Tangled

"Concubine Shu is here, so hurry up and salute." Mu Luoluo straightened her dress and helped Su Qingwan to turn out from behind the cluster.

"My concubine sees Concubine Shu." The two looked at each other in surprise, and hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"Get up." Su Qingwan waved her hands, and looked at the two meaningfully, "This deep palace is not a place to gossip."

"Yes, it's my sister who made a slip of the tongue. Please forgive me, my lord." As soon as Su Qingwan said this, Chao Lu understood that what the two of them just said had fallen into her ears. If Su Qingwan punished her at this time , the two had no escape.

"I have no intention of quarreling, so I can assume that nothing happened today, but I can't tell how many pairs of eyes are watching in this palace." Su Qingwan paced slowly in front of the two of them, saying indifferently. "When you enter the palace, you can't help yourself. Even if you are angry in your heart, you should restrain yourself."

"I would like to follow your mother's instruction." The two kowtowed again.

Su Qingwan glanced at the two of them, supported Mu Luoluo's hands and left without looking back, leaving the two of them in place, as if they had lost their lives and came back in shock.

"Mu Shuang is quite a man of character. I think he is the one who repays kindness with complaints." Mu Luoluo stepped aside and said.

"How about Morning Dew?" Su Qingwan took Mu Luoluo's arm and looked at her with interest.

"Chaolu, with a gentle temperament, is used to listening to orders, so she can't accomplish anything." Mu Luoluo leaned over and touched Su Qingwan's forehead.

"What about me?" Su Qingwan suddenly changed her tone, and looked at Mu Luoluo with a smile.

"You..." Mu Luoluo deliberately paused, and then met Su Qingwan's expectant eyes, and said softly, "It's been a long time, and I have forgotten the impression I had when I first met you."

"It's okay to forget when we first met, but now?"

"Now? Of course everything is fine."

"No, you are clearly fooling me."

"I'm going to fool you anywhere, but I'm telling the truth from the bottom of my heart."

"Just think about it..."

"..."

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"Bring all the snacks you made yesterday, as well as the new deer brush sent by my brother, as usual." Su Qingwan sat in front of the dressing table, and the little maid combed her black hair.

"Go today, maybe I can meet someone else." Mu Luoluo took out the clothes she was going to change in a while and handed them to the little maid, walked behind Su Qingwan, took the wooden comb, and personally tied her hair.

"I can't help it. The deer brush was delivered yesterday, and it's not polite to go there at night." Su Qingwan took a hairpin and handed it to Mu Luoluo. "Fortunately, there won't be too many people going today."

Mu Luoluo nodded, patted Su Qingwan on the shoulder, and signaled her to get up and change, and go to arrange breakfast by herself.

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"Empress Dowager, Concubine Shu is here." Zhen'er opened the curtain and came in, and said to the Empress Dowager and Mu Xiaoxiao.

"This child has always come early, but this year it was a day late. The Ai family must ask her why." The empress dowager said to Mu Xiaoxiao with a smile, and then looked at Zhen'er, "let her come in, don't freeze outside. broken."

"Sister Su has always respected and loved the imperial grandmother, so she must have prepared a gift for the imperial grandmother when she came late this time." Mu Xiaoxiao laughed.

"The concubine sees the empress dowager, empress empress." Su Qingwan was quite surprised when she saw that it was Zhen'er who led the way. As usual, shouldn't Mu Xiaoxiao come with the emperor on the empress dowager's birthday?

"You child, you have such a relationship with the Ai family every year. If you do this again in the next year, the Ai family will be punished." The Empress Dowager laughed.

"Grandmother loves Sister Su the most, and she always says she wants to be punished, but in the end she just doesn't want to part with it." Mu Xiaoxiao couldn't help laughing while rubbing her belly with one hand.

"I came a day late this year. I thought that the imperial grandmother would be unhappy. I never thought that the imperial grandmother still blamed Wan'er because of the address." Su Qingwan sat down, took the sandalwood box from Mu Luoluo, opened it, and presented the pen in person. In front of the Empress Dowager, "This is the deer brush sent by my brother yesterday. If it wasn't for that, Wan'er would have come here yesterday."

"Okay, okay, Wan'er has a heart." The Empress Dowager held a deer brush and smiled happily, "The things you give me are always close to the heart of Ai's family, and it is not in vain that Ai's family has loved you for so many years."

"Why did the empress come early this year?" Su Qingwan asked with doubts in her heart, seemingly unintentionally.

"The Ai family asked her to come." The empress dowager raised her hand to straighten the pillow, patted the edge of the bed, and signaled Mu Xiaoxiao to sit down, "Xiaoxiao is pregnant, and the Ai family's birthday was too noisy, and the Ai family didn't want them to quarrel with Xiaoxiao The child in the belly."

"With the concern of the emperor's grandmother, this child will be safe and sound." Mu Xiaoxiao held the hand of the empress dowager and whispered softly.

"Ai's family heard that the new one brought back by the emperor, called Mu Shuang, is also pregnant?" The empress dowager gently squeezed Mu Xiaoxiao's hand. For some reason, when she said this, everyone sitting here felt chilly.

Su Qingwan and Mu Luoluo looked at each other. When they met in Yuhuayuan last month, they didn't see that they were pregnant, and they didn't care about it in recent days, so they didn't know about it for a while.

"Back to the emperor's grandmother, Hui Yunu is two months pregnant." Mu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, but still answered truthfully.

