In the fifty-fourth year of the calendar, the Queen Mother.

Marriages were stopped, music was dropped, all the shops in Kyoto were closed, white lanterns were hung in every house, and people were weeping at home in plain clothes.

There were bursts of crying outside the mourning hall in the palace, this is the third day of crying, the concubines behind the queen are exhausted, the queen mother was sick for a few days they were guarding outside the longevity palace, and now they are crying for three days, and several of them have fallen weakly.

The queen herself was also shaking, and when she heard that she was going to bow in front of her, she got up, and Shen Guifei behind her hurriedly hugged her: "Niangniang, are you okay?" ”

"No problem." The queen took the sign from the hand of the ceremonial officer, and led the people to bow down under the shouts of the ceremonial official, and some of the elderly ladies were still supported by their families and bowed.

After three bows, the crying became louder and louder, and the queen sat down on her knees, her face pale, and her forehead faintly sweating.

Shen Guifei, who had been watching her, saw that this was not right, and hurriedly asked someone to hold her up and persuade: "It's the third day, the body is the most important, if you are tired, what will happen next, Mama Li, quickly help the queen to rest." ”

The queen really couldn't hold it anymore, she nodded, and was helped by Mama Li and the others to rest, and the concubines here continued to kneel without changing their faces, and there was a small movement in the back.

Although Concubine Liang said that she was protecting her mother's family, she was not confused about right and wrong, and was about to turn her head and scold, but Concubine De pulled her lightly: "Don't worry about them." "Who can stop him who wants to die?

Shen Guifei glanced at the back and didn't speak, and soon, someone really held her forehead and looked like she was about to faint, and she couldn't support her body and leaned on the others.

Shen Guifei and Concubine De looked at each other: "Come on, help Zhao Liangyi go down to rest." ”

There is one, there is a second and a third, such a movement attracted the attention of the kneeling people behind, Qi Xiangsi looked at the people who were helped away over there, today is the third day, the most difficult, and there are still two days to keep the spirit.

"Fifth sister is also tired." Qi Minshu on the side leaned towards her and said ill-intentionedly, "I advise you to kneel obediently, so as not to let people find out that you have identified your identity, and the Qi family will not be able to protect you at that time." ”

Qi Xiangsi lowered his head: "If you don't report it, you will send me to the palace, is it considered a bully?" ”

"Clever words, who will believe the words of a pretending person."

Qi Xiangsi looked at the crowd in front of him who was no longer in turmoil: "One person is enough to believe." ”

Qi Minshu snorted: "You are really good, you have deceived us for so long, and now you have gone to the Yuwang Mansion, why, do you want to use the Yuwang Mansion as a backer?" Don't dream, and don't look at who you are. ”

Qi Xiangsi raised her head to look at her, Qi Minshu's face was full of disdain, she was not so polite to her when she didn't know in the past, but now she doesn't have a good face, an unidentified beggar dares to be so presumptuous.

Qi Xiangsi smiled slightly at her expression: "I'm just a medical girl, and it is also my duty to be ordered to go to the Yuwang Mansion." ”

"Yes." Qi Minshu suddenly sneered, "You haven't been back to the palace for a while, my father is concerned about your life experience, maybe he has found your family." ”

Qi Xiangsi's reaction was very flat: "I don't have a family. ”

Qi Minshu didn't continue to speak, she lowered her head with the smile on the corner of her mouth, the handkerchief in her hand gently covered the corners of her eyes, and like these people who pretended to cry, she covered her mouth and shoulders and shrugged slightly.

Qi Xiangsi lowered her head, her hands under her sleeves were clenched, and the chips that Qi Henian won were her family.

......

Several palace people in the Yanshou Palace were cleaning up, and a figure appeared at the door of the side hall, and the two palace people inside were carrying an old box and walking out.

Seeing the person at the door, he saluted: "His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince." ”

Yan Cong looked a little haggard on the face of the Faun, he looked at the old boxes they carried out and asked, "What are these for?" ”

"The little ones were ordered to clean up the side hall."

"The Queen Mother has not yet come out of the funeral, who told you to move the things here."

The palace people looked at each other, reacted quickly, and hurriedly put down the box in their hands and knelt down to admit their mistakes: "Please forgive your Highness." ”

Yan Congmu glanced at the few palace people who came out of the house, and said gloomily: "Go out." ”

The side hall is clean, there are boxes everywhere, many things are only half packed, strictly speaking, these are not the things of the queen mother, the side hall is where he lived when he was a child.

The Queen Mother was reluctant to throw away the things that her grandson had used when she was a child, and these remained in the side hall until she died suddenly, and these people were ordered to come and clean up.

Yan Congmu walked in, bent down and picked up a ball of animal skin on the ground, the play that he wanted to hold with both hands when he was a child can now be held with one hand, and the soft animal skin is stuffed with thick cotton wool, which is used to throw and play.

