Chapter 17: Infighting

"Niangniang, why do you want to help Lan Guiren today?"

Others don't know about today's events, but Xiyan knows in her heart that the bracelet was given to Lu Guiren by the queen. Xiyan has been in charge of cleaning up the warehouse all year round, and she has never seen the bracelet at all.

The queen raised her eyes and looked at Xi Yan's extremely gentle smile, "They are all girls who have just entered the palace, don't you let Shen Jieyu pinch them to death if the palace doesn't help?" ”

Xiyan nodded as if she didn't understand, thinking that Shen Jieyu didn't care about the queen on weekdays, and then looked at her low-voiced appearance today, Xiyan's heart was very happy.

"Also, that Lu Guiren is not a good person, and she should be allowed to suffer some pain after serving for a few days without anyone in her eyes. However, when the slave watched this play today, her opinion of that Lan nobleman had improved somewhat. ”

You must know that in the morning, Li Shenlan desperately wanted to protect Wang Jun'er, and she was not afraid of Shen Jieyu at all, and then fell into the well, one by one, in Xiyan's eyes. Xi Yan felt that the rumored Lan Guiren who seduced the emperor was a little bloody.

When the queen heard this, she also remembered Li Shenlan's appearance at that time, and she didn't know why there was a look of nostalgia in her eyes, "Yes, Lan Guiren is a good girl......"

In the deep palace, it is quiet and peaceful because of the night. On the road, Feng Luan Chunen's car drove through the gates of the palaces without speed or slowness, making some of the originally calm palaces restless again.

Wang Jun'er sat in the car, her cheeks were very hot when she touched it. According to the rules of ancient times, the palace concubines who have been turned over are now washed and bathed in their own palaces, and then wear relatively revealing tulle and take a carriage to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

Looking at the gauze clothes on her body, Wang Jun'er's nervous hands trembled.

The carriage stopped suddenly, and the voice of Grandpa Hou came from outside.

After that, two older grandmothers came in with a thick quilt, one of them checked Wang Jun'er's palace guard, and the other wrapped Wang Jun'er with a quilt, and then two little eunuchs carried her into the Heart Cultivation Palace......

Outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, Xiao Dezi came to Gonggong Hou and muttered.

"Master, hasn't this emperor always liked the Lan nobles, and the whereabouts of the Lan nobles on weekdays are also for us to report in detail, why haven't we been in the palace for two days and haven't turned over the cards?"

Gonggong Hou glanced at Xiao Dezi, and stretched his neck to look at the candlelight from the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"What the emperor's mind is what we can guess, just tell the people of the Internal Affairs Office not to treat the Lan nobles badly."

Xiao Dezi didn't understand it now, and seeing that his master didn't plan to continue, he could only scratch his head and stand at the door obediently.

Jinghe Palace, Li Shenlan and Concubine Xiang began to play chess and taste tea as soon as they came back, and even Concubine Xiang, who had the habit of taking a nap, did not take a nap, and has been playing until now. If it weren't for the cry of hunger, I'm afraid it wouldn't be over yet.

"You don't even remind you to order, this dish has been heated three or four times!" Concubine Xiang has always been arrogant in her palace, and this fault is naturally all on Li Shenlan.

Li Shenlan didn't care, she just looked at Concubine Xiang and smiled helplessly, "Concubine Xiang is pulling the concubine and keeps going down and down, the concubines are hungry, but they don't dare to disobey." ”

"You're going to be poor with me!" After Concubine Xiang finished speaking, she suddenly stopped talking and looked at Li Shenlan.

Front-to-back? It's not something that a lady can say...... Looking at Li Shenlan, she didn't seem to realize what she said that aroused the suspicion of Concubine Xiang, but she was eating by herself. is also because she is extremely hungry, Li Shenlan eats two mouthfuls of food, which is even more rude.

Concubine Xiang looked at it again, but she was afraid that Li Shenlan would notice, so she could only continue to eat.

Outside the door, Qin Yun came in on time to report the news of the maid's bed to Concubine Xiang, Li Shenlan raised her eyes and continued to eat.

"The emperor turned over the sign that Wang Chang was there." Concubine Xiang looked at Li Shenlan with a little temptation, and she saw Li Shenlan's gaffe last time.

But who expected that Li Shenlan just hummed casually, and didn't react much.

"What's the reaction?" Concubine Xiang smiled a little for some reason.

Li Shenlan swallowed the food in her mouth, looked up and smiled, "Sister, don't look at me like this, you know what my sister is thinking." My sister has figured it out now, and my sister is not the only one in this harem, and the emperor will bear it if he gives me some love, and it is common sense not to give it. How can there be a bloom in this garden forever? ”

"You can see it upside down." Li Shenlan's reaction and transformation did surprise Concubine Xiang, and then she appreciated her more.

Li Shenlan shrugged nonchalantly, "Besides, I just entered the palace, and I haven't even seen the emperor yet, where can I be considered to have fallen out of favor?" ”

Concubine Xiang hadn't seen Li Shenlan like this, and she was amused all of a sudden.

