Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 2513 Eight Volumes 38

Wanxi took Yuying's hand and walked into the Nuan Pavilion, "Go inside and talk about it in detail."

On the first day of June, Wanxi had just heard the news from Yongchang, so she ordered Yuying and Yuchan to start with Wang Cheng, the manager, and the old man of Yikun Palace, respectively, to find witnesses who could reverse the situation.

Yuchan's side went smoothly, but Yuying's side encountered huge resistance.

——Wang Cheng, the manager, refused to explain the details of the day of the inspection in detail, which made Yuying lose her mind.

Yuying came back to report to Wanxi, who sat there disappointed for a while.

At that time, when Mao Tuan'er searched out those treasures from Nala's bedroom, Wang Cheng was the only one beside Mao Tuan'er. A valid witness.

But after the initial disappointment, Wanxi can understand Wang Cheng's difficulties.

After all, the eunuch's status is embarrassing, even if someone like Wang Cheng has reached the level of chief eunuch, but a slave is still a slave.Although the Nala family was locked up by the emperor's decree, the emperor did not officially decree to abolish the empress after all.What's more, in the previous dynasty, Jue Luo had jumped out to complain for Nala's grievances. It is hard to say whether the emperor will have to release Nala's confinement one day under the pressure of the clan and Jue Luo.

If there really was such a day, Wang Cheng and other eunuchs would be the first to die.

Wanxi calmed down, but instead comforted Yuying, "It's okay, we don't have to make things difficult for Wang Cheng."

After all, the palace is so big and people's hearts are so mixed, not everyone is willing to return, let alone expect everyone to be as willing to serve him as the people in his palace.

Wanxi herself didn't take it to heart, and continued to discuss with Yuchan to find witnesses from inside the Yikun Palace; but Yuying couldn't let go of her own heart.

At such a time, there was no one to trust her with, so she naturally went to find Chen Shiguan.He said it with tears.

Chen Shiguan pondered for a moment, then said, "I still have a way."

Yuying hurriedly asked, "What can you do, tell me quickly. As long as we can help the master, then we can fight anything. Otherwise... how can I go out of the palace with peace of mind?"

Chen Shiguan lowered his head and said, "Only the Emperor and I know the truth about Concubine Xin's death. To the Empress Dowager, it can be said to be a mystery. The Queen is also to blame for the matter of Concubine Xin, how about... "

Chen Shiguan hesitated for a moment, fixed his eyes on Yuying, and held out his hands.

"It's just that if we do this, we will inevitably have to take some risks. Also, I still want to make false claims with Concubine Xin's former old man... Can you allow me?"

From the day when Wanxi promised Yuying to Chen Shiguan, Chen Shiguan had already confessed all the false and submissive things between him and Yueyi before, and did not hide them.

Yuying has been in the harem all these years, knowing that among these people in the harem, who is not walking on the tip of the knife?Sometimes in order to complete one's own errands, it is inevitable to use some extraordinary means.

Yuying took a deep breath and raised her eyes to stare at Chen Shiguan.First she pursed her lips on purpose, and then she smiled, "I don't want to, I wish you could get away from there quickly. But why am I so confused at this moment? For the master, I don't even want to kill myself .”

"It's you." Yuying raised her hand distressedly, caressing Chen Shiguan's cheek, "It's hard for you to make friends with such a person again. You just think it's for me..."

Chen Shiguan smiled gratifiedly, held Yuying's hand, his eyes were focused and enthusiastic, "I can risk everything, on the one hand, it is to repay the imperial concubine's kindness; but more importantly, to let you go early Go out of the palace with peace of mind, so that you can worship heaven and earth with me."

Yuying blushed and lowered her head, "You go. Be careful in everything."

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After several days of hard work by Chen Shiguan, Le Yi was finally convinced, and Yuying brought the news to Wanxi.

Today is the ninth day of the sixth lunar month. Tomorrow we will offer sacrifices to the Ancestral Hall and Fengxian Hall, and the day after tomorrow will be the official canonization ceremony.If the empress dowager wants to make trouble, she must choose today and tomorrow.

