palace heart

Chapter 84
"Oh!" Li Qianlan just raised her eyebrows and looked at Shen Mojun. Other than that, there was no extra expression on her face that could reveal her complex psychology at this time: "Why not Empress Dowager Gao? Empress Dowager Gao is the Shen family's constant rival , have always wanted to wipe out the Shen family as soon as possible?"

"The Empress Dowager regrets her life. She will not exchange her own life for my father's. If she really wants my father's life, she will only send a secret whistle to do it." Shen Mojun looked away and looked at the orderly black and white chess pieces on the chessboard.

Both Li Qianlan and Shen Mo knew each other, and she had to hide herself better if she wanted not to be seen by Shen Mojun. At this moment, after the conversation between the two, Li Qianlan was already in a cold sweat from nervousness.

Fortunately, the weather is hot, the summer is fierce, and the cicadas on the tree are screaming non-stop. How can Shen Mojun suspect the slight sweat on Li Qianlan's head!

Xia Tian covered up the guilty conscience for Li Qianlan, but she didn't answer the conversation right away, but wiped the sweat off her head with a silk handkerchief, and fanned it with a fan at the same time, before she opened her mouth and asked, "If one day, Empress Dowager Gao is powerful and wants to challenge the emperor to fight for the throne, who will you help then?"

Shen Mojun didn't expect that Li Qianlan would avoid the topic, and when he asked a question, he was stunned for a moment: "Until I find out who caused the accident, I can't answer your question!"

"The empress dowager is ambitious. If the emperor does not have the support of the Shen family, he will be alone. If the two fight for the throne, both sides will suffer heavy losses. If there is a third party watching the battle at this time, it will be a good opportunity to win in one fell swoop." The world." Li Qianlan said, looking into Shen Mojun's eyes, looking deeply into his heart: "The third party, who do you think it is, then he is the one who killed your father!"

Such a cryptic answer not only avoided sensitive topics, but also answered Shen Mojun's question.

Shen Mojun thought about it, he knew that Li Qianlan had a hatred in her heart that could not be discarded, but he didn't know that she still had the heart to help Prince Zuo Chengxian, so he was the first to exclude Li Qianlan.

As for the Shen family, although Shen Hongde had ambitions, he would not rush to die when he failed at this critical moment, and Shen Mojun didn't even have the slightest intention of winning the throne. He just wanted to live an ordinary and happy life like ordinary people.

And apart from those two, it's nothing more than...

Shen Mojun clenched his fists and blurted out angrily, "Former princelings!"

Li Qianlan smiled, smiling very proudly in her heart. She poured Shen Mojun a cup of his favorite jasmine tea, and continued following his words: "The former prince was assassinated by the emperor and took the throne. The former prince can be willing to sleep on the ground forever. However, the forces of the ex-princelings are not willing to die. They have been agitating in secret all the time, wanting to seize the imperial power and restore the former prince's imperial prestige. But they also know the importance of the Shen family to the emperor, so killing your father is the right thing to do. They are bound to win the plan. Yes, Ben Gong is the only person they can contact in the palace, and Ben Gong can also be their internal response, but do you think Ben Gong will do that?"

The cunning Li Qianlan always leaves important answers to Shen Mojun to think for himself. Shen Mojun has no reason to guess that he loves a woman so much that he would wholeheartedly want his own father's life. He shook his head, looked at Li Qianlan with pity and said: "You didn't agree, so they also poisoned you with poison."

When Shen Mojun said this, Li Qianlan just picked up the water and covered her face with her sleeves. She smiled, and her smile was completely hidden behind her long sleeves.

She finished drinking the water, put down the teacup, and wiped the corners of her mouth with a silk handkerchief: "Your father knows who did it and who framed his life, but he doesn't want to take revenge." These words are true, Li Qianlan is extremely tactful , and then said: "Master Shen knows, and your father also knows that I live for revenge. Whether the emperor is fighting the queen mother or playing with me, he will not be able to keep him alive, so just now I asked you Who will the third party be? If the former princeling seizes the throne, the Shen family will have no way to retreat, your father has already thought of this!"

