Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

Chapter 16

Ma Jiarongrong patted her on the arm: "We were punished again today. How could she have suffered such a crime? That's why she did such a thing. After a few days, she will be sober and she will be fine."

"It's understandable for her to be sad." Umalu smiled.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Ma Jiarong always felt that Umalu's smile seemed a little weaker than before.

Ma Jiarongrong walked with her to the tea house: "I don't want to protect her, but we may live a lifetime after that. If you can care less, then care less."

Ma Jiarongrong assured her: "When she recovers, I will ask her to apologize to you."

Umalu finds it ridiculous, there is no one who has done something wrong, and it is so interesting to apologize on behalf of those who have done something wrong.

She said softly: "Rongrong, you are better at handling this than Chen Jiayi."

"I'm the first child in my family, so I'm used to it." She smiled, not as bright and bright as before, but a bit sad.

While speaking, they had already arrived at the tea serving place.

Although Chen Jiayi came out first, she was still the same as before, just sitting there, staring at the three ornaments in her hand in a daze.

Ma Jiarongrong and Umalu can only deal with these things first.

They are making preparations in an orderly manner.

At night, Liang Jiugong came again, he came to serve tea himself, and said by the way: "If it wasn't for the Lord Long Live, you should go to Shangfang Courtyard anyway."

The three saluted: "Thank you Long Live Lord for your kindness."

Although the three of them didn't get involved, it didn't mean that the matter was over like this, and the matter was finally handed over to the Shang Fang Yuan of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Later, I learned from Ma Jiarongrong that the Shangfang Court probably found out the truth of the case.

Aunt Dai Jia was indeed due to leave the palace at the end of September this year, and it was indeed her old friend who proposed to marry her with military merit.

However, her old friend died unfortunately while fighting against the rebels some time ago.

When Aunt Dai Jia got the news, she drank the poison and followed her.

As for the origin of the poison, I went to the Imperial Hospital to find out. There are records of visits to testify, records of prescribing medicines, and the loss of medicinal materials.

Aunt Dai Jia had a secret illness, and she had a bad cough. It seemed that she was someone who served the emperor, so the doctors sent by the imperial hospital prescribed medicine. There was a herb in the medicine, which was arsenic.

After the matter was clarified, Liang Jiugong's attitude towards the tea house was a little better. Although it was only lukewarm, it was enough for them to feel relieved.

The days finally passed as usual, day by day, but also calmly, the previous punishment was like a mirror image, making people doubt whether it really happened.

But Umalu is very clear, that is what really happened.

She calmly and methodically studied all kinds of things, and she became more and more proficient in serving the tea house.

Ma Jiarongrong sometimes sighs: "Ma Lu, you are so smart."

At this time, Umalu would always shake his head: "No, I'm not smart. It took me a lot of time to memorize it before memorizing it."

The two talked and laughed, doing embroidery work together.

Umalu has memorized the preferences of the princes and ministers by now, and makes tea well.

Ma Jiarongrong is not an embarrassing temperament.

The two got along quite happily.

As for Chen Jiayi, after recovering from the excitement at that time, she has already apologized to Umalu.There is still peace on the surface of the three of them, but she is becoming more and more silent.

As for the three ornaments that Aunt Dai Jia left for them, they were still in Chen Jiayi's hands, and she had no intention of sharing them with them.

Both Ma Jiarongrong and Umalu are people who can hide things in their hearts. They have never mentioned this matter, nor have they said it in private.

Because they already knew Chen Jiayi's virtues very well, so they had nothing to say.

They were not surprised by what Chen Jiayi did.

The days at the tea house are the same as before, the three of them work in shifts, with one rest every two days.

The strange thing is that it takes longer.

This day, it was Ma Jiarongrong's turn to rest, and she didn't come here until she had slept enough.

There is really no place to go in this palace, not to mention they are not allowed to wander around, if they are caught, they will never be able to please.It's better to come here to talk with my sisters and do embroidery work more refreshingly.

When she arrived, she only saw Chen Jiayi there, and Chen Jiayi looked restless.

Ma Jiarongrong looked at her twice, and asked her: "What's the matter, you look like this, if you don't know, you might think something happened."

"The tea was served just now. After I served the tea, she stood by for me, and I went to pay respects. When I came back, she disappeared." Chen Jiayi was stunned, and said, "I feel very uncomfortable, as if something is going to happen. It's over."

Ma Jiarongrong was about to sit down, but when she heard the words, she stood up again and said, "You stay on guard first, I'll go and see what's going on."

"Okay." Chen Jiayi agreed, and continued staring at the table in a daze.

Ma Jiarong went out of the side hall and walked towards the main hall.

She knew in her heart that no matter how urgent the matter was, there must be at least one person in the tea service station in case the emperor needed it.

Umalu was able to leave under such circumstances, presumably he was taken away by Eunuch Liang and the others.

When she reached the main hall, she saw Eunuch Liang guarding the door within a few steps, and she went up to salute.

Before she could speak, Liang Jiugong had already spoken.

Liang Jiugong smiled and said: "She is so lucky, maybe she will fly up the branch."

"she……"

Liang Jiugong looked at her meaningfully: "She is very lucky."

Ma Jiarongrong gritted her teeth, bowed her head and asked, "I'm stupid, I don't know what Manager Liang means."

Liang Jiugong waved his hand: "Go down."

She wanted to ask again, but she didn't dare, so she had to back down.

She hurried back to the tea house, stared at Chen Jiayi, and said in a serious tone, "Chen Jiayi, tell me the truth, what have you done!"

Chen Jiayi shook her head: "I didn't...I didn't."

Ma Jiarongrong said coldly: "My aunt has helped me so much, so I have always been tolerant to you. If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for not thinking about our sisterhood."

Chen Jiayi was silent for a long time before she opened her mouth: "I didn't do it on purpose, it's just because my aunt is gone, so..."

"So you just keep hating her, and deliberately do wrong things and push them on her."

Chen Jiayi's sharp voice seemed to be coming out, but she seemed to be afraid of something. After the sharp voice was suppressed by her throat, she made a strange sound.

"I'm not, I didn't, I just added more tea leaves, and one or two steps were missing, but I didn't mean it." Chen Jiayi seemed to be grabbing at straws, "Yes, I didn't mean it, I really It wasn't intentional, you have to trust me."

　The Department of Punishment is an official agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Originally named Shangfangsi, it was renamed Shangfangyuan in 1655. In 1677 it was renamed the Department of Punishment.The Department of Punishment consists of Langzhong, Yuanwailang, chief officer, entrusted chief officer, pen post style, and scribes.It has a Jurisdiction Department of Fanyao, with personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs as its staff, 4 chief and deputy leaders each, and 40 Fanyao people, responsible for arresting criminals
　　The official positions of Taiyuan Hospital include a court envoy (that is, the principal); a left court judge and a right court judge (that is, vice president) each (generally, the court envoy is the third rank, and the court judge is the fourth rank); (equivalent to the chief physician) about 20 people, responsible for the medical affairs of the upper-level officials in the palace; there are more than 30 officials (equivalent to the attending physician) below, divided into eight ranks and nine ranks, responsible for treating general officials; physicians ( There are about [-] students (equivalent to resident physicians), about [-] to [-] Enliang students (equivalent to assistant resident physicians), and about [-] to [-] dropout students (equivalent to interns, without prescription rights).

　　
　
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