"It's been raining all day long." Hanqiao ran on the road holding an umbrella. He saw many hurried footsteps along the way, and the calmness was disrupted by the repeated rain.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Hanqiao raised her umbrella slightly and took a look. There was a pavilion in front of her. In just a moment, the rain poured into her clothes. She quickly covered the wooden box.
Cover it with your sleeves.
It looks like the rain won't stop for a while. It would be bad if it wets the bird's nest of the empress. It's better to hide here and wait for the rain to subside before leaving.
Thinking of this, Han Qiao lowered her head and walked straight into the pavilion, but unexpectedly the road was narrow.
"Sister Hanqiao, what are you holding on to? I see you are protecting me so tightly that you don't even know that half of your body is wet." Xia He said with a smile, but looked directly at her.
The wooden box in the arms.
On the day when the tributes in this basket arrived at the palace, the Queen Mother asked the Queen Mother to select them, and then ordered someone to send one to their Queen Mother. There was only one box for each palace. Where did she get what she had in her hand at this time?
?Xia He was very confused.
"Sister Xia He is well," Hanqiao secretly screamed something bad, but after all, Xia He was older than her in terms of seniority and age, so she still called her in a polite manner, but she made up an excuse to explain,
"The bird's nest that Eunuch Cao sent last time had some debris in it. My mother-in-law was afraid that she would feel unwell after drinking something unclean, so she ordered my slave to exchange it for a box."
Impurities? Xia He was almost amused by her words. Since she was a child in the Chu Mansion, the aunts in the mansion would have to drink a bowl of bird's nest every now and then, so she had long been accustomed to it. Bird's nests are actually spit by swallows, so how can they be clean?
?
Then I thought about it, the Queen Mother likes bird's nests the most, so there are always tributes from the palace. Concubine Yang and Hanqiao are both old people who have been in the palace for several years. Even if they have never tasted them because of their status, they shouldn't.
It’s just that you can’t distinguish the debris!
"There is a dedicated person responsible for all the food and clothing expenses of the concubines in the palace. Besides, how can the tribute items be miscellaneous? Could it be that my sister Hanqiao misunderstood?" Xia He said with a smile, "This is the Queen herself.
I ordered them to be sent to each palace, so sister Hanqiao needs to think carefully before speaking."
Hanqiao, who was already young, was obviously frightened when she said this, but she still insisted: "The queen did ask me to change her drink because there was some impurity in it..." But her voice was a little unconfident.
"If this is the case, then I have to go back and report it to the Queen. Let her have people thoroughly investigate the origin of this batch of tribute bird's nests. How dare you take such inferior products as tribute to our Queen for consumption." Xia He said very seriously.
, it didn't look like it was a joke, and he said deliberately, "We also need to ask the people in the inner palace to check which ones the palace has received, and see if it is necessary to change Yang Fei like this."
"Forget it, Sister Xia He..." Hanqiao frowned slightly, her eyes wandering, looking a little embarrassed, "No one in the other palaces heard that there was any problem. It would not be good if the emperor investigated..."
She was just a little suspicious at first, but after seeing Hanqiao's appearance, Xia He was basically sure of the whole story. She immediately prepared to pull away the wooden box that Hanqiao was holding tightly, but Hanqiao quickly dodged it with quick eyes and hands.
"Sister Xia He, what are you doing?! This belongs to my mother-in-law!" Hanqiao tightly protected the box in his hand, his eyes widening in fear.
Xia He didn't want to go around in circles with her anymore. In fact, the masters of the two palaces didn't deal with each other at all, and Xia He was only polite to her because of his own master's face.
"I just want to confirm whether the box in Sister Hanqiao's hand also contains debris. If so, why don't you come with me to the Empress's place now?"
Two boxes!”
Hanqiao suddenly felt a little scared. She regretted why she had just come in to take shelter from the rain. Seeing that the rain had decreased, Hanqiao quickly said: "Thank you sister Xia He for your kindness. I will go back and explain to my mother-in-law first...
…ah!"
Seeing her turning around and running away, Xia He quickly grabbed the wooden box in her hand, making Han Qiao scream in fright. The movement of the two of them attracted many passing glances, but the palace maids and eunuchs all lowered their heads and walked away quickly.
.
"Hurry up, this is the maid in charge of Concubine Xue..."
"That is Concubine Yang..."
"If I tell you to leave, just leave. Why are you meddling in other people's business! Behind Concubine Xue is the Queen!"
Seeing those people trying to avoid him, Hanqiao had a vague feeling that something was wrong, and she had to return to the palace quickly to find Concubine Yang.
"Give it back to me!" Hanqiao rushed forward to snatch it back, but was dodged by Xia He. On the contrary, he lost his footing, staggered a few times and fell onto his back, grinning in pain.
Xia He opened it and took a look. The bird's nest inside was white and transparent, like half of the bright moon lying quietly in the center. How could there be any debris as she said?
"I personally saw Eunuch Huang from the inner palace come to your Liuyun Palace that day. Besides!" She carefully closed the wooden box to avoid getting wet with rain. "The inner palace has its own written record of the food and clothing expenses of various concubines.
, it’s been a full month, I’m afraid that Yang Fei has already eaten all the bird’s nests, and she still has to wait to exchange them today?!”
