Although Xiao Yi is an idle prince, he has no good impression of a woman like Shen Bining, whose identity is almost certain to be a fine work, but the palace has a lot of eyeliner, and the appearance still needs to be enough, so after hearing that Shen Bining woke up, Xiao Yi immediately rushed to the Qingnuan Pavilion and accompanied Shen Bining.

"The concubine is grateful to the prince for her favor, and she has caused trouble to the prince. Shen Bining looked at Xiao Yi, and a slight emotion flashed in his heart.

Now she even feels that she is lucky that she was not married into the palace by the Shen family and intrigued with those women in the harem. In Yiwangfu, although her identity is also a chess piece, Xiao Yi's heart is not in the palace, so she doesn't need to compete with Mu Qingchen for favor, and her life is far more comfortable than when she was in Xiangfu.

"It's rare that you have a docile temperament, don't you blame this king for liking the new and hating the old, and taking you into the mansion, but never treating you as a wife?" Xiao Yi smiled and asked.

"The concubine has always known that the prince likes fine wine and beauties, and even a stunning beauty like the princess can't keep the princess, how dare the concubine have extravagant expectations?" Shen Bining also said with a smile.

Xiao Ling asked Xiao Yi to enter the court as an official several times, but Xiao Yi refused, preferring to be unruly outside, gambling with his sons and brothers in Kyoto and drinking flowers and wine, rather than being a serious prince, and it is common for him not to return at night.

Mu Qingchen, as an upright princess of Yi, is helpless, what can she do if she is a concubine in Shen Bining? What's more, she is still a pawn that the Queen Mother put in King Yi's mansion in order to spy on Xiao Yi.

"This king really wants to enter the palace tomorrow, thank you brother well. Xiao Yi laughed and spoke again, "Many noble children in Beijing are afraid of having a strong wife, but this king can enjoy the blessings of all people, isn't it happy?"

Shen Bining listened to Xiao Yi's words, bowed her head slightly, and a touch of helplessness swelled in her heart, probably due to the influence of her mother, she was extremely disgusted with the three wives and four concubines in the man's family, and she had to spend all day drinking outside, but Xiao Yi was such a person, and it was not worth entrusting for life.

In the final analysis, she still can't be like Mu Qingchen, who married from Tianxing Country but can still be calm and calm, it seems that everything has nothing to do with it.

The two were talking, but there was a bulletin outside, saying that Steward Qin asked to see him.

"Let him in. Xiao Yi walked outside, and then spoke loudly.

"Lord Qiqi, someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion has come, and he said it was ...... Please ask Concubine Shen to go back. Qin Zhong walked in, saluted Xiao Yi, and said so.

"What's the matter with the Prime Minister's Mansion? Send people to invite you in three days, don't you think that the palace is a vegetable market, you can come if you want, and you can leave if you want?" Xiao Yi frowned, as if he was very dissatisfied with the Xiangfu's approach.

After all, not long ago, the eldest son and the second son of the Prime Minister's Mansion passed away one after another, and the Prime Minister's Mansion sent people to invite Shen Bining back to mourn one after another.

The housekeeper of the Xiangfu said that it was the second lady of the Xiangfu who went, and the second lady was the biological mother of Concubine Shen. Qin Zhong glanced at the inner room, hesitated slightly, but finally said, "I heard that she was infected with the epidemic, and the two girls who served the second lady were infected one after another, and they were not as serious as the second lady, so they are still alive now." ”

Bang Dang –

Suddenly, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the inner room of Shen Bining's bedroom, and Xiao Yi quickly walked in when he heard the sound, but saw Shen Bining dragging his somewhat weak body and struggling to get up from the bed.

"Lord Wang, what did you say?" Shen Bining asked with a trembling voice, a heart had already risen to his throat, and there was expectation in his eyes, hoping that he had heard it wrong just now.

"You ......" Xiao Yi looked at Shen Bining, wanting to say something, but in the end he was still a little unbearable, turned his head and said to Qin Zhong behind him, "Go and prepare the carriage, this king will send the concubine back to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Although Shen Bining didn't hear Xiao Yi's direct answer, Xiao Yi's instructions had already told her that what Manager Qin said just now was true, and she was still planning for her mother to have a good life in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but her mother was infected with the epidemic at this time, so she went......

Xiao Yi sighed slightly, and felt a little more pity for Shen Bining in his heart. Although Shen Bining marrying him as a side concubine is Gao Pan, but if he doesn't marry him, Shen Bining may not have a better choice. Although she is only a concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she can marry the children of nobles in Beijing as a house-filling or concubine, which may be better for Shen Bining.

Because he was destined to have no way to give Shen Bining everything she wanted.

Nuan Dong waited for Shen Bining to dress neatly, and then left King Yi's Mansion with Xiao Yi and headed towards the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Along the way, Shen Bining didn't speak again, she only prayed in her heart that none of this was true, she hoped to go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and her mother was still standing in the courtyard waiting for her, just like she came back the first two times.

