In the imperial garden, the flowers and plants suddenly swayed, and a cricket suddenly jumped out of the bush, followed by a little boy who also jumped out of the bush.
"Brother Fifteen!" A guard rushed over and helped the little boy who rolled on the ground.
The little boy still had grass clippings on his head, he didn't care, he nervously put his small fist in front of him, then opened it carefully, glanced inside, and the sound of crickets came from his fist, he immediately laughed, innocent And cute.
This child is the fifteenth elder brother, Yongyan, the youngest son of Wei Yingluo and the adopted son of Concubine Qing. Unlike his mother, he is very lovable. Not only does his biological mother and adoptive mother love him, but also many concubines who have not been born in the harem. He loves him, and even Nalan Chunxue, who is always at odds with Wei Yingluo, likes to play with him by his side. In order to be able to see him often, he even let go of his old grievances with Wei Yingluo.
Yongyan carefully put the cricket in the palm of his hand, and then walked towards the Shang study, intending to give this beautiful singing bug to his teacher.
"Oops." Turning to the corridor, he screamed, a eunuch bumped into him, Yongyan sat on the ground, the small schoolbag behind him fell apart, and the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and inkstone inside were thrown on the floor.
"Damn this servant." The eunuch lowered his hat and lowered his head. He couldn't see his face clearly. He only felt that his voice was nice and his hands and feet were quick. To Yongyan, "Slave crimes deserve ten thousand deaths, please forgive me, Brother Fifteen!"
Yongyan smiled at him, didn't care about his offense, stretched out his hand to take the schoolbag, and then led the guards towards the Shang's study, but he didn't know that behind him, the eunuch kneeled respectfully on the ground, but the corners of his mouth twitched upwards a little.
Soon, a person rushed out of the Shang study room and hurriedly entered the Yanxi Palace.
In the Yanxi Palace, Concubine Qing Lu Wanwan was visiting Wei Yingluo here. Concubine Qing had a toothpick in her hand and a slice of apple stuck on the sign. Before she could put the apple in her mouth, the eunuch thumped and knelt down on her. In front of him, out of breath, he said, "Empress Ling, Concubine Qing, something happened to Brother Fifteen!"
Apple missed and fell, Lu Wanwan and Wei Yingluo got up at the same time, almost in unison: "What happened to the fifteenth brother?"
The person was quickly sent back to Yanxi Palace, and the little group was curled up in the tent, and his mouth kept making a whimper like a wounded cub. When he cried, Lu Wanwan started to cry, Wei Yingluo Feeling bad in my heart, I kept asking the imperial doctor, "How is it?"
After carefully examining the pulse, the imperial doctor opened Yongyan's eyelids with his fingers to take a look, and finally came to the conclusion, "Elder Fifteen is poisoned."
Fortunately, the poisoning was not deep. The imperial doctor made licorice water with honey and fed it to Yongyan. Finally, Yongyan stopped shaking and fell asleep peacefully in Lu Wanwan's arms.
"Tell me." Wei Yingluo called Yongyan's personal maid, "What happened, how could Brother Fifteen be poisoned? What kind of poison was in it?"
This matter is strange for a while. You have to know that there are always people around Yongyan, and there are people checking every day for meals. When and where did the other party poison him
"The poison is on here." The maid held a tray in both hands, and the tray contained a brush. The ink on the tip of the pen dried up and didn't wash off. "My brother used to put the tip of the pen in his mouth to moisten it before writing. Someone is going to put poison on the wolf, and it's my brother's life. Halfway through today's writing, Master Liu is very happy when he sees the pen, and he insists on begging for it..."
Lu Wanwan walked out of the palace without waiting for her to finish her sentence. Wei Yingluo was taken aback and called to her, "Where are you going?"
"I know who the murderer is." Lu Wanwan gritted his teeth.
The two quickly found Nalan Chunxue.
"Yongyan is only six years old, how dare you do such a vicious attack!" Lu Wanwan, uncharacteristically, rushed over to fight her, with a fierce face, like a mother beast protecting her cubs.
"What are you talking about? Let go, let go!" Nalan Chunxue struggled.
Wei Yingluo hurriedly called for someone to pull the two of them away, but Lu Wanwan still looked at each other fiercely: "You gave the wolf cents away, and they are poisonous! Yongyan has been poisoned! A six-year-old child, how can you be so cruel !"
Nalan Chunxue knew her intentions, first shocked and then angry: "I bought the wolf at a high price at Liulichang, I can swear to God, I have never touched my hands or feet! Besides, you don't even think about it, the pen is mine. It was sent, something really happened, I can run away? This is the blame, the blame!"
Lu Wanwan said angrily, "The pen and ink only pass through you and me, who will blame you?"
Nalan Chunxue sneered: "The fifth elder brother is useless, the fourth elder brother has entered the sect's mansion, and if Yongyan is gone... Who do you think will benefit from the fisherman?"
Lu Wanwan took a breath of air and blurted out, "Twelve Brothers?"
Suspicious together, they feel that everything is suspicious.
"Okay, it's silent on the surface, but it's so vicious in the back, killing one after another, and now it's implicated in me." Nalan Chunxue gritted her teeth, "This matter can't be left like this, I Go tell the Queen Mother!"
"Calm down, there are too many mistakes in this matter, it's not like the Queen's handwriting." Wei Yingluo advised.
The person who knows you best in the world is not your friend, but your opponent. Wei Yingluo has fought with her successor for a long time, and she knows her best. If she really wants to deal with someone, she will never get her hands dirty. Instead, find ways to get others to do it for you.
But neither Nalan Chunxue nor Lu Wanwan could listen to her words at the moment.
The queen mother hated her successor, but now that she has the handle, it is not true or false, so she immediately called someone and scolded: "Kneel down!"
