When he looked down at the Buddha beads on his wrist, he saw the white dangling wrist that the queen accidentally exposed, smooth and white, like a fine white jade, without a trace of impurities.

Jiang Ying secretly sighed for a while, and then looked at her wrist, in comparison, she only felt that she was too inferior......

Fortunately, she won't really be self-conscious to compare with a good-looking figure like the queen mother, otherwise, she can't be jealous just by being jealous.

But there was no way to take his eyes off the half of Hao's wrist for a while, and he only felt that it was a flawless work of art, which made people want to appreciate it more.

Seeing this, Xin'er on the side couldn't help but cover her mouth and snicker.

At this time, I heard a palace maid outside the hall suddenly whispering: "Niangniang, the emperor and the prince are here." ”

The palace maid's voice was faintly cautious.

The queen's voice did not fluctuate at all, and only said: "When I return to Your Majesty, I will say that I am meeting a guest, and let him take the prince back." ”

As we all know, the crown prince was not born by the queen, but inherited from an unknown concubine.

But Rao is like this, the queen's attitude towards the emperor and the prince still makes Jiang Ying secretly surprised.

This kind of rejection, no matter how you listen to it, there is a sense of coldness.

"Yes." The palace maid seemed to have become accustomed to it, and wanted to withdraw to reply after answering, but after a while, she heard a low exclamation, followed by the sound of a salute on the ground: "Slave and maid see Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Xin'er hurriedly whispered to the queen: "Your Majesty has come in......"

Jiang Ying saw that the queen's brows furrowed slightly, and the hand holding her was also retracted. In a dignified manner, sit on the edge of the couch.

It was also the moment she withdrew her hand that Jiang Ying suddenly felt a striking blue flash in front of her eyes.

When I looked closely, there was a blue pattern under the wrist of the queen's left hand, as if it had been stabbed, and it was particularly conspicuous on the white skin.

It's just that she didn't have time to take a closer look, so she was covered up by the queen by straightening her sleeves.

At this time, someone from outside the temple had already walked in.

"Ah Yu, I heard that you are meeting guests?" Along with the sound of footsteps. There was also a middle-aged man's laughing voice.

Behind the bead curtain. A bright yellow figure is approaching.

This should be the emperor, right?

Jiang Ying's face turned whole and she stood up busily.

"The people have seen the emperor." Jiang Ying hurriedly saluted.

In the afterglow, she saw the queen's arm raised, as if trying to stop her. But she saluted too quickly. So the arm was retracted.

Jiang Ying was a little surprised.

It wasn't that the queen was deliberately trying to stop her from saluting. But after the emperor came in, the queen didn't even have the action to get up to greet her, let alone salute and take over!

What's going on?

And this emperor. didn't seem to mean to blame, just smiled and said, "No need to be polite."

Jiang Ying got up and stood aside with her head down, not daring to look up at the visitor.

Although everyone in the world knows that His Majesty the Emperor is just a puppet of the Jin family, but now she is alone in this deep palace, so it is naturally better to be careful in everything.

“…… Is this the granddaughter that Mr. Kong accepted? The Emperor asked.

"It's the people's daughter." Jiang Ying replied.

"Sit down." The emperor smiled and signaled, his gaze fixed on the Buddha bead on Jiang Ying's wrist for a moment.

Jiang Ying said "Thank you, Emperor" and sat down on the round stool closest to her.

"Zhitong, please say hello to your queen mother." The Emperor smiled and touched the boy's head.

The boy looked up at him, stepped forward with extra care, came to the bed, bent his knees, and said in a respectful but still childlike tone, "My son asks the queen mother to say goodbye." ”

"No courtesy."

The queen's tone was extraordinarily bland.

Jiang Ying glanced at her quietly, only to see that her face had long since lost the pleasant look on her face when she had just spoken to her.

She sat on the couch in a moon-white dress, her hands folded on her knees, her eyes closed that she couldn't see, her lips straightened, and there was no curvature.

It seems that the couple's relationship does not seem to be very good.

While Jiang Ying was thinking secretly, she heard the boy who had just stood up ask softly, "Are you that sister?" ”

Jiang Ying was stunned for a moment, and raised her head to look at him.

He was standing in front of him, his round eyes not blinking.

"It's really you." He looked a little surprised, but his voice was extremely calm, and it didn't give people the slightest sense of rudeness.

