Li Jiaoer's voice was trembling when she asked, and she was even more choked by her suppression.

Xue Zhen's face was pale, his fingertips were the soft and boneless palm touch of the woman, and what he smelled in his nose was the faint smell of agarwood on Li Jiaoer's body.

Partial to everything, entangled with the bloody gas in his memory, stimulated him to vomit again.

The garden is now in full bloom, cooler than elsewhere, with a summer breeze

He saw the fiery red coral bracelet on her white wrist, which burned into the explosion that had killed his father and brother, and the fire that had killed many people.

He could clearly feel the grievances of the woman in front of him, but he couldn't say words of comfort, let alone words.

Worried, afraid, disgusted, disgusted.

He didn't want her to be involved and become a pawn, so he was anxious; And because of all the things in the past, he suspected that she was attentive, so he was upset.

If you are in a hurry, if you are chaotic, you will lose your temper.

How many emotions were entangled to the end, but it condensed into his cold and hard rebuke:

"How dare you do it casually?"

But when the words came out, Xue Zhen regretted it again.

Since he knew why the queen was looking for her, he should know that Li Jiaoer couldn't shirk it, so what was the use of scolding her?

It's just a gaffe to cover up his talent.

Li Jiao'er guessed that she had caused trouble when she saw the queen, so after listening to Xue Zhen's words, she was not more aggrieved than when she saw his expression just now, but just restrained:

"I've asked the county lord."

Besides, it was the queen, how dare she disobey?

Xue Zhen pressed his temples wordlessly, and paused for a moment before asking, "Niangniang thanked you for the things in your hand, right?" ”

"Yes." Li Jiaoer nodded.

Xue Zhen said in a deep voice: "Today's things ......"

"Today's matter," Li Jiao'er interrupted him first, "It's that I'm not rigorous, and Xu has caused trouble for the prince." I won't mention it again. ”

Xue Zhen had mixed feelings in his heart, hindering himself in the palace forbidden, some words were clearly unspeakable, but Li Jiaoer looked at the grievances, but she didn't cry or make trouble, she was as good as a stream, and she recognized her mistakes, and he didn't know what to say.

“…… Well, you go back to the table first, horizontally and vertically...... It's not a big deal. After a while, he sighed lightly and said.

Not a big deal? If it's not a big deal, why should he be like Fang Cai?

Li Jiao'er was depressed, but she knew that she couldn't quarrel with him here, and she was also afraid in her heart, so she didn't say anything more? Just saluted him and walked towards Qinghui Pavilion.

Xue Zhen followed behind her, walking very slowly, looking at her back.

When she walked straight to the vicinity of Qinghui Pavilion, Ziyan, who came out of nowhere, saluted her and said with a smile: "Madame is back, let's return to the table quickly." ”

Li Jiao'er looked at Ziyan and nodded, she was going to go in with her, but she suddenly figured out something, and couldn't help but look back at Xue Zhen.

After Xue Zhen appeared in Ziyan, he stopped and looked at her back.

At this time, Li Jiaoer suddenly turned around, and the two looked at each other, as if he had been caught by something, and his expression became embarrassed.

Li Jiao'er didn't look at her again, but turned her head, supported by Ziyan, and entered Qinghui Pavilion, and asked with an innocent smile:

"Where did the female official go? I'm afraid I'm going the wrong way, and I'm still looking for a female officer. ”

"The slave has been following behind his wife and the son, and when he saw that the son and the wife seemed to have something to say, he didn't dare to step forward." Ziyan replied respectfully.

Li Jiaoer smiled and didn't say anything more, but she already had a plan in her heart.

Although Xue Zhen was at the banquet, there was a curtain between the minister and the wife, and he couldn't see himself leaving the banquet, so why did he arrive with the prince just after he got along with the queen for a while?

The royal garden, the place of the emperor, has its own heavenly defense eyeliner, and it is terrible that there is also the eyeliner of the prince.

For example, this Ziyan next to him.

She is a female official in the inner court, and she was ordered to serve her today, and the rules in the palace do not allow anyone to come and go, how could she really avoid it because she saw her talking to Xue Zhen and didn't dare to come forward?

During the banquet, the drama was still lively, and no one seemed to care about Li Jiaoer going out and coming back.

Li Jiaoer sat on the seat and said a few words to the ladies around her, but what she pondered in her heart was still today's discovery.

It will not be only Ziyan alone, Xu also has the guards who were Xue Zhen's comrades, and the internal supervisors he secretly befriended, these people are still in contact with Xue Zhen even if he has been leading the troops outside for three years.

Emperor Jianlong regarded Xue Zhen as a pure minister, and there were often voices in the court and the opposition that the prince of Anyang was a close minister of the crown prince.

But no matter whose minister it is, Xue Zhen is the "minister" of Dazhao after all.

Li Jiao'er also went through recent events, and put more effort into these things, before she figured out that His Majesty wanted to borrow the attack of the treasure in the palm of his hand, and the root cause was the word power.

Under the power, neither His Majesty nor the crown prince will be happy with Xue Zhen's secret communication with the people in the inner palace.

Li Jiaoer is open-minded, and after letting go of Xue Zhen, the grievances related to him come and go quickly, but she feels as if she has a glimpse of the thoughtful Xue Zhen, the unknown little heart.

*

That night, after everyone returned home, Xue Zhen closed the door and told the county lord of Xiaohui and Li Jiaoer about today's incident.

