Jin Gui'er asked the little eunuchs to park the sedan chair next to the palace gate, so that when Ling Zhiqiao got off the sedan chair, he would not let Gonggong Jiang see that there were still people in the sedan chair, so he went up first to salute Gonggong Jiang and said, "Father-in-law is in a hurry?" ”

"Don't worry, Your Majesty is waiting for Miss Ling to be in a hurry."

Ling Zhiqiao also stepped forward and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Jiang, then don't be polite, I'll go in, Your Majesty will scold me if you want to scold me." ”

"That's not it, Miss Ling, please."

Entering the main hall, Emperor Lao'er was indeed waiting for Ling Zhiqiao, and he said to Gonggong Jiang: "Don't you have something to do?" Go for it! I talked to Joel for a while. ”

After Gonggong Jiang left, the emperor asked, "Qiao'er, Du Yunhan came back yesterday, but did he go to see you?" ”

"Haven't seen it yet? The courtiers didn't know that His Highness was back, and they only knew about it when they entered the palace just now. Ling Zhiqiao replied calmly.

"This kid can still calm down, but when he returned to Beijing yesterday, he stayed here for a long time, do you know why?"

Ling Zhiqiao pondered in her heart that Du Yunhan was probably for her alternate status as the crown princess, but she still pretended to be confused and replied, "Your Majesty, Qiao'er doesn't know?" ”

The emperor smiled lightly, got up and walked down from the high seat, still holding a charcoal stove in his hand, he walked to Ling Zhiqiao's side, put the charcoal stove in Ling Zhiqiao's hand and said: "It's cold, warm your hands, Du Yunhan hopes that I will cancel your status as a crown princess now, and said that I hope to marry you immediately, what do you think?" ”

Ling Zhiqiao thought in her heart, since this emperor said this, he must not have agreed to Du Yunhan's request, and stuffed me with a stove, what did he mean?

She tentatively did not answer the emperor's words directly, but held the stove with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, the weather is really fast when it is cold, your stove really works!" ”

"Answer my question."

Looking at the emperor's sinking face, Ling Zhiqiao didn't dare to be sloppy anymore, she immediately said: "Your Majesty, if you approve the request of His Royal Highness the Second Highness, Qiao'er should obey, but if Your Majesty does not allow it, then it is also Your Majesty's intention, and Qiao'er does not dare to refute, it is just a name, and Your Majesty will not let the courtiers really marry His Royal Highness the Prince, right!" ”

Ha ha!

"It's still your head, I'm not allowed now, I must have my intentions, but I'm very unhappy when I look at Twilight Yunhan, I just didn't show it."

"Your Majesty, leave this matter to the courtiers! I'm going to persuade His Royal Highness, but this secret passage still has to be dug up, and it has to be dug up from the chanting hall, Qiao Er thought about it, instead of wasting time looking for other entrances, it is better to knock one and resume work tomorrow, Your Majesty thinks it is feasible? ”

"Of course it works, the sooner the better!" The Emperor said approvingly with his hands behind his back.

"However, Your Majesty, the female official Song is already in good health, if she returns to the chanting hall, it is inevitable that the queen will still be.... And the courtier's secret passage is not at ease! ”

Ling Zhiqiao said as she looked at His Majesty the Emperor's face.

The Emperor paced back and forth, turned his head to look at Ling Zhiqiao, the wrinkles on his forehead curled to make him look old, and he asked, "Do you mean to make a will?" ”

Ling Zhiqiao waved her hand, a little embarrassed and said: "The courtiers don't dare, the female official Song is waiting outside, there is something to report to Your Majesty, why don't you see Your Majesty?" She said that her master had left her a message to tell His Majesty, and the courtiers asked her, but she refused to say, so that's why..."

Ling Zhiqiao was not sure whether the emperor could see her, but she had already prepared that the emperor would not see Song Siyan.

"Then let her in!"

The emperor agreed to Ling Zhiqiao's request without any hesitation.

Ling Zhiqiao was determined.

'There's got to be something going on here.'"

After Ling Zhiqiao brought Song Siyan in, she originally wanted to go outside the palace to avoid suspicion, thinking that if there was something the emperor didn't want to listen to, it would be better to go farther.

Unexpectedly, the emperor still left her, and after Song Si said and saluted, the emperor paced beside her, looking at the bruises on her face that had not faded, and his voice was gentle: "Isn't it all good?" Wouldn't it be better to keep it for a few more days? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's all right, and the face is just a mark, and it doesn't hurt anymore." Song Siyan looks very ordinary on the surface, but in fact, he feels in his heart that the emperor in the Qianhe Hall looks much more feared than when he was in the chanting hall.

"Well, then remember to take your medicine on time, listen to Qiao'er, your master Qingyu left you a message to tell me?"

Song Siyan bowed slightly: "The master left something for the lower officials before he died, saying that if the queen mother is in the chanting hall and treats the lower officials like a master, she will present this thing to Your Majesty." ”

Song Siyan took out a small cloth bag from his cuff as he spoke, opened it, and inside was a pair of beaded earrings, and they were emerald and verdant, and they were rare jade species at first glance.

Ling Zhiqiao also looked at it curiously, but she really didn't see that this Song Siyan's stomach was quite capable of pretending to be troublesome.

The emperor squinted his eyes slightly, looked at Song Siyan's hand, and was immediately stunned, he snatched the pair of pearl earrings, and asked with some excitement: "This is from Qingyu?" ”

Song Siyan didn't know what to say: "It was given to me by the master when he was dying, and she said that when she gave this to Her Majesty, Your Majesty would definitely protect the chanting hall." ”

"You grew up in the palace?" The Emperor asked suddenly.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Qingyu never said anything to you?" The emperor's expression returned to his composure slightly.

