54. Chapter 54
Qian Luojin was woken up by Mu Congjin, and just as she was about to speak, Mu Congjin covered her mouth, Mu Congjin glanced at the door mysteriously, and whispered, "Don't make a sound." β
Although she didn't understand it very well, she looked very powerful, and Qian Luojin obediently closed her mouth.
"I suddenly remembered something very important, you see this."
Mu Congjin was talking about the strip of white cloth spread on the bed, and Qian Luojin, who was experienced in TV dramas, immediately understood the purpose of this white cloth, and watched Mu Congjin take out a fruit knife and stare at his fingers.
Qian Luojin was moved in her heart, she acted like this in TV series, the male protagonist cut his fingers and dripped on the white cloth to help the female protagonist relieve the siege, and her boyfriend was max!
Just when Qian Luojin's heart was fluttering, Mu Congjin grabbed Qian Luojin's left hand with lightning speed, and made a small cut on Qian Luojin's index finger quickly and accurately, and the blood beads rolled down on the white cloth drop by drop, dyeing a small pile of crimson.
Qian Luojin cried bitterly, but she didn't dare to shout loudly, and glared at Mu Congjin with her eyes.
"I am a noble person, how many pairs of eyes are staring at me all day long, if I am injured, I will definitely be discovered, you will hide in the inner courtyard, and no one will notice you."
Mu Congjin's reason was very sufficient, and Qian Luojin suffered another loss, so she had to turn over a gold ring belt to block the wound.
The old lady from the palace reverently took the white cloth, as if it were such a precious holy relic.
There are many more people in the prince's mansion than in the Zhenguo Mansion, and the rules are much bigger, but there is an advantage that the queen's mother is surrounded in the harem, and she doesn't have to live with her mother-in-law.
The Sixth Prince's Mansion is not big, the queen wants to leave the emperor with the impression of being diligent and thrifty, Qian Luojin feels that this qiΔ is all the same, the emperor can't see you at all, no matter how you look at it, it is more cost-effective to poison him directly.
When I stayed in the prince's mansion, I didn't feel much, and when I left the palace, the identity of the princess became clear, and the women below the second rank had to salute when they saw her, and they were worshiped by a group of people all of a sudden, and Qian Luojin was uncomfortable. Mu Congjin is used to being kneeled, and when he is an old driver of Gongdou, Qian Luojin can always feel at ease.
The two of them lived together and talked much more conveniently than before, and Qian Luojin used to understand the game between the forces outside the city from Mu Congjinxin, and he didn't feel much when he heard Mu Congjin say that the general defected to the Fu Yin. Once they live together and get first-hand information in real time, the feeling of fighting for each other makes Qian Luojin nervous.
"Third Master Dou wants to be transferred back to Duzhong? Thinking beautifully, I can't let him come back. Qian Luojin said angrily, like Dou Sanye stealing her old hen.
"Why do you think that after marrying me, you have become more angry with the surname Dou?"
Mu Congjin's sentence "After you marry me" said casually, after the words fell, the two of them were stunned, knowing that it was a joke, both of them were a little serious, but they were embarrassed, Qian Luojin quickly diverted the topic: "I'm not targeting Dou Sanye, I mean that the entire Weiguo Mansion is spicy chicken!" I haven't forgotten the days when we made our family miserable. β
"Your anger will come out next time, this time the third master of Dou will return to the capital, and the third prince and I will also help talk."
"Why! He didn't do good things in the capital, so many officials in the court came from him, and there were more than 20 gossips in the mouth of Mrs. Guang'an Guanghou, and finally he ran out to be a magistrate and let him come back? β
Dou Sanye has always been in the position of Minister of Personnel when he was in the capital, and he has contributed a lot to the power of the Weiguo Mansion today.
"Let him come back, don't let him be reinstated, first squeeze him to the idle post of managing the logistics of the Tai students, the Weiguo Mansion must want to let him come back first and then slowly transfer, and he will agree."
"Concubine Li's ability is so great, as long as he comes back, he will be able to return to his original official position sooner or later."
"Doesn't that take time, the emperor may not be able to wait until that time."
Mu Congjin said that there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth, the young man's face was like a crown of jade, his posture was handsome, and the corner of his mouth had a confident smile, Qian Luojin couldn't help but look at it a few more times, could this be the restlessness of adolescence?
As a daughter-in-law in a free-range state, Qian Luojin, who is neither old nor young, can be idle after marriage. After marriage, Mu Congjin never mentioned the matter of taking a concubine, of course, with Mu Congjin's small onion-like appearance, Qian Luojin also doubted whether his function in that aspect had developed well.
The first few days of the wedding were miserable, and in front of outsiders, Qian Luojin always had to pretend to be hurt by Mu Congjin's "bravery", and walked with a limp, making every middle-aged and elderly woman show an ambiguous smile, and told her to rest and drink more hot water.
After three or four days, Qian Luojin immediately straightened her waist and straightened her legs, and she was a good man again.
