Since the Jokhang Temple came back from praying for the Queen Mother, the concubines in the harem have not seen the shadow of Queen Meiru.

For a few days, I went to the queen's palace to ask for a closed door, and the personal maids in the queen's palace disappeared, only a few strange chamberlains and palace maids, and the queen was unwell, and no one was seen.

For a while, the harem concubines talked a lot, and the topic of getting together became speculation about whether the queen was really sick. And there is no shortage of shrewd concubines, who avoid this topic when they encounter it.

In the afternoon of this day, there were concubines discussing together, and it happened that Concubine Chen came over, holding a brocade handkerchief to cover her mouth and coughing, saying meaningfully, "This should come, still have to come, there is nothing in life, but don't force it, this queen is an example"

Then Orchid pointed unceremoniously at those delicate concubines, and sneered, "This palace advises you, don't chew your tongue together, the most important thing at the moment is still the emperor's favorite, you all say these useless here, this palace asks you, which of you let the emperor summon you this month."

The concubines were dumbfounded.

Not to mention this month, even last month, it's just that the quiet Yi Jieyu was summoned, and it was just a summons, not a favor.

Concubine Chen looked at the cowardice of the concubines, and her nose "snorted", "This palace will be troubled when it looks at you, and now I don't want to find a way to win the heart of the king, and there will be a time for you to cry in the future."

Say goodbye and leave.

Concubine Chen has always spoken loudly and domineeringly, not to mention their low-ranking concubines, even the queen She didn't pay attention to it, and the concubines who had been trained left with their heads bowed, but none of them understood the meaning of Concubine Chen's words.

There are also concubines who have quick brains to guess that something must have happened to Queen Meiru, there is a change in the middle palace, and Concubine Chen's words may imply that, but I don't know what kind of change it is.

——In the afternoon, Xiao Luo, the emperor of the Great Qin State, went to the palace of the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty after approving the excerpts and practicing the sword.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Ming was sitting in the courtyard of the palace pruning flower branches, talking to the people next to her while pruning. A rare smile, nodding from time to time while trimming.

When the people around the Queen Mother got up from the ground, Xiao Luo saw clearly that it was Mei Shuang, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Aunt Yu, who was next to the Queen Mother, was the first to discover the emperor, and hurriedly saluted and whispered "The emperor is here".

The Empress Dowager Ming raised her eyes, and Mei Shuang, who was squatting on the ground, also found it through the gap in the flowers, and hurriedly lowered her body to pretend to pick up the flower branches on the ground.

Today, Xiao Luo is wearing a light-colored casual shirt that is suitable for the season, and under the tourmaline gold crown, it looks a little less indifferent and a little more elegant, even the Queen Mother is full of appreciation when she looks at Xiao Luo who is dressed like this, "The emperor is a mourner today."

Xiao Luo was slightly stunned, then coughed lightly, and changed the topic, "What kind of flower is the queen mother holding in her hand?" ”

Empress Dowager Ming looked at the red-hearted and white-petaled flower in her hand, and complained, "I don't know the name of this flower!" I asked the gardener in the palace, but what is that? ”

Empress Dowager Ming thought for a while but still didn't remember, and sighed, "Alas, people are old, look at the memory of the mourning family"

Then he asked Meishuang on his side, "Tell the mourning family, what is this called?" ”

I didn't see it in a flash, my eyes moved to the ground, obviously a little crying and laughing, "Hey, you kid, you're going to get in, this flower stem is full of thorns, come out quickly"

Mei Shuang was speechless, obviously the Queen Mother intended to let her show her face more in front of the emperor of the Great Qin State, but she herself definitely had no intention of attracting the attention of this cold man.

When she saw Xiao Luo from the gap in the flowers, she subconsciously wanted to hide, but she didn't expect her head to stretch forward a little long, and when she thought about it, the bun on her head happened to be hooked by the thorns on the flower path.

When Aunt Yu saw this, she hurriedly stepped forward to pluck the flower branches, but was accidentally stabbed.

Just as Xiao Luo walked to him, the Empress Dowager Ming dodged away and gave her son a look that signaled to come forward to help.

Meishuang's hair was firmly hooked by the thorns, and she couldn't advance or retreat, until she saw the light-colored gold thread-trimmed shirt approaching, and she was embarrassed, so she could only laugh dryly and raise her hand to play with her hair, while saying, "No, no, I can do it myself"

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, he gasped, and when he withdrew his fingers in a trembling manner, he took a closer look, good fellow, the two vertical thorns on his delicate fingertips were very piercing.

Looking at Meishuang's embarrassed appearance, the corners of Xiao Luo's lips unconsciously hooked, he couldn't help laughing, bent down, stretched out his slender fingers to flexibly pluck Meishuang's hair, and with just a slight pull, the hook-like thorn came out.

Meishuang only felt that her scalp was a little ticklish, and then a low and magnetic "Okay" voice above her head made her feel like she had been amnesty, and she stood up with her body "soaring", and then turned around - when she saw the enlarged face in front of her, it was too late, and her clear forehead "slammed" against the beautiful but hard jaw of the Ninety-Five Venerable in front of her.

Caught off guard, the strength is quite fierce.

Mei Shuang gasped again, bared her teeth and raised her eyes while seeing the man in front of her lift up and back unconsciously, Nong Feng frowned slightly.

Damn it!

It's too rude and unladylike! This is in front of the strict Queen Mother, who is so disrespectful to the emperor.

