Nong Hua Makeup
Chapter 96 Suspicious and Ruthless
Chapter 96 Suspicious and Ruthless
Because she is permanently stationed in the palace, the queen mother allowed her to bring a personal servant.
On the carriage, Lin Jinyu glanced at Mo Feng and the other court ladies sitting on one side, just wanted to explain to Mo Feng that there was no chance, so he could only speak silently until the carriage stopped in front of the palace gate.
The Empress Dowager got out of the carriage to show that she valued her, and the servants in the palace were already waiting.
The father-in-law who delivered the decree stood aside with a smile and said, "Princess Chunhe, please don't disappoint the Queen Mother's kindness."
Lin Jinhua looked at the small sedan chair carried by the four people in front of her, without saying anything, and slowly went up while holding Mo Feng's hand.
To go to the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion and Ning, you have to pass the trail on the side of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. When passing by, someone just came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, followed by many maids serving.
She didn't pay much attention at first, but after a hasty glance, she immediately recognized the person. Isn't this Xue Wenxin, Jiacai's niece? How could she appear here?
"That empress seems familiar." Lin Jinhua paused, then asked again.
Eunuch Mo looked at Yan, and said with a smile, "He is a newly-canonized noble person."
"Your heart..." Lin Jinhua was sure that it was Xue Wenxin, but what was even more strange was the attitude of this Eunuch Mo. He seemed not angry at all. Could it be that the Empress Dowager also allowed the emperor to summon a concubine who was very close to the late Yin? Like the woman serving in the inner palace?
Eunuch Mo looked at her thoughtfully, smiled and said softly: "Princess Chunhe, things in this palace are like the days of June, changing rapidly, just watch it, the harem has the rules of the harem, and there are rules in the harem. Don’t allow others to say more.”
"Thank you, father-in-law, for your advice." Lin Jinhua knew that he was being a good boy, and accepted his favor.
Eunuch Mo saw that she was a sensible person, so he didn't say any more.
All the way past the Compassionate Ning Palace, perhaps because of the scorching heat in midsummer, no nobles and masters in the palace came out and walked all the way, the whole palace was extremely quiet.
After a few steps away from the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the sedan chair stopped, and Mo Feng stepped forward to support her, and then they walked in together, but when they reached the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the nuns inside greeted her. Said: "It's Princess Chunhe, the queen mother has just rested now, you can wait here for a while."
Mo Feng frowned slightly, could it be that the queen mother deliberately made things difficult?
Lin Jinhua nodded in response, and stood obediently at the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Peace.
Eunuch Mo took one look at her and left, and the nanny also went in, leaving only Lin Jinhua's master and servant standing at the entrance of the hall.
After Mo Feng and the others had left, he said in a low voice, "Miss, is the Queen Mother trying to show you off on purpose?"
"She doesn't have to do that. She's doing it now, mostly because she wants to test it out." Lin Jinhua watched the sun getting hotter and hotter, and only regretted that she didn't let Ah Bao make a bowl of iced tea when she came.It's just that whether the Queen Mother wants to test herself, or use herself to test others, will have to wait and see.
The master and servant stood for half an hour, the sun was at the very center, and the shadows were only a small ball under the feet, and Mo Feng couldn't do anything to shade Lin Jinhua from the sun.It's okay for her to say that she has kung fu, but no matter how smart the young lady is, she is just a weak girl. After standing upright under the scorching sun for half an hour, her complexion has turned pale. See what the Queen Mother wants to do.
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation at this time.
The emperor looked at Zhao Huaiyan who had repeatedly made wrong chess pieces, thought for a while, and threw the chess pieces back into the clay pot on one side, and said, "You only care about Lin Jinhua so much, the queen mother just lets her bask in the sun, you play with me." Chess is absent-minded."
"It's rare to have a confidant in Fusheng, and I want to cherish it." Zhao Huaiyan said.
Hearing this, the emperor tightened his hands on his knees slightly, he just got off the couch and walked slowly outside the hall with his hands behind his back, Zhao Huaiyan followed immediately.
Walking to the corridor outside the hall, the emperor stood in front of the steps, looked at the magnificent palace not far from the Hall of Mental Cultivation, with green tiles and red walls, noble and graceful, and said with a smile: "If I exchange the chairs in the front hall with you This woman, you must be unwilling, right?"
"As the emperor said, is a confidante a stumbling block?" He would never trade Jinhua for that seat. How could such a position destined to die alone be comparable to his Hua'er.
The emperor smiled when he heard the words: "Early this morning, King Jing went to accompany the Queen Mother. He wanted to marry Lin Jinyu desperately, and now you are confused because of her. Is it wrong to say that she is a beauty?"
"Even if it is a disaster, it is also a disaster that my minister loves." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently, looking at the scorching sun, only thinking about whether her thin body could hold it.
"But she made you brothers fight, and you love it too?" The emperor's words still had other meanings mixed in.
Eunuch An on the side listened, sweating for Zhao Huaiyan. If his answer is yes, the emperor will definitely not let Miss Lin go.
Zhao Huaiyan has always known the emperor's mind, heard the words, only said: "Father the emperor once said, a good man has ambitions everywhere, if he falls in love with a woman, he will lose his ambition, if he becomes greedy for a brother's woman, it is shameless , Shameless and unmotivated people, if it is not for the inseparable kinship, I will definitely not recognize this brother. As for the fight, I don't think that the future princess who belongs to my son needs to fight with anyone. Whoever wants to fight is to grab. "
After saying these words, Eunuch An couldn't help giving him a thumbs up secretly, he answered the emperor's question head-on, and didn't say anything about brothers killing each other.
After listening to the emperor, it took a long time before he laughed out loud: "It's such an inseparable kinship, such a 'competition' and 'grab." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and patted him on the shoulder, sighed, and said, "That's enough." I'm afraid she's going to faint after being exposed for so long, you go and see, after all, it's the adopted daughter of my own imperial sister who offered to adopt me, my uncle, I can't be so ruthless."
Zhao Huaiyan saw that he had no doubts, so he saluted and stepped back, and quickly walked towards the Palace of Compassion.
Lin Jinhua felt that stars were already appearing in front of her eyes. Could it be that the Queen Mother was planning to sun her alive?
Just as she was thinking, a person finally came out, but now she felt that there were so many shadows of that person that she couldn't see clearly for a while.
"Miss, salute quickly." Mo Feng stepped forward to support her and said.
Lin Jinhua blinked her eyes hard, and then slowly saluted, and then the figure said: "You are also tired, do you want to go to my palace to rest for a while?"
There was a bit of gnashing of teeth in the words, and Lin Jinyu could barely see that the person who came was a respectable person whom she hadn't seen for a long time. She still didn't like to see herself like in her previous life. In her previous life, she married Zhao Kan and gave everything for their mother and child. A fate that is abandoned like a shoe...
Lin Jinhua couldn't help but smile slightly: "My daughter is here to see the queen mother, so I won't go to sit in the empress's palace."
"Is it another play-to-get trick?" Seeing her refusal, the honorable man sneered.
"The courtier doesn't understand what the empress means..." Lin Jinhua heard the smell of gunpowder, secretly bit the tip of her tongue, and the huge pain and bloody smell spread, making her sober up instantly.
The respected man smiled again: "I don't understand? You just made King Jing die for you because of this sentence? I have seen all kinds of women in this palace for so many years. I don't pay attention to small tricks at all. As a woman, you enjoy dealing with different men, and you still have to be shameless..."
"Your Majesty's words are good. King Jing disregards his son as his elder brother and covets his elder brother's wife. It's really shameless. Please go back and teach me your empress."
Before Lin Jinhua could speak, an indifferent male voice came, and then Mo Feng gave her water mixed with anti-heat medicine to drink.
After drinking a bowl of heat-relieving medicine, and Zhao Huaiyan standing beside her with a cold body, she suddenly felt refreshed, and when she looked up, she found that the face of the respectable man was dark.
The nobleman sneered: "Since Prince Ning has confirmed that she is your future concubine, let people look up to her. How can you blame Kan'er for coveting her?"
"My concubine, you can go wherever you want. Whoever dares to covet her, I will goug his eyes." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently, then glanced at Eunuch Mo who was staring at the door, and said, "Please tell the Queen Mother The king begs to see you."
Eunuch Mo knew that although the queen mother didn't like King Ning, but the emperor liked him, she wouldn't refute his face too much, so he immediately went in to communicate, and by the way, reported the matter here intact.
The Queen Mother had just finished drinking tea to cool off the heat. Hearing this, her face turned a little cold: "Is it true that Lin Jinzheng can't possess her? The usually indifferent King Ning can protect her like this, even Kan'er, who has always been absent from women. obsessed with her."
