"Congratulations to my sister on being promoted to a concubine." After the banquet was dispersed, An Lingrong came to Yongshou Palace with gifts to say goodbye, only to see that the congratulatory gifts on the table were piled up like a hill, Cui Jinxi, Liuzhu and Xiao Yunzi were counting and storing them, "I don't know if my mind can get into my sister's eyes." ”

Zhen Huan was soaking her hands in rose juice, and couldn't help laughing when she heard the words: "Since I returned to the palace, you have sent things at every turn, eating and playing, everything is good, if I am still not interested, wouldn't it be arrogant?" She took the silk scarf handed over by Liuzhu and wiped her hands, beckoning An Lingrong to sit down, "Liuzhu, go and pour tea, Rong'er likes to drink flower tea, make a pot of rose tea that the emperor just rewarded yesterday." She looked at An Lingrong and said with a smile, "I drank that tea once, it is very fragrant, if you like it, wait for a box to take back." ”

An Lingrong didn't shirk either, responded with a smile, and turned to talk about Lingxi: "Sister gave me Lingxi like this, don't you regret it?" ”

"I've been thinking about this for a month, and to be honest, I'm selfish." Zhen Huan smiled lightly, stretched out her hand and pulled An Lingrong's hand, "Haoyue, Lingxi, Hongzhao, I'm afraid I can't protect the three children with my own strength, Haoyue finally returned to me, I can't bear to be separated from her again, Hongzhao has been holding in my stomach for too long, and his body is weaker than Lingxi, so I have to bother taking care of it myself, only Lingxi can be trusted." Moreover, Ankang died young, the emperor has always been very sad, Lingxi remembered to raise under your name, as the shadow of Ankang, the emperor will definitely pity her. She looked at An Lingrong, "Rong'er, Lingxi is my child and your child, and I can only feel at ease with you to take care of her." ”

"Since my sister has entrusted me with this, I will definitely risk my life to protect her." An Lingrong said solemnly.

Zhen Huan glanced at her with disgust: "It's nonsense again, you dare to say anything." She changed the subject and looked at the brocade box in Cardamom's hand, "What good things did you bring with you?" ”

"Some time ago, I had nothing to do, I looked through the ancient books and saw a clever recipe, with yarn piles of flowers, my sister loves begonias the most, and these two sisters bring them themselves." An Lingrong opened the wooden box of Huanghuali, took out a palm-sized pink palace flower from it, and pointed to the slightly smaller six pairs and said, "The remaining rhododendrons, roses, magnolias, red plums, narcissus, and lilies, my sister will keep them for appreciation." ”

Zhen Huan was very curious, and carefully took the flowers and looked at them again: "At first glance, I thought it was a real flower." She put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it gently, and talked to An Lingrong.

"Niangniang, there are too many congratulatory gifts, you let the slave and maid pick some outstanding ones to stay, and you really can't pick them out for a while." Cui Jinxi ordered the congratulatory gift, walked out and said, "What this Jinkang County Royal Mansion has sent is a pair of twelve handfuls of mud gold silk elk bamboo fans, which is strange and cold in the bamboo bone tentacles, like jade. ”

An Lingrong raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "This Jinkang County Royal Mansion is not to be offended by anyone." When I was crowned a concubine, their family also gave a gift, which was a whole piece of mutton fat white jade carved from the statue of Guanyin, the jade was delicate and warm, and the dill they were amazed for a while. ”

Zhen Huan smiled and motioned for Cui Jinxi to continue.

"And this." Cui Jinxi took out a long brocade box, "The Wen Xi poison chopsticks sent by the Meng Guo Mansion, although the silver chopsticks can also detect poison, they are far less rare. ”

"The people who use poison are the most vicious, and they can't be prevented, in the end, Meng Guogong has the mind." Zhen Huan sighed and told Cui Jinxi to put it away.

