[Red House] Lixian

Early the next morning, when Wei Qian came back from Qingning Palace, she smelled a faint fragrance in the room.

The so-called colorless and odorless is only in relative terms. For ordinary people, this kind of fragrance cannot be detected.But Wei Qian's facial features are keen, and she can vaguely detect clues.

This fragrance is harmless to women's bodies, but it has only one purpose - to kill sperm.Even if you barely get pregnant, there is a great chance of miscarriage.

Of course, Wei Qian didn't know the purpose of this fragrance, but she had some kind of spiritual feeling, so she stood at the door of the outer room and refused to go in.

The white cloud marten in her arms suddenly fluffed up, jumped onto the table, stared at Wei Qian's bedside and squeaked.

"Huh?" Xiangling asked in surprise, "Today's spices are very generous, can't Diaoer not bear it?" Green smoke rose from the five-color sweet-scented osmanthus incense cauldron on Wei Qian's table, and there was Wei Qian's frequently used refreshing spices inside. It can increase the effect of visualization and concentration.

Baiyun Diao is psychic, and it can easily detect things that ordinary people cannot perceive.Wei Qian clapped his hands, and Bai Yun Diao jumped into his arms again.Wei Qian sneered: "Think you can cover the smell with my osmanthus powder?" Hugging Baiyun Diao, he turned and walked out of the house: "Xiangling, go to my box and mix Tanjung Borneol, Liuxiang Fuzi, and Qingying Bailan into my box. Let's light it together."

"This..." Xiangling was stunned. Wei Qian's spices are rare and expensive. Among them, Liuxiang Fuzi is produced in Nanyang, and Tanjung Borneol is the essence of a kind of vanilla refined in the snowy area. As for Qingying Bailan, it is more precious. The secret treasure of the fairy family that Yun presented to her.It is a face powder refined from Breitling flowers.

"Can these kinds of spices be confused?" Xiangling murmured in his heart, and went to find Wei Qian's spices from the warehouse in the apse.

Throw away the spices that were ignited today, mix the essence, seeds and pollen together and ignite, and suddenly a weird smell spread throughout the house, causing the maids to run out of the house one after another.

Seeing Wei Qian's face sinking like water, Yiyun Qiyun was terrified, and stood by the side, not daring to speak.

After waiting for a while, the weird smell inside suddenly turned into a light and elegant aroma, and the aroma felt by the white mink became more intense at first.

Hong Chun frowned. She had been with Wei Qian for many years, so of course she knew the strange smell produced by the mixture of these three fragrances.But now there is a new smell change, indicating that there is another kind of spice medicine in the house.

Since they didn't prepare it, could it be that the person who prepared this kind of thing had good intentions?

"Who is in charge of adding fragrance today?"

All the court ladies around him ran to Wei Qian's side, seeing her mother's phoenix eyes glaring angrily, her heart trembled, Qi Yun tremblingly said: "It's Yiyun."

Yiyun walked out of the queue, biting the bullet: "Today is the servant girl who is adding incense."

"The spice is so heavy today, is that what you mean?"

"Two days ago, Sister Xiangling said that the empress was sleeping lightly, and she wanted to add some more to the empress to calm her mind."

"Soothe the nerves? This is to cover the smell of other spices in the house, right? Say, who cleaned the bed today?"

Several maids looked at it, and their eyes fell on Yiyun.

"Still a slave."

Serving Yuexu after all, Wei Qian said softly: "Has no one else come in? Has no one touched anything in this palace while you were away?"

In a flash, Yi Yun knelt down in front of Wei Qian.

"It seems that I don't need to say more, you admit that you did it yourself?"

"Hongchun, you take the two maids and send her back to Yeting to be dealt with by the empress." Wei Qian was in a slump. Although he knew that there were many spies around him, he never thought that he would dare to attack at this time.

After sweeping around the crowd, Wei Qian said, "I don't understand. After the system of female officials in the court, whether you want to be promoted or not depends on what I think. Just like this, you dare to betray the master? Are you being punished by others?" Did you take care of your family, or is someone else offering you a better price?"

