When you open it, there are pearl jewelry, brocade cloth, gorgeous clothes, and even a jade ruyi carved with good mutton fat and white jade, these things are very valuable, and they are scorching on the table.

Old Mrs. Shen was shocked, and hurriedly took Shen Nianzhen to kneel down to thank her.

"Mother is so polite! These are the things that should be done, and they don't have to be so expensive. Shen Nian was sincerely afraid.

Lady Zhang smiled, stretched out her hand to help her and Mrs. Shen up from the ground, and said with a smile: "Niangniang said that there are so many people in the palace, only Miss Shen takes her illness to heart, and really invites a useful doctor, who can let her breathe the fresh air in the imperial garden, even if there are more jewelry, it can't express Niangniang's gratitude, these things are what Miss Shen deserves, don't shirk." ”

When Shen Nianzhen heard this, he thanked him again.

Female official Zhang is Concubine Qi's confidant, she is very valued by Concubine Qi, she also sees what Shen Nianzhen has done during this time, and she is very happy that her mother can get such a clever daughter-in-law, seeing Shen Nianzhen so polite, the smile on her face is a little more, and once again asked Shen Nianzhen to enter the palace to visit Concubine Qi.

Shen Nianzhen heard this, but he was a little hesitant.

Last night, she had already made up her mind to stay away from the second prince from now on, and then find a way to get rid of the marriage contract.

If she enters the palace again, it will be against her will.

"What's wrong? Miss Shen is not feeling well? Or is there something going on? Lady Zhang observed her words and said: "If this is the case, then ......"

"I'm fine, I can enter the palace." Shen Nianzhen took a deep breath and interrupted her.

The one who should come will always come, since she personally recommended Doctor Ge to enter the palace to treat Concubine Qi, then she can't leave this matter alone, at least she should wait for Concubine Qi to recover before talking about anything else.

"That's good, does Miss Shen need to change her clothes?" Lady Zhang was overjoyed when she heard this, and immediately asked.

"Yes, I hope Aunt Zhang will wait here for a while."

"It's okay, it should be." Lady Zhang smiled, looked at Shen Nianzhen, and said seriously: "Last time, the girl encountered a very unhappy thing in the palace, and the mother was very guilty about it, so this time she specially sent a slave to pick up the girl into the palace, and when she left the palace, it was the same, and no one would disturb you again, please rest assured." ”

It turned out that she was afraid that she would have concerns because of the last queen's incident.

Shen Nianzhen actually hadn't had time to think about it.

"Then thank you, mother." She smiled slightly, and her heart was relieved.

Half an hour later, she changed into a newly made light green spring shirt, led the picturesque, and under the leadership of Lady Zhang, she rode all the way to the palace in the carriage that entered the palace.

It wasn't until this time that she remembered a question: "Aunt Zhang, is His Royal Highness the Second Prince in the palace today?" ”

Lady Zhang thought that she wanted to see the second prince, and said with some regret when she heard the words: "I'm sorry, the second highness didn't enter the palace today to ask the mother for peace, if the girl wants to see the highness, the slave can send to ask the ......."

"No need!" Shen Nianzhen hurriedly smiled and refused: "Second Highness is so busy, I just asked casually, auntie, don't let people disturb him." ”

Just kidding, she just didn't want to see Rong Chen, so she asked him where he was.

"Oh......"

Lady Zhang glanced at her thoughtfully.

Soon, the palace arrived.

This road is indeed as Lady Zhang said, unimpeded, the carriage almost did not stop when passing through the palace gate, and then went all the way to the outside of Langhuan Palace, Lady Zhang got off the carriage first, and then personally stood under the carriage to meet Shen Nianzhen.

Then, he led her directly into the temple.

Concubine Qi was eating in the side hall, on a small pear blossom wood eight immortal table, there were a few very light porridge dishes, Concubine Qi was lowering her head and drinking porridge slowly, when she heard the footsteps, she immediately raised her head.

The girl who walked in behind Lady Zhang was dressed in a light green spring shirt, with nothing else on her sideburns except a hibiscus hosta, pearl earrings on her ears, slender and slender, and she walked in like a budding flower waiting to be released, Chu Chu was moving.

In all fairness, Shen Nian's appearance is really good, and compared to Su Muwan, he doesn't accept much.

