Volume 1: Palace Maiden's Life Chapter 16 New Leaf Poisonous
The three of them waited for a long time before they could wait for the summons of Concubine Yu.
It is said that pregnant women are the happiest and beautiful, but she looks dull. Madam Zhang called her to raise her hand before raising her hand, and then turned around, as if a marionette that she would not move without a thread.
"Okay." Madam Zhang asked softly after measuring the size of the nobleman Yu, "What kind of fancy do nobleman likes? Pomegranates have many children? Successful clouds and cranes?"
The noble man Yu looked dazed, his lips opened and closed, and he muttered something very low.
"Negotiable, what did you say?" Madam Zhang had to turn her ears to barely hear her words.
"Loquat paste, loquat paste, loquat paste..." Yu Guiren kept repeating these three words?
Madam Zhang was stunned: "Loquat paste?"
These three words seemed to stimulate Guiren Yu, and she suddenly shouted: "There must be something wrong with the loquat paste!"
Madam Zhang was startled by her and looked out of the door with a conditioned reflex. The punishment for Yipin was still continuing. Concubine Hui's dog slaves were still outside. Who knows if there were ears that were particularly useful?
"Negotiable." Madam Zhang hurriedly turned around and advised carefully, "How could Zhang Yuan be so skilled in judging medical skills?
"No, no! There must be a problem, there must be a problem!" Yu Guiren interrupted her, then stared at her for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he grabbed her shoulders with both hands and said, "I recognize you, you are here that day, and you are with you..."
Her eyes slid across Jinxiu and finally fell on Wei Yingluo's face. Her eyes were a little empty and dark and said, "You are all here, you all see it. Concubine Hui wants to harm me. The loquat paste must be poisonous, but... but why can't I test it out, why? Why!"
The voice of Yu Guiren became louder and louder, and finally turned into a hysterical question.
Madam Zhang was sweating from the tip of her nose, and she wanted to reach out to cover her mouth. Due to her identity, she could only look out of the door while begging: "Nephemer, I beg you, stop talking..."
“New leaves are poisonous.”
Madam Zhang and Concubine Yu were both stunned and then looked in the sound.
Wei Yingluo lowered her head and whispered: "The old loquat leaves are not poisonous, but the new leaves are poisonous..."
Madam Zhang felt a chill on her back and said anxiously: "Stop your mouth!"
"Stop!" Yu Guiren screamed at her, then quickly walked to Wei Yingluo, his voice trembling slightly, "Speak."
Wei Yingluo still lowered her head, looked at the light golden osmanthus pattern skirt in front of her, and whispered: "I loved eating loquats when I was young, but once I accidentally ate the fruit core, and I had difficulty breathing and vomited continuously. Later, the traveling doctor said that the doctors used aged loquat leaves to make loquat paste according to the pharmacopoeia. But most people didn't know why. He also discovered by chance that this was because the old loquat leaves were not poisonous, while the new leaves and the fruit core were poisonous. Taking more of them would cause life worries..."
"So that's it, so it's like this. New leaves are poisonous, and new leaves are poisonous." Yu Guiren murmured and repeated these four words, "The loquat paste sent by Concubine Hui must be made of new leaves. It is extremely toxic. No wonder Zhang Yuanjue didn't notice it. Even if it was discovered, it can be said that something went wrong in the imperial pharmacy..."
Concubine Yu suddenly grabbed Wei Yingluo's arm, looking fanatical: "Let's go! Come with me to see the queen!"
"No!" Madam Zhang hurriedly stopped them: "How can a noble man, how can she take the words of a little palace maid seriously? Is she more accurate than Zhang Yuan's verdict? Yingluo, what is the consequence of talking nonsense in the palace? Kneel down!"
Wei Yingluo knelt down like a stream of good deeds.
"Negotiable." She kowtowed, "I have a humble position. Only when you are kind, will you give me a chance to speak, but for the Queen, I may not even have a chance to speak."
In short, the queen may not necessarily believe the words of a small person like her.
"...I understand." Concubine Yu came to her senses, looked at Wei Yingluo in front of her with a complicated expression, and slowly let go of her hand pulling her arm, "I'll go find the queen Chen Qing, you..."
After pausing, she asked in a soothing tone: "What's your name?"
"I'm going to be my servant," Wei Yingluo replied respectfully.
Concubine Yu nodded at her, then quickly left the door.
As soon as she left, Madam Zhang glared at Wei Yingluo fiercely: "Why do you say that to Concubine Yu?"
Why?
Wei Yingluo looked at the back of Concubine Yu.
"Mingzhe protects himself, I can ignore most of the things, but they are the only ones, this kind of sisterhood..." Wei Yingluo said silently, "I can't let it go. When I see them, I feel like I have seen my sister and me..."
Therefore, for this precious sisterhood, she was willing to take a risk.