The nurse at one side said softly: "The Queen Mother has this doubt, why not invite Master Huijue to the palace and let him have a private look."
"You call him in later." After the queen mother finished speaking, she looked outside the hall and said, "Go and pass the order. Just say that Ai's family is in the small Buddha hall to praise the Buddha, and they won't be seen. Lin Jinhua arranged to live in the palace of compassion." Side hall, King Ning let him go back."
Mammy agreed, carefully beckoning someone to help her to the small Buddhist hall, and then went out to pass on the message.
Zhao Huaiyan had predicted that the Empress Dowager would not see her early in the morning, so she was not surprised to see Mammy coming to deliver a message, she just said: "The Empress Dowager's birthday will be in a few days, during this time the Japanese king will come to greet her every day."
Mammy's eyes flickered slightly, she looked at Lin Jinhua, who was sunburned and pale, and nodded in response, before she hurriedly said to the eunuch on the other side: "Send the princess down to rest first, and then send the imperial doctor to take a look. It's also my servant's fault." , The queen mother forgot that the princess is still waiting outside, and the slaves also forgot to remind, and asked the princess to punish her."
Hearing what she said, Lin Jinhua dared to punish her, everyone knew it well, so he just smiled and said, "You're being polite, Mammy."
Seeing that she didn't make trouble unreasonably while King Ning was protecting her like this, Mammy felt relieved and immediately asked someone to help her down.
When leaving, the honored man looked at Zhao Huaiyan specially, and smiled lightly: "It is rare for King Ning to have such filial piety."
Zhao Huaiyan ignored her, glanced at her lightly, then turned and left.
He didn't take her seriously before, but now that he has talked about it, there is no need to pay attention to it.
The nanny saw it, bowed silently and left, and the honored man returned to his Yonghe Palace angrily.
There are no outsiders in the Yonghe Palace, only her confidantes are present.
Seeing her come back, Zhao Kan hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and went forward: "Mother Concubine, how are you?"
"What do you think? It's not that you don't know Zhao Huaiyan's temperament. He seems to be a boring gourd. Once you get angry, you will bite you to the bone." The honorable man said this to vent his anger. Calm down a little bit, and said to him: "Zhao Huaiyan will be your biggest opponent. Now many of us in the capital have been disposed of. Although Zhao Huaiyan has no military support from Lin Luzhi, there is still a Xu Family, we must not be careless."
"Father is partial to him, what can we do, why not get Lin Jinhua first..."
"You are not allowed to mention her again!" Seeing that he was still thinking about Lin Jinhua, the respected person said angrily.
Zhao Kan's face darkened slightly: "Mother, concubine, son..."
The honorable man looked at him and was really angry and had a headache: "If anything happens to you this time, I will send you to the southwest and let you go to war with your uncle!"
Zhao Kan saw that she was full of anger, and his heart also became angry, but he resented that she never considered his thoughts.
He stood silently on one side and stopped talking. His words to her seemed to go in his left ear and out his right ear. What he couldn't forget in his heart was still Lin Jinhua's beautiful body last night...
The scorching sun in midsummer especially stimulates the flowers. It seems that after a heavy rain, the flowers that were still delicate and beautiful a few days ago are broken and withered, leaving only a few scattered petals and flower bones, which are wilted in the sun.
The Luo family was arrested, Wang Yushi was "seriously ill", Mrs. Wang's thoughts were all placed on Zhao Huaiyan, and she didn't even bother to take care of the flowers and plants that she often tended.
She couldn't sit still in the front hall, and walked back and forth until night fell, only to see the figure of the servant from the corridor running towards him quickly.
When she got to the front, Mrs. Wang said eagerly: "How is it? What did His Highness King Ning say?"
"His Royal Highness Ning said that Ma'am is not in a hurry. Even if there is convincing evidence of treason, because the queen mother's birthday is approaching, she will not be beheaded immediately. There is still time to deal with it, and he will not tolerate loyal ministers being framed. .” The boy repeated the original words.
After listening to Mrs. Wang, she seemed to have taken a reassurance, and her heart fell back into her stomach.
After the boy finished speaking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone eavesdropping behind a screen, and hurriedly asked, "Where is who?"
Mrs. Wang was startled, and hurried over, but only saw a gray corner of her clothes.
"Madam, do you want someone to investigate?"
"Forget it, what you just said is not a secret." Mrs. Wang recognized the man, her heart sank to the bottom.
Seeing that she didn't pursue it, the boy didn't say any more, he bowed and left.
After thinking about it, Mrs. Wang got up and went to Wang Huiyuan's yard.
At this time, in Prince Ning's mansion.
Zhao Huaiyan stood in the peach grove with his hands behind his back, and after a while, he said, "Is it really Zhao Qing who is planning to arrange it?"
"Yes."
The neat woman standing behind him answered in a low voice.
His eyes were indifferent, and after a while, he asked again: "Can someone from Xixia intervene?"
"Not yet."
"No..." Zhao Huaiyan looked ahead quietly, seemingly lost in thought.
The people behind him were used to him taking a long time to utter a word, and they waited quietly for orders.
Not long after, I heard him say lightly: "I asked you to prepare, are you ready?"
"The preparations are ready, but the prince, using this to lure him out of the city, isn't it too..."
"Despicable?" Zhao Huaiyan said words that she dared not say.
The people behind were silent and admitted.
Zhao Huaiyan turned around indifferently and looked at her with downcast eyebrows, squinting at Gao Zhi on one side: "You should do this yourself."
"Yes." Gao Zhi agreed.
"Also..." Zhao Huaiyan looked at the woman in front of him and said, "Transfer her back to Xixia."
"My lord!" The woman was horrified in her heart, and hurriedly raised her head to look at him: "Is there anything wrong with this subordinate?"
Zhao Huaiyan ignored her and walked away.
The woman wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Gao Zhi.Gao Zhi looked at her puzzled and aggrieved look, and sighed softly: "Princess Xianyue asked you to serve, it's normal if you don't understand. You don't know how many despicable things King Jing has done to the prince. The reason why the prince is like this is also because last night..." Gao Zhi paused, afraid of being beaten by the prince, he didn't dare to say it, and only said: "Sun Tzu has 36 tactics in the art of war, and every trick is a trick, can it be considered despicable? "
"I just……"
"You have been following the princess, didn't the princess teach you?" Gao Zhi was puzzled, a person like Princess Xianyue would not understand these things.
"I... the princess will not let the prince be reduced to such a thing." The woman was a little unconvinced, and in the end she still blamed Lin Jinhua.
Gao Tian knew that she was stubborn, so he didn't bother to talk to her, so he sent her away before going to his own business.But this time King Jing dared to go crazy, and he had to accept the price of going crazy.
At night, the bright moon was already high in the sky, and the cold moonlight poured down, as if the heat had disappeared a lot.
Lin Jinhua simply washed up and lay down on an unfamiliar bed. Looking at the ceiling, she felt very awake and couldn't fall asleep.In the Lin Mansion, she can still get up to read a book or go out for a walk. In this deep palace wall, her every move is watched by people with strict rules. The sound of the leaves of a camellia tree being blown together by the wind.
She thought, what if Huai Yan got the throne in the end?Will she be imprisoned with him forever by the golden cage of the palace?
She thought about it, and after an unknown amount of time, she finally fell asleep.
Before dawn the next day, the nanny came to take care of her grooming, she pulled herself up and got up, and Mo Feng also came in to take care of her immediately, but she changed into a court lady's ordinary clothes, and the queen mother prepared a long royal blue dress for her.She didn't like this color very much, but she couldn't say no, so she had to let four or five maids fiddle with it, and combed her hair in a complicated bun before going to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.
The queen mother did not make things difficult for her this time, and asked her to invite her to sit aside.
Those who came to pay their respects early in the morning, and Princess Xuan, who came here with the little princess in her arms, the little prince was only a few months old, and it was when he was cute and cute, babbling and chubby in his toothless mouth People like it, and it is rare for the Queen Mother to smile.
Lin Jinhua pretended to be transparent and sat quietly waiting for the morning to pass, but after a while, she saw the nanny walking in with a hesitant expression.
The queen mother saw her like this, and asked lightly: "What's the matter, you look sad."
"Slaves are born with such a sad face, it's rare that the Queen Mother doesn't dislike it." Mammy laughed hurriedly.
"Okay, if you have anything to say, just say it." The queen mother handed the little county king back to Princess Xuan who was waiting at the side.
