Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Undercurrent

"Offend someone?" Xin Xin asked in surprise, "We are all here, who else can we offend?" Lying on the bed, Ruyi said with difficulty: "We are here because we offended someone. Don't you understand?" Xun Xin was startled, subconsciously covered his mouth, and said: "Fortunately, Guard Ling has realgar wine in his hand, so he can resist it for a while. Otherwise, he really fell into someone's scheme. Ling Yunche regained his energy, and slowly said: "I usually like to drink realgar wine, because it's cold and humid here in the cold palace, there are no snakes, insects, rats and ants, and it's just for self-defense when I drink it. It's just that although this viper is a common ,

But it's really surprising that there are so many messages popping up all at once.In addition to being intentional, it is impossible to say that it was accidental. He cupped his hands: "My lord, take care of yourself." Anxiously, he grabbed Ling Yunche's sleeve and said, "Guard Ling, if something like this happens again, what should we do?" Yun Che said indifferently: "Tomorrow, I'll bring you some realgar and throw it in, and sprinkle a little around the corners, so be on your guard. He then turned and left.Ruyi huddled under the quilt, startled by the sounds, and only opened her eyes to watch the branches fluttering in the wind outside the window, like countless ghost claws waving towards her, getting closer and closer, getting closer.She sat up abruptly, the sweat on her back was blown by the wind, and her heart felt cold.Qiao Xin came in with the medicine, seeing her like this, she was startled, and hurriedly covered her with clothes: "What's the matter, my lord? Don't be warmed up by the cold wind, and it will cause no harm."

Ruyi had no choice but to say: "I was a little scared just now." She brushed her hair and said, "Is the medicine ready? I'm still in pain, so at least I should take some to drink." Ji Xin hurriedly took the medicine and fed it to her lips, and said: "Young Master, just drink a little at random. Tomorrow, Imperial Physician Jiang will come over, and I will look at him carefully, and make a proper prescription." Ruyi drank the medicine, thinking that the poison had not completely subsided, and fell asleep drowsily. On the second morning, Jiang Yubin came over in a hurry. Ruyi thought about the benefits of Yun Che's hard work, and the contempt she had seen him before also retreated a little.Jiang Yubin took her pulse carefully, and said repeatedly: "Fortunately, the treatment was quick last night, otherwise it would have been a catastrophe. I have to go and see for Guard Ling later, he is your savior!" He said and looked at Song Xin: "It's also my great benefactor! After he finished speaking, he left a lot of herbs for clearing away heat and detoxification, and asked him to play with them one by one, and he left a lot of realgar and other medicinal powders for him and Ruyi. Scattered in the corners.

Jiang Yubin asked about the effectiveness of the rheumatism soup that Su Xinsu took every day, and Qian Xin smiled and said: "It's nothing more than that, how can it be effective so quickly." Suspicion flashed across Jiang Yubin's face: "Did you all take your medicine on time in the past month? Xing Xin wondered: "It took so much for me to invite you to treat the illness, why didn't you take the medicine on time? Jiang Yubin said: "Just now I took the pulse of the young master, the snake venom is not serious, but the rheumatism is still the same. It stands to reason that your rheumatism is not deep, and the medicine I prescribed for you is also considered to be powerful. It will take effect immediately, but there will always be some improvement." He saw that Ruyi was doing the work with a net in his hand, but his ears were listening all the time, so he simply didn't hide it, and said: "I have been seen by many concubines in the cold palace these days. Sickness. Although there are some people who suffer from rheumatism, they are all old people who have been here for many years. They have been damp for a long time, and as they get older, they are naturally prone to rheumatism. It’s just that Xiaozhu and Xinxin are still young, and they are taking medicine to recuperate. The room is not considered the dampest place in the cold palace, why is the rheumatism not improving at all?"

Ruyi and Song Xin looked at each other, but couldn't say anything, but Song Xin asked, "Will you be poisoned?" Jiang Yubin shook his head and said, "There is no such poison in the world. It's true that the young master and Shou Xin both have weak and cold constitutions, and there's really nothing else to tell." While talking, meals were stuffed into the round hole under the wall outside one after another, and the concubines of the cold palace went to get them one by one.When everyone dispersed, two more meals were brought in. I knew it was theirs, so I went out and brought them in. Although the meals were simple, they were not spoiled. It was just two portions of rice, one portion of fried bitter gourd, One portion of boiled tofu and one portion of soy sauce mixed with bamboo shoots.

