[Red Mansions] The promotion of the female history of salted fish

What about the handkerchief?Yunling quickly thought of the man kneeling outside the screen, although he couldn't see his face, but he didn't look like an eunuch from his kneeling posture.Then the purpose of these people's constant questioning of her handkerchief is very clear.She didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly replied, "It's in the box that I usually use for storing odds and ends. When I get it, the empress will know it at a glance."

Her expression was too calm to be fake.It's just that the court lady already believed what the man said outside to a certain extent, but seeing her expression, she suspected that she was trying to force her, "Your Majesty trusts her, and the empress is now assisting the palace affairs. There are so many things that can't be dealt with in a day, can it be Waiting for an afternoon to do this for you?"

Yunling Yilin, the current emperor passed away early in the middle palace, and the noble concubine has been in charge of palace affairs for many years.Until the end of last month, as soon as the female historians who entered the palace were assigned to the palace, the emperor ordered Zhuang Concubine, Concubine Shu and Concubine Hui assist in the palace affairs, and now the four concubines are in charge of the palace affairs.However, the eighth prince born to Concubine Hui is still young and consumes the most energy. Although he has a name, he doesn't care much about it.Presumably this beautiful concubine is either Concubine Zhuang or Concubine Shu.

The nanny who brought her in also said at this time, "Since you didn't bring the handkerchief with a similar pattern, can you borrow the handkerchief that Nu Shi uses every day?"

She asked politely, did Yunling dare to say "no"?I had no choice but to take out a handkerchief embroidered with orchid grass from my pocket and hand it over.The nanny took the veil and looked at it carefully, then frowned, and said to the concubine above, "Your Majesty, they are all like Su."

Su embroidery was rated as one of the "Four Famous Embroideries" in later generations, and it was also quite popular at this time.But here is the capital city and the imperial palace after all, and the mainstream pattern should be the "palace pattern" that combines the strengths of embroidery from all over the world.Neither the handkerchief that Yunling handed in nor the evidence contained any unique embroidery techniques. Although it is said that women's embroidery techniques are similar to handwriting, but—her classmates all practice block letters. Just you practice official script, and now you find a piece of embroidery on it. The note written in official script, no matter how you look at it, you are more suspicious, right?

A hundred grass and mud horses galloped past in Yunling's heart, not daring to look up to see if the concubine had any tendency to develop into a hostile camp, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said to the concubine, "That is really not a minister's handkerchief, but Even if I take out the one I made now, some people will suspect that I embroidered two identical ones. The matter is innocent, and I dare not argue," while speaking, she turned her gaze to the nanny who was standing aside, "Also please please Mammy love me, and tell me about the matter roughly, so that I don't know the bottom line and make random guesses, but miss the mother's good intention of allowing me to prove my innocence."

The concubine put down the tea bowl, raised her eyebrows with interest, and did not object.The nanny who has followed her for half her life naturally knew that this was her consent, so she said it briefly.

The cause of the matter is simple. Two days ago, the empress was wandering around the imperial garden on a whim, and she met the Seventh Princess who was picking flowers there. The empress saw that she was cute, so she teased her a few words. By the way, she called the Seventh Princess Sending it to the biological mother Wu Meiren, just bumping into Wu Meiren asking for peace of mind.The imperial doctor had white beard and hair, and the drug boy in his twelfth and thirteen years, called "Tian Qi", was clever, and made the empress laugh a few times, and let him go down after giving him two plates of dim sum.

Unexpectedly, this morning when I went to Qixiang Palace to look for Concubine Shu, I ran into a man looking around on the road.So the empress stopped and asked, this man claimed to be a drug boy from the Tai Hospital, and also argued that he had suddenly grown taller this year, but in fact he was only 13 years old, and he could probably tell a little bit about the situation in the Tai Hospital.It's just that when the empress asked his name, the man said that he was also called Tian Qi, and the empress thought it was wrong, and asked him to show his identity badge, this man panicked and begged for mercy repeatedly.In the end, the empress revealed her identity, and he confessed that he came here to meet friends.

The good friend is a court lady named Yun'er.He didn't know which palace he worked in, but he often met in Chuxiu Palace.This handkerchief is regarded as a token of love.After checking, the empress found that there was still a female historian in Chuxiu Palace who had not been assigned a specific job after the small election, and her name had a "cloud", so she announced her here.

"You said that this veil is not yours, but you have been very diligent lately. You put on a good job so that the maids can't do it, and go to the big kitchen to pick up the food every day!" The mother said to Yunling with a sneer after finishing her previous summary. .

This is really... Yunling thought of the man who was kneeling at the door when she first came in, and saw that the mother and the palace maid had been talking about the whole thing for a long time, and the man seemed to be dead, so she couldn't help feeling a little anxious.Although he denied that there is a high probability that the concubine would still doubt her, wouldn't it be too much not to say a word?

