"If he was really talking nonsense, he wouldn't have used the knife." Yinzhen said lightly, picked up the chopsticks that An'er and the others had just put on the table and asked, "Where is this person now?"
"When I saw something big happening, I sent him away. Fourth Master, what did you think of?"
"Nothing." Yinzhen smiled, took a chopstick of the meat from the belly of the sea bass and put it in her bowl: "Try this Songjiang sea bass. Every autumn is the time when the sea bass is the most plump and tender."
"Are you really okay?" Ling Ruo asked uneasily.
"I told you it's okay, don't think too much about it." Yinzhen put the chopsticks in her hand and said, "You are tired today. You should rest early after eating. I still have some official business to deal with. I will return it later."
Gotta go back."
"Yeah." Ling Ruo agreed obediently and ate quietly, but Yinzhen beside him seemed a little absent-minded. After finally finishing the meal, Yinzhen couldn't sit still for a while and left on the grounds of official business.
Behind him was Ling Ruo's meaningful smile.
After taking away the used dinner, Shui Yue said with some confusion: "Since the master has the intention to tell the prince about Tong Jia's borrowed seed to have a son, why didn't he tell the truth and didn't let Zhao Qingyun come forward?"
"That will only be counterproductive." Ling Ruo stood up, stroking her skirt, looking at the half-circle moon in the sky, with a hint of helplessness in her smile, "The prince is a very suspicious person, if I speak frankly, he will doubt Tong Jiahao, but at the same time
Such people would also doubt me, thinking that the whole thing might be a trap set by me, deliberately framed by Tong Jia. It would be better to say something specious like this, which not only made the prince suspicious, but also left me in the whole situation.
Nothing special."
It was her and Yinzhen's sorrow that so many schemings were used between husband and wife. However, the prince and Fujin were not ordinary couples. How could they expect to have complete trust in each other, not to mention that there were so many people with ulterior motives between them.
"Besides, if Zhao Qingyun is pushed out, I don't know whether Tong Jia will die, but Zhao Qingyun will definitely die. It is related to the reputation of the palace, and the prince will not allow her to live. Tong Jia has already harmed her brother, I
I don’t want to hurt her again.”
Shuixiu came in after serving tea and happened to hear these words, and said quickly: "If Mrs. Tong Jia had half the kindness of the master, she would not have harmed one after another."
Ling Ruo glanced at her and said, "Actually, who can live in this royal palace without some blood on their hands and compassion? Those are just words to coax people. I just want to accumulate some virtue for myself."
That’s all.” He looked down sadly.
Looking at his flat belly, there has been no movement since Ji Yue was born prematurely. Although he didn't say anything, he couldn't help but worry in his heart that in the next few decades of this life, he would not be able to have another baby.
Children who are connected by blood.
"Master, when A Yi talked about Zhao Qingyun with you, why did you immediately think of Tong Fujin? You also gave Bai Yue incense to A Yi. Did you have some foresight?" Shuixiu has never understood this.
Ling Ruo smiled, playing with the dark green pearl buttons on her clothes and said: "I have seen Tong's book. The prince favored her on the fourth day after Tong Jia's menstruation. After that, she was grounded, and the prince also
I went to Hangzhou together, right?"
Shuixiu nodded strangely. Anyone who has read Tongzhu will know this, why should he point it out specifically.
"Few people know that it is impossible for a woman to conceive an heir within seven days after menstruation, so I knew from the beginning that Tong Jia's pregnancy was not the prince's flesh and blood at all." Every word of this.
When it fell on Shuixiu and others' ears, it was like thunder rolling past, deafening.
"In addition, I went to see Brother Yun after he was born. Although the child was still young and could not see much, when Sister Yun said to test her, "No one looks like him," Tong Jia's face changed obviously.
After a while, if she really had no evil intentions, how could she be like this? But I didn't expect that by chance, I would meet Zhao Qingyun who was deliberately trying to find Tong Jia. Maybe this is the so-called Tian Hui Hui, care is not missed. "
Shuiyue glanced at the dark courtyard and said, "Will the prince go to check on Tong Jia's family?"
"Definitely." Ling Ruo said with certainty. With Yinzhen's suspicious temperament, once he became suspicious, he would never let it go easily.
And things were indeed as Ling Ruo expected. After Yinzhen returned home, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the matter was strange, and ordered Zhou Yong to investigate the matter secretly.
However, before the matter was found out, a rumor began to spread in the government, saying that Tong Jia had borrowed seeds to give birth to a son, and that Hong Yun was not Yinzhen's biological son, but a bastard from her affair with a wild man.
The scary thing about rumors is that they can be created out of nothing, or they can turn a lie into a truth. Ling Ruo had suffered from rumors back then, but luckily Nala suppressed them for her at that time. What's more, this incident didn't happen at all.
It was not groundless. Tong Jia had been feeling uneasy all day since the rumors spread.
From that time on, Yinzhen never came to Lanxin Hall again. Although it was only six or seven days ago, this had never happened before. Tong Jia also went to the study to look for Yinzhen more than once, and they all
On the grounds that Yinzhen was busy with official duties, she was stopped outside by Zhou Yong. Even though she was feeling unwell, when Yinzhen found out, he just asked the imperial doctor to come, and she never showed up.
This series of events made Tong Jia even more uneasy. The alliance between Nala and her was just driven by interests, and there was no hope that she would provide help in times of need. Looking up, he found that once he lost Yinzhen's favor, he would have no leverage.
We can only be forced to wait for this rumor to pass.
However, the rumors seemed to never end and became more and more intense. The servants who once treated her with respect began to make sarcastic remarks. Those who used to say "sister" to her left and "Fujin" to her right disappeared. Lanxin Pavilion began to become cold, just like the days when she was banned.
The difference was that this time, she gradually couldn't guess what Yinzhen was thinking.
Day and night are constantly alternating, the moon sets and the moon rises, and the moon waxes and wanes when it is full. All things have a process of prosperity and decline, just like her...
Seeing that she was always bored in the house these days, Li Wei suggested to go out for a walk. It was late autumn and the sweet-scented osmanthus was fragrant. Walking in the garden, you could smell the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus filling the air everywhere.
Seeing that Mrs. Tong Jia seemed to be in a better mood, Li Wei said softly: "Excuse me for saying this, but in fact, the master does not need to pay attention to those rumors. Those who are clean will clean themselves up. No matter how bad the villain is, it will not hurt the master at all."
Tong Jia raised her head and looked at the frost-resistant flowers blooming on the branches, sighed, and said a little lonely: "Of course I don't care about the others, I'm afraid that the prince will believe the villain's words."
"The prince likes the master so much, and brother Yun is lively and cute, and looks like the prince..."
"Do you really think Hongyun looks like the prince?" Tong Jiashi suddenly interrupted him and asked, with unusual excitement in his eyes.
Li Wei was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Brother Yun is the prince's flesh and blood, and he is also the younger brother, so naturally he looks like the prince."