The Lantern Festival Palace Banquet is usually dispersed until the night, and the banquet is full of princes and nobles, harem concubines, which can be regarded as a real royal family banquet.

The two princesses and the toddler fourth princess T and the sixth prince are not mentioned for the time being, King Ning has never been bad with people, and he is not close to anyone, and he has always been the most inconspicuous.

The rest of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King An are their own faction, although King Jian is single-handed, he is the most favored by the emperor, and there is Concubine Lan, the mother concubine of the sixth palace, who can also compete with the prince and King An.

Except for Concubine Shu, who has been attached to the queen since she entered the palace because of her background, the other concubines dare not speak out against Concubine Lan. However, now that the rumors in the palace are boiling, some people who are usually suppressed by Concubine Lan and hate them are about to move.

After singing and dancing, the poor nobleman got up and raised his wine glass to toast the emperor, and Lan Guifei looked at it coldly, her eyes full of disdain.

This noble man is a newcomer who entered the palace last year, and as Emperor Yuan He is getting older and the dragon is sick, he has not seen a newcomer in the palace for a long time. Emperor Yuanhe was naturally fresh, so he was very favored for a while when he first entered the palace.

However, the good times didn't last long, Concubine Lan's holy favor was not declining, she was domineering and domineering, and even the queen didn't pay much attention to it, how could she let a little noble person climb on her head. took advantage of the royal garden to pity the nobles and collided with their own names, which made people slap their mouths fiercely.

The poor nobleman couldn't help but be beaten, and even more lost face. She is favored, and she is a careless character, even if she stares at her red and swollen face, she goes to Emperor Yuan He to complain.

Although Emperor Yuanhe has always favored Concubine Lan, in order to appease the new love, he sent a decree to let Concubine Lan be grounded in Zichen Palace. The noble man is a newcomer in the end, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he feels that the emperor's punishment is light.

But Concubine Lan felt that she had been deeply humiliated, she had been operating in the palace for many years, and someone quietly drugged the clean face of the poor nobleman, which made the poor nobleman have a rash on his face and was almost disfigured.

The merciful nobleman concluded that this matter must be the revenge of Concubine Lan, but the face purification water had already been splashed, and I don't know how many hands this basin of face purifying water had passed. Things are done so neatly that it's hard to grasp.

Later, the poor nobleman couldn't serve for a long time because of the red rash on his face. Sleeping, Lan Guifei cried as soon as Emperor Yuan He relented and lifted the grounding, and he suppressed the nobles more and more. When the poor nobleman finally regained his face, Jun En was already gone.

The merciful nobleman is a high-spirited person, and he is somewhat similar to Concubine Lan. She has a beautiful appearance but a low family background, and her temperament is even more stubborn, and she doesn't look back when she hits the south wall.

The poor nobleman drank the wine, but did not sit down, his eyes swept over Concubine Lan and King Jian's Ji Sihong, and said with a smile like a flower: "The concubine body also heard that His Royal Highness King Jianwang found Shenyu grass for the emperor, and personally offered a decoction of his own blood, so I am really grateful for His Royal Highness King Jian's filial piety." ”

The last thing Ji Sihong wanted to mention at this time was this matter, and he couldn't have a seizure in the public, so he had to get up and say in front of everyone: "The pity of the noble man is falsely praised, and the son is just doing his duty as a son of man." ”

The smile on the face of the merciful nobleman remained unchanged, his eyes were nailed to Ji Sihong's face for a moment, and he suddenly said: "In fact, to put it in detail, His Royal Highness King Jian's appearance is really similar to Concubine Lan, but not like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King An, but more like the emperor." ”

The corners of Ji Sihong's eyebrows jumped, but he could only lead but not provoke. Lan Guifei's face changed, her fingertips tightened suddenly, and she was so hard that her nails almost pierced into the flesh without realizing it.

There was silence in the main hall, and everyone naturally heard some rumors more or less, but they didn't expect the poor nobleman to say it in public. Ji Lingyun raised his eyebrows and looked at Ji Chengyu beside him, but Ji Chengyu shook his head.

