Yongzheng period

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The Ulanara family didn't see the crazy attitude of Yongzheng in Kunning Palace today, but her face was sallow and her eyes were dull, as if she was not long in the world.She just stood there for a while, and then she felt like she couldn't bear the cold sweat, and her breathing was short of breath.

The Guerjia family was worried, and testified by the assistant, "I went to Kunning Palace to visit the Queen today. I was suspicious because the Queen's condition was serious recently, so I invited Doctor Zhang to come and investigate carefully. Unexpectedly, I found a A shocking event: the amount of medicine the queen took one after another did not match the prescriptions prescribed by the imperial physicians—someone must have been blinded by profit, and dared to murder the mother of the dynasty! The scheme is not small, but it is a disaster."

Yongzheng frowned when he heard this, the Guerjia family was obviously trying to induce the ambitions of the people behind the scenes—she dared to insert people into the palace of the seriously ill queen today, how could she know that the next one would not be the Changchun Palace or even the Qianqing Palace?

"...Su Peisheng, give the empress a seat." Yongzheng looked at Ulanara's precarious appearance, without any doubt that with his current physical condition, he could faint in the main hall of the Compassionate Ning Palace in the next moment.Then he changed his voice, pointed at Zhang Mi who was kneeling beside him wishing he could turn into a wallflower, and said sharply, "Zhang Mi! As a judge of the imperial hospital, you are solely responsible for the queen's illness. Someone enlarged the Kunning Palace. Don’t you feel nothing about the dosage you use?!”

Zhang Mi trembled immediately, and stammered, "Wei Chen...Wei Chen..."

*

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the atmosphere in Changchun Palace was also condensed.

Xue Baochai's convincing words brought in the palace maid Wen Xing, her personal maid, and Wen Xing confessed that she was bribed by a generation of mothers around the Empress Dowager, and poisoned Xue Baochai's decoction for the purpose of eternal death. future trouble.

Regarding the reputation of the Empress Dowager, Daiyu thought for a moment, then glanced at the real culprit beside Xue Baochai, Ying'er, who had a normal face and no guilt or panic.

After waiting for a while, Zijuan, who got the news of Chunxian, stepped forward and whispered in Daiyu's ear, and said softly, "... Your Majesty, there seems to be something wrong in Kunning Palace. I went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning... the servant heard Xiaoxiazi say that the emperor is also with the empress dowager..."

This is a coincidence, why did all these incidents go to the Compassionate Ning Palace today?

Daiyu's heart was like a bright mirror, she had some calculations, "...Since that's the case, then please accompany me to go to the empress dowager, and investigate this matter thoroughly."

【69】

In the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the majesty of Yong's front became more and more serious, Zhang Mi knelt down and sweated profusely—their imperial physicians have always tabooed being involved in the court's gossip. He kept his mouth shut for self-preservation, but at this moment he regretted that his intestines were turning green.

As the victim, the queen seemed quite calm: no one knew better than herself how her body was still deteriorating despite the treatment of many highly skilled imperial physicians. If the toxins in her body did not 'harm' her to this point, she would not be able to recover. How can she take revenge on her good aunt when she comes to Kunning Palace?

Ulanara raised her eyes and stared at the queen mother whose face was only blurred through the bead curtain in the inner tent, the twisted hatred accumulated in her eyes almost turned into substance.

"As the judge of the imperial hospital, Zhang Mi is guilty of dereliction of duty in this matter." The queen mother said in an old voice, but with a dignified manner that no one else can comment on, "but this is a big matter, the emperor might as well recruit several other medical masters to serve as the queen's doctor." Take your pulse."

The queen mother looked at the queen with concern, the anxiety and worry in her eyes did not seem to be fake.

"That's not necessary!" Mrs. Guarjia took a step forward, speaking convincingly, "The Queen's prolonged illness was caused by being plotted against by a traitor and continuously increasing the dose of medicine. It can be seen that her sinister intentions are evident. After the incident, this The palace and Aunt Zhuwen, who took care of the queen, thoroughly investigated the servant in charge of cooking the medicine and all the people who had been close to them—”

Guerjia's eyes were sharp, and he sneered, "Finally found a little palace lady named 'Sui Er', coincidentally, she is a new little palace lady, and she had only worked in the Compassion Ning Palace before—I don't know the Queen Mother Does my sister have any impression?"

"The servants in the Palace of Compassion and Ning do not know the ordinary," the Empress Dowager scoffed at the hint in Guerjia's words, "but Aijia doesn't have the time to remember a new little maid."

Just as Guerjia was about to retort, Yongzheng frowned and said, "Wait a minute," then looked at the grey-clothed nanny next to Ulanara, "You...are you Auntie Zhuwen?"

"The old slave is right, I don't want the emperor to recognize the old slave." Zhu Wen's voice was rough and dry, like an old crow crying.Before that, she had kept her head down so that people could not distinguish her face, but now she raised her head and revealed her whole face, which surprised the Empress Dowager and Yongzheng. She climbed on her face, and only the eyebrows and eyes could vaguely distinguish her appearance back then.

