Chapter 44: Lifting the ban
Wen Yunxi was sick again and again this time, and her health was not very good until after the beginning of winter. Fortunately, Lianzhi was always with her, otherwise according to Wen Yunxi's temperament, she would be depressed.
"I heard that the queen has already lifted Wan Baolin's confinement?" Wen Yunxi asked.
Lian Zhi nodded: "Well, but what's the point of even relieving Wan Baolin's confinement? Wan Baolin has lost her holy favor for a long time. The queen lifted her confinement at this time just to show her 'kindness'. After all, at this time, it's also true that the queen can still remember Wan Baolin, right?"
"The queen just likes to do plays."
"It's better to say less of this kind of thing."
"I heard that the plum blossoms in the Imperial Garden are blooming, let's go and have a look together." Wen Yunxi suggested.
Lianzhi looked at her: "You're just in your body."
"I'm already done. Do you want me to stay in the house and not go out in the future? Please, let's go out for some breath."
Lian Zhi had no intention of really rejecting Wen Yunxi, just to tease her: "Okay, you are wearing thicker clothes. I will accompany you to the Royal Garden to see the plum blossoms. I heard that the red plum blossoms are very good."
Gan Tang was worried about Wen Yunxi. Although Wen Yunxi wore very thick clothes, she finally put on a snow-white fox fur before letting her out of the palace.
Although Lian Zhi was cold, she was not afraid of the severe cold and even had few diseases. So in this winter, she just wore a little thicker and wore a red fox fur outside.
Lian Zhi was wearing a plain white dress today, wearing this fiery red fox fur, which gave people a great visual impact.
"Wanyang, I think I'm wearing such a thick dress, like a ball. Do you think I'm rolling on the road?"
Listening to Wen Yunxi describing herself like this, Lian Zhi couldn't help laughing: "If you didn't show off last time, you wouldn't have been sick for so long. This time, Gan Tang said that she wouldn't let you wear less clothes."
Wen Yunxi stomped her feet in a hurry, and Gan Tang said to her, "If the princess doesn't want to wear it so thickly, then go back to the palace. Anyway, the burning ground dragon in the palace is warm."
"You guys bully me." Wen Yunxi was so angry.
"We're at the Imperial Garden ahead. Do you want to see the plum blossoms?" Lian Zhi asked, and Wen Yunxi stopped complaining.
The group walked into the imperial garden and saw the blooming red plums from afar. Wen Yunxi praised: "The red plums are so good this year. After a while, the pure white snow fell on the red plums, which is the beauty of the world."
"Then we will see it again until it snows." Lianzhi agreed.
"Wan Baolin, I offended the Empress last time and was confined to such a long time. Why didn't I see you have a memory?"
Just as she was enjoying the plum blossoms, Lianzhi heard the disharmonious sound, and Wen Yunxi also heard it. She pulled Lianzhi to the other side of the pavilion and saw Luo Xuanran sitting in the pavilion. Wan Baolin was kneeling outside the pavilion in thin clothes. Luo Xuanran's palace maid Mo Hua was scolding Wan Baolin.
"The Empress has four palace maids, namely Tingqin, Qi Yuan, Shuhan and Mo Hua. Tingqin and Qi Yuan are quite steady. Shuhan and Mo Hua are very rampant on weekdays, and many concubines have been harassed by her." Wen Yunxi explained to Lianzhi, "Isn't this Wan Baolin just released? Why doesn't the Queen let her go?"
Lianzhi grabbed Wen Yunxi: "Let me hear what happened first!"
I heard Yuan Dai say, "I just passed by but didn't see the Queen."
"Wan Baolin, it's so cold, are you dressed so thinly? Are you going to be charming the master?" Mo Hua said without any mercy.
Yuan Dai was not anxious or angry: "It's not that the concubine wanted to wear so thinly, and she didn't send the winter clothes. The concubine thought of picking them up by herself. She happened to pass by the imperial garden and didn't see the queen for a while, so she collided."
"It's really too much." Wen Yunxi said, "Those palace ladies are all complimenting and slashing. Now that winter is over, Wan Baolin doesn't even have clothes for winter. The palace maids don't know how to pick them up, but instead let Wan Baolin go there by herself."
"Isn't this the case in this palace? From the day when Wan Baolin fell out of favor, she must have thought of today. I don't think Wan Baolin was so miserable. Although she was not doing well, she felt at ease."
"I also discovered that you said that. I saw Wan Baolin last time when she was favored, but I saw her face full of sorrow. Now that she has lost her favor, she looks much more peaceful. What strange person is this?"
"Your honey is just arsenic."
Lian Zhi's words made Wen Yunxi sigh: "You are talking too."
The queen did not let Yuan Dai go: "Wan Baolin, you are a palace maid, and you can't learn some rules no matter how you learn."
Seeing Luo Xuanran speak, the Mo Hua stepped aside and stopped talking.
