The next morning, Zhao Lingshu was summoned by Cui Guifei again.

Zhao Lingshu was reluctant in every way, but he couldn't refuse, so he could only dress up and enter the palace.

But after Zhao Lingshu entered the palace, the palace maid did not lead her to the direction of Cui Guifei's bedroom.

"This sister, I'm afraid this is not the way to Cui Guifei's bedroom, right?" Zhao Lingshu stopped and asked the palace maid who led the way in front.

The palace maid bowed her head and said, "This is the order of the concubine, Miss Zhao should not embarrass me." ”

Zhao Lingshu looked at the embarrassed face of the palace maid and sighed. Of course, she can leave now, but the fate of this palace maid will change because of her.

"Sister lead the way." Zhao Lingshu finally compromised.

The palace maid took Zhao Lingshu to the imperial garden, only to see Xiao Qiyun sitting alone in the pavilion playing the piano.

Zhao Lingshu had heard this song in her previous life, but she only thought it was good back then, but she couldn't say why. Recently, I have read a lot of books, and I have gained more insights into music. I can finally understand what this song means.

Xiao Qiyun saw Zhao Lingshu's hair, and there was a burst of disdain in his heart: "A music idiot who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, marrying her is really a speechless thing." ”

Unexpectedly, Zhao Lingshu suddenly walked to the pavilion and talked about his opinions on this song. The tone is flat, but it's very thoughtful, and it doesn't look like a pretentious person.

Xiao Qiyun prides himself on being talented, but he was born in the deep palace, and the people around him only value the interests of the conspiracy, and no one appreciates his talent, let alone understands his true thoughts.

I met Zhao Lingshu today and heard her evaluation of how well she played the piano, like meeting a bosom friend. He put away the arrogance and contempt at the beginning, sat up straight and played a few other tunes again, and Zhao Lingshu talked eloquently.

Xiao Qiyun began to change his opinion of Zhao Lingshu: "It's not such a bad thing to marry her." ”

In the evening, Zhao Lingqi returned home, and just after dinner, the maid said that there was a letter.

Zhao Lingshu opened the letter, it was a letter from Xiao Qisheng, and there was only one short sentence in the letter: stay away from Xiao Qiyun.

Zhao Lingshu burned the letter after reading it. She watched as the letter slowly turned to ashes, and her heart was full of thoughts.

It seems that Xiao Qisheng still sent people to keep an eye on her.

It turned out that Xiao Qisheng's agreement with her was not over.

It turns out that the battle for the throne has really begun.

Zhao Lingshu remembered that in his previous life, the master of the medicine building was a doctor and a poisoner, and his martial arts were world-famous. She came to the pharmacy alone after dark, but was stopped by the guards at the door.

Originally, you needed to hold an identity token to enter the pharmacy, and this token had to be booked in advance and paid ten taels of silver to obtain.

Zhao Lingshu hesitated for a moment, and came to the flower pavilion next to the medicine building, and a man in red was sitting in the curtain.

"I want to see the owner of the pharmacy." Zhao Lingshu explained his intention to the man in red.

"Bring Bai Shi over at the same time tomorrow, and I'll give you an identity token." The man in red spoke lazily.

"Then I'll visit again tomorrow." Zhao Lingshu turned to leave.

After Zhao Lingshu left, the man in red got up from the chair he was sitting on, stretched out his pale hand to lift the curtain, and walked out of it.

"The landlord, just promised her?" An attendant behind the man in red asked.

It turned out that he was the owner of the medicine building.

"The daughter of the noble Wei Guo family actually came here. Don't let her in. How do you know what's going to happen? The man in red was still lazy, but there was a glimmer of light in his eyes.

Zhao Lingshu, who left the medicine building, went back to rest for the night, and after getting up in the morning, Cui Guifei sent a eunuch over: "Miss Zhao, Guifei wants to summon you." ”

Zhao Lingshu sighed and ordered the maid to groom her, but she didn't dress up. After that, she went to the palace in a carriage.

The palace maid brought Zhao Lingqi to the garden again, but today Xiao Qiyun did not play the piano in the pavilion. Walking into the pavilion, it turned out that Xiao Qiyun was depicting Danqing. The woman in the painting has a good figure, but no face.

Xiao Qiyun looked up and saw Zhao Lingshu coming, so he said, "Lingshu, you're here." Sit down, and I'll be done in a while. ”

After Xiao Qiyun finished speaking, he no longer paid attention to Zhao Lingshu, but kept focusing on painting.

Zhao Lingshu sat dryly for a while, but Xiao Qiyun didn't say a word. She felt bored, and just wanted to stand up and move her sore body after sitting for a long time, but was stopped by Xiao Qiyun.

"Don't move. Bear with me a little longer, and I'll be fine right away. Xiao Qiyun hurriedly stopped her.

Zhao Lingshu could only continue to sit still, but he had already guessed in his heart: "This Xiao Qiyun, shouldn't she be painting her?" ”

After continuing to sit stiffly for half an hour, Xiao Qiyun finally stopped the pen in his hand that kept drawing: "Okay." ”

Zhao Lingshu immediately stood up. took a closer look, and sure enough, Xiao Qiyun painted her face.

Zhao Lingshu looked at Xiao Qiyun, Xiao Qiyun's face was full of expectation: "How is it, can His Highness's painting still be eye-catching?" ”

Zhao Lingshu looked at the talented man in front of him, there was no haze in his eyes for power, only a clear and clear one, remembering that Xiao Qiyun in his previous life was given poisoned wine because Chu Lanxi and Xiao Qiming fought for power, and finally failed to fight for power.

After thinking about it, Zhao Lingshu decided to change this only clear man in the struggle for imperial power.

Zhao Lingshu picked up a piece of paper from the table again, grabbed the brush that was set aside and drew it, and it was finished in a short time.

