On the second day, Xie Ruqing almost didn't get up, and didn't get up until he had to get up. I tossed until late last night, and I didn't sleep long at all, so I would definitely sleep until three o'clock in the morning.

"Madame, was it comfortable to bathe last night?" Qi Yanyi said while helping her get dressed.

Xie Ruqing glared at him, "I'll never let you wash it in the future, you, you're too unserious." ”

At first, he washed well, who knew that this person later went into the bathtub, and then there were all kinds of shamelessness, but, aside from the fact that it was too unpleasant, it was indeed more enjoyable than usual.

"Why do I think Madame doesn't think so?" Qi Yanzhi leaned close to her and whispered in her ear, "I think I can continue in the future, and when Mrs. comes back the day after tomorrow, I will ......."

"Shut up!" Xie Ruqing stood up angrily, opened the door and called Ruhuan and Qingshan to come in and serve, "Qingshan will serve your son-in-law breakfast, I can't catch up in time, so I ate in the carriage." ”

"Yes, ma'am, I'll go!"

Qi Yanzhi couldn't stop laughing in the room.

Xie Ruqing was late, when she arrived at the temple, everyone had basically arrived, Qi Wanru waited for her for a long time, and immediately greeted her when she saw her coming, "Sister Ruqing, you are here, if you don't come, I will be bored to death." ”

"Is the concubine here?" Xie Ruqing took Qi Wanru's arm.

"It's been early, I've been kneeling in the hall for a while, and many ladies are accompanied, so I didn't go to join in the fun." Qi Wanru said.

The concubine today called on the noble ladies of the whole capital to pray for the emperor, many people followed to join in the fun, the people poured into the streets, followed the carriages and horses to the temple, at this time the temple and the outside of the crowd were overcrowded. There can't be too many people in the main hall, so it is impossible for the ladies and ladies who come to kneel on the main hall to pray for blessings.

Xie Ruqing didn't like to join in the excitement and be courteous, so he followed Qi Wanru behind people, chatting to pass the time.

Yu and Hui Xin also came, Yu followed the ladies to kneel in the main hall, Hui Xin did not go to join in the fun, but talked with a few less common young ladies. Xie Ruqing was a little surprised when she saw her, she sometimes couldn't see through Huixin, obviously she wanted to be among the nobles in her heart, but she was not as eager to expand her connections as the Qi family, even if she deliberately hid her heart, it was too much, after all, it was not enough to make friends only by pretending, if you don't work hard to establish diplomatic relations, it will be fruitless.

When Huixin saw Xie Ruqing, she smiled and greeted: "Sister-in-law, you are here." ”

Xie Ruqing nodded lightly: "Hmm." ”

Hui Xin didn't come over to talk, but continued to chat with a few young ladies.

Qi Wanru said strangely: "She and you are also like this at home?" ”

"I'm not familiar with it." Xie Ruqing doesn't hate her like this, usually a family concubine, no matter how she is in private, has to pretend to be very intimate on the surface, and she is very fake. No matter what kind of psychology your mind is in, it's quite comfortable to keep a normal distance like this.

"Then the princess of the new world of the palace is quite real, unlike those who are greedy for vanity." Qi Wanru also thinks it's good for Huixin to be like this.

She is too ungreedy, Xie Ruqingxin said.

"By the way, today I heard that Yu Ning is also here." She suddenly aligned as if she were in the way.

Qi Wanru's face suddenly turned a little red, "Yes, yes, I don't know." ”

Xie Ruqing smiled when she saw her like this. Recently, these two people are getting closer and closer, and they have a lot to talk about, every time they go to the Hou Mansion, they can sit together and chat for a long time, even the most sluggish Ruhuan can be seen.

"You don't seem to expect to treat him at all? Forget it, I was going to tell you where he was. Xie Ruqing teased.

Qi Wanru lowered his head with his fingers twisting the handkerchief, his face was ashamed, "Sister, you are joking with me, and I can't say anything when I come." ”

"So you two used my house as a place to chat?" Xie Ruqing smiled for a while and asked, "Like, have you ever thought about this?" ”

"Where, what ......" Qi Wanru was still a little shy in the end.

