The so-called saffron used as medicine is actually just the deep red stamens of saffron. After being made into medicine, they look like small worms. This time, Concubine De gave a big package to Jue Chan. She then secretly divided it into several portions and now opened it.
Two bags were sprinkled on Concubine Wen's bedding, and while there was no one in the palace, it was dark and windy, and she quietly ran to the tenth prince's room.
Concubine Wen really led people to catch wild cats, but she made such a big noise that the wild cats were scared away long ago. They caught nothing, but soon the ferocious "crying" was no longer heard.
In the house of the tenth elder brother, Jue Chan was lulling him to sleep. He could only hear another commotion outside. It was Concubine Wen who had brought people back, but she seemed to be scolding: "What are you doing when you come back? Go and guard for me again."
Catch it for me, it must be a wild cat. Where are there any wild cats here?"
Jue Chan held Brother Ten in his arms and waited quietly for the next movement. The noise outside seemed to have dispersed. The child in his arms moved his lips slightly and seemed to be murmuring in sleep. Suddenly, a scream came from the main hall, and Brother Ten had a look on his face.
The child convulsed, and after being alerted for a moment, he cried at the top of his lungs.
"Brother Ten, be good, Brother Ten, don't cry..." Mrs. Juechan walked back and forth across the room with her child in her arms, but her thoughts were all on the main hall, but for some reason there was no other movement there. If it weren't for Ten Ah,
Brother was so frightened that he cried, and Jue Chan almost doubted whether he was imagining the scream.
In the imperial concubine's bedroom, Dongyun stood helpless in front of the bed. Her mistress was huddled behind in a daze. The people who had just rushed in were dismissed by Dongyun. Her hands were trembling. She turned around and asked the imperial concubine: "Your Majesty...
...What should I do? Could it be that the child in Fujin's belly is here to claim his life?"
"Shut up!" The imperial concubine scolded her sternly, but suddenly she covered her mouth again. She couldn't curse and let outsiders hear. She immediately pointed at Dongyun and said, "Clean it and burn it in the charcoal stove. Nothing will happen to us.
Didn’t see anything.”
But Dongyun suddenly broke down and squatted on the ground holding his head and crying: "I'm afraid, my dear, I couldn't sleep for several days. It was my slave who put the saffron with my own hands. It was my slave who killed Fujin's child."
Concubine Wen's paranoid face was full of dissatisfaction. She ran over and hugged her. She seemed to be crying but not crying, but not smiling. She opened Dongyun's hand and held her face and said: "No one will know. If we find out,
, they have been investigated a long time ago. I am the only one left in the palace. We also have the tenth prince. They will not pursue me for a child who has never seen the light of day. Besides, nothing can be found, right? Fakasu
They will keep it secret for me, otherwise they will not be able to get away with it, Dongyun, if there is any sin, it belongs to me and has nothing to do with you."
"Mother, why?" Dongyun shook his head vigorously, trying to forget all this but couldn't get rid of it, "We were not good before, why can't we live the same life as before."
Concubine Wen stared at her blankly, as if she was stopped by this question, her eyes were dull and distracted, and she said after a long time: "Why? Why should I live a miserable life? Why can't everything be done to me?"
What does Wu Ya want to do with me? Even my sister-in-law must be her sister. Who are they? Why should they give birth to a child of our Niu Hulu family? Why? Why..."
Dongyun's heart was shocked. The person in front of her was almost hysterical. She lifted up the concubine's shoulders and shook her vigorously. She rubbed her face and called her: "My queen, wake up, wake up."
As expected, Concubine Wen seemed to have taken a breather. She woke up with a tremor all over her body. After breathing heavily, she pointed at the things on the bed and said, "Clean them up. It's okay, Dongyun. As long as I'm here, no one can hurt you."
How about it."
At this moment, there was crying again, but it was no longer a ferocious baby crying. Concubine Wen could tell that it was her son crying. She staggered up and went to Brother Ten's house, but she saw Jue Chan holding her son.
