However, after the queen smelled the white smoke like a fairy aura, she immediately brushed her sleeves to cover her mouth and nose, and a person like her, who is not addicted to poppies, has only one idea of smelling poppy smoke - the stench is unbearable.

"What are you hiding from me—but the fourth is coming back?" The emperor lifted the beaded curtain with trembling hands, revealing a dry and thin face, and there were two bottomless gloom under him, which was simply a sick face that had been drained of all his energy by the addiction to poppies.

At the beginning, the queen also tried in vain to quit poppy addiction for the old emperor, however, it was easy to get infected with this addiction, and if you want to quit, you have to shed a skin for life!

If ordinary people are infected with this poppy addiction, the queen still has some methods, but to splash cold water, prick with needles, and tie up with the most abrasive rope to curb his addiction.

But who dares to act rashly?

I'm afraid that the front foot has just suppressed the old emperor's drug addiction for a moment, and the next moment, he will be reprimanded by the old emperor who barely maintains his calmness: "All the doors are beheaded!" ”

After a long time, the queen has not been in a hurry to give up, and the queen mother can't stand her son suffering like this, obviously at a young age, but he is still in pain as a child who doesn't understand at the age of two or three, what he wants, give it to him. The Queen Mother not only took it upon herself to stop all the addiction rehabilitation plans planned by the queen, but even had a big fight with the queen.

Whoever dares to force the old emperor to quit poppy addiction again, that is, he can't get along with her, he is confronting his superiors, and he is a big rebellion!

Over time, the queen was reluctant to meddle in the matter anymore, and the old emperor was finally quit a little bit of poppy addiction and returned like a flood. Today's old emperor can only rely on an incense burner burning poppy incense to maintain his unsurvivable sanity.

In order not to let the ministers of the court and the central government notice, it cost tens of thousands of eastern pearls to set up the same roller shutter in the places where the emperor often came and went.

"Your Majesty probably heard it wrong, Your Highness will not be able to return to Beijing until tomorrow......"

Before the queen's words were finished, the queen mother interrupted what the queen said, and provoked the incident in a strange tone: "The mourning family is talking to the queen about the Xiang family, this is not an accident in the Four Princes' Mansion, the mourning family is afraid that after the fourth child returns to the house, he will see that the Xiang family is not in the mansion, and he can't stand such a setback." ”

Before the queen mother could say it too clearly, the old emperor had already noticed that the matter was grim and tightened his brows, but at this time, the great eunuch outside the hall said: "Your Majesty, the fourth highness has returned to Beijing——"

The joy in the queen mother's heart at this time was almost clearly revealed on her face, and she couldn't wait to shake these things to Bo Zhaoxu, so that Bo Zhaoxu could take a good look at what she had saved with the Dark Fort token!

She sat up straight, and began to imagine in her heart what kind of ugly face Bo Zhaoxu would have after hearing about these trivial things.

"Knowing that the Fourth Highness is back, what are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and invite me in, so that Your Majesty can have a good meeting! The Queen Mother urged impatiently.

The queen looked slightly sideways because of the noise of the Queen Mother, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, especially emotional.

As the queen expected, Bo Zhaoxu not only walked into the main hall by himself, but even brought back Xiang Yeqi, who had disappeared in the eyes of the people in Beijing for a whole night, and saluted the emperor together: "Father." ”

The Queen Mother stared at Xiang Yeqi like a nobody, and she had been brewing for a long time to provoke the relationship between the two, but she didn't say a word.

She couldn't think of any words to use to stigmatize Xiang Yeqi, but it didn't mean that Xiang Yeqi would let her go, and would ignore her hateful eyes.

Xiang Yeqi raised his head slightly and asked, "What is the Queen Mother doing looking at the concubine like this?" Could it be that the clothes that the concubine is wearing today are not in line with the queen mother's wishes? ”

This time it's good, the queen mother's own sense of "grievance" for her own family has not yet subsided, and she said a word to the night, and Teng Shi lit all the fires of the queen mother.

The Queen Mother sneered dissatisfiedly, and said sarcastically without leaving any room: "Why, can't the mourning family take a good look at you?" The four princesses didn't see anyone this night, and they were really anxious about the mourning family. There was such a big commotion in Beijing, didn't the four princesses even want to say a word? ”

The queen closed her eyes tiredly, and shook her head helplessly, I have to say that the queen mother's original heart is still a little worthy of the queen's respect, but since the queen mother is clever and involves herself with Xiang Yeqi, the whole person's temperament is like an irritable child. The queen often can't help but sigh, she or the queen mother, which one looks more like an older one.

I'm afraid that today, the Queen Mother will be planted in the hands of such a little girl as Xiang Yeqi.

"There are rumors in Beijing, of course the concubine has heard of it."

Xiang Yeqi smiled implicitly, but he personally lifted a smashed brick for the Queen Mother: "The concubine body is just not very clear, what is there to explain?" ”

She is not usually sensitive to all kinds of information, and since she heard her name mentioned by the people after entering Beijing, Xiang Yeqi has been on guard against this matter.

