Qiao Meiren seemed to have just woken up, with a haggard face, a gray face, and even her lips were lifeless. When she saw me, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes, and she shook slightly, grabbing Jiang Yao's arm who was sitting on the side.

Jiang Yao asked her what was wrong, Qiao Meiren shook her head, put her head on Jiang Yao's arm, and only sobbed quietly.

I had some strange feelings in my heart, but I couldn't tell what was wrong, and the doctor only said that Qiao Meiren was exhausted, and it was a miscarriage caused by excessive anxiety.

Jiang Yao frowned, and swept me with cold eyes: "What's uneasy?" ”

Su Ko saw these in her eyes, she was straight-hearted, and she originally had a pitiful look on Su Meiren, but now she just pointed at the Tai Yi and said angrily: "You don't talk nonsense here, everyone knows that Qiao Meiren's fetus is taken care of by Ah Xuan herself, and usually everything delicious and fun is sent, where is there any uneasiness, I think it is because you are not skilled in medicine, and you have to make excuses for yourself." ”

Jiang Yao didn't speak, only asked Qiao Meiren to recuperate, and asked me to go to the Qinzheng Hall with him.

Although I don't know what misunderstanding there is, but because I am not afraid of shadows, I boldly followed, what I have not done, even if others insist on imposing it on me, I have a clear conscience.

Jiang Yao said: "This matter, even if it was not done by the queen, the queen can't get out of it, and she can be exonerated if she is not guilty, but she is incompetent, and she can't escape." ”

There is no problem with this, I am indeed an incompetent person, I can't protect Qiao Meiren's child, and I can't figure out who is trying to frame me.

Jo beauty? It is also possible that she directed and acted herself, but setting up such a big game, using her own children as a funeral, and there is no actual evidence to point to me, why bother?

Jiang Yao is not stupid, such an obvious thing can still be seen, but he must have considered another possibility in his mind, that is, relying on my identity is too direct, it is easy for others to think that I was wronged and give up.

At least at the beginning, Jiang Yao didn't believe me, no matter what, when Qiao Meiren showed a different reaction to me, he must have pressed the charge against me in his heart.

In order to appease Qiao Meiren, Jiang Yao gave Qiao Meiren's tribe a large reward. In the sixteenth department of the Western Zhou Dynasty, only Qiao Meiren stayed in the beauties who came in, but I didn't expect such a little-known small tribe to be favored by the court because of a daughter, for them, it was not a luxury to hope for.

Although Jiang Yao said that he wanted to punish me, I was not in power, and I did not compete for favor, so I really couldn't find any suitable way except to let me be grounded.

What is the grounding, I don't have to smile at others hypocritically, and others don't have to go out of their way to please me, why not, I hope Jiang Yao can ban my feet for the rest of my life, so that I can live this life so quietly and quietly.

I have seen a lot of the four directions, and I can still spend it in the mansion, but where can I be depressed here?

It was only when I had nothing to do that I remembered the small box that Bunraku had given me. I didn't let the people around me follow me, even Changyun and Pei'er drove away, this was given to me by Bunraku, I can see it myself, but I don't have the right to let others know, this is the least respect for Bunraku, after all, no one wants their feelings to be judged by others, that is carefully protected by themselves, how can they be casually involved by others?

Before I could open it, I heard Zhao Fei's voice, and the key in my hand fell to the ground tremblingly.

I didn't know where I came from, so I quickly put the box in a pile of boxes, covered it with a brocade cloth on the side, and quickly opened the jewelry box, pretending to be choosing jewelry, and stepped on the bottom of my feet with the key, and moved it to the corner of the table where it was not easy to notice.

I didn't know that I could handle these things so calmly, do this series of actions without blushing and heartbeat, and pretend that nothing had happened, put on a shell one by one, and anyone can disguise themselves perfectly.

People can always hide what they want to hide, very well, just like if you want to pretend to be asleep, no one can wake you up, I am such a person, wandering in a ten-step square space, drawing the ground as a prison.

"What is the Queen looking for?" Zhao Fei came in, saluted with a light car, and talked to me at the same time.

"The emperor just forbade my feet, why are you here?" I closed the jewelry box and was a little surprised by Zhao Fei's sudden appearance.

