The Shangguan clan returned to their residence from Fengqi Pavilion.

She originally lived in a side hall in the West Garden, but she was just a palace person in charge of sprinkling and sweeping.

One day after dusk, Emperor Yin suddenly came to the West Garden, when she was kneeling on the ground, carefully wiping the floor tiles. Taking advantage of the absence of the supervising grandmother, the good sister Cui'er secretly went to sleep.

"Lazy, lazy...... I know that I am lazy all day long, and I deserve to be tired! ”

was complaining in his heart, but a pair of thousand-layer dragon pattern soap-soled boots appeared under his eyes, Shangguan raised his head suspiciously, and was startled.

"Ah...... The emperor is auspicious! ”

The voices of the people on the ground, because of this sudden nervousness, seemed a little out of their minds, and Emperor Yin chuckled.

"You get up."

The man in the dragon robe suddenly stretched out his hand, making her overwhelmed for a while.

"Slave maid...... Slave ......"

On her hands, there is still sewage from mopping the floor.

"Come on."

After the second sound fell, Shangguan trembled, wiped his hand on his body indiscriminately, and then put on him, noble jade, warm and powerful, extremely soft, as if she was in the clouds, making her mind dizzy.

He didn't ask for her name, and he didn't mind where she came from.

Early the next morning, after serving the emperor and dressing, the elegant and magnificent man in front of him left quickly without a trace of souvenir.

"Your Majesty...... Slave ......"

Shangguan knelt behind the Son of Heaven, looking forward to his future, and in the face of the man who was about to leave, he wanted to stop talking.

"Seal...... Rainbow girl! Send a palace man to wait. ”

The person who came to serve her was Cui'er.

Because in this palace, there are only two of them.

Immediately, the Shangguan clan was ecstatic, thinking that they would be able to rise to the top from now on, and even fantasized that they would be able to take the throne of concubine...... But since then, she has never been able to see Emperor Yin until someone finds her.

That person's status in the palace is very important.

"Listen, do what this palace says, and you can help you win the concubine position, otherwise...... You will die of old age and live the life of the living dead! ”

**Intertwined with fear, Shangguan's was afraid.

That person's request was to let the queen die in childbirth, and the imperial power would talk about it, and give up the mother and keep the child.

"Tsui Er ......"

Seeing that there was no one in the house, Shangguan screamed softly in the direction of the door.

As soon as she said this, she immediately remembered something, looked around vigilantly, and then closed her mouth.

"Appeal ......"

She gently stroked her chest and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Dead girl! Where did you go? ”

muttering in his mouth, but the Shangguan clan is struggling to hide, where can he hide in this room?

Outside the West Garden.

Under the palace wall, a woman in a raven-blue skirt was walking complacently.

The direction this woman came from was Chenyang Palace. Her steps were slow and leisurely, a little absent-minded, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, but she was extremely deliberately concealed, like a big girl in Tibet.

Just now, the aunt in Chenyang Palace also specially "took care" of herself.

was sent by Gonggong Xia to serve the Shangguan clan, and Cui'er was already dissatisfied.

Once a good sister, she suddenly became a master and servant.

"Whew!"

"It's also a slave, why can you be pampered, and when you become a master, I deserve to serve people?"

"It's not like that's a fox!"

"If only one day, I could have such good luck......"

Ever since Shangguan was out, Cui'er has been chattering.

The huge garden is very deserted and inaccessible on weekdays. The more she spoke, the more energetic she became, the more indignant she became, her heart had no scruples, and her voice became louder and louder.

Outside the door, someone was slowly approaching......

"Who?"

Hearing the knock on the door, Cui'er was immediately silenced, and her expression became very vigilant.

There was a knock on the door, and there was no sign of stopping.

"You...... If you don't say it, I won't open the door, this is the palace......"

"It's me!"

The voice of the outsider sounded old and hard, with an incomprehensible coercion.

After a little hesitation, Cui'er quickly opened the door...... The person in front of her, of course she recognized, this was a big celebrity in Chenyang Palace! Suddenly facing those sharp eyes, her heart was empty.

