Chapter Ninety-Eight: Departure

"That's great!" Empress Ji was the first to react, raised her sleeves to cover her mouth, and said softly, "Mao Jieyu has always relied on Xile, I heard that this palace maid is nowhere to be seen, I really don't want to eat in the past two days, and I am pitiful to see that I was brought back by His Majesty...... Your Majesty, I don't know where Na Xile is? I have to let Mao Jieyu take it back to take care of it quickly. ”

Yun Fenglian's heart jumped wildly, and he nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty Lao brought Xile back, and the concubine will lead her back to the tent, so as not to disturb the people in front of the emperor and delay them to serve Your Majesty." ”

The concubine had a thought in her heart: since Xile was burned beyond recognition, it can be seen that the situation is very bad, maybe she hasn't had time to say anything to the emperor that shouldn't be said?

Otherwise, why would the emperor make a temptation, instead of directly ordering them to be taken down and then thoroughly investigated?

So for now, the plan is to get Xile in your hands!

When the time comes, there is no proof of death, even if the emperor listens to Xile talk about some rebellious things in advance, he can deduce that this palace maid has the ambition of the wolf son and intends to instigate the harem.

"That's not necessary, isn't Concubine Ai scared?" However, what they could think of, the emperor couldn't think of it, and refused with a smile when he heard the words, "Xile is very badly burned, and his appearance is terrifying, I can't bear to look at it, how can I hand it over to my concubine?" ”

"Your Majesty said yes." Empress Ji hurriedly said, "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, just a palace maid, where is it worth Your Majesty's personal worry?" The concubine is the queen, and it is an internal matter to take care of everyone in the harem. ”

The emperor said peacefully: "The queen is also working hard these days, she is just a palace maid, and she doesn't know if she can save her alive or not, so why bother you with it?" I let Yan Yin watch it, and wait for someone to come over and talk about it. ”

Without giving the concubine a chance to speak again, he turned his head and asked the leader of the forbidden army who had been summoned before, "Haven't you come yet?" ”

The queen was helpless with Yun Fenghuan, so she had to be blessed and retreated behind the screen.

With a screen to block the emperor's sight, the concubine had to communicate the matter with a gesture: Now that the situation is urgent, neither of them has the heart to think about who Xile is and who she betrayed, after all, once everything Xile knows is confessed, neither of them will want to run!

Empress Ji was very angry, because she had asked Qi Jiulu to have Xile before, but she was rejected without any room for turn, Qi Jiulu swore at that time that Xile would not bring any trouble to the queen, but as a result, people turned around and fell into the hands of the emperor!

Yun Fenghuang's face was not good-looking, she didn't think that a palace maid in Xile District could escape from Qi Jiulu by herself, and she bumped into the emperor so coincidentally...... If there's no inside story here, that's hell!

The question is, what exactly is going on?

What are the consequences?

I don't know anything about this, I don't have a clue.

Just when the concubine was silently thinking, the leader of the forbidden army outside lowered his eyebrows and entered the audience, and after three shouts, he listened to the emperor ask about the cause of the fire, and the leader trembled and said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, Weichen checked the situation nearby, and I really don't know where the stone grease water that ignited the fire came from......

Stone grease water is also called stone lacquer or oil, its color is like lacquer, floating on the water, burning extremely bright. It's just that because of the soot when burning, it is not liked by the powerful and rarely seen in high-ranking households. However, in the previous dynasty, some people used it to make ink strips, and they thought that they could be used for medicine, so places such as palace bans would be prepared a little in case of emergency.

Of course, this amount, in general, is unlikely to cause a fire that will sweep through most of the valley.

The leader of the forbidden army was so embarrassed, "Weichen is incompetent, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

"Can't really find the slightest clue?" The emperor's tone couldn't hear the joy and anger, "Could it be that those stone grease water flew over?" ”

The leader of the forbidden army is very entangled, it is impossible to say that there is no clue at all, and he is not a dry meal when he mixes into his current position. The problem is that this kind of thing is also known to be inseparable from the bigwigs of the former harem: first of all, things like stone grease water, ordinary people are not born near the place of origin, otherwise I am afraid that they will not know that there is such a thing for the rest of their lives;

Secondly, the Spring Villa is the residence of the Son of Heaven, and ordinary people don't even dare to approach, let alone set fire?