"The emperor just ordered that Niangniang should not be allowed to go out, but he didn't say that no one else was allowed to come and visit Niangniang." Zhao Fei has always liked to drill these word games, probably because of the guard who guarded the main gate of Fengluan Palace, but Zhao Fei didn't dare to disobey a powerful favorite concubine, so he opened one eye and closed one eye to let her in.

Changyun retreated after making tea for us, since my accident, only Zhao Fei didn't care about my current situation, and he was not afraid of being affected by me, so he came to see me so blatantly.

It stands to reason that Su Ko won't care about this, most likely because Jiang Yao doesn't allow her to come, Jiang Yao has always disliked my contact with Su Ko, although he didn't say anything, but Jiang Yao had a weird expression on his face every time he saw me and Su Ko together.

The person I like always speaks for the person I hate, and I must be uncomfortable in my heart, so I can probably understand Jiang Yao's mood, but I won't take the initiative to alienate Su Kou because Jiang Yao doesn't like it,

The better thing about Zhao Fei is that she will tell me directly if there is something, instead of letting me guess based on her implicit hints.

Her purpose in coming is very shady, just to analyze who caused my current situation, and I am not really interested in these things, after all, the grounding is not painful for me, and I am even a little grateful.

Although I didn't say this directly to Zhao Fei, Zhao Fei also guessed what I thought through my reaction, she was not angry, and it seemed that she expected me not to care about me and not to be distracted.

"Queen Mother, do you think that such a small fight is not to be afraid at all?" Zhao Fei smiled slightly, his eyes flashed with wisdom, "Don't forget the queen mother, we people, our own honor and disgrace are one with our mother's family, and if the mother suffers an injustice here, aren't you afraid that the Rong family will also be implicated?" ”

I didn't take this into account, holding the hand of the cup for a moment, and then a little relieved, Zhao Fei's words are a little too fussy, no one knows what I am better than myself, and the Rong family is not supported by me, the queen, my father and brother have meritorious deeds, and they will definitely not be affected by my small matter.

"Niangniang may think it's a trivial matter, but has Niangniang ever thought that the former dynasty and the harem have always been involved, one is prosperous and the other is lost." Zhao Fei did not panic and analyzed the stakes for me little by little, "Niangniang is the daughter of the Rong family, representing the face of the Rong family, try to ask who in the palace can not respect three points, even if the power of the Queen Mother is reduced, but Chengguo Gong will not be affected by this, to put it bluntly, it is originally a community of interests, and the interests are gone, so it will naturally disperse, and Chengguo Gong is not very supportive of the Queen Mother's idea of wanting His Royal Highness King Fu'an to ascend the throne." ”

I have never cared much about the affairs of the court, but I know His Royal Highness King An, the man who saved me on a snowy night, the original prince of the East Palace and the biological son of the queen mother.

I don't know what happened in the middle, it will make His Royal Highness King An live in seclusion in Zhaoyuan, and he doesn't want to get involved in the affairs of the court anymore, but judging from the words and deeds of His Royal Highness King An that day, his relationship with Jiang Yao seems to be good.

Before the first emperor died of illness, he naturally took the original prince as the first heir and took more care, and the relationship with the queen mother deepened, but the emperor did pass on the throne before his death, Jiang Yao, which was witnessed by many courtiers, and there was nothing worth pondering.

Jiang Yao is a smart person, he knows that his power is now at most defeated by the Queen Mother, who has never been involved in court politics, but if he really wants to go against Chengguo Gong, who holds military power and has a lot of prestige in the court, it is nothing more than asking for hardship, although the relationship between the two is not very good, but his father has always kept to himself, and there is no disobedience and rebellion, even if Jiang Yao wants to beat one or two, he can't start.

Could it be that Zhao Fei wants to tell me that Jiang Yao is likely to start from my side and ask the entire Rong clan to blame?

That's not it, there is no conclusive evidence, Jiang Yao can only temporarily suspend me for the crime of incompetence, what is the crime of the Rong clan.

"Although the Rong family has no problem now, but the embankment of thousands of miles collapsed in the anthill, a family as big as the Rong family, crisscrossed with the power of the court, even if it is destroyed, it must be decayed little by little, didn't Niangniang think about it, why did Qiao Meiren deliberately react like that and lead all her doubts to the queen mother?"

