Chapter 91: Betrayal
Jiang Xinyue knew with her toes that Jin Zhaoyi's brother was probably framed by the empress or some other faction on her side.
Why was she so sure?
Because she jumped into the lake by herself, and someone pulled her feet, and the lies about wanting her life were also made up, deliberately said to make the emperor feel sorry for her.
It was also to stir up the chaos in the harem, so that those who plotted against her or were about to plot against her would think twice. If they harmed her once, she would be promoted once, and the emperor would mobilize a large number of troops to find the murderer for her.
She was a person who would seek revenge a hundredfold or a thousandfold for every injury she suffered.
Concubine Shu hid behind the Queen Mother and plotted against her. She asked the Queen Mother's people to slap her and warn her that she would not be able to stay in the palace, and the child she gave birth to would have to call someone else her mother.
In fact, she could also design to get rid of Concubine Shu's child, but she was educated in the legal system of modern society after all, and she had a few more moral bottom lines than those noble ladies raised in big mansions.
As long as the women in the harem did not touch her belly, she would not harm their children.
However, her little kindness was also sharp. If someone was blind and dared to hurt the child in her belly when she was pregnant, she would kill the other person's whole family at all costs.
Even if there were young children, she would still kill them.
"Your Majesty, the kitchen of the Yu Dynasty has stewed white fungus and lotus seed soup today. Chef Gao Yu specially left a bowl for you. It has been simmering on the small stove. It has become gelatinous. It must be delicious."
Chef Gao Yu was one of the Yu chefs who learned to cook from Jiang Xinyue. There was also Chef Li Yu, who was competing with Chef Gao Yu for the position of manager of the kitchen of the Yu Dynasty. The two of them are no longer so close.
Moreover, Jiang Xinyue also knew that Chef Li Yu had already surrendered to Empress Zhu. He probably felt that Jiang Xinyue's housekeeping skills had been brought out, and he could establish his own family and climb up the ladder, and there was no need to flatter Jiang Xinyue anymore.
Chef Gao Yu is a person who knows how to be grateful. If she hadn't taught them how to grill meat and fry chicken, with their qualifications, they would probably still be just apprentices who help the old chefs with side dishes.
Last winter, she was going to use her killer hot pot, but she was in the cold palace at that time, and the ingredients needed for fried chicken were much simpler than those for hot pot, so she changed to fried chicken.
At that time, Chef Gao Yu and Chef Li Yu even won a reward for this dish at the New Year's banquet, and their status also rose accordingly.
The old steward of the kitchen was old enough to leave the palace, and wanted to learn the barbecue and fried chicken to open a small restaurant outside the palace. Chef Gao Yu knew that these two dishes were learned from Jiang Xinyue, and said that he would ask Concubine Zhen for permission
before reporting back to Chef Li Yu. But in order to get ahead, Chef Li Yu secretly found the old steward and wanted to give him the recipe.
Although the old steward accepted the recipes of the two dishes, he recommended Chef Gao Yu to take his place to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Because of this, Chef Li Yu and Chef Gao Yu had a bit of an ugly quarrel.
Jiang Xinyue took the tremella soup brought by Shuangjiang, smelled the sweet aroma of red dates, and put the bowl aside: "Chef Gao Yu is very thoughtful. You go to Yu's kitchen and tell him to thank me. Tell him that I like his tremella and lotus seed soup very much. Remember to put some golden beans in his purse for him."
Shuangjiang nodded and went inside.
Jiang Xinyue's hand was fiddling with the spoon, and the other hand was touching her belly, with a flickering light in her eyes: "Xiaoxuanzi, quietly follow the frost." Xiaoxuanzi
raised his eyebrows in surprise, but when he saw her murderous eyes, he suppressed the feeling of being frightened, and just lowered his head more respectfully: "Yes, my queen."
Who is it?
Even under her strict defense, he still knew that she was pregnant, and actually added saffron to her food.
Under the sweet Tremella, Red Dates and Lotus Seed Soup, there is a handful of bright red saffron.
If you don't know the effect of saffron, you might think it is a new flavor from the kitchen.
Most women in ancient times only read a few books and did not know much about this kind of medicinal material that can both nourish and harm the body.
Jiang Xinyue was also fortunate to be born in a civilized society in the future. Her basic common sense was thousands of years ahead of those ladies in the harem, so she could avoid assassinations again and again.
The reason why she agreed to the confinement of Empress Dowager Wu so readily and did not let the emperor argue for her was that she learned the method of Concubine Li Guifei and closed the palace to protect the fetus.
Who knew that this black hand would still reach into the Hexi Palace.
After Shuangjiang filled the golden beans, he went to the kitchen. When Xiaoxuanzi met Jiang Xinyue's silent eyes, he immediately followed him out of the Hexi Palace.
Under the moonlight, several people ran, and where they were going and how many eyes were watching them in secret, they didn't know each other.
Let's see who will be the first to reveal his true colors.
Shuangjiang listened to the cicadas chirping outside the palace, and her expression suddenly became lonely. She tightened the porcelain bottle in her sleeves, and when she walked to an inconspicuous rockery, she threw a green bottle into it.
When she left, there were still tears on her face.
Xiaoxuanzi crouched and quietly walked into the rockery, picked up the bottle that Shuangjiang threw away, patted the dirt on it, and put it in his sleeves.
The affection of Shuangjiang sending coal to Concubine Zhen in the past is still vivid in Xiaoxuanzi's mind. He really doesn't want Shuangjiang to do anything to betray his master.
They are all of one mind in Hexi Palace. They have been through so much together, and it shouldn't be like this.
After throwing the bottle, Shuangjiang hid and cried for a while. After wiping away her tears, she went to the kitchen of Yu and spread Jiang Xinyue's words. In front of many Yu chefs, she gave a purse filled with golden beans to Gao Yu, the chef.
The purse was naturally not made by Zhenpin, but embroidered by the maids in Hexi Palace, and was specially given as a reward to the subordinates.
After that, she returned to Hexi Palace and did not contact anyone else in the palace on the way.
"Your Majesty, I..."
Shuangjiang's eyes fell on the small green porcelain bottle on the table, and her eyes almost popped out of her sockets.
She knelt on the ground with a "thump", and without saying a word, she knocked her forehead on the ground again and again. After knocking a dozen times, blood flowed from her forehead.
Jiang Xinyue picked up the small porcelain bottle and threw it at Shuangjiang's legs, looking gloomy. "I don't like people pretending to be ignorant. Who instructed you to let Jiang Yutong into the Xihe Palace and hang her in the side hall? Now you are using saffron to harm me. How should I deal with you?"
Frost didn't care about her bleeding forehead. She cried so hard that she had to explain herself: "Your Majesty, I... I didn't harm your Majesty. I... I was indeed a spy planted by someone next to your Majesty, and I often passed some information to the outside world. But your Majesty, I swear on my life, except for Jiang Baolin's suicide in Xihe Palace just now, which was related to me, the others were not done by me."
Jiang Xinyue felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and sighed for this cruel and ruthless palace, where people's hearts were hard to explain.