Chapter 34: Strange fragrance

The lights quietly emitted a soft light, and the play on the stage had been finished.

Xue Chongxun came out of Chengxiang Palace and was about to take a car back, he heard a sharp voice beside him whispering: Master, today, Mrs. Cheng met the Minister of War Cheng Xianggong in the Greenhouse Hall at the Youth hour.

Xue Chongxun turned around and looked at the person who was talking in his voice. He was a eunuch. Although he buried his head, Xue Chongxun had already seen that he was a strange eunuch, because Xue Chongxun, who usually walked around, was familiar with the great eunuchs. Not to mention seeing the front, he could recognize him when he saw the back.

Who asked you to say it?Xue Chongxun subconsciously asked this sentence without much thought.

The eunuch said: No one called me. I happened to be on a job there in the afternoon and saw it.

Xue Chongxun thought to himself, if no one instructed him, a eunuch, to come to me and say what was going on, what would be the benefit?

But after thinking for a moment, he did not intend to break the matter and asked to the end. Then he said easily: Concubine Shu (Cheng Ting)'s father is gone, and Cheng Qianli is like her father. What is there to make a fuss about when meeting relatives?

Yes, it’s all because I’m talking too much, and I deserve to die.The eunuch hurriedly fell to his knees.Xue Chongxun waved his sleeves, got in the car and left.

There are street lights on both sides of the road, but the candlelight inside still looks faint in the night.

Originally, Xue Chongxun liked the cool breeze in the night, but at this time he felt a faint sense of invisible pressure in the night sky.

There was a group of eunuchs and palace maids around the imperial chariot. Among them, the eunuch Zhang Xiao was in charge. He was originally a subordinate of Yu Liben, but he had defected to Xue Chongxun a long time ago.

Zhang Xiao seized the opportunity and asked: Where is Your Majesty's imperial chariot going?

It was already late, so when I went back, of course it was time to go to bed. Xue Chongxun also understood that this sentence was about asking which concubine to be blessed.

He originally wanted to go to Cheng Ting to be quiet, because Cheng Ting gave him a feeling that his temperament was relatively indifferent.

But perhaps the words of the strange eunuch just now affected his emotions. At this time, he thought about it and changed his mind temporarily: Go to Mrs. De Fei Yuwen's side.

Yes, go to Defei Hall.Zhang Xiao raised his voice and responded.Another eunuch knew that he was about to leave the team and report the news, but he was stopped by Xue Chongxun.

After Xue Chongxun ascended the throne, he was granted all his famous wives and concubines, including Li Yan'er, the main wife, and the others were first-rank wives: Shufei Cheng Ting, Defei Yuwen Ji, and Xianfei Du Xinmei.

Murong Yan, who were still in Fuqi City, and Turkic Princess Ashinazhuo were named the ninth princess of the second rank because they were not Han people.

The place where Yuwen Ji and others lived was also next to Penglai Hall to the south of Taiye Lake, which was convenient for sleeping, but Xue Chongxun had not been there for a while.

As soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he suddenly heard the eunuch guarding the gate shout: The emperor is here!

Xue Chongxun suddenly felt something strange and thought to himself: It turns out that people in the palace really shouted like this.

When I walked into the yard, I smelled a strange fragrance. I saw flowers and plants planted all over the yard. Xue Chongxun knew that he must have planted some medicinal materials.

Yuwen Ji and his daughter are somewhat similar in this regard, one loves to grow vegetables and the other loves to grow medicine.

After a while, Yuwen Ji and a few palace maids greeted her. She was wearing a dark gray lapel robe. She was not as gorgeous as the palace ladies, but she was still wearing a pair of men's clothes.

Yuwen Ji bowed and said: I don’t know that Your Majesty will come, so I have not put down my clothes and asked Your Majesty to surrender.

Xue Chongxun smiled and said: Forget it, there are opera singers in Chengxiang Palace tonight, why didn’t you go?

He looked at her while saying that.

Although the Yuwen family claims to be descendants of Yan and Huang, this surname may have the blood of Xianbei people: Yuwen Ji's skin color is whiter compared to the palace maids next to her, and does not have the light yellow luster of ordinary women. She is also tall, perhaps taller than Yao Wan, who is tall, and she likes to wear men's lapel robe with a tight waist. This robe itself is a style that absorbs Hu people's clothing in the Central Plains, and looks slender and slender when worn on Yuwen Ji.

Her face also has a sense of elegance, which is different from the temperaments of virtuous and solemn advocated by the Han people. Her lips are thick but the color is bright red and very sexy.

I was rushing to ask the people below to get medicine, and I would send it to Tai Chi Palace tomorrow. I didn't have much intention of watching the show, so I didn't go.

Yuwen Ji said, Your Majesty, you should be better with the old palace maids who left the palace. The doctors there are very shortages. Those who are sick don’t even have to wait for medicine to die. They are even more miserable than the old women in the market!

After hearing this, Xue Chongxun suddenly remembered what happened before. Yuwen Ji often went to the City God Temple to take the pulse of the beggars...

Because Yu Wenxiao is too ruthless in doing things, Xue Chongxun feels that Yu Wenji's kindness is very strange and intuitively contradictory.

