On the morning of the departure of the envoys of the Three Kingdoms, Mu Qingchen was reading a book in Luluoju, but suddenly heard that the chief manager of Qin came to tell him, saying that Lou Xiyu was asking to see him outside the gate of King Yi's mansion.

"Did General Lou say that he came to see the palace, so what's the matter?" Mu Qingchen raised his eyes to look at Qin Zhong and asked.

"I just said that I was about to leave for the Heavenly Star Country and come to say goodbye. Manager Qin arched his hand and said.

"In this case, you go and tell General Lou that the palace is very good in Ningyue Kingdom, and ask him to tell the imperial brother on his behalf and report the safety of Qingchen. As for the farewell, there is no need, the palace is already the princess of Yi, and it is inconvenient to meet the envoys of the Tianxing Kingdom alone. Qingchen commanded, and let Qin Zhong go out.

"Why is the princess so cruel to General Lou? Now she refuses to even see him. Jin Yan stood beside Qingchen and said in a tone that seemed to be a little complaining.

"Why give him hope if there is no result?" Qingchen said with a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth.

If she was the real Mu Qingchen, she would definitely be reluctant to treat Lou Xiyu like this, but unfortunately she was not. The real Mu Qingchen has long died for the sake of Lou Xiyu, and now the person in this body is her Ye Tingcheng, who was betrayed by Xiao Ling and avoided love.

As soon as Mu Qingchen's words fell, he heard a voice coming in from outside the door with a little anxiety:

"Princess—something happened!"

"Why are you so panicked?" Mu Qingchen looked up at Zhan Yu with a worried face and asked.

It has not been a day or two since Zhu Yu was in the Star Picking Tower, he has been learning martial arts with Ning Chen, although his temperament is more lively, but he has never been so impatient, and now he has such a look, something big must have happened.

While speaking, Mu Qingchen saw that there was a person behind Zhu Yu, who turned out to be Wu Haifu, the chief eunuch of Ci'an Palace.

"Minions, see Princess Yi. Wu Haifu walked in front of Mu Qingchen and made a gesture before he spoke again, "The Queen Mother, Princess Xuanyi will enter the palace to meet you." ”

Mu Qingchen looked at Wu Haifu, but saw that the eunuch had a look of good show on his face, and there was a slight look in his eyes, as if he was waiting for something.

A trace of uneasiness flashed in Qingchen's heart, neither heard of a palace banquet, nor heard of the Queen Mother summoned with Shen Bining, so what was the matter with announcing her to the palace alone? Shen Yuan was scheming, and it was absolutely impossible to do something for no reason.

"Father-in-law, please wait for the palace to change into decent clothes, and then follow your father-in-law into the palace to meet the Queen Mother. After Qingchen turned his mind, he said with a quiet smile.

"According to the slave, the princess should not let the queen mother wait for a long time. Wu Haifu bowed down and said, but he didn't have a chance to make Qingchen prepare.

"The palace is just afraid that it will be rude to meet the Queen Mother, since the father-in-law said so, then let's go, don't let the Queen Mother wait for a long time. A trace of fierceness flashed in Qingchen's eyes, and it was fleeting, and then he turned his head and said to Jin Yan, "Jin Yan, let's go." ”

After speaking, Mu Qingchen took the lead in leading Jin Yan to the outside, and the moment he stepped out of the door, Qingchen gave a look to Zhu Yu, but saw that Zhu Yu retreated to the side in understanding, and respectfully sent Mu Qingchen out.

Wu Haifu followed behind Mu Qingchen, did not see the look in Qingchen's eyes, but took Mu Qingchen to Ci'an Palace according to the queen mother's wishes.

Today's Ci'an Palace is different from the past, usually Mu Qingchen goes in, and the concubines are all around, accompanying the queen mother, talking and laughing, or flattering the queen mother, or squeezing each other. But today it was solemn, Xiao Ling and the Queen Mother sat at the top, and the concubines below were seated in order of grade.

"The jade hook is see the Queen Mother. Mu Qingchen bowed and saluted.

The expected instruction of "no rudeness and flattening" did not sound, but the Queen Mother shouted sternly as always: "Mu Qingchen, are you guilty?"

"The jade hook didn't know what mistake he made, which made the Queen Mother angry, and asked the Queen Mother to make it clear. Mu Qingchen raised his head, looked at the Queen Mother sitting on the top, and replied.

In Shen Yuan's eyes, all the people and things she is not used to can be solved with "sin", just like the Ye family at the beginning. But now, before she even understood what was going on, Shen Yuan wanted to convict her?

"The mourning family asked you, this white jade Guanyin statue, but you gave a congratulatory gift to the mourning family?" the queen mother asked.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, this white jade Guanyin statue is indeed a congratulatory gift from the jade hook, this Guanyin statue is carved from the high-quality white jade of the broken mountain, I don't know what's wrong?" Mu Qingchen looked directly at the Queen Mother and asked.

There was no flickering in Qingchen's eyes, and there was no panic in his calm eyes, An Zhiruosu's attitude made the Queen Mother slightly annoyed, and she could only secretly hate Mu Qingchen in her heart for being too deep, and she was not shocked when it came to it, but she was afraid that no one could match her.

The Queen Mother's face was slightly abnormally flushed, and everyone looked at it, thinking that the Queen Mother was slightly red because of her anger, but only Mu Qingchen knew that this was a sign that the poison of the purple charm had entered the body.

"What's wrong? See for yourself, what's on this white jade Guanyin statue?" The Queen Mother snorted coldly, said so, and let Aunt Lan walk in front of Mu Qingchen with the brocade box.

