An Lingrong's Rebirth: The Lock of Qingqiu

When the weather turned cold, Qi's concubine looked very bad. She didn't bother to tidy up her appearance, so she took the palace maid with a quilt and a meal box and hurried to the prison. As soon as she entered the prison door, she and two The guards said nice things and looked around. When others were not paying attention, they secretly stuffed money into the hands of the guards. They pushed money back and forth several times. The guards resisted, which made Qi Bin panic and cry, so the guards took Qi Bin's money. silver.

In the cell covered with straw, there was a bowl of white rice and a bowl of vegetables with green soup on the floor. Qi Bin bent down and carefully tested the food for poison, and found that it was not poisonous, while E Min looked dejected, with both hands His legs were wrapped around his knees, his hands were folded on his chest, and he was concentrating with his eyes closed.

"Father, please open your eyes and look. Your daughter is here to see you." Qi Bin's voice was choked with sobs.

"Why are you crying? My father is not dead yet!" E Min opened his angry eyes, and his gaze was like a sharp blade, passing through the cell door and drifting into the distance.

"Father, I brought lily nourishing heart soup and stewed a big pig's trotters. You can eat it while it's hot. I bring food to father every day. The food in this cell has no taste, so it's okay if you don't eat it." Qi Bin brought out the steaming food.

E Min let out a long sigh and said: "Oh~~~~Daughter, if you could be more successful in the harem and be favored by the emperor, I, as a father, would not have to protect you like this. Now my father cannot protect himself, and your mother All the relatives in the house have been imprisoned. You must know how to advance and retreat, and know how to protect yourself. Don't be as willful as before. Your father can't protect you anymore, and you must learn to protect yourself. "

Concubine Qi's eyes turned red, big tears fell like rain, and she burst into tears and said: "Father, when I go to the emperor to beg for mercy, if the emperor doesn't forgive my father, I will keep kneeling outside the door of Yangxin Hall, and I will keep kneeling. , The emperor is not allowed to go to court.”

E Min was angry, sad and heartbroken and said: "Niezhang, what are you doing to intercept the emperor outside the gate of Yangxin Palace? How can the emperor be intercepted by a concubine like you? From today on when you come back to visit your father, you will Don't come to visit your father again, and don't go to the emperor to plead for your father. You stay in Chuxiu Palace and don't go anywhere. Remember? If you want to live well and not be implicated, don't come again. Here, go back quickly!”

Qi Bin cried all the way back to the palace, but E Min couldn't take a bite of the fragrant food. Fortunately, the guard took Qi Bin's money and lifted the shackles on E Min, and he could stay in the cell. It's easier to move around inside the door, and it's easier to eat and sleep.

After E Min cried bitterly, he got up from the ground, spread the mattress that Qi concubine brought, and lamented that the world is unpredictable. Yesterday, it was Zhen Yuandao who was trapped in this cell. One day later, he was replaced by Zhen Yuandao. For himself, it was a pity that he felt regret at this time, and it was too late.

Tangli Palace was steaming with heat. Zhen Huan invited everyone to have dinner together. She specially asked Liu Zhu and Cui Jinxi to help the palace ladies cook a sumptuous meal. Even Chun'er brought her daughter, and Xia Ruchun brought her daughter. With her daughter, Shen Meizhuang brought his son, Caixing and Caiyue, and An Lingrong brought Qin Sanyue and Qiaoyu to have dinner together.

The much-discussed Literary Prison incident lasted for forty-five days and ended with E Min's property confiscated and his imprisonment. Except for a few corrupt officials who had their homes confiscated, all the ordinary people and officials who were arrested remained. The rest of the people were all released from the prison. They were released wherever they came from.

And the vast wealth of these corrupt officials was only obtained by plundering people's wealth. It was used by the emperor as military pay, which can be regarded as making the best use of it.

Since then, Zhen Yuandao has been released, E Min has been imprisoned, and Qin Xiaofeng has been reused.

For this matter, Zhen Huan specially met with the emperor and persuaded him, saying that all this was because Qi concubine was fighting for favor in the harem, which was why E Min became what he is now. If the emperor let Qi concubine go, I am afraid that the harem's The concubines will follow suit.

An Lingrong thought, this concubine Liu Qi has a good skin, but even though she is not smart, the emperor does not pay much attention to her. The status of concubine Qi and Zhen Huan in the heart of the emperor is really incomparable, your Majesty I felt guilty towards Zhen Huan, so in order to compensate Zhen Huan, I would also punish Qi Concubine.

Sure enough, three days later, the emperor removed Qi's concubine and demoted her to a nobleman. She still lived in Chuxiu Palace. Qi's concubine wanted to cry but had no tears and asked the queen for help, but the queen ignored her.

The leaves of the sycamore tree in the yard were in full swing and spread layer by layer on the ground. An Lingrong was reluctant to sweep them away. Looking at this chaotic but extremely beautiful scenery, his hanging heart gradually fell to the ground.

She asked the small stools to bring in some large long chairs. The breeze was gentle. She neither embroidered nor read. Instead, she squinted her eyes and lay half-ly in the chairs, rocking and basking in the sun.

According to the news from Lingrou, the real person from the three provinces that An Lingrong asked him to keep an eye on discovered his whereabouts again. As she expected, he formed a team and went to the front line to fight on the front line, helping Zhen Huan's brother Zhen Heng a lot. .

Zhen Heng was originally short of food and grass. After Zhen Yuandao sent a batch of food and grass, he was able to hold on for a while. Now he is in the stage of food shortage. Just when he was panicking, Master Sansheng led the group of monks and started again. The front line withdrew, and in accordance with the emperor's instructions, the grain and grass were escorted to the front line again.

Because the emperor confiscated the properties of a group of corrupt officials represented by E Min, the treasury was full and there were enough funds for military supplies. The problem of food and grass was basically solved, and the emperor's frown finally relaxed.

According to the news from Lingrou's spies, she guessed that these monks were assassins secretly trained by the emperor, just because she found an injured monk who was being treated in the medical center at the time. His upper body was bare, revealing the plum blossom mark on his chest.

An Lingrong couldn't help but be stunned, the plum blossom mark? Qin Sanyue once revealed that Xia Guo also had a plum blossom mark on his body, but his mark was on his wrist.

Based on Xia Gao's identity, he was probably the overall leader. His skills were unpredictable, and he won the emperor's trust and love. He was always by his side.

So does this plum blossom mark represent an assassination organization?

It also includes palace guards, suicide attacks, and smuggling imperial doctors in and out of the city. It seems that all kinds of tasks will be carried out. These tasks have one thing in common, that is, they are secret missions that are carried out for the emperor and have an ulterior nature.

An Lingrong thought, so to speak, the emperor's spies were all over the world, and the emperor's people were everywhere in the palace, and there were also hidden blood drops. She finally thought that she had gone out for fun, and went to Taihang Mountain to meet Xia Ruchun. Once, unexpectedly, all the monks in Taihang Mountain were employed by the emperor. It was unknown whether there was any spy from the emperor when he went out to Beijing Street. Lingrou could see everything in the capital outside the palace.

But Lingrou also has a special butterfly mark on her chest. Is there any connection between this butterfly and the plum blossom?