Murong Ya took the lead, and a group of girls headed towards the imperial garden. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Xie Qingyao fell behind everyone, and two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls also fell behind.

"Han Yunnuan has seen Miss Qingyao!" This girl was wearing a light pink gauze dress, her appearance was just ordinary, her voice was not loud, and she was a little timid.

"Han Yunfei has seen Miss Qingyao!" The other girl was wearing a lotus-colored gauze dress, and her appearance was outstanding, but she looked a little thin and seemed to be in poor health.

"The two sisters are polite!" Xie Qingyao smiled and waved his hand. "We are all equals, where is there so much etiquette! If you don't dislike it, just call me Qingyao. ”

"Okay, Sister Qingyao!" Han Yunfei smiled first and shouted. What she didn't think about was that in the discussion of others, Xie Qingyao, who had always been cold and eccentric, looked so approachable, and the heart she had been carrying finally let go.

"Sister Qingyao!" Han Yunnuan also relaxed a little, and said, "My sister offended the third princess just now, so be careful for a while." ”

"Thank you!" Xie Qingyao smiled and said, "I haven't seen you before, do you rarely go out?" ”

The two Han family ladies glanced at each other, and Han Yunfei smiled: "Well, there are many emperors. In the past, we were young, and the princess was afraid that we would cause trouble outside. ”

Xie Qingyao listened with a smile, noncommittal about this.

At this moment, there was a sudden chaotic greeting in front of him.

"I've seen Concubine Mei!"

Xie Qingyao and the two girls of the Han family raised their eyes, and saw a graceful Peugeot beauty with two palace maids appearing on the way to the Imperial Garden.

"Where are you going? Why is it so lively! Concubine Mei raised her eyebrows, but her gaze fell directly on Xie Qingyao.

"We're going to the Imperial Garden to see the flowers!" Murong Ya said quickly: "Miss Xie has entered the palace, and the two young ladies of King Han's Mansion have also come over with Princess Han, and the queen mother has ordered us to accompany her." ”

"Oh?" Concubine Mei had a little calculation in her eyes, and said: "It is said that the queen loves her niece, and when I see it today, it really deserves its reputation!" ”

"My aunt has always been kind to her juniors!" Xie Qingyao stepped forward and said. She knew that Concubine Mei was the emperor's favorite concubine today, and her temper had always been arrogant. She had seen this person in her previous life, if she remembered correctly, this Concubine Mei should be more than a month pregnant now. In the previous life, this fetus also caused an uproar.

"Sure enough, she is the niece of the queen's mother, and she is also a sharp tooth!" Concubine Mei took two steps, took a ruby bracelet off her wrist, and said, "The first time I saw Miss Xie, Concubine Ben didn't prepare any decent gifts, so let's give Miss Xie a meeting gift with this bracelet!" ”

Xie Qingyao's expression remained unchanged, and said, "This gift is too valuable, Qingyao is afraid that she can't afford it!" ”

"What can't you afford?" Concubine Mei changed color and said angrily: "I brought something from a concubine, but you, a queen's niece, said that she couldn't afford it." Doesn't this clearly mean that the concubine overwhelmed the queen in terms of dressing? Xie Qingyao, what are your intentions! ”

Everyone's hearts froze, no matter what Concubine Mei said, she would be angry. It seems that today's Concubine Mei is determined to find Xie Qingyao's trouble.

Xie Qingyao raised her eyes and said lightly: "The courtiers didn't mean this, Concubine Mei misunderstood." ”

Concubine Mei has not been in the palace for a long time, and she is not from a famous family, and she has never seen Miss Xie's swagger, but at this time, she saw that this girl didn't even mean to ask for guilt, and she was even more angry.

"Xie Qingyao, do you dare to contradict this concubine?" She looked at the palace maid beside her and said sharply: "You say, what crime should you be guilty of contradicting the palace concubine?" ”

"Mother's anger!" The two palace maids immediately knelt down, but they didn't dare to say anything else.

"I asked you, what is the crime of contradicting the palace concubine, didn't you hear?" Concubine Mei looked at the two palace maids condescendingly, and her voice rose again.

Xie Qingyao smiled at this time: "Concubine Mei doesn't need to ask. The palace maid in the palace confronts you, and you naturally have the right to punish it, which is a family affair in the palace. But Qingyao is not a palace maid in the palace, but the daughter of a courtier, even if she contradicts you, it is not a simple family matter. The only one who can punish Qingyao is her aunt. If the mother is angry, she will go to complain to the queen. As a palace concubine, she openly disposed of the daughter of an important minister of the court, which is the real arrogance. ”

Concubine Mei's eyes changed, and she went to see the two palace maids again.

"Niangniang, there is indeed this rule in the palace." The palace maid whispered. Although, this rule has not been mentioned much, most of the time, everyone has turned a blind eye to it.

Concubine Mei snorted coldly and played with the red jade bracelet in her hand: "In this way, can you accept the meeting gift of this palace?" It shouldn't be written in the palace rules that the palace concubine has no right to reward the daughters of courtiers, right? ”

"Of course not! Xie Qingyao, don't you hurry up and do next! Murong Ya opened her mouth on the side and urged: "If you don't take it, don't you look down on Concubine Mei?" That's right, you are the queen's niece, except for the queen, where can others get into your eyes. ”

"Qing Yao naturally didn't mean that!" Xie Qingyao's smile remained unchanged, and she made the appearance of stepping forward, but the hand hidden in her sleeve gently popped out a wisp of finger wind.

The finger wind hit the wrist of Concubine Mei's hand holding the bracelet, only to hear a "ding", and the jade bracelet fell to the ground and fell into several petals.

"Xie Qingyao, you dare to drop Concubine Mei's jade bracelet!" Murong Ya was stunned for a moment, and then snorted.