The nanny hurriedly responded, and said: "It's a noble person who came to pay his respects. He is waiting outside now, and he personally cooked mung bean soup for you, Queen Mother, to cool off the heat."
The Empress Dowager's face remained unchanged when she heard the words: "It's rare for her to bother, but why didn't you tell her that Ai's family has been in poor health for the past few days, and the imperial doctor explained that it is not suitable to eat these cold things, you can ask her to take them back."
"Yes." Mammy immediately responded.
When Lin Jinhua heard this, she only thought that Xue Wen was trying her best to please the queen mother, so she heard Princess Yiyixuan laughing and said: "This noble person is persistent, the emperor asked her to come to greet the queen mother every day, she really never falls behind .”
When the Empress Dowager heard this, her face, which had been calm just now, sank a bit.
Princess Xuan knew she had said the wrong thing, so she hurriedly lowered her head to tease the child, and dared not say any more.
Hearing this, Lin Jinyu felt strange. The emperor asked Xue Wenxin to come here every day. It is impossible not to know that the Queen Mother doesn't like her, but he insists on Xue Wenxin doing this every day. What is he planning to do?Moreover, seeing that the Empress Dowager is so unhappy, she refuses to even meet her in a perfunctory way, which means she doesn't even give the emperor face. Could it be that there is a rift between their mother and son...
Just as she was thinking about it, Princess Xuan said: "I heard that Princess Chunhe is good at medical skills, and your grandmother is not in good health, why don't you let Princess Chunhe show you?"
The queen mother frowned: "God is taking care of Aijia's body, so there is no need for her to come and see it. I'm afraid you will get tired of being with Aijia now, so go back."
Concubine Xuan smiled and said yes, then turned to look at Lin Jinhua, and said with a smile: "Princess Chunhe must not be used to it when she first comes to the palace."
"I have a low temper, and I don't like to move around anywhere, but I don't feel uncomfortable. Thank you, Princess, for your concern." Lin Jinhua didn't know what she meant, but she knew that she couldn't offend the Queen Mother now, and she had to think of her in every word and deed.
"That's good. I heard that you almost fainted from heat stroke yesterday. If King Ning knew about it, he would be angry." Princess Xuan said with a smile, as if she didn't know that Zhao Huaiyan had been here yesterday.
Lin Jinhua looked at her eyes full of smiles when she looked at her, and felt a little cold in her heart. Did she deliberately say this to Huaiyan in front of the Queen Mother?
"His Royal Highness Ning is a junior, how could he get angry with the Queen Mother? The princess is too worried. Although King Xuan and you are not close to His Royal Highness Ning, it is not possible to guess that he is not virtuous or filial, right?" Lin Jinhua said. The words were filled with personal anger, and after she finished speaking, she watched Princess Xuan's face become embarrassed with a smile, but she just acted as if she didn't notice it and let her be embarrassed.
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager glanced at her lovely great-grandson and raised her hand: "Everyone go down."
"Yes." Lin Jinhua bowed politely before stepping back sideways.
Princess Xuan also blushed and followed out.
After they all left, the queen mother lowered her face: "Concubine Xuan is so stupid, it's fine if she can't help the fourth child, but don't let the little county king follow suit."
"Don't worry, Empress Dowager, Princess Xuan came from a big family anyway, so she knows it well." The mother at the side persuaded.
"Count?" The queen mother shook her head, remembering her embarrassment just now: "Even a teenage girl can't say it, she is also stupid, and she dares to sue King Ning in front of Ai's family, and she is not afraid of his face being cold. The six relatives don't recognize it."
When Mammy heard this, she hurriedly lowered her head even lower, not daring to listen more.
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager didn't bother to say: "Call Master Huijue here sometime." After speaking, she helped the hand of the maid beside her and went to the small Buddhist hall.
Lin Jinhua came out with Concubine Xuan and sent her to the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, before saying, "My daughter respectfully sends the concubine off."
"You are welcome, princess, but this concubine really did not expect that the princess has not yet married King Ning, and you are so deeply in love with each other. It is really rare." Princess Xuan looked at her, her embarrassment had long since disappeared, and she smiled. Gentle, as if nothing happened just now.
Seeing this, Lin Jinhua knew that her words had bad intentions and did not refute them, so as not to cause more trouble, she lowered her eyes and said softly, "Thank you, Princess, for your compliment."
Princess Xuan saw that she was obedient, so she gave her a cold look, and left with Xiaojun Wang in her arms.
Mo Feng whispered sideways: "Miss, we'd better avoid her from now on."
"How to avoid it." Soon to be married to Huai Yan, once married, Princess Xuan would still have to call herself Dahuangsao, this feeling is really indescribable.
Mo Feng was also dumb.
But after sending Princess Xuan away, they obediently returned to the side hall to be bored. There are respectable people in the harem staring at them, so it is still safe here.
It's just that what Lin Jinhua didn't expect was that the respectable person didn't have time to trouble her right now.
In the Yonghe Palace.
The honorable man looked at the little eunuch who was talking back and forth, his face turned blue with anger: "Say it again!"
"Yes, ma'am, His Royal Highness Jing Wang drove out of the city early this morning, but he was framed and mixed with a group of barbarians. The guards who were called to patrol the city happened to bump into it. At this moment, someone from the Ministry of Punishment wrote it himself. The scriptures say that the Emperor is the Emperor, and His Highness might not be able to cleanse himself by jumping into the Yellow River this time!"
"Why did King Jing go out of the city suddenly?" Jinggui was so angry that his head was dizzy, and he told Zhao Kan to be careful yesterday, but he didn't expect something to happen today.
Trembling, the little eunuch took out a letter from his pocket and presented it with both hands: "This is from Prince Jing's Mansion."
The respectable person stood up in person, stepped forward to take the letter in his hand and opened it, but there was a love poem written inside, which meant inviting Zhao Kan to a gathering outside the city.
The respected person was puzzled: "This letter has not been signed?"
"I heard that there was another token sent along with the letter, but the prince took it away when he left the city, and the people in Prince Jing's mansion didn't see what it was." The little eunuch said.
The honorable man's face was livid, and he didn't know what to say, so he just said: "Get ready for the sedan chair, I want to meet the emperor immediately!" This time someone framed Kan'er, it must be Zhao Huaiyan, but where is she going to find evidence? ?
But Zhao Huaiyan did things, how could people leave evidence, and he was just playing tricks, giving Zhao Kan the barbarian assassin Zhao Qing used to frame him.
Outside the city, Zhao Kan was surrounded by officers and soldiers, and the person hiding in the ruined temple behind him was not the person he wanted to see at all, but a barbarian assassin.
Lin Jincheng, who was leading the guards, looked at the person in front of him, and his brows were also slightly tightened.After all, he was only captured to meet the assassin, and Zhao Kan is the prince, so he can't even be arrested unless he waits for the emperor's decree.
Zhao Kan tightly grasped a strand of blue silk tied with white silk in his hand. He thought that Lin Jinhua was moved by him when he saw the letter, so he took the blue silk as a token. Aren't the fragrance and the white silk cut from the clothes she was wearing that night?Otherwise, how could there be the fragrance of that night?
Gao Tian, who was staring at him from afar, glanced at his short hair, thinking that he had secretly stolen the white cloth cut by Miss Lin's Sipa, and watched him sniff that hair in front of his nose again and again, There is a strange feeling in my heart.It's disgusting, but it's more like he committed himself to King Jing, but the only thing he didn't expect was that King Jing was infatuated with Ms. Lin so far, it was just a letter and a lock of hair, and he was asked to drive away early in the morning. Come.
"I didn't expect King Jing, who used to be unrestrained, would be here today." On the second floor of the tavern not far from the city gate, the servant smiled sarcastically.
"After wandering for a long time, you will become crazier when you really meet someone who is tempted." Zhao Qing turned the wine glass in his hand indifferently, and the corners of his mouth curled up coldly: "But King Ning is King Ning, and he will always be smarter than ordinary people. He actually saw through his plan long ago, and gave Zhao Kan, a person who fell in love, a trick."
"My lord, what should I do next? If you want to continue the investigation by King Ning, the Luo family may escape. The Luo family refuses to submit to us. If they come out this time, they may cause trouble." The servant looked at he asked.
Zhao Qing only turned his head to look downstairs, and saw a boy in a dark servant's uniform coming out of the pharmacy, and said with a smile: "What's the rush, the plan has just begun."
The young servant followed his gaze, recognized the uniform of the family, and said with a smile, "You want to start with the Wang family."
"Wang Yushi was trapped at home, and Mrs. Wang, mother and daughter listened to Lin Jinhua very much, so there is only Wang Huiyuan left...I heard that he is seriously ill, so take this to him." After speaking, he took out a jade bottle and put it on the on the table.
