Concubine Ji didn't expect the old lady to attack her as soon as she came back, she stiffened, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in her heart, when she wanted to say something, she saw the old lady look at her with sharp eyes, so that she didn't dare to say anything.

Although I didn't dare to say it, I was not angry in my heart.

"Mother, I always feel that I have forgotten something, and I want to be nice to him, but when I see him, I hate ......"

Concubine Ji said incoherently, feeling a sigh, but she also knew that the mother-in-law at the top was a stern and Chinese, she raised her eyes and saw the old concubine staring at herself, her expression cold.

"You hate? What do you hate? Did he kill your husband? In the past, I was not good, my son died, and I ran away, but you look at what you have become, and what Yue'er has been forced to become by you. ”

"Do you really think I don't know anything? You put Yue'er in a cage, he is your bloodline, are you torturing him, or are you defiling yourself? ”

In the past few decades, although the old lady did not wait to see Concubine Ji at the beginning, she has never been so angry at her as at this moment, whether at home or outside, she has given her enough face.

Concubine Ji's frightened face turned pale, she got up from the chair, and knelt in front of the old lady with tears in her eyes, and bowed down to defend herself.

"Mother is angry, let me excuse me, I don't want to, I don't want to...... Mother, is he my child or not? ”

Just now, the old lady asked her if Xiao Yue was her child, and now she also asked if he was my child.

"Bang", the old lady was so angry that she overturned the small table at hand to the ground, and all the items on the table fell to the ground, scattered everywhere, and some porcelain was broken everywhere in the room.

The old lady behind the old lady was shocked, grabbed up to support the old lady, saw her face pale, pointed her finger at Ji on the ground, and seemed to be unable to pass through her breath, and hurriedly rubbed her chest and back.

Halfway, the old lady let out a long sigh from her throat, her fingers trembling like a voice, "Aunt Fang, tell her to go out." ”

Mama Fang looked at Ji's family, and saw that she was already trembling with fright, and hurriedly asked her to avoid it.

Ji hurriedly got up and fled in a hurry.

Mama Fang called a few maids to help the old lady to the side of the bed and lay down.

After a long time, the old lady's originally pale face gradually regained some blood, and Mama Fang was relieved.

She was just about to ask someone to go to the palace to ask for a doctor, when she saw the old lady slowly open her eyes, full of exhaustion, and said in a hoarse voice, "You say, what kind of evil has been created here." Why did Yue'er have such a mother. ”

"She even asked me if Yue'er was her child, Yue'er's face, who can say no?"

Mama Fang gently smoothed the old lady and comforted her.

In the end, the old lady fell asleep deeply, and Mama Fang helped her tuck the quilt, sighed deeply, and moved a small stool to sit on the edge of the bed to take care of the old lady.

*

Gu Nian and Xiao Yue returned to Suiyuan Hall, this day was a worship and a banquet, plus the four princesses made a fuss, both of them were tired, Gu Nian rushed Xiao Yue to wash, but Xiao Yue hugged Gu Nian.

"You're tired too, I'll wash it for you." Xiao Yue bit Gu Nian's earlobe and said slowly.

As soon as he was about to go to the clean room with Gu Nian in his arms, he listened to the voice of the astragalus outside, "The prince and the princess are talking inside, what does grandma have to report, let's wait." ”

"Where can I wait?" Mama Huang said disapprerovingly, and pushed the astragalus away, entered the outer room, stopped at the door, stretched out her hand to lift the curtain and walked in.

Gu Nian was being held in Xiao Yue's arms, her arm was hanging on Xiao Yue's neck, and when she saw Mama Huang coming in, she didn't panic, but Xiao Yue shouted violently,

"Get out."

Mama Huang didn't expect to encounter this scene, she was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Princess, how can you ......?"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue's voice made Mama Huang a little dumbfounded, and she couldn't react when she stood there.

