Chen Palace

Chapter 14
Aunt E looked simple and kind, looked at the queen, and wrote lightly: "The capital city is not too small, and it is not too big. Our people have been watching at Concubine Mei's house for a long time. Her father asked everywhere for a miracle doctor, and we gave it to her." He sent it to the door... It's ridiculous that these people are just pawns in the Queen Mother's hands, and they are still complacent."

After the empress was surprised, she felt proud again: "That little girl Concubine Mei is really pitiful... If she knew, maybe she was carrying a boy in her womb, wouldn't she be heartbroken?"

Aunt E didn't smile, she said earnestly: "Your Majesty, you have to work harder. From now on, newcomers will continue to enter the palace, and cutting them off blindly is not the solution. If you can have a son-in-law, you are afraid that other concubines will give birth to him." several?"

There was resentment on the queen's face, and the gentle and weak temperament, anyone who saw it would be moved: "What's the use of my hard work? The emperor has no attachment to me at all, and the queen mother asked me to grab his heart. Impossible... Anyway, anyway, the other three uncles also have beautiful princesses, if I can't, let them enter the palace to replace them!"

In the last words, with anger and a little bit of regret, mist clouded her eyes, thinking of the "chess piece" that Aunt E said just now, she felt a little bit sad at this moment-in the Queen Mother's heart, even if she was a direct niece, she was nothing more than is another slightly more expensive chess piece.

Aunt E's complexion sank: "Your Majesty, don't belittle yourself! The Empress Dowager has four brothers in total. In terms of status, there is only the second young master—your father, Lord Jing'an. I can't change my words when I'm old—and The eldest son has inherited the Lin family's foundation. The eldest son is now a vassal king, and the princess of his family must be extremely pampered, how can he compare to your virtuous and gentle mother!"

The empress spoke nonuo, but her heart was still angry: Uncle, as a vassal king, has a fief for thousands of miles, and there are not many dead warriors and warriors. Although the empress dowager defends him all the way in the court, she is also secretly afraid of his power. Picking a weak and uninitiated brother to be the right and left hand, so he made himself the middle palace.

Recalling back then, when her father smiled flatteringly and happily sent her into the palace to be conferred, the empress couldn't help but sighed secretly, "Why did you send me to this place where no one can be seen..."

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The palace of Changchun was in a state of turmoil. After the imperial physician came to prescribe the prescription, the eunuchs and court ladies became busy, decocting medicine, changing bedding, giving concubine Mei a massage and massage, welcoming the harem concubines who came to express condolences, keeping accounts and receiving gifts. Yes, I was so busy all of a sudden,

The palace servants and maidservants were busy with their hands, and their mouths were busy. What they talked about most was the important event in Changchun Palace.

Chen Lu was leaning against the door, listening to the maids chatting their teeth in the courtyard.

Although her internal strength is shallow, such a distance is not difficult.

When the maids talked about this matter, they had to look around first to make sure that the aunts in charge were not there, and then they spoke mysteriously.

Three women in one drama, let alone these ten or so little girls?

Chen Lu listened to it for a while. She was about to turn around and walk away, only to hear a little palace lady disdainfully say: "What you said doesn't make any sense... In my opinion, It was the empress who had an affair with someone to cause this catastrophe!

Her companion retorted repeatedly, and the little girl's temper was also aroused, and she raised her voice slightly: "Have you forgotten, the last time the empress went to the queen's for a banquet, she came back crying as if possessed by a demon, with a look of fear on her face."

Some people agreed, some people were not convinced, the little palace lady didn't bother, and continued: "I forgive you for not knowing one more thing. Yesterday afternoon, it started to rain, and the master manager actually asked me to sweep away the fallen leaves and moss. So much stagnant water, isn’t it embarrassing for me——Okay, don’t worry, this is about to get to the point—I was sweeping for a while that day, and I saw a group of people coming to the door, you know the people in the sedan chair who is it?"

