Kong Lingci came back from Renshou Palace, his eyes were red and swollen, he didn't say a word, picked up the unfinished carpentry work on the table, and began to do it.

Seeing this calmly, she brought her a cup of tea, but she didn't seem to see it, so she just took the awl in her hand and picked out the eyes on the wood.

"Go wash your face, or let them see it, and I don't know what kind of rhetoric I can come up with." Calmly sat down beside her and said.

Kong Lingci's subordinates slammed their hands, and the awl stabbed their fingers, and blood spurted out at once.

Calmly inhale the cold air and tear off a piece of clothing to help her bandage.

Kong Lingci put his head on her shoulder and choked up: "Why don't you ask me, what did the Queen Mother tell me." ”

"Lao Kong, you remember, all the things we want have to be fought for by ourselves, if we just blindly wait for others to give, we will inevitably be sad and disappointed.

In this life, in fact, the only thing you can rely on is yourself. He said calmly and slowly.

Kong Lingci hugged her and cried.

Calmly patted her on the back and waited for her to calm down.

"Niangniang said that I came from a humble background and could not become a princess at all, so I don't want to be delusional, she can accept me as a confidant, and she has already promoted me, and said, as long as I do well, I will get rid of slavery for our whole family and give us freedom."

Kong Lingci wiped her tears and said in a hoarse voice.

"Didn't you tell her that you weren't a princess?" Calmly asked.

Kong Lingci shook his head: "Although I didn't mean it, I just hoped that their mother and son would be safe, but after all, the emperor summoned me alone, and listened to what he meant, he really meant to make me a concubine." ”

Calmly sighed and grimaced: "In this way, I hurt you." My original intention was not to let your infatuation go unanswered, but I didn't expect that the Queen Mother would care about your background. ”

"With a background like mine, I shouldn't have such delusions, and even if I did, I shouldn't think about it." Kong Lingci cried.

calmly shrugged her up in front of him, and said solemnly: "We eat according to our ability, why can't we?" You didn't say you were so unbearable, but you forgot one thing,

The Queen Mother doesn't want you to become the imperial concubine, definitely not because of your background, but because you know her secrets. Although you are as loyal and honest as Concubine Xian, how can someone as thoughtful as the Queen Mother take such a risk to stay with you? ”

Kong Lingci shook his head and said: "I didn't have any ideas, I did things for the Queen Mother, and I never asked for anything in return, let alone have any extravagant hopes, one day, the emperor will make me a concubine."

But today, when I heard the Queen Mother say that I was so unbearable, my heart was still sad and I felt sorry for myself. It turned out that everything I did, in the eyes of the Queen Mother, was just for myself, for money, and for my family to get rid of slavery. ”

"Lao Kong, after everything is settled, let's leave together, you find an honest man to marry, open a woodware shop, I will open a medical clinic next to your woodware shop, let's live an ordinary life together, okay?" Calmly pressed her forehead and smiled.

"Calm down, can I wait until that day?" Kong Lingci asked crying.

"Yes, we will." Calmly wiped away her tears and said firmly.

As he was talking, he saw the female history going back and forth, and Concubine Yingniang arrived.

When Kong Lingci heard this, he wiped his eyes and walked inside.

"Why are you afraid of her, you are sitting." Calmly pull her sleeve.

Kong Lingci pointed to her red and swollen eyes: "When she sees it, it is inevitable that she will ask something, if she says it, according to her jealousy, how can we live a good life." ”

Spread his hands calmly, sighed, and watched her walk in, before going out to greet her.

Concubine Ying walked in with Xiaoyue's hand, smiled, and said loudly: "You girl, why don't you go and see me, this new official is about to take office, and he is busy with daring?" ”

"I'm all busy, not like my mother's daily plan, why do you have time to come to me?" Calmly saluted, welcomed her through the door, and offered tea.

Concubine Ying took a sip of tea, looked at the room and saw that there was no one in the house, Fang smiled again: "Don't worry, it's yours, it's always yours, no one can snatch it away, the palace has just come out of the Renshou Palace, the queen mother invited the concubines to a banquet, I sat in the first place on the right, and finally fought for a breath." ”

"Congratulations, Niangniang." Calm down and give a salute.

Concubine Ying stretched out her hand to pull her up, and her sleeves were pulled up, revealing half of her arm, which was wrapped in white cotton, and the white cotton cloth was stained with blood.

"What's going on?" Calmly asked.

Concubine Ying pulled her sleeve down and said with a smile: "I don't know what's wrong, it's inexplicably red, swollen and pus-flowing, the imperial doctor has seen it, and he can't say why, saying that it is because of the time and qi or something, and he prescribed two doses of medicine, and he took it and ate it, and it looked good, and it was fine." ”

Calm was about to speak, only to hear Xiaoyue say: "Niangniang, Leng Si is also proficient in medical skills, why don't you let her take a look, maybe you can see it." ”

Calmly waved his hand: "I'm just a half-ass, since the imperial doctor has already seen it, I won't show the axe in front of Lu Banye, and I'll be embarrassed." ”

Concubine Ying glanced at Xiaoyue: "It's not a big problem, it's not painful, why are you making such a fuss, if you are bored, go out and find someone to play, leave me and calm to talk freely here, and come to pick me up later." ”

Xiaoyue saw that she said goodbye and went out to find someone to play with.