With the tenth prince coaxing her, she frantically took her son from Juechan's arms. However, the tenth prince was afraid of his mother, so he struggled even harder in the imperial concubine's arms. He moved his hands toward Juechan to reach for her, and the imperial concubine was angry.
To the extreme, he scolded Jue Chan: "Get out, what qualifications do you have to snatch my son?"
Jue Chan had long been accustomed to the imperial concubine's rudeness. In her eyes, the imperial concubine was just a patient. If she thought of it that way, she wouldn't care about anything. Now that the imperial concubine asked her to leave, she left obediently.
When walking through the main hall, he saw a palace maid carrying a charcoal stove inside, but she was quickly sent away. Dongyun closed the palace door in a panic and didn't know what she was doing inside. Concubine De asked her to carefully observe the reaction of the imperial concubine. Obviously, this
Everything was abnormal. Except for a few people close to Dongyun, there was probably no other person in the palace who knew the imperial concubine better than she did. There was no doubt that these saffrons stimulated her, but she did not see or hear the imperial concubine's "admittance" with her own eyes.
She cannot be arbitrary.
The next day, the farce of catching wild cats in the Xianfu Palace spread all over the palace. When Lan Qi got up to dress up in the morning, Huan Chun told her all this. She listened calmly and said that she didn't know whether Zen nobleman was of any use.
Saffron, Huan Chun said that today the noble man is going to Chengqian Palace to deliver Brother Si's auspicious clothes: "I have made an agreement with Qinglian. If the noble man leaves anything, she will tell it to my servant."
Lan Qi nodded silently, quietly picked up the eyebrow pencil and swiped her eyebrows, but her hand still stopped in mid-air, frowning and said: "I have reached this point with so much passion, but I have never felt at ease in my heart. This should be the first time for me.
I am playing tricks and tricks in this palace, but this time even Sister Rong and the Imperial Concubine are involved, and the Honorable Juechan is even more innocent. If anything happens, I am afraid that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor will be disappointed in me. I
How can we protect the noble man Jue Chan?"
Huan Chun said: "The matter has come to this, why don't you make things beautiful with all your heart? Instead of worrying about the emperor and the empress dowager blaming you, it is better to dig out the evil deeds of the imperial concubine. The empress dowager always favors you. The emperor is in fact.
We have to be reasonable in front of people. We are not harming others, we just want to seek justice for the second young lady. If we don’t know if this time is not clear, there will be another time, and it will be the faces of the Niu Hulu family.
It should be done so that people can see clearly."
Lan Qi sighed deeply, calmed down and said: "Yes, since I have made up my mind, why am I being pretentious at this moment? Let's go step by step. Although it is not the right path, as long as we dig out the truth and face the Emperor,
The Queen Mother and the Emperor, at least I have something to say. I don’t ask for anything else, I just ask the Niu Hulu family to stop extending their claws towards Lan Ying.”
In this way, after Lan Qi was fully dressed, she went to Cining Palace as usual. However, Huan Chun did not follow today. She waited quietly in Yonghe Palace for Lord Jue Chan to go to Chengqian Palace to send off the clothes of Fourth Elder Brother, and then quietly went to find Qinglian after getting ready.
, asked the noble Jue Chan if he had left any words.
But that afternoon, the imperial concubine sent someone to ask people from Yonghe Palace to get something. She said she had got some toys for the thirteenth brother and the little princess. Huanchun naturally accepted the order. He just wanted to ask Qinglian.
, but it was the imperial concubine who said to her personally: "Those saffrons, the noble concubine Jue Chan has already let the concubine see it. It is said that she was very frightened. It seems that she has something in her heart. Go back and tell your mother-in-law, she can make a plan, and for what reason
The name is used to treat the concubine."
Huan Chun agreed cautiously, but then heard the imperial concubine ask her: "I heard that the wild cat that was captured for several days in Xianfu Palace has disappeared. How did you do it? But we, Tong Bin, were also very frightened.
Please settle this matter early, my sister will be scared to death by you too."
