The emperor's favor is directly linked to the treatment of each palace.
Since Hongli no longer set foot in Yanxi Palace, the cost of food and clothing in the palace immediately became tense. Not anymore.
After half a month, things started to be lost in the palace. Wei Yingluo lost several earrings and jade bracelets within a few days. Mingyu was furious and complained to Wei Yingluo, "This day is really hard to pass, and people outside dare to Show the face of our palace, the people inside dare to steal things from the palace, and when I find this person, I have to peel him off!"
It's just that these are trivial matters. After complaining a few words, Mingyu said worriedly: "Yingluo, you said... Did the emperor stop coming to Changchun Palace because he misbelieved the rumors?"
"Apart from that, what else could be the reason?" Wei Yingluo shook the beauty fan in her hand, and the fan movement suddenly stopped, looking at the person not far away.
Mingyu followed her gaze and cried out, "Lord Fucha..."
Fu Heng didn't know when he touched the imperial garden, and touched them. The years have sharpened his face. He lost a little of the noble son's breath, and brought with him the vicissitudes of many battlefield warriors. It's singing and dancing, and on one side is a long spear with blood.
Mingyu immediately grabbed Wei Yingluo's arm, looked at each other vigilantly, and hurriedly said, "Niangniang, we've been out for a long time, let's go back!"
It is said that gossip stops at the wise, but what is lacking most in this world is the wise.
There are many people who listen blindly, and in addition, there are people who fan the flames. Mingyu was afraid that others would see it, which would make the already fiery rumors even more prosperous, so she could not wait to carry Wei Yingluo and run away.
Wei Yingluo shook her head and rejected her kindness.
"If I leave or not, the result is the same." She said, "If I don't leave, people say we have an affair. If I leave, people will say that I have a guilty conscience. Do you understand?"
Those who are malicious to her will be malicious to her no matter what she does.
The one who spread rumors behind her back will not stop the rumors because of her departure.
"Yingluo." Fu Heng had walked over from the opposite side and looked at her deeply, "I have something to tell you."
Coincidentally, she also had something to say to him, Wei Yingluo smiled lightly: "Go over there and talk."
She found a pavilion, and the pavilion was nestled with a wisteria tree, with blooming flowers and long drooping branches. Wei Yingluo sat down in the pavilion. Under Mingyu's warning eyes, Fu Heng did not sit, but stood before her. From a distance, ask: "Why?"
After a mindless question, Wei Yingluo replied, "I don't want to be a palace maid anymore."
Fu Heng was silent for a while, then said hoarsely, "Why don't you wait for me to come back, I can—"
"Do you want to be your concubine?" Wei Yingluo sneered, "No, it's also a concubine, why don't I be the emperor's concubine, at least you are above others, when I sit, you can only stand."
Fu Heng looked at her for a long time and shook his head: "Yingluo, you don't have to say these words to anger me, I know what kind of person you are..."
Hearing this, Wei Yingluo didn't say anything yet, but Mingyu's eyebrows twitched, and she wanted to jump up and hit him in the mouth, so that he would know what to say and what not to say.
Wei Yingluo was silent for a long time, and the wisteria flowers were falling beside them. Thinking back carefully, they used to look for a gazebo and a flower tree to make each other angry, and then tease each other again. laugh.
The pavilion is still the pavilion, the flower tree is still the flower tree, but the person is not the same person.
The former young master and the former stubborn little palace maid were buried in the fallen flowers in memory.
"... Fucha Fu Heng." Wei Yingluo finally said, "Do you know that rumors about you and me are circulating in the palace."
Fu Heng was already a foreign minister, so he didn't know the secrets of the harem, so he asked, "What rumors?"
"They said that you and I have an affair." Wei Yingluo said lightly, "You are an important official who has made military exploits. The emperor will not embarrass you, but I am different... So please stay away from me from today!"
"... If I say, I can't do it?" Fu Heng lowered his head and suddenly raised his head.
"You!" He has always been gentle and jade-like, never aggressive, Wei Yingluo didn't expect him to say this.
