At night, Concubine Liu Guifei walked towards her Ningxiang Palace, pacing very slowly, and her face looked preoccupied.

The female officer behind her asked with concern: "What is the reason why Niangniang is worried?" ”

Liu Guifei sighed and said: "The Northern Qi side has sent another secret envoy, and the other party asked me to attack Princess Yu, and I can't make up my mind." ”

When the female official heard this, she hurriedly looked left and right, and made sure that there were only two of them on the empty palace road under the moonlit night, so she lowered her voice and asked, "The secret envoy of Northern Qi is now in the palace?" Who is it? ”

Liu Guifei said: "It's the fourth lady of the Dong family, Dong Qianmo." ”

The female officer was a little unconvinced and questioned, "How is it possible?" You're too young, right? ”

Liu Guifei frowned and said: "This palace also thinks so, the Dong family is a hairpin family, and it has been an official for generations, so there should be no fine work of Northern Qi." So at first, Hongu didn't believe her at all. But she seems to know everything about the palace, and she also read out a passage from King Lin's biography last year, do you think, is this something that outsiders can know? ”

The female official said: "If she is really a secret envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty, then she is probably not the real daughter of the Dong family, but was dropped by someone." ”

Liu Guifei thought about it and said: "Wei Moqin's senior sisters are all King Lin's eyeliner, all of them are music theory experts, and this Miss Dong is also very good at this, there will be no mistake, she must be one of those people in disguise, and there is a chance that Dong Qianmo is dead." ”

The female official asked: "Now that the identity of the secret envoy has been confirmed, what is the hesitation of the mother?" ”

Liu Guifei said: "The secret envoy passed on the order of the prince, and he wanted to design to deal with Princess Yu, not to mention that my relationship with chess painting is different, just to say that I did a few things in the past few years that people can't know, and I have never shied away from her." Once I fall out with her, she will reveal my bottom if I can't keep it! ”

The female official's eyes were ruthless, and she said in a low voice: "In this case, Niangniang might as well take advantage of the fact that this secret envoy has not yet gained a firm foothold in the Western Wei Imperial Palace and design to kill her." When you look back and wait for King Lin to investigate it, it will be on Princess Yu, and you will say that it is too late to find out the identity of the secret envoy and you can't save it, so you will get rid of it! ”

Liu Guifei nodded while listening, and finally smiled: "It's still Aunt Yin, you are active, yes, you are reasonable, compared to a secret envoy who started to give orders when he first arrived, this official should still have preserved the chess painting, she and her father are a big help to the palace." ”

The female officer further proposed: "When the time comes, I will write to King Lin to explain that King Yu can also be involved, so that King Lin will not suspect us if he shifts his target." ”

Liu Guifei said: "Good idea, just do it!" As soon as this Dong Qianmo died, King Lin sent the next secret envoy, and it would take at least three months, and the palace would take advantage of this time to redo the deployment. ”

“……”

The two of them talked and walked away together, they thought that the empty palace road could not reach the world or the ground, and no third person could hear them. As everyone knows, a man in Tsing Yi has been silently following them, taking in all the conversation.

"She's actually King Lin's man?" He Jianxiao was very puzzled, and said to himself, "Dong Qianmo, this person, is becoming more and more unpredictable. ”

If Liu Guifei's plan succeeds, after tomorrow, Dong Qianmo will be a dead person, and her identity will become a permanent mystery.

But if she is open and honest with Dong Qianmo at this time, and she is not "her own person", then He Jianxiao is equivalent to taking the initiative to give someone a handle.

Dong Qianmo, what kind of secret does her true identity hide?

He Jianxiao, should he help her, or should he stand by and let her fall into the abyss?

The night is still very long......

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The next day, a drizzle began early in the morning, and the whole palace was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere.

When Aunt Liu, the newly appointed head of the office, passed under the corridor, she saw Gong'e Baolan half-kneeling on the bluestone slab, making a mournful cry.

Aunt Liu knew that Baolan had always been close to Mama Tsuru, so she stepped forward and persuaded: "Don't be sad, Mama Tsuru can't think about it for a while, who can you complain about?" Put away your tears and cheer up to do things! ”

Bao Lan raised her head when she heard the voice, her eyes were swollen like walnuts, and she wiped her tears and said, "I'm not crying for Mama, but ......."

