Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

"The palace lady Yingchun said that Concubine Li's condition worsened at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. Did any earth-shattering events happen before that?"

Jiang Linyuan thought for a moment, then replied, "The murder of the oiran?"

"If an ordinary oiran was killed, the news would not spread to the harem, nor would it affect Concubine Li, but it happened to be someone who was favored by the emperor and wanted to be included in the harem. Wouldn't this have something to do with it?"

"But my lord, the oiran was killed in Dongyue."

"So Li Concubine's real onset date needs to be verified."

With that said, Jun Ziyou went to the closed door of Weiyang Palace, pierced the window paper and looked in, but he was a little disappointed to see no one.

Just when he was about to look away, a woman with disheveled hair suddenly appeared in his sight, staring at him with big bloodshot eyes, staring at him through the gap in the window paper, which made him scream in horror, and his legs limp and fell to his seat. On the ground, rubbing back and forth.

As soon as Jiang Linyuan supported him, the person inside became uneasy, slamming on the palace door frantically, and screaming heart-piercingly.

Most of her words were inaudible, but Jun Ziyou vaguely discerned words like "save me" and "I didn't harm him", which were creepy.

"It's strange, no wonder the emperor wants Concubine Pear to recuperate at ease. This...is really not suitable for going out."

It is estimated that there will be no improvement in a few days, and the doors and windows of Weiyang Palace will be nailed to death. No matter what the truth is, there is not much time left for them.

Jun Ziyou got up, patted the dust off his clothes, and when he saw no servants around, he knew it was the mad lady who scared the servants away.

"What is the origin of Concubine Pear?"

Jiang Linyuan replied: "I heard that it is the princess who came from Yueshi and his relatives. She has a close relationship with King Jin. Back then, the eldest princess brought King Jin back to Dayuan because of the civil strife in Yueshi. So the princess was sent to marry her. When she first arrived in the palace, she was honored and favored, but she was honored but she was not treated by the queen mother. The queen mother said that she was seductive and seduced the Lord. In order to satirize her behavior, she named her "Concubine Li". After persuading for a long time, the queen mother agreed to change the fox's raccoon into pear blossom's pear."

No wonder the emperor refused to let Xiao Beicheng enter the palace, it seemed that he was indeed afraid.

Jun Ziyou returned to his seat and took a sip of the cold tea, resting his chin on his hands and worrying, "The difficulty lies in the fact that she is a concubine in the harem, and it is not easy for foreign officials to interfere in her affairs. If one is not careful, our own heads will all be damaged." No guarantee."

"Then what are your plans?"

"Even if we guess that she has something to do with the death of the oiran, it's hard to say anything now that there is no evidence. The most urgent thing is to cure her strange disease. Yuan Fang, there are only two possibilities for this situation."

As he said that, he moved closer to Jiang Linyuan in a mysterious way, stretched out a finger, squinted his eyes and showed a sly smile.

"First, she was really driven crazy by herself. There is no solution to this situation. She can only ask a few words of the truth when she is emotionally stable and clear-headed. Second, she was victimized by others. If so, Things are simpler."

"My lord means..."

"Let's start with Concubine Li's daily diet and the people and things that he came into contact with, and we will always find clues."

Jun Ziyou invited a sensible little eunuch to help, and with a few taels of silver, he tricked out the abnormalities since Concubine Li's illness.

"Concubine Li is from the Yue family. There is a lot of wind and sand in the Western Regions, so there is nothing to eat. So when she arrived in the capital, she tasted all the delicacies. Her favorite is the stewed chicken with mushrooms from the Imperial Dining Room. But this stuff My son, you can’t eat too much. The imperial physician and the slaves below have reminded you, but the empress doesn’t listen. You have to have this dish on the table every day to be able to eat. Originally, we slaves didn’t dare to say more, but we can watch it Now the appearance of Concubine Li...you can tell that you can't eat too many mushrooms."

"Mushrooms?"

"That's right, if the imperial dining room didn't bring stewed chicken with mushrooms, Concubine Li would have to get a few taels of fresh mushrooms even if Yingchun sneaked out of the palace. In short, she would have to eat one meal every day, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep."

Jun Ziyou and Jiang Linyuan looked at each other, and immediately went to the small kitchen of Weiyang Palace. The place was cleaned cleanly, without leaving any leftovers, so the clues were cut off.

He sighed, lifted the wooden lid, saw that there was nothing in the pot, and couldn't hide his disappointment.

"That's right, if it's really been tampered with, after so long, how can there be any evidence left. According to that, the palace maid Yingchun is indeed suspicious."

After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Linyuan, go and look up the recent spring greetings, or the records of Weiyang palace maids and eunuchs entering and leaving the palace gate, and screen out those who may go to the city to buy mushrooms, and hand over the list to me. cross-examination."

Jiang Linyuan nodded in response, seeing that Junziyou had no intention of leaving, he asked again, "How about you, my lord?"

"I have something else to investigate, you go first, we will discuss it after we return to Dali Temple at night."

The two parted ways at this point, and after confirming that Jiang Linyuan had gone far away, Jun Ziyou poked the stunned little eunuch.

"I said, where is the imperial dining room?"

