His Majesty is my ex-boyfriend

Bai Lu looked out of the window, wondering, "What's the sound outside?"

The eunuch said helplessly: "Miss Bitao and Miss Mingsi are quarreling again. They come here to collect monthly money for the master on the first day of every month, and they have to quarrel like this."

"Master?"

"Their masters are two noble concubines in the harem. Bitao is the eldest maid in Concubine Mei's palace, and Mingsi is Concubine Wen's personal maid. Because Concubine Wen's monthly share is 100 taels more than Concubine Mei's, so Bitao The girl complained about the grievances for the master."

Bai Lu was confused when he heard this, "Since both of them are imperial concubines, why are the monthly payments different?"

As soon as he asked, he heard a different female voice from the next door, which was probably Mingsi, and she said in an orderly manner: "Our concubine Wen has to manage the harem and works hard every day. Your majesty/understands your hard work. So I gave an extra reward of 100 taels, are you questioning His Majesty's will?"

Bitao was speechless for a moment, her blushing face really looked like a peach blossom on a branch in spring, she hesitated for a long time, and finally choked out a few words, "Then...then our concubine Mei is also a harem... Why do you only have 660 taels of monthly money..."

Bai Luxin said how this number sounded so familiar, and the eunuch next to him explained in a timely manner: "My concubine's monthly allowance was originally 600 taels, and later I added 60 taels of powder money to make an auspicious number." , just asking for a lottery."

Bai Luxin said that was the case. He wondered how the monthly money was so small and full. It turned out that this was the level of a concubine in the harem.

Chu Ya, that bastard who killed thousands of knives, first coaxed him to sit in the queen's special seat, and now gave him the monthly money of the noble concubine. Does he think so many men in the harem?ill!

The quiet but poisonous Mingsi next door spoke again, "Sister Bitao may have suffered from some strange disease recently, why is her mind not clear, why should Concubine Mei worry about the harem, whether it's the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Shangyuan Festival? Or is it Double Ninth Day, the big and small ceremonies, aren’t we all organized by Concubine Wen?”

Hearing girls quarreling was much more interesting than watching men fight. Bai Lu immediately went out, stood by the next window, tiptoed to peek inside, and wanted to see what this sharp-tongued girl looked like.

I saw two girls standing opposite each other inside, one was wearing a lively double bun with two velvet peach blossoms inserted, and a pink and white plain pleated satin skirt, the other had her hair braided into three strands of braids, and at the end she didn't bother. Together, they are wearing a smoky gray Robe skirt.

This is not the uniform attire of the maids in the palace. Bai Lu guessed that the concubine's personal maids had the privilege to dress.

He leaned on the window sill to listen to the corner of the wall, Ling Feng stood quietly behind him like a silent ghost, not trying to stop him at all.

Ling Feng is a competent bodyguard. Since he was ordered to protect Bai Lu, don't say that Bai Lu is just listening to the corner. Pretend not to see.

Inside the house, Bi Tao couldn't bear to show weakness, "Every festival, our concubine Mei will attend the ceremony, isn't there one less time?"

Mingsi smiled, "That's right, every festival, Concubine Mei waits for everything to be ready before she wears beautiful clothes and shows her face in a reserved manner. Before, when Concubine Wen was planning the banquet and getting up and down, she didn't see her." Visit Concubine Mei once."

Without waiting for Bi Tao to refute, Ming Si immediately said: "Presumably, Concubine Mei prefers to dress herself up. It is said that she often dresses in red, willow and green. I don't know why she always passes by the only way for His Majesty to go to court every day. I don't know what's on her mind." Woolen cloth."

Bai Lu was dumbfounded when he heard it: "It's so powerful, is this the legendary Gong Dou?"The maidservants of the two concubines were arguing so fiercely, so if the legendary Concubine Mei and Concubine Wen met, the world would collapse and the earth would be shaken? !

Just as Bai Lu was sighing, the door next to him squeaked and was suddenly pushed open to both sides. The door panel almost hit Bai Lu's shoulder, but fortunately Ling Feng reached out his hand in time to block it.

Bi Tao stepped out angrily, twisted her slender eyebrows, gave Bai Lu a hard look, turned around and left without saying a word.

