In Qingning Palace, the Queen Mother had already learned that Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang had entered the palace successively, and when Jiuniang came, she even brought a strange man to Qianqing Palace, but she kept her mind and did not let people go to Qianqing Palace to inquire about it. Sure enough, she didn't wait in vain, Mrs. Tai and Jiu Niang finally came over in person, bringing a piece of news that she didn't expect, and it can indeed be said that it will shake a lot.

Unlike Yuquan, whose complexion changed greatly, the Queen Mother seemed very calm, and even laughed: "Sure enough, the more this is at the end of the year, the more messy things will be, I don't know if it's the demons dancing around, or Erlang's life is really too bad!" ”

Mrs. Tai didn't speak, and Jiu Niang had always felt awkward in Qingning Palace, so she was even more taciturn than when she was in Qianqing Palace. The silence of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not affect the mood of the queen mother, she sighed slightly, but asked directly: "Is the emperor still going to summon the people on that boat at this time?" When the gates are closed, how are the people brought in? ”

"The concubine let Yingying go in person." Although the queen mother's eyes suddenly turned sharply, Jiu Niang was still very calm, "The city gate is locked, and hundreds of officials are not allowed to enter or leave the city unless it is an urgent matter such as military affairs. And Da Lang is in charge of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and he has the right to pass, so it is easy to bring people into the city. ”

"The Queen Mother may say that Yingying should not be involved in this kind of thing, but she is not a child anymore, and she has a lot of importance in doing things, if she hides everything from her, then she will be underestimated. As for the family, I have entrusted it to Erlang, and the matter has been roughly mentioned to him, if he always has no chance to be alone, how can he grow up? ”

Mrs. Tai's previous order was to let Zhu Hong run, but now that she heard Jiu Niang say this, she also felt that her daughter-in-law was more thoughtful, so she immediately agreed: "Queen Mother, Jiu Niang's measures are very appropriate, when she goes out of the city at this time, it is indeed better for Yingying to come forward, and others turned back to the sky and said that this girl is arrogant, anyway, she is used to it." Yingying is thick on the outside and fine on the inside, and it will definitely be able to do a good job. ”

"Of course she can, as long as this girl wants to do it, she can do it all." The Queen Mother sighed helplessly, and there was a little sadness in her voice, "I just hope that she won't get involved in these messy things, and just be a pair of fairy couples with her wishful husband." ”

"How can there be a fairy couple in the world who does not eat the fireworks of the world. If there is, it is not Ah Shou and Yingying. ”

This time, Mrs. Tai joked. She even mentioned Zhu Ying's stupid return today as a joke, and sure enough, she made the Queen Mother laugh. But after laughing, the Queen Mother immediately remembered the time when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of her entered the palace, and immediately hurriedly ordered Yuquan to call someone to pass the meal. And when Yuquan personally went out and came in, he brought another piece of news.

"Someone from the Qianqing Palace said that the emperor called His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the four princes to have dinner together, and asked the Queen Mother not to worry."

"Thank goodness!" The Queen Mother really breathed a sigh of relief. His own son himself knows best, don't look at the often arrogant and maverick, but the emperor is a very emotional person, and sometimes he will even forget his position as a king, and will be more obsessed with being a son, a brother, a friend, and even a father.

Now that the Emperor had recovered from the grief she might have, she knew that the next thing to pay attention to was the reaction from the outside world and the aftermath. Therefore, after leaving Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang to have dinner at her own place, she heard the two say that they did not plan to wait for Zhu Ying to return to the house together, but to retire first, so she did not stay.

"If Yingying insists on going back, the emperor will naturally send someone to see her off. If she wants to stay in the palace, whether it is Qingning Palace or Qianqing Palace, there are places where she can stay for one night, you don't have to worry. ”

ordered Yuquan to personally send the two to Qingning Gate, and then sent them out of the palace in a two-seated sedan chair, and the Queen Mother thought about how to deal with this matter wholeheartedly. Therefore, when Yuquan came back, what he saw was the Queen Mother who looked like a Buddha statue in the candlelight.

She lightly extinguished some of the candles in other places, making the light in the room even darker, and then came to the Queen Mother with a cloak and asked softly: "Queen Mother, do you wash and go to bed, or continue to sit here for a while?" ”

The Queen Mother didn't pay attention to Yuquan's question, let alone mention the foot soaks that had to be done every night, and after a moment of silence, she replied: "I remember that after Concubine Jing moved out of Kunning Palace before, she seemed unwilling to move to the East and West Sixth Palace, so she moved to Xian'an Palace behind Qingning Palace?" ”

Yuquan was slightly stunned, and then nodded: "Exactly, because Concubine Jing was still noisy at first, the people who served her were afraid that she would disturb the Queen Mother, so they often let her drink the decoction of tranquility." ”

The Queen Mother also wants to know why the former queen and the current concubine Jing moved to Xian'an Palace, which was originally used to house the concubines. It was she who was personally deposed for the crime of unfilial piety, and this is probably the most difficult thing to accept for the queen who has always relied on her, and she will feel that she has been betrayed the most. So, the queen probably wanted to see her and wanted to go crazy.

