Xiangmen black-bellied woman

Chapter 204 The new official took office with six fires!
Shen Ninghua is going to hold a plum appreciation feast at the Princess Mansion, inviting wives and young ladies from various aristocratic families to the banquet, and it is said that she will teach everyone how to make ice porch incense.

When this news got out, the number of people who came to ask for spices suddenly decreased. Many people were preparing meticulously, just waiting for the day of plum appreciation banquet to see how miraculous the spice praised by the empress was.

"Miss, according to your instructions, everything has been done, and the invitations that should be sent have also been sent out."

Shen Ninghua nodded, put the chess record in her hand aside, and listened to the wind outside the window, her eyebrows moved slightly: "The weather is not very good these two days."

"Yeah, the weather has been very cold these two days. It looks like it will snow in a few days. I don't know if the plum blossoms will continue to bloom after the snow falls."

Shen Ninghua put the chess record aside, took out a bottle of medicinal powder and handed it to Bai Lu: "Mix the medicinal powder inside with water, and sprinkle it on those plum blossoms to ensure a longer flowering period."

"Yes, miss, but that mulberry branch needs to be disposed of?"

"Don't worry about her, let Hongling send someone to keep an eye on her. If she makes a move, come and tell me."

"The servant understands."

At night, the sky became colder and colder, and it began to snow in the middle of the night.

Shen Ninghua was covered with a quilt, suddenly felt cold hands and feet, and suddenly woke up.

"Ninghua, what's the matter, did you have a nightmare?"

Chu Junyi, who had been holding Shen Ninghua in his arms, immediately sensed that something was wrong with her, and asked quickly.

"It's okay, I was just startled by the dream." Shen Ninghua moved her fingers holding the quilt, saw the candlelight not far away, and slowly lay back on the bed, but she didn't feel sleepy at all. I just feel chills from the bottom of my heart.

In the previous life, she was locked in the cold palace. In winter, there was no charcoal fire for heating, and the cold palace didn't even have a window paper. Often when she slept on the bed, the wind and snow would blow in through the window.

She couldn't sleep night after night. Many times, she could only watch more and more snowflakes, starting from her crippled feet, submerging her little by little. The feeling of coldness to the bone marrow was always with her, a winter Just like a shadow.

Even now, she was sure that the room was as warm as spring, and she was sleeping with a warm quilt under her body, but she always felt cold and couldn't sleep.

Chu Junyi hugged Shen Ninghua, who was curled up into a ball, and held her fingers on his open chest: "Ninghua, go to sleep, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Chu Junyi's eyes were deep, and just now Ninghua's body flashed that hopeless breath, although it was only a flash, it made him feel distressed.

He couldn't help but think of the place where he met Ninghua back then. At that time, after she fell off the cliff, she also showed such an aura. He thought it was because of Zhao's persecution that she was so disheartened. It's also down, why she still can't let it go, and her hatred for Baili Jinze, is there anything he doesn't know about it.

Thinking about it, she couldn't help hugging Shen Ninghua even tighter: "Ninghua, what nightmare did you have just now?"

"It's nothing, I don't remember clearly now."

"In this case, don't think about it, I will accompany you, sleep peacefully."

Shen Ninghua nodded, feeling the steady heartbeat in her palm, she closed her eyes and leaned over.

Opening his eyes again, it was already bright. Lying on the bed, the blanket was unusually warm, and he felt a lot more lazy, and he almost didn't want to get out of the blanket: "White?"

Bai Po hurriedly came in with a water basin: "Miss, you are awake. I saw that you were sleeping soundly in the morning, so the son-in-law didn't ask the servant to wake you up."

"Well," Shen Ninghua washed her face, Hong Ling hurried in, "Miss, that Sangzhi made a move last night, and the maid knocked her unconscious and detained her in the side courtyard."

"last night?"

"Well, it snowed very hard last night, but the mulberry branch went out in the snow. The servant felt that something was wrong and followed her, just in time to see her holding a bag and throwing things on the plum tree."

Shen Ninghua frowned: "What did you sprinkle?"

"White phosphorous powder."

White phosphorus powder?Shen Ninghua frowned suddenly, remembering that she suggested Xuanlin to play fireworks before, her heart skipped a beat: "Bring her here!"

"Yes, ma'am."

After staying in the cold courtyard all night, Sang Zhi was terrified, and was brought in front of Shen Ninghua, her legs softened and she knelt on the ground: "Princess...princess."

Shen Ninghua looked at her coldly, her eyes were as cold as ice and snow: "Sang Zhi, the deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs is your cousin, what good did he promise you, so that you dare to risk your life to frame me?"

"No, Your Royal Highness, the servant did not try to frame you, I beg the princess to spare her life."

Shen Ninghua looked at her with deep eyes, the light in her black eyes was cold and penetrating, almost able to see into people's hearts.

"Hongling, take her to the Plum Garden."

Sang Zhi shuddered, feeling a burst of fear in his heart: "Your Highness, the servant has been wronged, Your Highness..."

Hong Ling covered her mouth with one hand, and dragged her out directly.

Bai Ping took the cloak with a fox fur collar and helped Shen Ninghua put it on, then handed her the hand stove, and then carefully helped Shen Ninghua go out.

The snow on the ground had already been cleaned up, but there were still a lot of water stains left.Sangzhi was dragged on the ground, soaked in snow water all over, and kept shaking his head and crying.

