The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 3 Scheming ([-])

Tong Jia Lang, who attended the mansion, was dispatched from the palace by the Empress Dowager to give Ye Bilong a personal gift, and his medical skills are naturally superb.

After detecting and treating the pulse, he prescribed a prescription, and ordered someone to cook a decoction that relieves Qi and feed it to Wanyu.

Wan Yu took the decoction, and her flushed face subsided for a moment, and she became fair again, her breathing gradually stabilized.

Seeing that Wanyu's symptoms seemed to have improved, Ye Bilong breathed a sigh of relief.

On the side, Bayara graciously covered Wanyu with a thin quilt, muttering in his mouth: "This food is stuck in her throat. If it is not handled properly, it will kill her. Wanyu's temperament of eating wholeheartedly should also be corrected." gone."

After putting Wanyu in place, seeing that Ye Bilong was sweating profusely, he took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped it off: "Look at the sweat on the master's head, it really hurts my concubine to see it."

She turned her eyes to the apricots on the table, and said angrily, "The dried apricots made by my sister are delicious, but they have been dried for a long time, so they are hard to swallow."

As she spoke, she ordered the maid on the side to take out the apricot meat and pour it out.

The maid responded with the jade plate and walked out, Ye Bilong breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Mr Tong Jia: "Wanyu is safe now? The list of beautiful girls has been handed in, if she has a It is inevitable that the Empress Dowager will be blamed for what goes wrong."

Hearing what Ye Bilong said, Bayara suddenly realized.

Originally thinking that Ye Bilong felt sorry for his daughter from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't think that the cold sweat he was sweating was not because of his heartache, but because he was afraid of the royal reprimand and was born out of fear.

She was secretly happy, so she also opened her mouth to ask Mr. Tong Jia about Wanyu's condition.

Tong Jialang bowed his hands and replied: "Second Miss is fine, but this plain asthma seems to be a symptom of poisoning."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mrs. Bayala interrupted Tong Jia Langzhong's words, and scolded: "At the feet of the emperor, who dares to poison the master's mansion, is he dying?"

Mr. Tong Jia didn't pay attention to Mr. Bayara, and said to Ye Bilong, "I don't know what the second young lady ate in the end. I will give it to the servant, and the servant will know it once he inspects it."

Hearing Langzhong's words, Ye Bilong hurriedly stopped the maid who had already walked out of the door with the apricot meat, and when he called her back, he took a piece of apricot meat and handed it to Tong Jia Langzhong: "This is it. This is the old man It was made by the deceased wife, Ulanara, and she was kept in the dining room after she passed away. Just now Wannai asked for food, so she ordered someone to fetch it, just take a look."

Doctor Tong Jia took the apricot meat and probed it with a silver needle, but there was no blackness at the tip of the needle.

Bayara looked at this scene with cold eyes, with a sneer and sarcasm in his mouth, bluntly saying that there is nothing wrong with Tong Jia.

Tong Jia Lang was puzzled, took a piece of apricot meat and looked at it carefully, and then broke it open.

Sure enough, there is heaven and earth hidden in the air-dried apricot flesh.

There are many powders mixed in the apricot flesh. The powders have different colors and are mixed together. The amount is not much, but it is particularly conspicuous compared with the color of the apricot flesh.

Lang Tong took the powder and sniffed it gently with the tip of his nose.

On the side, Ye Bilong hurriedly asked: "What is this?"

After a long while, Mr. Tong Jia flicked the powder from his fingers, and reported to Ye Bilong: "My lord, this thing is made by mixing Qionghua, dandelion, Chinese rose and gooseberry pollen, and nothing else, this goatbowl pollen is It is poisonous, but the toxicity is very slight, and ordinary people can eat it without any harm. Perhaps the second lady was young and weak, so the pollen entered the lung chamber, and she couldn't breathe for a while, and the toxicity of veratrum aggravated the symptoms. Chest tightness, shortness of breath, passed out."

Ye Bilong frowned, and took several pieces of apricot flesh to test, all of which were pollen hidden, so he slapped the table and said angrily: "Fei Yingsheng has asthma, it is impossible to see pollen, it is absolutely impossible to mix it into my own hands What you are doing is eating! There must be something wrong with this matter!"

He turned around and ordered the servants at the side: "Order people to search the mansion up and down, I want to see who used this trick to poison Wannai!"

"My lord, this slave has one more thing to report." Tong Jialang looked solemn, stepped forward two steps and said softly: "This pollen cannot kill the second young miss, on the contrary, Madam Fei has asthma, if you eat this by mistake , will definitely cause asthma and die! Madam Fei suddenly died of asthma that night, presumably it must be related to this thing. If this is true, then Madam Fei is most likely killed by someone else!"

"Bold!"

When Ye Bilong heard Tong Jia's words, his heart was even more furious.

He violently smashed the jade plate on the table to the ground, and the air-dried apricot meat was scattered all over the ground, scaring the presence of Mrs. Bayara and Mr. Tong Jia to their knees.

"Check it out! Check it out! You can't make a single mistake, and no one can let it go!"

