In February comes the vernal equinox, the flowers bloom and fall according to the time, before the flowers are in full bloom, temporarily borrow the skillful hands to plant the soul of spring, the meaning of spring, where is the soul of spring planted? It is planted on people's clothes, those flower petals fluttering, in the fluffy golden embroidered flowers.
On the first day, the western embroidered cloth requested by the Empress of the Eastern Palace finally entered the palace. I don’t know how many pieces of cloth were collected, but many eunuchs in the palace worked hard. It was Hong Zhu who moved the cloth outside the palace. Such small things, such small things that require physical strength, he himself is too lazy to do.
He stayed in the main hall of the Eastern Palace, and noticed that the crown prince was not there. While carefully pulling out the brass pieces in the incense burner, so as not to burn the incense too quickly, he whispered to the maids to work hard, and hurriedly put the three layers of cotton mattresses on the bed. Make it ready, because the Empress will be reading in a while.
Not long after, a gust of fragrant wind blew by, the inner curtain was lifted, the empress empress with dai's eyebrows, red lips, and a pair of flowing red phoenix eyes came out a little sleepily, leaned on the low couch, drank and soaked. Looking at the book in his hand.
The book was published by Danbo Bookstore. Although the empress hated Fan Xian and was afraid of Fan Xian, in her daily pastimes, the mother of the country was not willing to lower her quality of life.
After reading a few pages of the book, the queen frowned, not knowing what she was thinking.
At this time, Hong Zhu was beating the back for her behind the empress, his extremely clean little fists hit the empress's thin body lightly and orderly. The queen always liked Hong Zhu's carelessness and considerate service, especially the kung fu of hitting the back with one hand, but today she didn't enjoy it with her eyes closed as usual, but stared at the book in front of her in a daze.
"What's your lady thinking?" Hong Zhu said with a smile.
Compared with these nobles, the eunuchs and maids in the palace are like ants in the soil, so ordinary people always dare not make a sound when they see nobles like the queen empress, they are blindly cowardly and respectful, wishing to put their hands and feet are all retracted.
But Hong Zhu had been taught by Fan Xian, and he himself felt that these nobles seemed to be high-ranking and powerful, well-clothed and well-fed, and there was nothing dissatisfied. Ann, I like to have someone to talk with.
Hong Zhu has been different from ordinary little eunuchs since he was on duty in the imperial study. He will not always lower his eyebrows and look down, and never forget to put on a slave image... but respectful, he acts a little more responsively The wind of magnanimity.
In fact, the reason is very simple. The nobles in the palace also need to talk, and their identities are doomed to have no confidantes to communicate with. And if the little eunuchs who have been by their side can not be so wretched, and their behavior is disgusting, they will be in a much better mood.
That's why Hong Zhu was loved by so many nobles, including the empress.
The Empress seemed to be used to talking to Hong Zhu, she sighed and said: "Just thinking... It's annoying to be in the palace all the time, my aunt has been eating vegetarian and chanting scriptures these two days, so I don't have many chances to see her."
Hong Zhu said with a smile: "It's also good for the slave to talk to the empress for a while."
You must say slave, but you must not put on the face of a lowly slave, otherwise the master will only have the desire to slap him when he sees the lowly slave, and has no intention of communicating with him.
"What can you say? Or just like the previous days, tell me about the days when you were wandering outside the palace when you were young?" the queen said interestingly.
After the Hongzhu family was ruined by corrupt officials, he and his elder brother fled to Jiaozhou. During those years, he suffered so much and saw so many joys and sorrows in the world. The nobles of noble families are much richer.
Especially the secrets of beggars he often told, the little rumors in the rivers and lakes, and folk eating and having fun, fell into the ears of the queen, which seemed so fresh and interesting.
Today, the real joke that Hong Zhu heard on the wandering road was related to the girl in the brothel, but after all, he was in the palace, and the person who listened to the story was the mother of a country, so what Hong Zhu told was extra careful, and he dared not say anything. Too many explicit words.
