Autumn is over and winter is coming, and the cold wind is chilling the flowers and trees in the courtyard, and the leaves on the branches have fallen, leaving the bare branches in vain. The flowers have been adjusted, and the petals have fallen into the mud by the wind early, and they have been buried in the soil and turned into dust.

The sky rose slightly and dimly bright, Mu Yunqi opened his eyes, and was awakened by the sound of the window lattice, and the room was dark and cold.

She sat up, a biting chill around her, and immediately curled up back into the quilt.

Yingfu pushed the door in, stood on the couch and looked at the woman on the couch and said softly: "Princess, the prince's concubines have come to say hello." ”

Mu Yunqi smiled while covering the quilt: "No wonder this palace is reluctant to get up, dress up for this palace, let them wait first."

Yingfu served her to get up, and asked at the same time as she put on her golden and butterfly falling flower cloud brocade jacket, "Do you want to add a cloak?" ”

"No, I'm feeling a lot warmer now." Mu Yunqi said lightly, walked to the brass mirror and sat down.

Yingfu looked at Mu Yunqi's biluo bun in the bronze mirror, put a step on it, then looked sideways forward, and helped Mu Yunqi to get up slowly.

"The slave and maid go and pass the meal." After speaking, he went to the door and instructed the maid to spread the table to pass the meal, Mu Yunqi sat on the mahogany round table and looked at the breakfast in front of him, his eyebrows frowning slightly.

Yingfu put aside Shi Cai's chopsticks and explained: "Yesterday, Cheng's father-in-law brought some game stored during the autumn hunt, and this morning the dining room made it. ”

"Early in the morning, some greasy food and heavy smell are spread, and the people in the palace are really good at observing words and feelings, so don't use the cloth, withdraw it." Mu Yunqi seemed to be bored and said unhappily.

There was a faint sound outside the door, and I saw Gu Hanxuan standing at the door of the room and Cheng Huan undressed his cloak for him, he stepped into the room and sat down on Mu Yunqi's side, and asked, "What's the matter, the dishes don't suit your liking?" ”

Immediately, Cheng happily stepped forward to take the utensils and bowed down to serve him with a dish, and he picked up a stewed pot of lamb in his mouth, as if he was tasting.

The nine python auspicious cloud court clothes on his body have not been changed, and his hair is tied with a golden crown, thinking that he has just come from the court, and a court dress makes him look noble and majestic and magnificent.

Mu Yunqi helped the step on the side of the bun, and said, "It's just that I don't need it." ”

A gust of cold wind roared into the house from the door, Gu Hanxuan looked at the door and couldn't help frowning: "How come the door hasn't been opened yet?" ”

"The carbon fire in the house will make the house dull, so the concubines have always not let the curtain cover the door in winter, although the cold wind is biting, it also makes people more clear." Mu Yunqi explained calmly.

Lan Gu hurriedly came in, bowed down and said, "Crown Princess, the concubines of Shuiqing Hall have been waiting for a long time. ”

Gu Hanxuan's body was eating, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Cheng Huan unhappily, his brows furrowed. Cheng Huan immediately opened his lips silently, and waved his hand to indicate that it had nothing to do with him, he had indeed gone to pass the word not to disturb the crown princess.

"The concubine went to the front hall first, does the prince want to go along?" Mu Yunqi got up and walked to the door, turned around and asked.

"I won't go to this palace." He gave a far-fetched and weird laugh.

Mu Yunqi didn't think so, and Shi Shiran left.

Several graceful women stood at the door of the front hall, and they gathered at the door to talk and laugh, and talked happily.

One of the women, Yu Guang, saw Mu Yunqi slowly approaching, she pulled the woman on the side, knelt down and shouted, "See the crown princess." The rest of the women knelt down and saluted.

Mu Yunqi walked in front of them in a leisurely manner, she walked into the top of the hall, sat on the mahogany soft chair, glanced at the kneeling woman and said, "Get up." ”

The woman at the door walked into the hall in an orderly manner, sat down in the soft chair in the hall in turn, and the maid served tea on the tray.

"Crown Princess, you have been married into the East Palace for a few months, and the concubines greet you for the first time, don't blame you." The woman in the yellow shirt who sat down at the head chuckled.

