Kunning Palace.

The queen was talking to another confidant palace maid, Bi Ying, when there was a sudden noise outside.

The queen's face changed instantly, she looked at Biying, and said solemnly, "Go and see what's going on outside." ”

"Yes, Niangniang," Biying ordered to leave.

Not long after, she came back, her face tightened, and said, "Niangniang, it's not good, it's Gonggong Fu, it is said that there is a palace maid assassin in Yikun Palace tonight, and the emperor ordered him to search the palace maids on duty in various palaces." ”

When the queen heard this, her face became even worse, and her hands under her wide sleeves clenched tightly, and asked, "Hasn't the peony come back yet?" ”

Biying shook her head with difficulty, "Not yet." ”

"Then drag it for as long as you want," the queen muttered for a moment and instructed Bi Ying.

Bi Yingfu replied heavily, and retreated outward.

Outside, when Gonggong Fu saw Bi Ying come out, he immediately shook off the dust and asked, "Miss Bi Ying, can Niang Niang agree to our family to search the palace maids of Kunning Palace?" ”

Hearing this, Bi Ying bent down with a smile, and said unhurriedly, "If you go back to your father-in-law, you are searching the palace at the behest of the emperor, and Niangniang will naturally not allow it, but our Kunning Palace is very quiet, and the sisters and sisters who are not worthy of duty have always slept very early, can you allow them for a moment, let them put on their clothes, and simply freshen up?" ”

Father-in-law Fu thought about it and said politely, "This is as it should be, then our family will wait here for a while." ”

"Father-in-law should go to the side hall for a cup of tea, it's warmer inside," Bi Ying invited gently.

Gonggong Fu was thinking about the affairs of Yikun Palace, but he didn't have the heart to drink tea, he shook his head and refused, "There is no need to drink tea, if the girl has time, she might as well urge those palace maids who go to bed early." ”

"That's what my father-in-law said," Bi Ying agreed, showing a smile of hindsight, and then bowed again before retreating towards the side room.

She knocked on the door one by one and woke up the palace maids who had gone to bed early.

During this period, she passed by Peony's bedroom several times, but back and forth, but no one came back, and in the end, she was so anxious that she couldn't hold back.

Outside the main hall, Gong Fu estimated that he couldn't wait, he led the way, went directly to the side room, walked to Biying in three steps and two steps, and said, "Girl, and the palace maid didn't get up?" ”

Bi Ying also knew that she had done her best, and it would be obvious if she dragged it any longer, she nodded slightly, and said embarrassedly, "Everyone else is up, but Sister Peony, she seems to be sleeping very heavily tonight, and she can't wake up no matter how she screams." ”

Hearing Bi Ying say this, Father-in-law Fu instantly appeared in front of him, with a medium height and an extremely thin body, but he was right with the mysterious woman who thorned him.

Thinking of this, his complexion suddenly became cold, "Since you can't wake up, then bang on the door!" ”

Bi Ying was shocked, "Father-in-law, this is not good, no matter what, Sister Peony is the most trusted person of the queen mother now, if she is unhappy, the slave will not eat and walk around." ”

"With the emperor in charge of you, what are you afraid of," Father-in-law Fu glanced at her and said without refusal, "Knock on the door." ”

"Yes......" Biying followed and had no reason to refuse, so she could only agree.

She walked down the porch step by step, and was about to bang on the door herself, when she suddenly heard the sound of the deadbolt moving.

Biying's eyes widened.

I saw that the door of the bedroom was slowly opened, and Peony came out of it with sleepy eyes, wearing a dress, and said, "What's going on, why is it so noisy outside?" Eh, Biying, why are you here? ”

Bi Ying was relieved to see Peony appear, she blinked quietly and told what had just happened.

After hearing this, Peony bowed to Gonggong Fu with an apologetic face, and said, "Father-in-law, I'm sorry, I'm a little uncomfortable tonight, and I slept a little heavily, and I didn't wake up until now, which delayed your search." ”

Father-in-law Fu looked at the woman in front of him who had just woken up and her eyelids were still swollen, and he dispelled his suspicions, returned the salute, said a few words of comfort, and took people away.

