The Golden Partridge of An Lingrong's Rebirth

Chapter 44.lotus heart

"It's just in time, let her in." The emperor was intending to tell her about it.

Wen Yi has been crying day and night for the past few days. She has never felt so uncomfortable since she was born. Cao Guiren has a motherly heart and a deep love for her calf. How could she bear to watch it? She is smart, and naturally wants to see that Concubine Hua's handwriting is in it.Hearing that An Lingrong had entered Qinzheng Hall today, she followed her on the back foot. After entering the hall, she put a plate of freshly peeled lotus seeds in front of the emperor.

"Your Majesty will inevitably get angry when he criticizes zhezi all day long, and the emperor's concubines have freshly peeled lotus seeds, so the Emperor can clear his heart." Cao Guiren showed the same smile as usual, and turned to look at An Lingrong, "Coincidentally, sister Rong is also here. "

An Lingrong smiled, stepped back from the emperor, and sat back on the other side of the couch.

"It's hard for you, peeling this thing hurts the nails the most." The emperor ate two.

Cao Guiren glanced at the soup bowl on the table, and said: "The emperor usually drinks lotus seed soup. This fresh lotus seed, the concubine has already removed the lotus heart, so it has a different taste." She smiled slightly, and looked at the emperor's expression carefully. .

The emperor chewed the lotus seeds, looked up at Cao Guiren, and tasted the meaning of her words.There was also An Lingrong's words at the beginning, and after careful reading at this moment, the emperor actually noticed something was wrong: "You are already in good health, why don't you bring Wen Yi back to your side?" Seeing Cao Guiren wry smile Dare not to speak, he said again, "This lotus seed has no lotus heart, but it also lacks a lot of flavor."

This alludes to the fact that Concubine Hua does not have the heart of a lotus seed to take care of Wen Yi.

"The heart of lotus seeds is the most bitter, and other people can't understand it." Cao Guiren finally couldn't hold back his smile, and said in a low voice, "That's why we got rid of it."

"The heart of Lianzi is gone, but your heart of pity for the son is good and bitter." The emperor heard what Cao Guiren said, and lowered his eyes slightly, "I got up early to listen to the gossip of the old eunuchs. , I like to use parents and children to compete for favor, and even make the baby in my arms feverish to attract the emperor's attention, what do you think?"

Cao Gui was angry, this Concubine Jing is not the Concubine Hua of today, she immediately spoke harshly: "If my concubine is Emperor Wanli, I will definitely kill Concubine Jing to rectify the palace, the pain of giving birth in October is something that a mother cannot understand, Concubine Jing As a mother, she harms her son, unless she is not the biological mother." She took advantage of this incident to express her hatred for Concubine Hua, and even intentionally reminded the emperor, "If Concubine Jing is not so unspeakable, then even You are no longer worthy of being a human being, so how can you still be worthy of living?"

The corner of the emperor's mouth pressed down.

"Sister Cao is rarely so angry. As a mother, hearing Concubine Jing's behavior is so touching." An Lingrong said from the side.

Cao Guiren came back to his senses, his head turned cold: "I made Sister Rong laugh, but I just expressed my feelings for a while."

"You have always been docile and reticent, but it is rare to see you say such things today." The emperor nodded, indicating that he had understood, "The heart of pity is not only for the mother, but also for the father. You are both careful and patient. Is there any concubine Hua?" After giving birth, I'd better bring Wen Yi back to your side."

Cao Guiren showed joy, with tears of excitement in his eyes, and was about to kneel down to thank you, but Su Peisheng ran in in a panic: "The emperor is not well, Princess Wen Yi vomited again, and now I vomit all the food I ate today." Came out, crying all the time, Concubine Hua sent someone to find Cao Guiren."

"What's going on!" The emperor was holding back a fire in his heart, and suddenly broke out in a sharp voice.

"Don't be in a hurry, your majesty, let's go and have a look first." An Lingrong got up to help the emperor put on his shoes, and then said to Su Peisheng, "Go and prepare the sedan chair, the emperor will drive to the Qingliang Hall."

A group of three hurried to Concubine Hua's Qingliang Hall, and the queen had already arrived.

Seeing that An Lingrong also came along, Concubine Hua's face darkened for a moment while holding Wen Yi and coaxing her, and she turned to walk in front of the emperor with an anxious expression on her face: "Your majesty, this concubine was just playing with the queen to play with the princess. Suddenly she vomited." Concubine Hua's clothes were still stained with filth, and her temple hair was also a little messy.

The emperor stretched out his arms to hug Wen Yi, watched Concubine Hua calm down, asked her to tidy up her appearance first, and then asked Xiao Xia to fetch the rattle, and personally hugged Wen Yi, Cao Guiren stood aside, eyes full of distress.