I really don't know this, but Qiao Meiren grew up in a small tribe of the frontier tribe, and he is a person from the eldest brother's side, I have some trust in my heart, although such a thing happened, it is inevitable that there are some doubts, when Qiao Meiren said to me like that, did he deliberately want me to let my guard down, so as to use my trust to do something?

But I can't figure it out, if it's just to cause me to be in the situation I'm in now, then the price Qiao Meiren has paid is a little too heavy, and I don't believe Qiao Meiren will be willing to do this for such a loss-making business.

What makes me suspect is that someone secretly did something to deliberately provoke the relationship between Qiao Meiren and me, and the snipe and mussels compete for the profit of the fisherman, in short, Qiao Meiren alone cannot do this.

"Even if Niangniang doesn't care about the affairs of the court, she must also know that with the status of Chengguo Gong, even the emperor does not dare to easily do anything to Niangniang, a few days ago because of various misunderstandings, Niangniang was punished to kneel, and then followed by the promotion of Rong Dagongzi, does Niangniang really think that it is the result of Rong Dagongzi's own efforts? How many capable people in the world are there, why only the credit of Prince Rong is valued, and it is not because he wants to appease the Rong family. The queen mother was embarrassed intentionally or unintentionally, although Chengguo Gong was silent on the surface, but Princess Wenle married far away, it was not the result of the Rong family's unwillingness to help, the reason is very simple - disrespect for the queen mother is contempt for the Rong family. ”

These are far from Zhao Fei to tell me, even if I don't want to ask anything, this thing can still be understood, which is the main reason why I am not flustered about the current situation at all, as long as the Rong clan does not fall, I will be invincible, even if the current situation does not seem to be very optimistic, but in the long run, there is no threat to me at all.

Unless the Rong clan falls.

"How much power Chengguo has in the court, and naturally how many opponents there are, the so-called success of a general is a thousand bones, and no one's success is not stepped on the bones of others. Niangniang should also be careful, is there someone using the harem to collude with the previous dynasty in an attempt to disadvantage the Rong family? ”

I didn't think about Zhao Fei's words, I looked at Zhao Fei in disbelief, Zhao Fei looked confident, and seemed to have mastered the ins and outs of everything.

After getting my reaction, Zhao Fei became more determined in his inner thoughts, and said, "Niangniang, don't you think that Su Meiren's words that day were a little too deliberate?" ”

Zhao Fei is a smart person, he won't know my relationship with Su Kou, even if he knows that I will probably be unhappy when she says these words, he still told me so bluntly.

Anyone in this harem can calculate me, but Su Kou is the least likely in my opinion, all she cares about is Jiang Yao, I don't have any threat to her, even if there is, it is also the identity of my current queen, but Su Kou is just a southern Xinjiang woman with an unyin identity, and it is impossible to stand above many young ladies of the family and become a queen under one person.

"Niangniang must know that the Sumei people, who should be concubines now, were originally from southern Xinjiang, and were brought back from many displaced refugees when the emperor was still the prince, and when he and the then marshal of soldiers and horses, General Pei, pacified the war in southern Xinjiang. Does the queen know why? ”

Su Kosheng's extreme beauty is nothing more than her outstanding appearance, so that she can be seen by Jiang Yao among thousands of people and get salvation that others can't get.

"Presumably the queen doesn't know, and no one dares to tell the mother, after all, few people know about this matter, and even if they do, they don't dare to mention it easily, the current emperor, his biological mother, was originally the princess of southern Xinjiang."

The princess of southern Xinjiang?

In other words, is it the same identity as the man in red?

The man in red said that it was my mother who harmed Nanjiang and shattered his original life, so is Jiang Yao's mother's death related to my mother?

If there really is, Jiang Yao really has a reason to hate me and kill me, just like the man in red, my mother can't redeem the offense, and it should have been borne by my daughter.

So Jiang Yao brought Su Kou back because of sympathy?

He has half of the blood of the people of southern Xinjiang in his body, and the deep hatred of that half of the blood is directly displayed in me, I am the daughter of his enemy, and I am also his wife. It seems that I can suddenly understand Jiang Yao's hatred for me on the night of the wedding, and how helpless I must be to marry the enemy's daughter as a wife.