As soon as Father-in-law Fu left, Peony glanced at Bi Ying, "Since it's over, my sister will go back and serve her mother well, I still want to sleep for a while." ”

"Hmm," Biying nodded, turning to leave.

On the other side, Gonggong Fu reported the results of the search to the emperor, and the emperor waved his hand after listening, "I have already been shocked, and the results are not surprising now," he said, and he asked again, "During the search, did you encounter any unusual people?" ”

When Gonggong Fu was asked by the emperor like this, he almost immediately thought of the peony in Kunning Palace, but in the end, the words went around his mouth, and he still didn't say it, only said, "There is nothing abnormal." ”

The emperor didn't say anything more.

Fu Gonggong stood there with his eyes and nose and nose and heart, and stopped talking.

Kunning Palace, Peony was waiting for the queen to dress up the next day, and only then did she report the specific situation of last night to the queen in detail, after the queen listened, her face changed slightly, and she slapped the ivory comb in her hand on the dresser, and said coldly with a gloomy look, "You say, the prince knows the plan of the palace?" ”

Peony glanced at her master's face from the bronze mirror, "Niangniang forgives her sins, it's the slave who is incompetent." ”

"That's it......" After a long time, the queen sighed, "His people can save you, it can be seen that he has long suspected something in this palace, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

"Thank you Niangniang for sparing your life," Peony thanked her, and continued to groom the queen, and when she was almost done, she saw the queen in a trance, muttered for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, "In the future, what is Niangniang going to do?" ”

"What else can I do?" The queen smiled bitterly with a complicated expression, "The prince was born in this palace, and his temperament can not be understood by this palace, on the surface, he looks cold and cold, but in fact, no matter how affectionate and merciful, with him, the plan of this palace can only be stranded if he does not want to run aground." ”

"What does Niangniang mean ...... A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late? ”

The queen looked down at her onion-like nails, "Twenty years, thirty years, it's not too late for this palace." ”

Peony was silent, just knocked her eyelids slightly, she suddenly remembered one thing that her godmother Li Mama told her when she was in the Jiang family before, the queen has been a quiet and patient since she was a child, and she quarreled with the sisters in the clan at the family banquet, and her sister's face was black, but she only stared at the hot tea in front of her silently, everyone thought that she was generous and didn't like to worry about others, but in fact, she was just waiting for the hot tea to cool down, and then splashed it on her sisters.

In this way, you can not only make the sisters in the clan embarrassed, but also not hurt yourself.

When she heard about this before, she only felt that her master was very restrained. But now that I think about it, where is restraint, it is clearly a grudge and a retribution.

The most terrible thing in this world is not that someone around you wants to kill you, but that there is a person lurking in a corner you don't even know about, who is bent on killing you.

Naturally, Peony wouldn't say these words, she didn't even dare to think about it, and after a while, she forced herself to forget.

Xiao Shi entered Beijing two days later.

After Xiao Xun received the news, he specially asked Lu Nianjin, "Do you want to meet Xiao?" ”

Lu Nianjin looked at him and thought for a moment, and said, "No need, just tell me the result." ”

Xiao Xun nodded, his eyes touched her already bulging lower abdomen, thinking that it was really inconvenient for her to go to the cold dungeon outside the city now, he softened his voice and said, "Then wait for Zhang Jiu's inquiry to come up with the result, and I will tell you." ”

Lu Nianjin shook his head.

Xiao Xun touched her head, "In ten days, it will be Ji'er's birthday." ”

When Lu Nianjin heard him mention this, he remembered those things in Wuxi at the beginning, and now looking back, it seems like a long time has passed.

Xiao Xun saw her expression suddenly, and deliberately teased her, "I remember, the reason why you came to the Star Picking Tower was to see the lanterns. ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" Lu Nianjin got angry when he thought of what happened in the Star Picking Building, wrinkled his nose and said, "It's a pity that I didn't look at anything in the end, but I made a fishy sound." ”

"It's okay," Xiao Xun took her hand and kissed her lightly on his lips, "This year, I will compensate you." ”

Lu Nianjin didn't believe it, she looked down at her bulging belly, and said with a wry smile, "I'm like this now, how can you compensate me?" ”

"I have my own way, and I will always make you happy." Xiao Xun looked into her eyes and said word by word.

