Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 87

"Si Jin, what time is it?"

"If you go back to your mother, it's already you hour." Si Jin glanced at the hourglass before replying.

"It's you hour already?" While speaking, Ten Niang's hands slowed down, and the needle pierced her finger, and a drop of blood immediately came out, falling on the apron that was about to be embroidered for the Eighth Prince.

The red apron did not show any blood at all, but the drop of blood landed on the white lotus petals impartially, and even the slightly exposed yellow stamens covered by the petals were stained with traces of blood, which was shocking to watch. .

Shi Niang stared at the white lotus that was gradually stained red with blood, a little dazed, and even forgot to pull out her fingers.This white lotus is stained with blood, is it a warning?

"Master, are you alright?" Huaping reminded carefully.

She saw that Shi Niang had been staring at the veil in a daze, but the blood was still dripping, so she had to remind her.

When Ten Niang heard this, she raised her head and shifted her gaze to her big maid's painting screen.Huaping was holding a clean white silk handkerchief and was about to hand it to her.

"Your Majesty, stop the bleeding first, and connect your fingers to your heart. I'm afraid I won't be able to do needlework these days."

"This little injury is fine, besides, your mother and I are not so delicate." Ten Niang took the silk handkerchief, and slowly wiped the blood from her fingers with the handkerchief.

While rubbing, he said, "When I first learned how to embroider in my early years, in order to celebrate my grandmother's birthday, many blood blisters were rubbed on my fingers, and I continued to embroider."

"Your Majesty was so filial when she was at home, no wonder the Queen Mother likes you more and more."

"The queen mother likes to be lively. The eighth girl has a good relationship with the queen mother, and she can always make her laugh. This palace is in the honor of the emperor." Shi Niang smiled and did not continue this topic.

Picking up the ruined bellyband with her hand, Shi Niang put it down after looking it over again.

"It's a pity." She sighed, "I've been making this thing for girl Yue for several days, and it's useless now. It's time for the little girl to make trouble again."

"That's not easy to do, just let the needleworkers in the palace make exactly the same ones." Huaping came up with an idea.

"The embroiderers in our palace are very skilled. The emperor specially found the embroiderers for you in the south, and you are the only one in the whole palace." Huaping boasted proudly.

"You don't have to worry about it, the princesses have to do the personal clothes themselves." Huaping said helplessly, "Let the embroiderers useless."

"Now, the restless embroiderers of our palace have work to do. Take a good rest these few days and let them help the eighth princess make a few more sets of clothes. If you are really worried about them, The servants can keep watching."

"Forget it, tomorrow the palace will start again." Shi Niang waved her hand and said to the second servant girl.

"Master's craftsmanship, not to mention the embroiderers in the south, who in this palace can match. One-handed double-sided embroidery is so good that even the empress is full of praise." Si Jin's words were inappropriate when she looked at the painting screen. , hurriedly opened his mouth to remedy.

"Your Majesty loves the princesses very much, and she is afraid that others will not work carefully and hurt the princess's delicate skin. I did it myself. The princess is comfortable in the clothes, and the Empress is also at ease." Si Jin complimented Shi Niang.

"That's the truth. You guys are still young and don't understand how mothers can do everything for their sons and daughters." Ten Niang sighed to the two big maids.

"That's right, the empress doesn't like the embroiderers in the palace. The empress wants to give the best to the princesses. And the best embroidery is precisely the empress's own craftsmanship."

"When did Si Jin become so talkative?" Shi Niang asked with a smile.

"Where is the servant who can talk, it's because we can't speak on the screen, that's why the servant can talk." Si Jin smiled modestly.

"It's alright for Si Jin to be praised, but he still has to bury his servants. The master wants to make decisions for the servants. Why can't the servants speak?" Huaping feigned anger.

"You are still not convinced when you say you can't speak. You just dare to talk nonsense. Even our master dared to arrange it. It's thanks to the master's generosity to spoil you and pay back other empresses. I don't know how many times you have been punished. gone."

