The biography of Concubine Lin in the harem

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Hanzhang Palace, Deyang Palace, and forsythia slowly pour the burnt rose juice into the cloud-tooth gold basin decorated with orange mud patterns, and a puff of fragrant mist will leap up, circling, lingering, and gradually permeating Driving away, looking through the fog, even the night scene outside the window seemed hazy and illusory.

Bright beads of sweat dripped from the tip of Imperial Physician Liang's nose. He looked carefully at the sachet. Forsythia was always shrewd. After eight years of experience in the palace and ten years of experience in the palace, now he can understand Concubine Lin's identity with just one look. idea.

"Your Majesty Liang, don't worry, just check it carefully." Zhu Chengbi saw that the flower juice was gradually warming up, so he put his hands in it to soak.

"There are only ordinary fragrant flowers and dried fruits in the sachet, and there is nothing wrong with it." The imperial physician Liang Nuoxuan came from a family of medicine. Although he was 26 years old, he was already a judge of the imperial hospital. He was cautious and thoughtful. She is also a confidant of Concubine Lin.

Zhu Chengbi was a little surprised, carefully inspecting the things on the table, these fragrant flowers and dried fruits really smell pleasant, smelling very pleasant, is it really just his own carelessness?Just thinking about it, Lianqiao offered a soft brocade handkerchief, Zhu Chengbi wiped his hands carefully, suddenly his heart lightened, he pointed to the sachet bag and said: "Check this again!"

Imperial Physician Liang quickly took a closer look, and found that the sachet was made of su brocade, with fine workmanship and delicate stitches.After several inspections, Imperial Physician Liang seemed to have some confidence, and replied: "Although it is not very clear, the smell of the sachet bag is slightly different from that of fragrant flowers and dried fruits. The breath is extremely difficult to detect on weekdays, if it is not for taking out the fragrant flowers for a long time at this time, I am afraid it will not be known."

Zhu Chengbi frowned and said, "Did you take any medicine?"

"I'm afraid I have to let Weichen go back and study it carefully, but the bitterness is subtle, and I'm afraid it's not an ordinary dipping method. Weichen speculates that the su brocade is placed in a steamer and fumigated on the boiling medicinal liquid. The traces of the medicinal liquid also make the bitterness absorbed evenly." The doctor Liang seemed to be thinking carefully, and said for a moment, "Although I am not very sure, but the method is not difficult to find. It is also recorded in ancient books that the bitterness It doesn't directly cause Concubine Migui's miscarriage, I'm afraid that the smell will attract some dirty things, for example, poisonous insects."

Hearing this, Zhu Chengbi's eyebrows twitched: "Poisonous insect?"

"I have read the prescriptions of Imperial Physician Xu. Apart from some medicinal materials for invigorating qi and blood, there are also medicinal materials for removing toxins and nourishing qi, harmonizing and warming, but they are just ordinary medicinal materials. Therefore, it is guessed that Imperial Physician Xu did not realize that Migui's concubine was murdered by He. Bitten by a kind of poisonous insect." Imperial Physician Liang said eloquently, and added at the end, "If you can't treat the disease with medicine, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get rid of the poisonous gas."

"This kind of method is really clever, but it doesn't look like it was done by the queen and Mrs. Yu'er." Zhu Chengbi said slowly, rubbing his brows.

"Your Majesty, since He Wanyi and Qian Xiaoyi were deposed into the cold palace, the empress seemed to have broken her left and right arms. Since Concubine Shu entered the palace, she has been busy dealing with Concubine Shu, but nothing has happened in the end." Lian Qiao After a moment of silence, his eyes turned, "But now, it seems that the queen has gained a military advisor again."

"Although He Wanyi and Qian Xiaoyi are a little clever, they are not as ruthless as this one. At present, the one who is closest to the queen is the concubine Ru Xuexuan." Concubine Lin tapped on the table, Said in a deep voice, "I look at it with cold eyes. Since Concubine Mu entered the palace, she has not been favored very much, but she is not out of favor either. If it is said that she did it..."

Seeing that Zhu Chengbi was lost in thought, Lian Qiao hurriedly said: "Madam, with Concubine Shu here, I'm afraid that the batch of concubines who entered the palace last year are not very favored, but having said that, the concubines who have been promoted now, except Wanjinge The Shen concubine, Ye Shi, is the only Mu concubine, Jiang. Moreover, you also know the temperament of Migui concubine. Mu concubine's family background and favor treatment are far inferior to her, let alone in the same palace. live there."