She whetted everyone's appetite, and then said triumphantly: "It's the empress! Although I don't know her, I still know her in the nine-phoenix satin dress embroidered with gold thread. This scared me to death, so I quickly avoided it. The queen entered After leaving Empress Mei’s bedroom, it took more than an hour to come out——Today, Empress Mei had such a tragic incident, so it’s not that she and the Queen’s horoscopes are at odds, and the moment they meet, they will be unlucky?”

She confidently came to a conclusion, and was happily speaking when she heard a cold voice behind her: "Aren't you doing your job well, are you just slandering the master here and there?"

The maids looked back and saw that it was Mrs. Shangyi, their faces turned pale with fright, and they were speechless.

"Let's go away, next time I hear such nonsense and crazy nonsense, I will be severely punished——you, just stay here." Chen Lu pointed to the little maid who was chattering just now.

The little palace maid was already shaking like chaff, although she didn't know the matter, she still understood the severity of the crime of slandering her master, she said timidly: "Shang Yi, please don't tell your empress and the stewards, please! "

Chen Lu took her aside, said a few words of comfort, and waited for her to calm down before asking in detail what happened when the queen came yesterday.

The little maid was busy dodging at the time, so she didn't know what was important, she just repeated what she said just now, and at the end, she thought about it, and said with some uncertainty: "When the queen left, she looked at the corners of her mouth from a distance, as if she was very happy. look."

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What does the Queen intend to do?
Chen Lu kept thinking about it until it was time to light the lamp, when she entered the kitchen, she was still thinking about this question.

The aroma of the kitchen is overflowing, and the index finger moves when it smells.This is Concubine Mei's own small dining room, she is not used to the warm fire food in the palace, so she also learns from other concubines and invites famous chefs to cook in the kitchen.She has always been approachable and asked the chef to make a portion for Aunt Yue and several senior stewards every day. As the emperor's confidant, Chen Lu also had a portion as usual.

After the nightmare in the previous life, Chenlu came to pick it up in person every day, and after returning to the hospital, she had to check carefully before eating, and today is no exception.

She took the food box and was about to leave when suddenly, she seemed to smell something.

She was a little suspicious where the aroma of this dish was mixed, and took another deep breath, but she was still not sure.

In the dark, that faint medicinal fragrance looms, as if it is an illusion, but it is real.

She bent down and searched carefully under the stove.

Nothing.

The stove seemed to be burning violently, turning everything into coke.

She didn't give up, she was still looking carefully in the ashes.

A tiny pearl shimmers in the gray.

She brushed it away and saw that it was a small and exquisite Yu Linglong.

It is only about the size of a pigeon's egg, and the jade is clear and flawless. It is divided into nine layers, each layer is carved into various patterns, decorated with pure gold and red treasures, and when it shakes slightly, there will be a pleasant wind sound.

Looking at this familiar ornament, Chen Lu was a little lost. She remembered that childish and innocent petite woman with a nonchalant smile playing with it.

At this moment, the fog in my mind finally cleared up.

She looked at Linglong in her hand, and only thought of one sentence: Things are people, not things.

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When Chen Lu arrived at Jiaqing Palace, Yuan Qi was practicing calligraphy.

Every stroke of his is free and easy, but the upright momentum almost flows out from the tip of the pen.

"How's Mei Mei?"

When he saw Chen Lu, he only looked deeply into her eyes and asked.

Concubine Qi and Concubine Zhou Zhou will eventually be punished, but the culprit is unknown, no matter who is punished, they must call for injustice.He hesitated in his heart, so he felt very guilty towards Concubine Mei.

Even though he was usually quick and courageous in strategizing and making decisive decisions, even though he always used his concubine as a black and white boy in his hands, at this time, he still felt guilty.

What answered him was not Chen Lu's voice as clear as a cold spring, but the voice of beads being thrown and falling on the desk.

He caught it and saw that it was a Jade Linglong.

Chen Lu's voice then sounded: "Your Majesty, are you familiar with this thing?"

"This was a royal gift from you at that time, and Empress Mei took it with you, and cherished it very much."

"For such a small object, the last thing to appear was in the hearth under the stove."

Chen Lu's cold eyes became even colder: "I have already understood the truth of the whole matter."

(End of this chapter)