Just taking out this jade bottle seems to be able to smell a quiet fragrance. Seeing this, the young servant couldn't bear it: "This is what that Xianyue gave you, and it is something that can save your life."
"If you don't give Wang Huiyuan his life, do you think he can give his life for this king?" Zhao Qing glanced at the medicine bottle disdainfully, and sneered: "Princess Xianyue of Xixia, she really regards herself as someone."
Seeing this, the boy took the medicine bottle and said nothing more.
What happened to Zhao Kan didn't last long, and the imperial decree came down soon, but it was beyond Gao Zhi's expectation.
He returned to Prince Ning's mansion, looked at Zhao Huaiyan who was standing on the lake corridor thinking about something alone, and said softly, "My lord."
"How about the edict?"
"I heard that the honorable man himself requested that King Jing be sent to the southwest to join the army. The emperor agreed and will not pursue this matter any more." Gao Jie said cautiously. It's the territory of the Xiong family, and when he goes there, he will only feel like a fish in water.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Huaiyan's eyes dimmed: "Notify the head of Qingshan Village that Zhao Kan's trip to the southwest does not have to be smooth."
Seeing that the lord hadn't planned to do anything cruel, Gao Zhi said hesitantly: "My lord, King Jing went to the southwest to reconcile with the Xiong family, but it will be even more difficult to deal with."
"It's not the time yet." His father was still staring at his every move. Once he killed Zhao Kan, his father would definitely believe that he was the one who wanted to plot rebellion, not to mention that talented people were already in his heart. The seeds of doubt were planted, and Zhao Qing was still eyeing the capital.
Gao Zhi heard the words, even though he was unwilling, he had no choice but to agree.
Not long after, I heard someone coming from outside, saying that it was King Xuan asking to see him.
"King Xuan..." Zhao Huai glanced at the person who was talking back and forth: "Please go to the study."
"Yes."
When the people left, Gao Gen followed and said, "My lord, why is King Xuan here now?"
"Come to sell favors." Zhao Huaiyan knew for a long time that he had secretly cooperated with Xianyue, but after he gave birth to the prince, the queen and respected nobles encountered setbacks one after another, Jiacai was given to death, and his mother concubine Li also began I can't sit still and want to fight.
Seeing him walking away, Gao Zhi couldn't figure it out, and didn't dare to say more, so he quickly stepped up and followed.
When Lin Jinhua heard about Zhao Kan in the Compassionate Ning Palace, it was already time for dinner, and the court ladies and eunuchs in the palace were tight-lipped. If Mo Feng hadn't overheard them discussing privately when he went to get the dinner, she would I'm afraid I don't know yet.
After dinner, Lin Jinhua sent everyone away with the pretext of taking a bath, leaving Mo Feng to talk: "Why would the emperor agree to Zhao Kan going to the southwest?"
"I don't know about this maidservant. It stands to reason that the emperor should always be afraid of the Xiong family. Before he dealt with Prime Minister Xiong, he also demoted the honored person. It can be seen that he wanted to dispose of the Xiong family." Mo Feng was also puzzled.
Lin Jinhua couldn't figure it out either. Standing by the window and looking at the square palace wall outside the window, a bold thought came to her mind after a long while: "Could the emperor want to use Zhao Kan to get rid of the Xiong family?" Only this reason can explain it. It worked out, Zhao Kan was much easier to use than the Xiong family, and it wouldn't make the Xiong family suspicious.
Mo Feng was puzzled, and Lin Jinhua didn't explain much, just said: "You keep watching these few days to see if the honorable person will be valued by the emperor. If so, then my guess is almost the same." The emperor To use Zhao Kan to get rid of the Xiong family, it will definitely give the Xiong family and Zhao Kan a sweetheart to deceive them. It is impossible to reward anything in the southwest, and the only person who can give sweetness is a respectable person.
The ink wind should go down.
After another night of silence, Lin Jinhua got up the next day to say hello, and saw that the distinguished person was already inside, beaming with joy.
As soon as Lin Jinhua came in, she saw the spring in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, and blinked, could it be that the emperor summoned her last night?
Just thinking about it, Nanny helped the queen mother out.
After exchanging a few commonplace greetings, the conversation changed, and the respected person said: "I don't know if I should say something or not."
"You've already opened your mouth, let's talk." The queen mother took a sip of tea before saying slowly.
"Yes." The honored man hurriedly stood up and bowed his knees to salute, "The concubine is thinking about whether it is time for the empress to come out on your birthday. Although she made a big mistake, the confinement After a long time, I should have reflected on it, and I have received the punishment I deserved, what do you think, Queen Mother?"
The queen mother frowned slightly when she heard the words, as if she was unwilling, but before she could speak, she heard the sound of steady footsteps outside, and then a bright yellow figure walked in.
When the respected person saw the person coming, his complexion turned red, and he quickly stepped aside. Lin Jinhua quickly saluted and listened to him: "Everyone is flattened. I just listened to the words of Concubine De, and it is very reasonable. From today From the beginning, let the queen out, let her also enjoy the happiness of the queen mother."
"Concubine De?" Hearing this, the nobleman raised his head excitedly.
The emperor smiled at her: "Why, my concubine has been a respected nobleman for a long time, but she has forgotten her previous title?"
Only then did the honorable man realize his reaction, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
"Okay, you were tired yesterday, Kan'er is going to the palace to say goodbye today, go and see me, I'll be gone, people in the province say I'm particularly partial to you mother and son." The emperor laughed.
The maid on one side saw the honored person overjoyed, hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and said with a smile: "Empress Defei, thank you quickly."
Only then did she thank you in a hurry, and left excitedly.When she left, Lin Jinhua saw that her hands were trembling slightly, and couldn't help feeling a little more pity in her heart.The emperor used her like this, and she was grateful to Dade, but the emperor is really ruthless, the woman who has slept with her for so many years will always be just a pawn in his eyes.
Just as she was thinking, a cold gaze fell on her, and she hurriedly withdrew her gaze, drooping her eyes silently, but the emperor laughed: "What is Chunhe thinking?"
Seeing him talking to her, Lin Jinhua turned around and said, "My daughter is happy for Concubine De."
"Oh, what's there to be happy about? The position of Concubine Virtue belongs to her." The emperor looked at her deeply and said.
"Concubine De is blessed to be favored by the Holy Majesty." Lin Jinhua said high-sounding words.
The emperor was delighted to hear that: "Everyone says you are eloquent, I think you are right."
"The emperor is overrated."
"Then you are also happy when I praise you like this?" the emperor said with a smile.
"Of course, no one's praise is as glorious as the emperor's praise. After leaving the palace, the courtiers can talk to the ladies who are close to them for three months." Lin Jinhua saw him showing a loving attitude, and followed him. Show a flattering heart.
The emperor laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Interesting, Chunhe, it's no wonder Huaiyan likes you so much. Forget it, I and the empress dowager are two old people who are boring to accompany you. The empress is Huaiyan's mother, since you are in the palace Here, go and welcome her out of the palace."
Lin Jinhua's heart tightened, what did the emperor mean by this?
She raised her eyes, but the emperor's eagle eyes glanced over, as if he wanted to see through her.
She got up and said with a smile: "The emperor is in his prime, and the queen mother is also blessed with a long life. The courtiers have little knowledge. Talking to the queen mother and the emperor is just like what is said in the book. Listening to the king's words is better than reading ten years of books. How can I feel bored?" , I am afraid that the emperor and the queen mother will dislike the courtiers and women who have no ink."
"Women are virtuous without talent." The Queen Mother said coolly.
When Lin Jinhua heard this, she knew that she really didn't want to see her.
But it doesn't matter, even though the emperor is suspicious, his face is always pleasant.
The emperor smiled and said: "Before Huai Yan proposed to me to advance the date of marriage, I was not very happy at first, but now that you are so eloquent, it is better to marry him earlier, and grind his annoying withdrawn temper."
Lin Jinhua looked up in astonishment, so is her wedding really going to be brought forward?
On the way from the Palace of Compassion and Ning to Kunning Palace, because of the early date of the marriage, she didn't even think about why the emperor let her come to see the queen. When she arrived at Kunning Palace, Mo Feng said that someone followed secretly Only then did I understand that the emperor wanted to use this to test whether the empress and Huaiyan had the intention of rebellion, as the Jiacai people said. After all, the empress was pulled out of the trough, and she was the easiest to confide in when she saw that she was one of her own. Heartfelt.
Looking at the silence in Kunning Palace, she breathed a sigh of relief, put aside other thoughts, and only hoped that the queen would calm down for a while.
