Tangled

Mu Luoluo put her hand on the empress dowager's hand, and raised her hand, revealing the bracelet on her wrist, which was left to her by her mother.

"Whose family are you a child?" Although the empress dowager is old, she has clear eyes and can see it at a glance.

Su Qingwan lowered her head and teased the lap dog in her arms, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

"Back to the Empress Dowager, the servants are from the Mu family in Suzhou." Mu Luoluo didn't know what Su Qingwan was planning, so she could only tell the truth.

"You are not a slave, you are a young lady of the Mu family." The empress dowager gently twirled the bracelet on Mu Luoluo's wrist, and said nothing more.

Mu Luoluo didn't know what to say, Su Qingwan was also silent at the side, after a while, the empress dowager said again, "Get up, the craftsmanship is good, if you have time in the future, make more snacks and send them to Ai's family. "

"Yes." Mu Luoluo responded, slowly got up and stepped aside.

"You really gave the Ai family a very generous birthday present." The empress dowager pointed at Su Qingwan, implying something.

Before Su Qingwan could reply, she was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Come in." Su Qingwan raised her voice while carrying the pot to pour tea for the Empress Dowager.

Mu Luoluo opened the curtain, and it was Jin Qing who came in.

"See the Empress Dowager." Jin Qing knelt down and saluted.

"Get up, why are you so flustered?" The Empress Dowager leaned on the cushion, feeling a little sleepy, as old people are so useless.

"Back to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty summoned the Empress to visit Fulin Palace, the servants had no choice but to disturb her." Jin Qing replied.

"What did the emperor call you to do? You should be punished for ruining Ai's family's happiness." The empress dowager was half joking and half serious, "Go, after the incident with the Zhang family, maybe something urgent happened to Zhang Jieyu. .”

"The concubine will retire first, and come back to accompany the imperial grandmother when I have time." Su Qingwan looked at Jinqing's expression, and knew that she knew why His Majesty was so eager to recruit her, but, what else in the harem needs to be kept from the empress dowager?

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They hurried all the way, but when they arrived at Fulin Palace, they were greeted with bad news. Jieyu Zhang died.

Su Qingwan's eyes went dark when she heard the news, and she almost fainted. Fortunately, Mu Luoluo and Jinqing supported her from left to right, and finally entered the main hall of Fulin Palace.

The emperor sat silently on the throne, Concubine An Xian arrived one step earlier, Concubine Song Guifei was delayed by accompanying the prince, so she has not yet shown up.

"What's going on here? How come my sister... died so well?" Su Qingwan poured down a bowl of warm tea, finally regaining her senses.

"The imperial doctor said that he was poisoned, and he was useless when I came here." Concubine An Xian looked a little unhappy.

As soon as Concubine An Xian finished speaking, the emperor slammed the table, which startled Zhou Zhaoyi who had just entered the door.

"Check it out! Find out who it is, it's so bold!" The emperor's tone contained anger.

"Zhang Jieyu has caught a cold recently and has been taking medicine. Could someone use this to poison her sister?" Zhou Zhaoyi looked at the expressions of several people in the hall, and made a general guess about the matter.

"Order the imperial physician to go to the small kitchen to check quickly, and escort all the people who entered and exited the small kitchen today." Concubine An Xian said for the emperor when she saw that the emperor was silent.

Mu Luoluo gently put her hand on Su Qingwan's whitened hand from clutching the armrest tightly, and shook her head slightly to meet Su Qingwan's mournful gaze.

Zhang Jieyu treated Su Qingwan well, and Mu Luoluo saw it. This time, Zhang Xinlan's incident involved Zhang's entire Zhang family, including Zhang Xinju's father. Su Qingwan already felt ashamed of Zhang Jieyu in her heart. For Su Qingwan, it was even worse.

"Your Majesty, all the people in the small kitchen are here." At this moment, Zhao Desheng was kneeling down in a group of people.

"Where is the imperial physician?" The emperor took a deep breath, suppressing his unhappiness.

