This year's Spring Festival is not as stable as in previous years, and it began to pass the third day of the first lunar month, and the bad news of the ice disaster came from the south of the Yangtze River.

It has never been heard of in the south for more than half a month of heavy snow, frozen to death countless livestock and crops, and more people starved to death or froze to death at home due to poverty, the officials of the Jiangnan Mansion were busy celebrating the New Year, and no one cared about the suffering of the Li people.

"I'm afraid your father is going to suffer this time." I watched Zhizhi peel off the golden charcoal fire in the brazier and said lightly.

Yu Ruowan smiled and said: "This morning, the emperor ordered the crown prince to go to the south for disaster relief, and the special father and the general Jinwu supervisor, presumably the Jiangnan ice disaster will improve in half a month." ”

I felt a sigh in my heart and said, "The great event of the people's lives, you take it as an opportunity to earn merit in front of the emperor?" Even if you think so, it's best not to be noticed. ”

If you are stupid, you will no longer speak.

"These ** go to the queen mother to walk around, and the prince's restoration is indispensable to the clan's right to speak."

Yu Ruo nodded, and hesitated for a while: "Princess, I want to go to Xuanji Pagoda to see Concubine Shuniang." ”

"She's been in the tower very well lately." I said, "It's not a good thing to disturb people's purity." If you feel that the East Palace is ashamed of her, go to your father and make it clear as soon as possible. ”

She hesitated for a while and said, "Su Xiang is a girl who was bought by Xiao Guifei, wouldn't this offend Xiao Guifei?" ”

I looked at her a few times, told Zhizhi to retreat behind the door, and said, "You think you can catch her by the tail just because of this?" The Xiao family has stood in the court for more than 100 years, the party is powerful and intertwined, Xiao Guifei has no children and favors the sixth palace, do you think it is just by the grace of the saints? ”

Yu Ruo shook his head and said, "I don't understand. ”

Me: "Xiao and Yuwen are now secretly fighting for power, and they are evenly matched. The murder of Concubine Shu was a demonstration of Xiao's against Yuwen. ”

After glancing at Yu Ruo's stunned appearance, I said again: "The prince is incompetent, and he has always been a puppet in the partisan struggle, and this false accusation is an example. I am now married to the Yuwen family, and you and I are distant relatives, so we will naturally be regarded as a faction. You now know how things will play out after that. ”

Yu Ruo shook and looked timid: "You...... You mean, these things will happen in the future? Will Concubine Xiao still point the finger at the East Palace? ”

I said, "It's not you, it's us." ”

Yu Ruo was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Princess, there is one more thing I haven't told you......"

"What's the matter?"

"That day...... When Su Xiang summoned the medicine she gave to the prince, she searched for this ...... from her, "Yu Ruo handed me a white medicine bag.

I took it, but didn't open it: "This is ......"

Su Ruo said: "Su Xiang didn't say anything about her death at first, and then she made 'Dripping Guanyin' to her, and it didn't take long for her to be recruited. ”

I frowned, looking at Yu Ruo's gentle smile, but the soft waves in my eyes were no longer the same.

"Dripping Guanyin" is a common lynching in prisons, often used in the harsh winter wax moon. The condemned person stood naked in a ventilated place, poured ice water from the top of his head, and continued for days until the prisoner could no longer bear the humiliation and cold and spat something useful from his mouth, and then the sentence was commuted.

I didn't want to say anything else, so I just picked up the medicine bag and asked, "So what is this bag?" ”

"Mandala." "I've heard that this thing makes people hallucinate, and they can't control what they do. I didn't know it before, I really cheapened that slut! ”

I carefully looked at the medicine bag in my hand, and I didn't hear what I was saying when I was still talking on the side.

Mandala, this is the second time it has been around me.

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"Get out!"

Before Xiao Guifei stepped into the Shaking Light Palace, she heard a woman's angry rebuke from the hall, accompanied by the crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground, Xiao Guifei couldn't help frowning.

