As soon as Lu Qingjin and Qin Zhao arrived at the door, they saw Ji Chen kneeling straight on the ground, the two of them glanced at each other and walked in, Ji Chen heard the voice and turned around and made a big salute: "The guilty minister specially asks the emperor and the queen mother for their guilt!" ”

Lu Qingjin motioned to Xiao Fuzi to help Ji Chen up, and said with some uncertainty: "What do you mean is for the affairs of the Western Regions?" ”

Ji Chen's eyes darkened and he shook his head: "I don't know about the affairs of the Western Regions, but I just heard the news, this time I came here because my sister Concubine Li had a great rebellious mind to ask for guilt, and I also hope that the emperor and queen will not care about my sister's affairs for the sake of our family's meritorious deeds for generations, and I will take them out of the palace in a few days." ”

Before Qin Zhao could speak, Lu Qingjin put the handkerchief in his hand heavily on the table and said slowly: "I think this matter is just Concubine Li's confusion for a while, and we don't plan to care, Concubine Li is still the emperor's concubine and it is really inappropriate to go out of the palace, if the general wants to, he can take Concubine Li's child back to see, after all, his father is about to arrive in the capital." ”

Ji Chen's eyes flashed, he kowtowed, and thanked him and left, it seemed that he was already satisfied, Qin Zhao looked at his back and frowned: "I always think that Ji Chen is a little strange today, but I can't tell what is wrong at that time, but it is always good that he has this heart, Concubine Li is too anxious to learn the benefits of her brother." ”

Lu Qingjin always felt that Concubine Li was not a person who would betray her oath for this little thing, but for a while, she didn't know why, so she could only leave people first, Qin Zhao's words were also in the left ear and out of the right ear, Qin Zhao said it himself for a while, looked at Lu Qingjin and didn't react, shook his head a little helplessly, and pulled her hairpin, the woman's hairpin was originally a number in the hair, it was not a fixed hair, of course, it fell off as soon as it was pulled, Qin Zhao was a little embarrassed to take the hairpin and look at Lu Qingjin with an ugly face.

Lu Qingjin only felt that as soon as her hair was loosened, she saw the familiar hairpin in Qin Zhao's hand, she sighed a little helplessly, and looked at Qin Zhao with a bad face: "Your Majesty, this is fresh, I have never seen anyone ask his wife to pull her hair, I don't know, I think I made you angry and you want to kill me!" ”

Qin Zhao laughed innocently, shook his head, and said, "It's not that I'm talking to you, and you've been pretending not to hear!" Although you won't be allowed to meddle in the affairs of the Western Regions, you can't not come up with ideas at all! Seeing that the southwestern alien race has passed, we can't say nothing at all! ”

Lu Qingjin thought for a while before he said slowly: "In the end, no matter what we do in this matter, Prince Hu is already in the capital, and the relationship between the Hu people and the Western Regions has always been not very good. ”

Qin Zhao took a sip and said a little impatiently: "What are you talking about, don't think that you can hide from it by pretending not to know anything, you can show a little attitude when it is time now!" Don't say anything about Prince Hu and the Western Regions, you don't know. ”

Lu Qingjin shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly and said slowly: "Isn't there nothing I can do?" Jiu'an has no attitude over there, my aunt is now the concubine of the prince of the Hu people, on the bright side, the Western Regions and the Hu people are still old enemies, we can only wait and see if we are caught in the middle, if there is something to improvise, but things still have to be sent over, and it is not easy for their people. ”

Qin Zhao took a sip of tea, leaned back in the chair, exhaled and said with emotion: "Who said it wasn't!" When the news came, it was said that many people had been burned to dry corpses, and now the imperial city in the Western Regions has become a ghost city, and I don't know who I have offended, what a pitiful! ”

For a while, Lu Qingjin also felt a little more sad in his heart, after all, if no one rescued the Western Regions, he would really be turned into ashes under the attack of the Southwest Alien Race, but in the current state, who would dare to lend a hand except Jiu'an, but if Jiu'an wanted to lend a hand, he would have acted a long time ago, and he didn't have to wait until this time, which saw that the Western Regions had been abandoned.

Before Lu Qingjin could come up with a reason, he heard Xiao Fuzi's voice sound with some fear: "The slave heard about this incident because there was gunpowder accidentally brought in the caravan, it's not that it was not saved all of a sudden, and the gunpowder in our capital should also be investigated!" ”

Qin Zhao nodded very seriously when he heard this: "What you said is very reasonable, but this matter is not in a hurry, some gunpowder traffickers were just captured a few days ago, and now no one should come forward against the wind, let's wait for Ji Chen to be idle and let him do it!" ”

Lu Qingjin rubbed his wrist a little puzzled and said lightly: "This is not very important, it's just a routine inspection, even if it's someone else, it's the same thing, why bother him if the general is busy every day." ”

Qin Zhao stretched his waist and replied casually: "You don't know this, the person who found out a few days ago is a distant relative of the general, because of this matter, many people are still indignant, I can also be regarded as giving Ji Chen a chance to clear his suspicion, after all, this black cauldron can't always be carried on his back!" ”

Xiao Fuzi said in a sneering manner: "Speaking of which, the general is also very wronged, this gunpowder is already very rare, and only the border battalion is managed in the capital, and it is really easy to find the source of this incident." ”

Lu Qingjin had a flash of inspiration in his mind and thought for a while before he slowly spoke: "Do you say that it is possible that this matter was not done by a relative, but deliberately by the general?" ”

Qin Zhao took a sip of water and frowned and denied: "This is impossible!" Ji Chen has always been loyal, I absolutely don't believe that he will betray Dayu, you should think too much. ”

Lu Qingjin looked at Qin Zhao's evasive attitude and knew that he was also a little suspicious, and immediately said simply: "I don't have theoretical doubts, you should also know that this matter will not be done by Jiu'an and others, then the most likely person is only charity, charity is now subject to people in the capital, there is no gunpowder, then the source of this gunpowder is the biggest clue, although the general is loyal, but you also know how much the general spoils Concubine Li, do you think he really won't protect Concubine Li?" ”

Qin Zhao lowered his head and thought for a while without speaking, Lu Qingjin knew that he was connecting the recent events into a clue, so he didn't speak, and the room was very quiet for a while, and he could only hear Xiao Fuzi's heavy breathing and the maid's hurried footsteps.