Chapter 211: Horizontal and Vertical [II]

The edict came quickly, in the afternoon of the next day. After a day of cultivation, Qing Ruiting's spirit improved a little, and she originally planned to accompany Gu Liangyue, but she was left behind by her for the reason that "no one in the house can decide on major matters". Gu Liangyue only asked for her own grace, and Qing Ruiting followed up, but there were too many things to say.

Knocking on the strict city gate, the sound of the carriage appeared abrupt on the empty bluestone road, the white marble steps and the carved palace made people feel disgusted at a glance, Gu Liangyue didn't like this imperial city, there was no smell, and all that floated in the air was calculation and misery.

Entering the Yongyuan Palace, it was obviously a midwinter day, but Qing Ruifan did not burn charcoal, and the entire inner hall couldn't find anything warm except for the candlelight, Gu Liangyue shuddered to herself, and followed the waiter all the way to Qing Ruifan.

Qing Ruifan was still kind, and when he saw her, he asked people to put melons and fruits on the table, and ordered charcoal to be burned. Gu Liangyue sat on the stool covered with a fluffy blanket for a while before relieving herself, and couldn't help but sneeze. It is true that the body of pregnant women is worse than that of the average person.

"Can the Imperial Physician show you?" If Qing Ruifan remembers correctly, Gu Liangyue's grace was for medical treatment. But I heard that she didn't go to the Imperial Doctor's Prison, but went straight to her side, something should be the matter.

"The courtiers dare to ask the saint if they know that the courtiers and the queen's mother are from the same father?" I didn't say that she didn't think it was necessary, everyone was alive and well, and what should be rotten in the stomach shouldn't be said, but not now, if you want to make a plan, then you must let Qing Ruiting know more.

"Oh? Let's hear it. Qing Ruifan has never suspected this tenth princess, and the Lin'an Gu family has indeed found this household, so he has never closed it, thinking that Qing Ruiting knows how to measure proportions, but now it seems that it is not necessarily like this.

"The courtier's wife was adopted by the emperor's sister-in-law's father when she was young, so she had a Lin'an Gu family." Gu Huai guarantees that she will not die, and she protects the Gu family, which is completely reasonable. Qing Ruifan only agreed, not knowing what she was going to say. If she dared to intercede for Gu Huai, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would do anything.

"Now my sister's whereabouts are unknown, and the courtiers have a reluctant request." Gu Liangyue took a deep breath, as if she was going to go to the battlefield in the next moment. For her, it was difficult to convince Qing Ruifan, but since both sides were searching for the same person, why couldn't they reach a settlement and work together? Whether it succeeds or not, she has to give it a try, this is the only thing she can do for Gu Lingge.

"Let's hear it first." Qing Ruifan now thinks that there will be a faint pain in the tip of that person's heart, he has long given up asking her to come back, and he only hopes that if she can take care of herself, everything will be fine. It's just that his negligence caused the demon to escape, and he bears the responsibility of chasing it back.

"Don't hide it, Your Majesty, a few days ago, Sister Luo bumped into Gu Huai in Yunhu Hall, and later some people saw him making trouble in Muyun Pavilion, and all kinds of signs indicated that he was in the capital." If you want to negotiate, you must show sincerity and intentions, barter, both parties agree, and the transaction is established.

"The former tenth prince returned to the house and told his courtiers that the emperor appointed the ninth prince and the tenth prince to jointly track down Gu Huai's whereabouts." Gu Liangyue was a little apprehensive, and quietly looked at Qing Ruifan's face, there was nothing unusual, she took a sip of tea and continued, "And the Mu family and the Gu family have also been looking for Gu Huai. ”

"If we all have the same goal, why can't we work together?" Finally saying what she wanted to say, Gu Liangyue felt that her heart was about to get stuck in her throat. She didn't do this before, but she thought it was because she was too afraid of Gu Huai and too worried about Gu Lingge. Concern is chaos.

"You mean, Gu Huai once appeared in Yunhu Hall and Muyun Pavilion?" Qing Ruifan grasped the key point. He naturally believed that Gu Huai had not left the capital yet, after all, he had already sent heavy troops to guard the city gate on the night he found out that Gu Huai had escaped, not to mention a big living person, even a small ant, which was also under his control. "Why is he in these two places?"

"According to Sister Luo, he went to ask about his sister's whereabouts." Gu Liangyue knew that she couldn't escape this question, so she didn't want to hide it, she straightened up her chest and poured beans into it.

