The queen exhaled helplessly, straightened her sleeves, and whispered to me: "I originally brought you here to help you talk in front of the queen mother. I don't want to be so unlucky, but I asked you to accompany this palace to suffer her old man's face. ”

I looked at the inner hall with deep halls and layers of curtains, and said gently: "Queen Mother, no matter the front or the harem, Xiaoguan is one with you and Your Highness. One wins, one loses. It's hard to tell who's with whom. ”

The queen smiled out of the corner of her eye. Standing upright, not in a hurry or impatient.

After waiting for another hour of tea, Gonggong Wan greeted him and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother invites Niangniang and Liangyuan into the palace." After speaking, he lowered his voice and said, "Niangniang deal with it carefully." That one has a lot to say today. ”

The queen nodded slightly, glanced at me again, and quietly walked up the steps.

As soon as I entered the inner hall of Cining Palace, some distance away from the screen, I heard Concubine Shu's sobbing voice: "Now that I am in this palace, I am getting more and more out of my head." I thought that after entering the palace, I have been filial to my mother and served Your Majesty, and I respect the queen's sister on weekdays, so I can always have a foothold. But who would have thought that now that the Ninth Princess is injured, I, as a mother, can't even get justice for her!

The Empress had already slowed down.

The shadow on the screen is full of shadows through the figures of the Queen Mother and Concubine Shu. The Queen Mother sat on the main seat, and the Concubine Shu prostrated on the Queen Mother's lap. The more Concubine Shu spoke, the more excited she became, and she couldn't stop wiping her tears with a handkerchief on her back. However, I saw that Concubine Shu avoided the Queen Mother by the cover of the veil, and turned her head to look at the screen, and her delicate and beautiful eyebrows and eyes were full of coldness.

Although I knew that I was about to face another turmoil, I still had an uncontrollable sense of absurdity: this situation, this scene, how much this screen and Concubine Shu resembled a beautiful shadow puppet play. Singing, chanting, fighting, crying, laughing, and scolding, all are kung fu.

It's wonderful.

I put down my boredom and disdain for this situation and style, turned the screen behind the queen, and saluted the queen mother.

The queen mother's expression couldn't see anything for a while, so she asked the palace people to give her a seat, and then lowered her eyes and glanced at the concubine.

Concubine Shu stood up slowly, Ying Ying stood on the side of the queen mother's phoenix seat, and saluted the queen indiscriminately with tears in her eyes. He hid his face with a handkerchief and sobbed, and still sat next to the Queen Mother.

The queen had to ask, "What's wrong with Sister Shufei?"

Concubine Shu twisted her body and did not answer.

The Queen Mother said: "The queen doesn't have to worry about her. This is a tantrum for Xiao Jiu. ”

The queen was slightly stunned, "Xiao Jiu?" and then said with concern: "The courtier-in-law heard that the ninth princess was slightly injured on the Diexiu Mountain, why is it not all now?

"That's enough! There's no need for you to say it there!" Concubine Shu changed color and said, "I don't think my Yaoguang Palace will not even have this little face." It's that I, Emperor Jiang E, are useless, and now there is still the Queen Mother, and you already look down on us so much!"

The queen couldn't help frowning slightly, "Sister's words, this palace doesn't dare to agree." As the princess's mother-in-law, can't this palace care? Why did she become a contempt? If my sister has any dissatisfaction, she can just say it clearly. Why bother to slander the palace with a gun and a stick in front of the queen mother. ”

When Concubine Shu saw the queen like this, she became more and more aggrieved: "Emperor E just has feelings, why should the queen make a big fuss? Speaking of which, if she hadn't been looked down upon, how could the ninth princess be injured! So many princes and princesses have gone to Diexiu Mountain, why is it that only my child is injured?"

She stretched out her hand and straightened her sleeves, and her whole person suddenly became dignified, "What's more, this palace has never said that someone has sinister intentions, how can this be regarded as a gun with a stick? Queen, do you know that the arrow that injured the ninth princess that day was originally aimed at the eleventh prince!"

Concubine Shu glanced back at the Queen Mother, and said to the queen: "Since the queen is the princess's mother-in-law, then please inquire about it, severely punish the people involved, seek justice for the palace, and show dignity for the ninth princess! If not, don't blame my Jiang family for going to Your Majesty to make this matter clear!"

The queen obviously didn't know that the ninth princess was injured and there was this section, and she couldn't help but be surprised: "There is such a thing! ”

Concubine Shu sneered, "When the Ninth Princess was injured when she first went to Diexiu Mountain, the rebels were still far away at the foot of the mountain, and they were not within the range of arrows. It is our own people who hurt people with this cold arrow! Is this kind of thing very glorious? How can my Yaoguang Temple spread it everywhere?"

"What was the situation that day? The queen asked.

The Queen Mother also said: "You have been crying and crying for a long time, and my brain hurts, since the queen asked, why don't you explain it together, so please call the shots in the middle palace!"

A mocking smile curled into the corner of Concubine Shu's mouth: "Emperor E obeys." Emperor E will not only explain the situation at that time, but also explain the related things clearly. It's just that the queen listened, don't pretend to be confused and don't speak for the emperor. ”

She stood up from the side of the Queen Mother's phoenix seat, "The arrows of that day were indeed going to shoot at the eleventh prince, and the nurses and nurturing grandmothers were in a panic, and they had already pulled the prince Kankan to avoid the direction of the arrows." But the guards around Wu Shangxian actually pushed the nurse away, saying that she was disrespectful to the master by shouting. ”

Concubine Shu showed hatred on her face, "It's obviously a fatal moment, where will anyone care about whether the slaves and maids behave properly." As long as you can faithfully protect the Lord, it is good. Because of the guard's push, the nurse fell to the ground, and the eleventh prince was so frightened that he only cried, but he forgot to dodge for a while. The ninth princess of the palace still didn't look good, and when she couldn't do anything, she rushed up and dragged her younger brother away!

The queen sighed, "It's really thanks to the Ninth Princess. This guard did not prioritize and put the prince in danger, and he should be punished. You've had a seizure with him that day, haven't you?"

Concubine Shu slowly walked down the jade steps, "The queen is really good at whitewashing the peace, and the big things are small." Is this just a matter of a guard?" she stared at the queen and said, "Wu Shangxian is the brother of your good daughter-in-law, so naturally he is thinking about how to make the crown prince's position more stable. This palace and the eleventh prince are in the way of his eyes!"

The queen said: "Diexiu Mountain was besieged by the rebels, and everyone was in a hurry to flee, and there was also mishandling in the panic. That guard may not be what my sister said, most of it is due to the fact that he didn't notice that there were arrows flying and wanted to maintain the dignity of the prince. ”

Concubine Shu chuckled, "That's a coincidence. First of all, among the people we brought up the mountain ourselves, some of them waited for an opportunity to release cold arrows to take my son's life, and then the guards of the uncle of Zhunekoku accidentally overlooked and pushed away the nurse who was protecting the prince, and in addition, many veterans of the battlefield who were guarding the side at that time could not stop an arrow that even the powerless grandmothers could find. If there is no one behind this, Queen, do you believe it?"