Phoenix dwelling in Yanzhou

The sound of the door closing fell, and Su Qian let out a long sigh of relief.

The quilt beside her moved, revealing Jing Sheng's little head.

"Ah Qian..." Jing Sheng asked in a low voice, "Is grandma gone?"

"Yes," Su Qian nodded, stretched out her hand, and straightened Jing Sheng's messed up hair.

"Huh!" Jing Sheng hugged Su Qian's waist, and heaved a sigh of relief.

But Jing Sheng, who breathed a sigh of relief, didn't know that when Mrs. Su walked out of the room, when she passed by the window, she glanced at the place under the window sill, where there was still mud and water stains.

"Old madam?" The old nanny beside her looked at her master suspiciously.

Mrs. Su's eyes were dim, and finally she whispered something in Mammy's ear, "Go to the west courtyard and see if Mrs. Shun Guo is in your room."

Although Mammy was puzzled, she followed the old lady's order to inquire, and brought back the news after a while.

In the old lady's room, Mrs. Zhu was turning the rosary in her hand, listening to the news from the nanny.

"The servant obeyed the order of the old lady, and brought Jiang Tang over there. The door was closed tightly, and the lights in the room were already turned off. The servant girl said that Mrs. Shunguo had already fallen asleep."

Mrs. Su's eyes were dark and bottomless, and she asked in a low tone. "Do you think...is there anyone in that room?"

"It's... hard to say."

"how do I say this?"

"When I asked Mrs. Shunguo, the little girl of the foreign race of Mrs. Shunguo's eyes flickered, as if she was hiding something..."

Before Mammy could finish speaking, she heard a "click", and the rosary beads in Mrs. Su's hand were torn apart, and the beads made of red vermilion scattered all over the floor.

"Old Madam?" Mammy looked at in surprise, Madam Su's face turned pale.

"When Ah Qian left the East Palace, the master gave her a Jingwei. You go and find the chief guard quietly. I have something to ask." Mrs. Su ordered.

Old Madam Su's face was so ugly, Nanny said yes again and again, and hurried out to find the person the old madam was looking for.

The old lady was the only one left in the room, she looked at the red beads scattered all over the ground, and supported her forehead feebly.

"Ash... what's your name!"

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The next day, before dawn, the nurse next to Mrs. Su came to invite Su Qian.

Jing Sheng, who was sleeping, was suddenly awakened, and hurriedly hid in the quilt, not daring to breathe.

Unexpectedly, she heard Mammy say something before leaving.

"Mrs. Shunguo doesn't need to hide, it's not good for your health to keep covering the quilt."

Jing Sheng broke out in a cold sweat, and crawled out of the quilt when she heard the sound of the door closing.

"Ah Qian..." Jing Sheng looked at Su Qian anxiously.

"Good boy," Su Qian patted Jing Sheng's hand and comforted her, "I'll come back as soon as I go."

"Grandma, she..."

"It's okay, trust me, I'll take care of it."

Jing Sheng nodded obediently, let go of her hand, and watched Su Qian leave with the nanny.

When Mu Yue came in, Jing Sheng was still sitting on the bed.

"Old madam...she knows, right?" Jing Sheng was panicked. "Will she blame Ah Qian?"

Mu Yue watched, Jing Sheng grabbed her fingers nervously, "Ma'am, Your Majesty will take care of it."

"I want to accompany Ah Qian..." Jing Sheng was still uneasy. "If the old lady wants to blame, you should also blame me!"

Mu Yue hurriedly pressed Jing Sheng who was about to get up, "If you go now, it will only make the old lady even more angry!"

"But……"

"The old lady is the one who loves the empress the most, and she will definitely not blame the empress."

"Really?"

"real."

Here, Mu Yue finally calmed Jing Sheng down.

Over there, Su Qian entered the old lady's room, and saw red beads scattered on the ground at a glance.

Red Zhu is one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. "Buddhist Scripture" says: "The red worm is called the red real pearl, or the bead body is red, and the name is the red real pearl." '

Buddhist pearls are generally thin and gray in color, while red real pearls refer to reddish pearls, and red coral beads are usually used instead of red pearls.Because pure red pearls are extremely rare.

And these pearls on the ground are true pearls of pure red color.

This is what Su Qian asked for for the old lady before she left the cabinet.

Su Qian felt a little uneasy in her heart, seeing the old lady standing with her back facing her, she called her grandmother, but she was reprimanded.

"Your Majesty!"

Su Qian knelt down silently, Mrs. Su turned around and looked at her granddaughter kneeling on the ground, unable to hide the coldness and haggardness on her face. "What's going on between you and that Yu Jiulu Jingsheng?!"

Hearing the cold questioning, Su Qian did not defend herself. She knew that the old lady went to the chief guard of the palace last night. She also knew that her grandmother was as careful as dust, so what could she hide from the old man?

"As grandma heard, Ah Qian and her...have a very good relationship."

"Very good?!" Mrs. Su laughed back angrily, "So good that you eat and live together?! So good that you entered Beidi alone to take risks for her?! So good that you two women sleep on the same bed?!"

Su Qian lowered her head and didn't speak, which was her acquiescence.

"When you surrounded the ancestral hall with soldiers, I should have thought of it! Su Qian, how could you be so ridiculous?" Mrs. Su was so angry that her hands shook, "You two women... this is a violation of human relations!"

"Grandma, don't there be some "handkerchief friends" in Beijing? Why can't I?"

The phrase "friends with handkerchiefs" in Su Qian's words has a deep meaning.

Women living in deep boudoirs live a closed life, and most of them only have activities among female relatives and maidservants. Therefore, the phenomenon of feelings between women abounds.Usually, as long as the "defense between men and women" is not violated and it is not exposed to the public, it is harmless for women to fall in love.

But this sentence "handkerchief friendship" seems to have touched Mrs. Su's rebellious scales.

Mrs. Su grabbed the teacup on the table and slammed it down beside Su Qian. The teacup shattered, and the broken porcelain splashed on Su Qian's body.One slice across Su Qian's cheek, leaving thin bloodstains.

Su Qian didn't say a word, but the old lady Su felt distressed when she saw that Su Qian was hurt, and her words softened.

"Ah Qian, you are the daughters-in-law of the royal family, if you let your grandfather know about this, let Yushitai know..."

"For the sake of family honor, my grandfather will probably give us a white silk, even if my grandfather is reluctant to part with Yushitai, he will not let me go." Su Qian said soberly.

"You clearly know, why do you still commit crimes?" Mrs. Su only felt physically and mentally exhausted, "You have been very sensible since you were a child. You have always been our pride and the glory of the Su family. You have never been so out of line."

"Yeah, I'm a girl from the Su family, so I have to be dignified, prudent, and follow the rules." Su Qian said mockingly, "So even if the person I marry doesn't like me, even if I'm in that hopeless deep palace, Living the days when you can see the head at a glance, and living numbly every day, I also want to laugh! With that dignity, that dignity, laugh! I am alone watching the pair of dragon and phoenix wedding candles burning until dawn, Standing alone in that cold and empty East Palace, I can't cry, hate, or have my own emotions, because I'm the daughter of the Su family! I'm the princess of the East Palace! But only... not Su Qian."

"You ask me why I still commit the crime when I know it. Because she makes me feel that I am still a person, a person who can cry and laugh, not the princess of the East Palace who can only laugh!"