The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 55 Cat Disaster ([-])

The sky outside the house was getting more and more gloomy, and the whistling wind slapped against the door frame and made a 'squeak' sound, which was creepy to hear.

It was clearly a sunny day at noon, but at this moment the palace lanterns were already lit in the palace.

The bronze red crane independent palace lantern next to the main seat is the brightest, but the red crane's sharp beak has been smoked for many years, adding a thin layer of black mist, which makes the red crane, which is a fairy, seem to be stained with dust.

The emperor's eyes were still fixed on Wanyu, the protruding Adam's apple in his throat could not stop sliding up and down and swallowing saliva, two veins on his neck were bulging, he closed his upper and lower jaws and gritted his teeth, as if trying to restrain himself.

Wan Lai took the jade bottle from Yun Shan's hand, and looked in through the eye of the bottle, but after a few days of not moving, most of the bottle of gardenia hair oil really disappeared.

There was silence all around, only the queen cleared her throat and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty Wan, did you keep this oil close to your body?"

Wan Yu didn't answer the queen's words, but looked at the emperor firmly and asked: "Is the emperor sure that this matter is related to the concubine?"

The emperor stared at her in a daze and said nothing. A fleeting smile flashed across the corner of the queen's mouth, and then she said in a solemn voice: "Whether the emperor believes you or not depends on the evidence displayed in front of you. Don't rely on the emperor's favor, Mrs. Wan. So unscrupulous and without courtesy."

Concubine Yi, who was lined up with the queen, saw Wanyu's intentions, and now she still wholeheartedly hoped that the emperor would trust her, but it reminded Concubine Yi how she trusted the emperor when she first entered the palace.

But later she realized that the man in front of her was her only support in the palace, but also the most unreliable support.

Looking at Wanyu's tearful eyes, she felt a faint pain in her heart, but her face was calm and calm, and she said: "Your Majesty Wan, the queen is asking you something, why are you looking at the emperor like this?"

Wanyu frowned and closed her eyes, trying her best to restrain the tears in her eyes from falling, then calmed down, got up from her seat and knelt down in front of the empress respectfully, saying: "Your Majesty, empress, concubine has never done it, and I don't even bother to do it." This matter. Li Changzai is pregnant, and there are a little more servants in the palace than in the palace of concubines, so how can people not notice this behavior?"

The queen stroked the hairpin on the head of the Hehe Erxian Buyao, and then said: "Mr. Wan, have you never heard the principle of getting the moon first when you are close to the water? You raised the cat, and the hair oil was kept in the bedroom. If you say you It has nothing to do with this matter, and I don't believe it either."

The empress was very aggressive, Rong Yue got up with a flick of her sleeves and walked to Wanyu and knelt down: "Empress, my concubine is on good terms with Mrs. Wan, I can assure you that this matter has nothing to do with her."

The emperor raised his eyes and glanced at her, and the queen's complexion sank, and she immediately continued: "You have been caught in rumors about Chengrui, concubine, are you still going to take care of Mrs. Wan's affairs now? Since you gave the oil to Mrs. Wan Yes, you can't get rid of your involvement in this matter, I advise you to keep your words to a minimum."

Rong Yue didn't answer the Queen's words, but only gave her an angry look, and knelt with her next to Wan Yu's arm.

Wan Yu couldn't bear to implicate Rong Yue, and persuaded in a low voice: "Sister, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't need it"

"I saw how you protected me that day, and how you tried to prove my innocence for me. Now that you have been wronged, I will not ignore you." Rong Yue gave a gentle smile, took her somewhat cold hand and said goodbye speech.

Although Concubine Hui and Dong Wenyin also wanted to intercede for Wanyu, but they talked in a hurry, which made the emperor furious.

He suddenly put down the swinging jade pendant in his hand, reprimanded them for making noise, then slowly walked down the steps and stood in front of Wanyu, looking down at her, and only after a long while shouted to the door, ordered Liang Jiugong to send someone to take Xue Find out the velvet.

After a while, the imperial guards outside the door reported that they had found Xue Rong, and everyone's eyes were focused on the Xuanmen of the main hall.

The person who entered was Shen Ye, the imperial guard who rescued Wanyu and the emperor in the imperial garden that day. Xuerong was lying in his arms wet all over, staring at the crowd in horror, and could not help but bury her head in Shen Ye. Deeper in the bosom.

Without waiting for the emperor to ask questions, Shen Ye slowly handed the snow velvet to Liang Jiugong, folded his hands and bowed, and then said: "I found this cat on a thin ice surface in the southeast corner of Yuhu Lake, and it was lying on the ice surface. The upper hair was soaked in water, and it seemed to be frightened and motionless. When Wei Chen rescued it, he also found that the cat's hind legs seemed to have contusions, which should be caused by human beings."

Xuerong fell into Liang Jiugong's arms, and became extremely restless. She yelled a few times, and her blade-like claws dug into Liang Jiugong's hands. Go to Wanyu's side.

Seeing it so embarrassed, Wanyu felt pain in her heart, and hurriedly stretched out her hands to hug it.

Xue Rong's eyes were filled with tears, she cried weakly a few times, then settled down and curled up in Wan Yu's arms.

The emperor took a closer look, and saw that there was indeed a burnt mark on the snow-white plush face, and his complexion immediately became looser: "There are burnt marks on the face, it seems that what nobleman Wan said is true."

"This cat has been soaking in the Yuhu Lake for an unknown amount of time, and the scorching marks are old and new, and we can't tell the difference." The Queen slowly replied suspiciously, and pointed at the intention of Wannai ordering someone to throw the snow velvet into the Yuhu Lake. The destruction of corpses and traces is also unknown.

Shen Ye took out a delicate object from the folds of her chest that was wet with snow velvet, and handed it to Liang Jiugong to present to the emperor. The empresses took a look at the object and almost asked in unison where it came from.

Shen Ye replied that in order to find something near the snow velvet, the queen took the red thing and threw it on the ground, and everyone saw that it was a wishful knot of a lotus sutra. Not easy to identify together.

The wishful knot was the closest to Rongyue, she hesitated for a moment to pick it up, and then said in surprise: "This looks like a wishful knot from the Horqin tribe to pray for safety."

Among the concubines, Concubine Hui, like the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, was from the Horqin tribe of Mongolia. Hearing Rong Yue's words, she sat up and got up with a serious expression. Said: "That's right, but this thing is from Horqin's department, but the weaving technique and the silk thread used are all inferior, it looks like something worn by a court lady."

The emperor's condensed face showed a slight warmth, he took a fixed look at Wanyu, and raised his voice: "There is no court lady from Mongolia in the nobleman's palace, and the person who threw the cat into the imperial lake must not be from her." In the palace."

The Empress glanced at Concubine Hui who had a slightly weird face, and changed the subject: "There are countless court ladies who were born in Mongolia in the palace, and a wishful knot can't explain anything. Even if the beast that sprang out was not raised by nobleman Wan, then But the hair oil comes from your palace."

Concubine Yi coughed slightly, with a disapproving smile on her face: "How can the things you use to comb your hair last? It has been dry since autumn, and the vats of hair oil in the concubine's palace are like running water. I don’t know how many have been replaced, the concubine Xian gave such a small bottle to the nobleman, if the nobleman didn’t use it up, could it be possible to put it in front of the Buddhist altar as an offering?”

(End of this chapter)