Emperor Zhaoqing had lunch in Xue Guifei's palace, and after a break at noon, he heard the palace people come to report that the big mention was waiting outside the Tai'an Palace.

Emperor Zhaoqing slept comfortably during this nap, just woke up, and was pillowing on the couch to see Xue Guifei sitting in front of the makeup mirror in plain clothes and combing her hair, I heard that Zhu Muzhao asked to see him, and squinted his eyes for a while, before he sat up and said to Xue Guifei:

"I'll go over and take a look, if you're idle, you might as well go to the Imperial Garden for a walk, don't wait in the palace, and I'll come back for dinner."

The women in this palace, who is the turn to serve in the dormitory, do not stay in the dormitory all day and dare not move half a step out, for fear of delaying the holy drive and losing grace, when will the emperor come, when will he leave, will not follow their wishes, where do they dare to ask more.

Emperor Zhaoqing spoke, but he was distressed that Xue Guifei didn't tell her to wait, and before she put it aside, she promised to say a few words that he liked to hear, politely refused, and then waited in the palace in a proper manner.

Xue Guifei put down the comb with a smile and walked over to help him change his clothes, "Listen to Your Majesty." ”

But after so many years, she has long been tired, and no matter how much she endures, she can't convince herself.

After Emperor Zhaoqing left, Song Lan, the palace maid who was waiting in front of Xue Guifei, came in with a copper basin, and saw her master Niangniang sitting alone on the soft couch and laughing, I didn't know what to think, she looked like she was in a very good mood, and secretly relieved her heart, just the emperor was in a hurry, and thought that something had happened, and she couldn't come at night.

When Xue Guifei saw her come in, she came back to her senses, grabbed the robe that Emperor Zhaoqing had draped on her before leaving, and waved at her:

"Go, bring me all the new clothes that have been prepared for this season. Pick one in this palace, and let's go to the imperial garden to relax later. ”

Song Lan obediently went out to explain, and in less than a cup of tea, she put all kinds of dresses in front of the master.

After grooming and dressing up, a golden Luoyun swayed to the ground, and Xue Guifei, who was full of temples and blue jewels, made the palace maids in the room hang their heads and dare not raise their eyes, for fear of being stunned.

Song Lan had already taken a few capable palace maids and eunuchs, lifted the tea and fruit cushions and utensils, and sent a small yellow door with fast legs and feet to open the way, and hugged Xue Guifei out of Zhongcui Palace.

The palace is located at a distance from the Imperial Garden. Xue Guifei walked on the road in a chariot carried by four people. Yu Lu saw the two little concubines who came out to visit the door, leaned on the side of the road and saluted, and only dared to walk away when her car was far away.

This movement. But for a moment. And it spread to all the palaces.

You will arrive at the fork in the Imperial Garden. The little eunuch who had opened the way ran back quickly, and Song Lan frowned when she saw the figure. He walked up a few quick steps, pulled someone aside, and asked in a low voice:

"What's the fuss, who's in the garden?"

"Sister," the little eunuch took a breath, "the little man saw the queen's jade chariot parked outside the garden." ”

Her face changed slightly, and she listened to the master's words and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Song Lan stepped forward, leaned over to Xue Guifei's lap and tiptoed and said softly: "The queen is here, master, should we go forward, or turn back?" ”

She started from an ignorant little girl, and stayed in Zhongcui Palace for ten years, and she was able to be called by Xue Guifei as a confidant, and the price of eyesight must be first-class, so cautious has her reasons - since that happened three years ago, as soon as the tenth princess died, their masters would always retreat when they saw the queen's car, except for the first and fifteenth mornings of the new year to Qiwu Palace to introspect, if they could not meet on weekdays, they would not meet.

But it's rare for the master to be in such a good mood, and he has walked to the garden gate, do you want to go back?

Song Lan complained bitterly in her heart, she really turned around and left, and when she didn't know what it was like in the Ming'er Palace, she should repeat the old tune and pull the headless case of the tenth princess falling from the building, saying that their Miss Xue family killed the tenth princess, so the concubine has no face to see the queen until now.

"Go ahead."

Huh?

Song Lan didn't react for a while, and raised her eyes to catch a glimpse of Xue Guifei's beautiful face, her long eyebrows flew obliquely into her sideburns, and a spring of eyes was reflected under the fluttering eyelashes, bright and dazzling.

Song Lan's heart trembled, a little flustered, and faintly excited, and lowered her head.

"Yes."

***

In the imperial garden, Queen Rui is looking at the red leaves near the Qianqiu Pavilion, and Sun Guiren, who has recently been favored, is sitting aside, and there are three or two beauties and Xiao Chang at the bottom, listening to the two of them obediently and skillfully, and from time to time they greet each other, covering their lips and smiling.

Xue Guifei took Song Lan's hand into the garden, and saw the harmonious scene of this wife and concubine from afar, the corners of her mouth sneered slightly, and she didn't pause at her feet.

The palace people guarding along the road didn't dare to stop at first, and they watched Xue Guifei's party go to the pavilion in a mighty way, until the great eunuch of Qiwu Palace in front of him stood up with his waist bent down, and he could block Xue Guifei not far from the pavilion.

