She raised her hand and stroked the tips of Pei Huilan's hair, comforting her: "It won't be long before the truth will come out, and the second prince and the eldest princess will be at ease under the Nine Springs." ”

Pei Huilan raised his eyes slightly, and when he heard this, the water in his eyes dripped again, and said: "Do you know, several sisters now have a favorite person, just wait for the father to marry after the beginning of spring, if the eldest sister is here, the son of the family in Beijing is also at his disposal." ”

Song Suqing's expression darkened, patted Pei Huilan's back, and was silent.

As the night deepened, Song Suqing took her hand to the top floor, lying quietly on the periphery of the bed, listening to Pei Huilan's babbling words, the moonlight outside the window lattice became more and more bright and bright, illuminating her eyes painfully.

It wasn't until there was no sound on her side that she cautiously turned over and got out of bed, pulled a silk cover for Pei Huilan, and went downstairs to the courtyard lightly.

The palace maid who was keeping vigil was whispering interesting things in the palace with Ming Yue, and when she saw Song Suqing coming out, she hurriedly walked up.

Song Suqing raised his hand to signal them to speak softly, and said to the palace maid of the night watch: "Take care of the princess, I will go to the mother's harem to sit and sit, and come to report in time if there is something." ”

The palace maid of the night watch blessed her body and closed the palace door after watching them leave.

It was late at night, and the streets of the palace were unusually quiet, except for the sound of footsteps.

Song Xuqing's eyes were fixed and quietly hid in the crescent moon behind the clouds, and when his eyes fell, he saw the brightly lit palace not far away, which was the palace of Concubine Roujia, and she had not yet fallen asleep.

"Mingyue, what do you think they are thinking now?"

Suddenly hearing the question, Ming Yue paused, pondered for a moment and replied, "Maybe I'm waiting for the knife to fall." ”

Hearing this, Song Suqing chuckled.

The head-killing knife fell above the neck, and it was really difficult to get up or down.

The palace gate of Changning Palace was open, and Ning Bao's father-in-law was waiting at the palace gate, and when he saw her coming, he said: "Niangniang knows that the princess will come, so she specially left the door for you." ”

Song Xu cleared his head and walked towards the main hall.

But before she reached the hall, she saw the gauze tent being waved away from inside, and Xu Jincheng walked out.

Song Suqing blessed her body and asked for peace, and walked over to hold her hand, "It's late at night, why did the queen mother come out." ”

Xu Jincheng glanced at her with a smile, "You're not asleep either." ”

Her smile was very faint, not as far as the bottom of her eyes, Song Suqing exhaled, and said truthfully: "I can't sleep." ”

"Worried about Yao'er?" Xu Jincheng asked.

Song Suqing nodded and said softly.

If Pei Yichen hadn't passed tonight, she might not have been so worried, but Pei Yichen was here, she really couldn't let go.

"Do you know when Yao'er found out the truth about his brother and sister's death?"

Song Suqing shook his head and glanced sideways at Xu Jincheng.

Xu Jincheng did not speak immediately, but took her through the corridor to the pavilion next to the lotus pond, and randomly found a handful of food and sprinkled it into the pool.

Looking at the fish that were biting and eating in all directions, she said, "When I was twelve." ”

Saying that, she raised her eyes and glanced at the side hall with the door closed, which had been uninhabited for a long time, "He entered the palace that year, and someone poisoned his feet in his food, but fortunately, he just ate a little bit to make the palace happy, and the toxicity was not serious, and he woke up after sleeping for five days." ”

"In those five days, there was a Japanese palace lost his mind, and the emperor argued, I didn't expect that he was conscious but couldn't wake up at that time, heard our dispute, after waking up he rarely entered the palace again, the palace knew, he went to look for Li Jin, but the world is so big, how can you find it."

Song Suqing's expression was slightly awe-inspiring, "Do you know who it is?" ”

"Hongu has always known this." Xu Jincheng raised his eyes to look at her, and waved out the remaining fish material in his palm, "After they passed away, the palace was depressed for a long time, and they didn't want to see people or open their mouths, until one day they sorted out the relics, and suddenly a flash of inspiration gave rise to suspicion, and there was only one person who could move his body to eat close to Yu'er." ”

"Yu'er's favorite thing when he was a child was this brother, he would run around behind him after he could walk, and you said he was so vicious that he would attack his younger brother who liked him so much."

However, because there is no evidence and no witnesses, it has not been possible to find out about it.

Song Suqing looked at the desolate queen, and her throat tightened.

"Far from it." Xu Jincheng's fingertips wiped the corners of his eyes that had already dried up tears, and smiled at Song Suqing: "So don't worry about Yao'er, he has stepped over all these years, and he doesn't care about this time." ”

The slightly bitter smile made Song Suqing feel bad in his heart, and he bowed his head.

