In the face of the sudden questioning, Mama did not show a surprised look, although she did not fully guess that Lan Qi would ask such a question today, but from the time she promised to help the emperor lie and deceive Concubine De, she expected that there would be such a day, but this day came too quickly and too intensely.

"I told Yinzhen that lying is the most costly thing, and it will snowball bigger and bigger in the end, either it will be exposed to the sun, or it will crush the snowball person to death." Lan Qi smiled bitterly, "When you are an adult teaching children, you can tell the truth in everything, but you often can't do it yourself, no wonder children don't obey discipline when they grow up, because the world they see in their eyes is completely different from what their parents describe." ”

"Mother's ......"

"From the very beginning, I thought it was a strange statement, everything was so abruptly there, as if something was done specifically for something, and everything couldn't be connected." Lan Qi didn't listen to Mama's words, but continued to herself, "Why is Guiren Ping so nervous about her child, why did she develop that kind of appearance when she was pregnant by the big family, why did the emperor suddenly say that the child was not his at the end, Mama, everything is very strange, right?" ”

Mama sighed lightly: "But these things have nothing to do with the mother." ”

"If it is irrelevant, it can be pushed away." Lan Qi smiled bitterly, closed her eyes for a long time, as if she wanted to calm herself down, but when she opened her eyes again, she said, "I guess that everything is just for one reason, and the emperor doesn't want the people of the Hesheri family to have another heir." ”

Mama bowed her head and said, "Yes, things were originally so simple. ”

Lan Qi shook her head: "But it's such a big circle." Mama, do you know, I almost don't remember the incident of the Ping nobles attacking me and Zhang Yu, probably because I was too scared, and I naturally wanted to forget, but what kept ringing in my ears was that she cried and said that the child is the emperor's, and the child is the emperor's dragon species. For some reason, I believed her. ”

"Niangniang recuperates in peace, let the imperial doctor prescribe more prescriptions for contemplation, and you will soon forget all this." Mama said helplessly, "The matter has come to this, don't hurt you for irrelevant people, or even hurt your relationship with the emperor." ”

Lan Qi smiled: "I don't blame the emperor for being ruthless, no matter how you look at that child, he can't be saved, the emperor won't let him be saved, it's his attitude, not his cold-bloodedness." ”

Mama was stunned, she seemed to have thought something wrong.

Lan Qi continued, "Mama, you once told me that when everything is seen through, there is only despair left. Now I know it firsthand, but I understand that I can't stop seeking the truth of things because I am afraid of despair, but I can't blindly insist on not letting go for the truth. In the long run, in the end, it will not be the cruel reality or the confusion that cannot be seen clearly, but that I will be burdened by myself and crushed by myself. ”

Mama said: "If Niangniang can figure it out, she won't be afraid of anything." ”

Lan Qi smiled: "I don't know if I have figured it out." She stretched out her hand and grabbed her grandmother and said, "If I don't tell anyone about this matter, I'm afraid that I'm going to suffocate to death, but I don't want to say to the emperor, it's good for you to help me keep it a secret from the emperor, so that the emperor thinks that I really believe your words." Anyway, the noble man is dead, and it doesn't matter whether those things are true or not, he spent so much thought that he didn't even hesitate to buckle the green hat on his head, and I was entangled with him again, I felt so tired when I thought about it. Ping Guiren is dead, what else is there to worry about? ”

Mama looked at her in a daze, and couldn't help but chant the Buddha: "It's great that Niangniang can think like this, how afraid the slave is that you want to ask the emperor to understand, there is really nothing to understand about this matter, as long as the emperor is not ruthless to you, as long as the emperor is not calculating you, then it's fine?" If you have to bring out the truth of 'cold lips and cold teeth', then the emperor really can't do anything, according to that statement, the emperor's thoughts on dealing with ministers and dealing with foreign countries, will he also use it on who one day? So thinking about it this way, there is no bottom, instead of having to explore how deep the bottomless pit is, why not bypass it and live a comfortable and down-to-earth life. In the final analysis, he is the Son of Heaven, and he has never been the only one who cares about others. ”

Lan Qi smiled faintly, the look in her eyes betrayed herself, she still cared about the feelings behind these realities, and the relationship between her and Xuan Ye, and said slowly: "It's just that occasionally I feel that his so-called thinking about me is a little too heavy." ”

Mama said with a straight face: "The emperor just thinks that after you took over the palace over the years, you have seen more and more things, and more and more people have come into contact, and you have unconsciously become more real than before, and some concepts are more realistic than before." Just like the matter of the little brother, if the emperor does not prepare this set of rhetoric in advance, you will unconsciously explore the reasons behind it, the emperor gave you the right to give you manpower, you did use it very well, you can use it easily, many things are easy, you forget that they originally belonged to the emperor, not yours. ”

Lan Qi's heart was pounding, her throat was slightly dry, and she looked at her grandmother with some trepidation: "This is ...... What did the emperor say? ”

Mama bowed: "The Empress Dowager told you early in the morning that there is no secret to be hidden in the palace, and the emperor always has a way to know what he wants to know, and those people think they can hide it, but they are too naïve." And the emperor can still be so meticulous in observing those who don't care, let alone you at the tip of his heart? ”

"But me?"

