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"Why did you suddenly pay attention to him?" Hu Tang glanced at the Seventeenth Prince from a distance, and said with some disdain, "He, even I can't compare to him."
Hearing Hu Tang's tone, Jiang Rao asked in surprise, "Have you tried with him?"
Before she set off, although she was not inseparable from Hu Tang, she knew a lot about Hu Tang, and she had never heard that she had anything to do with the Seventeenth Prince.
"I competed once, and I won."
Hu Tang pointed his finger at Adanu again, "That Qiang warrior over there is born with great strength. I can tell just by looking at this kind of person that I can't compare to him."
Jiang Rao followed her words and thought about it, but understood what Hu Tang meant.
She used herself as a reference to tell her that the Seventeenth Prince should be no match for the Fanbang warriors.
Jiang Rao propped her cheeks slightly, thinking carefully, although she felt weird, but she couldn't think of what kind of method the queen used. She just came back to Jinling from Rui County, and she hasn't returned to Ning'anbo Mansion yet. After a while, I listened to Rong Ting's words and entered the palace first.
With Rong Ting's arrangement like this, she believed in him, so she came.
When he came, he caught up with this martial arts test.
It is really a bit of torture to watch the seventeenth prince show off.
Hu Tang stayed by her side, and rarely became quiet.
She knew that Jiang Rao was going south to Huaizhou, and if she came back so early, something must have happened on the way and she couldn't make it.
Jiang Rao didn't look unhappy on her face at the moment, all she could do was not mention Jiang Rao's sad incident, nor the Ninth Prince.
In order not to make her sad by mentioning it, she doesn't know how to coax people.
Hu Tang sat on the side boredly, quietly watching the figures passing by in the center of the martial arts field, and suddenly frowned, "Today's competition, I'm afraid it will be impossible."
Jiang Rao followed Hu Tang's gaze and looked over.
Adanu, a Qiang warrior, was helped down.
"Injured?" Jiang Rao asked.
"It should be so." Hu Tang turned around, "What happened in the palace just now?"
Hu Tang rested his chin, and said with some regret: "I heard that I was going to come to the martial arts field this time, and I thought I would have a chance to see a hearty competition. After finally clearing the place, it was useless. What a disappointment. .”
"Who won the competition in the Cai Palace just now?" Hu Tang had been in the martial arts arena, and hadn't seen the competition in Qingluan Terrace, so he asked Jiang Rao eagerly.
Jiang Rao said softly, "Prince Seventeen."
Hu Tang froze for a moment, "Him?"
"He really won?"
Jiang Rao heard Hu Tang's excitement, and raised her eyes to look at her.
She looked at people quietly with her eyes, which made people have the desire to talk. Hu Tang said: "The last time I tried whipping with him, he was defeated. He has been pestering me to do it again. I said that if he can The warriors who have won the Qiang tribe will stay with them to the end." She lowered her head, her tone a little annoyed, "I feel that his cat almost scratched you, and I don't think it's worth talking to this kind of person. "
She tugged at her hair irritably and broke down. Jiang Rao took Hu Tang's hand, and said softly, "Didn't you say that you defeated the Seventeenth Prince once, and that the Seventeenth Prince defeated a Qiang warrior, doesn't that mean that you are stronger than that Qiang warrior?"
"Hey, you're right." Hu Tang thought for a while, and it was really the case. He turned around and smiled at Jiang Rao, looking a little shameless. She pointed at herself triumphantly, "Hu Tang Hu Tang is number one in the world."
"Yes." Jiang Rao laughed along with her, her eyes were like stars and her smile was picturesque, "Tang'er is number one in the world."
Looking at Jiang Rao's smiling face, Hu Tang felt that it was rare and rare.
She thought that Jiang Rao would wash her face with tears when she turned back in vain.
She is smiling so beautifully now, which is really beyond her expectation.
Hu Tang really wanted to ask Jiang Rao what he went through when he went south, but he didn't dare to ask in front of Jiang Rao. When Jiang Rao turned to ask the palace servants when to return to the palace, he grabbed Ming Shao, "Your girl Going south this time, where did you come back? What happened to you?"
Ming Shao picked up what she could answer and answered, "Going back from Rui County."
But no more, I won't say anything.
