Harem for a living

Chapter 30

Although Liu Xiurong was a transparent person in the palace, her personal servant girl was not really unknown to anyone.No matter how low-key Liu Xiurong is, Cuilan can't just find someone to impersonate.

The emperor didn't speak, neither did the queen. After a while, Liu Cheng bowed over and whispered to the emperor, "Your majesty, Li Yuyi and others have already prescribed a prescription. Let the imperial concubine drink the medicine, the imperial concubine is already weak, so the fetus cannot stay in the imperial concubine's body forever."

The emperor took the prescription with a cold face, looked at it, and handed it to the queen.The queen glanced around below, and called her maidservant over: "Xinlan, you go to decoct the medicine yourself, hurry up and come back."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to another big maid next to Concubine Yang Gui: "Qiuyue, you follow."

Now Concubine Yang's two maidservants are being interrogated, and the remaining two will leave one to be a witness or something, so only one can go to be a companion with Xinlan, and come back by the way so that Concubine Yang can rest assured to take medicine .

Taking advantage of the fact that the imperial doctor had just finished prescribing the prescription, the emperor asked Liu Cheng to call the imperial doctors over again, and asked them to carefully examine the plate of shortbread.The shortbread is white and moist, just looking at the appearance, it looks like it is made of rice flour, with dried red fruits dotted with some patterns of flowers and plants on it, it looks very beautiful.

Several imperial doctors each took a piece, broke it into pieces, looked at it carefully, smelled it carefully, and melted it with tea to study it. In short, the behavior is very scientific.After a while, several people came to a conclusion, and they didn't dare to look at me and look at you in front of the emperor.Each stood on one side, queuing up to say their appraisal.

"Your Majesty, there is indeed sweet-scented osmanthus powder in this shortbread." Li Yuyi said first, followed by Hu Yuyi, and after everything was said, the caliber was unified. That shortbread really made Concubine Yang Gui The culprit of the child's death.

"Since there is sweet-scented osmanthus powder, why is there no smell?" The queen asked with a little doubt. Everyone knows that sweet-scented osmanthus has a very strong fragrance, even if it is only a grain of rice, it is still fragrant.

To be able to directly kill the child in Yang Guifei's stomach in such a short period of time, this osmanthus powder is not ordinary.So, why is there no taste at all, so Yang Guifei, who is very sensitive to osmanthus powder, ate a piece of it?
"Back to the empress, this osmanthus powder is not collected from the newly bloomed osmanthus this year, but the fragrance is lost after drying in the shade." Li Yu said very respectfully. Although the fragrance of osmanthus is strong and long-lasting, it is not permanent. Yes, as long as it is left to dry like that, one day there will be no smell at all.

"Besides, there are preserved sour plums with a strong flavor in this shortbread, so the taste of the sweet-scented osmanthus powder is covered up." Li Yuyi continued, he only stated the facts, and didn't say much else.

The emperor and empress could understand Li Yuyi's intentions. He wanted to harm Concubine Yang Guifei deliberately, so how could it be easy for people to catch him? This osmanthus powder may have been left to dry for a long time.Even if the drying time is longer, but if the weight is enough, it will still be effective.

Moreover, Concubine Yang Gui could be breathless after smelling it, so eating it like this would naturally have an effect.

The duties of the imperial doctor are two things, prescribing prescriptions for Concubine Yang, and checking the food that caused the death of the child in Concubine Yang's stomach.Once you've done these two things, you're done.

"Zitong, this matter is a matter of the harem, and I will leave it to you." As soon as the imperial doctor left, the emperor had a fit, his face was as cold as ice, and he pointed at the poetic and picturesque two: "The two of them are also handed over to you. No matter what, we must find the murderer who killed the noble concubine and the child in her womb! If you dare to kill my heir today, you will never be able to kill me tomorrow! Such traitors must not be forgiven lightly!"

"Yes, please rest assured, the emperor, I will definitely give the emperor a satisfactory answer." The queen saluted the emperor and assured him very seriously.The emperor nodded, got up and went to the inner room to see Concubine Yang.

The queen's eyes darkened, she turned her head to look at the people kneeling on the ground, swept aside from the beginning to the end, and then asked: "Poetic and picturesque, can you two be sure that it was Cui Lan who was next to Liu Xiurong?"

"Slave is sure!" The two said in unison, because Liu Xiurong was the big maid next to Concubine Yang when she was in the residence, and later because Concubine Yang was inconvenient, she served the prince of the year and the emperor today, and was promoted Aunt's.

After entering the palace, it is said that Liu Xiurong's identity can only be Jieyu.After all, one of Wang Xiuyi and Li Xiuhua was given to the emperor by the empress, and the other was given by the empress dowager. Both of them are much higher status than Liu Xiurong.It was only because of Concubine Yang's face that the emperor broke the rules and conferred Liu Xiurong.

In the past, Liu Xiurong was also very heartfelt to Concubine Yang, with Concubine Yang at the head of everything, when she met the Empress, she never just asked for comfort, and she never said a single word to other concubines, she looked like a piece of wood .Over time, even when she went to pay her respects, no one spoke to her.

Concubine Yang has always trusted Liu Xiurong, so seeing that the shortbread was personally delivered by Cuilan, she was naturally not too wary. After being inspected roughly by Shi Qinghuayi, she ate a little bit, but unexpectedly, it was this shortbread Let her stumble.