Bai Yanran looked at the appearance of the poor nobleman who was much younger but five points similar to Lan Guifei, and for some reason there was a faint sense of strangeness in her heart. I don't know if it's because the noble people are not favored, Bai Yanran doesn't remember that there was such a person in the harem in her previous life.

When she retracted her gaze, Bai Yanran inadvertently glanced at Ji Yuren on the side, and saw him pouring himself a drink as usual, as if the things around him had nothing to do with him, and he was really an indifferent person.

Concubine Lan's seat was under Emperor Yuanhe, but at this time, she was also the target of everyone, peeking at Emperor Yuanhe, but saw that his expression was still calm, and it was difficult to distinguish between joy and anger.

Her heart sank, and the emperor had really heard those gossips. Concubine Lan knew that Emperor Yuanhe was suspicious, otherwise she would not have been able to make the emperor suspicious of the queen, causing the emperor to be centrifuge.

She made a quick decision, suddenly got up and walked to the front of the hall and knelt down, and when she looked up, her eyes were already red.

"Your Majesty, you must be the master of your concubine. Recently, I don't know what someone's intentions are, spreading rumors in the palace that are unfavorable to the concubines. The rumors are boiling, if the emperor can't return the concubine, the concubine will really not be able to live. ”

Emperor Yuan He, who was at the top, was silent for a moment, and the hall was extremely quiet for a while. Except for the crying of Concubine Lan, there was no sound at all.

Bai Yanran's gaze swept over Concubine Lan's aggrieved appearance, and sighed in her heart that it really made sense that this woman could pamper the Sixth Palace, and this beautiful pear blossom with a crying face was really pitiful.

can be graced for many years, and naturally he is not a dull person. Concubine Lan knew that Emperor Yuan He was already suspicious in her heart, so she simply took the opportunity to spread out the matter, but she seemed frank.

It's just that the things in this world pay attention to cause and effect, and if people don't know, they can't do it unless they have done it.

After a while, Emperor Yuanhe's face turned a little pale, and he ordered De'an to go down and help the person up. De'an has always received a lot of benefits from Concubine Lan, and all the family members outside the palace honor Concubine Lan and King Jian, so they naturally speak for her.

De'an asked Zhuyu and Luo'er, who were beside Concubine Lan, to help people up, and then said: "Don't worry, Concubine Niangniang, you have served the emperor for many years and done your best, and the emperor will naturally do it for you if you are wronged." "Qiankun Listening Book Network

Emperor Yuan He looked at De'an's eyes with a trace of coldness, then looked at Concubine Lan and asked, "Concubine Ai has something to say, what is going on?" ”

Lan Guifei only cared about the grievances of crying and didn't say a word. De'an, who was beside him, had the insight to see, and said: "The emperor doesn't know, recently there are people in the palace who are spreading great rebellious words, slandering the concubine and His Royal Highness King Jian, which is really hateful!" ”

Emperor Yuan He seemed to be completely ignorant and asked, "Oh? What is the rumor? ”

The poor nobleman finally seized the opportunity and preemptively said: "The emperor doesn't know, there are rumors in the palace recently that His Royal Highness King Jian is not the emperor's bloodline, but the evil seed born of Lan Guifei's fornication with others!" ”

Ji Sihong suddenly changed color, and before he could have a seizure, he heard a "clang", it was Yuan He Di Sheng who smashed the wine glass in anger, and scolded: "Nonsense! ”

Long Yan was furious, and everyone got up in panic, and then heard Yuan He's voice and Emperor Sen said coldly: "De'an, as the head of the palace, you actually allowed such a great rebellion to spread around, I don't want your head anymore." ”

De'an hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to ask for sin, and said with trembling lips: "Qi, Qi, Emperor, the slave is indeed guilty of ten thousand deaths." But the slave was not negligent in his duties, but in the end, he found that the rumors seemed to come from the queen's palace, and the slaves and slaves really didn't dare to ......"

The words came to an abrupt end here, obviously implying that the queen mother was in charge of the harem, and he, the chief manager, did not dare to collide with it.

