Chapter 111: The drunken queen mother 12
Concubine Zhao, who had made up her mind, decided to pay her respects to Concubine Gao and let her know that she was not such a soft persimmon. Being guarded so tightly, the confidants wandered around for several days without finding a chance to attack.
Concubine Zhao was furious, and the cold became more severe in a fit of rage, and she coughed non-stop all day.
There is a small couch under the north window in the east side hall. Next to the couch are three braziers. Small steamed buns are simmered on the fire.
Concubine Gao smiled when she heard the faint coughing sound, and patiently turned the silver stick in her hand until the flickering charcoal fire baked the white steamed buns .
She held the sign up to her nose and smelled it, and a scorching fragrance filled her nostrils.
"No! Take it."
The smiling third prince took the steamed buns and threw them on her lap: "Thank you, Mother!"
Now, Mrs. Zhao's cough got worse and worse. This year, she didn't want to spend it in the palace!
After grooming, Wang Qingqing drank a cup of honey water before coming to the main hall, "The Queen is here!" With the eunuch's long drink, Wang Qingqing sat on the throne, and all the concubines and concubines stood up. Salute: "Congratulations to the Empress and the Empress Wan Fu Jin An."
Wang Qingqing stretched out her right hand and nodded slightly: "Get up!"
present.
After enjoying the rainbow fart, Wang Qingqing raised his hand and waved away the concubines and concubines, ready to let them go back to sleep. At this time, Concubine Gao came out more and more, stood in the middle of the hall and bowed to Wang Qingqing : "Qi Empress Empress, my concubine has something to say."
"Yes." Wang Qingqing covered her mouth with a veil and yawned, even if you are a queen, you have to get up from the bed early in the winter to please An Li. In the end is to suffer or enjoy?
Concubine Gao, who received Wang Qingqing's approval, straightened up and said with a solemn expression: "My Empress, seeing that the New Year is approaching, Concubine Zhao, who lives with her concubine in the first palace, has become more and more severe with cold symptoms, and coughs all day. What if it is passed on to Your Majesty? For His Majesty’s sake, should the Empress should move Concubine Zhao Gui to the Li Palace to recuperate?”
"Your Majesty's state affairs are busy, and he has not been in the harem for many days." Wang Qingqing lightly brushed his robes: "How come you can tell your Majesty?"
His Majesty the Emperor is not returning to the harem now, will he not return in the future?
The concubines and concubines are terrified when they think about this every day."
"Indeed." Wang Qingqing nodded slightly after listening to Concubine Gao's words: "Zhao's body is heavy and inconvenient to move, and the Ningfu Palace in the West Sixth Palace is still empty. How about the princess moving to Ningfu Palace? To avoid getting sick."
How? Not much!
The serious-looking concubine Gao was so shocked by Wang Qingqing's rogue-like answer that her jaw almost dropped. The harem's rules have always been that the sick avoid the sick. Who has ever seen a good person avoid the sick? And let the three of them live in Ningfu Palace?
Is Queen Wang trying to favor Zhao? Moving to Ningfu Palace? She really dared to think, why didn't she just let herself avoid the Li Palace outside the city? It just doesn't make sense!
What a fool! Shouldn't have a baby! Concubine Gao bit her lip and cursed Wang Qingqing eighteen times in her heart.
" Empress Empress, the ninth princess is very young, the last time her concubines moved to the side palace of Zhongcui Palace, she cried and cried, but it took a while to recover, Ningfu Palace is too far from Zhongcui Palace , if the concubine moves, I am afraid that the Ninth Princess will be extremely uncomfortable!" Concubine Gao, who was so angry with Wang Qingqing's coquettish manipulation, used her daughter as an excuse.
"In this case, you should live in a side hall and not go out." Wang Qingqing tidied her cuffs slowly.
In this dynasty, in addition to the common people who worked all day wearing short sleeves with short sleeves and vertical brown bunts, the princes, nobles, literati and scholars all used wide robes and large sleeves for beauty. convenient.
Qianye will wait for another year to talk about it.”
