"Making a fuss? Why is she making a fuss?" Shuangbai asked doubtfully.
Shuangbai always knew Su Ningxin's temper. Every time Su Ningxin felt curious and wanted to ask questions, she had to speak up because the girl didn't want people to think that she liked to pry into other people's secrets.
Hongzhu has an honest personality and knows that Shuangbai is Su Ningxin's confidant. She doesn't look impatient and explains seriously,
"Concubine Li used to be like this. If something didn't go well with her, she would go to other wives and aunts' yards and find a way to teach them and beat and scold their maids, causing a lot of chaos in the backyard."
"Are they going to let Concubine Li be so unreasonable?" Shuanghua asked with a frown.
Hongzhu also had a look of helplessness on her face, "After all, Concubine Li is a member of the Royal Jade Butterfly and has a status. Those ladies and aunts are all concubines who can be bought, sold and given away at will. How can I really dare to confront Concubine Li?"
"Concubine Li still dares to betray them?"
"That's impossible. Only the princess in the palace has such power," Hongzhu shook her head and said, "It's just that the prince respects respect and inferiority the most. It's natural for Concubine Li to find any reason to deal with them. If they dare If you resist or complain, you will be committing the following crimes, and the prince will punish you more severely if he finds out."
Shuangbai curled her lips and said, "Then the princess is more noble than her. If the princess disposes of her, then she won't have anything to say."
Hongzhu smiled honestly, "The princess has an easy-going temperament and has always been generous to the prince's concubines. If Concubine Li gets into trouble, the princess will usually just give her some brocade hairpin rings to appease her."
"Then Concubine Li is really domineering in the backyard." Su Ningxin said with emotion.
[This look is a bit similar to when I was in the palace. ] Su Ning thought to herself, feeling a little guilty unconsciously.
"Who says she isn't? She has always been domineering, and no one has suppressed her spirit even for more than 20 years."
Hongzhu lamented that it was hard to hear her say such words, which showed that even Hongzhu felt that the princess was too tolerant of Concubine Li.
"How long have you been in the house? How do you know she has been domineering for more than 20 years?" Su Ningxin joked.
Hongzhu blushed, waved her hand and explained, "I entered the house when I was six years old. It has been twelve years now. As for what happened before, I only heard from Aunt Fu."
This Aunt Fu is the princess's nanny. She has always been with the princess. She is trusted by the princess, so she knows the princess's experience very clearly.
Knowing that Hongzhu was still going to Concubine Li, Su Ningxin stopped greeting her and said, "Then you can go there. Going there earlier will save those ladies and maids from suffering."
Hongzhu also sympathized with them for suffering such an unreasonable disaster, so she didn't stay any longer. "I'll leave first, then." After bowing, Hongzhu turned and left.
After a while of burning incense, Concubine Li walked in front and entered the princess's courtyard. The anger and arrogance on her face could not be concealed at all.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw the princess and the Crown Princess sitting in the pavilion of the courtyard eating cakes. This made her frown. She didn't expect the Crown Princess to be here as well. She had always been a little wary of the Crown Princess.
But this time, it was the princess who was in the wrong. Thinking about it this way, Concubine Li felt a little more confident and said from a distance, "I have met the princess and the eldest concubine. Why do you have the leisure to enjoy the scenery in the pavilion today? "
Although it is a pavilion, the weather is not yet completely warm at this time, so the pavilion is surrounded by tents to block the wind. However, the curtain in front of the pavilion felt too tight, so she lifted it up, allowing Concubine Li to see it at a glance. they.
Concubine Li walked to the pavilion in a few steps and sat down directly opposite the princess without any courtesy. "The princess is so excited? Ah."
The princess didn't care about Concubine Li's actions, and smiled casually, "There were many people in the room, and I thought it was a mess, so I came out to sit."
After listening to the princess's words, Concubine Li turned her head in confusion and looked in the direction of the main room. Sure enough, she saw a figure moving inside, and it looked like there were quite a lot of people.
"What is this doing?"
This time it was Su Ningxin who answered her, "I have some medical skills and noticed something was wrong with the smell in my mother's room. It seemed to be mixed with unclean things, so I ordered someone to look for it."
While speaking, Su Ningxin kept paying attention to Concubine Li's expression. It was obvious that her pupils shrank slightly when she saw that she said something unclean.
Su Ningxin sneered secretly, "Now you know you are afraid, but I don't know how you will respond when the Dong Chuang incident happens."]
Concubine Li calmed down and said, "The princess's house is only accessible to her trusted maids, right? Where would anyone put anything unclean?"
"Maybe I heard it wrong, but I always take precautions." Su Ningxin said casually, looking confident, which made Concubine Li even more anxious.
In fact, Su Ningxin did this on purpose, wanting to scare her.
The princess didn't think too much and just asked casually, "I heard that you punished Mrs. Ping's maid today. What happened?"
"The thing about this is that the maid always comes to talk to the maids in my yard, which makes those maids in my yard think about being lazy and gossiping every day, and no one takes their work seriously."
Concubine Li Yundanfeng said softly, "I went to give her a little punishment and told her to serve Mrs. Ping attentively and not to think about running around in other people's yards all the time."
The princess glanced at her lightly, knowing her behavior well, "A little maid is worthy of your care. If you have this time, you might as well go out to the street to look at fabrics and clothes. You can go out for shopping another day, right?" The concierge said I agreed."
"Thank you very much, Princess. I am just thinking about how many clothes I should make for the change of seasons." Concubine Li smiled faintly, which probably meant that she could forget about it.
Su Ningxin watched the two of them going back and forth, as if they had done it countless times before, and it was as familiar as a routine. It is estimated that this scene should often appear between the two of them.
However, Su Ningxin was a little surprised that the princess was so lax in managing the backyard. Logically speaking, it would be very difficult for a concubine with such status to go out.
If you don't get some kind of grace to go back to your parents' home or follow you to the palace, you can't even leave the house at other times. Rouge, jewelry, silk and satin can only be sent to the palace.
The princess was very generous and let her go shopping casually.
Su Ningxin was thinking but didn't say anything. She didn't intend to get involved in matters that had nothing to do with her. Even if she wanted to ask the reason clearly, she wouldn't do it in front of her face.
As soon as the two of them finished speaking, Xiao An walked to the pavilion holding a tray, stood outside the pavilion and reported to the princess,
"This slave has met the princess, the prince's concubine, and concubine Li."
"Get up, have you found anything?" the princess asked, but actually looking at the tray in Xiao An's hand, she knew that the other party had been found.
"Reporting to the princess, the servants found this kind of styrax in the spice box. It was adulterated with drugs that cause infertility."
Xiao An replied with confidence. In fact, only she and Su Ningxin knew that she was bluffing. After all, neither she nor Su Ningxin could determine what the drug was and why it would cause infertility.
(End of chapter)