"The palace only learned today that the prince already has a concubine, so he has never asked. Since you serve the prince, if you get the prince's heart, this palace will naturally not treat you lightly. Mu Yunqi said with a smile as he took the teacup.

"The crown princess laughed, the concubines are not the concubines of His Royal Highness the Prince, but they are just women who serve His Highness." A woman in a pink shirt said quietly, her expression was calm and dignified.

Mu Yunqi looked at her and smiled kindly: "Are you from the Water Qing Palace?" ”

The woman got up and saluted gently: "The concubine crosses the willow, and the master of the Shuiqing Palace." ”

Mu Yunqi brushed her hands with a smile and motioned for her to sit down.

"In the future, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will have to serve you, so you should do your best."

"Crown princess, the concubine has a sentence that I don't know if to say or not?" A woman in a red shirt got up, her eyes on Mu Yunqi with a slight provocation.

Mu Yunqi's eyes turned cold, looked at her and asked sharply, "But it's okay to say it." ”

The woman in the red shirt was frightened by her unangry but menacing look, and she looked down at the smooth ground.

"A few days ago, the head of the Internal Affairs Office came over to let the concubines move out of the Shuiqing Palace, saying that the side concubines who were about to marry into the East Palace would live in the Shuiqing Palace, and let the concubines move to the Yuehua Hall.

"The side concubine who is about to marry into the East Palace? When? Mu Yunqi's face was pale, and he looked at her with a vague expression and asked.

The woman in the red shirt glanced at her and said in surprise: "The crown princess still doesn't know? A few days ago, the emperor's decree made the British granddaughter the crown prince's side concubine. Entered the ...... after January"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Mu Yunqi raise her hand to brush the teacup off the ground, and the hot tea was spread on the smooth ground and extended outward, and the crisp cracking sound of the teacup was deafening.

Everyone immediately knelt down and bowed their heads, panicked in their hearts, and their bodies trembled slightly and said, "The crown princess is angry." ”

"Let's all go back." She put away her anger and said calmly.

The women kneeling on the ground in the hall were like being amnestied, and they got up in a hurry, and hurriedly withdrew from the temple, not daring to leave the snow hall for a while.

Mu Yunqi sat on the mahogany soft chair, her face was as cold as the top of the snow-capped mountain, she looked at Lan Gu and said coldly: "Now that the news of the Snow Dumping Hall has fallen to the point where it is about to be learned by a concubine?" ”

Lan Gu Yingfu knelt down in a panic: "Crown princess, the slave and maid really haven't heard of this matter. ”

"If today's incident is about the third brother, wouldn't this palace not even know the slightest bit of news?" She scolded, angry.

"The crown princess is angry, because you don't care about the things in the palace, so most people are paying attention to the outside of the palace, so this matter is negligent." Lan Gu leaned over respectfully.

Mu Yunqi's expression improved, and she sighed: "Yingtang doesn't know if he will meet the third brother?" The palace is becoming more and more worried, if the prince thinks about the events of that day, Yingtang will definitely be in danger. ”

"Don't worry, the prince's shadow guard on the day he left the palace only intended for your whereabouts, maybe they thought that Yingtang had died under the emperor's secret guard." Yingfu looked up at her and whispered.

"Get up, whether the woman in the hall is intentionally said or not, you can keep it, Aunt Lan, you go and find out what happened today, and then call her over." Mu Yunqi said gently.

Lan Gu nodded and got up, and walked out of the hall briskly.

"You go and see if there is any news outside the palace recently?" She felt physically and mentally exhausted, and said weakly to Yingfu.

After hearing this, Yingfu immediately got up and hurried out of the hall.

Mu Yunqi got up and walked back to the inner room, Gu Hanxuan had been gone for a long time, she sat on the soft couch, her thoughts came to her mind about the events in the forest on the day she left the palace, and her body exuded a strong sadness, swirling in the inner room.

In order to get in touch with the third brother, she had to send Yingtang to go in person, in order to let Yingtang get out of Gu Hanxuan's shadow guard, she was going to move flowers and trees to replace her in the downtown area, but she didn't want to be chased and killed by the emperor's secret guards.

Yingtang should act as he did when he heard that he returned to the palace safely, and he didn't know when he would receive news from her.

