Lan Lin's sword-browed eyebrows were slightly furrowed, he frowned and clenched the golden cup in his hand with his fingers, and said in a cold voice: "Mrs. Warring States? This woman is not easy to deal with. What is the relationship between her and the Queen? Why do she come in and out of Zhuilan Palace so frequently?"
Seeing that Lan Lin was beginning to suspect Queen Ye Nong, Lin Xie hatched a plan. Regardless of whether Queen Ye Nong was secretly doing something, he had to find a way to divert the trouble away and transfer the suspicion from Qingyi to Queen Ye Nong. OK.
But Queen Ye Nong is different from the other concubines in the harem. She is smart and smart and not easy to deal with. She needs to think long term and plan carefully, otherwise it will be easy to shoot herself in the foot.
After Lin Xie left Yuqian Palace, she thought it was necessary for her to show off her clothes tonight to remind her of Lan Lin's suspicions about her, so that she would not go to Yuqian Palace in the future to avoid getting into trouble.
He and Qingyi had always been at odds with each other in the eyes of outsiders. He could not take the initiative to go to Chenxi Palace to find her, so he could only lure her out to meet her.
So he found the young eunuch Nian Sheng, handed him a brocade box, and said: "Nian Sheng, the brocade box contains the brocade handkerchief that Queen Qingyi left in Yuqian Palace. Send it to Qingyi." Empress Yi’s maid, Hua Jue, asked her to hand it over to Empress Qingyi!”
Niansheng glanced at the mandarin duck brocade handkerchief in the brocade box, nodded, took it with both hands and said, "It's - Eunuch Lin!"
Nian Sheng didn't think much, put the brocade box in his arms and went to Chenxi Palace to find Hua Jue.
Before he arrived at Chenxi Palace, he saw Hua Jue's voice coming from not far away from the corridor. He saw that she was being held by a guard, and the two seemed to be arguing about something.
"I don't know you! What on earth do you want to do? Let me go!" Hua Jue shook her hand hard, trying to get rid of the guard who was holding his hand.
"Girl, although you don't know me, I saw you outside the palace. Do you remember? On Xihua Bridge..." The guard was obviously very excited and looked at Hua Jue with joy on his face.
Hua Jue was startled when she heard the word "Xihua Bridge". She couldn't help but think that she was ordered by Empress Qingyi to go to Xihua Bridge to wait for her lover Linyou. Times have changed and now this person suddenly appears and says She couldn't help but feel frightened when she got up from Xihua Bridge.
Seeing that the guard was holding Hua Jue's hand tightly and not letting go, Nian Sheng hurriedly stepped forward and pushed her away, and then asked, "Why are you holding her hand? Don't you understand the rules in the palace?" How is it appropriate to flirt with a palace maid in the palace?"
The guard was pushed out by Nian Sheng. When he saw Hua Jue turning around and running away, he shouted anxiously: "No, girl, I don't mean any harm, I just want to return your herring jade pendant to you!"
When Hua Jue heard the words "Herring Jade Pendant", she was even more frightened. She didn't know how the guard in front of her knew so many things. She just felt that someone had grabbed her pigtails, and she was so scared. , she hurriedly said to the guard: "You have the wrong person, I have never been to Xihua Bridge!"
After saying that, he took Niansheng and ran away in a hurry, leaving the guard standing there stupidly looking at their backs in a daze.
This guard was Mu Cang who came to the palace that day for an errand. Mu Cang accidentally saw Hua Jue on the Xihua Bridge that day and was moved by the beauty standing on the bridge on a snowy night.
There was always the shadow of Hua Jue in his memory, and the herring jade pendant that Hua Jue threw into the river was regarded by him as a lucky thing, so how could he misjudge Hua Jue?
But Mu Cang didn't understand that this palace maid was obviously the person she saw on Xihua Bridge that day, why didn't she admit it? I picked up the herring jade pendant from the river for her, and now I just want to return it to its original owner.
Hua Jue's heart was pounding, and she finally calmed down. Only then did she realize that she was holding the hand of the little eunuch Niansheng and running all the way. She hurriedly let go of his hand.
Nian Sheng has never been held by a girl for such a long time since he was a child. Now his face is red and he is at a loss.
He finally remembered the purpose of his trip, and hurriedly took out the brocade box that Lin Xie gave him from his arms, and said to her: "Hua... Hua Jue, just now your mother-in-law left the brocade handkerchief in Yuqian Palace. Eunuch Lin specially ordered me to return it."
Hua Jue opened the brocade box, glanced at the brocade handkerchief in the brocade box casually, and then pouted: "Your father-in-law Lin, it's just a brocade handkerchief. If you lose it, you'll lose it. You can still use it." Having come all the way to deliver it, is it possible that our Chenxi Palace still lacks a brocade handkerchief?"
Nian Sheng suddenly felt embarrassed, stretched out his hand to scratch his forehead, looked at her with a silly smile, suddenly remembered something, and then asked: "Hua Jue, what did the guard pull you for just now? Did he say that he saw you on Xihua Bridge? , what are you talking about about the herring jade pendant!"
Hua Jue was startled, and hurriedly reached out to cover his mouth. The herring jade pendant was of great importance, and if it didn't go well, it would cause Queen Qingyi's head to fall to the ground.
Hua Jue threw away the herring jade pendant that day and didn't want to make Qingyi sad, so he lied and said that he accidentally dropped the jade pendant into the river.