Wen Yi cried so hard that his voice was hoarse, and his small body couldn't stop twitching from crying.

"The imperial doctor is useless." The emperor coaxed him for a while, but it didn't work out.

Jiang Shen immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty: "This humble minister is incompetent."

Concubine Hua changed into a new set of clothes and came out, seeing the situation, she said: "Your Majesty, the child's illness is not in a hurry, and the horseshoe soup the princess eats these days is still delicious, why don't my concubine ask someone to bring some to the princess?" Use it? It might be better to eat something you like."

The emperor kissed Wen Yi distressedly, and nodded in agreement.

A gleam flashed in Concubine Hua's eyes.

Wen Yi really likes to eat horseshoe soup, he ate no less than half a bowl, and was carried into the bedroom by the nanny to nurse him.

"The concubine saw that Princess Wen Yi was eating sweets just now, and she should be ready soon." The queen scooped up the horseshoe soup, but did not eat it.

The emperor ate the horseshoe soup indifferently, without any expression on his face.

It was the empress who said, "It's also due to Concubine Hua's dedication to taking care of her. You have really worked hard these few days." She looked at Concubine Hua with a smile.

If the emperor said this, Concubine Hua would be happy for a while, but if the empress said it, it didn't sound like a good word.Concubine Hua only thanked lightly.

When everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, the nanny ran out holding Wen Yi again, and went straight to Cao Guiren: "My lord, the princess is not well again, and she still spits out milk, even the horseshoe soup that she ate just now."

Cao Guiren hugged Wen Yi into her arms, her small body clinging to her body, her violent heartbeat echoed in her chest, at this moment, she thought about all the possible outcomes, and she shed tears .An Lingrong stood aside, wiping her tears with a handkerchief, and comforted her in a soft voice.

"What's going on, it hasn't recovered after so many days of treatment? On the contrary, it's getting worse." The emperor put down the bowl heavily, which shocked everyone's hearts.

Jiang Shen quickly raised his head and glanced at Concubine Hua, stepped forward and knelt down, and took out the excuse he had prepared early in the morning: "I really don't know, logically speaking, most babies spit up when they are one or two months old, because the pylorus is narrow As a result, the princess is now one year old..." The emperor scolded him for being useless, Jiang Shen kept quiet, and then said after a while, "I think over and over again, the princess's stomach is not good, I think it's because she took something that hurt her stomach, Weichen wants to check what the princess has eaten recently."

The end of Concubine Hua's eyes was raised slightly, and there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Not long after, the table was covered with Wen Yi's daily food. Jiang Shen checked it carefully, and finally stopped on the horseshoe soup, and asked Xiao Xiazi to check again.

Xiao Xiazi tasted it carefully and reported to the emperor: "The horseshoe soup is non-toxic, it's just mixed with some cassava flour."

Tapioca again.

A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in An Lingrong's mind, and he matched the front and back, and finally knew where the sword was pointing at today's events.She looked up at Concubine Hua, and sure enough, she saw a smile on her face with a sure chance of winning. This chain of links is really hard to guard against. She wanted Dill to pass the message to Zhen Huan first, but the current situation, No one can get out of this cool hall alone.

Here Jiang Shen is still replying: "Return to the emperor, cassava is a special product of Nanyang tribute, and it can be ground for dessert, but the roots and leaves are poisonous, so it must be handled carefully, but cassava flour is non-toxic, but the baby's stomach is weak, eat it Tapioca can irritate the stomach and cause vomiting and long-term weakness leads to death."

Everyone present was shocked, Cao Guiren stared at Concubine Hua with wide eyes in disbelief.

She was so anxious that she couldn't figure out whether it was Concubine Hua's trick or someone really framed Wen Yi.However, based on Cao Guiren's understanding of Concubine Hua, I'm afraid the former is more likely.

"Furthermore, cassava flour and water chestnut flour are similar in color and shape, so it is not easy to detect when they are mixed together."

Concubine Hua then said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the princess has been eating horseshoe soup recently, and this is where the problem lies." Someone did it on purpose. I also ask the emperor to take pity on Cao Guiren's mother and daughter, and thoroughly investigate this matter, so as to clean up the palace and ensure that such dirty things never happen again."

The emperor saw her sincerely caring about Wen Yi, for some reason, he felt a little disgusting, but he still called the head of the imperial dining room to speak back.

The manager of the dining room claimed that he had already checked the file: "I remember that six days ago, the Zhuqing girl next to Mr. Guan came to beg for horseshoe flour and cassava flour. I want to leave a copy for them, so after the cassava flour was purchased four days ago, the servant sent a copy to the palace of the nobleman in Guan, and there is no one else."

Concubine Hua finally smiled.

