Chapter 49
When the news reached Jingren Palace, Concubine Shu was drinking tonics. This time she suffered a miscarriage and she was in great pain and could not get out of bed and walk around until now.
"Empress, the concubine Zhen was promoted to the fourth rank of Shuyi." Hemu walked in from outside, holding the medicinal materials in his hand. It was obvious that he had just received news on his way to the Imperial Hospital and came back.
"Bang", the medicine bowl hit the ground with a bang. Concubine Shu stared at Hemu in a cold look, "What did you just say?"
After the miscarriage, Shufei's temperament became a little unstable. The servants in the palace were all serving each one carefully, for fear of touching the master's brow.
Hemu is her personal maid, and she felt the most about this change. Her hands holding the medicinal herbs tightened slightly, lowered her head, and said again, "The princess has been promoted to Shuyi."
"Your Majesty, where are you taking me?" The two people in the palace were miscarriage, one of whom was rewarded continuously in one month, and they were directly promoted to two levels; the other was still ill and bedridden, so rewards were not often seen, let alone promotion.
Concubine Shu didn't have to look at the expressions of the people in the harem, and she knew how they were laughing at her in her heart. Pampering the harem was simply a joke!
The maid who was helping Concubine Shu wipe her fingers was frightened by her actions and then she started to kneel down to the ground in fear, "Grandmaster, I didn't mean it."
Concubine Shu's eyes sternly, and she looked at the maid with a smile, "I have only been resting for a month, and you servants are not even concerned about serving you. Why, is there a good start?"
"I don't dare, I don't dare!"
Hemu looked at her crying and begging for mercy with fear, but she looked like she was thirteen or fourteen years old and couldn't bear to look at her again, but she didn't plan to help her. After so many years of entering the palace, she had seen such scenes, and her heart had long been hardened.
"Take it down." Concubine Shu didn't care whether she was pitiful. The anger in her heart happened to hit her.
Hemu called two eunuchs to take the maid out, not letting her screams disturb Concubine Shu's purity. He handed the medicinal materials in his hand to a little palace maid, who was also a little scared and hurriedly took the medicinal materials.
Seeing that the palace ladies were so frightened, Hemu frowned. This was not a good phenomenon for the master. He also thought that the emperor had not come to Jingren Palace for several days, which was something that had never happened before.
He brought some candied fruit into the inner hall. Hemu served her to cleanse her mouth and then whispered: "Empress, do you know what happened to the Concubine Bao Jie in the past?"
Concubine Shu had a meal of candied fruit, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. She put down the candied fruit in her hand and asked with some displeasure, "What did you mention she is just a concubine who is out of favor."
Concubine Bao Jie, the newcomers in the palace, may not have any impression of this person, but none of them dared to despise her. If the newcomers entered the palace, Concubine Shu and Xin Zhaoyi were favored in the palace, but the combined honor and favor of these two people is not as good as Concubine Bao Jieyi.
When Concubine Bao first entered the palace, the emperor had just ascended the throne. It was the time when his feelings were full. He met Concubine Bao who he loved. He was constantly honored and favored for a while, and he rested in her palace for at least half a month.
This honor and favor suddenly infuriated the public. It was Shufei who joined forces with Xin Zhaoyi, who was still a noble concubine at that time, who killed her children, which cut off her path to honor and favor. Otherwise, Yu promised that he would not have been able to climb Zhaoyi's seat at all. In that case, Shufei knew that the queen had also got involved. It was precisely because of this that there were too many people suspected that the matter ended up in the end.
When talking about Concubine Bao Jie, the master and servant of Concubine Shu unconsciously remembered the incident. The incident was too big at that time. Although the three queens involved were fine, their palace servants died almost the same, not to mention that three palace concubines died. The outside of the Pepper Room Hall was almost bloody. The palace people washed it for two days before the smell of blood was dissipated. This matter almost became a forbidden matter in the palace in the days that followed, and no one dared to mention it again.
Compared with that incident, the number of people who died this time was not worth mentioning. Hemu couldn't help but shivered, but insisted, "The Empress can also guess the current state of Concubine Bao Jie. Since that's the case, why did the Empress make the same mistake as Concubine Bao Jie at the time?"
Concubine Shu lowered her eyes and understood what Hemu meant to mention Concubine Bao. After Concubine Bao was born, the emperor felt very pity for Concubine Bao and even wanted to make her a concubine. The empress dowager could not bear it anymore, so she stopped this favor.
The reason why Bao Jieyu fell out of favor was mainly because she had sex every day after giving birth. She knew that the murderer who killed her child was still at large, so she could not bear it. But who is the emperor? Because she liked her, she could let her make fun for one day or two, or even a month.
However, she had been making trouble for half a year, and she was sad about her deceased child every day, and did not care about the emperor's feelings at all. She polished the emperor's pity for her, and then slowly neglected her. When she realized that the emperor had a new favorite, she actually felt that the emperor was too affectionate and refused to give in. Since then, the emperor has changed.