"Prince Chengxian." Shen Mojun followed Li Qianlan's words, and couldn't help saying, "Father, you want me to help Prince Chengxian?"

Li Qianlan nodded: "Prince Chengxian is the blood of Empress Zheng, but the Zheng family is weak, and the prince has no military power at all. If Mr. Shen can help the prince, and when the prince ascends the throne in the future, Mr. Shen must be the prime minister. bit."

"I……"

Li Qianlan didn't wait for Shen Mojun to speak, and interrupted sharply: "I know that you don't care about the position of prime minister, but the Shen family does. If the Shen family wants to continue to be prosperous, wealthy and safe, Mr. Shen must take this position. What is Mr. Shen now?" Don't think about it too much, follow your father's order to protect the prince's safety, because Zhao Zhaoyi is pregnant recently, and Empress Dowager Gao is already stupid..."

"The emperor ordered: Give Concubine Shu a bath in the hot spring."

Li Qianlan's words were interrupted by the eunuch's voice outside, her hands couldn't help shaking, she knew what Tang Chiyu meant, she looked at Shen Mojun, and Shen Mojun's eyes were full of deep sorrow.

Li Qianlan's hands clenched into fists in her sleeves, she looked away, stood up slowly: "I'll stop here for what I said, Mr. Shen, weigh it yourself, so that you know yourself." After finishing speaking, she turned around and stepped down. The steps slowly moved away from Shen Mojun with a deep tingling pain in his heart.

Shen Mojun walked down the gazebo. He felt sorry for Li Qianlan, knew the difficulty of the road to the harem, and knew the benefits of mothers relying on their children. Looking at Li Qianlan's back, he finally made up his mind, and slowly promised: "Dare not to disobey my father's orders. The lives of Prince Chengxian and Concubine Shu should be taken care of by the officials."

Tears fell into her heart, Li Qianlan nodded, her pace continued unabated, she said in her heart as she walked: I'm sorry, Shen Mojun, I won't deliberately use you to plot against you, just because my hatred is too deep, I am now There are only these things that can be given to you and make up for the Shen family.I know I owe you too much, in the next life, let me pay you back together in the next life!

The surroundings of Tangchi are made of white jade, which is rich and gorgeous.

The water in the soup pool is drawn from the hot springs at the foot of Mount E near the palace garden. The maids usually add morning dew into it, and then mix it with various pearl powders according to the instructions of the imperial physician, so that the water will have the effect of nourishing the skin, curing diseases and prolonging life. Di basically comes here to soak for a while every day to relax his tired nerves.

Prince Chengxian is the only son of Emperor Ying, and he can often enjoy the preferential treatment of bathing in the Tangchi, but the only concubines who can enjoy it are Empress Zheng, and only Concubine Wu and Xu Meiren, so it is a great honor for the concubines to be given a bath in the Tangchi , enough for the master and slave to show off for a long time.

In fact, the soup pool is composed of three small soup pools, the north is used by Emperor Ying, the west is used by the empress, and the south is used by concubines.

However, the eunuch did not lead Li Qianlan into the Tangchi area used by concubines, but led her to the Tangchi area used by Emperor Ying.

If Li Qianlan entered the concubine pool directly, then Qiuyun should change Li Qianlan's clothes, let Li Qianlan bathe in the water, and then enter the palace to serve her bed.But now that he's here, Qiuyun doesn't know what to do next.

Because the emperor and concubine had never bathed in the same pool, Qiu Yun was so entangled that he didn't know what to do, and looked at Li Qianlan in blank dismay.Li Qianlan didn't understand what Yingdi meant for a while, did she want her to go to bed directly, or what, she simply let Qiuyun wait by the side first.

Li Qianlan stepped in slowly, and saw that Emperor Ying's eunuchs and maids were standing respectfully on both sides. She looked around but did not see Emperor Ying, neither in the hall nor in the Tangchi.

"Where's the emperor?" Li Qianlan was very confused, and asked the little eunuch who led her in.

"The emperor is changing clothes. Concubine Shu, please wait a moment." After the little eunuch finished speaking, he stepped aside, not daring to disturb him.

(End of this chapter)