Xue Zhan got out from nowhere, snuggled up to Qing Chen, and found a comfortable position to lie down on. Qing Chen stretched out his hand to caress it, thinking of the medicine that could cure the disease again. No matter how many people can be saved by Xue Zhan's small body, this epidemic cannot be said to be cured after all, and it still troubles her.
Not long after, a little maid came from Changchun Hall, and said to He Feng outside: "Sister, go to Changchun Hall, the fourth princes are asking questions one by one, I will replace my sister."
Seeing that Qing Chen was resting quietly with his eyes closed, He Feng came out and whispered, "If the princess wakes up in a while, be careful to serve her. The medicine on the table hasn't been drunk yet, so she might get cold..." But suddenly she heard Qing Chen calling inside. Said: "He Feng, come in."
He Feng hurriedly said: "The servant has woken up the princess."
Qing Chen smiled faintly: "I didn't sleep, you go to Changchun Hall to meet the Fourth Highness, invite him back to Yaochun Pavilion, and just say that I have something urgent to find him."
He Feng agreed to go, Qing Chen got up and sat in front of the mirror, bowed his head and combed his long hair that was hanging down to his waist. He never thought that he would have such long hair. All those years ago, his head was neat and shoulder-length short hair. The three words "Ning Wenqing" seem to have become a dream with the disappearance of a little bit of habit, becoming more and more distant in memory, and occasionally remembering it feels very strange.
"Why are you in a daze?" Ye Tianling's voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
Qing Chen was taken aback, and looked up to see his shadow reflected in the mirror. His blue shirt was upright, and although he looked leisurely, his eyes were still sharp. He turned back and smiled and said, "Silent, scary Jump."
Ye Tianling looked at the medicine on the table, frowned and said, "It's so cold, why don't you drink it?"
Qing Chen smiled and said, "Forgot."
Ye Tianling stretched out his hand to trim the beautiful hair scattered around her, the hair slid through his fingers, it was cool and soft, he leaned over and asked, "What can I do for you?"
Qing Chen lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Fourth brother, are you going to investigate the Yanxi Palace epidemic?"
Ye Tianling said: "This matter is so strange, how can we not investigate it?"
Qing Chen sighed and said, "You tell them to break up, I'll tell you the whole story."
There was a glimmer of light in Ye Tianling's eyes, and he was facing Shang Qingchen's clear gaze, and looked over quietly, hidden in the subdued beauty, making people unable to see through for a while: "You mean, you know how this plague is? Into the palace?"
Qing Chen nodded, and Ye Tianling sat down beside him: "Say it."
Qing Chen started from Bi Yao's call for help that night, and told him everything about that day, without hiding a single word. Ye Tianling didn't say anything for a long time, his face was ponderous, a sharp edge in his eyes was unfathomable, not angry but mighty, the more he listened, the more serious he became, when Qing Chen finished speaking, he said coldly: "This is the death penalty of Zhu Jiu Clan. "
Qing Chen said quietly: "Zi Yuan's father died early, an elder brother died on the battlefield, and a younger brother disobeyed his mother's wishes and joined the Liaozhou Army on his own. There is only a crying and blind old mother in the family. Live in the sunshine. Danqiong's parents are both deceased, and he has no relatives, and it's nothing more than these old and young, sick and weak, but the Feng family is afraid that I will be implicated."
Ye Tian Ling Meifeng frowned: "Are you pleading for them, or are you blocking me with yourself and the Feng family?"
Qing Chen smiled faintly: "It's not pleading, a mistake is a mistake, and you should be punished if you want to."
Ye Tianling got up and stood in front of the window for a while, then asked, "Since you already knew, why did you say it now?"
Qing Chen said calmly: "If it's a fluke and it's someone else who came to investigate, I will try to hide it for them. But now you are the one who investigates, why should I waste time and effort on you, the result is still the same, how about Tell the truth."
Ye Tianling looked back at her: "Since you don't want to intercede, you are going to confess the crime together with them?"
Qing Chen shook his head: "I don't want to accept the crime, this crime is not easy to accept. The crime of deceiving the emperor..." She smiled: "I can't accept it."
"Can't afford it?" Ye Tianling's voice had a trace of anger: "After doing such a bold thing, why can't I afford it now?"
Qing Chen let go, and a strand of satin-like hair fell to his face, lining his face with a somewhat transparent whiteness, as if there was no trace of clear water in his eyes. She supported the desks and stood up, gathered the long clothes she was wearing on her body: "Fourth brother, don't be angry, I did it boldly. But the matter has come to this point, even if Ziyuan and the others are killed In this way, Zi Yuan has served the Empress Dowager for many years and has never made a mistake. There is no credit but hard work. She went out of the palace in private this time because of her filial piety. Sister Danqiong of Biguio and I are in trouble, not to mention that Danqiong is just a person Thirteen-year-old child, I just want to save more lives."
