So, Qin Ruolan turned around and walked forward, and Feng Qianyan followed behind her, and the two walked one after the other on the narrow flower path.
At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded behind them.
Feng Qianyan looked back subconsciously, and was startled. The person behind was none other than the queen Xu Miaoyin, who came from the side door of the imperial garden, and happened to look up and see them.
"Empress Empress."
Feng Qianyan hurriedly turned around and walked back, ready to greet the queen.
And at the same time, the bracelet on Qin Ruolan's wrist suddenly broke.
Immediately, dozens of sandalwood beads fell to the ground with crackling noises and rolled all over the ground!
Just as Feng Qianyan turned around, the beads were rolling around her feet. Before she could react to the sound, Han Xiang beside her suddenly said, "What is this—"
Before she could finish speaking, she stepped on the bead and immediately slipped and fell on her back.
"Ouch!"
Seeing her fall, Feng Qianyan opened his eyes wide in shock, and subconsciously stopped.
"...!"
Qin Ruolan turned around.
She also didn't expect that Feng Qianyan didn't follow behind her at that moment, but turned around and walked towards the back. When she saw her back turned to her, a cold light flashed in her eyes.
But at this moment, Xu Miaoyin had already come up: "What's going on?"
For a while, there was some chaos on this narrow flower path.
Han Xiang fell to the ground, was about to get up, but slipped again by the bead, Xu Miaoyin winked at Chun'er beside her, Chun'er stepped forward and helped Han Xiang up.
Hanxiang said: "Thank you, sister Chun'er."
Chun'er didn't speak, just glanced at the ground, and returned to Xu Miaoyin's side.
Xu Miaoyin said: "What are you doing?"
Han Xiang hurriedly said: "Go back to the empress, the servant just stepped on something on the ground, so she slipped and fell."
"Slipped and fell?"
At this time, Feng Qianyan also recovered from the shock just now, looked at the sandalwood beads rolled all over the ground under his feet, and then looked at Qin Ruolan's empty wrist, and suddenly understood.
She said angrily, "Qin Ruolan, you are so brave!"
As soon as she heard her say that, Han Xiang's reaction was quick, and she immediately understood, and hurriedly said: "Ms. Qin, why did our mother offend you? Why did you do this?"
"..."
Qin Ruolan frowned and did not speak.
Xu Miaoyin said: "What are you talking about?"
Feng Qianyan hurriedly turned around, knelt down in front of the queen cautiously, and said with tears in her eyes, "Young lady, I saw Mrs. Qin in the imperial garden just now. I thought she was kind enough to invite my concubine to rest in the front pavilion. , she actually harbored evil intentions!"
Han Xiang also said: "Empress, Lady Qin wants to harm Concubine Ning!"
"Harm? How is she going to harm her?"
"The beads on the ground were thrown by her, because she wanted to make the empress fall!"
Hearing this, Xu Miaoyin's face darkened.
She gave Chun'er a wink behind her, and Chun'er was also clever. At this time, she had already squatted down, picked up a few sandalwood beads and held them in the palm of her hand for Xu Miaoyin to see, saying: "Look, ma'am, just now the fragrance That's what slipped on it."
Xu Miaoyin picked up one and looked at it, then looked at Qin Ruolan's wrist.
Sure enough, the jade-like slender wrist was empty.
Xu Miaoyin's complexion darkened, and she said, "Miss Qin, please explain."
"..."
Qin Ruolan was a little dazed when she saw her appear just now. At this moment, meeting Xu Miaoyin's gloomy eyes, she took a step forward and knelt down on the ground: "My concubine pays homage to the empress."
"How is this going?"
"This, it may be that I have been wearing this string of beads for too long and it is very worn, so I don't know if the string broke just now."
"Oh? You don't know?"
"Yes."
Speaking of this, although her face was still calm, there was already cold sweat dripping from her forehead.
She didn't expect that everything would be so coincidental, as if God was helping Feng Qianyan.
However, she had worn the string of sandalwood bead bracelets on the stone steps for a long time before it was worn down. No one saw it, and couldn't find any flaws.
I'm afraid the queen deliberately made things difficult for herself.
Thinking of this, she looked up at Xu Miaoyin.
At this time, Chun'er had already found the rope with a few sandalwood beads on it, and presented it to the queen. Xu Miaoyin looked at it for a while, but indeed couldn't find any flaws.
She just frowned and stared at Qin Ruolan.
Feng Qianyan said from the side: "Empress, my concubine almost fell down just now, she must have done it on purpose!"
"I beg the empress to punish me severely!"
"Empress, this concubine did not intend to harm Concubine Ning, please be careful, Empress."
Listening to their arguing, Xu Miaoyin did not speak.
She looked at Qin Ruolan, who had her head down, and at Feng Qianyan's slightly protruding belly. She was silent for a while, and a light flashed in her eyes.
She said: "Qin Ruolan, even if you didn't do it on purpose, but Concubine Ning is pregnant, if you are so careless, if you hurt the child in her womb, can you bear it?"
"..."
Qin Ruolan bit her lower lip firmly.
Xu Miaoyin narrowed her eyes slightly, and said coldly: "For today's matter, I will punish you in a small way."
"..."
"Go back to your Yanxi Palace, face the wall and think for a month, no one will let you out without my order!"
"..."
Feng Qianyan was listening, a little unconvinced.
She was about to say something, but seeing Xu Miaoyin's serious expression, she still didn't speak and swallowed the words again.
Xu Miaoyin said: "Aren't you going back?"
"yes."
Qin Ruolan clenched her fists tightly in her sleeves, and her nails almost pierced into her palms. The pain made her almost want to live. She could only grit her teeth, enduring the humiliation at this moment, turned around and left slowly.
Xu Miaoyin then said to Feng Qianyan: "Get up, your stomach is already so big, you should pay more attention."
Feng Qianyan felt unwilling, so she could only softly say: "Thank you, empress."
After finishing speaking, Hanxiang supported her to stand up slowly.
Xu Miaoyin said: "You should be more careful when you are pregnant. I don't need to tell you this kind of thing."
"Yes, I know I was wrong."
"Did you drink today's anti-abortion medicine?"
Han Xiang at the side said hurriedly: "The imperial physician just came to take the pulse for the empress, and said that the medicine will be delivered in a while."
"Well, go back and drink your medicine."
"yes."
The two of them only said a few words, and then walked away.
And Qin Ruolan, who had already walked to the side, turned his head slowly at this time, looking at Feng Qianyan's back.
Tocolytic…
(end of this chapter)