Harem for a living

Chapter 96

After returning to Zhongcui Palace, Chen Manrou asked Xiao Xizi to deliver medicine to Xiao Laizi. Among them, only Xiao Laizi was seriously injured. Fortunately, Xiao Laizi walked carefully before. Did not break the bones.

Chen Manrou sat on the couch with a gloomy face. The people behind this were really scheming.I went to Yikun Palace in the middle of the night, and I must be extremely tired after I came out. A pregnant woman is very tired, and she would be a fool if she didn't sit in a sedan chair.

There are three consecutive poison tricks, one hook and one ring.If I hadn't been careful enough, if I hadn't been very good at Yue Yue's medical skills, if I hadn't suddenly become unwilling to sit in a sedan chair, whether I could keep my stomach today is another matter.

"Too much deceit!" Chen Manrou threw the teacup in her hand angrily, and Xiangyue hurried over to appease her: "Your Majesty, this is not the time to be angry, we have to find a way to drag out the people behind the scenes, otherwise, I don't know what kind of trouble that person will make. Didn't Qi Meiren say before that Concubine Hu and Han Zhaoyi discussed getting rid of the second prince? Look at this..."

"Concubine Hu and Han Zhaoyi must have tampered with it, but whoever is involved in it is a bit uncertain. The defense of Yikun Palace is so tight that it can make the second prince sick, which means that the inside of Yikun Palace There must also be spies. How many years has Concubine Shu been operating in this palace? How many years have Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi entered the palace? Even if there is another Concubine Hu and Han Wanyi, the two of them will definitely not be able to buy such spies in the palace .”

Chen Manrou said in a cold voice, if people don't offend me, I won't offend them. She has been carefully guarding against it, but something like this still happened.Sure enough, in the harem, if you want to have a child, it is like fighting a war. If you win, you will have a child, and if you lose, you will die.

"Then what do you mean..." Duyue's complexion changed, and he stretched out his hand to point to the Ci Ning Palace: "It's her again? But didn't the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the Emperor clean it up last time?"

The last time it was really a big clean-up, a large number of people were thrown into the Ye Ting Palace under the pretext that the harem was unstable, and more than half of them were sent to the Department of Punishment. In addition, more than a dozen people disappeared without a sound.Ninety percent of the people in the entire Compassionate Ning Palace have been replaced.As for the rest of the concubines, several people were also replaced.

"Wait for the news from Yikun Palace tomorrow, and we will know who is involved in this matter." Chen Manrou is not sure if it is Ci Ning. If it is about the power behind the scenes in the palace, Ci Ning is undoubtedly Second to none.But Ci'an is not a vegetarian, don't forget, Ci'an is the one who made his son the emperor, although he is still one step away from defeating Ci Ning, it is probably because Ci'an does not have a good family background.

It was almost dawn, and Chen Manrou could barely open her eyelids at this moment. If it wasn't for the fire in her heart, she would have fallen asleep in bed just after she came back.

Seeing Chen Manrou's face, Xiangyue and Jinhuan quickly fetched hot water, wiped her face and hands with a hot towel, and then helped her into the bedroom.When the queen sent someone to send them back, she had already said that tomorrow Chen Manrou would be raised by herself in the palace, so she didn't have to go to pay her respects, so they didn't have to think about tomorrow's greetings.

This time, Chen Manrou slept until the afternoon. After getting up to wash and wash, Beiting came to report to her: "Mother, the nurse of the second prince of Yikun Palace died yesterday."

"How did you die?" Chen Manrou was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked, Bei Ting stretched out his hand and made a gesture of thrusting his neck: "I died by piercing my throat with a hairpin."

"Originally, didn't the people from the Punishment Department interrogate them separately? Before they all killed the second prince, they said that the second prince didn't eat anything wrong. Later, the people from the Punishment Department went to prison. There was a nanny who really Unable to bear it any longer, she said, Grandma Huang wanted to eat mutton soup herself, and she cooked mutton soup in the afternoon, when Grandma Tang was playing in the room with the second prince in her arms, the second prince smelled the smell and wanted to eat that .”

Cup Stop murmured to Chen Manrou: "Madam Huang had no choice but to feed the second prince a large bowl of mutton soup. Later, the second prince fell ill, and Madam Huang was afraid that it was because of her own bowl of mutton soup. I begged them not to speak out."

Huang Momo and Tang Momo are the nurses of the second prince, and they cook their food in the small kitchen of Yikun Palace.Although mutton is fishy, ​​it depends on how it is cooked. If Madam Huang is really good, the taste of mutton soup will naturally be delicious without any fishy smell.

Therefore, when they passed by in the middle of the night, they could not smell the smell of mutton soup.And the things that the imperial doctor inspected were all the dietary ingredients of the second prince, so the mutton soup was neglected.

Chen Manrou made some guesses by herself, then turned her head and asked, "Then what about the Great Cold?"

"This was explained by Huang Momo herself later, she said that she fed the second prince a bowl of ice before." Cup Ting said angrily: "This Huang Momo is really infatuated, she is the second prince's nanny Mo, as long as she doesn't make mistakes in the future, even an official wife can do it, why should she lose her life like this?"