If the empress dowager doesn't make trouble, that's all right; if the empress dowager really uses this matter to stop her, then she can simply report all these things to the empress dowager face to face!
The loss of morality in Zhonggong is no longer a matter of the witch curse during the southern tour, but it has been revealed many years ago, and it has undoubtedly been revealed in many lives!Because of Zhao Delu's first complaint, even if the empress dowager can "justify" Nala's family in this matter, so many incidents and so many lives in the past, it depends on how the empress dowager will protect Nala's family after she knows about it. ! .
In front of the Changchun Garden, Yurui's sedan chair got off the sedan chair outside the gate of the Grand Palace.

Yurui is only a noble person, and is not eligible to enter in a sedan chair.

Even as an honored person, he is not qualified to greet the Empress Dowager alone.You have to follow the empress, imperial concubine and other higher positions before you can come here to greet the empress dowager.

Or even when the empress dowager's harem collectively came to salute the empress dowager, such as the empress dowager's birthday and the winter solstice festival, only concubines and above can salute on the platform in front of the main hall of the Cining Palace or Shoukang Palace; You can only salute in the apse, not even qualified to salute in person.

Therefore, today's trip was new to Yurui, and it was the first time.

My heart is also bitter because of this.

But fortunately, she has a reason today: because tomorrow is the imperial concubine's canonization ceremony, as a nobleman in the imperial concubine's palace, she represents the imperial concubine today to pay her respects to the empress dowager.

Yu Rui specially stood outside the gate of Changchun Garden's Grand Palace, staying for a while longer.

He looked up at the clear blue sky.

A smile of relief and no regrets bloomed at the corner of her mouth like the most beautiful flower in this summer.

Yurui, her name is Yurui.This is the name my sister gave her after entering the palace.

Rue, luxuriant, flowers are fresh and beautiful.

It is said in the poem, "the luxuriant plants generate light by themselves".

As for her name, the word Yurui, Su Shi once wrote a poem: "Fighting to embrace Han Ke to see Yurui".

Born in a family of Jinshi of the Eight Banners like Suo Chuo Luo, with a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy like Ama and Uncle, she naturally understands the metaphor in that poem.

Yurui, plum blossom carved from jade.

If it is said that the aunt of Yuhu, who was most relied on by the master in the past, took "a piece of ice heart in Yuhu", she has a poetic soul; then her plum blossoms are similar to Yuhu, and they should also have a noble heart.

Besides... Plum blossoms originally meant to herald spring.

When the jade rut falls, spring will come.
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People who are well-informed go in, and after a while, they are greeted by Yong Chang in person.

Yongchang bowed to Yurui first, then looked around, hurriedly stepped forward and lowered his voice, "Is everything okay with the imperial concubine?"

Yu Rui nodded with a smile, "You Lao Yong is always concerned. The imperial concubine is naturally preparing for the canonization ceremony. Everything will go well."

Yongchang said cautiously, "Forgive my concubine for speaking bluntly. It's actually a bit of a coincidence that Sister Rui came here. The Empress Dowager is... a little unhappy. I advise Sister Rui to go in later to say hello, don't delay, hurry up Go quickly, so as not to make the empress dowager angry."

Yu Rui narrowed her eyes slightly, "Will the Empress Dowager take her anger out on me? That is to say, the empress dowager's unhappiness today is really related to the imperial concubine, right?"

Yongchang muttered softly, "...the empress dowager just finished reading some dirty things, and now she is sulking."

Yu Rui was not afraid of anything at this time, so she just smiled lightly, stretched out her hand and shook Yongchang, "Thank you for reminding me. I will take care of myself."
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Yongchang mentioned that the Empress Dowager saw something unclean again today, and it just so happened that the next story book written by "Mr. Fox Shuo" was discovered this morning.

The empress dowager took it over and read it in one breath, she was so annoyed that she threw the scriptures to the ground.

——In this story book, the first day of September in the 24th year of Qianlong has been officially written.It is said that the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year was originally the day when offerings and incense were set up in front of the gods and Buddhas in Sravasti City. Especially the first day of September in the 24th year of Qianlong was the day when the city god was sacrificed. Someone was murdered in the imperial garden!

