In the Qianqing Palace, noble princes and officials were summoned one after another to stay for a while or linger for a long time. The Qingning Palace was much quieter. However, it was not like usual here. Most of the time, there were only The Queen Mother was alone, and few concubines came to accompany her. At most, Zhu Ying came into the palace and chatted freely with laughter. Instead, there were two more princesses and two princesses.
However, at this moment, even Zhu Ying was sitting with her head down glumly. Others might not like to talk very much, were not in the mood to talk, or did not dare to talk, so the atmosphere naturally seemed stiff and stagnant. The Queen Mother stayed in the palace. After so many years, he is the most sedentary person and does not care about this kind of silence. Therefore, several palace residents had to be more cautious and gentle.
"Queen Mother, now Zhang Chen, the eldest son of the Duke of Qin, and Zhu Tingjie, the second son of the Duke of Zhao, have entered together. They are the last two."
When the female officer Yuquan's soft report came from outside, Zhu Ying, who was sitting like a sculpture, suddenly came to life. She sat up straight and asked impatiently: "Aunt Yuquan, shouldn't everything be like this?" Do you want to meet one by one? Why did this rule change when it was my second brother and Zhang Chen’s turn? Do you know what the emperor and Ah Shou said? "
As Zhu Ying spoke, she actually stood up, but when she moved like this, a book beside her fell to the ground with a thud. Seeing Princess Yongping looking at her with a strange look, Princess Deyang couldn't bear to look at her. The two princesses were stunned, but she picked up the book as if nothing had happened and put it directly into her sleeves.
It turned out that she was not just lowering her head in a daze, but was using this dazed posture to secretly look at a book she had brought into Qingning Palace from nowhere!
Even the Queen Mother was offended by Zhu Ying's bold move. She immediately laughed and scolded: "How old a girl is, but she still behaves like a child. I think of those teachers in front of Grand Master Ge." I’m giving you a lesson, but you, a little girl, dare to read a book about a villain down there, and you’re still doing this in front of me!”
I didn't say anything to you when I saw you just now, but you actually exposed such a flaw in public. Isn't this asking for scolding?
Zhu Ying then laughed a little sheepishly, and then whispered: "When I entered the palace today, I originally wanted to sneak into the Qianqing Palace to watch the excitement, but my grandmother said that the Queen Mother would definitely not let me go, so I was afraid of being bored, so I picked up a volume and brought it to read. In fact, I had finished reading it a long time ago, and it took more than two hours. I read it upside down three times!"
"You still blame me for not letting you go to the Qianqing Palace to watch the excitement?" The Queen Mother was so angry at Zhu Ying's boldness. As for Mrs. Zhao Guotai, she knew that she would not let you go to the Qianqing Palace, so she was not surprised. At the moment she He didn't even bother to ask what was going on at Yuquan Qianqing Palace, he just shouted with a straight face, "What kind of messy book are you reading? Bring it to me!"
"That's not okay!" Zhu Ying hid her right hand behind her back without saying anything, and said as if she was cheating, "You know you're going to scold me! Besides, it's just an outline, the story has not yet been formed!" If the Queen Mother knew, She sent someone to swindle this from Twelve Rains of Tingyu Xiaozhu. They each wrote a draft of The Peach Blossom Fan, which tells the story of the brothel's journey. How can they not be scolded to death?
Seeing Zhu Ying rejecting the Queen Mother's request so blatantly, Princess Xinyang and Princess Ninghe often visited the palace and knew that Zhu Ying was very favored, but they couldn't help but secretly smacked their lips. Princess Deyang frowned when she saw the Queen Mother.
He stood up, as if he was about to slap the armrest and lose his temper, and quickly stood up and advised: "The Queen Mother, you don't know Yingying's temper yet, so don't be angry with her!"
Princess Yongping looked on with cold eyes and saw that the two princesses also quickly joined in the process of persuading and begging. The Queen Mother gradually put away her angry expression and just glared at Zhu Ying angrily.
Stay here.
However, she also knew that the Queen Mother kept a few of them in Qingning Palace just to prevent her father from temporarily asking them to see the candidates in person, and it would be unpleasant to spread the word, so she could not leave no matter what excuses she found.
Then he quietly stood up and told a palace attendant that he was going to clean the room.
However, when she left the front hall, which had become noisy at this time, and came to the clean room at the back, she was just using this as an excuse, but she bumped into another palace man. She was not a carefree person at first.