(End of this chapter)
Because she is permanently stationed in the palace, the queen mother allowed her to bring a personal servant.
On the carriage, Lin Jinyu glanced at Mo Feng and the other court ladies sitting on one side, just wanted to explain to Mo Feng that there was no chance, so he could only speak silently until the carriage stopped in front of the palace gate.
The Empress Dowager got out of the carriage to show that she valued her, and the servants in the palace were already waiting.
The father-in-law who delivered the decree stood aside with a smile and said, "Princess Chunhe, please don't disappoint the Queen Mother's kindness."
Lin Jinhua looked at the small sedan chair carried by the four people in front of her, without saying anything, and slowly went up while holding Mo Feng's hand.
To go to the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassion and Ning, you have to pass the trail on the side of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. When passing by, someone just came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, followed by many maids serving.
She didn't pay much attention at first, but after a hasty glance, she immediately recognized the person. Isn't this Xue Wenxin, Jiacai's niece? How could she appear here?
"That empress seems familiar." Lin Jinhua paused, then asked again.
Eunuch Mo looked at Yan, and said with a smile, "He is a newly-canonized noble person."
"Your heart..." Lin Jinhua was sure that it was Xue Wenxin, but what was even more strange was the attitude of this Eunuch Mo. He seemed not angry at all. Could it be that the Empress Dowager also allowed the emperor to summon a concubine who was very close to the late Yin? Like the woman serving in the inner palace?
Eunuch Mo looked at her thoughtfully, smiled and said softly: "Princess Chunhe, things in this palace are like the days of June, changing rapidly, just watch it, the harem has the rules of the harem, and there are rules in the harem. Don’t allow others to say more.”
"Thank you, father-in-law, for your advice." Lin Jinhua knew that he was being a good boy, and accepted his favor.
Eunuch Mo saw that she was a sensible person, so he didn't say any more.
All the way past the Compassionate Ning Palace, perhaps because of the scorching heat in midsummer, no nobles and masters in the palace came out and walked all the way, the whole palace was extremely quiet.
After a few steps away from the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the sedan chair stopped, and Mo Feng stepped forward to support her, and then they walked in together, but when they reached the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the nuns inside greeted her. Said: "It's Princess Chunhe, the queen mother has just rested now, you can wait here for a while."
Mo Feng frowned slightly, could it be that the queen mother deliberately made things difficult?
Lin Jinhua nodded in response, and stood obediently at the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Peace.
Eunuch Mo took one look at her and left, and the nanny also went in, leaving only Lin Jinhua's master and servant standing at the entrance of the hall.
After Mo Feng and the others had left, he said in a low voice, "Miss, is the Queen Mother trying to show you off on purpose?"
"She doesn't have to do that. She's doing it now, mostly because she wants to test it out." Lin Jinhua watched the sun getting hotter and hotter, and only regretted that she didn't let Ah Bao make a bowl of iced tea when she came.It's just that whether the Queen Mother wants to test herself, or use herself to test others, will have to wait and see.
The master and servant stood for half an hour, the sun was at the very center, and the shadows were only a small ball under the feet, and Mo Feng couldn't do anything to shade Lin Jinhua from the sun.It's okay for her to say that she has kung fu, but no matter how smart the young lady is, she is just a weak girl. After standing upright under the scorching sun for half an hour, her complexion has turned pale. See what the Queen Mother wants to do.
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation at this time.
The emperor looked at Zhao Huaiyan who had repeatedly made wrong chess pieces, thought for a while, and threw the chess pieces back into the clay pot on one side, and said, "You only care about Lin Jinhua so much, the queen mother just lets her bask in the sun, you play with me." Chess is absent-minded."
"It's rare to have a confidant in Fusheng, and I want to cherish it." Zhao Huaiyan said.
Hearing this, the emperor tightened his hands on his knees slightly, he just got off the couch and walked slowly outside the hall with his hands behind his back, Zhao Huaiyan followed immediately.
Walking to the corridor outside the hall, the emperor stood in front of the steps, looked at the magnificent palace not far from the Hall of Mental Cultivation, with green tiles and red walls, noble and graceful, and said with a smile: "If I exchange the chairs in the front hall with you This woman, you must be unwilling, right?"
"As the emperor said, is a confidante a stumbling block?" He would never trade Jinhua for that seat. How could such a position destined to die alone be comparable to his Hua'er.
The emperor smiled when he heard the words: "Early this morning, King Jing went to accompany the Queen Mother. He wanted to marry Lin Jinyu desperately, and now you are confused because of her. Is it wrong to say that she is a beauty?"
"Even if it is a disaster, it is also a disaster that my minister loves." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently, looking at the scorching sun, only thinking about whether her thin body could hold it.
"But she made you brothers fight, and you love it too?" The emperor's words still had other meanings mixed in.
Eunuch An on the side listened, sweating for Zhao Huaiyan. If his answer is yes, the emperor will definitely not let Miss Lin go.
Zhao Huaiyan has always known the emperor's mind, heard the words, only said: "Father the emperor once said, a good man has ambitions everywhere, if he falls in love with a woman, he will lose his ambition, if he becomes greedy for a brother's woman, it is shameless , Shameless and unmotivated people, if it is not for the inseparable kinship, I will definitely not recognize this brother. As for the fight, I don't think that the future princess who belongs to my son needs to fight with anyone. Whoever wants to fight is to grab. "
After saying these words, Eunuch An couldn't help giving him a thumbs up secretly, he answered the emperor's question head-on, and didn't say anything about brothers killing each other.
After listening to the emperor, it took a long time before he laughed out loud: "It's such an inseparable kinship, such a 'competition' and 'grab." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and patted him on the shoulder, sighed, and said, "That's enough." I'm afraid she's going to faint after being exposed for so long, you go and see, after all, it's the adopted daughter of my own imperial sister who offered to adopt me, my uncle, I can't be so ruthless."
Zhao Huaiyan saw that he had no doubts, so he saluted and stepped back, and quickly walked towards the Palace of Compassion.
Lin Jinhua felt that stars were already appearing in front of her eyes. Could it be that the Queen Mother was planning to sun her alive?
Just as she was thinking, a person finally came out, but now she felt that there were so many shadows of that person that she couldn't see clearly for a while.
"Miss, salute quickly." Mo Feng stepped forward to support her and said.
Lin Jinhua blinked her eyes hard, and then slowly saluted, and then the figure said: "You are also tired, do you want to go to my palace to rest for a while?"
There was a bit of gnashing of teeth in the words, and Lin Jinyu could barely see that the person who came was a respectable person whom she hadn't seen for a long time. She still didn't like to see herself like in her previous life. In her previous life, she married Zhao Kan and gave everything for their mother and child. A fate that is abandoned like a shoe...
Lin Jinhua couldn't help but smile slightly: "My daughter is here to see the queen mother, so I won't go to sit in the empress's palace."
"Is it another play-to-get trick?" Seeing her refusal, the honorable man sneered.
"The courtier doesn't understand what the empress means..." Lin Jinhua heard the smell of gunpowder, secretly bit the tip of her tongue, and the huge pain and bloody smell spread, making her sober up instantly.
The respected man smiled again: "I don't understand? You just made King Jing die for you because of this sentence? I have seen all kinds of women in this palace for so many years. I don't pay attention to small tricks at all. As a woman, you enjoy dealing with different men, and you still have to be shameless..."
"Your Majesty's words are good. King Jing disregards his son as his elder brother and covets his elder brother's wife. It's really shameless. Please go back and teach me your empress."
Before Lin Jinhua could speak, an indifferent male voice came, and then Mo Feng gave her water mixed with anti-heat medicine to drink.
After drinking a bowl of heat-relieving medicine, and Zhao Huaiyan standing beside her with a cold body, she suddenly felt refreshed, and when she looked up, she found that the face of the respectable man was dark.
The nobleman sneered: "Since Prince Ning has confirmed that she is your future concubine, let people look up to her. How can you blame Kan'er for coveting her?"
"My concubine, you can go wherever you want. Whoever dares to covet her, I will goug his eyes." Zhao Huaiyan said indifferently, then glanced at Eunuch Mo who was staring at the door, and said, "Please tell the Queen Mother The king begs to see you."
Eunuch Mo knew that although the queen mother didn't like King Ning, but the emperor liked him, she wouldn't refute his face too much, so he immediately went in to communicate, and by the way, reported the matter here intact.
The Queen Mother had just finished drinking tea to cool off the heat. Hearing this, her face turned a little cold: "Is it true that Lin Jinzheng can't possess her? The usually indifferent King Ning can protect her like this, even Kan'er, who has always been absent from women. obsessed with her."