The distress in her clear eyes was too intense, Xu Jincheng patted the back of her hand with a complicated expression, the children who have been raised by her side for many years as her own are no better than her daughter-in-law who has never met a few times, human nature is really an unfathomable thing.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a trotting behind me, which was very clear in the silent gazebo.

The two of them glanced at each other, and at the same time looked up to follow the voice.

Father-in-law Ning Bao strode over and knelt down: "Niangniang, the prince has entered the palace, and when the servants came back from hearing the news, they saw Chen Ying, the apprentice of Chen Shen's father-in-law, leading a group of palace people to the palace of Chaoroujia Guifei. ”

Xu Jincheng glanced in the direction of Nanyuan and smiled: "It's expected." ”

Song Suqing pursed her lips, and seeing that Xu Jincheng didn't ask any more, she asked, "How is the prince?" ”

"Don't worry, the princess is fine, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not follow the prince to Chengtian Palace, but returned to the East Palace."

Song Suqing exhaled reassuringly when he heard this, and his tense and upright figure finally fell a little.

"Queen Mother, slave Chen Shen asks to see."

There was a knock on the palace door, and Chen Shen's voice came.

Compared with Song Xuqing, whose pupils fluttered because of the sudden voice, Xu Jincheng calmly brushed the hem of his clothes, and slowly got up and walked towards the palace gate.

The locked palace door was pushed open, and Song Suqing's eyes looked over Xu Jincheng's shoulders and neck to look at Chen Shen who hung his head, and under the flickering candlelight, the broken sweat of his sideburns shone out, which showed how hurried he was.

Chen Shen bowed down and said, "Niangniang, the emperor is now listening to the prince's report on the Jingning Palace, please move to the palace of Roujia Guifei to preside over the overall situation." ”

Xu Jincheng's eyes fell on him lazily, "What is the will, I need to go to this palace late at night." ”

Chen Shen knew that the queen should be clear, but he wanted to confirm it from his mouth, pursed his lower lip and said, "Take away the title and enter the cold palace." ”

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Chapter 81: Jealousy

(Qing'er, open your eyes)

Snatch the title and enter the cold palace.

Chen Shen's words were bland, and they were unusually cold in this hot summer, like a sudden rainstorm, which smashed and scattered the heat of the night without warning.

Song Suqing quietly followed Xu Jincheng's side, and caught a glimpse of her unfathomable pupils flickering in the darkness, and her laughter came from her ears as she lowered her eyes and crossed the threshold.

Then came the heart-rending wails that pierced the silent night sky, and the birds resting above the trees fluttered their wings and flew up.

Song Suqing stepped through the palace gate, and happened to bump into Chen Ying standing outside the door with her head down, and her indifferent and detached voice rushed to the people inside, Concubine Roujia, who had always been exquisitely dressed, fell to the ground, and two little eunuchs on her side detained her arms behind her head, and her messy show was sprinkled in the air.

Ning Bao's father-in-law took a step forward, and swept the dust back: "The queen has arrived." ”

Chen Ying hurriedly turned around and trotted over, and Concubine Roujia, who was fluttering on the ground, also quieted down for a moment, raised her eyes and stared at it, and her fierce eyes came through the broken hair.

Xu Jincheng listened to Chen Ying's greeting, casually raised his hand to stop his voice, and his eyes looked at Concubine Roujia through the night sky, "My sister refuses to bow to the law, I want to know what happened to King Jingning, right?" ”

The cold and arrogant voice lingered in the hall, and the ruthlessness in Roujia Guifei's eyes dissipated a little, her pupils trembled slightly, and she stared up at her and was silent.

Xu Jincheng raised her hand, and little by little picked up her messy broken hair and hooked it behind her ear, revealing her delicate and lovely face, "The prince has been corrupt, bribery, smuggling, and selling official salt all these years, and connived at his subordinates to kill people's daughters, so he is naturally imprisoned in the Yongtang Division for the rest of his life. ”

"This palace still remembers His Royal Highness King Jingning when he was young, and his posture was free and easy, and the noble lady in Beijing secretly promised him that he did not touch a leaf, and it was rumored that he had a favorite girl, and that girl was praised by him as a person on the tip of his heart."

Hearing this, Concubine Roujia's body trembled slightly, and she murmured: "That girl was waiting for him to marry with joy, but when she turned her head, she was pushed away from a high place and fell to the ground. ”

Xu Jincheng's fingertips swept across her cheek and smiled: "Blame him for being unkind, but also blame this girl for being too stupid, how can someone who has been hurt once listen to his tender and sweet words in his ears again." ”

The thin voice came with a whimper, Song Xuqing's eyes trembled and stared at Concubine Roujia, who pursed her lips tightly and didn't want the crying to overflow, her arm hanging by her side was slightly stiff, and she didn't know how to describe her mood at this time.