He Mu felt relieved when he saw that Concubine Shu understood what she meant. It would be better if the master could understand it as soon as possible, otherwise the emperor would not wait for you to figure it out.
Concubine Shu sat for half an hour, thinking about her performance over the past half month, and the emperor's increasingly impatient expression, she was very scared. Fortunately, Hemu reminded her, otherwise...
“Hemu,”
"I'm here."
"How is it in the palace recently?"
"The Empress should be calming down. The palace ladies have been a little braver these days."
Concubine Shu smiled slightly, closed her hair and looked at Hemu, "I will remember to send a bottle of ginger cream to the maid just now." linger cream is a magical medicine for treating trauma, and it is attached to the small country to pay tribute.
"Yes, Empress." Seeing that Concubine Shu finally returned to her former calmness, He Mu only smiled on her face.
The Jiaofang Palace, a palace that once was crowded with people but now has few doors.
"Ahem...hem"
The woman on the bed slightly raised her moon and bending her bent white, holding a handkerchief in her mouth and coughing with her face slightly red, and she could tell that her health was not very good.
She was wearing a white crescent robe, and her white porcelain-like face made her look even more beautiful and refined. After this cough, she put down the handkerchief in her hand, and her lips were cool and stretched out a beautiful and elegant thread, and her teeth were faintly vague.
A palace maid lifted the curtain and came in. Seeing her like this, she said with a heartache, "Is the Empress coughing again?"
Bao Jieyu smiled secretly, and her eyes looked particularly clear as if they were light water. "Liuzhu, I'm fine." After looking behind her, she didn't see another person and couldn't help asking, "Where is Liuyu?"
Liuzhu sighed and brought a cup of tea for her, "Liuyu went to the Imperial Hospital and took the medicine for the Empress."
"Is there no medicine in the palace again?" After taking the tea and taking a few sips, he was a little worried. Liu Yu had been there for a long time this time.
After picking the charcoal fire that collapsed, Bao Jieyu was in poor health, so the charcoal fire in the Pepper House Hall was lit early every year. Liuzhu looked at the time and turned around, "The last time I got the medicine was about to finish, but the Empress did not improve. This time, Liuyu wanted the imperial physician to change the prescription."
"It's my body that has dragged you down." Concubine Bao Jie smiled bitterly, "However, the lantern in the Pepper Room Hall has not been lit for many years, so this Imperial Hospital will not have much effort."
"What is the Empress saying? It is their honor to do things for the Empress." Having said that, Liuzhu had no idea.
As the two of them talked, Liu Yu came back. Concubine Bao looked up and her face changed, "Liu Yu, what's wrong?"
Liuyu was quite miserable at this time, her cheeks were red and there were some mud marks on her knees. Liuyu forced a smile, "Don't worry, I'm fine." She knew that her little master had been out of favor for many days and was in poor health, so she didn't want to tell her these bad things again.
Concubine Bao raised her head lightly, her eyes sharp and gentle, and her face was filled with anger and heartache, "Do you think I am blind? Why don't you tell me!"
Liuzhu also had a bad face, "Liuyu, what's going on?"
Liu Yu's eyes turned red and he felt very aggrieved. "I went to get medicine for the empress, but I met Li Ping on the way. Li Ping said that it was my servant who bumped into her and punished her ten times. But I stopped before I even touched her."
"You said that Li Ping was the one who punished you? Who is Li Ping?" She had not left the Jiaofang Hall for a long time, so she naturally didn't know the position of concubines who had entered the palace this time.
"Grandmaster, this Concubine Li is a concubine who has just entered the palace and is deeply loved by the emperor. Before entering the palace, he was called the most beautiful woman in the capital." Liu Zhu stepped forward to supplement the relationship between Bao Jieyu in the harem.
"I have never known this Concubine Li, and I even talked about making enemies. Why did she punish you like this?" What's more, her position is much higher than that of this Concubine Li, and Concubine Bao was really puzzled.
Liu Yu looked at the expression of Bao Jieyu and whispered, "At that time, Jin Ronghua was also following Li Ping."
"Jin Ronghua? It's her." When she was favored, Jin Ronghua followed her and her sister was too old and screamed like a real sister. She was also stupid and couldn't see the true face of others. She actually said a lot of good things to the emperor, which made her take the position of Ronghua. But she didn't expect that she had just fallen out of favor, and the first person to kick her away was Jin Ronghua. Not only that, she also stepped on her feet.
"She is here too, that's a big wonder." When I think of Jin Ronghua, Concubine Bao hated her toothache, and her expression changed. "A little person who dared to touch my palace even from the fifth-rank concubine. Do you really think that after I lose favor, I will become a soft persimmon!"
"Pin Li...Jin Ronghua..."
In Jinhe Palace, Bai Hua led everyone to move some important objects to the main hall, especially the inner room, which was first moved. At this time, Chu Yanzi was lying in Jinhe Palace, and the main hall was indeed not comparable to a side hall in Ningwuyuan.
Chapter completed!