Chapter 115 The Mysterious Man Secretly Helps Yuechan
A few days later, when Erlan came back from the outside, she brought a message to Ling Xiao that Huiji, the maid of honor who took care of the flowers and plants in Linyuan, was gone.
Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment, put down the scissors in his hand, looked at the potted juniper he had just built, and sighed as if there was nothing.
"Little Lord, even without your alienation plan, that person will not let her go." Erlan seemed to see Ling Xiao's lowness, glanced at the direction of Yaozhi Palace and persuaded him.
"Hmm." However, she is just a maid of honor who is ambitious but has no brain. There is nothing to sympathize with, but Ling Xiao still asked, "Why not?"
Erlan lowered her head and had no expression. She replied gently, "It's also bad fate. When cleaning up the weeds by the well, I accidentally fell down. Because of the hot weather, there are few people in Shanglinyuan. When they were found, they would have lost their breath.
After listening to this, Ling Xiao still felt a little sad, some to Huiji, to the countless poor, sad and hateful people in the palace, and even to himself.
Tonight is the 15th, and Feng Yuqi went to the Queen's Palace. Ling Xiao sat by the window, and a man looked at the full moon in the sky. The sadness in his chest spread like weeds and entangled her internal organs.
She couldn't help opening the dark compartment at the bottom of the makeup box. There was a red rope lying quietly on the black velvet cloth, and a colored shell the size of a broad bean at the bottom.
When she is bored, she will take out this necklace, rub the red rope inch by inch, and gently rub the small, uneven shell, which seems to be much smoother than when Yuxi just gave it to her.
Sometimes, Ling Xiao couldn't help asking herself, if it hadn't been for the encounter at the age of eight, what would she be like now? If it weren't for the obsession in her heart, would she stick to it? Or, if she desperately tells Feng Yuqi that she is the "xiaoer" who gave her the Lingxiao flower bracelet, what will happen to them now?
Every time he thinks of this, Ling Xiao will shake his head and laugh at his stupidity. There are not so many ifs. What's more, she has already thought about the matter between her and Feng Yuqi, hasn't she? In fact, the relationship between them is now developing as she expected and worked hard, isn't it?
Although he didn't know, he had her in his heart, and she could feel it. Even if he sometimes has to go to other concubines, Ling Xiao can't help but feel sad, but as long as he always remembers himself, he is relieved.
Maybe, slowly, he will find out. Well, when the relationship between them is deeper and deeper, she will give him a hint, and he will definitely know. At that time, it will be perfect.
Ling Xiao was thinking about it, and a shallow smile slowly emerged from the corners of her mouth. The bright moonlight fell on her face, and her skin became more and more like condensed and her face was like jade.
"Ah, who is it?" Ling Yuechan was so scared that she stepped back a few steps. The teacup in her hand fell to the ground. The brown tea splashed all over her, and the skirt was full of deep and shallow tea stains.
"What's the matter, miss?" Hearing the sound, Zhu Lian and Bi He hurried over. Seeing Ling Yuechan's pale face, they hurried forward to comfort her.
Ling Yuechan swallowed, pointed to the window with trembling fingers, and said with a crying voice, "Just now, a dark shadow passed here, and I still wanted to shoot a hidden weapon at me!"
"Is there such a thing?" The two maids were shocked and asked each other.
"Do you think it's Yaofei or Lingxiao? Ah?" Ling Yuechan glanced at the outside warily and asked in a low voice.
"Miss, do you suspect that the Empress Yao and Ling Xiao are the main harm to you? Bihe frowned and said.
Ling Yuechan clenched her fist, scared and angry, "Huiji is dead! It must be the medicine concubine who wants to kill people! I heard that when it was fished out of the well, the bodies were rotten. On a hot day, if the temperature of the well water was low, I'm afraid the whole Shanglin Garden would be stinky.
"Miss!" Bihe couldn't help thinking about the disgusting scene and made a silent gesture, "Huiji fell into the well by himself."
Ling Yuechan wanted to say something else. She opened her mouth and finally pressed it down. She just grabbed Bihe's hand and asked blankly, "What should I do?" Will... and Ling Xiao, she must know something, she..."
"Miss, listen to me." Bihe comforted, "Maybe you were wrong just now. Concubine Medicine can't hurt you. Anyway, you are the mother's sister of Ling Xiaozhu, and the little master is now favored in the palace. She can't be so bold."
"What's more, what's the benefit to you? You are with her..." Bihe was cautious and didn't say it directly. "But if you really count it, you are more worried about being known than her. How can you take the initiative to say it? You and Huiji are different. Huiji is just a villain. As long as there are benefits, no one knows who she will turn to. But you are different. There is no need for the medicine concubine to send someone to do anything to you. Once she is found out, she will suffer herself.
Ling Yuechan listened and calmed down a little, but she was not completely relieved and asked, "What about Ling Xiao? I have bullied her since I was a child. She may not be clear about a few things after entering the palace.
"My young lady, you also said that you have bullied her since you were a child. Didn't she do anything? Whether she counts those things or not, she won't do anything to you. At most, it's just to drive us out of the palace. It's impossible for you to have an accident in her palace. What's more, how dare she send you casually~"
Ling Yuechan thinks about it. It seems to make sense. She is finally at ease. It seems that she is worried about the sky. So just now, was she really wrong?
