In the third year of the first lunar month, on the fifth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Yang family, a talented person in the harem, was vicious and vicious, and committed the following crimes and poisoned the queen. From today onwards, the position will be abolished, demoted to a concubine, entered the cold palace, and thought about recovering all the concubines' things behind closed doors.

Ten days later, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to the previous rules of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, when the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet was held in the palace, officials of the third rank and above could bring their wives to participate, and officials below the third rank and above the fifth rank could only participate in singleness.

Taihe Palace, palace banquet.

"The emperor has arrived! The queen has arrived! With the sound of an inner servant singing, everyone knelt down and bowed in unison: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" Queen Chitose Chitose Chitose! ”

Ye Zhiqiu was dressed in the palace dress of the Ming Huang Queen, with a bright complexion, and the nine-tailed phoenix hairpin on his head was shining against the background of the candle flame. A gorgeous golden phoenix robe lined her with grace and luxury, and the phoenix embroidered with red thread on the phoenix robe seems to be singing loudly, and it seems to be leading all beings to worship the queen.

After Zhao Sizhuo sat down, he raised his right hand lightly and said, "Zhongqing's family is flat and gives a seat." ”

Everyone thanked them, and then they all sat down in their seats.

Zhao Sizhuo, who was dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, picked up his wine glass and said: "Today is the day of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I will set up a banquet to comfort the people!" You don't have to be restrained, drink happily! ”

"Emperor Xie!" Everyone took their wine glasses and bowed their heads in unison in the direction of the emperor and thanked them.

This Mid-Autumn Festival banquet officially began.

As the sound of various musical instruments sounded, I saw more than 20 young beauties wearing pale pink dance costumes and slowly coming towards the hall.

Amid a burst of singing and dancing, the people sitting next to each other began to whisper.

"Have you heard? The harem concubine, Yang Cairen, was beaten into the cold palace by the emperor. A shrill voice took the lead in kicking off the gossip, causing the discussion to join the left and right.

"I heard about it a few days ago, if I'm not mistaken, it's the daughter of the salt transport envoy Si Yun and Yang Zhi." A lady whispered with disdain on her face.

"I don't know what mistake I made, I went straight to the cold palace. It's a pity ......"

"I heard that the queen mother interceded, and the emperor only spared her life, and thanks to the queen mother's kindness, she did not harm her family and retained the face of the Yang family."

"Really? How did I hear that the Yang family just wanted to be unfavorable to the queen and was sent to the cold palace? ”

"Is she crazy? A little talented person, dare to be disrespectful to the queen of the middle palace, isn't this hitting a stone with an egg......"

"That's it..... I think your news is not very credible, come on, let's drink, happy today, don't talk about the unlucky things in the cold palace......"

“............................”

Ye Zhiqiu had no intention of singing, dancing and drinking, and one or two voices of everyone's chatter came into her ears, and the look in her eyes darkened.

After the banquet, Zhao Sizhuo seemed to have something in her heart, drank a few more glasses of wine, and was a little drunk, she asked Zheng Le to send the emperor to the palace to rest and serve her life.

"Queen Mother, do you want to go to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the moon?" Seeing that she seemed to be thinking, Cuizhu said with relief: "Niangniang's body has not yet been raised, so don't think about those troubles, if Niangniang is not interested, it is better to go back to the palace to rest early." ”

She looked up at the starry sky, the moon was round and bright, like the queen mother's jade plate hanging in the air, as if there were real immortals, overlooking this mortal world above the moon palace.

This is also the ..... she grew up The first Mid-Autumn Festival that I didn't spend with my family. Before the age of sixteen, the family is happy and healthy, and they celebrate together; Even in the first two years, Ye Ruochen was by her side and spent the most difficult period with her.

After she entered the palace, it was inconvenient for the shadow guard to stay by her side in the palace at all times, and only delivered news to her at the beginning of the month and the fifteenth day of each month to report the recent situation of Ye Ruochen and her grandfather. Tonight is the night of the fifteenth full moon, and there are many people entering the palace recently, maybe the shadow guard can smoothly blend into the palace tonight. Thinking of this, she wanted to know Ye Ruochen's latest news, and immediately walked to her palace. "Go back to the palace."