"And you know what?" Qing Ruifan's focus is wrong again. He really couldn't hear Gu Lingge, in front of him, the slightest bit about her was even more important than the eight hundred miles of urgent report.

"Back to the emperor, the courtiers don't know. Not only the courtiers, Yunhutang doesn't know, Liulizhuang doesn't know, and no one knows where my sister is. Gu Liangyue felt bitter in her mouth when she said this, she really didn't know what to say except for asking three questions.

"Don't you have people following her all the time? How could I not know? Aren't you her closest relatives? How could there be no whereabouts for her? Qing Ruifan may have known that he was out of shape, and he coughed and wanted to suppress his emotions, but who knew that he still didn't leave Gu Lingge with three sentences.

"The emperor doesn't know anything." Gu Liangyue looked at the blue and black under his eye sockets, the swelling green tendons on the back of his exposed hands, and heard the eagerness and anxiety in his words, except for a sigh in his heart, he didn't know how to comfort this lonely emperor.

"Before my sister left Beijing, she dismissed all the attendants who followed her, set fire to Liulizhuang, and had only one burden on her body, leading a horse, and didn't let any of us follow." Gu Liangyue was also bitter when she said it, she was also relayed, and she also had melancholy in her heart, just like this hall, she could choke on her heartache with a single breath.

"The courtiers still think it's more feasible to join forces with Liulizhuang." Sad is sad, what should be done has to be done, otherwise Gu Lingge will be sacrificed in vain, "Liulizhuang can provide information, and it can also form a joint force with the two princes to jointly pursue Gu Huai, so that he can be caught as soon as possible." ”

"What does the emperor think?" Gu Liangyue felt that what she said was very reasonable, and she thought that Qing Ruifan would definitely listen to it.

In fact, Qing Ruifan felt that she was right, because of Qing Ruiting, he was not worried that Gu Liangyue would backfire in the nest, he really needed to think about this proposal.

"If the Tenth Princess rebelled and helped Gu Huai deal with me in the end, wouldn't all the manpower and material resources I had invested be in vain?" Qing Ruifan seemed to hesitate, he sat on the dragon chair, took a sip of ginseng tea gently, his eyes fluttered, and his casual appearance made Gu Liangyue feel at ease.

"That courtier is not talented, and she is willing to take the life of the tenth prince as a guarantee. The courtier's words are true, if there is a lie, the ten princes and the courtiers will be buried together. This is already the most vicious oath, Gu Liangyue has a smile in her eyes, but the words she says are ruthless.

"The tenth princess is getting bolder and bigger, it seems that I can't agree anymore." Who in this capital doesn't know that Gu Liangyue is Qing Ruiting's life, and this oath is just that Gu Liangyue will not die well. Qing Ruifan didn't break it, touched his chin, and looked thoughtful.

"The courtiers believe in the emperor." Gu Liangyue said lightly, and even blocked Qing Ruifan, Qing Ruifan thought for a while, and still agreed.

After that, the specific deployment was Feng Yiluo's business, and Gu Liangyue also told Qing Ruifan that Feng Yiluo would enter the palace to explain to him later and make corresponding plans.

"Is the old ten okay?" When Gu Liangyue stood up and was about to retire, Qing Ruifan suddenly asked. He is still worried about his siblings, Qing Ruiting has always been a straightforward person who does not hide things, and he is not happy to ask for two days off in a row.

"It was very bad before, and he was better when I went out today, although he still had no energy, but the bad guy came back." Gu Liangyue sighed lightly, and her tone was quite gentle. These things are not said to be empathetic.

"Then you should take care of it more, it's almost the end of the year, and it's better to be more excited. By the time this year passes, it will be much better. Qing Ruifan comforted him decently, and then asked Gu Liangyue to kneel down. Before leaving, he didn't forget to let her go to the chief of prison to check his pulse, which was a complete excuse.

The blue clothes who had just come back from Ci'an Hall pushed the door and came in, and saw Qing Ruifan rubbing his temples and looking uncomfortable. He walked over quickly, and greeted Qing Ruifan with some anxiety.

"I'm fine, it's just that I haven't rested much in the past two days, and my spirit is not good." Qing Ruifan drooped his eyelids, and the syllables that came out of his mouth were like nothing, and Lan Yi listened to it several times before he reacted.

Listening to what the chamberlain had just said to him, Lan Yi thought to himself that the emperor could sleep well before there was really a ghost.

Every day in the Yongyuan Hall to deal with affairs until the evening, finally the imperial pen Zhu Pi finished, ate something indiscriminately and went to Ci'an Hall, sat there until midnight, and let people light themselves to go to Fenglan Palace, over there after the second half of the night, the next day was not yet dawn, he had to get up and pack up and go to the court, every day.

