Chapter 159 Perfume Incident

Jinling. Reading

Tong San has been back for a few days.

After giving Liang Cheng the assignment, he stayed in the palace under the pretext of illness.

Unlike Liang Cheng, the chief eunuch, he did not have the financial resources to buy a house in Jinling.

He could only live in the palace where the eunuchs lived.

"This is jasmine, this is clove, and this is wood fragrance."

In the bedroom.

Tong San looked at the bottles of perfume in the box with fascination.

Some of these boxes were for Liang Cheng, some were for the emperor, and some were for Concubine Mi.

According to the rules, he should send the perfume after he came back.

But after struggling all the way, he really couldn't bear to do it.

So he moved the perfume to his bedroom and smelled it like a miser every day.

Originally, he wanted to delay sending it for two days, but now, he was more and more reluctant to do it.

"Dong Dong..."

Suddenly someone knocked on the door. Tong San was nervous, and his hand holding the porcelain bottle shook, and the perfume spilled out.

He quickly corked the bottle and closed the box lid.

"Who?"

After cleaning up, Tong San immediately returned to bed and wrapped himself in the quilt.

"It's me." A voice sounded and the door was pushed open.

A tall eunuch walked in.

"What's that smell? Why is it so fragrant?" The man sniffed the air and the fragrance was refreshing.

Tong San was shocked when he saw the man.

This man was Hu Qing, Liang Cheng's godson, the eunuch in charge of the palace, one rank higher than him.

He hurriedly explained, "I just fumigated it."

"Really?" Hu Qing's eyes turned, "The general manager asked me to see how your illness is?"

"Much better, I will be able to take duty in two days." Tong San kept glancing at the box, fearing that Hu Qing would find the perfume.

"That's good, the general manager said that he is used to you, and it's uncomfortable for others to use you carelessly." Hu Qing glanced at Tong San from a distance, "Then I'll bother you."

After that, he went out and closed the door.

However, he did not go far, but quietly listened to the movement in the room.

He saw Tong San's strangeness, and most importantly, he did not believe Tong San's lies.

He had never smelled this kind of fragrance before.

Not to mention the eunuchs, the concubines in the palace did not have this kind of comfortable fragrance.

"Da Da Da..."

There were footsteps in the room, and Hu Qing heard it and sneered several times.

He guessed that Tong San must be hiding something from him.

At this moment, he suddenly pushed open the door and saw Tong San standing beside several wooden boxes, covering them with cloth.

Seeing him go back, Tong San was frightened and his face turned pale.

Hu Qing took two steps and walked to the box, and opened it without letting Tong San speak.

"What is this!" Hu Qing's face became serious.

He had a higher position than Tong San in the palace, although he was Liang Cheng's godson.

But in the past two years, Liang Cheng has become more and more respectful to Tong San, which has made him jealous.

At this moment, it seems that Tong San was found doing something shameful, so he naturally couldn't let him go.

"This is... This is..." Tong San stuttered in fear.

Hu Qing picked up a bottle at this time and asked, and a faint fragrance wafted out of it.

He immediately understood where the fragrance just now came from.

"You are so good, Tong San, you dare to steal the tribute from the palace." Hu Qing said angrily.

In his opinion, such a unique spice must be a tribute.

Otherwise, where did Tong San come from?

"This is a gift from the King of Yan." Tong San was very anxious and blurted out.

The crime of stealing tribute is serious, and it can be directly punished by beating.

Hu Qing naturally didn't believe it.

This is a great opportunity to make Tong San fall out of favor, how could he let it go.

He dragged Tong San out, shouting, "Tong San stole tribute, come on, tell the steward?"

"No, this is not tribute, Hu Qing, I knew you were dissatisfied with me, but you are too shameless." Tong San struggled violently.

Hu Qing naturally did not let go, and the two of them immediately wrestled.

The palace maids and eunuchs who came and went saw it, and in half an hour, the rumor that Tong San stole tribute spread throughout the palace.

When Tong San was brought to Liang Cheng, many concubines came to watch the fun. .

And the perfume in Tong San's room was also searched out and carried to Liang Cheng.

"What's going on?"

The palace was like a pot of boiling water, and Emperor Zhao Heng was also alarmed.

Liang Cheng looked guilty.

If Tong San stole tribute, he would lose all his face.

"Your Majesty, Tong San stole tribute." Hu Qing pointed at Tong San who was kneeling on the ground.

The concubines were now focusing on the so-called tribute, pointing and talking.

Zhao Heng glanced at the box on the ground.

Originally, such a small matter was not worth his coming.

But he had never heard of any fragrant tribute, so he came to take a look.

"Your Majesty, steward, I did not steal the tribute. This was given to Your Majesty, steward, Concubine Mi and me by His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan. I dare not lie in front of Your Majesty." Tong San told the truth.

If he lied again, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor.

At this moment, a eunuch ran over.

"Your Majesty, steward, the tribute in the palace has not been lost, and there is no such tribute." The eunuch said.

When this matter became a commotion, he immediately asked someone to check the warehouse.

Hu Qing's face turned pale when he heard this, and he said: "Even so, he hid the things that the Prince of Yan gave to the emperor, and he should be punished with forty strokes of the cane."

"I didn't hide it. I admit that I was greedy, but I just wanted to present it to the emperor and the general manager two days later." Tong San cried.

Since it was not a tribute, Zhao Heng and Liang Cheng's brows relaxed.

The two focused their attention on the porcelain bottle in the box, wondering what was worth Tong San's greed.

"Your Majesty, this thing is called perfume, which is used to replace spices." Seeing that Zhao Heng and Liang Cheng both showed curious expressions, he hurriedly explained.

"What a big tone, what kind of perfume can replace spices?" A concubine showed a disdainful look.

Since ancient times, the concubines in the palace have been proficient in all kinds of spices. It can be said that spices are integrated into their lives.

In their eyes, spices are irreplaceable.

Zhao Heng lost interest immediately after hearing this.

But since it was sent by the King of Yan, he had to see it, so he said: "Take it out and let me see it."

Tong San immediately climbed to the wooden box and took out a bottle of perfume from it.

But because he was too flustered, the perfume suddenly slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

In an instant, a strong fragrance spread.