"It's a good fate for her, but it's a pity that she doesn't have such a blessing." The empress dowager sighed, and put Mu Xiaoxiao's hand back on her swollen belly, "She has an unknown origin, and it is a gift from heaven to enter the palace to serve the emperor. The empress understands Is it?"

"Yes, my concubine understands." Mu Xiaoxiao bit her lower lip, a drop of cold sweat slipped from her temples.

Su Qingwan held her breath at the side, listening to the Empress Dowager's words, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured over her head, making her whole body chill.Although it is not easy for a child in this palace to land, but this is the first time the empress dowager speaks, no matter who it is, this child cannot be kept.

Mu Luoluo raised her eyes and looked at the Empress Dowager in secret. The Feng family attaches great importance to life experience, and they don't seek wealth and honor, but only a clean and innocent family. What's more, this is the Tian family, how can they allow a thin horse to mess up their blood? Although ruthless, it is also expected.

"Hao'er is now seven years old, isn't it?" The Empress Dowager saw the slight changes in the faces of the two of them, and knew that she had frightened them, she sighed helplessly, and revealed the matter softly.

"Yes, it's just the naughty age, the bulldog that the imperial grandmother in Fengyi Palace rewarded was driven out of peace by him." Mu Xiaoxiao forced a smile, apparently still thinking about that matter just now.

"What are you going to do?" The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes and looked at Mu Xiaoxiao.

"What is the meaning of the emperor's grandmother..." Mu Xiaoxiao was startled, and asked knowingly.

Su Qingwan picked up the teacup and took a sip, it's really not a good day for her to come today, if she had known that today was such a situation, she might as well come back tomorrow, together with the noble concubine Zhaoyi, it wouldn't be so uncomfortable.

"You are the empress, no matter who ascends the throne in the future, you will be the empress dowager." The empress dowager stretched out her hand and gently stroked Mu Xiaoxiao's lower abdomen, "Although the Ai family is old, they are not stupid. It's not that Ai's family doesn't know what Er'er is doing, Ai's family really likes Hao'er, and doesn't want to see him jump into the fire pit."

"The concubine never thought of letting Hao'er become the throne, the concubine only wants Hao'er to live in peace and safety for the rest of her life." Mu Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, as if she had exhausted all her courage in one sentence.

Mu Luoluo looked down at the Persian carpet on the ground. The swastika pattern was said to be a birthday gift specially ordered by the King of Persia for the Empress Dowager.

Su Qingwan quietly stretched out her hand, and caught Mu Luoluo's fingertips through the cover of her sleeve. The latter raised her head subconsciously, and saw that Su Qingwan shook her head slightly, and couldn't see her expression. Mu Luoluo still understood her. Although I don't know what the empress dowager wants to do, at least the battle for the throne will not affect the empress and the fifth prince.

"Okay, Ai's family is exhausted, you all go back, so that they don't have to come tomorrow, let's talk about it after their birthday." The empress dowager patted the back of Mu Xiaoxiao's hand meaningfully, signaling her two to retreat.

"The concubine (concubine) resigns." The two stood up and saluted, and then retreated slowly.

"Empress." Just as they were walking to the door, the Empress Dowager suddenly spoke, and Mu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but stop and look back, "Heirs of the Tian Family, there is no room for error."

"My concubine understands."

"Ouch..." Mu Xiaoxiao had just left the gate of Fengyi Palace, and couldn't help but retched while leaning on the wall in the corridor.

"Your Majesty!" Zhen'er hastily stepped forward to pat her on the back.

"Having been a queen for so many years, it's really rare to still have such a bodhisattva heart." Su Qingwan stood aside, looking at Mu Xiaoxiao with a complicated expression.

"A Bodhisattva has never had a heart, and Shura's methods dare not be without." Mu Xiaoxiao calmed down, her eyes flushed slightly, "But let me kill a child with my own hands. Sister Su, I'm really scared, that child is innocent. .”

"Mu Shuang and this child, we can only keep one." Su Qingwan sighed, took out the veil and gently wiped the corners of Mu Xiaoxiao's eyes, "If she can quietly ensure that this child falls to the ground in October, then on the day of delivery, Mu Xiaoxiao Shuang will die in childbirth, and the child can be adopted by any prince in the clan, and live a safe life. But now, this child can only protect her mother from this disaster, and this is fate."

"This palace has always been cruel, and the peace these years has been hard to come by." Mu Luoluo added next to her.

"Taiping?" Mu Xiaoxiao grasped Su Qingwan's wrist, stared at Mu Luoluo with tears in her eyes, and asked in a strange tone, "In these years, how many scenes have been set up, how many plays have been sung, how many people have died, and whoever dies deserves to be blamed. We all know who will not die with peace! Is this also called peace?"

"What kind of peace do you want? Huh?" Mu Luoluo stepped forward, grabbed Mu Xiaoxiao's forearm, and forced her to let go of Su Qingwan's wrist, which was already clenched red. "Is the peace you want difficult?" Is it because the whole palace is in harmony, and all the concubines love each other? Don’t be naive! Don’t say this is a heavenly family, even if it is an ordinary wealthy family, there is no harmony between concubines! The reason why the Mu family is relatively peaceful is because the aunt has no sons under her knees. , as long as there is a son, you are afraid that they will be sold by them before I come back from Zhuangzi, so how can you still dream of peace here today!"

"Miss..." Zhen'er was quite troubled by the side, and she didn't know who to persuade to help whom.