"Naturally, it's a family affair with Yu Ning, could it be that the two of you are going to be friends to relieve boredom?" Xie Ruqing asked in a low voice.

Qi Wanru's face turned even redder, "I, I didn't think about it." ”

"Did you not think about it, or did you not dare to think about it?" Xie Ruqing asked.

Qi Wanru's expression was a little lonely, she really thought about it, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt that there would be no good results for her and the Nine Emperors, so she didn't dare to think about it.

He is the prince in the end, his identity is too different, and Qi Wanru doesn't like the royal family, so she is very conflicted. On the one hand, she really likes Yu Ning, but on the other hand, she is hesitant, several times Yu Ning has expressed that meaning, but she pretends not to know, so now Yu Ning also cooperates with her to maintain that distance.

"Sister Ruqing, I don't hide it from you, I don't want to enter the royal family." Qi Wanru told Xie Ruqing about the knot in his heart these days, "I have some relationship with the Nine Emperor Princes, but that's all, I don't have any other ideas." ”

How could Xie Ruqing not understand her thoughts, her entanglement just proves that she has a deep affection for Yu Ning, and she will be deeply hurt if she can't give it up.

"I also struggled with this issue before I married Qi Yanzhi." She talked about the time she had struggled with before, "I just wanted to stay away from the big family and find an ordinary person to live an ordinary life, and it was better if I couldn't find myself." However, people can't always control their feelings, and they can't escape the fate that should belong to them. If you think about it, you probably can't get rid of the current life in the rest of your life, whether you are lonely and old with the strange eyes of others, or forced to marry another person you don't like, is it not better to marry the person you like? ”

Qi Wanru opened his mouth, "But ......"

"If you have faith in your relationship, you might as well try, it is much easier to overcome difficulties with your loved one than alone." Xie Ruqing held her hand and said, "Yu Ning is a dedicated person, and like you, he doesn't like royal life, he can definitely understand you, you should believe him." ”

Qi Wanru nodded thoughtfully, and a glimmer of hope ignited in her heart, "I listen to your sister Ruqing, I will think about this matter carefully." ”

"Hmm." Xie Ruqing said it all.

Yao Guifei was extremely pious, and knelt in the hall for a whole day, and it was not good for her to kneel like this, so she also knelt with her, and complained one by one. Fortunately, there were many people who came, and the ladies could take turns to go in and kneel, Xie Ruqing and Qi Wanru had to go in and kneel for a while, and when they came out, their knees didn't seem to be their own.

"Oh my God, how can the concubine stand it?" Qi Wanru rubbed his knees in the room, "This is too sinful." ”

She and Xie Ruqing lived in the same room, closed the door, and the two could talk very freely. Xie Ruqing smiled and said: "Sincerity is spirituality, and it is sincere to want to come to the concubine." ”

This sounded like a curse, but Qi Wanru didn't say it, and laughed along.

In addition to the sincere concubines, the ladies and ladies who followed the acting could be said to have suffered a big crime, they couldn't walk at all, almost all of them were helped back to the room, and even the meals were used in their own rooms.

"It's okay to sit and eat together." Qi Wanru said something to Xie Ruqing, "Sister Ruqing, try this tofu soup, the food in the temple is quite delicious." ”

Two people are indeed more comfortable eating, at least they can eat enough.

After eating, the two discussed going out for a walk, Qi Wanru said: "Sister Ruqing, I heard that epiphyllum flowers are planted in the mountain behind the temple, and the flowers bloom at night are the most beautiful, why don't we go and take a look?" ”

"yes, I'm just trying to see it." Xie Ruqing said.

Today, many ladies and young ladies want to see the epiphany in the backyard, but they really don't want to walk, so no one comes out, but it is convenient for Xie Ruqing and Qi Wanru. The two paced slowly, admiring the moon while walking towards the backyard, which was very pleasant.

