I slept on the bed with my stomach exposed until about morning. I didn't go to the morning court session today. I drank quite a lot last night. After all, I never drank alcohol usually. Fortunately, my alcohol tolerance was not bad, so I wasn't unable to hold my liquor.
I watched as Song'e slept on the small stool in front of my bed for the whole night. There were melon seed shells beside her. I took off a few melon seed shells from her legs and quietly covered her with a blanket.
I walked to the courtyard and stretched my waist. Suddenly, I felt a little bold. I wanted to go to the opposite side to see if Noble Consort Zhang had woken up. In the end, I found that the Weiyang Palace's gate was still wide open, just like last night when Song'e and I came back.
I entered the courtyard of Weiyang Palace. The courtyard was filled with palace servants and eunuchs. Wine jugs and wine glasses were scattered all over the ground. It seemed that they had a good time last night. However, it was already late in the morning, so why were they still sleeping on the ground? I quickly shook one of them awake, splashed him with a glass of cold water, and shook his face with my fingers. He was still delirious.
There was something wrong with this wine!
I immediately got up and rushed into the hall, but there was no one in the hall.
I was about to break out in a cold sweat. I couldn't figure out where Zhang Xiaomang had gone for a while, so I could only pace around with my hands on my hips.
Could it be that he had yet to return? I slapped my head and hurriedly rushed to the pavilion in the middle of the lake from last night. In the end, the group of concubines that belonged to me were all sleeping. Some of them even snored lightly.
Zhang Xiaomang was sleeping in the middle of them, looking very quiet. Even though she was sleeping in the middle of the group of handsome men, she still had an outstanding temperament.
My steps were as heavy as tying a thousand-pound stone. I walked in front of him and slowly squatted down. I trembled and stretched out my index finger to his nose. When I did this, tears suddenly rushed out of my eyes.
Because I didn't feel his breath.
I've only gotten him a few days ago. Even if it's only on the surface, even if it's only in name, he's still my imperial consort.
I began to hold his hand tightly and cry. I cried so hard that it was earth-shattering, but the people around me were still like the eunuchs in Weiyang Palace just now. They couldn't wake me up even if they tried to wake me up. This made me cry even harder.
"Why are you crying? Who died?"
I heard a voice from my back yesterday. I looked up with tears in my eyes and snot running down my nose. Zhang Xiaomang was looking at me with his eyes slightly open.
" Ah!" I burst into tears and hugged his neck, wiping my tears and snot on his clothes.
"Disgusting." He was very dissatisfied and wanted to push me away, but it was obvious that he didn't have much strength now. His waist was injured yesterday.
What was even more obvious was that my legs seemed to have gone numb after my emotions subsided.
" Are you serious?" Noble Consort Zhang tried to push me away, but only when I moved away from his neck at a very, very slow speed would my snot not stick to his clothes.
"What's going on?" He stood up with difficulty, and the first thing he did was not forget to tidy his clothes.
"I don't know. It was like this when I came over. It's the same in Weiyang Palace.”I sobbed.
He picked up a wine jug in front of him." This wine."
"You and I both drank yesterday. Why didn't anything happen?”I continued to talk to him with tears in my eyes.
"How much did you drink?"
"Two taels?"
"Me too. How much did they drink?"
"How many catties?"
“......”
"There must be knockout powder in this wine. Otherwise, how could she sleep like this?”
"Nonsense, I don't need you to say it. The more we drink, the deeper the poison. The Southern Dynasty people like to drink in the early summer. We were probably schemed against today.”
I looked at him.
"Why are you looking at me?" He raised his eyebrows." You don't think I'm going to harm your palace that's so broken that it's about to kill me, do you?"”
Actually, it wasn't that he hadn't thought about it for a moment just now…
I lifted my sleeve to wipe away the snot that belonged to me." You don't know how to drug yourself, do you?"”
"Not necessarily. Maybe I'm trying to get rid of suspicion.”
"Then you would have run away long ago. You wouldn't have waited for me to come over and rub my tears and snot on you."
He chuckled." At least you know your place.”
" Erm," I wiped my tears and snot." Why didn't you breathe just now?"”
"My breathing has always been weak when I'm asleep. Why?”
"No, I haven't."
He exhaled heavily through his nostrils, indicating that he was really alive. He squatted down and rolled the eyes of the nearest unconscious person around us." Fortunately, he didn't die. Was there even a doctor in the palace?”
