Lan Qi sighed lightly in her heart, and then led people to turn to that place, and saw Chen Chang standing in front of the door from a distance, her palace maid didn't know what to do under the steps, she motioned for the others to stop, and only took Huanchun and walked towards them.

When he got closer, Huan Chun said at the signal of his master: "Chen Chang is here, you can't pay tribute to the dead at will in the palace." ”

The people over there were taken aback, and the palace maid under the stairs hurriedly picked up the things on the ground and said, "De, Concubine De, we just put it on the table, and there was no open fire." ”

Chen Changzai had already greeted him, and he saluted solemnly, and said with tears in his eyes: "Niangniang forgives her sins, the concubine just wants to send one to Sister Wang." ”

Lan Qi glanced at the palace maid, there was indeed no open fire on the ground, it was just a common thing for memorials, and pinched a few fresh flowers, she looked at Huanchun, Huanchun understood, and stepped forward and said to the palace maid: "You come with me." So saying, he led the man into the courtyard.

But Lan Qi asked Chen Changzai: "Why don't you go in the door to pay respects, how conspicuous it is here, if someone sees you and sues you, it is not worth it." ”

"The concubine is scared and doesn't dare to enter the door...... Chen Chang replied tremblingly, lowered his head and continued: "The concubine also understands that she has already thought about it, and if she is reprimanded or punished, it will be worth it for such a thing." ”

Lan Qi smiled: "Everyone in the palace thought that I arranged for you to leave here at the beginning, and if others saw you at this moment, they might not have any special thoughts, but I remember the words of the person who begged me to separate myself from the Wang family, why did I see a scene of sisterhood now?" ”

Chen Changzai was already in tears, crying and nodding: "Niang Niang is right, the concubine is too selfish, if we had lived here together and supported each other, maybe she would still be alive." The concubine thought that she was so easy to conceive the imperial heir, and her future was finally hopeful, and she could be promoted to a position and no longer be bullied by Wang Changzai, Niangniang...... Why is it good, people are gone. ”

"When a woman's family gives birth to children, she just walks away at the ghost gate, and she can't be blessed to come back." Lan Qi said indifferently, looking indifferently at Chen Changzai on the ground, even if she was a little moved in her heart, she couldn't show it on her face, and asked another thing, "I heard that if you met a secret nobleman in the Qianqing Palace before, you always deliberately let her show an embarrassed and embarrassed face in front of the emperor between words and deeds, you are a quiet and introverted person, everyone in the Zhongcui Palace says that you are good, why can't you get along with the secret nobles in the Qianqing Palace." ”

Chen Changzai raised a pair of teary eyes and said bitterly: "That's the only thing the concubine can do for Sister Wang, we said that we would enter the palace together to be sisters, and we will be separated from our families in this life, and we will take care of each other in the palace in the future." But the concubine betrayed her on the first day...... If the concubine is by her side, she will rely on the same identity as Wang Changzai, so as not to let Wang Changzai abuse her like that. I hate the king in my heart, but I don't dare to do anything to her, but she is too impetuous and domineering, and the slightest action of the concubine can provoke her to be anxious, so I ......"

Lan Qi bent down to help Chen stand up, and whispered to her to stop crying, only waiting for her to calm down a little before saying: "The deceased is gone, there is no point in you suffering for this, there is nothing wrong with you begging for self-preservation, you didn't step on her body to get everything today, you just hid for yourself." Don't blame yourself anymore, if you feel guilty, go to the elder brother's house to take care of the little princess in the future, that is the blood and bones she left. ”

Chen Chang was crying and nodded, and Lan Qi persuaded her again: "In the days when the princess was pregnant, I talked to her a few times, and she was indeed a kind and gentle person, but it was a pity that she was not good-looking. She has never made your agreement before me, and she has never complained to anyone, not even the nobles who treated her like that. With her personality, she will definitely not want you to continue to do anything to seek justice for her, if you are really guilty, let go of the past, live well and earn a future, if you are well, the little princess in the brother can be regarded as something to rely on. ”

"The concubine listens to you."

"Besides, if you can't get along with the secret noble, she will definitely fight back and compete with you, why bother? Now don't say that her position is higher than you, even if she is still on an equal footing with you, how can she be willing to let you bully? If you lose both, the only result is that both of you are rejected by the emperor, and there will naturally be a new person to replace you in the future, and in the end, you will not only not be able to do anything to her, but you will no longer be able to become the little princess's dependence. Lan Qi handed her silk handkerchief to Chen Changzai, and said softly, "Don't cry anymore, I asked for a decree another day, and go to the little princess with the concubine to see the little princess, if you can take care of the child for her, she will be truly grateful to you if she has the knowledge." It is much more practical to take care of the people who are alive in front of you than to mourn the dead who cannot be seen or touched. ”

Chen Chang was in tears, nodded and agreed, not long after Huanchun led the palace maid out, and the things that were placed in front of the door were sent in, the little palace maid saw that the master was crying pitifully, and anxiously knelt down in front of Lan Qi and said: "Please don't punish my family, she has been crying every night these days, and the slave maid really can't bear it, so she asked the master to come here to pay respects, and the mother wants to punish the slave and maid." ”