Aunt Min Fang beside her was relieved when she saw this: "Princess Lan Shao has a bad temper in recent days, and Cai Nan told me that the new master is too strict and often harsh on the princess, so that the princess has found a slave to vent her anger." ”

Xiao Guifei's phoenix eyes glanced at Min Fang lightly, and slowly walked to the hall, seeing that there was a mess up and down, the two palace maids were in the mouth, half of their faces were swollen and tall, and when they saw Xiao Guifei coming, they were even more frightened when they knelt on the ground, and their hair was so loose that they had no shape and had no time to take care of it.

Princess Lan Shao saw that it was her mother who came, and she suppressed her anger slightly: "The son and the princess see the mother concubine." ”

Concubine Xiao Guifei didn't look at Lan Shao, she lowered her eyes and looked at the agate silk bracelet on her wrist, and her long fingers painted with vermilion kedan brushed it, making a crisp sound, and said lightly: "The color of this bracelet is not very good, who did you send to the Shanggong Bureau to get it?" The voice was erratic, and I couldn't tell the joy or anger.

Min Fang raised her eyes and looked at the two palace maids kneeling next to her, and replied: "Niangniang, the slave maid remembers that she sent Caidong and Caixi that day. ”

The palace maid who was kneeling on the ground trembled when she heard this, and her face turned pale in an instant. The names of Caidong and Caixi are these two palace maids who are about to die.

Concubine Xiao frowned slightly, her face was plump and beautiful, without a trace of expression: "This palace has never been a clumsy person, and this Shaking Light Hall is not able to accommodate clumsy things, you two are so self-conscious!" ”

The upward phoenix eyes swept over, and the wind suddenly became fierce, falling on Lan Shao, "Min Fang, you lock these two up in the violent room!" The princess has lost her female virtue, and she will be sent to the side hall to copy fifty female commandments, and she is not allowed to step out of the Shaking Light Palace for half a step before tomorrow! ”

When Lan Shao heard this, she bit her lower lip tightly and looked at Xiao Guifei with a look of resentment, but she had been very afraid of her mother since she was a child, and she was also at this moment, so no matter how big the anger in her chest was, she didn't dare to speak.

The original incident is probably related to the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet a few days ago.

Today, I blame these two maids for being unlucky, they are hiding in the corner of the outer wall of Shangyang Palace, chewing their tongues and beaking that day, Lan Shao was ugly, but they were caught, and they were slapped back to the palace. She thought that she would punish them, but who would have thought that it would fall into the hands of the mother. The mother's methods are notoriously ruthless, and these two maidservants who have entered the violent room are afraid that they will be more than lucky.

Concubine Xiao naturally knew what Lan Shao was thinking, but she avoided this matter lightly: "Your father's birthday is approaching, and it is estimated that he will go to Yizhou this year." You put your mind on this first, and you don't need to worry about the affairs of the Shaking Light Palace. ”

"Mother...... I ......" Lan Shao was about to say something, but seeing Xiao Guifei's expression, he was indifferent and alienated, and choked in again, "Yes, the son respectfully obeys the teachings of the concubine." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Guifei nodded, straightened the hair of her sideburns, and caused a phoenix winged golden step inserted at the top of the bun to sway slightly, and the night pearl on the vermilion jade shook so that the room shone brightly.

"In the past few days, Zhaoyuan has been close to the East Palace." Her voice didn't fluctuate, as if she was talking about some common things in the living room, "Didn't the little prince in the Xiaoyao Mansion fall in love with you back then?" Why are you close to her now? ”

Lan Shao was silent, bowed his head and gritted his teeth unwilling to answer.

Xiao Guifei's phoenix eyes were cold, a snow-white and jade slender hand was on Min Fang's wrist, turned around and wanted to leave, and then turned her head to look at the fragments on the ground, and said quietly: "If you are angry here, it is better to find the person who makes you angry, so as not to get in the way of the palace." Min Fang, let's go. ”

"Yes, sissy......"

Lan Shao looked at Xiao Guifei's distant figure, his eyes were cruel, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, and the joints of his clenched fists were faintly white.