Golden branches and jade leaves

Chapter 3
Su Mi came out of the Imperial Hospital with the medicine in her hand, walked past Weiyang Pool and couldn't help slowing down, looking east from a distance.That is the direction of the plum blossom forest.

I don't know what kind of beautiful scenery with sparse plums and slanting plums, but it is a pity that there are only dots of white on the branches so far away. I don't know if it is the plum blossoms in full bloom or the remaining snow from the previous few days.

It's just a small plum forest, and I don't know how many expecting figures are hidden in it.If the Ninth Five-Year Supreme really went, he didn't know whether he was rewarding people or plum blossoms.

It has been two days since Xiao Luzi sent the news. In the past two days, Huier always got up at dawn, carefully dressed in the mirror, and then disappeared for a day.

Su Mi naturally knew where she went and what she was doing.Everyone has their own aspirations, she is too lazy to bother with such trivial matters, and let Hui'er make trouble on her own.

After standing for a while, Su Mi quickly left, Wei Qinger was still waiting for her medicine.

Back at Caiwei Palace, Su Mi was stunned when she saw the scene in front of their east courtyard gate from afar.

In the palace of a concubine who fell out of favor, it is inevitable that the gates are deserted. At this time, even at the gate of the main hall of the Caiwei Palace, only a few maids from the inner eunuch who are on duty are occasionally seen passing by, let alone a side courtyard.But in front of...

Dozens of guards lined up all around, guarding the gate of the palace tightly, and there were also many inner eunuchs who could tell by their clothes that they were of high grade walking back and forth, either watching from a distance, or whispering softly. language.

When Su Mi was in a daze, a young eunuch with a pointed chin had already run over, looked her up and down, and asked sternly, "Where is the job? What are you doing?"

Su Mi hurriedly bowed her head and reported the whole story. Looking at the scene in front of her, Su Mi could roughly guess what happened.It was really unexpected.

After hearing her words, the little eunuch's face changed a little, and he asked in a low voice: "You mean, there is still a sick master living in this yard?"

Su Mi nodded, "I still have to go in and make medicine for Master." And handed over the medicine in her hand.

The little eunuch took it over without hesitation, checked it briefly and returned it to Su Mi.Then he pointed to the bottom of a big pagoda tree not far to the left, "Go there and wait, we're still brewing medicine... At this time, we have to delay talking about big things first." After saying that, he turned and left .

Su Mi turned her head and saw that there were already a lot of inner eunuchs and maids standing there, all of them were from Caiwei Palace, including Xiaoluzi, Xiangluo, and Xianglin among them.

Su Mi had no choice but to walk over and asked Xiao Luzi softly, "What's going on here?"

"It's that little girl Huier," Xiao Luzi said in a low voice, "I said that when I went to the east plum forest to pick plum blossoms, Long Live God just happened to see her, and now she is inside... Hehe, Chenghuan, I don't know where she is. Green smoke is rising from the ancestral grave, so why let her..."

"Hui'er was originally a first-class talent in appearance and temperament," Xiangluo said aside, "I always say she is a lucky person, and now that she has such a good fortune, we are going to have another master in Caiwei Palace .This is a great joy."

"Who was cursing the day before yesterday that Huier is a lazy and greedy girl who doesn't do anything serious and should really be sent to the Department of Hard Labor..." Xiao Luzi couldn't help but rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice.

Xiangluo blushed and stopped talking.

Su Mi had calmed down after being surprised, and couldn't help laughing secretly when she saw this scene.She turned her head slightly and saw Xianglin standing there. She had taken care enough to dress up today, she was wearing a red double-breasted thin jacket, silky and silky, her lower body was a pomegranate red skirt, watery and glistening, her face The upper crescent eyebrows are swept lightly, and the vermilion lips are lightly tapped, which is really a bit of the air of "the eyebrows win the daylily color, and the red dress is jealous of pomegranate flowers".

I don't know if it's cold weather these days, will she get seriously ill after dressing like this?I'm afraid that she has worked hard enough these two days, but she has bad luck, so she can't blame others.Su Mi turned her head to think.

Xianglin stood there at this time, his face turned blue, his lips trembled unceasingly, almost fainting.I can't tell whether it was because the weather was too cold and I was frozen, or because I was annoyed by others.Her hand pulled Sipa unconsciously, but she was pulling that little bitch's hair in her heart, Sipa was almost torn by her.

After waiting for a while, an inner eunuch wearing a brown supervisor's uniform ran over from the west.

"That's the big celebrity next to the emperor, Gao Shengnuo, the head of the Qianqing Palace," Xiao Luzi pointed to that side, and whispered to Su Mi.

Gao Shengnuo was about thirty years old, white and fat, with a face of ingots, full of kindness.