She slowly stood up and said lightly, "I haven't been to see her since she came." Check it out now. ”

Yuquan was taken aback. What kind of character is the Queen Mother, others don't know, will she still not know? Even if the curtain is not long, only less than eight years, but can smoothly hand over the power to the emperor in the situation where the lord is suspicious and the heroine listens to the government, how can he be a soft-hearted person who cares about the old feelings?

Didn't you see that even the queen mother's own brother hasn't been able to step into the capital all these years! What is the abolishment of the queen, just because Concubine Jing lived up to the queen mother's kindness and expectations, and raised the eldest prince and the second prince to be like this, the queen mother has long been disappointed in people.

But Yuquan didn't dare to persuade the Queen Mother not to go to Xian'an Palace at such a late hour, because she knew that the Queen Mother was the least disliked by people, so she could only hurriedly put on a cloak on people, and then asked: "Queen Mother, do you want to go to Xian'an Palace first?" How many more people are ready to hold the lamp? ”

Seeing that the Queen Mother acquiesced, Yuquan hurriedly went out to order, and in the end, he also called the six imperial attendants who were on duty in Qingning Palace to accompany him. When she returned to the room, she saw that there was a string of Buddhist beads in the queen mother's hand.

Knowing that the Queen Mother's belief in Buddhism is actually more just a look, Buddha beads and other things are more often to suppress anger, calm, she pinched a cold sweat, waited for the Queen Mother to change into a pair of thick leather boots, and wrapped a mink fur outside the cloak, she helped people out of the door, got on the warm sedan chair, put down the sedan curtain, and couldn't help rubbing her hands.

The emperor is seeing those witnesses of the Song family in the Qianqing Palace, even if he really knows what is going on here, I am afraid he will not come, let alone the third prince and the fourth prince. What does the Queen Mother really want to do...... Who can stop it?

But at this time, it was too late to think about this, she could only secretly pray in her heart that she would not go crazy after hearing the news. Because of the Queen Mother's seemingly calm mood at the moment, but in fact she is not sure, I really don't know what she will do!

The Xian'an Palace at night had already been locked, however, since it had received an urgent message from Yuquan, when the Queen Mother's warm sedan chair stopped in front of the door, the courtyard door had already been quietly opened. Several elderly palace people who came out of it saw that the sedan curtain was raised, and the queen mother seemed to be about to get off the sedan chair, and the leader hurriedly stepped forward to stop and said: "The queen mother, the courtyard is dark, let people carry the warm sedan chair to the front of the main hall." ”

Looking at the dark courtyard, the Queen Mother did not insist. The expenses in the palace have always been simple, that is, when the emperor will go to a certain palace every night, he will light the stone pillar street lamps on his road in advance, and the other palaces will be dark at night, not to mention the Xian'an Palace, which is absolutely impossible for anyone to come.

When the warm sedan chair stopped again, she bent down and walked down the sedan chair with the support of Yuquan, and finally stood in front of the thick blue silk cotton curtain, she asked, "Concubine Jing is sleeping now?" ”

The Queen Mother is coming, even if Concubine Jing really sleeps, people will wake her up, not to mention that Concubine Jing is now simply day and night upside down, talking crazy for a while, dementia for a while, and people really haven't gone to bed at this time. Therefore, the elder palace man who followed hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth.

"Returning to the Queen Mother, Concubine Jing writes a letter in the room."

This answer really exceeded the Queen Mother's expectations. Write? After being abolished, people still have the ability to send letters outside the palace? Thinking about it, it felt ridiculous, she suddenly frowned slightly and asked, "To whom is the letter?" Who sent it out after it was written? ”

"Nobody...... No one sent it out, and the slave and maid took a whole box there. The palace man glanced at the Queen Mother cautiously, and whispered, "Since I have a pen and paper, Concubine Jing has settled down a lot, and although she still talks crazy things all day long, most of the time she is desperately writing letters there." Some are written to the ministers, some are to the elders, and some are written to the royal family......"

At this moment, the Queen Mother completely understood. Anyway, it is a letter that can't be sent, so these people naturally let Concubine Jing write it, anyway, after writing it, people won't be noisy, and it can save a lot of trouble. As for sending those letters to her and the emperor, it is estimated that no one would do so, because neither she nor the emperor liked to be informed. Even the emperor left down the Ming words when he moved the palace.