"I really don't have any."
“?”He stood up and glared at me.
"No imperial physician? Then where did that thing you applied on my waist yesterday come from?”
"Bought it outside the palace."
"Right?" He lifted his clothes to check the spot where he applied the medicine yesterday. I quickly covered my eyes." What are you doing?"
I was too embarrassed to look at it, but after a few seconds of internal struggle, I still couldn't resist the desire to look at it. Therefore, I spread my fingers to reveal a gap, and my eyes rolled around.
His body is so white
Sin, sin
I closed my eyes again, but I heard him say," Stop pretending if you want to see. Why didn't you take a closer look on the night I married you?”
" I'm afraid you don't want to," I replied in a voice like a mosquito. My heart was beating fast.
"I realized that you're not stupid." He continued to touch the unconscious people with his lower body. I also touched them twice and found that their hands and feet were cold.
"This doesn't seem like an ordinary knockout powder. It's very likely to be some kind of poison that's rare in the outer region. It won't kill them, but I reckon they'll have to sleep for a few days.”
" Mm." I sat on the ground. Ever since I thought that something would happen to Zhang Guifei, my emotions had been extremely turbulent. Now that I was a little calmer, I suddenly felt very tired.
I was actually very happy to be so close to him, but it was also from today onwards that I knew my emotions would never let me off. Because since I was young, nothing has ever made me so excited.
I'm a little hungry. I've been up for an hour and haven't eaten breakfast. I saw a big yellow pear in the corner. It was probably left over from last night's banquet. I picked it up and wanted to take a bite, but it was knocked away by a hand.
"Aren't you afraid that it's also poisonous?”Noble Consort Zhang looked at my empty hands with an extremely sarcastic expression." I just said you were smart.”
"I'm hungry."
"I don't think we'll have anything to eat today."
I touched my deflated stomach. Forget it. Last night, when Song'e wasn't paying attention, I hid a handful of melon seeds under the bed. I'll go back and continue eating melon seeds later.
Noble Consort Zhang leaned against the pillar of the pavilion behind her and asked me lazily," Did you offend anyone recently?”
"Do you count?"
"Isn't this going back to the question of whether I poisoned him?”His eyes flashed." Besides, how do you know that you've offended me?"”
" Anyway, I'm always offending people. The subtle kind. Does the wedding night count?"
"What a coincidence. I'm also always offending others, the straightforward kind. Also, I don't care about the wedding night.”
He looked straight into my eyes."I don't care about anything here.”
He probably thought that I would be disappointed after hearing this, so he put on a very proud expression.
But I lowered my head for a moment and gave him a big smile.
It was probably beyond his expectations. He looked at my smile for a while, then turned around and coughed, pretending that nothing had happened.
Why am I smiling? It was probably because I wanted to show him that I didn't really care about him. This way, if he remembered how good I was to him, he wouldn't have any burden and could live more freely here.
Freedom is so important, and freedom from shackles is so important. I've understood it since I was born, but I can't do it completely.
Especially after meeting him, I can never go back.
"I roughly know who it is, but I need to deduce it a little more.”As expected of you! Ji Shenyang! She finally regained some of her ability to break the awkwardness in front of him. I realized that as long as I didn't reveal my true self, I could still control myself a little in front of him.
I told him not to think that just because he was my imperial concubine, he had to do this and that. I don't like that.
"Who is it?" His expression became puzzled.
"This is aged wine, mostly produced in the north. In recent years, resources have been so scarce. Such good wine must be distributed by the imperial kitchen and not drunk in one go. Last night, when Tong E came back, she told me that the wine measuring officer in the imperial kitchen had a stomachache yesterday and wasn't on duty in the palace, so there shouldn't be any problems with the first part of the wine.”
He nodded and continued to follow my guess." If that's the case, the only people who could poison the wine were the people I instructed and the people you sent to Weiyang Palace because they were responsible for transporting the wine and food along the way.”
"A few days ago, I saw that you divided your duties carefully, so I thought that you would hand over the drinks and food to different people.”
"That's right."
"Then where is the person in charge of transporting the wine now?”
He began to recall." They are probably two young eunuchs. You should ask that palace maid called Tong E. It is said that more than half of the people you sent to me were chosen by her.”