The night was deep, the moon was shining like water, and there seemed to be a sound of crying and wailing in the distance. Is it Shen Xingsi who took away the maids and inner eunuchs of Lanlin Palace for interrogation?Zhu Chengbi just felt bored, and was about to speak, but Mu Jin walked in quickly: "Mother, it's not good, Suxin is missing!"

Seeing this, Imperial Physician Liang knelt down and left. Zhu Chengbi watched him walk out of the Deyang Palace before expressing his suppressed anger: "Bastard! I can't even look at anyone. How can a good living person disappear!"

It was rare for Mu Jin to see Concubine Lin speak so harshly to herself, and she kowtowed in panic: "I don't know about it, I have been looking at her since I returned to the palace, but Lingru, the female officer in charge of Ru Xuexuan, suddenly came over and said yes. I sent the cakes that the Fourth Highness loves most, and the servants took the cakes back, and Su Xin was gone."

Zhu Chengbi was taken aback, and then remembered that Ling'er likes Huai Mi hibiscus cake made by Concubine Mu the most. Did the concubine bring Huai Mi hibiscus cake over?No matter how you say it, I always feel that something is wrong.

Mu Jin guessed that Concubine Lin was puzzled, and hurriedly said: "Ling Ru said, Huai Mi Furong Cake was made in the afternoon, it should have been delivered earlier, who knows that Concubine Mi has a miscarriage suddenly, that's why it's delayed until now .”

Zhu Chengbi didn't care to think carefully, and asked: "Did you ask Suxin anything when you came back?"

"Back to your mother, my servant also found that Suxin was too flustered. Although Suxin has just entered the palace for a year, she has always been calm." Mu Jin thought about it, "I asked her after returning to the palace, and she only said that she heard the news The maid said that Migui's miscarriage was very scary, and she happened to be frightened by lightning, so she was so flustered."

Zhu Chengbi rested his arms on his back, closed his eyes and meditated, Suxin's words were rounded, but under various circumstances, people always felt that there was something in it. Is this a carefully crafted trap, or just a coincidence?

Seeing that Concubine Lin was silent, Mu Jin hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to look for it?"

"It must not be done! Concubine Migui had a miscarriage due to poison, and everyone in the palace is pregnant with their own woes. If Hanzhang Palace conducts a public search for people at this time, it will arouse people's suspicion." Zhu Chengbi leisurely opened a pair of wonderful eyes, and glanced at Mu Jin. , said: "Suxin has more contacts with people outside Hanzhang Palace on weekdays?"

"It's the Engui from the Moon Shadow Stage." Mu Jin replied, "Suxin Su is good at female celebrities, and the Engui is from the weaving bureau, and the two of them are from the same hometown."

"Then, I will go to the Moon Shadow Terrace for a walk." Zhu Chengbi glanced out the window, the slanting moon peeped through the curtain, and the starlight was faint. "Anyway, there are many people who can't sleep tonight, and I am not one of them."

Engui's name is Chen Wanxin, she used to be an ordinary darn maid in the Weaving Bureau, she is very gentle and docile.Chen Wanxin was silent at first, just doing her own job, maybe she can go out of the palace to reunite with her family when she is 25 years old without incident, but sometimes, the goddess of fate just happens to visit her.

It was a spring two years ago, when the Queen Mother gradually recovered from her illness, the Weaving Bureau embroidered a bed of Huguang brocade with peony brocade, which was enshrined to the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother didn't like it very much, thinking it was too extravagant.Chen Wanxin was always intelligent, so she took fragrant ice silkworm thread, twisted four strands into one strand, and then dyed it with sandalwood, replacing the gold thread, and then darned the gorgeous quilt covered with phoenix wearing peony into a warm phoenix guzi, To show the harmony between the empress dowager and the emperor's mother and child, this move was very pleased by the empress dowager, and also eased the tense relationship between mother and child caused by Concubine Shu's entry into the palace. , and then entered the seal many times, and now he is a nobleman of the sixth rank.

The nobleman has a docile disposition, even if he came from a humble background, most of the concubines in the harem would not be willing to make things difficult for him. Furthermore, Concubine Shu favored the harem, Mrs. Yu'e was in power, and the concubine Migui was high-spirited. A quiet fish, lying peacefully in the pool of water in Zi'ao City, its occasional swimming is just to remind others of its own existence.

Thinking about it this way, the Moon Shadow Terrace is already in front of you, and the hall lives up to its name. Although the Moon Shadow Terrace is not very luxurious and cannot be compared with the majestic and magnificent halls of the harem, the biggest advantage is that there are no partition walls or rolling curtains in the hall, and the west Even in the scorching summer, the glaring sunlight penetrates into the moon shadow gauze and turns into soft moonlight. Being here is indescribably comfortable and safe.

