Mu Meiren was ordered by His Majesty to return to her own family, this should be the folk said to leave, she did not suffer for too long because of this matter, but instead married her cousin in her mother's family and went to live in Yuguo, where her mother's house is located.

In this matter, I am very satisfied with the result, let a person recognize himself clearly, and no one has been fatally injured, my mother said, this is called relaxation.

I hugged Zhao'er and reached out to touch his little face, he giggled, showed the two little white teeth underneath, and whispered, "Son, good son, my baby." ”

"Baby? So he's your baby, what about me? His Majesty lay down beside us with his hands behind his head, and I looked sideways at him, "You are the father of the baby, old baby." As I spoke, I touched his face, but he just closed his eyes and didn't react, so I just thought he was asleep and stopped provoking him.

"Why didn't you continue?" His Majesty asked.

"When I touched Zhao'er's face, he would giggle, you silent, I thought you were asleep." I held Zhao'er to the nurse and leaned over beside him a little tired, looking at his face.

He laughed, "Like this?" ”

I reached out and stroked his face, "Go to sleep when you're tired, I'm tired too." ”

After a long time, he hummed, and I was already asleep.

After Mu Meiren's incident, I continued to shrink my head and live my life, which is not long, but not short, and many things have happened.

First of all, the youngest daughter of the Queen Mother, the eldest princess of Yining, was married, she was the least favored little princess among His Majesty's four princesses, and the most noble and favored eldest princess, the second princess, was born to my aunt and concubine respectively. They all have a good home, especially the second princess, who married to the country of Kasa and is now the queen of the country of Kasa. As for the third princess, because of her mother and brother, she only married a marquis's family, and Xiao Yanwengong, who originally liked it very much, only missed it.

As for the most inconspicuous little princess, she got married and married into the Xu family, Xu Yuan'er's younger brother, Xu Antai. Originally, it was the one my fiancé chose.

Sitting on the phoenix chair, I should have paid all my attention to the newlyweds at the bottom of the stairs, but I couldn't take my eyes off Rong Tan's body, and beside him, his newlywed wife Xu Yuan'er was sitting.

Rong Tan also found that I was looking at him, he just glanced at me hurriedly, lowered his gaze, and thought about it, he received my letter, and really started, a new life.

I sighed and looked away, only to find that I really couldn't. I glanced at Xu Yuan'er again, and she smiled kindly at me, which really made me look away.

The Queen Mother, who was sitting on the other side, was wiping the tears in her eyes with the handkerchief in her hand, I was really bored, supporting my head with my hands, but I still couldn't stop my eyes from looking at Rong Tan.

Rong Tan seems to be very good to his new wife, he will cook for her, and put the wine glass in her hand aside, in the final analysis, Rong Tan is such a person, he treats people delicately, observes carefully, he is very good at taking care of people.

"Queen" I heard His Majesty call me again, I looked at him coldly, I knew his displeasure, but all this was beyond my control, I just looked at him lightly, until he turned his face away.

A couple of newcomers walked out of the hall hand in hand, this ceremony, even if it was over, I couldn't wait to stand up, ready to leave, but I saw Rong Tan's eyes, he was giving me a look.

I was too familiar with him, and I knew that he wanted to talk to me in private, I nodded, and then excused myself for being unwell, and without waiting for everyone to send Yining away, I turned around and left, although the Queen Mother's eyes were complicated, but I really didn't want to give them face.

Coming out of the main hall, I went to Kun Palace from the left side, and after a while, on the edge of a rockery, I saw Rong Tan, he waited for me for a while, standing under a cluster of green bamboos, I walked over slowly, although the footsteps were not sinking, but he still heard "So, that's what you said, a new life?" ”

He stopped me and I laughed, "Yes, naturally, what else can I do?" ”

"But you're not having a good time." He turned around and looked into my face, "You're a lot haggard, and you don't smile anymore." ”

My smile froze on my face, and I felt that he was still blind when he was so dignified, so I said, "You look good, newlywed Yan'er, beautiful woman by the side." ”

"I'm not used to listening to your instructions, you wrote that I should not be trapped in the emotions of the past and start a new life, so I won't start this?"

