Queen's scheming

Chapter 5 The Maid of Unknown Origin

The Empress Dowager and Qing Yi took a lunch break and washed up again.The monks of Huangjue Temple respectfully sent them off, and they turned back only one mile outside the gate of Huangjue Temple.The Empress Dowager took all the people to Zhen Guogong's mansion with a royal guard of honor.It was rare for Qingyi to be reborn, so she wanted to see the scenery outside the palace, so on a whim, she ordered Yuzhu to walk slowly along the official road with the Queen's guard of honor, and brought Yulan, Mother Su, and four other guards with her. Dressed in homely clothes, he went to the downtown area in an unremarkable green cloth carriage.

When Qing Yiyuan was in the Fengguo Mansion, he never walked out of the gate. Since he entered the palace, once he left the palace, he would be hugged by the front and back. , looking at everything is fresh.Yulan and Madam Su hadn't seen Qing Yi so happy for a long time, and since they followed her in everything, they only secretly instructed the four guards.

Yulan lifted a corner of the car window, pointed at a dough kneader's booth, and explained to Qing Yi with a smile, "Mother, look at that little tiger who kneads like the real thing. When I was young, my family couldn't afford it." Well, my brother used clay to make a four-faced look for the servant, and now that I think about it, the servant was really ignorant at that time." Yulan said while gesturing to the things her brother made for her back then. The tail was short and the legs were long. Wait a minute, Qing Yi couldn't help laughing.

"You girl, you are quiet on weekdays. It's rare for you to be so self-willed. Forget it, it's rare to come out today. You go down and buy a few. After returning to the palace, you can show off to other little maids. It's not in vain. Gong brought you out this time." Qing Yi said, pushing Yu Lan away.

Seeing that Qing Yi was happy, Madam Su nodded secretly, and Yulan got out of the car.

Qing Yi straightened the purple glazed butterfly jade pendant between the hem of her skirt, stroked the pearly pink peony pattern on it, half leaned against the honey-colored and rich flower-blossom pillow behind her, waiting quietly for Yulan to return, While thinking about the current situation in the palace.

According to Emperor Li Tianyou's temperament, whether it was to express his love for Qing Yi or to stabilize the court, her weak sister Shen Qingwan would not be arranged to sleep in the past three days, at most it was just a reward. .Before Qing Yilin left the palace, she did not arrange Shen Qingwan's palace. If she was in the harem, then Shen Qingwan would definitely use the reason of sisterly love to stay in her Ningsu palace. After all, that is where Li Tianyou went the most. The place.But Qingyi handed over the affairs of the Six Palaces to the Empress Dowager's niece Concubine Jing, and she would arrange a suitable palace for her so-called legitimate daughter from the stepmother.

Thinking of this, Qing Yi's lips curled up slightly. Tang Aoxue, the dignified daughter-in-law of the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, will soon enter the palace. She is still a third-rank noble concubine and the first palace lord. She wants to see her weak sister. How to deal with this cold and lonely strong woman.

Qingyi's train of thought was interrupted by the noise from the car, Yulan hurried into the car with a few small doughnuts in her hands, wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, and said, "Ma'am, let's It's better to leave here first, there is a lot of noise outside, and it will be bad if you bump into the empress!"

Qing Yi raised the brocade curtain of the car window in confusion, and saw four half-naked burly men dragging two weak women, cursing and making everyone in the downtown area point and point.Seeing this, Qing Yi didn't say much, most of the situation was poor people selling their daughters for money, and if they walked in the downtown market like this, if these two women were sent to Fireworks and Willow Lane, they would definitely attract a lot of attention. Less business.

Qing Yi waved her hand and said lightly, "Go back to the palace!"

Madam Su gave orders to the outside of the curtain in a low voice, and the carriage started to move slowly, but before going a few steps, the carriage stopped.

Su Momo was in charge of the affairs of Qing Yi Ningsu Palace. Seeing the carriage stop at this moment, she immediately asked a little displeased, "What happened? You offended the master, but you can take it?"

The guards outside the curtain didn't dare to hide anything, they approached the sedan chair curtain and hurriedly said, "Going back to Madam, I met the carriage of Yang Guogong's mansion in front of me, but I need a servant to tell them to make way for our mother?"

