Chapter 19: Tacit Understanding

Empress Ji took the second concubine back to the Chongchang Palace, ordered someone to make tea, then waved back to the left and right, and said indifferently: "Okay, there are no outsiders here at the moment, so just speak up if you have anything to say, what's going on? ?”

Concubine Xuan was puzzled and said, "Your Majesty?"

"My palace has been sick from time to time since last year, and I haven't even been able to attend a palace banquet." Empress Ji's tone was cold. Most of the palace affairs depended on Concubine Zhen, and recently Concubine Xuan, you and Concubine Rui were added. What is the conflict between the two of you right now, that I need Ben Gong to come out and make the decision? "

"At first I didn't dare to disturb the empress, but sister Zhenfei insisted that only the empress can decide this matter." Concubine Xuan glanced at Yun Fenghuang, and hummed, "I can't do anything about it, please forgive me."

Empress Ji frowned slightly. Compared with Concubine Xuan who just entered the palace, she was undoubtedly more afraid of Concubine Zhen who knew each other better: "Concubine Zhen, what do you mean? Do you know what will happen if you do this and let others see it?" think?"

"Your Majesty, my concubine and Concubine Xuan are both concubines, and there is a dispute between the concubines, and no one can persuade the other. If you don't invite the empress, Your Majesty, to make a judgment, who else will you invite?" Yun Fenghuang said indifferently, "I can't. For such a small matter, let His Majesty put down government affairs and worry about it, or disturb the Queen Mother?"

Empress Ji said coldly: "I'm afraid I can't give Concubine Zhen the verdict you want."

Yun Fenghuang looked at her, and smiled slightly: "How is it possible? The empress is the lord of the six palaces, and she is the mother of the world. What else in this harem can't you give?"

"That's what you said." The corner of Empress Ji's mouth curled slightly, but there was no smile in her eyes, "You yourself, do you believe it?"

The empress and concubine looked at each other for a while, Yun Fenghuang also smiled: "I don't believe it, but when you stay in this empress position for a day, the concubines are all people, do you want to say that?"

Empress Ji said, "Then what if you tell the truth?"

"The civet cat attacked the Huanhua Palace at night, not to mention disturbing the concubine, even the people who took care of the emperor's heir in the side palace were greatly shocked." Yun Fenghuang narrowed his eyes, "This is not a small matter."

Empress Ji said: "Well, this matter is really bad. Murdering the concubine disturbed the emperor's heir. Especially the emperor's heir, at this moment, His Majesty's knees, but such a son and a daughter are precious."

"Yes, the emperor's heir is precious, especially when His Majesty has only one son and one daughter under his knees, it is even more precious." Yun Fenghuang smiled softly, "Even if the concubine is willing to take the risk of herself, it will be more precious if I am in love with you." Li, can you still take the risk of the emperor's heir? Don't forget, the little prince, but the child under the name of Concubine Shu's sister, the grandson of the legal system of the Duke of Yi. Little princess, you still have to be tolerant, don't you?"

Because although the little princess is the emperor's heir under Yun Fenghuang's own name, not to mention that the royal princess is naturally not as important as the prince, but the little prince can help Yun Fenghuang to the Duke of Yi's mansion, but the little princess is not. This benefit.

"..." Empress Ji frowned, and Concubine Xuan also showed surprise.

After a while, the queen said: "You really didn't do this?"

"No." Yun Fenghuang glanced at Concubine Xuan, snorted and said, "Otherwise, those civet cats were sent to Yanlan Palace last night, and Concubine Xuan was busy there, angry, hated and afraid of plotting Yes, the concubine has already breathed a sigh of relief...Why don't I sleep well at night, and make His Majesty a burden? Isn't this rushing to make the empress dowager unhappy? "

He also said, "Furthermore, you know about Shun Jieyu's dowry as a dowry. Back then, civet cats were freed in Liugong, but Xuanqing Palace, which was the only concubine, had specially set up a place to raise them. Similar things. As a concubine, I usually don't allow civet cats to get close. How could I do this?"

This is true.

Empress Ji knew that her aunt's practice of raising civet cats to control snakes and rats in the Sixth Palace was praised and criticized in the Sixth Palace.

After all, civet cats are something that some people like and others hate.

Although Yun Fenghuang is not the kind of person who gets annoyed when he sees it, this concubine is very vigilant.

Ever since she learned about Miao Cai's end, she basically did not allow any civet cats to appear in her line of sight, fundamentally eliminating the possibility of someone using this method to murder her—the queen knew that there was a considerable reason for this, because Miao Cai When Cai was attacked by the raccoon cat, he was with Xijing.

And Xijing was the servant arranged by Empress Ji for Yun Fenghuang.

Xijing can let Miaocai die under the claws of civet cats, who knows if he will give Yunfenghuang a ride in this way when he is ordered by Yanfu Palace? Even if Xijing disappeared in Wannian County last year, there is no one around the queen—so the safest thing is to simply not allow civet cats to run around in Xuanqing Palace.

Given these facts, it is not unreasonable for Yun Fenghuang to refuse to risk himself in the matter of civet cats...

Empress Ji thought about it, and said, "Then who do you suspect?"

Glancing at Concubine Xuan who was eager to speak, "It's not her."

"My concubine also knows that Concubine Xuan doesn't have this ability." Yun Fenghuang didn't look at Luo Hanyi, and said calmly, "The people in the palace of my concubine started to investigate last night. So far, no problems have been found..."

She paused at this point, before continuing, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"

"The current servants around you are all the sons of Xie's family who sent them into the palace, and the whole family works under the hands of your biological mother." Empress Ji sipped her tea and said lightly, "It's only been half a year since entering the palace, even if someone Private buying, the friendship of several generations, and the lives of the whole family are not so easy to betray. Therefore, they are unlikely to have problems. If it is not their problem, then 80% of the problem is outside the palace... Yesterday, just Concubine Xuan has been to your place? No one else?"

