"Mother, since Miss Jiang is Brother Ling's fiancée, it is normal for the imperial grandmother to summon her, why are you so worried?" Zhao Li put down the book and looked at his mother with a puzzled expression.

"Ping'er!" Jin Concubine called her son's nickname, "This grandmother of yours, never think of her as an ordinary old lady!" ”

"Last time, I went to the Jin Palace, with the second imperial brother, on the birthday of the old princess of Jin, but I saw the legendary Miss Jiang once, and they all said that the young lady was extremely vulgar and ugly, and she was not as good as Miss Su Xuan, but when my son saw it, he only felt that the rumors were wrong, although that Miss Jiang was not good-looking, but she was broad-minded, and she was not rude, and her son also believed that Brother Ling's vision would not be wrong!" Zhao Li thought back to Jiang Xiaoyu and said, "I'm afraid that in the future, this Miss Jiang will impress everyone!" ”

"Don't judge people by their appearance, Ping'er is right!" Concubine Jin smiled slightly, touched Zhao Li's face and said, "This Miss Jiang has a lot of relationship with her mother, now you don't have too much contact with her, but if necessary, you must protect her!" Remember? ”

"Remember the concubine!" Although Zhao Li didn't know what the source was between Miss Jiang and her mother, and her mother, who didn't want to participate in anything, said such a thing, she still responded obediently, he was a filial child, and her mother's words had to be done.

As he spoke, he heard the eunuch shouting, "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

The mother and concubine hurriedly tidied up and went to the door to greet them.

"Get up!" Emperor Zhou's face was a little tired, and he quickly stepped inside and sat down.

Concubine Jin asked the palace people to bring the chicken soup she had stewed a long time ago, she walked to Emperor Zhou's side, thoughtfully pressed her temples for her, and said softly: "Your Majesty has reviewed the music for another day?" ”

"Hmm!" Emperor Zhou closed his eyes and enjoyed it, then opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Li, and asked in a deep voice, "How are your studies in the past two days?" ”

After asking Emperor Zhou to take a look, Zhao Li's whole body stiffened with fear, swallowed his saliva, thought about it and said, "Mr. said that Erchen has made progress these days......

"How much progress?" Emperor Zhou asked expressionlessly.

"Erchen...... Erchen ......" Zhao Li was nervously speechless, "Erchen has read all four books in the past few days!" ”

"Oh?" Emperor Zhou still asked coldly, "Just read it?" Have you ever memorized it? Have you ever understood? ”

"Erchen doesn't dare to say that he understands it thoroughly, Erchen can already memorize it all!" Zhao Li lowered his head and said.

"Raise your head and speak, as a prince, you are cowering, and you don't have the spirit of a prince at all!" Emperor Zhou said angrily, "Your second emperor brother and third prince are not dragons and phoenixes among people, let alone you, your eldest emperor brother can lead the army to fight at the age of twelve!" ”

"The son is guilty!" Zhao Li was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground, and he was about to cry.

"Your Majesty, he is still a child, so spare him! The progress in recent days has been really great, and I can memorize all four books! Jin Concubine rubbed Emperor Zhou's shoulders while pleading with her son, "Look at it, scare him!" ”

"A loving mother is a loser!" Zhou Du waved his hand impatiently, "Go down!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Liru was amnestied, and hurriedly retreated, telling Emperor Zhou to shake his head.

In this harem, Emperor Zhou's favorite place is Qi Guifei, although Qi Guifei has a cold temperament, but she is talented, and she is the most able to talk to her, but recently because of the affairs of the two princes, he doesn't often go to Guifei's place, but likes to come to Jin Concubine.

Concubine Jin has no ambitions, and she doesn't seem to be so concerned about her son's future, and she doesn't inquire about the affairs of the court, and she is gentle and considerate, so that Emperor Zhou can relax with her.

"What do you think about the matter of the two princes?" Emperor Zhou asked with squinted eyes.

"If the concubine says that she has not heard of this matter, then she must be a bully, but this matter of the court, the concubine and the concubine know the stakes!" Jin Concubine said.

"Now that you know, it's impossible to have no ideas, no matter what, let's talk about it!" Emperor Zhou asked.

Concubine Jin's eyes turned, thinking about the intention of the emperor's words, and after thinking about it, she said, "The matter of the second prince...... Conniving at his subordinates as bandits, the concubine was like it must be impossible here, what good is it for him to say this? To say something that shouldn't be said, if he is greedy for those money, it is better to accept gifts from officials below him, but in the end, doesn't it prove that he is innocent? ”

She paused and said: "The matter of the third prince is complicated, and Princess Xiuwen is involved, what kind of enclosure or something, the concubines don't understand, and they don't know what to say...... But looking at this matter, it should be quite big, fortunately, our prince is also innocent, but the Queen Mother loves Princess Xiuwen so much, if something happens to the princess, the Queen Mother must be uncomfortable in her heart, can Your Majesty punish the princess lightly? ”

"With the laws of the Great Zhou, how can I bend the law for personal gain?" Emperor Zhou said lightly, "You're right, our princes are all wronged and innocent!" However, who wronged our prince behind his back? ”

Emperor Zhou's tone was light, but a chill rose on Concubine Jin's back, from the matter of the two princes, this majesty is afraid that there will be a big move next.

