The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 19 Collision
Dong Wenyin frowned, feeling more and more resentful in her heart, she raised her voice and deliberately shouted out the door: "Who can harm the piece of meat in her stomach? I can't look down on her frivolous appearance."

Rong Yue stretched out her hand and pushed the plum soup bowl in front of Dong Wenyin a few inches forward, then shook her head at her: "Moisturize your throat quickly, I don't have to argue with her." With a smile on his face, he said softly: "Queen Yizhi, you can still laugh after putting such a hard job on you."

"As my sister said, I don't care about anything with her. Whether she eats or not is my heart after all. When the queen visits in the future, she will have to talk about my benefits. She can't bring those indecent things to herself. Going?" Wanyu picked up a jade crisp flower cake on the table, put it in her mouth and took a small bite, closed her eyes to savor it, and nodded again and again: "This cake is newly made in the small kitchen of Changjie's palace. It's delicious. Wait a minute. Sister, take it back to the palace to taste, and I will give Li Xu the rest."

Rong Yue directly praised Wanyu for her calm temperament and knowing how to endure, and she did not forget to tell the vigorous Dong Wenyin to learn from it.

Outside the door, a maid came in panting, Rong Yue recognized the maid from her own palace, frowning and asked her why she was so reckless.

The maid had no time to catch her breath and said something happened in the palace.

After careful questioning, I found out that just now Dali Temple sent people back to the queen, saying that they had found out the cause of Fu'er's death, and said that the murderer was Xiao Quanzi, the eunuch who Ma Jia often served by her side.

Rong Yue's expression darkened when she heard this, she hurriedly bid farewell to the two of them and went back to the palace.Wanyu was worried, and ordered Dong Wenyin to take care of Li Xu, and hurriedly followed her out.

When the two arrived, the queen was sitting on the main seat in the main hall of Chengqian Palace, and Ma Jia often stood in the hall calmly, fiddling with her onion-like nails from time to time.

Seeing Wan Lai and Rong Yue rushing over, the queen gave them a seat in a soft voice.

Ma Jiachang glanced at the two of them, and said in a low voice with disdain: "How come Mrs. Wan has come to join in the fun, isn't the Li promise in your palace not enough for you to worry about?"

Seeing her frivolity, Wan Lai shook her head and remained silent.

Sitting on it, the queen was spinning a red agate string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and said with a long breath: "Ma Jia is always here, I am asking you something."

Ma Jia often looked up at the queen, and sneered: "The concubine has already returned to the queen's words, and the people in Dali Temple only said that someone saw Xiao Quanzi dragging a sack and sneaking to the abandoned pavilion in the middle of the night. Who knows what it is pretending to be?"

"Present it." The queen said solemnly, and Kang Fushou came out in response, bowed and held up a folded sack to the queen's side. The queen pushed the sack to the ground in front of Ma Jiachang with a flick of her sleeve, and then pointed at the sack and said angrily: "The rags embedded in Fu'er's nails match the defect on this sack, and this sack was found from Xiaoquanzi's house, how dare you say you don't know?"

Ma Jiachang glanced at the sack with lowered eyebrows, and turned away impatiently: "Your Majesty, you have already told me that this sack was found from Xiao Quan's ovary, what does it have to do with concubines?"

"Xiao Quanzi is from your palace, what do you say has anything to do with you?"

"What the empress said, it seems that there is an extra slave in the concubine's palace, and the concubine has to focus on him day and night?" Ma Jiachang glanced at Qingyue beside the queen, and said arrogantly: "Your Majesty is smart and has a good memory. My concubine would like to ask, what kind of food does Aunt Qingyue next to you eat in the morning, how many times did she enter the court room, and how many steps did she walk? Can you count all these?"

"Presumptuous!" Holding a Buddhist bead, the queen leaned over her desk and stood up vigorously, angrily reprimanding Ma Jiachang, "Kneel down!"

The sound of the Buddha beads colliding with the solid wood table was quite loud, which shocked Wan Yu and Rong Yue present.