Hu Tang felt slightly disappointed in his heart, and stood there with a gray face. As soon as Jiang Rao came back, he saw her sullen expression, and thought she remembered her bet with the seventeenth prince again, and was thinking about what to do. After some coaxing, Ming Shao stepped forward and said hesitantly, "Miss Hu wants to know what happened to her when she went south."
Jiang Rao laughed immediately.
She was still thinking about Hu Tang's uncontrollable temperament, why she was so quiet, and didn't ask her how she came back from Huaizhou, and wondered for a while.
She knew that the people around her pampered her and cared about her mood, so she whispered to Ming Shao: "It's fine for me."
Hu Tang raised his eyes, a little depressed and remorseful. He clearly resisted asking Jiang Rao, but he couldn't resist asking Jiang Rao's maid.
She has too few friends, and in the circle of noble girls, she is afraid of making Jiang Rao unhappy.
"There are so many people here, there are some things that I didn't explain clearly to you."
Jiang Rao could see the sadness in Hu Tang's eyes. She leaned against Hu Tang's ear and said to her, "I'm going to the palace in a while. When I come back, I'll find you sometime tomorrow."
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The carriage returning to the palace stopped in front of the palace gate, took the sedan chair and headed north, Jiang Rao returned to Concubine Yun Gui. down.
She still felt that the seventeenth prince was able to defeat Fanbang's warriors because of some tricks hidden in it.
The court lady who went to inquire came back and said to Jiang Rao: "Adanu seems to have contracted a cold, and his whole body is weak. It can't be compared. The imperial physician has already arrived at his place."
Jiang Rao asked: "The imperial doctor was arranged by the queen?"
Jiang Rao always takes things seriously as long as she is not asked to do needlework, and her attitude makes Concubine Yun Gui become serious, "Niannian really thinks that the foreigner named Adanu fell into the Queen's trap? "
"It's just a hunch, it's not true."
Jiang Rao lowered her gentle eyebrows and thought, even if Jia and the Empress really arranged something in this matter, it would probably take some time to investigate. But seven days later, the envoys who paid the tribute would leave Beijing, and they pursued her to the end just because of her vague idea. If they found nothing in the end, wouldn't it be a waste of effort
But when she thought that the person was the queen, she wanted to check even if her efforts were in vain.
Jiang Rao tapped her head, feeling a little headache.
A group of black-clothed guards passed by, Jiang Rao heard the sound, raised his eyes to look there, saw one of the white clothes, frowned, and felt that the figure seemed to be calm.
When Jinling left, he let her enter the palace and told her that he would also enter the palace because he had to deal with some matters. If it wasn't because of his words that she came out of the martial field just now, she would definitely go back to Ning Anbo's mansion directly.
When they arrived at Shuxiang Palace, someone from the palace hurriedly delivered a message, "Fourth Miss, Your Majesty invites you to the Jinluan Palace."
Jiang Rao and Qin Yun looked at each other, both a little surprised.
Normally when Emperor Zhaowu came to Shuxiang Palace to invite someone, he would only invite Concubine Yun Gui over, but when would he invite Jiang Rao
Concubine Yun Gui wanted to go with Jiang Rao, when a nanny wearing a gray jacket came over, Concubine Yun recognized that it was the nanny who was in charge of the cost of fabrics for each palace from the House of Internal Affairs, and felt even more weird in her heart.
In the past six months, she has not been favored. These two nuns are rarely seen in Shuxiang Palace.
The gray-coated mother came to Concubine Yun, "The new satin from the House of Internal Affairs, the emperor saw that the empress was dressed plainly today, and ordered the servants to take the empress to choose."
Concubine Yun Gui thanked her, but she frowned slightly, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Emperor Zhaowu's gourd, she hesitated a little. Jiang Rao had a faint guess in her heart, she leaned into Concubine Yun Gui's ear, and said, "Auntie, you can go."
Just now I saw the white-clothed figure among the black-clothed guards, maybe it was Rong Ting, he might have met Emperor Zhaowu and had something to say to the emperor.
She followed the palace servants all the way to the Jinluan Palace, she thought she could see Rong Ting, but she only saw Emperor Zhaowu and Empress Jiahe.
There are also envoys from Fanbang.
The foreign envoy looked at Jiang Rao with a sullen face.
