In the Pujia Palace, Qihua cleaned up Ying'e's vomit, served her a bowl of lotus seed porridge, and asked with concern: "Niangniang, what are Niangniang's plans for this situation now?" I am afraid that Yuan Yi and Liu Teng will regard the general as a fellow party and affect Niangniang. ”

Ying'e barely supported her body, unwilling to drink porridge anymore, she smiled faintly, "Tonight is really thrilling, I can't settle down now, the matter has come to this, if there is no way to avoid it, then there is nothing to fear, but I don't know if my father can return to Yecheng smoothly, and I don't know if the queen mother is in a more difficult situation now." Qihua, have you ever heard why Yuan Shiyu is not in the palace tonight? ”

Qihua put the porridge on the table, poured a glass of water for Ying'e, and asked her to moisten her throat, while saying, "I have asked the little eunuch on duty in the Taiji Palace, saying that it is the mother of Yuan Shixue who is sick, and he will go back to serve the sick." ”

Ying'e put her mind at ease, "It's good that he has nothing to do, and it's much better to be filial at home than to be in danger." ”

"Niangniang, you still have the heart to care about the safety of others, and now your situation is critical, and you don't worry about yourself at all." Qi Wan was worried and uneasy.

Ying'e comforted Qi Wan instead, "You are the one who entered my palace later, and you have only served me for a few months, if I have something, you can try your best to clear up the relationship, and don't affect you." ”

When Qi Wan heard this, she hurriedly said, "The slave and maid have not been afraid of life and death since the first day of following the mother, the mother is a nobleman, but she never looks down on the slave and the maid, and does not dislike the slave and the maid is the daughter of a criminal minister, and treats it with all her heart." This kindness is difficult to repay for thousands of deaths, how can he sell his master to survive in order to steal his life. ”

Ying'e smiled bitterly, "Now that my future is uncertain, how can I help you, and I can't bear to burden you." ”

The master and servant were talking when suddenly there was a commotion outside, and the little eunuch who served pushed the door in a panic and reported, "Niangniang, the guards are dispersing the minions, saying that they want to block the palace gate, how is this good." ”

Ying'e looked at the noisy figures and noisy voices outside, she tried her best to hide her panic and panic, she couldn't guess what awaited her, whether her father's army could save her life. She gently waved her hand to let the little eunuch step back, "Those who should come will always come, you should leave this place of right and wrong first according to the arrangement." ”

The little eunuch knelt down with tears in his eyes, "Niangniang, Li Guangan is not leaving, Li Guangan is willing to stay and serve Niangniang, begging Niangniang to let the slave stay." ”

Only then did Ying'e know that this little eunuch who had been silently cleaning the courtyard and pruning the branches and leaves by her side turned out to be Li Guang'an, and he took the initiative to stay by his side when he was in trouble, Ying'e couldn't help but reddened her eyes, she asked Qihua to help him up, and took off a pair of jade bracelets on her wrist and handed them to Li An, Li Guang'an was puzzled.

Ying'e said, "You hide this pair of bracelets and go out first, and the palace will need you to go around in the future." If you can't get out of the palace, this pair of bracelets should be left as a souvenir, and it is also your filial piety to pay tribute to the palace with a glass of sake in your spare time. ”

Li Guangan cried and resolutely refused to accept it, Qi Wan was also sad, and comforted him, "Since Niangniang gave it to you, you will accept it, don't cry anymore, if it is really for our Niangniang, you can go out quickly, it is good to be sleepy here." ”

After hearing this, Li Guangan no longer insisted, put the bracelet in the placket and hid it, wiped away the tears with his sleeve, and as soon as he got up, he was driven out by the swarming guards.

Qi Wan said angrily, "I didn't see Niangniang here, you dare to break into Niangniang's dormitory to spread wild, do you still have decency?" ”

The head of the guard said with a smile, "Naturally, we don't dare to make a mistake in front of Niangniang, but is there still a Niangniang here?" After a while, my father-in-law will come to announce the decree, and there will be no mother-in-law here. ”

Ying'e understood that she had been abolished, and that holy decree was the same for her whether she heard it or not, and she smiled faintly, "What's your name?" ”

The head guard tilted his head and asked, "What does the lady want to know about my name?"

