Concubine Jing held the imperial decree in her hand with a cold expression.
Madam Cai grabbed her arm and threw herself down on her knees. She was so frightened that her face turned pale, and her voice trembled: "Niangniang! This servant will kneel down for you! Don't be impulsive! Your Majesty is just a ghost for a while! After a while... Your Majesty will be fine in a while!"
Naturally, these words were just a form of comfort, but other than this, Mama Cai couldn't think of any other way.
"I'm begging you, please put the imperial decree back... Could you put it back..."
"You are not the only one, Your Majesty, you also have Princess Ning'an... Don't be impulsive... Think about the princess... "
Concubine Jing said in a daze: "Ning An will never come back in this life... I won't come back..."
"No!" Grandma Cai choked and shook her head, "When the Queen Mother said that as long as the princess dares to marry, she would not be allowed to come back for the rest of her life... It's just an angry word, the Queen Mother loves the Princess so much, the Princess really wants to come back, how could the Queen Mother turn her away ?"
Concubine Jing murmured, "Can Ning An come back?"
"I can... I can!" Madam Cai looked at Concubine Jing's stunned expression, stood up calmly, and carefully stretched out her hand to hold the end of the imperial decree, "The niangniang gave the imperial decree to the slave... the slave will help you. Put it away... Later, the slaves will polish the ink for the empress... The empress sent a letter to the princess, saying that she misses the princess..."
Concubine Jing looked bewildered: "Write a letter to Ning An..."
Mother Cai pulled the imperial decree out of her hands little by little: "Yes! Yes, madam! Write a letter to Princess Ning'an! You haven't written your letter to the family this month!"
In the end, Princess Jing did not resist, and her hand fell.
Madam Cai took all the imperial edicts in her hands, she breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly put the imperial edicts into another hidden compartment.
The once hidden compartment has been exposed, and now this one is under the floor.
Afraid that Concubine Jing would go back on her words, Mama Cai hurriedly went to the study to get a pen, ink, paper and inkstone: "Come on, Niangniang! Write a letter to the princess!"
No matter what, you have to divert the attention of the concubine first!
Concubine Jing lifted the pen lightly.
In the night that no one saw, she closed her eyes and shed a tear.
…
Xiao Liulang went to the countryside, Xiao Jingkong went to Xu Congee Congee House, and Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun went to study art again. Gu Jiao felt that the timing was such a perfect time that it would be unreasonable not to do something secretly.
She infiltrated the Marquis of Ding'an Mansion.
The Marquis of Ding'an's mansion was as quiet as always. Gu Chenglin was a little noisy at first, but some time ago, Lord Gu did not have a carriage and walked from the countryside to the capital. He almost broke both legs and fell ill when he got home.
Gu Chenglin was serving sickness in his father's yard today.
This happened to be convenient for Gu Jiao. After all, Gu Chenglin and Gu Chengfeng lived in the same yard, so it was not a bad thing to have less people staring at them.
Gu Jiao entered Gu Chengfeng's yard with ease.
Gu Chengfeng was taking a bath, singing in a wooden barrel while taking a bath.
Gu Jiao didn't understand opera, but somehow felt that his opera voice was very good.
"咿~咿~咿~咿~咿~When the geese are flying in the sky~I hear the voice of the slaves and the shadow falls on the screen~"
Gu Chengfeng sang with great devotion, with a melodious tone, a melodious voice, and a charming gesture.
"You can still sing a female voice?" Gu Jiao bent down and looked at him in his ear and asked.
The tone of this sentence was so sparse and common that it seemed to be greeting an acquaintance on the street, but the reality was that Gu Chengfeng was bathing in his own room, singing, and not wearing an inch!
In order not to be heard, he specially selected when Gu Chenglin was not in the yard, and screened all the servants.
So he didn't expect to be disturbed at all.
Saying that the interruption is light, this is simply a shock, isn't it
Gu Chengfeng threw himself into the water and almost choked to death!
When he sat up on the edge of the wooden barrel, he didn't know how to drink a few mouthfuls of his own bath water!
He grabbed the towel hanging on the wooden barrel to block something unspeakable, and panicked to the point of frying the hair inside the barrel: "Why are you here in the middle of the night! You even pick when I'm taking a shower! What strange hobbies do you have? ?"
