A moment later, a eunuch reported at the door: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Master is here."
"Let the Imperial Master come in," Xiao Jinran responded.
The door of the room was pushed open, and Yun Chenan was dressed in a moon-white robe, with a faint radiance between his eyebrows and eyes, feeling independent from the world.
Stepping forward, he bent down and saluted: "I have met the emperor."
A clear voice, elegant and pleasant to listen to.
Xiao Jinran raised his hand: "You're welcome, Zi Shu, please sit down."
Zi Shu is Yun Chenan's character.
Yun Chenan sat on a chair nearby and took a sip of tea: "I wonder why the emperor has come to see me?"
Xiao Jinran frowned and said, "Come play chess with me."
Yun Chenan glanced at him, as if he could tell that Xiao Jinran was worried, but he didn't ask any more questions and played a game of chess with him.
After a few games, Xiao Jinran lost both games.
He put down the chess piece in his hand and pinched his eyebrows impatiently: "I haven't seen you for half a year. Zi Shu's chess skills have become more and more exquisite."
Yun Chen An Ruyu rubbed a chess piece with his fingertips and chuckled: "It's not that my chess skills are superb, it's that the emperor didn't calm down."
After a few rounds, it was obvious that Xiao Jinran was absent-minded.
Xiao Jinran leaned back on the chair and pressed his fingertips on his eyebrows, feeling tired, "During the six months since you were absent from the palace, thieves have been coming and going, causing unrest in the palace. I have also spent a lot of effort to catch this thief.
, but she is too cunning and always comes and goes without a trace."
The thief, Concubine Wen?
Yun Chen'an narrowed his eyes lightly, with a calm face: "As the emperor said, has this thief done anything evil in the palace?"
Xiao Jinran frowned and thought for a moment: "No."
Although this thief ran around in the palace, he never did anything to hurt the lives of palace residents. The most lost thing was the dinner in the royal dining room.
I wonder if this thief was reincarnated as a starving ghost.
But even so, Xiao Jinran felt uneasy.
Besides, what kind of place is the palace? How can a thief be allowed to come and leave whenever he wants all day long? It is really lawless.
Anyway, this thief is a thorn in Xiao Jinran's heart.
Yun Chen'an said: "Did the emperor have any clues about arresting the thief last night?"
"The thief ran away too fast, she ran away," Xiao Jinran said irritably.
Thinking of the woman who broke into his palace last night, Yun Chenan unconsciously smiled, like a fox, she really slipped away very quickly.
Xiao Jinran noticed the smile at the corner of his mouth and raised his eyebrows slightly: "What is Zishu laughing at?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of the little fox I met before. It ran away very fast, much like the thief the emperor mentioned."
Yun Chenan was calm and collected, with a smile on his face.
Xiao Jinran had no doubts about his words. He rubbed the jade ring on his thumb with his fingertips: "Last night when we were in Xiaoyun Palace, the thief came out. I caught the cat raised in Concubine Wen's Palace around the palace."
Yun Chenan raised his eyes, his eyes were so calm that no ripples could be seen: "The Emperor is suspicious of Concubine Wen?"
"I can't say I'm suspicious, I always feel that something is fishy," Xiao Jinran said calmly.
With Wen Nianruan's frail body, he would have fallen to his death long ago while flying over the wall.
He continued: "I just went to Fuhua Palace to see Concubine Wen, and wanted to take the opportunity to find out more."
"Then what did the Emperor find out?" Yun Chenan's eyebrows moved slightly.
Xiao Jinran shook his head: "No."
Yun Chenan raised his eyebrows: "The emperor can read minds, didn't he see something in her heart?"
"I see," Xiao Jinran's face turned dark: "She was calling me a dog in her heart."
"." Yun Chenan's face slightly condensed.
To his surprise, it turned out that the empress did not want to see the emperor.
He joked: "It turns out that there are times when the emperor is not welcomed by the concubines in the harem."
The corner of Xiao Jinran's mouth twitched, and he was speechless to refute.
He glanced sideways at Yun Chenan: "Is Zishu gloating about his misfortune?"
Yun Chenan shook his head and chuckled: "I don't dare."
Xiao Jinran knew that he must be thinking something in his heart, but he couldn't see through Yun Chenan's thoughts.
Although Xiao Jinran can read minds, it is of no use to Yun Chenan, nor to his brothers and sisters who are blood related to him.
He looked back and snorted: "I didn't expect that Concubine Wen didn't want to see me so much. When Wen Decheng and the Queen Mother sent her to the palace, wasn't the purpose of letting her compete for favor and monitor me? I didn't expect that I have been ignored in the past six months.
Even if I tried to touch her, she wouldn't come forward to get close to me."
In the past, he thought Wen Nianruan had been planning something behind his back, but today he realized that this woman didn't come to show her courtesy because she simply didn't want to see him.
No wonder I stayed in Fuhua Palace all day long for half a year and couldn't come out.
Yunchen drank tea quietly, and it was not clear what he was thinking with his narrowed eyes.
It seemed that he also had a new understanding of Wen Nianruan.
Fuhua Palace.
Wen Nianruan was lying on a soft bed with his legs crossed, out of shape, his eyes narrowed and his toes dangling, thinking about what happened today.
Xiao Jinran must have been suspicious when he came to Fuhua Palace to find her today. This was the first time Xiao Jinran had seen her face since she entered the palace half a year ago.
From the memory of the original owner, we learned that Xiao Jinran had never wanted to see her just because she was the daughter of the Yong'an Marquis Mansion.
Her father, Wen Decheng, was the Marquis of Yong'an, and her mother, Li Huachun, was the third eldest daughter of the Youxiang Mansion. Her eldest sister, Li Yinqiu, was the current Queen Mother and was not Xiao Jinran's biological mother. Xiao Jinran's biological mother was Yu Sang.
When the late emperor was still alive, he made Yu Sang the queen, and Xiao Jinran became the prince as soon as he was born. He was so graceful and noble that others envied him.
But when he was five years old, Yu Sang died of illness, Li Yinqiu became the new queen, and Xiao Jinran, who was only five years old, passed into her lap.
Li Yinqiu also had two sons and one daughter, the second prince Xiao Weifeng and the sixth prince Xiao Weixuan, and the tenth princess Xiao Qingtong.
Among them, Xiao Weifeng was still Wen Nianruan's sweetheart, but now he is hooking up with her green tea slag sister.
Although Xiao Jinran grew up next to Li Yinqiu, Li Yinqiu still wanted his own son to take the throne. Although he showed all kinds of kindness to Xiao Jinran on the face, there were all kinds of designs behind his back.
However, Xiao Jinran was lucky and saved every time. When the late emperor died at the age of fifteen, Xiao Jinran succeeded to the throne.
Even though he has been on the throne for seven or eight years now, Li Yinqiu is still unwilling to give in and secretly makes troubles. She and Xiao Jinran, mother and son, are just at odds with each other.
Because Li Yinqiu and Li Huachun are biological sisters, Wen Nianruan should call Li Yinqiu "aunt," and the Hou family has been secretly supporting Li Yinqiu. They sent Wen Nianruan to the palace just for surveillance.
Burning with Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jinran also understood the plan of Li Yinqiu and Wen Decheng, so since Wen Nianruan entered the palace, he never turned her back and deliberately ignored her.
And Wen Nianruan's Fuhua Palace was also the most deserted palace among all the concubines. The other concubines were surrounded by people, and only Wen Nianruan only had two maids around him, and there was not even a gatekeeper in the palace.
nothing.
Otherwise, Xiao Jinran would have paid a sudden visit today, and she would not have been unprepared.