Lu Nianjin was forced to meet his dark, deep and wet eyes, only to feel that his whole person seemed to be absorbed by him, and he couldn't escape at all.

After a long time, he changed his expression, raised his hand and knocked on her forehead, "It's so good-looking, you can't take your eyes off?" ”

"Not really!" Lu Nianjin rubbed his forehead, glared at him and said, "Don't beat me again in the future, I was stupid for three years pregnant, and now I am even more stupid by you." ”

"Silly, good!" Xiao Xun took her into his arms, touched the corner of her lips lightly, and said with a smile, "If you're stupid, you won't run!" ”

"You want to be beautiful!" Lu Nianjin said fiercely, wanting to raise his hand to hit him, but he held both hands in his hand.

Xiao Shi and Gou San have been caught, and with Zhang Jiu's means, they don't even need a day, so they let the two of them spit cleanly.

Zhang Jiu came out of the dungeon, changed his clothes, and went straight to the National Teacher's Mansion.

In the study, Xiao Xun read the evidence submitted by Zhang Jiu, and nodded at him with a flat expression, "Send someone to the Criminal Department to Yuan Tong, and let him come for the follow-up." ”

"Yes, Prince," Zhang Jiu agreed, and withdrew.

Xiao Xun sat in the study for a while, and then went to the bedroom of Yunjie Courtyard with the evidence documents.

Lu Nianjin was leaning on the Luohan bed reading a book, and when she saw him come in, she only raised her eyelids and looked at the book again.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Xun didn't have a temper, but with a faint smile on his face, he approached her, sat down beside her, and said, "Xiao has confessed." ”

"Oh?" As soon as he heard the four words of Xiao's confession, Lu Nianjin immediately put down the book in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said urgently, "Really? ”

Xiao Xun nodded, "There was a man named Gou San who was arrested with him, and it was this man who helped her plan all this. ”

"Dog three, who is that?" Lu Nianjin asked suspiciously.

Xiao asked, "It is a family of disciples supported by Xiao's grandfather, and his heirloom skills are to raise dogs, train dogs, and at the same time, have some fascination and poison refining skills." ”

"Fantasy?" Lu Nianjin was puzzled, she looked at Xiao Xun and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Xiao Xun patiently explained, "His eyes and words seem to have some unusual power, and if you look at him for a long time, you will be addicted to it, and you will be led by his nose, and even if it is more serious, it is possible that the memory is tampered with." ”

Lu Nianjin listened to him explain this, and understood, isn't that hypnosis.

However, with such an explanation, Lu Jiayi's death makes sense.

Because from the very beginning, the old lady and Lu Jiayi were hypnotized, they were not humiliated by the Xiao family in a Zhuangzi at all, but in other places, so no matter how sure the old lady said, Yuan Tong just couldn't find Lu Jiayi's body and the evidence of the existence of that Zhuangzi.

"It seems that you understand everything," Xiao Xun said softly as he saw Lu Nianjin's face change.

Lu Nianjin nodded, "Hmm." When the words fell, she looked at him as if she remembered something, and asked suspiciously, "Since the big enemy has been embraced, what are they going to do in Dingzhou?" ”

Xiao Xun looked at her, blinked, and his eyes were full of bright banter, "You guess? ”

"It can't be to hunt down Lu Nianyun?" Lu Nianjin said casually.

Xiao Xun clenched his fist to his lips and coughed, "Not bad." ”

Lu Nianjin's eyes widened, and his face was incredible, "Is it really to hunt down Lu Nianyun?" ”

Xiao Xun pinched her face and bowed her chin, "Indeed." The dog listened to Xiao's, and Xiao's meant that no one should be missing. ”

Lu Nianjin: "......" Xiao Shi is really crazy.

Penal Department.

After Yuan Tong took Xiao and Gou San into custody, he quickly found out the facts of the case and convicted the two people.