Concubine Qi glanced at it, and then a smile overflowed from the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, and she beckoned to Shen Nianzhen, who was saluting: "Don't be polite, you haven't had breakfast yet!" Sit down and use it with Hongu. ”

Before Shen Nianzhen entered the palace, she had already accompanied Mrs. Shen to breakfast, but Concubine Qi invited her kindly, and she couldn't refuse, so she nodded, and Lady Zhang personally stepped forward and served her a bowl of porridge.

Shen Nianzhen thanked him, and then sat down at the head of Concubine Qi.

Then, I took a spoon and drank porridge in small bites.

Concubine Qi smiled at the corner of her mouth, quietly observing her every move, and found that she couldn't find any mistakes, and couldn't help but secretly praise in her heart, don't look at the Shen family has not been in Beijing for many years, but the girls in the family are still very good.

Shen Nian is really beautiful, kind-hearted, and knows filial piety, it is not bad for such a girl to be her daughter-in-law.

After the meal, Concubine Qi was in a good mood and wanted to take Shen Nianzhen to the imperial garden.

Shen Nianzhen naturally has no opinions, speaking of which, in two lifetimes combined, it is the first time she has gone to visit the Royal Garden.

"In another month, it will be the day when the queen will hold a flower-viewing banquet."

Concubine Qi glanced at Shen Nianzhen and said slowly: "If you don't want to come, I'll let someone say to the queen......"

This is clearly a polite remark.

The queen held a banquet, and the daughters with heads and faces in Shangjing would participate, if it was just as usual, Shen Nianzhen was not invited at all, it didn't matter if she came or not. But this year, she got married to the second prince, how could she not come?

How will the queen and the people in the palace talk about it at that time......

"It's okay, mother, I'm willing to participate." Shen Nianzhen smiled and replied.

"Really?" Concubine Qi looked at her in surprise, and was a little impressed by Shen Nianzhen.

has already suffered a loss from the queen and Su Muwan, but he is not willing to back down, straightens his waist and does what he should do, such a Shen Nianzhen is really rare.

"Don't worry, with Hongu here, you won't let the events of that day happen......"

Concubine Qi was excited, held Shen Nianzhen's hand, and solemnly assured her.

Shen Nian was really about to answer, but a cool voice suddenly came from behind him: "Yo! Who should this palace be, it turned out to be Concubine Qi. ”

Shen Nianzhen and Concubine Qi hurriedly turned around, and saw the queen walking slowly towards this side gracefully and luxuriously, accompanied by the palace people.

Behind him, he was followed by Su Muwan.

After a day of not seeing her, Su Muwan was still dazzling and dazzling, just standing quietly beside the queen, and snatched away all the women's light.

Shen Nianzhen glanced at her, and sighed in his heart.

didn't have time to think about anything, so he knelt down with Concubine Qi and asked for peace: "The concubine (courtier) see the queen's mother!" ”

"Get up." The queen's gaze fell on Concubine Qi's weak body, turned slightly, and then sounded with a sarcastic voice: "You have been lying in bed for seven or eight years with this medicine jar, and I heard that your future daughter-in-law found a down-and-out man from the corner and ditch and cured you?" What kind of doctor is he? Hongu is really curious. ”

"It's just an ordinary country man."

Concubine Qi lowered her head and replied indifferently: "In fact, the concubine's illness can be cured, completely relying on a few imperial doctors in the palace, if it weren't for their careful conditioning, the concubine wouldn't have survived at all, and she was almost recuperated. ”

"Oh? So that's the case? ”

The queen's eyes flashed, then fell on Shen Nianzhen, and a sneer came out of her nose: "Miss Shen, meet again." ”

"Thank you, Niangniang."

Shen Nianzhen stood behind Concubine Qi and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

As soon as the words fell, a fat cat with a snow-white body and only four black paws suddenly came out of the flowers in the oblique thorns, bounced into the air, and attacked Shen Nianzhen's façade with all four claws open!

Shen Nianzhen was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled Concubine Qi to the side to dodge!

The cat pounced, fell to the ground and turned around, and once again roared and lunged at her!

Shen Nianzhen used all his strength to push Concubine Qi onto the palace maid on the side.

The next moment, the cat was already in front of her.

Shen Nianzhen's brain was blank, and he forgot to react for a while.