"Wait." Cardamom saw a hint of something wrong with her sharp eyes, shouted out to stop Cui Jinxi's movements, stepped forward to take a closer look at the pair of Wen Xi poison-repelling chopsticks, reached out and rubbed it on the tip of the chopsticks, and gently twisted the thumb of her index finger, and then breathed a sigh of relief, "Aunt Jinxi don't be busy with the warehouse first, take it and soak it in white vinegar, someone wiped something unclean on it." ”

Zhen Huan's eyebrows jumped: "Is it poison?" ”

"It's not poison." Cardamom smiled briskly, "It's a potion similar to croton, and if the mother uses this chopstick, she may suffer a little." ”

Zhen Huan raised her eyes in surprise and glanced at An Lingrong, a little surprised: "I have no contact with Meng Guogong, did he send this thing intentionally or unintentionally?" Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and asked, "The Meng family...... His family's young lady Meng Jingxian was the one who was originally going to point to the seventeenth master, but I don't know if she is married now? ”

Xiao Yunzi replied: "Not yet, Miss Meng has been obsessed with the Seventeenth Master, and she still doesn't want to leave the cabinet, and she has become an old girl." ”

An Lingrong also sighed: "She is also pitiful, when the Queen Mother wanted to give her marriage to fulfill her infatuation, she was rejected by the King of Guojun in court, and she was seen as a joke by the people in the capital, but she was also considered strong, and immediately showed that the King of Guojun would not marry in this life, so it was consumed until now." Feeling emotional, he was also a little strange, "It's just okay, what does their family do to my sister?" ”

At this time, Cui Jinxi stepped forward with a brocade box again: "Niangniang, the coral bracelet sent by the Guojun Palace, the slave and maid look really exquisite." ”

"The coral in the palm of the hand is not pitiful, but it is taught to be a sunflower." Zhen Huan took the coral on her wrist with her heart, waved her hand and let everyone retreat, before she said to An Lingrong, "I guess, Miss Meng probably heard some rumors about the prince and me, which made it difficult for me." Rong'er, I'm afraid, there are already rumors outside......"

"Didn't my sister say that the two of you kept things a secret?" An Lingrong also became nervous after realizing this, "Except for Jinxi and Liuzhu, as well as Ah Jin beside King Guojun, who else knows?" ”

"Concubine Shu and her maidservants all know, and I have been to Qingliangtai once, and the maidservants there may have also seen some clues." Zhen Huan counted carefully, "I don't dare to judge." ”

"I'll have someone look it up." An Lingrong immediately made a decision.

It was not difficult to check these things, and within a few days, Zhou Nan entered the palace with the news, but the content she found made her sense that something was wrong: "You mean, Meng Jingxian and King Guojun have known each other for many years?" ”

"Yes, the spy came to report that Miss Meng had known King Guojun fifteen years ago, and the two had a very close relationship, and Miss Meng could even enter and leave Qingliangtai freely, and the whole Guogong Mansion, including Grandpa Guo, all acquiesced in the fact that Miss Meng would marry King Guojun." Zhou Nan said, "What's more, King Guojun also made a private agreement with Miss Meng for life, but later King Guojun met a woman when he was traveling abroad, and fell in love at first sight, so he made an appointment with Miss Meng." ”

"Who is this woman?" An Lingrong's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked.

Zhou Nan shook his head: "Our people have checked and haven't found out who this woman is, they only know that she and King Guojun are in a dewy relationship, and they disappeared soon after, and King Guojun was sad for a long time." ”

An Lingrong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, you can retreat first." ”

Knowing that Zhen Huan was not exposed, An Lingrong was a little relieved, but at the same time had doubts, how did Meng Jingxian know about this?

But this question didn't take An Lingrong much effort to explore, and the battle about the sixth elder brother quickly occupied all her attention.

On this day, she got the news and hurried to the elder brother's office, and it was the most exciting part, the queen stood aside with an iron face, Concubine Jing knelt on the ground with the sixth elder brother in her arms and cried and hugged together, the emperor was so angry that she couldn't do it, and Zhen Huan was sitting beside the emperor and was whispering to persuade something.

In the side hall, the female eunuchs of the Mama Palace, as well as the imperial doctors, kneeling and standing, surrounded by a circle of people.

