In the empty and gray valley, the wild cold wind whipped up the loess and made a piercing rustling sound, echoing in the dust, making people frightened. The setting sun had silently sunk below the horizon, and in the desolate dark yellow of her eyes, a woman led a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old all the way.

When the two could no longer run, the woman placed the girl in a hidden dirt pit, which was small enough for the girl to hide. The woman said nervously, "Long smoke, stay here!" No matter what you see or hear, you can't make a sound! Do you understand? ”

The girl took the woman's hand in horror and cried: "Mother! Don't go, don't leave the smoke! ”

The woman caressed the girl's face, her eyes full of tenderness and reluctance. "Yan'er, live well! Stay alive! ”

"Mother! Mother! But no matter how much the girl cried, the woman turned away resolutely.

A thousand miles of bright light filled the quiet night, and the faint light spread like a tide until erosion enveloped it. The girl still curled up motionless in the dirt pit, waiting for her mother to return, not daring to make a sound. But I don't know how long it took, and the figure of my mother never appeared again. There was only the terrible whistling sound of the cold wind raging in her ears, and her body became colder and colder, like falling into an ice lake, and her mind gradually became confused.

There was a sound in the distance, and the girl couldn't hear it clearly in a daze.

"! Wake up! ”

Yin Muqing woke up from the nightmare in horror and found that the maid Zhu Yu on the side was whispering to herself, it turned out that she was asleep reading a book. She put down the scroll in her hand, slowly sat up straight, rubbed her slightly aching head, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Yu frowned slightly, "The queen mother is here with the queen mother." ”

Mu Qing raised his eyebrows coldly. This queen Huo is the daughter of Prime Minister Huo Pei'an, and her temperament is not only arrogant and arrogant, but also extremely jealous. Not long after Mu Qingcai entered the palace, the queen had been sad for her many times, and now on this big night, she also brought the queen mother to come together, and it was not good to think about it.

Mu Qing removed the color in his eyes, just straightened his dress a little and got up and walked out the door.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the queen mother to come in a hurry, looking at Mu Qing's eyes like a sharp sword, glowing with a faint cold light.

Mu Qingrou asked An Dao: "The concubine knocks to see the queen mother and the queen mother." ”

The Queen Mother sat on the throne and said nonchalantly: "Get up." ”

"Dogwood, serve tea to the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother." Mu Qing commanded to the maid.

The queen looked at Mu Qing fearlessly and said, "No need, Concubine Chen's tea palace doesn't dare to drink it." ”

The simple and straightforward provocation made the atmosphere drop to freezing point in an instant, and the Queen Mother spoke: "If the queen has anything to say, just say it, what is the matter with bringing the mourning family to Chenzhi Palace so late?" ”

The queen had a straight face and said: "After returning to my mother, my sons have evidence of Concubine Chen's rebellion!" ”

As soon as he heard the word 'rebellion', Mu Qing immediately knelt on the ground in fright and looked at the Queen Mother innocently. "The concubine is wronged, the concubine is just an ignorant woman and child, living in a simple place, and only hoping to serve the emperor wholeheartedly. As the commander of the forbidden army, the concubine's father has always adhered to his duty, and he is even more loyal to the emperor, and he has never had two hearts, so how can he say that he is plotting against him? ”

The Queen Mother was also quite surprised by such an accusation, looked at the queen cautiously, and asked: "Rebellion is a capital crime that is full of beheadings, and you have evidence to put such a big crime on Concubine Chen, queen?" ”

"Erchen naturally has full evidence to dare to disturb the queen mother, and after taking the mother today, he is here to confront Concubine Chen face to face." The queen squinted proudly and knelt on the ground Yin Muqing, "A few days ago, a fire broke out in the Classics Pavilion, and at that time, Erchen felt that this fire was strange, so he sent someone to check it carefully, but he did find that there were traces of fire oil around the Classics Pavilion, and someone must have deliberately set it on fire!" ”

The Queen Mother asked, "What does that have to do with Concubine Chen?" ”

"When the classic pavilion caught fire that day, all the concubines and princes had to participate, but Concubine Chen was absent from the palace banquet that night on the grounds of physical discomfort."

The Queen Mother paused, and then said, "This alone can't prove that Concubine Chen is a ghost!" ”

"The queen mother doesn't know, this remaining fire oil is now hidden in the palace, as long as the queen mother sends someone to search, you can find it!" The queen looked down at Mu Qing coldly.

Sure enough, after some searching, the palace maid found a white porcelain vase from the inner room of Chenzhi Palace. The Queen Mother said with a gloomy face: "Concubine Chen, how can you explain this?" ”

Mu Qing glanced at the porcelain vase in the palace maid's hand, and said aggrievedly: "This is just the osmanthus oil used by the concubine to comb her hair on weekdays, it is not a fire oil at all, the queen mother sent someone to know it when she smells it!" ”

The Queen Mother raised her eyes to signal, and the grandmother beside her immediately took the porcelain vase and examined it carefully, and then replied, "Back to the Queen Mother, it is indeed osmanthus oil." ”

Mu Qing looked at the queen unwillingly, "This osmanthus oil is not uncommon, there are many concubines and palace maids in the palace, how can the queen insist that it was the concubine who set the fire?" ”

The queen shook her head in a panic, "It's impossible, it's clear that it was still fire oil a few days ago, it must be you, a slut, who did something in secret!" ”

"This oil has been kept in the palace of the concubines, how did the queen know about it?"