Xiao was sentenced to capital punishment, Ling Chi with 1,000 knives, and Gou San was sentenced to five horses as an accomplice.

The old lady was let out because she was sick and wilted because she was cleared of her charges.

Before leaving the prison, she went to see Yuan Tong and asked him if he had found Lu Jiayi's body.

Yuan Tong looked at the old lady with a cold face, "Ling Yan is dead without a body." ”

The old lady thought about the scene of that day, and suddenly understood something, she puffed, fell to her knees suddenly, and cried, "Jiayi, it's my mother's mistake, it's my mother's mistake, my mother shouldn't have left the Guogong Mansion with your mother in the first place, if not, you can always leave a whole corpse." ”

Yuan Tong ignored the old lady, he didn't even stingy with a look.

Just turn around and leave.

The officials who stood in place didn't care whether the old lady was sad or not, they threw the old lady out.

The old lady was thrown out into the street, in a state of embarrassment, with no good place from head to toe.

She got up from the ground and walked aimlessly through the streets.

Until at the gate of the city, I saw a notice that the Yan family was punished by the nine clans.

The whole person fainted directly......

When Lu Nianjin got the news of the old lady, the old lady was no longer alive, she had a rabid bies attack and was afraid to death. Yes, one of the four mastiffs that the dog led on the third day was infected with rabies, which can be transmitted to people, and there is a certain incubation period, and the old lady had a seizure on the second day after leaving the prison.

The disease came in a hurry, and she didn't even have time to set up a well-dressed mound for Lu Jiayi and the Yan family, and sprinkled some paper money, so she couldn't get up.

She walked in such pain that the aunt who found her body was sick for three months.

Naturally, she had already gone out of the door of the Bofu Mansion, and the corpse was uncollected, and she was directly sent to the mass grave in the west of the city by the city guards......

The day after the old lady passed away, Xiao Xun entered the palace.

In the closed Kunning Palace, he talked to the queen for a long time.

No one knew what their mother and son said, and the palace people in Kunning Palace only knew that when the prince left, his eyes were red, and in the dormitory, the queen's eyes were also red.

In the Qianyuan Palace, the emperor summoned the shadow guard to ask again.

The shadow guard arched his hand with a look of shame, "If you go back to the emperor, you haven't found out the news of the woman and the man in black, they seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and there is no trace left." ”

After listening to the words of the shadow guard, the emperor wanted to scold the waste, but the words were all in his mouth, swallowed again, waved his hand, and said, "Then go and check, if you can't find it, don't come back to restore your life." ”

Shadow Guard: "......" Is this forcing him to fall to the end of the world?

In the blink of an eye, a few more days passed.

On this day, it was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and the weather was fine and cloudless.

In the western room, Xiao Xun watched Lu Nianjin accompany Ji'er to make trouble, and after drinking a cup of tea, he put down the teacup in his hand and said, "I'm afraid that I won't have time tomorrow, why don't I paint a portrait of you and Ji'er today?" ”

"Why don't you have time tomorrow?" Lu Nianjin's whole heart was occupied by Ji'er, and he asked rhetorically without thinking.

Xiao Xun didn't answer her question, only stood up and said, "Are you leaving?" ”

Lu Nianjin looked back at him, and when he met his somewhat uncomfortable eyes, he nodded hesitantly, "Let's go, you wait a while, I'll take Ji'er to change clothes." ”

"Well," Xiao Xun nodded, "I'll wait for you in the garden." With that, he turned and walked out.

Lu Nianjin watched him leave, turned around and instructed the nurse Yu, "Bring that red unicorn's round-necked robe, and wear it for the little county king today." ”

"Yes, Crown Princess," Yu agreed, walking towards the cage behind the screen.

Lu Nianjin put Ji'er in the bed and pinched his face, "Wait a minute, take a picture of you, are you happy?" ”

Ji'er blinked her eyes, "Mother! Mother! Laugh and laugh! ”

Lu Nianjin couldn't help pinching his soft cheeks again, "Okay, okay, mother, I'll give you a smile!" ”

One big and one small were playing, Yu took Lu Nianjin's robe over, and the two worked together to help the little ancestor in the bed put it on, Lu Nianjin picked up the blessing doll in his arms and walked to the garden.