The nurse at one side said softly: "The Queen Mother has this doubt, why not invite Master Huijue to the palace and let him have a private look."
"You call him in later." After the queen mother finished speaking, she looked outside the hall and said, "Go and pass the order. Just say that Ai's family is in the small Buddha hall to praise the Buddha, and they won't be seen. Lin Jinhua arranged to live in the palace of compassion." Side hall, King Ning let him go back."
Mammy agreed, carefully beckoning someone to help her to the small Buddhist hall, and then went out to pass on the message.
Zhao Huaiyan had predicted that the Empress Dowager would not see her early in the morning, so she was not surprised to see Mammy coming to deliver a message, she just said: "The Empress Dowager's birthday will be in a few days, during this time the Japanese king will come to greet her every day."
Mammy's eyes flickered slightly, she looked at Lin Jinhua, who was sunburned and pale, and nodded in response, before she hurriedly said to the eunuch on the other side: "Send the princess down to rest first, and then send the imperial doctor to take a look. It's also my servant's fault." , The queen mother forgot that the princess is still waiting outside, and the slaves also forgot to remind, and asked the princess to punish her."
Hearing what she said, Lin Jinhua dared to punish her, everyone knew it well, so he just smiled and said, "You're being polite, Mammy."
Seeing that she didn't make trouble unreasonably while King Ning was protecting her like this, Mammy felt relieved and immediately asked someone to help her down.
When leaving, the honored man looked at Zhao Huaiyan specially, and smiled lightly: "It is rare for King Ning to have such filial piety."
Zhao Huaiyan ignored her, glanced at her lightly, then turned and left.
He didn't take her seriously before, but now that he has talked about it, there is no need to pay attention to it.
The nanny saw it, bowed silently and left, and the honored man returned to his Yonghe Palace angrily.
There are no outsiders in the Yonghe Palace, only her confidantes are present.
Seeing her come back, Zhao Kan hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and went forward: "Mother Concubine, how are you?"
"What do you think? It's not that you don't know Zhao Huaiyan's temperament. He seems to be a boring gourd. Once you get angry, you will bite you to the bone." The honorable man said this to vent his anger. Calm down a little bit, and said to him: "Zhao Huaiyan will be your biggest opponent. Now many of us in the capital have been disposed of. Although Zhao Huaiyan has no military support from Lin Luzhi, there is still a Xu Family, we must not be careless."
"Father is partial to him, what can we do, why not get Lin Jinhua first..."
"You are not allowed to mention her again!" Seeing that he was still thinking about Lin Jinhua, the respected person said angrily.
Zhao Kan's face darkened slightly: "Mother, concubine, son..."
The honorable man looked at him and was really angry and had a headache: "If anything happens to you this time, I will send you to the southwest and let you go to war with your uncle!"
Zhao Kan saw that she was full of anger, and his heart also became angry, but he resented that she never considered his thoughts.
He stood silently on one side and stopped talking. His words to her seemed to go in his left ear and out his right ear. What he couldn't forget in his heart was still Lin Jinhua's beautiful body last night...
The scorching sun in midsummer especially stimulates the flowers. It seems that after a heavy rain, the flowers that were still delicate and beautiful a few days ago are broken and withered, leaving only a few scattered petals and flower bones, which are wilted in the sun.
The Luo family was arrested, Wang Yushi was "seriously ill", Mrs. Wang's thoughts were all placed on Zhao Huaiyan, and she didn't even bother to take care of the flowers and plants that she often tended.
She couldn't sit still in the front hall, and walked back and forth until night fell, only to see the figure of the servant from the corridor running towards him quickly.
When she got to the front, Mrs. Wang said eagerly: "How is it? What did His Highness King Ning say?"
"His Royal Highness Ning said that Ma'am is not in a hurry. Even if there is convincing evidence of treason, because the queen mother's birthday is approaching, she will not be beheaded immediately. There is still time to deal with it, and he will not tolerate loyal ministers being framed. .” The boy repeated the original words.
After listening to Mrs. Wang, she seemed to have taken a reassurance, and her heart fell back into her stomach.
After the boy finished speaking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone eavesdropping behind a screen, and hurriedly asked, "Where is who?"
Mrs. Wang was startled, and hurried over, but only saw a gray corner of her clothes.
"Madam, do you want someone to investigate?"
"Forget it, what you just said is not a secret." Mrs. Wang recognized the man, her heart sank to the bottom.
Seeing that she didn't pursue it, the boy didn't say any more, he bowed and left.
After thinking about it, Mrs. Wang got up and went to Wang Huiyuan's yard.
At this time, in Prince Ning's mansion.
Zhao Huaiyan stood in the peach grove with his hands behind his back, and after a while, he said, "Is it really Zhao Qing who is planning to arrange it?"
"Yes."
The neat woman standing behind him answered in a low voice.
His eyes were indifferent, and after a while, he asked again: "Can someone from Xixia intervene?"
"Not yet."
"No..." Zhao Huaiyan looked ahead quietly, seemingly lost in thought.
The people behind him were used to him taking a long time to utter a word, and they waited quietly for orders.
Not long after, I heard him say lightly: "I asked you to prepare, are you ready?"
"The preparations are ready, but the prince, using this to lure him out of the city, isn't it too..."
"Despicable?" Zhao Huaiyan said words that she dared not say.
The people behind were silent and admitted.
Zhao Huaiyan turned around indifferently and looked at her with downcast eyebrows, squinting at Gao Zhi on one side: "You should do this yourself."
"Yes." Gao Zhi agreed.
"Also..." Zhao Huaiyan looked at the woman in front of him and said, "Transfer her back to Xixia."
"My lord!" The woman was horrified in her heart, and hurriedly raised her head to look at him: "Is there anything wrong with this subordinate?"
Zhao Huaiyan ignored her and walked away.
The woman wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Gao Zhi.Gao Zhi looked at her puzzled and aggrieved look, and sighed softly: "Princess Xianyue asked you to serve, it's normal if you don't understand. You don't know how many despicable things King Jing has done to the prince. The reason why the prince is like this is also because last night..." Gao Zhi paused, afraid of being beaten by the prince, he didn't dare to say it, and only said: "Sun Tzu has 36 tactics in the art of war, and every trick is a trick, can it be considered despicable? "
"I just……"
"You have been following the princess, didn't the princess teach you?" Gao Zhi was puzzled, a person like Princess Xianyue would not understand these things.
"I... the princess will not let the prince be reduced to such a thing." The woman was a little unconvinced, and in the end she still blamed Lin Jinhua.
Gao Tian knew that she was stubborn, so he didn't bother to talk to her, so he sent her away before going to his own business.But this time King Jing dared to go crazy, and he had to accept the price of going crazy.
At night, the bright moon was already high in the sky, and the cold moonlight poured down, as if the heat had disappeared a lot.
Lin Jinhua simply washed up and lay down on an unfamiliar bed. Looking at the ceiling, she felt very awake and couldn't fall asleep.In the Lin Mansion, she can still get up to read a book or go out for a walk. In this deep palace wall, her every move is watched by people with strict rules. The sound of the leaves of a camellia tree being blown together by the wind.
She thought, what if Huai Yan got the throne in the end?Will she be imprisoned with him forever by the golden cage of the palace?
She thought about it, and after an unknown amount of time, she finally fell asleep.
Before dawn the next day, the nanny came to take care of her grooming, she pulled herself up and got up, and Mo Feng also came in to take care of her immediately, but she changed into a court lady's ordinary clothes, and the queen mother prepared a long royal blue dress for her.She didn't like this color very much, but she couldn't say no, so she had to let four or five maids fiddle with it, and combed her hair in a complicated bun before going to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.
The queen mother did not make things difficult for her this time, and asked her to invite her to sit aside.
Those who came to pay their respects early in the morning, and Princess Xuan, who came here with the little princess in her arms, the little prince was only a few months old, and it was when he was cute and cute, babbling and chubby in his toothless mouth People like it, and it is rare for the Queen Mother to smile.
Lin Jinhua pretended to be transparent and sat quietly waiting for the morning to pass, but after a while, she saw the nanny walking in with a hesitant expression.
The queen mother saw her like this, and asked lightly: "What's the matter, you look sad."
"Slaves are born with such a sad face, it's rare that the Queen Mother doesn't dislike it." Mammy laughed hurriedly.
"Okay, if you have anything to say, just say it." The queen mother handed the little county king back to Princess Xuan who was waiting at the side.
The nanny hurriedly responded, and said: "It's a noble person who came to pay his respects. He is waiting outside now, and he personally cooked mung bean soup for you, Queen Mother, to cool off the heat."