"Liu Xiurong, tell me what you did after waking up today, even such trivial things as washing your face can't be hidden." The queen thought for a while, then turned to ask Liu Xiurong.

"The maidservant got up at Maoshi early in the morning. After waking up, she first ordered Dingxiang and Shandan to go to the Imperial Garden to pick some jasmine flowers, and prepare to make tea after drying in the shade. Then let Milan and Bailan serve the maidservant to wash her face and brush her teeth. This took about half the time. One hour. At about the middle of the hour, the servant asked Milan and Bailan to go to the imperial dining room to get breakfast, and the servant took Cuilan and Cuizhu for a walk in the yard. This sister Wang knew about it, and she also told the servant words."

Wang Xiuyi and Liu Xiurong both lived in the side hall of Yanxi Palace, so Wang Xiuyi did know about Liu Xiurong's movements.And Wang Xiuyi herself is the empress's person, although she and Liu Xiurong wouldn't quarrel every day, they still had nothing to do with each other.

Therefore, Wang Xiuyi can testify to Liu Xiurong.At this moment, Wang Xiuyi came out to salute the queen and said: "I did see Liu Xiurong walking in the yard, and she asked my servant what to eat this morning, saying that she has the pearls that Yang Guifei rewarded her." Fish soup, ask your servant if you want to eat it."

Of course, everyone can imagine that the questioning probably brought out some sense of competition.

But Wang Xiuyi can stand up and say something that is still fair, to Liu Xiurong, it is already considered a great favor.Liu Xiurong looked at Wang Xiuyi gratefully and continued for a while, then continued: "At the end of the hour, Bai Lan and Milan delivered breakfast, and the servants had breakfast. At the beginning of the hour, the servants took Cuilan to Yongshou Palace Greetings to your mother."

After Liu Xiurong said a few words, he would pause for a moment, probably thinking about whether he had forgotten anything else among himself.After thinking about it, he went on to say: "When I walked to the Kunning Gate, the maidservant's hairpin fell off, so I asked Cuilan to find it quickly, and then the maidservant waited near the Kunning Gate. Cuilan just went back and didn't How long will it take."

The distance along the way, the queen can estimate by herself.Starting from Yanxi Palace to Yongshou Palace, you can't go to Rijing Gate and Jinghe Gate. One of these two is to Qianqing Palace, and the other is to Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace. Neither of them can be repaired by her alone. go.

Therefore, we can only go around Jingren Palace, go to Kunning Gate, and then go around Longfu Gate to Yongshou Palace.From Yanxi Palace to Kunning Gate, at a normal speed, it takes a stick of incense time.From Kunning Gate to Yongshou Palace, it is almost the same time as a stick of incense.

Liu Xiurong set off at the beginning of Chenshi, one stick of incense to Kunning Gate, and another stick of incense to Yongshou Palace, if Cuilan really went and returned, then she should arrive at Yongshou Palace in the middle of Chenshi.The queen turned her head to look at Wangxiang, Wangxiang immediately said softly: "Liu Xiurong arrived at Yongshou Palace in the middle of the hour."

Then, it is really impossible for Cuilan to make a trip to Jingren Palace in such a short period of time.Even if you can take a trip, you must be out of breath, so the poetic and picturesque will not be beyond doubt.

The queen called all the people in Jingren Palace over to inquire, and everyone proved that it was indeed Cuilan who came to Jingren Palace.Cuilan's face was pale, and she kept kowtowing to the queen, saying that she was wronged, and that she really went to find a hairpin for Liu Xiurong.

If the time is not right, the queen will not easily wrong someone.Therefore, he just frowned and said nothing, and did not directly convict Cuilan.

"My lady, I'm curious, where did this sweet-scented osmanthus powder come from." The queen was silent, and Concubine Shu suddenly said with a smile: "If I remember correctly, because the imperial concubine's symptoms of sweet-scented osmanthus powder, the palace But such things as osmanthus are not common."

Concubine Yang Gui is in a high position, and with such a problem, it is true that no one said that she likes osmanthus, so she insisted on planting a few osmanthus trees in her palace.There are not many people who are qualified to live alone in the first palace and can decorate the scenery of the first palace.

The queen disdains using this method to deal with Concubine Yang Gui, and she is unwilling to be accused of treating her concubine harshly, so there must be no Yongshou Palace.Concubine Shu, Concubine Liu and other concubines in the hidden mansion would not oppose Yang Guifei, a high-ranking and favored person, so there are really not many osmanthus trees in the palace.

Empress Dowager Ci Ning has one plant, Empress Dowager Ci'an does not have one, Chuxiu Palace has one plant, North Fifth has three plants, South Three has two plants, and the rest of the palaces are relatively remote, and concubines generally do not go there.Therefore, as long as you find the source of this sweet-scented osmanthus, you can also find out who harmed Concubine Yang.

"Concubine Shu is smart after all." The queen glanced at Concubine Shu with a smile, and then sent an order to see which palace people in the palace had collected a large number of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers and gave them away.Of course, the Compassion Ning Palace and Ci An Palace had to ask for instructions politely before they could go in and ask.

The workload was relatively heavy, and they couldn't get an answer for a while, so the queen simply let Chen Manrou and the others break up, went in and greeted the emperor, and returned to Yongshou Palace for the time being.

(End of this chapter)