In my ears, there was the mournful scream of the palace maid: "Miss Shen! Get out of the way! Flash the ......"

In shock, Shen Nianzhen pulled the hairpin from his head and stabbed it fiercely at the fat cat that pounced. At this moment, she couldn't care about anything, and there was only one thought in her heart, and that was: kill it!

Only by killing it could she survive herself.

The hairpin cut through one of the wild cat's front paws, and it screamed, turned around and landed on a branch on the side, screaming at Shen Nianzhen's uncontrollable roar, staring at him.

Over there, Su Muwan had already dodged into the distance with the queen.

Concubine Qi was also pulled back by the palace maid and retreated a long way.

Only Shen Nianzhen was alone, facing this crazy cat, alone.

The cat, constantly jumping and jumping over the branches, making fluttering movements at any time, stretched out its long fangs at Shen Nianzhen, as if it had been hit by an evil spirit, it looked chilling.

Shen Nianzhen held the hairpin and stood vigilantly staring at it, his nervous teeth chattering.

Finally, the cat pounced on her again.

Shen Nianzhen raised the hairpin in his hand.

Just as the fat cat was about to pounce in front of her, a sharp sound of breaking the air suddenly sounded in mid-air, and then, as if the cat had been stabbed by something, the brush fell from mid-air, fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, and then remained motionless.

Shen Nianzhen lowered his head in shock, and saw a sharp dagger stuck in the cat's body, and blood gushed out.

"Mother, let's take a look!"

Su Muwan immediately helped the queen to walk forward quickly, and when she saw the dead cat on the ground, she suddenly let out an exclamation: "Oops! It's not ...... Isn't it the cat raised by Zhaohua's cousin? She likes it......"

"It's true!" The queen also saw it, and her face suddenly changed.

Then he was furious and said: "Shen Nianzhen! How daring! Dare to kill the princess's favorite cat! That's a tribute from the Dongying Kingdom, and His Majesty rewarded the princess! ”

Shen Nianzhen looked down at the dead cat, except for being fat, she couldn't tell that it was a tribute at all, this quality was too ordinary!

"Sister Zhaohua doesn't know the news yet......"

Su Muwan let out a slight sigh of regret, and gently wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, as if she was very sad that a cat died like this.

Every time she said a word, the expression on the queen's face turned cold.

Later, it was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Miss Shen, what are you going to do with this matter?"

"Queen Mother! It's not Miss Su's fault! Concubine Qi held the palace maid's hand, walked forward quickly, and said: "If it weren't for this cat going crazy and trying to scratch Miss Shen's face, she wouldn't have put such a heavy hand on this cat. ”

"You mean, it's all the cat's fault?" The queen said coldly: "There are so many people here, it doesn't arrest you, it doesn't arrest the palace, and it doesn't arrest these palace people, why do you want to arrest Miss Shen?" Is it because she is not clean and has something unpleasant, so she doesn't like it? How can such a person enter the palace? ”

"Queen Mother!"

Shen Nianzhen raised his voice, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "As we all know, Your Majesty personally made the decision to marry his courtiers to His Royal Highness the Second Prince, do you mean that Your Majesty was confused and gave a woman who was not clean and full of bad luck to his son?" ”

"Presumptuous! When did Hongu say this! The queen was even more angry.

"Although Niangniang didn't say it, this is what you mean in and out of your words." Ponder the truth.

"Miss Su really likes to take things out of context." Su Muwan smiled and said, "Anyway, you killed the cat raised by the Seventh Princess, this is a fact, you still think about it, how can you compensate Her Royal Highness the Princess, right?" ”

Shen Nian was really about to open his mouth to answer, and a deep voice sounded behind him: "This cat was killed by His Royal Highness, even if I want to pay compensation, I should personally go to make amends to the seventh sister!" And no one else! ”

When Su Muwan heard this, her face immediately changed.

Shen Nianzhen turned his head slowly, and saw Rong Chen walking out from behind the flowers that had just flown out of the flying knife, and his face was more and more white and handsome, with dark green moire robes, and his pupils were pitch black, like a secluded deep pool, unfathomable.

Shen Nianzhen immediately retracted his gaze, a little surprised in his heart, didn't Aunt Zhang just say that he was not in the palace today? How did it come?

"Who is this palace, it turns out that you are a bastard!"

