Just when Ling Qingrui wanted to observe where she had gone with her head down, there was a sound of "rustling" from behind the bushes on the side, Ling Qingrui subconsciously stopped, but before she could see clearly, a hand suddenly stretched out behind her, dragging her into a gap in the rockery beside her!

After being startled, the lancet in Ling Qingrui's hand had already slashed out silently, and at the same time, the elbow of the hand that was being dragged slammed back hard.

The person behind him hurriedly dodged, narrowly avoiding the knife, but the elbow impact failed to dodge, the man let out a muffled snort, seeing that Ling Qingrui kept moving, he hurriedly said: "It's me, Jing Mofeng." ”

Jing Mo Feng?

Although the other party lowered his voice, Ling Qingrui still heard it, it was indeed the Fifth Prince Jing Mofeng, how could he be here?

Ling Qingrui was puzzled in her heart, and suddenly remembered that when she operated on Rong Shengjie before, Jing Mofeng appeared in a very timely manner, and cooperated with her tacitly, and then she woke up and seemed to have forgotten to ask Jing Mofeng what happened to him, why he appeared there at that time.

At that moment, Ling Qingrui was a little embarrassed to withdraw the elbow that hit the other party, and opened her mouth to speak, but when she saw Jing Mofeng make a silent gesture, she hurriedly withdrew the words that were about to be spoken.

I heard the footsteps outside getting clearer and clearer, and then someone stopped nearby, and the sound of them talking could be heard faintly.

"What happened last night?" This is a voice that is neither male nor female, it should be a eunuch in the palace, and his tone has a hint of anger.

Another female voice replied tremblingly, "Slave...... The slave and the maid do not know. ”

"Didn't you just do things in the Jin Concubine Palace where the accident happened last night, how could you not know!"

There was a "poof" sound outside, and it should be that the palace maid knelt down, and said in a trembling voice: "Father-in-law, the slave and maid really don't know!" The slave maid only knew that the emperor went to the palace of the Jin Concubine, but after a while, the news that the Jin Concubine was angry with the emperor and was beaten into the cold palace, and the palace people who served the Jin Concubine in close quarters were all killed. ”

Seeing that the eunuch didn't speak, the palace maid cried: "What the slave and maid said is true, please ask the father-in-law to save the slave and the maid, save the slave and the maid out of the Shen Penal Division." ”

The sound of kowtowing was faintly heard.

"No one knows, what did Concubine Jin anger the emperor for?" The eunuch spoke after a long time, and his tone softened a lot, as if he believed the palace maid's words.

The palace maid hurriedly said: "Yes, no one knows what happened, only that Gong Chen passed on the emperor's edict, saying that Concubine Jin angered the emperor." ”

The eunuch's voice softened again: "Do you know that last night, Concubine Jin died in the cold palace? ”

The palace maid let out a frightened cry and said, "Slaves, slaves and maids don't know. Father-in-law ......"

The voice of the palace maid stopped abruptly, as if someone had choked her throat, and then the voice of the eunuch came.

"Then you don't need to live." The eunuch's voice was as cold as a ghost.

Outside, there was another sound of footsteps walking, and then there was silence.

Ling Qingrui, who was in the gap of the rockery, breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and suddenly found that she and Jing Mofeng were almost close together, she seemed to be in Jing Mofeng's arms, her cheeks suddenly turned red, and she hurriedly staggered out of his arms, and then kept stepping backwards.

I saw Jing Mofeng's slender fingers, bypassing her hair to the back of her head, just when Ling Qingrui was surprised, she only felt that the back of her head had hit something, and Jing Mofeng's pure eyes had a little bit of faint pain.

In an instant, Ling Qingrui reacted, hurriedly moved forward, turned her eyes and saw that it was really as she thought, there was a raised rockery behind her head, if it wasn't for Jing Mofeng quickly blocking it with her own hand, I'm afraid she would have knocked her head out of a bag!

Ling Qingrui was a little annoyed, why was she so clumsy in front of Jing Mofeng?

Frowning, suppressing this annoyance, Ling Qingrui glanced out and saw that there was no one left, and hurriedly walked out of the gap in the rockery, and stretched out her hand at Jing Mofeng.

Jing Mofeng smiled in his eyes and looked at her with some doubts.

"Hands." Ling Qingrui lowered her eyes slightly.

Jing Mofeng smiled: "It's okay. ”

Ling Qingrui's willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and she reached out and pulled Jing Mofeng's hand over, only to see that the back of the palm that was originally white, there was indeed an injury, faintly bloodshot, Ling Qingrui took out the wound medicine she carried with her, sprinkled it on it, and took a silk handkerchief to wrap it up for him.

As soon as she raised her eyes, she saw Jing Mofeng's clear eyes looking at her, Ling Qingrui instantly let go of her hand, she was just bandaging her friend, but in this Tianli Dynasty, such a move was too ......

"I'm sorry."

Ling Qingrui said loudly, I don't know if it was because of her previous elbow, or because she hurt the back of her hand because of Jing Mofeng, or because of the unruly etiquette just now.