Shen Ninghua stood in front of the plum tree and looked up.

Snow fell on the branches and plum blossoms. The snowflakes are crystal clear, and the plum blossoms are bright red and tender. One is cold and the other is warm, forming a strong contrast.

Shen Ninghua raised her head and picked off a plum blossom, melted the snow on the plum blossom in her palm, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it, her brows frowned.

"Hong Ling?"

Hong Ling let go of Sangzhi, allowing her to kneel down on the snow.

"Princess, the servant did not do anything to offend the princess, please check it out."

Shen Ninghua threw away the plum blossoms in her hand: "White phosphorus powder is sprinkled on the plum blossoms. When the white phosphorus burns, everyone who appreciates the flowers here will probably be doomed. The light ones will be frightened, and the severe ones will be burnt to death. As long as there is one person If something happens to me, I, Princess Zhaohua, cannot escape the responsibility. It is a good way, so much white phosphorous powder, and only the Department of Internal Affairs can easily get it."

Sang Zhi's body became more and more stiff, and her hands lying on the ground sank into the snow, chilling to the bone.

Shen Ninghua's eyes became colder and colder: "It's almost the Chinese New Year in these few days, and when the fireworks and firecrackers are burning, they fall on the white phosphorus, and the consequences..."

Sangzhi trembled more and more: "Princess, please forgive me. This servant didn't do it on purpose. My cousin instructed this servant to do it. She said that if I sprinkle white phosphorous on the plum blossoms and then find a way to ignite the plum blossoms, he will be able to speak in front of the empress." , Pointing me to be a concubine to the son-in-law, the slaves are fascinated for a while, begging the princess to spare her life."

Hong Ling was angry in her heart: "The princess has only been married for a few days, and you are thinking of being a concubine for the son-in-law. You are really vicious! Miss, the servant sees that there is a lot of white phosphorous powder left, so why don't you put her in it for a while?" , and then the servant will light a charcoal basin around her, and she will be able to roast herself soon!"

"No, princess, this servant is guilty, and what this servant said is the truth, please forgive me, please let this servant go." Sang Zhi said, knelt and took two steps forward to pull Shen Ninghua's skirt , was kicked aside by Hong Ling.

"Miss, what do you think about it?"

Shen Ninghua looked up at the plum blossoms, her eyes moved slightly: "Shut the mulberry branches to a side courtyard so that people can watch them carefully."

"Yes."

Chu Junyi came back and saw Shen Ninghua looking up at the plum tree. The snow-white cloak and fur collar set off the porcelain-like face, which made people feel soft. He stepped forward and brushed off the snowflakes that fell on her shoulders: " Ninghua, it just snowed, it's very cold outside, why did you come out?"

Shen Ninghua leaned back, and listened to Bai Ping's [-] report of what happened just now, her eyebrows frowned suddenly: "Ninghua, that maid just dealt with it, why do you seem to have something else on your mind?"

"I'm thinking about the relationship between this matter and the Queen's Palace."

"You mean to say..."

A stern look flashed in Shen Ninghua's eyes: "Well, the empress has a deep foundation in the palace, if she really wanted to use white phosphorus to set fire to plot against me, she wouldn't send a maid who didn't know any martial arts to sprinkle white phosphorus powder, and I would catch her It's right."

"Are you talking nonsense?"

"I didn't expect it at first, but Sangzhi confessed so quickly, it made me feel something was wrong. Since we found out that something was wrong with Sangzhi, we focused all our attention on her, and ignored a lot of other things. Looking at it now Come on, you should have missed a lot of things."

Chu Junyi also frowned, and his handsome face made people stunned: "Ninghua, don't worry, the queen can't do it without any clues."

Shen Ninghua nodded, and suddenly her eyes moved: "Jun Yi, please check with the Department of Internal Affairs."

"Secretary of Internal Affairs?"

"Well, I remember that the head of the Department of Internal Affairs is secretly on the side of the Zhao family. Moreover, only the Department of Internal Affairs can get so much white phosphorous. Starting from there, even the queen may be caught off guard."

"Okay!" The fire of the Imperial Guard was burned just now, and now it is just right to investigate the Department of Internal Affairs. The new official has three fires, he has been promoted, and he has become the bridegroom officer.

As soon as the date of plum appreciation banquet arrives, the Princess Mansion gets busy early in the morning, because the people who come are all wives and ladies from various families. Although the warm tents have already been set up, the charcoal basin and tea need to be prepared early in the morning. Wait until Shen Ninghua After dressing up, the outside is just getting ready.

"This is the first time I've been here with you, Ninghua. I heard that you're going to host a plum feast, so I came here as soon as possible. Don't dislike me for coming early."

Baili Anning walked in with four court ladies, and said to Shen Ninghua with a smile.

"It's too late for me to welcome what the princess said."

"If you have any good things that you don't want to keep, you want to show them off. Let's take a look now. So many people come to ask you for spices, which makes you dirty when you are just married." Said, stepped forward and pulled Shen Ninghua With a movement of her fingers, a note was quickly handed over to her.

Shen Ninghua's eyes moved, she held her hand calmly, and hid the note in her sleeve: "You will scold me as soon as you enter the door, but I have prepared your favorite tea, come in and taste it, if you want to come Someone will be here soon."

(End of this chapter)