Just as He Jinchun was about to drag Lin Luoling back to find Prince An, a woman suddenly shouted coldly from behind them:

"Which family are you from? Why are you hiding here and destroying the reputation of Princess An?"

He Jinchun and Lin Luoling turned around and saw that Taiwei's wife Qin, along with two other women and several maids, were standing quietly not far behind them.

The two women at the corner were so frightened when they heard the noise that they trembled all over. They immediately knelt down and told Qin that she had heard wrongly and that they were just chatting about some trivial matters in the mansion.

Qin sneered and said, "Even if I heard it wrong, Mrs. Zhang, the wife of the Minister of Five Armies, and Mrs. Gu, the wife of the General of the Army, also heard it wrong? Princess An and Madam Lin have been standing here for a long time. I believe they should have heard what they said more clearly than us, right?"

Although Lin Luoling had come to the capital with He Jinchun and stayed in her grandfather He Shaofu's mansion for a few times, and often heard her elders and cousins ​​mention the ladies and young ladies in the back houses in the capital, there were not many of them that she had met or whose appearance she could remember.

Therefore, she had no impression of the three ladies behind her.

He Jinchun was born in the capital city. She knew these three ladies, especially the wife of the Grand Marshal, Qin.

With his eyebrows moving, He Jinchun glanced at the two women kneeling on the ground and said, "The wife of the Grand Commandant has always been a calm and reserved person. Is it possible that she would joke with you?"

Lin Luoling glanced at the two women kneeling on the ground. They were dressed gorgeously and luxuriously, but rather petty, without any trace of nobility and elegance about them.

The two women did not think twice, but raised their heads and accused He Jinchun and Taiwei's wife Qin of wrongly accusing them. They just came here to chat about family matters because the courtyard was too noisy.

Taiwei's wife Qin raised her eyebrows and didn't waste any more words with them. She waved her hand at the maid behind her and ordered coldly, "Tie them up and bring them to His Majesty for a confrontation."

The burly old women rushed forward with thick hemp ropes and tied up the two women, not forgetting to stuff a piece of white cloth into their mouths.

"Madam Lin is hosting a banquet at her mansion today, so I'm sure there are a lot of things to do. I will bring the two of them to His Majesty for a confrontation with the wife of the Minister of Five Armies and the wife of the General of the Army." Mrs. Qin, the wife of the Grand Marshal, nodded slightly at He Jinchun and Lin Luoling.

When the Taiwei's wife and the others walked a long way toward the front yard, Lin Luoling frowned and whispered in He Jinchun's ear: "When did the Taiwei's wife and the others follow us? Why did they let the maid carry hemp ropes when they came to celebrate the opening of our mansion?"

Mrs. Qin, the wife of the Grand Marshal, is not young anymore. She is the mother of Imperial Concubine Jin. From the way she walked just now, it was obvious that she is someone who has practiced martial arts.

He Jinchun smiled, and then whispered: "Ling'er's doubts must have been answered. But those two women are really weird. No matter how stupid they are, they can't say such confidential words in someone else's house. It's obvious that they are saying it for someone with ulterior motives to hear."

Lin Luoling responded in agreement. He Jinchun didn't bother to change her clothes. She pulled Lin Luoling to the doors of the backyard and the front yard, where she happened to meet Yan Jin.

"Something is not right at the banquet in the backyard. Yan Jin, go and invite the master over and tell him that I have something to discuss with him."

Yan Jin received He Jinchun's instructions and soon invited Lin Tingxu over.

Following Lin Tingxu's eye signal, He Jinchun and Lin Luoling followed behind and came to a private courtyard, asking Yan Jin to guard the gate.

Lin Luoling didn't expect that her father had built a dark room in the house in this courtyard.

At first glance, the dark room was not big. After Lin Luoling sat down, He Jinchun told Lin Tingxu in detail how the Taiwei's wife Qin had captured two women and what the two women had said.

"Hehe..." Lin Tingxu took a sip of the teacup and said with a smile:

"Our Majesty is a man of deep thoughts and scheming. He really values ​​talents and Ling'er is also favored by His Royal Highness Prince An. However, these will not allow His Majesty to give me, a commoner without any official position, such a big honor.