Seeing him approaching, several people immediately greeted him.The little eunuch who questioned Su Mi just now was also among them. He walked up to Gao Shengnuo and whispered something in his ear. Gao Shengnuo rolled his eyes, pondered for a while, nodded, and said nothing , came to the palace gate and waited with the servants.

After waiting for about half an hour, there seemed to be some sound coming from inside, the palace door opened, and Gao Shengnuo immediately bent down to enter.

After waiting for a while, three or five eunuchs in bright clothes came out respectfully and surrounded by a man in a bright yellow robe.

Immediately, the guards waiting outside looked at Chen and worshiped, and the people on Su Mi's side also knelt down in unison.

Su Mi knelt in the crowd and raised her head secretly.

Daqi's present son, Qi Taki, the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, looks only in his twenties, with a handsome and delicate face, which can be called "clear and bright as jade", but in the eyes of someone like Su Mi who is good at medicine It seemed that his face was a little pale, and his footsteps were a little vain.

Gao Shengnuo followed closely behind the emperor, half-bitter and half-joyed: "Your Majesty, you have killed this servant. It's cold now, and the old queen mother just called the servant over to give him a reprimand. I'm afraid we won't Waiting, what happened to the emperor's body? Why is the emperor not taking care of his body? Now there is a master who has been ill for a long time in this courtyard. Uncovering it ten thousand times is not enough."

The corner of the emperor's eyebrows twitched, and then he asked casually in an impatient tone: "What did the queen mother call you to say?"

"The empress dowager asked about the emperor's diet and daily life these days, and asked the servants to take good care of him, and asked again..." Gao Shengnuo secretly raised his head to look at the emperor's face, and then said: "Ask about the birth date of the concubine Yun. I didn’t say anything, and sent the slaves out.”

"Hmm..." The corner of the emperor's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything after all, he got up and walked towards the imperial chariot.

Gao Shengnuo hurriedly followed, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, look at what happened today..." He said and looked towards the east courtyard.

The emperor was slightly taken aback before he realized what he said.After hesitating for a moment, he waved his hand and said, "Just...you don't need to record the file." After saying that, he turned and got on the imperial chariot.

Don't need to record files!
Although these words were light, they reached Su Mi and the others word for word. In an instant, everyone's expression was very different.

Before they could react, Gao Shengnuo had already arrived in front of them. "Have you heard it all? What does the emperor mean? Don't you need to say more?" He asked, squinting at the crowd.

"Grandpa Gao, you have worked hard, of course we understand that the emperor is busy with government affairs, and when he goes out occasionally to take a breather, he is naturally enjoying flowers and reciting poems at the masters' place. Our Weiwei Palace is located in a remote place, and there is no refreshing scenery. How could it be lucky." Xiangluo smiled all over her face, and hurriedly nodded her head in response.

"You're smart," Gao Shengnuo nodded, and looked at the trembling and kneeling crowd in front of him with satisfaction, but there was a sinister look on his still friendly smile, "Remember to keep your mouth tight Just do your own job well. If I hear someone talkative, hum, don’t blame our family for being rude to him.” Then he pointed to Xiangluo, “Okay, how many people can you bring with me? Go and tidy up inside." After speaking, he led the inner eunuch under him away.

Seeing them walking away, everyone stood up from the ground and started talking again.

"Just a little girl who wants to be the master, bah, let's dream, we have been frozen here for a long time in vain." An inner eunuch beside Zheng Guifei spat and cursed.

Everyone immediately said yes.

"I don't even think about what I look like first, I know that I don't have the life to be the master."

"I thought it was smoke from their ancestral grave. I think it was black smoke."

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"Stop talking, what Eunuch Gao said just now, you don't even want to die?" Su Mi couldn't help saying, tired of hearing it.

Thinking of what Gao Shengnuo said just now, everyone shuddered, and they didn't dare to say any more, and they all dispersed.

Xiang Luo led Su Mi, Xiang Lin and a few girls into the east courtyard.

Wei Qing'er lives in the West Nuan Pavilion in the east courtyard of Caiwei Palace, and the East Nuan Pavilion is where they will clean up today.

The door was still ajar.

Xianglin immediately opened the door and entered the room.Su Mi and Xiang Luo followed in, they couldn't help but blush when they saw the situation in the room.

The bright red quilt, which had been neatly tidied up since no one lived there, was spread out messily on the bed, and the small puddle of blood stained on the bed was particularly bright and glaring amidst the radiant red silk and purple satin all over the bed.

The charcoal fire in the room was warming, and Huier's satin-smooth thighs stretched out, revealing her delicate complexion. Even though she couldn't see through the quilt, one could guess that her body was completely naked.

She was still sleeping soundly, in those soft and smooth fabrics, and in that luxurious and luxurious dream.

Xianglin sneered, and without waiting for orders from others, she rushed up and grabbed Huier's exposed arm and dragged her out, while pinching her hard.