Although Astragalus had never waited by Xiao Yue's side before, she knew that Xiao Yue was in a rage, Rao was her heart was strong, and she was also frightened 'bang', so she hurriedly went in and dragged Mama Huang out.

"I told Mama that the prince and the princess were talking, and Mama wanted to come in."

Gu Nian was annoyed and a little embarrassed, she knew that Concubine Ji's people didn't take her seriously, but she didn't expect that she didn't even have a little respect, she looked at Concubine Ji's face and gave these people face, but she didn't expect to be out of the ancestors?

Gu Nian jumped down from Xiao Yue's arms, his hands on his hips, and he couldn't get angry.

Xiao Yue was also very annoyed, but when he saw Gu Nian walking around the room non-stop, he actually thought that such a picture was very interesting.

He leaned on the screen with his hands and looked at Gu Nian, he rarely saw such a cute side on Gu Nian's body, most of the time, she was gentle, polite, or a little upright.

He touched his nose and said while watching Gu Nian walk there like a teapot, "Someone." ”

Huang Qi lifted the curtain again and came in, Xiao Yue instructed, "Go out and tell the chief historian, just say what I said, Mama Huang is unruly, take it to the second gate, hit the twenty boards, and let the people in the backyard come to watch the punishment." ”

Astragalus was not surprised in the slightest, and withdrew in response to the 'yes'.

When Gu Nian heard his command, he stopped and looked at Xiao Yue, "In this way, you will be scolded again tomorrow." ”

Xiao Yue stepped forward and grabbed her hand and touched it, "No, do you want those people to embarrass you?" ”

Gu Nian stood up and kissed Xiao Yue's face, "Probably the concubine is going to have a seizure." Should I strike first? ”

Xiao Yue said casually, "Don't worry, she doesn't have time to attack you." ”

The second door crackled and hit the mama but the board, and she almost didn't breathe, such a movement naturally alarmed Concubine Ji.

Sure enough, Concubine Ji didn't say anything, and she didn't leave the hospital for several days.

Gu Nian knew that the old lady was lying on the bed and didn't get up, so he immediately went to see her with Xiao Yue, and saw that she was in a state of mind, and she didn't even seem to have the strength to speak, lying on the bed, as if she was getting old all of a sudden.

Thinking that when she came out of the palace that day, the old lady called Concubine Ji over, and then she was bedridden, she really couldn't think of what would make the old lady suffer such a big blow.

After Xiao Yue accompanied the old lady to talk for a while, he went to the court, while Gu Nian stayed in Rong'an Hall to serve the sick, and the well-lit room seemed to be shrouded in a dark shadow at this moment.

Mama Fang came in to take charge of the lamp, and the old lady on the bed moved, as if she had woken up.

Gu Nian, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, hurriedly stepped forward and said in surprise, "Grandmother, are you awake?" ”

When Mama Fang heard Gu Nian's cry, she hurriedly came over and helped the old lady up with Gu Nian.

Gu Nian stuffed a big pillow behind the old lady to make her more comfortable.

The old lady's eyes fell on Gu Nian's face, as if she was thinking about something.

Gu Nian didn't know what she was thinking, so she was silent, and after a while, the old lady said that she was hungry and wanted to eat something.

Gu Nian got up hurriedly, and the old lady said, "Let Aunt Fang go." ”

Mama Fang retreated, and only the old lady and Gu Nian were left in the house.

The old lady held Gu Nian's hand and asked Xiao Yue, and Gu Nian said that he had gone to the court.

"Take care of me, I've tired you." The old lady sighed.

Gu Nian hurriedly said, "As long as the grandmother is healthy, the granddaughter-in-law is not tired." ”

The old lady smiled slightly, "Yue'er's temperament is not good, you must be very tired, it's hard for you to put up with him." ”

When the old lady thought of Xiao Yue, she felt a little sad.

The child, since his father's death, had not been treated normally, and his mother had treated him as an enemy, and he was immersed in the grief of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man at that time.

