Gel makeup

Chapter 194
Siqing asked: "During the banquet, why did you return to the Qixia Pavilion by yourself?"

Rui Er said: "Going back to Your Highness the Empress... yes... it was the girl who said it was cold and asked the servant to get the big clothes. The lady next to her heard the girl ordering the servant. The servant had just left, and when she turned around, she saw an eunuch calling for the girl. The servant girl is still strange! When the servant girl came back, the girl didn't go back to the table! The servant girl really doesn't know..."

"You said you saw an eunuch looking for her," Xiao Yi said, "Did you see the face clearly?"

Rui Er hurriedly said: "See it clearly! It's an unfamiliar face, definitely not from Xiyuan, wearing brand-new robes, like some nobleman's valet."

Siqing asked Lingzhen, "Are there any portraits of the servants in the palace?"

Ling Zhen shook her head, "The maids will have them when they enter the servants, but the servants will not."

Siqing said: "Try to find a way to bring her to meet the servants next to the nobles, don't startle the snake." After speaking, she looked at Rui'er and said, "If you don't want to die, just keep your mouth shut. If someone asks, just say Miss Mo is out." The palace is gone, do you hear me?"

Ling Zhen led the distraught Rui Er to retreat, Si Qing turned her head to stop Ling Zhen and said to Ling Zhen, "Let's just say that she went to Lan Zhi's old residence in Xishan, and she will go to mourn there for a while. Xiyuan side , I don’t want to hear the slightest rumor.”

Ling Zhen should be, Xiao Yi said again: "If it is a servant brought in by some palace, it will be difficult to check. She can't swim? It's hard to say that she slipped, maybe she was pushed down."

Ling Zhen said: "The servant is still investigating. During the banquet, someone saw that the girl sent someone to invite Miss Lan Mo. If someone wants to do something wrong, besides killing Miss Mo, would they also want to hurt Miss Mo..."

Siqing snorted, "Only living in peace for two days, and then went from setting fire in the open to killing people in the dark." As she spoke, she covered her old wound with her hand.

Ling Zhen and Xiao Yi surrounded her at the same time, Si Qing said: "You're right, I shouldn't have left her here, I should have sent her to Mrs. Cheng Ping, otherwise she wouldn't have lost her life in vain."

Ling Zhen said: "The matter has come to this point, it's not the girl's fault. Finding out the murderer is the most important thing."

Xiao Yi put his arms around Siqing with one hand, and scratched the rash on his neck with the other. Siqing hurriedly said: "Don't scratch it." Then he said, "My brother got a rash when he touched the rabbit fur. In the past, it was fine if you hugged the raccoon slave. Why are there so many rashes this time?"

Xiao Yi said: "Hey, you have a little conscience, okay? Didn't you deliberately let it go to Maode Hall to change its hair?"

"I didn't know you would get a rash...don't scratch..."

"Then blow it up for me."

Siqing put her arms around Xiao Yi's neck and pretended to blow it, and took advantage of Xiao Yi's unpreparedness and took a bite. Xiao Yi was in pain, but when she looked up, she saw Siqing's tears streaming down her face.

Xiao Yi whispered, "It's not your fault that your sister died."

Rui Er looked all over the servants but couldn't find the person she knew that day, and Ye Lanmo had no idea how she fell into the water.Xiao Yi said: "The servant can be so bold at this time?" After rebelling against An, the palace just cleared the servant.

This day, all the female relatives gathered at the Concubine Ding'an's place to talk. Concubine Ding'an asked about Ye Lanmo, and Si Qing smiled and said, "It's inconvenient for her to live here after all. She always feels constrained. Send her out to be married. Go, ask Madam Cheng Ping to find a good family for her."

Concubine Ding'an said with a smile: "You are young, after all, you are not used to the rules in the palace, it is dull."

Siqing smiled and said, "I also think Ninghua Palace is dull, but Xiyuan is better."

The imperial concubine Zhou took the opportunity to interject and said to Si Qing: "The empress lives in Xiyuan, and I have something to report. A maid next to He Meiren died of illness, and another one must be picked up."

Siqing smiled and said, "You are the one who decides. Ever since I fell into the water last autumn and suffered from the cold, my body has never been used this year. From now on, sister Zhou can make the decisions for these small matters."

So when people talked about maintenance, they talked endlessly.

Xiao Yi went back to Xiyuan at night, saw that Siqing's residence was brightly lit, and Siqing hadn't taken off her makeup, so she said, "Haven't you slept yet?"

Siqing was talking to Lingzhen at first, when Xiao Yi came back and said, "Third brother is back, you go wash up first, I will remove my makeup in a while." Then she said to Lingzhen: "The maid should have a portrait, you go quietly Take it, and..."

Ling Zhen nodded, "I hope this servant is thinking too much, otherwise I will cause trouble for the girl again."

Siqing said: "You and I were careless, what you said made sense. It was an eunuch and a palace lady, and it was hard to identify them in mixed clothes. He Meiren died of a palace servant for no reason, and she just burned it. Not a coincidence."

