Queen Meng kept her promise and refused to leave the house no matter what.
Even Gongsun Xi hinted that he wanted to change clothes and asked her to avoid it, but she ignored him.
The two were in a stalemate, but the Queen and others came slowly.
The person who came here was the one who had tried to trick her before and later gave her a hairpin as an apology. Seeing the awkward atmosphere in the room, she thought they had quarreled. Just as they were about to reconcile the situation with a smile, Queen Meng had already asked: "Are you planning to sneak into the palace?" Lin Yuan? Why bother? Just send me there, right?"
The man was stunned when he heard this, and immediately looked at Gongsun Xi. When he saw Gongsun Xi frowning, he said: "Sister-in-law, has Ah Xi made you angry? Don't be like him! He just can't speak, but he is actually very considerate. Yes. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been looking for you back and forth in the Weishui River before, right?”
"I wonder why he offended you now?"
"Don't be angry, just tell us and we will scold him for you!"
"But please don't leave... If Ah Xi wasn't sincere to you, he would still try so hard to save you, wouldn't he?"
"What's more, after one night of marriage and a hundred nights of kindness, look at how sick Axi is now, how can you be willing to leave?"
He spoke eloquently, and his repeated persuasion made Empress Meng blush with shame, and said to Gongsun Xi, "Axi, you are usually stupid, but now you are so angry that your sister-in-law is about to leave, why don't you persuade me more quickly?" A few words for sister-in-law?"
"..." Gongsun Xi frowned at him and said, "The queen plans to enter Shanglin Garden to help us. This is too dangerous!"
After hearing this, the man's eyes flashed, and he first agreed: "Yes, this is too dangerous! How can I ask my sister-in-law to lead a woman in such a charge? If word spreads, where will our brothers' faces be? ?”
"What's the danger in this?" Empress Meng said unhappily, "My cousin Meng Guiyu is now controlling the Imperial Army over there in Shanglin Garden, and my aunt, the Queen Mother, who has always loved me, is there. After I go there, they will never The reason for keeping them out! After I get in, I will definitely be able to move more easily than your people! They don’t know my relationship with you, so why should they doubt me? My aunt already liked me, but now that Meng’s death, all of them There are only a few people left, how could she not regard me as her thorn in the side more and more?"
"As for my cousin, I went to Shanglinyuan as a female prostitute, and I was just under the care of some palace maids and imperial guards. There are so many people there now, why is there one more person like me?!"
"Or does he doubt that I will compete with him for power?!"
The man smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, what you said makes sense, but have you ever thought about one question? That is, when the Queen Mother and Xuan Jingyi drove to Linyuan, you did not follow them! Not only did you not follow them at that time, Even when Meng Guiyu and the others escaped from the palace and went to Shanglin Garden to escort them, you failed to leave the imperial city in time!"
"At this moment, someone suddenly appeared in Shanglinyuan... You said your aunt and cousin, can you not be suspicious?"
"If they could have doubted it before, why should they doubt it now?" However, Queen Meng looked at him strangely, "Zheng Hou and the others were all killed and injured, and those who survived under his wing are now turning to my cousin. Have you? You must know that these are probably the hard work of Meng's first, second and third bedrooms. In this regard, let alone the gap between the fourth bedroom and us, the third bedroom, it was used by my cousin, let alone my elder brother. Daughter-in-law?"
"And I'm in the palace. My aunt has been the Queen Mother for more than thirty years and has always been generous. How can she still have a favor in the palace? When a disaster is approaching, there are not one or two palace people who are willing to love the house and the bird. Help me? Even if I say this, my aunt won’t believe it!”
"In addition, I am just a queen with no power. King Gaomi doesn't care about me at all. He just killed the guards of Wangchun Palace and left me and the personal maid to fend for ourselves!"
"Prince Concubine Mo passed away, and King Gaomi held a grand funeral for her."
"During this period, there was some chaos in the palace. I had help from people inside and outside. I took this opportunity to sneak out of the palace and fled to Shanglin Garden... Is there anything suspicious?"
"Axi, don't you think what your sister-in-law said makes sense?" The man couldn't help but nod his head as he listened, and suddenly asked Gongsun Xi, "We happen to have a few newly trained people under our command who have never been seen by outsiders. Please teach me." They pretended to be Meng's party members and escorted my sister-in-law to Shanglinyuan, but they entered in a big way!"
Gongsun Xi frowned and said, "She made it simple! Is Meng Guiyu so easy to coax? What if his flaws are discovered..."
"My sister-in-law has never committed any crime, and it is true that she is easily exposed." The man said with a playful smile, "But we don't need to ask my sister-in-law to worry about this! Just ask our people to do the work. Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Don't worry about it. Even if our people are exposed later, the sister-in-law pushed 265 and said nothing. The people there naturally thought that we managed to take advantage of the sister-in-law. The sister-in-law is a prostitute. How could they know that the Meng family has so many gang members? What do they look like? When you see someone trying to save you, of course you believe it, and you just think it’s one of your own!”
He said this thoughtfully and asked the queen, "Sister-in-law, don't be angry if I ask you something: Emperor Xuanjing, that emperor will not call you to sleep with him, right?"
Queen Meng said a little angrily: "He has the Shu sisters to serve him. Since he can't think of me, I also wish to stay away from him!"
"That's it!" The man immediately said to Gongsun Xi, "Ah Xi, you don't have to worry anymore! Even if there is an eventuality, the emperor will think of his sister-in-law, and with our people here, he can probably fool the emperor! After all, the emperor Sheng is famous for doting on the Shu sisters. I had never summoned my sister-in-law for such a long time in the imperial city, and now that the war is in chaos, I can't even think of it, right?"
