Chapter 87
The empress dowager’s knee is not good, the empress dowager temporarily proposed to put this year’s birthday celebration in the Ci Ning Palace, according to the empress dowager’s intention, everything is simple, the time is also half an hour earlier.
The royal families and relatives on time to enter the palace to congratulate the birthday, ready to participate in the feast. Seeing that all the people have arrived, only Princess Yuh didn’t come.
The Empress directly confronted her daughters-in-law.
As the head of the daughters-in-law, Princess Kai takes the initiative to make a cut: “Yü Wang is not in the capital, so Princess Yü is being lazy and disrespectful to Grandmother Yü, which is too much of a shame. When Yuh Wang comes back, the Empress Dowager will let him teach his daughter-in-law well.”
The Empress Dowager doesn’t care: “She has always been a punctual and diligent, perhaps it’s because Xian Yang is not at home, it’s hard to avoid being tired of guarding the royal residence alone, and she’s a bit sleepy. Let’s enjoy ourselves first, we don’t need to wait for a junior.”
Said, the feast will go on as usual. The Princess was not happy to be slowed down by a junior on her birthday, and told Rong Xiangzhi to go outside to welcome her: “Bring your sister here earlier.”
Rong Xiangzhi happy to enter the palace to celebrate the birthday, suddenly implicated, even the feast are not allowed to use properly, angry secretly in the heart scolded the Princess a hundred times.
She strolled a few times in the garden outside the Cining Palace, thinking: she was late, and I have nothing to do! Later back, just say I did not see anyone, what can I do?
It was at this time, she saw the Feiyun for help.
After returning to Ci Ning Palace, Rong Xiang Zhi’s heart is beating a drum, entering the door, she hears the Empress counting down Rong Xiang Xiang Xiang: “This Yu Wang Fei is very powerful. This palace gave her so many slaves, all let her beat back, before really can not see her temperament so big.”
King Kai said in passing: “Once upon a time, she was still respectful, but I didn’t expect to become like this after marriage. She that origin, dare so neglect the empress mother, is not relying on the fourth brother. The fourth brother is capable, outstanding achievements, she can not help but drift.”
After saying this, the emperor’s face did not look good.
Listening to these comments, Rong Xiangzhi for some reason, actually felt very happy in his heart. He left that little bit of intolerance behind.
The banquet began a while, Rong Xiangmian still did not come. Concubine Hui was anxious on the side and sent people to the palace gate several times, but she didn’t see Rong Xiangmian. Can’t help but say: “Yu Wangfei is never late, today so late has not come, I am worried that she has something wrong.”
The emperor also thought so, was about to take Shen Du Zhi to go out to check, the empress said: “Wang vice capital, you go outside to see what’s going on.”
Wang vice governor naturally knows where Rong Xiangmian is, he vigilantly went to the north palace gate area, Zhaoming Palace, Shoukang Palace nearby, confirmed that those palace people to do things very clean, and then went to find Chen Rixin.
Chen Rixin was training a group of new young chamberlains, teaching them how to answer and salute in front of their masters. Seeing that Wang vice governor came, he even warmly invited him to say a few words. Seeing that everything was normal here, Vice-Captain Wang was relieved to leave.
He turned around, ready to go back to deliver, only to find Ci Ning Palace in a different.
The emperor said there are urgent matters temporarily leave the table, the empress of the thief, immediately followed along with out, passed him when dead stared at him. Shukui Fei and Hui Fei followed, the rest of the crowd still accompanied the empress dowager to feast in the palace.
What’s going on here? Who leaked the rumor?
Xiangmian took a small sip of the soup drink, the flavor was really bitter, all without the sweetness of the green beans and lilies, his face was wrinkled into a ball.
“Your Highness, this soup has to be used up before it’s good.”
Seeing her dilly-dallying, the palace man pushed the soup bowl with his upper hand, forcing Xiang Xiang to take another sip. At this time, a faint whistle sounded from outside the palace walls.
That tone of voice, Sagami was familiar with it, it was the tone of voice that Xiao Bei blew when she summoned the guards in the palace.
Someone is coming? She instantly spat a mouthful of soup all over her face onto the face of the opposite palace man.
That person was caught off guard and became infuriated, sending a few people up to subdue her and to directly dose her.