When she saw him, he was in a cage by his mother and thrown in a dark room, and she wanted to give him something, but she didn't know how.

He just stood there, ignoring anything, as if the whole world was just himself.

Later, the emperor didn't know where to get the news, so he took the young man to the palace to raise him.

Now that he has such admiration for the emperor, the emperor should have spent a lot of effort.

She gently took Gu Nian's hand, "What you did, grandmother knows, you did a good job." Over the years, I have ignored him, but fortunately, now that he has you, my grandmother is relieved. ”

Gu Nian looked at the thin hand holding his hand, and couldn't help but feel sad, "The prince is your own grandson, where will you really ignore it, you see, you have paid attention to his affairs, otherwise, where will you come back from Wutai Mountain." ”

"With you by Yue'er's side in the future, grandmother can also go with confidence." The old lady's fingers were cold, but her palms were hot.

Gu Nian grabbed the old lady's hand tightly, "Grandmother will live for a hundred years, and my granddaughter-in-law is still waiting for you to support me." ”

Her tears could no longer be held back, and she burst out of her eyes.

The old lady patted her hand, "Say stupid things, people will leave sooner or later, as long as you live well, what are the regrets of leaving." ”

For a few days, Gu Nian was taking care of the old lady, and on this day, the old lady's spirit finally improved, so he drove her,

"I'm almost fine here, you don't need to come over again, wait for Haoyue'er, you haven't had a good rest these days, you go back and rest."

As soon as Gu Nian returned to the courtyard, Astragalus ran over, went to the inner room, and said in a low voice,

"The slave maid got the news from the main courtyard yesterday, saying that the concubine made a big mistake in front of the old lady a few days ago, and the old lady angrily lifted the table and drove the concubine away."

"The concubine has been frightened for the past few days, so she can't take a step in the courtyard, but because of what angered the old lady, she can't inquire for a while."

In Concubine Ji's marriage, there was an old grandmother, who was disgusted by the concubine because of her discord with Mama Tian, who was waiting for the concubine, and the old lady was resentful, and was bought by Gu Nian, who needed ears and eyes, but in a short time, she was placed in the main courtyard by Astragalus as her eyes and ears, and news often flowed out during this time.

After Astragalus finished speaking, he looked a little like he wanted to say something, and Gu Nian said, "What can't we say yet?" ”

Huang Qi was silent, and finally bit her lip and said, "That day, Mama Huang was beaten on the board, and she said a word in her mouth, which was very light, and many people didn't hear it. You know, the slave has a good ear. ”

"What did you say?" Gu Nian asked her with her eyebrows.

Huang Qi looked around and said, "She said that it was Ah Jing who told her that you are very good at talking, don't be afraid, you can do whatever you want." ”

Gu Nian's heart suddenly burst and asked, "Did you hear it right?" ”

Huang Qi shook her head, "The slave promised to listen to it really, Ah Jing was also there at the time, she was far away, and the maids who were standing in the same position as her didn't hear it, but the slave maid clearly saw that after Mama Huang said that sentence, Ah Jing's face turned a little whiter, and she also took half a step back. ”

"The slave knows that Ah Jing and you have been for the longest time, so this matter has existed in my heart for so many days before I can say it." Astragalus stage Ai Ai Dao.

Astragalus's words suddenly made Gu Nian suddenly brighten, from she was deceived by Gu Ci, to being abducted, and then coming back, and then looking back, to think back to how she was in Jinling, how she got into her eyes and let herself take her to the capital.

The previous scenes flowed in Gu Nian's mind, making Gu Nian a little dizzy.

Since when, exactly? Or did you approach with a purpose in the first place?

Gu Nian shook her head, she had a glimmer of hope in her heart, she didn't believe it, she let Astragalus retreat, invited Ah Jing in, thought about it, or give up.

