Yu Qing squinted her eyes and realized that something was wrong.

The order of the incense is confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the emperor in advance, and the placement of the incense pillars is naturally regular.

The emperor is the most precious golden palmetto incense for the Son of Heaven, the queen uses sandalwood incense, the little prince's biological mother or adoptive mother uses agarwood incense, and the rest of the concubines are above benzoin, and the rest of the concubines below are all herbs and trees.

But there is a variable today, that is, the Queen Mother.

No one thought of the Queen Mother's sudden appearance to participate in the ceremony, and there was no way to temporarily increase the incense seeds, let alone let the Queen Mother use ordinary grass and wood incense.

Therefore, the emperor gave his incense to the Queen Mother, and other incense species naturally followed suit.

In other words, the incense that the queen is using now was originally prepared for her!

This person is not the queen, but himself!

Yu Qing looked around quietly, and found that most of the concubines looked puzzled or surprised, and only the two of them looked indifferent, as if they had expected it.

These two people are Concubine Hua and Concubine Jia.

The only difference is that Concubine Hua's expression seems to be proud, more of a matter of concern, and she looks like she is watching a good show, as if no matter who has an accident, she can get fun from it.

And Concubine Jia tightened her handkerchief, gritted her teeth and hated, looking angry that she had missed the opportunity.

During the period, she also glanced at Yu Qing and found that Yu Qing was looking at herself, the two of them collided with each other, Concubine Jia's heart tightened, and she quickly withdrew her gaze,

Yu Qing weighed between saving and not saving the queen.

She clearly sensed the queen's hostility towards her, but she didn't notice that the queen had done anything substantial to her.

In particular, if the queen loses the emperor's love, I am afraid that no one in the entire harem can contain Concubine Hua anymore, which will be a great disadvantage to her.

Then save! Yu Qing made her choice and began to act.

"Your Majesty, the concubines feel that this matter is strange." Yu Qing was already close to the emperor, so she leaned into the emperor's ear and said a word.

However, at this time, in the hall, everyone was silent because of the emperor's anger, and only the queen's sobbing voice was sad, and at this time, only Yu Qing dared to come up and speak.

Therefore, even if he tried to suppress his voice, because the hall was empty, it was even more abrupt.

"You mean that the queen is framed by men?" Hearing this, the Queen Mother spoke majestically.

The queen had been sitting on the ground dejectedly, and suddenly looked up at Yu Qing, her eyes full of hope.

Seeing that everyone had seen it, Yu Qing no longer hid it, and calmly answered the Queen Mother's question, "Back to the Queen Mother, the concubines are just guesses, and they have yet to be confirmed." ”

"Oh, don't be ashamed, what do you think you are, is Qingtian alive?" Concubine Hua snorted coldly.

Concubine Hua naturally knew who did it, and the method was that she ordered someone to pretend to leak her mouth unintentionally and deliberately reveal it to Concubine Jia.

The queen mother appeared, and she didn't talk to herself beforehand, but it was the queen who had an accident, and she was happy to see it, after all, the queen was a bigger stumbling block than Yu Qing.

"The Buddha is above, you had better find out something, if you check it out, it is not artificial, and the auspicious time is delayed, how do you give an explanation to the queen mother and the emperor!" Concubine Jia also stood up and spoke.

Although Concubine Jia was sarcastic, she was actually flustered in her heart, she was not afraid that Ruo Yuqing would really see something and involve her.

But if she misses this opportunity, she won't have lost all her efforts.

"Concubine Hua, Concubine Jia, you don't have to be so aggressive, don't you have a ghost in your heart, afraid that the concubine will find out something?"

Yu Qing's eyes were bright and bright, and her eyes swirled back and forth on Concubine Hua and Concubine Jia, making Concubine Hua and Concubine Jia feel as if she had seen through everything.

"You're squirting blood!" Concubine Hua said angrily.

"You are slandering, Your Majesty!" Concubine Jia herself was weak-hearted, and now she was even more flustered.

"Okay, shut up for me, it's a headache for me!" The emperor frowned and said impatiently.

"Qing noble, you must be responsible for what you say, otherwise even I won't be able to protect you." The emperor's words are allowed to pass the inspection.

"The concubine is awake, the queen mother, the emperor will wait for a while, everything will be decided." Thanksgiving to the sunshine.

She first walked up to the queen in front of everyone, squatted on the ground, and picked up a cut of incense with her hand.

The appearance is normal, just like the usual use. Looking at the fracture, there are no cut marks, but ......

The color of the inner ring at the fracture is obviously darker than the outer circle, and the index finger and thumb of Yu Qing are slightly forced, and the broken incense is broken, the touch is slippery, slightly wet, and I picked up a few other places to compare and view, and I have a conclusion in my heart.

"Your Majesty, look at this incense." Yu Qing picked up a piece of intact residual incense and put it in the emperor's hand.

"On the outside, it looks the same as usual, except that the outer ring of the fault is dry, but the inner core is moist and soft, and it can be easily broken without force, let alone pray three times."

After praying, you need to hold incense with both hands, put it on your forehead, lean over and prostrate, and so on three times to show your sincerity.

But if this incense is soaked in water, damp, and of such quality, it can't stand such a big shaking at all, so every time the queen leans over for the first time, the incense folds on the ground.

The emperor had just seen Yu Qing's movements, took the broken incense handed over by Yu Qing, looked at the section, and almost understood, but there was still a little doubt.

"If it is soaked in water, even if the outside has been air-dried, but the inside is damp, the incense will not be ignited, but the incense that the queen has just now has been lit smoothly." The emperor asked.