The Empress Dowager's face remained unchanged when she heard the words: "It's rare for her to bother, but why didn't you tell her that Ai's family has been in poor health for the past few days, and the imperial doctor explained that it is not suitable to eat these cold things, you can ask her to take them back."
"Yes." Mammy immediately responded.
When Lin Jinhua heard this, she only thought that Xue Wen was trying her best to please the queen mother, so she heard Princess Yiyixuan laughing and said: "This noble person is persistent, the emperor asked her to come to greet the queen mother every day, she really never falls behind .”
When the Empress Dowager heard this, her face, which had been calm just now, sank a bit.
Princess Xuan knew she had said the wrong thing, so she hurriedly lowered her head to tease the child, and dared not say any more.
Hearing this, Lin Jinyu felt strange. The emperor asked Xue Wenxin to come here every day. It is impossible not to know that the Queen Mother doesn't like her, but he insists on Xue Wenxin doing this every day. What is he planning to do?Moreover, seeing that the Empress Dowager is so unhappy, she refuses to even meet her in a perfunctory way, which means she doesn't even give the emperor face. Could it be that there is a rift between their mother and son...
Just as she was thinking about it, Princess Xuan said: "I heard that Princess Chunhe is good at medical skills, and your grandmother is not in good health, why don't you let Princess Chunhe show you?"
The queen mother frowned: "God is taking care of Aijia's body, so there is no need for her to come and see it. I'm afraid you will get tired of being with Aijia now, so go back."
Concubine Xuan smiled and said yes, then turned to look at Lin Jinhua, and said with a smile: "Princess Chunhe must not be used to it when she first comes to the palace."
"I have a low temper, and I don't like to move around anywhere, but I don't feel uncomfortable. Thank you, Princess, for your concern." Lin Jinhua didn't know what she meant, but she knew that she couldn't offend the Queen Mother now, and she had to think of her in every word and deed.
"That's good. I heard that you almost fainted from heat stroke yesterday. If King Ning knew about it, he would be angry." Princess Xuan said with a smile, as if she didn't know that Zhao Huaiyan had been here yesterday.
Lin Jinhua looked at her eyes full of smiles when she looked at her, and felt a little cold in her heart. Did she deliberately say this to Huaiyan in front of the Queen Mother?
"His Royal Highness Ning is a junior, how could he get angry with the Queen Mother? The princess is too worried. Although King Xuan and you are not close to His Royal Highness Ning, it is not possible to guess that he is not virtuous or filial, right?" Lin Jinhua said. The words were filled with personal anger, and after she finished speaking, she watched Princess Xuan's face become embarrassed with a smile, but she just acted as if she didn't notice it and let her be embarrassed.
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager glanced at her lovely great-grandson and raised her hand: "Everyone go down."
"Yes." Lin Jinhua bowed politely before stepping back sideways.
Princess Xuan also blushed and followed out.
After they all left, the queen mother lowered her face: "Concubine Xuan is so stupid, it's fine if she can't help the fourth child, but don't let the little county king follow suit."
"Don't worry, Empress Dowager, Princess Xuan came from a big family anyway, so she knows it well." The mother at the side persuaded.
"Count?" The queen mother shook her head, remembering her embarrassment just now: "Even a teenage girl can't say it, she is also stupid, and she dares to sue King Ning in front of Ai's family, and she is not afraid of his face being cold. The six relatives don't recognize it."
When Mammy heard this, she hurriedly lowered her head even lower, not daring to listen more.
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager didn't bother to say: "Call Master Huijue here sometime." After speaking, she helped the hand of the maid beside her and went to the small Buddhist hall.
Lin Jinhua came out with Concubine Xuan and sent her to the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, before saying, "My daughter respectfully sends the concubine off."
"You are welcome, princess, but this concubine really did not expect that the princess has not yet married King Ning, and you are so deeply in love with each other. It is really rare." Princess Xuan looked at her, her embarrassment had long since disappeared, and she smiled. Gentle, as if nothing happened just now.
Seeing this, Lin Jinhua knew that her words had bad intentions and did not refute them, so as not to cause more trouble, she lowered her eyes and said softly, "Thank you, Princess, for your compliment."
Princess Xuan saw that she was obedient, so she gave her a cold look, and left with Xiaojun Wang in her arms.
Mo Feng whispered sideways: "Miss, we'd better avoid her from now on."
"How to avoid it." Soon to be married to Huai Yan, once married, Princess Xuan would still have to call herself Dahuangsao, this feeling is really indescribable.
Mo Feng was also dumb.
But after sending Princess Xuan away, they obediently returned to the side hall to be bored. There are respectable people in the harem staring at them, so it is still safe here.
It's just that what Lin Jinhua didn't expect was that the respectable person didn't have time to trouble her right now.
In the Yonghe Palace.
The honorable man looked at the little eunuch who was talking back and forth, his face turned blue with anger: "Say it again!"
"Yes, ma'am, His Royal Highness Jing Wang drove out of the city early this morning, but he was framed and mixed with a group of barbarians. The guards who were called to patrol the city happened to bump into it. At this moment, someone from the Ministry of Punishment wrote it himself. The scriptures say that the Emperor is the Emperor, and His Highness might not be able to cleanse himself by jumping into the Yellow River this time!"
"Why did King Jing go out of the city suddenly?" Jinggui was so angry that his head was dizzy, and he told Zhao Kan to be careful yesterday, but he didn't expect something to happen today.
Trembling, the little eunuch took out a letter from his pocket and presented it with both hands: "This is from Prince Jing's Mansion."
The respectable person stood up in person, stepped forward to take the letter in his hand and opened it, but there was a love poem written inside, which meant inviting Zhao Kan to a gathering outside the city.
The respected person was puzzled: "This letter has not been signed?"
"I heard that there was another token sent along with the letter, but the prince took it away when he left the city, and the people in Prince Jing's mansion didn't see what it was." The little eunuch said.
The honorable man's face was livid, and he didn't know what to say, so he just said: "Get ready for the sedan chair, I want to meet the emperor immediately!" This time someone framed Kan'er, it must be Zhao Huaiyan, but where is she going to find evidence? ?
But Zhao Huaiyan did things, how could people leave evidence, and he was just playing tricks, giving Zhao Kan the barbarian assassin Zhao Qing used to frame him.
Outside the city, Zhao Kan was surrounded by officers and soldiers, and the person hiding in the ruined temple behind him was not the person he wanted to see at all, but a barbarian assassin.
Lin Jincheng, who was leading the guards, looked at the person in front of him, and his brows were also slightly tightened.After all, he was only captured to meet the assassin, and Zhao Kan is the prince, so he can't even be arrested unless he waits for the emperor's decree.
Zhao Kan tightly grasped a strand of blue silk tied with white silk in his hand. He thought that Lin Jinhua was moved by him when he saw the letter, so he took the blue silk as a token. Aren't the fragrance and the white silk cut from the clothes she was wearing that night?Otherwise, how could there be the fragrance of that night?
Gao Tian, who was staring at him from afar, glanced at his short hair, thinking that he had secretly stolen the white cloth cut by Miss Lin's Sipa, and watched him sniff that hair in front of his nose again and again, There is a strange feeling in my heart.It's disgusting, but it's more like he committed himself to King Jing, but the only thing he didn't expect was that King Jing was infatuated with Ms. Lin so far, it was just a letter and a lock of hair, and he was asked to drive away early in the morning. Come.
"I didn't expect King Jing, who used to be unrestrained, would be here today." On the second floor of the tavern not far from the city gate, the servant smiled sarcastically.
"After wandering for a long time, you will become crazier when you really meet someone who is tempted." Zhao Qing turned the wine glass in his hand indifferently, and the corners of his mouth curled up coldly: "But King Ning is King Ning, and he will always be smarter than ordinary people. He actually saw through his plan long ago, and gave Zhao Kan, a person who fell in love, a trick."
"My lord, what should I do next? If you want to continue the investigation by King Ning, the Luo family may escape. The Luo family refuses to submit to us. If they come out this time, they may cause trouble." The servant looked at he asked.
Zhao Qing only turned his head to look downstairs, and saw a boy in a dark servant's uniform coming out of the pharmacy, and said with a smile: "What's the rush, the plan has just begun."
The young servant followed his gaze, recognized the uniform of the family, and said with a smile, "You want to start with the Wang family."
"Wang Yushi was trapped at home, and Mrs. Wang, mother and daughter listened to Lin Jinhua very much, so there is only Wang Huiyuan left...I heard that he is seriously ill, so take this to him." After speaking, he took out a jade bottle and put it on the on the table.