After eating, seeing that the time was not early, Concubine Xiang let Li Shenlan go back to the dormitory early to rest.

In the east side hall, Bang Chun unloaded Li Shenlan's hair ornament and left Xia to prepare hot water in the inner room. When Bang Chun opened the makeup box, Li Shenlan inadvertently caught a glimpse of the bead flower, her heart sank, but her face was still expressionless.

In the main hall of Jinghe Palace, Qin Yun was also preparing hot water for Concubine Xiang, and Qin Yin picked up the earrings for Concubine Xiang, but she heard Concubine Xiang suddenly speak.

"Send our people to find out Li Shenlan's life experience."

"Niangniang, isn't Lan Guiren the second girl of Taiwei Li?"

Concubine Xiang shook her head at herself in the mirror, "Looking at Shen Lan like that today, I always feel that there is something wrong in this palace, you send someone to investigate, especially on the day Shen Lan entered Beijing, where did Shen Lan come from, and the surrounding people are all clear." ”

"Yes."

"Also, be careful, it's all the people of the Zhao family, don't let the emperor know."

Qin Yin took the order, and Concubine Xiang didn't know what she was thinking about when she thought of Li Shenlan's appearance at dinner.

The next morning, everyone went to the Queen's Palace to say goodbye.

Zhao Jieyu's aftermath palace everyone heard about it clearly after the incident, so everyone was cautious early in the morning, even Lu Xin, who is arrogant on weekdays, is honestly drinking tea with his head down today.

"Wang Chang looked very tired today, but he didn't sleep well last night?"

Hui Jieyu, a concubine, spoke bluntly, everyone knew that the emperor turned over Wang Jun'er's brand last night, and when she asked Wang Jun'er, her face was red and about to drip blood.

"Okay, Hui Jieyu was born in the prairie and has a straighter temperament, so don't worry about Wang Changzai."

When the queen spoke, Wang Jun'er naturally didn't say much, but responded in a low voice.

"It's funny, yesterday's incident was the most wronged by the Lan nobles, why didn't the emperor comfort and comfort the Lan nobles?"

Ke Changzai is the most provocative, so it is also expected by Li Shenlan. But Wang Jun'er is a simple character, she knew about Li Shenlan and the emperor before she entered the palace, and now she is often said that she has betrayed her, and she is also full of guilt when she looks at Li Shenlan.

"Ke Chang said this, where is the king of the people who are so naΓ―ve as Lan Guiren in Chu Chu, and he doesn't know if he is being used."

Hu Chang answered on the side, didn't that mean that Wang Jun'er was pretending to be weak and deliberately attracting Li Shenlan to come out as a gunman.

Wang Jun'er listened to the tears and saw that they were about to fall, and Li Shenlan felt uncomfortable when she looked at the crowding one by two.

"The two sisters are joking, Jun'er and I have been old acquaintances before we entered the palace, where will you play any thoughts on this. It was the words of the two sisters, and the concubines who listened to them only felt uncomfortable in their stomachs......"

Why is my stomach still uncomfortable? The two of you often look at me and I look at you, but I don't understand. But Concubine Xiang, who was watching the play on the side, was the first to laugh, and she didn't stop for a long time.

"Lan Guiren also said it too tactfully, this person who sow discord is disgusting when he speaks, next time he says it directly, they don't have that brain."

Concubine Xiang has always looked high in front of these people, and everyone is helpless, who made Concubine Xiang's father and brother the leading generals of the dynasty. Even if the emperor still has to salute three points, where do they dare to treat Concubine Xiang. I could only endure my anger and shut up with a shy face.

Concubine Xiang saw that they were bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, but she snorted coldly and ignored them.

The room was full of people arguing, and no one saw Lu Xin sitting there quietly watching everyone alone, his fingers clasped tightly on the edge of the table.

After the meeting was adjourned, a room of people scattered in all directions, each in the direction of each palace. Concubine Xiang stayed to talk to the queen as usual, and Li Shenlan went out first.

"Sister Lan!" Behind him, Wang Jun'er hurriedly chased out and stopped Li Shenlan.

Li Shenlan turned around, for fear that Wang Jun'er would think too much, and the deliberate smile on her face was much gentler.

"Sister Lan, are you weird? I really didn't know that the emperor would turn over my brand, I would rather be my sister's ......"

"...... Child"

Li Shenlan interrupted Wang Jun'er's words, she knew that Wang Jun'er was a person who was very easy to think too much, so she had to explain her thoughts before she could not blame herself.

"Jun'er, I admit that I listened to you yesterday and felt really uncomfortable for a while, but Jun'er, you have to know that you are always the emperor's concubine. There is nothing wrong with you in serving, and you are not sorry for anyone, the emperor is not just mine, any woman in the harem is qualified to ......"

Li Shenlan said a lot at once, but suddenly thinking of Yin Chen's attitude outside the palace, she was still unnaturally distressed.

