The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

Pei Shu lowered her eyes and looked at the token in her hand.

This brand is real, and so is the woman in Changle Palace. It cannot be faked. After excluding all conceivable possibilities, there is only one left.

The eldest brother, like all emperors, wanted to have concubines and felt that the more women the better.

Pei Shu's knuckles turning white while holding the wooden sign. The emperor's brother was not a puppet emperor. He was so tough that even the Khan in Beihu heard about it, and he was not useless enough to rely on the harem to win over the courtiers.

She closed her eyes, feeling a little dizzy, and looked at the woman in front of her carefully, her heart getting colder and colder.

Xu Mingyue was imprisoned in the temple. It was her, the former empress of the dynasty and the eldest princess of the Wei Dynasty, who personally gave the order. Even Pei Jing had to give her some respect. He just went to the imperial temple to see her and had no right to order his release.

There is only one person in the world who is qualified to let Xu Mingyue leave the imperial temple easily and show off in Changle Palace wearing gold and silver.

"Who else is in Changle Palace?" Pei Shu calmed down and asked the palace people on the side.

When that string of names popped up, Pei Shu's face turned visibly white.

When she originally told Yu Tingwan, she only considered Cui Lu and his family's legitimate daughters of the right age. The imperial brother was more powerful. The Cui family sent more than one daughter to the palace, including several beautiful side daughters.

She lowered her eyelashes and thought for a long time. The Yu family had only been passed down for several generations and never took concubines. Therefore, the family relationship was simple and not as complicated as the internal affairs of these wealthy families.

If we really want to select these people into the palace, I guess one day when the eldest brother goes to court, he will hear that the queen has either fallen into the water inexplicably or been poisoned. It is possible that one day she will be pregnant, one dead and two dead.

Pei Shu consciously didn't think much about it. Her eldest sister-in-law had a photographic memory of Yi Ma Qianyan, but what use were these in the face of the dirty tricks in the palace? The imperial brother couldn't protect him all the time, but since he wanted to have a concubine, he must have Don't care about that either.

I can't care about anything else for the time being, but right now there is someone who knows the plot behind her royal sister-in-law before she leaves the cabinet.

Pei Shu's eyes were fixed on Xu Mingyue, and murderous intent suddenly arose in her heart.

"What are you going to do? Your Majesty personally summoned me to the palace. If Your Majesty dares to touch me, you are disobeying Your Majesty."

Seeing Xu Mingyue panicking, Pei Shu's expression was stagnant and her teeth were itching with anger.

She couldn't refute that these people were ordered to enter the palace and were considered the emperor's women just like the maids. Even if the emperor's brother came directly to Changle Palace, no one would say anything.

Pei Shu was so angry that she said "ok" three times, turned around and left.

She couldn't stop her eldest brother, so couldn't she take Yu Tingwan away?

From Changle Palace to Weiyang Palace, she braved the scorching sun and walked to the vicinity of Yeting. It was obviously very hot just now, but now it was very cool, as if she could hear the crying coming from her long memory.

Pei Shu gritted her teeth and held back her tears as she walked inside. She also felt it was embarrassing to cry in this situation, but she couldn't control her fear.

She couldn't go directly to Jiaofang Palace. If someone saw her, she would definitely report it to the emperor.

But she can go to Yeting to find Grandma Li and ask her to help with the message.

There were many people in Yeting Palace. If it had been before, Pei Shu would not have been able to find Nanny Li in just half an hour.

But as soon as Yu Tingwan entered the palace, he told Pei Zhi that there was no need for so many people to serve in the palace. Now that the world has settled down and the population is declining, it is time to let the extra palace people go back to their hometowns. Therefore, there are not many people in Yeting now. .

Grandma Li did not take the money and leave. Her family members all died in war and famine, and she had nowhere to go. She spent all day doing chores in the palace. When she saw Pei Shu, she was stunned for a moment and wiped her body helplessly. , hurriedly bowed.

Pei Shu took off two hairpins and stuffed the agarwood tablet into her mother's hand, which she got from Xu Mingyue.

"Keep this hairpin for yourself, and send the other one to Jiaofang Palace." Pei Shu paused, "The Queen is a very kind person. When you first asked to see me, you just said you were bringing a message to me. When you enter the palace, , ask if you can exclude others, if the empress does not agree, then you can mention 'it is about the promise between the eldest princess and the empress'."

"You ask the empress if she knows that Your Majesty is holding a draft in Changle Palace. If she doesn't know, you give her this wooden sign. If she knows, you say..." Pei Shu breathed quickly, "The eldest princess's promise is different from a man's. , will never change.”