"Meet ...... Aunt"

"Shh......h Go in and say! ”

There was chatter in the house, and after a few hours, Cui'er followed the aunt's instructions and secretly went to Chenyang Palace alone.

At this moment, the smile on her lips deepened.

"Soon...... This position is mine! ”

As soon as she thought of this, flowers bloomed on her face, and she walked with the wind, and her steps were much lighter.

Night falls.

Shangguan stayed alone in the room, her nerves were very nervous, she lay at the foot of the bed, I don't know where to find a dagger, held it tightly in her hand, and always paid attention to the movement outside.

A gust of wind blew, and her eyes jumped, and her expression immediately became nervous.

Hiding under the bed, breathing rapidly and shivering.

"Why hasn't Cui'er come back yet......

In the corridor, at the door, there was silence.

Before going out this morning, she personally handed over the letter to Cui'er and told her that it must be handed over to the master of Chenyang Palace. From the hour, after noon, he should return.

"Mo is not ......"

Thinking of this, a chill ran down her spine.

For a while, it seemed that Cui'er had become a ghost and was haunting her surroundings.

"Cui'er...... Cui'er ...... I didn't kill you, if you want to ask for your life, don't come to me, our good sister for so many years......"

Shangguan was chattering in his mind, and then he heard a voice......

Someone's land, walk past the porch!

In an instant, her hair stood on end, her heart rose to her throat, her hands and feet were cold, she didn't obey the call at all, her whole body trembled, and she couldn't help curling up inside.

At the door of the room, a crack was revealed.

She could hear her teeth chattering.

With a slow "squeak", it was as if someone had walked in...... Resembling a ghost, making people tremble, she covered her face tightly with her hands, forcing herself to calm down, but her body did not obey the call, and she still trembled.

"Master...... Master......"

The room was pitch black, and no one answered.

Cui'er shuddered.

"Master......"

This time, she raised her voice and was clearly audible.

Hearing it was Cui'er, the person under the bed, who gradually woke up from the fright, and she said in the direction of the door:

"Cui'er, come in and close the door."

There was darkness in front of me.

There was only a creak, and the door was pushed open completely, and the light from the porch shone in, dispelling a trace of fear.

"Master, it's too dark in the room, the slave and maid go and get a lamp."

That voice sounded extremely gentle, giving the Shangguan clan great comfort.

Half an hour later, Cui'er returned again.

"Poof......

There was a faint light, and the room suddenly brightened.

Shangguan breathed a sigh of relief, slowly crawled out from under the bed, rubbed his sore knees and arms, and was in a trance.

"How? Handed over the letter to the mother? ”

Cui'er raised the teacup and poured a stream of water, her eyes flickering, but she pretended to be calm.

"I see...... Niangniang said to let the master rest assured, promised to help us, I am afraid that you will be worried, I got the letter, and I came back in a hurry. ”

"Why did you go for so long?"

The air was chilling.

Cui'er raised her cup and swallowed another sip of herbal tea.

"The slave and maid were afraid of bad things, so they waited outside, and it was not until it was dark that they were fortunate enough to get the opportunity...... Oh, master, don't worry, the mother will not leave us behind, and the slave is still waiting for you to be promoted, and she will serve you well! ”

"I see......"

"That...... How exactly is it said? ”

The people below smiled, and their expressions became very naïve.

"Niang Niang said, 'Good birds choose trees to perch, good ministers choose the lord and do things', if the little master really has a heart, she can't see death without saving. As long as the master shows sincerity, she will definitely help the little master survive the disaster. ”

"Sincerity ......"

Shangguan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist.

Has it ever been explained what exactly does this "sincerity" mean? ”

Cui'er groaned slightly, her brows furrowed slightly, and she shook her head in confusion.

"The slave and maid are stupid, and they don't know, and the aunt only explains...... You understand. ”

The person in front of him was thoughtful, and after a long time, the tense nerves relaxed, and the Shangguan clan let out a long breath.

"That's good...... That's ......."

As soon as she grabbed Cui'er's hand, it was probably too hot, and there were heavy sweat stains in the palms.