Because he was warned by Mu Congjin that it was strictly forbidden to have more contact with the women of the deep palace without him by his side, Qian Luojin had to pretend that he was very busy every day, such as going to the Taoist temple to chant scriptures.
Dongliu is simply unbearable, she used to come when she was a young lady of the Qian family, and now she is the princess, as soon as she comes, half of the Taoist priests of the Taoist temple have to take action, what a big pomp.
"The poor road just collected a few taels of merit money from the six princesses, why did the six princesses make such a big move?"
"What a conscience! If it weren't for my financial support, your Taoist temple would have collapsed long ago. β
Qian Luojin said this very shamelessly, the biggest supporter behind Sanqingguan is the current saint.
Since Dongliu brought back the life-prolonging pill after traveling for the emperor, the emperor regarded him as a cronie, and his status was close to the chief eunuch who served the emperor to grow up, and the momentum of the entire Sanqingguan also rose with the tide.
It is precisely because of the current hot fortune of Sanqingguan that Qian Luojin always meets the ladies of the capital who come to listen to the sermon even if she hides in Sanqingguan, if she is not a person who is not painful or itchy, it will pass with a few words, if she encounters someone who does not want to see, Qian Luojin simply hides in the Dongliu room, which is a place that no one can find.
Dongliu chased Qian Luojin and ran into the house: "The sixth princess...... It's not appropriate, right? β
"What's wrong? Do you have a habit of cleanliness? β
Dongliu's good-looking eyes blinked a few times: "What is cleanliness?" Poor Dao has never seen it. β
"When I didn't say it."
Qian Luojin was lying on the crack of the door to see if the people outside were gone, and Dongliu looked at her back behind her.
Miss Qian really married the Sixth Prince and became the Sixth Prince's Princess, Dongliu lowered her head and played with the dust in her hand. The dying people are more and more convinced of ghosts and gods, and the more sick and decayed the emperor is, the more he relies on Dongliu, and for some secrets in the palace, Dongliu probably knows better than the emperor's own sons.
Sue sΓΉ her? That was not the scope of his cultivation as a cultivator, and he had no intention of fighting for the monarchy, it should be said that all the disturbances in this world he had no intention of contaminating, but since she had married into the Six Princes' Mansion, if he had the disaster of destroying the Six Princes in the future, she would not be able to escape the same fate.
"Miss Qian......"
"Huh?" Qian Luojin turned around, surprised at why Dongliu called her maiden name again, since she and Mu Congjin got married, no one has ever called her like this.
"The last time the emperor was critically ill, the second prince mobilized the southwest generals, which made the emperor suspicious."
Qian Luojin didn't expect Dongliu to say this to her, although it was a sentence without a beginning or an end, Qian Luojin could see the serious expression on Dongliu's face, she had never seen such a look on his face, as if she had made up a lot of determination.
"Thank you."
In addition to these two words, Qian Luojin couldn't think of anything else to say, she believed in Dongliu, for no reason, but she felt that Dongliu would not lie to her.
Back at the Prince's Mansion, Qian Luojin thought about it repeatedly before she figured it out, is Dongliu trying to surrender? Although this emperor covers him, the emperor will definitely not live as long as him, and now the team is looking for a candidate for the next emperor, so that they can continue to eat and drink spicy food in the future.
It must be so, yes, Qian Luojin praised his psychological achievements, and when Mu Congjin came back, he was busy telling Mu Congjin. Mu Congjin has no friendship with Dongliu, so he can't believe it right away, but if you think about it, Dongliu has no contact with Concubine Li at all, and what Dongliu said is consistent with what he understands through the chief eunuchs around the emperor, is it possible that he really wants to choose a side?
People are dying, their minds are unpredictable, the emperor can always think of the ugly faces of his brothers when his father was about to die, and the seriously ill emperor is very insecure, even the second prince who is his favorite is no exception.
The last time the emperor almost returned to the west, Concubine Li, who had been serving ill, was the most well-informed, so the second prince seized the time to quietly dispatch troops in the southwest, and Concubine Li Guifei did not expect that at this time the eastward flow came back, and she also brought the pill that is said to prolong life. Of course, this elixir is not so miraculous, but it really dragged down the emperor's illness again, and the emperor never mentioned the transfer of troops by the second prince, but he always remembered it in his heart.
The third prince didn't have time to arrange it at that time because of the bad news, but instead got a blessing in disguise, and he added points to the impression in the old emperor's heart.
When people are old, they are afraid that their second son will carry out a coup d'Γ©tat for the family property before they think of asking for a bowl of water, the emperor realized too late, and when he closed his eyes and kicked his legs, the first thing his sons thought of was to send troops, and none of them would go to him to cry and mourn.
Now is a good opportunity to prune the branches of the Weiguo Mansion, Uncle Dou has always been misbehaving, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling The emperor doesn't care about him, but he is even greedy for the emperor's money, will the emperor still spoil him? It's not easy to raise an army, every day the military salary is for nothing, isn't it just to make money for Uncle Dou to arrange a fat civil official?
But the money is too ruthless, and the emperor may not be happy, so it depends on how much firewood can be added to the emperor.