In the garden, everything for painting is well prepared.

Opposite the painting case was a velvet cushion covered with white fox fur, Lu Nianjin walked over and sat down, looked at Xiao Xun, smiled at him, and said, "It's okay." ”

Xiao Xun hummed lightly, and began to outline the outline of the two of them.

About a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Xun suddenly stopped writing and looked at Lu Nianjin not far away, "If you feel uncomfortable, you can get up and walk." ”

"You're done drawing so quickly?" Lu Nianjin was unexpected.

Xiao Xun glanced at her, frowned, and said, "No." ”

"Then won't it affect your painting if I get up?"

"No," Xiao Xun said, looking into her eyes from a distance. Because, in his heart, in his memory, her smile, every move has been engraved into his blood and bones, and the reason why she was asked to take a moment just now is just to take a few more glances at the description of Ji'er.

"Then I'll get up," Lu Nianjin didn't think too much, she stood up directly and walked towards Xiao Xun with Ji'er.

When Xiao Xun saw her coming, he didn't stop her, he picked up the pen again and painted by himself.

Lu Nianjin watched from the sidelines, and after a long time, he sighed, "It's amazing, but in a quarter of an hour, you can remember so many details." ”

Xiao Xun glanced sideways at her, "Is it cold?" ”

Lu Nianjin shook his head, "It's not cold, the weather is good today, Ji'er and I are wearing thick and warm clothes!" ”

"That's good," the man lowered his head and continued to paint.

It took more than half an hour to finish a painting.

After the painting dried, Xiao Xun handed it to Yun Jiang and "asked people to send it to the inner workshop to frame." ”

"Yes, Prince," Yun Jiang took and handed it to Yun Shu.

Yun Shu silently retreated.

In the garden, someone came over with a copper basin and waited for Xiao Xun to clean his hands.

After wiping his hands, Xiao Xun walked towards Lu Nianjin, "Go back." ”

"Hmm," Lu Nianjin nodded, and the two of them walked together in the direction of the Cloud Ladder Courtyard.

Back in the Yunjie Courtyard, Ji'er was a little sleepy, Lu Nianjin sent him back to the west room, watched him fall asleep, stood up, and left lightly with Xiao Xun.

"Your hands are so cold!" On the way back to the bedroom, when Xiao Xun unconsciously held Lu Nianjin's hand, Lu Nianjin sighed in surprise.

Xiao Xun turned his head sideways and glanced at her thoughtfully, "Then you can help me warm up." ”

Lu Nianjin glared at him, "I knew earlier, I shouldn't have messed around with you," she said, she looked at Yun Jiang again, "Go to the medicine bag in the pharmacy to ward off the cold, cook the soup and send it in." ”

"Yes, Crown Princess," Yun Jiang ordered to leave.

Lu Nianjin squeezed Xiao Xun's hand and helped him rub it one by one.

Xiao Xun was afraid of freezing her, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but Lu Nianjin didn't let go, she looked at him like a child, and said, "Obedient." ”

Xiao Xun's eyes sank, with a hint of hoarseness in his voice, he looked at her for a moment, and said, "Well, listen to you, I will listen to you for the rest of my life." ”

Lu Nianjin heard him say so solemnly, his expression stiffened slightly, and after a while, he reacted again, raised his head and glared at him, "When have you been talking about these vain words." ”

Xiao Xun looked at her and said accusatory words, but she couldn't help blushing, turned her head sideways, and smiled loudly.

Lu Nianjin ignored him, continued to help him rub his hands, and personally poured soup for him.

Two quarters of an hour later, the ginger boiled the soup to ward off the cold and brought it in. Lu Nianjin took it and fed it to Xiao Xun spoonful by spoonful.

Xiao Xun was served by her like this, and for a moment, he actually felt that it was actually good to be "poisoned" like this all the time.

Of course, Lu Nianjin didn't know his thoughts, otherwise he would definitely be angry, she spent so much effort to make his body gradually better, is it easy for her? ! It's good that he actually had such an uncompetitive idea.