The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 57 Poisoning (3)

"Chengqian Palace?" The Empress Dowager looked at Xinglu with a surprised expression. She put the teacup aside and remained silent for a few seconds, then suddenly raised the corners of her lips and smiled lightly: "The emperor always goes to Chengqian Palace during this time." Go, I'm afraid it's not all because of Concubine Yi."

Hearing this, Xinglu twitched his eyelashes slightly, and was a little surprised: "The queen mother said that the emperor is because of the beautiful girl?"

These words are somewhat unbelievable, after all, no matter how much the emperor has a crush on a court lady, he wouldn't run to the same place every day for her, so what is the difference between him and a teenage boy?
But the queen mother shook her head, with a faint smile all the time, picked up the prayer beads on the table, and turned them lightly, the words in the air were very confident: "Aijia understands the emperor, the more he has what kind of mood, the more It will not be put on the bright side, the more you show that you love someone, the more often you have other plans."

Regarding this, Xing Lu also smiled slightly, and said softly: "The Queen Mother is right, it seems that Concubine Yi doesn't need us to worry about it."

The Empress Dowager has no intention of taking care of Concubine Yi, and Concubine Zhao has no time to take care of it. Firstly, she is now in charge of many important affairs in the Six Palaces. Secondly, Concubine Yi is really innocent and kind. Originally, concubines only need to go to the concubine in the early morning. It is enough to greet the Queen Mother, but Concubine Yi will come to greet Concubine Zhaogui earlier every day, and then wait for her to go to greet the Queen Mother together.You know, this is a courtesy to the empress, so it naturally coaxes Concubine Zhao to feel happy from the bottom of her heart.

However, Concubine Yi is blocking the way for concubines in the harem to be favored, there are always people who can't sit still.Today, when Li Guiren came to Zhongcui Palace to visit Ma Guiren, Ma Guiren was watching his servants amusing Changsheng, but Ma Guiren's expression was not very focused.

"Greetings to my sister." Li Guiren slightly bent his knees and gave Ma Guiren a hand-holding salute, then looked at Changsheng who was being held by Baikui, and couldn't help but raised the corners of his lips and smiled: "This Changsheng's eyebrows and eyes look more and more like my sister. , will definitely be a handsome and unrestrained little prince from now on."

Ma Guiren glanced at Li Guiren briefly, obviously not interested, he just said lightly: "Sit down."

Li Guiren looked at Ma Guiren's expression, sat silently on the wooden chair beside him, suppressed the smile on his face, gave Bai Kui a look, and signaled her to leave first.After Bai Kui left with Changsheng in her arms, Li Guiren said softly, "Sister seems to be in a bad mood?"

Hearing this, Ma Guiren snorted softly, leaned on the armrest of the chair and stroked his forehead, his tone was full of jealousy: "These days when Concubine Yi entered the palace, the emperor didn't go anywhere except Chengqian Palace. It's because I can't sleep well, the emperor doesn't know to come and see."

Hearing this, Li Guiren smiled lightly, with the corners of his lips curled up all the time: "If it's because of Concubine Yi, it's not easy to do? Concubine Yi is careless, innocent, and timid. If my sister wants to scare you Hold her, just scaring her is enough for her to bear."

Ma Guiren looked at Li Guiren, her eyes changed, and her beautiful face was full of malicious intentions at the moment, she raised her eyebrows slightly: "Oh? This Concubine Yi is so favored, it makes me very embarrassed, my sister actually said that so easy?"

Li Guiren kept smiling, and naturally understood the meaning of Ma Guiren's words, and said respectfully: "If I make my sister feel embarrassed, my sister will try to make her remember long, so that she will never dare to compete with my sister for favor."

A few days later, the people from the imperial dining room brought breakfast. Ever since Jiaorong asked the people from the imperial dining room to prepare sweet-scented sweet-scented lotus root for Concubine Yi last week, Concubine Yi has recognized this dish, and has eaten it for almost a week. I don't feel tired.

Today, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent the clothes prepared by the emperor for these court ladies. Jiao Rong, Yi Zhu and Bai He all went to try on the clothes, so the food poisoning testers were replaced by other court ladies.

That day Liang Jiugong took Jiaorong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to choose fabrics. The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs saw that Jiaorong was brought by Liang Jiugong, and immediately took out all the best fabrics. Let Jiaorong choose, and Jiaorong chose her favorite. green.

At this moment, Jiao Rong had just put on new clothes, so she rarely smiled from the bottom of her heart, and walked into the main hall intending to show Concubine Yi a look.At this time, a court lady was testing every dish of Concubine Yi. Concubine Yi sat there quietly waiting. When she saw Jiaorong coming in, Concubine Yi smiled slightly: "Have you finished changing your clothes? Come here quickly." Let me have a look."

Jiaorong stepped forward obediently, and was about to answer Concubine Yi's words, but at this moment, there was a sudden "pop" sound from the side, and it was the chopsticks in the hands of the poison-testing maid who fell to the ground.Jiao Rong looked at the maid in an instant, and saw that the maid was frowning, clutching her stomach in unbearable pain, and in the next second, her nose was bleeding.

"Ah!" At this moment, Concubine Yi looked at the maid in front of her, stood up directly, couldn't help but took two steps back, almost tripped herself, reached out her hand to cover her chest, and looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief.

Jiaorong's eyes widened in an instant, and she hurried forward to support the maid, who also tightly grasped Jiaorong's hand, and wanted to speak, but her breathing was extremely difficult, and she couldn't speak a word with her mouth open. .Jiaorong looked outside the hall and shouted loudly: "Yizhu!"

Hearing the sound, Yizhu trotted in, a little confused: "What's the matter, sister?"

But soon, Yizhu saw the hideous appearance of the palace maid covered in blood, and also screamed, being frightened.

All of this happened very suddenly. Jiaorong frowned tightly, bit the corner of her lower lip to keep herself calm, she watched the little maid slowly lose her breath in her arms, and turned her head to look at Yizhu's voice was extremely cold: "Go and report to the emperor first."

At this moment, Bai He also rushed over upon hearing the sound, and Jiao Rong's eyes shifted to Bai He: "First call some eunuchs to come in to dispose of her body, and then help me go to the imperial dining room to find a little imperial chef named Fulu. "

Bai He froze for a moment, seeing the miserable state of the maid in Jiaorong's arms, she was a little dumbfounded for a while, but she calmed down and said, "Okay."

Soon, both Yi Zhu and Bai He left, a few eunuchs came in and took away the unlucky maid who had tested the poison, Jiao Rong looked at the blood stains on her newly changed clothes, and sighed helplessly, He quickly walked to Concubine Yi's side.

At this time, Concubine Yi was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground. She was still a naive girl, and she had never encountered such a terrifying thing. Trembling, she looked at Jiaorong, and asked in a very low voice: "Jiaorong, is... is she dead?"

Jiao Rong pursed her lips, her face was very serious, she knelt down slowly, and gave a slow "um".

In the next second, Concubine Yi's eyes widened, and she quickly grabbed Jiaorong's hand, eyes full of helplessness and panic: "Did someone poison me?"

(End of this chapter)