Jiang Ying also recognized him and nodded with a slight smile.

This is the little prince who is a proton, and spends most of his time in the Jin State Mansion.

She remembers the almost death of the two red-crowned cranes last year.

Seeing her nodding, the little prince also smiled, because he was in the stage of losing his teeth, and he looked particularly funny and cute when he opened his mouth.

"What, you kid haven't seen this Miss Kong before?" The Emperor asked with a smile, his tone not much different from that of an ordinary father.

"This sister saved me." The little prince looked up at the emperor and said, "Last year, Erchen once told his father that in the Jin State Mansion, Erchen was attacked by a red-crowned crane, and it was this sister who protected Erchen regardless of the danger——"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is serious." Looking at the emperor towards herself, Jiang Ying hurriedly said: "At that time, the folk girl was also attacked by the red-crowned crane, and it was just out of self-preservation. ”

When the emperor heard this, he smiled meaningfully, and didn't say anything to her, but only said to the little prince: "Then you have to find an opportunity to repay Miss Kong in the future." ”

"Erchen wrote it down."

Jiang Ying breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably.

She really didn't want the emperor to reward her for this, so she was in a hurry to explain—but what she didn't expect was that the emperor would hear her clearly and respect her wishes with just one sentence.

"If the emperor has nothing else to do, please go back."

The queen who has never intervened on the sidelines. Suddenly he said aloud.

Yin Ziyu glanced at her and said with a smile: "Now it's time to pass on lunch, and today I and Zhitong will stay in Weiyang Palace and-"

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the queen: "Your Majesty, please go back." ”

The little prince Yin Zhitong quietly tugged at the corners of his father's clothes.

Yin Ziyu was silent for a moment, but he still had a friendly smile on his face, "Then I won't disturb your hospitality, you must remember to pay attention to your body." ”

The queen did not speak.

"Salute your mother, let's go back to Jingyang Palace."

Yin Zhitong stepped forward obediently, "Erchen retreated." ”

The queen was still not finished.

He stood up and followed Yin Ziyu to turn around and walk out of the inner hall.

Before passing through the bead curtain. Suddenly he turned around. met Jiang Ying's gaze and grinned again.

Jiang Ying smiled back at him, and then he was led by Yin Ziyu and turned to leave.

Although the sudden visit of the emperor and the little prince disappointed the fairy-looking queen mother, but in the following lunch. She still treated Jiang Ying with that gentle and close appearance.

Jiang Ying guessed that there should be some estrangement between her and the emperor.

But this royal secret. But it wasn't for her to ask. So I didn't really take it to heart.

After lunch, the queen left her to speak for a while.

It wasn't until Jiang Ying said that she still had something to do when she went back, that she reluctantly asked Xin'er to send Jiang Ying out of the palace.

Before leaving. And like last time, let Yunli bring a lot of Jiang Ying's favorite snacks back.

After Jiang Ying left, it took less than a cup of tea, and Concubine Chen took the palace maid to Weiyang Palace.

"Sister should be relieved this time, right?" She asked with a smile as she stepped into the inner room.

The queen pursed the corners of her lips slightly, and the look between her eyebrows seemed to be smiling.

……

In the Jin State Mansion, the calm has been a little too much recently.

The eldest son, who had been making a lot of noise all day long, didn't make trouble anymore after being slapped twice by the prince, taking medicine on time, eating on time, and being quiet even a little unaccustomed.

The old lady has not been out of the room since that day.

The prince didn't know what he was busy with, and the time he spent in the house was getting less and less.

So up and down the house, almost the second lady was taking care of it alone.

Only on the side of Yilan Pavilion, the cousin seemed to be a little more energetic than before, and from time to time she would go out for a walk, and often go to the second lady's courtyard to 'talk' - just every time she talked, she couldn't avoid the request to leave the Jin family.

The second lady persuaded her to say anything, but she couldn't dispel her thoughts, so she could only delay day by day, refusing to let go. At the same time, he secretly confessed to his confidant and began to pay attention to the sons who are compatible with Xie Jiarou among the scholars with various surnames.

And the most eye-catching person in the house recently is the second son.

A few days ago, he won a battle in the northwest and subdued the barbarians, and now he is engaged to Miss Kong and has become Mr. Kong's grandson-in-law.

Although the matter of Jin Mi's disability of both legs has not been made public, no one in the house knows that the eldest prince does not leave the house all day because of his leg injury.