From now on, if the emperor's sister-in-law wants to leave the capital with her, she will be summoned to the palace.

After Nanny Li remembered it clearly, she went to Jiaofang Palace. Because she had been in the palace for a long time, she often helped Ye Tingling with messages, so even if the palace guards passed by, they would not doubt her.

Not long after Yu Tingwan woke up, Ruyi was applying ointment on her chest and complained in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you don't know how to hold back your strength."

She lowered her eyes and glanced at the scarlet marks, then comforted Ruyi and said, "It will be fine in two days."

Ruyi stayed by her side for a long time, and gradually started to talk more and become bolder. She pursed her lips tightly and said with a lump in her throat: "But there will be a new one tomorrow, it must be very painful."

"It doesn't actually hurt." Yu Tingwan didn't know how to explain to her that those marks were hickeys, not pinches.

Ruyi just thought that the empress was telling lies, and after a long silence, she suddenly said: "I went to Tianlu Pavilion to pick up books in the past few days, and I always felt that many palace people looked at me very strangely."

Just when she was about to elaborate on what was strange, someone from the outer palace came in and asked for an audience with the eldest princess.

After Yu Tingwan saw the hairpin, he turned away from the others and listened carefully to what Nanny Li was saying, his face getting paler and paler.

When she saw the agarwood sign, she sighed with relief. After letting Aunt Li leave, she pulled out the tiger charm that Pei Zhi had given her.

She had to go to Changle Palace to take a look in person.

Yu Tingwan glanced at the sky. It was obviously impossible to go back and forth to Changle Palace before dark without taking the sedan chair.

Fortunately, she can ride a horse and Pei has coached her.

Moreover, she could also ride a horse in the palace.

The horses that Pei Zhi gave her were all kept in Shanglin Garden, and those in the palace were his fierce horses.

Among them was a green horse. Pei Zhi was very fond of it recently and kept it near Jiaofang Hall. He said that this horse had a good temperament and he could let her try it next time, but she had to have him by her side, otherwise she would not be able to do it. Safety.

Yu Tingwan hesitated for a moment, but still asked someone to bring the green horse. He passed through Fei Pavilion Chariot Road from Wuyang Palace, and when he arrived near Changle Palace, he was stopped by the palace guards.

"I have met the Queen." The palace guard lowered his head and said solemnly: "King Jiangdu has ordered that the Changle Palace has been in disrepair for a long time and may be in danger, so the Queen cannot enter."

Yu Tingwan's throat tightened. How could King Jiangdu order the queen not to enter Changle Palace? It was clearly the intention of the person behind him who frightened the Changle Palace guards like this.

"What if I have to go in today?"

The palace guard looked tense and kept thinking in his mind. King Jiangdu specifically said that the matter in Changle Palace has been covered up and will only be around for a few days. Don't let the queen know about it.

These palace guards only took it as His Majesty's wish and did not want the Queen to interfere with the concubine.

The Queen is well-known for being lenient to her royal servants. Today, she was stopped and beaten to death. If she disobeyed His Majesty, the whole family would lose their heads.

"Your Majesty, please don't make things difficult for me." The palace guard looked bitter and was about to cry when he caught a glimpse of the tiger talisman.

He seemed to have something stuck in his throat, his face turned green and white, and he coughed for a long time before quickly retreating to make way for the queen.

Before Yu Tingwan arrived at the palace, he saw a woman in green clothes walking along the wall, seemingly looking for something.

"Are you looking for this?" Yu Tingwan handed her the wooden sign. The moment she raised her eyes, she recognized who it was, "Are you the sister of Dingxiang Marquis Xu Xian?"

"I have met the Queen." Xu Mingyue bowed with dignity. When she stood up, she caught a glimpse of the lotus pattern all over her body, from the hairpin to the hem of her clothes, and the traces on the side of her neck that could not be covered by a veil. Her heart started to bleed.

She had admired Pei Zhi since she was a child and had tried every possible means to find out about him. She heard from her father that His Majesty loved lotuses and was obsessed with them, and she had also seen that His Majesty's former carriages were engraved with lotus patterns.

"Is the empress here to teach the court ladies the rules of the palace?" Xu Mingyue said softly: "Mammy has always been very lazy. I feel that it must be because of the absence of the empress that they are so lazy. They have not even been taught how to serve. His Majesty."

After she finished speaking, there was no trace of pain on the queen's face. She suddenly felt like her fists were hitting cotton. She was about to continue speaking when she saw Yu Tingwan turned around and left.