After changing their clothes, the two hurried to the Shadow Breaking Stage.

On the way, Jing Tan suddenly remembered what happened yesterday, hesitated for a while, and asked him, "When you received those books from me yesterday...... Did anything fall out? ”

Ah Heng chuckled and said, "What else will fall out of the princess's book?" Golden House or Yan Ruyu? ”

"Forget it if you don't, Ah Heng, you really like to make fun of me more and more!"

When the two of them arrived at the Shadow Breaking Platform, the first silence had not yet begun today's lesson, and only after they returned did he slowly pick up the scriptures he had preached for the day.

On this night, the Chen family held a palace banquet in Zhaorong Pavilion, if it was not necessary, Queen Xiangwu would never attend this kind of palace banquet, so she said that she was ill. Concubine Mei is frail all the year round, so she has the emperor's permission not to go.

Because I heard that the cook in Zhaorong Pavilion was specially replaced by the emperor for the Chen family, and there were ancestral skills, Jingtan went to Zhaorong Pavilion early.

"The third princess hasn't come to me for a few days, I have a new cook, and the third princess wants to try his skills today."

As soon as he entered the Zhaorong Pavilion, he saw Chen Shi Yingying, wearing a crimson gorgeous dress wrapped in a scarlet dress, covered with a blue and white smoke gauze coat, his slender waist looming, and his face was flushed, completely missing the dead silence when the cold palace first saw her. Today she painted her eyebrows, and at first glance she looked a little like Queen Xiangwu.

Jing Tan saluted and said: "A few days ago, I heard that Niangniang's body is not very good, so I don't dare to bother. ”

Chen led her to the banquet and sat down, and ordered someone to join the Little Dragon Regiment.

Jingtan looked around, in front of the main hall is a courtyard full of begonias, the main hall burned elegant incense, wafting out like the fragrance of begonias.

She looked at Chen Shi giving the emperor a mat, and said in confusion: "Why don't you see the dog called 'Big Black' next to Chen Niangniang." ”

Her Bu Cai's hand did not stop, and she whispered, "Dead." ”

The tone was flat, as if she was saying something irrelevant, but Jing Tan knew that for the Chen family, Da Hei was the only thought Li Changdi left her......

Jing Tan asked cautiously, "I wonder how it died?" ”

"The ...... who was killed by everyone in the palace" seemed to say it to himself.

"What did the mother just say?" Chen's back was to her, and the voice just now was small, and Jing Tan didn't really hear it.

She turned to smile at her, and said softly: "It's just a dog, it's dead, why should the princess talk about it." After saying that, he went to the door to greet the guests.

Jing Tan glanced at Ah Heng in confusion, secretly wondering that Chen's spirit seemed to be the same as before......

The banquet was held, and the emperor took the Chen family to sit in the first seat, followed by Li Yu and Li Yu, and then several princesses and concubines.

At the banquet, the song "Spring Banquet" was danced again, and the emperor looked at the dancing queen in the audience, his eyes fluttering and thoughtful.

"Mrs. Chen's dress, coupled with her voice, looks a bit like the queen mother." Yabai muttered to Lan Qing, who was sitting next to her.

Lan Qing took a sip of tea and smiled silently.

"Coincidentally, I met Wang Shaoyin today, and he asked me to thank you for the pear soup." Li Yu turned sideways and said ambiguously to Jing Tan.

She automatically ignored his eyes, took a bite of the hot roasted mutton on the plate, and said with white eyes: "A bowl of pear soup, why bother the imperial brother to say thank you personally." ”

This roasted mutton is tender and delicious, charred but not bitter, and the cook in the dining room is indeed not as good as ......

Thinking she was shy, Li Yu didn't say much. Yabai, who was sitting behind the two of them, tightened the handkerchief in his hand and glanced at Jingtan viciously.

