Because the emperor is young, there are no concubines in the harem yet. Therefore, the palace of the Empress Dowager de Jong is still her residence when she was Concubine De, and it has not changed at all. When the tenth princess first came, she was slightly surprised by the elegant and light decoration in this palace.

However, Empress Dowager de Jong has always valued her good name, and it is also her own will to live in the old palace.

But the tenth princess also thought at that time that if she needed any excuse or handle in the future, this matter could be changed to a different reason, saying that the new emperor valued her biological mother and treated herself poorly.

Anyway, today is not the time to ponder this!

The tenth princess waited outside the door for a while, and saw that the Empress Dowager Derong sent the big palace maid next to her to come out to greet her, and the big palace maid said very politely: "Why did Her Royal Highness the princess come suddenly?" Come in. ”

This palace maid is called Ru Xin, and most of the things ordered by the Empress Dowager Derong passed through her hands. She saw that the tenth princess was only followed by brocade, and asked, "Why didn't the princess bring brocade today?" ”

The tenth princess had the intention to spy before meeting the Empress Dowager De Rong, she exchanged a few words of greeting, and said abruptly: "Ru Xin, why didn't you tell me about Mama Yang's death?" ”

Ru Xin raised her eyes in surprise, her expression did not seem to be fake, and said, "Princess, don't you know about this matter?" ”

The tenth princess shook her head and said, "I just went to the palace of the Empress Dowager Jia'an. She deliberately left half of her words in order to make Ru Xin guess what the Empress Dowager Jia'an said.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess, this Mama Yang's funeral is indeed handled by our Queen Mother, but you also know that the token for entering and exiting the palace gate has always been in the hands of the Queen Mother Jia'an.

Ru Xin was afraid that the tenth princess would not believe it, so her two eyebrows were twisted into a pimple, she squeezed her eyebrows and frowned, and her expression was eager.

She wasn't lying, but it was all on the surface. If the Empress Dowager de Jong really wants to go out of the palace to spread the news, it is not necessary to go through the approval of the Empress Dowager Jia'an.

However, for the sake of an old woman who has lost the protection of her master, it is not worth doing this at all.

Within a few steps, the tenth princess had already thought about this matter thoroughly, she forcibly suppressed her dissatisfaction and anger, and only made a look of not caring very much, "Oh? It seems that the two queen mothers thought that the other party would tell me, and this was wrong. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Ru Xin saw that the tenth princess's eyebrows were calm, and the corners of her lips smiled. I thought that the ten princesses didn't take the old slave to heart.

"The princess is here, I haven't seen her in a long time. In the past, when you were still raised under the knees of the Empress Dowager, I often went to visit my ancestors, and I could see you. Since you married the Lin family, every time I see you, there are always many people separated from you, and you can't speak quietly like now. ”

Empress Dowager De Jong held the hand of the tenth princess, and what she said was sincere, and she almost wiped away her tears.

The tenth princess hadn't put on the mask for a long time, and couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth twice, and said: "What the Queen Mother said is that the concubine copied the scriptures for the Empress Dowager Jia'an." I thought that there was nothing to do, so I came to see the mother. ”

"Copying scriptures?" The Empress Dowager de Jong couldn't react a little.

"yes." The tenth princess carried the hem of her skirt and sat down on a random group chair.

The palace maid gave her a cup of winter wheat tea, and the tenth princess smelled the unique sweet and greasy taste of winter wheat in the northern country through the lid of the teacup, and she didn't even want to serve it, remembering that Mama Yang took care of her own drink and food in the past, and her heart felt as uncomfortable as if she was pinched hard.

"When I came to this palace, I found out that Mama Yang had passed away? I heard it happened three days ago? The Tenth Princess talked about it like gossip.

Empress Dowager de Jong added a little compassion, "Yes." Fang knew that she was sick and went immediately. The imperial doctor went, but he only had time to take the pulse and finalize the news of death. ”

"What's the disease?" The tenth princess seemed to be just curious and asked.

"I can't tell." Empress Dowager De Rong turned her head to look at Ru Xin and said, "Go and ask Imperial Doctor Fang to come." Mama Yang is the old man who serves the Queen Mother, and the princess wants to ask clearly, and she should be. ”

Ru Xin was blessed, and quickly found a small palace person with flexible legs and feet to pass the word.

After about half an hour, Xiaogong came back with a worried face, and there was no one by her side. Ru Xin entered the house and reported, "Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness the Princess, Imperial Doctor Fang is resting today." ”

"Ah, it's another unfortunate thing." The tenth princess said meaningfully.

Empress Dowager De Jong's smile condensed slightly, Ru Xin whispered a few words to Empress Dowager de Jong, Empress Dowager de Jong's face became more and more bad, sighed, and said to the tenth princess: "It is rare for the princess to come to me today. I have a few heartfelt words with the princess. I, the queen mother, am no better than that one, I am a vain. She is willing to let me take care of the trivial matters in the harem is already magnanimous, I am not outstanding in appearance, I can't be in love with the first emperor, and I haven't left a son and a half daughter, if there is nothing to do, how to pass this long boring day? ”

She looked sad and her tone was sad, and the tenth princess had to believe her a little, but then thought about it and said: "The queen mother doesn't have to say this, although she has no biological children, but I see that Princess Youwei Xueyu is cute, and she must be able to dissipate a lot of loneliness." ”

Princess Youwei is the youngest daughter of the first emperor, her biological mother is not high, but a palace maid next to the first emperor, who served the decoction in her twilight years, and the first emperor has died before Princess Youwei was born.