Jiang Yubin frowned, looked at Song Xin distressedly, and said: "Xin Xin, you eat this every day, without any meat dishes?" " Xing Xin set up the chopsticks and said with a smile: "My good imperial doctor, it's good if the food is neither bad nor bad. It took a lot of hard work and money from the young master and me to get it. Otherwise, what kind of pigs and dogs are not good for eating?" The food you eat there can last until the day you come." Ruyi smiled and said: "Okay. Doctor Jiang just said a word, but you have so much to say. A few days ago, it was the Qingming Festival, and a bowl of roasted snail meat was brought in. During the New Year, there is always some meat."

Ji Xin curled her lips and said, "What kind of fishy smell is it? It's just a fishy smell. But it's just screws, duck blood, and clam meat. Vegetarian dishes are just like that." Jiang Yubin immediately changed color and said, "Are you serious?" Ruyi saw that his face was not good-looking, so she immediately put down her chopsticks and asked suspiciously: "Is there anything wrong with these meals? Jiang Yubin said with a solemn expression: "Wei Chen just said that the young master and Xing Xin both have weak and cold constitutions, and these foods are also very damp and cold. The young master and Xing Xin eat this three meals a day, which makes it worse. The cold in the body, no wonder the rheumatism has not improved for a long time. It turned out to be in these places.

Ruyi was silent, her heart sank to the bottom slowly, slowly.I thought the snake last night was already a killer move, I don't want to think that there is still a long-lasting power hidden here, but it is something that I can't even notice even if I pay attention to it. Sing Xin said angrily: "Weird way, I thought we spent money to accommodate, so the food is different from others."It turned out that someone did something wrong." Jiang Yubin's face was heavy, and he said: "If you say you don't have the heart, you can't do it all the time. These things are non-toxic, and they don't interfere with each other. It's just diet and medicine. People with body heat should not warm up too much, and people with deficiency and cold Remember the coldness. Coldness does not mean raw food or cold food, but something cold in nature. People like Xiaozhu and Xinxin cannot touch these things."

Sai Xin worried: "Then what should we do? Apart from these, we can't eat anything else." Jiang Yubin looked at the sunny sun outside the window, and it was clearly the spring season in April, but in this place where the sun can't shine through, there was only a bleak chill.But these two women are the only ones staying here, complaining that every day should not be done, that the earth is not working well, and it has been going on for a long time... When he thought of how old they were, they were still here, and he shivered suddenly, as if a gust of cold wind approached his bones, chilling his heart.

Ruyi took a deep breath, shook her head slowly, and said, "There's no way. Since the person who delivered these meals has a heart, if he sees that we don't finish eating, or falls down quietly, he will know that he is suspicious, let alone know. What method are we going to use to murder us? Instead of this, it’s better to calm his mind and just eat and sleep.” She gave Jiang Yubin a sideways look: “At least Doctor Jiang won’t just stand by and watch.” Jiang Yubin secretly praised her calmness in his heart, and said: "I will find some warm and nourishing medicines for the young master and Xin Xin to take care of slowly, hoping to dispel the dampness and coldness of the food. As for other things, yesterday The night is already so dangerous, if there is any rash action, it will make the disaster of killing come earlier."

