Vol 3 Chapter 95: Mother Tong's evidence

It was almost noon when Wan Yuyao returned to Yongning Palace, and with her were the Seventh Prince Hua Nanlin and Mother Tong who took care of him.
As soon as he entered the warm pavilion, Wan Yuyao could not wait to take off the lower layer of clothes, urging the maidservant to prepare the flower juice bath in the clean room.
"Quick, quick, my palace is going to wash my body immediately. Dirty, the bitch's clothes were worn on my palace, and my palace got goose bumps."
Wan Yuyao complained, staring at the plain clothes and trousers tufted on the soft blanket, with an expression of resentment.
That dress was exactly what Xu Concubine was wearing. If her breath remained on it, Wan Yuyao wouldn't wear it on her body if she was killed.
She has always been aware of the experience of childbirth, that children most recognize the breath of motherhood.
If she wants to get the seven princes, she has to perform well in front of the emperor, and the secret weapon that can successfully appease the young is naturally the scent of the mother of his life.
The clean room is lightly veiled and beautifully lit by candlelight.
Wan Yuyao sits in the water floating in the dried flowers, her plump shoulders half exposed, her skin torn apart, her watery eyes slightly glaring like silk, and she is blurred by the heat in the bucket.
Deeply lifting her nose and inhaling a scent of flowers, Wan Yuyao closed her eyes intoxicated, and let Li Hu rub her arms behind her.
In the past few days, the plan has been going very smoothly. The things that I want have been obtained, and the people who hate have been removed. At this moment, what else can affect her happy mood?
The woman's lips opened slightly, and she murmured:
"Chu Xiugong doesn't need to keep it, you can arrange it and let Minglan do it at night."
Li Hu's ten-finger movements stopped and bowed his head obediently:
"Slaves obey orders."
"When this palace goes out and burns incense, you ask Mother Tong to bring those clothes to see this palace."
"Yes."
In the water vapor, Wan Yuyao stood up suddenly, shook the water and the petals swayed.
After lunch, Wan Yuyao sat cross-legged on the goose-yellow silk futon in the Taoist hall, and silently recited the entire volume of "Ling Bao Jing".
Every time after harming people, Wan Yuyao would hide in the side hall of the temple and chant sutras in front of the sanqing sacred statues enshrined on the incense table.
Her deep-rooted thoughts have long believed that even if she has done the evil of murder and arson, as long as she is devoted to the Tao, the power of the scriptures can help her resolve her sins.
When Li Hu entered the hall, she followed Mother Tong, a humble woman who didn't dare to breathe more, with a stack of children's clothes in her hands.
Wan Yuyao got up and sat on the armchair, looked at the clothes she was holding, smiled faintly, coldly:
"Sister, put things on the table."
"Slaves obey orders, slaves obey orders."
Mother Tong's expression was tense and she was busy in accepting her. When she put her clothes on the square table, her arms trembled.
Wan Yuyao's eyes moved slightly, and she quietly checked the number of clothes, a lot of them, her lips curled in satisfaction, and she smiled evilly:
"What is the Seventh Prince doing now?"
"Hui, Hui Niangniang, the seventh prince...have been sleeping peacefully."
"okay……"
Wan Yuyao stared at the other party without turning his eyes, and the eyes were bright.
This stupid woman didn't know, Xi'er had already added a certain amount of wine to the goat milk flakes that the Seventh Prince ate. The child would naturally have a good sleep after eating it.
"Mother, don't worry. Now that you come with the Seventh Prince to Yongning Palace, this palace will not be difficult for you. As long as you are obedient, besides monthly salary, this palace will also have extra rewards."
"Yes, yes, the maidservant is yours right now. Do what you tell the maidservant to do, never dare to have two hearts. The maidservant is Avalokitesvara in the world, and the maidservant is able to leave the temple, all relying on the maid’s care, and the maidservant is grateful to the maid. Endless."
A heart "suddenly" has lost the beat, and Mother Tong knelt on her knees and couldn't help but kowtow, and she was so obedient in her mouth.
Wan Yuyao was amused by her sincere and fearful look. Turning her hands over, she looked at Dancome's nails repeatedly with her beautiful eyes, her voice was soothed and frustrated, with ulterior motives:
"How is this palace avalokitesvara? Haha, this palace believes but does not participate in the Buddha."
"...Yes, the servant is dull."
Mother Tong almost fainted with fear, cold sweat dripped from her temples.
Wan Yuyao's eyes lightly turned to look at the clothing, her smiling expression converged:
"You don't want to know, why did this palace ask you to put on these clothes for the Seventh Prince?"
Mother Tong trembled and shook her head vigorously:
"No, no, slaves know the rules, the master does not say, the slaves never ask, nor dare to be curious."
Wan Yuyao nodded slightly:
"Yes, I am a good slave. As long as you are obedient, this palace will keep you with the seventh prince to serve you all the time. Okay, go down and serve the little master with all your heart."
Mother Tong nodded and bowed her waist to agree to get up, and the moment she turned and went out, she felt that her back soaked in sweat was cold.
Li Hu looked at the empty doorway, approached the master, and asked in a low voice:
"Manny, what's the next step?"