Wei Qian's situation attracted the attention of other people in the palace.Currently there are four servants in Yongfu Palace, Bai Su, Shi Qinglan, Ni Yan and Qi Qiurou.

According to the level after tailoring, these few are all talents.

Seeing that Wei Qian was furious, she hurried over to check what happened.

Bai Su smiled and said: "Sister, this is..." She fixed her eyes on Yiyun: "But this girl Yiyun doesn't do things according to her heart?"

"It's nothing, it's just that she moved my sister's mattress and added some things that shouldn't be put there. You should also be careful when you look back, lest you get hurt and don't know."

The complexions of the talented people changed slightly, and they thought of something bad at the same time.

Ni Yan was furious, stepped forward and pointed at Yi Yun and cursed: "You lowly maidservant, who instigated you to dare to tamper with my Yongfu Palace?"

Several people also smelled the strong fragrance in the room, covered their mouths and noses, and frowned.

"I'm not staying in the palace today." Wei Qian stroked Baiyun Diao, Diao Er snorted comfortably, and wagged her tail to express her gratitude to Wei Qian.

Wei Qian's face softened, ""If it wasn't for the cleverness of this Diaoer, Ben Gong, I'm afraid it really made others succeed. "

"Come here, go and send Bengong's canopy bed to the imperial dining room to be used as firewood. Bengong will never touch a bed that is contaminated with things."

Bai Su was startled, and hurriedly said: "Sister, this bed is your favorite bed."

Burning the wedding bed is inauspicious.

"Then what do you mean?"

"Send it to the imperial hospital, let those imperial physicians examine it, and then suppress it with incense. It's not easy to make a big fuss about this matter."

Wei Qian is a newcomer, so what if she knows other people's conspiracy?I can only suffer this loss honestly and investigate secretly.

"But is it my way to do this?" Wei Qian smiled lightly, and ordered people to move the wedding bed out, deliberately creating noise to let others know.And she ordered Bai Su and others to guard the palace gate and ran out of the palace gate by herself.

"Yongfu Palace is closed tonight. If the emperor comes, no lanterns are allowed." After speaking, he went to Lingqi Palace to find Wen Xiuyi.

As soon as he left, Bai Su exploded: "What is this? She is not feeling well, and she won't let us pamper her?"

Shi Qinglan confronted Bai Su every day, and at this moment he sneered: "Why, do you still want to pamper you today? I don't even see if you can conceive. How many other people's eyeliners in Yongfu Palace? Even my sister was recruited today, how can I know?" Are you okay in my room?"

Bai Su's complexion changed, Ni Yan said: "Go back and check to see if there is anything wrong in our house. Anyway, we will move out in a few days, and then we don't have to stay in Yongfu Palace." But after moving out, we will be safe Yet?Although she left under Wei Qian's hands, are the other empresses easy to talk to?

The four were worried and dispersed.

In Lingqi Hall, Wen Xiuyi was studying, when someone reported suddenly: "Ningfei Empress is here."

Hurry up to go out to greet her, only to see a fiery red cloud in her arms: "Sister, my sister has something to ask."

"What's the matter?" Wen Xiuyi welcomed Wei Qian in: "What do you need my sister to help?" According to Wei Qian's current favor with the empress dowager, why would she not look for herself?

Wen Xiuyi fell out of favor early on for many years.

"I want to stay with my sister tonight. Don't dare to disturb my sister, just prepare a side hall."

"Live with my sister?" Wen Xiuyi and Wei Qian had a close relationship these days, but it hasn't reached this point yet, right?

"If you want to come and live, my sister is of course welcome, but you are also the lord of the first palace, so it is unreasonable to live in a side hall." Wen Xiuyi shook her head, "Why do you suddenly have such an idea?"

Wei Qian told what he had done.