The boxes that had not been closed were all such small plays, Yan Congmu looked down, and there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and he guessed the person who came without looking back: "Eleven." ”

"Starling." Yan Congyu stood behind him in white clothes on a black background, and he looked a little haggard for several days, he still held the small tambourine he had just picked up by the door in his hand, and after walking to Yan Congmu's side, he put the small tambourine in the box and didn't make a sound.

Yan Congmu was not very surprised by his arrival, and walked towards the side hall, saying as he walked: "Why don't you stay in the Qianqing Palace." ”

"You didn't go today."

"The second brother is all in the Qianqing Palace, and the ninth brother is serving with all his heart in front of the couch, and the father and emperor are not resting well if there are too many people." Yan Congmu stopped and looked at the small couch that had not been demolished inside, "This is where I slept when I was a child, and it should have been demolished when I moved to Taihe Palace, but the imperial grandmother was reluctant to keep it." ”

After a pause, Yan Congmu smiled: "I can't help it." ”

Accustomed to Yan Congyu's few words, Yan Congmu looked at the room, his smile gradually fell, and finally his eyes were fixed on a painting hanging on the wall, which was a painting of rivers and mountains, the great rivers and mountains of the Great Calendar Dynasty were eye-catching and conspicuous on the painting, for Yan Congmu and their princes, even if there was no painting, they had already kept these in mind.

"Eleven, you help me take the painting down."

Yan Congyu stepped on the stool and took the painting off the wall, only to find that there was something else behind this picture of the rivers and mountains, a painting hung on the wall, the person in the painting sat on the stone, on one side was green willows and green bamboos, and the eaves of the pond wall were painted behind him.

When he was out of his mind, Yan Congmu's voice came from behind him: "The only thing that remains unchanged is this." ”

The person on the painting is the late Concubine Xian Niangniang, the biological mother of the Eighth Prince, and the eight girls of the He family.

Although Yan Congyu had never seen her, he also recognized that there were portraits of virtuous concubines in the palace of the concubine, both in the Qianqing Palace and the Taihe Palace. He raised his hand and took down both paintings and placed them on the table by the window, the light was bright, and the people on the paintings were clearly illuminated.

The Eighth Emperor, who looks like a virtuous concubine and has more mothers, looks as gentle as his biological mother, Yan Congmu gently touched the face on the painting: "When I painted this portrait, my mother was younger than you, and she had just become my father's concubine." ”

The person in the painting is gentle and beautiful, revealing her childishness at that age, when she was not pregnant with Yan Congmu, and was in the happiest moment of a woman, just with her beloved.

The hall was quiet, Yan Congyu didn't make a sound, as if Yan Congmu was the only one, and suddenly, he changed his words and asked, "Eleven, how do you think she died." ”

Yan Congyu paused for a moment: "I heard the mother concubine say that the virtuous concubine had an accident." ”

Yan Congmu turned his head to look at him, with a smile in his eyes: "Tang Jieyu said that she was killed by someone." ”

More than 20 years ago, Concubine Xian Niangniang walked up to the observation tower and jumped down from it to end her life, not because she was harmed. Now that so many years have passed, she suddenly said that she was killed by someone, Rao is not happy, Yan Congyu's expression has changed, and the starling brother will not mention this matter for no reason, and he will not do anything meaningless.

"Is there any evidence?"

"There is no evidence."

Tang Jieyu's words...... Not credible. ”

The person who had the grace to raise the Eighth Prince should have been respected, but she ended up being banned in Yongxiang, which shows how many wrong things she has done. In the years of Yongxiangguan, she has not given up the idea of returning to the palace, and during this period, she has spread many rumors about right and wrong, how can she believe her words.

"You can't take all her words seriously." Yan Congmu picked up the picture and held it in his hand, and his slightly pale face was still the smile of the past: "Eleven, but what if one of the ten sentences is true." ”

Yan Congyu reminded: "She was sent to Yongxiang by order of the emperor's grandmother. ”

"Eleven, she has made a lot of mistakes, but she treats me very well, and she is also loyal to her mother." Yan Congmu's voice lowered, "Such a person, how can you look at her from other people's eyes." ”

Yan Congyu looked up at him suddenly, hiding his surprise but still unable to hide the action.

"So, Eleven." Yan Congmu sighed and didn't continue, but Yan Congyu knew what he meant, even if everyone felt that Tang Jieyu was not credible, in the eyes of the starling, Tang Jieyu's words were still credible, especially about Concubine Xian.

Before the death of the imperial grandmother, he had never heard the starling mention these things, and he had only a few words about Tang Jieyu, and he never talked about it deeply. What does that mean now?

Yan Congmu took the painting out, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered and mentioned: "I have read all the files you sent, the case of the Qi family, the murderer seems to be related to Nanhuai." ”

"I've already started to investigate."

"Since everyone is dead, there is no need to continue to investigate, those corpses can't cure my illness, even if I find those scrolls, it's useless, unless there are still people alive in the Qi family." Yan Congmu paused, his gaze fixed on his face, "Eleven, is there anyone in the Qi family who has survived?" 166 Reading Network