She sat indoors, only to feel cold from the soles of her feet to her heart, she had felt this many times, and she felt it again, she was not surprised at all.

What is her reason for treating herself like this?

*

The small garden of the Jin Wangfu in the middle of the night is also beautiful in winter, but Ah Jing didn't have the time to appreciate it, she bent down, her two hands tightly stirred together, a little absent-minded, as if a little uneasy.

She stayed in the small garden for a long time, until the moonlight was hidden in the clouds, and then she walked to a certain part of the garden, and when she was about to touch a certain part of the rockery, someone covered her mouth from behind.

She struggled a few times, pulled a whip from her waist and flicked it back...... Sure enough, he is a practitioner.

But she didn't struggle a few times, and then another figure fell from the sky, only to see that it was dark in front of her, and a sack was put on her head, and then she was dragged away.

After the rockery that had just been fighting, two figures slowly walked out, one tall and one short.

"You say, is she really?" Gu Nian asked in a lonely voice.

Xiao Yue touched her head soothingly, "Whether it's right or not, you can always know after the trial." ”

Gu Nian leaned on his shoulder and was silent.

After Astragalus came over to tell her about the situation that day, Gu Nian asked Xiao Yue to arrange for someone to keep an eye on her.

After guarding it for several days, Ah Jing made a move.

She remembered why she took a fancy to Ah Jing when she was in Jinling, when she was well-behaved and sensible, she could do fine work well, she was never lazy, and she was the half-sister of a Zhuangtou in the Marquis of Anyuan's mansion.

At that time, she took pity on her ostracism at home, and begged the princess to put her by her side.

Now that I think about it, how could she be so stupid.

If she is really excluded, will her fingers be green and tender? If she really wasn't loved by her brother, how could she be literate and hyphenated?

As soon as Gu Nian thought of this, he hated to chop her up and feed her to the dogs.

Xiao Yue stroked Gu Nian's head and said,

"Don't be sad, there are always many people like Ah Jing in the world, they are close to you for some purpose, lurking around you, they may be better to you than anyone else, making you feel that he can be trusted and relied on, and is your indispensable subordinate, companion, friend or even family member."

"When you let your guard down on him, I'll give you a fatal blow."

Gu Nian had seen a lot of this in such a long time, she smiled, it turned out that her level of knowing people was not good.

Xiao Yue continued, "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is all for courtesy. The higher you stand, the more people there will be. So, never let your guard down and don't trust others easily. ”

Gu Nian didn't want to refute Xiao Yue, she knew that this man was trying his best to comfort herself, and the two held hands and went back to Suiyuan Hall next to each other.

She sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, let Xiao Yue help her change her clothes, carried her to the bathroom to wash, and then was carefully placed on the bed and covered with a quilt.

When Xiao Yue stood up, Gu Nian took Xiao Yue's hand and said softly,

"Thank you, what you said seems to be right, but one thing, maybe I will meet a lot of bad people who deliberately approach me in the future, but if I am always suspicious of the people around me, I will also miss a lot of people who are sincere to me."

"Just like you, the reason why we are together is that we trust each other."

Xiao Yue sat on the edge of the bed, looked at it for a while, and his voice was a little hoarse when he spoke again, "What Nian Nian said makes sense, but I am narrow-minded." ”

"Do you want to go and see it during the interrogation?" Xiao Yue changed her clothes, lay down beside Gu Nian and asked her.

Gu Nian thought about it and shook his head, "If you don't go, just give me a confession when the time comes." ”

As for what to ask, I think Xiao Yue will order the dark one.

On the second day, Dark One sent a message in, saying that Ah Jing asked to see Gu Nian.

Secretly said that when she interrogated Ah Jing, she didn't respond, but just asked to see Gu Nian.

Gu Nian still decided to see Ah Jing.