"Nonsense! Burning the wedding bed, thank you for thinking of it!" Wen Xiuyi frowned, and said in a more serious tone: "The wedding bed has the meaning of a hundred years of marriage. Where do you burn the wedding bed and put your majesty? In the future, we will be separated from each other." , It’s too unlucky.” Then he ordered people to stop the burning of the bed.

Then, the person who pulled Wei Qian: "You are shallow and high-spirited. Others are just plotting against you, so you are so resistant. Looking back, is it possible to burn the bed every day?"

What Wei Qian experienced, Wen Xiuyi also experienced at the beginning. He cleared the things out without showing his face, and then found someone to find out, and buried it in his heart.But he didn't dare to say that there was such a movement as Wei Qian.

"You are so reckless, you will be used as a gun in the future."

Wei Qian smiled, and acted like a baby to Wen Xiuyi: "My sister only said if I will let you live, if you don't let me live, then I can go back to the cold palace and make do with it for a night."

"This is getting more and more outrageous. How can you and I live in the Lenggong?" Seeing Wei Qian's resolute attitude, Wen Xiuyi had no choice but to ask someone to clean up the mattress: "You will stay here with my sister tonight, by the way Study ink and write for my sister."

Whether it's talking at night while holding candles, or adding fragrance to the red sleeves, the two of them have the intention of forming an alliance after staying for one night.At least in the eyes of outsiders.

The fact that Wei Qian and Wen Xiuyi can share the same bed is enough to show that their close relationship is even higher than that of their blood sister Jia Yuanchun.

Wen Xiuyi agreed, Wei Qian was overjoyed, and chatted and laughed with Wen Xiuyi in the hall.But in the palace, because of her movement, it attracted everyone's attention.

Empress Dowager Chen was discussing with Queen Wang about the matter of Ye Ting in the palace. At this time, the female prime minister hurried in to report: "Ms. Concubine Ning ordered someone to bring Yi Yun, the eldest maid of her palace, to Ye Ting, saying that she made a big mistake and let the court go. Yeting handles it. And..."

Empress Dowager Chen frowned: "And what?"

"Concubine Ning sent her wedding bed to Yeting, saying that it was used as firewood for Shangshan Bureau."

"Burning the bed?" The two most noble women in the palace were stunned.

"Nonsense!" The Empress Dowager Chen was furious: "Since I entered the palace, I have never heard of the destruction of the bed!"

Immediately said to the female supervisor beside her: "Go and stop the actions of the people in Concubine Ning's palace, and let Concubine Ning come to see me!"

Then find someone to ask what happened, and know that Concubine Ning has something on the bed, so she understands in her heart.

Questioning to Queen Wang: "Concubine Ning said that there is something wrong with the bed, what do you think?"

"My son thinks that someone may have resorted to ulterior motives." Queen Wang replied cautiously, horrified in her heart: I just started this morning, and now I found out?This concubine Ning is indeed not an ordinary person.

"Secret tricks, ha ha." The Empress Dowager Chen said: "You have been in charge of the harem for more than a year, and no one in the harem has given birth to any heirs, but this kind of thing broke out?" Looking at the queen from top to bottom, she was furious: "This palace official you If you can't manage it, I will hand it over to someone else!"

"My son is terrified!" Queen Wang hurriedly apologized, and Empress Dowager Chen said in a cold tone: "Get up. Concubine Ning is very angry. Today I found out that there is something wrong with the wedding bed. This matter must be investigated to the end. I want to see who is doing the harm. Dragon Heir!"

Wei Qian caught him, and Hong Chun deliberately followed to prevent Yi Yun from committing suicide, and Ye Ting confessed not long after.

In Ningshou Palace, the Empress Dowager summoned four concubines and nine concubines to answer the concubine.Up to the queen, down to Baolin, all gathered together.Wei Qian and Wen Xiuyi sat together, and they listened quietly.

In the palace, the female prime minister reported to all the concubines: "According to Yiyun's report, this incident seems to be instigated by people from Mingquan Palace."

Mingquan Palace, the bedroom of Concubine Wu.

