After a while, Hua Qianyi lowered her head and entered Ci'an Palace, kowtowing respectfully as usual.

Xie Xinlan retreated, leaving only the tortoiseshell alone: "You were a little too hasty yesterday. ”

Hua Qianyi's voice was a little muffled: "I really can't help it." ”

"It's a pity that the means are not very clever. You know that Hua Qianshu now knows that you can drive snakes, and you still use the same old tricks. If it weren't for the mourning family to take care of you, you wouldn't be able to afford the regent. It is stealing chickens and rice. ”

"It almost worked. Hua Qianyi gritted her teeth, and her eyes flashed slightly: "But I didn't expect that someone interrupted it at a critical moment, which ruined my good deeds." ”

"Oh?" Xie Xinlan raised his eyebrows suspiciously: "Who? Why didn't anyone mention it last night?"

Hua Qianyi shook her head: "I just entered the palace, and I don't know this person, I only know that he was a slave by Hua Qianshu's side." When he saw me standing outside the hall, he lowered his voice and scolded. As for why there is no noise, Qianyi doesn't know. ”

Xie Xinlan became more and more interested: "What does it look like?"

"The body is not high, the back is slightly lumpy, and it does not look like the accent of Beijing. ”

"Qin Lu?" Xie Xinlan frowned slightly, and glanced at the tortoiseshell, and the tortoiseshell went out lightly, closing the door of the hall casually.

Xie Xinlan frowned and thought for a moment before he spoke: "The mourning family knows your mood at this time. But you also have to know that Hua Qianshu is protected by the people of the Seven Emperor Uncles, and it is not easy to get it. Don't act rashly in the future. ”

Hua Qianyi responded respectfully: "Qianyi has a plan here, and she is willing to risk her life, so she will definitely let Hua Qianshu have a hard time saying and confess her guilt." Even the Seventh Emperor Uncle couldn't protect her. ”

Xie Xinlan raised his eyebrows nonchalantly: "What scheme?"

Hua Qianyi said in a low and firm voice: "I also want the Queen Mother to help Qianyi find a poisonous snake that can make people die in an instant, and the snake king is extremely poisonous." ”

Xie Xinlan sneered: "You must know that Hua Qianshu is strong in martial arts, a green snake, no matter how poisonous it is, it must also have a life to be close to her side." ”

Hua Qianyi raised her face: "The partition wall has ears, please allow me to get close to the Queen Mother." ”

Xie Xinlan leaned forward a little suspiciously. Hua Qianyi's voice became lower and lower, but the expression on Xie Xinlan's face became more and more vivid, the corners of her lips hooked, and then she chuckled happily from her throat: "It's really a clever plan." ”

The two exchanged heads and whispered for a moment. There was a sound of footsteps at the door, and it was the hawksbill mat who had returned. Hua Qianyi retreated with recognition.

The tortoiseshell walked in, her face a little strange: "Back to the Queen Mother, that minion is very likely to have rebelled." The slave and maid have sent someone to investigate. ”

Xie Xinlan snorted softly: "If you sit down, send him directly on the road." ”

"Won't you interrogate and interrogate?"

"What is there to interrogate?" Xie Xinlan snorted lightly: "Hua Qianyi just entered the palace, no one knows it, can you still lie and wronged him?"

"Probably not. Tortoiseshell hesitated.

"Also, if the mourning family is not mistaken, the last time Qin Bao was poisoned, it was this person named Qin Lu who inserted a pole from it, and as a result, the little bastard was safe and sound, but he almost died. I don't know, whether it was intentional or accidental. ”

"It should have been a coincidence, otherwise, wouldn't he die?"

Xie Xinlan glanced at her meaningfully: "Secretly protecting Hua Qianshu, but he didn't dare to expose Hua Qianyi, you can imagine who he took refuge into." The Xie family is wishing that Hua Qianshu was jumping around in front of me, and the night was set against me for her. As my minion, he secretly does things for others, kill him to show the Xie family, don't take me for a fool. ”

There was a bit of a pun on these words, and the tortoiseshell was suddenly startled in her heart, and she didn't dare to say a word, so she accepted it.

"There is still something to return to the mother, the right talent, the emperor went to find Hua Qianshu. ”

Xie Xinlan raised his eyebrows slightly, and his face was clear: "Listen to the sound, Hua Qianshu and Uncle Seven Emperors had a very lively quarrel that day, so they rushed to the doctor and went to the emperor." ”

The tortoiseshell stopped talking.

Xie Xinlan glanced at her: "If you have something to say, say it." ”

The tortoiseshell was still a little stumbling: "The slave just thinks that the regent is cold to Princess Hua on the surface, but in private, he still cares a little. ”

Xie Xinlan's eyes flashed: "Tortoiseshell, you tell the truth, who do I and Hua Qianshu, the regent like?"

Tortoiseshell was stunned for a moment and lowered her head: "This answer, didn't Lord Regent already make a choice five years ago?"

Xie Xinlan hesitated and shook his head: "His depression in the past five years has made me gradually suspect that five years ago, maybe it was just forced by the situation?

I've been immersed in that illusion from many years ago, and I can't extricate myself, thinking that he has always been the man who has been dead to me, so I feel a little stubborn. Actually, the regent has never had me in his heart, he's just a momentary flattery, using me as a stepping stone, isn't he?"

The tortoiseshell lowered her eyes, and for a moment, she did not dare to look into her master's eyes.

Xie Xinlan is ruthless, as a minion, in her eyes, she is no different from an ant. She must master a good degree, not only to speak and do things into her heart, but also to have a little bit of wisdom and assertiveness, which is different from other palace people.

This degree is very difficult to master, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will backfire. She knew Xie Xinlan's mind very well, so in the past five years, she had never said a word of opposition to Lord Regent.

Perhaps, it was the deliberate flattery and flattery of the people around her that built an illusory mirage for her, which made her intoxicated and unable to extricate herself.

The return of Hua Qianshu easily pierced this bizarre and colorful bubble. She didn't need to be reminded of anything, she was already aware of it.

"Feelings are such things, such as people drinking water and knowing whether they are warm or cold. The tortoiseshell does not understand the love between these men and women. ”

Xie Xinlan had already found the answer from her dodging gaze, and sighed lightly: "Don't you even dare to tell me the truth?"

The tortoiseshell just groaned slightly, and said euphemistically: "It's not that the slave and maid refuse to tell the truth, but the Lord Regent and that Hua Qianshu have a somewhat strange temperament, and the slave and maid are also unpredictable. ”

Say. ”

The tortoiseshell mustered up her courage: "There are many things, it seems that the Lord Regent is obedient to you, and reprimands the flower and the thousand trees. But in fact, the slave seems to be more like she is deliberately protecting her. ”

Xie Xinlan didn't speak, and was silent for a long time.

The tortoiseshell was worried: "Please forgive the mother, it's tortoiseshell nonsense." ”

Xie Xinlan waved his hand: "No, what you said is very reasonable, wake up the person in the dream with one word." ”

"Niangniang is just a deep affection for Lord Regent, too kind, and will not speculate on his intentions. ”

Xie Xinlan stood up: "Set up a banquet in Ci'an Palace in the evening, and invite the princess regent to come and have a drink." ”

The tortoiseshell didn't understand what it meant, but knew that it was good to do what it was told.