Liao Luan is good-tempered, and she is not angry when she looks angry, so she reached out and pinched Lin Zuiliu's puffed face, and then said with a slight smile

"Arranging a position is also something I can do easily, but Ah Liu, since the Marquis of Dingyuan has looked for you so many times, it is bound to be difficult to give up, after all, the court does not have to be in the past now."

Since the Marquis of Dingyuan stayed away from the court, many of the originally neutral courtiers showed dissatisfaction with the emperor, and the Marquis of Dingyuan was naturally vulnerable to the impact.

Lin Zuiliu hadn't thought about it so much, and she didn't know why Liao Luan was like this, she only subconsciously felt that even if she was upset for the original body, she didn't want to have anything to do with the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion anymore.

It's better to have nothing to do with each other from now on.

There was silence in the carriage for a while, Lin Zuiliu hung his head, and his head remembered the series of uncontrollable emotions when he entered the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion just now.

"I see."

In any case, Liao Luan is thinking about himself, and it makes no sense for Lin Zuiliu to express the depression in his heart on him.

The days were calm again, as if nothing had happened.

The trellis that was erected in the yard last year is now luxuriant, and if you look closely, you can still find a few very small green grapes.

It seems that the days really go by quickly, and before you know it, a year has passed.

Liao Luan, who has no skin and no face, has consciously arranged the focus of his return to the palace in the backyard, and the most he does every day is to stay in the study.

While pressing Lin Zuiliu to practice calligraphy, he was busy with his own business.

Of course, Lin Zuiliu, who was so oppressed, couldn't accept it, where there was oppression, there would be resistance.

"No, Liao Yangui, I don't want to write anymore, I feel like my face has changed now."

At this time, Liao Luan was looking at the letter in his hand, his brows were tightly locked, and he didn't look relaxed at all.

After a long time, he raised his head, looked at Lin Zuiliu and said, "Zuo Cheng handed over the excerpt today to participate in the matter of Concubine Chen's witch Gu doll." ”

Hearing this, Lin Zuiliu's eyes widened in shock, and he looked at Liao Luan with a serious expression and said in a lost voice, "How come?" ”

Originally, the most feared thing about this matter was the royal family, after all, there was no conclusive evidence, and it was usually better to kill three thousand by mistake than let one go.

But if Qi Jingheng protects Concubine Chen wholeheartedly, it is not really impossible to preserve.

I'm afraid that someone will hold on to this matter and force the emperor to make a decision about it.

She really didn't expect anyone to do that.

Liao Luan was also a little surprised, after all, in addition to Concubine Chen, the biggest one in the palace is the daughter of Prince Gong, the queen of the dynasty.

In his expectation, a gentle and virtuous person like the queen would naturally not do anything to ask Prince Gong to visit the concubine to coerce the emperor.

In a few months, in the second half of the year, Prince Gong will take Qi Jingxuan back to the southwest fiefdom, and she is not willing to find anything for her mother's family.

Thinking about it, Liao Luan raised his head from the letter, looked at Lin Zuiliu and said, "You forgot, when the Queen Mother was alive, she found Zuo Cheng's daughter for the emperor to enter the palace." ”

Lin Zuiliu's face changed, "You mean, Zuo Cheng is now determined to seek a way out for his daughter?" The ambition is too big, and he dares to pick on the concubine. ”

Liao Luan nodded, "The emperor favors Concubine Chen, Concubine Chen's reputation was damaged, but now that such a big thing has happened, and she has been brought down, so that other concubines will have a chance." ”

However, he didn't expect that the prime minister, who had always upheld justice, would also start to make small moves behind his back.

Sure enough, as soon as everything comes into interest, it becomes a lot of trouble.

"Then if Zuo Cheng contacts other ministers to play together, wouldn't the situation of the emperor and Concubine Chen be very bad?"

Thinking of this, Lin Zuiliu finally couldn't sit still.

She really didn't want to see Concubine Chen end up in such a pitiful situation.

Liao Luan nodded when he heard this, "At that time, if the emperor still wants to protect Concubine Chen, it will be in vain and mediocre, and he will inevitably be forced to have a reputation of unfilial piety and injustice." ”

This news was sent to him by the emperor, Liao Luan analyzed it for a while, and finally felt that he should go to the palace.

This kind of harem problem was originally not his turn to be involved as a foreign minister, but if he wanted to protect the emperor, then Liao Luan had to participate in this matter.

Lin Zuiliu sighed at the little emperor's trust in Liao Luan, and at the same time straightened Liao Luan's clothes, and then sent him out of Zhennan Palace.

It's been another eventful spring.

Twilight spring has arrived, and the weather is slowly getting hotter, and now there are many bad things, and Lin Zuiliu is upset every day.

If you want to protect Concubine Chen, what the emperor can do now is to stand still and minimize the impact of this matter, but there is no other way at present.

In the next few days, sure enough, more and more people joined in admonishing the emperor and asking the concubine Chen.

And a few days after that, one of the leaders of this matter now, Lord Zuo Cheng's daughter who is beautiful and fragrant but has a low IQ, suddenly had an accident.