The third is just

Yes, as the emperor said, there is a forbidden army stationed near the Spring Villa, and even after the emperor leaves, there are still two imperial concubines, so the horse still needs to be scattered for more than ten or twenty miles to be safe.

In this case, it was still forced to be transferred overnight by the fire at night, and the concubine said that there were few shadows in the forbidden army or something, who would believe it?!

He didn't want to fool the emperor, but he just synthesized all kinds of clues in his hands, and the most suspicious one was the regent!

Then how dare he say this without the emperor's instructions?

Even Yun Fenghuang, a concubine who lives in the harem, can see that the emperor and the regent are now very willing to cooperate, and in order not to break this covenant, they now don't want their subordinates to be moths than anyone else.

The leader of the forbidden army would rather be charged with ineffective and dereliction of duty, at most he will be dismissed, and the future is better than the big thing of the emperor and the regent, maybe the emperor will be furious, and he will be beheaded all over the house for the crime of instigating the flesh and blood of the heavenly family?!

At this moment, he weighed the pros and cons, and finally kowtowed, and said tremblingly: "Weichen is incompetent!" ”

The emperor was silent for a while, and during this time, both the kneeling leader of the forbidden army and the concubine behind the screen held their breath.

"Since you know that you are incompetent, go and confess to the hussar general." Before the emperor said this, the leader of the forbidden army breathed a sigh of relief and sincerely kowtowed to thank him.

He can serve as an official in the forbidden army, and he is responsible for protecting the imperial concubine closely, and he also has something to do with Zheng Gu.

Handed over to Zheng Gu to deal with, it can be said that it is the easiest one of all the ends.

Sending this person out, the queen took Yun Fenghuan out, seeing that the emperor had no expression on his face and didn't look very happy, the queen couldn't help but appease a few words, and at the end she wanted to pull the topic to Xile.

But the emperor didn't answer this, but rubbed his eyebrows and asked them, the leader of the forbidden army is useless, how to deal with the fire in the spring mountain villa?

Empress Ji exchanged glances with Yun Fenghuang, and the queen said: "In the end, the forbidden army is only responsible for guarding the security of the imperial city, and it may be okay to fight and kill, and this is to thoroughly investigate the root cause of the fire...... This kind of thing is actually a proper thing for Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, after all, there is a specialization in the art industry. However, the Spring Villa is the private property of the queen mother, and this disaster involves Yaoning's sister and Mao Jieyu, the two imperial concubines, and it is a little inappropriate to ask the ministers to do it. ”

She looked at the emperor's expression and said tentatively, "Why don't you let the Imperial City Division try?" ”

The emperor said "um" and said, "It's okay." ”

This reaction looked as if he didn't know anything, which naturally made the queen and Yun Fenghuan feel at a loss, whether the emperor did it on purpose, or did he really agree to let the Imperial City Division be responsible?

In any case, the suggestion has been spoken, and it is not easy to take it back at this moment.

And let the Imperial City Division do it, maybe there is still the possibility of destroying the evidence, it is better than falling into the hands of others.

The queen was about to speak, so she listened to the emperor follow, "In order to prevent the Imperial City Division from being as slack as the forbidden army, let Yan Yin follow them to supervise it." ”

“…… Your Majesty, won't you have no top-notch people around you to serve? Yun Fenghuang narrowed his eyes and said softly, "Why don't you send another little father-in-law to watch it?" ”

The emperor looked at her with a smile and said, "It's okay, there are a lot of people who serve in front of me, and it doesn't matter if the goose leads away for a few days." It's a concubine, Xile has only been separated from you for two days, why do I see that everyone has lost weight? It seems that I should explain to the Imperial Doctor, and let them have a good life to diagnose and treat Xile, otherwise if the real person is gone, I am really afraid that you will come to me every day to cry. ”

"Your Majesty knows that the concubine misses Xile, so let the concubine go and see her?" Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the situation to step forward and hold his arm coquettishly, and said, "After all, it is the person who is the concubine, and it is to protect the concubine that he was separated at night...... I haven't been able to find her before, but now that I have been brought back by His Majesty, if the concubine is still ignored, wouldn't it be chilling? ”

The Emperor groaned.

