The next day, Lan Qing took Yabai to the Kangning Hall to ask for peace, and then gossiped in the side hall.

When she entered the door, Yabai asked her nervously: "I heard that my father caught the person who poisoned him, is this really true?" ”

Lan Qing took a sip of tea before saying: "Naturally, it's true, I heard that it was a eunuch from the cold palace who was poisoned, and he was questioned overnight in the worship room, and he only said that he had been dissatisfied with Mrs. Chen for many years, so he poisoned and murdered." ”

Yabai tightened the handkerchief on her hand and asked, "How did you find it?" ”

"I heard that the mage was studying the medicine for the treatment of mandarin lotus root in the palace at night, and he didn't want to attract the thief, so the mage followed, and found the thief in the cold palace." Lan Qing glanced at her, who was slightly nervous, and said, "By the way, this morning, my father lifted the third sister's grounding. ”

"Is it..."

Lan Qing looked at her hand, the joints of the hand holding the handkerchief gradually turned white, then reached out to hold her hand, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you have done some too much in this matter, but fortunately, it is okay now, thinking that Agui has suffered a lot inside, and he didn't say anything after a night, and he is also a strict mouth, and he may be able to use it again in the future..."

Hearing this, she was even more angry, gritted her teeth and said: "My sister is a kind-hearted person, but she always thinks of people too well. ”

Lan Qing had to comfort: "Sister, don't think about this, just let her go over this matter, in a few days, my father will have a birthday, and Wang Shaoyin, who you have in mind, will also come, and the nobles of Yong'an and the envoys of the Western Regions are all present, don't be a demon anymore." ”

She turned to ponder for a moment and replied 'yes'.

On this day, Jingtan learned that the ban had been lifted, and she heard that a pool of mandarin lotus roots on the Broken Shadow Platform had come to life, and the lotus pond had also come to life.

"It's time for the princess to go to Chenghuan Hall to say goodbye, the emperor is still waiting for the princess to reply in the Beichen Palace." Ah Heng urged outside the door.

Jing Tan answered, covered the red marks on her neck with fat powder, and was about to cover the red marks on her face, but after thinking about it, she still accepted the fat powder, and went out to the side hall to eat.

"Why is the incense burning in the temple so strong today?" Jingtan frowned and complained.

"The amount of incense is still the same, it's because the princess is not pure." Ying'er didn't see her master's restlessness, so she joked with her.

Ah Heng lectured on the side: "The little hoof does not make people peaceful in the morning, and the princess can't get used to it, so she extinguishes it." ”

Ying'er realized that she had lost her words, so she was busy pleading guilty, and Jingtan had to laugh and say, "It's mine, it's not me, but it's hard for you to do." ”

The emperor went down to the court, and then in the Beichen Hall to meet the Hui envoys, Jing Tan came to meet a few envoys came out, Jing Tan gave them a salute, one of the envoys looked at Jing Tan with strange eyes for a long time, before giving her a return gift, she didn't think much about it, and went in.

The emperor was sitting in the side hall to review the folds, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Jing Tan coming with a look of grievance, wearing a moon-white Shu brocade embroidered flower skirt, covered with a brown shadow veil, a hundred butterflies rusted with gold and silver threads, stepping on embroidered brocade boots, and still holding the white jade sunrise pearl hairpin on his head. The palms of the face are slightly red. There was a little remorse for a while, and he asked, "It hurt you that day, right?" ”

"......" Jingtan lowered her head and answered him in silence.

The emperor asked softly again: "Why don't you speak, do you feel wronged?" ”

She looked up at him with a clear gaze: "Is my father calling me here today to ask for sin?" ”

"You are my daughter, I will not ask you for guilt, I just want you to remember that everything related to mandarin lotus is taboo, and no one can touch it, not even my daughter." When he said this, his tone was a little colder, like his father who beat him that day, which made people shudder.

"Does the father still think that his daughter did it?"

He rubbed his eyebrows, and his voice was a little weak, "Agui has committed suicide in fear of sin, but I choose to believe you, I don't want to pursue it anymore." ”

Ah Gui is dead, and without thinking about it, he knows that the person behind the scenes is afraid that Ah Gui will kill him if he says something, Jing Tan understands what he means, he doesn't want to investigate, he doesn't bother to investigate....The matter involves Chen Niangzi, and the father doesn't want to do anything....

Thinking about this, she had to say; "Erchen knows, Erchen retires..."

Jing Tan walked in a hurry, and the beads on her head clanked, and she didn't even know that one of the beads had dropped.

"Princess, don't worry about Your Majesty, Your Majesty was angry at the queen's mother last night, and today is an early meeting with several adults who have returned to Hui, it is the time of irritability, if what Your Majesty said is serious, the princess must not take it to heart." Gao Cheng at the door saw her hurriedly go out, with tears in the corners of his eyes, and hurriedly followed to comfort her.

Jing Tan stopped, came back to her senses, and said in confusion: "Queen Mother? On the night of the full moon yesterday, shouldn't my father be in Zhaorong Pavilion? ”

Gao Cheng immediately slapped his mouth with remorse, and sighed again: "It's in Zhaorong Pavilion, I just happened to pass by the Kangning Palace, who wants to be angry inside... After all, this matter has made the emperor disgraceful, princess..."

My father didn't go to the Kangning Hall once in a hundred years, and now it's just a matter of going, or on the night of the full moon, my father loves Mrs. Chen so much, and she is always by her side, how could he leave her to go to the Kangning Palace?

Listening to this gossip, Jing Tan didn't care about the grievances, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said to him: "Don't worry, I know." ”

So the two exchanged pleasantries and dispersed.