I nodded, "Yes, yes, you and I do." ”

"You, don't cry" Rong Tan lowered his head and looked at me with tears in his eyes. I looked up at his concerned face, and then my heart sank, and I said with a crying voice, "That's what you said, starting a new life?" You are someone else's husband now, and whether other women cry or laugh has nothing to do with you anymore. Rongtan, I know a lot about what you did to me. When I was riddled with rumors, it was you who were desperately looking for evidence for me, and when I was seized power by the Queen Mother, your twists and turns went all the way to His Majesty's desk, you, you are now someone else's husband, and I have become the most noble woman in the world. After saying the last sentence, I couldn't help laughing at myself, in the past, he always said, I could have become the queen, but I was going to marry him a small clan child, I always said at that time, "Since you know that I have given up the most noble position in the world for you, then you must be doubly good to me." ”

Naturally, he knew what I was laughing at myself, and reached out to wipe away my tears as before, but I avoided "We, we can't have this anymore." ”

"Chai Yun'e, you take one bite of us, you let me, how can I be separated from you?" Rong Tan's hand hung down weakly, and he looked at my face, very frustrated.

"Okay, then from now on, you are you, you are the prince of Yuwangfu, I am me, I am Your Majesty's queen. I..."The emotions in my heart surged too much, and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I stomped my foot "I don't want to be separated from you, but I can't help it, we can't be together." ”

The first time I saw him, he smiled so movingly, the corners of his mouth and eyes were smiling, now the corners of his mouth were sinking, with tears in his eyes, and he lowered his head, as if he had lost his most precious thing.

"Rongtan—" I called his name, and then hung my head and prepared to leave the place that had left me unsettled.

I walked forward, and Rong Tan stopped me, "Yun'e, do you remember the poem I taught you to write the cicada song." ”

I nodded, but I didn't look back.

He knew that I was listening, so he read out the poem, and I had already walked around the corner, and when I looked at him again, his tears flowed down, and he whispered to me, "Chai Yun'e, you listen to this cicada song lingering in your ears again, and it rings again." ”

I have been depressed for several days, and His Majesty will not come, I am also happy to be quiet, the sound of this early cicada, but there is still a sense of crispness. I'm more able to be silent.,I didn't want to read a page of the book in the past.,You can also read a whole collection.,This reader is sour and rotten.,Write more about the country and the people.,Comb your heart is sad and angry.,I also think you're not interesting when you read it.,So I just flipped through it randomly.,After reading this sentence.,Forget the previous page.,And then pick up another book.。 And the days have passed for a long time in such a day by day.

The harem frequently spread the news that the concubine was pregnant, and in a few years, His Majesty already had four or five sons, among which Xiao, who was the most obedient to me, was already pregnant with a second child, and her first child, the second prince Rong Ying, was sent out of the palace because of the ominous fate when he was born.

Although there are constantly princes and princesses born, I don't know what the reason is, in this palace, except for my Zhao'er and Rongying's two children who were sent out, there is no one.

His Majesty was just like his father, believing in the art of Taoism, and now he is even more secretive, recruiting the masters of the Shangqing Palace into the palace, and doing it everywhere in the palace, I just watched from the side, and I felt that I was really tired, so I took Si'er, out of the place where the pine oil gold paper burned smell, and went to the liquid pool on the side to relax.

Walking to the lake, it was the height of summer, I sat on a big rock, Si'er fanned me with a fan, the wind blew the willow tree in front of me slightly, I finally felt better, not as dizzy as just now.

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly heard the sound of falling water, I looked around, I didn't pay attention just now, I and Si'er had no brains, and we actually walked to the time where the old palace was.

The palace in Jinling was not entirely new. This was originally the old palace of the previous dynasty, and the emperor of the previous dynasty was violent. Even at the end of the reign, the previous dynasty had come to an end, and still used the power of the whole dynasty to build a gorgeous palace.

This errand fell on Emperor Yu, who was originally the prince of the clan, and Emperor Yu was the elder brother of Taizong of this dynasty. This errand was impossible to complete, so Emperor Yu raised troops, and finally there was this new dynasty.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, the new capital was set on Luoyang, the fief of the original Emperor Yu, so it was abandoned here, until the first emperor built a new palace, which was built on the basis of the palace of the previous dynasty. And this liquid pool, that is, the Taiye pool of the previous dynasty, and further on, is the abandoned palace of the former dynasty. I've always known this place, but it's really the first time I've been here.

I looked around, suddenly felt desolate, and then probed the sound of falling into the water just now, I fixed my eyes and saw that it was actually two strong women, carrying a human-shaped cloth bag, and threw it into the liquid pool.

I was horrified, and I was about to step forward, but I was stopped by Si'er, she pressed me, squatted on the ground, and whispered to me, "Niangniang, look at the palace maid in this palace." ”

I'm looking at the two strong palace maids, the one on the left, I have some impressions, because she, like Da Mama next to Princess Yu, is a descendant of the Hu people, with an exotic face, and a strong body like a man.