What does Zhao Fei want to express? Does it mean that Su Kou deliberately retaliated against me with an old hatred, or did Jiang Yao want to find an opportunity to make a move against the Rong clan?

Qiao Meiren represents the small clan of the Xiliang tribe, although her attitude does not play a role, but the direct comparison is nothing more than the eldest brother.

Thinking of this, not only did my back feel a chill, Zhao Fei wanted to remind me, did someone want to allude to the oppression of the eldest brother or the Rong clan through Qiao Meiren?

If this is really the case, then this person's intentions are really terrifying, and the things that are not in place accumulate little by little, and they will always burst out at an opportunity, causing Jiang Yao's trust and patience to fall apart, and become one of the ten thousand arrows that defeated the Rong clan.

I really don't know what happened back then, but my mother has passed away, and if such a sin is to affect the Rong family, then the Rong family has no other way than to take on this challenge head-on.

It's just that I can't believe that it's Su Ko's game, although the communication with her is not very in-depth, but intuitively it is still inclined to her, Su Ko is not that kind of person, if there is such a scheming, why bother to have a good relationship with me? With Jiang Yao's favor, she only needs to look at it coldly.

"I know there are a lot of people who don't like me, but can you guarantee that there is really no selfishness in what you say?"

I smiled slightly, my eyes looked straight at Zhao Fei, looking at the surprise and flickering in her eyes.

"The queen is really the queen mother."

Zhao Fei not only answered my question directly, but also said such an inexplicable sentence, her attitude towards me has always been different, but she was a little surprised by my reaction, which surprised me a little.

"But blind trust kills."

I watched Zhao Fei get up from the chair and no longer continue to persuade me, she felt that what she said today was enough, I needed to sort it out and think about it myself, sometimes I wanted to distinguish the stakes clearly, and it would be more effective than Zhao Fei saying anything here alone.

"The concubine won't bother, let's leave first."

Su Kou and Zhao Fei have no grievances or hatreds, and it stands to reason that they will not have any prejudice against Su Kou because of personal factors, but why do so many people have to mention Su Kou?

Zhao Fei doesn't need to sow discord here, and even in all senses, Zhao Fei is the most protective of my existence, because she doesn't want to be the queen, she just needs to live decently in this palace, I am the best choice for her to be the queen, if it is Wang Yin, maybe her attitude will not be like this.

Wang Yin is different from Zhao Fei, she grew up in the palace since she was a child, although she has a cold temperament and is not very enthusiastic about people, but it is this kind of character that makes her favored by Jiang Yao.

Among all the concubines, only Wang Yin was the only one who could freely enter and leave Jiang Yao's study. Not only because Wang Yin is erudite and talented, and has some unique insights into government affairs, but also because Jiang Yao has such a unique trust in her. It's not that she doesn't trust Su Ko, it's just that Su Ko has not learned and has no skills since she was a child, and it is difficult for such a girl to become a lady in a family. Su Ko was too well protected by Jiang Yao, and he didn't want her to be contaminated with the complicated rights and wrongs of the world.

The Wang family is the clan that supports Jiang Yao the most, and Lord Wang is also a minister at the same level as his father.

After Zhao Fei left, I picked up the key from the ground, and I didn't have the curiosity to find out what was in the box, so I lazily put the key on the box and pushed it aside.

Why did Qiao Meiren suddenly change her attitude towards me? What did she want to express to Jiang Yao, did she really want to attack her eldest brother from this?

I was so careless that I thought it didn't matter at all. However, if it really doesn't matter, why would Qiao Meiren stage such a drama to pull me into the water?

If Qiao Meiren misunderstood me to do this, then who was behind all this to try to gradually deteriorate my image in the minds of everyone? If Qiao Meiren did it on purpose, it was my own reason, and I couldn't distinguish between the potential threats and conspiracies around me, but I swaggered into it, and I sent myself to someone else's sword.

These problems have been wandering in my mind, and I have never been able to find a suitable solution, I don't need others to guide me, and now, no one wants to believe it.

I don't have to think about it to know that my state must be very bad these days, but I'm in a state of lockdown, and it doesn't matter whether I adjust or not, I just think that the grounding time can be longer, longer, and I won't be in contact with the outside world, and I won't be used, let alone go wrong.