Ma Jia Chang Zai still had a proud face, and said contradictoryly: "I have nothing wrong with this concubine, why should I kneel?"

The queen was so angry that the veins on her neck stood up, and ordered Kang Fushou to force her to kneel down.

Kang Fushou took the queen's order, and walked to Ma Jiachang's side with a clean whip. Ma Jiachang was yelling and warning, but Kang Fushou didn't care about her. He stepped forward and kicked Ma Jiachang's calf, and Ma Jiachang was in pain. Kneeling on the ground with a cry, Kang Fushou stepped forward and pressed her arm against her back, making her unable to move.

"You dog slave, I am the emperor's concubine, the eldest son and birth mother, how dare you oppress me?" Ma Jia was constantly growling, shaking her head from side to side, the buns she had made were scattered, how could there be any trace of a concubine's dignified appearance?
Looking at this situation, Rong Yue felt uneasy, she turned her head and whispered to Wan Yu: "Since you and I entered the palace, I have never seen the queen be so angry. If you and I don't say anything at this time, we still don't know what's going on. How to develop."

"The empress is furious. Ma Jia often stays with us and has never been in touch with us. Why did my sister get into such a bad situation?" Wan Lai shook her head at Rongyue: "If what happened today is really what Ma Jia often did, even the emperor can't protect her even if the emperor is here. After you and I are seated, we will just watch."

Kang Fushou just suppressed Ma Jiachang, allowing her to yell obscenities.

The queen took the prayer beads and sat down again, looking at Ma Jiachang who was kneeling and swearing with cold eyes: "I ask you, what mistake did Fu'er make, and you want to order your servant in the palace to do this cruel thing?"

Ma Jiachang raised her head while her hair was loose, and shouted: "Since the empress wants to know, just bring Xiaoquanzi to ask questions, why bother talking so much with my concubine here."

Wan Lai sighed in her heart that Ma Jia Changzai was such a powerful master, even though she was suppressed in the palace, she still kept her mouth open.

The queen sternly ordered the eunuch serving outside the door to arrest Xiao Quanzi, and she did not argue with Ma Jia in the palace.

After about half a stick of incense, the serving eunuch hurried back and forth, saying that Xiao Quanzi was arrested when he saw someone coming to capture him, and he slammed his head against the palace wall to death. At the end, he confessed that he had a personal grudge with Fu'er, so he became murderous .

As soon as these words came out, Ma Jiachang, who had already stopped struggling, immediately regained his spirits, and said coldly to Kang Fushou who was pressing her behind him: "Don't let go of things that have no roots!"

Kang Fushou's complexion darkened, he gritted his teeth lightly, and the strength of his hands became even stronger, causing Ma Jiachang to bow his head: "The slave has received the Queen's order, Ma Jiachang will take care of you, don't make yourself uncomfortable."

Ma Jia was often pressed on the back by Kang Fushou's arm, almost out of breath: "Xiao Quanzi has been recruited all by himself, does the empress want to ask the concubine's crime?"

The queen ordered Kang Fushou to let Ma Jiachang stay, but Kang Fushou was so cruel that he let go suddenly, making Ma Jiachang, who couldn't bear it anymore, fall to the ground.

"What does this matter have to do with you? I know it well. Don't think that you can act rudely and recklessly after giving birth to a prince." The queen slowly got up from the seat and walked to Ma Jiachang, and looked down at her: "From now on, you will kneel and recite "Rules for Women" in your palace for an hour every noon, and Concubine Xian will be in charge of watching you and punishing you."

Ma Jia often got up on the ground, looking directly at the queen with hatred: "The queen has no proof, so she is going to pour dirty water on the concubine?"

"This is the Forbidden City. I am in charge of the Phoenix seal. I am the mother of a country and the lord of the harem." The queen pointed to her bright eyes: "Ma Jia always wants evidence, and my eyes are the evidence."

After saying that, the queen left with a sneer.Kang Fushou rushed out of the palace two steps earlier and shouted "get up and drive back to the palace", Qingyue waited for the queen to get on the phoenix sedan chair.

(End of this chapter)