"You deserve to be punished, go back to Zhongcui Palace and ask Concubine Duanniang, how to punish you." Lan Qi responded coldly, and looked at Chen Changzai again, "Remember my words, I can't see that the palace is not peaceful, and I also told you not to cause trouble to Zhong Cui Palace early in the morning, if you can't remember, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Chen Changzai was so crying that he couldn't speak, and he spit out a few words with difficulty and said, "Don't worry, Niangniang." ”

Inevitably, Lan Qi took Chen Changzai and walked back, asking Huanchun to send her to Zhongcui Palace, and she took someone back to Yonghe Palace first. After changing her clothes and holding a bowl of almond dew in a daze, Huan Chun came back from Zhong Cui Palace and told her master that she had told Duan Concubine Niangniang about the matter, and Duan Concubine punished Chen Changzai and her palace maid for standing in the courtyard to reflect, and there was nothing else to do.

Lan Qi drank a few sips of almond dew, now that the weather is getting colder, there is no fever in the body after walking around, and after drinking a few sips of warmth, it is only a little more relaxed, Huan Chun saw that the master was holding it and no longer moving, so he reached out to take it, and asked softly: "Chen Changzai should not go to trouble the secret nobles." ”

Lan Qi smiled bitterly: "If they really meet, who knows if it's good or bad, but they can't meet, at least in the past few years, no one outside the Qixiang Palace can see the secret nobles again." ”

Huan Chun reminded: "I'm afraid that the secret nobles will suddenly close the door, and it should arouse suspicion." ”

Lan Qi shook her head: "Even if she is still alive, she can't go out of Qixiang Palace in this life and continue to swagger through the market like before, she is the one who knows that the prince does such an unbearable thing as a private meeting with a palace maid pretending to be a eunuch, do you think the emperor will let her be as domineering as before, poke the prince's nerves from time to time, and make the prince uneasy for the rest of his life?" ”

"Yes."

"At that moment, I was thinking about this from the emperor's standpoint, and my only thought was that I couldn't let the prince become a murderer, so I had to let her live." Lan Qi sighed tiredly and tilted her body, "But then again, when you encounter something like that, you have to make the prince not worry that he will be told ugly words, and letting her die is the best way, so that the dead will not talk nonsense." But if she was strangled to death by others, it would have been fine, but the Queen Mother and I saw him pinching Wang Changzai's neck. When I felt that the Wang family was no longer breathing, I thought to myself that the emperor would not want the prince to bear the charge of murder from now on, and I didn't think about what happened later at that time, so I just rushed out and said to the queen mother that she was still alive. ”

Huanchun looked at her master distressedly, feeling that she seemed to be a lot haggard in the past two months in order to take care of this matter.

Lan Qi's eyes showed a little cold fear, the corners of her mouth twitched lightly unconsciously, and her eyes said fixedly: "If it weren't for the Queen Mother, what would you say would be the result for me?" Was he strangled to death by the prince on the spot, or was he abandoned by the emperor afterwards? Do you know Huanchun, I am only relieved now, waiting for the Wang family to give birth for so long, I will think about that thing every day. ”

Huanchun was puzzled, shook his head and said, "The slave doesn't understand." ”

The corners of Lan Qi's eyes were slightly moist, and she said with a wry smile: "After half a day's work, I thought about all the arrangements for the future, and the emperor asked me at that time, how could I think so deeply." In fact, I don't understand how I did it now, but I am very afraid when I slow down, I show my scheming in front of the emperor without reservation, what will he think of me? Huanchun, do you know, I never thought about making myself a person who is very deep in the city, it was natural and unconscious, I thought it was my own precipitated ability, it was my own cleverness, but ...... Then call it the city government and call it scheming. ”

"Mother." Huanchun knew that when the master was in a daze alone recently, he was not worried about whether these things were proper or not, and sure enough, he hid such deep things in her heart, but these things told her that she couldn't do anything.

"The emperor has come to Yonghe Palace these days, and we look the same as before, but I understand that I look at him differently." Lan Qi covered her chest and said with tears in her eyes, "Originally, even if I had the rules of dignity and humility, I could have no scruples to be coquettish and laugh in front of him, but now even if I am joking with him, I weigh it in my heart before I speak." It's very tiring and heavy, and it's more painful than letting me deal with something more complicated than that matter, is it going to be like this for the rest of my life? ”

Huanchun said helplessly: "The slave maid thinks that you and the emperor have nothing to do, if you say this according to Niangniang, the slave and maid are also the people who know, is the slave and maid always afraid that the emperor will kill the slave and maid?" ”

At this time, Princess Wen Chen ran to find E-Niang, but the people outside didn't stop her, so she suddenly broke in, and when she saw her mother crying, she couldn't help but be anxious, and threw herself into Lan Qi's arms and asked, "Why is E-Niang crying, who bullied E-Niang?" I'm going to tell Huang Ama. ”

Lan Qi tried to smile: "Silly girl, E-niang didn't cry." ”

Wen Chen didn't agree: "It's obviously just crying." ”

Lan Qi was worried about whether her daughter would really go to Xuan Ye to talk nonsense, but she saw Lu Zhu come in with the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, and the eunuch knelt in front of the door and said: "The emperor has an edict, please ask Concubine De to clean up some softness, long live Ye Ming'er will get up early in the morning and drive to Changchun Garden, please accompany Concubine De." ”

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