"Your Majesty, the left minister asks to see you." A little eunuch came in outside the door to report.

"Let him in." Huangfu Jingwen nodded.

"Weichen see the emperor."

"Zuo Xiang, have the envoys of various countries been arranged?"

"Yes, everything has been taken care of by Wechen." Chu Huaifeng paused for a moment, and stopped talking.

"Zuo Xiang wants to ask the queen about it?" Huangfu Jingwen gets straight to the point.

"The queen suddenly contracted a disease, and Weichen was very worried." Chu Huaifeng has been restless since he retreated, and his intuition will not be so simple.

"You don't have to worry, I have already visited the queen in the Guanju Palace, but it was a few days ago that the wind was strong, and the queen caught a cold, and she was weak and fell ill just out of confinement. This time, the queen is sick, since the post-sealing ceremony has been postponed, it is not in a hurry, I hope that the queen can take this opportunity to recuperate well, and wait for the body to heal before canonization. ”

"Your Majesty, can Weichen come to the palace to visit?"

"No need, the queen is sick, it is not suitable to see people, wait for the queen to recover in a few days, and then visit the left minister." Prime Minister Zuo should first help me calm the emotions of the envoys of various countries, and explain to them the reason for this incident. "Huangfu Jingwen doesn't want to tell Chu Huaifeng the truth, the royal matter is still not suitable to be publicized, and if Chu Huaifeng knows about the things that Xiang Wan has not seen, I don't know what kind of reaction he will have.

"Yes, Wechen obeys." Although Chu Huaifeng had doubts, since the emperor said so, he couldn't say anything more, so he could only inquire slowly in private.

Not long after Chu Huaifeng left, Bian Yi came. Before the others knelt down, Huangfu Jingwen waved his hand and said, "I came to you because something happened in the palace. ”

"Please ask the emperor to command." Since Huangfu Jingwen ascended the throne, Bian Yi has gradually become the emperor's confidant secret guard, after the last investigation of Chu Xiangwan and Huangfu Jingyao, Bian Yi is no longer trusted by the Queen Mother, and now he is completely under the orders of Huangfu Jingwen. At this moment, his expression was solemn, the emperor rarely summoned him during the day, and today Mr. Ma sent someone to inform him to enter the palace immediately, and he knew that the situation was urgent, and something big must have happened in the palace.

"Queen, missing."

"The emperor suspected that the queen mother was sent out of the palace, so he asked Weichen to go outside the palace to investigate?"

Huangfu Jingwen glanced at Bian Yi appreciatively, worthy of being the leader of the secret guard, he was sensitive to ordinary people, and he immediately knew the purpose of his visit. "Yes, most of the queen has been sent out of the palace, and I want you to search outside the palace, especially the suspicious people who have been in and out of the palace in the past few days."

"Yes." Bian Yi's fist-clenching hand clenched inadvertently.

Because of Chu Xiangwan's disappearance here, the people in Guan Ju Palace are still being interrogated one by one, but the direct interrogation is late at night, and no one has said anything useful. Zizhang's heart is also very anxious, I don't know where Niangniang has gone, whether she has gone out of the city, and whether she will encounter danger on the road, but she can't show a single star, otherwise Niangniang's hard work in front of her will be in vain.

The post-sealing ceremony is a grand event in the palace, and the famous concubines in each palace are also ready to attend the ceremony, but some people are stopped by the eunuch halfway through, saying that the ceremony will be postponed. For example, Fu Qingwu is. She seemed to ask the little eunuch who passed the decree casually: "Father-in-law, do you know what happened to Guan Ju Palace?" ”

"This minion doesn't know, the minion has to go elsewhere to deliver the decree, so he retired first." The little eunuch was in a hurry, and he left after a thousand.

Fu Qingwu frowned, and the honeysuckle beside him instructed the sedan chair to drive back to Yutang Palace, and halfway through, Fu Qingwu said loudly: "Honeysuckle, don't go back to the palace for the time being, go to Guanju Palace to have a look." The sedan chair man called Guan Ju Palace again, and when he got there, Fu Qingwu just wanted to go in, but was stopped by Ma Hui who was standing outside the door. Ma Hui bowed and said, "Chongyuan Niangniang, the emperor is inside at the moment." ”

"Father-in-law, what happened to the queen?" Fu Qingwu was very anxious.