It was not ordinary people who were harmed, but a little prince who failed to come to the world!
"Mr. Fox" is skillful in brushwork, vividly describing the shocking scene in the Yuanmingyuan that day, making people feel as if they were there.How gloomy was the bamboo forest in September, and how a ghost-faced man in green robe walked through the forest like a phantom with a sneer... The empress dowager was not the concubine Yu back then, but the empress dowager was also covered in cold sweat. , couldn't help but looked up and quickly glanced at the bamboo door of his Nuan Pavilion.

Although the door in front of the empress dowager was made of Xiangfei bamboo, and the Xiangfei bamboo was no longer green, but golden, it still made the empress dowager's heart beat for a long time before she dared to continue reading the book again.

The scriptures also say: On that day, Buddhist rituals were held in Savatthi City, Ruiying Palace and other places, especially the great sacrifice to the city god. This is called the eunuch who was a student from Nanfu who studied opera in the palace, and the "eunuch who was originally in Savatthi City and other places." "Monks" and "Eunuchs and Taoists" wore ghostly clothes to cooperate with the rituals of the city god to catch ghosts.

Therefore, the green-robed ghost in the bamboo grove was naturally not a real ghost in the imperial garden who dared to come, but a ghost hiding in the heart, deliberately harming the concubine Yu who was pregnant with the emperor's heir and was about to give birth!
It is said that this group of eunuchs, monks and Taoist priests once went to the Summer Resort from Beijing in August to commemorate the Emperor's Longevity Festival on August [-]th and the Moon Sacrifice Ceremony on August [-]th... August [-]th Afterwards, this group of people happened to return to Beijing from the Summer Resort, and Concubine Yu's pregnancy happened on the first day of September, and there was hidden cause and effect.

What's more interesting is that because of presiding over the grand ceremony of the emperor's Longevity Day and the ceremony of worshiping the moon on August [-]th, as long as the empress is present, the empress must be qualified to perform it - so these people are serving the empress in the summer resort. Around.

"Mr. Hu Shuo" sighed in his script: "Six years ago, the gods in the city of Savatthi watched the villains pretending to be their name, committing crimes in the world, and murdering the emperor's heir! In the past six years, no one has served justice, no one People will bring to justice those who blasphemed the gods and murdered the emperor's heir!"

"Six years later, in the second month of the leap, another heir of the emperor happened to be in a similar crisis again! After all, the gods could no longer just watch in silence. After all, they will use the rosary theft in Savatthi City and Zhao Lianbi to reopen the matter! "

"Gods and Buddhas are in the sky, and the right way is reincarnation. Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil!"

Although the words in the storybook were not completely explained, with the brains of the empress dowager, she understood everything that should be understood!

The empress dowager was so annoyed that she threw the script on the ground.

It's just that no matter whether Yongchang is here, or Anshou and the others, they can't be sure for a while, whether the empress dowager loses her temper because of what was said in the script, or whether she is angry that things like this are mixed into her Changchun garden again and again, Or - the empress dowager is unwilling to believe what is said in this book.

Just at this juncture, Yurui arrived.

After weighing things up, Yongchang decided to welcome him out in person, and secretly told Yurui about it.
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Yurui went inside to salute the Empress Dowager.

The empress dowager was full of anger and didn't know where to vent her anger. Seeing Yurui, she frowned, "Is there no one else in her palace? I'll ask you, a nobleman, to pay her respects!"

Yu Rui didn't panic, and said with a smile, "I know that my status is low, and I don't deserve to salute in front of the Empress Dowager. It's just that there is no one else in the imperial concubine's palace. That's why I dared to ask the imperial concubine for orders. Come to the Empress Dowager to greet the Empress Dowager instead of the Imperial Concubine."

Yu Rui raised her head slowly as she spoke, her eyes were clear, "Although my concubine was born as a coat and assistant collar in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, my family is also a Manchurian Hanlin family. The empress dowager will not be angry when she sees the concubine."

In one generation of Manchurian families, there were two Scholars, who both entered the Imperial Academy and took charge of the Imperial Academy successively. Among all the Manchurian aristocratic families, Yu Rui's mother's family is also the only one.Besides, Yurui's great-great-grandfather was once praised by Lord Kangxi for his meticulous management of the national treasury, and personally bestowed the Han surname "Shi" on his own. Even the Empress Dowager couldn't help but look up to this family.