As Jiang Yubin had instructed him in this way, Song Xin sent him outside the door, since he couldn't send him far away, so he had to come back. Ruyi looked at the food on the table. In the past, in order to survive, she tried her best to take care of herself and ate every meal cleanly.Looking at these things now, it is like a slow poison, accumulated in him for a long time, how can he still swallow it. Chun Xin came in and blocked the door: "My lord, who did you suspect last night?" Ruyi tapped on the table leg, tried her best to calm down her emotions, and said slowly: "Who else can I suspect? It's just that I remembered that a snake suddenly fell from Yifu Palace during the Jingzhe. Don't you think so?" Are things related?" Xin frowned and said: "The young master thinks that the person who harmed us is the person who harmed Yifu? That matter was originally one-sided. Ruyi nodded slightly, looked at the overgrown weeds in the corridor, and said sadly: "It's just that even if we think of who it is now, there is nothing we can do. We can only save our lives first, don't just throw them here for no reason." The master and servant watched silently, living as usual, but in the afternoon, they saw a bag of things thrown in from outside. Ruyi was drying clothes in the yard, and when she picked it up, she realized that it was the bag thrown in by Ling Yunche. realgar. She was grateful for his carefulness, and even more so for his courage to save lives yesterday, regardless of whether he was there or not, she sincerely said "thank you" to the corner door. Since entering the cold palace, Ruyi is full of resentment and unwillingness, and also has a cold heart towards the world. Apart from Hai Lan and Xin Xin, plus Jiang and Bin now, the others don't believe it, and the other doesn't listen.No matter who fell into her heart, they all carried the doubts that had harmed her back then. But after what happened last night, no matter how cold her heart was, she didn't feel a sense of warmth, like a trickle of water, moistening her dry heart, letting her know that there are always warm-hearted people who are willing in this world. People who are nice to people. Maybe this bit of warmth is enough to make her feel that the world is desolate and less chilly. Ruyi thought this way, but Ling Yunche was not so lucky.In the evening of this day, he went to get the dinner for himself and Jiuxiao, and then he walked to the entrance of the cold palace. Some powerful guards came out from nowhere, knocked him to the ground, and only asked: " Are you Ling Yunche?" Only after Yun Che agreed, the fist hit him indiscriminately.He has been in the palace for a long time, he knew that he must have offended someone somewhere, and he didn't dare to argue, he only guarded his vitals and gritted his teeth without saying a word.The fists fell like raindrops, and every blow was a ruthless blow.At first, I still felt the pain into the bone marrow, but gradually became numb.Just like his life all along, apart from being patient, it is still patient.Because resistance will only cause more pain. After a while, the guards saw that he accepted it obediently and did not resist, so they got tired and stopped.One of them said arrogantly: "Do you know why you were hit?" Yun Che fell on the ground with his head in his arms, unable to get up for a while, he just said: "The villain is ignorant, please enlighten me." Another person said "Hey": "So you are really stupid! How dare you dare to offend our little master! You still plan to be a hero to save the beauty, and someday you will die! I don't even know!" The leader hugged his shoulders, and said with a sneer: "Our little master has a prince now, who dare not open his eyes to see clearly, and dare to disturb her good deeds. I really don't want my life! This time I think you are ignorant , From now on, you should keep in mind that you are only the gatekeeper in the cold palace, if you even take care of saving lives, you will risk your own life.” After finishing speaking, a few people winked and scattered in all directions. Yun Che fell on the ground, and after a long time he got up, tried to move his hands and feet, but found that he didn't hurt his muscles and bones, so he walked slowly into the verandah.Seeing him come back in this state, Jiu Xiao was shocked too, she didn't have time to ask how the dinner was, so she hurriedly dragged him to ask.Yun Che briefly dealt with it, then quickly found the wound medicine and wiped it on himself.When someone asked about it at night, they only said that they accidentally offended someone, so they dealt with it. In the evening of the next day, Zhao Jiuxiao saw that he was injured, so he helped him get dinner. Yun Che was sitting at the door, although the injury on his body didn't hurt his muscles and bones, he tossed and turned in pain all night, he didn't sleep well, so he felt tired and unbearable, his heart was filled with wimpy anger and he had no place to vent his anger, deeply regretting that he rushed in that day Saving people was in vain causing him to be beaten. He was annoyed when he heard a few clicks on the door behind him, and a young woman called softly: "Ling Yunche." A thin package of things flew down through the wall with a "wow", he picked it up and took a look. But it is a pair of insoles, the stitches are fine and dense, obviously new. Yun Che's heart warmed slightly. Ever since he entered the palace as an errand, no one had ever given him a pair of insoles. When he smiled, the wound on the corner of his mouth was touched, and he felt a little