She reminded the little eunuch Nian Sheng: "Nian Sheng, what you heard just now goes in with one ear and goes out with the other. Just pretend you have never heard it before. Did you hear it?"
Nian Sheng didn't understand why Hua Jue was so nervous, but he nodded anyway.
He said: "I understand, but if the guard still dares to pester you, just tell me and I will help you beat him!"
When Hua Jue heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle, then reached out and touched Nian Sheng's head, and said with a smile: "You little potato, you are not as tall as the guard just now, how can you beat him?"
Nian Sheng was not convinced. He clenched his fists and held himself up like a strong man, and then said: "Don't look at me as small, but my fists are strong. I can hit ten of them just like that!"
Hua Jue was amused by Nian Sheng and giggled, and then said: "You are bragging about not drafting! Hahaha! Hahaha!"
Niansheng saw Hua Jue laughing so hard that her branches were trembling, and he felt that her smile was bright and moving in the snow, and that smile went straight into his heart, so he said sheepishly: "Hua Jue, you look so beautiful when you smile! Like a flower!"
Hua Jue couldn't help but smile again, and then said to Nian Sheng: "Nian Sheng, I didn't expect that even though you became a eunuch, you still have six impurities!"
Nian Sheng pouted and said: "I... I'm just a eunuch, I'm not a monk. There are six unclean roots. I only purified one..."
Hua Jue smiled, ignored him, and said to him: "Go back and thank your Eunuch Lin. It's almost dinner time, and the imperial kitchen should bring the food over. I have to go back and serve my Queen Qingyi! "
Nian Sheng nodded, watched Hua Jue leave, and walked away as well.
When Hua Jue returned to the house, she handed the brocade box that Lin Xie had given her to Qingyi, and then hurriedly arranged the meal for Qingyi.
While placing the food in the food box, she said: "Ms. Qingyi, do you think that Eunuch Lin is ridiculous? It seems that our Chenxi Palace is so poor that we have to ask Nian Sheng to bring the brocade handkerchief back to you!"
Qingyi didn't listen to Hua Jue's musings. She just looked at the brocade handkerchief placed in the brocade box and thought deeply. This brocade handkerchief was obviously given to Lin Xie by herself. It was embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water and lotus flowers on it. He didn't I can't understand her thoughts.
But why did Lin Xie send the brocade handkerchief back again? Could it be that what happened when Lan Lin and I were drinking made him angry? No wonder he was angry. I don’t know why Lan Lin was so crazy today, but he suddenly treated me like this.
But Lin Xie should also understand my difficulties. If I don't act on occasion, it will arouse Lan Lin's suspicion. No matter how jealous and angry he is, he should understand me.
I'm totally focused on him, can't he see it at all? Sigh... It's a waste of my efforts. I have been thinking about him day and night all these days.
He tried every means to go to Yuqian Palace, pretending to be a greeting to Lan Lin, but just to see him and relieve the pain of lovesickness. Why didn't he understand?
Qingyi only thought about tea and food, holding the brocade handkerchief in the brocade box and turning it over and over, wondering about Lin Xie's intention of sending the brocade handkerchief back.
Suddenly she thought of something, reached out and touched the brocade box gently, and found that there was a hidden compartment under the brocade box. She carefully pushed the hidden compartment and took out the note Lin Xie had hidden inside.
Tonight at Haishi, see you in the Royal Garden!
Qingyi's heart suddenly jumped wildly, and she hurriedly hid the note. She looked down at the brocade handkerchief she had embroidered stitch by stitch, and felt extremely sweet in her heart.
Qingyi thought that Lin Xie actually asked me to meet tonight. He must have something to say to me. Great, tonight I can see the person I have longed for again!
In the Tianchen Palace, the queen held a banquet and invited the three concubines, Mei Fei, Liu Fei and Qin Fei, to have dinner.
The three of them were a little nervous and awkward during the dinner. Although it was common for the empress to hold banquets and invite concubines from the harem, this time she only invited the three of them, which was unusual.
The three concubines were not really stupid. They naturally understood that it was about the hot spring villa, so they appeared to be cautious while eating.
Ye Nong signaled Fu'an to serve the stewed ginseng and black-bone chicken soup to the three concubines, and then said: "Three sisters, this is black-bone chicken soup cooked with thousand-year-old ginseng. It is very nourishing. The three sisters will follow your majesty to the hot springs this time. It's really hard for you as a waiter at the villa, please drink more to nourish yourself!"
"Thank you, Queen!" Concubine Mei, Concubine Liu, and Concubine Qin replied cautiously.
But the Hongmen Banquet has just begun, and they still have to endure it.
Of course, the three of them knew that Ye Nong's intention was not in the black-bone chicken soup cooked with thousand-year-old ginseng, but that he wanted to talk to them.
As expected, Ye Nong said again: "The three sisters are really lucky. This time they were favored by His Majesty and appointed to sleep at the Hot Spring Villa. They spent a happy and wonderful time with His Majesty. I don't know how many people envy you!" I wonder how the three sisters are doing serving His Majesty?"
In this harem, if someone asks this question, they will naturally be slapped hard.
But the queen is the wife of the king of a country, so it is natural to ask them as concubines how they serve the king. After all, she is the master of the harem. As a queen, of course she has to ask about His Majesty's bed.
The three of them looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you, not knowing how to answer.
Yenong lowered his head and used a golden spoon to gently scoop out the ginseng and black-bone chicken soup in the porcelain bowl, and then said softly: "Why are you not talking? Could it be that the three sisters of the Hot Spring Villa did not stay with us?"