Jiang Rao looked suspiciously at the people in the hall, but couldn't figure out what was going on in front of her for a while.
With a calm expression on her face, she kowtowed to the emperor and empress.
Then he raised his eyes and looked at Empress Jiahe who was sitting beside Emperor Zhaowu.
Empress Jiahe had a faint weeping expression on her face, leaning against Emperor Zhaowu, "She is the one who instigated people to slander my palace, and she wants to ruin my reputation."
Jiang Rao was confused, and Emperor Zhaowu said in a deep voice, "Someone just sent me a secret letter, saying that Adanu lost to the Seventeenth Prince because he was drugged in the food."
"But the imperial physician has found out that Adanu's sudden weakness is just a symptom, and has nothing to do with medicine."
With tears in her eyes, the empress insisted on pouring dirty water on Jiang Rao, "It's because she wants to frame the concubine."
She was careful about this matter, not to mention that the person who gave the medicine was a dead man from the Xu family, the medicine would not affect the pulse condition, even if the imperial physician was not from her side, and the imperial physician who was not familiar with her was replaced by an imperial physician who was not familiar with her. If he tried to diagnose the pulse, he would only say that he was running around for a long time and his body was affected, so he suddenly became weak, and it would not be seen by others, because he had been drugged in the food he had eaten.
It will take seven days for the medicine to wear off, and after seven days... it's time for these Qiang people to leave Beijing.
But she didn't expect that someone would notice her movements.
She looked at Jiang Rao with disgust, but she cried to Emperor Zhaowu, "Just now the palace servants around the concubine saw that it was Miss Jiang Si, who delivered a secret letter to His Majesty through the hands of Zi Yiwei. "
The queen seemed to be heartbroken and said: "If people misunderstand the use of my medicine, I don't care what I do, but I am worried that the envoys will misunderstand our Dazhao and ruin the relationship between the two clans. Little girl, every family, this kind of method is useless. It's all right in the house, let her parents teach her a lesson, how can she be allowed to mess around with dignified state affairs?"
Just now she saw the palace servants from Shuxiang Palace poking their heads here, as if they wanted to find out something, the one who wrote the secret letter of complaint must be Jiang Rao.
It was she who underestimated this girl, and in the short time she came back, she actually made her figure out the matter of her drugging.
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Hearing what the queen said, the envoy also shook his head and looked at Jiang Rao with a bit of boredom in his eyes.
Jiang Rao clenched her fingers, patiently waiting for the chance to speak.
She also thought that Emperor Zhaowu had finally changed his mind when he asked the nanny of the House of Internal Affairs to show her aunt to look at the fabrics.
But looking at the current appearance, it is clear that he still wants to favor the queen.
A palace official handed the letter to Jiang Rao.
"Is this letter written by Miss Jiang?"
Emperor Zhaowu's voice was so cold that Jiang Rao's body shivered.
Jiang Rao frowned, didn't even look at the letter paper, gritted her teeth, and said frankly, "It's not a court lady."
She felt that the fact that the seventeenth prince had won against Adanu was strange, and she only said that it was just her intuition, and it was not true, so how could she slander her
The letter was still stuffed in front of Jiang Rao.
Jiang Rao inadvertently glanced at the small characters on the corner of the letter paper, looked at the handwriting, suddenly trembled, raised his eyes, and followed them all the way until he scanned the entire page, and was stunned.
that handwriting...
It is clearly the word of Rong Ting.
So, she guessed right. As expected, Empress Jiahe played tricks to make the Seventeenth Prince win against Adanu.
But she quickly raised her eyes to look at Emperor Zhaowu again, his hand was resting on Empress Jiahe's back, in a comforting and intimate gesture.
Emperor Zhaowu was facing Empress Jiahe.
Whoever wrote the letter will be charged with slander.
Jiang Rao snatched the letter, fearing that someone would snatch it, so she bent down and tore up the rice paper with trembling fingers.
No more people could recognize the handwriting on it.
"It's a courtier." She lowered her head, her fingers were trembling, but she spoke loudly.
"It's my son."
What fell at the same time as her voice was a voice from outside the hall.
Outside the Jinluan Hall, on the white jade steps, a tall and slender figure slowly walked up.
Steady and powerful footsteps were getting closer.