Ying'e walked up to him step by step and looked at him, "Knowing your name, this palace will remember you." ”

The chief guard was so frightened by Ying'e's eyes that he took a few steps back, and said, "Remember... What the. ”

At this time, a deep voice behind him said loudly, "Niangniang, this person is a universal world, it is Yu Jin's subordinate, Yu Jin's rule is not strict, causing him to collide with Niangniang, and his subordinates are guilty." Whoever comes, take down all the worlds first, and wait for the fate. ”

Ying'e slowly raised her phoenix eyes and looked at Yu Jin in front of her, who had integrity in her eyes, her face was well-defined, and she was slightly scumbag, "Thank you, General Yu, for recognizing this lady in the palace at this time, you can make a decree now." ”

Yu Jin clasped his fists with both hands and saluted Ying'e, "I returned to Ying Concubine Niangniang, but there was no holy decree, but I just got the emperor's edict from Gonggong Liu." The edict said that Ying Concubine and Er Zhurong and Xi Kangsheng should cooperate with each other and want to assassinate the emperor during the dinner. Now that Xi Kangsheng has surrendered to the law, Er Zhurong fled, and ordered the Ying Concubine to be imprisoned, and detained in Dali Temple on the same day, and the decision will be made after the trial is concluded. ”

Ying'e calmed down when she heard the news of her father's escape, she automatically stretched out her two hands, let the guards put on handhackles, and Qihua was also tied together, Ying'e pleaded, "She's just a subordinate, and there is no treatment for her in the edict read by the general just now, can't you expel her with other palace people?" ”

Yu Jin said respectfully, "Gonggong Liu ordered that Miss Qiyu be imprisoned together, and the general will not dare to disobey his orders." ”

Ying'e watched apologetically as Qihua was escorted out of the door first, and when she passed by Yu Jin's side, she stopped and whispered, "If I remember correctly, your great-uncle is Wuwei General Yu Jing, your Yu family is a relative of the former dynasty, and your great-grandfather Yu Zhong is a pillar of the country." Your great-uncle has always respected the Queen Mother and the King of Qinghe, and although today's move was defeated, the general knew our original intentions. Now that I am in prison, I have no resentment, but I just want to bother the general to go to Yaoguang Temple to inform my brother Erzhu Zhaosu to return to Erzhuchuan quickly, and if the general can help. ”

Yu Jin nodded and said softly, "Don't worry, Weichen will live up to her trust, and she will arrange for her cronies to go later." ”

Ying'e was relieved to sit in the prisoner car, and Qihua was imprisoned in the Dali Temple prison with her.

Because of Ying'e's identity, Liu Teng didn't dare to be too presumptuous, Qihua and her were locked in a separate cell, and it was a blessing to untie the shackles on their bodies.

Ying'e saw a pile of straw on the ground in the prison, there was no bed, only a stool, and she was also tired, so she walked over and wanted to sit. Qi Yanyan quickly wiped it clean with his sleeve, and said in his mouth, "Niangniang will sit down for a while, and the slave will tidy up this straw, and Niangniang will rest by leaning on it." ”

Ying'e shook her head and pulled her to her side and sat down, "I'm a lady who likes to cause trouble, and with a lady like me, you have suffered." ”

Qi Wan looked around the cell and said with a faint smile, "Don't say that, Niangniang, back then, the slave maid chose to go to Xuanguang Hall to accompany Niangniang because she recognized Niangniang as a good person." Besides, this cell is nothing to the slave maid, but it is much better to revisit the old place than to live in it when you were young. ”

Looking at the Qi Wan in front of her, who had followed her into the cold palace, out of the temple, and now she was locked in a prison cell by herself, Ying'e began to guard against her before, and even thought about leaving her own behavior, a little guilty, she reached out and tied up the hair scattered on her shoulders, "It's all here, what else do you have to be a slave, from today onwards, we sisters are commensurate, and living a day is a sister, you are a few years older than me, you are my sister." ”

Qihua was busy getting up and kneeling on the ground, but was pulled by Ying'e, "If you kneel, let's kneel together, and worship sisters today, if you are a mother again, it will be a life." ”

