Red House Shoufu

Chapter 171
The Fengzao Palace is located next to the Yikun Palace of the imperial concubine Yang's family. After lunch, Yuanchun thought for a long time and asked Baoqin to fetch a ginseng plant from the Rongguo Mansion.

"Let's go to Yikun Palace for a walk. If it wasn't for the imperial concubine the day before yesterday, I'm afraid I would have eaten that pill..."

Yuan Chun changed into a light green palace dress, embroidered with a simple and elegant lotus pattern.Baoqin took out a jasper luan and phoenix hairpin, and inserted it on top of her hair.

The figure in the bronze mirror looked haggard, Yuan Chun reached out and touched his cheek, muttering to himself: "It's actually a little thinner..."

"Your Majesty vomits a lot these days, and drank so much medicine, can she not lose weight? It will feel better in a few days."

Baoqin helped Yuanchun tidy up the skirt: "Okay, although the empress is thinner, she is even more beautiful!"

Yuan Chun smiled, and nodded his forehead holding Qin: "You are the only one with a sweet mouth!"

The two master and servant talked and laughed, followed by four maids of honor.After a while, they arrived at the gate of the main hall of Yikun Palace.

The maid guarding the gate saw that Yuan Chun was coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "My maidservant pays my respects to Concubine Xian."

"It's Shaoyao, is Sister Yang free now?" Yuan Chun asked.

Shao Yao replied: "Your Majesty has just finished her lunch, she will be free now. Concubine Xian, please wait a moment, this servant will report..."

……

Yuan Chun was welcomed into the main hall of Yikun Palace, and Mrs. Yang was flipping through a book casually.

"Sister Yang, my concubine came here today to ask my sister for help!" After saluting, Yuan Chun said straight to the point: "The pills should be a prescription handed down from the previous dynasty. Before entering the palace, the grandmother at home once gave my concubine said..."

After listening to Yuan Chun's words, Yang frowned, and the expression on her face became more serious.If this is true, this matter will be a little troublesome.

The Fengsheng lady of the Zhen family is what the Supreme Emperor calls "the old man of my family".If this matter spreads, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the Supreme Emperor and his old man?

The day before yesterday, she also happened to think that the medicine pills sent to Fengzao Palace by the Imperial Hospital tasted similar to the medicine she used back then, so she had someone check it out, but she didn't expect that someone had actually added something to it.

It was a similar drug at the beginning, which caused her to give birth to a stillbirth, and she did not get pregnant again after that.If the emperor hadn't suppressed the matter secretly, she would have been turned into a piece of loess long ago.

"Sister Xianfei, Madam Rong Guo once said that besides Madam Fengsheng, is there anyone else who knows about this prescription?"

Yang's speed of stroking the rosary gradually became faster. The child who died in her womb was a hurdle she couldn't get over in her life.

Yuan Chun didn't know what Yang was thinking, but just wanted to use Yang's power in charge of the Six Palaces to protect the child in her womb.

Hearing Yang's question, he quickly replied: "I don't even know about it. This prescription appeared during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, and it is said to be related to the dispute between Empress Hu and Concubine Sun. Maybe the old people in the palace may have heard of it. "

Mrs. Yang stopped moving the rosary beads, and called her confidant female official: "Cuizhu, go and ask Mother Zheng to come over!"

After the female officer went out, Yang stared at Yuan Chun's abdomen, her gaze changed from cold to gentle, she could guess the reason why Yuan Chun deliberately told her these secrets today.

In this palace, only the emperor and himself can fight against the imperial concubine Zhen.Yuan Chun is showing his favor to himself again, and at the same time showing his favor to him on behalf of the Jia family.

"Sister Xianfei, I can guess the reason for your visit. Rest assured, since she dares to attack His Majesty's blood, I will let her see whether the Forbidden City is surnamed Zhen or Gao!"

……

In the summer of the eighth year of Zhide, it was rainy in the north.

After nesting in the boat for several days, I finally arrived in the territory of Daming Mansion in Henan.

Because of the torrential rains in the past few days, the river has soared, and it is no longer safe to sail.After a brief discussion, the group decided to take a short rest and make plans after the rain stopped.

Tan Mingming, who was in charge of the guard, asked Lin Shu: "Scholar, shall we enter the city or station outside the city?"

"Just station outside the city. With so many of us, there's no need to disturb the local area."

Lin Shu looked around, and on the official road leading to Fucheng, there were many people with families and bags on their backs rushing to Fucheng.Seeing Lin Shu and his party, he lowered his body and hurried away with fear and hatred.

"Send someone to ask, what are these people going to do with such heavy rain?"

Tan Mingming took the order to leave, but Lin Shu had a bad premonition in his heart.

At this time, Du Zimu also got off the boat and walked to Lin Shu with an umbrella: "Jinyu, these people... are probably fleeing. Daming Mansion is next to Shuntian Mansion and Shandong, separated by a river, but compared to it, it is like two world."

They were still in Shandong yesterday, and there were also floods there, but the local government did a good job in disaster relief. Although there were refugees, they were not so exaggerated.

Lin Shu nodded silently, even more worried.This has just entered Henan, and it has not yet reached the counties on both sides of the Yellow River where floods are frequent and the floods are more serious.

Tan Mingming was drenched all over, and ran over in a hurry.He clasped his fists and bowed to the two of them: "My lords, the general just asked me that these people had their homes destroyed by the flood and had nowhere to live. I heard that there was a disaster relief from the government in Fucheng of Daming Prefecture, and some gentry selected servants to go to Fucheng Survival."

"Is there no one in the county to provide disaster relief? Why do you look far away?" Du Zimu was very surprised. According to the imperial court system, when villagers were affected by disasters, the local county government would open warehouses to release grain and cook porridge for disaster relief.

Tan Mingming smiled wryly: "Master Du, according to the information obtained by the general, the local county magistrate is now in the prefecture, because there is no food in the county at all..."

Du Zimu was furious when he heard that, in order to prevent the annual summer floods, the Ministry of Households had already distributed enough grain to Henan. According to the time calculation, it should be distributed to the states and counties.

Lin Shu comforted the furious Du Zimu, he looked at the distant Fucheng, and told Tan Mingming to set up the tent first.

"Jinyu, it seems that there is something wrong with the food for the disaster relief, now I will go to Fucheng to have a look..."

There seemed to be a fire in Du Zimu's heart, which could not be extinguished even by the torrential rain.The refugees who had made the difficult journey northward on the official road were like a heavy hammer hitting his heart hard.

Lin Shu stopped Du Zimu, but he actually felt uncomfortable.

"Senior Du, the matter has not been investigated clearly, and you and I are just patrolling the river, what name do you use to manage this matter?"

Du Zimu glared angrily, and pointed to a little girl not far away who was lying on the back of the basket, and asked them loudly: "Then just watch the people suffer, and don't care?"

"Send people to investigate secretly first, and at the same time report to His Majesty. We didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. If we only use the name of patrolling the river, we can only make the officials of the Daming Mansion scruples. It will also make them vigilant and cover up the evidence.”

Lin Shu looked at the ragged refugees, suppressed the anger in his heart, and whispered to Du Zimu, "There is no way to hide our whereabouts. The officials of the Daming Mansion must have noticed. When they come over, Senior Du must not mention the refugees. matter, you and I will pretend to be people who don’t understand practical things and can only talk..."

(End of this chapter)