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As Yang Heng expected, the news of his trip to Yihui Palace reached the ears of the queen and Mao Guifei in a blink of an eye, and soon the eldest prince and the second prince also knew about it, and they couldn't help but figure out what he meant by this move and what the emperor's attitude was.

The eldest prince was the most direct, and he ran to Yang Heng's mansion that day, and warned him that it was best to keep to himself, and not to think about anything wrong, Yang Heng showed a stunned and innocent blank expression, which made the eldest prince vent most of the evil fire in his stomach.

Such a foundationless embroidered pillow, even if the father wants to help him up, he has to be able to stand firm on his own, the eldest prince pursed his lips, feeling that it was really redundant for him to run a special trip, picked up the shelf of the eldest son of the emperor and reprimanded Yang Heng heavily, before he got up and left satisfied.

Yang Hengcheng personally sent him out of the door in fear, watching his carriage drift away, the expression on his face slowly became unpredictable.

The second prince didn't bother Yang Heng, he had already discussed with the queen the plan for the birthday banquet, as long as the plan was successful, what others did now would be in vain.

Soon the day came to the twenty-sixth day of December, early in the morning, the formal dresses of the women in Beijing entered the palace in batches according to the grade. The middle door of Ningyi Palace was wide open, and the newly dressed palace officials led the women to enter in turn to salute the queen, and then led them to Huilan Palace to rest and wait for the birthday banquet in the evening.

Huilan Palace is the place where major celebrations are held in the harem, generally the concubines canonized or the queen mother, the queen's birthday celebration are held here, the palace occupies an area larger than the Ningyi Palace where the queen lives. In addition to the main hall where the festival is held, there are many rooms for the wives who enter the palace to rest and observe the ceremony. Of course, the high-grade can occupy a room, and the low-grade can only squeeze with others.

The congratulatory gifts sent from all over the place are placed on the main hall of the Huilan Palace, and the women who are serving for them are eye-opening, there are clever female officials on the side to explain and introduce the various auspicious meanings of the gifts, and several side halls also have a stage and a pianist, musician, dancer, etc. to provide opera, singing and dancing entertainment.

The queen was dressed in dark cyan Zhai clothes, wearing a crown of nine dragons and four phoenixes, sitting on the throne of Ningyi Palace, looking at the women who knelt on the ground outside the gauze curtain and bowed to her, her heart was full of mixed feelings. She has paid too much for this backseat in her life, and she deserves such glory, and she should be very happy, but today she sits here, but there is always a lingering haze and uneasiness in her heart, as if something bad is about to happen...... The queen's hand hidden under Zhai's clothes clenched hard, trying to crush this strange and ominous feeling completely.

This is the Imperial Palace, and it is heavily guarded, so what can happen? Is she thinking too much?

She is now the queen and will be the queen mother in the future, and this glory will continue until the day she enters the imperial tomb, and to achieve this goal, the premise is that her son must become the crown prince. Today's plan goes well, then their mother and son will be one step closer to their goal.

Her face was dignified and quiet, and her heart was like turning over the river and the sea, and a female official with cronies flashed to her side and said in a low voice: "Qi Niangniang, Yihui Palace will come over soon, everything is ready." ”

Empress Mu Ran nodded, the plan was about to start......

Early this morning, Bai Poria was pulled up by her mother and dressed up, saying that she was going to Ningyi Palace to salute the queen. Originally, as an unmarried noble daughter of Bai Poria, and not a direct blood relative of the current Zhongguo Gong, it was not her turn to enter the palace to congratulate the queen on her birthday, but she was now in the palace, and the queen sent a female official to name her to attend the birthday banquet.

Ningyi Palace and Yihui Palace are next to each other, Bai Poria is resentful and walked directly to Ningyi Palace with Princess Antai and Mu Peilan to line up, Princess Antai's status is much higher than that of ordinary women, and she was invited in as soon as she arrived, Mu Peilan was the county lord of the first emperor, although she was not as good as Princess Antai but also belonged to the privileged class, Bai Poria stood next to her mother in the small square in front of Ningyi Palace and waited for a while, and the two mothers and daughters cut in line and entered the door.

But just for a while, I was also watched by other women in the square later. The wives secretly exchanged gossip, and found that Bai Poria was the person the queen pointed out to see, and they guessed the queen's intentions. A few days ago, the eldest prince and the second prince played successively, and the matter of vying to set up Bai Poria as a side concubine has spread in the circle of the boudoir in the capital, and now the queen wants to see Bai Poria in person, the meaning of which is worth guessing...... Is this to meet the future daughter-in-law? The son went to compete with the eldest prince for a side concubine, and the queen must not be very happy.

The queen behaved normally, and she did not show special closeness or alienation after receiving the gift of Bai Poria's mother and daughter, and her attitude towards other women was basically the same, and after going through the process, the female official led her out of Ningyi Palace and took a sedan chair to Huilan Palace, no one noticed that when the queen watched the mother and daughter of the Bai family leave, the treacherous in her eyes flashed.

Huilan Palace is quite far away from Ningyi Palace, so the sedan car was parked in front of Ningyi Palace, and the women were constantly picked up and dropped off between the two palaces to Huilan Palace to rest and wait. These cars are very small in shape, only for one person, and they are divided into grades.