A few seconds later, Ming Si came out with a small square bamboo basket, politely blessed Bai Lu, and left.

Bai Lu watched them walk away thoughtfully, and then continued to say to Ling Feng: "Help me take my things back, I'm going somewhere."

Ling Feng said without changing his face: "Your Majesty has ordered, I must follow you every step of the way."

"...you will follow me when I take a bath?"

Ling Feng's ears turned red silently, he looked away, pretended not to hear, and started his special skill - pretending to be deaf and dumb.

Bai Lu gave him a helpless look, "Go back first, I won't cause trouble."

Ling Feng refused to give in, "This is His Majesty's order, I cannot..."

"Your Majesty, it's a ball. Besides, he is going to court at the moment, and he won't know."

Ling Feng didn't speak any more, but he didn't leave either, and just followed him not far or near.

Bai Lu was at his wit's end, he couldn't beat him again and again, what could he do, so he found a little eunuch and asked him to send back the box containing the silver, and walked west by himself.

Going west, walking 600 meters, is Shangyi Pavilion.

Bai Lu heard from the court lady before that Shangyi Pavilion is a branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is responsible for managing the clothes of the masters.But it doesn't mean that just putting the clothes there is enough. The people in Shangyi Pavilion have to take out the clothes regularly for cleaning, drying, ironing, and also smoke them with exquisite aromatherapy.At the same time, it is necessary to check whether the expensive embroidery on the clothes is damaged, so that it can be repaired or replaced in time.

In short, it was a very busy place, Bai Lu guessed that the clothes he wore when he entered the palace, and the sachet containing the poison were also placed there.

The people in Shangyi Pavilion are so diligent, there is no guarantee that a little maid will open his sachet one day. Before the incident happened, Bai Lu decided to take the sachet back secretly and find a place to bury it.

Shangyi Pavilion is a very beautiful three-story embroidery building. There are more than a dozen high clothes poles standing in the yard behind the building, and the clothes as thin as cicada's wings flutter slightly in the breeze.

As soon as Bai Lu entered the door, he saw a few maids holding something like an iron spoon, with a heat-insulated wooden handle. The boat-shaped iron spoon contained red-hot charcoal, and the bottom was flat. At first glance, it looked like some kind of terrible instrument of torture. This is the iron for ironing clothes.

They were carefully ironing a gold silk smoked skirt with cloud sleeves on the table. It looked quite expensive, and it probably belonged to a concubine in the harem.

Seeing Bai Lu coming in, one of the maids in red raised her head, "Who is your master?"

Bai Lu hurriedly said: "Oh, I'm the one who entered the palace a few days ago... the luthier from Wangyue Tower, did the clothes I wore before come from yours?"

"It's Mr. Bai, we've put away all your clothes, please wait a moment."

The maid in red turned her head to the girl next to her and said, "Xiao Yue, go to the clothing pavilion to look for the young master's clothes."

Xiaoyue agreed, and was about to put down the iron, when suddenly a sparrow flew in from the window, flapped its wings and flew over Xiaoyue's head, and then Bai Lu saw a bright orange shadow rushing towards him, directly bumping into it. On Xiaoyue's arm.

The shadow was heavy and fat, knocking Xiaoyue staggering all at once, flipping the iron in his hand, and a few pieces of charcoal flying out, landed straight on the back of Xiaoyue's hand.

If this was touched, a layer of flesh would probably be scalded off. Xiaoyue's face turned pale with fright, her eyes widened, and her body almost froze.

Thanks to the achievements of Bai Lu's training in his previous life, and his quick reaction, he grabbed Xiaoyue's arm and pulled her back, only to avoid the pieces of charcoal and escape death.

Xiaoyue stood there in a daze, panting in shock.Bai Lu heaved a sigh of relief, and turned his head to see that the shadow just now turned out to be a round and solid orange cat. At this time, he was squatting at the foot of the table and licking his paws as if nothing had happened, completely unaware that he almost caused a catastrophe.

Bai Lu couldn't help saying from the bottom of his heart: "Fuck, this cat is so fat!"