Hui'er immediately woke up in pain, and before she could react, Xianglin had already started cursing. "Little slut, this is the rule there, you dare to sleep on the master's bed! Don't even look at what you are! Is there a bed like this?"

Xianglin scolded again and again, and dragged Huier down vigorously, as if it was her bed that was occupied and defiled at this time.

"I'm the servant, I'm the emperor's servant, why can't I sleep here." Hui'er realized and struggled immediately.

"Bah, it's up to you, you also have the role of sleeping? Don't dream about you!" Xianglin's hands and words continued to tear and ravage Hui'er, "Don't piss and take care of yourself, you little whore... ..."

Xiang Luo heard her scolding became more and more outrageous, and hurriedly stepped forward to interrupt: "Okay, okay, Huier didn't mean it." Pushing Xianglin away, she pulled Huier who had fallen from the bed to the ground. Son.

Hui'er's naked body was dotted with bruises and filth.

Xiangluo's face was about to burn, she didn't dare to look closely, she turned her head slightly, and said: "Today's matter is over, you should prepare hot water quickly, take a bath first and then talk about it."

"What do you mean it's already passed?" Hui'er opened her eyes wide in horror.Xianglin's scolding just now gave her a bad premonition.

"It's just..." Xiangluo hesitated to speak, and didn't know what to say.

Before she could explain, Xianglin had already spoken from behind. "It's just that the emperor has ordered it down, so there's no need to record it." She smiled triumphantly.

Don't need to record files!
Don't need to record files!
Don't need to record files!
Hui'er just felt dizzy.

This is impossible!

How can this be?

The emperor was still so gentle and warm to her just now, saying that her skin is graceful, which is incomparable to many of his concubines.It is said that her voice is clear and beautiful, as moving as an oriole, and her...

Huier stood there in a daze, no response to Ren Xianglin's ridicule or Xiangluo's persuasion.

Su Mi watched this scene quietly, the corners of her mouth curled up imperceptibly.

Seeing that Xiangluo persuaded her for a long time, Huier was totally out of her mind.Impatiently, he pushed her and said, "Don't be distracted..."

Before she finished speaking, Hui'er suddenly woke up, jumped up and rushed to the door, shouting: "I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor, the emperor will not treat me like this, The emperor will definitely concubine me..."Her voice was shrill and shrill, as if possessed by a demon, and she looked like a mad tiger, which frightened Xiangluo Xianglin for a moment.

It was Su Mi who reacted quickly, hugged her quickly, and shouted to the two people who were at a loss, "Stop her soon."

Only then did the two of them come to their senses. If Huier went out like this and made things worse, I'm afraid they would have no way out.

But Hui'er didn't know where the strength came from, and the combined strength of the three of them couldn't hold her back.Xiangluo hurriedly called the little girls who were waiting outside to come in, and everyone hurriedly pushed Hui'er back on the bed.

"Why are you running? I still want to see the emperor. Let me tell you the truth. The emperor has already left. Where do you want to meet?" Xianglin said bitterly while pressing his face with a handkerchief.When Hui'er was struggling just now, he just scratched her face. Although no blood was seen, it was still painful.

Hearing her words, Hui'er struggled even harder. Her mouth had already been stuffed with towels by a few little girls, and she still kept making "woo woo" sounds.

"Hey, Xianglin, please don't say a few words." Looking at Hui'er who was still struggling on the bed, Xiangluo was anxious, "How can I do this?"

"What else can I do, let's lock it in the firewood room first, when will I be honest, and when will I let it out." Xianglin said leisurely. "A little girl also wants to reach the sky in one step, hum!"

If it wasn't for Xiao Luzi's eavesdropping that day, Su Mi couldn't help admiring her. She looked around and said, "This is the master's house after all, and it's not in compliance with the rules to mess around like this. Besides, nowadays It's not an option to hold people down like this all the time, in my opinion, it's better to send Huier to her own room first, and wait for her to calm down."

"That's the only way to go." Xiangluo couldn't think of any other way.

A few little girls lifted Hui'er up as ordered.Seeing that Hui'er was still naked, Su Mi pulled a sheet to surround her.

"Sister is kind," Xianglin said calmly.

"Sister Mi is also doing this for the face of our Caiwei Palace. If Hui'er goes out like this, what will she do in the future? Even our master doesn't look good." Xiangluo couldn't help but said.

"She's been ashamed and thrown home a long time ago. How can she be a human being? In the future, she still has a role to be a human being?" Xianglin screamed, and she was bitter about Huier taking her "opportunity" to become famous.She believed for no reason that if it was her who was favored today, there would be a different result.