"Si Jin is right. It doesn't matter what you do in front of me, but you have to remember to be modest in front of outsiders." Shi Niang pointed to the screen.

"Yes, the slave girl knows." Huaping replied in response, and made a grimace thinking of Si Jin after the answer.

"Niang Niang, your hand?" Huaping lowered his head, seeing blood oozing from the handkerchief wrapped around Shi Niang's fingers, he was very worried.

Seeing the small needle holes and the continuous blood splatters, Shi Niang was also a little annoyed, so she simply put the handkerchief aside and squeezed it against her fingers.

"Master, this servant is going to get the ointment." Huaping hurriedly got up and searched for the ointment to stop the bleeding.

"Master, I found it, here it is." Huaping gave the ointment he found to Shi Niang.

Ten Niang opened the ointment box, used the tip of the hairpin to dig out a little grease-like transparent substance, and touched it evenly on the eye of the needle.

"I heard that this ointment was formulated by Aunt Ruhua. The effect is so good, it will be great when the servant can do like Auntie."

"Stupid girl." Ten Niang smiled at the painting screen, "This ointment was prepared by the black girl. How can you know this in the painting? There is no foundation in medical skills, and ordinary people can make ointment casually?"

"Ah, didn't my aunt configure it?" Si Jin was also surprised, "At the beginning, my aunt said that she would make a lot of recipes."

"A lot of your aunts in painting are not medicine prescriptions at all, but food prescriptions. She is used to food prescriptions called Fangzi, so you all believe that they are medicine prescriptions."

"Then Baoxia can ask auntie for advice." Baoxia is the big palace maid who is in charge of the small kitchen now.Unlike Si Jin and Huaping, they just serve Shi Niang personally.

"Ruhua will accompany the third prince every day, you can ask more. Her food recipes are really good." Shi Niang encouraged.

These young palace maids are serving as errands in her palace, and she doesn't want to embarrass them too much, she is also willing to find a way out for them.Now she encourages them to learn cooking well, and she also thinks that one day, when they are old enough to leave the palace, they will be able to have a good skill and not be too downcast.

"Speaking of which, why hasn't the Third Prince come here after all this time?" Ten Niang asked, her heart skipped a beat.

Yao'er was punctual and filial since he was a child, and he would never be lazy when it was time for him to pay his respects.After moving to the prince's office, I kept checking every morning and evening without interruption.

Something is out of the ordinary today.

There was something wrong with Shi Niang's expression.First, the embroidery pierced her finger, and then the third prince who just came to pay her respects was nowhere to be seen, her heart was pounding.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. You hour is not over yet, maybe the prince is on his way to our Yaohua Palace." Si Jin comforted.

Huaping thought of the third prince's love of riding a horse in Shanglinyuan, so he followed suit.

"The third prince has riding and archery lessons today, maybe the master left them to practice more."

"Yao'er loves riding horses since childhood, and Bengong is always worried that he will bump into each other, but he doesn't listen to what he says, and always rides fast horses. He also goes to riding and archery lessons first, and leaves last." Shi Niang thought of his love of riding horses My naughty son couldn't help worrying.

"Whenever his homework is like riding a horse, the palace will be Amitabha."

"Our third prince is number one in homework and riding and shooting among the princes." Si Jin asked puzzled, "What are you worried about, empress?"

"Aren't you worried? Last month, the emperor randomly checked his "Analects of Confucius", and what he recited was not as proficient as Concubine De's second prince."

"Then why don't you say that our third prince's small strategy theory has been praised by the emperor?" Huaping continued from the side, "The prince doesn't like to endorse, but his ability to make strategy theory is not comparable to that of the second prince. May I know that, The third prince's theory is what you have coached in the past."

"It's just that he was writing policy theory, so I checked the font." Shi Niang laughed and said, "You really think that your master is omnipotent, and he can even teach policy theory?"

