As soon as she stretched out her hand, Mama Chang hurriedly stepped forward to help the Queen Mother to rest.

Emperor Yan Wen took Qin Guifei Yun to salute respectfully and sent off the Queen Mother.

Then he looked at Hua Zhen: "I have wronged you this time, I know it in my heart, Wanwan, you accompany Zhen'er to Yanxi Palace to sit, and I will ask the Internal Affairs Office to pick up some things and send them to the county lord's mansion, which can be regarded as compensation for Zhen'er." ”

Qin Guifei immediately said yes, and watched Emperor Yan Wen leave with people, then she stood up and helped Hua Zhen: "Okay, get up." ”

Hearing this, Hua Zhen stood up, looked at Ruoyun on the side, and blessed her body slightly: "I've seen Concubine Yun." ”

A complicated look flashed in Ruoyun's eyes, and then he changed to a light smile: "Lord Qinghe." ”

nodded, it was considered a courtesy, so he politely exchanged a few words with Qin Guifei and left with someone.

Qin Guifei pulled Hua Zhen: "Go to Yanxi Palace and sit down." ”

When she arrived at Yanxi Palace and spread out all the people who were waiting around her, Qin Guifei took Hua Zhen's hand and said very nervously: "After Fang Fei came back and finished talking to me, I asked someone to check, the day Zhaoyang died, there was definitely something wrong with Qinglian beside Concubine Yun." ”

Hua Zhen nodded when she heard this, and then her tone was very solemn: "Tang Wan'er saw me before she died. ”

"She saw you?"

"Hmm. Hua Zhen nodded, and then said softly: "Zhaoyang was not killed by her. ”

"What!" Qin Guifei listened to Hua Zhen's words, and was suddenly surprised, others didn't believe that Tang Wan'er would kill Zhaoyang, but she did: "Who is that?"

"If the guess is right, it should be Qinglian. ”

Even though she had already guessed it in her heart, when she heard Qinglian's name, Qin Guifei couldn't help frowning, and then looked at Hua Zhen: "Why did she kill Zhaoyang, Qinglian was served by Concubine Yun, she didn't need to kill Zhaoyang at all." ”

Hua Zhen looked at Qin Guifei when she heard this: "If this Concubine Yun entered the palace just to compete for favor, she really doesn't need to kill Zhaoyang, but if what they entered the palace is not this, then this matter is not easy to say." ”

"Zhen'er, what do you mean by this?" Qin Guifei listened, her face was a little solemn, and she looked around Le Yan to make sure that there was no one, so she cautiously spoke: "Don't they still have any secrets?"

"The maid of the Hua family has turned into Concubine Yun, and there is a secret in this. Hua Zhen said and paused: "It's just that I don't know what they're planning right now." ”

"But one thing is certain, what they are planning should be related to Dayan's throne. ”

Qin Guifei's heart jumped suddenly when she heard this, and then looked at Hua Zhen: "What do you mean by this!"

"The concubine should remember that this Yun Concubine was sent to the Dongjun Mansion by Wang Mingquan, right?"

Qin Guifei nodded.

Hua Zhen continued: "In addition to sending a woman who looks like Concubine Rong to the palace, Wang Mingquan also let his illegitimate daughter impersonate the cousin and niece of Prince Li to infiltrate Prince Li's mansion, and arranged for a beauty to enter the prince's East Palace, instigating the prince to be enemies of the Ning family, and almost took the life of Duke Wei not far from the county lord's mansion. ”

Qin Guifei only felt surprised at the moment, looking at Hua Zhen, her eyes were full of disbelief: "These are all Wang Mingquan's doings?"

"If the concubine doesn't believe it, you can ask someone to check it and find out. And as early as when the princess of Dongjun came to the door, I told the princess of Dongjun that this Wang Mingquan is afraid that it is inappropriate, and the king of Dongjun must have sent someone to investigate Wang Mingquan, and Qin Guifei just sent someone back to ask. ”

"It's not just these people who have been installed, what she said to me when Tang Wan'er died. It only makes people think that she deliberately committed suicide to protect Qinglian and to take this charge off for Qinglian. I guess she was afraid that if this matter continued to be investigated, the things they were planning would also be brought out, so she used this method. First, in order to protect Qinglian, she has already confessed that if there is no other evidence, this case can only be decided like this. The second is to create a kind of situation that my death was arranged by me, and I let her impersonate her in order to get rid of the crime, so that the queen mother and the emperor would still have doubts about me even if they let me go. ”

Qin Guifei listened, and immediately reacted, knowing what Hua Zhen meant.

But he was still a little incredulous: "Then what are they going to do? What are they killing Zhaoyang for, is it really just to blame you?"

