The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 89

At dusk the next day, Shen Ye sent a letter to report, explaining that everything was ready.

Wan Lai sat on the cool jade seat carved with He He Er Xian, casually threw the letter into the incense burner on the table and burned it.

Ashes floated out from the hollow of the censer's golden thread, Wan Yu's expression was indifferent and she didn't shy away from it, letting the burnt ashes adhere to her forehead hair.

In the other hand, she was holding a yellowish-brown square paper bag, and the white powder inside was slightly scattered on the seat. Wanyu immediately sealed the paper bag tightly, and blew lightly on the exposed powder, causing it to disperse with the wind.

Knowing in her heart that if this matter fails, it will be a serious crime of beheading, Wannai dare not make extravagant problems, even Yunshan, who is closest to her, does not leak anything.

Tong Jia Lang in the former mansion was dispatched by the Empress Dowager from the palace to serve Ye Bilong and his family. He served Niu Hulu Mansion for more than ten years with diligence and sincerity. reward.

Now that such a terrible incident happened in the mansion, he was sent to prison together with him.

There is an imperial physician named Bai Changqing in Gongzhong Imperial Hospital, who is the adopted son of Tong Jia's doctor. He has excellent medical skills but suffers from the fact that there is no one to take care of him at home.

Wanyu went to search in private, and was shocked when she learned of Wanyu's plan, but she regained her composure not long after.

He knew in his heart that if he wanted to save his adoptive father from the fire, he had to save Ye Bilong's life first.

She took Wanyu to a side, carefully took the bag of white powder from her sleeve and handed it to her.

"This thing is 'Zhenxin San', and if taken with water, it will cause heart palpitations and sudden death within an hour."

"Just one thing to pay attention to. Although this drug has strong medicinal properties, it tastes extremely bitter. If you want to put it into meals silently, I'm afraid you can't."

Wan Lai frowned into a meandering stream, secretly thinking about Bai Changqing's words, and then glanced at the 'Zhen Xin San' in her hand, with a wry smile on her lips.

At the end of the night, Wannai sent Yunshan and Yunchan back to the verandah to rest early, and she extinguished the candles in the house early, and only after Juyue in the main hall turned off the lights and went to sleep, did she tiptoe out into the night up the palace.

There was a dry well at the corner of the long street, and Shen Ye had been waiting here for a long time when Wanyu arrived: "I thought the nobleman was wavering."

As Shen Ye said, he strode forward, put a black cloak on Wanyu's body, and murmured in a low voice: "Everything has been arranged, and most of the guards on duty have fallen asleep after drinking sweat medicine, and the rest of the guards outside the door It is convenient for us to collect money and silver. It is not guaranteed to be noticed by others, and the dose of sweating medicine given is extremely light, and the jailer will wake up after a short sleep. Time is short, and the nobleman must not stay longer."

Wan Lai nodded, looked at Shen Ye's moonlit face, and said thank you.

Suddenly, there was a strange noise from the grass behind the two of them, Shen Ye drew his knife out of its sheath vigilantly, jumped to the side of the grass and pointed the knife at it, and said sharply: "Who is it!"

"Don't hurt me." The voice was trembling and frightened, and Pian Wanyou recognized Yun Shan's voice with just one sentence.

She walked forward quickly, pressed Shen Ye's hand and ordered him to put the knife away first, and then pushed aside the grass, and she saw the shivering spruce curled up in it.

"Why are you here?" Wanyu stepped forward to help her, Yunshan's eyes flickered, and he hesitated and said: "Servant, servant can't sleep well at night, so I want to walk around outside the room. I don't want to go all the way I saw that the young master looked very good, so I hurriedly followed."

Wanyu showed doubts on her face, obviously she didn't believe her explanation.

She walked all the way along the path, and the veranda where the spruce rested was quite far away from here, how could she walk around at will and see herself?
Yun Shan glanced back and forth at Shen Ye, and said in shock, "You used to be in the mansion."

As soon as she could speak, she was stopped by Wanyan: "It's late at night, hurry up and go back and rest."

"What about the young master?"

"I'll go back right away." Wanyu was afraid of attracting the attention of others, she didn't want to talk to Yunshan, and was eager to send her away.Seeing this, Yunshan didn't ask any more questions, and walked towards the two of them, Fuyi Fuli, turned a corner and disappeared.

Shen Ye lowered his voice, and said alertly to Wanyan: "Is this person trustworthy?"

Wan Lai nodded: "They grew up with me, even though they are maidservants, they are close to me, more like sisters. My lord has seen them in the mansion before, and they are called Yun Shan." Seeing the darker night, she urged her to calm down. Go to the sky prison quickly at night, so as not to miss the time.

When the two entered the prison, the guards guarding the door really turned a blind eye to them.

Shen Ye opened the heavy black iron gate of the prison, and wanted to enter together with Wanyu, but Wanyu waved her hand and refused: "Sir, help me so far, and leave the rest to me alone. Are you Those who work in front of the imperial court will always attract people's suspicion if they haven't seen each other for a long time."

Shen Ye was naturally worried, but before she opened her mouth, Wan Yu had already trotted into the prison.

He hurried to follow, but was stopped by the guards: "Your words are very true, Mr. Shen, don't make it difficult for our brothers to find it. If the guard commander on duty finds us, do we still want this head?"

In this way, he gave up worrying and left.

There are very few prisoners in the prison, and there are few candles.

Walking all the way along the dark passage, I saw faintly flickering stars and candles in the deepest part.

Wan Yu stepped up her pace, and at the place where the light source radiated, she saw three red candles standing on a rough wooden table, the candle oil turned black and congealed half of the candle body, and a smoky smell of oily wax came to her nostrils, choking She coughed.

She also saw several prison guards lying on their backs all over the place, snoring and falling asleep, and hurriedly covered their mouths to keep silent.

Several people slept soundly, and two wine jars covered with dirt rolled on the ground, and the daughter's red wine in them was scattered all over the ground, and evaporated on the mud, leaving only glaring watermarks.

With the sound of snoring one after another, Wan Yu tiptoed into one of the jailers, bent down and took a bronze spoon carved with eagle patterns from his waist.

She evened out her rapid breathing, only to hear a few withered laughter coming from deeper, the laughter was as frightening as the crows of a cold tree.

Wanlu brushed the sapphire bodhi she was wearing on her chest, she got the courage out of nowhere, and walked towards the innermost cell.

The bronze key was inserted into the keyhole, and the door opened with a slight twist.

She pretended to be calm and went in with her head up, and saw Oboi standing on the wall bound by iron chains, the skylight opened on the top of his forehead cast cold and menacing moonlight on him.

In a daze, Wan Yu thought his white hair was the reflection of the silver moon.

But when he looked closely, he found that it was Oboi's gorgeous hair, together with his chest-length beard, it was translucently white.

Aobai was dressed in rags, with leftovers hanging from the corners of his mouth and beard, he looked like an old beggar on the street, very sloppy.

How can this person be connected with the majestic Ao Zhongtang above the court?
Seeing Wan Lai standing alone in front of him, Aobai smiled contemptuously, still with an arrogant and disdainful expression, and said: "You are quite courageous, you dare to enter the prison alone today."

(End of this chapter)