"Ah Heng, at night, you go to the catering bureau to check the block, check the records of Chen Niangzi's medicinal diet over the years, check whether there are any records of medicine delivery and personnel entry and exit in the cold palace, and also check the records of medicinal diet in Kangning Palace." At the end, she added, "It's better to steal the book." ”

Ah Heng hesitated and said: "How can a slave have that craftsmanship..."

Jing Tan pinched his pouting face, "Princess Ben believes that you can still handle this little thing." ”

"The slave is afraid that the princess will be in some danger again..."

Jing Tan smiled, "You have also seen it, I don't offend people, people will also offend me, this time the father doesn't want to make extraneous branches and doesn't want to investigate again, but I don't want to be so unclear, pay attention to evidence in everything, I don't believe that a little eunuch guarding the cold palace can have such long hands." ”

Talking all the way, the two arrived at the Chenghuan Palace.

"The princess is here, the mother has been waiting for a long time!" As soon as he entered, several maids greeted him.

"My father called me to reply, but it's late, don't blame my mother." As he spoke, he walked all the way inside.

"How is the concubine feeling recently, did she take medicine according to the doctor's instructions?" As soon as she entered the room, she smelled a strong medicinal fragrance, and Mei Guifei was lying on the side of the gray squirrel chair, and when she saw her coming, she was helped by Hongyu to sit up, holding her hand tightly.

"I'm fine, but I've been feeling lighter lately. It's you, you've been grounded for the past two days, but it's hurt you...."The more she spoke, the more sad she became, and at the end even the corners of her eyes were moist.

"My father is soft-hearted after all, how can it hurt me, I am also worried that my mother will be overly worried about it and hurt her body."

Mei Guifei smiled and said, "Where is it so weak." ”

Jingtan had dinner in Chenghuan Palace, and her mother's face was ruddy, so she pulled her to talk a little more in the room at night.

"The mother concubine peeed and taught her daughter that her father rarely went to the Kangning Palace, don't worry about the eldest sister and the second sister in everything, and the daughter also obeys, but now that everyone is older, the daughter has doubts, why does the mother always be submissive to the Kangning Palace?"

There was no one else in the house, Hongyu was guarding the door, Mei Guifei thought for a moment before saying: "If it is because of the past, you must not believe it, after all, so many years have passed." In fact, when the queen was still in the house, calligraphy, painting, piano and chess, etiquette and generosity, she was the first beauty in the capital, she was good at singing and dancing, but because of the identity of the noble girl of the high door was not allowed to show in front of people, that day was the Thousand Lights Festival, Yongan Street everyone watched Ao Mountain, worship Guanyin, but it happened that day she disguised herself out of the house, did not see this battle, and said that she also wanted to reward the god of Guanyin, and then she danced a song "Welcome Buddha" on the lotus seat, which amazed the entire Yong'an, the lotus seat was raised to the Nanshan to reward the gods, she met a man, at that time she was in love, I often sneak out of the house to meet with him..."

"That man must not be my father." If it were my father, they would not be where they are today after so many years.

Mei Guifei nodded, and continued: "Later, someone came to the door to propose, that person was your father, he was still the prince at the time, it turned out that the song "Welcoming the Buddha" that day, your father watched all the way and followed all the way... She didn't want to enter the East Palace, she had a lot of trouble with her family for a long time, and when she saw the marriage, she wanted to escape from the marriage and eloped with the man. Let that man be tortured..."

"How did Father know about their plans?"

Mei Guifei was silent for a long time, her expression was painful, "I was her henchman at the time, when I went out of the house to deliver news, I met a bandit, when your father sacrificed himself to save him, I buried the roots of love, I knew that I was sorry for the queen, and then I also thought about dying, but I was rescued by your father, these queens know, at that time she told me, let me not be stupid, leave the house, to pursue him, and then I left the house, with your father, I thought she would go away with the man, and the emperor would slowly forget about it, Later, when the wedding came, I saw her at the wedding, and I had an epiphany, what your father said about forgetfulness was false..."

"The father wants them to relax their vigilance, so that they can make mistakes, so that they can draw their salaries and welcome the queen into the palace." Jing Tan sighed, it turned out that there was such a complicated cause and effect, and suddenly remembered something, and asked: "My father may have known the mother's intentions at that time, or maybe he was using his mother, and the mother concubine has been treating her father for ten years, and she has no regrets?" ”

Mei Guifei smiled with relief, "Even if I knew it at the time, I didn't regret it." ”

"The mother and father are both obsessed people..."

Mei Guifei covered her handkerchief and coughed lightly twice, took another sip of tea, touched Jingtan's head and said, "Remembering the words of the concubine, it's not a good thing to be obsessed too deeply..."

"Mother!"

"!" Outside the door, Hongyu heard the sound, hurriedly broke into the door, and saw Mei Guifei lying at the head of the bed coughing like she was about to die, she quickly took the medicine she had prepared before, and the two of them helped her to feed her, and patted her back for a long time to get better.

Jing Tan looked down at the spittoon, and there was a mouthful of blood inside! I also panicked for a while, and said nervously: "Shicai is fine, why did you suddenly cough up blood?" ”

Hongyu wanted to speak and stopped, Mei Guifei grabbed Hongyu and pulled out a weak smile at Jingtan: "Mother is fine, it's dead blood, it's good to cough it out, you've been here for a long time, and go back, I'll lie quietly for a while." ”

"Then the mother concubine sleeps peacefully, and I will come to talk to the mother concubine tomorrow." Knowing that she was a hard support, although she had cleared the palace people, she was still not worried about her mother's body, and thought that while she was asleep, she would go to the imperial doctor to take a look.

So the two of them served Mei Guifei and drank soothing soup, and after she fell asleep peacefully, they left a few maids to take care of them, and sent Ah Heng to the Tai Hospital to ask for someone, and Jing Tan relieved Hongyu to go to the corridor to talk.