The newly favored concubine Ru was found by the third prince based on the queen's appearance. She was the spy placed by the third prince beside the emperor.
She had not been in the palace for a long time, but she had heard about the cruel things that Concubine Wu had done, and was quite afraid of Concubine Wu.
The emperor didn't come to see her these days, so she was happy and at ease.
When the third prince left the capital, he sent someone to deliver news to her, asking her to keep an eye on the emperor and Concubine Wu at all times, and to send someone to tell him as soon as there was news.
Concubine Ru always remembered the words of the Third Prince. ?.?????.???
Today she got up early specially to dress up and go to see the emperor.
There were a lot of rouges and gouache on Concubine Ru's table, but one was the one she often used. Without thinking, she picked up the box of rouge and prepared to apply it.
However, when she picked up the box of rouge, she found a big spider crawling on her hand.
"Ah!" Concubine Ru screamed and stood up quickly, throwing the rouge box in her hand to the ground.
The red rouge box broke into two halves on the ground, and all the pink rouge powder inside spilled out.
The palace maid on the side came over quickly and said: "My queen, what's wrong?"
Concubine Ru quickly pointed to the ground and said, "Spiders, there were so many spiders just now."
The palace maid looked down and saw the rouge box that had fallen to the ground. She said with a puzzled look on her face: "My Lady, there are no spiders on the ground."
Concubine Ru was startled and quickly looked down, "No, I clearly saw it just now."
The palace maid picked up the rouge box on the ground and looked around, "Madam, I really didn't see any spiders."
Concubine Ru calmed down, patted her chest and said, "Maybe you ran away when you came here just now."
The palace maid saw that the rouge box had been smashed, and said regretfully: "My dear, I'm afraid this rouge can no longer be used."
Concubine Ru took it with a distressed look on her face, "I brought this from outside the palace. It would be difficult to buy it again."
She looked at the broken rouge powder and suddenly frowned, "That's not right."
The palace maid asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Concubine Ru pointed at the pink rouge powder and said, "Look, the powder is obviously much rougher than the rouge I used before."
The palace maid looked at it carefully and smelled it, "Mother, there is something wrong with this rouge."
Concubine Ru frowned, brought a cup, poured some rouge powder and dissolved it in the water, then took out her silver hairpin and tried it.
It didn't take long for the silver hairpin to turn black little by little.
The palace maid was shocked and said, "Mother, this rouge is poisonous!"
Concubine Ru quickly threw the silver needle in her hand aside, "Xia'er, who came to my palace today?"
The palace maid shook her head, "No, Madam."
Concubine Ru slowly stood up and looked at the window not far away.
She walked towards the window and found a leaf from outside the house stuck in the window. She picked up the leaf and said slowly: "It seems that someone came to my house secretly and changed my rouge."
The palace maid was shocked, "My dear, is this Concubine Wu?"
Concubine Ru threw the leaves in her hand aside, her face full of coldness, "If it wasn't her, who else could it be!"
The palace maid's face immediately turned pale, "Your Majesty, what should we do?"
After Concubine Ru thought for a moment, she said, "Put away this box of rouge and pretend nothing happened. From now on, my food and clothing expenses will be checked again and again."
The palace maid nodded, took out a handkerchief and wrapped the rouge on the ground.
Concubine Ru looked in the direction of Concubine Wu's palace with a cold face, and continued: "If the emperor comes to see me, just say that I am sick."
"Okay, empress." The palace maid responded quickly.
As soon as Concubine Ru fell ill, Concubine Wu succeeded in her little scheme. She was very proud of herself in the palace and went to see the emperor from time to time.
The emperor was now so preoccupied with pretending to be infatuated that he had no intention of paying attention to Concubine Wu. He gradually felt that she was a little annoyed.
I haven't seen Concubine Wu for several days.
Concubine Wu was so angry that she ran to the emperor's palace in the middle of the night, but was kicked out late at night.
Perhaps she had been lucky recently. When she returned to the palace late at night, she accidentally missed the step and fell directly from the high steps. There was not even a sharp stone scratching her face.
The gash wasn't deep, but it bled a lot.
Seeing Concubine Wu's smile, a group of palace maids shouted that she was disfigured.
Not long after, there were rumors in the palace that Concubine Wu's appearance had been ruined.
This made the emperor even less interested in meeting Wu Guifei.
Concubine Wu was so angry that she almost killed the talkative maids.
Concubine Ru specially wrote these things in a letter and told the third prince in Changliu Village.
The third prince has been staying in Changliu Village for a month. Now, in addition to going to the fields to plant vegetables, he also cooks at home every day.
Aunt Zhou wanted to go to the vegetable field, but he carried her back with the vegetable basket.
Du Wanchun was drying flowers at the door. When he saw Aunt Zhou being carried back, he secretly smiled and said, "Mom, you'd better not go to the fields. Leave it to dad."
Aunt Zhou looked at the Third Prince who was going to the vegetable field again with a hoe, and she really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"He just underestimates me."
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "Mom, he is afraid that you will work too hard."
With a smile on her face, Aunt Zhou looked down at her slightly bulging belly, "Wanchun, your belly is also coming out. Do you feel the fetal movement?"
