Chunman Palace

Chapter 60

Luzhu immediately retorted: "How would I know! There are so many of them, can't they search and search?!"

"That's all! I still need to talk to my mother about this matter in the future, lest they bully you too much." Then Hanmei gave another 20 taels of silver to someone, turned and left.

Luzhu looked at the silver in her hand and frowned, "It's not enough! So little, sister Hanmei, wait a minute."

After cleaning the Yaohua Pavilion, Hanmei was already sore all over, her legs were difficult to move, and she was quickly blocked by Luzhu.

"What do you want to do…?"

Luzhu smiled sweetly, "Hanmei, give me all the money."

"I don't have much left, and the money I gave you..." Before Hanmei finished speaking, Luzhu had already stepped forward to snatch it. Under the push, Hanmei was pushed heavily on the ground, and her body hit the hard rock. , gasped for an instant, curled up in pain, and immediately passed out.

Luzhu proudly grabbed her purse, and didn't look at Hanmei again.

The other maids heard the sound and came forward one by one to flatter her.

"Sister Luzhu is really talented, she got so much money easily!!"

"Sister Luzhu still loves Zijun~ I helped my sister wash all the clothes for this month."

"Shh, keep your voices down, let's talk when you go in." Lu Zhu couldn't hide her joy in her voice, and her tone was quite arrogant: "When I become the aunt in charge, I won't treat you badly."

Hanmei opened her eyes, all the softness, guilt, and compassion turned into hatred. She struggled to pick up a wooden stick, gritted her teeth firmly to support her body, and with every step, her frail figure gradually disappeared in the darkness.

Recently, Jingui fell out of favor due to miscarriage, and concubine Ling regained favor.

The palace people said that the emperor's love for noble Jin was not as good as before. Otherwise, how could a lowly girl like Lin Changzai become a noble person?The emperor deliberately insulted noble Jin, making her, the daughter of the Tai Tuo, equal to the daughter of the county magistrate.

There are many rumors like this.

When Lin Qingyu visited Mu Pingting with cakes, Huayue talked about the recent rumors in the palace.

"Are there not many gossipers in the palace? Let them go." Mu Pingting fiddled with the white magnolia hairpin on her head, opened a porcelain box and took out some extremely fragrant white paste, and said to Lin Qingyu: "Qingyu, you Let's see if this Baihua ointment is good? There are many kinds of fragrant flowers in it, which not only make people walk fragrant, but also make the skin more snowy."

Lin Qingyu leaned over and sniffed it according to his words, and shook his head with a light smile: "Qingyu doesn't understand spices, so I don't know what are the hundreds of fragrant flowers in it... I just vaguely smell sweet-scented osmanthus?"

Mu Pingting lost her mind, she put back her smile and said, "Jing Gui made a benevolent marriage to Jin Lan, and now someone has probably forgotten it."

Lin Qingyu felt uncomfortable when something sad was involved, so she hurriedly changed her words: "Then sister, try this Baihua ointment to see if it is really so miraculous." She rubbed some Baihua ointment on the back of her hand, and immediately boasted: "It really smells so good Woolen cloth."

"My sister has just been promoted to the position of nobleman. As an older sister, I haven't congratulated you yet." Mu Pingting got up and took out a sapphire hibiscus hairpin from the jewelry box and gave it to someone: "Sister congratulates my sister, this balm and Hairpins are not considered valuables, sister, why don't you dislike them?"

Lin Qingyu hurriedly said: "How can Qingyu receive such a generous gift from my sister! Sister, please leave."

Mu Pingting smiled and put on the hairpin for someone, and said softly: "It's just a little bit of my sister's kindness, why should my sister shirk?" She put the porcelain box into Lin Qingyu's hand, patted the man's hand lightly and said: "The recent rumors It really hurts people, but there are also a lot of exaggerated words in these rumors, and it is difficult to choose some truths from them! I am afraid that if there are too many falsehoods, they will become true."

"For example, Ling Concubine dismissed all the palace people every night before, not even the maids who guarded her. There was also a time when Ling Concubine did not have menstruation for several months, but she never invited the imperial physician to treat her."

Mu Pingting's words seemed to have a deep meaning.

How can he be content with the status quo and allow himself to be fished by people who have been victimized repeatedly?These so-called "rumors" were all heard by her from the palace servants around Lingbin.

Lin Qingyu thought about it for a moment, then smiled knowingly, "The false is true and the true is false, and the true is false and the false is true. Sometimes when false words are fermented, they can not only hurt people's hearts, but also hurt people's lives. It is really scary."

"Don't worry, no matter how powerful the rumors are, it won't affect us. After all, the important end is with other people." Mu Pingting stuffed something into Lin Qingyu's hand and sighed long.

"Qingyu understands." Lin Qingyu smiled, gripped the object tightly, and slowly put it into the sleeve.

After staying for another half day, Lin Qingyu returned to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, Lingqiao asked at a loss: "What are Jingui and the young master talking about? Why can't the servant understand anything?"