"Thanks to you, it's not in vain for our years of ......"

"Master! Slave ......"

Cui'er interrupted her words suddenly, her facial features twisted together, and her body twisted and pinched, clamping tightly.

"How?"

"Slave and maid are in a hurry......"

After saying that, she took advantage of this excuse, the soles of her feet seemed to be smeared with oil, and she fled the door as if she were flying. Looking at her back, Shangguan always faintly felt as if something was wrong.

The night breeze is blowing, and the grass and trees in the garden are forested, with ups and downs, which makes people feel hairy.

Under the ghostly lantern bean, Shangguan's eyes turned and he thought about it.

"Don't rest on the porch tonight, just sleep on my bed!"

As soon as the words fell, she immediately moved, opened the box herself, took out a half-worn moon-white brocade middle coat, and put it in Cui'er's hand, with a tone that could not be ignored.

"Hurry up and put it on!"

"Master...... This ......"

Knowing that the other party was yin and wanted to be a substitute for the dead ghost, Cui'er hesitated, full of resentment in her heart, extremely reluctant, but still smiling on her face.

She only hopes that she can solve her worries as soon as possible, and she will leave the person in front of her from now on!

"If you change it, you can change it, what are you talking about!"

“…… Be. ”

Cui'er put on her clothes, like a docile puppet, obediently climbed onto the bed, while the other party, on the other hand, changed into her own clothes, hugged the pillow, and secretly hid in a hidden corner.

"Slut...... It's good for you to hurt people like this! ”

Cui'er cursed secretly in her heart, turned over and turned in, and fell asleep.

The two of them each had a ghost in their hearts, and they couldn't sleep all night.

The next day, the morning sun shone brightly.

Shangguan woke up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and saw that the bed was empty, and immediately panicked.

"Cui'er...... Cui'er ......"

A figure came in and said with a smile: "Master, are you looking for me?" ”

"Where did you go early in the morning, you dead hoof? It's so hard for me to find it! ”

"Master, it's noon outside......

Hearing the mockery in her tone, Shangguan glanced at him and said angrily: "Why don't you wait for me to freshen up?" ”

"I'll go out tonight, and you will put on my clothes and lie down in bed."

"Hmm."

"You know?"

Cui'er was unhappy, but she still replied, "Yes." ”

After receiving an answer, Shangguan walked to the bronze mirror, and Shi Shiran sat down.

"I know, we have been together for many years, and now that I have become the master, you are not convinced, but no matter what, Cui'er, I haven't treated you badly, we are now in danger, we are grasshoppers on a rattan, I am going to die, you don't want to live!"

"Master, you ...... What do you say? ”

"The slave is desperate for you, and everything is done according to what you say."

Shangguan looked coldly at the person in the mirror.

"Shhh...... Tap! ”

"Oh."

Cui'er buried her head lower, and the eyes outside the window shot in, reflecting her face, bright and snow-white, and she couldn't see her expression clearly.

Seeing this, she softened her tone.

"I promise you, if I can get through the difficulties this time, I will carry you and let you serve the emperor."

The person behind him was silent, and his tone was light.

"But how long have you not seen the emperor?"

"Oops, I said you ......"

"Okay, master, after so many years, I still don't know you?"

In the middle of the night.

Staring at Cui'er on the couch, Shangguan's family was really dressed neatly, played a begonia green jade palace lamp, went out of the back door, walked in the palace and walked quietly, and went to the direction of Chenyang Palace.

Cui'er listened.

The footsteps faded away, and there was silence on the corridor.

She suddenly rolled over and slipped naked to find a set of clothes to put on, but found the room empty.

"What a vicious man!"

When the temperament came up, the opportunity was rare, and she couldn't take care of it, so she only wore a red belly pocket, wrapped a quilt indiscriminately, and ran out carefully, looked at a corner, and hid here and sobbed.

The night was dark, and even from a distance by the light on the porch, it was hazy.

The figure of a palace maid has been shaking for a long time.

On the palace lamp, the word "vigil" is written in thick ink.

Even if she just glanced at it, judging from the person's clothes, Cui'er could conclude that this was the high-class slave in the palace!