Ye Tianling saw that the blood on her face hadn't returned, and her body wrapped in white clothes was so weak that she felt a little more hidden anger in her heart, but she couldn't bear to attack her, so she said in a low voice, "Aren't you begging for mercy?"
Qing Chen smiled slightly and said: "Then it's pleading, please let the fourth brother let them live, it's also a good deed, the Queen Mother is kind-hearted, and she won't blame too much."
Although Ye Tianling has a cold temper, he is not a heartless person. Even if he is annoyed by Ziyuan and the others for their ignorance, but if Qing Chen is to let them go, the Queen Mother will inevitably feel sad, and her heart is already With care. It's just that Qing Chen is bold in doing the facts, such a wrong step in this palace is a crime of death, and he wants to scare her to restrain herself: "What's the use of begging me? Who can hide such things?"
Qing Chen had already seen that he would not punish a few people with cruel hands, the words were harsh, but Zi Yuan and the others should have saved their lives. I took out something from my arms: "I just thought of something," and opened a list, which was given to her by Luan Fei before leaving the palace: "You have seen this list, Zhou Feng, the head of the inner court department, is a member of His Highness Ninth Prince Well, there must be a lot of news inside and outside the palace, if His Royal Highness the Ninth Prince loses this arm, it would be a blessing in disguise."
Ye Tian Lingxuan raised his eyebrows slightly: "You're starting to bargain with me, are you begging for nothing?"
With a faint smile under Qing Chen's brows, he folded the list again and handed it to Ye Tianling: "Push the boat with the current, why not do it? I have seen the matter of Yanxi Palace in the past few days, maybe someone Something passed into the palace, maybe it was infected with the disease, the Secretary of the Inner Court made a lot of omissions, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Fourth Brother to check it out."
Ye Tianling didn't seem to pay attention to the list, but only stared at Qing Chen, and there was a bright light in his eyes: "Now I hope that the emperor's grandmother will get better soon."
"Huh?" Qing Chen didn't know why he said that suddenly, and felt a little strange.
Ye Tianling stared at her deeply, and said seriously: "Qing Chen, I ask the emperor's grandmother to marry her again."
Qing Chen was stunned when he heard the words, but smiled lightly, avoiding his charming gaze: "If you miss this kind of thing once, how can there be a second time?"
Ye Tianling said: "It is precisely because I made a mistake once that I cannot make a second mistake."
Qing Chen shook his head and said, "I'm by the emperor's side now, how can this matter be so easy?"
Ye Tianling heard the words: "Don't worry about this for now, this means that you have promised me."
Qing Chen frowned slightly: "When did I say that?"
Ye Tianling's eyes were lightly closed, and he was silent for a while, as if a slight sigh came out of the silence, and Fang said after a while: "Qing Chen, I wanted to mess up something before, what I thought and wanted in my heart , do, even I am in danger everywhere, I have been waiting for a woman who is willing to follow me and is worthy of the word "Concubine Ling". You are the one who knows me, and the one who holds my heart You, I've waited for so long and finally it's here, but I don't know, would you like it?" He stretched out his hand to Qing Chen, waiting for her.
His slender fingers were white and stable, as if they had pushed away the clouds and mists of thousands of years, and entrusted this life in front of her, inviting her to spend it together.
He doesn't just want to walk with her for a while, he wants to spend his whole life with her.
Qing Chen could almost hear his own heartbeat, and after taking this step, there was really no turning back.
She smiled lightly in his clear eyes, took a low step forward, and raised her hand gently in his without hesitation: "Fourth brother, don't you know my heart?"
Ye Tianling held her hand almost immediately, with an uncontrollable ecstasy on his face, he took a deep breath, and held Qing Chen in his arms: "You are acting as Xiuyi now, I have thought about it, At this time, it is not difficult to ask the emperor's grandmother to take you back, and then ask for the will of the marriage."
But Qing Chen couldn't help thinking of something in his heart. One day, when everything can return to normal, will she still stay here? This she is not her after all. Thinking of this, Youyou asked: "Fourth brother, what if I leave one day?"
Ye Tianling was taken aback, and said, "Where are you going?"
Qing Chen shook his head: "I don't know, but maybe one day, birth, old age, sickness and death, gathering and parting, aren't you afraid?"
Ye Tianling said lightly: "Thinking about those things, it's better to live one day sincerely."
Qing Chen raised his eyes and smiled, and buried himself in the dry and refreshing breath of his body: "Just one day, I will stay by your side for a day, okay?"