I always feel that the situation in the house is about to change......

"Master, everything you want is here."

In Jin Qingyun's study, the chief butler personally held a stack of booklets to the bookcase.

"Put it down." Jin Qingyun didn't rush to look at it.

Although he has not left the upper room these days, it does not mean that he has not done anything - after he has recently 'cleansed' all the powers under his control, he has reorganized them, and his control has been greatly strengthened, so that not a single fly can get in.

In recent years, he has been a little negligent.

Unconsciously, many of the existences he thought were strong enough had so many loopholes, and the first person to take advantage of these loopholes for personal gain was not Jin Qi.

He didn't expect that his seemingly mediocre and incompetent son would do much more behind his back than he could have imagined.

From this point of view, Jin Qi's move is not without benefits.

At least it made him see the truth that he didn't realize before!

Jin Qingyun tightened his fists, and his heart was filled with anger.

You don't have to look at these things in the house, and you will definitely find a lot of traces of his meddling-it turns out that over the years, his son has always felt that these things he gave him are not enough or even disdainful, so he has to take them himself behind his back.

Then he wants to see how far he has meddled!

Jin Qingyun was just about to open the booklet, but a thought flashed through his mind.

He suddenly remembered the cause of death of Jinmi's biological mother, Gu.

Outsiders only think that she is haunted/sick bed, but some old people with some status in the house know that there is something else hidden.

Gu is the niece of Mrs. Jin, and Mrs. Jin seems to love this daughter-in-law very much on the surface, so after she married into the Jin family and gave birth to Jin Mi, the 'eldest son', she handed over a feed of the Jin family to her to take care of - but after she handled the middle feed in the house, there was a big mess.

In less than a year, nearly three million taels of silver have flowed out for no reason.

Although this will not shake the foundation of the Jin family, it is by no means a small amount.

Because of this, the paper couldn't hold the fire, and Gu Shifang showed his feet.

When asked about the whereabouts of this large sum of money, she shouted that she was wronged and insisted that she didn't know.

At that time, the Gu family was in a state of turmoil, even though the Gu family refused to admit it, but everyone still unanimously guessed that she should have secretly embezzled or even stole this huge amount of money to help her mother's family-

Not long afterward, Gu, who could not prove his innocence, hanged himself.

At that time, Jin Qingyun intended to investigate to the end, but because the old lady of Jin stopped her from interceding, she said that the Gu family had given birth to an heir for the Jin family, and there was no merit and hard work. and on the grounds that she is also the daughter of the Gu family, if this matter is seriously publicized, she will be disgraced, it is better to threaten the clean saying that she died with her daughter-in-law, Jin Qingyun, who had just lost her eldest son at that time, was too lazy to entangle with her, so she tacitly pressed the matter.

After so many years, fewer and fewer people know about it.

But now that he suddenly remembered it, he felt a lot of doubts.

At that time, he was immersed in the grief of the death of his eldest son, and his control over the upper and lower levels of the house was much looser, which gave people the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and give birth to chaos - and if you look at it in the context of the current situation, it really doesn't look like what the Gu family is for......

Thinking of this, Jin Qingyun's face appeared with an indescribable complexity.

He sat in this position, his hands could not be clean, and he had used all kinds of unseemly methods, but when these deceitful methods fell on him, he was in a completely different state of mind.

After putting the booklet down, the chief butler who had been staying aside and listening to the dispatch secretly glanced at Jin Qingyun's extremely ugly face, although he didn't know how to leave, but there was still a layer of fine sweat in his palm.

Just as he was worrying, the person behind the bookcase asked in a deep voice.

"The old housekeeper in front of you was sent to Zhuangzi outside the city in his early years to retire, and he is still alive?"

This......

The chief butler said uncertainly: "This minion doesn't know, he hasn't heard the news of the funeral, so he should be alive...... Does the lord have something important to see him? ”

How did you mention him in a good way?

A person who has been forgotten for four or five years is suddenly brought up for no reason, right?

Jin Qingyun didn't pay attention to his question, and only ordered: "Send someone to go immediately and bring them to me." ”

"Yes, the minion will do it."

Although the steward was puzzled, he still received the order immediately.

When he was about to leave the study, he heard Jin Qingyun remind: "Don't make a statement-"

"The minion understood."

…… (To be continued.) )

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