, but when she thought that she would not be able to escape the hurdle of getting married, and that she would have to live an ordinary life with her husband and children in the future, she had long been holding back her anger. At this time, she staggered back two steps, and she couldn't help but cursed.
"How are you walking?"
The palace man hurriedly fell to his knees with a plop, then knelt forward and apologized bitterly: "Princess, this servant didn't pay attention for a moment, I deserve to die!" Seeing that there were only two maids of Princess Yongping around, she suddenly used
With extremely fast movements, she threw a paper ball at Princess Yongping's feet. Immediately afterwards, she climbed up with extremely agile movements and ran away in a flash.
Feeling that something was thrown at her feet, and the person suddenly running away, Princess Yongping suddenly became furious. The two palace servants following her did not hesitate to chase after her. She herself was about to be raised.
She screamed, but she didn't know where the impulse came from. She took a step back, bent down and picked up the paper ball on the ground, and then unfolded it after a brief thought.
When she scanned the contents, she was stunned.
"My mother has lived in Buddhism for so many years. If you don't want to get married, why don't you just imitate Princess Taiping and become a monk for a few years?"
Princess Yongping originally made up her mind to hand the note to the Queen Mother immediately, but when she recognized the familiar handwriting, she hesitated. It was clearly Zhu Ying's handwriting, and she also came up with a very feasible way to delay the time.
What's more, only a person with Zhu Ying's personality could so brazenly mention Jiuniang's past events in Zhaoming Temple.
Thinking about it again, although Zhu Ying did not deal with me on weekdays, her words and deeds were tit-for-tat, but she had never done anything like frame-up. And she had gone to Zhao Guogong's mansion before and expressed her feelings directly to Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang. Maybe
It was they who told Zhu Ying that she didn't want to get married. She couldn't help pinching the ball of paper with complicated emotions, and she was in a trance.
But at this moment, she suddenly heard a voice: "Princess, what are you holding in your hand?"
Princess Yongping immediately raised her head and saw that the one with a cold face was Yurong, another female official second only to Yuquan in the Qingning Palace. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she suddenly realized that the note that had just touched her, maybe
It was an extremely vicious trap! She didn't dare to hesitate at that moment, picked up the note and stuffed it into her mouth without even thinking about it.
However, even though she made the move under the flash of lightning, the hand just brought it to her mouth was suddenly tightly clamped. Realizing that Yu Rong turned out to be a hidden master, her face immediately changed.
She was pale, especially when she saw her fingers being ruthlessly opened one by one, and the tightly held note being taken away, she felt even more solemn.
If she had known this, she might as well have shown the note to Yu Rong openly!
Sure enough, after seeing Yurong let go of her hand and unfolding the note and reading it, her eyes immediately became cold. Princess Yongping didn't know where she got the courage, and she didn't defend herself. She looked at him with unruly eyes. However,
Under her cold gaze, Yurong didn't hesitate at all or felt guilty at all.
"This matter is of great importance. Princess, please accompany me to see the Queen Mother."
Princess Yongping couldn't help but retorted: "Is it important? Just a note with an unknown origin that was thrown at my feet, is it considered important? Do you think this note was passed on to me by Zhu Ying?"
"It's because I don't believe that Miss Zhu would do such a mindless thing, so I asked the princess to see the Queen Mother as soon as possible. After all, I don't know if the little girl who was chased by the two palace men accompanying the princess earlier will
What accident will happen?"
As soon as these words came out, Princess Yongping was furious. Zhu Ying would not do such a stupid thing... Could it be that you want to say that I used such a clumsy way to frame Zhu Ying? The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she was because of an uncontrolled marriage.
As she got closer, her head became confused, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, but she just sneered and strode forward.
However, before she reached the front hall, she saw a palace maid suddenly hurried out from a side door on the side courtyard wall, passed her and ran straight to Yu Rong behind her, knelt down and said: "Aunt Rong, the one who was chased before
Seeing that there was no way to escape, the palace man actually hit the wall and fainted. He had already rushed to the Imperial Medicine Office and the Imperial Medical Office to call for help."
It’s really one link after another...
Ever since Yurong suddenly broke through, Princess Yongping had a premonition that things would never go well today. When she heard the news, she was neither happy nor angry, and walked towards the front hall of Qingning Palace with her head held high as usual.
When she realized that Yu Rong and the palace attendant who came over just whispered a few words and immediately followed her closely, she did not look back at all.