Ye Tianling reached out and brushed her eyebrows: "You know, after saying this, you are my woman and the future princess of Ling Palace."
Qing Chen said with a smile: "I heard that Prince Ling's mansion has strict rules and no one smiles at all. Isn't this princess suffocating to death?"
Ye Tianling also smiled and said: "Isn't there enough laughing these days? What is Ling Wang's mansion like? When there is a mistress, it depends on her own ability."
Qing Chen pursed his lips and remained silent, only watching Ye Tianling's more and more smiles, a kind of sweetness from the heart, a melting honey, lingering into a heart trembling, making people breathless. Ye Tianling saw her put her hand on her heart, and suppressed her smile: "But it still hurts?"
Qing Chen shook his head: "It's just that my chest feels tight."
Ye Tianling helped her to sit down and said: "You have a good rest, I only have one word on this matter, although these two maids have been spared the death penalty, they will never stay in Yanxi Palace again."
Qing Chen said: "I know that too, you can leave them to me."
Ye Tianling frowned and said, "Say no more trouble..."
Qing Chen begged, "Just this time." Ye Tianling thought for a while, and finally agreed.
One day later, when it was getting late, Qing Chen retreated the people around him, and called Zi Yuan and Bi Yao to the Yaochun Pavilion. As soon as the two entered the door, they knelt down on the ground together and kowtowed: "Princess Ende, please accept our worship."
Qing Chen stretched out his hand to pull them up: "Let's avoid all of this. It's better to be more sensible in what you do in the future. Just forget this matter in your heart and don't bring it up again."
Zi Yuan still had a worried look on his face, and said: "The Fourth Highness has interrogated everyone in the palace for the past few days, although we have not been questioned yet, but according to the method of the Fourth Highness, how can it be concealed, sooner or later they will be tracked down."
Qing Chen said: "Your Majesty the Fourth Highness, take Dan Qiong to ask for a crime when there is no one around. He already knew in his heart that if you were not punished yesterday, you will not be held accountable in the future."
Zi Yuan and Bi Yao glanced at each other, revealing expressions of disbelief: "Princess, this... is this true? The Fourth Highness actually spared us?"
Qing Chen smiled: "He is not hard-hearted, but there is one thing, Yanxi Palace, you can't stay here anymore."
In this way, Bi Yao is fine, but Zi Yuan has served the Empress Dowager for many years, and her heart aches. But in the face of the crime, the Queen Mother is safe and sound at this time, and it is lucky that I can save my life, so what else can I say? Qing Chen said: "I'll give you a few places to go, you can see if you want to."
Baguio said: "Since the acquaintance, the Princess has saved my sister several times. My sister's life has long belonged to the Princess, but Baguio dare not refuse to obey the Princess' orders."
Qing Chen said: "Then are you willing to follow me?"
Baguio was overjoyed: "It's my good fortune to serve the princess, how could I not want to?"
Qing Chen nodded: "Okay. As for Dan Qiong..." She looked at Baguio's nervous face, and smiled slightly: "The Songyu Terrace needs a maid to serve outside, how about I send her there?"
Bi Yao was stunned for a moment, originally thinking that even if Dan Qiong did not leave the palace, she would be sent to a lower place as a handyman, who would have thought that such a way out, although the Songyu Terrace is a bit quieter, but after all, she is beside the prince, no matter how wronged she is No, he hurriedly said: "I thank the princess for her."
Qing Chen said: "Since that's the case, then that's it. You go down first and take care of Dan Qiong."
Baguio agreed to go, Qing Chen was silent for a long time, staring at Zi Yuan, the red candle glowing on Zi Yuan's face was warm, which also added a bit of beauty, looking closely, she was also a handsome beauty. Seeing that Qing Chen looked at her silently, Zi Yuan felt that she was embarrassed, so she didn't dare to say much, and just stood there with lowered eyebrows.
Baguio and Zi Yuan shared weal and woe these days, after all they are much closer, they went back to the room and waited for her for a long time, but they didn't come back, so they went outside the house to look a few times. After almost an hour, Zi Yuan bowed his head and walked slowly, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and asked, "What did the princess say?"
On Zi Yuan's face, it was hard to distinguish between worry and joy, but he looked calm, and said softly: "When the queen mother is well, the princess will tell her old man that I will be his concubine next to His Highness Ninth Prince."
Baguio was stunned for a moment: "His Royal Highness?"
There seemed to be some determination in Zi Yuan's expression, which made her look a little gentle and determined, nodded and said: "The mistake I made this time will never be redeemed by a hundred deaths, and there is no way to repay the great kindness of the princess. I am also willing to be smashed to pieces."