However, when the queen heard the story, her eyes moved slightly, and she smiled slightly, but she felt a little funny in her heart, so she quickly yawned to cover it up. She was in front of Hong Zhu, Hong Zhu naturally couldn't see her, he just felt a little surprised that the Queen didn't stop him from continuing.
After all, he was young, how could he know that no matter how sacred and inviolable nobleman he was, the things in his mind were no different from those of the women in the market.
After the story was told, the queen sighed and said, "The children of the people are indeed living a hard life, but you can also see some different things."
Hong Zhu smiled awkwardly: "It's hard, what kind of status is the empress, since childhood..."
This naturally brought the topic to the queen's childhood life. The queen was a little distracted for a while, thinking that the current emperor, when he was a child, was still that unsmiling cousin. It seemed that he also had occasional happy times together, but later... How did it become like this
Immediately, she thought of the price her family paid on that bloody night in Kyoto, and her mood became unstable, and she gradually felt a little more sad.
Hong Zhu carefully controlled the proportion of his speech, paying attention to the frequency of the empress's eyelashes blinking from the corner of his eye, and then the content of the speech went deep into the little playthings of the queen in his childhood.
At this time, the queen was warning herself in her heart, and it was impossible to talk too much about herself with a servant. When she heard him turn to talk, her heart relaxed, and she counted like a treasure.
In short, I don't know how many turns, Hong Zhu finally succeeded in reminding the queen of a jade ring, a jade ring that was brought into the palace from her mother's house back then.
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The queen gestured to the size of the jade, and said with a smile: "The quality of that piece of jade is good, of course it is not as good as the tributes kept in Dadongshan, but it is considered a rare quality in an ordinary prince's house... By the way, that is The first emperor gave it to my natal family, so the engraving on it is the emperor's style, and it is impossible to wear it outside, and keep it in the clothes all the time."
The queen pointed to her chest intentionally or unintentionally. Although she was wearing a thick winter coat, her fingers were still stuck in the plumpness.
Hong Zhu swallowed lightly, and said with a small smile, "I don't think I've seen your mother wear it in the palace."
"Although that piece of jade is very moist, but the water is too shallow... I used to wear it when I was a girl, but now it is not suitable for me."
Hong Zhu flattered and said: "Your Majesty is beautiful and beautiful, she is as beautiful as before, what is the difference with the girl's house... No matter how shallow the water is, Qinger is suitable."
A stern look flashed in the Queen's eyes, and she lowered her voice and shouted: "Speaking is getting more and more presumptuous!"
Hong Zhu was shocked, and quickly slapped his mouth heavily, but he still didn't notice the satisfied smile on the corner of the queen's lips, and the growing meaning in her eyes.
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The queen knew the news of the embroidered cloth entering the palace yesterday, so she naturally didn't worry too much about such trivial matters. Naturally, there are palace regulations, and they are sent to various palaces. The queen mother's side is naturally the first one, and those in the palace The famous empresses each gave some, and finally it was the turn of Guangxin Palace where the eldest princess was. Although the queen didn't like this sister-in-law very much, she still had to work hard for her son.
At this time, the back room of the Eastern Palace was busy distributing the embroidered cloth. After Hong Zhu had served the queen, he had nothing specific to do. He had nothing to do, so he stood outside the door and stared at the busy slender maids. Sweep all over the plump buttocks of those court ladies.
Suddenly felt a pain in the waist, turned around to look, and saw a court lady with charming eyes looking at her with hatred.
He couldn't help scolding in a low voice: "Xiu'er, you are crazy! There are so many people, this is in the palace!"
This little maid who was so courageous as to pinch the chief eunuch of the Eastern Palace was the Xiu'er whom Fan Xian had heard about, and she was also a companion that Hong Zhu found in the loneliness of the palace.
Xiu'er bit her lower lip and muttered: "Where are your eyes looking? You also know that this is in the palace?"
Hong Zhu giggled a few times, coaxed a few words, thinking that as a eunuch, he could only use his eyes and fingers to live a dry addiction, should he be jealous? He didn't take it seriously, but suddenly thought of something, and asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"
He was startled suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Don't you want to send embroidered cloth to the various palaces?"