Oh, yes, since it is said that this empress is looking for Concubine Shu this morning, then she is probably Concubine Zhuang.Yunling bowed again to Concubine Zhuang, "Since that's the case, please allow me to defend myself."

Concubine Zhuang looked at her and smiled, "Sure."

"For one thing, there are rules about food and clothing in the palace. The only court lady's clothing that I can touch now is the clothes of Xiaoyan who lives with me in Chuxiu Palace. She is more than a foot shorter than me and thinner."

The man outside the screen muttered loudly, "Yun... You, you clearly said that the clothes of court ladies often don't fit."

This is true, after all, the clothes of the court ladies are work clothes, and some young maids are still long, and they often wear short skirts.However, new work clothes are made every quarter, and there is basically no case where a person is more than one foot longer than the skirt.Therefore, the man's confidence is not enough.

However, his "mumbling" was clear and full of breath. Although the voice was not loud, people in the room could still hear it clearly, obviously it was not blurted out by accident.Concubine Zhuang flicked the bracelet on her wrist out of boredom, and covered her mouth and yawned delicately when she withdrew her right hand.

Yunling's heart is full of crap.Brother, did I dig your ancestral grave or carried your child down the well?You and you can't be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but you can strive to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day, why bother to hurt innocent passers-by...

No, thoughts flashed through Yunling's mind.If all this is true, it would be too coincidental.According to the confession, the man and the court lady had been dating for less than three months, and it was when the women who were reserved for women's history moved into Chuxiu Palace. □□Think of the harem as if it were your own garden, and you can walk freely in the harem by lying that you are another person.If Concubine Zhen Gui managed the harem at this level, she would not have held power for so many years after the death of Empress Yuan.

Yun Ling's eyes skipped over Concubine Zhuang, but she was in the neutral camp.Then today's incident was either planned by Concubine Zhuang, but the ultimate target was not her, and she missed the auxiliary car.Either other concubines wanted to deal with the noble concubine, and Concubine Zhuang followed suit.

Yunling picked up the handkerchief from the tray on one side, and stood facing Concubine Zhuang, "Secondly, as a token of love, why didn't I use the common lovebirds with twigs, but the fragrance of osmanthus instead..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the man kneeling outside said again, "Didn't I say it back then, I'm going to perform martial arts, and Pazi wished me success in the Toad Palace."

Yunling ignored him, and continued, "Three things, when the girl brought over the handkerchief just now, there was a faint fragrance on the handkerchief, and there was no incense in the case of female history..." Of course, the incense in the palace Incense is provided to the master. The female history put it nicely, it is the minister who helps to manage the harem, but it is not considered the "master" according to the division of master and slave in the feudal dynasty.

If other female historians say this, they will not have enough confidence, because they are in front of the concubine every day, and they sometimes get the smell of incense if they are not careful, but Yunling is not guilty at all, because since the end of the election, it has been more than one year. In the first month, she recuperated in Chuxiu Palace, the only thing that went out of the way in the second half of the month was going to the big kitchen in person every day, so it was impossible for her to be contaminated by the fragrance.

but……

The maid who brought Yunling over was a little puzzled, but retreated to the side under the signal from Concubine Zhuang's eyes, without opening her mouth.

"This veil has a different meaning. Although I carry it with me today, it is usually placed in an incense box." The man was able to pretend to be a slip of the tongue twice before, but he repeatedly refuted it, and he still doesn't understand it now. Hypocritical, "I also ask the empress to see that the villain will take credit for the crime, and don't implicate the villain's family."

This person opened his mouth with all kinds of excuses, and Yunling couldn't help but feel strange, "Oh, then you still have to offer up the handkerchief three times a day? You never use this handkerchief to wipe things before and after meals, right? "

The man kneeling outside the door lowered his head and responded, "Of course I keep this handkerchief well all the time, how can I take it casually every day?" He sighed, "You... tell your mother the truth, she is kind , will not implicate the family."

It became.

"But the scent on this veil is not only incense, but also fruity. I smell it..." Yunling picked up the veil, and finally turned to the screen, with a half-smile, "It's lychee, why, you smoked it on purpose too ?"

At this time, lychee is not a kind of fruit that is close to the people. How long has it been since the allusion of "riding the world and laughing at the concubine"?It's not that Yunling looks down on people and was pushed out to be cannon fodder, probably she will never see what Lizhi looks like in this life.

"You nonsense!" The veil was handed in from him. He knew that it had fragrance on it, but most of the incense used by women in daily life is Hexiang, and there are many kinds of raw materials. Fruity under incense?The man was sure that Yunling was deceiving him, "You just said that you couldn't touch the incense and I exposed it, and you just wanted to say that you can't touch the rare fruit to get rid of the crime."

"I've been smarter than others since I was young." The man was anxious, but Yun Ling completely calmed down, "But I'm afraid it's hard to convince everyone based on what I say alone," Yun Ling laughed at Concubine Zhuang , "I have a kind of potion, it will change color when touched with lychee juice..."