Pengjun –

In the twilight, a man saw that the Jinsheng pawnshop had hung up the baffle in advance, so he turned around and hid in an alley.

Soon, a white dove flew over the alley, flapped its wings and circled for a week, and then flew away.

On the opposite side of the alley, in Jin Sheng's pawn shop, the mournful cry was like cutting out the heart, which made the shopkeeper Qi hang his head sadly, his eyes were dark and painful, and he asked weakly:

"My lord, what do you want to do?"

At the table, Leng Qingtang's jade face was slightly raised, and his eyebrows were smiling:

"This governor will not order the treasurer Qi to do the evil thing of killing people and setting fires, but he will help to read an account."

Before the words fell, a dark guard took out a blue-sealed horizontal book from his sleeve pocket and placed it on the table.

The shopkeeper Qi saw that the color behind him was suddenly different, and his fat palms trembled and picked up the accounts, and in the process of turning the pages and looking at them carefully, his eyes were enlarged, and his face was red and white.

Leng Qingtang's eyes were slightly constricted, the corners of his lips were touched, and a trace of laughter bloomed coldly:

"This account was obtained by the Governor from an official eunuch, and it involved officials who had many business dealings with your village.

This governor wants to know the true identity and name of the person who signed 'Wu Laiye' in the accounts, and the shopkeeper, this question is not difficult for you to answer, right? ”

Leng Qingtang is so smart, as soon as he looks at this account, he knows that the "Wu Laiye" on it must be someone's pseudonym, and he must be the core figure who runs through the huge net of corruption among Wan and North Korean officials.

If you find him, you will find evidence of the sins of the God King and his son. That, compared to what he presented to the imperial concubine in order to save Gu Yunxi, the evidence was too strong.

For a long time, the shopkeeper Qi closed the account with an ugly face and was speechless.

Leng Qingtang didn't have much patience anymore, his sharp eyes turned to the side of the secret guard, and his voice was surprisingly indifferent:

"This governor looks at the prince of Qi with a dignified appearance, and he is in his prime, so I want to accept a close disciple and bring him back to the celebrant to ......"

The secret guard understood, and immediately pushed down Qi Gongzi, ignoring his terrible shouts, the iron hand quickly ripped off his pants with a few movements, and then got up and pulled out the dagger.

Qi Gongzi was frightened by the bright and sharp blade, and lay on his back on the ground struggling fiercely, shouting:

"Father, father, help me! Don't be a eunuch, son, don't—"

There was a sudden burning pain in his thigh, and blood gushed out from the wound.

The frightened Qi Gongzi didn't know that the secret guard just made a cut on his right leg, and thought that he was really cut off by the other party, and after a wail, his chest rose and fell a few times, and he was so frightened that he fainted.

Shopkeeper Qi wept bitterly, knelt down at the feet of Leng Qingtang, and pleaded with his hands:

"I beg you, sir. The old man is not confused to get this only son, and he is expected to inherit the Qi family's incense. Spare your life, sir! ”

Leng Qingtang raised his eyebrows leisurely and played with his cuffs:

"Tell Ben what he wants to know."

"Okay, I said, I'll say all-"

……

The capital, the imperial palace -

Before the day dawned, a waiter in Kunning Palace went to Xiaoyexuan to pass on the decree of Queen Qian, and summoned Yu Zhaoyi to enter Kunning Lingming Terrace at the time of the time to enjoy dinner with the queen.

After receiving the order, Gu Yunyao hesitated, thinking that she had just routinely asked for peace when she went to Kunning Palace in Su Ri, and she had no secret contact with Queen Qian, but she didn't know what she was doing this sudden meal.

Zhao An stepped forward to persuade that Xu knew that she was almost killed by the imperial concubine a while ago, and set up a small banquet after the autumn festival to show comfort.

Gu Yunyao believed in Zhao An the most, settled down one by one, dressed up carefully, integrated the guard of honor when it was dark, and rushed to Kunning Palace in a sedan chair.