"And what's so special about me? When I entered the palace, I didn't even see the emperor's face, but she was just an ordinary unfavored concubine in the deep palace. ”

"Sister......" Wang Jun'er reached out to hold Li Shenlan, for fear that she would cry sadly.

Li Shenlan also reached out to hold it back, smiled and shook her head to signal that she didn't have to worry. In fact, even Li Shenlan herself didn't know whether her words were comforting Wang Jun'er or herself.

"Don't worry, I'm very open. How is life going? By the way, I asked Xiaoshunzi and them to make a kite, and there is nothing to do today, you go back with me to fly a kite in the yard. ”

Saying that, Li Shenlan didn't care whether Wang Jun'er should or not, and pulled her straight to Jinghe Palace.

Maybe Taiwei's words are right, there are few people in this harem, if you can treat yourself sincerely, why not grasp it?

Soon outside Jinghe Palace, there were not only paper kites floating in the sky, but also the laughter of the two daughters' families.

"This paper kite flies high, and the master may not have seen the paper kite for a long time."

In the courtyard of Shoukang Palace, the Queen Mother helped Ruozhu to look up at the paper kite in the sky. The wind blows and holds the paper kite to fly higher and higher, and fly farther and farther.

"How long has it been since the mourning family left the palace?"

Ruozhu has served the Queen Mother for so many years, so he naturally knows that what the Queen Mother said is not the time to go out of the palace to worship the Buddha.

"Counting the days, exactly thirty-six years, seven months, and eighteen days......"

"yes." The Queen Mother suddenly lowered her head and sighed, and her eyes slowly closed.

"Ruozhu, as soon as the mourning family closed their eyes, all the people who appeared in front of them except for the first emperor were the old people of the year. Empress Xiaode, Concubine Rong, and Mrs. Jing...... But no one smiled at me, not even the first emperor. ”

"The Queen Mother, is this tired?"

"The mourning family has been fighting all their lives, and now they are clearly sitting on the Diaoyutai but they are fighting with their own son. The mourning family is tired, really tired. ”

Ruozhu knows in his heart, in fact, what is the place outside the so-called palace? When the queen mother was not out of the cabinet, she was fighting non-stop in the house, and entering the palace was an endless and tiresome battle. Ruozhu wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know what to say.

The master in front of him was too powerful, too powerful to need any comfort.

Sure enough, after the Queen Mother opened her eyes again, her eyes were still slowly fighting. She looked up at the paper kite again, but there was no sadness in her eyes.

"Look at the direction from Jinghe Palace?"

"Yes, it is estimated that it was put by Lan Guiren. Concubine Xiang is the daughter of Jiangmen, and most of them don't have this mind. ”

"Don't think about waiting for the emperor, put your mind on these folk things, you go and send a message to Lan Guiren, let her copy the Buddhist scriptures a hundred times and meditate!"

Ruozhu received the order except for Shoukang Palace, but the Queen Mother looked at it but looked in the direction of Changle Palace and sneered.

"The more you care about the emperor's mourning family, the more you have to support your own people, just a Lan nobleman......"

The Empress Dowager's decree was transmitted to Li Shenlan, and a gust of wind suddenly blew in the air, blowing the kite directly to the branches, and the kite line was also broken.

Li Shenlan looked at the Buddhist scriptures in her hand, thinking of the prejudice against herself in the election that day, and she still can't understand it. The emperor's meaning to himself was well known to everyone, why did the queen mother look at her unpleasantly? Or did Li Mingjin annoy the Queen Mother back then? This resemblance of himself makes the Queen Mother look down on it?

Doubts are doubts, and Buddhist scriptures still have to be copied. Outside the house, Bang Chun hurriedly ran in, holding a letterhead in his hand.

The lieutenant sent a letter.

In the imperial garden, the emperor rarely sprinkled the folds and did not approve, and came out to relax and relax. Xiao Dezi hurried over from the east and whispered a few words in the emperor's ear.

"The Queen Mother really did this?"

"Aunt Ruozhu sent the Buddhist scriptures to Jinghe Palace early in the morning, and now the Lan nobles have copied them."

The emperor snorted coldly, and looked at the oleander in front of him and suddenly reached out to break it, and the flower fell to the ground, and the emperor stepped into the mud with his foot.

"By the way, the emperor, the queen mother also made an appointment to hold a hundred flowers banquet in the imperial garden half a month later."

"Hundred Flowers Banquet? I went to tell the queen to let her take full authority to handle this matter, and when the queen mother was old, I made an appointment with the abbot of the national temple to give a lecture, and let the queen mother go over to live in the temple for a few days to recuperate physically and mentally. ”

Xiao Dezi was bitter when he heard this, but he could only go to Changle Palace to announce the decree.

Yin Chen looked at the spring flowers in the garden, but his brows were furrowed tightly. This front and harem are more or less involved, even if they are cut off on both sides, they can also break the thread.

Yin Chen closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then turned around and strode back to the Heart Cultivation Palace.