She's dead.

There are many women who have died in the palace, especially in the cold palace, and it is common for unjust souls to burst.

It's just that most of those concubines who are not valued by others and have a humble status, like Qin Guiren, who are not in vain, Lin Zuiliu has already expected that Lord Zuo Cheng will definitely not give up.

From the day the matter was publicized, Prime Minister Zuo entered the palace every day and forced the emperor to ask the emperor about the cause of his daughter's death.

The capital was tense for a while, and the entire Suzaku Street fell into a strange atmosphere.

The next day, Lin Zuiliu was invited by Princess Zhaoyuan to take a carriage into the palace.

The atmosphere in the palace was even more tense than outside, and Lin Zuiliu nervously entered Changle Palace all the way.

The Changle Palace is still plain, Princess Zhaoyuan has always looked very bold Meng Lang, but her mind is delicate, and now she insists on holding a funeral for the Queen Mother alone.

As soon as she entered the palace gate, there was a little palace maid guarding the door, and when she saw her coming, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to welcome her into Changle Palace.

"The princess is finally here, our princess has been waiting for you for a long time."

Lin Zuiliu has indeed not entered the palace for a long time, and now when he first comes to the palace, he finds that many places are different.

Even the flowers in the Imperial Garden, the bright colors have been cut off by the roots, leaving only some plain-looking flowers.

Now that she walked to Changle Palace, she once again felt that the living person she knew had really passed away.

Walking into the palace, Princess Zhaoyuan was sitting on the couch, pouting and looking sullen.

"What's the matter, you called me over in such a hurry, why are you so sullen?"

Hearing Lin Zuiliu's words, Princess Zhaoyuan finally sat up with a light in her eyes, then stood up and went straight over and pulled Lin Zuiliu's hand.

"Drunken Willow, you're finally here, I'm about to be annoyed to death, take me out of the palace quickly, I don't want to stay here anymore."

The grievances in her tone were about to overflow directly, and Lin Zuiliu laughed slowly when she heard it.

She sat directly on the stool following Princess Zhaoyuan's movements, and slowly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

After listening to Lin Zuiliu's questioning, Princess Zhaoyuan regained her lazy appearance just now, and went straight to the table, hanging her head like a big dog.

"You know what? The imperial brother imprisoned Concubine Chen in her dormitory. ”

Lin Zuiliu hadn't been here for many days, and now it was rare to enter the palace once, and he heard such explosive news at once.

Although she always felt in her heart that no matter what, the little emperor might compromise with the ministers of the court and make similar treatment to Concubine Chen.

It's just that I didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

She looked at Princess Zhaoyuan slightly stunned, and said in a daze, "When did it happen?" ”

"Yesterday afternoon." Princess Zhaoyuan said, stretched out her finger and pointed outside, looking at the mysterious god.

"In the imperial garden, a group of people chatted and said that Qin Guiren's death was manipulated by Concubine Chen, and the concubine was in a bad mood when she heard it, so she quarreled anyway."

"Where did you think about it, it was directly discovered by the emperor, and the emperor was angry and grounded Concubine Chen."

This matter came strangely, but Lin Zuiliu really couldn't imagine why Concubine Chen was suddenly grounded, and no one was allowed to visit.

The two of them chatted boredly for a while, and Lin Zuiliu was thirsty and just raised his glass.

Suddenly, the little palace maid who had just come in with Lin Zuiliu ran in again, looked at Princess Zhaoyuan and said

"Princess, it's not good, the slave maid just heard the little eunuch who swept the sprinkle say that Prime Minister Zuo outside the Taihe Palace is kneeling with a group of courtiers to admonish the emperor and ask for an investigation of Concubine Chen."

Lin Zuiliu's hand holding the cup shook, and the lid of the cup instantly fell to the ground and shattered.

She got up suddenly, and looked at Princess Zhaoyuan a little helplessly, "What should I do?" ”

Princess Zhaoyuan thought that she was in a hurry when she hit her own teacup, so she hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's just a teacup, and it's not a valuable object, you be careful not to tie it." ”

She obeyed, and ordered the palace maids around her to clean up.

Lin Zuiliu was not thinking about these things at this time, she just didn't expect that everything would come so quickly.

"Zuo Cheng He ......"

Hearing Lin Zuiliu mention Prime Minister Zuo, Princess Zhaoyuan realized that this person should be worried about Concubine Chen, so she hurriedly stretched out her hand and pulled Lin Zuiliu, and said while running out

"Let's go, let's take a look."

The women of the harem are not allowed to enter the vicinity of the Taihe Palace, but Princess Zhaoyuan is casual and does not care about anything else.

She walked directly to the Taihe Hall at the north gate of the palace, and saw at a glance the group of ministers kneeling in court clothes at the foot of the white marble steps.

Most of these people already have beards and are not young, and a few of them are very familiar to Princess Zhaoyuan.

In addition to Lord Zuo Cheng, who was looking at the majesty and weakness at the front, plus a series of ministers led by Zuo Cheng's big man, such as the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, knelt outside the hall in rows.

It looks like he wants to force the emperor to make a decision.