The husband's grandmother spoke up, and the matter involved the interests of the whole family.
No matter how reluctant Qiu Yilan was, she had no choice but to put Mrs. Tao on the soft sedan. After watching the sedan leave, she led the people to the King Qi villa.
When she arrived, Empress Jiang and Tong Bin, who had gone ahead, had already ordered people to take care of the entire annex.
Even when Qiu Yilan, my nephew, came, the gatekeeper still refused to let her in. He had to go inside to report, and only let Nijin come out and recognize her before letting her in. This level of strictness was simply higher than that of a palace. You have to know that Qiu Yilan was in a palace. It rarely stops.
"How is your Highness? Grandma was worried and sent me here to run errands." Qiu Yilan and Ni Jin asked quietly as they walked in.
"I just took the medicine, and the imperial doctor said it's hard to tell." Ni Jin had shown sympathy for King Qi when he reported to Qiu Yilan before, and now his compassion was even more palpable, "What's wrong with you, Your Highness?" It is said that you are a noble person, but this time the princess actually... Oh! I hope your highness is safe!"
Qiu Yilan narrowed her eyes and was about to answer when Nijin said again, "The concubine is standing in front of His Highness right now, and the empress is asking questions."
"Could it be that Mrs. Tao sent me here not to investigate this matter, but to observe the Queen's work?" Qiu Yilan was slightly startled after hearing this - but Nijin continued: "But the Queen is just asking casually, what matters is They were all brought to the Queen Mother."
He lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty is in a very bad mood. You are here to give me some advice!"
Qiu Yilan laughed dryly: "In terms of my understanding of your empress, how can I compare to you when I rarely see your empress? But I don't know what to say when I go?"
Ni Jin smiled: "How can you say that? You are a serious junior to the empress, and servants like the maids..."
While talking, they suddenly heard a slight cough not far away. The two of them looked up and saw Ms. Lin standing at the end of the corridor with her sleeves rolled up, winking at them.
The Queen's voice came from the room behind Ms. Lin: "What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, Madam Nineteenth is here." Ms. Lin quickly turned around, bowed, and reported softly.
"Come in." Queen Jiang's tone was so light that no emotion or anger could be heard. When Qiu Yilan came in to say hello, he looked at her quietly and saw her face was tense and her eyebrows were furrowed. He knew that the Queen must be extremely depressed at this moment. , couldn't think of any words of persuasion for a moment, and while she was racking her brains, the queen turned her head and glanced at her: "You came just in time."
Qiu Yilan didn't understand what this meant, so she could only put on a solemn expression and lowered her hands to accept the instruction.
But the queen did not continue talking, but ordered the place to be cleared.
When the two of them were alone in the room, the queen waved her to come to her, turned her eyes on her porcelain-smooth neck, and said softly: "The gold chain you are wearing has something hidden in the pendant. Something..."
Qiu Yilan suddenly understood the real reason why Mrs. Tao sent her here!
She subconsciously grabbed the jade box under her clothes: "...yes."
"I know this is the thought left by your father, and it finally fell into your hands." Empress Jiang sighed, "It is your brother who loves you, otherwise, how could I give you such a precious thing?" Two? I also know that Qiyun has treated you badly since I first met you. To be honest, even though she is my niece, I don’t like her! But now, the daughter of the Jiang family cannot be accused of murdering the emperor’s heir! I asked the imperial doctor privately just now, and the imperial doctor said it was very bad!"
"I understand what Fourth Aunt said." Qiu Yilan lowered her head to hide her extremely ugly expression, "But brother, he will go west next spring..."
If it were anything else, such as city-linked treasures or poem titles, Qiu Yilan would immediately hand it over without a second thought! But it goes without saying how dangerous Qiu Jinglan's trip was. How could Qiu Yilan not think of leaving something like this to him that could save her life at a critical moment? Even if he still has it in his hand, but... who can guarantee that he will be in danger just once? Who would think there are too many life-saving things
She was willing to take the first pill to save Xue Nongying because Xue Chang was kind and righteous to Qiu Jinglan, and Qiu Yilan believed that she had the obligation to repay the favor on her brother's behalf. And she and Qiu Jinglan didn’t owe King Qi anything!
This His Highness is very pitiful, but after all, it is his brother who is important!