"Niangniang, you know very well, the emperor knows everything you do, but because you always have a frank mentality, you feel that you don't have to be afraid of the eyes of others, you feel worthy of your conscience, worthy of others." Mama smiled helplessly, "But in fact, have you ever thought that maybe the emperor doesn't want you to be like this, maybe others don't want you to interfere, your openness is just that you have a clear conscience, and what you do to others is just to satisfy your own selfish desires." ”

Lan Qi bowed his head and said: "I have thought of this truth, but I think that what I did was right. ”

Mama smiled: "There is no point in discussing right and wrong now, what the slave wants Niang Niang to understand is that all along, whether it is right or wrong, the emperor has unconditionally tolerated everything about you." ”

Lan Qi was speechless, Mama held her hand in the palm of her hand, and said gently and kindly: "It's not your fault, you have done a good job by suddenly handing over everything in the palace to you, so that you can see all the ugliness and darkness in the palace." The emperor said to the slave maid, always give you some time, let you be reborn and grow again, although you are not an eighteen-year-old girl, but the emperor and the queen mother have protected you too well, in the past ten years, you have really been spoiled. Fortunately, it's still too late for everything, didn't you say that you want to be with the emperor for the rest of your life? A lifetime can be long, let's not be in a hurry, take your time. ”

Lan Qi's eyes were red, tears broke out slightly, leaned towards Mama, and choked on her shoulder: "Fortunately, you are still here, Mama, I think the Queen Mother." ”

Mama hugged her and smiled: "The slave will live a few more years, and see that our mother can really take charge of herself, even if you and the emperor have a place to talk about their hearts." ”

Lan Qi's mood gradually stabilized, and she talked about yesterday's events with her grandmother, Huan Chun came in from outside, and said with a nervous face: "The inner guard is here, please hand over the corpse of the noble person." ”

It turned out that the body of Xiao Hesheri was detained by Lan Qi, and she declared to the outside world that everything would wait for the emperor to come back to make the decision, but the emperor's nobles were stabbed to death and the law was involved, and the criminal department and the Zongren Mansion had the power to intervene.

Huanchun added: "They say that it is the meaning of the prince. ”

"Prince?" Mama and Lan Qi spoke in unison.

"Huanchun, you go and tell them, it's not Concubine De who detained the corpse, it's the queen mother's intention, the emperor's return is imminent, and the queen mother hopes that everything will wait for the emperor to come back to make the decision." Mama instructed Huanchun, while getting up and asking Lan Qi to resign, "Niangniang has a good rest, the slave will go to Ningshou Palace to explain this matter to the Queen Mother, presumably the Queen Mother is also willing to wait for the emperor to come back to make the decision." ”

Lan Qi said gratefully: "I can't go out first, I'm tired of my grandmother." ”

In this way, Su Mala Mama quickly went to Ningshou Palace to explain the reason to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother came forward to appease the prince, not to move the corpse of the noble person for the time being, and it was not too late for the emperor to come back. Regardless of whether the crown prince was instructed by someone or wanted to inquire about this matter, he could not easily get past the queen mother, so he could only give up and wait for the emperor to return to Beijing with everyone.

The holy car traveled day and night, much faster than when he set off for Doronor, everything proved that something important had happened in the palace, but the emperor just kept it a secret and never officially said what happened in the palace. And the people from the palace also quickly sent the news to the holy driver, Xuan Ye knew on the way that Lan Qi had detained the body of the Ping nobleman and wanted to wait for him to go back to make the decision, and she repeatedly insisted that it was the peace nobleman and Zhang promised to meet the assassin in the imperial garden, but the paradox was that the guards did not find any trace of the assassin at all.

Three days later, the holy driver finally returned to the capital, as soon as the emperor entered the Qianqing Gate, he abandoned his chariot and walked to the Yonghe Palace, at that time the prince was waiting under the Qianqing Gate, and before he had time to say a word to his father, the emperor left like a wind. It was the third elder brother who stepped forward to salute and talk to the prince, and only then did they relieve the embarrassment a little.

The prince said to the fourth elder brother: "Concubine De Niangniang was assassinated and injured, and she is recuperating in Yonghe Palace, fourth brother, you hurry back to see Concubine De Niangniang." ”

Yin Zhen discussed with the third elder brother what happened in the palace all the way, but he didn't expect that he was involved in his own mother, and he turned around and was about to run to Yonghe Palace, but was caught by the third elder brother and said: "Fool, Huang Ama has gone, what are you going to do?" ”

In Yonghe Palace, the green pearl and jade sunflower were waiting in front of the palace gate early, and when they saw someone coming from afar, they saw the emperor's figure clearly, so they hurriedly ran into the dormitory and said, "Master, the emperor is back." ”

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