"You're not in the house, how can you explain it?" The Queen Mother bit Xiang Yeqi to death and was not in the house, and she was actually in a posture of wanting to sink with Xiang Yeqi.

As everyone knows, she will only be the only one who will lose face because her posture is too ugly.

"Well, that's so good."

Xiang Yeqi nodded calmly, and did not hesitate to respond to the queen mother's accusation, just when the high-spirited queen mother was slightly proud, Xiang Yeqi asked again: "The reason why there are so many rumors in Beijing is because someone claims that the Four Princes' Mansion was stolen, and the concubine was not found in the mansion, right?" ”

The Queen Mother had already read a little cunning from Xiang Ye's words, and she didn't dare to answer rashly for a while, for fear of stepping into Xiang Ye's trap.

However, the queen mother took the first step and said sharply: "That's right." ”

But the Queen Mother gritted her teeth with hatred.

"Not to mention whether the Four Princes' Mansion was really stolen, what if the guards in the palace felt that the palace was very dangerous, and protected the concubines in advance? Or, what is wrong with the concubine returning to the mansion to stay last night? The concubine didn't see the thief in the mouth of the queen mother, and she wasn't kidnapped by the thief, what explanation do you need to give? What happened last night was the news from the mouth of the robber, right? ”

Xiang Yeqi chased after him and asked: "The rumors and rumors are unbelievable, let alone a person who went to the Four Princes' Mansion to steal, is it possible that the Queen Mother will even believe the words of this kind of person?" Or ......"

"Or does the Queen Mother trust this person?"

The cooperation between Bo Zhaoxu and Xiang Yeqi can be described as very tacit, blocking the Queen Mother speechless-how dare she answer this casually now!

Doesn't admitting that she hastily believed the thief's words prove that she is stupid? If she admits that she trusted the "thief", doesn't it mean that the person was originally sent by her?

The Queen Mother sighed fiercely in her heart, and wanted to rely on her old face to turn the page on this matter in time, but the queen withdrew her last few steps, and asked seriously: "What the fourth princess said is reasonable, but this matter is definitely not groundless, where did you go last night?" ”

To deal with these problems, Xiang Yeqi has already taken countermeasures.

Xiang Yeqi took Bo Zhaoxu's arm and smiled shyly: "The concubine went back to Xiangfu yesterday and went to report the war to her grandmother. When Xu sent someone to deliver the letter back to the Four Princes' Mansion, the thief had already left, right? I heard early this morning that the prince was going back to Beijing, and the concubine couldn't wait to welcome the prince back to Beijing. ”

The queen general nodded on the ground, as if she was very satisfied with Xiang Yeqi's words, but continued to be "embarrassed" and said: "This matter is related to your reputation, you don't have to blame the palace for asking too deeply, since you claimed to have stayed with the old lady Xiang last night, you will invite the old lady to corroborate it for you." ”

Although it is not a good thing to plane too thoroughly, the queen asked Xiang Yeqi to "say" the whereabouts clearly at this time, all for her own good, otherwise let the queen mother turn the page, and she could only let the queen mother hold the "handle" and not mention this matter for the time being.

The Queen Mother is now clear, and the one who can stand in her way the most is not her Xiang Yeqi, but the queen who treats her politely on weekdays.

"It's okay to invite grandmother, it's just that Xiangfu is still some distance from the palace, and I ask the queen to wait for a while."

Xiang Yeyan interprets the word calm to the extreme, how easy is it to provoke her relationship with Bo Zhaoxu? What's more, she stayed with Bo Zhaoxu all night.

"It doesn't hurt."

The queen didn't care much about the truth of this matter, and at this time she only dealt with it perfunctorily: "Give me a seat." ”

Not long after, Mrs. Xiang was invited over with a stunned junior, and before she entered the hall, the Queen Mother seemed to suddenly remember something, and a flash of inspiration - she sent someone to monitor Xiang Yeqi's movements day and night, if Xiang Yeqi really went to Xiangfu, could she still not know?

It's really a shame that she dared to ask the old lady to give perjury!

When the Queen Mother thought of this, her mood eased somewhat, after all, Xiang Yeqi, the granddaughter of Xiang Yeqi, who was famous for not hurting the old lady, how could she keep it secret for her?

However, the Queen Mother did not expect that as soon as the old lady saw Xiang Yeqi, she greeted her: "Are you tired?" I came in a hurry, so I brought your unsuccessful brother with me, what is the matter today? ”

As soon as she saw that she couldn't expect the old lady to shake out the bottom of the night, the queen mother pinned all her thoughts on telling the old lady that she was leaking, but it was only a temporary mistake - she was taken advantage of by the queen again.

"Please enter the palace to the old lady, but there is nothing to do, there is some small mess in Beijing today, you should also have heard of it, the fourth princess was not in the house last night, and it made people panic, just asked, the fourth princess claimed to be in your house last night, but there is such a thing?"

The queen was indeed interrogating the old lady, but she also changed her way to give the old lady a message, telling people what had just happened and what to say in a while.

And the old lady didn't even hesitate: "That's true." ”

"When did Sister Yan come to the house, yesterday was a ......"