The harem seems to have calmed down again, Fang Chunyi dominates the lead, Concubine Qi has failed several times to cut off the beard, the nobles of Jin are grounded, the nobles of Shun are still recuperating, and only the nobles are left who can share a piece of the pie with Fang Chunyi.

Recently, however, the noble Wan has also begun to be unable to get up, and the emperor often summons her, but does not let her sleep, only let her sit in front of the window with a book in her hand, and watch her so quietly until late at night. She felt more and more that she was like an empty shell, without a soul or a self, just like Fu Ruyin was dead, and what lived in this body was another person imagined by the emperor.

"Who the hell am I?" Wan Guiren stood under the pear blossom tree, his eyes were dazed, and he was holding a half-new bag in his hand, and a tear fell down suddenly.

At this moment, she felt a heartache that she had never felt before.

She thought that if she escaped from that place, she would be a new student, so no matter how hard and unreasonable the study of Qingliangtai was, she was willing to do it, the gentleness of the prince was like her salvation, he let her enter the palace, she entered the palace, he made her the queen of Chunyuan, and she tried her best to imitate it until it was exactly the same.

She thought she wouldn't care, as long as she could live.

But she was wrong.

It's too painful to live as someone else.

She doesn't like to read, she doesn't like to purse her lips and smile gently, she doesn't like to dance the classical dance, she doesn't like embroidery, she doesn't like to play the piano...... Wan Guiren raised his head, looked at the mottled lights and shadows scattered among the shadows of the trees, and suddenly remembered the old days.

She stepped barefoot on the sun-scorched tiles, twisted her waist wantonly, the golden bells on her wrists and ankles rattled, the hot and unrestrained exotic dance, so hearty that even her soul seemed to be flying out, the scorching liquor went down her throat, fell into her stomach and was hot, her eyes were full of drunkenness, she smiled, and she opened her eyes—but it was this dull square of the corners.

Regret it?

Wan Guiren looked at the leaves in a daze, the gentle breeze blew, and the rustle of the leaves came, making the Chengqian Palace more and more quiet.

"Little Lord." Ussie walked over and bowed to the nobleman.

Wan Guiren came back to his senses, but he didn't turn his head to look at her, but asked, "But the prince's secret order?" ”

"The prince has been busy lately, and he has not issued an order, and today is Miss Meng's secret order." Wu Qian lowered her head and said softly, "Miss Meng said that if you lose power, you can take the opportunity to get rid of her, and find a way to blame Concubine Qi and cut off the third elder brother's back road." Her face was indifferent, but her words were full of murder.

"Got it." There was no trace of abnormality on Wan Guiren's face, and he responded calmly, and then asked, "What has Jin Guiren been doing lately?" ”

"Yonghe Palace is guarded at all levels, and the slave and maid can't hear too much news, only knowing that she has been trying to find a way to meet the emperor recently, and handed a lot of silver money to the guards guarding the door, but she didn't get her wish." Wu Xi replied, "I have been at ease a lot in the past few days, and I know that the emperor doesn't want to see her, and no matter how much she does, it will be useless, so I stopped thinking about it." ”

Wan Guiren nodded, signaling that he understood.

But she can't hear the news, it doesn't mean that others can't hear it, An Lingrong was listening to Cardamom talking about the affairs of Yonghe Palace at this time, and raised her eyebrows in surprise: "She is really brave, and she actually thought of this method to solve the current dilemma." ”

"Yes, she spent a lot of money before and after, and she barely got through the door and did such a game." Cardamom said, "According to what Niangniang said, Lord Lu didn't agree at first, and hung her three times before pretending to reluctantly open her mouth, let the people below collect the money, and arrange things for her." Jin Guiren was happy at that time, and gave a lot with a wave of his hand. ”

"Does this add up to a small 10,000 silver?" An Lingrong pretended to be amazed and sighed twice, "The Tong family is rich, so she can squander it so much." ”

"Niangniang still has the heart to care about her, let's think about myself." Dill walked in with a bitter and resentful face, and brought the fetal pill to An Lingrong, "It looks like it's going to be three months, no matter how slender the mother is, this pregnant belly can't be hidden, and everyone in the palace will know about it, and all kinds of troubles will come to the door." ”

An Lingrong laughed twice, pulled the cardamom and pointed at the dill and said, "Look, the dill is in a hurry." ”

Cardamom covered her mouth and laughed.