As soon as the queen saw Rong Chen, her face instantly became extremely ugly, and she gritted her teeth and glared at him angrily, as if the palace maid next to her was about to pounce on her and tear off a piece of meat from Rong Chen's body.

That strong hatred, even Shen Nianzhen felt it.

Rong Chen seemed unhurried, the more angry the queen was, the more he wanted to come forward and salute, with an angry smile on his face: "Queen Mother, the son has come to greet you, I wish the mother a blessing like the East China Sea, and a longevity than Nanshan......"

This is wishing that the queen died early!

Sure enough, the queen was even more annoyed when she heard this, and said angrily: "Why are you in the palace today? Did you really hurt Zhaohua's cat just now? ”

"If the cat doesn't kill it, it will hurt Erchen's fiancée." Rong Chen said slowly: "In the eyes of Erchen, human life is greater than the life of animals, doesn't the queen think so?" ”

Of course the queen doesn't think so!

She thinks that a hundred Shen Nianzhen is not as good as a cat raised by her daughter Zhaohua!

Shen Nianzhen deserves to die!

Rong Chen deserves to die!

"Queen Mother, if there is nothing to do, Erchen will take his mother and Miss Shen away first." Rong Chen said slowly: "Then, Erchen will personally come to the door and ask the seventh sister for the guilt. ”

After speaking, he took Shen Nianzhen's hand and took her to leave.

Shen Nianzhen struggled for a while, but didn't break away.

Concubine Qi also bowed slowly to the queen: "The concubine retires." ”

Su Muwan stood in place, quietly watching Rong Chen's back holding Shen Nianzhen away, the smile on her face gradually solidified and became expressionless.

"Go back to the palace!"

The queen glanced at the dead cat on the ground, only to feel very unlucky, flicked her sleeves, turned around and returned to Kunning Palace angrily.

Su Muwan stayed silently, and the commanding palace people disposed of the body of the fat cat that was stabbed to death, and transported it out of the palace to find a place to bury it: "After all, this is Princess Zhaohua's cat, you have to be careful." ”

"Yes, Miss Su."

The palace people replied again and again, and some people were talking in a low voice: "Miss Su is really kind!" Even treating a cat is so gentle, Your Royal Highness is really blessed to be able to marry her......"

When Su Muwan heard these discussions, she hooked the corners of her mouth, a touch of regret flashed in her eyes, and she raised her feet to chase the queen.

As soon as he left the sight of the queen and others, and made sure that Concubine Qi was not in front of him, Shen Nianzhen immediately pulled out the hand that was held by Rong Chen, took a few steps back, bent down and saluted: "Thank you Your Highness for saving me today, if there is nothing else, the courtiers will retire first." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Rong Chen to speak, he turned around and was about to leave.

Rong Chen lazily stretched out his long arm to stop him, and Shen Nianzhen couldn't take a step forward.

He blocked her between the red lacquer corridor and the pillars, stared at her eyes, lowered his head and sneered: "What, this palace saved your life again, you have this attitude?" ”

"Then what attitude does Your Highness want me to have?"

Shen Nianzhen raised his head to look at him, and said lightly: "Thanksgiving? Many thanks? Secret promise? You said it yourself, and I don't need to be grateful. ”

"Forget about the previous ones, today, how are you going to say thank you?" Rong Chen looked at her, his eyes were deep, and his expression was narrow: "This is a life-saving grace......

"How does the prince want me to thank you?" Shen Nianzhen asked rhetorically.

"How about making a promise?"

Shen Nianzhen: "......"

She rolled her eyes speechlessly, reached out and lifted Rong Chen's arm, bent down and got out under his elbow, like a nimble swallow, and walked away.

Rong Chen stretched out his hand and pulled her back, this time holding her tightly in his arms, before Shen Nianzhen's resistance with punches and kicks, he said a little uncomfortably: "Okay!" What happened before, it was Hongu's mistake! ”

Someone like him would actually apologize?

Shen Nianzhen stiffened slightly, and raised his eyes to look at him.

Rong Chen still had that unbeaten expression, and Shen Nianzhen immediately sneered: "How could Your Highness be wrong?" ”

"Of course Hongu is wrong." Rong Chen looked down at her and said, "I got the news before, my cousin asked you to enter Wangjiang Tower, and the palace was afraid that you would suffer, so I hurried to ......."