What's wrong? Seeing her son's painful look, the Empress Dowager Guan, who was closest to the emperor, got up in shock and asked urgently.

Zhang's face changed, he put the porridge bowl on the table, and reached out and pulled out a bloody golden finger sleeve from his mouth.

Empress Dowager Guan was shocked, her body shook, and she shouted in her throat to call the imperial doctor.

"Be bold and calm, don't kneel yet! dared to assassinate the emperor. Guan Rong stretched out his hand to calm down and shouted.

Calmly and reluctantly, he knelt down and stretched his neck to look at the emperor's injuries.

"It's okay, I'm padding." Zhang took the water cup handed over by Guan Rong, rinsed his mouth with water, and said lightly.

"Ridiculous! They all saw the blood and said that it was okay, if you go on like this, the harem will not be messed up. Empress Dowager Guan reprimanded him with a black face.

"Come on, drag this slut down and beat him to death." Guan Rong raised his eyebrows and shouted.

"Your Majesty, the concubine can see clearly, it's not the concubine's finger sleeve that is holding your teeth, the concubine's finger sleeve is well in your hand." said calmly and aggrievedly.

Guan Rong's face changed, and he sneered: "Calm down, are you really talking nonsense with your eyes open, and you have it in your hands?" You're really blind, where are you? ”

Calmly looked at his fingers, sighed, and muttered, "When did you take it off?" Rolled up your sleeves? As he spoke, he reached out and touched his sleeve.

"Calm down, don't pretend, today is the emperor's birthday, and it's already a big thing and a small thing, but what is your attitude? Everyone celebrates the emperor's birthday wholeheartedly, you are good, only cook a bowl of millet porridge and even cook paste, you don't have the emperor in your heart at all, right? ”

Guan Rong sneered.

Calmly, he just turned his fingers from his sleeve, as if he didn't hear Guan Rong's words.

Guan Rong was about to speak again, but Zhang stopped her: "Enough, don't mention anything big, don't mention it again, and bring the dishes to the back." ”

"I pad my teeth, how can I still eat, I can only drink porridge, fortunately I let Nanyou boil a pot again, otherwise the emperor would really be hungry today."

Calmly pulled out his finger sleeve from his sleeve, put it on his finger, and smiled slightly.

Guan Rong's face tightened, his eyes were blazing, and some resentment floated out.

"Calm down, I've said it, don't mention it again." Zhang sank his face and said again.

"No, the queen can do anything if she wrongs her concubines, but she wants to wronged her concubines without the emperor in her heart, and the concubines don't accept it." Calmly kneeling on the ground, not getting up, angry voice.

Guan Rong glanced at the emperor's face, came to the spirit, pointed to the bamboo hairpin on her head, and said: "According to your concubine's example, all kinds of headdresses are complete, why do you always wear this bamboo hairpin, and dare to say that you have the emperor in your heart?" ”

Calmly sighed in her heart, and said that she was confident, but it turned out that she saw her little meaning.

"Yes, calm down, you always wear an old hairpin, it's really puzzling, why is that?" Empress Dowager Guan glanced at her son and stabbed her unhurriedly.

"The origin of this hairpin, the emperor knows." calmly stared at Zhang's face and said word by word.

Guan Rong was obviously taken aback, and shook his head in disbelief: "Ridiculous, how could the emperor know." ”

"The emperor doesn't know, does the queen mother know?" Calmly asked rhetorically.

Guan Rong swallowed his saliva, glanced at the emperor, saw that his face was not good, swallowed the words that came to his mouth, and sneered: "This palace doesn't live with you, how can you know its origin." ”

"Okay, since the emperor knows, then there is no need to ask, Rong'er, let them serve the dishes together, and wait for the imperial doctor to come to see you, and after confirming that the emperor is safe, continue to hold the banquet." Empress Dowager Guan looked at her son's complexion, saw that things were not good, and hurriedly opened a round.

As he was talking, he saw the eunuch come in with Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng came to check Zhang, and the tooth was fine, but the gum was punctured by the finger sleeve, so it bled out.

"It's not a big deal, let's continue to hold the table." Zhang spit out a few mouthfuls of clear water, sent Jiang Feng away, and said lightly.

The concubines made up their minds and put the food in their hands on the table in turn.

Calm got up from the ground early, stood aside and watched the excitement, and when the first flattering concubine in the kitchen approached and put down the dishes in her hand and turned to leave,

Calm suddenly shouted: "Sister, where are your finger covers?" Why is it gone? ”

The concubine was startled, hurriedly hid her hand behind her, and stammered: "I, I forgot to wear it today." ”

"Master, Concubine Jing used to wear it, and when she was cooking in the kitchen, the slave and maid stood beside her, and I saw her wearing it with my own eyes." Nanyu said loudly from behind.

Concubine Ning, who calmly turned her face to the side, asked her with a smile: "Sister, I remember that you are also by Concubine Jing's side, do you remember if she wears finger covers?" ”

Concubine Ning stared at her face, a burst of horror flashed in her eyes, and she coughed lightly.

"Oh, it's understandable that I didn't remember clearly, everyone was busy at the time, who paid attention to whose finger sleeve fell off, it's all Nanyou, and I didn't even know the lid of the porridge pot when I boiled porridge!" Calmly sighed.

"Master, the slave and maid are wronged, the porridge pot has been covered with a lid, or is the lid opened by the master and the slave and maid together, master, you have wronged a good person." Nanyu fell to his knees and began to cry, saying loudly.

Empress Dowager Guan frowned, and was about to say something to stop it, but she saw Zhang Luo wave her hand and said coldly: "Queen Mother, listen to her, I also want to find out, who wants my life, this finger sleeve is pure gold, if it is really accidentally swallowed by me, wouldn't it be my life?"