Madam Su originally wanted to say, that's natural.But then I thought about it again, my mother came out of the palace in modest clothes, and took such an unremarkable carriage, no wonder the carriage of Duke Yang's mansion wouldn't give way, so he looked at Shen Qingyi to see what her plan was, after all, if Yang Guo The carriage of the Duke's mansion gave way to his mother, and the people in this downtown area had no doubts about the identity of the person in the carriage.Today, there are only four big internal guards. If someone wants to hijack his mother, it will be very easy.

Shen Qingyi obviously also thought of this, and softly ordered, "Let's stop by the side of the road, and wait for the car from Yang Guogong's mansion to drive past, before we return to the palace."

The guards had no choice but to drive the carriage aside, and each of the four guarded a corner, carefully observing the surrounding situation.

However, as soon as the chariot from Yang Guogong's mansion passed by the two weak women, the two women seemed to go crazy, biting at the burly man who dragged her two together, the big man did not expect such a situation , I didn't notice for a while, and let the two women run to the side of the car in Yang Guogong's mansion.With tears in their eyes, the two women begged the nobleman in the car to help them, saying that they would rather be rough girls than commit themselves to a brothel.

Yulan was curious, and kept looking out through the cracks of the car window. Seeing this situation, she couldn't help but soften her heart and said, "It would be nice if I could enter the Duke's mansion as a slave, it's better than going to a place where the sun is never seen."

Su Momo heard this and said with a sneer, "You are young, what do you know? Don't let such a thing of selling children and selling daughters be staged a few times every day. If anyone wants to go to the Duke's Mansion to be a slave or a handmaid, There are probably more servants and maids in the Duke's Mansion than there are people in the palace. Besides..." Su Momo glanced lightly at the two crying pear blossoms and raining women outside the curtain, and said sarcastically, "Look at it. It's really outstanding, such a girl is a bit violent to be a rude girl, such a beauty can't be a concubine, but a concubine is fine, the Duke's mansion has nothing to do to recruit these women back to the mansion, isn't it trampling on the body of its master?"

Yulan didn't think much about it before, she just felt that those two women were pitiful, but now she heard what Madam Su said, and looked at the two women carefully, the willow-leaf eyebrows, plump buttocks and thin waist, they are not two beautiful A bewitching embryo with such a good looks is not expected to be a rough envoy in the Duke's mansion.When Yulan thought about it, her tone became a little disdainful, and she curled her lips and said, "What Mammy said is right, how many foxes think about their looks, and they think that they shouldn't have, such a girl is really not suitable for being a prince government."

Not to mention the conversation between Nanny Su and Yu Lan, but only to say that in the carriage of Duke Yang's mansion opposite, a man in a duck-egg blue ink landscape round neck shirt was coughing sharply, and beside him was a pale pink brocade jacket. The little girl in the skirt hurriedly caressed her back, handed him a cup of thick brown soup, and said frowningly, "My lord, my lord, what do you think?"

The person whom the little girl calls the eldest son is Gu Yiran, the eldest son of Duke Yang's mansion who suffers from a long illness and easily hides from others.Gu Yiran took two sips of the concoction, twisted his thick eyebrows into clusters, waved his hand lightly, and said weakly, "It's okay, go to Yanzhi Huafang to pick up the old lady. My mother is not feeling well today. After a long time, I'm afraid I will be sad. I have to eat that medicinal soup again when I return home."

The little girl thought in her heart that the prince still couldn't take care of himself, and he kept taking medicines, but he still cared about the old lady so much, so she said anxiously, "The old lady is still waiting at Yanzhi Flower Square, don't delay. "

The people following outside the carriage didn't know it, but the two women stopped in front of the carriage refused to leave, and the four burly men didn't dare to approach the carriages and horses of the Duke's mansion, scratching their ears and cheeks anxiously outside the crowd. The driver lost his mind for a while, so he couldn't overwhelm these two women.

The girl had never encountered such a situation before, so she took out a few taels of silver from her close-fitting lotus-colored purse, handed it out and said, "Send it quickly!"

The driver hurriedly took it, handed it over to the two women, and sent them to redeem themselves and leave, but the two women were still crying, and they only said that they could escape the disaster only by following the nobleman back home, otherwise No matter how much money they have, those people will not let her two go, and they seem to be fighting the Duke's mansion to death.