"The slave maid asked the concubine to say goodbye, are you out to visit the garden?"

Xue Guifei didn't pay attention to him, and Song Lan consciously said loudly: "Father-in-law Ning's words are ridiculous, why do we have to say hello to you, a slave, when we come out?" ”

Not to mention the grievances of the two masters, Song Lan is also full of hatred for this Ning eunuch, when she was a little palace maid, she worked in Fengqing Palace, and once the palace maid in the same period broke a treasure bottle, just because she recognized this Ning eunuch as her godfather, she found Ning Eunuch to be the master, and as a result, the fault was on her head, if it wasn't for the passing Tao Mama to intercede for her, she wouldn't know where to bury it now.

"Where does the villain dare," Eunuch Ning complained bitterly, but he didn't think so, who didn't know that Xue Guifei was like hiding and hiding when she saw the queen.

"It's just that the queen is watching the scenery in front, and I'm afraid that the idle people will come in and disturb it, so I asked the slave maid to stay here, and if the concubine wants to go over, please wait here for a while, and let the slave and maid go and report it."

When Song Lan heard the sentence "idle miscellaneous people, etc.", her pretty face instantly turned red, and a eunuch who was inferior to the three promiscuity dared to bury their master in a roundabout way!

I really want to slap him twice!

Before she could scold angrily, Xue Guifei actually opened her mouth first: "No need, since the queen mother is also here, the palace will personally go over to greet her." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand to ask Eunuch Naning to step back.

Where did Eunuch Ning dare to listen to her, half a moment ago, Xue Guifei's requisition arrived outside the imperial garden, and someone came to report it. He kept an eye on it, and quietly asked the palace maid who was close to him to report to Queen Rui, but Queen Rui only had to say "I know the way", and there was no clear instruction to come down, which meant that he wanted to try to stop it, not to call it over.

Eunuch Ning has served the queen for many years, and there is always this thought, the Kun Ling Bureau has replaced two adults, and the Kun Book in August has come down in batches, and the hearts of the people in the harem are fluctuating. A palace maid who has nothing to rely on is like a fly without a head. I don't know where to hit my luck, now the queen wants to embarrass Xue Guifei, it must be to appease those concubines, and let them understand a truth - no matter how to recruit Kunling. The most talkative person in the harem is she, the lord of the six palaces.

". Don't embarrass the villain. "Eunuch Ning's pestle didn't move there. It's not that there is no road next to it, and it's okay to go over and take a detour, but it's a noble concubine. How could he go around the way of him, a eunuch?

But he didn't expect that the next moment, Xue Guifei actually took a step to the side and bypassed him.

Eunuch Ning was stunned for a moment, thinking that he couldn't spoil the queen's affairs, so he turned around thoughtlessly, knelt down and grabbed Xue Guifei's clothes.

Xue Guifei was dragged by him and staggered, Song Lan hurriedly grabbed her arm and held her arm steadily, but seeing that he dared to pull with their master, she kicked him on the shoulder with a foot in anger and scolded sharply:

"Dog thing!"

This sound can not be said to be not loud, and the concubines who were sitting on the other side of the pavilion were shocked, just now Xue Guifei and his party came over, not that no one saw it, but the queen did not squeak, and they pretended to be deaf and dumb, waiting to see a good show, who would have thought that it would be such an opening.

"Ah, what's the matter," Sun Guiren snorted at first, staring at the south with a pair of big watery eyes.

Empress Rui's smile sank, stared at the bright gold in the distance, and then got up and said, "Let's go, go with the palace and have a look." ”

A group of people followed, and when they got to the front of them, they saw Xue Guifei, who had always loved to laugh, with a cold face and asked people to help her, the great eunuch of Qiwu Palace trembled and crawled on the ground, and the faces of the people in Zhong Cui Palace were full of anger.

I can probably guess what's going on.

Empress Rui frowned, glanced at Eunuch Ning who was kneeling on the ground, knew it in her heart, and then raised her head to Xue Guifei, the eyes of the two were staggered in the air, and the former said first:

"Who's making a lot of noise?"

Hearing Queen Rui's questioning, Song Lan took the initiative to admit: "If you go back to the queen, you are a slave." ”

Empress Rui's face was displeased: "In the Imperial Garden, how can you be allowed to shout and shout recklessly." ”

Song Lan was aggrieved, but still knelt down: "The slave knows her mistake." ”

Empress Rui ignored her and said directly to Xue Guifei: "Sister, this palace is negligent in discipline, today is shocked that the palace is small, what should he do if he is shocked by the holy drive?" ”

Xue Guifei thought to herself, Queen Rui's preemptive habit really hasn't changed at all-

Just like back then, her eldest brother's only son was in his prime, and before the marriage was discussed, the queen pushed a tenth princess out at the hibiscus banquet, which provoked a group of young people in Beijing, Mu Ai;

Just like that year, the tenth princess was critically ill, the emperor was furious, and before she could intercede with the child in her womb, the queen cried bitterly in front of the palace, forcing her to kneel in front of the palace with her pregnancy to apologize, and the fetus was stillborn, and although the emperor did not demote her position, he let the nine emperors who should have returned to Beijing stay in the mountain gate for two more years.