"My mother has always been disinclined to participate in these things, what's wrong with me this time?" His tone was so measured that he couldn't hear the anger.

Li Jiao'er sat beside the lord of Xiaohui and listened to their mother and son obediently.

The little secret she had glimpsed in the Imperial Immortal Garden today was enough for her to ponder for several days.

The county lord of Xiaohui was in a good mood, and was holding Li Jiao'er's hand to evaluate the coral bracelet, listening to Xue Zhen's question, he glanced at him and said, "Naturally, I am for you." ”

"......" Xue Zhen muffled and looked at her with disapproval.

Lord Xiaohui sneered and asked rhetorically, "That Chen Niangzi, what's going on?" ”

Xue Zhen listened to his mother's question, no longer hidden, and only said: "She is Chen Guo's meticulous work, and now she has been tried and detained in the prison, waiting for His Majesty to be released." ”

"Heh, it seems that I really raised a good son who sacrificed himself for the country." Lord Xiaohui sneered, "It's just a small work, and it's worth acting like that?" Raising such a sinful species, Xue Zhen, hasn't lived enough for his mother. ”

Li Jiao'er listened to the county lord of Xiaohui scolding so directly, and suddenly felt that she was not suitable to sit here.

The county lord took her hand and didn't let go, which made her face red, so she could only sit there stiffly, hanging her head and counting how many patterns there were on the seven treasures of the continuous brocade spread on the couch.

Xue Zhen didn't expect his mother to scold him so much, his ears were feverish at the moment, he looked at Li Jiao'er, and said, "No." ”

"What not?" The voice of the county lord of Xiaohui became colder and colder, and he said, "I don't care how you planned, but the matter has come to this point, which one has your advantage in disobedience?" I'm really annoyed, looking for someone to turn this matter out and arrange an attack, what are you going to do? When the time comes, the saint is a good-looking person, is it to protect you? Still won't protect you? It's better to simply let your daughter-in-law take the lead and receive the grace, be generous, if it really happens in the future, with your daughter-in-law today, you can stop those people's mouths. Otherwise who is it when you are strategizing? It's just that you're just a bastard. Zhong Jing, don't blame my mother for being ruthless, that kid can't keep ......"

Lord Xiaohui said quickly, even like a crossbow, so that Xue Zhen couldn't intervene.

Li Jiaoer looked up quite adoringly, looked at the county lord's side face, and wrote down her words, although there were some things that I didn't understand, but it sounded so reasonable.

If only I could say that.

There's a lot to learn today.

"......" Xue Zhen was scolded by his mother so much that his ears hurt, and suddenly saw Li Jiaoer's look of admiration for his mother, and he was even more upset.

Finally, the lord of Xiaohui said with a dry mouth, raised his hand, and asked for tea.

Because the maids in the house were all sent out, Li Jiaoer hurriedly poured a cup of tea and respectfully served:

"County Lord, drink tea."

"Mother," while his mother was drinking tea, Xue Zhen was finally able to interject, "Can you still speak?" ”

When the county lord of Xiaohui heard that he dared to reply, he immediately swallowed the tea and glared: "What else do you have to say?" ”

"Mother, he's not." Xue Zhen interrupted his mother before she continued to scold him, "That child is not mine. ”

Lord Xiaohui didn't hold on, and the tea in her throat was squirted out by her.

Li Jiao'er stood aside, looking at Xue Zhen incredulously, and even forgot to hand the handkerchief to the county lord.

He, what did he say?!

Xue Zhen avoided Li Jiao'er's gaze, only looked at the county lord of Xiaohui, and explained very seriously: "My son and Mrs. Chen are not skin-to-skin, and the child is not mine, and everything in it, my son has told His Majesty ......."

Li Jiaoer's ears roared, and she couldn't hear his words clearly, and her heart was full of his sentence "The child is not mine".

Ridiculous.

She remembered the ugliness of crying and begging in Xue Zhen's study, the embarrassment of being laughed at by the servant when she was blocked by Mrs. Chen, the grievances of being treated coldly and disgusted since she got married, and the resentment that she mourned more than died in these days, and the worries of her relatives for her.

Mrs. Chen and the child were the last straw that overwhelmed her, but as a result, what did Xue Zhen say now-

He and Mrs. Chen have no skin-to-skin relationship.

The child is not his.

He never fell for it, and she may have been in his plan to deal with Chen Guoren the moment Chen Niangzi appeared.

Only she didn't know at a loss, and she thought she was kind, reading "childish and innocent".

Even if they walked together for such a long time on the day she and her father rescued Mrs. Chen, Xue Zhen refused to give him an explanation.

Li Jiaoer did not feel relaxed or happy because of the "truth", but felt more humiliated than before.

She wanted to learn from the appearance of the county lord of Xiaohui, and scolded him, but her heart was confused, and she couldn't say half a word, so angry that her eyes were full of tears and trembled slightly.

And the lord of Xiaohui didn't have time to notice Li Jiaoer's mood, she felt that she had heard a ridiculous joke.

Xue Zhen brought back a fine crop, and also brought back a wild seed that was with the fine crop, and I didn't know the roots!

Now that there is an undercurrent surging in the DPRK, how can he be sure that he can speak clearly?! If that child has some other origin, won't it be a curse in the future?

"Xue Ping'an, you want to be angry with me?!" Lord Xiaohui was so angry that he slapped the table and jumped up, went out to shine on Xue Zhen's chest, and punched him twice, "The matter of the heir, how can you be so reckless!" ”