"The queen suddenly contracted a cold and was in a turbulent condition, the emperor knew about it and was sympathetic to the mother's body, so he decided to postpone the postponement of the ceremony."

"Is it possible to go in and visit the main palace?"

"Niangniang, please go back, the emperor has ordered, no one can come to visit until Niangniang recovers from her illness, so as not to disturb Niangniang's rest and delay her illness."

"In that case, the main palace will go back." Fu Qingwu's face was natural, and she didn't show any doubts, but the moment she turned around, the smile on her face collapsed and turned into deep contemplation.

"Niangniang, why didn't the emperor let people visit the queen? Li Chongyuan has always been good friends with the queen, why did she eat behind closed doors? In Yuqing Palace, Xiaojun stood beside Fang Xiaohan and asked softly.

Fang Xiaohan took off the formal clothes of the concubine system and changed into regular clothes, and said slowly: "I'm afraid this matter is also the focus of everyone's discussion in the harem now!" ”

"Niang Niang knows why?"

Fang Xiaohan shook his head: "This palace doesn't know what the inside story is, it's just that this queen's gift is not successful, who do you think is the happiest?" ”

"Could it be related to the Queen Mother?!" Xiaojun immediately covered his mouth after speaking.

Fang Xiaohan glanced at her: "It's good that some things rot in the stomach, even if it's in your own palace, you have to know how to speak, you know?" ”

"The slave and maid lost their words, and begged the mother to punish her." Xiaojun knelt down.

"Unintentional mistakes, don't do it again next time, get up." Fang Xiaohan removed the heavy hair ornament on his head again, "It's just that this big gift is not successful, I'm afraid no one in the palace will be unhappy." It doesn't matter if this palace is interested, this time it's who is behind it. The hair ornament was thrown heavily on the dresser, Fang Xiaohan took a self-portrait in the mirror, smoothed her hair with her hand, and smiled charmingly, she thought: Since I am living in such a purgatory and can't love, then, I might as well let this harem be in chaos, rather than her alone suffering, it is better to fall into a place of no return and sink forever.

In the evening, everyone in the palace not only did not stop, but became more active. Among them, Fang Xiaozhou took Liuqin to Cihe Palace, and Fang Xiaohan came together.

"Say hello to my sister." Fang Xiaohanfu lowered his body.

Fang Xiaozhou didn't even look at her, turned around and entered the Cihe Palace.

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother······" The voice was unconcealably excited.

"There are no rules for shouting and screaming." The Queen Mother was instructing Mama Li to keep an eye on the Law Palace, but before anyone had time to report, this Fang Xiaohan broke in.

"The concubine sees the queen mother." Fang Xiaohan saluted calmly.

"Queen Mother, today's queen ceremony has not been completed." This is already a well-known thing, but Fang Xiaohan was so excited that he could only say this.

"Of course the mourners know."

"Queen Mother, is the queen really sick?" Fang Xiaohan asked tentatively.

"Of course, the emperor's will is like this, is there any falsehood?" The Queen Mother is unusual, and she doesn't seem to want to talk about it.

"The concubine doesn't dare," Fang Xiaohan lowered her head, "The queen's illness is strange, and the concubine is afraid that she will play some tricks, which will be bad for the queen mother." ”

"It doesn't matter if she's sick or what's wrong, as long as the queen's canonization ceremony doesn't work out." Fang Xiaozhou was simple-minded and didn't consider the connection behind this at all.

"Concubine Yun, you are not as good as Concubine Hui at this point, don't get to the bottom of everything, it's important to live your own life." The Queen Mother turned the wind this time, although she couldn't look down on Xiaozhou's stupidity, but what she couldn't tolerate was that someone was smiling at her. Last time Xiao Xunzi's matter, she already suspected Fang Xiaohan, such a thing must be found by people close to her, Fang Xiaozhou is stupid, she will not be suspicious, but Fang Xiaohan is different, people who are too smart bite you, so people can't guard against it.

"Yes, the concubine knows her mistake." Fang Xiaohan lowered her head, and there was a hint of mockery in her eyes: Queen Mother, aren't you even more suspicious like this?