The Empress Dowager couldn't say anything to refute, so she sighed lightly, "Mr. Ruigui, you are a good boy."

Yu Rui bowed her head with a smile, "Thank you for your compliment. My concubine's mother's family was given the surname 'Shi' by the holy ancestor Kangxi, and the children of my concubine's mother's family are proud of it, but they also take it as a warning. For three generations, concubine The mother, mother and children are all subject to the family motto 'Be honest as a rock', there is no lie."

The empress dowager raised her eyebrows, "What are you talking about? Has anyone told you that you lied?"

Yurui bowed upwards, "I ask the Empress Dowager to believe what I'm about to say..."

Yu Rui took out a confession written by the eunuch Wang Yonggui, the chief eunuch of Savatthi City, from her bosom, raised her hands high, and asked the empress dowager to have a look.

The empress dowager didn't know what was going on, but Yurui mentioned that Lord Kangxi came first, so she had to accept it.

After unfolding the confession, the Empress Dowager's complexion changed drastically!
Wang Yonggui's confession happened to be exactly the same as what was said in the "Mr. Fox Shuo"'s book, and they proved each other!
If "Mr. Fox Shuo" is said to be a book, there is always a sense of speculation, but Wang Yonggui's identity is real, and Wang Yonggui's personal testimony is also real!

"...As the chief eunuch of Savatthi City, the servant was in charge of doing things in various places on the first day of September in the 24th year of Qianlong. The servant was ordered to manage the students from the inner school of Nanfu who came to accept, as well as the students from Buddha City and Ruiying Palace. Eunuchs, monks, eunuchs and priests. There were many rituals on that day, and there were many people who came to accept them, and all of them were painted with oil paint on their faces, or wore masks, and wore robes of various colors, so it was extremely difficult to identify and distinguish them."

"Although the servant is extremely careful, he also found that some of them were missing. The servant carefully sent people to look for them, but in the end they were all found near the bamboo forest between 'Jiuzhou Qingyan' and 'Tiandi Family Spring'. At that time, due to urgent errands, the servants didn't have time to interrogate them carefully, so they all continued to pretend..."

"Later in September, something happened in the garden. The concubine Yu, who was a noble person back then, and the imperial concubine, who was Ling concubine at that time, lost their heirs one after another... The slave only realized what happened that day when he recalled all the things that day. There is a difference."

"The servant then carefully investigated the identities of those people that day, because those people were all disguised, and it was difficult to record them all in the bottom file, so the servant searched carefully, but failed to find out quickly. It is already this year After Elder Sixteen passed away again, the servant finally checked the identities of those people."

"It's a coincidence that these people are the same group of people who were transferred from Nanfu and Shewei City to the Summer Resort to undertake the nine-nine-nine drama and the moon worship ceremony for the emperor's longevity celebration in August 24th of Qianlong's reign. .”

Wang Yonggui's confession was followed by a list, which detailed the names of those students from the Nanfu Internal School, as well as the eunuch monks and eunuch Taoist priests.

After the empress dowager looked at it, her face turned blue, she raised her eyes to stare at Yurui, "Mr. Ruigui, you really have a heart!"
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Yu Rui was not surprised by the empress dowager's tone.

Yu Rui had already looked away and thought about everything, so she just listened lightly for a while.

After the empress dowager had finished speaking, Yu Rui said, "These students from the Nanfu internal school, as well as the eunuchs, monks, and Taoist priests from Sravasti City and Ruiying Palace, there are more than one person. Even if one person doesn't recognize it, there are others after all. I will confess. If the empress dowager still has doubts, even if they are all locked up in the Department of Punishment, she will definitely be able to tell the truth!"

Didn't the person who wanted to harm the imperial concubine just find Zhao Delu?Then she will put such a row of people in front of the empress dowager!

Zhao Delu is the only witness, and whether you believe it or not is in the heart of the empress dowager; but the row of people Wang Yonggui confessed can testify against each other, after all, no one can escape!

The Empress Dowager laughed, "Okay, okay. Ruigui, I didn't expect you to be such a thoughtful person! You are indeed Debao's daughter, Guanbao's niece, and a good daughter of your Suochaoluo family!"

