A traitor

What Wan Yuzhen left behind before she died was a silk handkerchief embroidered with a pair of mandarin ducks and lotuses on two pedicles.

This is a common pattern, and the girls in Chang'an City would embroider a pair and give it to their lovers as tokens every festive season.

But this square silk handkerchief is special, in addition to mandarin ducks and lotus flowers, there is also a word "Qi" embroidered on it.

Everyone in the palace knew that Du Meiren's boudoir name was Du Shiqi before she entered the palace, and that she had suffered accidents and her family was ruined.

In desperation, he had no choice but to seek refuge with his father's friend. The current Changlu Temple Minister, Jia Dexin Jia, was originally a bitter drama comparable to Coptis chinensis, but the bad thing was that Fang Sipa was obtained from Jia Siqi.

A piece of silk handkerchief, picked up by an unintentional person, can be used as a sweat wipe, but if it is picked up by a caring person, and then used a little bit, it can produce unexpected results.

Next to the emperor, there was a servant named Chang De, who was deeply in love with Su Qinglang, and kept thinking about how to repay him. After getting that Fang Sipa, he planned a good play.

First, let people spread the news in the palace, saying that Du Shiqi and Jia Siqi were childhood sweethearts before entering the palace, and they are very close.

After the emperor became suspicious, he planned to let the Fang Sipa fall into the hands of the emperor, saying that when Jia Siqi entered the palace, he accidentally dropped it and was picked up by him.

The emperor was already startled because of Wan Yuzhen's matter, but now that Du Shiqi had another sign of adultery, he would naturally pay more attention.

As a result, on a dark and stormy night, Du Shiqi and Jia Siqi met privately and complained bitterly about missing each other.

Of course, the process of this discovery is a bit complicated. During this process, Su Qinglang secretly exerted a lot of force, not only Changde, but even the crown prince was involved.

In the end, Jia Siqi was secretly executed by the emperor for having an affair with the harem. When his father was an official, he did a lot of corruption and perversion of the law. As soon as he was found out and before anyone was arrested, the poor Mr. Jia was arrested by the gangsters. Break into the mansion and kill.

As for Du Shiqi, although he was lucky enough not to be killed by the emperor, he ordered her to go to some Ganqing Temple to pray for blessings.

Su Qinglang pondered that it would be embarrassing enough for Wan Yuzhen to appear in the harem, and the emperor did this to save face.

It is said that she is asked to go to the temple to pray, but there may be an assassin ambushing in some small forest, waiting for her to go out of the palace, and then execute her on the spot.

Sure enough, within a few days after Du Shiqi left Chang'an, news came that Du Meiren was assassinated and died on the way to Qianqing Temple.

At that time, Su Qinglang was sitting in the mansion drinking tea, when Liang's legs and feet recovered, he came to visit, sat opposite him, and peeled lychees for him tirelessly.

The butler came to him and whispered in his ear for a while, Su Qinglang put down the cup and said calmly: "Got it..."

Seeing them whispering to each other, Mrs. Liang gave them a dissatisfied look, and said angrily, "Sneaky, what bad things are you discussing?"

Su Qinglang looked at her, and immediately raised his hands and said innocently: "Second Mother, you really wronged me. Qinglang always upholds Erniang's wishes, and only knows how to give charcoal in a timely manner and add icing on the cake. How dare you do bad things?"

Mrs. Liang snorted softly, obviously not believing it: "I don't know about you, child? You hold grudges when you hit a child. If the child of the Sun family accidentally broke a vase of yours, you just show your face to others. You will be embarrassed for several days. Don't pay attention to others, these days, those messy things in the palace, do you dare to say that it has nothing to do with you?"

Su Qinglang smiled: "Didn't you be young and ignorant at that time? Now you let Zizhong come over and throw ten vases at me, and I won't even blink."

Seeing the housekeeper leave, Mrs. Liang looked around, and after making sure there was no one there, she lowered her voice and said, "Tell me honestly, that girl from the Du family..."

She still didn't know the news that Du Shiqi had been assassinated and died, so speaking at this time, it was naturally referring to the affair with Jia Siqi.

Su Qinglang crossed Erlang's legs, and took a sip of tea: "Er Niang, that's the harem, not our back garden, you think highly of me, don't you?"

Liang's expression was still full of doubts, and after a while, he said with emotion: "Anyway, Erniang is now more and more unable to understand you, and less and less able to care about you."

Mrs. Liang didn't know that Su Qinglang already knew that she had begged Du Shiqi, and that he did these things as revenge for putting him in prison, but he didn't know that the harem was full of ups and downs, and all the earth-shattering events were just to vent her anger.

Su Qinglang didn't say anything, leaned over to pour tea for her, and said: "I'm bound by myself, I'm to blame, I've just done it myself, how can I blame others?"

Thinking of Du Shiqi, Liang sighed again: "I just feel that it's a pity that the Du family is such a good girl."