"Miss, Bihe, come and have a look." Zhu Lian stood at the head of the bed and lifted the layers of curtains, as if she had seen something.
"Look! Someone must be hurting me!" Seeing the black dart nailed to the bed rail, Ling Yuechan's relieved heart suddenly lifted up again and almost cried.
Zhu Lian looked at her helplessly, took off the paper nailed on the dart, handed it to her, and said, "Miss, look, there are words on it."
Ling Yuechan took it over doubtfully and looked at it. She was a little at a loss. After a while, her eyes suddenly burst into ecstasy. Is it that even God is helping me?!"
"Miss, what is written on it? Who left it?" The two little girl looked at her like that. She was about to cry just now. When they read the note, they suddenly turned over and couldn't help asking worriedly.
"It says that at dusk, the emperor often goes to a small pavilion behind the Ice Game Palace. There is an extremely old pomegranate tree over there. If I want to 'meet' the emperor, it is an excellent place to go." Ling Yuechan held the paper in her hand and rarely patiently explained to the two. Her face turned red with excitement.
Zhu Lian and Bi He were not as excited as she was. They only looked at each other with suspicion in their eyes and said, "Miss, there are not many people we know well in the palace. Even the medicine concubine and Luo Xuanshi will not tell you about this kind of thing, let alone in this way. . Don't you think this is too strange? Isn't it someone who is going to set you up?"
Ling Yuechan smiled, waved the paper in her hand and said, "I knew you would suspect that the person who left the message had written it, saying that she had a grudge against Ling Xiao, and hoped that someone would take her favor, so she wanted to help me."
"If that's the case, then you might as well have a try." Hearing this, Bihe's vigilant face also relaxed a lot. "What's more, it's only at dusk. At that time, the maidservants will go with the young lady. Be careful, and nothing will happen."
Zhu Lian nodded repeatedly and said flatteringly to Ling Yuechan, "Miss, it seems that you have the help of a noble person, and you will definitely become a phoenix in the future!" At that time, the maidservants will also follow the tide to see how the cheap girl Qingwu can show off in front of us.
Ling Yuechan smiled with satisfaction and pride. She walked like floating in the clouds, and she couldn't exert her energy.
"Let's go tomorrow." After Ling Yuechan decided, she immediately washed up and went to bed to rest. Although my heart was turbulent and it was difficult to fall asleep, I thought that I might see the emperor tomorrow. If I didn't sleep well, I couldn't have a good look, so I forced myself to close my eyes and slowly fell into a dream.
Ling Xiao, Ling Xiao, you are worried that the emperor will like me, so you stopped me from meeting the emperor, but I can also see it! You didn't expect it, haha, and it's better to meet alone outside than to glance at you from a distance. When I become the emperor's woman, let's see how you get along with yourself!
The next day, after having lunch, Ling Yuechan was impatiently wanted to go out and was stopped by Bihe.
"In such a big day, it is impossible for the emperor to go out. If you wait there early, it's not good. If you are seen, it will be a bad thing. If it is first discovered by the emperor, it is also easy to arouse the emperor's suspicion. Where is the 'accidental encounter' that is more exciting and more fateful?
Zhu Lian also advised: "And it's easy to get tan when you go out now. Instead, it's better for you to have a good rest in the room and be energetic. Isn't it better to go out when the time is almost ready?"
Ling Yuechan thought it was reasonable, so she held back and took a nap.
When she woke up, it was the time when the sky was slightly stained with redness, and the dusk was approaching. Ling Yuechan dressed up carefully and went out. The goal was too big, and she only brought a relatively calm Bihe. She knew that she could not hide it from Ling Xiao when she went out, so Bi He gave her an idea.
They first went to Qinpingyuan to meet Luoshang, and then found an excuse to go out through the back door to avoid the maid of honor sent by Ling Xiao to stare at her.
When Ling Yuechan came to the back of the Ice Game Palace, next to the pavilion written on the note left by the mysterious man, she saw an ancient and lush pomegranate tree. At this time, it was the time of luxuriant branches and red flowers. The long branches stretched out and climbed to the pavilion. The thick green leaves cast a shade on the stone chairs in the pavilion. The fiery red flowers hang on the vines, as warm as the sun at noon in midsummer.
However, she found with sharp eyes that the string of fiery red flowers was not all pomegranate flowers, and the color was particularly bright and the shape was particularly full and flamboyant, which turned out to be Lingxiao flowers. If you look carefully, you will find that on the edge of the root of the pomegranate tree, a thin vine grows from the soil, which is winding around the branches of the pomegranate tree and climbing up.
The pomegranate flower and the Lingxiao flower are very similar in the first place, and the flowering period is also close, which is easy to confuse. What's more, the two flowers in front of you are still tightly intertwined, and Lingxiao flowers are rare in the capital, so it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish them. Ling Yuechan grew up in Phoenix. After looking at it twice, she naturally found it.
For some reason, looking at Ling Xiaohua in front of her, she always felt that there was something wrong.
At this moment, footsteps sounded not far away. Is it the emperor who came? The mysterious man really didn't lie to her! Ling Yuechan was happy and nervous. At the sign of Bi He, she hurried to hide behind a cluster of yellow poplars.