"What's more, it's not without gains." She thought to herself, "There are many factions in the harem, and the two largest factions are the Queen and Concubine Hui. If I really offend Concubine Hui for this, I will naturally enter the Queen's faction... The effect is probably better than directly surrendering to the Queen, after all, the enemy's enemy is a friend."
Wei Yingluo thought she was already well equipped.
But soon, she found that she had underestimated the harem and others.
"Yingluo!" After returning to the embroidery workshop, Madam Zhang held everyone away, but left Wei Yingluo behind, then carried a ruler and shouted sternly, "Kneel down!"
Unlike Aunt Fang, she always had a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart. The ruler in her hand was like a decoration. She had never really fallen on any little palace maid. Now she seemed to be really angry. Wei Yingluo hurriedly knelt down for her, then looked at her with her head raised, without fear or resentment in her eyes, only worry.
"Madam." She called out softly, like a little granddaughter calling her grandmother who loves her the most, "Don't be angry, I know I'm wrong."
Madam Zhang felt soft, but her expression became even more severe: "Do you know where you were wrong?"
"I shouldn't have told Yu Guiren in person that the new leaves are poisonous." Wei Yingluo thought for a while and said, "I should write the matter on paper and then secretly stuff it into the new clothes cut for her. It's safer. When delivering the clothes, I accidentally dropped the note on the ground. If the nobleman picked it up and asked me, I would lied that I didn't know who stuffed it on me..."
"Okay!" Madam Zhang interrupted her, her tone sank, "So, no matter how many methods you change, do you still want to tell Yu Guiren what is poisonous?"
Wei Yingluo was silent for a while, but finally didn't lie to her and replied in a low voice: "Yes."
She thought she would be punished, beaten or scolded by Madam Zhang, but she was willing to bear it, but she didn't expect that after waiting, she just waited for Madam Zhang to sneer.
"Hehe." This smile seemed mocking and pity, "Then let's look at it with your eyes, Yingluo, see with your own eyes, the result of your doing so."
The next few days, the wind was calm.
Because of Madam Zhang's words, Yingluo has always been worried.
But no matter how much you have to worry about, you can't miss the matter at hand. The clothes you should cut and the flowers you should embroidered finally made two new clothes on the prescribed day, one embroidered with pomegranates and one embroidered with auspicious clouds and wild cranes, and then sent them to the place of Yugui.
"I'll leave this one." Yu Guiren pointed the pomegranate and a lot of seeds, and then another auspicious cloud wild crane. "You can send this one to Yipin."
Yingluo looked at her carefully, which was different from the anxiety she felt when she first met. Today, she swept her rouge lightly, her lower abdomen slightly raised, and her face rarely showed a hint of happiness.
"By the way, I will give you a message to Yipin." Yu Guiren gave Yingluo a hairpin, "Let her endure it for a few more days. In a few days, the Empress will definitely make the decision for her."
Yingluo refused again and again, but she couldn't help but accept the hairpin. The hairpin head was a pair of lotus and red and white colors were entangled with each other, just like the most intimate sisters in the world.
"I am Wei Yingluo, the palace maid of the embroidery shop. The nobleman Yu sent me to give Yipin Yi a new piece of clothes." As mentioned by someone, Yingluo came to Yipin's bedroom with her clothes and reported to the palace maid who was guarding the bedroom.
All prosper and all loss are lost, as if because of the punishment of Yipin, the palace maids in her palace were panicked with people, and their eyes were floating, like birds about to be separated when a big tree was about to fall.
After hearing Yingluo's intention, one of the palace maids forced a smile and said, "It's hard for you to be a nobleman, but I'm still thinking about our little master, give me the things."
"There is another word from Concubine Yu who wants me to bring to Yipin." Yingluo pursed her lips in discomfort, "...I have given me special instructions to say to her in person."
The palace maid looked at her for a while in confusion and vigilance.
"Or you ask Yipin first?" Yingluo said understandingly, "If she wants to see me, I will go there. If she doesn't want to see me, I will report back to Yu Guiren. This will not delay the matter and will not make you embarrassed."
"...Okay." The palace maid nodded reluctantly, "You are waiting here."
She turned and left, and not long after, a shrill scream came from her.
The people in the room looked at me, and I looked at you, and suddenly they stepped out their feet, big feet, small feet, eunuchs and palace maids rushed into the door together in chaos.
Wei Yingluo's feet were also mixed in, and then suddenly settled in front of the bedroom door.
Through the door in front of you, what caught your eye were two feet hanging in the air.
That must be a lone woman who likes cranes very much, so even the embroidered shoes that were shaking left and right were embroidered with cranes flying with spreading their wings.
Slowly follow those shoes and look up...
"Pin Yi..." Wei Yingluo murmured.
Chapter completed!