Gu Yiran heard everything clearly in the car, and motioned for the little girl to put an indigo cloak on her body, lifted one side of the car curtain, leaned out half of her body, glanced at the two women, and waited. Seeing the charming appearance of the two, he ordered people to put down the curtain of the car, and said coldly in the car, "The Duke's mansion has no shortage of maidservants. If the two continue to entangle, order people to escort them to the government!"

The two women didn't seem to have expected such a result, so they stopped talking immediately, Shen Qingyi didn't expect that the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion would be so ruthless after seeing the appearance of these two people, so she endured I couldn't help but take a second look.

Among them was a thin and tall woman who stared at the car curtain in disbelief for a while, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, pulled the round-faced woman beside her, stood up, blessed her body respectfully, He said sternly, "It's really helpless for the girl to harass the nobleman's frame. The nobleman gave the money, but my sister and I still refuse to let go. Come on, forgive me." After that, the woman pulled another woman to the side with a trace of determination, so that the carriage of Duke Yang's mansion could pass.

Gu Yiran was very displeased when he saw the enchanting expressions of the two women, but now hearing the woman's words, he felt that he was judging people by their appearance, and was about to say something, but heard a woman's voice like spring water, every word fell to the ground. Entering his heart, it added a sense of coolness, "My family is short of two girls, but they are not as rich as the Duke's Mansion. The monthly salary is very little, and the family population is small. There are only me and my grandmother. My grandmother is old. I'm sick in bed and can't get up, I'm looking for two hard-working girls, I wonder if the two of you are willing to go with me?"

The two women followed the sound and saw that a very inconspicuous green cloth cart was driving, hidden under a big locust tree, and the sound came from that compartment.The round-faced woman who was dragged glanced a few times, took a few steps forward, and replied beside the car curtain, "Miss kindness, the people and daughters agree, but the house that wants my sister and me is probably the miss." I can't afford to take the blame, Miss should leave early, so as not to be burdened by us two sisters."

The tall and slender woman didn't say that, she glanced at the four coachman-like men around the car, stopped the round-faced woman from speaking, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and pursed her lips. Said: "Miss is willing to say this, there must be a way to save my sister and me. As long as Miss helps me and my sister out of this dangerous place today, in the future, if Miss sends you to the oil pan at the bottom of the mountain, my sister and I will not feel it." Ask one more word!"

Su Momo frowned at the side and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, looking at the appearance of these two women, I am afraid that someone is deliberately trying to block people for Duke Yang's mansion. These two are also smart. Our carriage is so inconspicuous. That woman can see the clues, I am afraid that the comer is not good."

Shen Qingyi raised her head, blocked Su Mama's words, and only lightly ordered Che Wai to say, "Just now, the people from the Duke's Mansion have already given you two enough money to redeem your lives, and you two gave the money to those people and then follow me back." Bar!"

There was no need for Shen Qingyi to order the next thing, two of the guards followed the two women and threw the money to the four burly men, before the four could say anything, they were subdued by the two guards.

Shen Qingyi looked at the worried Nanny Su, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, mommy, those two women were not specially arranged, the coquettishness just now, the pear blossom with rain is just a means of survival, after all, for the two of them , they only have that kind of appearance, and they can only use that. What I like is the intelligence of the two of them. The mother brought them into the palace and taught them well. It happened that my second sister entered the palace. I have a heart Allocate Yumei and Yuju to the second younger sister, if there are two missing in Ningsu Palace, let her make up for it."

Hearing what Shen Qingyi said, Mother Su couldn't argue anymore, but what came to Shen Qingyi's mind was the resoluteness of those two women when they were put to death and the hatred when they aimed at the shiny kitchen knife beside the whetstone.Smart and ruthless, such a girl is exactly what Shen Qingyi needs.

The matter was settled, and the carriage from the Duke Yang's mansion passed by the green cloth carriage. Gu still smelled a faint scent of mint and orange, which made the feeling of dry dust inside the carriage disappear without a trace. .
No one noticed that the man in gray at the corner of a small alley turned around and left after seeing this scene.

　Don't say that the Lun family has few updates. The Lun family is holding a box and waiting for your tickets. If you have more tickets, you will add more. Humph. Waiting for the tickets to be counted.
　　
　
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