Jing Mofeng had a warm smile on his lips, but there was a faint loss in his heart, and he gently held his bandaged hand, as if he had lost something in that hand.

"Why are you here?"

"Why are you here?"

was speechless for a long time, but suddenly the two of them spoke in unison, and then both of them couldn't help laughing, and the embarrassment just now disappeared in an instant.

"You talk about ...... first"

"You ...... first"

The strange big eyes of the two stared at each other for a while, and then Ling Qingrui spoke: "I don't know how I got here, what kind of place is this, those two ...... just now"

There were no corpses here, clean as if nothing had happened just now.

Jing Mofeng lowered his eyes slightly and said: "Last night, my father suddenly ordered the Jin Concubine who had always been favored to enter the cold palace for some reason, and this morning, someone from the palace came to report that the Jin Concubine had died in the cold palace, and it seemed that she had committed suicide, but ......"

"But what?"

"However, according to Concubine Jin's ordinary personality, she doesn't look like a person who will commit suicide, and her father and brother all depend on her status to live, and Concubine Jin has always been very filial, and the Queen Mother and her father took a fancy to her, so they looked down on her."

Ling Qingrui stared slightly and said: "The world is unpredictable, maybe it was the matter of being beaten into the cold palace, it hit her too hard, and she couldn't bear it for a while." ”

Saying this, Ling Qingrui's mind suddenly remembered that she found out yesterday that the emperor was poisoned in the lid of the teacup, is there any connection between this, could it be that the emperor found out that the person who poisoned was Jin Concubine?

However, if it is really found out that Jin Concubine poisoned the emperor, it is the crime of raiding the family and exterminating the family, I am afraid it will not only be in the cold palace.

Maybe the emperor wants to hide this matter?

While Ling Qingrui was thinking, Jing Mofeng just looked at her quietly, and saw that she seemed to have thought about something, so she slowly spoke: "This is not a place for you to stay for a long time, let's leave quickly, if you can't find the path, I'll send you out." ”

Ling Qingrui keenly caught that what Jing Mofeng said was "not a place for you to stay for a long time", could it be said that it was a place where he could stay for a long time?

At the moment, he asked suspiciously: "Jing Mofeng, why are you here, and how did you appear in the post house that day?" Afterwards, did the emperor punish you? ”

In the last sentence, Ling Qingrui asked a little hesitantly, because she didn't know if asking such a question was considered to be rubbing salt on Jing Mofeng's wound.

Jing Mofeng was slightly silent for a moment before saying, "Actually, on that day, my father summoned me, so he didn't punish me. This is where I lived before I moved out of the palace as an adult. ”

Ling Qingrui nodded, because Jing Mofeng has always been a gentleman, Ling Qingrui does not doubt him, but this is Jing Mofeng's old residence, and when people see her gossip here, she immediately found a path to the place where she lived, accompanied by Jing Mofeng.

"Your Highness, why don't you say it?" Chu Yan walked out of nowhere, stood beside Jing Mofeng for a long time, and asked such a question.

"It's just adding to her troubles." Jing Mofeng's voice was as indifferent as a green cloud.

It wasn't the emperor who summoned him that day, it was he who learned about Ling Qingrui's actions and expected that she would definitely need help, so he broke in.

Afterwards, he was punished again for disobeying the emperor's grounding will, but it was still Prince De who pleaded in every possible way, and the emperor exempted him from heavier punishment, and only punished him for kneeling here for a whole night.

Prince De has repeatedly interceded for Jing Mofeng, many people say that Prince De treats his sons and nephews really well, first there are seven princesses who spoil the sky, and then protect the five princes who are not treated by the emperor, Prince De is worthy of his title "De"!

Only Jing Mofeng secretly sneered, and the world is often easily confused by appearances!

At the same time, Jing Mofeng also had some doubts in his heart, I don't know what Prince De was planning to silently suppress the second, third and fourth princes, but to show favor to him alone.

It wasn't until Ling Qingrui's back could no longer be seen that Jing Mofeng looked back at Chu Yan and said, "What was the result?" ”

Chu Yan's expression, which had always been calm as a rock, was slightly distorted, but fortunately, he had that hideous ghost face, and no one could see it, so he silently took out something and handed it to Jing Mofeng.

Jing Mofeng stretched out his hand to take the object, and saw that it was a small private seal, with a few words vaguely engraved on it, but it seemed to be a little old, and there were bumps, so he could only vaguely recognize that one of the words was the word "Qi".

"Your Highness, Chu Yan found that Qijiazhuang, but it is no longer Qijiazhuang but Wangjiazhuang, about thirty years ago, Qijiazhuang was wiped out by bandits on the mountain, and it is reported that no one in the village survived at that time!" Chu Yan's voice was not slow, but it carried a strong sense of depression.

"Bandits wiped out the whole village? None survived? Jing Mofeng's voice was a little erratic, "How did the mother concubine survive, and how did she enter the palace?" ”

"Your Highness......"

"Say!"