Yu Rui sighed softly, "The holy patriarch Kangxi once praised the concubine as a high-ranking ancestor, so he gave the Han surname 'Shi'. The concubine's family dare not live up to the grace of the holy patriarch, so the concubine himself pursues the truth in everything .”

"The concubine is not for myself, and it's not just for the imperial concubine—the concubine is for my heir of the Qing Dynasty! No matter what the imperial concubine is like today, what I care about is that six years ago, sister Yu concubine lost her. A prince! The empress dowager doesn't feel sorry for the imperial concubine and concubine Yu, but she should always feel sorry for the emperor's heir, after all, it is the emperor's blood, the empress dowager, your grandson!"
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In Yuanmingyuan, in Wanxi's bedroom, there are imperial imperial concubine crowns and court clothes sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Wanxi waited for Yurui to help her change.

Naturally, it's not that there are no other people in the palace, but at such a near-sacred moment, Wanxi just wants to spend it with Yurui.

Just like these years, whenever she changed to a more noble crown dress, it was Yu Rui who helped her change it herself.

Now that the imperial concubine's attire is in front of her eyes, and it is finally bright yellow, so it should be Yurui who should personally change it for her.

But Zuo waited for Yurui not to come, so he asked someone to look for it, but he couldn't find it either.

Wanxi didn't even think about trying on clothes, so she sent out Yuchan, Yuying, Qu Xu, Ma Lin and others, and told them to go all over the Yuanmingyuan to find Yurui, and they must find Yurui.

——For some reason, Wanxi had an ominous premonition in her heart.

The people sent out have gone around to inquire, and the whole Old Summer Palace seems to have been plowed, combed, and grated, but there is not even a trace of Yuzhu.

Cuijiu, Cuihuan and others also came after hearing the sound, so anxious that they were about to cry in front of Wanxi.

Where did Master Rui go?He didn't even tell the two of them, let alone take the two of them with him!

Could it be that, just because the two of them were reported to go out of the palace, did they not know about everything?

Wanxi felt her heart stopped, and told Qu Xu, "Go to the House of Internal Affairs and find Mr. Debao. Ask Yurui if you have had any trouble with him in the past two days?!"

"Yuchan, send someone to Zhaoxiang's office and ask Yingyuan Gege if she has seen Yurui go?"

"Also... An Ge, I would like to trouble you to go to the Qinzheng Hall. The emperor is listening to the government in the Qinzheng Hall today. You wait for the emperor to leave, and then quickly return the matter of your master Rui to the emperor... ..."

The whole Old Summer Palace has been searched, and now they are waiting for the news from Zhaoxiang's Office and the House of Internal Affairs.If there are no other parties, and the emperor does not send Yu Rui any other errands——then maybe there is only one place for Yu Rui to go.

Wanxi took a deep breath, stood up, and told the second-class woman standing outside the threshold, "Yutan, change my clothes for me."

Yutan is a second-class woman, and she usually waits outside the threshold, and has no chance to come in and go on business.He was frightened by listening to Wanxi's orders so suddenly, pointing to the imperial concubine's gown on the table, he stuttered, "...Slave, slave, wait for the master to wear, which one do you wear?"

It is the most expensive bright yellow, and it is a regulation that can almost be confused with the queen's crown. A second-class woman in Yutan is really a little timid.

Wanxi shook her head lightly, "No, I won't change to this one. I want to wear regular clothes and go to see the Empress Dowager."

Yutan was also startled when he heard that, "Master, are you going to Changchun Garden?"

Wanxi nodded, "Changchun Garden is the last place to go."

It wasn't until this moment that Wanxi realized that she was wrong, it was ridiculous.

She thought that if she tried every means to hide it from Yurui, then Yurui wouldn't know... But where is there an impenetrable wall in this world?And Yurui has always been the one with the best news around her.

All this moment in front of Wanxi's eyes is the back of Yurui who left lonely before.

Wanxi's nose is sour...

She is confused!How could she, even ignoring that scene, not catch up, not keep Yurui, and drag her back? !
If something happened to Yurui, how could she forgive herself!

The Zhaoxiang Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs also sent back news one after another, saying that Yu Rui had never been there.

Wanxi raised her eyes quietly, and flattened the button loops on her body.

"Let's go to Changchun Garden."

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