In Changle Palace, after listening to Song Jinyan's words, several people looked at each other. In the end, it was Ripple who couldn't hold back and said, "Niangniang, is what the emperor said true?" ”

Kou Shu played with the Heqing jade sent by Chu Li, and said lightly: "Naturally, it's true, what reason does the emperor have to lie to me." ”

The mandarin duck was anxious, and blurted out: "But this matter has nothing to do with Niangniang at all, how can they spew blood?" ”

Kou Shu smiled faintly, looked at the mandarin duck's eyes and said, "Throughout the ages, is there still a lack of bloody mouths?" ”

"Mother, what should we do?" Yuan Yun's voice was much calmer than that of the mandarin duck, and he asked.

Kou Shu glanced at Yuan Yun approvingly, worthy of being a Kou Mang brought out by his father, with a calm temperament and a more calm and rational way to deal with things.

"Have you ever heard of a country in history that wanted to save its friends, but they didn't go directly to save the country, but instead attacked the country that was attacking the friendly country, so as to save their friends?"

Ripple's little face wrinkled into a bitter gourd: "Niangniang, what do you mean, what kind of enemy country is a friendly country, is Nanzhao an enemy country or a friendly country now?" ”

Kou Shu smiled and said, "Yuan Yun, do you remember that I asked Yuan Ming to go and investigate the medicine that Lan Ruoxuan was secretly taking every day?" ”

Yuan Yun tilted his head, and found out about the past of the emperor's favorite concubine Li Fei Niangniang that day, and the governor of the royal court once said that he found that Concubine Lan's pulse was sometimes vain and sometimes powerful, which was very strange, and he faintly noticed that Concubine Lan Niangniang should deliberately take medicine to regulate her pulse. Then the queen ordered her brother to investigate.

Kou Shu nodded, summoned Yuan Ming in again, lowered his voice to the four of them, and gave an order.

Autumn is getting deeper, and the cold wind of the night is blowing, and through the long corridor, the wind sounds particularly terrifying. After that, the autumn rain continued for ten days in a row, and it was one after another. Kou Shu blindly hid and read books in Changle Palace every day, seemingly not caring about rumors from the outside world.

"What are you going to do-the medicinal materials that Concubine Lan wanted, how can you say that there is no such thing as none?" Kaori's voice was full of anger, and she pointed at the little eunuch in the imperial pharmacy in an unkind tone and shouted angrily.

The little eunuch lowered his head and said resignedly: "Sister Kaori, we don't know what's going on, the Japanese herbs have been used extremely fast these days, and all the palaces have received some, and there is no medicine in the imperial pharmacy." ”

Kaori was angry, and scolded angrily with her hands on her hips: "Won't you go to buy without it?" Is it all waste? ”

The little eunuch almost cried: "Sister Kaori, you don't know, I don't know what's going on these days, all the lotus herbs in the whole city have been bought out, and I have been running for several days to buy an office, but I haven't been able to buy it." ”

Kaori stomped her foot, snorted angrily, and returned to the Yilan Palace.

At this moment, Lan Ruoxuan was sitting in the Yilan Palace, her face was cloudy for a while, and it was very bad. Seeing Kaori coming, she hurriedly opened her mouth to ask something, and Kaori took the initiative to talk about the imperial pharmacy.

When Lan Ruoxuan heard this, her face became even worse, she suddenly stood up, waved her sleeves suddenly, and several gilded vases on the table fell to the ground into pieces, gritting her teeth and saying: "What a game of chess, who is in the way of it, if you let this palace know, this palace will definitely not spare her!" ”

On the other side, the Changle Palace is completely different from the Yilan Palace, beaming, Kou Shu ordered people to light a few stoves, and set up a pot of charcoal, and the ripples are burying sweet potatoes one by one in it, and several people's faces are red with excitement, planning to roast sweet potatoes to eat.

Yuan Yun stood a little farther away, almost wanting to speak, but he still held back.

Kou Shu smiled slightly and said to Yuan Yun: "If there is anything you want to ask, just ask." ”

Yuan Yun's face turned red, and he still asked: "Niangniang, my brother has sent news, and now no one outside the palace has said that the envoy of Nanzhao has died violently, but we haven't done anything, what's going on?" ”

"Yuan Yun, do you remember what I said about attacking the enemy country in order to save a friendly country?" Looking at the backs of Ripple and Mandarin Duck, Kou Shu said quietly: "The rumors have spread, and if you explain it at this time, it will only hit the other party's hands, and the more you explain, the more you can't explain it, and in the end it will only get darker and darker." The best thing to do is to let the perpetrators stop themselves. ”

Thinking of what she had done in the past few days, Yuan Yun was puzzled: "What does Niangniang mean, the mastermind behind this matter is Concubine Lan?" ”

Kou Shu smiled faintly: "At least she has a place in it, and it is still a very important one." ”

As early as when the Governor of the Royal Court said that Lan Ruoxuan was secretly taking medicine, Kou Shu began to order Yuanming to investigate the matter, in order to keep a hand for herself. This time, Nanzhao was strange, and since the appearance of the real beads of Lan Ming that day, he has begun to be vigilant. After that, the rumors were even more directed at himself, even if this matter was not from Lan Ruoxuan's hands, most of them had nothing to do with Lan Ruoxuan.

Yuan Ming found out that Lan Ruoxuan would take a taste of lotus herb from the imperial pharmacy every once in a while, lotus herb was not an ordinary medicine, and this medicine must have something to do with the medicine that Lan Ruoxuan secretly took. Therefore, as soon as the rumors spread, Kou Shu used the intelligence network in the palace, and all the palaces secretly went to get a part of the lotus herbs, and the imperial pharmacy ran out of herbs for a while, and then Yuan Ming bought out all the lotus herbs outside the palace, so that Lan Ruoxuan had no way to be distracted and spread rumors.

Yuan Yun suddenly realized, and in his heart, he admired his little master. Nodding, I heard Ripples beckoning me to come over and eat baked sweet potatoes together. Yuan Yun just wanted to go out, and called his brother Yuan Ming to come in and eat together, but was stopped by Kou Shu: "No need to go, Yuan Ming is not outside." ”

Yuan Yun paused and looked back with some confusion.

The trees outside the window were bare, and the leaves had withered one by one, showing a scene of infinite decay and desolation.

Kou Shu looked at the scenery outside the window and was stunned, although the matter was settled, but why Lan Ruoxuan wanted to take medicine has always made Kou Shu linger. Ordinary people's physique will never have such other pulses. I grew up with Lan Ruoxuan since I was a child, and I never found anything different about her, if there is really anything different from ordinary people, it must have happened before I met Lan Ruoxuan, if that's the case, doesn't my father know about it? - Not true! A dark glint flashed in Kou Shu's eyes, and a thought flashed through her heart.

Kou Shu suddenly remembered that in the past, when her father came back from Biansai every once in a while, he would take Lan Ruoxuan to disappear for a while. Could it be that at that time, Daddy discovered Lan Ruoxuan's strangeness? But when Lan Ruoxuan knew herself, she was just a young child. Back then, Daddy only said that Lan Ruoxuan was an outcast that he picked up outside, Kou Shu frowned slightly - the most common possibility of this kind of physique is the internal injury suffered when she was young, which caused the meridians to be disordered and retrograde, and her breath was weak and strong, Lan Ruoxuan's life experience was definitely not as simple as Daddy said.