After a while, Lan Gu hurriedly entered the house, walked up to her and said: "Crown Princess, eight days ago, the emperor decreed that Xie Xianjin, the granddaughter of the British princess, would be the side concubine, and she would marry into the East Palace in a month. ”

"So, the marriage was given shortly after the return of the palace?" Mu Yunqi asked softly.

Lan Gu nodded lightly, and then said: "The prince went to the Shuiqing Palace, it should be for today's affairs in the palace. ”

Mu Yunqi glanced at her slightly, got up and said, "Let's go, go and have a look." She walked out of the inner room with light steps, and Lan Gu bowed her head and followed.

The gate of the Shuiqing Palace has been surrounded by palace people, and there are terrible screams from inside, and the sound is piercing.

Mu Yunqi and Lan Gu stepped forward gently, standing behind the palace people and looking at the hall, seven or eight eunuchs stood in the hall with torture rods in their hands, the woman in red clothes trembled and knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, and a maid on her side had already fallen down on the criminal case, and her body was blurred with blood and flesh.

Gu Hanxuan sat on the chair, he leaned on the railing of the chair with both hands, and looked at the kneeling woman with a disgusted expression.

Cheng Huan stood in front of the woman and said sharply: "Wanqi, if you don't explain truthfully, you think about the people in Yuefu and your mother." ”

Later, he immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy: "I beg His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to raise his noble hand, the fault of the concubine is really not related to the family." She spoke in a desperate tone, calling out.

"If you tell the truth, this palace will give you a whole corpse." Gu Hanxuan said coldly, with a terrifying look on his face.

The woman leaned over and kowtowed, her forehead was already red and swollen, and she finally leaned over and said, "It's the fault of the concubine, I really can't tell who instructed it." ”

"Cane to death."

Later, she was immediately ambushed into the criminal case, and the eunuch next to her fell on her with a torture rod in her hand, and she bit her lower lip to prevent herself from making a sound.

"Stop." Mu Yunqi shouted loudly, and the people in the palace in front of him turned their faces abruptly, and immediately knelt down and saluted. She stepped out of the crowd and walked slowly into the hall.

Gu Hanxuan's cold face eased, and his gaze gradually looked at the woman who walked over.

"Your Highness, what is she doing, she is just unintentional, why are you bothered." She walked over to the chair that the maid had brought up and sat down, and said with a chuckle.

Seeing that he was silent, she said again: "The concubine will know about this matter sooner or later, and she will have to cooperate with the Internal Affairs Office in a few days, why do you bother to do this?" ”

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has asked them to take care of it themselves, if you don't want to, you don't have to worry about it." Gu Hanxuan looked at her, as if he was a little cautious.

Mu Yunqi covered her lips and chuckled: "How can you not care about the affairs of the concubines." ”

Everyone in the hall knelt on the ground, and couldn't help but feel that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took such care of the Crown Princess.

"If you don't like it, you can give her Yuehua Hall to live in." Gu Hanxuan said with a smile.

"Okay." Mu Yunqi simply agreed, she glanced at the kneeling people in the hall, and said softly: "You all get up, and lead your maid down to take medicine later." ”

Gu Hanxuan's heart was a lot more relaxed because of her words, he looked at the kneeling people in the hall, and said coldly: "Didn't you hear the words of the crown princess?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone got up with their hands and feet, and immediately withdrew from the temple.

"Lan Gu, take a hand for Wan Qi." She looked at Lan Gu and nodded, Lan Gu understood, and stepped forward to call someone to carry away the unconscious maid lying on the criminal case.

Wan Qi kowtowed heavily to Mu Yunqi and said gratefully: "Thank you to the princess concubine." ”

"Get up." Mu Yunqi raised a touching smile, which made people have to marvel at her beauty in their hearts.

Seeing that she turned around and walked out of the hall in the evening, she smiled at Gu Hanxuan: "Your Highness is not leaving, but you want to stay in the Shuiqing Palace for lunch?" She got up and chuckled at him, and walked away briskly, she didn't have the heart to listen to his helplessness.

Gu Hanxuan's heart was happy because of her playful words, and in vain he dispersed the apprehension of hearing about it for the first time, and a warm smile rose on the corner of his mouth, which made Cheng Huan and the others feel relieved.