Half an hour later, the imperial cooks helplessly looked at Jun Ziyou, whose rice bowl was stacked as high as a person, and grabbed the little eunuch who brought him here and asked, "Hey, is he really the Shaoqing of Dali Temple?"

The little eunuch was a little scared, "D-of course, the emperor ordered him to thoroughly investigate the case of Concubine Li, so he came to the harem."

After hearing this, Jun Ziyou thought of something, spat out the chicken bones in his mouth, and asked vaguely: "Speaking of this, when a eunuch from the palace came to look for me today, it was clearly like a murder case. The urgency, how did you get to Weiyang Palace, hiccup...isn't that the case?"

The little eunuch was troubled, and it was hard to say anything in front of outsiders, so he leaned closer and whispered, "My lord doesn't know something, it is true that there was almost a murder case, the empress of the pear concubine went crazy and wanted to kill herself, and the white silk was wrapped around her neck If the maid hadn't discovered it early, I'm afraid she would have died. In the palace, self-inflicted suicide is a serious crime. When the empress dowager found out about this, she would kill Concubine Li. Fortunately, the emperor helped stop her."

"Lady? Isn't Yingchun the one who discovered this?"

"My lord doesn't know that Yingchun is the great maid of Weiyang Palace, but she has always been timid. Concubine Li has gone mad, so she dare not go forward at all."

"That's weird. I didn't dare to get close and got hurt all over. Is it okay for the empress of Weiyang Palace to like playing with ghosts and catching people?"

The little eunuch covered Jun Ziyou's mouth, "Oh, my good lord, you must not talk nonsense. You see, it's getting late at this time, go back quickly, when the key is released at the palace gate in the evening, you I can’t get out even if I want to.”

Seeing that it was getting late, Jun Ziyou stroked his round belly, nodded, and was sent out of the palace by the little eunuch.

As soon as he left the Vermilion Bird Gate, he saw a group of familiar chariots and horses parked outside the dismounting stele, and the person standing at the front was Shen Ci.

Seeing Junziyou from a distance, Shen Ci immediately informed the person in the sedan chair, and stretched out a hand from inside the bamboo curtain to hand him the cigarette rod, and then Xiao Beicheng came out.

Shen Ci poured out all the smoke and dust in the bucket, and then hurriedly dusted him off to make sure that he was all right, and then he went to welcome the gentleman.

"What happened in the palace?"

"It doesn't matter. The eunuch who sent the letter exaggerated. There is no murder case, and no one died. Don't worry."

"This king is worried about you. The power in the palace is criss-crossed. It is not as simple as the court. With your temperament, if you say something unpleasant, you may lose your life."

"Knowing that the prince is worried about my situation, I will thank the prince for his concern."

After all, Jun Ziyou lifted his legs and left, in order not to entangle with him too much, so as not to cause unnecessary troubles in this case.

However, Xiao Beicheng didn't intend to let him go. He grabbed his wrist, and then realized that his behavior was inappropriate, so he grabbed his cuff instead.

"Steward Liu is well-informed, and may be able to help you a little bit."

"My lord just said that he wanted to invite me to stay at your house for a few days? Hey, what's the relationship between us? I'm going to beat around the bush on such a trivial matter. Wait, I'll come back to Dali Temple as soon as I go."

Since Junziyou took office, in order to repair the dilapidated government office, he and Jiang Linyuan both lived in Dali Temple, and had no time to go back to King Jin's Mansion, so they alienated their relationship with Xiao Beicheng.

In the first few days, the latter was still putting on airs of being a relative of the emperor, and he was worried and refused to go to see it in person, but today he finally couldn't bear it, and encountered such a bad thing again, it was really a good idea.

After struggling for a while, Xiao Beicheng didn't let go. He didn't expect a gentleman to take this step, but he pulled his wide sleeves, and a bunch of things fell out of his clothes.

Gentleman You felt guilty, he lowered his head, tidied it up and stuffed it back into his sleeves, and hurried to leave, this time Xiao Beicheng didn't stop him, but himself, he stopped after walking not far, staring straight ahead.

Seeing that he didn't move for a long time, Xiao Beicheng followed him, followed his gaze, looked into the empty distance, found nothing, then raised his hand in front of his eyes, and found that this person Actually froze.

"Shaoqing? Ziyou?... Junziyou!"

Jun Ziyou was like waking up from a dream, and was awakened by his roar. Although his mind was awake, his eyes were still fixed on the front.

"Ah, my lord, did you see that?"

He pointed in the direction he was looking in a serious manner, and suddenly blushed, looking stupid.

"I saw a group of beauties, their figure, tsk tsk tsk..." While talking, he gestured with his graceful figure, "Am I in a fairyland..."

Xiao Beicheng's scalp was numb, and he glanced back at Shenci, who also looked puzzled.

"... Junziyou, are you kidding me?"

"My lord, what are you talking about, how is this a joke, look quickly, I like the one dancing half-covered, look, look, turned around. Hey...why is it a man. Hey, man That's great, men are even more exciting..."

Hearing him say these crazy words that others could not understand, Xiao Beicheng was also impatient, and raised his hand to give him a slap that was neither light nor heavy.

This slap woke up Jun Ziyou, but it also made him feel unwell, foaming at the mouth, rolled his eyes, and passed out.