Wan Yuyao looked at the children’s clothes on the table and said casually:
"Find a place where there is no one, and burn these together with Xu Fei's obscene clothes. Keeping them is a curse after all..."
The pupils suddenly condensed, Wan Yuyao raised her delicate eyes and fixed her eyes on the cuff of a coat.
The suture there is a bit strange, not only the needle angle is too thick, but the color of the suture is also different from other places.
Wan Yuyao hurriedly looked through the other clothes, and as expected, they had been tampered with in different positions.
Eyes_The flame fled, with a strong murderous intent, Wan Yuyao gritted her teeth:
"Li Hu, this mother Tong can't stay!"
...
The moon is black and wind is high at night, killing people and setting fire to heaven.
The lonely figure of Mother Tong walked on the silent palace road, looking back several steps at any time to keep an eye on the surrounding movement.
Cautiously rushed to the gate of the Superintendent of Li, she glanced at the closed gate with her neck and walked closer.
Under the lintel are two unicorn beasts, each with its teeth and claws, and a dumpling ball.
Mother Tong fumbled for a long time, and finally found a suitable gap between the ball and the throat of the stone beast, one by one, a cloth bag was inserted from the placket.
A few days ago, when the people from Yongning Palace secretly sent a few children's new clothes and fifty taels of gold, Madam Tong knew she was in disaster.
He has never done anything without gain, not to mention that the other party is the imperial concubine Wan Yuyao.
When you take money, you always have to do things for others.
The other party's request was very simple, that was, she told Mother Tong to give the seven princes the new clothes they had sent in a rotation, but she couldn't say anything to the outside world.
Mother Tong was humble and didn't dare to ask the other party about the specific reasons, let alone refuse the "reward" of the imperial concubine, so she had to obey and follow suit.
In the days and nights that followed, the Seven Princes cried and lost their appetite.
The imperial physician has been here to take the pulse of the child carefully, and check the whole body and there is no improper injury.
Madam Tong looked at her. Apart from distress, she instinctively told her that the Seventh Prince was like this, and that there must be a problem with the clothes sent from Yongning Palace!
Once at night, Mother Tong found a coat, used scissors to cut the stitches of the placket, and she was dumbfounded the moment she pulled off the lining.
There is a thin layer of quilted cotton between the lining and the outer material. In addition to suspicious orange powder, there are strands of floating silk and quilted with strange appearance.
Mother Tong looked at it for a moment and finally realized that the powder and floating silk on the quilted cotton were pollen and reeds of the "iron reed".
This kind of iron reed is very rare. It only grows in the poisonous marsh pond in the southern Xinjiang. Due to the characteristics of the landform, this kind of reed is actively growing all year round and never wilts.
The pollen and reeds of the iron reed are toxic. Although human skin contact will not cause redness and swelling, it will not cause ulceration, but it makes people feel itchy and painful.
In Yeting, there is a way to punish offenders in the palace. The name is "wearing iron clothes", which is to force offenders to wear clothes that contain iron reed pollen and reed flowers.
Adults can't bear it, let alone a child who has been dissatisfied with two weeks.
Mother Tong couldn't make a sound under the light. She really couldn't bear the child. If she wasn't her own person, she would have held a deep affection for two years. She hated the viciousness of the Wanhuang concubine, and knew that she was running out of time.
After the sadness, Mother Tong took off a piece of quilted cotton that adhered to pollen and reeds, and put a pen to write, and bought herself by the imperial concubine until she found that there were other articles in the seven princes’ clothes, and the evidence of the quilted. Wrap the fifty-two gold ingots into a cloth bag.
Thinking that in time, if one encounters an unexpected event, she will most likely be splashed with dirty water in Yongning Palace afterwards, Mother Tong decided to hand over this evidence to a reliable person as soon as possible.
However, who should keep this certificate?
After thinking about it, Mother Tong thought of a person, only he could check and balance with the Wanhuang concubine, he was the admiral of the East Factory Leng Qingtang.
In the evening, Mother Tong took an opportunity to hide the evidence outside the gate of the priest, and quickly fled outside the palace.
Suddenly, there were more footsteps in the quiet palace road, overlapping with Mother Tong, which looked strange and weird in the quiet night.
Mother Tong's figure was startled, her steps slowed down and looked back, five meters behind her chased a face-to-face eunuch.
Mother Tong's face changed drastically, she accelerated her speed and ran, and suddenly a person appeared in front of her, it was the chief Ren Yi of Yongning Palace, with a grinning smile on her face:
"Sister Tong, if you don't take care of the seventh prince at this late hour, you still have to go there?"
"Slaves, slaves..."
Mother Tong trembled and stepped back, two rows of teeth violently bumped into each other, and the helplessness and powerlessness that had never happened before came.
The behind him rushed a few steps and blocked Mother Tong’s mouth with one arm, and the stone in his other hand smashed down.
Mother Tong fell to the ground and nothing happened. Father-in-law Ren bent over, looked at the cold moonlight, and said to the eunuch:
"Take it away and tie a stone to sink into the Koi Lake."
"Yes."