Changyun and Pei'er naturally saw that something was wrong with me in the past few days, but no one asked, Pei'er's worry and Changyun's desire to speak stopped, and I turned a blind eye as if I didn't know what to do.

Pei'er grew up with me, and I occasionally had such low moments in the mansion, and under normal circumstances, she only needed to let me be alone for a few days and everything would be fine, she wouldn't ask more, but it was inevitable to worry.

If Pei'er is my sensibility, then Changyun is my reason, she is a person who does things and thinks without too much emotion, which just makes up for the shortcomings of me and Pei'er.

Changyun, I think I'm also unpredictable about Changyun, it's certain that she is Jiang Yao's person, if you really want to say something that doesn't work for me, I can't remember it for a while, but the original fire fox big gun, Changyun must have known, why didn't he tell me?

I haven't counted the time, and I don't know how many days of grounding it is, and the days are passing by day by day in boredom, but the inner entanglement has not diminished by half a point with the translation of time.

Changyun may have never seen me in this state, and he finally couldn't stand my series of abnormal reactions, so he found an opportunity to say the words that came to his mouth several times and swallowed them.

"The slave doesn't know what the lady said to the queen, since the lady left, the lady has been absent-minded, no matter what the reason, but also to cheer up, so sluggish, it's really not like the usual style of the mother."

I didn't answer Changyun's question, but looked at her with some inquiring eyes, holding my cheeks in my hands, trying to make my tone sound extremely peaceful, I didn't mean to ask her, I was just afraid to hear the answer I didn't want to hear from her mouth, so that the trust and emotion I paid could not be recovered, and it only added to the fearless sadness.

"Na, Changyun, that fire fox is the emperor's biological mother's belongings, do you know?"

Changyun's face did not fluctuate, as if he had long thought that one day I would ask her this, put down the things in his hand, and walked to my side gently: "That kind of firefox is a tribute of two pieces at that time, one was given to the original queen, that is, the current queen mother, and the other was naturally given to the emperor's favorite concubine and the emperor's biological mother - the concubine Niangniang, the concubine wore the fire fox when she passed away, and naturally it was buried in the mausoleum as a thing before her death, and the queen mother gave it to the mother, which was the one she got back then." ”

"Then why didn't you tell me? You already knew that the emperor would be angry if he saw me wearing that firefox coat, did you do it on purpose? ”

deliberately let Jiang Yao see and deliberately let me be punished, but what good did it do to her by doing this?

Changyun knelt down, but there was not much remorse or guilt, she seemed to have her own reasons, fortunately, I am an idler, and I have the patience to listen to her explanation here: "The slave asked herself that she had never done anything to hurt the mother, but that time was indeed an accident, and the slave did not expect that the emperor would be angry with the queen because of this." ”

There is nothing wrong with this, if Changyun is not dedicated enough to me, my current situation must be much more embarrassing than now, how much stability and leisure since entering the palace are all dependent on Changyun's right-hand help, I can divide the grievances, and naturally I will not forget all her previous efforts to me because of this matter.

But the second half of Changyun's sentence is very worthy of scrutiny, what is anger? In other words, the object of Jiang Yao's anger and anger was not me, I was just implicated.

"What are you doing this for?" I have 10,000 non-white, and the biggest confusion is nothing more than this.

At this point, Changyun didn't intend to hide it, she never seemed to want to hide anything from me, but I never asked about her.

"Niangniang also knows that the slave maid was originally serving the concubine, and the concubine became a female official after she died of illness, but the slave maid turned out to be the maid of the concubine Niangniang."

"I know this......" I used my thin impression to connect these words, but was interrupted by Changyun.

"No, it's not that concubine, the first concubine of this dynasty is the emperor's biological mother." As he spoke, a trace of loneliness flashed on Changyun's face: "It's a pity that the concubine died when the emperor was still very young, and the emperor was instructed by the emperor to be educated by the queen mother, and the slaves and maids were also dismissed to other palaces." ”

What's so bad about it, it's just a deliberate fabrication that someone doesn't want to live.

"So what? Does this have anything to do with the Firefox Big? ”

"The concubine Niangniang committed suicide, in front of the former prince, His Royal Highness King An, drank a glass of poisonous wine, and died of poison on the spot, the poor emperor was young at the time, but he had to watch his mother leave, the first emperor ordered not to spread the word, and only said that the concubine Niangniang was an old disease and died......"

