The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 115 Clues

When I got up in the morning of the second day, the snow in the Forbidden City was covered with a thick layer of silver overnight, and all the concubines went to Kunning Palace to congratulate the queen.

The empress was weak after giving birth, and she only dealt with everyone's congratulations lightly, and closed the door of Kunning Palace early to rest.

Because half a month later is the New Year's Eve, the queen has no time to take care of all these things during her confinement, so this matter naturally falls on Concubine Yi who is in charge of the six palaces.

When Wanyu came to Yikun Palace, although the sun had already set, the sky was still dark red in the afterglow of the setting sun. The half of the sky in the distance was slowly gloomy, smudged like splashed ink, and condensed into the shape of scattered clouds.

Concubine Yi held a ledger in her hand and read it carefully under the bright light. Her dress today is quite different from the past.

She was wearing a cloak with auspicious clouds, flowers and birds in the color of falling snow, and a Tianshui Bimian brocade robe inside. A circle of light green vines was secretly sewn around the skirt with gold thread, and the workmanship was extremely exquisite.

The hair on the forehead is tied up in a docile bun with a red gold phoenix head, and a few dazzling oriental beads are dotted on the bun. With her black hair like a waterfall, it is as dazzling as stars hanging on the night.

She naturally loves eye-catching colors such as bright red and bright purple, and she rarely dresses up so soberly and refinedly. Wan Yu's eyes lit up, and she stepped forward with a smile and said, "Elder Sister is dressed very refreshingly today."

Concubine Yi put down the ledger in her hand, rubbed her sore eyes, and ordered Arjun to serve tea to Wanyu: "Do you still think my place is not enough to run around to join in the fun? Nowadays, apart from the queen's place, my place is the most lively. In the sixth house, most things are still handled by the empress. Now that she has suddenly delegated power to me, I am not used to it."

While talking, Arjun had already placed the tea cup on the small table, Wannai looked at the light yellow soup color in the cup, which made the sapphire tea cup more translucent, she unconsciously took a deep sip, and said 'it smells so good'.

Aqiong frowned and smiled, and whispered to Wanyu: "The new jujube oolong tea given by the emperor is a new offering in the tea town. The second lady doesn't like drinking tea, so don't you want to be interested in it too?"

Hearing Arjun call herself Second Miss, Wanyu felt relieved from the bottom of her heart, as if she had returned to the days when she was in the mansion with her eldest sister.But Concubine Yi's complexion was a little dark, and she reprimanded Arjun for not knowing the rules.

Wanyu smiled and said it was all right, and then joked to Arjun: "The emperor didn't give me a reward, so how do you know that I don't like to drink it? Arjun, you go and get half of the tea and send it to my palace. Wait until I see you." Your Majesty, it is better to ask him why he is so biased."

Arjun nodded in response, and ran out happily.

Concubine Yi looked at her leaving figure, gently flicked the gilded ancient cloud-pattern half-hollow group blessing armor on her little finger, and said slowly: "What do you have to say, even Arjun needs to be dismissed?"

Wan Lai's expression froze, she stood up and walked towards Concubine Yi on the high seat: "I found this in her palace when the Empress was giving birth yesterday." As she spoke, she took out the yellowed paper hidden in her sleeve. , and handed it to Concubine Yi.

Concubine Yi flicked her sleeves and spread out the paper, reading softly the ink pen on it: "Concubine Hui Borzigit threatened the lives of her family, ordered her elder sister to steal the bellyband made by Concubine Xian Tong, and used poison The poison caused me to blame Concubine Xian completely after Dongchuang incident happened. Ever since she told me, Eldest Sister has been in fear day and night, fearing that one day this will bring disaster to the family. I hope my younger brother will keep this letter safe. This letter, if the eldest sister dies from the palace, Concubine Hui promises to give the family wealth and honor, and also to keep the family safe and prosperous for half a lifetime. However, if there are still people in the palace who involve this matter on you, then you can take out this letter Letter, may the family be safe. My younger brother personally wrote it, and my eldest sister Liuyue wrote it herself."

It was completely dark outside, and the palace lanterns under the eaves swayed with gusts of cold wind, emitting strange light and shadow.

Concubine Yi closed the yellowed paper, her eyelashes slightly raised, and a deep cold light appeared in her eyes: "You found this family letter in the Queen's Palace, and the family letter faded and turned yellow, so you know that the Queen sent someone to take down Liu Yue's family." , I already know about this matter. Since she knew Concubine Hui's vicious thoughts, why did she still want to execute Liu Yue's family, and even put away this family book in private, and not mention this matter?"

Wannai rolled her eyes, and after thinking for a while, she seemed to have guessed something: "Eldest sister thought that there might be something in it, originally it wasn't Concubine Hui's intention, but the queen threatened Concubine Hui with it, forcing Concubine Hui to do it. of?"

"I've also thought about it in my heart, there are many things that Concubine Hui can't do. For example, you have no heirs, why would she harm you? And she also set up such a sophisticated plan that almost put you to death."

Wanyu let out a short sigh, shook her head and said, "Falsely accusing me of having an affair with Lingyou, presumably it was Concubine Hui who instructed Yunshan to inform Ma Jiashi. As Yunshan can serve the king, I am afraid that Concubine Hui was behind it."

Concubine Yi didn't have any ripples in her eyes, she stared at Wanyu: "If you do too many evil things, there will always be clues. After the queen became pregnant, Concubine Hui often visited her. It's been more than a month, so I'm afraid I can't get away from her."

Wan Yu was surprised: "Elder Sister means." She paused for a moment, then frowned and said, "Is she afraid that she doesn't have the guts?"

"I have something, let's take a look." Concubine Yi got up and led Wanyu's hand into the bedroom, took out a cloth bag tightly wrapped in plain cloth from under her pillow, and slowly opened it.

There was a dense layer of green chrysanthemum petals inside, Wannai took a petal and sniffed it carefully, but found nothing wrong, so she asked doubtfully, "Why did elder sister show me these green chrysanthemums?"

Concubine Yi smiled slightly, took a petal and soaked it in the clear water. After a while, she reached out and took off a plain silver hairpin pinned to Wanyu's hair bun and plunged into the water. The hairpin suddenly turned black.

Shocked, Wan Lai snatched the hairpin from Concubine Yi and threw it on the ground: "Is this green chrysanthemum poisonous?"

Concubine Yi shook her head: "Green chrysanthemum is not poisonous, it's just that 'Gu Qi San' was sprinkled on the petals."

"What is that?"

"When cattle and horses were raised in Mongolia, in order to ensure the health of the cubs, they often took this thing and sniffed it with the cattle and horses. After a long time, many of the cubs born to the cattle were stronger and bigger than ordinary cattle and horses. Today I I went to see Cheng Hu, how could his figure be compared to that of an ordinary baby? If I didn't say it, I would really think it was a three-month-old child."

Concubine Yi sighed softly, as if she saw everything clearly: "I asked this question that day, Concubine Hui hurriedly stopped her, saying that this is the blessing of the heavenly family, and the emperor's son is naturally different from others. What she said It makes the emperor happy, so I don't want to say anything to spoil the fun."

Wanyu felt a little uneasy, flashed in her mind the row of bright green chrysanthemums she saw when she entered the side hall of Kunning Palace yesterday, and asked slowly: "This green chrysanthemum, but the eldest sister came from the Queen's Palace. Got it?"

Concubine Yi nodded, and rewrapped the green chrysanthemum and pressed it under the pillow: "There were still many, but these things always hurt the body, so I only kept these and ordered Arjun to burn the rest, so as not to hurt others. "

(End of this chapter)