Our Majesty would not come to the Lin Mansion for the opening banquet for no reason. Given his personality, even if His Royal Highness Prince An invites him, he would not come if it is not beneficial to him.

His Majesty has been doting on Concubine Jin recently, and has summoned her to serve him several times. When Concubine Jin returned to the Taiwei Mansion, His Majesty did not come in person, but asked Yun Xi, the chief steward, to prepare a lot of gifts and send them to the Taiwei Mansion. "

He Jinchun said, "I looked at the two women carefully. They looked unfamiliar to me. I thought about them for a long time, but I couldn't figure out which family they were from."

"What a coincidence! Jiang Feng just showed me the list of officials and their families who came to celebrate today. There are two secret followers of King Jin. Their official positions are not high, both are fourth-rank officials. The families they brought with them are not their wives, but concubines.

I think the two women you mentioned are the two concubines."

Lin Tingxu continued, "Didn't you just say that you knew that the Lin Mansion was Ling'er's maternal family, but you still dared to gossip about Ling'er behind the back wall of the Lin Mansion so brazenly, and even said that you wrote a secret letter to Prince Jin to inform him of what happened in the capital. This is clearly instigating Prince Jin to rebel.

This was clearly intentional.”

He Jinchun pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "So that's how it is."

Lin Luoling also figured this matter out at this moment. She had been with the empress dowager these days, and after her many reminders, she understood much more about the affairs of the former dynasty and the harem than before.

As for today's incident, it should be that Emperor De Shun knew long ago that the two officials were secret party members of Prince Jin. The reason why he did not deal with them together with Prince Jin's cronies was that either the two secret party members were secretly planted by Emperor De Shun around Prince Jin, or the two secret party members were fence-sitters like Cao Peng, the governor of Xuzhou in the capital. Emperor De Shun kept them just to use them today to lure Prince Jin back to the capital in advance.

The day before yesterday, Lin Luoling heard Prince An mention that Prince Jin had fought seven fierce battles with the Huns in the northern border and won seven consecutive battles. The Huns suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat thirty miles.

At this time, if the King of Jin led his troops back to the capital, it would be a serious crime without an imperial edict. Even if he had military merits, he would not be able to escape the punishment.

Lin Luoling lowered her head and couldn't help but sigh that Emperor Deshun's trick of killing someone with a borrowed knife was really hard to guess. Suddenly, she heard Lin Tingxu ask her solemnly:

"Ling'er, do you know that our emperor's throne is not legitimate? His Majesty has more than ten brothers. How did he, the fourth prince, succeed to the throne? All his brothers were buried in the royal mausoleum more than ten years ago. Do you know what happened?"

(Note: The author just said a few words.

There is too much to say about Emperor Deshun. His two major skills are: checks and balances and watching the fire from the other side of the river.

King An’s three major skills: concealment, control of the situation, and control of people.

Regarding the character of Lin Luoling, I hope you can carefully appreciate the changes in her personality and the differences in the way she does things.

In yesterday's post, the Queen Mother reminded Lin Luoling to nip the dirty tricks in the bud. Lin Luoling knew that Prince An was using tricks to prevent Liu Yu from being a concubine, and she was actually very happy in her heart, but she just acted like a spoiled brat with Prince An, with the purpose of making a big fuss.

Even if Liu Yu was not a woman from Nanxiang Kingdom, Lin Luoling's goal was to let other officials know that Liu Yu was severely punished, so that when they were thinking about Prince An, they would think more carefully, thereby reducing the number of wishful thinking people who wanted to marry Prince An.

Emperor Deshun could no longer employ General Zhenyuan because the ambitions of Concubine Liu and General Zhenyuan were exposed, so he took this incident as an opportunity to punish General Zhenyuan and Concubine Liu.

The character of Lin Luoling seems mediocre after her rebirth, but if you look closely at what she said and did, every step was premeditated and had a reason.

Her original kindness was innate and could not be changed by rebirth. However, after rebirth, her kindness was sharp.

The palace fighting is quite brain-burning, I hope you like it, the author also wrote it very brain-burning, I found that I lost another hair, oops.)

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