"You... don't slander my mother-in-law!" Hanqiao got up from the ground and reached out to grab the wooden box. This time, Xia He had no intention of stopping it and took it back easily, "Concubine Xue insulted my mother-in-law like this.
The empress will definitely go to the emperor for comment!"
She shed tears as she spoke. After saying that, she turned around and rushed out. On the way, she realized she didn't have an umbrella and folded it back.
Seeing her like this, Xia He held up an umbrella and prepared to go back. The expression on his face did not change at all, showing neither fear nor pity, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
Bird's nest is such a good thing, no wonder the Queen Mother and the Empress like it so much that they drink a bowl every day. In the Liuyun Palace, Yang Moli was carefully studying her face in front of the mirror when she suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside.
"Who is so flustered and unseemly?" She stood up and was about to teach the visitor a lesson. When she found out that the person was her personal palace maid, Han Qiao, she stepped forward in surprise, "I asked you to get a bird's nest. Why are you wet like this?
, the clothes are all filthy!”
Yang Moli covered her mouth and pointed at her clothes, looking away, her eyes full of disgust. Hanqiao lowered his head and looked at himself. There was dirt on his clothes, which must have been from when he fell down. He looked very embarrassed.
Hanqiao, who was already aggrieved, became even more aggrieved. Tears streamed down her lips. She knelt down with a bang while holding the wooden box. Another palace maid quickly stepped forward to take the box and came to Yang Moli.
"Your Majesty must make the decision for me!" Hanqiao said carefully, "It was raining heavily when I came back just now. I was afraid that my bird's nest would be wet, so I found a pavilion to hide from the rain, hoping to wait until the rain lightened up.
Let's go, who would have thought that I would meet Xia He..."
After Yang Moli checked that the bird's nest in the box was intact, she raised her head and asked urgently: "You said you were met by Xia He?! Then what did you tell her?"
This Xia He is the maid Chu Xianxue brought from the Chu Mansion. Meeting her is not a good thing. Although Chu Xianxue is not favored now, she always has the queen behind her to support her, so it is not easy to directly interact with her.
She faced it.
"The slave said that there were sundries in the bird's nests sent by the palace before, so she went to exchange a box for it, but Xia He didn't believe it and insisted on opening it to take a look. When the slave was snatching it, she couldn't stand still and fell to the ground...
"
Originally, Al Yunduo was enough to upset her, but in recent days, the emperor seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. He never left the garden every day, causing her to stay alone in the empty room every day.
"Then can you ask Xiao Wenzi to write down the things sent back in the list?" Yang Moli almost lost her breath when she heard this, and immediately interrupted her and asked seriously.
Hanqiao shook her head repeatedly, bowed her head and said sincerely: "This slave can only leave with peace of mind after seeing Eunuch Wen write it down. This slave is not talking nonsense. Please observe carefully!"
As long as she has no evidence, everything will be easy to say. Since it has been clearly stated in the palace list and clearly written in black and white, it makes no sense even if she really goes to the Queen.
Thinking of this, Yang Moli smiled softly, and helped her up in person, regardless of the mud and water on her body, and said in a pitiful tone: "How dare you let my maidservant be so humiliated, you are simply bullying! Let's go! Let's go to Xiangfu Palace.
!”
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother..." Another maid reminded in a low voice beside her, "Why don't you go to the Emperor to reason with him? No matter what the Emperor says, he will still favor the Queen Mother..."
The Queen Mother is no longer in charge, and the affairs of the harem are all handled by the Queen. But compared to the Queen, it is better to go to the Queen Mother directly. Although the Queen Mother never wants to see her, the Queen Mother also doesn't want to see Chu Xianxue, and has never given her any favors.
face.
"To bother the emperor with such trivial matters will only bore him," Yang Moli pursed her lips and smiled, "Don't you just dislike my background? I am now the emperor's concubine. If I am pregnant with a dragon child,
Let’s see if she still dares to treat me like this!”
Naturally, she couldn't bear this tone, so she took this incident to teach this charming Chu Xianxue a lesson. Otherwise, she wouldn't know how she would gain a foothold in the harem in the future. Wouldn't even the maids dare to ride on her?! No
! She finally got to where she is today and will never allow this to happen!
The rain outside had stopped, and the Queen Mother did not seem to be at all surprised by Concubine Yang's arrival.
And Chu Qianqian waited calmly like this. She knew that Concubine Yang would definitely not let it go. Being humiliated by her personal maid was like a slap in the face. How could she swallow this resentment? Sooner or later she would show up.
She glanced at the pitiful Chu Xianxue and nodded comfortingly.
Concubine Yang rushed into Xiangfu Palace full of anger, glanced at it and was stunned.
"Concubine Yang is so unruly that she just barged in without any communication!" Yu Ling said without showing any mercy to her.
At this moment, Chu Qianqian was very glad that after hearing about this incident, she took Chu Xianxue directly to Xiangfu Palace to confess to the Queen Mother, so as to avoid causing more troubles, which would be detrimental to Chu Xianxue.
"That's all," the Queen Mother waved her hand and said calmly, "Why are you so angry with her?"
The Queen Mother glanced at Concubine Yang below her. She wondered if the Emperor was so obsessed that he could even fancy such a thing. She was born in a lowly and unruly manner, which made her upset.
