Chongde Palace: Inside the grounds

In the twentieth year of Yude, Chongde Palace surfaced again, and quickly sank back, the show girls left, the legitimates of various countries also left, and this palace group was empty again.

On the afternoon of the last day of August, the autumn wind swept in the Chongde Palace, and a leaf fluttered down, and the second prince Jingxuan stretched out his hand, caught one of them, played with it a few times, and threw the leaf out again, watching it flutter and fall again.

"Come out!" Jing Xuan called.

Out of a room in the side hall came a man in a black cloak, the hood of the cloak was so large that it covered the man's face, and the man slowly walked behind Jing Xuan and bowed his hand.

"I've seen the master!"

Well! Jing Xuan snorted lightly and turned to face him.

"What are you wearing this cloak for in broad daylight?" Jing Xuan tugged at the man's clothes.

"It's better to avoid suspicion, it's important." The man said respectfully, and Jing Xuan nodded.

"The dead maid...... Is the worship room settled? Jing Xuan asked.

"If you go back to the master, it has basically been settled, and it will be sent to Shuntian Mansion, and there is no clue to this matter, this palace maid was originally a person who dared to die, and she said it when she entered the palace, and she made sure that there was no leakage of the slightest rumor." The black cloak replied.

"That's good, the price that was negotiated at the beginning, pay him the form and her father." Jing Xuan said.

"It's a pity that she couldn't do it, and her father went with her."

"What?! How dare you do it behind my back?! ”

"Your Highness is angry, his father is really sick and died, we haven't done anything before." Black Cloak hurriedly explained.

"Tell her cousin to keep his mouth shut! Or just go away! Jing Xuan was slightly angry.

"Yes! The old slave did it. ”

Jing Xuan nodded, looked up at the sky, and in the clear blue sky, eagles were soaring through.

"This king has already made an alliance with the second prince of the northern country, Tuoba Jin Feng Dacheng, his biggest competitor in the northern country is Tuoba Golden Eagle, Prince Jin Feng wants a woman from Great Xia to go, not only to be meticulous, but also to contain the kind of Golden Eagle.

I wanted to send a random woman, but who would have thought that I wouldn't take the bait after a few bait, but I just fell in love with her! It's really better to be a human being than a god!

had no choice but to steal the beams and change the pillars, and let the palace maid pretend to be sick on the day of the court ceremony. Wait, for in the near future letters will come from the North! ”

Jing Xuan told the cause and effect of the whole thing, and the black cloak nodded again and again.

"However, I never expected that there would be an extraneous branch, and this palace maid would actually die!"

"Master, it's good that she's dead, we heard the wind and asked her to find a place to hide for a few days, but by chance, she hid in the house and was killed. But it was cultivated in vain, and I wanted to send her to Jinhua's side. ”

"That's it! Just go for it! That love flower poison, after this winter, it should be slow. Jing Xuan said evilly.

"The old slave will do it! Other than that...... The old slave noticed that when she came in, it seemed that the queen couldn't tolerate that girl, and tried every possible way to frame the design, so we should think long-term and be careful. Black Cloak said.

"Now that my mother and concubine have been restored, my father has not even stepped into the Yue Palace for half a step, this is ...... If the wind doesn't blow on the pillow, my heart is always unsteady. Jing Xuan turned to look at the black cloak again.

"The old slave should do his best, and the master should not be impatient. In this grand event of all nations, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not have any advantage, which made the emperor very displeased, and what was even more displeased was the emperor's treatment of the crown princess. ”

"That woman, stupid! There is only jealousy in his eyes, and when he meets that girl, he forgets everything, and will only bite like a mad dog, but he can use it more. Jing Xuan smiled.

"Forgive the old slave for saying more, this Chen family doesn't seem to be simple, once again, the old slave thought that the queen mother was going to abandon it and chose the Langya Wang family, but in the end, it was still her position!"

"Humph!" Jing Xuan flicked her sleeves, "If it weren't for the crown prince, Wang Zhen'er would be my concubine!" ”

When the black cloak heard this, he quickly stopped it.

"Lord Wang, be careful that the wall has ears! Coveting the crown princess, but it will be punished! ”

Jing Xuan calmed down and straightened his sleeves.

"Don't worry, around Chongde Palace, there are people from me, and there are people who will learn to call birds! Moreover, this Chongde Palace is abandoned, and it is in the northernmost part of the harem. ”

"That's what the master said, but it's better to be careful."

"By the way, how is that girl's birthday?"

The black cloak took out a small notebook from the sleeve of the robe, and presented it to the second prince Jing Xuan with both hands.

"I only know that the girl was made during the Dragon Boat Festival in the seventh year of Yude, the specific time is unknown, the old slave sent someone to Longhu Mountain in Ganzhou, and asked the heavenly master to calculate all the high roads, and the contents of the calculations are all in this booklet, but the old slave has not read it, and please ask the prince to take a look."

As a result, Jing Xuan roughly flipped a few pages and put it into his arms.

"Can you be careful about this?"

"Your Highness, rest assured, the old slave was sent together in the affairs of Qin Tianjian, and he arranged it for his own person."

Jing Xuan nodded, waved his hand at the black cloak, and the black cloak saluted and retired. Jing Xuan whistled, and the people he arranged ran into the courtyard from all directions of Chongde Palace.

"Has anyone passed by?"

"Back to the prince, there is only a bunch of feather forests that change the guard every day, and they don't stay." Several people reported it.