When the carriage arrived at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Shen Bining got out of the car, but saw that the Prime Minister's Mansion was very calm, and there was no sad atmosphere of the dead at all, Shen Bining was overjoyed, thinking that his mother still had hope, but he didn't even care about Xiao Yi, so he hurriedly ran into the mansion and went directly into the courtyard where his mother lived before - Chafeng Garden.

However, when Shen Bining arrived at the Wind Chasing Garden, she didn't see the scene in her memory, because what she saw was the maid in the Prime Minister's Mansion, holding a rag and a bucket in her hand, completely cleaning the Wind Chasing Garden.

"See Concubine Shen. When the maid saw her, she saluted, and then carefully withdrew, as if there was something terrible about her.

"What the hell is going on? What about my mother?" Shen Bining looked at the expressions of these maids and little maids, and suddenly roared, "Even if she is dead, what about the body?"

Everyone didn't expect that the second lady, who had always been gentle and timid, and even spoke very quietly, would talk like this, and they all looked at each other a little, not knowing how to answer.

After a long time, a little girl timidly spoke: "Second lady, she ......"

"The second lady died of the epidemic when she was infected, and the lord said that the yard of the second lady was afraid that it would be unclean and sick, so let the little ones carry the body of the second lady to the mountain and burn it, and then clean the yard inside and out to thoroughly clean it aside, so as not to cause trouble to others again. "A little guy finally mustered up the courage to speak.

"What did you say, the body was carried to the mountain and burned?" Shen Bining looked at the little guy with a look of disbelief on his face, and muttered to himself.

"Second Miss, please let me go, the eldest lady is still waiting for us to finish our work and go and explain to her. Suddenly, a voice appeared at the door of the second lady's original bedroom, saying to Shen Bining.

Shen Bining looked at the person, but it was Mama Su beside the eldest lady. I saw Mama Su commanding a few guys to move out all the things in the second lady's bedroom, telling them that all the home furnishings would be burned, and those that could not be burned would be buried.

"Mama Su, what should I do with these pots of flowers? Are they also ruined?" The guys held a few pots of flowers and plants in their hands and asked Mama Su for instructions.

"It's all ruined, these flowers and plants are still sent by the third lady, who knows what bad things will be contaminated?" Mama Su waved her hand with disgust, asking the guys to hold the flowers and plants away.

"Yes, the little ones will do it. The guys should bear it, and then passed by Shen Bining with flowers and plants, and suddenly, a familiar fragrance came to his nose, which shocked Shen Bining's heart.

"Wait-" Shen Bining stopped the guys with the bouquets of flowers and spoke again, "These flowers were sent by the third lady?"

"Yes, Second Miss, these flowers have been delivered for several days, and Second Lady has taken care of them like a baby, but now...... The second lady was infected with the epidemic, and these flowers and plants could not be kept. The guy replied.

"Let me ask you, what are the symptoms of my mother's infection?" Shen Bining asked.

"My second lady, what other symptoms can there be? Isn't it just vomiting and diarrhea, dizziness and dizziness? Also, the second lady doesn't know if she is contaminated with something unclean, and when she is sick, her arms are a little ulcerated. Mama Su said, "If the second lady goes up the mountain now, maybe she will be able to see the second lady for the last time." ”

When Shen Bining heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and his eyes swept over the flowers and plants in the hands of those guys one by one, and finally stopped on a red flower, his eyes flashing slightly.

"Concubine Shen, aren't the symptoms of the second lady the same as the symptoms of the poinsettia poison that the doctor said before?"

Nuan Dong was worried about Shen Bining, so she asked a few more words about the poison of poinsettias, and the doctor also explained it to her in detail, and then she told Shen Bining.

"Poinsettia ......" Shen Bining looked at the pot of red flowers, muttering in his mouth, but he already knew in his heart, "What about the third young lady? I'm going to find her." ”

Shen Bining said, then brushed aside the maid beside him, turned around and ran towards Shen Biting's yard.

She smelled the scent of poinsettia in her mother's yard now, and these flowers were sent by Shen Biting, and she accidentally got the sachet with poinsettia pollen before her, how could there be such a coincidence in the world? Why did Shen Biting send these poisonous things to her mother's yard? Why did she kill her mother?

Shen Bining's heart was full of hatred, when she was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, she and her mother were already cautious and low-key everywhere, trying not to provoke those people, but they were still inevitably framed and targeted by the eldest lady, and she was inevitably bullied by Shen Bihuan and Shen Biting. She remembered all these humiliations, and she wanted to return them all one day, but why did her mother go like this?

"You stop!" Suddenly, a slightly majestic voice sounded behind Shen Bining, she turned to look, and standing behind her was the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, her mother-in-law Zhou.

It was clearly the bright weather of fireworks in March, and the sun was full of warmth, but looking at Zhou's eyes, Shen Bining actually felt a chill for no reason. Before she could make Zhou and Shen Bihuan pay, her mother died......

"Big lady, what about Shen Biting?" Shen Bining did not salute, nor was she humble and deferential to the Zhou family as before, this was the first time she looked directly at the Zhou family so boldly, and ...... Confronted Zhou.