"Mother."

The palace maid said outside the door, and Concubine Ling immediately hid the things in her hand back in the hairpin, covered the bed, and pretended to sleep.

"Niangniang, Mrs. Ling is here again." The palace maid didn't get a response, so she had to call again.

Why is it here again?

Concubine Ling said impatiently, "Let her in."

The palace maid pushed open the door, and just as she was half-helped up, Madame Ling rushed to her with an anxious face, her hands grabbed her shoulders, and the tips of her nails sank into her clothes, almost not poking holes.

"Hurry up and save your brother, go and beg Your Majesty to send troops to rescue your brother!"

Concubine Ling's shoulder was pinched by her and she couldn't help frowning, and the palace maid reacted and hurriedly pulled Mrs. Ling away.

Madame Ling's center of gravity was unstable and she fell to the ground suddenly, Concubine Ling flicked her shoulders, and said while the palace maid put on her coat, "What kind of joke are you talking to me? He is something, even if he is captured by the enemy, His Majesty will not be able to send troops just to save him."

Madam Ling said angrily, "What are you talking about?! You have no conscience, but he's your brother!"

"Tell me about your conscience? Yes, you're right, my conscience has been worn out since I was a child." Concubine Ling turned her head to look at her and said coldly, "In that case, what are you still doing here?"

Mrs. Ling was stared at by her, and her eyes didn't know where to look: "It's all in the past, how can you still remember, shouldn't you be relieved to recognize us?" Besides, if I hadn't sold you when I was a child, you wouldn't have had this opportunity now, and you would be a mother here......

Concubine Ling laughed, turned back to the palace maid and said, "Send her out."

When Mrs. Ling heard this, she hurriedly walked up to Concubine Ling before the palace maid caught her, took her hand, and said sincerely: "Mother is wrong, Mother shouldn't treat you like that, you forgive us, life was hard at that time, we had to do it, for so many years, we have been thinking about you all the time, we are all regretting, do you remember when you were a child, your brother also gave you the only cake in his hand to eat, he ...... it"

It was only because he found it unpalatable, and because he fell in the soil, he gave it to her.

Seeing that Madam Ling was still chattering and trying to talk about some true and false past, Concubine Ling interrupted, "What did he do again?"

When Mrs. Ling saw that she was relieved, she told the matter in one breath.

「…… You see, this is what I saw in the carriage, these are these two women."

The palace maid took the portrait and unfolded it to show Concubine Ling.

It's-

Isn't this Lord Hayashi?!

Concubine Ling took Lin Yanzhi's portrait, and when Ling Fu looked at her like this, he said, "What's wrong? But the person you know, that's great, you go and tell her that as long as she releases Bao'er, we will not investigate her, and you can make her Bao'er's concubine."

"When his concubine? Do you know who this woman is, she is the prince's personal adviser, Lord Lin."

"When, can an official behave like this and arrest people at will?!"

"Who is the one who is doing this?" Concubine Ling glanced at the official girl and said, "Although I don't like her, according to her character, she will definitely not do this, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should not, who will it be......

She suddenly remembered the rumors in the palace before, and said in her heart: Could it be the second prince?

After thinking about it, she rejected this conjecture again, and had to say, "This matter should have nothing to do with her. Yesterday in that mountain, did he offend anyone, you go back to the next person to ask carefully, and then go to the other person to apologize."

Madam Ling glared and said, "That's it?!"

Concubine Ling gave her a roll of her eyes, "Otherwise? Those people who come to arrest people so blatantly must not be afraid of power, or their masters, and they don't pay attention to this at all."

She walked over to a cabinet, took out one of the brocade boxes inside, placed it on the table, and said, "Take these pair of night pearls."

Mrs. Ling didn't expect that she had spent so much time here, but in the end, she couldn't help but say angrily, "If I knew you were so useless, I wouldn't have come!"

She flicked her sleeves and walked a few steps, then came back to take the brocade box on the table, and snorted

, and finally left.

Although the palace maid was sent by the emperor to monitor, seeing this, she also felt more sympathy and pity in her heart, and couldn't help but hug Concubine Ling and said unevenly: "Niangniang, you shouldn't recognize them, they enjoy the blessings you bring, but they treat you like this, it's really chilling."

Concubine Ling looked at the palace maid thoughtfully.

The palace maid realized that the woman had always been Concubine Ling's mother, and Niangniang must be a person who valued family affection, so she quickly knelt on the ground and said, "The slave maid should die, the slave maid is just not worth it for the mother, and she said the wrong thing for a while, and asked the mother to forgive her sins."

Concubine Ling smiled lightly and helped her up: "It's okay, it's the first time someone is so worthless for me, but a lot of grievances in my heart have gone, Ying'er, thank you."

The palace maid raised her head suddenly: "Niangniang......

Concubine Ling looked out the window with gloomy eyes, and muttered, "I still remember the day I met them, they hugged me and cried and laughed, and the scene of the family reunion......" She sighed, "I thought that if I could go to His Majesty's side and find my family, it would be that God finally favored me and let everything start again, but now it seems that it is just a joke, I am still the person who even woke up crying in my dreams and was alone in pain."

Ying'er looked at this poor woman, perhaps because when she was young, her parents were also like this, and under the empathy, she couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart, and forgot the emperor's instructions for a while, and rushed to comfort: "Niangniang, no, there are still slaves and maids."

When Concubine Ling heard this, she finally smiled, her eyes flowing with emotion, and she longed: "Really?"