Obviously, she has moved to the palace now and found a vent of sympathy, namely the abandoned and forgotten old palace maids and the concubines and female officials of the previous dynasty.

OK... I'm not bad for them. I can't care about everything I can every day. Tomorrow, I will ask the people from the Escort Province to take care of the people in the Tai Chi Palace.

Xue Chongxun said casually, pretending to be serious and important.

In this world, whether in troubled times or prosperous times, there are always some people who are not good at life suffer. They feel that they are not Guanyin. Does it mean that they have to eat and sleep when they suffer?

He asked inadvertently: By the way, you used to live in your parents' home. Have you been going back to see your father recently?

Yuwen Ji said: When I go back, my father wants to scold me. Besides, I’m very busy recently and haven’t seen him for a while.

Xue Chongxun said: If you take the time, please ask more about your well-being.

Yuwen Ji said differently: Why did you remember today? Didn’t my father meet you often?

Xue Chongxun took the opportunity to find a reasonable excuse for himself: I will summon him tomorrow and say a few greetings on your behalf.

Because of the Northeast military use, Xue Chongxun has been thinking about these days, but in fact, the people around him are the ones who are thinking about the most.

Sometimes he wonders: What kind of people are these ministers who hold heavy power and what they are doing below, and they can only be judged by meeting and memorials. However, Li Guinian, a man, can also become a vivid woman, and sometimes what he sees is not reliable.

But he also reflected on whether he was suspicious. The Tang Dynasty had no spy agency for a century, so it still maintained its operation?

Should the internal factory established by the King of Jin's mansion expand its power and become a spy agency?

The factory and security system of the Ming Dynasty was criticized in history, and it was synonymous with reactionary, dark and cruelty.

But history books and comments are written by people from Shilin. Whether it is beneficial is Xue Chongxun, who cannot only recall its reputation, but also has to judge for himself.

The impact of the prison in the inner factory was not great. In the past, it was just a tool for Xue Chongxun to ignore the law and domineering in Chang'an. He did not pay much attention to it after he ascended the throne.

Now Yuwen Xiao’s office is set up an inconspicuous study on the east side of the Zichen Hall building complex, and there are no officials; the only thing that has been preserved is the prison in the Prince of Jin’s Palace, and some of the official clerks inside have been incorporated into the inner factory, and their main tasks are to monitor the princes of the Li family who lived in Yuanfang.

The Li family lost their power and was surveillance and control, and no one said anything about it. But what consequences would be caused if the internal factory intervened in surveillance of the minister?

What are you thinking about?

Yuwen Ji reminded him.

Xue Chongxun immediately smiled, stepped forward and moved closer and said in a low voice: I'm thinking, what method should you use to make you unable to stop...

Yuwen Ji's face turned red suddenly and she glared at him: There are many rules in the palace, I have to be more serious.

Hasn’t Mrs. Yuwen always been dignified and virtuous?

Xue Chongxun smiled.

After hearing this, Yuwen Ji felt that she was laughing at her and was a little angry: If you remember it, just come here. You can’t even see a figure. What’s the difference between me and widows!You might as well stop messing with me!

When she first met, she was quite thoughtful and respectful. She became more and more gentle without saying a few words. Only Xue Chongxun's old people dared to be so willful, but he didn't care about it and still smiled and talked to her with kind words.

When Xue Chongxun came here at night, he naturally had to sleep here for the night. The two of them walked from the corridor to the bedroom while talking.

After entering the bedroom, Xue Chongxun saw several wooden boxes on the table with words on it, so he walked over curiously and saw that one of the boxes said: Princess Taiping.

He asked: My mother is not feeling well, so I need medicine?

Yuwen Ji smiled and said: This is not a cure for diseases, it is for nourishing the skin.Xue Chongxun said: So that's it. No wonder you have such good skin and are using this kind of skin-enhancing thing?

I dare not use it.

Yuwen Ji showed a mysterious look on her face and said in a low voice that this medicine strengthens the vitality and nourishes the uterus, but there will be side effects after taking it.Oh, you want to get such a simple medical theory... You often don't come. I won't feel uncomfortable if I take this product?

After she said that, a hint of blush appeared on her face: Wait first, I'll go take a shower and then... serve you.

Xue Chongxun suddenly realized and understood eighty-pointedly, thinking that Chengxiang Palace has no men, but the Taoist priest Yuqing would be a little tragic.I couldn't help but feel funny.

Yuwen Ji left the bedroom to take a shower, and Xue Chongxun sat and waited. After a while, the uterus sent two sweet soups and said: It's time to rest, Your Majesty will drink the sweet soup as tea.

Xue Chongxun nodded. At this time, he felt a little bored, so he opened the wooden box and saw some black meatballs inside.

He picked up one and took it to his nose to smell it, which had a very light fragrance.

This thing is taken by a woman, so it must not be taken as an aphrodisiac. When he was about to put it back, he suddenly came up with an idea, so he put the meatballs in his hand into Yuwen Ji's bowl of sweet soup. After thinking about it, he picked up another one and threw it into the bowl.

After he had done something bad, he couldn't help but smile on his face, so he picked up the spoon and stirred it in the bowl for a while, so that the pills would melt inside, and the color of the soup gradually darkened.