"Three sticks of incense turned into four?" Kou Shu was slightly surprised, according to the custom of Daxuan, three incense sticks are to worship the ancestors, and four incense sticks are commonly used by folk opera troupes and used in opera songs.

The ancestor worship ceremony is the ancestors of the Great Xuan, according to the unified ritual should take three incense, if the concubine really took four incense, it is to compare the ancestors and ancestors to a play, it is a great disrespect to the ancestors.

Concubine Xuan's eyes were red again, and she wanted to cry: "Queen Mother, if you really don't like Bai Xuan, to put it bluntly, why use such means against me, I am just an ordinary official woman, and I am not as powerful as the Queen Mother, why use such methods to frame me?" Speaking of which, Concubine Xuan covered her face with a handkerchief, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Lan Ruoxuan on the side was also a relative, looking at Lan Ruoxuan very sadly, and said: "Senior sister, the most important thing for harem sisters is to get along in harmony, as long as the emperor is happy and can spread the branches for the royal family, what does it matter where the emperor loves to stay, senior sister is brave and advises senior sister to be generous." ”

Kou Shu raised her eyebrows, and a trace of coldness flashed in her eyes: "What do you mean by this, Concubine Xuan?" Hongu doesn't understand. ”

Lan Ruoxuan saw it, frowned and said: "Senior sister, Concubine Xuan has seen your own people who replaced the three sticks of incense with four, if it weren't for the fact that Concubine Xuan was born in the scholarly sect since she was a child, and she is well versed in rules and rituals, and knows that this sacrifice should use three sticks of incense, wouldn't it be a joke for nothing?" ”

Song Jinyan nodded, everyone used to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony was indeed prepared by the ancestor worship ceremony first, when the matter came, if he really found that he had been divided into four incense sticks, he had to bite the bullet, Concubine Xuan was able to escape this time, because it happened that Yan saw it at a glance, and he ordered him to go and change the incense.

Kou Shu smiled faintly: "Concubine Xuan, you said you saw it with your own eyes, dare to ask what you saw?" ”

Bai Xuan's face turned pale, and then he raised his head suddenly, staring at Kou Shu's eyes, and said; The concubine saw the girl named Ripple next to the queen's mother, and handed a piece of incense to the ancestor ceremony. And the concubine's incense is just one more, dare to ask the queen, is there such a coincidence in this world? ”

Kou Shu was stunned for a moment, and wanted to speak, but Lan Ruoxuan continued: "I also heard that a few days ago, the girl named Ripple was fighting with the palace maid in Concubine Xuan's palace for a bowl of blood swallows, and even fought because of this. Senior sister Mo didn't hold a grudge because of this, and the master and servant worked together to bully Concubine Xuan. ”

Kou Shu smiled coldly, she thought that the ripples were strange a few days ago, so they clearly dug a trap for herself to jump into. The ripples in the past few days are all because of injuries, and none of the things in Changle Palace let her help, but let her rest. Now Concubine Xuan said by name that she had seen ripples, and if she said anything about ripples again, it would be too deliberate.

Lan Ruoxuan's plan is linked one by one, I am afraid that the person who Ripple really misbelieves has jumped into the trap of others, no matter how Ripple himself, in the eyes of outsiders, Ripple is the person in his Changle Palace, and everything Ripple does is his own meaning. I'm afraid I won't be able to pick this thing clean. Kou Shu sighed slightly in her heart, and her eyes suddenly flashed what Song Jinyan said to herself at the ancestor worship ceremony in the morning.

Song Jinyan said that he was a big wind.

Kou Shu frowned, pondering these four words.

A hint of realization flashed in his eyes, and his heart suddenly brightened, and he pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Concubine Xuan, you said that you saw Ripples hand an incense to the ancestor worship officer, and the incense you took happened to have one more, right?" ”

Concubine Xuan nodded and said: "At first, the concubine thought that she didn't notice it, lost a piece of incense, or was originally prepared to leak, and didn't care, but when it was the concubine's turn to worship the ancestors, she received an extra incense, and the matter came too coincidentally, and the concubine had to think about it." ”

Kou Shu nodded, there was no panic in her eyes, and said: "Since you said that it was done by ripples, this palace can't show favoritism, Gonggong Su, I bother you to go and spread ripples to confront you." ”

When Su Peiyuan heard this, he glanced at Song Jinyan, Song Jinyan nodded, and Su Peiyuan understood what Song Jinyan meant, and retreated towards the residence of Changle Palace.

After a while, the ripples were transmitted to the Weiyang Palace.

Approaching Weiyang Palace, Ripple walked straight behind Kou Shu, and whispered to Kou Shu with some pride: "Niangniang, just say that you want to bring me here, and you also want to bring mandarin ducks over, aren't you looking for me again?" ”

Kou Shu's eyes were cold, and he said sharply: "Presumptuous, you kneel down for me!" ”

Ripple was stunned for a moment, and the whole person froze in place as if she had been electrocuted, and before she could react, she only heard Lan Ruoxuan's voice become more severe: "You, let you kneel, do you dare not kneel?" ”

After that, Lan Ruoxuan looked at her, Youzhu understood that she would step forward, and kicked on Ripple's knee, Ripple was in pain, knelt on the ground coldly, and looked up at Kou Shu in disbelief.

"Ripples, today on top of the ancestor worship ceremony, Concubine Xuan's incense has one more, what should have been three sacrificial incense, but it has become four, let me ask you, did you secretly send an incense to the ancestor worship ceremony at that time, and ordered him to be sandwiched in the incense for Concubine Xuan?"

Ripple was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "It's not like this, someone told me that the queen's incense is missing, and asked me to send one to the ancestor worship officer, so I took a piece of incense!" ”

Lan Ruoxuan snorted coldly: "It's really a clever tongue, but the queen's incense is not less at all, but Concubine Xuan's incense is one more, if you don't notice, Concubine Xuan takes four incense sticks, but it is a big crime to despise the dignity of the royal family." ”

Ripples only then realized the seriousness of the matter, kneeled in front of Kou Shu's eyes, tugged at Kou Shu's sleeve and said, "Niangniang, Niangniang, Ripples really don't know, Ripples thought it was the queen who wanted it." Someone is hurting me! ”

Lan Ruoxuan snorted and asked; "You said that someone did it on purpose, so let me ask you, who told you to send incense to the queen?"

Ripples was stunned suddenly, trying to recall the scene during the day, only to remember that the girl was extremely eye-catching, and he had never seen it, no matter how hard he tried to recall it, he couldn't remember the girl's appearance. Holding Kou Shu's skirt tightly, she said, "Queen Mother, you must believe me!" ”

Kou Shu looked at the ripples coldly, as if looking at a stranger again, and said word by word: Don't say anything else for the time being, I just ask you, did you hand incense to the ancestor worship ceremony? ”

Ripple was stunned for a moment, only to feel chills all over his body, and said, "The slave has been." ”

Lan Ruoxuan's face showed a triumphant smile and said, "Senior sister, do you hear me?" ”