When Zhou Jin came back, Xie Yiying was sitting at the table, gnawing on a pork knuckle heartlessly.

Sleeves rolled up, shiny face.

Qingmei stood beside her with a sad face, it stands to reason that a person who hasn't eaten well for too long should eat a light and digestible first meal, but Xie Yiying has been hungry for two days, and at this moment, her eyes are shining in the face of pork knuckle, and she really can't bear to stop it.

Zhou Jin was surprised by this scene, after all, he couldn't imagine that the person who was only hanging on his breath before leaving would have the same appetite as a peasant woman who had been farming in the field for a day once he woke up.

But fortunately, Xie Yiying was not too heartless, she had already sent someone to send a message to Zhou Jin, saying that she had woken up and was fine.

The specific details are not clear, and there are some secrets involved, which is suitable for two people to talk face-to-face.

Seeing that Zhou Jin was back, Xie Yiying didn't expect that he was shocked by his appetite there, and waved his oily hand at people: "Hey! Eat pork knuckle! There was no oil or water in my stomach, and I felt like seventy or eighty little people were knocking on my stomach and asking me to feed them something. ”

Zhou Jin ignored the exaggerations that people said, but when she saw that her face was ruddy, and she was indeed no longer a patient, she was relieved. Waving his hand to let Yahuan go out, he entered the house and sat opposite Xie Yiying.

Without speaking, the man gnawed the elbow in his hand clean, and then took out the handkerchief and wiped the corner of her mouth.

"Has Ge Heng been here?"

"Yes, he healed me. The person behind Concubine Rong is him. ”

"I thought about it."

"But he's not going to help her," Xie Yiying vaguely felt as if she had missed something, so that the cause and effect were incomplete, but the chain in her head was indeed missing a joint.

Zhou Jin frowned when she saw her, thinking that her body had not healed yet: "Where is it uncomfortable?" "I was thinking about whether to send someone to arrest Ge Heng back, and the doctor would be completely cured, and my daughter-in-law would run away before she could get better.

"Ah, no," Xie Yiying shook his head and smiled at the person, "Ge Heng is gone." ”

"Gone?"

"Well, I don't know where he's going, but I don't think I'll be back in Kyoto anytime soon. By the way, did you go to find Concubine Rong in the afternoon? You didn't ...... Give her something, right? ”

Zhou Jin patted her head: "No, don't worry." ”

Before he came back, he went to the eldest princess's mansion, and Concubine Rong did know some secrets that she shouldn't know this afternoon, but she didn't know, some secrets, some were ordered to listen, and there was no order to keep.

Originally, she thought that with Ge Heng behind her, things might be a little tricky, but since even Ge Heng was gone, Concubine Rong was alone, and she was powerless to fight against the huge forces hidden in this deep palace.

There are no surprises.

So that night, Xie Yiying, who had slept for too long in the past two days and didn't want to sleep at all, was crooked on Zhou Jin, watching him sort out those intelligence materials, a certain hall in the palace suddenly burst into flames.

The sleeping palace people were woken up by slamming the door, and they went to fetch water before they had time to put on their shoes.

The smoke seemed to spread in an instant, enveloping the palace and creating an ominous cloud.

Buckets of water were poured over and on, but the fire was not significantly reduced.

There was not even a trace of human footsteps in the room, except for the sound of wood burning and breaking.

There were guards who tried to rush in, but they were all blocked by the fire, and although they wanted to make meritorious contributions, their lives were more important.

When the beams of the house were also burned off, and they saw the beams falling down through the firelight, the palace people realized that they were afraid that today's favored Concubine Rong Niangniang would die here.

It took a full hour for the fire to be extinguished. One hour is enough to burn a living person to ashes.

The emperor was woken up in his sleep, and after listening to the narration of a qiē, he asked in a dumb voice, "No one survives?" ”

"Returning to His Majesty, there is no one."

Emperor Wen was silent for a moment, and stepped out of the bed with one foot: "Go to Chaowen Palace." ”

Chaowen Palace, the queen's dormitory.

Gonggong Qing saw that Emperor Wen was on the verge of anger at this time, and understood that this matter was inseparable from the queen. But let the two meet in this situation? The discord between the emperor and the queen will never be a good story.

"Your Majesty, the queen must have fallen asleep at this moment, Niangniang has always had a headache, and I am afraid that she will have a head attack when she wakes her up at this moment, please think twice."

Emperor Wen looked at the person standing in front of him, and his voice was low as if squeezed out of his throat: "Gonggong Qing, don't look for death." ”

Father-in-law Qing, the first person in the harem who knew the current affairs and reacted quickly, immediately retreated back, turned around and sent someone to prepare for the step. Who advised the emperor not to go out just now? Not him anyway.

When I arrived at Chaowen Palace, the palace was brightly lit, and there were palace people coming and going, but there was no noise. Emperor Wen raised his hand to prevent people from reporting it, left Gonggong Qing at the door, and walked in alone.

The queen was sitting at the dresser and combing her hair, her well-groomed hair was black and moist, and her face hung down long and soft, and her face looked much older than her hair. Although they are also fed every day and never slack off in eating, after aging, collagen is lost, and the nasolabial folds are more deep, which faintly reveals a negative taste.

"The queen didn't sleep."

Hearing Emperor Wen's voice, the empress put down the comb in her hand, and in fact, the two of them had already glanced at each other in the bronze mirror.

"The emperor didn't sleep either." The queen turned to look at him, her tone tinged with mockery.

"My concubines have all been burned to death, I will never wake up, and I will be the next one to be burned to death."

The queen really laughed this time: "What did the emperor say angrily, Concubine Rong's affairs and concubines are also very regretful, it's just that the weather is dry and dry, and it is inevitable to go to the water, it's a pity." ”

It's a pity that she said lightly, and she was not touched by the lives buried in the palace in the slightest.

Emperor Wen stared at her, his eyes were gloomy, but the queen was used to seeing him in the past few decades, and she was not afraid, she still raised her eyes and looked back at people mockingly.

"She still has my flesh and bones in her belly."

"You have a lot of children, and this one is not lacking."

Angered by the queen's attitude, Emperor Wen stepped forward and pulled her collar in two steps, gritted his teeth and said, "You poisonous woman!" ”

At a certain moment, the heart in the queen's chest beat suddenly, her eyes were deeply sunken, and the tails of her eyes were stretched out, and her eyes could not hide an age, and Emperor Wen stared at those old and secret eyes, feeling very disgusted.

The queen didn't seem to notice Emperor Wen's disgust with herself, she just looked at him and asked him softly, "Who are you angry with me for?" That slut who is already dead? ”

Her eyebrows were raised unintentionally, and there was infinite malice in her words.

She wasn't talking about Concubine Rong. (To be continued.) )