Jing Xuan nodded, waved his hand at everyone, and everyone dispersed and left, and then he also left Chongde Palace.

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Shuqing Palace Inside the main hall

The autumn sun slanted in, shining on all kinds of flowers and plants looked particularly lush, Empress Dowager Guo was in the place, it was a small flower room newly separated, at the moment she was lying on the rocking chair inside, spending the afternoon comfortably.

Mama Gui Chun walked in with a blanket in her arms, and when she saw that the Queen Mother was bathing in the sun, she closed her eyes and quietly put the blanket on her body.

Mama Gui Chun got up lightly and was about to go out, but the Queen Mother stopped her.

"It's still your sweetheartness."

Gui Chun looked back, and the Queen Mother was still pretending to sleep with her eyes closed.

"The old slave thought you were asleep."

"I slept for a while and woke up. What are you doing here? The Queen Mother asked.

"No, then Siam has paid some bird's nest, the old slave thought, some you may keep to reward people, and the old slave went to distinguish it." Gui Chun said.

"You're not pure, you're proficient in these, and you're still in this heart?"

Empress Dowager Guo's tone was neither cloudy nor sunny, and Mama Gui Chun was a little surprised.

"Queen Mother, what's wrong with you? Feeling sick? ”

Ay...... Empress Dowager Guo let out a long sigh.

"It's not for the sake of the girl! The mourning family heard that the emperor was not very satisfied with her. Empress Dowager Guo still had her eyes closed.

"According to the old slave, the crown princess should really take care of it. The old slave heard a lot of gossip, saying that the princess was in the East Palace, and she was very harsh with the slaves and maids, and she did a little wrong, and she was beaten or scolded. It's been a long time, and this ...... It's not good. "Mama Gui Chun said directly.

"Hey...... Wrongdoer! Debt of iniquity! ”

Empress Dowager Guo raised her eyes to look out the window and muttered for a long time before speaking.

"Gui Chun, you also move a chair and chat with the mourning family for a while, the mourning family is depressed and panicked in many things."

"Yes." After that, Mama Gui Chun asked the palace maid outside to move in a chair, and she made a new bowl of tea for the queen mother.

"This is the southeast province this year's new fetal chrysanthemum, the weather has been dry recently, it is inevitable that it will be on fire, this tea, dry and soothing the liver." Gui Chun put it on the coffee table next to the Queen Mother.

"Why didn't you make a drink yourself?! Come on! A little palace maid walked in, "I'll make a bowl of fetal chrysanthemums for your Gui Chun." ”

"Yes!" The little maid went down, and soon came.

"Empress Dowager Xie."

"Okay, you and I have been friends for decades, and you still say thank you to the mourning family." The Queen Mother smiled.

"Queen Mother, there is one thing that the old slave can't see seriously. This female corpse case, why don't you ask a word? Let the queen and the virtuous concubine deal with it? Gui Chun asked.

The Queen Mother was not in a hurry to say, and pulled out an extremely helpless smile.

"Or else?" The Queen Mother pondered for a while, "That day, the queen came to Jinhua's girl who had an affair with someone, and she also told the mourning family that she seduced the emperor." Although the mourning family believed in adultery and did this scene with her, what was the result? ”

Mama Gui Chun was silent.

"Now the queen is getting bolder and bigger, designing such a game to let people drill into it, but in the end she took her own subordinates, hey...... She was said to be stupid a long time ago!

This matter is obviously the queen who is muddying the waters, how can she not know her thoughts? I am obviously the main palace, and the position of the prince is indeed someone else's, and I am only in the middle palace, but the emperor is the most favored by Concubine Xian, followed by Concubine De, and then to her, hey......"

The Queen Mother shook her head and smiled helplessly.

"The prince is weak and too kind, the bureau we worked hard to set up, I wanted to take advantage of this grand event of all nations to put this girl into Wenjin Pavilion and attract young talents for the prince, but people are not as good as heaven, and she has become a celebrity around the emperor.

"There's one thing, the old slave is very strange."

"What's the matter?"

"I heard...... Concubine De regained her favor yesterday. ”

"I guess I happened to flip through her sign." The Queen Mother disagreed.

"Yesterday, the emperor didn't turn over the brand, but stayed directly in the Yueyue Palace."

The Queen Mother sat up from the recliner and looked at Gui Chun in a daze, as if she had noticed something, but she didn't seem to have it.

"You mean ......"

"I heard that the dead body in the palace has been identified the day before yesterday, it is a former court servant, and it is ......" Gui Chun's mother quickly sorted out the information in her mind before she received the message.

"And what? Say it. Empress Dowager Guo urged.

"The old slave doesn't know if it's a coincidence, this palace maid is the palace maid who was replaced by Jinhua on the day of the court ceremony."

"What?!" The Queen Mother exclaimed, "How could there be such a coincidence? ”

"It is said that this palace maid came to Kuishui on the day of the ceremony, and she was afraid of colliding with the ceremony, so she temporarily grabbed Jinhua, who served rare flowers, to replace her, and it was the third prince of the north who served that day."

The Queen Mother stood up, paced back and forth, and finally opened her mouth after a long time.

"Yes, yes, that's right, how happened that she replaced the palace maid of the third prince of the northern kingdom, and the third prince recommended her to the emperor to be talented, how could there be such a coincidence?!"

Mama Gui Chun stared at the Queen Mother tightly, pondering together.

"Gui Chun! Be careful in the future, there is another force flowing in the palace! The Queen Mother said, slamming one hand into the palm of the other.