The fruit wine on the banquet was a new tribute from the Tuoba envoys, Jing Tan drank two more sips, and the banquet was already halfway through in a trance, because the emperor was enjoying himself, and no one would leave the table without interest.

Jingtan was cutting a piece of roasted mutton, and Ah Heng leaned close to her ear and said, Someone from Chenghuan Hall came to spread the word, and Concubine Mei suddenly coughed up blood. Jing Tan thought about the corner of the wall that she overheard yesterday, and was a little worried, so she hurriedly pulled Ah Heng to Chenghuan Palace.

As soon as he stepped into the Chenghuan Palace, he saw his mother and concubine lying on the couch on her side, and the red jade was serving on the side, still with the familiar medicinal fragrance.

"I heard that my mother is not feeling well, but have you called the imperial doctor to take a look?"

Mei Guifei sat up and said with a smile: "I just ate an extra piece of roasted mutton, coughed a few times, where did I come from to report to the gods to call you back." ”

Jing Tan took the spoon and fed her, "Where is it as easy as the mother concubine said, didn't the mother cough up blood?" ”

She chuckled and said, "Although my body is not good, I will not cough up blood every day, who told you this." ”

Jing Tan looked at Hongyu suspiciously, and Hongyu also smiled: "It's true, the princess is too worried." ”

Jing Tan said with a smile: "No, it's the best, I think it's the little palace maid of Chenghuan Hall who saw her mother coughing, and panicked for a while." ”

Out of the Chenghuan Palace, the more Jing Tan thought about it, the more wrong it became, that is, there was something, it shouldn't be looking for her, it should be looking for her father, thinking that someone should want to take her out of the banquet.

"Who is the person who was looking for you at the banquet?"

Ah Heng scratched his head and recalled: "Looking at the eyes, the slave thinks that there are many palace people serving in the Chenghuan Palace, and there are some slaves who have never seen it. ”

"Does anyone want to take me out of the feast?"

Jing Tan was about to say something, when he heard a sound of footsteps, and when he looked up, he saw a black shadow running towards the Broken Shadow Platform.

"Someone! There are assassins! Ah Heng shouted around, thinking that it would be better to call the guards on duty than his own princess to chase him.

Seeing that he was about to catch up, Jing Tan took out his sleeve arrow from his arms, aimed at the black shadow and threw it out, the black shadow obviously stumbled a step, but he ran fast, and there was no trace when he arrived at the shadow breaking platform.

This place is far away from Zhaorong Pavilion, and it is estimated that the guards have gathered there, and only a few guards who are on duty daily have heard the movement and rushed over.

The guards knelt down and said, "See the princess." ”

Jing Tan rolled her eyes and said, "Bow for a while, the thieves have all run out of the palace!" ”

The guards looked around and looked at each other.

Jing Tan hurriedly said: "The thief disappeared here, you hurry up and send more people to find it, if something happens to anyone in the palace, be careful of your father's guilt!" ”

The candle flame in the palace school was not lit, and it was dark all around, Ah Heng said: "Princess, I don't know who the thief's purpose is now, the slave thinks we should go back first." ”

She thought about it, the thief came from the direction of Chenghuan Palace, but there was nothing unusual about Fang Cai himself there, and the thief would not be so bold, and his purpose would not be his mother's concubine...... Could it be that he deliberately lured her to the Shadow Breaking Stage?

It's useless for Jing Tan to think about it too much, so it's better to return to the table as soon as possible.

Along the way, Jing Tan instructed Ah Heng: "I feel a little hairy in my heart, tomorrow you go and tell Aunt Hongyu, clear the Chenghuan Palace, and find out the fake news." The mother concubine is not in good health, so hide it from her first. Ah Heng agreed, and the two returned to the table.

The next day, Jingtan wore a moon-white Shu brocade embroidered flower skirt, covered with a brown shadow veil, a hundred butterflies rusted with gold and silver threads, stepped on embroidered brocade boots, and put the white jade Chaoyang pearl hairpin on her head, and let Ying'er describe the distant mountain dai, and the whole person looked very smart.