Arriving at the destination within the designated hour, Gu Yunyao first went to the main hall to greet Queen Qian, and then went to the outer garden with her.

The sunset is slanting, stepping on the golden orange afterglow, caressing the red and frosted vines, and bypassing the large-leaved plantain to see a carved verandah. The clearer the pool under the corridor, the more flowers fall on the water.

After the verandah, you will see a delicate and elegant three-story small building between many different grass and silk hangings, and the horizontal plaque on the vermilion carved flower door on the first floor:

Lingming Terrace.

The green windows are oiled and the sash door rails are painted with vermilion whitewash, carefully carved with magnificent patterns. The cloud steps in front of the corridor are wide, and they are all carved with the pattern of flying phoenixes spreading their wings.

Looking at it left and right, the pink walls are snow-white, rich and gorgeous but do not fall into the cliché of luxury.

Gu Yunyao came to Kunning Palace for the first time, and she also knew that the origin of this "Lingming Terrace" originated from the terrace on the top floor of the small building.

A chamberlain welcomed Queen Qian and Yu Zhaoyi into the small building. At this moment, someone had already brought in a few baskets of incense juice candles, and the palace maids had finished lighting them everywhere.

At this time, the hall on the first floor was full of cigarette smoke and color, candles and orchestras everywhere.

Queen Qian and Gu Yunyao sat down one after another, and sure enough, as Zhao Anzhi said, as soon as the queen opened her mouth, she first mentioned the turmoil in Yongning Palace before, and comforted Gu Yunyao and Yan Yuese for a while, but put all the responsibility on Tu Duxue, who acted carelessly.

Gu Yunyao had always known Aunt Duan's personality, and she was just an ear to Queen Qian and the words of the mud.

When he was young, the inner servant entered the palace and Tongbing, and Min Guogong and his wife arrived.

Gu Yunyao sat upright on the circle chair, looking a little cramped, after all, it was always a bit abrupt to share a table with a foreign minister for the first time as a palace concubine, and she had not heard the queen's mother inform her beforehand.

When her slightly nervous eyes turned to Queen Qian, she only smiled gently, obviously hinting that Gu Yunyao didn't have to care.

And when the Min couple walked into the main hall side by side and walked to the moment when the queen approached to give a salute, Gu Yunyao really saw Min Xing's face clearly, and suddenly her eyelashes were raised, and she sat on the chair in a daze for a long time and couldn't come back to her senses.

After a salute, Min Xing's face was pale when he got up, and Shui Yingying's gaze locked on Gu Yunyao's gorgeous face with a dull expression for a long time, and his facial features twitched as if he was trying his best to restrain some kind of emotion.

After the banquet was served, Queen Qian led everyone to take their seats, and the chamberlain announced the opening of the banquet.

The two servants appeared on the stage, singing the miscellaneous drama "Yang Zongying Goes Down the Mountain to Recognize His Mother".

At the banquet, Min Xingshi mentioned several times that he led a pair of children twelve years ago, and rushed all the way to the place where the master was transferred to join him, not wanting to be robbed by horse bandits halfway and accidentally losing his eldest daughter when he fled.

Gu Yunyao's complexion was abrupt, her beautiful eyes were fierce, and her eyes were full of grief and anger, which was extremely complicated.

After another half an hour, Gu Yunyao got up and led people out of the hall on the pretext of changing clothes.

Just then went to the corridor, and an earnest and humble voice rose behind him:

"Pearl......

Gu Yunyao's footsteps paused, her body was as if she was frozen by a spell, her heart was staggered and heavy, flickering on her chest, chaotic and unsure of where to stay.

Until the call was repeated, the tone was scorching, trembling and sorrowful:

"You are Zhu'er, my mother has been reading Zhu'er for more than ten years, right?"

Gu Yunyao turned around slowly, her expression was calm, her eyes were like torches, revealing obvious coldness.

"Mrs. Min, are you calling the main palace?"

Min Xing's expression was slightly sluggish, his face was pale and stiff, and it was very unnatural.

The years are unforgiving.