"This is the person next to Xiao Zhaoyi." I know her, there are not many people with this kind of face in the palace, most of them are brought in by concubines from outside the palace, I remember very clearly that among the concubines in the palace, only Xiao Zhaoyi brought in such a person.

"We have no way to conclude why they are here, what their intentions are, Niangniang, if you look at the things thrown in the pool, even if they are people, they must be dead, otherwise it is impossible to have no movement at all." I was dragged by Si'er, and the two of us used large rocks as a cover and left the place far away.

I was pulled out of breath by Si'er, and Si'er couldn't stop looking back, and when she was sure that no one was coming, she knelt on the ground and said to me, "Niangniang, you have seen today's events with your own eyes, slave maid, please go and meet the Queen Mother." ”

"You asked me to see the Queen Mother? Are you—" I pointed at Si'er, incredulous.

Si'er was afraid that I would think she was the queen mother, so she desperately defended, "Niangniang, you know it." When you married into the palace, the queen mother had not yet entered the palace, and when Your Majesty chose a maid for your mother, she also chose a native of Jinling, and Lao Tzu and Niang were all outside the palace, and the family was pinched in their hands, and they had never seen the queen mother, so requested. How can a slave or maid be a person who is the queen mother. It's just that this year, something has happened. ”

"What's the matter?" I saw that her expression was the same, her family was indeed in my hands, and I was not afraid that she would be able to turn over any tricks, so I believed her, after all, she did her best to me, she was smart and good.

"When the slave maid entered the palace, with a palace maid named Yuelan, together with the teaching of the inner court of the Wang Mama, the two of us suffered and were punished together, worshiped the son and became a good sister, only to be taken care of in the palace. Later, the slave maid was assigned to the Niangniang Palace, and Yuelan was assigned to the royal front because she could read and write, serving His Majesty's tea and private accounts. Presumably, Niangniang should have seen her, a palace maid who always wears a moon-white ribbon in her hair. As soon as Si'er said this, I nodded, I remember that this palace maid is good-looking, and His Majesty also said that there is something like me between her eyebrows and eyes, but she doesn't have the strong temperament of me.

"A year ago, His Majesty pampered her."

"What?" I raised my voice, although I don't care about this harem trivialities, but such a thing, it stands to reason, I should know, the palace maid is favored, either she is sealed and becomes a member of the harem, or if it is just an overnight luck, she will be sent out of the palace and sent to the Buddhist temple. Anyway, it's been a year since this happened, and I haven't seen this Yuelan, so something must have happened in it.

"Niangniang Mingjian, my good sister disappeared mysteriously after being favored by His Majesty." Seeing the confusion on my face, Si'er knew that I realized that something unusual had happened, and continued, "The slave is the third person besides Your Majesty and Yuelan to know about this matter. There was a torrential rain that day, His Majesty stayed in the warm pavilion of the Qiandian, because there was nothing to do, he drank a little wine, and then he separated all the people around him, and it happened that Yuelan was also trapped in the Qiandian because of the heavy rain, His Majesty saw her, so he let her serve from the side, and then fell asleep. Yuelan was frightened, got up and hurried away, braved the rain to my bedroom, and told me what had happened. At that time, you have already fallen asleep, and I will let her return to Your Majesty's side, otherwise what will you do when Your Majesty wakes up tomorrow and forgets about this matter? So she turned back again, and the next day when I went to look for her in the Qiandian, the eunuch in charge of His Majesty's side, Li Gonggong, said that he had not seen Yuelan since last night, Yuelan was favored by His Majesty, and ran out crying in the rain. I clearly asked her to come back, and she must have made a mistake on the way back. After His Majesty woke up, he really forgot about this incident completely. Gonggong Li slowly told His Majesty about this matter, and His Majesty ordered him to find it, and found Yuelan's body in the liquid pool in front of him. Do you remember? ”

When I say this, I still have some impressions. At that time, I only heard that the liquid pool drowned a palace maid, saying that it was Yuda who couldn't see the road clearly and stumbled, or the palace maid next to His Majesty, and His Majesty also ordered her parents to be rewarded.