Hua Zhen shook her head when she heard this: "If it's just to deal with me, there's no need to do this, and I don't know what the result will be in the end." ”

"I guess Zhaoyang's death was just an accident, this Qinglian was serving Concubine Yun, Concubine Yun was in the Empress Dowager's palace at that time, if the guess was right, it should be that Zhaoyang accidentally bumped into something discussed between Qinglian and Tang Wan'er, so Qinglian was killed. Because Zhaoyang is a county lord, if you want to get rid of Zhaoyang quietly, it is impossible at all. It just so happened that I received the edict of the Queen Mother at that time, summoning me to the palace, and Qinglian, who had just come out of the Queen Mother's palace, knew about it, so I thought of such a way to lead me over, I thought that I was going to blame me, but I didn't succeed in wanting to go to the Ministry of Punishment. ”

"Then according to your will, the prince and princess are also in their calculations. ”

Hua Zhen nodded when she heard this.

Qin Guifei also fell silent, and only looked at Hua Zhen for a long time: "What do they want to do?"

Hearing this, Hua Zhen said softly: "Only by figuring out their identities can we know what they want to do now." There is really no way to do things in this palace, and Concubine Yun is afraid that she will have to bother the noble concubine to stare at her. After all, this Yun Concubine was sent to the palace by the king of Dongjun, if something happens, I am afraid that the Dongjun palace will be implicated, so I hope that the concubine will pay attention to it. ”

Qin Guifei nodded: "I don't need you to say this, I know it." ”

said and sighed: "I really didn't expect that there are so many things behind this, Zhen'er is thanks to you, otherwise I am afraid that Concubine Yun will only be used as her stand-in." ”

He sighed again.

When Hua Zhen returned to the county lord's mansion, before she entered the door, she saw the housekeeper of the Wei State Mansion waiting at the door.

Seeing Hua Zhen immediately greeted her, she said very respectfully: "I have seen the county lord of Qinghe." ”

Hearing this, Hua Zhen nodded: "But does my grandfather and grandmother have any instructions?"

"Old lady Ning asked the little one to wait here, and if he saw the county lord, he also asked the county lord to go to the Wei State Mansion. The butler said, with a very solemn look on his face.

Hua Zhen couldn't help but feel a slight chill in her heart: "But what happened?"

"The county lord will know when he goes. ”

After the butler finished speaking, he asked Hua Zhen to get into the carriage.

Hua Zhen immediately glanced at Jiang Fu and told Jiang Fu to invite Aunt Zhou to come out, and then went to the Wei Mansion together.

Although there are Jin Wuwei guards outside the gate of the county lord's mansion, these Jin Wu guards guard the county lord's mansion, and they generally don't ask anything, and when they see someone from the Wei State Mansion, they only pay attention to it.

When Hua Zhen followed the people from the Wei State Mansion away, he didn't say anything.

At this moment, everyone in the Wei Mansion was solemn.

Old Lady Ning and the Crown Prince sat upright, and Wei Guogong and Old Lady Ning sat aside.

Seeing Hua Zhen come in, Mrs. Ning stood up first, and looked at Hua Zhen and suddenly her distressed tears fell: "My heart, come over and tell my grandmother to see, you must have been wronged in the cell for the past few days, I see that this person is thin." ”

As he spoke, he wiped the corners of his eyes, and he was even more reluctant to let go of Hua Zhen's hand.

Seeing this, Wei Guogong hurriedly persuaded: "Mother, let Zhen'er come in first, the prince is still there." ”

Only then did Mrs. Ning pull Hua Zhen in and let go.

Hua Zhen stepped forward to greet the prince and Mrs. Ning, and then looked at Mrs. Ning and asked aloud, "What happened to my grandfather?"

Hearing this, the old lady Ning and the prince glanced at each other, then sighed and said: "When I learned that the prince was placed by Wang Mingquan, I specially paid attention to check some officials in Beijing who were good friends with Wang Mingquan, only to find that the woman Wang Mingquan installed in Beijing was not only Cui Meiren and Concubine Yun beside the prince, but also the lady in Prince Li's mansion. Many women in the palaces of important ministers in the court have something to do with Wang Mingquan. ”

As he spoke, he touched his beard.

Hua Zhen didn't expect that Wang Mingquan would be able to install so many people, and she was shocked in her heart.

The prince looked at it in a very heavy voice: "Except for Cui Yingying in my East Palace, who was just inserted not long ago, some of the women in the other people's mansions have even been in for three years. ”

Wei Guogong continued: "It seems that this Wang Mingquan is definitely not an overnight day, but I am afraid that he has been planning for a long time. ”

Hua Zhen couldn't help but gasp, and she was even more curious about Wang Mingquan in her heart, curious why he did this.

Thinking in his heart, he looked at the prince: "Then how is Cui Yingying now?"

"Still in the East Palace, according to your orders, everything is the same as before. It's just that I didn't notice anything unusual about her or who she was connected to. The prince said with a slight frown.

Hua Zhen had a solemn face: "The last time the prince went back, she arranged for someone to come to the Wei Mansion to deliver the letter, and the prince never saw that she had contact with anyone?"

The prince shook his head when he heard this.