When she was in the torture room, Ah Jing, who was chained by a chain, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Gu Nian three times, "Girl." ”

Gu Nian didn't move, accepted her salute, and said calmly, "I have received your great gift, and it can be regarded as the end of our master and servant's affection, from this moment on, we are people we don't know." ”

Ah Jing seemed to have expected it, and seemed to be shocked, and shouted in a low voice, "Girl." ”

Gu Nian didn't soften at this time, "I haven't treated you badly, but you have treated me badly, but I have also figured it out, we are not people on the same road, there is no fate." ”

Ah Jing was silent, she knew that what Gu Nian said was the most correct truth, and she did not regret her original choice.

Gu Nian looked at her and said, "I just think I'm unlucky, but I'm not wronged, you are the son of the Marquis of Anyuan's family, and there is no flaw in your background."

Ah Jing closed his eyes, don't turn his head, and wanted to cry.

"I don't want to ask you the reason for your betrayal, I just hope that if you really have a conscience, you can tell me everything you know." Gu Nian said with a smile.

Ah Jing knelt there silently, "If the girl wants to know something, just ask." ”

The dark side took a stool, put it out of the reach of Ah Jing, and asked Gu Nian to sit down.

Gu Nian wanted to know too much.

"Did you get the poison on me?" Gu Nian asked.

"Yes."

The corners of Gu Nian's lips hooked up a smile, the time was right, three years ago, it happened to be when Ah Jing came to his side.

She didn't want to ask how it was going anymore, a personal maid with no defense around her could do too much.

"Are you in league with the people who killed my mother?" Gu Nian asked again.

"It's not."

If it is not in the same group as the murderer of the mother, then there are two groups of people eyeing their family of three.

"Does the Jin Wangfu have your accomplices?"

If there were no accomplices, how did the man get the note into the rockery in the garden?

Unexpectedly, Ah Jing shook his head, "No, the slave and maid don't know how to put the note, but there are absolutely no accomplices in the Jin Palace." ”

"How so?"

Ah Jing pursed her lips, "Because if there are accomplices, then there must be such a pattern on the cuffs." ”

She raised her hand and asked Gu Nian to see the patterns on her cuffs.

Listening to Ah Jing's words, Gu Nian breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, the Jin Palace's mansion had not been infiltrated.

After thinking about it, Gu Nian asked the most crucial thing, "How did you contact your master?" ”

"Deyue Tower." Ah Jing said the code of the connector again.

Deyue Lou is one of the best teahouses in the capital, and the dim sum in it makes people linger, didn't Xiao Yue send them to deliver pastries to the door?

Did they just put the letters in the rockery of the little garden?

Gu Nian asked all the questions he cared about, and he didn't want to ask Ah Jing why he betrayed him, but Ah Jing burst into tears.

"Girl, I deserve to die, I lied to you, I don't want to betray you, but that person was tempted by a lot of money, and he arrested his brother to threaten himself."

She threw herself on the ground, weeping bitterly.

Gu Nian looked down at her for a moment, then walked out.

Outside, Xiao Yue heard Ah Jing say the joint code, and then took Gu Nian and asked Ah Jing to describe and draw the image of the connector person.

Then he took the image and asked the people in the dark to secretly surround the Deyue Tower, if he could, Xiao Yue wanted to seal the Deyue Tower, but once the order was given, there were too many people who were alarmed.

A total of three people were fished out, and Dark One quietly took these three people back to the dungeon of the Jin Palace.

It's just that I didn't expect that the three of them had suffered a lot of punishments along the way, and they were tortured in a bad way, but they never said anything useful.

Xiao Yue was about to interrogate him in person, but Gu Nian sent Astragalus over.

"It was the princess who asked the slave to come over. She said she had seen a method of interrogation in a book. ”

Xiao Yue frowned, and didn't ask anything, just asked someone to bring her over, but Astragalus didn't use any medicine, but asked people to move a few chairs.

These have been unstable, either because the legs of the chair are a little uneven, or because there is something in the backrest.

