Mama Yan brought the freshly out rose snack, she was the old lady in front of the Queen Mother, so she only bent her knees slightly, and then put the food plate on the small kang table, and silently retreated to the side and bowed her head. The Queen Mother said: "The queen just mentioned it casually, it was the mourning family who asked her, she just said it, how can you blame her?" He helped him again and said, "Queen, get up quickly." ”

Although the queen mother spoke, the queen still didn't dare to get up.

Seeing that the queen mother was like this, the emperor conceded three points and said, "Get up." ”

The queen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Empress Dowager Xie, Emperor Xie." She straightened up and sat down beside her. The Queen Mother said: "Don't you like to eat rose cheese?" The mourning family asked the cook to prepare some specially. As he spoke, he handed the plate to the emperor, who picked it up and ate it, rinsed his mouth with tea, and asked, "Why is the emperor angry, it is better to tell his son." ”

The Queen Mother pondered for a moment and said, "Empress, it's better for you to say." ”

The queen replied respectfully, and then the palace maid deliberately said briefly about Su Changzai's push down the imperial river, and seeing that the emperor's face gradually became solemn, she softened her tone more and more, and said: "The little five sons in front of the noble concubine said it clearly, and the concubine can't believe it." The concubine thought that if there was such a thing, it would be a big crime to conspire with him. The concubine didn't dare to assert it without permission, so she mentioned it to the queen mother. ”

When the emperor heard this, the green tendons on his forehead jumped, but his tone was very calm, and he said: "A palace maid, if she is helpless, she will definitely not dare to bully her master, and someone must have instructed her to act." ”

The queen said: "The concubine also thinks the same, and has already ordered the people of the Internal Affairs Office to tie up the palace maid and interrogate it carefully." ”

The emperor said: "No matter who is behind the trial, it will not be spared!" ”

A faint smile appeared at the corner of the queen's lips, and she said calmly: "Yes." ”

In the evening, the weather suddenly changed dramatically, and the autumn wind howled outside, blowing the dead branches to the wind. In the middle of the night, it rained heavily and continued until the next morning.

The emperor dispersed, took a sedan chair to see Yonglian in the elder brother, near the imperial pool, saw the raindrops of beans hitting the dry lotus crackling, on a whim, he fell off the sedan chair and stood on the water pavilion to watch the rain. The mist on the surface of the river, the white smoke curling, the sound of the rain in fragments, and the fresh air are somewhat intoxicating.

A little eunuch came from the rain and whispered something to Wu Shulai, Wu Shulai didn't want to disturb the emperor's interest, but the emperor had already seen it and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Wu Shulai stepped forward and said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs has sent a word, saying that Tui Su is often recruited in the palace maid who fell into the water. It turned out that Su Changzai guessed the riddle correctly, and Lin Changzai was afraid that she would invite a pet, so he instructed someone to push Su Changzai into the water. ”

The emperor frowned slightly, and remembered the picture scroll of "Lotus in the Rain" under the lantern, and couldn't help muttering, "Su Chang is here... Su Chang is in..."He seemed to be panicked, looking into the distance, there were a few old locust trees planted by the imperial pond, at this time the dead trees were singing alone, and the oblique branches were sluggish, and it was extremely deserted. He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Eniang took him to the imperial garden to play, and he was led by the eunuch to row the canopy, and Eniang stood under the locust tree on the shore and stared with a smile. I can't remember whether it was summer or spring at that time, but I remember that the white stamens of the trees fell like snow, and I gathered my mother in the rain of flowers, like a fairy in the sky.

Two figures suddenly turned out from behind the rockery, and a gentle voice came intermittently through the rain curtain, and said, "Hai'an, I'm suddenly a little cold, you go to the house and get a cloak." ”

Hai An said: "Little master, the slave and maid see that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there is nothing to look at in a pool of dry lotus, it is better to..."

Qingcheng smiled and said, "Leave the dry lotus to listen to the sound of the rain, it is the dry lotus that is good." ”

Hai An had never read poetry books, and he didn't understand the meaning of Qingcheng, and seeing that she insisted on doing so, he had no choice but to go back to the house to get the cloak.

Qingcheng came out of Concubine Lu's house, thinking of a pool of dry lotus, and was a little fascinated. She opened Hai'an, dressed in a moon-white silk dark flower palace dress, combed the flag head, two pink and white peonies cultivated by the hairpin, holding a red plum landscape pattern paper umbrella, and stood under the locust tree with an empty waist, and the wind blew gently on her skirt.