So even though she knew that Queen Jiang would not give up her idea easily after she said this, Qiu Yilan still politely expressed her refusal - if King Qi really died, the Jiang family would indeed be very passive, but it would only be passive. That's all, Qiu Yilan doesn't believe that Jiang Banchao can't even resist such a little trouble, so what's the point of taking away the savings!
"Green Snow Villa is not very far from here." Queen Jiang looked at her for a while, sipped the cold tea, and said lightly, "If I send someone to find Qiu Jinglan, he has only I wouldn't refuse if I didn't... Do you think he would be willing to take this one with you when he leaves? In that case, you didn't know until recently that he was going west next spring, but he himself, But it’s been planned for a long time!”
The queen asked indifferently, "Are you sure you can defeat him?"
Qiu Yilan pursed her lips tightly and remained speechless. What the Queen said was true. Although Qiu Jinglan was very spoiled to her, she regarded her eldest brother as her father. On matters he decided, even Qiu Yilan had to obey him, not him!
After all, she is the wife of her most valued nephew. Empress Jiang put on airs and softened her tone: "You saved Xue Nongying earlier and made great contributions to our family! In this situation, if one of you is not good, you The previous rescue was in vain! And the Xue family will have to repay the favor. Are we, the Jiang family, stingy? This incident was all caused by Qiyun, but I asked you to give her such a precious thing to deal with the aftermath - I put my words here, if the master doesn’t pay enough to compensate you, let alone my disobedience, even your grandfather will definitely not sit back and watch!”
This is true.
The Jiang family is so prominent now, and everyone from top to bottom is proud and arrogant. As a result, they have received favors from their granddaughter-in-law one after another... No matter how partial Qin Guogong is to the big house, he will never let Qiu Yilan suffer such a big loss. After all, this life-saving medicine was given personally by Qiu Jinglan to her sister, not just for the Jiang family to keep!
At this point, Qiu Yilan knew that the medicine would definitely not be saved. Queen Jiang was obviously determined to get it, and she was half-coaxed and half-deceived by Mrs. Tao. The Queen's confidants filled the courtyard, and the Queen was so anxious that she ordered the guards to rob her. She could not be the opponent of so many people - yet To offend the queen greatly.
She really didn't expect that accompanying Mrs. Tao to the palace would cost such a big price.
Even if the queen promised to let Dafang provide for her...but, what could Dafang provide for her? It's nothing more than money and treasures. How could Qiu Yilan's rich dowry lack these things!
No matter how you think about it, you are being cheated!
Seeing her expressionlessly taking off her gold chain, Empress Jiang felt a little guilty, but she also felt unhappy: "Anyway, you can't use it now. You could save Xue Nongying before, but now you save King Qi and save the Jiang family from the big trouble." "What's the trouble? Your husband's family is not as good as your brother's family!"
The queen came to the conclusion that she "didn't understand the general situation", and decided to mention it to Mrs. Tao and Jiang Yashuang when she had time in the future, so as not to spoil Qiu Yilan - now that she has entered the Jiang family, then It’s the Jiang family. This time King Qi is about to die. According to the Queen’s opinion, the really virtuous niece-in-law should take the initiative to donate medicine instead of asking the elders to speak!
Like Qiu Yilan, if an elder dares to refuse even after he opens his mouth, he is even more ignorant, considerate and not generous enough!
"After all, Princess Ruan has been ill for many years and died early. No matter how smart this girl is, she will inevitably have insufficient rules and regulations without the upbringing of her mother!" Empress Jiang thought as she took the medicine, but her attitude was not warm.
She was dissatisfied, and Qiu Yilan was even more aggrieved. She took back the empty jade box and hung it around her neck, then asked to resign on the pretext that she was worried about her two sisters-in-law, one sick and the other pregnant. Queen Jiang had achieved her goal and was disgusted with her, so she decided immediately.
You can imagine her expression when she returned to the Jiang Family Courtyard like this!
But no matter how angry he was, he still had to go to Mrs. Tao to report back first.
As soon as Mrs. Tao looked at Qiu Yilan, she knew that she was unhappy. The old lady's style of doing things was different from the queen's. She had always followed the line of gentleness and love, so she had to comfort her with kind words... In the end, she started from herself. He took a pair of jade pillows to her from the private room: "I was looking through things two days ago and saw that the pattern on it is exactly the picture of frost in autumn. I responded to your and Nineteen's names, so I'll give it to you to play with!"