Since then, she has silently watched Queen Rui use all means to control the six palaces, and she has endured it so far.

Not long after her imperial son returned to Beijing, the queen mother made peace with his father through the Earl's Mansion of Zhongyong, in a vain attempt to marry the daughter of her Rui family to her Xue family, and survived the untimely death of the tenth princess.

The queen is in charge step by step, and her calculations are very good, Concubine Lu is old, and Concubine Shu is not angry, as long as she can suppress her as a concubine, the harem will be at her mercy, if she keeps enduring, and when the little nobleman is pregnant with the dragon species, maybe this Queen Rui really has a way to succeed to the throne with a prince.

Xue Guifei looked at Empress Rui, who was majestically asking her about her teacher, gently pushed away the support of the palace people, took a step forward, blessed her body slightly, and said:

"It's this slave who is reckless, please punish the queen."

She often suffers in front of Queen Rui, everyone is not surprised, even Queen Rui herself does not think that there is anything wrong with her bowing to herself, she immediately eased her complexion, glanced at Song Lan who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a rambling voice:

"Since the rules have not been learned, I have to re-teach them, and I will serve my sister in this slave maid, and the palace will not punish her severely, and someone will send her to Qinglufang to learn the rules well."

Song Lan's face turned pale in an instant, Qinglufang, the name is good, but the old people who have been in the palace for a few years know that it is the most pickled place, and the palace maids who made mistakes were sent over, not to learn the rules, but to be spoiled casually by those old eunuchs who were disciplined.

Song Lan didn't dare to look back, she was afraid that she would not be able to help but plead with her master, and then make her embarrassed and soft-hearted, in front of so many palace concubines, to bow her head to the queen to make amends, this is probably the queen's original intention.

Song Lan bit her lip, lowered her head deeply, and said nothing, she had a thought in her heart: she couldn't beg for mercy, she couldn't let the queen get her wish.

At this moment, I heard an exclamation - "Mother! ”

Immediately after that, there was a commotion around her, and everyone crowded behind her, Song Lan turned her head blankly to look, and saw Xue Guifei being supported by a group of palace people, her head hanging to the side, and fainting.

"!"

When Empress Rui saw this scene, she was stunned for a moment, and then she thought that Xue Guifei was pretending, where was it so easy to faint.

couldn't help laughing angrily, Xue Liangdi, who was once arrogant, would also make this kind of unpopular countermeasure, and Queen Rui felt a little indescribably proud in her heart.

After calming down, Empress Rui methodically assigned the people in the surrounding palace, made an anxious look, and said, "Come on, send Xue Guifei back to Zhongcui Palace, and then ask for a doctor." ”

Where did she expect that Xue Guifei's faintness in the imperial garden was not a defense, but a counterattack.

A counterattack that has been silent for three years

Taean Hall

Emperor Zhaoqing was secretly talking with Da Tidian about breaking his life, and he just talked about the murder case in Taishi Shuyuan.

"Have you found the murderer?" Emperor Zhaoqing asked about the case, not looking for Xue Rui, who was in charge of the case, but the person in charge of Si Tianjian, if someone who didn't know was here, he would definitely feel strange, but there were only two monarchs and ministers in this room, and there was not even a eunuch who served tea and ink.

"Just a little eyebrows," Zhu Muzhao said, "According to the situation reported by the two spies who stayed in the Taishi Academy, the murderer must be hiding in the library, and the most suspicious is an old servant who is doing chores in the library. ”

Emperor Zhaoqing heard the news, but he was not necessarily happy: "You can't catch people with words and deeds and torture them, and quickly exterminate those chaotic ministers and thieves, so that the troubled people can break their lives, and the "Xuannu Liuren Book" can see the light of day again." ”

"Don't be impatient," Zhu Muzhao persuaded: "This matter is not urgent. ”

Emperor Zhaoqing was silent, looking at the greatest contributor who had advanced and retreated with him in the past and helped him ascend to the Great Treasure, thinking of the future, his mood fluctuated.

The atmosphere in the room was just a little quiet, and there happened to be an announcement outside the hall:

"Holy Lord, there is urgency."

Emperor Zhaoqing frowned, Xuanren came in, did not avoid Zhu Muzhao, the eunuch who came to pass the word kowtowed into the house, and said urgently-

"Back to the saint, the concubine Niangniang fainted in the imperial garden, and the imperial doctor diagnosed that the mother was pregnant, and she was in a hurry, I am afraid that the dragon species will not be guaranteed."

The last few words, the eunuch trembled and said it, for fear that if he said a heavy word, he would lose his life, Emperor Zhaoqing sat on it and was stunned, stood up suddenly, walked out in a hurry, and went out in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Muzhao didn't forget that he was in the hall, he sat there, didn't get up, but took out a small stone blue compass in his sleeve, turned it a few times, looked at the hexagram, shook his head lightly, and sighed:

"Woe to the East Palace." (To be continued......)