Will she still have a chance to be a human in the future?This sentence hit her ears, Su Mi couldn't help but her heart moved, she glanced at Xiang Lin intentionally or unintentionally, to make sure that it was just an unintentional remark out of her resentment.
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Xiangluo was robbed of saying something, and after giving Xianglin a look, she stopped talking and directed the little girls to pull Hui'er to the door.

Hui'er didn't have much strength to resist any more, she just struggled to turn her head to look at the silk brocades all over the bed, and the small red and dazzling bloodstains that couldn't be concealed by the radiance in her eyes. , this is the place where the shortest dream of her life was realized and broken.

Even if Su Mi felt that she had a heart of stone, she couldn't help but be moved when she saw that look.

Perhaps it was because she knew better than anyone in the room that this was probably the last time she saw this girl's vivid eyes.

She closed her eyes, Su Mi, Su Mi, how many times have you seen more miserable, desolate, and more desperate eyes than this one, why do you still sympathize now?
Don't you understand?
Take a good look at everything in front of you, you can't fail, you can't fall like her, never, you still have something to do, you must not fail.

When she opened her eyes again, she was as calm as a breeze, without happiness or worry.

"Sister Xianglin, do you want to clean up here with your younger sister, or go back to Madam Zheng to serve?" She asked with a smile.

"Ah, my mother asked me to go over here to dry the clothes. Look at my memory, I'll work my sister first." For some reason, Xiang Lin felt a little strange when Su Mi saw her eyes. Shocked, he lost even the mood to watch Huier's excitement, so he quickly found a reason to evade it.

Su Mi followed the long corridor and looked at Huier's corner room. Indeed, Huier might not have a future.She has no way to save her, and there is no need to save her. Since Huier has chosen this path, she should understand the consequences of failure. All she has to do is to prevent herself from falling to this point.

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The next day, news came from the servants in the palace that Hui'er was found to have committed suicide by throwing herself into the Weiyang Pond.

No one knows how Huier opened the door that was locked from the outside with a heavy copper lock, and how he ran to the distant Weiyang Pond in the snow with only a sheet on to throw himself into the river. Interested in exploring.

Besides, Wei Qing'er was always ill, and Su Mi slept very deeply that night...

The last thing Su Mi saw was that the internal eunuchs of the Shangyi Bureau carried the straw mat on which Hui'er's body was placed, and came to the gate of their east courtyard.Because according to the practice in the palace, when the dead palace people are buried, they must wear at least one piece of their own clothes, otherwise if they become a ghost, they will be a slave ghost who is bullied and ordered.

And Hui'er's body was only a drenched bed sheet.

The handymen and eunuchs who carried the corpse stamped their feet at the gate of the palace and complained about this troublesome palace lady, even after she died, she would not let people have leisure, and it would make them make an extra trip.However, when they saw what Su Mi was holding out, their complaints stopped immediately.

Su Mi tidied up all of Huier's clothes, without any mess, and carried them out.

She gently covered Hui'er's favorite green palace dress on the frozen purple body, and put the bag full of clothes and jewelry box next to her head.

This is the only thing she can do for her.Although she also understands that these things may not accompany her for a long time.

The eyes of the few young eunuchs were fixed on the baggage and the box, and they thought that such a drudgery would turn out to be such a windfall.It's a pity that the fine dress covered the dead man, so there was no way to move.

The little eunuchs looked at Su Mi, rubbed their hands, and said with a smile, "My sister is not afraid of this, the girls I met just now were so frightened that they didn't even dare to lift their heads, my sister is not afraid?"

Su Mi smiled lightly, without saying anything, and was about to order some young eunuchs to carry him out, but saw a figure running hurriedly in the distance.

When he got close, he recognized that it was the little eunuch with the pointed chin who was next to Gao Shengnuo who asked her a question yesterday.Holding two pieces of cloth in his hands, he came to Su Mi, looked at the handymen with disgust, moved his body slightly, and moved a little away from the straw mat, before asking: "Where are you from this courtyard?" people?"

Su Mi nodded in agreement and asked again, "This is...?" It couldn't be yesterday's reward, could it?

"This...is a reward. This is what Eunuch Gao ordered me to bring here." He stuffed the silk into Su Mi's arms, "Isn't there a master who has been ill yesterday? Let's hang up these pieces of red satin." Get rid of bad luck, so as not to pollute the nobleman, understand?" He glanced around, "This is an urgent errand, if you neglect it, you will suffer." After speaking, he turned around and left immediately, as if he would be stained if he stayed for a while The bad luck here is average.

Su Mi looked at the satin in her hand, the blood-like color was almost flowing down the satin.Not far away, Hui'er's bruised face seemed to be brought alive by the brilliant red light.

Su Mi finally couldn't hold it anymore, and chuckled lightly...

What joy do you have in life?What is the sorrow of death?In this palace, what is the difference between me and her?What is there to be afraid of when something hurts its kind?
(End of this chapter)