"Your Majesty, the prescriptions and medicinal materials are all from the imperial hospital. There is no abnormality. I just inspected the kitchen utensils, and there is nothing unusual. I dare to ask your majesty to allow me to inspect the utensils used by Jie Yuniang just now." The imperial physician stepped forward and said.

"Sure." The emperor waved his hand.

The imperial physician entered the inner hall on the front foot, and Concubine Song brought someone in on the back foot.

"See Your Majesty, my concubine was delayed on the road and missed the time, please forgive me." Song Guifei saluted, and the person in the mother-in-law's hand struggled hard behind her.

"Get up, what's going on?" The emperor frowned.

"Just now when my concubine came in, she saw the panicked expression on this man's face. She was sneaky and didn't know what he was doing. She thought that she had something to do with Zhang Jieyu, so she ordered someone to bring her in." Song Guifei stood up and replied.

"Say, what are you doing?" The emperor was displeased. It was approaching the empress dowager's birthday, but such a terrible thing happened.

"Your maidservant is wronged, your maidservant just has an injury on her hand, so she just boasted." The maidservant kneeled and kowtowed, her voice miserable.

"Jinqing, please try the silver needle on her hand." Su Qingwan frowned, and ordered decisively.

"Yes." Jin Qing saluted the emperor first, then stepped forward to ask for a silver needle, and when the needle was stuck, it was instantly black.

Before the servant girl had time to defend herself, the imperial physician had already come out from the inner hall, "I report to Your Majesty, someone put poison on the rim of Empress Jieyu's cup!"

"All the utensils used by Empress Jieyu today are cleaned by her." The maid in charge of Fulin Palace who had been kneeling silently at the bottom of the steps suddenly said, pointing at the maid escorted in by Concubine Song, "When she brought the utensils in today , just looked flustered, this servant only thought that she was nervous because she had never entered the inner palace, but who knew that she had malicious intentions. This servant did not think well, and I would like to apologise with death!"

"Wait." Concubine An Xian suddenly said, stopping the maid in charge who was about to touch the pillar, "This maid looks familiar to me, but I don't think she is from Fulin Palace. Tell me, where did she come from?" come."

The maid in charge replied after pondering, "Your Majesty, Concubine Xian, she was assigned from Hongshou Hall for rough use after Beauty Zhang was deposed."

"Hongshou Hall." The emperor repeated, and then slammed the table, "What a Zhang Xinlan!"

"Everything my servant has done has nothing to do with Zhang Meiren!" The servant girl suddenly said, high-pitched and sharp, "The servant girl just can't see it. She is the same lady of the Zhang family. Why can Zhang Xinju stay out of it when something happens to the Zhang family! What the servant girl did Zhang Meiren doesn’t know about everything! The slaves and servants are responsible for everything! Please don’t implicate Zhang Meiren, Your Majesty!”

The next moment, the servant girl broke free from the restraint of the mother-in-law and bit her own hand. Jin Qing couldn't stop her, and watched her bleed to death from all seven orifices.

"What a loyal servant." The emperor snorted coldly, "Drag on."

Mu Luoluo slowly and firmly squeezed her hand into Su Qingwan's, preventing her from stabbing herself with sharp nails.

Su Qingwan raised her head and looked at Mu Luoluo with sad and desolate eyes.Mu Luoluo sighed, with the emperor above, she couldn't hold Su Qingwan into her arms.Although Su Qingwan was good at calculating, her ultimate goal was not to take human life, but now, more than one human life was involved.

"It is my decree that the little Zhang's three-foot white silk will be rewarded, and he will not be allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum after death. The big Zhang will be buried generously with the ceremony of the second grade, and his family will be rewarded generously." The emperor glanced at the palm of Fulin Palace who was kneeling at the bottom of the steps. As a court lady, add a sentence, "I pardon you for death, and go to guard the mausoleum for your master."

"Slave obeys the order." The maid in charge kowtowed, tears running down her face from being late.