On the second day, Ruier trembled at the portrait of the maid in Lingzhen's hand, Lingzhen said: "Do you recognize it clearly?"

Rui'er drew the portrait with her hand, "The curved eyebrows, the bulging forehead, and this mole..." She tried her best to recall, "It's her! It's her! That eunuch should be her in disguise. The slaves can see Have you seen this man?"

"Dead," Ling Zhen was full of anger, "burned."

Ruier shuddered.

Siqing heard the words and said calmly: "Take Rui'er down, watch her."

Rui Er saw Si Qing's face was sharp, she knew that as long as she was the leader of the palace, it would be of no use to Si Qing.Ling Zhen and the others suspected that they were instigating Ye Lanmo to misbehave, and they were afraid that Zhong Gong would not let them off.Thinking of this, she rushed forward and said to Si Qing: "Empress Empress, actually... slaves should die... There is one more thing that has not been reported."

Siqing said, "Say."

Rui'er then told about Ye Lanmo stealing Siqing's letters while she was busy taking advantage of the Qianqiu Festival, "I can't read or write, so I don't dare to instigate anything. It's just that Miss Mo said that it was the mother's trick. If she takes it out, the empress will definitely help her accomplish it."

Yun Chu usually took care of Siqing's study, and when he heard the words, he quickly apologized, Siqing's face became more and more ugly, and he knocked over the teacup.Ling Zhen hurriedly asked where the letter was, Rui Er said: "It's all in Miss Qixia Pavilion's pillow, before Miss can take it out, just..."

Ling Zhen went to look for it, and sure enough, she found several receipts of letters sent by Siqing to Zhu Jingwei during Xiao Yi's trip to Xijing, and a letter written to Cheng Yingzhou, who was out of the city to change the city defense, because of the palace change.

Siqing tried her best to restrain herself, facing Rui'er who was crying and begging Siqing to let her go, she just lightly ordered Yunchu to take her away.Yun Chu agreed to take him away, and when Ling Zhen was about to speak, Si Qing said: "I knew it, my kindness will not be rewarded."

Ling Zhen said: "Girl, don't be angry."

"I'm not angry." Siqing burned all the letters, "I forgot to burn it, it was my negligence. How did she get the key? I think she got it when she was sleeping with me. Go and see if she put it back. For I don't think it's worth it to be angry with someone irrelevant. But I still have to find out who wants to kill her, actually I don't understand, if this person really wants to kill Ye Lanmo, what motive does this person have?"

Ling Zhen said: "Then if you don't make a move, when will you wait?"

Siqing said: "This is not an ironclad proof, why are you so impetuous? Wait for her to take the bait."

Siqing is so calm and calm, she and Concubine Zhou have already started preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival, Ling Zhen went to help, and her face was full of sores in the fuss.Si Qing struggled for two days, but still told Ling Zhen: "Zhe Fujian has been restored, the personnel in Jiangnan has been changed, maybe Shen Yuanxi will return to Beijing soon."

Ling Zhen was stunned, "Recall Duke Jia at this time?"

"In the army he brought back with injuries, his old injuries relapsed and he was seriously ill. Since Li Yuanzhen has entered the cabinet, the third brother is afraid that he intends to call him back to the court and make him the chief minister. However, depending on his temperament, he may not be willing to drive this Hot stove." Siqing carefully shaved her eyebrows in the mirror, "I'm afraid there will be some changes in Jiangzuo's personnel this time around Zhejiang...Ye Lancheng is coming back too."

Ling Zhen paused for a moment, then Si Qing put down the spatula and turned around, "It's not that I don't want to fulfill you, Ling Zhen, he is not your beloved."

Siqing has always known that Lingzhen is infatuated with Ye Lancheng.

Ling Zhen lowered her head and smiled, "Miss, you are joking, it was originally my wishful thinking. Now that the mistress is in the Linzhong Palace, the uncle should have his future and marriage."

Si Qing said: "You are talking nonsense again. When I promised the Ye family to come to the palace, I said that I and the Ye family will return to the bridge, and the road will return to the road. What is his future with Ye Lancheng? What does it have to do with me? Also, What I said is that he is unworthy, not that you are unworthy. Didn't you realize that Shen Yuanxi actually regretted marrying his sister into the Ye family? "

"I don't want to get married," Ling Zhen said, "I just want to be with the girl for the rest of my life."

Si Qing said: "The ones who came into the palace with me are gone except for Lu Chu, you, Yun Chu, Yu Chu, whether you are going or staying, I never say much. But what's the good of being here with me? You can open up your options, don't be so lonely because of Ye Lancheng, okay?"

The two were talking, and Yun Chu excitedly said: "I caught it, but I caught it!"

Siqing raised an unkempt eyebrow, "What did you catch?"

"It should be the person who went to steal the portrait of the court lady," Ling Zhen said, "The servant took away the portrait of the deceased court lady next to He Meiren, replaced it with a piece of white paper, laid a net, and fell on the hook. If He Meiren really has a heart There are ghosts, and they will also think about destroying the portraits, won't they?"