Xie Qingyao shook her head secretly and said, "The third princess is not bad!" Qing Yao didn't have time to step forward, how could it be said that Qing Yao had dropped the jade bracelet? ”

Concubine Mei also lost her mind for a moment, then reacted, raised her hand and pointed at Xie Qingyao: "What the third princess said is right, you all saw it, Xie Qingyao looked down on Concubine Ben and threw Concubine Ben's meeting gift in front of her!" ”

Everyone was taken aback, and quickly understood what Concubine Mei meant. Is this a blatant reference to a deer as a horse?

Murong Ya said seriously: "That's right! This princess can testify. Xie Qingyao, you said that it was not you who fell, but is there any evidence? ”

Xie Qingyao didn't expect that Murong Ya and Concubine Mei would use such a clumsy method to make a game. She glanced at the girls present, and they also looked shocked.

"Except for the third princess, who else saw Qingyao drop Concubine Mei's meeting gift?"

Her gaze swept over every girl, and although Murong Ya was there to threaten and seduce with her eyes, no one responded.

At this moment, it was Concubine Mei and Murong Ya's turn to be embarrassed.

Xie Qingyao made a color to the maid beside her. Zishu understood, quietly retreated behind the people, and turned around and walked towards the Chang'an Hall where the queen was. Xie Qingyao stepped forward, took out a silk silk, picked up the fragments of the jade bracelet with the silk silk, and said, "Speaking of this jade bracelet, the courtiers also have something to ask Concubine Mei." ”

"The jade bracelet has been broken, what else do you want to do?" A bad premonition flashed in Murong Ya's heart.

Xie Qingyao had already noticed that more than a dozen ants had climbed onto the fragments of the jade bracelet. She looked at the fragment in the sunlight, and her heart suddenly felt a sense of proportion.

"Why is this jade bracelet coated with a layer of oil wax of the same color as the jade bracelet? When facing the sun, this is not difficult to distinguish. ”

"What's so strange about that?" Murong Ya opened his mouth and said: "A layer of wax can't hinder anyone, maybe it makes the jade bracelet look better!" ”

"However, when the wax oil is heated, it melts. If a person wears this jade bracelet, it won't take long for the body temperature to melt this layer of wax oil. When the time comes, won't the jade bracelet become the original shape again? Xie Qingyao asked.

"Maybe the craftsmen were negligent." Concubine Mei said impatiently: "Xie Qingyao, don't you suspect that this concubine has mixed something harmful on the jade bracelet?" It must be known that this jade bracelet was removed from the hands of the concubine, and if it will harm people, it is the concubine who suffers first. ”

"It's not just poison that can hurt people!" Xie Qingyao gently sniffed the broken hole of the jade bracelet fragment, and said unhurriedly: "When the oil wax does not melt, it will naturally not, but after the oil wax melts, it will not be necessarily." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Concubine Mei also looked a little flustered.

"It's the smell of honey!" Xie Qingyao said: "There should be a lot of bees in the Imperial Garden today, right? ”

"Bees can't kill people, what are you asking for?" Murong Ya said on the side.

"I mean, there's a layer of honey underneath the wax. This is not ordinary honey, it is brewed by a bee colony called Bawangfeng in Xiliang. Xie Qingyao saw that everyone didn't understand, and explained: "Overlord bees feed on ordinary bees, and in order to hunt, their saliva contains a special thing, which has a unique smell and can attract a large number of other bees. Therefore, the nectar they produce also has the effect of attracting other bees. You might as well think about it, wait a while, when you arrive at the Imperial Garden, all the bees are flying towards the owner of this jade bracelet, what a magnificent scene it will be! ”

The crowd was dumbfounded.

Murong Ya hurriedly said, "Xie Qingyao, how could you recognize this kind of honey?" ”

"The reason is simple, because only this honey is red." Xie Qingyao chuckled: "Therefore, the people of Xiliang also call this honey blood honey. That overlord bee is also called a blood bee. Well, we don't have this kind of honey in Dajin. ”

"Yes, this matter needs to be investigated!" But Zishu arrived with the queen and Princess Han.

"Meet the Queen, Princess Han!" Everyone saluted.

"Get up!" Xie Yu waved his hand slightly, and looked at Concubine Mei with a pale face: "This palace doesn't know that Concubine Mei is still involved with Xiliang." ”

That's a big crime! If it is confirmed, it is treason.

Concubine Mei's face also lost blood, and she defended: "The queen is good! This jade bracelet was given by Concubine Ming's sister this morning, not the concubine's own. It's only been half an hour since the concubine wore this jade bracelet, and I really don't know that there is another mystery here! ”

"Concubine Ming?" This is Murong Ya's biological mother. Xie Qingyao said in his heart.

"Now there is no Ming Concubine, only Ming Concubine!" The queen corrected: "Go and invite Concubine Ming!" ”

Immediately, someone from the palace left, and Xie Qingyao handed over the silk silk wrapped with the fragments of the jade bracelet to the queen's palace maid, and also retreated to the side.

Murong Ya's expression was no better than Concubine Mei's, and she hurriedly argued: "Back to the queen, this jade bracelet is not the concubine's own. ”

"Oh? Who's sending that? Xie Yu sneered.

Murong Ya stopped talking.

Xie Yu turned around and smiled apologetically at Princess Han, and said, "This palace has to deal with some trivial matters, but it is going to be absent for a while." ”

Princess Han smiled understandingly: "When the concubine has been in the palace for a long time, there are still trivial matters in the palace that need to be dealt with urgently, and I dare not disturb the queen again!" Retire first, and often the queen forgives. ”

"This palace ordered someone to send the princess!" After Xie Yu arranged the people, he returned to Concubine Mei.