The last time he returned from the prison of the Criminal Department, he told Cui Yingying that he had a big quarrel with Hua Zhen according to what Hua Zhen said, and he only felt that Hua Zhen must have joined forces with the Ning family, and he dared to talk to him like that, and he didn't take him as a prince in his eyes at all.

Then he ordered someone to keep an eye on Cui Yingying, but he didn't see anything unusual, and then he got a letter from Wei Guogong in the evening, and someone pretended to be a person from the Yamen of the Criminal Department to deliver the letter, saying that the prince went to the prison to urge Hua Zhen not only to insult him, but also to kill Hua Zhen.

Only then did the prince believe Hua Zhen's words, but what puzzled him was that he was obviously staring at Cui Yingying, but why he didn't find anything.

After thinking about it, he looked at Hua Zhen: "I'm afraid she is a very cunning person." ”

Hua Zhen nodded, and then looked at the prince: "At the moment, I can only bother the prince to keep an eye on her, and only by touching the melons can we know how many people they have arranged around the prince." ”

The prince nodded.

Because he came to the Wei State Mansion on loan, it was not good to stay long, and after a few gossips with Hua Zhen and Old Lady Ning, the prince left quietly with someone.

waited for the others to leave, and Hua Zhen asked Aunt Zhou to step forward.

Old Madam Ning and Old Madam Ning looked at each other and were puzzled: "Zhen'er, you are..."

"Aunt Zhou is the Ning family, a few days ago in order to recall the dead soldiers of Xingchen Pavilion, she left and failed to meet her grandfather and grandmother, and now she should come to Beijing to meet the second elder. ”

Aunt Zhou knelt on the ground when she heard the sound, and Mrs. Ning hurriedly helped her up.

looked at Aunt Zhou and said with emotion: "You are the old man who followed me, I asked you to protect Lianxing at the beginning, and now I entrust Zhen'er to you, I hope you can protect her well." ”

Aunt Zhou was immediately frightened when she heard this: "Madam, don't say that, the life of the slave and maid is Madame's, what Madame tells the slave and maid to do, the slave and maid will not disappoint Madame even if they are broken." ”

One sentence suddenly called Mrs. Ning, and she couldn't help but redden.

Seeing this, the old lady Ning on the side said softly: "Okay, your master and servant are rare to see, talk well, don't live or die." Come with me, I have something to ask you. ”

Old lady Ning said, calling Hua Zhen to walk towards the study.

Mrs. Ning was catching up with Aunt Zhou in the flower hall, and Wei Guogong was not good at listening here, so he also found some reasons and walked away.

In the study, Mrs. Ning asked Hua Zhen to sit down, and then sent all the people who were waiting down, and then asked, "Zhen'er, you tell me the truth, what do you think of the prince in your heart?" ”

Hearing this, Hua Zhen was stunned, and then looked into the eyes of the old lady Shangning, but did not speak.

Seeing this, Old Lady Ning sighed lightly: "You don't need to hide it from me, and you don't need to worry about whether I will be angry because of this, I just ask you the truth, you just have to tell the truth." ”

Hearing this, Hua Zhen thought about it, and then said tentatively: "Actually, Zhen'er can't see through His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"What do you say?" Old Lady Ning suddenly frowned slightly.

"When the queen mother was still in Beijing, the prince always looked gentle and elegant, no matter who he met, he always made people feel very comfortable, like a Ming Jun should be. But after returning to Beijing, I didn't know, but I didn't see it for a year, and the environment in the palace forced the prince to change, which actually made me a little scared, his mind was very deep, and even when Zhang Ying was in the beginning, when I found out the secret behind him, I clearly felt the killing intent in his eyes. ”

"Killing intent?" Old Lady Ning repeated when she heard this.

Hua Zhen nodded: "At that time, I had contact with the prince, and I knew that the prince's mind was not what we usually saw. But after the accident of King Qi, the change of the prince is incomprehensible, if it is according to the mind he showed before, he is by no means easily instigated, now I really can't see through, I don't know which ones are true, and which ones he deliberately told us to see. ”

Hearing this, the old lady Ning looked at Hua Zhen for a long time before she spoke, and then nodded: "Okay, I know everything, you let me think about it first, you should go back." ”

Hearing this, Hua Zhen stood up and saluted respectfully, and then withdrew.

After being far away from the study, Jiang Fu asked suspiciously: "County Lord, why did the good old lady tell the County Lord this?"

Hearing this, Hua Zhen's eyes sank slightly, but she didn't speak, just walked towards the flower hall.

Because of these things, several people were investigating Wang Mingquan for a while.

But what is strange is that Wang Mingquan suddenly disappeared as if he knew that he would be suspected.

It was Xiao Huaijin's people, and there was no trace of Wang Mingquan, and the princess of Dongjun personally went to the county lord's mansion for this matter.

For several days, there was no news.

Seeing that the emperor's birthday was approaching, Hua Zhen was resting in the house, but she heard a news.

Suddenly, the whole person was not tired at all.

"County Lord, Miss Yanbei Xiao asks to see you. ”