In this society, the status of a nanny has risen with the tide of the little master.Just like the emperor's nanny Qin Nanny, since the emperor ascended the throne, this Qin Nanny's husband has become the deputy director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Qin Nanny has become a second-rank wife, and her rank is higher than her husband's.

If it wasn't for Concubine Yang's special status and being favored by the emperor, it would be impossible for Nanny Qin to enter the palace to serve Concubine Yang.That's it, the queen had to greet her personally, ask the emperor's permission, and then invite mother Qin into the palace.

If there are no accidents, the second prince will at least be able to sit in the position of a prince in the future. At that time, he can arrange an official position for the nanny's husband, so the nanny won't be an official wife?

"The Huangmao's family..." Chen Manrou frowned and asked, Bei Ting shook her head: "I don't know about this servant, and I haven't heard any news from outside the palace yet."

"Mother, Xiao Chengzi also found out some news." Jin Huan came in and said, Xiao Chengzi was sent out to check the surrounding situation after Chen Manrou fell down yesterday. When she came back yesterday, Chen Manrou had already fallen asleep, so she came to report now .

Chen Manrou hurriedly let Xiao Chengzi in: "I saw clearly yesterday, is there anything falling around or is there anyone passing by?"

"Going back to your mother, I didn't find anything, but I asked someone else." Xiao Chengzi bowed to Chen Manrou, and then said directly: "After the palace gate is locked, the guards on duty can only stay in the palace. At the gate of the palace, there were other patrolling guards walking in the palace, the younger one found a patrol team and asked them if they saw anyone passing by that road, and later, the patrol team said that no palace gate had been opened."

The time for the patrol team to pass through each palace is once a stick of incense. There are a total of [-] to [-] patrol teams in the palace. Each patrol team is responsible for different places. The palace, plus the road from Longfumen to Kunningmen.

After Chen Manrou finished her work, she came out of Yikun Palace. She walked in the direction of Kunning Gate. The palace she passed was Tihe Palace, and the place where she wrestled was between Tihe Palace and Yikun Palace.The time for a stick of incense, unless he has the ability of invisibility, can avoid the eyes of ten guards on patrol.

Don't underestimate these guards. They can walk in the palace. Their abilities have been verified. The emperor rests in the harem at night. It's over.

So the guards didn't find out, which means that just after the guards passed by that place, someone poured a layer of water, and within a stick of incense, the water froze, and it happened that Chen Manrou passed by at that time.

This time must be pinched so well, the time for a stick of incense freezes, if there is no aid, it will be impossible.Therefore, whoever has saltpeter that can freeze water in his palace may be the murderer.

However, based on this time response, the people who are most likely to do it are the people from the four places of Xianfu Palace, Changchun Palace, Tihe Palace and Chuxiu Palace.Because only the people in these four places can pour water and retreat within a quarter of an hour.It is not impossible for Yikun Palace, but at that time, the people in Yikun Palace were all guarded.

Concubine Liu lived in Changchun Palace, Wang Jieyu and Ding Jieyu lived in Xianfu Palace, Wang Xiuyi and Li Xiuhua lived in Tihe Palace, and Song Meiren and Qi Meiren lived in Chuxiu Palace.

"Recently or a few days ago, did the imperial doctor prescribe saltpeter?" Chen Manrou frowned and asked, thinking for a while and said to Yue: "In the past ten days, no one has sought out the imperial doctor, but the servant has thought of something else. One thing."

Chen Manrou looked at her, and said to Yue: "The second-class maid next to Ding Jieyu in Xianfu Palace has been to the Imperial Hospital." A maid who is sick is not qualified to ask for an imperial doctor, unless it is someone like Dui Yue A person who acts as a maidservant next to a high-status concubine.

Even the second-class maids like Hongmei Weile couldn't invite an imperial doctor.Therefore, when the little palace girl gets sick, she usually finds the medicine boy in the Tai Hospital, or the helper doctor to get some medicinal materials.

It’s fine if you get through it, but if you can’t get through it, just wait to move out, and then die wherever you want.In this harem, there is no backer, even if you are sick, you dare not give birth.

"Ding Jieyu?" Chen Manrou was a little puzzled, she and Ding Jieyu didn't seem to have any hatred, right?

"It would be great if I could know who the guards were guarding outside the Xianfu Palace yesterday." Jin Huan muttered to the side, so that he could know if someone came out of the Xianfu Palace at night. The patrols in the palace are relatively strict. It is absolutely impossible for those who come out to stay in a place like the Royal Garden for a whole night, unless she is staying with a good maid.

"You don't need to know which guard it is." Jin Huan's words reminded Chen Manrou that maids and eunuchs cannot move around at will, so whoever is missing someone, whoever is more, as long as you investigate carefully, you will be able to find out.

"Xianfu Palace is not an iron plate, stop the cup, you go and ask, see if the people around Ding Jieyu are sure that they were in the house last night." Ding Jieyu and Wang Jieyu, one is Ci'an The empress dowager, one is the empress, no matter how loving mother-in-law and loving daughter-in-law filial piety the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the empress appear on the surface, the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law still exists.

(End of this chapter)