"!" Dill angrily put the medicine bowl on the coffee table, "Slave, this is worrying about you!" ”

"Don't worry, Miss Dill, everything is in the mother's plan." Cuiyin walked in from outside the hall, said with a smile, and turned to An Lingrong and said, "Niangniang, it's all arranged." ”

"Okay." An Lingrong nodded with a smile, looked at Dill with a puzzled look, chuckled again, and said while drinking the medicine bowl, "Dill, do you think that I did the Witch Gu Bureau just to trap the Jin Guiren for a while?" Seeing Dill nodding, she laughed and continued, "This is just an introduction, and the rest is the point." ”

"The slave doesn't understand." Dill frowned, a little incomprehensible.

"Jin Guiren was punished and grounded for three months for hooking up the line and Shun Guiren, I asked Cuiyin to give her the news, saying that Qin'er's medicine was given by Wan Guiren, she naturally thought that it was Wan Guiren who framed her in trouble, so as to plant the seeds." An Lingrong said carefully, "Jin Guiren has lost her henchman, if she loses her grace again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see the face of heaven in the future, she must find a way to save herself, and the only way is to clear her own charges, and let the emperor know who is the real murderer who killed Shun Guiren - she did everything possible to open the door, in order to pull out the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

"But the noble man didn't know that he had been exposed to the noble Jin, and the noble man Jin used this trick to attack her unprepared, and caught her off guard." Dill suddenly, and then a new question popped up, "What is the benefit of their two tigers fighting?" ”

"Silly girl, these two tigers are on the same mountain!" Cuiyin couldn't help but laugh, reached out and nodded Did's head, explaining, "The Mountain King can't sit idly by, right? It wouldn't be good if it hurt the other people on this mountain again. ”

Dill figured out the trick: "Niangniang watched the tiger fight across the mountain, and their own people started infighting, and the queen had to bother to appease all parties, so she didn't have the heart to pay attention to Niangniang anymore." ”

An Lingrong shook her head with a smile: "The queen is not so simple, the noble Jin and the noble Wan fight each other, maybe she will be happy to see it, neither of these two can stand alone, it is better to fight with each other and contain each other, what I want to target is the two generals she values the most - Concubine Zhen and Concubine Qi." ”

This is why even Cuiyin can't understand: "What is Niangniang going to do?" ”

"Guess." An Lingrong bent his eyes and laughed, no longer paying attention to Cuiyin Dill and Cardamom, and slowly drank the fetal pills.

Tonight, the emperor still turned over Fang Chunyi's brand.

At night, she was gossiping with the emperor with a smile, but Su Peisheng hurriedly broke in: "Your Majesty, the noble Jin has been assassinated, and the queen has rushed over, can the emperor also go over to have a look?" ”

"What's going on?" The smile on the emperor's face had not faded, and he turned around and asked, "Where is the injury?" ”

"I was stabbed in the heart, and I'm afraid the situation is not good." Su Peisheng said in a low voice.

Fang Chunyi's eyebrows jumped, and she was faintly uneasy in her heart for some reason, she eased her expression, and said to the emperor: "The emperor go over and take a look, the noble Jin has been grounded for half a month, and now that he is injured, he must want to see the emperor." The concubines accompanied the emperor over. ”

Thinking of Long Keduo's infrequent temptations in the past two days, the emperor rubbed his eyebrows with a little headache, turned over and stayed: "Hmm." ”

hurriedly drove Yonghe Palace, and after entering the hall, a trace of blood could be faintly smelled.

