The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 588 Plums
Mrs. An was overjoyed to be flattered by the two little promises. As soon as she took two steps towards the pavilion, she saw a familiar face, it was Shaoyao.The fire in her heart seemed to be suddenly poured out by the cold water in winter. Not only did the fire go out, but it also made her heart feel cold.

"Don't you come over, nobleman?" One of the little promises, who wanted to show up in front of the emperor, saw that nobleman An stopped suddenly, and couldn't help being surprised.

Mrs. An raised her face in displeasure, and turned her head to stare at her: "Little bitch, don't you just want to meet the emperor in the past? Huh! Su Peisheng and the others are all guarding outside. Naturally, it is because the emperor has something important to do, and I acted so rashly." Don’t you want to be scolded by the emperor if you run to disturb me? Don’t think I don’t know what you are thinking about! Hmph!”

She vented angrily on Xiao Xu, then turned and left.

After the person walked away, another promise whispered: "You shouldn't have urged me just now, look, that aunt is Aunt Shaoyao in Jingren Palace?"

Xiao Xu, who had just been scolded so red-faced, followed her fingers and looked over. As expected, she complained embarrassingly: "Hmph, Mrs. An can't be favored by herself, so she insults us like this. She always said that the noble concubine The empress is an old woman, I think she is not as good as the old woman she talks about, and she deserves to be ignored by the emperor."

"Shh~" The other promised in shock, and hurriedly pulled her away, "Don't say such things indiscriminately, if someone else hears it, be careful not to lose your head. The imperial concubine is high above you, how can you be here?" Say those three words outside? I see that although the imperial concubine is old, she is only in her early thirties, where should she be called those three words?"

"Aren't you stupid? My lady is obviously already in her forties. Where did she come from in her early thirties? It's just a matter of proper maintenance. Age is what matters. What An Guiren said is correct..."

The other promised to be much less timid, and when she heard her chattering nonsense, she was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled her away...

After Zhang Lizi went back, he wanted to pull the box out from under the bed, but after touching it with both hands for a long time, he couldn't find anything.He was shocked, and then he lowered his head to look at it. He couldn't see it. There was no box below, but it was empty and there was nothing there.

"Come on, come on! Who has entered my room?" He panicked and ran out to call for someone, but after calling for a long time, a little eunuch came and shook his head and said he didn't know.

Now that the sky is bright and bright, which eunuch would hide in the house and be lazy, and they are all doing things outside, so no one really sees it.

Zhang Lizi was so angry that he jumped up and down. Thousands of possibilities turned in his mind, but he didn't know who dragged the old box away.

"Eunuch Zhang, someone is here at the Hall of Mental Cultivation." At this moment, a young eunuch hurried over with a strange expression on his face.

As soon as Zhang Lizi heard the word Yangxindian, he immediately cheered up, quickly straightened his clothes and hats, and ran out to see what was going on.

The eunuch who came over from the Hall of Mental Cultivation was carrying a small basket, covered with a piece of cloth to cover the ashes.The eunuch saw Zhang Lizi passing by, quickly uncovered the cloth head with a smile, and brought the basket to him: "Eunuch Zhang has worked hard, the emperor said that the fifth elder brother is happy with a son, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for doing things seriously, so Ask to send a basket of fresh big plums to Eunuch Zhang and the big guys to taste together..."

When Zhang Lizi saw the basket of plums, his eyes stared straight. A wave of disgust filled his heart, and he knocked the basket of plums to the ground with a wave of his hand. The plums rolled everywhere.He pinched his nose in disgust, not wanting to smell plums: "Are you blind? You actually gave me plums? Does anyone know that plums are what I hate the most?"

He screamed, so angry that he wanted to pop his eyes out.Before he entered the palace, his family was very poor. Two plum trees were planted next to the hut at the back of his house. At that time, he and his younger siblings were often too hungry to eat, so his mother picked plums to fill their stomachs.Not only that, when there is food to eat, his mother will also pick the plums, dry them and store them, and eat them when there is nothing to eat.

His impression of childhood was nothing but sour, and his stomach was full of plum-flavored sour water.What's even worse is that his name is even called Zhang Lizi, because his mother said that the two plum trees are easy to support, and she hopes that he will grow up like the plum trees.

When he entered the palace, no one told him that he could change his name, saying that he had used this name that he hated for more than 40 years.

The eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs never dared to mention plums in front of him, that's why the eunuch who asked him just now had such an ugly face when he smelled plums.

The eunuch of the Hall of Mental Cultivation saw the plums rolling all over the ground, his eyes turned cold, and his face became serious: "Boldly Zhang Lizi! This is a gift from the emperor, and you are so ignorant! This is disrespectful! Come here, tie him up!" Already!"

"How dare you!" Zhang Lizi's mind recovered after a while. When he saw the plums all over the ground, although he was extremely disgusted, he also knew that he had made a mistake.But how could he submit to such a little-known eunuch?
"Come here, arrest Zhang Lizi and send him to the Punishment Department!" The eunuch was not to be outdone, and his voice was so loud that it overshadowed Zhang Lizi.

The eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not dare to grab Zhang Lizi, they all stood still and did not dare to move.