The last time she was in the toilet, this time she was in the tub, Gu Chengfeng seriously suspected that she did it on purpose!
Gu Jiao spread her hands: "I don't know that it is you who sings the opera. Who asked you to take a shower and sing opera, and also sing opera with female voice."
Gu Chengfeng blushed: "Shengdan Jingmo is ugly, which one is which! Do you understand!"
"I don't know." Gu Jiao said bluntly.
Gu Chengfeng: "..."
Gu Chengfeng gritted his teeth: "You, you, you... you go out!"
"Oh." Gu Jiao turned around, opened the door and walked out. Everyone stepped over the threshold, and suddenly a small head came in, "It sounds pretty good."
Gu Chengfeng: ... Shut up!
The last time she pretended to be an assassin to frame Mama Cai, Gu Chengfeng used a voice that was not similar to her usual voice. Gu Jiao didn't take it too seriously at that time, she just thought they were thieves with high professionalism, not only able to hide their appearance , but also to disguise a little sound.
But when I hear it tonight, where is this disguised voice, he can really change his voice!
"Hey, what's your voice?" Gu Chengfeng asked him after he came out of the room with a dark face.
"No more!" Gu Chengfeng said angrily.
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
Gu Chengfeng thought she had given up, she suddenly said again: "Do you know Lolita?"
"Then... Sister Yuyin?"
"Young voice?"
"Queen's voice?"
Gu Chengfeng stopped and looked at her inexplicably: "Although I don't know what you are talking about, but... When did you become so talkative!"
Isn't there only a small headroom for the small speaker in your home
Gu Jiao blinked, and sure enough, she stopped pestering him and changed her voice. She took out a copper plate from her purse and handed it to him.
"What?" Gu Chengfeng asked.
Gu Jiao said, "Tips, I will reward you."
Gu Chengfeng: "..."
The two walked out of the yard and walked forward unhurriedly, but the old marquis was not there, and most of the secret guards in the mansion were not here.
When passing a cabin, Gu Chengfeng said, "You come to me later, can you say hello in advance? Or, at least knock on the door."
Today I just bumped into him taking a shower and singing, in case one day...
He is a man, and it is always inconvenient to be bumped into.
"Oh, is that so?" Gu Jiao raised her hand lightly and knocked on the door of the cabin.
crunch —
The door to the cabin opened.
Both of them were stunned for a moment, no one expected that there was really someone here, and the person who came out was actually Gu Changqing.
Both were wearing night clothes and both had masks in their hands.
When Gu Chengfeng saw his eldest brother, without saying a word, he put on the mask and ran away with a light effort!
Gu Changqing frowned: "Who!"
Gu Chengfeng had already disappeared.
"Is there anyone passing by here?" Gu Changqing asked.
Gu Jiao spread her hands: "No..."
That guy is not human.
That's not what she's going to say!
Gu Changqing retracted her gaze and looked at Gu Jiao suspiciously: "It's so late, why are you here? Where are you going in your night clothes?"
Gu Jiao: "This..."
Gu Changqing asked, "Come to me?"
Gu Jiao thought for a while: "Alright."
Gu Changqing: ... What is it? Is it really
"I want to steal the imperial decree." Gu Jiao said bluntly, she was bumped into anyway, no one would believe if she really said she was here for a walk.
Gu Changqing was shocked: "What imperial decree? What are you doing stealing the imperial decree?"
Gu Jiao said calmly, "Prince Jing has an imperial edict in her hands, and I want to steal that."
Gu Changqing looked at Gu Jiao suspiciously: "How do you know she has an imperial edict? You have investigated her... You have stolen from her?!"
Gu Jiao blinked her eyes, very innocent.
Gu Changqing took a deep breath: "You are crazy! There is Long Yingwei by her side, and you will die if you approach her!"
Gu Jiao blinked and said nothing.
Gu Changqing suddenly couldn't get angry anymore, no, he was still angry: "It's too dangerous, don't do this kind of thing alone in the future."
Of course he didn't expect Gu Jiao to be with Gu Chengfeng.
Gu Changqing asked, "When did you go?"
Gu Jiao thought for a while: "The day before yesterday?"
Gu Changqing frowned: "Did you startle her?"
Gu Jiao nodded: "Yes."