"This..."The queen was speechless for a moment, and turned to look at the queen mother, "The queen mother, the sons have other evidence!" On that day, Concubine Chen claimed that she could not get out of bed due to the cold, so she had to be absent from the palace banquet. However, according to Doctor Wang of the Tai Hospital, Concubine Chen's pulse was stable and strong, and she was not sick at all! If you are not a thief, why pretend to be sick and deceive others? ”

Mu Qing met the queen's fierce eyes, and said without humility or arrogance: "Just based on the words of the imperial physician, the concubine was judged to be pretending to be sick, and the mother was probably more arbitrary." ”

"You're still hard-mouthed..."

"Okay, whether it's pretending to be sick and letting the other doctors check it out." The Queen Mother interrupted the queen's words impatiently, and said to the grandmother on the side, "Go and pass on the Cheng medical girl." ”

After about half a cup of tea, Mama came with a woman. The woman's face is beautiful, with a tranquility between her eyebrows, this is not beautiful, it is the breeze and the moon at the corners of the eyebrows and eyes, it is pleasing to the eye in her gestures, and it looks and feels comfortable.

The Queen Mother instructed: "Cheng Yinu, give Concubine Chen a pulse." ”

The doctor girl listened to the order and put her fingertips on Mu Qing's wrist, and she didn't speak for a long time. And Mu Qing also had a calm face, and there was no joy, anger and panic on his face.

In the end, Cheng Yinu only glanced at Mu Qing lightly, and then withdrew her fingers. replied: "Back to the Queen Mother, judging from the pulse, Concubine Chen's mother is indeed a disease of cold invading the body, although her condition is improving, she still needs to recuperate. ”

"Impossible, you are talking nonsense!" The queen looked at the kneeling duo in disbelief, pointed at them and shouted, "You two must be in a group!" ”

The Queen Mother interrupted the queen's abuse angrily and scolded, "Okay! What else are you messing around? Isn't that shameful enough? Cheng Yinu had cured the old illness of the mourning family for many years, and she was a disciple of the Master Nangong, how could she collude with Concubine Chen? ”

The queen did not relent, and said: "You don't know anything about the queen mother, and the people of the sons and daughters have seen it with their own eyes..."

"Your people? Who? Where is it placed? The Queen Mother's face was a little colder than before, she had always heard that the queen had placed eyeliner in various palaces, but she never asked, just turned a blind eye. Unexpectedly, her momentary connivance made the queen even more inches, and now she has done a bloody thing.

"The fire in the Classic Pavilion is obviously because you have lax jurisdiction over the harem, so there is a mistake, and you even want to rely on others. As a queen, the most taboo is the word jealousy, and now the emperor's heirs are thin, it is the time to fill the harem, and you can't tolerate a little sand in your eyes, how can you be gentle and virtuous? If you mourn your family, think about it yourself! After speaking, the Queen Mother took Cheng Yinu and left Chenzhi Palace angrily.

The queen stood in the hall with a pale face, looking at Yin Muqing who was still kneeling on the ground with resentful eyes. After the fire in the Classic Book Pavilion that day, many books and historical records in the Pavilion have been burned down. When the emperor heard this, he was furious and reprimanded the queen fiercely, saying that she did not manage the harem strictly, and there was such a big mess. The emperor also immediately ordered that some of the affairs in the palace be handed over to Concubine Chen to assist in management, which was called sharing the heavy responsibilities for the queen, but in fact, it was just a slap in the queen's face.

The Huo family has always been arrogant, how can he tolerate such a shameful humiliation, but at that time, it was indeed his own fault, and there were also words of suffering. She later sent someone to investigate secretly and found that the matter was actually related to Concubine Chen, so she immediately took the Queen Mother to Chenzhi Palace to ask Concubine Chen Xingshi for the crime, and killed her by surprise. I didn't expect this Concubine Chen to be so cunning, not only pushing the responsibility away, but also letting herself lose her demeanor in front of the Queen Mother, and she was named a blame-maker.

The queen gritted her teeth and said, "Yin Muqing, don't think that you can be lawless with the emperor's favor!" This account will be calculated with you in the future! ”

Mu Qing got up and looked back at the queen, smiling so evilly, his eyes were bright and charming, like a mandala flower blooming in blood, burning incredibly. "The concubine will definitely welcome the queen at that time."

The queen then snorted coldly and hurried away.

After everyone walked away, Mu Qingcai sat back on the collapse, supporting his head with one hand, and his expression was leisurely, as if the farce that happened just now was just a dream. Zhu Yu poured her a cup of hot tea and said proudly, "Niangniang is clever, the queen really fell for the trap we set." The slave maid let out such a little rumor, and the queen couldn't sit still. ”

Mu Qing looked out the window carelessly, but there was an unfathomable chill in his pupils. "A woman's jealousy is the best weapon to use."

Zhu Yu frowned and said: "But now that there is such a trouble, presumably we and the queen's Liangzi are getting bigger and bigger, but I'm afraid that she will have to get worse in the future." ”

Mu Qing played with the lid of the cup thoughtfully, and the rising water vapor blinded her eyes, so that people couldn't see her love clearly, and only heard a few words floating out of her mouth. "She's innocent, and if she keeps to herself, I don't want to hurt her."