No one knows how long Qing Ruifan sleeps a day, but Lan Yi understands that this emperor is stubborn in his bones, he doesn't listen to anything, and everything he does has his own meaning, which is unpredictable, but inexplicably terrifying.

"Your Majesty, it's not a matter for you to rely on ginseng soup every day." Lan Yi still felt that he was persuaded, although Qing Ruifan did not necessarily listen.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother, you also understand, she has her own considerations for doing things, and leaving the imperial city now may not be bad for her. What do you say you're doing this for? Lan Yi was so anxious that his mouth was about to bubble, no matter what he said, Qing Ruifan didn't listen.

"I'll just have a break, no need for those messy pills." Qing Ruifan was a little upset, during this time, as long as Lan Yi mentioned this topic to him, the next sentence was to find the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor could give him tonic medicine as soon as he came, so that he was bitter and sleepy, so he simply didn't want it.

"Your Majesty...... You can't do that. Lan Yi knew that he couldn't make sense of him, and he couldn't say anything except howling.

"Alright, you go down, let me be quiet." Qing Ruifan waved his sleeves, waved away the blue clothes, and took a nap on the edge of the table.

Chunlan Palace.

Yang Li'er, now she is Concubine Wan, sitting in front of the desk, looking at the large pile of account books sent by the internal affairs supervisor, she has a headache, but she is satisfied.

No matter how powerful Murong Zhi is, it is still her Yang Li'er who is in power now. In this huge harem, it was always her Yang Li'er who had the last laugh. Wang Jingchen's embroidered pillow, although it is not worrying, but it is better than having no brains, and it is quite easy to master. Now in front of her, there is only one concubine.

It's also strange to say, after Jiaoweidian's party last time, Concubine Yuan never took the initiative to provoke her, and she was quiet every day, which always made Yang Li'er feel that she was planning a big thing.

Wang Jingchen has also been safe in the past two days, her mother's family has always only had a queen mother, and now the queen mother is critically ill, no one in the palace takes care of her, and her own temperament has offended the foreign family a lot. Now she is an abandoned child in her heart, and people rack their brains to think about how to stuff in someone who is smarter than her, who cares if she lives or dies?

Wang Jingchen should have understood this, and she didn't say anything about it after not going out of Chenlai Palace for a long time, even the emperor didn't take the initiative to go up, and she was so well-behaved as if she deliberately did it for someone to see.

Concubine Yuan's side is trickier. Concubine Yuan herself is chattering, last time her informant said that she saw a little palace maid from the cold palace go to her palace, and she never came out after that, which made her very careful. The people of southern Xinjiang are already mysterious, let alone saints. Although Qing Ruifan has no other thoughts, and she has not been favored by her for so long in the harem, Yang Li'er is always jealous in her heart.

"Lianyue, this palace has recently got a new piece of fine tea cake, and it smells like the best. If you go to the palace of the concubine, you will say that the palace invited her to taste this tea. Yang Li'er raised her hand dyed with Kodan, and the bright color made her fingers more and more slender and white. She looked as usual, but Lianyue didn't dare to slack off, so she had to retreat.

Concubine Yuan came quickly, although she changed her clothes, there was still a smell that could not be dissipated. Yang Li'er didn't care, but when she received Lianyue's suspicious eyes, she still kept an extra mind.

"Sister's clothes are bright today, look at this material, I'm afraid it's not ordinary palace satin." Yang Li'er continued Gu Lingge's concept of governing the palace with frugality and dignity, and took the lead in advocating thrift and simplicity, everyone was used to it, but they didn't feel anything.

"My sister laughed, my sister's clothing was brought from southern Xinjiang at that time, and it is not common in the Central Plains, so it's no wonder that my sister is eye-catching." Concubine Yuan is neither humble nor arrogant, she can now be fluently commensurate with people and sisters, and she can also speak beautiful scenes and decent greetings. But in Yang Li'er's eyes, it's always weird.

"If my sister needs it, my sister will go back and pick up some good ones and send them to my sister, and I will treat my sister as a heart." Concubine Yuan said that Yang Li'er had never seen the world, but Yang Li'er was not annoyed, nodded lightly, and generously accepted Concubine Yuan's promise.

"So, what is the reason why my sister asked her concubine to come?" As soon as this sentence came out, Yang Li'er laughed, and sure enough, Concubine Yuan was still the same Concubine Yuan.