"What are you doing? You just got drunk and went the wrong way. What's there to make a fuss about?" The prince, who had been watching for a long time while listening to a group of women chirping and windy and rainy, finally couldn't help but say, "A single purse involves a lot, it's really unreasonable.
I know how troublesome you women are. I don’t think you have to wait for anyone to sober up, just leave as soon as it’s time to leave. It’s rare that all my good spirits have been swept away by you today. It’s really unlucky!”
"Your Highness, why should you be angry? The incident happened in the East Palace. It is in the interest of the Prince to investigate thoroughly, and prevent others from spreading rumors in the future." Concubine Jin was calm and calm, and her words hit the Prince's weak point. It looked very good.
It's impossible to get to the bottom of it.
Yi Chenjing had mentioned the relationship between the power struggle in the harem and the previous dynasty several times. Through the previous conversations with different tones, Bai Qige also roughly understood the current situation. Basically, there was a group headed by the prince and the princess, followed closely by the group headed by the prince.
The faction headed by the fifth prince Yi Chenxuan, and then the faction centered on Concubine Jin's brother and Prime Minister Dayao Zuo, took advantage of her "accidentally entering" the back hall of the East Palace to make a big fuss, and tried to use various means to
Suppress the opponent.
What was originally an extremely simple thing became more and more complicated, and she was pushed to the forefront and became a pawn that everyone was vying to use. Who can save her and who wants to harm her? Bai Qige is really unable to think about the deeper things.
I just hope that a conclusion can be reached quickly so that she can get out of the difficult situation as soon as possible.
Yuchi Lianrong glanced at the embarrassed prince, his complaint was very obvious. When he turned to Concubine Jin, he had to put on a flattering smile: "What did Concubine Jin say? Although this purse is in Jin Zhaoyi's hand, it is not
You can't just say that the princess stole it and gave it to her. I have always been in charge of this back palace, and there is absolutely no possibility of an affair between a man and a woman."
"Then please tell me, Jin Zhaoyi, what's the reason for you to bring your wallet with you even to the banquet in the East Palace?"
Concubine Jin became more and more aggressive. Jin Zhaoyi stopped talking several times, and even Bai Qige, who was pretending to be drunk, became anxious. Su Yan saw the anxiety in her eyes and unexpectedly felt the back of her hand heat up. It was Yi Chenjing who was winking at her.
, following Yi Chenjing’s gaze, it landed on the purse.
The crux of the problem lies in the origin of this purse. After Yi Chenjing reminded Suyan, she had an idea and hurriedly walked to Concubine Jin and knelt down: "Concubine Jin, in fact, Jin Zhaoyi does not keep this purse close to her every day. All
This is all a misunderstanding, please listen to my concubine's explanation - as Concubine Jin said, Jin Zhaoyi's embroidery skills are well known to everyone. Last time when I paid my respects, I saw Jin Zhaoyi embroidering this purse. She thought it looked good and wanted to give it to His Highness.
After embroidering one, he begged Jin Zhaoyi to borrow it for a look. At that time, the purse had not been embroidered yet. It happened that the prince was hosting a banquet for famous gamers today. Jin Zhaoyi planned to take this opportunity to lend the purse to his concubine before taking it with him.
Yes, if I had known that it would implicate Jin Zhaoyi and the prince’s concubine, I wouldn’t have said anything to beg!”
"That's right, that makes sense." After hearing Su Yan's excuse for Jin Zhaoyi, the Crown Princess also swept away her previous arrogant attitude and smiled cautiously, "Actually, I have always wanted to borrow Jin Zhaoyi's embroidery skills.
I came to take a look, but I didn’t expect Mrs. Su to borrow it first.”
What Su Yan said was reasonable and reasonable, but there was no evidence to refute it. In addition, important people like the Crown Princess were showing favoritism. Concubine Jin knew it was false but had nothing to do. She glared coldly for a few times before throwing her purse back into Jin Zhaoyi's arms.
Here, Concubine Jin looked at Bai Qige unwillingly: "Let's forget about the purse matter. I can't take care of other things. The prince's drunkenness and indecency cannot be ignored. Since Qi
The prince entrusts me to discipline the prince, and it is up to me to decide how to punish him - come here, take off her cloak and send her to the maid's courtyard. Let us, the princess who has come from afar, sober up tonight.
, and avoid doing embarrassing things in the future!"
"Concubine Xie Jin, the concubine, taught me." It was freezing cold, and if you stayed outside all night without a windbreaker, you would definitely get sick. However, it was a blessing to escape the unfounded charges. How could Su Yan dare to ask for more?
He hurriedly kowtowed three times and took off Bai Qige's wind cloak with his own hands. He couldn't bear to hide his worry in his heart.
When the matter is resolved to this point, it is considered complete. Although there are still countless doubts in it, no one wants to take it seriously. It is not good for anyone to pursue too much.
Bai Qige still pretended to be drunk and was kidnapped by two young eunuchs to serve as a slave girl. Seeing that there was no fun to watch, the others dispersed and went back to their respective palaces. After sending Yi Chenjing and Yi Chenxuan away, the prince stood in the snow with a long sigh.
Her face was full of depression, which made the Crown Princess so angry that she kicked her feet causing snowflakes to scatter on the ground.
"How many times have I told you that it doesn't matter how you hook up with Jin Zhaoyi as long as you don't get caught. If the concubine in Lianchenxuan hadn't cleverly intervened today, I'll see how you ended up with it!"
"What are you blaming me for?" The prince became more and more helpless, "You took that purse and gave it to Xun'er to play with. Who knew it would suddenly appear? Besides, if you hadn't had to calculate and scheme to cause so many troubles, no one would have done it.
