Concubine, she is so charming

Chapter 421 Nepeta
When Ye Yun arrived, he could smell the unique mellow fragrance of chrysanthemum wine from a distance, and the servants were cleaning up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground.

The only remaining chrysanthemum wine in the five altars has been properly put aside.

Seeing her coming, they all knelt down tremblingly.

Among the crowd, Ye Yun recognized the eunuch pulling the cart at a glance.

Without him, this person's face and neck were covered with bloodstains after being scratched by the cat's paw, which was very shocking.

But this person didn't care about dealing with the wound, he was still holding the broom in his hand, and was cleaning up the mess with everyone.

Ye Yun's eyes were dark, and her heart was depressed, but she couldn't see it.

"Kong Qing, go and get some wound medicine, and paint his face."

"Yes." Kong Qing replied, and left in a hurry.

The eunuch who was kneeling on the ground was surprised, and then kowtowed.

"Thank you, Empress Guifei, thank you Empress Concubine, the empress is pure and kind in heart, but the slave feels guilty, failed to pull the cart, knocked over the wine, the slave deserves death!"

Ye Yun waved his hand, "It's useless to feel guilty right now, just tell me what's going on."

"Go back to your empress. At that time, the servant was pulling a cart and walking. Suddenly, two raccoon cats fell from the palace wall and hit the servant. The wild cats went mad and scratched wildly. The servant suffered pain and avoided it. That's... Crooked the car, overturned the wine jar." The eunuch cried mournfully.

"How many people are you pulling the cart?" Ye Yun continued to ask.

The eunuch quickly replied, "There are four people in a group, the slave pulls the cart, there are guards on the left and right, and one person behind helps push."

"Four of you, it's strange that this wild cat only caught you, the cart puller. Could it be that this wild cat can tell people apart?" Ye Yun sneered.

When the people present heard it, no one knew whether there was a ghost in it.

The eunuch pulling the cart begged for mercy again and again, shouting that he didn't know anything.

Seeing his miserable state, it is impossible to tell lies.

Ye Yun lowered her eyes and thought deeply. What can stimulate wild cats to go crazy is nothing more than medicine and smell.

So he beckoned the eunuch to come forward, and told Nan Zhi and Eyue to examine his things carefully.

It didn't take a while for Eyue to discover the abnormality.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be a faint smell of grass on his clothes. This servant has never smelled it, so I don't know what it is."

"Go ask Imperial Physician Shen." Ye Yun said immediately.

And stepped forward to check, leaned closer and smelled, there was indeed a smell.

The bad thing is that I didn't deal with people violently as soon as I came up, otherwise how would I find this stubble.

At this moment, the eunuch suddenly said, "Your Majesty, this servant remembered that this morning, when this servant was on duty, he passed by the Zhongcui Palace, bumped into the eunuch who was sweeping there, and got his clothes wet, so he compensated this servant." Clothes, this clothes are not for slaves!"

Zhong Cui Gong, this result was expected.

It really was Concubine Jingxian's handwriting.

But just with a piece of clothing and a sweeping eunuch, there is no way to convict him.

Concubine Jingxian will definitely push and push, and it won't hurt her.

But even so, this time Ye Yun will expose the matter in front of Ning Chen.

Even if it only made Ning Chen suspicious, Concubine Jingxian could no longer continue to pretend to be innocent in Ning Chen's eyes.

Soon, Shen Pingzhi arrived.

After smelling it carefully, I found out that the fragrance was nepeta, which is the grass called catnip in later generations.

Extract the juice and spray it on the clothes, which will naturally lure the cat to go crazy.

Ye Yun knew it in his heart, so he asked Shen Pingzhi to treat the eunuch's shocking wound on his face, and then took him to Jiuchen Palace.

Hearing that the imperial brewed chrysanthemum wine was smashed, Ning Chen's complexion was also not good, but he was still stable.