Lin Qingyu smiled: "You don't need to understand, I didn't intend to entrust you with this matter, remember that Hanmei? She has to do this matter."

Lingqiao's face turned red, and she said in disbelief: "If there is anything, just tell me, my servant, I promise to do better than that Hanmei!"

"It's not that I look down on you, now you and Mo'er should stay by my side and serve me well." Lin Qingyu stretched out his finger and hooked her nose, making Lingqiao's face even more red.

After all, she is like a child, this kind of thing should be left to her later.

As for Mo'er, although she was prudent in her work, she was also the only one who could analyze it, so it was risky to let her go.

and so…

"What do you want my lord to call my servant?" While thinking, Hanmei had already come in and was waiting for orders.

Lin Qingyu put away his thoughts, looked at Humanity and said, "I heard you said that you have a friend in the Huanyi Bureau?"

"Yes, this servant's friend is named Luzhu."

"The Huanyi Bureau... is not a good place to go after all, and your friend is not doing well, right?"

Hanmei was silent for a while, then nodded.

Lin Qingyu continued: "I can grab that friend of yours, but it depends on whether you are willing to do me a small favor."

Hanmei lowered her head and said: "Young master, just give me orders, even if it's not for friends, this servant will do my best to help."

"Very good." A gleam of joy flashed in Lin Qingyu's eyes, then he waved his hand, stuffed the thing that Mu Pingting gave her into Hanmei's hand, and said in a low voice, "I'll go see you with you later. That friend of yours, be smart, you know?"

Hanmei nodded and said: "Your servant obeys."

In the clothing bureau, the palace people are dividing the clothes of each palace and sending people to clean them.

Lin Qingyu walked in with Hanmei, and Nanny Fang stepped forward to greet her immediately, with a smile all over her face: "Greetings to Mr. Qing, what orders does Mr. Qing have?"

Lin Qingyu glanced at people lightly, pointed to the basket in Hanmei's hand with a smile and said, "Some of my clothes are dirty, send them here for cleaning, they must be as good as new ones."

Mother Fang laughed and said, "It's not necessary for the nobleman to come in person, you only need to give an order, and the servants will send someone to fetch it immediately."

Hanmei stabbed: "These clothes are extremely valuable, if you just find someone to wash them and ruin them, who will take the responsibility in the Clothes Bureau?"

"Yes yes yes, I understand!" Mother Fang shouted to the maids behind her, "Lu Zhu, come quickly."

A petite court lady trotted forward, and greeted in a waxy voice: "Greetings to the Qing nobleman."

Nanny Fang introduced: "This Green Pearl is the most effective at the Clothes Bureau. How about letting her help your mother wash these clothes?"

Lin Qingyu's heart sank, and he said to Luzhu, "Extend your hand."

"Yes." Luzhu stretched out her hands, thin white and slender, with few cocoons, obviously she hadn't done much work.

Lin Qingyu laughed secretly in her heart, still putting on a satisfied look, "Okay, I will leave these clothes to you, Hanmei, I will take them back to the palace later."

Hanmei nodded silently, and handed the clothes to Luzhu with a cold face.

Lu Zhu took the clothes basket as if nothing had happened, and said mockingly, "Sister Hanmei, why does the master you follow come to deliver the clothes in person? There are not many nobles who can set foot in this clothing bureau."

Hanmei said indifferently, "I told my master about you, and I want to get you a hand."

Lu Zhu's eyes wandered, and she scooped up a spoonful of water absently, "Oh... so, I'm fine here."

Hanmei raised her lips and said: "Didn't you say a few days ago that you worked hard at the clothing bureau, cold and hungry, and others bullied you? I told the master, and the master thinks you are really pitiful, so it seems that I am able to do things normally For the sake of this, I want to take you to Yaohua Pavilion to do something."

"I don't want to go again. I think it's good to be in the Clothes Bureau." Lvzhu felt a little guilty, took a piece of acacia and threw it into the clothes basin.

Hanmei quickly stopped her and said: "What are you doing! How can you wash the clothes of noble people with such vulgar things!" She immediately fished out the piece of acacia from the basin and threw it away, and took it out from the wooden pot beside it. Put some off-white scraps on the clothes: "This has to be washed carefully, and you can't rub it hard. You'd better not touch this basin of clothes, or the little master will definitely blame you."

"I, I just forgot it for a while. I know how to do it. For washing, let me do it." Luzhu immediately pushed people away, dipped her hands in lye powder, and started to scrub.

Hanmei pointed at the people, while looking at the several pots of clothes next to her: "Remember not to use too much force, you have been here for half a year, if you are not familiar with how to clean the clothes of the masters, if you are promoted But it’s all about meticulous work, how can you take care of it?”

Luzhu complained: "I see, stop staring at me here, and help me wash other clothes, right? Once the nobleman's clothes come, I have so many clothes that I can't take care of!"

This is exactly what she wanted, Hanmei pretended to hesitate for a while and said: "This...then what clothes do you still have unwashed?"