"Thank you, grandma." According to Qiu Yilan's current mood, he didn't want to do it at all, but he had to lower his head under the eaves, so he had to endure his anger and thank the reward, and then perfunctory for a while, he found a chance to say goodbye.
After going out, Su He asked cautiously: "Young Madam, what are you...?" When they came out of Prince Qi's villa, the servants wondered if the Queen had scolded Qiu Yilan in private
But now Mrs. Tao is asking for help and looking for reasons to give nice things, which is not the same.
None of the other servants dared to come over when Qiu Yilan was angry, so Su He took advantage of the different relationship between master and servant to tentatively speak.
Qiu Yilan ignored her until she returned to her yard. She went into the inner room and sat down. Without chatting, she picked up a pot of herbal tea prepared in the ice bowl on the table and drank most of the pot in one go - Chun. Ran and others quickly grabbed it: "We just came back from under the sun, how could you drink so much?"
"If you are really thirsty, young lady, my maid will go and make some warm water right now. You can't drink this cold herbal tea like that!" Shen Shui raised his feet and walked out.
"I can't get through this without drinking something to cool down the fire!" Qiu Yilan said with a sneer, looked around, sighed and waved, "Su He stays, you all go down first!"
Su He knew the origin of the medicine in the jade box hanging under the gold chain she wore. Of course, she had to talk to Su He now.
After angrily recounting what had happened, Qiu Yilan gritted her teeth: "... It's not like we just found out that Jiang Qiyun bullied the King of Qi and despised the dignity of the Tian family! What's the result? Her parents are as if they were dead and don't care. The fourth aunt... the empress, a serious mother-in-law, is just a beating. Don't be cruel! These people have watched Jiang Qiyun grow up, and they still don't understand her arrogant and unreasonable temperament! How can the clay figure still be so angry if he lets her take advantage of her carelessly? I lied to her and paid the price to deal with the aftermath - I have never done anything good in my eight lives, and I ended up with such a husband! If I had known better, I would not have married..."
Su He was so frightened that he rushed over and covered her mouth: "I know you are angry now, but there are some things you must not say!"
Qiu Yilan pushed her hand away angrily: "I originally wanted to stuff the medicine into my brother's bag quietly when he left. Now it's fine. The Queen wants it to save King Qi -" her eyes suddenly turned red, "If my brother goes west next year There really is one... What’s the point if I cut Jiang Qijun alive!”
"This man hasn't left yet, how can you say such a thing?" Su He was also worried for Qiu Jinglan, but she had to persuade Qiu Yilan first, "Besides, there might be others at the young master's place?"
Qiu Yilan sighed: "Even if my brother still has such a precious thing, he probably doesn't have many, maybe only one or two! It's because I wasn't alert. My grandmother sent me to King Qi's villa, and I didn't even think about it. Just went..."
"Even if you know the old lady's intentions, how can you still disobey your elders' orders?" Su He whispered, "There is nothing we can do about it."
"I shouldn't have worn this chain earlier." Qiu Yilan regretted it now, "I never told anyone that my brother later gave me such a pill. If I didn't wear this chain, how could the queen and others have guessed it? ?”
Su He smiled bitterly: "If you don't wear it, the young master will be angry with you again!"
Why did Qiu Jinglan give her sister this medicine? Aren't you just afraid that your sister will encounter an accident? If Qiu Yilan didn't wear it with her, Qiu Jinglan either didn't know about it, or she would definitely scold her if she knew it - so there was no way to avoid the fact that the medicine was forcibly taken away by the Queen today, no matter how hard she calculated!
Unless King Qi did not commit suicide!
"In the final analysis, it's because Dafang has no way to teach his daughter!" Qiu Yilan became angrier as she thought about it, gritting her teeth, "The queen didn't discipline her harshly. Firstly, Prince Qi was not the queen's biological son, and secondly, she was afraid of Dafang...this Dafang, this I want to see how they compensate me!"
But before the big house came to thank her, an unexpected visitor came first.
"Princess Ningxin?" Qiu Yilan was very surprised, "Why did she come to me? Did she encounter some difficulties?"