"It can't be Tong E."
"Why?"
"Song'e is her biological sister, and her body doesn't seem to be that strong. On the contrary, she's relatively weak. If Song'e also drank too much wine, it's unlikely that she would bury her only biological sister. Even if she wanted to prevent this possibility, she would have called Song'e away. She couldn't possibly let Song'e enter the imperial kitchen and come into contact with the dried fruits and melon seeds in the imperial kitchen. I vaguely remembered that they were beside the wine cabinet. Moreover, this would be too suspicious.”
"What is that?"
"Just now, I roughly glanced at the sleeping eunuchs of Weiyang Palace. There were no young eunuchs. The two eunuchs could only leave that very night.”
"What do I need to enter and exit the palace?"
"Waist token!" I clapped my hands." I don't even have a waist token. Every time I leave the palace, I will take that wooden token that I carved myself to show that there are also Nian Gu and Nvxiang who have waist tokens. It's impossible for the two of them.”
"Then there's more."
"There are concubines above the fifth rank. Because their families have a lot of power, I can't be bothered to keep them by my side. If they want to go back at any time, I'll let them go back.”
The two of us immediately began to check the scene and the harem that had disappeared. In the end, she realized that Qing Sisheng, who had been more reserved the night before, had disappeared.
At this moment, Eunuch Yan just happened to rush over. He went to Changle Palace and saw that I wasn't there. He looked for me all over the palace and finally found me here.
"Eunuch!" I remembered that Eunuch Yan usually didn't drink a drop of wine, so I didn't fall for his trap.
"Your Majesty is here." Eunuch Yan saluted me. I told him to quickly go to the Duke of Qing's house and see if Qing Sisheng had returned home or not. At the same time, I also asked him to investigate the Qing family. I didn't expect him to hand me a piece of paper.
"This is a letter from Niangu, please take a look, Your Majesty.”
"Where is Aunt Nian now?"
"Two days ago, after discussing with the female minister, he personally left the south city for an urgent matter.”
I opened this piece of paper and a bright red thing in the lower right corner caught my attention. It was the private seal of the Northern Dynasty Empress Feng Tianjiao.
When I read the letter again, I realized that it was actually a letter of challenge that Feng Tianjiao had entrusted Niangu to pass to me.
" Summer Solstice Soul Ascension "," Hundred Fold Revenge ", those words that she thought others could understand made me want to vomit. The general meaning of this letter of challenge was that she proudly used a hundred gold ingots to invite a certain harem of mine to poison my palace as a greeting gift. At the same time, she also let me feel the feeling of fainting. If I want to take revenge, I will participate in the sword dance competition that was originally a tradition of the Bei Feng family, but now it is a tradition of the new royal family. She asked me to celebrate her anniversary with her.
"F * ck me!" I cursed in a foreign language, but when I remembered that Zhang Xiaomang was still beside me, I restrained myself a little.
"Who's F * ck?" Zhang Guifei seemed to be unable to suppress her curiosity. I knew that he probably didn't know much about foreign languages, so I roughly explained to him that I was scolding Feng Tianjiao, that bastard.
"Redskin?" He continued to put on an expression of wanting to ask more questions, but his head was full of question marks. Then, as if remembering his usual persona, he returned to his cold and aloof state of leaning against the pillar." Forget it, I don't care."”
I thank you. I heaved a sigh of relief in my heart. Sword Dance, Feng Tianjiao, I'm really speechless.
Too much, really too much.
Who in the world doesn't know that I didn't inherit any of my ancestors 'martial arts skills? I'm so bad at swordplay. I think even the acrobatics team in Dayuan City is better than me.
That's why Old Lady Zheng asked Nian Gu to bring me along to practice my swordsmanship.
The sword dance competition is scheduled for half a month later, which means that I still have fourteen days to think about how to change the situation in the palace and my own situation.
The first thing I did after scolding Feng Tianjiao was to take back all the waist tokens I gave to the harem above the fifth rank. I knew that the Qing family must be empty now. I planned to draw a portrait of Qing Sisheng at night. In the future, even if this person had a waist token, he could not be allowed in. In the future, anyone who entered the royal palace of the Southern Dynasty must be strictly investigated. Even if they wore a human skin mask, they had to tear it off from their faces.
Because there was no food to eat now. My stomach is starving.
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