Zhu Chengbiman stepped into the hall, and the benefactor had already stood up and saluted respectfully: "May the concubine Lin be blessed and safe!"

Because it was night, Engui was wearing a long pear-blossom blue dress, with only a hollowed-out jade hairpin loosely holding her hair, without too many decorations, Zhu Chengbi couldn't help praising secretly, it really is "clear water comes out of hibiscus". Seeing sour plum soup, ruyi cakes, rose cakes and other pastries on the table next to him, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Sister En has a good appetite, so don't be formal, just sit down."

Only now did the nobleman get up, respectfully helped Concubine Lin to sit down, and Fang Yingying sat down: "You made me laugh, my concubine is just a little greedy these days."

"My younger sister is thin, and it's always good to have an appetite." Zhu Chengbi smiled, "After all, it's summer, and I'm most afraid of heat on weekdays, and I always don't think about eating. How can I have such a good fortune as my younger sister." The wind blows gently, and the moon shadow gauze behind Concubine Lin dances lightly, making her look like a fairy from Yaotai. Although she is already the mother of two sons and over thirty years old, due to the proper maintenance on weekdays, Lin looks like she is in her twenties. Xu Ren, this smile made Engui stunned for life, and he sighed in his heart. The so-called being favored by a high position is not only based on the young and beautiful, the mother is precious by the son, or the prosperity of the mother's family, guessing people's hearts, but also this It is only because of his temperament that he can stand above everyone and stand tall.

The nobleman accompanied him with a smile and said: "Your Majesty is serious, and my concubine is afraid." She lowered her head and thought for a while, then smiled again, "Your Majesty came here late at night, but do you have anything to tell your concubine?"

Zhu Chengbi didn't say a word, but with a vague smile, he fiddled with the armor inlaid with gold and jade, and said for a moment: "I heard that sister En and Suxin are from the same hometown?"

The benefactor was startled, but he didn't dare to answer, he hurriedly said: "Yes."

Zhu Chengbi said quietly: "It's nothing at first, but Suxin is not very cautious when she is on duty, and she has not returned to the palace so late, I thought Suxin was on the Moon Shadow Terrace to reminisce about the old days."

Although the voice was calm and calm, it also contained a hint of wit, and the benefactor hurriedly knelt down: "Although my concubine is from the same hometown as Suxin, I don't dare to reminisce about the past with Suxin and interfere with her errand. I only have a few times in the imperial garden. I happened to meet Suxin and said a few words, but Suxin has never been to my concubine's place today."

Zhu Chengbi stared at her quietly for a moment, then reached out to hold her up, and said calmly, "I am not here to inquire about my crimes, but after the rain, I was greedy for the coolness and comfort of the night breeze. Ask, maybe Suxin has already returned to Hanzhang Palace, it is not out of the question."

The benefactor was a little nonchalant, and answered "yes", Zhu Chengbi said: "Okay, since you and Suxin are just talking normally, that's fine." However, the benefactor hesitated to speak, showing some embarrassment mood.

"Why, sister En seems to have something to say?" Zhu Chengbi was quite puzzled, and said gently, "Then you might as well just say it."

"Your Majesty." The nobleman hesitated, "Suxin seems to have a bit of a heart."

Seeing that she didn't want to say more, Zhu Chengbi already showed some remorse after saying these words, so he couldn't ask more questions, so he said "I'm tired", and walked out of the Moon Shadow Terrace holding Lianqiao's hand.

The night breeze was blowing past, causing a chill for no reason, and the doubts in Concubine Lin's heart also deepened.

"Your Majesty, this servant is watching, it seems that the nobleman has not lied to your Majesty." Lian Qiao looked into Concubine Lin's eyes and said cautiously.

"If it's not that there is no city in the heart, then it is that the heart is deep. The conversation with her just now was calm and indifferent. It really doesn't seem to be fabricated and concealed on purpose." Zhu Chengbi broke off a willow branch and said slowly: "It's just her last sentence. , it’s really worrisome.”

Lian Qiao said: "It's late at night, the empress should go to bed earlier, there's no point in worrying about Su Xin, when Su Xin comes back, the servant will send her out of the palace."

Zhu Chengbi gently rubbed the willow leaves, slightly squeezed out a trace of dark green juice, which stuck greasy to his fingers: "Do you think Suxin can come back safely? If she is not in Moon Shadow Terrace, where do you think she will be?"

Eyes fluttered, seeing the magnificent palace of Fengyi Palace from a distance, the chill in his heart spread layer by layer.

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