During the chaos, Rong Xiangmian pulled down the hairpin under her hair crown and sank her head down, her crown was extremely heavy, this time it directly came off and smashed into that person’s hand, smashing the bowl with the soup all over the ground.
“Ouch, this shrew.”
“Go cash in another bowl!”
Knowing that with another bowl, she might not really be able to resist. Sagami gave birth to a trace of strength to survive the desperate situation and shouted loudly, “Help! Save me! Your Highness! Father! Mother!”
Even though the deep palace compound, Shoukang Palace was deserted nearby, and no one would hear from the left or right, a few palace men still vainly pressed her mouth and pressed her down to the ground. Rong Xiangmian like a dying beast, struggling hard.
At this time, the unpleasant sound of the door opening rang out from the courtyard outside.
Followed by the familiar Shen Duzhi’s voice: “The Emperor has arrived, the Empress has arrived, Lady Shu Guifei has arrived, Lady Hui Fei has arrived.”
The palace men lying on top of Rong Xiangmian instantly panicked. That leading courtesan immediately used her hem to rub the spilled tonics on the ground dry.
Only then did the crowd stabilize their minds, spilling the unadulterated soup on the ground, and someone else untied Lin Lang and Fei Yun, busily going out to receive the imperial chariot.
The maid hurriedly ran to Rong Xiangmian’s side, crying and wanting to help her up. Xiangmian waved her hand, “Don’t move.”
She stared at the broken bowls on the ground and suddenly picked up a piece, sticking it to her face and gesturing. It startled the maid.
“You guys didn’t see anything.”
Sagami couldn’t let go of this face of hers, so she used force from her jaw and made another cut in her palm.
The lackeys in the courtyard knelt on the ground and brought out all the pre-prepared sayings. Said what happened to meet Yu Wangfei, heart regret, specially served a bowl of chilled green beans and lily soup please Wangfei summer. Who knows that the princess still remembered the matter of the royal family, lost his temper, used a concealed weapon to shoot the lackey, knocked over things.
The emperor naturally would not believe this set of words. Just now, he had separately heard vague cries for help outside the door. He subconsciously glanced at the Empress. The Empress immediately turned her face away and drank, “Lawless things, the Empress Dowager’s good day, you all want to live by offending your master?”
The emperor didn’t want to listen to these lackeys make a scene, ordered the guards to supervise them and raised his steps towards the main house. Before entering the door, he heard Princess Hui who broke in first exclaimed, “Xiangmian!”
The emperor’s heart is not good, cross into the house, only to see Yu Wangfei sitting on the ground, hair crown fell, hair scattered, clothes messy. What’s even more shocking is that the left half of her face is drenched in blood, with drops of blood spreading all the way into her neck.
Consort Yu was in a trance, not even shedding any tears, just looking at him in despair, “Father, what did Yu Wangfu do wrong?” After saying this, she fainted.
“Meet each other!” Concubine Hui had earlier taken her into her arms and let out a loud cry, “What did they give you to drink?!”
The Empress was shocked to see this scene, she didn’t know how it had gotten to this state and panicked for a moment. Shugui Fei took a look at the debris on the ground, and immediately called the maids around her, “Quickly summon Dr. Xu.”
She also ordered the palace staff to keep the fragments and every drop of soup medicine left inside.
Consort Hui asked the Emperor and Empress for instructions, sent people to move Rong Xiangmei to their own palace, and quietly sent people to Ci Ning Palace to send a message.
The empress dowager is considered to have experienced great storms and waves, her face does not change. With all the children and grandchildren after the feast, let them go their own, before leaving Ci Ning Palace.
Fu Ning Palace, Lin Lang and Fei Yun will be today’s events briefly reported to the emperor and queen two, went to the East Hall to accompany the Rong meet.
Consort Hui’s most trusted doctor Xu diagnosed Rong Xiangmian’s pulse, cleaned and examined her wounds, and ordered people to bandage Feiyun’s hand.
Princess Hui only at this time to see clearly, Rong Xiangmian face is only covered with a hand, stained with the blood of the palm, and did not really injured, relieved.
Suddenly added: “Imperial Doctor Xu, Wangfei’s cheeks and jaws are seriously injured, not to avoid disfigurement, give her wounds are properly plastered with medicated cloth.”
Eunuch Xu immediately understood.
Rong Xiangxian saw a slight movement in his mind and glanced at Concubine Hui.