The "Grand Meeting of All Nations", which had been in preparation for nearly two years, finally came to a successful conclusion, the golden signboard of Daxia was also played, and the missions of various countries also returned with a full load.

But the matter of miniaturization and miniaturization, the matter of the Imperial Garden is not over.

Although the third prince of the northern kingdom involved in the incident, Tuoba Jinying, has gotten rid of suspicion and returned to China, and Jinhua, who was framed by evidence, has also proved his innocence in a way that "can be killed but not humiliated", but there is no progress in the matter and no clue.

The female corpse, Liyue led the deacons and aunts who were in charge of various places in the worship room to come and identify it, but it turned out to be Ruitian, who served in the front court.

This discovery surprised everyone, and the matter was quickly reported to Empress Zhou, Concubine Xian and Empress Dowager Guo.

Empress Dowager Guo was not as angry as Queen Zhou lied about Jinhua before, but deduced that she was old and unwell, so it was better for the queen and the virtuous concubine to deal with it, etc., Yunyun.

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Yukun Temple

The palace people stood in a row in the middle of the dormitory, holding different toiletries in their hands. Qiong Xin parted the curtains of the phoenix bed and hung them on the bedposts on both sides.

"What time is it?" Queen Zhou was sleepy-eyed and hoarse.

"Back to Niangniang, it's already the beginning of the hour."

Empress Zhou sat up from the warm bed, stretched lazily, and then rubbed her temples. Qiong Xin hurriedly stepped forward to help press the Mo.

"Mother, the slave is here to help you." Joan's voice was kind.

Queen Zhou glanced at her, put down her hand, and asked her to help.

"Niangniang, you don't sleep well today, you always turn over in the middle of the night, and the slave will also beat your shoulders."

Joan asked thoughtfully.

Queen Zhou snorted, and Qiong Xin began to press her up.

"Then you will be able to respond quickly thanks to your quick response, otherwise it will be difficult to protect yourself if you don't mourn your family." Empress Zhou closed her eyes and enjoyed pressing the rub.

"What did Niang Niang say, Niang Niang has hurt us for so many years, and the situation was urgent, and the slave had to ......" Qiong Xin suddenly stopped saying half of the words.

"It's a pity to have a center of gravity. When you go back, send someone to her house to settle down, give her another five hundred taels of silver, settle down for her father, and then go to the public school to donate a school to his brother. Empress Zhou sighed.

"Yes! The mother has a good heart, and the slave and maid will send someone when they turn around. ”

"It's just hateful, that girl didn't get rid of it!" The queen said hatefully.

"Niangniang, the slave took the liberty of asking, why did this girl offend you? It's better to call her, make it clear in person, and let her apologize to you, now she is the emperor and the former celebrity......"

"Shut up!" Empress Zhou said angrily.

Qiong Xin quickly stopped and knelt on the ground.

"It's the slave who talks a lot, she shouldn't talk nonsense in front of the mother, the slave and the maid should die, damn it!" With that, Qiong Xin slapped her mouth.

Seeing that she reacted smartly, Queen Zhou smiled instead, waved her hand at her, and continued to press the mo.

"That's it! Why haven't I seen you so smart before?! Queen Zhou stretched out a hand, and Qiong Xin hurriedly held it.

"It's not that this palace can't accommodate her, this palace is only afraid that she has a non-dividing thought, and she dangles in front of the emperor like a fox all day long, although the emperor is nearly half a hundred, but I am afraid that the heart of the dragon and tiger is still there, this girl is now more and more charming, it is difficult to guarantee that she will ...... one day"

Qiong Xin stood aside and thought for a while: "At the beginning, the Queen Mother couldn't tolerate her, and the slave maid heard that it was because of His Royal Highness the Prince, and now the Crown Princess can't tolerate her. ”

"Oh? How to say it" Empress Zhou was curious.

"She was born with a relationship that can't be separated from men, but she is feared everywhere, but coincidentally, those who are afraid of her are all noble, hehehe......" Qiongxin laughed.

"You! In the past, the focus was on, so that I didn't think you were a clever person, but now I find that you are smarter than her, and you can look at your eyes. "Queen Zhou enjoys the comfort brought by this Qiongxin press.

"I'm a good queen mother, before the center of gravity sister came to me, naturally there was no slave and maid, and I could only silently remember the things of the mother, and when the center of gravity sister was busy one day, it would not make the mother uncomfortable."

Qiong Xin is a girl who is flattering on the outside, a smile with two sweet dimples, everyone thought she was a clever and simple person, but I didn't expect the two words of Qiangang Palace, the life of the center of gravity is gone, and now Yukun Palace, she is a big palace maid, no one dares to provoke, more vicious than the usual center of gravity.

"It's good to have such a sweet friend as you." Queen Zhou patted her hand on her shoulder as a sign of appreciation.

"This palace is afraid of this girl, and on the other hand, the spiritual heart around the queen mother was because this girl fell out of favor and wasted a chess piece in the palace, and now the center of gravity is gone...... Therefore, this palace is even more fearful! ”

"Niangniang, the slave will pinch you again after the nap." Saying that, Qiong Xin helped Queen Zhou get up.

Queen Zhou walked to Xiudun not far from the bed, sat down, Qiongxin waved her hand to the palace people, and the palace people waited for the queen to wash in turn.

"Niangniang and Bi care about these things with her, I don't think she can make any big waves."

Qiong Xin offered the alkaline water for the queen of Zhou to rinse her mouth, and after rinsing her mouth after the week, Qiong Xin handed over the tooth wood freshly taken out of the medicinal soup, and the queen chewed it for a while and threw it into the copper bowl, and rinsed it with light salt water.