Su Qinglang curled her lips, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly said, "Er Niang, do you really think that Miss Du is nice?"

Liang looked at him, only to hear him continue: "I didn't like her from the first time I saw her, Er Niang, you can't just look at a person's appearance, but also look at this."

He pointed to his heart and said, "You said she was kind and filial, but when I saw her that day, she slapped me just because I was wronged a little. Forget it. But at that time, her father was still imprisoned and waiting for her to save his life, this move undoubtedly cut off her father's last chance of survival."

"If she cares about her own dignity, she is willing to sell herself into the palace for the sake of Jia Siqi's official career, and then to vent her anger on Jia Siqi and get herself involved, in my opinion, this girl has a cold nature. It’s okay to be selfish, but you have no conscience and no brains.”

His dislike of Du Shiqi was not only because of these things, but also because she resembled a person.

Selfish, indifferent to his real relatives, but if he meets someone he so-called likes, he is completely childish and naive.

He is exactly the same as his good student, the princess in the palace.

Although he is a man, with many years of upbringing, he knows that he must be considerate and caring towards girls, but in his heart, he really doesn't like this kind of girl.

He also heard his second mother say: "You child, what did the second mother teach you before, how can you talk about others behind their backs, let alone a girl?"

Su Qinglang quickly covered his mouth, raised his other hand in surrender and said, "Er Niang, I know I was wrong."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and brought over a plate of lychees that Mrs. Liang had peeled, and ate them with relish.

The two of them had had a rare chance to sit down and chat recently. Seeing him eating happily, Mrs. Liang was naturally happy too.

After looking at it for a while, he tentatively said: "Qinglang, you don't like Miss Du, is it because you like... Princess Princess?"

Su Qinglang raised his head to look at her, and heard her continue: "If you really like that princess of the Li family, Er Niang, you will find a way..."

Since the incident with Li Yanyan, their family has always been estranged from the Changshan Palace, and Liang's attitude towards Li Saisai is also lukewarm.

A few days ago, his second mother went to the palace to suffer, and I heard that Li Saisai brought her back. It should be at that time that he solved his grievances, and then he thought of matching their marriage.

Su Qinglang said helplessly: "Er Niang, I am like a younger sister to Sai Sai. What's more, you also know that it is impossible for us."

Seeing that he was about to refuse again, Liang said: "I think that child seems to like you very much. If you really like each other, we will be elders..."

Before finishing speaking, Su Qinglang stretched out his hand to signal her to stop, and sighed again: "My relationship with Sai Sai is really just a brother-sister relationship, and Sai Sai treats me the same way, Er Niang, don't worry about it."

Hearing what he said, Mrs. Liang immediately felt very melancholy: "You don't like this one, so you don't like it either. When will you get married? Qinglang, you are 24 this year. At this age, children can run all over the place." gone."

Seeing that Mrs. Liang brought up the matter of marrying a wife and having children again, Su Qinglang was so dizzy that she lost even the interest in drinking tea.

With a bitter face, he said: "Er Niang, you see Zizhong is older than me, and he is not even married, why should I be in a hurry?"

Liang gave him a blank look, and snorted, "You two should learn from each other. I'll see when we can get married."

As she spoke, she paused for a moment as if thinking of something again, and looked at Su Qinglang cautiously: "A few days ago, Mrs. Lin told me that the son of Mr. Chen's family, who was a student at the Imperial College, was infected with a broken sleeve. What's wrong, could it be that you two..."

Seeing that she was totally thinking about it, Su Qinglang puffed, almost spewing water, and immediately stopped: "Er Niang! Where are you thinking!"

He rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, and said speechlessly: "A good man has his ambitions in the world. Now is the time for us to make achievements. When we settle down, we will naturally get married."

"not to mention……"

He knew in his heart that Liang's thoughts had stopped at this moment, and he might arrange a blind date for him one day.

So he said, "I already have someone I like in my heart?"

"Really?" Liang's eyes lit up obviously, and he asked, "Which family is the girl from?"

Su Qinglang paused for a moment, then said: "Just... you arranged for me to have a blind date with Miss Du at the Wind and Rain Pavilion that day, the girl I met there."

"At that time, I took a quick glance and remembered it in my heart. I was afraid of being abrupt, so I didn't ask for my name and address. I have been checking these days!"

Mrs. Liang was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, and she kept telling him that if he found the girl he likes, he must remember to inform her, so she can find someone to match her, and her birthday was combined, which made Su Qinglang sigh secretly, thinking of herself again How can I think of Mei Liusheng? It's really hard to explain.

Seeing his second mother's high spirits, wishing she could arrange a wedding for him tomorrow, Su Qinglang felt even more guilty.

But this lie can be entrusted for a long time, enough to make him clean for a few months.

Mrs. Liang was planning happily, when she saw the butler come back worriedly, and whispered something in Su Qinglang's ear.

Su Qinglang's expression froze for a moment, and then his expression became more and more ugly. The cup in his hand slipped inadvertently, fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.