Siqing asked, "Who was caught?"

Yu Chu immediately dragged a person in, wearing a camel-colored jacket of a palace official, a dark green cloth skirt, and wrapped in a baotou.Siqing took a closer look and asked in surprise, "It's you?"

He Meiren looked very indifferent and smiled.

"The dowry you brought into the palace was killed by you, and you have no confidants, so please do it yourself?" Si Qing said angrily.

He Meiren glanced at Ling Zhen and said lightly: "Concubines are not blessed, and the girls brought into the palace are all dead."

"I really don't understand, what motive do you have for killing?" Siqing was very excited, "Do you know that if the person you killed hadn't told me something, I wouldn't have cared about Mrs. Ningshouhou holding your mother and brother hostage! Do you think your younger brother has inherited the Marquis, and I am happy to see it succeed!"

Lingzhen gave Yunchu and Yuchu a wink, and the three of them retreated quietly.There was a crackling sound from the Boshan furnace, Siqing stood up to fiddle with the incense ash, and then sat down sideways, He Mei said humanely: "I told the empress before that I want to repay the favor of the empress, of course the concubine did this to repay the favor. "

Si Qing thought she was being sarcastic, and couldn't restrain herself for a moment and wanted to hit someone. She took a deep breath and pretended to be calm, "I didn't know you would speak in such a tone."

He Meiren raised her head, and asked pitifully, "Empress, don't you want her to die?"

Siqing shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?!"

"My concubine understands that her ambition is not on the empress at all," He Mei said humanely, "Empress empress, you are leading wolves into the house. You are her cousin, it is not convenient for you to kill her, and it is not worth dirtying your hands." , in that case, my concubine is here to help."

She leaned closer to Siqing, "My concubine's dowry was the sister of the former empress' maid. She told the concubine that the first empress failed to have a son as she wished in the first year after entering the palace, so the He family sent sister He Ning here. Outsiders think that Empress Xian and Sister Ning Concubine can quote each other, but does the empress know how much the Empress Xian hates and misses Sister Ning Concubine to die. It's a pity that she is too self-confident to take action. Now the empress is unwilling to act , the concubine's surname is not Ye, concubine here."

Siqing finally shouted angrily: "You are really crazy!"

However, the scene of Ye Lanmo stealing her confidential letters replayed in her mind repeatedly.She had to admit that the honor that Ye Lanmo wanted would bring her endless troubles, and it might even ruin her years of painstaking efforts.

He Mei said humanely: "Crazy? Here, who is not a lunatic? Lingmei is a fool, and she wants to get in and be a lunatic. Such a stupid person is not worthy of my mother's trouble. Isn't it good that the concubine stopped the loss in time?"

Siqing grabbed He Meiren's collar, "So you've lived enough? So you can kill people?"

He Meiren gently held Siqing's hand, and breathed in Siqing's ear like blue, "The concubine is the empress' knife, and the empress is reluctant to kill the concubine. One day, even if the empress has played enough of being a mother and filial piety, the concubine will be able to do it again." The empress went through fire and water once..."

She tenderly put her face close to Siqing, like a big fish out of the water restless, squirming into Siqing's arms, "Mother, I have fantasized since I was a child that my future husband and son-in-law are as affectionate and hearty as my mother, who can Let my concubine feel at ease and fall in love with her... Ever since you rescued me under the Chengtian Gate, I have been tempted," she continued to press close to Siqing with flour noodles, "Mother, take a look at my concubine, see if I am okay? Where is my concubine?" No, this concubine can do anything for you!"

Her sandalwood mouth is infinitely close to Siqing, and her powdered noodles are infinitely close to Siqing.

Siqing was taken aback, and threw He Meiren over. He Meiren's reaction was really...Siqing is not so elegant.

She wasn't thinking about He Meiren, she thought that if she had discovered that Ye Lanmo stole the confidential letter, or to threaten her, or had other plans, she would also have the heart to kill the root.Even if Ye Lanmo left the fourth house of the first Ye family, in the final analysis, she did this not for her own safety, but just for a bigger bargaining chip.

She turned her head to look at He Meiren, feeling cold all over her body, He Mei said humanely: "Your Majesty, they are all lunatics, why bother to act? Your Majesty is firmly seated in the middle palace, and at this point today, isn't her heart not cruel enough?"

Siqing said: "The scheme you set up was not careful at all. Do you want to die that much?"

He Mei said humanely: "Your Majesty is wrong, why is the situation of the concubine not careful?"

At this moment, Yun Chu said outside the door: "Madam, it's not good, Rui'er vomited blood just now and lost her breath."

Siqing looked at He Meiren in disbelief, and He Meiren was a little regretful, "This slow-onset poison is really not easy to use. I made a mistake, otherwise she would have died a long time ago."

"you……"

"But it's not a mistake. The poison is indeed well hidden. No one can see that she has been poisoned."

(End of this chapter)