Princess Antai sits on the highest level, the car is decorated with colorful feathers, resplendent gold, and the space in the car is also large. The one Mu Peilan sat in was slightly inferior, and Bai Poria sat in the one that was reserved for women with more than four grades, and in addition, there was also a kind for women with lives below the fourth grade.

Bai Poria went out of Ningyi Palace, Hou was on the side of Banxia and Danzhu greeted him, Bai Poria opened the rattan box in Banxia's hand, took out the little raccoon flower before sitting in the car, Danzhu and Banxia followed behind the car, and set off together.

Bai Poria has been on high alert since she left the range of Yihui Palace, and she knows that if someone wants to treat her badly, today is the best time, so when she is alone, even if she is sitting in a sedan car, she has to hold the little civet flower to rest assured.

She is not a fool, she knows that this palace is full of dangers and is still lucky, she will not worry about her life before the age of eighteen, but it does not mean that she will not encounter some disgusting things.

Although no one said anything to her, but she is not a real Lori, how could she not know that the second prince had the idea of fighting the overlord, this palace is the queen's world, what he wants to do, it is too convenient.

Bai Poria hugged the little raccoon flower and said secretly: It's best if you don't come, otherwise my little raccoon flower will be killed today!

She doesn't want to hurt people's lives unless necessary, but if someone bullies her, she will never be merciful.

The two little palace maids didn't know what to do, but they only thought that she was a child, and she couldn't do without her pets, and she didn't think much about it.

The three cars arrived in front of a narrow passage, and the one that Bai Poria was sitting on fell to the end, and the slower and slower it became a few feet away from the one in front of Mu Peilan.

The sedan car passed through a fork in the road, the person pulling the car suddenly turned, pulled the car on the fork in the road, Danzhu and Banxia were stunned, and were about to open their mouths to remind, when suddenly the back of the head was knocked hard, and the two women fell to the ground silently.

At the same time, another sedan car with a similar shape hurriedly rushed up to replace the original position of Bai Poria, Mu Peilan in front of him was aware, poked his head out to see, and saw that his daughter's sedan chair was behind, and two little palace maids were faintly seen behind the car were bowing their heads and hurrying with the car, everything seemed to be the same, and then retracted back into the car.

After more than ten zhang of the sedan, Mu Peilan suddenly shook her body, waved the curtain of the sedan with one hand, and shouted: "Stop!" ”

She woke up suddenly, and when she looked back just now, the two palace maids who were walking with their heads bowed and galloping were wearing beaded flowers in their hair, which was a common style in the palace. This morning, Bai Poria felt that the beaded flowers on their heads did not match their shirts and skirts, so she took two new pairs from the jewelry box and gave them them.

Bai Poria has always liked the people around her to dress up beautifully, Banxia and Danzhu happily put the bead flowers on their heads at that time, don't say that the beads rewarded by Bai Poria are more than ten times more high-end and exquisite than the jewelry distributed in the palace, even if she rewards a pair of bamboo hairpins, these little palace maids don't have the courage to openly take them off and replace them with others.

Now the beads on the heads of the two little palace maids who follow behind the sedan car are wrong, there is only one reason, they are not Banxia and Danzhu.

As soon as Mu Peilan thought of this, where could she care about the palace rules and manners, she jumped out without waiting for the sedan to stop completely, turned around and ran to the car behind her, and waved the curtain in front of the sedan with one palm.

Sitting in the sedan was a strange woman, dressed in the costume of a four-rank life woman, who was looking at Mu Peilan with a frightened expression. The eunuch pulling the sedan also had to stop suddenly.

Princess Antai heard the movement behind her, and also drank the sedan chair and came over to see what happened.

Mu Peilan found that her daughter was really gone, her face was very ugly, and she didn't care about the frightened pale woman on the sedan car, grabbed the eunuch pulling the car with one hand, and asked sharply: "What about the sedan car that originally followed me?" ”

The eunuch trembled and said, "Slaves, slaves, slaves don't know, when slaves and slaves followed, they saw Madame's sedan chair......"

Mu Peilan knew that she couldn't ask him anything for a while, and Princess Antai had already spoken: "This lady is offended, please wait here and take another sedan car instead." She glanced at the eunuch who was in charge of the Yihui Palace who was following the car, and the father-in-law hurriedly stepped forward to help out the lady in the sedan chair, and instructed the other little eunuchs to arrange the sedan chair and bring the eunuch who pulled the car and the two palace maids who followed the car back to the Yihui Palace to take care of them.

Mu Peilan and Princess Antai glanced at each other, and they both saw a strong worry in each other's eyes, Princess Antai couldn't care so much, and immediately ordered someone to look for Bai Poria along the same road, now that she has been missing for a short time, she should be found soon.

At the same time, Bai Poria also felt that something was wrong, she brushed open the curtain and looked forward, there was no shadow of the sedan chair in front of her, she was about to stop, and suddenly the eunuch pulling the car in front of her stepped abruptly, and fell to the ground with a pop.

Bai Poria was caught off guard and almost rushed forward under the influence of inertia.