Chapter 95 Demotion
Lu Zhaoyi had always had people secretly monitor the movements of outsiders in and out of the harem, and she knew about Feng Qingsui's entry into the palace earlier than Luo Zhaoyi.
When the palace maid reported this, she was arranging flowers.
When she learned that Feng Qingsui had only gone to the Cining Palace to see the Empress Dowager and had not gone to the Mingxiu Palace to see Luo Zhaoyi, she broke the flower branch in her hand with a "snap" and threw it to the ground.
"He really has some brains."
She raised her foot and crushed the flowers, saying angrily.
"No wonder she showed up after Ji Changfeng died, and was even recognized by the Ji family."
This woman didn't even see the man named Luo, so her tricks were useless and all her plans of the past few days went down the drain.
It will be difficult to get someone into the palace again.
She was sulking for a few days and went to the Imperial Garden to relax.
There is a pavilion on the rockery on the east side of the Imperial Garden, from which one can have a panoramic view of the entire garden. She always loves to sit in the pavilion and drink tea.
This time, seeing that there was no one in the pavilion, he went there too.
Unexpectedly, just as the palace maid boiled the water, Luo came up to the pavilion with two palace maids.
She frowned slightly.
Ever since she was diagnosed with pregnancy, Luo has been suffering from morning sickness every day and never leaves the palace. How come she is in the mood to visit the garden today?
“I didn’t expect Sister Lu to be here too.”
When the man surnamed Luo saw her, he was uncharacteristically friendly and greeted her in a friendly tone. He even walked straight to the beauty's seat where she was and sat down.
She immediately stood up and took a few steps back.
"Why are you sitting so close? It's not like there's no room."
The man surnamed Luo looked hurt.
"I like Sister Lu. Can't I sit next to her?"
Lu Zhaoyi didn't believe a word of it.
She has snatched the emperor from this man so many times, it would be strange if he liked her.
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
She said coldly: "I have something else to do, so I'll go back to the palace first. You can have fun slowly."
After saying that, he walked out of the pavilion.
But footsteps were heard behind me.
"Sister Lu, don't be in such a hurry to leave. I still have something to ask you."
She panicked and walked faster.
After coming down from the pavilion, you have to walk five or six meters in the rockery cave before you can get out.
This fake cave was connected in all directions, and outside the cave entrance on the west side of the cave wall was a lake. When she passed through this cave entrance, she was unexpectedly caught up by the man named Luo, who pulled her arm and pushed her into the lake.
"Bang!--"
Both of them fell into the water.
Before Lu Zhaoyi could react, she was kicked hard in the waist and fell to the bottom of the lake.
She was quick-witted and quick-handed, grabbing the ankle of the foot that had just kicked her. No matter how the other person kicked her with the other leg, she held on tightly and was able to escape death.
When the two of them were pulled ashore by the palace servants, she looked at the man surnamed Luo with murderous eyes.
This guy is even more cruel than her!
In order to kill her, she even risked her life while pregnant with the dragon fetus.
She couldn't swim at all. If she had reacted a little slower, she would be lying dead at the bottom of the lake.
The culprit started to cry.
"Lu Zhaoyi, I treat you like my own sister. When I have troubles, I first come to you to confide in you. If you don't want to pay attention to me, then that's fine, but how can you push me into trouble? If you harm the royal heir, how can you be worthy of His Majesty..."
She was so angry that she almost vomited blood.
It just so happened that she was in a hurry to leave the pavilion, and the palace maids were busy tidying up the tea sets and stoves and had no time to catch up. There was no one else in the fake cave, and no one saw that it was the man named Luo who dragged her into the water.
Instead, the scene of her holding on to Luo's legs and feet was seen by the palace servants who came to rescue her.
She was completely speechless.
When the incident came to the Queen's attention, she determined that it was her fault. Not only did she order her to apologize to Luo, she also demoted her from Zhaoyi to Meiren.
Because only concubines of the rank of Zhaoyi and above could be the masters of a palace, once her status was downgraded, she could not even live in her original palace.
The Queen arranged for her to go to Concubine Li's palace.
Like her, Concubine Li has eyebrows and eyes that resemble those of Concubine Gui, but she is a size bigger and has long been disliked by the emperor.
In the past, she often relied on her favor to show off in front of Concubine Li.
Now that I live under the roof of Concubine Li, how can I have a good life?
Sure enough, Concubine Li assigned the coldest room in Xichun Palace to her.
"Miss Lu is young and probably can't stand the heat. Although this room is a bit cold in the winter, it is very cool in the summer. Even the ice jar is useless."
This is what Concubine Li said when assigning the palace.
She thanked Concubine Li and moved in with her four remaining palace maids.
There is still a long way to go. As long as she still has this face that looks like that of a royal concubine, she will definitely be able to take back what she has lost!
only……
She suffered in the palace, which shows that her enemies were not at large outside the palace.
After settling down in Xichun Palace, she had someone secretly send a secret letter outside the palace.
Outside the palace, Feng Qingsui received a returned letter.
She asked a messenger to take this letter to her master. The last time her master wrote, she said she had arrived in Xizhou, which is on the west side of the capital and can be reached in three days.
The messenger delivered the letter to the address she gave, but couldn't find the person.
The master's whereabouts were uncertain, so it was normal for him to go somewhere else without telling her.
But she was vaguely worried.
After all, Master has been recuperating since he suffered a spinal fracture in an accident four years ago.
The reason why she didn't return to Beijing immediately after her eyesight recovered was to take care of her master. She wanted to wait until her master was completely recovered and take her back to Beijing, but something happened to her sister's family again.
She wanted revenge, and her master did not stop her. He only told her to cherish her life and not risk it.
"Master only has you as a relative, you must take good care of yourself."
The master said this when we parted.
Isn’t it true that her master is her only relative?
If something happens to Master...
After putting the letter away, she went out to walk the dog with a heavy heart.
The spring flowers are in full bloom, covering the ground with colorful flowers.
Looking at these fallen petals, she couldn't help but think of her sister and brother-in-law.
It was in late spring like this that they first met.
At that time, she went to the embroidery workshop with her sister to deliver the embroidery products, and met a white-haired woman at the door of the workshop.
The woman was holding a package in her hand, and it seemed that she was also here to deliver embroidery.
But before he even stepped over the threshold, he fell headfirst.
My sister stepped forward and supported the person.
Seeing that she looked pale and weak, he quickly bought a piece of malt sugar on the street, asked the owner of the embroidery workshop for a bowl of hot water, soaked the malt sugar into sugar water, and fed it to her.
After drinking the maltose water, the woman slowly woke up and immediately started looking for her bag.
Her sister handed her bag to her.
The woman was very grateful. After handing over the embroidery, she stuffed all the silver into her sister's hands.
"Thank you for saving me, young lady. Take this money and buy some candy for my sister. I will repay you someday."
The woman was wearing a coarse cloth dress. Although it was not patched, it was washed so white that it looked like she came from a poor family. Naturally, my sister refused to accept her money.
"It's just a small favor. You're welcome."
The two of them were deadlocked for a while, and the woman couldn't persuade her anymore, so she took the money back. Seeing that her sister only knew the common embroidery method, she offered to teach her sister the embroidery method inherited from her family.
My sister was overjoyed and accepted him as her master on the spot.
The woman said her surname was Wen and that she lived in the alley diagonally across from the embroidery workshop, in the house with a mountain peach tree at the door.
When her sister and she sent Wen home, they saw her handsome brother-in-law in that alley paved with bluestone, under the mountain peach tree with its petals blooming and falling in all directions.
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