The backyard of the temple is connected to the back mountain, and the scenery is natural and beautiful, even at night. The epiphyllum here is artificially planted, there are about a dozen of them, and they are not yet open at this time, only small buds.

"I don't know if I can wait." Qi Wanru hooked Xie Ruqing's arm and walked over, and stepped forward to watch with joy, but unexpectedly, he suddenly saw a figure moving lightly in the flowers in front of him, and vaguely heard the sound of quarrels.

"Someone seems to have come first, I don't know who it is?" Qi Wanru hesitated to go over and say hello.

"Shhhh......h She vaguely heard the other party arguing, and there was a man's voice, I was afraid that it was nothing good, "Let's go back after walking around the periphery." ”

Qi Wanru seemed to understand something, nodded, and walked away with Xie Ruqing.

At this time, there was a sudden shout in the flowers, which startled the two of them, Qi Wan seemed to be defenseless, and shouted, and the two people in the flowers were immediately alarmed, and a woman walked out.

They looked at each other and were shocked.

"It's my sister-in-law." Huixin was only a little surprised when she saw Xie Ruqing, and then pretended to be okay and greeted her.

Qi Wanru was so surprised that she couldn't speak, but Xie Ruqing was calm, and greeted Huixin with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be so interested." ”

"Sister-in-law smiled, I haven't seen the world, I've never seen an epiphany, so I came to appreciate it." Huixin said.

"That's it." Xie Ruqing smiled slightly, and then asked how Yu was, "Aunt lives with you, I don't know if she is good?" ”

Huixin said: "The princess has rested, she has been kneeling for more than an hour today, her knee hurts so badly, the imperial doctor came to give her medicine and fell asleep." ”

"You've taken care of her, I'll go see her early tomorrow morning." Xie Ruqing said.

"Okay." Huixin nodded.

"It's not early, so let's go back and rest." Xie Ruqing pulled Qi Wanru to say goodbye, turned around and left first.

Walking all the way to the front yard, Qi Wanru breathed a sigh of relief, her hands kept holding Xie Ruqing's sleeves, and she was sweating, "My God, Sister Ruqing, look at my hands." ”

Xie Ruqing laughed. "What are you nervous about?"

"Aren't you nervous, she...... ...... with a man," Qi Wan lowered his voice and was embarrassed to say the next words.

Whoever bumps into such a scene will not be able to accept it, a woman and a man in the middle of the night...... If the girl who has not come out of the cabinet and the man she loves secretly spends the moon before the moon, although it is intolerable to the world, Qi Wan seems to be able to empathize. But a married woman and a strange man, this is a little unclear.

And how embarrassing it was to meet in person, people must have thought that they had eavesdropped, which is the most fatal thing.

"Maybe it's a quarrel with the son." Xie Ruqing said lightly, "Don't panic, we didn't deliberately eavesdrop, and besides, we didn't hear anything." ”

The prince of Qiyang didn't come at all today, Qi Wan knew it, Xie Ruqing just warned her not to make up for what she didn't have, so that she would feel more comfortable.

Maybe Xie Ruqing's reaction was too calm, so Qi Wanru's heart gradually became less embarrassed, and the two regretted that they didn't see it as a flash in the pan, so they had to go back to the room to sleep.

And Huixin returned to the flowers, glared angrily at the man opposite, and said in a low voice: "You can see it, it's better not to come to me in the future, there is no impermeable wall in the world, if we are seen, we will both be finished." ”

The man was also a little scared, "She won't say it, will she?" ”

"What? Are you still afraid of what people say? Huixin wasn't sure if Xie Ruqing heard it, that woman was too calm and too good at disguise, she had to think in the worst direction.