"Only the people from the nobleman's palace went to collect it, and no one else?" The emperor didn't want to believe it, but after receiving an affirmative answer, the emperor threw up his hands, "That doesn't prove that nobleman Guan did it."

"It's better to let nobleman Guan come over and listen to what she has to say, so as not to wrong her." The queen said, seeing the emperor nodded, she asked Jiang Fuhai to pass on the message.

During this period, two more court ladies came in to make identification. One of them said, "Your Majesty Guan once went out alone on the night of the Qixi Festival, and seemed to be walking in the direction of Qingliang Palace", and the other said, "Your Majesty Guan was with Aunt Jinxi at that time", Before Zhen Huan came, she was almost convicted.

Concubine Hua spoke convincingly from the side: "At the family banquet that day, most of the palace people in the Qingliang Palace accompanied the servants and the rest of the servants were sneaking around. It is very likely that someone will take the opportunity to tamper with the meal. From this point of view..."

Zhen Huan had just walked into the Qingliang Palace at this time, and she didn't know what happened, when she heard Concubine Hua rushing towards her: "Your Majesty, you are so cruel!"

Cao Guiren followed her half-kneeling and worshiped her: "Your Majesty Guan, even though my sister's words and deeds were inappropriate, last time Qinzheng Palace caused a rift between you and the emperor, but my sister did it unintentionally, and Bei Africa intended it." She panicked and lost her sense of proportion. I really thought it was Zhen Huan's hand, after all there was Jing Hong Wu's incident, "If Mr. Guan blames my sister for this, just beat me and scold me, don't hurt my Wen Yi, she is still a baby. "

Seeing Zhen Huan's confused face, An Lingrong stepped forward to speak, and first supported Cao Guiren: "Sister Cao, don't worry, it's too late for Sister Guan to love Wen Yi, so how could you hurt her? I'm afraid there is a misunderstanding inside." Then she turned her eyes to look at Xiang Zhenhuan said seriously, "Even if Sister Guan once asked for cassava flour and went out at the Qixi Festival banquet, these are all the opinions of the imperial dining room. Let's listen to Sister Guan's defense before we talk about what is going on."

Zhen Huan already sensed that something was wrong, listening to An Lingrong's words, she knew that she was sending a message to herself, she listened intently, and quickly calculated the way to deal with it in her mind.

Seeing the emperor looking straight over, Zhen Huan considered it for a while, and said slowly: "Sister Cao misunderstood, my sister didn't feel that my sister was offended, and the Qinzheng Palace never caused me to have any misunderstanding with the emperor," she looked at The emperor looked at Cao Guiren again, "Why do you want to hold grudges?" She slowed down, and then said, "Six days ago, Bi promised to eat pearl balls suddenly, and my concubines were also greedy for some horseshoe cakes, so they Let Zhuqing go to get it, but there was only horseshoe powder that day. The concubine thought, Bi promised to be unhappy for so long, and it was rare to say that she wanted to eat something, so she asked Zhuqing to remember that four days ago, the kitchen manager said that cassava powder had arrived, So I sent a copy to my concubine."

This is right from front to back.

The emperor nodded and asked Zhen Huan to continue.

Zhen Huan raised her skirt and knelt down solemnly: "Your Majesty, my concubine has never done such a thing, nor would she do such a thing." But when it came to whether she had been to Qingliang Palace, she was a little weak, " The concubine did go to the Qingliang Palace, but did not enter, and Jinxi was there at the time, so she can testify for the concubine."

"Jinxi is your maidservant, whether the testimony is useful or not remains to be verified." Concubine Hua sneered expectantly, "Aside from the imperial kitchen, you are the only one who has cassava flour in the palace, and besides, there are palace maids who witnessed you going to Qingliang Palace Direction, after you went, the princess had a fit, I'm afraid it's not a coincidence that the word can be prevaricated?"

Now that things have come to this, Zhen Huan can only gamble on the emperor's trust in her: "Although everything is directed against the concubine, the concubine has indeed never done anything."

"Since you said no, then after you left the banquet that night, did you meet anyone who could prove that you did not enter Qingliang Palace? It also proved that you had nothing to do with this matter." The emperor still favored her in his heart.

Zhen Huan thought of King Guo for the first time, but she couldn't tell, but she had no one to testify except King Guo, and now she regretted it again and again, why did she go out that day.

"Chenqie..." Zhen Huan hesitated for a moment, then shook her head slightly, "I didn't meet anyone."

The emperor has no choice: "In this case, I have no choice but to ground you before making plans."

Zhen Huan's figure flickered, and An Lingrong's heart tightened.This matter is so dangerous, how did Zhen Huan escape from danger in her previous life?
Concubine Hua showed a smug smile, halfway through the smile, she suddenly heard Concubine Duan's voice: "Your Majesty, the nobleman of Wanwan was with his concubine that night."

(End of this chapter)