With tears in her eyes, Qi Wan nodded in agreement. The two of them were in this cell, facing the moonlight outside the narrow cell window. Ying'e helped Qihua to flatten the haystack together, and the two of them lay on it with exhausted physical strength, feeling as soft as the bed in Pujia Palace, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed at each other's thoughts, but they were also happy in the bitterness. Ying'e put her arm on the pillow, looked at Qi Jue and suddenly remembered that she had never asked about her family background, and she was not so close to her identity before, she asked seriously, "I heard that the palace maid said that your surname is Ru, and you are also a former wang family, but I don't know your story, if you are willing to say, I am willing to listen, if not, I have not mentioned it." ”

Qi Wan touched the hurt in her heart, she snorted, suppressed the hot tears rolling in her eyes, and said slowly, "That's not a secret, everyone in the court knows it, it's just that you are still young and have been living in Erzhuchuan, so naturally you don't know." My father was Ru Hao, who served as Emperor Xuanwu's Zuo Zhonglang general, and later promoted to hussar general, and concurrently led the Hualin Zhuzuo, responsible for the construction of the Hualin Garden of the royal palace. Father is skillful, Emperor Xuanwu ordered him to preside over the construction of Tianyuan Pond, because the whole garden trees and grass planting, quite wild, Emperor Xuanwu is very satisfied, often come to visit the luck. Therefore, his father moved to the champion general, still received the rank of Xiaocai general, began to participate in the important affairs of the court, and married the cousin of Gao Zhao, a favorite minister who was in full swing at that time. My mother was a servant girl next to the eldest lady, and my father took me as a concubine, and my mother became pregnant not long after. Unexpectedly, the good days were over, and his father was framed by Gao Zhao for the crime of forming a party and plotting rebellion, and the poisonous pepper was given to death at home. The eldest lady was taken back by the Gao family because she was Gao Zhao's younger sister, and my mother and the other women of the Ru family were all confiscated into slavery, and the men were confiscated into the army, and the family property was not official. After my mother gave birth to me, she secretly cried when she thought of my father, and within a few years, she became depressed and followed my father. ”

After Qihua finished crying, Ying'e turned over to wipe her tears, and blamed herself, "I shouldn't have mentioned your sadness, but I was just curious that your knowledge was learning from your mother?" ”

Qi Wan said, "Although my mother is the eldest lady's girl, she has been learning words with the eldest lady since she was a child, so she taught me to read. After my mother died, I was charged to the palace as a maid, and I was lucky enough to be assigned to Li Niangniang, the best in the palace, where I worked as a maid for three years. Li Niangniang saw that I was smart, so she often showed me some female training rules, as well as poetry, so I knew a little about poetry. ”

Ying'e remembered that the palace maid next to her had said that when Qi Wan entered Concubine Li's palace, it was when Concubine Li was not favored when she was ill, and she had never been favored, maybe those people deliberately said it out of jealousy, but they just sympathized with Qi Wan's experience, and sighed, "You are also miserable, have you seen the Queen Mother when you were in Concubine Li's palace?" ”

Qi Wan nodded, "Yes, the first emperor separated their mother and son at that time, and the queen mother once came to beg Li Niangniang to take her to see her son, I glanced at her from a distance, the queen mother is so beautiful, just like the fairy in the sky." ”

Ying'e's eyes suddenly lit up, she grabbed Qi'e hand and said, "Then do you know the suicide note left by Li Niangniang?" ”

Qi Wan shook her head, "I know what you're thinking, if I knew that I would have been able to rescue the Queen Mother a long time ago, but before Niangniang died, I was sent back to the Huanyi Bureau." Because I found out that Queen Gao poisoned the emperor with love incense, I told Niangniang, but I was overheard, and wrongfully accused me of stealing Queen Gao's golden unicorn, if it wasn't for Li Niangniang's intercession, I would have died at that time. That day, I figured out from Bai Quan's mouth that Li Niangniang secretly went to visit the emperor back then, which was arranged by the emperor. Thinking about it, except for that letter, it is difficult to convince the emperor that the queen mother is the biological mother. ”

Ying'e smiled bitterly, "We don't know if we can get out alive yet, and now we can't afford to worry about the Queen Mother, I just hope that my brother's people can find Xu Su soon, and my father will return to Erzhuchuan smoothly, so we may still be saved." ”

Qihua looked at Ying'e, who was already sleepy, and didn't say anything more, took off her coat, and gently covered Ying'e's body, Ying'e fell asleep sleepily, this day was too tired.