"Say hello to the emperor, please say hello to the queen." After An Lingrong came in, he first saluted in a regular manner, and then looked at the emperor inexplicably, "What's the matter?" She looked at Concubine Jing and Sixth Elder Brother, "Didn't you say that Sixth Elder Brother was sick?" It's been autumn wind these days, and it's cold time, so kneel on the ground and beware of the cold. ”

"Yes, Concubine Jing, let's get up and speak first, what does it look like to be so noisy." The queen opened her mouth with a dark face, she did not answer An Lingrong's words, but looked at the emperor, and said righteously, "Your Majesty, this group of minions who take care of the sixth elder brother deducts the prince's share and fills their own pockets, and they should be punished with whipping." ”

An Lingrong, who was walking to Concubine Jing's side, flashed slightly, lowered her eyes and glanced at Concubine Jing, Concubine Jing nodded quietly, she turned her head to look at the sixth elder brother, as if inadvertently opened his sleeve, and was immediately angry: "Sixth elder brother, what's the matter with the injuries on your body?" ”

The sixth elder brother shrank and shrank into Concubine Jing's arms aggrievedly.

"If it weren't for the fourth elder brother who found out that something was wrong today, he came to tell me, I would still be kept in the dark." The emperor said coldly, "The person who the queen arranged to take care of the sixth elder brother's living room didn't know where to eat the bear-hearted leopard guts, and dared to be ruthless to the prince, is it bullying the sixth elder brother who can't speak?!" The emperor slapped the table suddenly, "All the minions serving the sixth elder brother will be dragged out and killed immediately!" ”

The queen's face turned pale, and she immediately spoke: "Your Majesty, the two grandmothers who take care of the sixth elder brother are both old men in the palace, and the sixth elder brother is the son-in-law. She spoke earnestly, as if she was sincerely thinking about the sixth elder brother, "It's all the concubines, I ignored the sixth elder brother before, although Concubine Jing loves him, but she is also too arrogant and doting, if you don't hurry up, I'm afraid that I won't be able to control my temperament in the future, and the two grandmothers are more severe, if the emperor punishes them for this, wouldn't it hurt the sixth elder brother?" ”

"When the queen took away the sixth elder brother that day, on the grounds that the concubine doted on the sixth elder brother excessively, she replaced all the minions arranged by the concubine to the sixth elder brother, and the newly appointed Qi Mama and Song Mama did not care about the sixth elder brother at all. Concubine Jing cried and said, "Your Majesty, after the sixth elder brother came to the concubine's side, he has always been strong, he has never been sick in these years, and he has been in the elder brother's office, and it has only been a few months...... It's really distressing. ”

"Forgive the concubine for talking too much, the queen mother, why do you think that the sixth elder brother must not know the etiquette if he is squeamish?" An Lingrong helped Concubine Jing sit down, asked the imperial doctor to give medicine to the sixth elder brother first, and then got up to confront the queen, "In the eyes of the concubines, the sixth elder brother has always known etiquette and etiquette, and Concubine Jing is gentle and generous, under her subtle influence, the sixth elder brother is a little more humble and elegant than the other elder brothers, he can't speak, but he has never been frizzy when dealing with people." She looked at the emperor and said with a sad smile, "Your Majesty, Ankang used to like the sixth elder brother the most, and only the sixth elder brother will patiently accompany Ankang to play around." ”

The emperor's heart tingled slightly, looked at the sixth elder brother, remembered his healthy and strong appearance beside Concubine Jing over the years, compared to the moment, the clothes on his body looked wider, and he felt a little resentful towards the queen: "The sixth elder brother is only a few years old, the queen is like this, it is too unfounded, but it is Hongshi, the queen should always teach him, that child has begun to relax in reading recently, and it is not as good as the fourth elder brother to work hard." ”

The queen's face twitched slightly, and she was a little short of breath: "The emperor said yes." ”

"The sixth elder brother is still taken care of by Concubine Jing, and the queen doesn't have to bother." The emperor got up, raised his head and looked at everyone, "The grandmother who took care of the sixth elder brother entered the Shen Penal Division, and the rest of the people were punished with fifty rods." Su Peisheng, all dragged on. ”

Su Peisheng hurriedly responded.

Zhen Huan saw that the time was almost up, and stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Sister Jing's knees are empty, and the relationship between the sixth elder brother and her is so good, why don't you directly record the sixth elder brother in her name?" ”

(End of chapter)