Mu Qingchen took out the white jade Guanyin statue from the brocade box and looked at it carefully, but under the base of the Guanyin statue, he saw a line of words: On the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth month of the year of Jiyou, there is a moment in the hour.

"Can you see clearly? Jade is a yin owl thing, you actually carved the emperor's birthday on the jade carving, do you want to use the jade yin owl qi to damage the emperor's true dragon qi?" The queen mother spoke again, "The mourning family wants to ask, is this your idea, or is it the idea of Emperor Cheng'an of the Tianxing Kingdom, what are the thoughts of sending such a cursed Guanyin statue to the mourning family? Could it be ...... The Heavenly Star Kingdom was unwilling to be defeated by Ning Yue, so it wanted to murder the emperor in this way? Mu Qingchen, you are so bold!"

Mu Qingchen listened to the Queen Mother's words, and was stunned, she didn't pay attention to whether there was this line on the statue of Baiyu Guanyin, but it was difficult for the Queen Mother to come up with such a high-sounding but reasonable excuse to frame her. Jade's Yin Owl would damage Xiao Ling's dragon qi?

However, from the Empress Dowager to the people of Dawn, all of them believe in this curse witchcraft very much, even if she explains it now, the Queen Mother must not be willing to listen.

"Empress Dowager Qi, the statue of Guanyin was brought by the jade hook from the Tianxing Kingdom and has been kept in the treasury, so the jade hook has not paid attention to the above days, as for what this day represents, the jade hook is not clear. However, Yugou remembered that the emperor's birthday was the third quarter of the eighth day of the eighth month of the year of Jiyou, which did not match the time on the statue of Guanyin. Mu Qingchen put the Guanyin statue in his hand back into the box, and then explained to himself.

She didn't know if there was an inscription on the statue of Guanyin, so it was difficult to make up the origin of this day, so she could only use the reasons she knew to exonerate herself. Although it sounds ridiculous to carve the eight characters of the birthday on the jade to do the curse, it is not a big deal, but the person who sent the jade Guanyin is her, and the cursed is Xiao Ling, so the matter is not small.

If it was really as the Queen Mother said, from the inscription on a statue of Guanyin, the two countries were involved in diplomatic relations, and kept saying that the Heavenly Star Kingdom had bad intentions and wanted to murder Xiao Ling, wouldn't it give Ning Yue Kingdom an excuse to send troops to the Heavenly Star Country again? In this way, it disrupted her deployment and plans.

Sooner or later, the two countries of Tianxing and Ningyue will fight, but definitely not now, so before she has brought down those who participated in the killing of the Ye family, it is definitely not the best time to fight.

"Princess Yi is right, my birthday is the eighth day of the eighth month of the year of Jiyou, three o'clock. Queen Mother, what even Princess Yi, a foreign princess, knows, how could you be wrong?" Xiao Ling chuckled and said.

At the moment when the words fell, Xiao Ling's gaze was cast towards Mu Qingchen, his thin lips were slowly hooked, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes, and there was a faint killing intent in his eyes, indifferent and bloodthirsty.

Mu Qingchen trembled suddenly, Shude raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Ling, her heart surging.

I always knew that Xiao Ling was deep in thought, but I never thought that it would be so deep, deliberately doing something on the white jade Guanyin, but deliberately revealing flaws so that she had room for redemption, and making such a big battle was just to test her!

In vain, she was conceited, talented, and scheming, but she still fell for Xiao Ling's tricks so easily.

Before ascending the throne, Xiao Ling, as the prince of the concubine, was not favored, and it was impossible to have the opportunity to celebrate his birthday; only one year before and after his accession to the throne, the three-month national mourning period of the death of the first emperor in the last year of Taixing, and the birthday of the first year of Yongning had not yet arrived.

Now she is the Jade Hook Princess of the Tianxing Kingdom, she has grown up in the Tianxing Court since she was a child, and she stays at home, unless she has the heart to inquire, it is impossible to know Xiao Ling's birthday.

But now, she not only knows, but even says it categorically, without hesitation.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Qingchen's mind calmed down, and he stood silently, waiting for the Queen Mother to speak.

I kept thinking about what happened just now in my mind, the Queen Mother was aggressive, if she didn't defend herself, and let the Queen Mother say what it was, the worst result would be to sabotage her plan and let Tianxing and Ning Yue fight in advance, and the best result would be that someone would stand up and confess her guilt, and this person would be none other than Jinyan.

No matter what the result is, it is not what she wants to see, today's incident has sounded a wake-up call for her, letting her know that Xiao Ling has suspected her, if she doesn't speed up her movements, let Xiao Ling find out her identity, and know that she is the mysterious woman who has repeatedly entered the Ning Yue Palace, then her future road will be even more difficult.

"It's because the mourning family is confused, but the emperor, the mourning family is also concerned about chaos, so they will remember the wrong day. The Queen Mother sighed and shook her head, and spoke again, "Since it was not Princess Yi's doing, this matter will be stopped, but the days on this Guanyin statue are too close to your birthday after all, and it is unlucky, so it is better to ruin it." ”

"The Empress Dowager Qi, this white jade of the broken mountain is a high-grade white jade, it is so ruined, it is a pity, the concubines heard that there is a saying that there is gold inlaid with jade among the people, saying that the treasure of gold can cover the yin owl of jade, it is better to let the masters in the palace make jewelry with gold inlaid jade, which is not wasted, but also fulfills the filial piety of Princess Yi. What does the Queen Mother think?" Gu Yanru listened to the Queen Mother's words, so she spoke.

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(Tianjin)