"Actually, the wild cats are not in Xianfu Palace. The Empress just sent people to scatter food in the nearby palaces. There are even under the wall of the Chuxiu Palace of Empress Tongbi. Those wild cats are caught and released there every day to look for food. At night
Being so close and the wild cat meowing so loudly, if the imperial concubine has something to hide, of course she will be scared." Huan Chun said with a smile, "The empress is not worried about being discovered to be a wild cat, as long as it can scare the imperial concubine, that will be enough. Scared.
This slave will report back to the master about Concubine Tong’s matter, so I can comfort Concubine Tong well in the future.”
The imperial concubine frowned and said: "Your wife, looking at the kind-hearted master who is reluctant to step on ants to death, did not expect to have these thoughts. The Forbidden City is really a good place. Anyone who comes in can learn a skill."
Huan Chun conveyed these joking words to Lan Qi afterwards. Lan Qi just laughed it off, but told Huan Chun to remember that she would go to appease Tong Bin in the future. Huan Chun said with a smile: "Live in that place.
There are more than just Empress Tong Bin. Some empresses are weak-tempered and frightened, but empress Yi Fei, empress Xi concubine and others have not seen any movement. There are wild cats and dogs barking, which is normal, just complaining.
Yes, the imperial concubine is making such a big fuss, she obviously has something going on in her heart."
Lan Qi was very calm, "The imperial concubine is always talkative. She may not really have something in her heart. She can make trouble even if she has nothing to do. Who knows whether it is true or not? We must wait until the noble Lord Jue Chan confirms it. Let's not be arbitrary first. Let's not be arbitrary."
Don’t get carried away.”
Huan Chun agreed, and conveyed the words of the imperial concubine and asked: "On what grounds will the master intend to let the imperial concubine suppress the imperial concubine?"
Lan Qi had already made an idea: "My eldest brother's wedding is coming soon. Just say that she is a crazy person without words and deeds. First, the door of Xianfu Palace is blocked. No one is allowed to come and go, let alone pass anything. She must be cut off."
The family has no way to reach out, not even Aling'a. We will deal with other matters later. If the emperor is unwilling to pursue them, we cannot seek justice for Lan Ying on the right path."
According to Lan Qi's plan, as long as the nobleman Jue Chan is sure that Concubine Wen is harboring evil intentions, she will force the concubine to have a "hysterical attack", and the concubine will issue an order to cut off all contact between Concubine Wen and the family. To put it bluntly, she will remove Concubine Wen from Xianfu Palace.
She knew that this step was too cruel to become a cold palace, but in fact, Lan Qi still had hope at this moment. She hoped that Concubine Wen was innocent, but everything had already gone further and further away from her expectations.
On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi's reign, the night before the Lantern Festival, the palace was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations to prepare for the festival, and Xianfu Palace was no exception. Concubine Wen was in good spirits today, and she summoned the nobles Zen to join her for dinner, and she was in good spirits.
He was talking to her about what to wear to the Lantern Festival banquet tomorrow, and Jue Chan was asking and answering her questions. Just as they were talking nicely, the curse-like sound of a baby crying sounded again.
It was still dinner time, and it was not yet midnight. Concubine Wen was frightened and pale. She immediately put down her chopsticks like crazy and rushed outside, shouting: "Go! Go catch wild cats for me."
, Catch them all and beat them to death with sticks..."
Everyone in the palace followed the imperial concubine in a panic. Jue Chan was left behind by someone. She followed her out in surprise. Sure enough, she saw the imperial concubine Wen running out like crazy. She immediately turned around and returned to her residence.
, dug out the hidden saffron from the private area, took a small bag and returned to the dining room, opened an unused cup of ginseng and black-bone chicken soup in front of Concubine Wen, opened the paper bag and poured the fine red saffron in carefully.
"What are you doing?"
Before the saffron was soaked in the chicken soup, Concubine Wen's voice suddenly sounded cold and faint. Jue Chan's whole body tensed up, and the lid of the soup cup in his hand slipped and shattered with a crisp sound.