The wishful thinking was brutally smashed by Wang Qingqing, and Concubine Gao was full of depression.
Wang Qingqing rejected Concubine Gao's request here, and the imperial physician was immediately called over there.
She took out the style of the empress and asked the imperial doctor to do her best to make Concubine Zhao recover before the New Year, so that Concubine Zhao could be healthy and celebrate the New Year with the sisters in the harem.
She made a good impression in front of the concubines and concubines in the palace.
It’s just that it’s easy to move out, and it’s hard to move back in, especially the unloved concubines who move out for a few months to recover, and when they recover, can your Majesty still remember who you are? He could only end up dying alone in the Li Palace.
A minor illness has to end here, and no one is saddened.
Nowadays, the empress can be sympathetic to Zhao, and she will be sympathetic to herself one day.
In addition to recruiting imperial physicians to ask questions, Wang Qingqing also sent someone to "greet and visit" Concubine Zhao who was seriously ill, and by the way "conveyed" Concubine Gao's request for her to move to the palace.
Concubine Zhao was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood, she coughed piercingly and hoarsely shouted in a low voice: "Gao Shi! Bitch! You swear you can't stand!"
Concubine Zhao was ruthless, and that day the east wing of the main hall of Zhong Cui Palace caught fire.
In the winter, the weather is dry and the things are dry, and the north wind is blowing refreshingly, and the wind helps the fire to rise.
The high concubine, who was sleeping, was awakened by the palace servants, and in a panic, she only had time to wrap a big cloak and ran barefoot outside the palace to avoid the fire.
Zhong Cui Palace was in chaos, shouting, fetching water, putting out fire, bustling and panicking, Gao quickly calmed down and only held his children tightly together Be by your side, so as not to be harmed by others.
Wang Qingqing is worthy of being a "virtuous queen of the generation", and she takes care of everything in the harem.
Twenty dozen well-trained eunuchs sprayed wildly at the burning palace with bamboo-bodied and copper-mouthed water dragons, and the raging fire was extinguished by a cup of tea. Eight.
"Niangniang! I beg the niangniang to be the master! Someone wants to harm the ministers and concubines!" Before Wang Qingqing could stand firm, Zhao Guifei, whose hair was scattered, threw herself at Wang Qingqing's feet: "Niangniang, Zhong Cui Palace is leaving today. The matter of water is by no means simple, someone must be trying to harm me!"
"Get up and talk." Wang Qingqing looked at Zhao Shi, who was crying with snot and tears, "Do you have any evidence?"
The back room was used as a storeroom, and it was full of cloth and materials, and because the things were precious, the courtiers and concubines never allowed the servants to bring open flames in."
Some people think that the concubine is not pleasing to the eye, deliberately set fire to it, and want the life of the concubine."
Concubine Gao was burning with anger at the sight of her, this **** obviously pointed the sword at herself?
In the palace, the courtiers and concubines were almost burned to death in the palace, if someone sets the fire, they must be trying to kill the courtiers and concubines!"
"There are countless unfounded guesses." Wang Qingqing didn't want to pay attention to these two women who were full of bad water, she answered calmly: "How does this fire start, let's see the Fire Dragon Team return."
The Dragons are very efficient, Wang Qingqing just waited for a while before the conclusion came out.
"Go back to the Empress." The leading **** bowed to Wang Qingqing's hand: "The fire was ignited by someone standing outside the east room and pouring lamp oil."
"Definitely!" The leader of the fire dragon team nodded and said yes, and then presented a piece of cotton paper: "There is still sputtering on the ground between the east wing of the main hall and the north wall of the east side hall. and burning oil."
The amount of rosin oil used in the palace is quite large. If it is a palace with many lamps, as long as you add a little less to each lamp, you can save a large bottle in three to five days. If you want to find the source of this oil, it is really Not easy."
"That's actually the case." Wang Qingqing pondered for a while: "It's half difficult to do, and now this Zhongcui Palace is running water, so the oil and arsonists must all come from this Zhongcui Palace."
The arsonist!"