"And what?" Aunt Liu frowned.

"Woo woo......" Bao Lan said in a crying voice, "the slave and maid fed the birds in the early morning, remembered the matter of Mama Mao, and for a moment she was in a trance, so she put two hibiscus birds, three white feather embroidered eyes, and ......"

"And what?" Aunt Liu was in a hurry, and she scanned the surrounding bird cages and found that several cages had wide open doors and were empty inside.

Bao Lan cried and continued: "He and the Queen Mother's favorite purple and blue macaw, all of which were put in the sky, and they will not be found at this time." ”

Aunt Liu ran to the courtyard and looked up anxiously to see where there was still a trace of the birds that had been released from the cage.

"Auntie save me!" Paulan cried and fell down the steps.

"You're in trouble this time!" Aunt Liu shook her head and sighed, "I'm going back to the Queen Mother, as for how to go back to the Queen Mother, you can figure it out yourself!" ”

On the first day in charge of the bird corridor, Aunt Liu returned to the Queen Mother as soon as possible in order to clear up the relationship.

It's just another bird, the purple and blue macaw was left by Princess Shuoyue, who married to Northern Qi and her relatives five years ago, and the queen mother looked at it like her own daughter, and no one could afford it.

After a while, Aunt Liu came out of the back hall, put on a straight face, and told Baolan: "The Queen Mother is merciful, reward you with fifty flowers, and you can go to the Inner Servant Province to receive the punishment yourself." ”

Baolan immediately softened and cried: "The slave doesn't want to die, the slave and the maid still have a love in return!" ”

Aunt Liu twisted her eyebrows and scolded: "If you cry here early in the morning, then it is not a red flower, but a green flower!" Depending on what kind of affection you have, you can wait until you get the flowers! ”

Baolan cried: "The slave and maid know that Mama Mao is actually killed by people, and the slave and maid are willing to tell the truth and the truth, and beg my aunt to intercede for the slave and maid again!" ”

Aunt Liu didn't know about the broken bird egg yesterday, and when she heard about it, she was startled, and immediately turned around and walked into the back hall, muttering to Lady Qiao about what Baolan had revealed. Lady Qiao considered the words again and went back to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother was suspicious of Mama Dou's death, so she immediately called Baolan in and asked her to recruit her.

Lady Qiao said: "You can honestly reply to the Queen Mother's words, if there is a word that is not true, it will be handed over to the torture room of the Ministry of Internal Service immediately!" ”

Baolan shook her shoulders and kowtowed, and Fang replied: "The slave is guilty, she accepted the silver from Miss Dong yesterday, and allowed her to touch the swallows that are hatching eggs in the bird's nest." Miss Dong didn't know what she had smeared on the swallow, but after a while, she attracted a large swarm of wasps, stinged the swallow away, and the nest was knocked over. ”

The queen looked strange and exchanged a look with Lady Qiao.

Baolan continued: "Later, Miss Dong threatened Mama Tsuru that if she didn't cooperate with her to deceive the Queen Mother, no one would be able to reap the benefits, and the worst end would be Mama Tsutoma, who was in charge of the bird corridor. As a last resort, Mama had no choice but to succumb and press the bird egg and not report it to the Queen Mother. ”

Lady Qiao asked in a tight voice: "Is the Miss Dong you are talking about, the second Miss or the fourth Miss Four?" ”

Baolan said with tears in her eyes: "It's Miss Dong Si, Dong Qianmo." ”

"Oh?" The expression on the Queen Mother's face was indescribably terrifying, as if she was not angry, and as if she was smiling, she asked, "What good will it do to her if Qianmo overturns the bird's nest?" ”

Baolan said: "I heard from Miss Dong Er's maid Xiangyun that although the fourth Miss Dong Qianmo is Miss Dong, she has not been favored by her parents for many years, and even the Miss Concubine below is a head above her, which makes her very angry, and she has always thought that Miss Second is in her way, intending to find a gap and cause harm." ”