When everyone looked at her, Concubine Wu Guifei's face turned pale, and she quickly knelt down to redress her grievances: "I have been wronged!"

"Injustice? What did your palace people do? You don't know?" Queen Wang slapped the table: "Come here, close the Mingquan Palace, let Yiyun identify the person, and arrest that person to see me!"

One of the maids went out to deliver the order, and after a while she came back in panic and reported: "I want to tell you, Madam, that court lady has jumped into the well and drowned herself."

Suicide in fear of guilt?The corner of Concubine Wu Gui's mouth twitched, she couldn't wash herself off what she said.

Empress Dowager Chen's expression was not right, she stared at Concubine Wu Gui, thinking that no one in the palace was pregnant this year, all the grievances were directed at Concubine Wu Gui.

"This... this is really not my concubine's doing." Although Concubine Wu Gui wanted to do something to Wei Qian, she hadn't had time to do it yet!

"That's right, Empress Dowager, perhaps it wasn't my sister who did it, but the people in my palace who wanted to help my sister vent their anger." Deng Zhaoyi added fuel to the side with a half-smile.

Concubine Wu's eyes widened, glaring at Deng Zhaoyi.

"What, what else do you want to do? Attack Concubine Deng?" The Empress Dowager Chen scolded angrily: "Come here, take away her golden seal, rush her back to the palace and lock her up tightly, and wait for Your Majesty to deal with her."

"Empress Dowager." Wei Qian suddenly came out at this moment, kneeling beside Concubine Wu Gui: "Empress, whether this matter was done by the elder sister of the imperial concubine or not is something to be discussed."

"You want to intercede with her?" Empress Dowager Chen said: "She did it by someone in the palace, doesn't she know?"

"If it's really her who did it, why bother to let someone from my own palace come forward, and why let Yi Yun identify me?" Wei Qian patted Concubine Wu Gui on the back: "The concubine is in a different place. If I want someone to do things, I definitely won't use my own family." People in the palace. Not to mention that people will not see your face. And under the instigation of others, the maids of Mingquan Palace are really the elder sisters of the noble concubine?"

"Can Yiyun betray the master? That person is a loyal person?" Wei Qian said with a smile: "Using the concubine's elder sister and the palace servants to deal with the concubine is just a plan to kill two birds with one stone."

"Then tell me, who did it?"

"The concubine is ignorant, so I don't dare to infer the murderer. But when I think about it carefully, even if the concubine sister wants to attack, she shouldn't be so blatant."

Empress Dowager Chen shook her head, do you think there are smart people in the palace?Some fools are ready to harm others when they are provoked.

"My cousin Yuanchun is related to me by blood. The medicine is nothing more than to cut off the offspring and harm Longzhong. My sister was never pregnant. If my sister gave birth to a dragon son, wouldn't it be a happy event for the Weijia family? This matter must have nothing to do with my cousin." Wei Qian He looked at Wen Xiuyi again: "The elder sister of the Wen family has a very good relationship with the concubine, so I guess it wasn't her who did it. But who it is, the concubine is ignorant, so I can't tell."

Concubine Wu Gui suddenly raised her head, glared at the empress, and gritted her teeth: "Nine concubines have a low status, how can they have the right to put eyeliner in this palace? Although concubine Xian has status, but the blood relationship with Concubine Ning is something to think about." , and only my sister!"

"Ridiculous!" Queen Wang said angrily, "What are you doing with me at this time? Concubine Wu, you dare to doubt Bengong after doing such a secret thing?"

The two insisted on their own opinions, Jia Yuanchun thought silently, and slowly said: "The empress dowager, it is easy to find out about this matter. If the empress dowager or Wu Guifei did it, is it only for the younger sister? The concubine dares to ask the empress dowager." The empress is in charge of a thorough investigation of the six palaces to identify traitors."

Investigate all the arrangements in the palace, whoever does not have it in the palace will be suspected.

Empress Dowager Chen nodded: "Come here, let the Bashang Palace and the Sixteen Attendants of Yeting take action, let's come one palace after another!"