In short, such a chair must be upright and sitting, otherwise it is easy to stagger.

Huang Qi asked the three captured Deyuelou guys to be taken to a small room and tied their hands to the armrests of their chairs.

A lot of candles were lit in front of them and on the lampstands on the walls.

Then he told the companions who were in charge of the three to remember to change them in time, and to keep them on day and night, and then they left, and no longer cared about this matter.

The companion did not know why, but he still interrogated the three prisoners in four shifts a day according to her instructions.

After Huang Qi left, he went straight to Suiyuantang, but he didn't expect to meet Ji Yu who was feeding fish in the pond halfway.

She stopped and saluted Ji Yu and was about to leave, but she was stopped by the apricot next to Ji Yu.

"You wait." Xing'er stopped Astragalus, "Our girl has something to say to you." ”

Xing'er's words were so polite, as if it was a matter of course for Astragalus to stop and listen to their girl.

Although Astragalus grew up in the secret guard camp, and later followed Gu Nian to be treated slowly in the Gu family, in general, no one dared to despise her in person.

I want Xing'er to stop her directly without even the most basic title, and it's really the first one.

Huang Qi felt angry and funny, but others were unruly, and she couldn't follow the rules, otherwise she would ruin Gu Nian's reputation.

So she walked over with a smile and asked, "I don't know what Miss Ji commands?" ”

Ji Yu put the small bowl of fish food on the railing, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and said,

"Actually, there's nothing else, it's just like seeing that Ajing girl over there on your side hasn't been seen for a few days, and I happened to run into you today, so I asked by the way."

Astragalus frowned, and his expression was already a little dissatisfied.

Ji Yu said so calmly, but her behavior was clearly snooping. Although Gu Nian is the princess of Yifu, everyone's eyes are on her, but what do you ask about a cousin like Ji Yu?

Huang Qi said to Ji Yu patiently, "Ah Jing's family ransomed her back, I don't know what Miss Ji is looking for Ah Jing?" ”

Ji Yu has a transparent temperament, otherwise she would not have been loved by Concubine Ji for more than ten years, she naturally saw Astragalus's dissatisfaction, and said with a smile, "I don't mean anything else, I'm just curious." ”

"Also, you are the princess's personal maidservant, sometimes you should persuade more, after all, Mama Huang is a subordinate of the palace, she shouts and kills like this, you better go and change your body."

Huang Qi suddenly couldn't listen to it anymore, and said with a calm face, "Miss Ji, what do you mean by this?" What are you talking nonsense? Could it be that the next person is going to be unruly, the master didn't say to come in, she had to slam the door and come in. That's the rule, isn't it? ”

These people only saw the girl's current scenery, but they never knew what kind of hardship the girl suffered when she was in the Gu family.

Opening your mouth and closing your mouth is how favored and how the girl is.

Who is the princess sorry for? Who have you been treated to the bridle? Why do they talk nonsense without understanding.

A cousin dared to come in the name of being good for the prince to guide their princess?

Bah! She deserves it too.

Astragalus thinks that it can tolerate others talking about itself, but it can't tolerate others talking about it. She raised her chin and said to Ji Yu, "Who are you, Miss Ji?" Why do my girls have to listen to your words? ”

"Besides, I am the princess's subordinate, so naturally I have to listen to the princess and put the princess's will first. Miss Ji also treats herself too much as a dish. “

Ji Yu has been in the Jin Palace, and she has long regarded this place as her home, she has always accompanied Concubine Ji, and she has also won the love of Concubine Ji.

The people in the house are all called 'cousins' and 'cousins'.

But who knew that today, she was scolded by a subordinate with a nose.

Ji Yu was directly stunned, obviously he didn't expect Astragalus to be so straightforward.

Xing'er was angry, and scolded Astragalus directly, "What are you?" How dare you talk to our girl like that? ”

Astragalus sneered, "What am I? Then I will tell you clearly today! ”

……