After the emperor left, everyone dispersed.Su Qingwan was the last one to leave, her legs and feet were so weak that she could hardly walk, and it was only by Mu Luoluo's half-hugging and half-hugging ability that she was able to get out of Fulin Palace and onto the sedan chair.

Before leaving, Mu Luoluo glanced back at Fulin Palace. The powerful words were still shining brightly under the sunlight. Fulin Fulin, this blessing did not come to Zhang Xinju after all. After all, he followed her all his life.

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"In this palace, it's finally quiet again." Mu Xiaoxiao stood in front of the window, the window was gloomy.

"Your Majesty, why are you standing in the air, not even wearing any clothes?" Zhen'er came in with some brocades in her arms, and seeing Mu Xiaoxiao standing alone in front of the window, she hurriedly put down the brocades, and pulled a large cloak from the side to give it to her. Mu Xiaoxiao put on "Pearl, this girl has gone somewhere, and she left her alone."

"I only thought you were in the back room." Just as she was speaking, Zhu'er opened the curtain and came in, followed by a few maidservants carrying a few pots of flowers. I can't walk around in the imperial garden, so I simply send flowers to the eyes of the empress, which can be regarded as a relief."

"You thought I was in the back room, but I only thought you were in the back room. I only went out when I called you and you answered." Zhen'er wondered.

"I ordered someone to bring the parrot in this morning." Mu Xiaoxiao walked to the table and sniffed the flower. "Maybe it was the parrot's answer."

"That's really interesting." Zhen'er laughed, and then moved the brocade on the table, "This is a new satin from the Inner Court Secretary. I said that I picked a fresh color and brought it to your mother first. Come on." The Qing Palace also sent two horses over, saying that the color is too fresh and tender, and it is most suitable for making new clothes for the empress."

"Sister Su is the same, obviously she is also very delicate." Mu Xiaoxiao smiled lightly, raised her hand to touch the brocade, it was smooth and soft, "it's a good material, so I have nothing to do in the winter and twelfth lunar months. Do something Clothes for the child to wear."

"That's right, children grow up fast, so we need to make more of these clothes." Zhen'er continued, "I don't know what kind of clothes the little prince will like."

"Perhaps it's a little princess." Mu Xiaoxiao lowered her head with a smile, and stroked her stomach lightly. "I hope I'm a princess. I just find a good family to marry in Jiji, and I don't have to worry so much."

Zhen'er and Zhu'er looked at each other, but couldn't say anything.

"It's time for the draft again in the coming year. There are only four of the new recruits from last year." Mu Xiaoxiao was more than seven months pregnant, and since she couldn't stand for a long time, Zhu'er helped her back to half-lying on the couch.

"I was drafted once every three years, but the two drafts since His Majesty took the throne were five years apart, and I don't know if I will be drafted in the next year." Zhen'er kept the few brocades that Mu Xiaoxiao selected, and the rest were recruited. A little maid came in and hugged her out.

"Your Majesty has few heirs, and so do concubines. Maybe it can fill the harem and extend the number of heirs." Mu Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief. The women in the harem are like fish in a living pond, swimming away for a while. , there will be new friends coming, "I haven't heard from Jin Meiren recently, and I don't know if she's used to it or not."

"That golden beauty is shrewd. Looking at the affairs of the Chu family and the Zhang family during that period of time, she told the sick to stay in the Wuyou Pavilion. She was really Wuyou. His Majesty also sent people to comfort her many times. I think that after the next year It can also be promoted by one rank." Zhen'er said as she walked towards the window.

"In this palace, anyone who can avoid the limelight will have future blessings, and our mother is not like that." Zhu'er laughed.

"It's snowing, ma'am, this is the first snow this year." Zhen'er turned her head and said pleasantly.

"That's great." Mu Xiaoxiao smiled softly, propped her head up to look at the snowflakes falling silently outside the window, and there was the sound of charcoal fire crackling inside the house, the years were quiet and peaceful.