There will be suspicion on Jin Cuo and me."
The Crown Princess glared fiercely, and saw that the Prince was lazily paying no attention to him. She could only look at the flying snow in the sky and frown.
"I only vaguely guessed that the fifth prince and the seventh prince would not be stable. If Su Jinyan hadn't secretly reported it, I wouldn't have thought that a married princess would have ruined the situation. I originally planned to kill the chicken to show the monkey, but I was almost frightened by the little purse.
We are so brave, it seems that when we stare at others, there are still people behind us who are staring at us." Taking a deep breath with palpitations, Zuo Cheng's daughter, who was calculating every step carefully, raised her head and let the cold snowflakes fall on her face, "Chen
Yu, I don’t ask you to treat me wholeheartedly, I just ask that you can firmly hold your position as the prince, give us mother and son a stable backer, and don’t let us be bullied and despised like those with low status, isn’t this okay?”
There was no response to the slightly heart-wrenching question. There was no prince behind him who was listening carefully, and there was only silence as the snow fell.
On the road leading to the southwest corner of the palace, a soft sedan parked quietly. The man who stepped out of the curtain looked unkind and looked back at the way he came from across the hazy sky.
"Your Highness, it's such a cold day and it's snowing. Qi Ge can't survive the whole night with so little clothes on. You want me to go see her, even if I just put a wind cloak on her, I can at least spend some broken silver on it.
It is better for the eunuch to be accommodating than to let her lie alone in the snow!"
Suyan was so anxious that she couldn't stop crying. Drop by drop, she hit the ground and melted the snow, but it couldn't melt the cold night.
"Do you think I want her to freeze to death?" Yi Chenjing clenched her fists, her bluish-white joints raised high, her voice deliberately lowered contained anger and deep helplessness, "Concubine Jin is best at torturing her.
Man, the reason why you let Qi Ge sleep outside is because of the snow, so what if you bribed the eunuch who was in charge? When you see the footprints on the ground tomorrow morning, will Concubine Jin believe your nonsense again?!"
In order not to be discovered with ulterior motives in sneaking into the back hall of the East Palace, Bai Qige had to pretend to be drunk to the end. Since Concubine Jin had ordered her to sleep in the courtyard of the serving female minister until sunrise tomorrow morning, she could not disobey it no matter what. It was already the twelfth lunar month, and the number of days was not over.
In the winter of Jiulong, water drops turn into ice, and even a strong man would find it difficult to withstand being stripped of his wind cloak and having to lie in the wind and snow all night.
Suyan was so frightened that she dared not speak. Yi Chenjing closed her eyes and thought for a long time. After she calmed down, she opened her eyes again: "Suyan, you go back first. You must not tell your mother and Surao what happened. I'll go."
Look at Qi Ge."
"I……"
"Go back, your body is too weak to withstand the cold wind." Yi Chenjing seemed to feel guilty for her rudeness just now, and she forced a smile to persuade her gently. Suyan did not do anything wrong, but saved Bai Qige and Jin Zhaoyi at the critical moment.
Life was so much better than his powerlessness, Yi Chenjing didn't think he was qualified to scold her.
After being persuaded by the accompanying eunuch, Suyan reluctantly returned to the sedan chair and watched the lonely figure walking step by step towards the direction of the servant girl.
"Tell me, what can you do if your Highness goes down? It's just watching Qi Ge suffer, and it just makes you sad." With a low sigh and a whisper, Su Yan asked the accompanying eunuch absentmindedly.
"Your Highness can't be of much help. The Crown Princess should suffer no less, but -" The eunuch smiled knowingly at any time, "I know that Your Highness has this intention. No matter how cold you are, the Crown Princess's heart
It’s warm after all.”
When the heart is warm, the body is no longer cold, but her heart is cold.
There was no noise or intrigue around her. In the complete silence, she could only hear the rustling of dead branches in the wind. Bai Qige opened her eyes and watched the snowflakes falling from the sky.
At the critical moment, neither Yi Chenjing nor Yi Chenxuan stood up to protect her from harm. The fifth prince, who had always been gentle, was better off. In any case, he stood up to stop the princess from committing violence. The most hurtful thing
It was Yi Chenjing who remained a bystander from beginning to end without saying a word, as if he had forgotten how they had tried so hard to improve their relationship and how they had played with her eyebrows.
Sure enough, he can't be trusted, right?
The tenderness and thoughtfulness he inadvertently showed, and the gentle side he occasionally showed, all of these were just to get close to her, to win her over and make her his own, right?
The same goes for protecting the Bai family.
The same goes for banning her from contact with Yi Chenxuan.
He was lying to her from the beginning to the end, there was no forgetting the past and trusting again, there was no so-called admiration and gradual change, Yi Chenjing was really just using her, treating her as a chess piece with considerable value.
Curling up into a ball, holding a handful of flawless white snow in her hands, Bai Qige chuckled numbly.
There was no temperature, she could not feel the cold or heat, her hands were frozen, in the cold night of snow and snow, after constantly experiencing suspicion and deception.
He has his own strategy for the empire, and he is willing to endure a lot in order to accumulate strength. What is a chess piece that can be discarded after use? It cannot be compared with his world. She was wrong, and she kept telling herself to save herself.
, to give up the idea of relying on anyone, but foolishly still trusting him.
The empty courtyard was covered with snow, and in the center a thin figure was sleeping quietly, arms and legs hugged tightly, trying to isolate everything around him.
Perhaps she was too frozen, so Bai Qige never raised her head to look outside, otherwise she might have seen the corner of the gown behind the wall at the door, and the silent man standing in the heavy snow, suffering the same coldness of the snowy night as she did.