From time to time, the man looked left and right, as if alert, and half an hour passed, but he refused to come even a step closer to her.

"Woo woo woo ......"

She raised her voice a little higher.

After about half an hour, the man approached Cui'er with dignity, and reprimanded in a serious voice:

"Which palace are you from? In the middle of the night, why don't you sleep in the house, what are you crying here? Hurry up and make it clear, otherwise the guards will come later, and you won't want to save your life! ”

Cui'er lifted her face, her face full of tears.

"Auntie spare my life, I am the little palace maid who serves by the side of the master of Shangguan, my name is Cui'er, it's just ...... It's just that my master was called by Aunt Pipa to talk when he was in the middle of the day, and he never returned, and the master looked frightened when he left, and what else did he say...... What 'life is all in the concubine', the slave and maid want to come, but they are really afraid, so this is ......"

After the words, the aunt pondered slightly.

"Chenyang Palace has closed the palace gate early, presumably your master is in good spirits, and it is not necessary to go to another palace, if you get a reward from a lady, you will forget the time."

"Don't be afraid, go back and rest."

Cui'er said gratefully: "Thank you aunt, Cui'er knows." ”

After saying that, she turned around and walked towards the palace gate.

Looking at her back, the aunt also carried the palace lamp and went to the palace road to the east.

Cui'er returned to the house, glanced at the bed lightly, and was very disgusted, so she wrapped herself in the quilt and went to sleep in the corner.

Rao is she is very vigilant, but this sleep is really heavy.

In her sleep, she felt someone kick her back, and the familiar voice of Shangguan's family came faintly in the room.

Early the next morning.

"Ah......h

In the clutch palace, there was a scream of fear.

When everyone heard the sound, when they pushed open the door, they saw a girl wrapped in an emerald green quilt, constantly cowering in the corner, and in the middle of the house, her master, Shangguan, had committed suicide by hanging from the beam!

The two little palace maids who pushed the door were stunned, but the little eunuch in the back was shrewd, and said again and again:

"Ouch...... Go and tell your master! ”

"Yes...... It's ......"

After a while, the Queen Mother got the news and ordered Yingyan to go to the Lihe Palace in person.

"Cheap maid Cui'er, jealous, bold, murdering palace concubines, beating to death with sticks, to clear the palace!"

In the face of this sudden change, Cui'er was already frightened. It wasn't until the guards came forward to drag people that she suddenly woke up, pulled her throat, and shouted:

"Concubine Song save me...... Mother, save me......"

Soon, however, the voice was no longer heard.

Inside the Fengqi Pavilion.

The queen was dressed in a black morning glow phoenix pattern raccoon brocade shirt, half-tilted, taking a nap on the beauty couch.

"Mother."

She opened her eyes leisurely and said slowly, "What about people? ”

"Already...... Already killed. ”

"What?"

Those cold eyes, Huo Ran half-squinted, full of surprise.

"Who did that?"

"Back to the master's words, it was the order of the Queen Mother herself, and when the palace people were dragged out, they kept talking about Concubine Song."

"So, is she really doing it? What did the Queen Mother say? ”

"According to the palace man Jinxia, Cui'er was crying in the corner last night, Jinxia stepped forward to ask, and said that the Shangguan family went to Chenyang Hall to find Concubine Song who did not return late at night. The timing and logic of this coincide, and there seems to be nothing strange about it. ”

"As for the Queen Mother...... In one stroke, it was only said that it was forbidden in the palace to spread falsehood. ”

"No...... right"

In the queen's eyes, there was a bright light.

"The Shangguan clan is in this palace, and the person who is talking about it is obviously the queen mother......

"If this is the case, the Shangguan clan is afraid of committing suicide, after returning from Fengqi Pavilion that day, he should have found a short-term view, why did he not move? At this moment, even if you can't survive, you don't rush to die......"

"What do you mean, mother?"

"Mingyue, do you know the background of the Shangguan clan?"

"The slave maid inquired, and she was an orphan girl, and she had no relatives outside the palace."

