can clean up the side hall, right?"

Without saying a word, Hongxiao threw the cloth into the bucket, got up and walked towards the side hall.

"Hey, wait!" Xiao'e stopped her, frowned and looked at the person, and said, "If you go in like this, you will have to clean up the side hall. Hurry up and wash and change your clothes before tidying up."

Hong Kao paused for a moment, a faint smile hung on her lips, and then walked forward.

At night, Xuan Yin went to rest in the side hall, and lay down on the bed after dismissing the palace servants, and was about to fall asleep drowsily. Suddenly, a soft touch came from his waist, followed by a scent of apricot blossoms. Come, the smell is like the fragrant flowers in the orchids in the deep valley, spit out the fragrance.

The soft touch slowly climbed up his waist, Xuan Yin was startled, and then grabbed the hand.

"You were so bold just now, but now you know how to be afraid?"

Xuan Yin looked back, only to see a very delicately dressed woman looking at him, her cheeks were condensed with fresh lilies, and she was charming.He also very quickly discovered the identity of the woman beside him, she was Sui Concubine's personal maid, Hong Xiao.

He originally wanted to reprimand Hongxiao and punish her heavily, but then he thought about it, Concubine Sui now needs someone to restrain her, if someone around her betrayed, how would she react?

Thinking of this, he embraced the red silk with his backhand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Now that you have reached this point, do you still want me to teach you how to serve you?"

Hongxiao raised her lips in surprise and smiled, then moved her hand to Xuan Yin's chest, and slowly untied her belt.

(End of this chapter)