"Nonsense, I'm also a person who wants face, if it weren't for your refusal to marry me, if it weren't for my mother's greed for money, we wouldn't be so sneaky." The man sneaked in from the back mountain, and he was afraid of being seen, so he kept listening nervously to the movement outside, "You just say whether to give money or not, I can't stay for a long time, give a happy word." ”

Huixin sneered, "You still want face?" You can't do anything to take me in the first place! ”

"Yo, why don't you say it about your own debauchery, a slap doesn't make a sound, why don't I go and be nice to other big girls!" The man snorted very disdainfully, "You don't set up a torii for yourself, go out and say that I am strong to you, it is you who have taken a fancy to my identity, and you want to be a concubine for me, so I pushed the boat down the river, and I didn't know it all day long!" ”

"Now that you're wronged, developed, and don't look down on me, I thought I suffered a loss, and fell in love with you as a slut who coveted wealth and nobility, but who told you that your cubs were my species, destined to be entangled between the two of us - anyway, we're already like this, you might as well look at it, and enjoy it together as a blessed family of three, don't you say?"

Huixin hated her teeth so much, but she couldn't do anything about this scoundrel, the hero didn't suffer the loss in front of him, so she had to coax him temporarily, "I'll give you the money tomorrow." ”

"Hey, don't give it to her, her money-hungry old thing, the money is given to her by half, so give it to me directly." The man chuckled, "See you in the old place, don't miss the appointment, otherwise I won't be able to control my mouth." ”

Huixin gritted her teeth and took a deep breath, shook her hand and walked away.

On the afternoon of the second day, the ladies of the families left the temple and returned home, and Yao Guifei, who prayed for the emperor's blessing, simply asked someone to carry her back to the palace, and it is said that her legs were swollen on her knees. The emperor was greatly moved, and asked Gonggong Li and Qi Yanzhi to go outside the palace gate to greet him instead.

"Your Majesty is better." Yao Guifei asked angrily in the sedan chair.

Gonggong Li glanced at Qi Yan with a slightly embarrassed expression.

Really go to the temple to burn a few incense is a panacea, the emperor is not good at all, yesterday when the concubine knelt in the hall, the emperor had a headache and didn't recognize people.

"With Concubine Lao, the emperor is better today than yesterday." Qi Yan's face turned back without changing color.

Gonggong Li choked for a moment, Qingyang Hou is good at everything, but he is too thick-skinned, and the lie is the same as the truth, no, it is more true than the truth.

Yao Guifei was satisfied when she heard this, "I'm relieved, it's not in vain, I'm ......"

Before the concubine finished speaking, she heard the girl next to her shouting, "Ah! The concubine is dizzy! ”

Gonggong Li hurriedly said: "Don't invite the imperial doctor yet, the concubine is overworked, and she is tired for the emperor, so she will go back to the palace to rest!" ”

So the palace people hurriedly carried Yao Guifei back to the dormitory, and half of the doctors in the hospital went over to take a look.

Gonggong Li sighed, and said in his heart What is this picture, the emperor didn't see it, and she suffered by herself.

Although Yao Guifei suffered a crime, she also had a good reputation, Qi Yanzhi's words spread ten times to hundreds, and in the end, it became - Yao Guifei sincerely moved the sky, and the emperor's illness was cured overnight!

Xie Ruqing couldn't laugh when he heard this, "That's how the rumors came from, and the rumors spread too much." She asked Qi Yanzhi, "Is the emperor better?" ”

Qi Yanzhi shook his head, "The medicine stone is ineffective, I'm afraid there will be sequelae." ”

"Is this his own illness?" Xie Ruqing felt strange, a small headache, how could the imperial doctor in the palace have no way at all, "Didn't you say before that he drank the sweet soup of the concubine, I just thought that he was overworked, and it was better to drink some sweetness, but now it seems to be an incurable disease?" ”

Qi Yanzhi smiled meaningfully, "Madame has seen the key. ”

Xie Ruqing was stunned for a moment, carefully recalled Qi Yanzhi's attitude, and was suddenly shocked. Does this mean that the emperor's illness is not self-inflicted? And the so-called sweet soup is likely to be medicine and poison, and the emperor can temporarily relieve the headache after drinking it, but it is the effect of drinking the duck to quench his thirst.

Yao Guifei actually gave the emperor chronic poison!