remorse, and he also shared an unspeakable part. of fear.He raised his head and looked at the thin and narrow trace of the sky above the corridor, which was dusty, as if it would become a strangled rope at any moment, and was wrapped around his neck.With a heartless heart, he threw the insole over the wall, and said coldly in a tone of refusal: "I haven't worn the insole given by others since I entered the palace. go." There was a slight laugh inside, and suddenly the laughter stopped, and a surprised tone was changed: "What's wrong with your face?" Thinking that the people inside saw the wound on his face, he simply didn't hide it, and said in a rough voice: "I was reckless that day, I only thought about your lives, and forgot that I also have a life." There was a moment of silence, and Ruyi had already understood. Although she knew he couldn't see, she was deeply blessed to the end, "I'm sorry, we are the ones who have troubled you." She said softly, "Does it matter if you are hurt?" Yun Che heard that she didn't go away in anger because of his scolding and rudeness, and then he thought about how to save or not to save that day was in his own mind, how could he blame others, his heart softened a little, and he changed to a slightly gentler one. Tone: "It doesn't matter, it's all skin trauma." Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, otherwise I will feel even more sorry for you and Xinxin. Then, do you know who hit it?" Yun Che hesitated for a moment, recalled the words of the leading guard, and said, "They said something, I don't know about the little master who has a prince." Ruyi's heart trembled, and she said, "The less you know, the better." She picked up the bag of insoles and said, "I've been holding on to these insoles for an entire afternoon, and I hope you can accept them. Show some gratitude." Yun Che thought for a while and said, "If you give me another bottle of traumatic medicine, it will be considered as a thank you." Ruyi couldn't help but smile when she heard that, "Then thank Guard Ling." Ruyi returned to the room, and asked Xin to pick out a bottle of the best traumatic medicine and send it out together with the insoles, and she just sat in a daze.When Xin came back and saw Ruyi sitting at the table in a daze, she asked, "What's the matter, my lord?" Ruyi smiled lightly and said, "I just heard from Ling Yunche just now that the people who hurt people who thought he was meddling in saving others were ordered by the prince's young master to do it." "Young master with a prince?" Xin Xin's face changed slightly, "The young master with a prince in the palace, only the concubine Chun and the concubine Jia, could it be them?" Ruyi just kept silent, and her suspicion became more and more suspicious: "Concubine Chun has an elder brother and a third elder brother, but she is still close to us. Although the concubine Jia doesn't get along with us very much, she is very verbal and likes to make trouble. , top-notch and obedient, but compared to Concubine Hui and the others, there is no deep hatred. Could it be her?" Ruyi shook her head, poured herself a glass of white water, and said slowly, "If you were ordered by me to harm someone, would you mention in front of them who instigated it? won't fall." Song Xin immediately understood: "The young master is saying that those people did it on purpose?" Ruyi smiled slightly, looked at the white water in the cup and said: "When the water is so clear, there will be no fish. Everything is too clear, but doubts are left. They insisted on giving me this trick to blame Jiangdong, and instead told me who is more serious." suspicious." Shou Xin frowned and sighed: "It's a pity that we know that we know, and we can't do anything to prevent it. We can only ask the Bodhisattva to bless them so that they don't care about us." Ruyi raised her eyes and smiled slightly: "We can't do such a thing, but Hailan can definitely do it." Because the empress lost her son, the emperor actually had only three sons and one daughter, and the three princes were all concubines.In the late spring of this year, Hailan suggested that because the harem had repeatedly lost children, it was a shameful prey. In order to seek more children, the emperor and the empress brought the concubines from the harem to accompany them to the Old Summer Palace.One is to relax, the other is to take this opportunity to have more children in the palace, and the third is to agree with the Empress Dowager's wishes and keep herself by her side. went. Sure enough, not long after arriving in the Old Summer Palace, Mrs. Lu was only fifteen years old, and because of her youthful beauty, she was favored by the Holy Will, and soon after, she was appointed Qing Changzai, and she was very favored by the emperor's side.In addition, Concubine Mei's old love is hard to lose, and her new favorite is in power again. As a result, the Old Summer Palace became more and more lively, and she became less concerned about the situation in the palace, Ruyi also breathed a sigh of relief. It's just that when hearing the news of such a new favorite and old love, Ruyi still had some traces of pain on his face at first, bit by bit, touching the atrium, piercing straight down, and gradually, only sourness remained.Every time at this time, I would think of the first meeting with the emperor in that year's smoky willow season. At that time, she was still a lady in a deep house in a high-end jade building, and because her cousin and aunt married so noble and beautiful, she also gave birth to a little ignorant heart.She