Ying'er indulged in it, nodded her head suddenly, and then stretched out her hand to pull her away from the window and said, "It's cold, don't stand by the window, do you want to rest for a while?"

Concubine Ling was about to nod, but suddenly said with a sad face: "But I can't rest assured in my heart, I want to go to Qingjun Yuan to ask for clarification, but I don't deal with her very well, I'm afraid she will ......."

Ying'er helped her and said as she walked out of the door: "Why should Niangniang be afraid of her, the slave maid will accompany you, if she dares to be disrespectful to the maid, the slave and maid will tell ...... The slave and maid helped the mother to talk about her."

Concubine Ling curled the corners of her mouth and said, "Okay."

It's just that when they went to Qingjun Garden, they found that it was empty.

"Strange, mother, where have all the people gone? Even if Master Lin is not there, then the palace maid next to her must be there."

Suddenly, a man's voice came from behind them, "Why is Concubine Ling here?"

They turned their heads and saw that it was the prince, so they immediately saluted.

Concubine Ling said, "The concubine has something to do at home, so I'm here to talk to Lord Lin."

"What do you have to do with Yanzhi in your family?"

"I suddenly heard that my brother was abrupt, so I came to apologize, and I hope that His Royal Highness and my lord will not be held accountable and let my brother go."

Qin Tianze didn't know why, and asked again, "This palace has never seen Brother Ling, let alone arrested him, Concubine Ling is afraid that she has found the wrong person."

Concubine Ling asked Ying'er to take out the portrait: "This is the one that my brother found someone to paint after seeing the adult yesterday, His Highness has not seen it, but Lord Lin must have seen it, and asked His Highness to let her come here to talk to the concubine."

Qin Tianze snatched the portrait and looked at it, his breath condensed, and then stabilized his slightly trembling hand: "Where did Brother Ling see Yanzhi?"

Concubine Ling was puzzled in her heart, so she asked, "Lord Lin, what happened to her, and the concubine is very cold here......

"You just have to tell Hongu where she is!" Qin Tianze said in a gaffe.

Concubine Ling was stunned, lowered her eyes, and said, "Yesterday, my brother saw her in the deep mountains of the Imperial Temple."

When Qin Tianze got the news, he said, "Thank you, it's just that you are your father and queen's concubine, so it is not appropriate to stay here." Then he summoned Cheng Dong to look at them, and left without looking back.

Heh, is this driving her away?

But what's going on here?

"Concubine Ling, please—" Cheng Dong stretched out his hand in the direction of the courtyard gate.

Concubine Ling glanced at him and left smoothly.

Deep in the mountains, Ling Bao, who had fainted, woke up faintly, and was shocked to find that he had been tied to the place where he was yesterday again, the difference was that this time there were more rags and a branch in his mouth.

"Woo woo woo ——?"

His shout coincidentally attracted a few big men drinking around the fire.

"Yo, you're finally awake?"

One of them went and tore the contents of his mouth and threw them into the fire.

Ling Bao, who was breathing heavily, coughed because of the cold wind, and when the man saw this, he lifted the wine jug in his hand and poured it into his mouth.

"Well, warm wine in your throat, it's better."

Ling Bao nodded, and said with a stiff smile, "Much, thank you."

The big man patted him on the shoulder, "Is it good?" Drink more if it's good, and then you can enjoy your brothers."

Ling Bao felt very strange and uncomfortable when he heard this, but seeing that they were not the group that beat him at home, he stubbornly asked, "This, this big brother, thank you for saving me, can you please release me again?"

The big man laughed for a while, then turned to his brothers and asked, "What do you say? Do you want to play with it tied or loose?"

Ling Bao's eyes widened when he heard this, what does this mean?!

He immediately squirmed, but he didn't move a few times before he was picked up by the big man.

The big man was displeased and said, "What? Do you want to run?! Didn't you say that we saved you, haven't you heard these four words of personal promise?! Huh?" He reached out and slapped Ling Bao in the face.

Ling Bao's tears were all knocked out by him, and he begged for mercy with a panicked face, "Big brother! Hero! I am the brother of His Majesty's favorite concubine, don't mess around, as long as you send me home, I promise you a generous reward for saving your life!"

"Favorite concubine brother? So what? Our brothers are most disgusted with people like you who talk about their identities all day long! Remuneration? No, we prefer to call the treasure ourselves! Now that you're awake, then—

"Wait! I'm a man, if you want to vent your anger, I invite you to go to the Floating Night Pavilion, if you don't like those fireworks women, then, then I'll take you to find a serious girl, I know where they usually go to play, who do you like, I'll design it, take her captive, it's really not good! My sister! My sister was born beautifully, and the emperor's woman, don't you want to ......?"

Before he finished speaking, he slapped his face again, and this time he was beaten to the point of vomiting blood.

"You can say that, you kid is not human!" The big man sighed.

The brothers behind him also shouted and cursed.

"Your mother, my sister sells them, animals like you, Lao Tzu won't kill you today, teach you to be a man, Lao Tzu won't drink alcohol for ten days!"

"Big brother, what nonsense are you talking to him! Let's get it done and go back to the nest and continue drinking!"

Then the big men who were sitting in this room were so angry that they all stood up and slowly walked towards Ling Bao.

Ling Bao looked at them one by one, and thought of what they were going to do to them next, so frightened that the whole person was about to collapse, and he couldn't control it and peed his pants again.