Come to think of it, this man's mind is so vicious that it must not be tolerated! ”

When Concubine Jing heard this, she knelt on the ground with a "tom" and cried: "Your Majesty, the concubine really forgot to wear it today." ”

Calmly glanced at Concubine Ning again, and her voice was a little cold: "Sister, you still can't remember, did she wear it?" ”

Concubine Ning bit her lip and nodded slightly.

"Didn't remember?" Calmly asked.

"I remember, she was wearing it, when I was making wine-stuffed meatballs, because I lacked a spoon, I borrowed one from her, and I could see it clearly at the time, she was wearing finger sleeves on her hands." Concubine Ning said in a trembling voice.

Calmly looked at the finger sleeve in his hand, and sighed: "It's a pity that our finger sleeves are all the same style, if you don't admit it, you can't tell which person it is, the next time you let Si Zhenji create jewelry, engrave everyone's name, so it's not easy to blame each other." ”

"Push this slut out and behead it." Empress Dowager Guan drank coldly.

Concubine Jing, who was kneeling on the ground, heard this, rolled her eyes and fainted.

The guards were about to step forward to take someone, but they were calm but knelt down to intercede for her: "The Queen Mother, Your Majesty, today is a day of great joy, the emperor sees blood, it is already ominous, ask the Queen Mother to be gracious, let go of Concubine Jing, let her go into the cold palace to think about it." ”

Seeing this, all the concubines also knelt down and pleaded together.

Empress Dowager Guan looked at her son.

Zhang smiled bitterly, stretched out his fingers to calm down, and sighed: "Okay, you dead girl, take my life to play tricks on people's hearts, right?" Really, really I can't do anything about it. ”

"The concubines don't dare, the concubines are afraid that the queen mother and the emperor will be upset, and they are afraid of disturbing the queen mother and the emperor." Calm down.

"Okay, get up, just according to what you say, relegate her to the cold palace and think about it." Zhang smiled.

A maid had already dragged Concubine Jing out.

At this time, the various dishes on the table have been laid out, and they are extraordinarily rich.

Zhang helped the Empress Dowager Guan to come over, pointed out to her in various colors, and accompanied her to taste, after a while, the atmosphere became warm again, and everyone happily introduced their specialty dishes, hoping to be appreciated by the Queen Mother and the emperor.

A family feast was eaten with joy, everyone had a smile on their faces, said flattering words, and before they knew it, an hour passed.

Zhang put down his chopsticks and said that he had something to do and left the table.

When Empress Dowager Guan saw her son leave the table, she sat down slightly, and also said that she would go back to rest and let them take care of themselves.

As soon as Empress Dowager Guan withdrew, the smiles on everyone's faces immediately disappeared, and the atmosphere became solemn again for a while.

"Nanyu, let's go too." Calmly touched the stiff cheeks that forced a smile, and got up to leave.

"You stop for Hongu!" Guan Rong angrily stopped her.

"Something?" A calm, lazy voice asked.

"You did it yourself, you want to frame a good person, don't rely on the emperor to favor you, you can do whatever you want, this palace will want you to look good sooner or later!" Guan Rong gritted his teeth.

Spread his hands calmly and sneered: "Queen Mother, the emperor has not gone far yet, the Queen Mother and her old man have just entered the dormitory, it is estimated that she will not be able to lie down at this time, if you have evidence, just expose me, what's the use of being angry?" Beware of being angry and broken. ”

"Sooner or later, this palace will find evidence that the finger cuff in the porridge is yours." Guan Rong roared in a low voice.

calmly leaned over to her and whispered in her ear: "Yes, that finger cuff is indeed mine, and I threw it in myself, I pad the emperor's teeth and get rid of one of your subordinates, it is much more merciful than you want to borrow a bamboo hairpin to put me to death." ”

Guan Rong blushed, stared at her hatefully, took two steps back, and sat down in a chair.

Calmly take a handful of melon seeds from the fruit bowl on the table, and slowly knock one, then another.

In the quiet air, only the sound of melon seeds being knocked open can be heard.

The concubines don't want to leave, and they don't want to stay.

calmly knocked the melon seeds in his hand, clapped his hands, and laughed: "This palace suddenly remembered a story, saying that there is an old man's family who has a monkey who is naughty all day long, and the old man doesn't care how he cares, but he is reluctant to kill him."

One day, the old man finally thought of a way, he killed a chicken in front of the monkey, and the monkey saw the tragic situation of the chicken before he died, and his heart was shocked, and he was honest from then on. ”

After calmly speaking, he glanced at everyone, his eyes fell on Concubine Ning, and said with a smile: "By the way, this story seems to have a title, what is it called?" Sister Ning, do you know? ”

Concubine Ning nodded with fear on her face, and said in a trembling voice: "I, the concubine, know, is killing chickens and monkeys." ”

"Yes, it's just killing chickens and monkeys, you look at my memory, such an ordinary allusion, I talk a lot of long-winded, it's really boring." Laughed calmly, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and walked outside.

Take two steps and look back at everyone: "You're not leaving?" Do you want to sit with the queen for a while? ”

When several concubines heard this, they shuddered, shook their heads indiscriminately, and everyone found a reason to go out after calming down.

In the huge inner sanctum, only Guan Rong was left to sit.

Mama Liu, who had been holding the curtain and looking at the movement outside, sighed, put down the curtain, and shook her head at the Empress Dowager Guan who was sitting on a chair drinking tea: "Niangniang, forgive the old slave for being blunt, it is really unbearable to manage this girl, and she was supposed to win the battle, but in the end, she fell behind, not only lost herself, but even the majesty of the middle palace was lost." ”

"There is always someone who can restrain her, the mourning family doesn't believe it, she can really cover the sky with one hand, so that anyone is afraid of her." Empress Dowager Guan said coldly.