Ye Bilong seldom gets angry in the mansion, this action frightens everyone in the mansion to be in danger, and they dare not slack off in the matter he confessed.

Everyone turned the mansion upside down, from the residence of the main wife to the shabby rooms of the servants.

This tossing took nearly an hour.

During this period, Ye Bilong stayed in the house without saying a word, Bayara and Tong Jia saw him furious, knelt down and did not dare to speak.

It wasn't until Ding, who was in charge of the mansion, entered Yebilong's room with a cloth bag, that the silence was broken.

The housekeeper Ding knelt down and offered a cloth bag to Ye Bilong: "My lord, this cloth bag contains powder, which is very similar to the one Tong Jialang found in the apricot flesh."

Ye Bilong threw the cloth bag to Tong Jia Langzhong, and asked Ding, who was in charge, "Where did you get it?"

"This..." Ding, the person in charge, faltered, his words flickering: "This slave dare not say it."

Ye Bilong was furious, stepped forward and kicked the servant in charge on the shoulder, angrily reprimanded: "If you hide anything, I will cut you to pieces!"

"I don't dare, this, this cloth bag was found from the lady's room."

Bayara knelt on the ground for an hour, already tired, but after hearing what Ding said, he regained his energy immediately.

She stood up tremblingly, supported her knees with one hand, pointed at the servant in charge with the other and cursed: "You lowly slave, how dare you talk about my wife indiscriminately! Come on, drag me out immediately and beat me to death!"

"Madam, please forgive me, please forgive me!" The servant in charge kowtowed to Mr. Bayara several times, and the blood on his forehead stained the ground red: "This cloth bag was found in Madam's room, and dozens of servants and servants in the mansion saw it with their own eyes. Yes, this slave would not dare to slander Madam even if he dies!"

Bayara frowned, glared angrily at the servant in charge, and continued to shout outside the room: "People! Are they all dead? Why don't you drag this lunatic out and stick him to death?!"

As she spoke, she bumped forward and slapped the servant in charge.

But before the sound of her slap did not stop, Ye Bilong slapped her heavily with her backhand, knocking her to the ground.

Mrs. Bayala supported the ground, covered her hot cheeks with tears in her eyes and looked at Ye Bilong, and said with great aggrieved words: "The master believed in the bitch, do you really think it was done by the concubine?"

"It's not what I thought!" Ye Bilong pointed at Bayara and roared petting her: "It's all done by you poisonous woman! Just now Wannai handed you the apricot meat, but you refused to eat it! The doctor asked the doctor, you So anxious to throw this apricot out! You are so guilty, are you looking at the old man blind!?"

At the same time, Doctor Tong Jia also verified that the powder contained in the bag was indeed pollen mixed with apricot flesh.

Bayarashi was startled, and kept saying that it was impossible, and rushed forward to snatch the cloth bag like crazy, looked at the powder inside, then knelt down crying bitterly, crawled to Ye Bilong's feet and pulled his trouser legs: "Master, My concubine must have been planted and framed by someone! Master, think carefully, if it is really my concubine’s fault, and Ulanara died a few months ago, why does my concubine still keep these incriminating evidence, waiting for you to find out and punish me?”

"You should ask yourself this question!" Ye Bilong kicked Bayara aside, and said angrily, "Who else in the mansion, except you, could have done such a sinister thing? If it wasn't for Wannai's clamor to Eat the apricot meat made by Feiying, I don’t know what kind of sinful things you, a poisonous woman, will do again!"

"Master said so, does it mean that he really believes that the concubine is vicious?" Bayara cried for a long time, his voice was a little hoarse: "So, is the master going to abandon his ministers and concubines regardless of years of friendship?"

"Abandon you? Hmph." Ye Bilong snorted, his eyes were red with apology for the late Ulanara, he raised his head, restraining his tears from falling.

After a long while, after his emotions calmed down, Ye Bilong breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly to Bayara: "You should know in your heart that this old man only regards you as his wife because he likes your mother's family's status in the court. She is virtuous and virtuous, she manages the family well, and the concubine Shushu feels that Luo Shi is far better than a poisonous woman like you. But since the old man has made you his wife, he will not depose you, so as not to provoke criticism from the courtiers."

When Ye Bilong saw that Bayara was still complaining about his grievances, he shook his head and said harshly to the family in charge:
"The order has been passed on. The main wife, Bayara, has a vicious mind and murdered the old couple and their daughters. She will be confined in the firewood house from now on. There will be no orders! Her personal maids, Chunshu and Luxi, will be killed together! The internal affairs of the mansion will be handed over to the The concubine Shu Shu felt that Luo Shi kissed her hand!"

After Ye Bilong finished speaking, he snatched the cloth bag from Tong Jialang and smashed it hard on Bayara's face: "You take these harmful things to the woodshed and leave, and the old man will order people to add them to you day and night. Eat until you have swallowed these things!"

"My lord, I've been wronged by being a concubine! My lord!"

Bayara cried bitterly, and couldn't stop shouting at Ye Bilong to complain about her grievances, but Ye Bilong didn't pay attention to her, but thought she was noisy, so he ordered his servants to cover her mouth and quickly move to the firewood room to close it .

(End of this chapter)