"This—" I choked for a moment, and then opened my mouth and scolded, "A slave is born, and he is born as a slave. This palace maid was unwilling to serve him, so she threw herself into the lake? ”

"Naturally not, the slave and maid remember very clearly, Yuelan was very happy when she came to find the slave maid, she told the slave maid that she has always been very envious of His Majesty's kindness to Niangniang, and felt that it was a very good thing to be able to serve His Majesty all the time and have to be taken care of by His Majesty like this. So when the slave persuaded her to go back, she was also in a hurry, and went back without waiting for the rain to stop. ”

"Envy me? What do you envy me for? So how did she die? Is it really because of a slippery foot that fell into the pool, as it says from the outside? "The more I listened, the more strange it became.

The slave suspected that she was killed, and after her death, as her friend, the slave was instructed by Mama Wang to sort out her clothes and return them to her mother's family for burial, and the slave found that there were not many traces of struggle on her body, and she must have been desperately fluttering when she fell into the water, but her hands had been hanging down under her, and there were no traces of scratches on her wrists by the debris under the water. Moreover, the drowned person will have a lot of water in her stomach, but there is not much water in her stomach. So when she went into the water, she was already in a coma, and even cut off her life. Si'er told me everything she knew, her anxious forehead sweating, fear and the maintenance of her good sister, jumped on her face. I knew that she had a deep sisterhood for Yuelan, so I nodded, "I know about this matter, how did you investigate?" ”

"The slave maid first went to check on His Majesty, and felt that His Majesty regretted it afterwards and wanted to kill Yuelan."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty is definitely not such a person. He pampered a woman and sealed her in the palace, which was easier than killing her. And he is the king of a country, and he will never do such a dirty thing. "I still know a little bit about His Majesty's character and style of acting, so I dare to say so.

Si'er nodded and said, "Yes, the slave maid was also the first to exclude Your Majesty." Afterwards, he didn't hide this matter, although he concealed the fact that he had pampered Yuelan, but most of the time he felt troublesome, so he did it. Your Majesty is the king of a country, and he can't do such a thing, and he can't do it. So, the slave thought of a second candidate..."

"It's me?" I smirked and pointed at myself.

"The slave maid never suspected the mother, the incident happened suddenly, and the slave and the maid have been with the mother, it is impossible for the slave to do such a thing by herself, if you want to do it, you will also tell the slave and the maid to do it. The slave and maid were not given such orders, so this matter was not done by the mother. ”

"It's not me and it's not Your Majesty, so why are you involved with the Queen Mother again?"

"The slave has no clues and evidence at all, and has to serve the mother, so she can only observe and observe when she walks around, and still finds nothing. At this moment, Aunt Xuecui beside the Queen Mother found the slave maid and asked the slave maid about Yuelan, and the slave maid saw that someone finally cared, and the slave maid was the poor sister, so she told Aunt Xuecui what she said to Niangniang today, and Aunt Xuecui asked the slave to go back first, and today she handed the news to the slave maid, and asked the slave maid to lead the maid to come here, so that the maid could see what had just happened, and finally let the maid go to this Ci'an Palace to see the queen mother. The slave didn't do anything for the queen mother, but this matter was like wildfire, it came and went suddenly, but it gradually became one, and finally you burned closer and closer to the mother, and the slave couldn't look at the mother, without noticing. ”

"If you hadn't told me today, I really wouldn't have known, but who is harming people in the palace, it doesn't seem to have any purpose or tail, but I inexplicably feel that these things have something to do with me. I've been careful and avoidant enough, but I didn't expect these things to come to me one by one. Let's go to the Queen Mother's palace to see what she has investigated. ”

I have always been not on good terms with the Queen Mother, this is no longer a secret thing, but it is really written on the faces of the two of us, these years openly and secretly, I have given the Queen Mother a lot of facelessness, although the Queen Mother on the surface, a generous look, do not care about me. But I took the initiative to hand over the power of the harem, which has been firmly grasped by her over the years, but in the end she is also old, and she is afraid that others will say that she is too greedy for power, and as the queen mother, she has to ask about her son's harem, so I found a baffle, and now Xiao Zhaoyi is the baffle she found for herself, Xiao Zhaoyi is submissive, quite like His Majesty's demeanor when he was a child, and he blushes when he talks to people for two or three sentences, and he can't say a word of heavy words, so it is clear who is in the hands of this harem.

I walked on the way to the Empress Dowager's Palace, and thought about this matter before and after, the grandmother with a bearded face, although she was from Xiao Zhaoyi's palace, but if this matter was really done by her, wouldn't she find such a recognizable grandmother to come out?

And what exactly they put in the cloth bag they threw into the pool of liquid is really unknown.

Shadows, even when the sun shines on me, will be with me, I frowned, and slowly walked forward.