While Mei Shuang secretly cursed herself, she reacted quickly, and hurriedly apologized to the Son of Heaven who was bumped by herself, "Ah, I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I didn't hurt you, did I?" ”

said that it hurt the emperor, but in fact, his forehead hurt.

Xiao Luo raised his hand to caress his chin, looked away, and said lightly, "That's it." ”

What can he say? When he was touched by this reckless woman just now, his cheeks were sore, but he didn't feel angry.

When the Empress Dowager Ming witnessed this scene, she looked at Mei Shuang's embarrassed look as red as an apple and her son's plain face, with a hint of imperceptible deep meaning at the corner of her lips, pretending not to see it, and turned around to continue pruning her flower branches.

It's just that after pruning a few branches, he put down the little golden scissors and asked Aunt Yu beside him, "Jinyu, is the bird's nest that the mourning family asked you to stew in the small kitchen?" ”

Aunt Yu understood, and hurriedly said, "Slave maid, let's go take a look."

After Aunt Yu left, Mei Shuang became more and more unable to put herself in the right position, cramped and uneasy, every pore on her body was uncomfortable, and she even had doubts about whether she should stand here. After all, even the personal maid was taken away by the Queen Mother, so what is it for an outsider to stay here.

She hurriedly said, "Queen Mother, I-"

Empress Dowager Ming saw her thoughts, ignored her, and just said to Xiao Luo, "The emperor is here, but is there something?" ”

Xiao Luo retracted his gaze and looked at Mei Shuang, who was intercepted by the Queen Mother, and then replied, "The Queen Mother called the child, and the child thought that the Queen Mother had an order."

The Empress Dowager Ming remembered something, stroked her palms and said suddenly, "Look at the memory of the mourning family, I only care about pruning the flowers, but I forget to get down to business." Let's come inside. ”

After entering the house, the Empress Dowager Ming sat on the couch by herself, Xiao Luo also sat in front of the couch, and Mei Shuang hurriedly served the tea cup for the Empress Dowager and Xiao Luo, and then stood aside.

The Queen Mother's phoenix eyes glanced at Mei Shuang, who bowed her head and was silent, and asked Xiao Luo, "Has the matter of Jokhang Temple been clarified?" ”

As soon as she heard the Jokhang Temple, Mei Shuang's heart was inexplicably "chuckled", could it be that even the Queen Mother knew the strangeness of the Jokhang Temple?

Xiao Luo lowered his eyes and drank tea, his expression was leisurely, and when he put down the teacup, he glanced at Meishuang, "Why doesn't the Queen Mother ask this Miss 'Lin Yuxiang'?" She prayed for the Queen Mother, which can be described as attentive"

When Xiao Luo's eyes glanced over, Mei Shuang happened to raise her eyes, and she happened to meet that gaze, I don't know why, she always felt that there was a lot of meaning in those deep and bottomless eyes.

What did he say? Ask her about the Jokhang Temple?

She had a good experience, but she didn't want to remember it at all, no matter how long the story was; Moreover, such a big matter, the Queen Mother's tone seemed to know about it, and the Queen Mother asked if it was "clarified", how could she know what was found out?

secretly thought in her heart, and still pretended to be deaf and dumb on her face, but the Queen Mother really asked her.

Mei Shuang could only ask cautiously, "I don't know what the Queen Mother wants to know?" ”

"It's good for you to start from scratch for the mourning family," Empress Dowager Ming said casually while drinking tea.

"From the beginning?" Mei Shuang really doesn't know what medicine is sold in this Xiao Luo gourd, why let her tell it?

But the monarch ordered her to dare to disobey the reason, she still told it from the beginning, from the strange scene when she entered the Jokhang Temple and saw the Buddha statue, to drinking soup and almost being poisoned, to Mei Ru was rescued when she died, she encountered poison on the road, and then copied the scriptures in the Jokhang Temple at night

Naturally, there were some dream-like experiences that she omitted.

She babbled for a long time, the Empress Dowager Ming half-leaned on the couch and squinted her eyes slightly as if she was asleep, Xiao Luo was also expressionless and absent-minded, which made Mei Shuang feel like a storyteller, and a very failed storyteller.

Mei Shuang's mouth was dry for a long time, but she didn't see any movement from the Queen Mother.

It wasn't until she stopped for a long time that the Queen Mother opened her phoenix eyes, brushed over Meishuang, and said indifferently, "The mourning family knows that whether you were Shuang'er from Zuo Xiangmei's Mansion in the past or Lin Yuxiang today, the mourning family has to remind you that you have an extraordinary bloodline, you must remember this!" ”

An extraordinary pedigree? Mei Shuang thought silently in her heart, but she was confused about the Queen Mother's proposal.

However, the Queen Mother's words obviously acquiesced in her own casual name, does this also mean that the Queen Mother already knows about her before and after?

"Yes," Meishuang thought to herself, and said yes.

Empress Dowager Ming can naturally see the incomprehension in Mei Shuang's eyes, but this answer is obviously not the time to sue this girl, and she will naturally know some things when the time comes.

Empress Dowager Ming's gaze stayed on Meishuang's porcelain white jade-like face, a trace of trance flashed in her eyes, and she turned her eyes to look at Xiao Luo who looked indifferent on the side, and let out an inaudible sigh in her throat. After all, people are not as good as heaven, is she really not related to her son?