As soon as he finished sighing, he heard several court ladies beside him suddenly screaming. Bai Lu turned his head, and it turned out that the pieces of charcoal did not fall on Xiaoyue's hands, but on his clothes.The material of the Yanluo skirt is very light and thin silk, and when it meets sparks, it catches fire instantly and burns up.

Bai Lu didn't care too much, it was just a piece of clothing, if it burnt out, just make another one, it's better than being scalded.

But those maids were all pale and terrified, as if the sky had fallen.

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The jumping flames burned for about seven or eight seconds under the meeting of everyone's stunned gazes. Finally, the maid in red was the first to react, picked up the vase next to it, pulled out the flower branches inside, and put the All the water was poured on the clothes.

There was only a bang, and a wisp of green smoke came up faintly, and the flame was extinguished, but the finely crafted gold silk smoke skirt with cloud sleeves was also burnt out with several scorched holes of different sizes, as small as The copper plate is so large that it can pass through the entire palm, and it is burned right where the gold embroidery is.

Looking at the messy clothes, the red-clothed palace lady's face was extremely ugly, but Xiao Yue covered her mouth and began to cry softly.

Bai Lu was a little dazed, "Why are you crying, did you burn yourself just now?"

Xiaoyue just shook her head and said with a choked voice, "Back...Back to my lord, the servant girl ruined Concubine Mei's clothes, she was scared and couldn't help crying..."

Bai Lu scratched his hair in some embarrassment, "Hey, what's there to cry about? You didn't mean it, Concubine Mei...is that noble concubine?"

Xiaoyue nodded, and cried intermittently: "Concubine Mei said she would come to get the clothes today, but it turned out like this, I, I..."

Just as Bai Lu was about to say something, he suddenly heard loud footsteps outside the door. He turned his head and saw a group of people slowly approaching outside.

The leader is a very good-looking woman, with a delicate and gorgeous hairpin on her thick black hair, a pair of silver-encrusted white jade beads on her ears, and a peacock blue embroidered dress, probably in the early spring It was cold in the morning, so I put on a gold gauze double-breasted overshirt.

In short, she is a magnificent and glorious young lady from a rich family, which makes people unable to take their eyes off her.

Bai Lu noticed that her skin was very good. Even a straight and rough guy like him who didn't care much about appearance could tell that this person's skin was much fairer and more delicate than others.

Next to the woman was a little girl, who seemed to be the Bi Tao who had just met and quarreled with others, and behind them were four ordinary court ladies and four accompanying eunuchs.

Bi Tao gently supported the woman's arm, stepped over the threshold of Shangyi Pavilion, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, be careful where you step."

Bai Lu guessed in his heart that this was the legendary Concubine Mei.

Concubine Mei entered the Shangyi Pavilion, and a group of maids around knelt down to salute, Bai Lu didn't move, and Ling Feng behind him didn't move either, they just nodded slightly as a sign of courtesy.

Ling Feng is the imperial bodyguard who directly belongs to His Majesty. Although he has the name of a bodyguard, he is actually a third-rank official and does not need to be a concubine in the harem.

but……

Concubine Mei raised the tip of her eyes, and her unkind and disdainful gaze fell on Bai Lu.Where did this person come from? How dare he stand indifferently in front of the noble concubine?There is no queen in the harem, and the imperial concubine is the highest concubine.

Bi Tao reprimanded loudly: "Who are you, you don't kneel down and salute when you see the imperial concubine!"

Bai Lu spread out his hands, and said brazenly, "I'm sorry, my knee is sick and I can't bend it."

Bi Tao flushed with anger, "How rude, are you looking for death, this is the imperial concubine!"

Bai Lu: "I know, you've said it twice."

Concubine Mei frowned slightly, and was about to ask the two eunuchs to drag this ignorant brat out to beat him, when she caught a glimpse of the clothes on the table out of the corner of her eye, her complexion turned dark and she was so angry that her seven orifices smoked.

"What's the matter with this skirt?! How did it become like this?!"

The maid in red raised her head and said nervously: "Going back to your mother, this is... a cat suddenly came in while ironing, bumped into someone, and the charcoal fell on the clothes, that's why... Your mother forgives me!"