Afterwards, she was stunned. Seeing her gloomy face, she had to kneel down and say: "I don't know what the concubine did, but I actually made the queen mother angry. Please ask the queen mother to make it clear."
The queen mother stared at her coldly: "As long as you keep yourselves safe and manage the harem well, I don't care about the past, I didn't expect you to be tired of being a queen, and holding the twelve elder brothers with all your heart, you want to achieve success and go further. ?"
Even if there is such a thought in your heart, you can't say it on your mouth, and then quickly defended: "The queen mother! This kind of rebellious thing, I dare not even think about it, I don't know who is behind the instigation, this is slander, it is frame-up , Chen and concubine wholeheartedly take care of the harem, filial piety to the empress dowager, never mind!"
"People are suffering and dissatisfied, so if you are in Pinglong, look back to Shu!" But the Queen Mother didn't believe her words at all, and left a sentence, "You kneel here for a stick of incense and stay awake!"
Following the inexplicable situation, the kneeling was also inexplicable. He gritted his teeth and took a few steps towards her knees, shouting, "Empress Dowager, you have thousands of accusations, but Rong Chen and concubine have to distinguish them!"
The queen mother didn't even give her a chance to explain, and said without turning her head: "I don't want to hear those dirty things, just remember one thing, the queen has the responsibility to take care of the emperor's heir, and then there is the elder brother of the Forbidden City. If something happens to Gege, no matter who does it, you will be punished for dereliction of duty!"
She said that she enforced the law impartially, but in her heart, she wanted to add to the crime, and there was nothing to worry about.
A stick of incense didn't last long, but after that, it seemed like he had been kneeling for decades and hundreds of years, and even his heart turned into a stone.
Zhen'er held her hand and carefully sent her back to Chengqian Palace. The parrot that Hong Zhou sent was already well-bred, and when she saw her, she shouted on the shelf, "Wail the Queen! Wish the Queen!"
Seeing that its food box was empty later, she asked Zhener to add some water to it, and she sat down in the chair tiredly, rubbing her temples and said, "Who is behind the trouble to cause the queen mother to hate me so much? Concubine Shu, Concubine Qing, or—Wei Yingluo?"
"Concubine Qing doesn't have the guts, Concubine Shu doesn't have the brains, she must be Concubine Ling!" Zhener said angrily while adding water to the parrot, "The thief shouts to catch the thief, I see, she clearly gave the fifteenth brother herself. The poison you laid, and finally put the blame on you!"
Afterwards, he did not think that Wei Yingluo did it.
Just like Wei Yingluo knew her, she also knew Wei Yingluo. Although this woman had a lot of scheming, she was not someone who would use her children as chess pieces.
But not her, who would it be
"Niangniang." The feminine voice was like a snake's hissing, and the timbre was so special, one could tell it was Yuan Chunwang, he walked in slowly, "I have something to say to the prince and let me bring it to you."
Afterwards, he frowned and said displeasedly, "Why did you go to see him again?"
In this turbulent time, she must protect herself in the future, she will not do anything that easily leads to misunderstanding, and she will not see anyone who is likely to lead to misunderstanding, including Hong Zhou.
"Prince He heard about you and was extremely indignant. He planned to go to the Empress Dowager's place to seek justice for you, but unexpectedly the emperor was also there." Yuan Chunwang raised a finger and put it to his lips, "Although I didn't deliberately eavesdrop, But in the end I heard some amazing news..."
Afterwards, he understood what he meant, and looked left and right with his eyes, and all the eunuchs and palace maids who were serving in the room withdrew, leaving only one Zhener by his side.
"Tell me." Then he said, "What news?"
Yuan Chunwang: "Tell the prince that the emperor will enlist the imperial concubine as the imperial concubine."
After being stunned for a long time, he stood up abruptly and said, "No, it's impossible, it's absolutely impossible! I'm still standing here, how could there be an imperial concubine in the Qing Dynasty!"
For a while, the heart was full of grief.
The queen mother doesn't believe her, the emperor... also doesn't believe her
"Empress Empress, since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to Xiaoxian Empress Dong E, only noble concubines who died of serious illness were given honors to the imperial concubine. The reason is that there is no queen on the throne, and another deputy queen should be appointed. The emperor also said…”
"What else did he say?" he asked numbly.
"The emperor also said that since the queen is ill, she should take good care of her." Yuan Chunwang's mouth was respectful, but his eyes were always looking at her expression, "The emperor is doing this to completely use up your rights. Once this matter spreads, What will the civil and military officials and the people of the Qing Dynasty think? They will think that the empress committed an unforgivable crime before being deprived of the honor that belongs to the empress!"
After that, he slowly fell on the chair, as if he had turned into a stone man. After a long time, he said blankly, "When?"
Yuan Chunwang looked at her inexplicably.
"When will it be officially established?" The subsequent voice contained lava before the eruption of the volcano.
The corners of Yuan Chunwang's lips rose slightly, and then respectfully said, "South Tour Palace."
"Southern Tour." Then he chewed the word in his mouth for a while, and finally said coldly, "Yuan Chunwang, go to see Prince He for me, just say—"
Seeing her at this time, she was still hesitant, so Yuan Chunwang pushed her and pretended to be unfair to her: "Empress Empress, the emperor is going to entrust all authority to Concubine Ling, you really can't hesitate any longer. !"
The three words "Ling Guifei" have become a thorn in her eyes, thorns in the flesh, and the three words are about to become four words, Ling Huanggui? After that, without hesitation, he gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Hong Zhou, no matter what, I must meet him!"
"Hey." Yuan Chunwang said respectfully.
After he left, he sat alone in front of the dressing table and looked at himself in the mirror. He only felt that his face had changed, Hongli's heart had also changed, everything in the world had changed, and he couldn't help crying.