Xiu'er looked at his nervous expression curiously, and said with a little stunned: "No... I don't know what happened today, the empress suddenly remembered a small item that I haven't used for a long time, and asked me to go into the wing room to look for it."
Hong Zhu felt slightly relieved, and asked cautiously, "What is it?"
"A piece of light blue jade ring." Xiu'er pouted and said, "I don't know who is talking too much and reminded the empress of this thing... It has been useless for many years, how can I find it all at once? If you can't find it , how to explain to the empress?"
Hong Zhu was overjoyed, knowing that what he said earlier had finally taken effect, and the Empress finally remembered to look for that piece of jade.
At this moment, a court lady covered her mouth and smiled and walked past the two of them.
Xiu'er said angrily, "Why are you laughing?"
The maid stuck out her tongue and said, "I just want you to laugh, but I can't laugh?"
Qing Kingdom's imperial kingdom is actually not as bright and grand as the people imagined, but it is also not as dark and terrifying as those families imagined. Especially in the East Palace, the queen is well aware of her own weakness and helplessness, so she deliberately worked hard on these subtleties. She is gentler with the maids and eunuchs, and the emperor is not too strict, with the intention of forming a good relationship.
And Hong Zhu is also a person who is used to being cautious. Even now that he has become the chief eunuch, he doesn't give orders to the people below. That's why the court lady dared to make fun of the two of them.
"Where is this going?" Hong Zhu smiled and looked at the maid and the little eunuch holding two rolls of embroidered cloth behind the maid.
The maid saluted with a smile and said, "This is for Guangxin Palace."
Hong Zhu nodded with a smile and let her go.
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That court lady is called Wang Zhui'er, and her surname shows that she is still a favored figure in the East Palace. She brought two young eunuchs to the outside of Guangxin Palace, knowing the habits of His Royal Highness, she waved her hand to let the two young eunuchs stay outside, and she went in with the embroidered cloth in her arms.
Naturally, the maids of the eldest princess took over in the palace. Since it was the person who came here on behalf of the queen, the eldest princess naturally said a few words to the court lady casually, asked the queen how she was, and sent her out.
When there was no one in Guangxin Palace, the eldest princess turned behind the screen, looked at the happy Prince Qing, and said with a gentle smile, "Have you memorized the three strategies for governing the country?"
The prince looked at her obsessively, nodded, and gently took the eldest princess's soft and boneless hand, like holding a piece of fragile and fragile jade, and held it to his face, rubbing it , said softly: "Gan'er has already recited it."
The eldest princess lightly pointed between his brows with her fingers, and seeing the familiar mark between the prince's brows, for some reason, her heart felt sad and then softened again, she held his face with both hands, her eyes moved slightly, softly Said in a low voice: "Good boy, recite it to Auntie carefully."
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In the East Palace, the empress was losing her temper, because the maids searched for a long time, but they still couldn't find the jade ring of Shui Qing'er, which made the empress feel very bad.
Xiu'er stood beside the queen in fear, thinking in her heart, why did the master want to work hard on that jade ring today? How did she know that the queen was touched by Hong Zhu's words, and wanted to find some tails of time many years ago.
"Let me look for it carefully!" The queen was very angry, but occasionally she wanted to find something, but she couldn't find it. She was generous, and these servants turned the sky upside down! She also vaguely heard that there are some guys with dirty hands and feet in the palace, but she didn't expect that someone would be so bold as to stretch out their hands in the East Palace.
Thinking of being alone and helpless in the palace, and now being bullied by these dog slaves, the queen's lips trembled angrily, and she said coldly to the eunuchs and maids who were kneeling in front of her: "I can't find it in the warehouse. Search the room!"
The row of people kneeling at the bottom looked extremely ugly, and they all thought in their hearts, could this be planning to copy the palace. The three little eunuchs on the lower right turned pale with fright, and their hearts were extremely horrified, because the old and unused small objects in the East Palace were basically stolen out of the palace by them to sell. The piece of jade that the queen mentioned earlier Jue is also among them.