"That's right! Bengong remembered her words and deeds in Fengqi Pavilion that day, she was a person who could get out, and her desire to survive was very strong, so how could she be willing to kill herself quietly in the middle of the night? ”

The people around him listened to it, and they also stared at themselves.

"It's a pity that Cui'er is dead, otherwise she can be tortured severely!"

A strong suspicion grew in the queen's heart. She kept her face calm, stared at the air for a long time, and said leisurely:

"Speaking of that palace maid, she was also killed too quickly."

Ming Yan and Ming Shan still didn't react, but Mingyue was very alert, and her eyelids jumped immediately.

"Niang Niang is suspicious...... Kill somebody to do away with a witness? ”

"It's always too late for us to strike! Is Shangguan's body still there? ”

"The guards have dragged it out and buried it."

"Hongu remembers...... Mingshan, will you perform an autopsy? Find a few capable boys, dig people out tonight, don't alarm people, you test it for yourself! ”

Mingshan didn't expect that the things he used to play with himself would come in handy at this moment.

"Minions command!"

"In the past few days, Bengong has always felt uneasy, this matter is full of suspicions, you let Jinxia pay attention to it secretly. There are two people living in this Chenyang Palace, the Queen Mother and Concubine Song...... It's really hard to see the real and the fake. ”

The hall was silent.

The heavy rain outside the sky is coming, the air is damp, and the wind outside the temple will tilt the branches and tremble.

She was stunned for a moment, and her face gradually softened.

"How is the prince these days? Is it still sweet to eat and sleep? ”

Mingyue grinned and said: "The prince is strong, and even the nurse praises him and says that he grows faster than ordinary children!" ”

The person on the phoenix seat, with a pair of soft eyes, became extremely loving.

"It's been hard for you during this time, there have been a lot of pickles recently, and the palace is not peaceful, you let Ming Yan and Ming Shan pay more attention, and the details of the nurse must be clear, just in case. That's right...... The mother-in-law who left the palace last time on the pretext of leaving the palace, is there a problem? ”

Mingyue stepped forward, hunched over and whispered.

"Guy who eats inside and out!"

After hearing the news, she was furious and angry, and immediately slapped her palm on the micro-carved armrest of the phoenix seat.

"Bengong treats her so well, and she actually repays Bengong like this......"

The people around him handed over the ginseng soup and slowly persuaded:

"Niang Niang, in this palace, most of them are flies and dogs, how many people can remember the kindness? Now that we find out early, it's the best, the human slave and the maid have been locked up, and she confessed. ”

"Keep it, don't die, this palace will be useful in the future."

"The slave knows."

Outside the hall, thunder roared, and electric snakes slashed through, splitting the sky in half.

On the flower table next to the phoenix seat, in the water-blue twined lotus pattern jar, there are bright clusters of flowers in it, and the red and dilian are competing for release.

"Only the green lotus and the red lotus, the volume is open and closed, and Ren is innocent."

"It's just that in this palace, no matter how beautiful this flower is, it looks like it's brutal, dirty, and the fragrance is broken."

Looking at her master, Mingyue also looked melancholy, and sighed:

"So what's the solution? In this Yin Palace, although there are not many flowers, the green leaves are infinite, and the leaves are infinitely green, if you don't fight, no matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will eventually be trampled by the green leaves, and they can't see the day. ”

The man on the throne smiled.

"It's early!"

She stood up and stretched out her hand to comb her sideburns.

"Cut slowly, if one day, we can push that big tree to it, and our days will be bright."

"Then we have to be in good spirits."

"Go ahead."

The wind howled, and the raindrops the size of beans fell cracklingly, hitting the glazed tiles of the main hall, making a crisp sound of "ping pong".

Inside the nursery room.

"Na...... Oh...... Baby......"

The queen has no hair and light makeup, and is teasing with a snowball.

In the crimson golden cradle, a snow-white baby was lying, looking at the loving woman in front of him, babbling and grinning, and her pink little hands were clapping very happily.

"The moon is bright, the wind is quiet, and the shadows of the trees cover the window lattice......"

The lullaby, warm and light, came out of the room.