Until she reappeared in front of the Queen Mother, Zhu Ying and others, Yu Rong stepped forward and whispered a few words to the Queen Mother, but she stood there quietly and looked directly at Zhu Ying. She only saw the person she had grown up with since childhood.
The arch-rival, who most people couldn't stand, looked at the Queen Mother in surprise, then looked at her again, with an expression on her face that didn't understand what was happening. At that moment, she knew that she had really thought wrong before.
If Zhu Ying really wanted to give her such an idea, even in Qingning Palace, he would have pulled her aside without hesitation and said it outright, instead of passing such a note that could easily cause trouble.
However, she did do something not smart enough, but the moment the paper ball was thrown in front of her, it was already destined that the result would never be good!
The Queen Mother listened to Yu Rong's explanation of what happened with a calm expression. Even when she mentioned that a young palace servant had passed out and was still not sure whether he could be saved, she was not much moved. And when Yu Rong handed over the note.
, but she didn't even look at it, and looked directly at Zhu Ying sideways.
"Yingying, come here and take a look. What's written on this note?"
Zhu Ying was originally curious about Princess Yongping's extremely gloomy expression after she came back from a visit to the cleansing room. When she heard the Queen Mother's call, she immediately stepped forward without hesitation. But she took the wrinkled face.
The first time she took a look at Baba's note, she was stunned. Then, she didn't get angry, but started to giggle.
"Hey, did you copy this character from me? It's quite similar. I don't know how much effort it took!"
She paused for a moment, and then said sarcastically: "Even these words are quite similar to my tone of voice."
"Of course I know it couldn't have been written by you." The corner of the Queen Mother's mouth curled up slightly, and she laughed when she saw Princess Deyang greeting Princess Xinyang and Princess Ninghe, and seemed to want to retreat somewhere for a while.
, "Don't worry, it's just a clumsy little trick. I won't get angry. However, Yingying, you are still a bit blind after all. This note should have something special."
Zhu Ying flatly denied that the note was written by herself. Princess Yongping was still expecting it, but when she heard that the Queen Mother also believed so, she felt strange and uncomfortable. When the Queen Mother said that the note was not famous, she
I felt a loud bang in my head, and suddenly realized that the Queen Mother was talking about more despicable methods.
For example, those words disappear without a trace after drying, but can be seen after being soaked!
"No matter how famous you are, it's just a treacherous path that won't make it to the big stage!" Zhu Ying sneered, and then said scornfully and disdainfully, "Moreover, in order to plot against Yongping and me, maybe a human life was taken in. This is simply vicious and cold-blooded! Your Majesty!
What I hate the most is such insidious means. If we really want to conduct a thorough investigation, why can't we find out?"
"As long as we check, we will definitely find out, but it's not necessary." The Queen Mother took the note from Zhu Ying, and then said to Princess Yongping in a slightly stern voice, "Remember this lesson, what will you do in the future?
What are you thinking? Don’t let others find out your thoughts so easily! Yurong, go get a candle and a copper basin, and burn this mess right in front of me!"
When Princess Yongping saw that Yu Rong, who had just restrained her, seemed cold and ruthless, she agreed, and immediately went to get a copper basin and a candle, and then in front of her, she burned the note that might cause many troubles to ashes.
, she thought she would feel relieved, but it turned out not to be the case. She only felt that the heavy stone in her heart seemed to be heavier.
Not long after, the news came that Zhang Chen, Zhu Er and Zhang Shou were sent away from Qianqing Palace by the emperor's order. Zhu Ying quickly got up to say goodbye, but then smiled and said: "Empress Dowager, Yongping should also go back to Concubine Yu.
Your Majesty is at your place, can I ask her to give it to me?"
For such a simple and direct excuse, the Queen Mother easily agreed. Seeing this, Princess Yongping could only suppress the unspeakable aggrievedness and anger in her heart, and stood up to leave. When she and Zhu Ying went out and walked down the steps, they walked
In the huge open space in front of the palace, she saw Zhu Ying expelling several palace maids who were sent out without any explanation, and then turned around and looked at her.
"Next time if you have anything to say to me in person, for the sake of us being born on the same year, same month, and same day, even though we usually hate each other, of course I will help you if I can help you! Also, if you encounter this kind of situation again
Don’t worry about the princess’s dignity and dignity, just grab the girl who framed you and beat her to death! Sometimes, wits don’t matter, but sometimes strength doesn’t matter.”
Zhu Ying paused as she spoke, and said with a sarcastic face: "The queen's revenge is really petty!"