The queen sat dignified on the Eight Immortal Chair in the center of the hall, sitting like a mountain with tea, her sharp eyes swept over the concubines present one by one, except for Concubine Duan and Shun Guiren did not come, the rest were all there, sitting on both sides in turn, kneeling half-kneeling in the middle to guard the guards of Yonghe Palace, with a tall body, it was Lu Shouchang.

Seeing the emperor coming in, the queen led everyone to hurriedly get up and say goodbye: "Hello to the emperor, the emperor is blessed with gold." ”

"Get up." The emperor hurriedly took two steps forward and grabbed An Lingrong, then waved his hand to let everyone get up, and then landed on the eight immortal chair where the queen was originally sitting, pointed at Lu Shouchang and said, "You, go on." ”

The queen gave up her seat to the emperor, took half a step back and sat down on the pear blossom wooden chair on the side, and also looked at Lu Shouchang.

"Yes." Lu Shouchang didn't get up, and continued with his chin, "Wechen was ordered to guard Yonghe Palace, tonight is Wechen on duty, who knew that just after the shift change, I suddenly heard a scream from the Jin nobles inside, and then I heard the inside shouting 'There is an assassin' and 'Jin Guiren is injured', Wechen didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly asked people to report, and then led people to chase in the direction of the assassin's escape, but unexpectedly, the assassin was cunning, and he hid directly in the Chengqian Palace, Weichen didn't dare to break in, so he could only send someone to surround the Chengqian Palace to prevent the assassin from escaping again. ”

Wan Guiren sat opposite An Lingrong, seeing her slowly frowning, but her expression was not half panicked, and she couldn't help but praise in her heart, and the rest of the concubines didn't know whether it was out of sympathy or watching the play, so they had to talk in whispers.

"Where did the noble Wan come from to find someone to assassinate in the palace? This is inevitably too bold. Concubine Qi was surprised, "It's just a matter of bickering on weekdays, you can't do this thing that harms people's lives, thanks to your heart." ”

"This month is really not peaceful, there was a maid of the Jin nobles who murdered the Shun nobles with witchcraft, and then there were Wan nobles who instructed others to assassinate the Jin nobles, if the Shun nobles can get up at this time and make a fuss with the Wan nobles, these three people can form a circle." Xin Guiren joked and laughed, as if he was watching a farce.

The rest of the people were all talking to each other, and in a few words, they were almost condemned to the noble people.

Wan Guiren pursed the corners of his mouth, got up and walked forward, kneeling down in front of the emperor and queen: "The concubine is the emperor and the queen." She looked up at the emperor, stubborn with a hint of sincerity, "The concubine has not done anything to hurt the noble Jin." ”

"What's the use of saying these things with empty mouths and white teeth, if there is no physical evidence, you can't implicate this matter on the Wan nobles, and ask the emperor to order a search of the Chengqian Palace, so that the Wan nobles can be innocent." Concubine Qi stood up and said a fair word, if she ignored the schadenfreude in her eyes.

The queen nodded approvingly: "It's still Concubine Qi who understands the rules." She looked around and said sharply, "As a harem concubine, how can you slander like a villain in the market, how many incidents in the harem are based on false rumors, don't you know?" Before this matter is clear, you all began to accuse the noble people, what is it like! She quietly turned her eyes to look at An Lingrong, and her brows furrowed slightly unconsciously.

An Lingrong lazily leaned on the chair with her arms propped up, only combing her simple bun, leaning out of the crescent comb made of bull rhinoceros, and holding the hibiscus hosta that the emperor had newly rewarded her.

I always felt that something was wrong.

The queen frowned and thought for a long time, but she didn't have any clue, so she could only pay more attention to An Lingrong in her heart.

"The matter has not yet been decided, so you hurriedly convicted the noble man, it is really brainless." The emperor glanced at Concubine Qi intently, and snorted coldly, "Su Peisheng, you personally take someone to investigate." ”

"Yes." Su Peisheng immediately took Lu Shouchang to Chengqian Palace.