After I was reborn, I became the queen mother by fortune telling

Chapter 229
She rubbed her eyes, then opened them to take a closer look. Sure enough, it was dark.

I don't know how long I slept this time.

Seeing Mu Qingyuan's robe slipping down on the ground, Jiang Yu felt her heart twitch.

Too bad, he found out!

It is estimated that Mu Qingyuan will find someone to change all the bedding on the entire soft couch soon.

Jiang Yu carefully folded the robes that had fallen on the floor, put them neatly on the soft couch, and then walked out from behind the screen lightly.

The study room was brightly lit, and Mu Qingyuan was reading a book under the lamp.

"Are you awake?" he asked without looking up.

"Ah? Hmm." Jiang Yu was a little embarrassed, this was the second time she accidentally fell asleep while waiting for Mu Qingyuan.

"are you hungry?"

It's okay not to mention it, but Jiang Yu did feel her stomach growling a little.

Accompanying guests at noon, I naturally dare not let go of my stomach to eat, and what time is it now, I feel that I should have missed dinner.

"Come here." Mu Qingyuan put down the book, raised his head, and waved to her.

Jiang Yu looked at him inexplicably.

Mu Qingyuan opened a food box on the desk in front of him, revealing several plates of snacks and a covered cup.

"It's almost Haishi, this is for you."

Haishi?Jiang Yu was surprised that she could really sleep and dare to sleep.

She walked over, and Mu Qingyuan pointed to the small table she sat on last time: "Sit down."

Jiang Yu was not polite either. She sat down and opened the lid. It turned out to be a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup. She picked up the silver spoon and ate it.

"Jiang Meiren knows the envoy of Ningqiu Kingdom?" She was eating well, and Mu Qingyuan asked abruptly.

"Ahem..." A mouthful of peanut crisps choked in her throat, and Jiang Yu coughed desperately.

"Eat slowly, no one will grab you."

Mu Qingyuan smiled slightly, and handed her the teacup in front of her. Jiang Yu was just being dizzy from choking, so she grabbed the teacup and took a long gulp.

After a sigh of relief, she put down the teacup, only to find that the cup was not her own.

It should be said that no one poured tea for her just now.

That could only be Mu Qingyuan's.

Jiang Yu felt that the teacup was suddenly hot, so she immediately moved her hand away from the cup.

"It's not considered acquaintance, but we have met." Jiang Yu changed the subject.

Jiang Yu briefly talked about meeting Yin Yan because of seeing Pei Zhi outside the palace.

However, she omitted the part where Yin Yan picked flowers for her on the mountain road, and the poem that Yin Yan wanted to leave her.

"So, he has been in the Great Xia Kingdom for a while, and he claims to be a jeweler." Mu Qingyuan murmured.

"This Yin Yan claims to be a jeweler, and he is looking for a place to open a shop in the capital. He and Pei Zhi seem to have known each other not long ago."

"I'm afraid he came to the capital early for other purposes. You said he even gave Pei Zhi a big house?"

"It's not a gift either. According to Yin Yan, he lent this house to Pei Zhi for use, and Pei Zhi has the final say on when to return it."

Mu Qingyuan smiled faintly: "In other words, he has even made it through Prime Minister He's path. No wonder why Bichu actually spoke for Ningqiu at today's court meeting, saying that it is for the eternal harmony between the two countries and the people living and working in peace and contentment." , should be based on the boundary that was drawn that day, and the boundary markers should be re-established. I thought it was because the older he was, the more he was afraid of trouble, but it turned out that the older he was, the more he would do trouble."

"In this way, those people who have conflicts with Ningqiu must move away from the border and leave their fields and houses."

"And the boundary that was drawn that day was actually due to changes in the terrain. It mistakenly included part of the land that originally belonged to Daxia into the Ningqiu Kingdom, which is unfair to Daxia."

Jiang Yu frowned slightly. She remembered that she had heard that there was a village that was often harassed by Ningqiu soldiers, saying that it was the border of Ningqiu, and people would die every year because of it.

She also heard that the village chief said that as long as people live in the village, this village will always belong to the Great Xia Kingdom.

It turned out that there was such a reason in the middle.

As for what Yin Yan said was to thank me for donating poems, so I gave the house to Pei Zhi so that he could propose to the number one talented woman in the capital, which broke Han Yaoqin's unrequited love. I thought it was far-fetched. Click here.

Mu Qingyuan was thirsty, took the teacup handed to Jiang Yu just now, and drank the remaining tea in it.

Jiang Yu opened her mouth, trying to stop it, but it was too late.

I not only took this cup, but also drank it.

Mu Qingyuan, what about your cleanliness?

Shouldn't you change the cup immediately at this time?

Jiang Yu didn't dare to point it out, but Mu Qingyuan saw her uneasy expression, so he asked, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?"

"No, no." Jiang Yu shook her head, "The concubine is just thinking about what the emperor said just now. The concubine often heard about that village when she was in Yangzhou."

"Has Jiang Meiren been to that village?"

Before Jiang Yu could answer, there was a short knock on the closed door of the study and the voice of Eunuch Gao: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"Come in!" Mu Qingyuan raised his voice.

The door opened with a "squeak", Eunuch Gao's expression was a little serious, he held a small roll of paper in his hand, and presented it to Mu Qingyuan, but he didn't say a word.

Mu Qingyuan took the paper roll he handed over, looked at the sealed wax seal, and ordered: "You go down first."

Eunuch Gao still quietly left the study room. Seeing him leave, Mu Qingyuan picked up an ivory paper knife on the table, picked off the sealant on the sealed scroll, unfolded the scroll, and read it.

Jiang Yu guessed that this should be a secret, so she buried her head in eating her snacks and didn't cast a glance.

Suddenly Mu Qingyuan's deep voice was heard: "You should have read this incident, but the paper is written in code words, I'm afraid you can't understand it, so I'll pass it on to you."

When Jiang Yu looked up, she happened to see that the scroll in Mu Qingyuan's hand was completely burned by the candle on the candlestick on the table, leaving only a little bit of black and gray ashes.

"Just now, the Empress Dowager left the palace." Mu Qingyuan said flatly.

Jiang Yu thought she had heard wrong.

"Who? Who left the palace?"

Mu Qingyuan sighed: "It's the current queen mother."

"The Empress Dowager...it's so late, what is she going out of the palace for?" Jiang Yu was so surprised that she was almost incoherent.

If something really happened to leave the palace, why didn't the Empress Dowager leave the palace openly during the day, but she insisted on leaving the palace secretly in such a deep night.

"Jiang Meiren asked a good question, but unfortunately I can't answer you. The person who followed the Queen Mother out of the palace hasn't come back yet. When he comes back, he will naturally know. However, I guess, it should be related to the guest who came today."

"Yin Yan?"

"Yes." Mu Qingyuan suddenly smiled, "Jiang Meiren don't need to be too nervous. Now the queen mother is out of the palace overnight, not me. The sky still won't fall."

(End of this chapter)