"Oh? So how did she harm her second sister? ”

"She knocked over the bird's nest, originally to frame her second sister." Baolan Zhenzhen said, "She bought Xiangyun with a lot of money, and planned to falsely accuse Miss Dong Er, but Xiangyun still had a clear conscience and did not help her lie together." In the end, she lifted a stone and hit her own feet, was caught by Mama Mao, locked up, and handed over to the Queen Mother when she woke up from a nap. Who knew that at this time, when we cleaned the nest, we found that there was an egg that was not broken, and a small chick fell out, and it was still alive! ”

The Queen Mother was even more surprised, raised her eyebrows and asked, "You mean, the chick fell out of the eggshell by itself?" ”

Bao Lan nodded vigorously and said, "It's true, the slave saw it with her own eyes!" Then Dong Qianmo threatened Mama Mao and said that if the Queen Mother knew the truth, under the anger, Mama Mao might be beheaded all over the house! ”

"Then Mama Tsuru will listen to her?" Lady Joe asked.

"Wow," Bao Lan said, "so Mama Tsuto agreed to cooperate with her in acting, and glued the chick into a red-painted fake eggshell, and Dong Qianmo pinched the flute at the right time, just when the eggshell cracked. In this way, the birth of Silk has become her credit, and if she deceives the Queen Mother with clever words, you will not pursue the affairs of other Silk Eggs. ”

"What good is it for her to do such a thing?" Lady Qiao asked again.

Bao Lan replied like a fluent: "If she does this, she can first be exonerated from the matter of breaking the silk egg." Second, she sowed a good name for herself, and now it is spread throughout the palace! said that it was the fourth young lady of the Dong family, Xiao Sheng, and even the Queen Mother's divine bird let her blow it out of the eggshell! ”

Hearing this, Aunt Liu, who was standing on the side, was puzzled first, she was quite familiar with Baolan, and had always regarded her as a timid new palace maid, but she never knew that Baolan had such a clever speech.

Besides, Aunt Liu also understands birds, and she stood by and watched yesterday, and she didn't see that the silk egg was fake at all.

"Humph!" The Queen Mother snorted coldly and asked, "Aunt Liu, do you know what Baolan said?" ”

Aunt Liu hurriedly knelt down on her knees and said resolutely: "No! The slave didn't see a little bit of it herself, and she didn't hear a word from other people's mouths, otherwise she would have come back and forth to the queen mother a long time ago! ”

The Queen Mother grinded her teeth hatefully, sneered and said: "The mourning family hates those who lie the most, dare to coax the mourning family with words today, and whoever pokes it in the back tomorrow, she will dare to poison the mourning family - come on!" ”

She raised her voice, and two eunuchs with a height of seven feet rushed in from outside the house, and they knew by their walking posture that they were Lian Jiazi.

"Pull out all the teeth of this lying and deceitful to the mourning family!" The Queen Mother ordered.

"Yes." The eunuch answered neatly.

So one person restrained Baolan, who was still kneeling on the ground, firmly clasped her two struggling arms behind her, and stepped on her knee with one foot, so that she couldn't get up.

Another man stepped forward, grabbed her throat with one hand, forced her to open her mouth wide, and put the other hand into his finger, put it into her mouth, and pulled it directly with his fingers, and extracted about eight good teeth in less than a cup of tea.

It turned out that this eunuch, who was not good-looking, actually had the powerful Vajra finger of Wutai Mountain!

At first, Baolan was frightened and inexplicable, desperately struggling and crying to no avail, but then her snow-white teeth were torn out raw, and the pain made her almost go crazy immediately.

The mouthful of blood flowed on the placket of the pinned Jinpa, and then flowed to the ground, and Baolan cried so much that she cried out to the sky and grabbed the ground.

On the upper seat, the Queen Mother's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, a trace of happiness flashed on her face, and her expression was full of enjoyment.

At this time, the bead curtain moved slightly, and Dong Qianmo stepped out of the water room in the back hall, holding the tea tray in his hand, and walked out with a smile.

At first sight, she seemed to be frightened, "Oops! With a bang, a curtain of crystal beads was thrown into a rattle.