Her eyes widened coquettishly, and she wondered, "Your Majesty can't be suspicious of the concubine, right?" ”

"Huh!" Emperor Zhou was amused by Concubine Jin's words, "You? You don't have the ability yet! ”

Jin Concubine continued to massage Emperor Zhou, biting her lip, could it be another bloody storm? In the end, the two princes are just tools used by this emperor!

When Jiang Xiaoyu returned to Jiangfu, it was already completely dark, and Mama Qian was waiting for her to come back at the door, and when she saw her get off the sedan chair, she immediately stepped forward and said, "Miss is back, something happened!" ”

"Oh?" Something will happen in the house, Jiang Xiaoyu expected it, but he didn't expect that he would still have time to catch up with this excitement, "What's going on now?" ”

"The third aunt called everyone to the old lady, saying that she had found the murderer of the old lady!" Mama Qian said, "Miss should also go and take a look!" ”

Mama Qian didn't know that Jiang Xiaoyu was pushing this matter single-handedly, so she hurriedly called her over for fear of implicating her, so as not to be secretly injured.

When Jiang Xiaoyu arrived at the old lady's house, the house was bustling, the eldest lady knelt on the ground and shouted wronged, Jiang Youran and Jiang Yiran sisters also complained about the eldest lady, Jiang Yuan's face was blue and angry, and the sixth aunt watched the excitement with a sneer on her lips, but the blind old lady was very calm, as if she was not the one who was murdered today.

Jiang Xiaoyu quietly did not attract people's attention, and found the side of the sixth aunt, and the sixth aunt gave her an expression of how she came.

"You keep saying I poisoned? What is the evidence? It's been almost twenty years since Mrs. Ben joined the Jiang family, especially if you have a red mouth and white teeth, you can be framed! The eldest lady said coldly.

"The eldest lady wants proof?" The third aunt raised her eyebrows unhurriedly, clapped her hands, and then saw a slightly chubby middle-aged man enter, who arched his hand to everyone and said, "Qin You, the grass people, has seen Jiang Shangshu and the old lady!" ”

The third aunt took two steps forward and said with a slight smile: "Have you ever known this Qin You boss and eldest lady?" ”

"I don't know!" The moment she saw Qin You, the eldest lady knew that it was not good, and said reluctantly.

"It doesn't matter if the eldest lady doesn't know him, your father, Old Man Qin, is very familiar!" The third aunt said, "Because Old Man Qin used to buy things from him...... Or maybe it's to coerce Boss Qin to get something! ”

As soon as the third aunt's voice fell, Qin You immediately clenched his fists and said: "The old man threatened the grass people to find a leaf of Shenjiang for him, the grass people didn't know what the old man was going to do with it at the time, and only now did he know that the old lady had been hit by a leaf of Shenjiang, the old lady is really a blessing, and she will not die!" ”

"Nonsense!" The eldest lady shouted, "What enmity do you have with my father? To frame him like this! ”

"The grass people are just saying what they know, and if Madam has to say this, the grass people are helpless!" Qin You said helplessly.

"Don't worry, big lady!" The third aunt smiled lightly and asked again, "Two days before the old lady was poisoned, did anyone from the Qin Mansion come here?" ”

"What? Can't my mother's family come all at once? ”

The third aunt clapped her hands, only to see a middle-aged man pressed into the house by the two housekeepers, and she asked, "The eldest lady recognizes, is this the person?" ”

"It's really my mother's family, and I just came here that day to send some food that my father prepared for me!" Madame said lightly.

"Qin Yuan, tell me what you gave to your wife?" The third aunt looked at the middle-aged man on the ground and asked.

"It's a food box that the master handed over to the little one, let the little one send it to the lady!" Qin Yuan lowered his head and said, "But the little one knows that the old man doesn't usually use that food box, because the food box is double-layered, the little one opened it and took a look, and found that there was a small box hidden inside, and the little one didn't dare to open it again, so I don't know what was hidden in this small box!" ”

"What if the food box is double-layered? Inside that small box was a pair of earrings that my father gave me, and I was so careful for fear of being stolen, could this mean that the old lady's poisoning had something to do with me? ”

"Yiye Shenjiang Liu Divine Doctor also said, how rare it is, no one else has heard of this kind of thing, but you are different, the Qin family has been engaged in the medicinal material business for generations, so it is not surprising that you know!" The third aunt glanced at Qin You and asked, "How many people in this capital have this thing?" ”

"The third aunt also said, this thing is scarce, and the grass people also took a lot of effort to get it, and the grass people dare to guarantee that only the grass people in the capital can get this thing, but this thing is harmful, if it is not forced, the grass people are not willing to hurt the heavens and reason!" Qin You's face was soft, and his tone was sincere at the moment, which was really a bit true.

"Father, it's just their words!" Jiang Yiran said coldly, "You keep saying that your mother poisoned her, but what about the physical evidence? Could it be that just these few people can be convicted of mothers? ”

"Physical evidence? It's not for nothing! The third aunt hooked her lips, "Cuicui, come in!" ”

At this time, a little maid slowly entered and knelt down to salute Jiang Yuan and the old lady.

"Cuicui, tell me what you see!"