It was this two points of familiarity that made the Queen Mother recognize her and took a deep breath.

"I think the old slave hugged you when the emperor was young." Zhuwen looked at the queen mother slowly again, and said slowly, "Everything in the world happens by chance. After that incident, I never thought that I would see you again one day The old master of the past."

Zhu Wen smiled slightly, his face became more ferocious and terrifying, and asked the Queen Mother respectfully, "Although there are sisters such as Zhu Xi and Zhu Jin serving the Queen Mother after the old slave left, the old slave is still worried, and I have been thinking about it for many years. ——I don’t know how your life has been these past few years, master?” After speaking with a sense of regret, “I don’t know where sister Zhuxi is now? I haven’t seen you for many years, and I miss you very much.”

The Empress Dowager stared at her closely, panting for a while, her face twitched violently.Seeing this scene, the Guerjia family and the queen, who had been watching the queen mother's expression, felt very happy in their hearts.

It was still Su Peisheng who broke the embarrassing situation. He pushed the door open and entered with a surprised expression, "Your Majesty, Concubine Hui came with Lady Gong and Imperial Physician Zhou... she said she had something important to do."

When Guerjia heard the secret, Daiyu had guessed a little bit before, but now seeing the scene in the hall, she immediately put together the cause and effect.Immediately after entering the palace, he asked Yongzheng for instructions, with a serious face, "The nobleman said that Wen Xing, the grand lady of the Yanxi Palace, was entrusted by Aunt Zhujin who was next to the Empress Dowager to prescribe medicine in her decoction, causing her to keep weakening and plotting wrongdoing."

Daiyu's eyes lingered on the face of the empress who was full of age, and then said, "Therefore, this matter is not trivial, and the concubine has to take the liberty of disturbing the queen mother." Daiyu turned her eyes to Xue Baochai and the others, " All the people involved are here, and my concubine implores the emperor to order."

*

In the Palace of Compassionate Ning, there was a turmoil, Concubine Duan was sitting quietly in the Jingyang Palace, sipping the scented tea in her hand, while looking at the list of beautiful women selected for the palace.

After a long while, Concubine Duan frowned, put down the teacup in her hand, and said, "This tea is a little bit overcooked, it must be because the heat is not good enough."

Hearing this, Jixiang walked over to put away the tea, put new melons and fruits on the silk-wrapped agate plate, and said, "Since the empress doesn't like it, I will replace it with the girl who made tea for you next time."

"Alright," Concubine Duan turned over a page of the manuscript, "Is there any movement from the Empress Dowager's side?"

"Yes," Ji Xiang said, "First the emperor passed by, then the noble concubine Dunyi and the empress empress, just now someone saw Concubine Hui leading Gonggui and Wen Xing tied to the Palace of Compassion."

"It's really a big news," Concubine Duan said in a complicated mood, "Just wait and see, the good show is yet to come. What our empress, concubine Gong and the imperial concubine prepared for the Palace of Compassion is just the beginning , the Tong family is the finale."

"Your Majesty, you have disclosed this matter to the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager and the others are also aggressive." Ji Xiang looked worried, "In case the Empress Dowager is unreliable..."

"You can put your heart in your stomach, the Palace of Compassion and Ning will not fail." Concubine Duan said calmly, "The empress and Mrs. Xue are both near the end of their lives, and they have no scruples about wanting to expose the affairs of the Tong family. Everyone knows—but for the emperor, everything must not exceed the bottom line set by him."

——The matter of the Tong family is a royal scandal, which involves the reputation of the entire royal family. At least on the surface, Yongzheng will shield the queen mother in this matter, but how to order the queen mother to compromise in private is another matter.And the queen mother is also tied up, the only thing she can do now to protect herself is to 'advance with retreat'.

These words can't be said clearly, Duan Guifei lightly reassured Jixiang, and brought up this topic in one stroke, and became concerned about the show girls launched by Qi Jia's this year.

The fourth elder brother wants to get Qi Jia's full support, and the first thing he needs to do is to make Qi Jia's girl his Sifu Jin.

This is also one of the reasons why Concubine Duangui chose to cooperate with the Queen Mother to make the water more muddy: she hoped to get the right to participate in the draft, through the hands of the Queen Mother; Zhang and Empress Xiaoding have similar faces.

Zhen Huan's face, which was similar to that of Ulanara Rouze, moved the Queen Mother and Concubine Duan a lot.

*

Cining Palace

Zhang Mi and Zhou Zhi worked together to examine the pulse of Ulanara and Xue Baochai successively, and they came to the same conclusion: the medicine was three-point poisonous, and the two noble masters were both because the dosage of the medicine did not match what they needed, which caused the excessive medicine to erode the body. If it is not discovered in time, if it is used excessively, it will end up weak and dead.

"According to what the two of you said, since the discovery is timely, there is still room for recovery?" Yongzheng's tone was neither happy nor sad, and he glanced at Zhang and Zhou who were kneeling at the head.

"This..." Zhang Mi and Zhou Zhi looked at each other in blank dismay, carefully wording his words, "Empress Empress and Gonggui have accumulated a lot of drugs in their bodies.