"Oh, what's the matter? This is a big plum from the emperor? Who was so presumptuous that he threw it on the ground... Ah! Bold!" At this time, Su Peisheng walked in. When he saw the plums, he muttered in a low voice, and when he saw the overturned plums all over the ground, he immediately exclaimed.

"Eunuch Su, Eunuch Zhang knocked the plum to the ground after hearing that it was something from the emperor last time. It's really disrespectful. The slave asked him to take him to the Punishment Division, but Eunuch Zhang refused to accept it."

This was a pre-arranged play, so the eunuch who came to deliver Li Zi was confident, not afraid of Zhang Li Zi's retaliation at all.Besides, just now Zhang Lizi really overturned the plum rewarded by the emperor, so it can't be regarded as wronging him.

Su Peisheng pretended to be shocked, and hurriedly pointed to the plum on the ground and asked, "Zhang Lizi, is this serious? This is a reward from the emperor, how can you be so rebellious?"

Zhang Lizi was full of remorse. He went out to talk to Mrs. Du but failed, and when he came back, he found that the box was missing.Originally, the eunuch was present, but in the old days, he could have made this matter trivial, and the eunuch was so ignorant of flattery that he said he was disrespectful!

Hey, the most unlucky thing is that Su Peisheng came here at this time.

Seeing that no one did anything, he turned cold and said, "Are you planning to rebel? Come and send it to the Punishment Department. Whether you are guilty or not, the Punishment Department will punish you."

The eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs let go of his scruples, and helped the eunuch who brought Li Zi to escort Zhang Li Zi to the Punishment Department.

Zhang Lizi's crime of disrespect would naturally be convicted, without Wei Chang'an's warning, the people from the Punishment Department convicted Zhang Lizi of beheading.At this point, Zhang Lizi, who had been active in the palace for more than 20 years, died like this, and no one suspected that there was something strange about it...

After the scorching summer, there were several autumn rains one after another, and the weather suddenly turned cold.

After Jiahui went back with Sebuteng at the end of March, there was no further news about returning to the palace. When the news came to the palace again, it was already at the end of August, saying that Jiahui had fallen ill.Yanhua couldn't be relieved, so she repeatedly passed on a few verbal orders to leave the palace, so that her son-in-law Saibuteng would take good care of Jiahui.

Not long after that, news came in that the empress who lived in the Old Summer Palace had also fallen ill.After Yinzhen learned about this, he ordered the queen to be moved to Changchun Garden to recuperate. He felt that the Fengshui in Changchun Garden was good, and a change of environment might also change his mood, and the illness might heal faster.

When Yanhua went to Changchun Garden to serve the queen, Xiao Qi also went to Changchun Garden.She greeted the queen, and then talked about Jiahui with Yanhua.

At that time, Yanhua knew that after Jiahui went back with Sebuteng, the relationship between the two not only did not ease, but became more and more tense.

"After Jiahui got sick, I took her back to the palace to recuperate. She..." Xiao Qi wiped her tears, her eyes were filled with distress, "She is so skinny now, it doesn't look like she just gave birth not long ago I asked her why she had a problem with her son-in-law and she refused to say, but the maid next to her told me secretly... she said it was because of a pair of bracelets..."

"Bracelets?" Yanhua's heart skipped a beat, could it be because of the pair of sandalwood bracelets?

"It was said to be a pair of wooden bracelets. When the son-in-law saw the bracelets, he became angry and insisted that Jiahui had someone else in his heart. Huier refused to explain. The two of them just kept fighting like that and became more and more rigid. Huier couldn't eat all day long Pharynx, this disease is getting worse and worse..." Xiao Qi was so sad that she burst into tears as she spoke.

Yan Hua was so startled that her whole body trembled, what a crime, did that pair of bracelets cause such a big misunderstanding between Jia Hui and his wife?

"Sister, I want to meet the son-in-law, can you help arrange it?" She panicked, how could the son-in-law treat Jiahui like this?Jiahui's fault is all her fault, she should have burned the pair of bracelets a long time ago, and she shouldn't have agreed to give the pair of bracelets to Jiahui.

In fact, she didn't know that there were two lines of characters engraved on the inner side of the bracelet, and she didn't know that it was because of these two lines of words that Sebuten misunderstood.The so-called good luck tricks people, that's it.

When Sebuteng came to Changchun Garden to see Yanhua, it was the tenth day of September. At that time, Jiahui was already dying of illness. She vomited whatever she ate, and she had no appetite at all. The imperial doctor was also helpless. If things go on like this, the princess might starve to death .

In order to avoid suspicion, Yanhua met Sebuteng in a pavilion.

Saibuteng put his right hand on his chest and bowed to her: "Sebuteng greets Emiang."

Yanhua asked him about Jiahui's condition for a while, only to realize that he didn't understand much at all, it must have been a long time since he had seen Jiahui.Yanhua couldn't help getting angry, but considering that he was a Khalkha Mongol, she just lowered her face and didn't scold him: "Do you know what unwarranted suspicion means?"

Saibuteng glanced at her in surprise: "What does Er Niang mean?" He is not a fool, he naturally understands that Concubine Xi is accusing him of being suspicious of Jiahui, but the poems on the pair of bracelets are what he saw with his own eyes , Jiahui also acquiesced, where is his suspicion?
(End of this chapter)