"This is the delicate mind of the person behind it, only the bottom of the incense is soaked in water, and the upper part is still normal, and it can naturally be ignited." Yu Qing explained.

If you can't ignite it in the first place, you won't be able to move on to the next steps, and you won't be able to trap it, but you will do it again.

"Hmph, what a guts!" The emperor's eyes were deep, and he scolded coldly.

"Show it to the mourners." The Queen Mother said.

Yu Qing handed it over according to her words, this is the one who has struggled the longest in the palace, the king of kings, and after only a glance, he understood what was going on.

"Check! Check it out for the mourners! The Queen Mother was furious, threw the incense in her hand on the ground, and gave an order, which showed that she was already angry.

Xue Gui received the order, and first checked the other regulated incense, all of which were abnormal, and as Yu Qing said, only the agarwood incense was passive.

I went to the Internal Affairs Office to ask who prepared the incense pillar for today's 100-day ceremony, and when I got a reply, I immediately went to arrest someone.

The queen mother, the emperor, the queen and other concubines all stayed in the palace and waited for Xue Gui to come back.

Concubine Jia didn't notice that her fingers hurt, the hall was quiet, and she didn't dare to make a sound.

Even if he had already bought off the little eunuch and left a way back, if he was caught by mistake, wouldn't he have to explain it here.

On that day, she heard from two girls in the courtyard that she saw the person who prepared incense and candles from the Internal Affairs Office being punished by the head of the Internal Affairs Office and almost half to death.

I don't know what mistake I made, I can be punished so much, but when I inquired about it, I found out that it was the little eunuch who took the incense from the old library and planned to use it on the day of the 100-day ceremony.

The old warehouse is dilapidated and in disrepair, and the objects inside are subject to extremely heavy moisture, and the incense that has been damp is very easy to break.

If it weren't for the emperor and the Qing nobles looking for the head of the Internal Affairs Office to re-check, he wouldn't have found out, wouldn't he have to lose his head.

In a fit of rage, he reprimanded the erring little eunuch and replaced all the incense and candles.

Concubine Jia felt that God was really helping, and sent someone to buy off the little eunuch who was punished, and once again stole the beams and changed the pillars, so that today's incident happened.

The hateful Queen Mother came too timely, to everyone's surprise, and by mistake let Yu Qing avoid this disaster, Concubine Jia could only secretly hate Yu Qing for being really fateful.

But after all, a spineless thing like a eunuch can't withstand a few tortures, and once he confesses, his road will come to an end, but Yuqing, a slut, is not dead yet, and she doesn't want to die like this.

Concubine Hua looked at Concubine Jia's timid appearance, the corners of her mouth hooked up, and she sneered and sarcastic.

Yu Qing quietly took in everything.

Not long after, Xue Gui came back. He bowed down to the emperor's side and said: "Back to the emperor, the queen mother, the servants went to the inner service to get people, and traced all the way to the Yanbo Palace, and found that the little eunuch who was in charge of preparing incense had committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake." ”

"What?" The emperor's voice was cold and steep, and the people around him couldn't help but tremble.

When a person is dead, there is no way to interrogate, and naturally the real mastermind behind it cannot be found.

No one would believe that such a bold plan would be done by a little eunuch alone.

So far, there is nothing to be done about it, the incident happened suddenly, the clues found are limited, the person in the middle is dead, and the people behind the scenes can rest easy.

But at least it proves that the incense pillar was broken, and it was not caused by the queen's insincerity. If a person is unjustly killed because of the words of the gods and Buddhas, her heart will really be unhappy.

"Queen, you get up first." The emperor looked at the queen and stretched out a hand.

The queen looked up, tears in her eyes slowly condensed, reached out to put it in the emperor's hand, and let him pull her up.

"Your Majesty." The queen took the tears from the corners of her eyes and said.

Turning his head to look at Yu Qing, his lips moved, and finally he didn't say a word.

Yu Qing didn't expect the queen to thank her, but she didn't feel anything, but when she saw the emperor stretching out his hand to the queen, she was slightly distracted.

"The head of the Internal Affairs Office is not strict in employing people, and he will be dismissed and investigated!" Although the little eunuch is dead, the emperor's anger still has to be borne by someone.

When Xue Gui took people, the head of the Internal Affairs Office followed him all the way, and now he is in the palace.

Hearing the emperor's will, his eyes were dark, he knelt on the ground, and was just about to thank him, when a female voice came from above his head, crisp and smart.

"The emperor is angry, today's little prince's 100-day ceremony, it is not easy to make a big move, besides, the sea manager is also diligent in internal and external operations, and today's things are not what he wants, it is better to punish the big commandment, let him think about his own mistakes."

Yu Qing's intercession for Hai Dongshun is not entirely because of kindness, in the harem, how can there be so much goodwill spread everywhere.

It's just that the responsibilities of the internal affairs office are complicated and the implication is widespread, and if you sell his personal favor, it will not be troublesome for her, and she may be able to use it one day.

"Since the noble man pleads for you, you can be exempted from dismissal, and instead receive 30 boards and be fined for half a year." The emperor looked at the little face in Yu Qing's arms, who was sleeping soundly in his dream, and changed his words.

"Thank you for the grace of the emperor, thank you for the grace of your nobles." Hai Dongshun said in a loud voice.

Be careful, or make a mistake, what is the pain of flesh and skin, the most important thing is to keep your position.

The head of the Internal Affairs Office changed all the incense with trepidation, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and looked at Yu Qing gratefully when he retreated, and Yu Qing naturally understood it, and smiled back.