Concubine Mei squinted her eyes, glanced at the maids kneeling on the ground one by one with needle-like eyes, and scolded sharply: "Which damned maidservant, who can't even hold an iron, dares to ruin my clothes, come out!"

Several palace maids were trembling with fright, Concubine Mei sneered, "If you don't come out, then pull all these servants out and cut off those useless hands."

As soon as this remark came out, the ladies in the palace panicked, crying and begging for mercy one after another, Xiaoyue bit her lip, moved her knees while crying and crawled out, begging: "My lady, forgive me, it's the fault of the servant, the servant didn't do it on purpose. Yes, please forgive me..."

Concubine Mei glanced at her condescendingly, "It's you bastard? I can't afford to sell you my clothes! Someone, catch her for me!"

The two eunuchs immediately stepped forward, grabbed Xiaoyue's arms from left to right, and pulled her up from the ground.

Concubine Mei picked up the iron on the table, but her slender white hand wearing a jade-encrusted gold armor pinched Xiao Yue's face like a rakshasa, and said viciously: "A useless slave who doesn't know how to work. I only know how to tell stories and chew people's tongues!"

I don't know who she is mirroring. Most likely, it is what Ming Si said at the time of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was embellished by Bitao and taught to the master.

"Baby maid, I can't see your mouth anymore, so you can know what duty is!"

After Concubine Mei finished speaking, she actually wanted to pour hot charcoal from the iron into Xiaoyue's mouth.

Xiaoyue was terrified, her whole body was shaking like a sieve, tears were streaming down her face, and she begged for mercy indistinctly.

If it really poured in, even if it was lucky that it didn't burn to death, the face and throat would be ruined.

Seeing the red-hot iron getting closer and closer, at the critical moment, Bai Lu reached out and grabbed Concubine Mei's arm, frowned and said, "I say you're almost done, there's no one who would die just because of a piece of clothing, it's a big deal I will pay you for her."

Unexpectedly, Bai Lu grabbed her arm just like that, through her clothes. The noble Concubine Mei turned pale with fright, as if she had touched something dirty, she snapped, "Which palace are you from?" Yuan's servants dared to touch me even after eating the bear's heart and leopard's guts!"

"..."

Bai Lu let go of his fingers a little at a loss. In terms of his occupation, whether in the boxing ring or in the audience, he was basically a gentleman. Arrogant and domineering, he didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Concubine Mei threw away the iron angrily, and ordered the eunuch behind her, "Come here, beat me to death for this desperate dog slave!"

One of the eunuchs rushed over, reaching out to grab Bai Lu's arm.

A trace of cruelty flashed in Ling Feng's eyes, he took a step forward, and was about to draw his sword to kill someone, when suddenly he saw Bai Lu raised his hand, and grasped the opponent's wrist accurately, and clasped his shoulder with the other hand, using his strength to force him to kill him. With force, a standard back throw threw the eunuch who was half a head taller than him out, the movement was neat and skillful.

The eunuch slammed heavily on the ground, yelling and unable to get up, the orange cat that had caused a catastrophe meowed in fright, twisted its fat body, and jumped onto the low cabinet beside it.

Bai Lu clapped his hands, and said inexplicably, "Can't you talk properly, why are you moving your hands?"

Ling Feng gave him a slightly surprised look, then stood back behind him.

Bai Lu hooked his hands, signaled Xiaoyue to come to him, and then looked at Concubine Mei, "Okay, don't be angry, I don't know how important a piece of clothing is to a girl, but I will compensate you That’s it, you don’t need to kill others.”

Concubine Mei snorted, "Are you paying? Can you afford it? Seven embroiderers spent 30 days stitching my smokey skirt and it's worth 300 taels of silver. How can you pay for it?" ?!"

300 taels... Elder sister, are the 30 clothes really not heavy for you?

Bai Luxin said that 300 taels would be affordable, but it was really distressing to have to pay half of his salary all of a sudden.

He thought for a while, then turned his head to discuss with Ling Feng in a low voice: "You said I want to ask Chu Ya to help pay for it, is it feasible?"

Ling Feng seemed speechless, and he held back for a long time before uttering a sentence: "Under the whole world, is it the king's land?"

Bai Lu made an OK gesture: "Understood, let him pay."

Ling Feng: "..."