Fortunately, at this time, everyone was terribly frightened by the queen's sharp and harsh reprimand, and their expressions were not very good, so the small drums in the hearts of the three little eunuchs were not detected by others.
The queen slapped her right hand heavily on the table, and the emerald on the middle finger of her right hand was shattered with a snap, and said angrily, "If you find out who has dirty hands and feet, don't return it to me, just give it to me directly." Kill him!"
Hong Zhu looked down at the pieces of emeralds on the table, and thought with a wry smile, this piece of finger ring is much more valuable than that jade ring, but he knew that the queen wanted to think about it occasionally, and was annoyed in his heart, so as to use this to strengthen the Qing palace, It wasn't easy to say anything, so he bowed slightly, took his orders, and searched the palace with some high-class maids and eunuchs.
For a moment, there were footsteps in the courtyard behind the East Palace, and there was a loud sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, as if a house was being raided, which was indescribably palpitating.
Those court ladies and eunuchs who were honestly waiting for fate outside the door were not very worried, even the three little eunuchs who handled them were not afraid, because they did this kind of thing a lot, and no one would be so stupid as to call those criminals The taboo loot is hidden in his room.
However.
It seems that someone is really that stupid.
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The three eunuchs were dumbfounded, but the palace lady who was looking at everyone with arrogance suddenly turned pale, and said sharply: "This is not mine! This is not mine!"
In order to avoid suspicion, Hong Zhu didn't go in to search it himself, but when he saw a eunuch find the jade ring from under the palace lady's bed, he couldn't help sighing, looked at the palace lady and shook his head.
This palace lady was the one who sent the embroidered cloth to Guangxin Palace earlier. Her face was pale and her eyes were confused. My business, none of my business... none of my business..."
The three eunuchs who actually stole the jade ring looked at each other, thinking that the jade ring had already been sold to the palace, why would it suddenly appear in the East Palace, in the hands of that court lady? The three eunuchs were sweating with fright on their backs, because the stolen goods appeared, who knows what problems will be interrogated later.
Hong Zhu frowned and looked at the court lady kneeling in front of him, sighed, and said, "I'm tied up, I'll wait for your mother to let me know."
A few stronger eunuchs stepped forward and overturned the maid to the ground, and tied them tightly with hemp ropes. The maid was so frightened that she was unconscious, and could only keep screaming for injustice, saying that she had never done anything wrong. I have seen this piece of jade.
Hong Zhu shook his head, and went to the front palace to report his orders. The three eunuchs looked at each other, and one of the more courageous ones followed, followed behind Hong Zhu and said in a low voice: "Eunuch, what the empress meant to find The thing just beat the scumbag to death... At this time, tell the empress, I am afraid that the empress will feel unhappy, and it will not be good for the father-in-law."
Hong Zhu stopped and thought for a while, then said: "This matter is too big, let the masters talk, we slaves, don't worry too much."
A look of disappointment flashed in the eunuch's eyes. Originally, he wanted to use Hong Zhu's hand to directly kill the palace maid. No matter how the jade ring entered the palace again, as long as the person was dead, the jade ring would be dead. He came back again, no matter how he would find himself, he never thought that Hong Zhu would still ask the queen to kill him.
"Things are not so simple." Hong Zhu sneered, gave him a cold look, and said, "How dare she steal things from the palace by herself, there must be helpers to cover it up for her, even if there is no helper... But where did this thing come from, I will let the people in the inner court carefully examine it, and they will definitely be able to find out the source."
The eunuch was very cold, thinking about the source... If the trial really went on, he would have to find out the three of himself, but he did not dare to confess this matter to Hong Zhu no matter what, he just asked tentatively: "I don't know." How will the empress deal with it?"
"To really find out the evils in this palace... It's good to be beaten to death with random sticks, but I'm afraid that they will be thrown into the sky prison and be tossed by those perverts from the Overwatch Council." Hong Zhu sighed.
The eunuch rolled his eyes, swallowed fearful saliva, and said, "After all, it's a matter in the palace. If people from the inner court and the Overwatch Council investigate, I'm afraid... the empress will lose face, or... let's do it ourselves first." Check it out?"