"The servants are careless, and you can't blame you. The imperial brewed chrysanthemum wine is gone, and there are other chrysanthemum wines. Just buy them from outside. Don't get angry and hurt yourself."

Seeing that Ning Chen was still comforting herself, Ye Yun's heart was also slightly touched.

But this is not the time to be moved, so I adjusted my mood a bit and told about the cat.

"I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. It happened that the clothes of the eunuch pulling the cart were wet by the sweeping servants of Zhongcui Palace, and he was given a set of clothes stained with Nepeta juice. Car wine."

"You suspect that someone did it on purpose." Ning Chen frowned.

Ye Yun looked calm, "I can't say I doubt it, but my concubine thinks it's too coincidental. If it's not found out, if it gets out, there will be gossip, which will damage Concubine Jingxian's reputation, and it will also be detrimental to the peace of the harem."

"That's right, it turned out that the mother's dystocia involved the Qin family, and the Qin family was originally from the Zhongcui palace, and had to be trained by the concubine Jingxian. Because of this, the slaves have also heard some gossip." Nan Zhi mentioned it at the right time Old things.

Originally, Ning Chen had some doubts about such a coincidence, and when talking about Ye Yun's dystocia at that time, he paid more attention to it for a while.

He stretched out his hand to lead her to her side, told her to sit down first, and then asked someone to invite Concubine Jingxian to come.

Not long after, Concubine Jingxian arrived, seeing Ye Yun there, she knew what was going on in her heart, but she still had an expression of not knowing anything.

"The concubine sees the emperor, and the concubine the empress."

"Excuse me, I called you here because I want to ask you something." Ning Chen waved his hand.

Concubine Jingxian narrowed her eyes slightly, she was still docile and respectful, "I don't know what's going on, the concubine must know everything."

"Your concubine, tell me." Ning Chen turned his head and said softly.

Ye Yun nodded, then raised her eyes to look at the woman in front of her.

"The chrysanthemum wine prepared for the Double Ninth Ceremony was accidentally overturned by the eunuch pulling the cart today. I found out why the eunuch's clothes were stained with nepeta, which can lure cats and drive them crazy. It's a coincidence. This clothes was given to him by a sweeping eunuch from Zhongcui Palace who wet his clothes, I wonder if Concubine Xian knows about this."

Concubine Jingxian with downcast eyes flickered after hearing her say this.

In her prediction, the eunuch broke such an important wine, and Ye Yun should be annoyed and deal with it immediately.

I didn't expect Ye Yun to be so calm, hold back his temper, and find out this thoughtfully.

But since she dared to do it, she would not leave a way out for herself.

After sorting out his thoughts for a while, he immediately raised his head in surprise.

"Young concubine, my concubine never knows about this matter. There must be something inside. The concubine would never dare to damage the wine made by the Imperial Brew, or ruin the palace banquet at the Double Ninth Ceremony. Why don't you just call the eunuch who sweeps the water, The concubine dares to confront him face to face!"

Hearing this, Ye Yun could already conclude that Concubine Jingxian had already reserved a way out, and this time at most, she made a mistake of ineffective restraint, and she couldn't hurt more.

Sure enough, when the eunuch Sasa was brought, he immediately recognized it.

He said that he likes cats, so he found nepeta, and sprayed the juice on the clothes to attract cats.

But what was cited was a little white cat that he kept privately, and everyone knew and could testify that he had a cat called Ximao.

So this can only be concluded as an accident.

The eunuch cried and cried, saying that he didn't know that a piece of clothing he had lost would cause such a disaster, and he just begged for mercy.

Now that the matter has come to an end, Concubine Xian was fined half a year's monthly silver, and the eunuch was fined to do hard labor in the Punishment Department.

And now there is a tricky thing waiting to be dealt with.

What is the most suitable substitute for the imperial brewed chrysanthemum wine?

　Once it is discovered that a person may be doing evil, suspicion will slowly spread.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)