Concubine Ying took a sip of tea, and Fang said with a smile: "At today's banquet, the Queen Mother said that there are only a few days before the ceremony, and what should be done should be done as soon as possible, saying that she is still hesitant now, if she does not hesitate, I am afraid that the matter will be done long ago." ”

"What's the matter?" Calmly asked.

Concubine Ying smiled proudly: "You are so smart, you even ask such a stupid question?" Naturally, it is a matter of immediate succession. Her old man's hesitation, I think I still have a chance. ”

Calmly sipped tea and smiled slightly: "Speaking of this, Niang Niang is really powerful, even I have to take it, within two or three days, I will do things neatly, which is really clever." ”

"This is also due to your cleverness and willingness to cooperate with me in doing things, if you don't obediently catch me that day, she will trust me so quickly and let me hold her handle."

"Oh, so I inadvertently helped my mother too?" Calm down.

"Of course you helped, and it was a big favor, I guess this Zhao Yue went to the underworld, if he was not convinced and wanted to find someone to retaliate, he was also looking for you, not the palace." Concubine Ying hid her face and smiled.

Calmly sucking his nose, a little puzzled.

"I'll tell you the truth, after you were imprisoned, I found a female historian from the Shanggong Bureau to scare Zhao Yue and said that the general hated her for manipulating you and putting you in prison, I was afraid that I would send a secret guard to kill her at night.

She didn't believe it, so I asked the guards in my palace to go to the Shang Palace Bureau that night, but of course it was just a bluff and was discovered by her.

She was really fooled, thinking that the general was really going to kill her, so she was bluffed, so she naturally had to find a few more guards to guard the door, and went back to the Queen Mother to say that the Shanggong Bureau had entered the assassins.

If this kind of thing happens, even if the Queen Mother is unwilling, she has to send more guards to this side, and I will take the opportunity to mix my people in this group of guards and stay in the Shanggong Bureau on an errand.

Then, she bought a female history next to her with a lot of money, and added some psychedelic drugs to the soup she drank at night, and after she drank the medicine, she hallucinated, and always felt that someone was trying to harm her and rob her baby.

At night, he dug out the box containing the letters from the ground under the bed, and slept in his arms.

My men went in and stole the box without much difficulty.

Thanks to the fact that she has done too many bad things and is timid, she fell for my plan and really dug out the box, otherwise even if we wanted to break the scalp, I am afraid that we would never have imagined that she would hide things in that kind of place. ”

Concubine Ying said with a smile, her mouth was dry, she picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "She was hanged that night, probably when the strength of the psychedelic drugs passed, she found that the thing was gone, and she knew that she had no physiology, so she hung herself on the beam of the house."

This saved me business, and the later scheme was useless, so I just had someone copy a suicide note and it was over. ”

"The mother is wise."

After listening to her calmly, he poured a cup of tea into his stomach before he spoke.

Concubine Ying chuckled twice: "Are you scared stupid?" Can't even speak? ”

"Where, I just admire Niangniang's cleverness in my heart." Calm down.

"I'm afraid that Zhao Yue hated you and the general to death, and I thought that the general sent someone to steal her treasure." Concubine Ying smiled.

"The dead are dead, it doesn't matter what you think." Calm down.

Concubine Ying laughed twice, and only then did she become serious: "Calm down, although it is dangerous to make friends with people like you, but danger has dangerous benefits, if the two of us help each other from now on, we may not be able to dominate this harem, what do you say?" ”

Calmly moved his gaze to her arms and wrists, his eyes were a little blurry, and he nodded slightly: "I'm just afraid that calm and humble will not be able to climb high to the mother." ”

"Come on, don't be modest, the general is interested in you, although there is already a wife in the family, but a person like him, is it difficult to take a concubine? Besides, you and the general's wife are good friends, and after passing the door in the future, you will definitely enjoy endless blessings, how can we compare with those of us who are drifting away from the grass and trees?

At that time, we will ask the general's wife to take care of us more. ”

Concubine Ying smiled.

"Niangniang said that she was laughing, or is it serious, the Queen Mother saw the letter you submitted, did she confirm it?" Calmly change the subject, I don't want to continue to be teased by her.

Concubine Ying chuckled twice: "You person, why are you stupid again?" If it weren't confirmed to be the original, would it be so good to me? To tell you the truth, the Queen Mother told me privately that in the future, if there is her, there will be mine, and she will never treat me badly. ”

"That's good, congratulations to Niangniang." Calm down.

"Look at you, you're clumsy today, and you won't say anything but congratulations." Concubine Ying said angrily, stretched out her finger to her, but retracted halfway, held her forehead, and moaned lowly:

"Somehow, I've been dizzy for the past two days, and the world has been spinning from time to time, probably because of the unstable sleep at night, I won't tell you, go back and rest for a while."

"Mother, go slowly." Calmly helped her up and sent her out, just as Xiaoyue and a female historian walked hand in hand, Xiaoyue stepped forward to help Concubine Ying, and left the division.

Calmly returned to the room, Kong Lingci came out of the back room and asked her with a sad face: "Calm down, did the Queen Mother attack Concubine Ying?" ”