Concubine Lan immediately took the opportunity to act, turned her head to look at the queen, and cried: "The concubine knows that she has never been liked by the queen because she is favored, but she doesn't want the queen to be so vicious, and she wants to put the concubine and Hong'er to death.

Poor my Hong'er has to bear such a stigma, and the concubine is a mother concubine, which is really heartbroken. ”

Ji Sihong's face turned pale, and he knelt down when he got up to attend, and said loudly: "Please ask my father to make the decision for his son, and return his son's innocence, otherwise his son would rather die than suffer this humiliation." ”

Emperor Yuanhe turned his head to look at the queen, and the queen slowly got up, and said with a calm face: "The emperor is clear, and the concubines are wronged." ”

Concubine Lan immediately spoke: "What Chief Administrator De'an said is true, the harem has always been strict and cautious, if it weren't for the acquiescence of the queen's mother, how could such a rebellious rumor be so loud?" ”

De'an chimed in and said: "What the slave said is true, and please ask the emperor to learn from it." ”

The tense relationship between the queen and Lan Guifei has long been well known, and if Lan Guifei has an accident, it will naturally be the queen who will benefit the most. Now Concubine Lan took the initiative to confess the rumors, which made the queen passive.

The Tong family and Emperor Yuanhe looked at each other and spoke again: "The concubine is wronged, and the emperor is asked to find out." ”

At this point, Ji Chengyu and Ji Lingyun naturally got up to intercede for the Tong family. Bai Yanran looked at De'an, who was being ignored, and suddenly said: "Erchen doesn't know how Chief De'an has always disciplined the palace people, but what Chief De'an said is very important, and it is related to the queen's reputation. Dare to ask Chief De'an, how did you know that the rumors came from Fengyi Palace?

If it was just based on the mouth of Chief De'an, he would be convicted of the queen's mother, and the ministers were terrified. In the previous dynasty, there were precedents of eunuchs deceiving their superiors and subordinates and playing with power, and it is inevitable that some people also have such crooked thoughts. ”

De'an didn't expect Bai Yanran's mouth to be so sharp, he couldn't help but stand on end, he didn't dare to look at the emperor's face, and couldn't help kowtowing and said: "The emperor is clear, the slave doesn't dare to deceive the emperor in the slightest with his sincerity." The servants have been waiting for the emperor for many years and have done their best, and they will never dare to give birth to half a delusion, and please ask the emperor to learn clearly! ”

Emperor Yuanhe's face was dark and uncertain, and he was speechless for a while. The beads of sweat on De'an's head kept rolling down, but he didn't care about it at all, and his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

Bai Yanran thought to herself, isn't it just to sow discord?

She then spoke: "In that case, please tell me who it is, when, and where to listen to whom?" Is there a witness around? ”

De'an was speechless when asked, and only after a moment did he say: "Rumors spread between mouths and tongues, and the casual words of the palace people are passed on by word of mouth in their leisure, where will they remember these details."

But the old slave asked many palace people privately, and they all said that the rumors came from Fengyi Palace at the beginning. If the princess still doesn't believe it, the slave will come in and ask questions. ”

Bai Yanran sneered: "But I only heard the words of Chief De'an, but I don't know how many palace people who can't remember the details learned that the news came from Fengyi Palace in the first place."

However, the chief steward of De'an, as the chief of the palace, is in charge of many palace people in the palace. It is said that the county officials are not as good as the current management, and your words must be more effective than the queen's phoenix edict. ”

Dean gritted his teeth with hatred, but he was speechless. Emperor Yuan He finally waved his hand impatiently and said, "Okay, let's get up." ”

The poor nobleman, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up again at this time: "Actually, things don't have to be so troublesome, as long as the emperor and His Royal Highness King Jian recognize each other with blood, they will know whether they are right or wrong." ”

Concubine Lan hated the noble man in her heart, but now there was no turning back, so she had to grit her teeth and gamble. She spoke: "The concubines know that the emperor's favor makes many people jealous, but they don't want people's hearts to be so vicious. In order to prove her innocence, the concubine is willing to let Hong'er and the emperor confess their relatives with blood! ”