Hong Zhu seemed a little moved by what he said, glanced out of the corner of his eye, and happened to see the murderous intent in the eunuch's eyes, smiled, then nodded, and ordered: "Examine with your heart."
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But when they got to the bedroom in the front palace, Hong Zhu changed his face. He first told the Queen about the information he had found out, but then sincerely persuaded the Queen to deal with it leniently. After all, the Queen Mother has been eating vegetarian for the past few days , if someone dies, I'm afraid the old man will not like it.
The queen was very angry at first, but after being persuaded by Hong Zhu, she gradually calmed down, holding the jade ring of Shui Qing'er in her hand, she stroked slowly, frowned and said: "It makes sense, but the death penalty can be forgiven, and the living penalty is inevitable. Hit me hard!"
Hong Zhu took the order and was about to go to the back, but the queen called him again, and said, "What are you going to do? Just tell me... You stay here with me. So that this jade block can be tied up."
The queen's expression was calm, and no emotion could be heard. Hong Zhu was secretly happy, thinking that if he was allowed to preside over the interrogation, who knows if he would be implicated in it.
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I don't know how long it took before an eunuch knelt outside the palace with an ugly expression. Hong Zhu frowned and listened to him twice, his expression also ugly.
He leaned close to the queen's ear and whispered a few words.
The queen's crescent eyebrows frowned, and she said in disgust: "It's really unlucky... I can't bear to be beaten, I finally have a sense of shame, I know how to commit suicide to be clean..." The mother of the country said casually: "Let the Jingle Hall be dragged and burned. "
Hong Zhu's heart trembled slightly, but he knew that in the eyes of these nobles, these servants like himself were just objects to be played with, and human lives were not as good as ants. He bowed silently, and then went to arrange the funeral of the court lady.
He knew that the palace lady's death was definitely not as simple as suicide. It must have been the eunuch who had arranged to interrogate her... in order to silence her, to preserve his glory, wealth, life and property.
However, this was originally arranged by Hong Zhu, so he was not too surprised, but felt a little guilty towards that innocent court lady.
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The Imperial Palace of the Qing Kingdom is extremely large, occupying a quarter of the area of the capital, and there lived the most noble men and women in the world, as well as the most humble women, neither men nor women. In this cool palace, I don’t know how many stories will happen every day, I don’t know how many lowly people will disappear and die in a strange way or silently, and no one remembers that they ever existed in the palace.
Although the royal family of the Qing Kingdom is not known for its strictness, the strict barriers between the classes doomed the palace to always be a place where people cannibalize people.
Therefore, the death of an ordinary court lady in the East Palace did not attract much attention. It was just that there was an extra corpse on the burning ground of the Jingle Hall. A girl in the Embroidery Bureau was lucky enough to get the opportunity to enter the East Palace to serve the Empress. The empress still listens to Hong Zhu telling jokes every day, the empress dowager still eats vegetarian food every day, and the prince still learns how to govern the country every day, and then he goes to Guangxin Palace to ask the eldest princess for advice.
business as usual.
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"As long as a big family is attacked from the outside, it will not be destroyed for a while, because its foundation is strong enough... However, if there is a problem within the family, and its own people start to do it, suspicion, and crowding out this kind of thing will form a trend. The day of death is not far away."
On the newly built embankment of earth and rocks in Yingzhou, Fan Xian watched the great river rolling eastward under the embankment, and said thoughtfully, "The embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed by an ant nest, and the clan of a thousand years is destroyed by a single thought."
He turned his head and said to the dark-faced Yang Wanli, "I'm not just talking about the embankment you built, and not just Mingjia, but also the world."
Fan Xian didn't understand what he said. He counted the time. Today should be the time when the court lady died. In a few days, when the rumors started to spread, the emperor noticed the strange death of the palace maid in the East Palace. With his suspicion, he would definitely notice it. many problems.
The apparent peace and harmony of the royal family may cause unexpected turmoil due to the death of the court lady.
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