When she returned to the palace, Lijuan was dozing off with her head in the house, Cuizhu woke her up with a smile, and the maid began to prepare hot water, waiting for her to bathe and wash. She thought that maybe the shadow guard was in the hall, and under the pretext that she wanted to have some dessert, she sent them out to the small kitchen to prepare some cold drinks.

Because her food has been maliciously added to mandala pollen, her food and tea are all watched by Cuizhu or Lijuan herself, and she can only be served to the queen mother if there is no mistake.

"Aunt Cuizhu, you have worked hard with the queen tonight, I will go to the small kitchen to keep an eye on it, and you will rest with the mother." Lijuan is in Fengchen Palace, as the queen's personal maid, her status is only under Cuizhu, the female official in charge, the two are loyal, move and stillness, cooperate tacitly, and have become Ye Zhiqiu's right-hand man.

"Go with you, and be a companion when it's late at night. Hongu happened to be a little tired, so he closed his eyes and took a nap. ”

"Yes, Queen."

After the two retreated, Ye Zhiqiu looked around the hall for a place to hide, but there was no one. She was disappointed, she thought she would see the shadow guard tonight........ She sat back at the table, and her eyes fell on the table, where several plates of delicate pastries were arranged, but in the middle was a plate of chestnut cakes. It stands to reason that it is not yet the season for chestnuts to ripen, and she thought that when she was in Yangzhou, she had said: Chestnut cake is simply a spoilt for such a delicious meal of chestnuts. So every time she coaxed her to take medicine, Ye Ruochen personally went to Lin Fatzi's shop in the east of the city to buy freshly fried chestnuts with sugar and bring them to her.........

With an uncertain mood, she broke the chestnut cakes on the plate one by one, and sure enough, in a piece of chestnut cake at the bottom, there was a small note, which was written in very fine words: Second son, Yu Huainan.

Her face is difficult to look at, now the emperor is jealous of the king of Huainan, and everyone in the court knows that at this time, Ye Ruochen went to Huainan, which is not a good sign.

The emperor seems to be worried today, I wonder if he also learned the information that Ye Ruochen went to Huainan?

She was bored for a while, the emperor, Ye Ruochen, and the king of Huainan were in this three-way game, no matter who lost, it was what she didn't want to see, the emperor was her nominal husband and blood relatives; Although Ye Ruochen has no blood bond, he is better than a relative; If there is a disaster for the king of Huainan, then Xie Wan, as the princess of Huainan, will also be implicated and will suffer from unjustified disasters.

Speaking of the disaster of innocence, she thought of Yang Cairen in the cold palace. In fact, she knew in her heart: Yang Cairen was very likely to be wronged, and the person who really harmed her should not be her. In terms of motives and who is the most profitable behind it, and how to arrange it, Yang Cairen should be the last concubine in the palace. But the mandala pollen was indeed found in her dormitory, so she could only try her best to save her life, and asked Zheng Le to arrange the guards guarding the cold palace, so that the real murderer behind her back could not be killed.

"Queen Mother, I have made a crispy mountain and ice cream for you, cool and smooth." Cuizhu and Lijuan came back with a cold spot.

"Send a bowl to the cold palace, and bring some mooncakes and pastries to her."

"The Queen?! Yang Cairen plotted to kill you, how can it? Lijuan was puzzled and exclaimed. However, Cuizhu has seen a lot of unjust, false and wrongful cases in the palace, and has not asked too much, and has begun to prepare.

"You send it personally, don't go through the hands of others, and be careful, don't be seen by others."

"Yes, Queen. The slave maid went to say hello to Gonggong Zheng first. ”

"Go ahead."

The moonlight passed through the window, projected in the deserted and abandoned hall, a plain woman, sitting alone at the table, a faint diesel lamp was lit on the table, she looked at the wandering light, frowned slightly, to the oil lamp, poof, blew a breath, the oil lamp went out, the curling smoke, slowly rising, like an immortal soul, she looked at the oil lamp for a while, laughed lowly, like a ghost, pitiful and terrifying.