Yuandai just knelt on the ground, lowered her head and didn't say anything, as if she was waiting for the queen's hair to fall. The queen just wanted to use the punishment of Yuandai to vent her dissatisfaction with the Xianfei Concubine. Yuandai had accepted this reality and even stopped resisting.
"Since you can't learn it, then kneel down and remember for a long time. Kneel for two hours first." Luo Xuanran said lightly, Yuan Dai didn't say anything, just knelt there quietly.
"Is the queen crazy? If she wants to force Wan Baolin to death? It's so cold that she let Wan Baolin kneel on the stone road. Wan Baolin wears so little, can she survive after kneeling down in these two hours?" Wen Yunxi didn't expect that the queen would be so cruel to a concubine who was out of favor.
Lian Zhi looked at Yuan Dai from afar. From Yuan Dai, she seemed to see her former self.
If you don’t want to argue, you will suffer if you have anything, because you are used to it, or because you are already dead.
Lianzhi walked towards the pavilion, and Wen Yunxi hurriedly followed.
"I've seen the Queen."
"I've seen my mother."
Lian Zhi and Wen Yunxi saluted Luo Xuanran. Luo Xuanran did not expect that these two people would appear here: "No gift, why are you here together today?"
"The red plums in the Imperial Garden are blooming. Erchen and Princess Wanyang come here to see the plum blossoms. Did the mother come to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the plum blossoms?" Wen Yunxi asked.
Luo Xuanran nodded: "That's right."
Lian Zhi seemed confused: "The Empress doesn't seem to be here to appreciate the plum blossoms."
"What's the purpose of this palace?"
"I think the Empress seems to be visiting someone and kneeling down."
Luo Xuanran glanced at Yuan Dai who was kneeling beside him and smiled indifferently: "I came to appreciate the plum blossoms. Wan Baolin bumped into me. I punished her to kneel down so that she would not make the same mistake again in the future. Is there any problem?"
"Of course there is no problem. But this princess saw that Wan Baolin was dressed in thin clothes, and if she knelt for a long time, she would inevitably get sick. The Empress taught Wan Baolin a lesson for Wan Baolin. If she caused Wan Baolin to get seriously ill, she still wondered what rumors would be made by the people in the palace!"
Luo Xuanran smiled and said, "Princess Wanyang really likes to meddle in other people's business."
"I am thinking about the Queen. The Queen is always kind. A few days ago, I didn't forget to relieve Wan Baolin's confinement. A few days later, I punished Wan Baolin in the Imperial Garden, which caused Wan Baolin to be seriously ill, which may be unfavorable to the Queen's reputation."
"But the order from this palace has been issued. If it is taken back, wouldn't it be ridiculous?" Luo Xuanran asked.
Lian Zhi untied the fox fur on his body and draped it directly on Yuan Dai. The fox fur was still warm. Yuan Dai looked at Lian Zhi in shock, as if he couldn't believe Lian Zhi's actions.
"The Empress punished Wan Baolin, and I have nothing to say. But punishment is different from harsh treatment, isn't it?"
"Princess Wanyang!" Luo Xuanran saw Lianzhi sang against her many times and was furious. He was about to say something when he heard the voice of Emperor Chu: "Princess Wanyang is right, punishment is different from harsh treatment."
"Attend the Emperor." Seeing Emperor Chu, everyone immediately saluted.
"Get up." Emperor Chu glanced at Yuan Dai who was still kneeling on the ground and said, "Didn't you let everyone get up? Why are there still people kneeling?"
Yuan Dai wanted to stand up, but she knelt in the cold weather for so long, and her legs were already a little unconscious. Lianzhi gave Su Ying a look, and Su Ying immediately stepped forward and helped Yuan Dai up.
Wen Zhiyuan also followed Emperor Chu. When he saw Lian Zhi give the fox fur to Yuan Dai, his white clothes looked even weaker and said, "Why did Princess Wan Yang wear so little today?"
"I just saw Wan Baolin kneeling in the cold wind, and felt unbearable, so I gave the fox fur to Wan Baolin. But I was also strange. The Empress was in charge of the harem. Seeing a concubine in the harem without even clothes for winter, why did the Empress ask only half a question?"
After hearing Lian Zhi's words, Emperor Chu looked at Luo Xuanran: "The emperor can explain it."
Luo Xuanran replied: "I thought Wan Baolin was not afraid of the cold, but I didn't expect that the palace servant forgot to send the winter clothes. Why didn't Wan Baolin send someone to collect them?"
"Even Princess Wanyang knows that Wan Baolin is cold. Have you seen her for so long but haven't noticed it?" Emperor Chu suddenly became angry, and Luo Xuan was so scared that he knelt down: "It's my fault."
Mo Hua immediately walked up and knelt down: "It's all my servants. I'm not there. The Queen gave the clothes for the winter this year to me. But I didn't do it well."
Emperor Chu sat down, and he looked at Mo Hua and Luo Xuanran kneeling on the ground, and did not speak for a long time. Everyone was quietly waiting for Emperor Chu to speak.
Chapter completed!