Zhao Lingshu picked up the painted painting and showed it to Xiao Qiyun, Xiao Qiyun saw the painting painted by Zhao Lingshu, and was immediately speechless by the person in the painting.

The painting depicts a five-year-old girl with a red pendant around her neck.

"How do you know about this?" Xiao Qiyun stared at Zhao Lingshu, his eyes full of disbelief.

The first time Xiao Qiyun saw Chu Lanxi was in the palace, when he was only eight years old, and five-year-old Chu Lanxi gave him a red pendant. But since then, he has never seen Chu Lanxi again.

A hurried and beautiful encounter at a young age became his thoughts every moment after that, and his obsession with marrying Chu Lanxi also started at that time, but it was a pity that creation made people, and since then, he and Chu Lanxi have no intersection. Occasionally, when they met again, Chu Lanxi had already failed to recognize him, and would only salute him respectfully. Later, she married the third brother.

Xiao Qiyun recalled the past, sighed, and took out the red pendant from the mezzanine of his clothes: "This is what she gave me when I first met a girl back then. ”

Xiao Qiyun didn't dare to say Chu Lanxi's name, according to the queen mother's request, he could only ascend to the throne if he married Zhao Lingshu, if he said Chu Lanxi's name now, I was afraid that Zhao Lingshu would think more.

Seeing the red pendant, the brush held by Zhao Lingshu was so shocked that he didn't hold it firmly and fell directly to the ground.

It turned out that this pendant was when she was playing in the palace and saw a little brother. That little brother was bullied, Zhao Lingshu in order to comfort him, and also to let others stop bullying him. He took off the pendant around his neck and gave it to her. Anyway, everyone in the family dotes on her, and a small pendant will not blame her. Why has the little brother become the fifth prince of the Great Liang Kingdom now?

Zhao Lingshu looked at Xiao Qiyun in front of him, and only felt that there were many things that he couldn't understand. Could it be that after being born again, many things have fundamentally changed? Will what happens after that be the same as in the previous life? Or is this a whole new world?

After thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer at all. Zhao Lingshu put down the brush in his hand and said to Xiao Qiyun in a panic: "Fifth Highness, I still have something to do, so I will retire first." After speaking, he didn't look at Xiao Qiyun's reaction, turned around and left, and went out of the palace directly to get into the carriage and go home.

Zhao Lingshu, who was sitting in the carriage, thought of the red pendant, and his heart was full of thoughts.

After Zhao Lingshu returned home, he went directly to find Mrs. Zhao.

"Grandma, I have something I want to ask you." Zhao Lingshu hurriedly walked into the hall, and Mrs. Zhao was sitting and slowly sipping tea.

Mrs. Zhao looked up and saw that Zhao Lingshu's face was full of panic and anxiety, and she also panicked: "Is something wrong?" Hurry up, sit down and talk. After speaking, he put down the teacup and looked at the people in the hall, "You all stand down." ”

When all the people in the house retreated, and only the two of them were left in the house, Zhao Lingshu spoke: "Grandma, tell me everything that happened when I was a child, I found that I can't remember many things seriously since I got sick that day." ”

Mrs. Zhao looked at her suspiciously, although she felt that her question was a little incredible, but looking at her serious expression, she still decided to answer in detail.

Mrs. Zhao held Zhao Lingshu's hand while telling everything she had done when she was a child.

From Mrs. Zhao's narration, Zhao Lingshu knew that the little brother who fainted in the palace garden was Xiao Qiyun, but at that time, Xiao Qiyun concealed his identity and said that he was a little scholar.

It turned out that Xiao Qiyun was forced by Cui Guifei to learn the way of being a gentleman at that time, but he only loved poetry, books, etiquette and music, and in a fit of anger, he decided to escape from the palace by pretending to be a little scholar. Later, when the palace people were anxiously looking for him, they found that Xiao Qiyun was still in the palace, so they took him back.

After listening to the ins and outs, Zhao Lingshu returned to the room, but he was still puzzled. According to the memories of his previous life, Xiao Qiyun never forgot Chu Lanxi because Chu Lanxi gave him a pendant when he was a child. Why did the pendant become a gift from me now? No wonder Xiao Qiyun has been so interested in her recently, could it be that he recognized her? So what's going on with his obsession with Chu Lanxi?

After thinking about it, Zhao Lingshu planned to find an opportunity to trap Xiao Qiming's words.

It was getting late, and Zhao Lingshu came to the Flower Pavilion alone again according to the previous agreement, ready to meet the owner of the medicine building.

The man in red was still lazily sitting on the chair in the middle of the curtain, and Zhao Lingshu took out ten taels of silver: "I have already brought the ten taels of silver that Your Excellency wanted, can Your Excellency fulfill your promise and give me the identity token?" ”

The man in red didn't stretch out his hand to pick it up, just didn't move, and the man in red ignored her when Zhao Lingshu spoke.

Zhao Lingshu waited outside the curtain for a long time and didn't see a response from the man in red, thinking that he was playing himself, so he directly opened the curtain and went in, but found that the person sitting inside was actually just a puppet in red, but he couldn't see it from the outside.

Zhao Lingshu looked at the puppeteer and couldn't see any clues after observing it for a long time. Suddenly, he saw an abrupt emerald green hosta on the puppeteer's head, and felt strange, so he reached out and pulled the hosta off.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he pulled out the hosta, the puppeteer's head fell directly and rolled to Zhao Lingshu's feet. The puppet's face was flipped over, and all the facial features were complete, but all of them were dripping with terrifying blood, and their faces were hideous, which made people really feel terrible to look at.

Zhao Lingshu was frightened by the sudden appearance of the puppet head, and she hurriedly took a step back. Looking around, the empty room exuded a terrible aura everywhere.