Just taking out this jade bottle seems to be able to smell a quiet fragrance. Seeing this, the young servant couldn't bear it: "This is what that Xianyue gave you, and it is something that can save your life."
"If you don't give Wang Huiyuan his life, do you think he can give his life for this king?" Zhao Qing glanced at the medicine bottle disdainfully, and sneered: "Princess Xianyue of Xixia, she really regards herself as someone."
Seeing this, the boy took the medicine bottle and said nothing more.
What happened to Zhao Kan didn't last long, and the imperial decree came down soon, but it was beyond Gao Zhi's expectation.
He returned to Prince Ning's mansion, looked at Zhao Huaiyan who was standing on the lake corridor thinking about something alone, and said softly, "My lord."
"How about the edict?"
"I heard that the honorable man himself requested that King Jing be sent to the southwest to join the army. The emperor agreed and will not pursue this matter any more." Gao Jie said cautiously. It's the territory of the Xiong family, and when he goes there, he will only feel like a fish in water.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Huaiyan's eyes dimmed: "Notify the head of Qingshan Village that Zhao Kan's trip to the southwest does not have to be smooth."
Seeing that the lord hadn't planned to do anything cruel, Gao Zhi said hesitantly: "My lord, King Jing went to the southwest to reconcile with the Xiong family, but it will be even more difficult to deal with."
"It's not the time yet." His father was still staring at his every move. Once he killed Zhao Kan, his father would definitely believe that he was the one who wanted to plot rebellion, not to mention that talented people were already in his heart. The seeds of doubt were planted, and Zhao Qing was still eyeing the capital.
Gao Zhi heard the words, even though he was unwilling, he had no choice but to agree.
Not long after, I heard someone coming from outside, saying that it was King Xuan asking to see him.
"King Xuan..." Zhao Huai glanced at the person who was talking back and forth: "Please go to the study."
"Yes."
When the people left, Gao Gen followed and said, "My lord, why is King Xuan here now?"
"Come to sell favors." Zhao Huaiyan knew for a long time that he had secretly cooperated with Xianyue, but after he gave birth to the prince, the queen and respected nobles encountered setbacks one after another, Jiacai was given to death, and his mother concubine Li also began I can't sit still and want to fight.
Seeing him walking away, Gao Zhi couldn't figure it out, and didn't dare to say more, so he quickly stepped up and followed.
When Lin Jinhua heard about Zhao Kan in the Compassionate Ning Palace, it was already time for dinner, and the court ladies and eunuchs in the palace were tight-lipped. If Mo Feng hadn't overheard them discussing privately when he went to get the dinner, she would I'm afraid I don't know yet.
After dinner, Lin Jinhua sent everyone away with the pretext of taking a bath, leaving Mo Feng to talk: "Why would the emperor agree to Zhao Kan going to the southwest?"
"I don't know about this maidservant. It stands to reason that the emperor should always be afraid of the Xiong family. Before he dealt with Prime Minister Xiong, he also demoted the honored person. It can be seen that he wanted to dispose of the Xiong family." Mo Feng was also puzzled.
Lin Jinhua couldn't figure it out either. Standing by the window and looking at the square palace wall outside the window, a bold thought came to her mind after a long while: "Could the emperor want to use Zhao Kan to get rid of the Xiong family?" Only this reason can explain it. It worked out, Zhao Kan was much easier to use than the Xiong family, and it wouldn't make the Xiong family suspicious.
Mo Feng was puzzled, and Lin Jinhua didn't explain much, just said: "You keep watching these few days to see if the honorable person will be valued by the emperor. If so, then my guess is almost the same." The emperor To use Zhao Kan to get rid of the Xiong family, it will definitely give the Xiong family and Zhao Kan a sweetheart to deceive them. It is impossible to reward anything in the southwest, and the only person who can give sweetness is a respectable person.
The ink wind should go down.
After another night of silence, Lin Jinhua got up the next day to say hello, and saw that the distinguished person was already inside, beaming with joy.
As soon as Lin Jinhua came in, she saw the spring in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, and blinked, could it be that the emperor summoned her last night?
Just thinking about it, Nanny helped the queen mother out.
After exchanging a few commonplace greetings, the conversation changed, and the respected person said: "I don't know if I should say something or not."
"You've already opened your mouth, let's talk." The queen mother took a sip of tea before saying slowly.
"Yes." The honored man hurriedly stood up and bowed his knees to salute, "The concubine is thinking about whether it is time for the empress to come out on your birthday. Although she made a big mistake, the confinement After a long time, I should have reflected on it, and I have received the punishment I deserved, what do you think, Queen Mother?"
The queen mother frowned slightly when she heard the words, as if she was unwilling, but before she could speak, she heard the sound of steady footsteps outside, and then a bright yellow figure walked in.
When the respected person saw the person coming, his complexion turned red, and he quickly stepped aside. Lin Jinhua quickly saluted and listened to him: "Everyone is flattened. I just listened to the words of Concubine De, and it is very reasonable. From today From the beginning, let the queen out, let her also enjoy the happiness of the queen mother."
"Concubine De?" Hearing this, the nobleman raised his head excitedly.
The emperor smiled at her: "Why, my concubine has been a respected nobleman for a long time, but she has forgotten her previous title?"
Only then did the honorable man realize his reaction, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
"Okay, you were tired yesterday, Kan'er is going to the palace to say goodbye today, go and see me, I'll be gone, people in the province say I'm particularly partial to you mother and son." The emperor laughed.
The maid on one side saw the honored person overjoyed, hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, and said with a smile: "Empress Defei, thank you quickly."
Only then did she thank you in a hurry, and left excitedly.When she left, Lin Jinhua saw that her hands were trembling slightly, and couldn't help feeling a little more pity in her heart.The emperor used her like this, and she was grateful to Dade, but the emperor is really ruthless, the woman who has slept with her for so many years will always be just a pawn in his eyes.
Just as she was thinking, a cold gaze fell on her, and she hurriedly withdrew her gaze, drooping her eyes silently, but the emperor laughed: "What is Chunhe thinking?"
Seeing him talking to her, Lin Jinhua turned around and said, "My daughter is happy for Concubine De."
"Oh, what's there to be happy about? The position of Concubine Virtue belongs to her." The emperor looked at her deeply and said.
"Concubine De is blessed to be favored by the Holy Majesty." Lin Jinhua said high-sounding words.
The emperor was delighted to hear that: "Everyone says you are eloquent, I think you are right."
"The emperor is overrated."
"Then you are also happy when I praise you like this?" the emperor said with a smile.
"Of course, no one's praise is as glorious as the emperor's praise. After leaving the palace, the courtiers can talk to the ladies who are close to them for three months." Lin Jinhua saw him showing a loving attitude, and followed him. Show a flattering heart.
The emperor laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Interesting, Chunhe, it's no wonder Huaiyan likes you so much. Forget it, I and the empress dowager are two old people who are boring to accompany you. The empress is Huaiyan's mother, since you are in the palace Here, go and welcome her out of the palace."
Lin Jinhua's heart tightened, what did the emperor mean by this?
She raised her eyes, but the emperor's eagle eyes glanced over, as if he wanted to see through her.
She got up and said with a smile: "The emperor is in his prime, and the queen mother is also blessed with a long life. The courtiers have little knowledge. Talking to the queen mother and the emperor is just like what is said in the book. Listening to the king's words is better than reading ten years of books. How can I feel bored?" , I am afraid that the emperor and the queen mother will dislike the courtiers and women who have no ink."
"Women are virtuous without talent." The Queen Mother said coolly.
When Lin Jinhua heard this, she knew that she really didn't want to see her.
But it doesn't matter, even though the emperor is suspicious, his face is always pleasant.
The emperor smiled and said: "Before Huai Yan proposed to me to advance the date of marriage, I was not very happy at first, but now that you are so eloquent, it is better to marry him earlier, and grind his annoying withdrawn temper."
Lin Jinhua looked up in astonishment, so is her wedding really going to be brought forward?
On the way from the Palace of Compassion and Ning to Kunning Palace, because of the early date of the marriage, she didn't even think about why the emperor let her come to see the queen. When she arrived at Kunning Palace, Mo Feng said that someone followed secretly Only then did I understand that the emperor wanted to use this to test whether the empress and Huaiyan had the intention of rebellion, as the Jiacai people said. After all, the empress was pulled out of the trough, and she was the easiest to confide in when she saw that she was one of her own. Heartfelt.
Looking at the silence in Kunning Palace, she breathed a sigh of relief, put aside other thoughts, and only hoped that the queen would calm down for a while.
(End of this chapter)
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