Queen Chen's resentment, Shen Ruojiao didn't know.

She only replied indifferently: "Ruojiao has never stood in the world with the benefit of her tongue, but is just grateful for the thoughts of Your Majesty and the Queen." ”

Empress Chen stood up and walked closer, a pair of beautiful eyes scanning up and down unkindly.

Shen Ruojiao didn't squint, let her look at it.

After a while, Empress Chen said, "It's good to do it yourself." ”

Shen Ruojiao said, "Thank you for the queen's teachings." ”

Empress Chen had seen enough of this beautiful and delicate face, and after asking the palace people to offer a few precious medicinal herbs, she walked away.

"Lady, do you want to put this medicinal herb in the warehouse?" asked Ji Yue, holding the exquisite box.

Shen Ruojiao glanced at the box and replied, "Throw it away." ”

"Huh? Yes. Jiyue was surprised again, and went out in a daze with the box, she always felt that after the lady woke up in a coma, the whole person was different.

Shen Ruojiao returned to the hall and took a scroll of scriptures in her hand, wanting to pass the time, but after half a moment, she didn't read a word.

She looked back on what happened before and after her poisoning, she clearly didn't provoke anyone, why was this bowl of poisonous Lantern Festival sent to Hancui Palace?

This matter is full of suspicions, and the only key person on the surface is the palace maid in the imperial dining room.

But the palace maid was only instructed, even if she remembered the palace maid's appearance, she could not be sure that the palace maid was the person from the imperial dining room, and it was obviously not wise to look for a needle in a haystack to find a small palace maid.

It seems that she still has to wait for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet half a month later, and she remembers that the poisoning murder happened after the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet.

At the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, a Concubine Mei was also born, and after the incident, Concubine Mei was detained and interrogated by Empress Chen as a suspect, and in the end, Bai Chen came forward, saying that the dead concubine just ate the poisonous fruit by mistake and saved Concubine Mei, and since then Concubine Mei has been in the limelight.

From the beginning to the end, it lasted for half a month, and at that time, Empress Chen was obviously quick to find out the witnesses, but she didn't expect Bai Zhen to come to such a whitewash of the peace, so that this poisoning case no longer exists.

This is not Bai Zhen's always cautious and calm style, so Shen Ruojiao also tried to guess what kind of existence Concubine Mei is for Bai Zhen.

If it is special, Concubine Mei is indeed an exception.

Bai Zhen has many harem warblers and swallows, but there are few who have been seen by him, Bai Zhen is still young, and he is busy with political affairs, so he is not in a hurry about the heirs for the time being, but it is also common sense, and the queen mother and the ministers are not easy to ask.

Until Concubine Mei appeared, a market woman with no bed, no heirs, and no family background, but she became the most beautiful woman in the harem.

Bai Zhen will go to Concubine Mei's Jingchun Palace to eat and drink tea when she has nothing to do, and she will sit for a long time, Queen Chen once humiliated Concubine Mei in public because of Bai Zhen's favoritism, saying that she looked like an immodest fox, but she angered Bai Zhen, was reprimanded, grounded for half a month, and punished for copying Buddhist scriptures three times.

It's just a battle of words, but it has aroused the anger of Bai Zhen, who has always respected Queen Chen, and Concubine Mei is of course that rare existence.

But if you talk about it, Bai Zhen doesn't care so much about her at all.

If she remembers correctly, this Concubine Mei will soon die of a strange illness, just in this winter, Concubine Mei will fall ill, Bai Zhen clearly sent someone to find the miracle doctor Qiu Banazhen into the palace to treat the Queen Mother's stubborn disease, but she didn't think about letting Qiu Bananeedle diagnose and treat Concubine Mei, and it didn't take long for Concubine Mei to die, Bai Zhen handed over Concubine Mei's funeral affairs to Queen Chen for arrangement, Queen Chen was perfunctory, and Concubine Mei, who was once very beautiful, did not even have the qualifications to enter the imperial tomb until she died.

At Concubine Mei's funeral, those concubines, big and small, whether they were familiar with Concubine Mei or not, all cried so much that they were broken, only Shen Ruojiao's eyes were dull and mixed with the ceremony.