The Min Xing clan in front of him was nearly forty, and a pair of phoenix eyes were still exquisite, but the tails of his eyes were a little slack. Even if you wear heavy makeup, it is difficult to hide the two extreme sagging eyelids.

Even so, this face is not difficult to reminisce, roughly going back more than ten years, this woman must be a beautiful woman.

Looking at him for a moment, Gu Yunyao's expression was indifferent, his eyes were as cold as an ice pool, and he silently looked at the crow-blue official uniform worn by Min Xing's family, and saw that the pattern of the waves and clouds in the place where the waves were embroidered was exquisite.

She has a hibiscus bun on her head, and a silver peacock stone face in the middle is matched with two pairs of plain silver hairpins, and her temperament is solemn and elegant.

Min Xing was also looking directly at Gu Yunyao, engrossed and staring.

But seeing her half-moon bun high, the temples are dazzling, and the dotted emerald hairpin with a winter finch and plum is very conspicuous on the side, and the bird's beak is tied to an east pearl, and a few gold filament fine crushed tourmaline tassels are introduced.

The body is a group skirt of blue smoke brocade, and the upper body is a fragrant concubine Ruyi Yuntou oblique placket and half a jacket, lining her shoulders and arms, Chu waist and waist, and the wide sleeves are light and comfortable, and you can see a section of Hao wrist like clotted white jade, and the pair of oily green thin bracelets on it are intertwined, but the wrist is even more uncontrollable.

The verandah fell silent for a while, Gu Yunyao's eyes were gloomy, and the pair of bright eyes reflected the firelight of the palace lamps on both sides, which was a cold and alienated color for her young and good-looking face.

Min Xingshi's heart trembled slightly at this moment, and he also felt that his behavior just now seemed reckless, so he hurriedly put his hands on his side and bowed his head to bless his body, and after bowing deeply, he prayed softly with his chin on his chin:

"Niangniang forgives her sins, and I implore Niangniang to retreat left and right, and follow her concubines into the verandah to discuss the matter in detail."

Gu Yunyao raised her eyebrows coldly, hooked her lips as if she was sneering, and said in a casual voice:

"No need, Song Qin is the palace maid in charge of the palace, and she is not an outsider, so if the lady has anything important, you might as well speak up, and you don't have to hide it and pretend to be mysterious."

The words hurt Min Xing's Ru Rou heart, she immediately felt aggrieved, her plump lips were half open, and she wanted to say a few words tremblingly, but she was scrambling for a moment without a clue, and finally filled her throat.

"Pearl...... You've already recognized your mother, haven't you? You're still blaming your mother for being ruthless, aren't you? ”

Two lines of tears burst out of his eyes, and Min Xingshi covered his face with his sleeves and pumped and put it up.

Gu Yunyao's eyes instantly became red, her bright eyes were sparkling, and the moisture inside was even stronger.

Silent for a moment, his face changed suddenly, Gu Yunyao clenched his fists with both hands, and said conclusively:

"yes, I've been hating you for twelve years! If you hadn't only cared about your younger brother back then, how could you have thrown my heart to the nurse, and you would have taken him with the guards to protect you and flee first?

For me to survive, the nurse hid me in a tree hole, and used herself as bait to lure away the horse bandits, and was finally insulted to death by the horse bandits.

If it weren't for you, how would I have fallen into the hands of Dongchang and been taken to the Gongyuan to be raised? How could he be sent into this red wall in all directions, living like a walking corpse all day long?!

Since then, this palace has hated being used the most, but it has been locked in this palace, and it can't escape the bad luck of being used and manipulated! In this way, do you think that this palace will call you 'mother' again, so what kind of face do you have to stand in front of this palace-"

In the past twelve years, Gu Yunyao has always resented her bad fate, and from the moment she was sent to the palace, she also viciously poisoned Leng Qingtang.

It wasn't until now, when she saw with her own eyes the enemy who abandoned her and the nurse, that she realized that the person who had single-handedly caused her tragedy and hated her the most over the years should be the vicious woman in front of her!