But because of Yun Fenghuang's coquettish and stupid entanglement, Queen Ji also helped tactfully, and finally waved her hand: "Let the wild goose lead you to arrange, it's just a human injury."

It's extremely heavy, I don't feel comfortable looking at it, and the concubine still lets people cover it up before she goes in. ”

Where does Yunfeng Huang care about this?

said yes, yes, and when he went out, he told Yan Yin to see his right-hand man immediately, immediately, and with his feet.

As for what is in the way, of course, it is not mentioned.

In fact, Yan Yin took her around and around to a small tent, and she directly choked back tears and rushed to open the curtain and go in first: "Xile! ”

But as soon as I entered the door, I was a little speechless......

Before, the emperor said that Xile was badly burned, and she didn't pay much attention to it when she was frightened, but who is this coke that she saw with her own eyes?!

"Is this really Xile?" It is God's mercy to be alive like this, although this piece of coke seems to be still breathing, Yun Fenghuang is still a little messy in the wind, and turned his head to ask Yan Yin, who followed up, "I don't know how Your Majesty recognized it?" ”

Yan Yin lowered his head and said, "If you go back to Niangniang, this is indeed Miss Xile." When the slave and her majesty met her, she was still conscious, and after reporting her identity, she said something about the mother, and then she couldn't support it and fainted. ”

Talking about something about the palace?

What did they say?

Yun Fenghuan peeked at Yan Yin's expression, but the people in this temple were treacherous, and he had been bowing his eyebrows and pleasing to his eyes, but he couldn't see that although he was a eunuch or a man, Yun Fenghuang couldn't force him to come forward and take a look.

She stood in the tent for a while, and finally took a sad look, lamented the tragic fate of her confidant palace maid, and told Yan Yin to call someone to take care of her, and then she turned around and left.

After returning to his tent, Yun Fenghuan was uneasy, and was thinking about how to find out the news, when someone outside the tent raised his voice, saying that he had come to convey the news on the order of the queen.

Yun Fenghuan casually let people in, and a little palace maid who looked like twelve or thirteen years old came in, her demeanor was down-to-earth and generous, and after saluting, she said eloquently: "Jieyu Niangniang, the father-in-law in front of the Empress Dowager came, and brought the Empress Dowager's decree, so that Your Majesty, the Empress Niangniang, Mrs. Yaoning and Jieyu Niangniang, return to the palace as soon as possible to rest and recuperate, in order to be safe!" ”

"Got it." Yun Fenghuang asked Nian Xuan to give her a purse, "This palace will send someone to clean up things." ”

In fact, everyone has nothing to pack up at this time, because the large number of cages brought over before are almost all burned in the Spring Villa......

But after all, the emperor has just returned, and it is impossible to say that he will leave for the palace immediately, so why should he rest for the night.

After Yun Fenghuang agreed, it didn't take long for someone from the queen's side to come to inform him, saying that the emperor had decided to set off again after lunch tomorrow, and reminded Yun Fenghuang that if he needed to take medicine or something, he should boil the medicine juice in advance and bring it, so as not to be inconvenient on the road and miss the time to take the medicine.

These don't have to worry about Yun Fenghuan, Nian Xuan immediately commanded people to pick them up, and went out to watch people boil medicine in person.

It's just that when she came back to the tent with the medicine jar, her eyes were a little puzzled.

Yun Fenghuan noticed, beckoned her to come to her, and Wen Yan asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"The maid just saw Qi Gongzi when she went to see the medicine." Nian Xuan whispered almost close to her ear.

Yun Fenghuan's heart sank, Nian Xuan didn't know that Qi Jiulu was here, if he just saw people, what was there to say?

She pressed her mind and asked quietly, "And then?" ”

I heard Nian Xuan say: "He seems to be leaving." ”

Let's go?

Yun Fenghuan was slightly stunned and said, "What are you leaving?" ”

"That's it...... It's just a little guy and luggage, and it looks like he's leaving here. Nian Xuan was puzzled, "But didn't Your Majesty say that we will only set off tomorrow?" And he came with the prince regent, but the prince regent didn't leave? ”

"......" Yun Fenghuan was silent, and only said after a while, "I'm a little uncomfortable, you go and see the queen's side, if Your Majesty is not there, tell the queen; If Your Majesty is here, then I'll see it later. Remember, you must go in and pay your respects when Your Majesty is away! ”

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