I don't know if this is the reason, Bai Zhen looked at her from time to time that day, that look Shen Ruojiao remembered, it was too complicated, too forbearing, and contained too many things that she couldn't understand.

But she is really not familiar with Concubine Mei, and it is a pity that she really can't cry.

Speaking of which, she had only seen Concubine Mei once, and she still saw it from a distance, Shen Ruojiao was afraid of causing trouble, and when she saw Concubine Mei's posture in front of her hugging her back, she changed her path and took a small path, for fear of taking a look.

That glance is really amazing, I have to say that Concubine Mei is really beautiful, born weak and lovely, I feel pity, no wonder Bai Zhen treats her differently from others.

Perhaps this is also the reason for Concubine Mei's early death.

Reliving again, she felt that everything that had happened in the palace was full of weirdness, maybe it was her cup, she always felt that the death of Concubine Mei was not so simple.

is poisoned again, and died of a bizarre illness, this Bai Zhen's harem is really a mess.

The deep palace is calculating, the clouds are treacherous, and the fog is heavy, and Shen Ruojiao doesn't know if he can escape with his whole body.

But this trip to the muddy waters, she had to wade.

It wasn't until the day before Chinese New Year's Eve that Shen Ruoyao's illness was completely cured.

Shen Ruojiao leaned in front of the window, holding her chin and looking at a cold plum outside the window.

In her memory, she did not attend the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet on the grounds of ill health.

But this time is different from the past, tomorrow's Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, she is going to go no matter what, she has to observe carefully, what is the situation in Bai Chen's harem.

This Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was organized by the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager Lin Sumo is also a strange woman who is famous in Kyoto, in the early years with the first emperor to drive a personal expedition, regain the lost land, in a war, the first emperor to save the queen mother, seriously injured, fell to the root of the disease, the Qi Dynasty just recovered, the first emperor died early due to the old disease.

Bai Zhen, who was still the crown prince at the time, was only twelve years old and hurriedly took over the burden.

Since the young emperor ascended the throne, the voices of opposition inside and outside the court are about to turn the sky upside down, it is the empress dowager Lin Sumo who overrides the public opinion, holds the will of the first emperor, and assists Bai Zhen, and after half a year of listening to the government, the power is in the hands of Bai Zhen.

Bai Zhen did not live up to the high expectations of the first emperor and the queen mother, and since he came to power, he has been resolute and decisive, not at all like a teenager.

The Queen Mother likes to be lively, and there are a lot of large and small banquets in the palace throughout the year, and they are extravagant, but the Queen Mother has her back to the Lin family in the south, and no one dares to complain.

In her memory, she rarely attended various banquets, and most of the time she was absent due to illness, unless it was a palace banquet that could not be won. Even if he went to the palace banquet, he was extremely low-key, for fear of attracting attention.

Sometimes she even felt that not only Bai Zhen had forgotten her, but I was afraid that the whole palace would not remember that there was such a concubine as her.

Therefore, when she was late in a gorgeous dress, it was not an exaggeration to say that she was shocked.

Today's Shen Ruojiao has changed her usual plainness, wearing a peach-pink lotus-patterned Luo skirt, lining her complexion like snow, green silk is tied to the clouds, and a delicately carved snow hosta is inserted in the bun, and the teardrop-shaped earrings polished by snow jade also appear small and white.

As soon as one foot stepped into the front hall, the still noisy banquet was silent for a moment, and everyone looked at her in unison, and after a while, a louder discussion broke out.

"With such a color, she really deserves to be the first beauty of the Qi Dynasty......"

"Didn't Concubine Shen never participate in this kind of banquet?"

"Who knows, maybe I figured it out, and I want to behave in front of the Queen Mother. ”

Jiyue has long been accustomed to such a scene, and before entering the palace, her own lady is in the spotlight wherever she goes.

Shen Ruojiao herself was even more honored and disgraced, walked to the high platform in full view of everyone, and saluted accurately.

The noble lady's etiquette cultivation will not disappear because of three years of silence.