Xu Jincheng's palm fell to the delicate neck of Concubine Roujia, slid unhurriedly, and did not clench: "Sister, don't worry, this palace will send him to accompany you, just as you have returned the poison you used to eat in Yao'er." ”

"Don't!" Concubine Roujia stopped crying, raised her eyes to look at Xu Jincheng, who was grabbed by Xu Jincheng's neck and hurriedly shook her head and begged her, "It was the concubine who did it, and it was the concubine who planned for Jing'er's future, why did the mother blame others!" ”

Song Xuqing's eyes looked at Concubine Roujia who had lost her mind, and she couldn't imagine that at this time, she would throw her head on the six princes in order to protect King Jingning.

Xu Jincheng laughed lightly, slowly let go of his hand and stood up with the support of Aunt Huayi, "It's stupid." ”

Ning Bao's father-in-law took the soaked cotton ball, grabbed the cheeks of Concubine Roujia with one hand and pushed it slightly hard, and stuffed the cotton ball into it with the other hand, and the palace was silent for a while.

Looking at the back of the struggle and forced to move forward, Song Suqing looked at Xu Jincheng sideways, she kneaded her nose with her fingertips, and looked very tired, "Queen Mother, go back to the palace to rest." ”

Xu Jincheng let out a faint 'um' sound, opened his eyes and looked at the night scene in the courtyard, his fingertips fell on Huayi's arm, and he walked away slowly.

Song Suqing followed behind her, the conversation between the two lingered in her mind, shocking at first, but now she only feels ridiculous.

"Sometimes a man's desire to conquer falls on a woman, and it becomes an extremely ridiculous thing, thinking that if you plunder her to your side, there will always be a day when a drop of water will wear it, but what is plundered is plundered, not to mention that what is plundered is not a dead thing, but a person with a mind, no matter how much you polish and pamper, it is not your own."

The voice was not big or small floating in her ears, Song Suqing raised her eyes slightly, and met Xu Jincheng's indifferent eyes, she pursed her lips, and followed the queen's gaze to the direction where Shicai came.

After a long time, Xu Jincheng said: "The palace is tired, Huayi has already cleaned up the side hall, you can also go and rest." ”

Song Suqing retracted his gaze and blessed his body.

The candle flame illuminated the side hall, she lay quietly on the couch, looking at Ming Yue's busy figure, the moonlight outside the window lattice was just right, and the sun poured out.

For a moment, she didn't feel sleepy.

I don't know how long it took, I heard Mingyue's voice asking for peace outside the door, followed by Pei Muyao's deliberately lowered voice, and Song Suqing stayed with his arms propped up.

A black shadow appeared in her sight when she lowered her head and overshoes, she raised her head slightly, and fell into the dark eyes, Pei Muyao stood still in front of the couch, half-squatting in front of her, picking up the embroidered shoes with one hand and holding her ankles with the other.

The cold palm was attached to the ankle, and Song Suqing subconsciously withdrew her foot, but it was only a moment, and the ankle was pulled back again, and she looked at him with a stunned expression.

Pei Muyao lowered his eyes and concentrated on putting on her embroidered shoes, looking up at her, "I'll take you home." ”

Song Suqing blinked, the moment he got up, he grabbed his neck, his chin pressed against his shoulder and neck, and rubbed, "Is the palace door open?" ”

Pei Muyao raised a smile in his eyes, and pulled her up slowly with one hand against her waist, "Not yet, but you and I can go." ”

Song Suqing leaned back, glanced at the main hall, and hesitated slightly: "Where is the queen mother?" ”

"She'll know." Pei Muyao said.

When the words fell, Song Suqing nodded and said 'um', "Then let's go home." ”

Hearing this, Pei Muyao's eyes fell on her smile, and the smile at the bottom of her eyes became more and more intense, like the rising sun in spring, "Okay, let's go home." ”

The carriage back to the palace was already waiting at the palace gate.

The carriage drove on the street outside the palace, Song Suqing lifted the gauze tent and looked at the deep palace shrouded in darkness, and after a moment, he let go, and the back of his head was against his chest, "After dawn, is it going to change the sky?" ”

Pei Muyao, who was staring at her with lowered eyes, said 'um', his fingertips and her little finger were entangled, "My father saved his life because of his brotherhood, and he was imprisoned in the Yongtang Division, and the rest of his family members were exiled and sent to Nanhupo." ”

Nanhupo is located in the upper north and is an extremely cold place.

Don't say it's winter, even summer is not as hot as other regions, and the night is even colder, and the slightest carelessness will fall into disease.