"I didn't say it, when Xia Guan found the master in the room of the chanting hall, she was already dying, and only left this pair of earrings, she told Si Yan that if the queen mother just came to the chanting hall to recite the scriptures, she would follow the mother."

The Qianhe Hall was quiet at this time, and the emperor returned to the high seat, as if he was thinking about something.

Ling Zhiqiao estimated in her heart that Gonggong Jiang would be back after a while, and she waited for a while before saying to the emperor: "Your Majesty, why don't Qiao Er go out and see if Gonggong Jiang is coming back soon, how about it?" ”

The emperor obviously understood what Ling Zhiqiao meant, he frowned and stared at Song Siyan and said, "Let's put these earrings here first!" Today, you go back with Qiao'er first, and I will have arrangements for him to come. ”

"The courtiers obey."

"Then you go out first! I still have something to say to Jo'er. ”

Song Siyan didn't want to stay longer, so she hurried out happily at this time, this Qianhe Hall made her inexplicably depressed, not to mention that His Majesty's expression when he saw that pair of earrings made her feel a little uneasy.

Ling Zhiqiao waited for Song Siyan to come out of the Qianhe Hall before asking, "Your Majesty, but do you have something to tell Qiao'er?" ”

The emperor pondered for a moment before saying, "Gonggong Jiang went out to do business today, but you did something bad?" ”

"Your Majesty, what do you say? Qiao Er didn't dare, but Qiao Er felt that if he was there, it might be inconvenient, after all, this father-in-law was surnamed Jiang, Your Majesty wouldn't know it! ”

The emperor said with a calm face: "Of course I know, he is just surnamed Jiang." ”

"That's not necessarily, this Jiang Gonggong, but a relative of Prime Minister Jiang's family who has an unknown number of bends, can Your Majesty know?"

The wrinkles in the emperor's mind suddenly crisscrossed after hearing this, and he obviously didn't know it.

Ling Zhiqiao sighed silently in her heart, thinking to herself, is this Emperor's Majesty's head clear or confused? How could he not know the relationship between Gonggong Jiang and the prime minister? Even if it's just a little bit of a relationship, it's a family.

If it is a family, it may be an eyeliner hidden by His Majesty's side, otherwise how did Qingyu and His Majesty know about it.

And Ling Zhiqiao seems to have suddenly understood now, when she was in this hall, she found poisonous incense with cinnabar, this method of killing people without seeing blood, but it was quite in line with Jiang Gonggong's temperament.

Those who want to understand will have things that they can understand and understand.

Ling Zhiqiao was about to give the emperor a step down, she continued: "It's understandable that Your Majesty doesn't know, after all, Gonggong Jiang abides by his duties and takes care of His Majesty meticulously, his relationship with Prime Minister Jiang Cheng, Your Majesty will treat Qiao Er as a nonsense, about the Chanting Hall, Your Majesty's will is that naturally everyone should do things according to the rules, after all, Lady Song is to block trouble for Your Majesty, but after all, she is soft-spoken, and if she says it, it means that she doesn't say it." ”

The Emperor looked down at the earrings in the palm of his hand again, and he asked, "Aren't you curious, the relationship between Qingyu and me?" ”

Ling Zhiqiao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't be curious, Your Majesty, Qiao'er is not curious at all, Qiao'er will retire, Your Majesty should have issued a decree earlier." ”

Ling Zhiqiao didn't wait for the emperor to speak again, so she hurriedly withdrew from the Qianhe Palace, but fortunately, Her Majesty didn't stop her, Ling Zhiqiao got into the sedan chair and instructed the little eunuchs outside: "Don't wait for your Jin Gonggong, send us out of the palace directly." ”

"Yes."

Song Siyan asked, "Miss Ling, what did Your Majesty say to you?" ”

Ling Zhiqiao frowned, and said with her fingers around a strand of hair hanging down behind her ear: "Your Majesty asked me if I was curious about his relationship with your master, I didn't dare to tell the truth, didn't this just run out, but, Sister Song, I think there must be a mystery in those earrings, you won't be your master's daughter!" ”

Song Siyan punched Ling Zhiqiao and said, "Miss Ling, you are talking nonsense, how can I be the master's daughter, if I am the master's daughter, how can she still be with Your Majesty...?"

When she said this, Song Siyan suddenly closed her mouth silently, Ling Zhiqiao looked at her and didn't speak, she was also thinking in her heart, could this Song female official be the daughter of His Majesty the Emperor!

In the Qianhe Palace, His Majesty the Emperor was looking at things and thinking about people with a worried expression, and this pair of pearl earrings was specially created by a craftsman for Qingyu, which matched her name perfectly.

Qingyu was originally a little maid in the cold palace, and since his biological mother gave birth to him in the cold palace, at that time only this little maid of the same age as him accompanied him.

Although he was snatched away by the imperial concubine, he could occasionally meet his biological mother secretly with the help of Qingyu.

Later, he became the emperor, but before he could give his biological mother the title, his biological mother died, so he got Qingyu out of the cold palace and became a female official, and only by Qingyu's side could he completely relax himself.

Qingyu once told him that she was here and would never give these earrings to another person, but if one day this pair of earrings was in another person's hands, then that person must be the one who Qingyu would take her life.

A person who can save Qingyu's life, isn't it...?