It is said that the emperor instructed him not to bother him with the matter of Concubine Jing again, and if he was looking for death and life, as long as he was saved, it didn't matter, just find the hospital. Anyway, Concubine Jing can't get out of the palace, let alone give away anything, I'm not afraid that this waste queen will make some trouble!

The Queen Mother didn't mention what Concubine Jing had written, and said with a smile indifferently: "Let's go, take me to see this former queen who pretended to be crazy and stupid." ”

Including Yuquan, no one expected that as soon as the Queen Mother opened her mouth, she would think that Concubine Jing was pretending to be crazy and stupid. But no one dared to ask where the Queen Mother knew, but the palace man who said that he had received Concubine Jing's letters just now regretted it.

She thinks that more things are better than less, and the queen mother and the emperor are not harsh people, so every time Concubine Jing asks her to send a letter, she puts it in the box when she turns around and stores it. Knowing this, she sent all the things in this box to Qingning Palace!

And the queen mother didn't care what others thought, when she followed the palace people who led the way in front of her into the west room, and saw the woman who was concentrating on writing letters in the dim candlelight, she couldn't help but pause slightly, but she didn't take a closer look at this concubine who she personally selected for the emperor, but now she has become a concubine after the abolition, but took a look at the surrounding environment.

The palace was moved by the emperor, and the people of Xian'an Palace were selected by Chu Kuan, and none of the palace attendants of Kunning Palace stayed in the palace in the past, and all the palace people who served here voluntarily stayed in the palace, and those who were over thirty years old may not be as fresh and beautiful as those young palace people, but at least there was one benefit, and they would not feel that this kind of service was tired and boring, so at first glance, the Xian'an Palace was well arranged, and the porcelain vase in the corner was even inserted with flowers.

And Concubine Jing looks a little thin from the side, but her dress is very neat, and the bun on her head is not messy, at least it doesn't look like the image of a resentful woman in the deep palace with a cape. It's just that whether it is on Concubine Jing's wrist or on the earlobe on her head, the Queen Mother can't see the slightest gold and jade ornament, she knows that this is probably not because people have become abusive and lazy, but because they are afraid of suicide.

Quietly looked at the woman who was writing a letter as if no one was around, and after a while, the Queen Mother instructed lightly: "After all, it is Concubine Jing, and her things should not be short, give her those gold and jade jewelry that should be given to her, don't be afraid that she will find a short-sighted." ”

The elderly worker, who had been in charge of answering the words before, was about to refuse, but when she heard the Queen Mother's last words, she immediately shut up, and the thought that came out of her heart scared herself.

The queen mother said such a thing in front of the concubine after the abolition, could it mean that she didn't care about the life or death of the queen after the abolition, so let them not have to be vigilant? You know, the reason why she put all those things away is that she is afraid that the sharp hairpin will be used to pierce the throat, and the small pieces of gold and jade pendants will be used to swallow them...... Those are all very common death-seeking techniques in the palace!

As if hearing the words of the Queen Mother, Concubine Jing, who was still writing a letter just now, finally moved. She turned her neck with difficulty, and when she saw clearly that it was indeed the Queen Mother in front of her, the flat expression on her face finally changed slightly.

However, the Queen Mother still didn't give her a chance to speak first, but continued unhurriedly: "You have been living in this Xian'an Palace for some days, and this is the first time I have come to see you, but it is also the last time. I'm here today just to tell you that I just got the news that Erlang's boat to Qiongzhou probably went wrong. ”

She didn't seem to see the faces around her that froze for a moment, and she didn't seem to see Concubine Jing's suddenly hideous expression, and continued to speak: "Maybe it's really his bad luck, maybe someone is thinking of strange goods, maybe it's really just pure pirates, maybe there was a riot or even a rebellion on the ship...... There are many possibilities, but there is not one other possibility. ”

"For example, since he caused the so-called poisoning incident in Kunning Palace, so that you were deposed, and he is already an unfilial rebel who is not with you, then if you can use his death to bring a few opportunities to Da Lang, then you will probably gamble, right?"

"Why not sacrifice a rebel son and get another son out of the predicament of Huangzhuang farming?"

Concubine Jing finally got up and pounced angrily: "Nonsense, I didn't!" ”

Seeing that the two palace people quickly stepped forward to grab Concubine Jing's arm, the Queen Mother turned around and walked out, and stopped when she was about to reach the door: "Is there something that you didn't say, but how the subjects of the world determined it." The three of you mother and son have done too many stupid things, not much of this, and not too much of this one. Your mother's family is missing a few loyal servants, do you think I don't know? ”

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