"Anyway, in the heart of this servant, you are a capable person."

"Come on, don't coax me, your master." Shi Niang ordered, "You go to the prince's house yourself, and ask Ruhua, what is the situation of the third prince. If it is at the horse farm, then that is the one who will pick him up."

"Your servant obeys." Huaping followed the order and left.

"Si Jin goes to the small kitchen to have a look. If Baoxia needs help, you can help me." Shi Niang ordered Si Jin to go to the small kitchen to take care of Baoxia, and then said, "Go and call Xiao Xinzi to Ben Gong." .”

When only Shi Niang was left in the room, Shi Niang tapped her fingers carefully. A moment later, a man in black night clothes floated down from the beam.

"What is the master's order?" The man's voice was low, "Xinbu Xinsi listened quietly to the master's order."

"A few days ago, what happened to the things I asked you to check?"

"The black girl is developing that thing after meeting the white beauty, but there is no progress yet. The black girl asked the servant to tell you that she knows who her master is, please rest assured."

"This girl has always been smart, but I always feel uneasy. You continue to send people to watch her, be careful, don't be discovered by her again."

"Slave understands." Xin Si replied, "Also, this is the joint shop of the Liu family and the Nalan family that you want to check outside the palace. There have been rumors of discord between the Liu family's wife and the Nalan family's wife. .”

"Continue to act according to the plan, and be sure to swallow the joint industry of the two of them."

"Well, our dim sum shop has encroached on the surrounding shops. We'll make a fortune when we close the net."

"Thank you everyone."

"Master, are you looking for me?" Xin Yin opened the door and came in, seeing Xin Si there, slightly surprised, "It's not dark, is it?"

Before, Shi Niang didn't like to touch Xinbu's hidden guards in the daytime, so only Xin Yin asked this question.

"It's okay, this little Nuan Pavilion is still safe."

"Master has something on his mind today." Xin Yin looked at Shiniang's expression and said affirmatively, "That's why you are looking for Xinsi to talk during the day."

"I asked you to investigate the princess's place before, have you cleaned up around Han'er?" Shi Niang asked.

A few days ago, the Ninth Emperor Daughter was caught in the cold, and Li Chang was in the courtyard of the Ninth Emperor Daughter where the princess lived.Who wants to
That night, Ninth Emperor's daughter's condition worsened, and she almost didn't survive.

The Liu family decisively moved the Ninth Emperor Daughter to her own palace, and the Ninth Emperor Daughter was able to turn the crisis into safety after all-out rescue by the Imperial Hospital.

Li Changzai is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the importance, and he is very grateful to Liu's decision to save the life of the Ninth Queen.Not in the arena with Liu Shi.

She was going to clean up all the things of the Ninth Princess at the princess's place, and discarded them.In the process of tidying up, dirty things were found in the princess's pillow.

After examination by the imperial physician, it was a corner of the clothes of a child who died of a cold infection.It has the effect of accelerating and aggravating the condition of patients with wind and cold.

Liu Shi and Li Shi knelt before the emperor and asked the emperor to investigate the matter thoroughly.The emperor agreed and handed over the matter to the queen for supervision.

Concubines with children in the palace began to thoroughly investigate the princess and the prince.

Shi Niang knew all the emperor's people of the prince, and the focus of investigation was placed in the courtyard of the Seventh Emperor's daughter.This matter is still handed over to Xin Yin, who can take care of both overtly and secretly.

"Princess Jinghan's side has already been cleaned up. The servant of the princess has left someone to look after her in secret. Ruomin is strict with the food and clothing of the princess, and their people cannot enter the princess's side. This time, following this opportunity, the servant again Transfer them out of the yard. After a while, just find a way to let them die suddenly. Don't worry."

"Be careful and don't leave anything behind." Shi Niang explained, "If there are enough people, Yao'er can follow along."

"Master, it's not good, the third prince... the third prince fell off his horse!"

(End of this chapter)