The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Sisi called for ten solid beatings. When the last board landed, blood was all over the ground. Yun Rong diligently stopped Xie Yuzhen from getting close.

Xie Yuzhen also pretended to be reluctant and said, "Chunfen, wait until Susu is carried back to the palace maids' quarters, go see her, give her some money, go to the Imperial Hospital and ask the doctor to take a look, and buy some medicine for her."

"Yes, ma'am." Chunfen accepted the order respectfully, but the hands hidden in his sleeves trembled involuntarily.

The imperial doctors in the palace usually treat the masters. If the palace servants are sick, either the masters will ask the imperial doctors or medical clerks to treat them, or they have to take money to the imperial hospital to ask the medical clerks to treat them, or buy some appropriate medicines to boil and drink.

As one of the people Xie Ruizhen trusted the most, Chunfen had been taught many code words that sounded normal on the surface. Although she was a little younger, she had also taken the trouble to memorize them.

Therefore, Chunfen knew very well that when Xie Yuzhen said this...he was going to let Susu's injury take his life.

Although he didn't understand why the master did this, Chunfen thought that the master must have a reason. There were so many people around and even if he didn't understand, he couldn't show any strangeness and let outsiders notice it. He had to do this beautifully.

Chunfen was determined to get this done for Xie Yuzhen, so she knelt down and said, "Then I will follow and send Sisi back, Xiaoxi, you come and help the lady."

"Yeah." Xie Yuzhen's face was filled with reluctance, as if he couldn't bear to see Susu's pitiful appearance even though they were very far away.

When Yun Rong saw this, she developed a better impression of Xie Yuzhen.

The execution went smoothly on Susu's side, but on another side, Shen Xiaoyi was fed a drug that could relax the body by the imperial physician. She could not even speak clearly and just muttered words like "Shen", "Love", "Your Majesty" and so on. The executioner's nanny took a bamboo ruler and hit her face again and again. After a few hits, her face was swollen beyond recognition. After twenty hits, Shen Xiaoyi's eyes were staring straight and blood was flowing from the corners of her mouth.

The words she yelled in the palace were too harsh, and were particularly presumptuous and rebellious. Based on Xie Yuzhen's understanding of the emperor, Shen Xiaoyi should be thankful that it was the queen sitting above her instead of him, otherwise Shen Xiaoyi would have lost her tongue, and Wen Baolin and the Shen family would have been implicated and held accountable.

Thinking about it this way, Xie Yu really wanted to agree with Concubine Song Shu - the Queen was kind-hearted by nature, and always had a bottom line when disciplining the palace maids and concubines, and would not easily be too harsh.

Shen Xiaoyi had just finished the fight.

Gao Sheng came with the emperor's order.

The emperor directly reprimanded Shen Xiaoyi for her madness and behavior, abolished her position, demoted her to a commoner, and sent her to the cold palace to accompany Qian Xianhui; her cousin Wen Baolin was unable to discipline her sister, so she was also confined to her house for three months; and Shen Xiaoyi's nominal father was also questioned, fined, and temporarily suspended from his post.

This time the emperor did not show up, and even just asked through Gaosheng whether Liu Yu was okay. Then he praised Concubine Song Shufei's righteous act and promised to ask the craftsman workshop to build a new carriage for her.

As for the other party who caused the accident, Miss Zhang, she was not even mentioned.

However, after Xie Yuzhen returned to the palace, he heard that the emperor had asked Concubine Zhang to accompany him again.

It can be seen that he was unwilling to let either his old love or his new love suffer injustice, so he could only let Shen Nanliu and Liu Yunv, who had fallen out of favor early, swallow the bitter fruit respectively.

Coincidentally.

Chunfen, who had sent Susu back to the palace maids' quarters, also came back. As soon as she entered the room, she bowed and said, "My lady, everything is done."

"It's good that it's settled. Poor thing, that child is just unlucky." Xie Yuzhen smiled and told Chunfen not to wait on him and to go downstairs to wash and rest. "I saw her covered in blood today, and I think you must be scared. Ask your sister Xiazhi for some money and ask the imperial kitchen to make some dishes you like. Also, order some soothing soup for a few days and have a good rest."

Chunfen shook her head: "I am not afraid, I am just afraid that things will go wrong and I will fail to live up to my wife's teachings."

Xie Yuzhen smiled so much that his eyes curved into crescents: "I'm here, there's nothing to worry about, dear child, go play, ah."

After coaxing the little girl away, Xia Zhi stuffed a handful of silver melon seeds into her mouth, then asked curiously, "Did the lady ask her to do something?"

"Well, let her deliver the external application medicine to the maid named Susu who served Shen. She was unable to persuade her master, so she was sent back to the maid's quarters and was beaten with ten boards. I don't know if she can get better."

Xia Zhi understood: "Ten strokes of the cane is not a minor injury, and she was demoted... It is common for people to die from a burn."

How good can the medicine prescribed by the medical officer for the palace maid be?

Most of those used for external application are made into black ointments. If someone carefully mixes some rust from ground iron into the ointment, it will be impossible to tell the difference.

Although he borrowed Chunfen's help, Xie Yuzhen was very clear that this was the first life he had taken, and there might be more in the future.

Although many concubines in the palace have always believed in Buddhism and in the law of cause and effect, even if the Buddha were sitting on a golden throne, he would never be able to stretch out his hand and ask the concubines of all dynasties to put down their butcher knives.

Xie Wei really doesn't believe in Buddhism.

But she will keep in mind the lives of those who have lost their lives because of her, constantly reminding herself of how difficult the path she wants to take is. She cannot allow herself and the people around her to one day become a name in the minds of others, or a useless string of words recited when praying to the Buddha to repent of their sins.

That night, the palace maid Susu, who was as small as an ant, lost her life from a high fever.

It was also this night.

Feng Gui and Zhou Si, who were guarding the gate of the cold palace, received a new income from a concubine wearing a hooded cloak.

They had been in the lower levels of the palace for many years, so they naturally knew that they had to keep their mouths shut and not look around after receiving the money. However, just as they sent the lady in, they looked up and saw another person dressed exactly the same.

Xu Ronghua took Shuangyi and walked in the moonlight without lighting a lamp. She gave each of the two eunuchs a heavy purse. Feng Gui weighed the purse and lowered his voice: "What a coincidence, my lady is here to visit someone too?"

and also?

Xu Ronghua understood what he meant and knew that there was someone inside, so he asked, "Come and see the newcomer Shen. I wonder if she is free now?"

Feng Gui glanced at Zhou Si, who shook his head.

He put on a smile again: "Qian has already retired... As for Shen, so has she... What a coincidence."

"I understand." Xu Ronghua thought about it for a moment and walked in.

She asked Shuangyi to follow her, walking lightly and silently like a cat, to the only room with the light on. She walked slowly and patiently to the window at the back and squatted down.

Both the master and the servant breathed lightly.

The voice of the woman in the house gradually became clearer.