The queen is very particular about the clean face, the water of the clean face, is the morning dew on the flowers and leaves collected by the palace maids every day, and the yin water that is dried overnight after the first day is rolled away, and then mixed with the yang water burned in the morning, it is the pure face water of the queen mother.

After the week, the cleansing process is even more particular, before the cleansing is first fumigated with hot water with fresh petals, and when the face is warm and wet, the face is washed with cleansing water, and the pancreatic soap is used to clean it.

"Niangniang, this is the newly promoted flower juice pancreatic soap from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is said that the clean face is very clean, and there is a floral fragrance." Joan Xin opened the soap dish.

Queen Zhou nodded, took out a piece, put it under her nose and smelled it, the smell was suitable, but although it smelled good, it didn't seem to be the flower juice of Daxia.

"This is made of Persian rose juice?" Empress Zhou asked,

"The queen's knowledge is a hundred times better than ours, when I went to pick it up yesterday, I only felt that it smelled good, but I didn't know what it was, the father-in-law of the Internal Affairs Office deliberately sold the guanzi, and then gave up a lot of money to tell the slaves. If they knew that the queen mother could tell it with a word, the slaves and maids would not give up this money. Hehehe! Joan sneered.

Queen Zhou dipped it in water and rubbed it, the texture was indeed delicate, so she rubbed it a few times on her face, feeling that the skin on her face was much smoother, and she was in a good mood.

After washing up, Qiong Xin combed the queen's hair again, changed her clothes, and everything was ready to stop, before breakfast.

Before the light and sweet breakfast was finished, the eunuch who reported the door came in and replied, saying that the virtuous concubine had brought Liyue to ask for a meeting, and Queen Zhou waved her hand and signaled it to come in.

Soon, Concubine Xian Guifei led Liyue and the others in.

"Concubines, slaves, etc., please say hello to the queen!"

"That's it, my sister probably hasn't had breakfast yet, sit down and use some together, this is the small kitchen, just cooked rock sugar and japonica rice porridge, but a little sweet, eat this season, it's good."

Queen Zhou was really open, and Concubine Xian didn't refuse, she sat down, and immediately someone from the palace offered a small bowl, and Concubine Xian ate a few bites It was indeed sweet.

To say that before, Queen Zhou was still somewhat jealous of the virtuous concubine, because Emperor Yude has always been favored by the virtuous concubine, and the virtuous concubine is plain and diverse, and everyone misses her well. However, since the marriage of the fourth prince Jing Xuan and the Guan Long Lu family, the queen's attitude towards the virtuous concubine has changed greatly, and she has always relied on it.

"How's my sister eating?"

"My sister might as well tell my sister about this porridge, and when I turned around, my sister also asked the small kitchen to eat it. It is indeed sweet and very appetizing. Concubine Xian smiled and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.

"Why did you bring Liyue so early?"

"Hey, it's still the same thing." Concubine Xian pushed the small bowl aside.

When Queen Zhou heard that it was the incident, she paused in reality, her face changed a little color, and then as if nothing had happened, she ate a few more bites before putting down the small bowl and signaling to remove the breakfast.

"Say it."

Qiongxin and Lianxin waited for the masters to rinse their mouths, and then took the two masters to sit in the reception hall and served new tea.

"Back to the queen's mother, this morning the slave led the mothers-in-law from all over the place to recognize the female corpse, and Mama Yingchun, who was in charge of the front court, recognized it as the palace maid Rui Tian who served the front court." Liyue raised her hand at the mama.

"Back to the queen's mother, the old slave has already recognized it, it is indeed Ruitian controlled by the old slave, the old slave was worried about admitting his mistake, and later called two girls who are usually good friends with her to admit it, which is indeed correct."

"How can it be true?" Queen Zhou is as usual, lukewarm.

"The old slave didn't know, but the girl who lived with Ruitian recognized that Ruitian had a birthmark the size of a chicken egg, red, and he had recognized his appearance and the birthmark, and it was indeed Ruitian." Mama Yingchun replied.

Syllable! With a bang, Queen Zhou slapped the table heavily.

"The people you control have been missing for a few days, and you haven't even reported it?!"

Mama Yingchun was beaten by the queen and quickly knelt down.

"Queen Mother, it's not that the old slave didn't report it, it's true, it's this girl who took a leave of absence and left before the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"Leave? Because of what? The grand event of all nations is not over, there is a shortage of people everywhere and every bureau, where can she be allowed to take a high vacation? Empress Zhou's eyebrows furrowed.

"Ruitian was a new member of the palace last year, she said that her cousin at home asked someone to bring in the news, the old father is no longer good, and asked her to go back to take care of the aftermath, and the old slave approved her leave, but who knew that such a thing would happen!" Yingchun's mother-in-law chirped and said this set of words.

"Liyue, did you go to Ruitian's house to verify this?!" Concubine Xian asked.

"Back to Niangniang, yesterday Mama Yingchun identified Ruitian, and the slave sent someone to Ruitian's house to verify, Ruitian is a native of Zhili, and indeed the old father in the family is critically ill, and her cousin has also asked someone to enter the palace to bring a message, so that Ruitian can go back to see his father for the last time, which is also considered filial piety." Liyue returns.

"However, Ruitian's cousin said that if he asked him at the beginning of August, Ruitian's old father is long gone."

"At the beginning of August, I had already asked someone to bring a message, and I only asked for leave to leave the palace two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is not the right time. Queen, look? Concubine Xian had a question in her heart.

Queen Zhou did not answer, but looked at the ground in a daze.

"The Queen." The virtuous concubine called again.

"Ahh Hehehe, I'm also thinking, "Queen Zhou woke up like a dream." "This matter, just leave it to the Zhili Mansion to deal with, since this father and daughter, the person is gone, forget it, there is no intention to investigate it." Empress Zhou,

Concubine Xian nodded and swallowed her full of questions.