"I can't help but look at you, and I can't help you." The battlefield has really changed him a lot. He would never look at Wei Yingluo with such calm eyes before, and would never speak his heart out like this. "In my heart... you are not the emperor's concubine, but my Yingluo."
You look at the scenery from the bridge, and people look at you under the bridge.
"Look."
Not far away, Concubine Chungui led Hongli over, pointed at the two people in front of them who were meeting their eyes and said, "Isn't that your concubine? The one beside her seems to be..."
There are many eyes and ears in the palace, and Wei Yingluo did not avoid anyone deliberately. The news naturally progressed to Zhongcui Palace at the fastest speed, and Concubine Chungui led Hongli to the imperial garden at the fastest speed.
Hongli looked at them from a distance.
I was so far away that I couldn't hear what they were saying.
But just looking at the way they looked at each other, he felt that his heart was full of jealousy. The jealousy he had eaten over the years came to his throat, and he couldn't open his mouth with sourness.
"Your Majesty." Concubine Chungui seemed to be soothing, but she actually poured sour water into his throat, "Ling Concubine used to be a maid of Changchun Palace, so she is naturally acquainted with Lord Fucha. It's candid…”
How could Hongli hear her explanation? He only believed what he saw: "Since it's open and honest, why do you need to explain it?"
Concubine Chungui hurriedly lowered her head and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is afraid that you may have wronged your concubine. After all, she is young and energetic and does not understand the rules of the palace. It is normal for people to occasionally make mistakes..."
Wrong way? What kind of mistakes, and with whom
The more Hongli listened, the more angry he became. He stared fiercely at Wei Yingluo in the distance, and then walked away.
Yanxi Palace.
After returning from the Imperial Garden, Wei Yingluo was restless. There was a pot of gardenias in front of her. The water she watered all the way out of the flower pot. When she reacted, a small puddle had accumulated on the ground.
With a sigh, Wei Yingluo was about to call Mingyu over to clean up when suddenly the door opened and Li Yu came in with a few eunuchs.
Li Yu always greets people with a smile, but this smile is also divided into several types. His current smile is not really friendly, but rather intimidating.
"Director Li, why are you here?" Mingyu hurried up to meet him, "But the emperor is coming?"
Li Yu didn't answer her words, she winked at the eunuchs beside her, several eunuchs scattered immediately, one of them came to Wei Yingluo, bent down and picked up the pot of gardenia on the ground.
Wei Yingluo watched calmly, but Mingyu was not as calm as her, and immediately exclaimed, "What are you doing?"
"Concubine Niangniang." Li Yu said with a smile, "The emperor said that the taste of those Gong barrels in Yongxiang is too strong. I will use your gardenia to smoke it."
"How does this work?" Mingyu said anxiously, "These are the precious flower seeds that the emperor gave to the empress, how can they be taken to Xunyong Lane? Put it down, put it down quickly..."
Wei Yingluo pulled her and motioned her not to act rashly.
The potted plants in the house were quickly cleaned up, and the ones that were carried outside must not be spared. The eunuchs held a pot of potted flowers and left one after another. Li Yu walked at the end. He is a thoughtful person and will give everything to himself. He left a way to retreat, so he waited for the others to go out, and then whispered to Wei Yingluo: "My concubine, the emperor is angry with you, just wait for this anger to pass, and the servants are also acting on orders, please don't be surprised. "
The words that seemed to defend themselves actually revealed an extremely important news.
angry.
Wei Yingluo's heart moved, and after sending him off, she instructed Mingyu, "Go and ask if the emperor went to the imperial garden today."
"Could it be..." Mingyu's face suddenly turned white.
"What are you lying, first inquire about it." Wei Yingluo said.
Mingyu hurried out the door, and when she came back, her footsteps were vain, her eyes were slack, and she seemed to have lost three souls and seven souls, and she kept mumbling: "It's over, it's over..."
As the pots of gardenias left, everyone in the palace came to a conclusion that the Yanxi Palace had completely fallen out of favor.