"The pots in front of you are Yu Chang's, Luo Xuan's, and Ling Concubine's. Speaking of which, Ling Concubine has no airs at all, and she doesn't set many requirements like Qing nobles." Lu Zhu Seeing no one around, I boldly speak out what I think.

"It's not that the clothes are expensive, otherwise why would Qing nobles set foot in the clothing bureau?"

Luzhu said harshly: "After all, he is just a nobleman, he has a low status and has never seen any good things. A few clothes look like precious ones. It's not as grand as the lord of the first palace!"

"Say a few words less, and be careful not to let the trouble come out of your mouth." Hanmei couldn't help it anymore, her tone became serious.

Lu Zhuzi still wanted to say something, but when she saw someone helping her with work, she held back and muttered: "Well, well, I don't want to say anything, but who in the palace thinks of noble people...I'm just telling the truth."

Hanmei answered nonchalantly, took out the small bottle from her cuff, opened Lingpin's clothes and poured it in.

A moment later, Hanmei stretched her waist, and said "Ouch" a few times: "No, the master has given me too much work these days, I can only help you finish Luo Xuanshi's laundry."

Luzhu pursed her lips in dissatisfaction. You must know that Luo Xuan is not favored at all, and the clothes are the least and the best to wash, but seeing that Hanmei is also kind today, she just said: "Okay, I just happen to finish washing the nobleman soon." These few clothes are gone, you can just take the clothes away after a while."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you over there." After Hanmei finished speaking, she went straight to the corner to find a place to rest.

Lvzhu came over to pick up the remaining pile of clothes, and suddenly found that there was a lot of red in Lingbi's clothes basin, and she cried out in fright: "Hanmei...! Come and see, what's going on here!"

"Huh? What's the matter?" Hanmei went over without knowing why, and frowned when she saw the things in Lingpin's basin, and said bluntly: "Msg Lingpin's menstruation is coming, what's the fuss, just wash it up quickly."

Luzhu's face was ashen ashes and said: "No...it's different! The blood on this dress has blood clots! How could it be menstruation, and besides, is it true that the concubine Ling can't be pregnant? How can there be menstruation? ?”

"Are you stupid?" Hanmei poked her forehead and said in a low voice, "Not being able to conceive doesn't mean you won't have menstruation, maybe it's just some illness, and you haven't taken good care of your body..."

"But this..." Lu Zhu pointed to the basin of blood-stained clothes, and was speechless for a while, when suddenly she frowned, opened the corner of the clothes with trembling hands, and took out a jade wrench.

The style and size of this jade wrench is obviously a man's thing!

Mother Fang also heard the commotion at this time, she leaned forward, saw Luzhu holding a jade wrench, and couldn't help saying: "Where did you steal such a thing?"

"It's wrapped in Lingbi's clothes, it should belong to the emperor, right?" Lu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh? Otherwise, who else would be there?" Fang Nanny snatched the finger wrench, looked at it carefully, suddenly her face was startled, and she murmured: "This is not right."

Luzhu went up curiously and said, "What's wrong? Isn't it the emperor's finger pull?"

"Lady Concubine Lan is here!"

A palace official shouted to the Clothes Bureau with a drawn out voice.

All the palace people rushed forward to greet him.

Nanny Fang was also shocked, this Huanyi bureau was first the nobles and then the concubine Lan, why all the masters came here.

She hurried forward to pay her respects: "I didn't know that Concubine Lan was coming, this servant is guilty!"

Concubine Lan smiled warmly: "Excuse me, I heard that a certain master's clothes were stained with dirt, is there anything wrong?"

Mother Fang felt very bad, so she opened her mouth to clarify the relationship first: "I don't know! This morning, I feel a little headache, so I snooze and rest for a while..."

Concubine Lan frowned and asked, "Oh? Are you only getting up now?"

"Damn the servant! The servant deserve to die!" Mother Fang immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

Concubine Lan looked at Humanity calmly and said, "If you are so lazy and dereliction of duty, you should be punished."

Just when Concubine Lan was about to speak, Luzhu suddenly stepped forward and said, "Lady Concubine Lan, when I just undressed the clothes, I found a lot of blood on Madam Ling's clothes. I don't know if those things are filth or not."

After hearing this, Concubine Lan immediately took someone to check.

And the pot of bloody clothes had been taken away long ago, not even water stains were left on the ground.

Luzhu was stunned immediately: "This...how could it be! The servant girl clearly saw that the clothes were stained with blood and there were many blood clots, and there was a jade wrench hidden in it. Nanny Fang said it was a royal property!"

Mother Fang was so frightened that she hurriedly knelt down: "Mother, this girl is not mentally normal, and she has always been suspicious recently, she must not believe it!"

Concubine Lan said lightly, "Then let's do a body search." Then she sat on the chair brought by the palace servants and sipped tea.

After a while, the palace man replied: "Nothing was found."

Concubine Lan's expression froze when she heard the words, she paused for a moment holding the teacup in her hand, and then said: "Nurse Fang will be fined thirty times for leaving her post without a staff, thirty for Lu Zhu's nonsense slaps, and four hours for kneeling."

(End of this chapter)