Gu Changqing took another breath, does this girl know what she is doing? If she is disturbed, she can still retreat, should he say that she has a great fate or that she is lucky
Besides, it had only been a few days before she dared to go again
Is this girl's guts made of iron
Gu Changqing didn't know what to say.
He supported his forehead: "It's too dangerous to steal the imperial decree now, and she may also transfer the imperial decree... Do you know what the imperial decree is?"
Gu Jiao shook her head: "I didn't have time to look."
Gu Changqing said thoughtfully: "Could it be that... the imperial edict issued by the late emperor before his death for Empress Dowager Zhuang to be buried?"
Gu Changqing's reaction was the same as Gu Chengfeng's, which was not surprising. After all, there was a lot of uproar when Concubine Jing stole the imperial decree and set it on fire. Although the news was suppressed by the emperor, the rumors that should have been leaked had already been leaked in the powerful family. leaked.
If Concubine Jing had an imperial decree, Gu Changqing could only think of this imperial decree.
Gu Changqing said: "Leave the imperial decree to me, don't act rashly first, it's important to deal with her, but..."
Your safety is more important.
Gu Changqing couldn't say such nauseous words.
The night wind was a bit strong, and the small hair on top of Gu Jiao's head curled up again.
Gu Changqing raised his hand and gently pressed down her little dumb hair, and when he let go, it stubbornly lifted up again!
Gu Changqing suddenly wanted to laugh.
He thought of Gu Yan, as expected of a dragon and a phoenix, even the little dumb hair on his head was just as stubborn.
He gently rubbed the top of her hair: "I'll take you back."
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
Gu Changqing escorted Gu Jiao out of the mansion, and went to the main entrance. He had a carriage prepared, and Gu Jiao sat on it, and left the Ding'an Marquis mansion dignifiedly.
The carriage stopped at Bishui Hutong.
"You go into the house." Gu Changqing said to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao suppressed the urge to steal the imperial edict and slowly entered the room.
Gu Changqing went to the old sacrificial wine.
The old sacrificial wine is inspecting the stove to make candied fruit. That's right, the candied fruit for my aunt every day is all made by the old sacrificial wine! It tastes better than the one on the market! More importantly, less sugar and healthier!
The old sacrifice wine met Gu Changqing in the study.
Gu Changqing understood his intentions.
Lao Jijiu touched his beard: "You mean... It's very likely that Concubine Jing didn't burn that imperial decree? This is strange, she and Zhuang Jinse are at odds, if there is an imperial decree for Zhuang Jinse's death in her hand, why doesn't she Take it out early?"
Gu Changqing said, "Could it be used as a trump card to blackmail the Queen Mother?"
The old sacrificial wine pondered for a moment, and said, "Why do you threaten Zhuang Jinse? Wouldn't it be better to kill him directly? What Zhuang Jinse can give her can also be given by His Majesty. On the contrary, because of Zhuang Jinse's constraints, His Majesty's power has been greatly reduced, and what is given to her is also given to her. It's less. So no matter how you look at it, killing Zhuang Jinse is her best choice."
Gu Changqing asked, "Isn't it written in the imperial edict that the Queen Mother should be buried?"
Lao Jijiu frowned: "But if Zhuang Jinse wasn't buried, what would it be?"
Gu Changqing was quite a headache: "No third living person has seen that imperial edict, and no one knows exactly what was written on the imperial edict."
Lao Jijiu's eyes lit up: "No, maybe someone knows."
Gu Changqing looked at him suspiciously.
The old sacrificial wine: "Princess Ning'an."
Gu Changqing: "She?"
The old sacrificial wine said: "She is the daughter of Concubine Jing, the closest person to Concubine Jing in the world. Perhaps... she has seen that imperial decree!"
Gu Changqing hesitated for a moment, then said, "But she is far away from the frontier. Even if she sees it, she won't be back for a while. It's been a long time since I sent someone to ask her, and it will take a long time to get the news back. Besides... she may not be able to tell."
If Princess Ning An had really seen it, and she still didn't mention the content of the imperial edict after so long, there was only one possibility—she couldn't mention it.
Gu Changqing sighed: "Isn't there anyone who knows the content of the imperial edict?"
"Perhaps... there is one more." Lao Jijiu said.
"Who?" Gu Changqing asked.
The old sacrificial wine looked at the Westinghouse next door with a complicated expression: "Xiao Heng's mother, Princess Xinyang."
(End of this chapter)