knew it, she was going to marry into the royal family.But she really wanted to, like her aunt, take on the splendor of a family, step by step within the splendor of the Bauhinia City.However, Concubine Qi's biological son, the third elder brother Hongshi raised by the empress, is not the one she likes.One mistake, seeing him lose his title, remove his clan status, expel the jade certificate, and finally give him death. In addition to panic and uncertainty, a heart also has a sense of joy.He looked down on her so much, and would rather like someone who shouldn't be liked.So at such an embarrassing time, I met my current husband. At that time, there were only two adult elder brothers left by the emperor. The fifth elder brother was bold and unrestrained, and the fourth elder brother was steady and prudent but still had a sense of romance.He is obviously a prince of ordinary background, but he is more like a son of troubled times who "rides on a horse against the setting sun, and is full of red sleeves". At that moment, my heart was moved, thinking that even if he is a person who "curves the green screen and bends the gold, drunk into the flowers", he will not care about his own heart. In the invasion of the cold palace, or when you wake up in the middle of the night in the quiet courtyard of the deep palace, when you wake up in the cold, you will recall that many years ago, the aunt and the current queen mother arranged for them to meet once. My aunt smiled and called "Qingying" softly, and she turned around from behind the twelve lacquer gold ladies' hairpin screens lightly and delicately, and the satin dress with apricot red gauze embroidered with peonies and sparkling dew slowly rolled up. A little rippling, even the pair of white jade partridge and cherry pendants hanging from the belt swayed slightly, like a red rose blooming in the dark night breeze. No, she doesn't want to maintain the calmness and calmness of a lady, but she must be shy to peep behind the screen, which makes her shake her mind and is willing to hold a carmine-colored flower that blooms petal by petal. The heart has always been quiet, sinking to the bottom of the dust. At that time, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, with a single shirt of apricot red and a pair of maids of the color of crows. As soon as she turned around and raised her head, she met the person she thought she could rely on for the rest of her life.At that time, he was only dressed in a pale Tsing Yi with the color of moonlight, and the cuffs had very plain dark patterns, which were the pattern of Tang Di Zhihua, and there was only a bright yellow belt around his waist, revealing the identity of the prince. She thought of that sentence for no reason: "Tang Di's glory is the opposite. Don't you think, the room is far away." How can it be far away?If it is true fate, no matter how far away, this person will come to you. He is a modest gentleman, gentle as jade, with a faint smile, it is the clear sky and bright moon in his arms.But even if he smiled like that, it was inevitable that he would have the Xiao Suo of a prince who has lost power, Xiao Xiao Su Su, like the wind of a lonely pine standing on the top of a mountain. Her always proud heart trembled inexplicably, feeling pity for each other. Really, it is you who pity me and I pity you.He has his unbearable background, and he also has his own embarrassment. Then, I also saw it once or twice.It's just the arrangement of my aunt or the current queen mother. She copied books for the Empress Dowager, and he came to pay her respects, and sometimes rubbed ink for him, calling her "Sister Qingying".She raised her head, but no one else was there, and he looked at her, but just looked at her and smiled. Another time, he was watching a play in Qingyin Pavilion with all the concubines in the palace, and he ordered one of them, which was "On the Wall".The actors on the stage sang, sang, cried, laughed, and sang about other people's lives.But she was moved by an introduction. "The concubine grows green plums by a short wall, and the king rides a white horse and hangs the willows. He looks at each other from a distance on the top of the wall, and when he sees the king, he will be heartbroken." She suddenly lost her mind and raised her eyes.Seeing that he also had a smile on his face, he stared at himself deeply.This is the passage, looking at each other from afar, and heartbroken as soon as I see the Zhijun.Like a flower bud that has not bloomed in late spring, when a spring breeze comes suddenly, it opens its heavy petals, revealing a little apricot-colored stamen. There is the pottery smell of flowers around me, as if the whole spring has stayed by my side, and it has been lingering. For this, she agreed.Ken is just a side Fujin, willing to press down a heart that wants to be higher than the sky, and willing to tolerate him beside the pillow, in his eyes and in his heart, and others. That was a first-time infatuation. And now, what else can he do?Regardless of status or grace, what he has always relied on is the three words he often says: Don't worry. But it turned out that when it was time to feel relieved, she hadn't been relieved at all. It's not as good as Hailan, who has never loved deeply, so she doesn't read, listen, or believe, and she is safe and secure, safe and prosperous. Ruyi was concentrating on her thoughts with a tender heart, but saw Xin Xin hurriedly turned into the room and said: "My lord, my lord Hailan just sent me the news from the Old Summer Palace that my master - passed away. "