So Princess Youwei never received a trace of mercy from the first emperor, and the tenth princess felt that she was really a little pitiful, so she prepared a generous gift on the day she turned one year old, and asked someone to send it over, but no one attended.

"Little children, just have fun on weekdays." The Empress Dowager de Jong smiled, but seeing the indifferent eyes of the tenth princess, thinking that she was also raised under the knees of the Empress Dowager, she couldn't help but feel speechless.

"Hey," Empress Dowager Derong sighed again, and said: "Actually, Mama Yang's illness is indeed a bit strange, I heard the people of the small palace say that it was still fine after dinner, and then it hurt my stomach, as uncomfortable as a worm in my stomach, and then the food was vomited, and after that, I was not saved." ”

Before the tenth princess could ask a question, she heard the Empress Dowager De Rong hesitate and say: "The imperial doctor has also tested it in the meal and it is not poisonous, I think it is just a sudden illness, right?" ”

'Suddenly? How can there be such a sudden illness, is it not that you have eaten the wrong thing? The more she said this, the more suspicious the tenth princess became, and asked, "What did Mama Yang use for dinner?" ”

"Mama Yang has always disliked to take shelves, this is clear to the princess, that day, that day, according to the dishes of the palace maid, they are all cooked in one pot, and there is no difference." Ru Xin said.

She thinks that what she says is the truth, so she is extra confident.

But the tenth princess just glanced at her and said, "Oh." ”

So understatement, clear disbelief.

The tenth princess excused herself to go to the tablet of the Empress Dowager to offer incense, and got up to say goodbye.

Ru Xin watched the princess, who was still mellow after getting married, leave, stepped forward to close the door, turned back to the Empress Dowager de Rong, and whispered: "The Empress Dowager, it's just an old slave who died, can you really make the tenth princess make a feud with the Empress Dowager Jia'an?" ”

As soon as the door was closed, the Empress Dowager de Jong still had that cautious look on her face at the moment.

She dug a spoonful of incense powder with her armor and sniffed it carefully, Lingnan's ambergris was of the highest quality, and she put a full amount of it.

Empress Dowager De Rong smiled contentedly and said, "Although most of the royal children are wolf-hearted, there are still a few soft-hearted and kind-hearted. Mama Yang is not only the old man who is worried about the tenth princess, but also has treated Shen Baiyan well, don't underestimate her! If she hadn't avoided suspicion for Shen Baiyan and deliberately cut off contact, Shen Baiyan would have known on the first day of her death. ”

Ru Xin secretly said, this old slave is really a character in the slave pile.

I thought it was an easy errand with no risk, so I just asked the imperial chef to add a dish of tender locust beans, fry it until it is half-cooked and serve it to Mama Yang.

If you are a young person, you will have a stomach trouble after eating, and you will suffer for a few days. But if the old man with a bad stomach happens to be drinking Atractylodes fritillary soup, he will die in pain and torture like Mama Yang.

And this tender locust bean grows in the south, most of the people in the capital have never seen it, only Cui Daowu, the kid of the Cui family who went south and north, once went to the south and brought some locust bean seeds back. I heard that the Cui family's Zhuangzi planted half an acre of land.

The tenth princess walked out of the palace gate of the Empress Dowager de Jong, and when she walked for about half an hour, a person dressed as a maidservant girl quietly turned from the bushes and walked side by side with Jinxiu, as if she had never left.

Jinxiu glanced at the brocade and said, "Can you find the few little palace people who followed Mama Yang before?" ”

"Found it." Brocade said in a low voice: "According to them, there is nothing suspicious on the side. Mama Yang's physical discomfort was noticed by them first, and the imperial doctor did not avoid them in the drug test. In other words, there is only one thing. There was a dish in the dinner that I had never seen before. ”

"What is it?" The tenth princess didn't reply, and asked directly.

"I have never heard of a tender locust bean anyway." Jinsatin's face was full of confusion, and Jinxiu shook her head when she heard it, and said, "The slave and maid haven't heard of it either." ”

"I can't inquire in the palace, let's go outside to inquire, I have to see what is behind this matter!" The tenth princess raised her head and said, "Let's go, this meeting is over, let's go meet another!" ”

The tenth princess went majestically, and when she was about to arrive at the gate of the Empress Dowager Jia'an's palace, she was stopped by a little eunuch.

The little eunuch was next to the Empress Dowager Jia'an, and he said: "Princess, you are here, you can call the slave easy to find." The emperor came to ask the queen mother to say goodbye, knowing that you came to wait for Master Lin, taking care of your deep relationship between husband and wife, and only asked Master Lin to take the "Guanyin Sutra" back to the house to copy it. Now that Master Lin is at the gate of the palace, you can go quickly. ”

The tenth princess was very suspicious, and felt that the little eunuch didn't need to tell this lie, so she walked towards the palace gate, and really saw Lin Tianlang standing at the palace gate, and waved her hand to herself from afar.

It's like an injured little girl finally seeing her relatives, the tenth princess is sour in her heart, and she just wants to throw herself into Lin Tianlang's arms and cry.