Chapter 36 Charcoal

"Ah!"

Xi Que screamed, and hugged Jiang Xinyue and cried: "My young master! My young master? Wuwuwu... My young master is right, if you lose your power, there will be people everywhere who want to kill you. We are doing well in the cold palace, who have we offended? Why are we either poisoned today or in trouble tomorrow? Wuwuwu... My young master! My poor young master!"

The crying sound came out from the wall of the cold palace, and the palace maids and eunuchs passing by whispered to each other. Some of the brave ones were secretly watching at the door.

They didn't see it in front, and from their line of sight, they only saw Jin Chongyi and Wan Guiyi holding each other, looking down at the precious person who fell to the ground and seemed to have fainted.

Jiang Yuan's previous experience was a lesson for Wan Guiyi, who shook her handkerchief and said, "What bad luck." With

Jiang Xinyue lying on the ground like this, they were helpless. If the emperor knew about it, he would accuse them of bullying.

After sending them away, the cold palace was quiet for a while.

Jiang Xinyue is a slippery loach. You play tricks on her, but she is lucky and can turn bad luck into good luck every time.

You use your status to suppress her, and she becomes weak and gasps every three steps and coughs every five steps. Before she can even say anything, everyone in the palace thinks you bullied her.

Thinking of what the emperor said when he forced Jiang Yuan to eat poisoned cakes, the concubines in the harem dared not act rashly even if they wanted to add insult to injury.

December came in a blink of an eye. The leaves of the camphor tree in the cold palace had all fallen off, leaving only the bare trunk, which looked very desolate.

Jiang Xinyue had not gone to bask in the sun under the tree for a long time. It was too cold. Since she recovered and the imperial physician stopped coming, the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs had not completely forgotten about the cold palace, but they were not fully committed.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Look, the charcoal delivered was no longer the red charcoal from before, but the inferior black charcoal used by the palace maids and eunuchs. Not only was it not warm enough when burned, but the smoke was also large, which made people's eyes sting and coughed non-stop.

"My dear, please don't think it's bad to throw away this charcoal. You are the only one in the cold palace who can have this. It's better than nothing."

Xi Que was afraid that she would feel unbalanced and upset, so she came to comfort her.

Jiang Xinyue opened the window a little: "How can I be such a confused person? Hardship is only temporary, and our good days are still behind."

There is still half a month to New Year's Eve. People here call the Spring Festival the New Year, and the New Year's banquet is the most grand palace banquet of the year. At that time, envoys from all countries will come to Dayan to pay tribute.

Jiang Xinyue's adoptive father is the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple, who is specifically responsible for the display and introduction of the Siyi Office. Receiving ethnic minorities and foreign envoys.

Wuzan, Dianzan, etiquette, sequence class, attendant class, uniform class, discipline and praise.

If the emperor is thinking about her, he will find a reason to let her out before the new year.

Of course, her eggs will not be placed in the same basket. Even if the emperor doesn't care about her, there is still the empress!

The court needs her father at this time. Empress Zhu will not let go of such a good opportunity.

"Master... Master..."

A sneaky figure approached Jiang Xinyue's bedroom. Xiao Xuanzi led a person: "My dear, someone is here to see you."

The person brought in by Xiao Xuanzi would not be the rival of Concubine Li, but should be one of their own.

The master and servant looked at each other, and Jiang Xinyue motioned to Xi Que to open the door.

"Shuangjiang! Why are you here? Come in quickly!"

Shuangjiang, wearing a thick winter coat and a small jacket, came into the room, stuffed the food box into Xi Que's arms, and rushed to Jiang Xinyue's bed and started crying: "My young master, I finally see you. Are you feeling better? Is the remaining poison cleared out? Did Wan Guiyi bully you that day?"

Thinking of her young master suffering in the cold palace, Shuangjiang couldn't help crying.

Jiang Xinyue hurriedly comforted her: "Don't cry, don't cry. Your crying makes me feel bad. Is everyone in Hexi Palace okay? Have you been bullied?"

Shuangjiang shook her head: "Before the master went to the cold palace, she entrusted us to the care of the Empress Dowager, the eldest princess, the second princess and the third prince. The young masters often went to Hexi Palace to pick some fresh fruits and sent them to the kitchen, asking the chefs to cook for the emperor. The emperor also came to visit several times and asked me to take good care of the vegetable garden. The servants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not dare to deduct from our palace because of the princesses and princes."

In other words, the emperor intended to let her go, otherwise he would not have told Shuangjiang like this.

"Shuangjiang, you brought charcoal!"

Xijue opened the food box and found that it was the carrot charcoal she had been thinking about. She immediately laughed: "Don't worry about the master. Our master is not the kind of person who will suffer a loss. But where did you get this charcoal?"

Shuangjiang looked at the furnishings in the room, which were not much worse than the furnishings of the young lady in Hexi Palace. Then she wiped her tears and said: "It was separated from the share of the Empress Liang and the Empress De. They were afraid that the people of the Concubine Li and the Concubine Gui would see it, so I pretended to take it to eat."

Although the emperor still had feelings for her young lady, it was not much, at least not as much as the Empress Gui.

If there was a quarrel again, the young lady would suffer, so it was better to have less trouble than more.

After the charcoal in the room was replaced, the air became much fresher. Frost could not stay for long, otherwise it would be too late to go back. She would have no way to appeal if she was killed by the Yu Lin army as an assassin.

Under the guidance of Xiao Xuanzi, she left the cold palace again in a cat-like manner.

In the opposite room, there was a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and curses came from inside: "Everyone said they were good sisters, but now I am in trouble, and there is not even someone to send me a bed quilt. Did the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs die? Do you want to freeze me to death?"

Jiang Xinyue asked Xi Que to pack up the inferior charcoal: "Let Xiao Xuanzi send it to the opposite side."

"Master!"

Xi Que stomped her feet: "Don't..."

"I'm not pitying her."

She would not pity any concubine who fell into poverty because of harming herself.

"I said I wanted her to see me rise to the top step by step. If she can't survive this winter, how can she see the day when I leave the cold palace?"

The master always had a plan in mind. As long as she didn't have any ulterior motives, it would be fine. The palace would not tolerate concubines with ulterior motives.

"Did the noble lady ask you to bring this?"

Jiang Yuan was shivering with cold. There was no high-quality silk quilt on the wooden bed, not even an ordinary cotton quilt. There was only a tattered, almost thin, torn sheet, and a quilt that didn't keep out the cold at all. The purple-red pattern had been washed so much that it turned pale.

Xiao Xuanzi put down the ink charcoal with a proper smile on his face: "Empress Zhen has a kind heart."

Jiang Yuan sneered: "Kind heart? The kind-hearted woman in this palace has already gone to see Prince Yan, she just kept it hidden."