"The emperor has always grown up in the palace of the Queen Mother, but who can pamper other people's children as if they were their own? But the emperor has grown up very well, he knows the general situation, understands the number of etiquette, distinguishes between good and evil, and even the softness is very similar to the dead concubine, but the original prince has a shadow because of the death of the concubine, and he has no intention of courtly affairs, and he just wants to return to the countryside, but the prince has a strong mother, and the glory of the family does not allow the low-hanging fruit to be handed over to others. ”

Saying that, Changyun smiled coldly, quite sarcastic: "The Queen Mother did her own wrong, she had to put the concubine to death, and she lost her son, but her son is still alive, but the concubine can never wake up again......"

"The slave will never forget, when the palace gate was opened, the appearance of the concubine Niangniang lying on the cold stone slab, and the emperor's heart-rending cry, it turned out that the person was dead and there was nothing, but it was precisely because there was nothing left that the living could not easily forget all these pains."

"The queen mother has always been worried about the emperor's biography of the emperor, thinking that the emperor robbed the world that originally belonged to her son, the emperor was too soft-hearted, and he was too tolerant of the queen mother and His Royal Highness King An, but the slave must not allow the emperor to relax his vigilance, forget the pain of the past, maybe the wrong method was used, and the queen mother was injured by mistake."

"Even if you have this idea, but the Firefox is in the hands of the Queen Mother, how can you expect that the Queen Mother will give me this dress in advance?"

"The queen mother is too stupid, she wanted to make Niangniang completely disgusted by the emperor through the fire fox Dayu, so she got the support of the Rong family, and the emperor respected her on weekdays, she completely ignored it, and was still dreaming that her son could ascend the throne and become the emperor. The slave did not stop it, but also to remind the emperor that if he continued to be merciful to the enemy, he would be the most cruel to himself. ”

In this way, it seems that many behaviors can be explained clearly, His Royal Highness King An also returned to Zhaoyuan after Chinese New Year's Eve, Jiang Yao's attitude towards the Queen Mother became more and more cold, and even the only daughter of the Queen Mother thought of marrying Fanbang far away to make peace.

The Queen Mother is a member of the Wang family, so she naturally takes care of Wang Yin, but the Queen Mother's own family has declined, and the current Wang family is only a branch of the Wang family, but in today's situation, where can you still pick the fat and choose the thin and scruple about what is not the family, as long as it is your own person, it is always more useful to yourself than others to be on top.

I can probably understand the Queen Mother's idea of "not my people, their hearts must be different", but since ancient times, the basic cultivation of the superior is "no need to suspect people, no suspicion of employing people", the Queen Mother has no extraordinary intelligence and strategy, what is consumed is nothing more than the power of the Wang family and the glory brought by the position of the Queen Mother, but even if it is the throne, it cannot withstand such consumption, and the talent will still gradually emerge over time, so that a group of followers will give up their continued allegiance in disappointment again and again.

The Queen Mother can't see this, she will only blame this situation that makes her unhappy to others - she feels that it is the failure of our Rong clan that caused her daughter's distant marriage, and she feels that it is Jiang Yao's continuous pressure that has caused her power to decline, in short, she is right, and it is always someone else who is wrong.

My thoughts were a little confused, and I waved my hand to signal Changyun to go down, Changyun seemed to have something to say, and seeing the tiredness on my face, he still endured it again.

Everyone has ulterior secrets, and no one can go through this life completely frankly, so some mistakes can be corrected, and some guilt can be forgiven, but there is something that will never appear in this world, called absolute.

On the day I was ungrounded, Pei'er came back from outside, smiling very brightly, she said that the eldest brother had made meritorious contributions, and his courage was not inferior to his father, and our Rong clan had a successor.

I let out a faint "um" with interest, I don't know why, I suddenly remembered the fourth brother, now the Rong family is in the limelight, and the fourth brother can avoid the edge, which is not a good thing.

It's a pity that the difference between the two siblings of the same mother is turned upside down, the fifth sister is the same as her mother, she only wants higher status, power, and glory wholeheartedly, and these flashiness that only stays on the outside are just false dreams, and what is there to fight for?

That's probably the difference between people.