Yun Fenghuang said: "Yes, there is no one else."

"Your Majesty!" Concubine Xuan was anxious.

Empress Ji also didn't look at her this time, and said thoughtfully: "Concubine Xuan won't do such a thing, the famous Luo family has rules, and they shouldn't make their own decisions... So, the problem lies in , on the servants of Yanlan Palace?"

"Niang Niang?!" Concubine Xuan called again, but she was anxious before, but now she is surprised.

Yun Fenghuang said: "My concubine has never touched Zheng's disposal, but I don't know about it."

Empress Ji was silent.

Yun Fenghuang didn't speak either.

Concubine Xuan looked at this and then at that, wanted to say something, but thought about it carefully, bit her lower lip, but remained silent.

After a while, Empress Ji said slowly, "Princess Jinyun liked to play with you before, and you should take care of her marriage."

"Yes." Yun Fenghuang said calmly, "But after all, there are differences between concubine and concubine."

Empress Ji said "hmm" and said, "You all go down, I will rest for a while."

Concubine Xuan subconsciously looked at Yunfenghuang.

After Yun Fenghuang stood up, saluted and left, he hurriedly followed suit.

After leaving Yanfu Palace, before Yunfenghuang boarded the chariot, she walked up quickly and asked in a low voice: "Why?"

Seeing Yun Fenghuang ignoring him, he simply grabbed her sleeve, "Why do you help me?"

Although what Empress Ji and Yun Fenghuang said just now was not clear, but a few words are enough for Concubine Xuan to understand that this time the civet cat's attack on Huanhua Palace at night must fall on the head of Mrs. Zheng who was thrown into the cold palace. up.

There is no grievance between Concubine Xuan and Zheng Shangchu, but the Yanlan Palace where she lives now is the place where Zheng Shangchu has lived for eight years—although all the servants who served Zheng Shangchu were expelled to the Leng Palace together with her However, among the many palace people still staying in Yanlan Palace, don't they have a few confidantes of Zheng Shangchu?

This is unlikely.

But Concubine Xuan was in a high position when she first entered the palace, holding great power, the more she was like this, the more difficult it would be to make a big move, even if she wanted to clean up and down, there was no reason and it was not good to do so.

Then she can only be on guard, if one day these people do something wrong, how can she, the current leader, not be implicated?

Can she be happy in her heart?

impossible.

As a result, if Zheng Shangchu was found guilty of instructing Yanlan Palace people to murder the real concubine and the emperor's heir under the guise of concubine Xuan's visit to the Huanhua Palace... Leaving aside Zheng Shangchu's ending, concubine Xuan would definitely be able to kill the concubine Yan Lan Gong was cleaned up.

She couldn't do this for the time being, but she had to take her time if she wanted to do it in the future.

Now because of Yun Fenghuang negotiating with Empress Ji, she picked a cheap one... Concubine Xuan really couldn't figure it out, why did Yun Fenghuang do this?

After all, this concubine only entered the palace when she was young. Although she was well educated by the Luo family, she still retained a bit of innocence at her age.

On an impulse, I asked directly.

"Help you?" Yun Fenghuang looked at the sleeve that was being held by her, frowned slightly, and sneered, "I am not helping you, but I am helping myself."

Concubine Xuan was puzzled, and said: "Although Mrs. Zheng once framed you, she has been thrown into the cold palace. Although there has been no further treatment, but for her background and previous status, it is difficult to suffer in the cold palace like this. , I'm afraid it's more painful than killing her... But why do you go around in circles to deal with her? Besides, if you want to deal with her now, do you have to go through the queen's hands?"

Yun Fenghuang can completely imply in private that the people below are doing something to the Lenggong. Although Zheng's backer, the Hussar General, has not fallen yet, the county magistrate is not as good as he is now. In the palace, Zheng's downfall is enough for the real concubine to play her to death .

In that case, it would still be difficult for Concubine Xuan to make a big move against Yanlan Palace—in Concubine Xuan's perception, Yun Fenghuang's move seemed to be aimed at herself, but it turned out to be beneficial to her.

This is really not in line with the character of the real concubine that the family helped to collect information before she entered the palace.

The real concubine is not easy to mess with, the real concubine is stingy, the real concubine is scheming, and the real concubine is ruthless... Xuan concubine counts the advice of the elders in the family, and then looks at Yun Fenghuang in front of her. Although she doesn't think that she is actually a good person, she is also a little uncertain What are people thinking?

"It seems that Chunjia blocked the news in a timely manner." Yun Fenghuang looked at her and thought to himself, "But the Luo family doesn't know the real reason why the Zheng family was thrown into limbo."

Then Zheng Shangchu knew about the private meeting between her and Qi Jiulu in the palace, how could Yun Fenghuang save her life? It's just that there were too many things to do before, and the second was that he was afraid that this person would die too quickly. , in front of Chunjia, there is a suspicion of murder.

That's why I endured it quietly until now.

Yun Fenghuang had been thinking about killing this person for a long time.

The most important thing is that Chunjia actually married Princess Jinyun to Zheng Fengli!

Combined with the fact that Zheng Shang and the Chu people have not been able to reach a conclusion in the cold palace, can Yun Fenghuang not worry that one day his private meeting with a foreigner in the palace will be revealed again?

Therefore, I took this opportunity to give Zheng Shangchu a ride with the hands of the Queen and Concubine Xuan.

It would be best if it was delivered, but if it didn't...that's okay, at least it would let her know what to expect.