After she had breakfast, she came to Gongxue, and saw a group of people gathered around the lotus pond of the Broken Shadow Terrace from a distance.

"What's wrong with Gongxue today, it's so lively?" After thinking about it, he grabbed Ah Heng's sleeve and said in horror: "Could it be that my father is here to listen to the school again?!" ”

Ah Heng shook his head blankly.

"The third sister is here, and I don't know who did it, this lotus pond ......" Seeing her coming, the crowd naturally dispersed, revealing the backs of Lan Qing and Yabai, Lan Qing came over to pull her with a worried face.

Jing Tan looked confused and let her pull forward, approaching the lotus pond, but she was taken aback - "What's going on here-"

The charming lotus flowers of the past are indeed black and silent! The Baili Lotus Pond actually withered overnight, and there was no intact color!

"I came to Gongxue here yesterday and was fine, why did it wither overnight......"

"Who knows, but I saw the third princess go down to the lotus pond yesterday......"

"The lotus pond is a forbidden place set up by the emperor....."

……

The surrounding palace people whispered.

Jing Tan frowned, came back to his senses and defended: "I went down and came up here yesterday because it was fine, what do you mean by this?" ”

"If it weren't for the mage's admonition yesterday, I'm afraid the third sister wouldn't have come up so soon?" Yabai suddenly spoke, and said leisurely: "And I heard the third sister arguing with the mage yesterday, 'If you want this flower, you are picking it to satisfy me and its merit', but I am not the only one who hears these words?" ”

After Yabai finished speaking, someone immediately whispered: "Yes, the third princess was loud yesterday, and I heard Mo You......"

I don't know who said it, but I immediately heard Ah Heng pull out an inner servant, and raised his hand to slap him: "Shut up, the princess is a noble body, how can you be instigated!" ”

Seeing that the chamberlain was slapped on the mouth, the rest of the people did not dare to say any more. Ah Heng knelt on the ground and said, "The third princess was naughty and strayed into the lotus pond, but she came out soon, and the lotus pond is no different, and there must be other inside information about this morning's incident." ”

Lan Qing sneered: "The third sister is a powerful person, and the people around her are even more powerful, and she actually taught her master a lesson." Yan Bi gave his maid a look, the maid approached Ah Heng, Jing Tan saw that something was wrong, raised her hand to pull the maid, but she was fast, and a loud slap fell on Ah Heng's face in the blink of an eye.

Jing Tan stretched out her hand to push the maid away, and said to Lan Qing: "If there is anything wrong with this princess's people, it should be my father-in-law in charge of teaching, and I hope that the eldest sister will take care of her own people!" ”

"The mage is here," someone in the crowd spoke.

"The poor monk has seen a few princesses." Chu Shi slowly walked from the crowd and saluted them, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Jing Tan glaring at Lan Qing viciously, and then saw the black and oppressive Baili Lotus Pond, and he understood what they were arguing about.

"After all, it is the emperor's ban, why do you need to wait for the emperor to come before you can decide." Chu Shi said lightly, then approached the edge of the pool, and took a piece of lotus leaf by the pool with his hand to look at it.

"Except for the third sister, no one has ever entered the lotus pond, is the mage protecting the third sister?" Yabai approached him and said in a loud voice.

Chu Silence said lightly: "The poor monk never favors anyone. ”

"The emperor has arrived—"

In a few moments, the Emperor came, as if someone had reported it early.

As soon as the emperor approached, he saw a dead silence of the Baili Lotus Pond, he was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't believe it, Lan Qing knelt in front of him with a 'plop', and Yabai also knelt down.

"I beg my father not to punish the third sister heavily, she has always been a child, and she didn't mean to." Lan Qing's voice was full of crying, if he hadn't said these words, anyone who would have softened his heart when he heard it.