Seeing that Gongsun Xi had a sullen face but refused, the queen snorted and said, "Is he making the decision here?"
The man was stunned for a moment and said, "No, but..."
"Then let the one who calls the shots come over!" Queen Meng looked at Gongsun Xi and said calmly, "I know that he has a close relationship with Prince Mi Zhen, so you should be extra tolerant to him! However, the state-owned legal family has family rules. Since there are people here He is the one who makes the decision, and he is not the one to take action in this matter, so why must he nod?"
The man laughed when he heard this and said: "Sister-in-law is open... Then let me tell you frankly: I am the one who is in charge of this matter. I am worried about what to do about this matter? Mainly because of us There are really not many people at the moment, and many of them are novices who have just been trained. If it weren't for the former sea master who was trapped in Shanglin Garden, he is the sworn brother of the prince, and he must be protected at all costs according to the prince's instructions. Marquis Ningwei’s wife’s face is not enough for us to work hard for!”
"I was already prepared to die at worst, but your idea is simply a God-given opportunity!"
"I'm just afraid of wronging you!"
"Whether I am wronged or not is not what others say, it is what I feel." Queen Meng said expressionlessly, "Besides, Ning Weihou's wife was kind to me before she came out of the cabinet. Now that I can repay her, I am willing to repay her!"
The man immediately gave a thumbs up and praised her for her loyalty: "I can't blame Ah Xi for following the prince all these years and traveling around. He has seen all kinds of beauties, including many noble ladies. I only fell in love with him." Under the sister-in-law's pomegranate skirt, the sister-in-law seems to be delicate and quiet, but in fact she is strong and resourceful. She is a rare and strange woman! What kind of blessing is Ah Xi? She went to the county king many years ago without telling her, and her sister-in-law is so provocative. Can he touch me?"
Empress Meng gave Gongsun Xi a proud look, but Gongsun Xi remained expressionless for a moment and said to her: "I will ask Dong Liang alone."
The queen left unhappy.
She didn't know that just after she left, Dong Liang, who had praised her so highly just now, suppressed his laughter and asked in a deep voice: "Is this queen reliable?"
Gongsun Xi looked at him and said calmly: "Didn't you just call me sister-in-law very affectionately? Why don't you ask me if you are trustworthy?"
"How did I know that she would propose to go to Shanglin Garden?" Dong Liang frowned, "I thought that she had always been unloved and lonely in the palace. She just happened to catch a pretty boy like you who came to her door. Wouldn't she be so passionate about adultery that her brain would be dizzy? , ran out with you, concealed her identity as the queen, and just washed hands and made soup with you... Anyway, the Meng family has been destroyed, and according to the prince's connivance to you, this kind of thing is not a big deal. "
"But now she suddenly proposed to go back to Shanglinyuan..."
"Am I really sincere to you, so why am I risking my own life to help you?"
"Or was she planning to use you to reunite with her aunt, cousin or something?"
"After all, if you don't care about her, how can she escape from that deep palace alone!"
"Don't be pretending to be righteous now, but actually I want to abandon you, right?"
He mused, "It's nothing if it's just to abandon you. At most, you'll be the duck cooked by yourself and fly away. This time, we all met her and knew that we would try to rescue her next." This is very troublesome for Gongsun Su and others! So if you give me a word of truth, can you trust your good friend?"
Gongsun Xi frowned and said: "What can't you believe? Do you listen to her whims? Later I will ask her what she knows about Shanglin Garden, and just let her stay and not go. This is the safest way."
"This won't work!" Dong Liang said, "If she is reliable, this method will save us a lot of trouble! You know, unless you get better immediately and take action yourself, we are the only ones who want to do it quietly. Sneaking into Shanglin Garden already depends on luck! If you want to rescue Gongsun Su again... unless Meng Guiyu is dead!"
"You know, the wife of Marquis Ning Wei is expecting us to sneak in and inquire about Gongsun Su's life and death. In the current situation, we don't really expect to rescue him."
"It's just that you know the relationship between Gongsun Su and the prince. Even if there were some rifts due to rumors before, the prince still misses his life-saving grace and all the subsequent protective feelings!"
"If he is dead now, that's fine. If he is still alive, but we failed to respond in time, causing his death, the county prince will definitely be upset if he finds out in the future!"
"And is there any better and faster way than taking your kind suggestion?"
Gongsun Xi was silent for a while and then said, "She shouldn't be an ungrateful person."
Dong Liang muttered: "I know... Well, but there is another troublesome thing about letting her go back to Shanglinyuan, which is Shou Gongsha. I have to go find a place and ask if there are any folk remedies to get through? Brothel hook bars and the like. There must always be some countermeasures."
After saying that, he got up and was about to go do it.
Hearing this, Gongsun Xi frowned and said, "No."
Dong Liang thought he was saying that there was no such way to cover up the brothels, so he laughed and said, "Ah Xi, you are just like the prince, you are pure-hearted and don't go to that kind of place for entertainment, so I don't know, there are some innocent people there." The bastard, I have combed my hair several times, changed the place and changed the name, and I am innocent again. Sister... how can I not hide it?"
"I mean she is still here." Gongsun Xi pinched his forehead, "So there is no need to hide it!"
"..." Dong Liang was stunned. After a moment, he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. He just said, "Anyway, I will make arrangements. You can rest assured and recover."