These two questions had actually been on Jiang Ling's mind for a long time.

There were many and complicated things on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Jiang Ling spent a long time without sorting out the clues.Coupled with the empress dowager's silence at that time, Jiang Ling had to avoid it far away, so he listed the events of that day as a taboo.When the turmoil gradually subsided, Jiang Ling recalled the events of that day again, only to realize that there were many details that were actually very wrong.

For example, why did Mrs. Wang enter the palace that day? She was obviously white.

Another example, why Jia Yuanchun suddenly opened his mouth that day, wanting to hug the little elder brother.

Another example is why Xue Baochai asked Jiang Ling to help him before he left, when Jia Yuanchun had not lost his power.

One after another, I thought it was nothing at the time, but now that I think about it afterwards, I feel weird.It happened that Jiang Ling wanted to come and see Jia Yuanchun, so he simply threw out all the questions in his heart to see how Jia Yuanchun answered.

After getting the answer, Jiang Ling would naturally ask Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai in the dream.

When Jia Yuanchun heard the words "Second Wife Entering the Palace", his expression suddenly became unnatural.She doesn't want to recall the events of that day at all now, those events are taboos, whether it is Concubine Yi deliberately provoking her, or the Queen Mother's questioning, all are taboos.

Jiang Ling's question revealed all the things that he didn't want to recall.

Seeing the change in Jia Yuanchun's expression, Jiang Ling actually guessed something in his heart, but he still asked: "Could it be that the second wife and the second grandma Bao came to the palace to ask for trust from me without discussing with the imperial concubine? Strange. Everyone inside and outside the Rongguo Mansion knows that the second wife and I have a long history of grudges, and the eldest girl is the most powerful person in the palace. Why did you ask the wrong person for this?"

She deliberately did not mention the matter of Concubine Yi that day, in order to dispel Jia Yuanchun's vigilance.

Jia Yuanchun's face softened, but his tone was still unhappy: "The imperial concubine's words are wrong. Although I am the eldest girl of the Rongguo Mansion, the second wife is my biological mother, and the second grandma Bao is my sister-in-law. Naturally, I can't control what you want to do, and I shouldn't interfere too much. If the imperial concubine has nothing important to do, please leave."

Jiang Ling smiled.

She stood up, walked up to Jia Yuanchun, and said with a smile: "It seems that the imperial concubine has a lot of forgetfulness. Do you want me to remind the empress that the Rongguo Mansion five years ago, and the second wife and you three years ago, both What have you done?"

There are some things that Jiang Ling will never forget.

Although it has been several years now, Jiang Ling's temperament of holding grudges will not change.

When Jia Yuanchun heard Jiang Ling bring up the past, his expression couldn't help but change.Although Jiang Ling had nothing to do with the past, Jiang Ling had a grudge with them in the Rongguo Mansion.Now that Jiang Ling is the imperial concubine, and their mansion has just been mired in the mud and cannot be pulled out, Mrs. Wang and Second Grandma Bao want to start with Jiang Ling, which is actually the worst plan when they have no other choice.If you have a bad attitude right now...

When Jia Yuanchun thought of this, he suppressed those strange emotions, and forced a smile: "The imperial concubine is serious. Hold the qin, serve tea, and use the silver coin just sent to invite the imperial concubine to taste something new. You Let's all go down."

Baoqin and the surrounding maids all responded and retreated together.

Jiang Ling looked at Jia Yuanchun leisurely, waiting for her next words.

"You should know the situation in our mansion." Jia Yuanchun said, "Regardless of whether you had any personal grievances with your mother in the past, and whether you have any kindness or grievance with our mansion, now I only hope Don't throw stones into the well and push our whole house up and down, and off the cliff. I beg you." After speaking, he bent towards Jiang Ling.She is sick, this is considered a salute.

Jiang Ling smiled and said, "I don't like venting anger."

Jia Yuanchun raised his head, looked at Jiang Ling, and said after a while: "So, thank you, Imperial Concubine."

Jiang Ling smiled again, and said slowly: "But I don't like being kept in the dark and being plotted against for no reason. The imperial concubine, the second wife and the second grandma Bao came to the palace last time, and said to me If so, what is the reason?"

Jia Yuanchun's expression turned serious, as if he wanted to explain, but he couldn't explain it.

After a long time, Jia Yuanchun said: "That's right, our mansion has indeed encountered a huge difficulty this time. Even I dare not do anything in it. You know, our mansion has been fighting for four or five years. Even the mother, Sister Feng, or even the grandmother at that time could not turn the tide. Baoyu's temperament must have been heard by the imperial concubine. She is clean and weak, but she can't support Rong Rong. The great responsibility of the state government, even now, is less than half that of younger siblings."

Jiang Ling looked at her quietly, and asked again: "So?"

Jia Yuanchun let out a long breath, and said: "So, you have to try everything. Two years ago, the imperial concubine said that our mansion was desperate to make such a bad plan. But at that time, Although our mansion is rotten, it has not yet reached the point of desperation. Now the mansion is real, and we don't even have the ability to put all our eggs in one basket." She raised her head, looked at Jiang Ling, and suddenly smiled wryly, "What if Mother knew at the beginning that the current situation has been so defeated, so she definitely wouldn't... Forget it. It's useless to say anything now."

Jiang Ling nodded his head slightly, and thought to himself, so that's the case.

Although it was different from what she had expected, it was not that big of a difference.

Jia Yuanchun let out a long sigh and said: "The matter has come to this, we can only resign ourselves to fate."

The two sat face to face for a while, and Jiang Ling got up to say goodbye.

When going out, Jiang Ling happened to meet Bao Qin face to face.Holding a teapot, Baoqin was about to serve Jiang Ling tea, when he saw Jiang Ling leave, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.Jiang Ling glanced sideways at Baoqin, but left without saying anything.

Looking at Jiang Ling's leaving back, Jia Yuanchun murmured, "I hope I don't make trouble."

Jiang Ling didn't make trouble this time, she was busy preparing a small gift for Lin Daiyu.

As soon as she returned to Chengqian Palace, Jiang Ling heard that Lin Daiyu was pregnant, and she might have to stay in the mansion for a long time.And because during this period of time, there were accidents in Rongning and Ning's two mansions one after another. The king of Beijing Jing was very cautious about Rongguo mansion, so he sent Lin Daiyu to Zhuangzi in the suburbs early on. Except for a few people in the palace, no one knew that Lin Daiyu was there where.

Jiang Ling asked about the nanny in front of Lin Daiyu, and found out that a few days ago, Mrs. Wang went to look for Lin Daiyu again, but she was stopped.

The nun said: "Our concubine said that the day before yesterday when she was found pregnant, she was sent out by the prince, and before she had time to say goodbye to the imperial concubine, she asked the old servant to come to the palace to say something to the imperial concubine. In the next ten months, our concubine is afraid that we will live outside the capital, so we can only communicate with the imperial concubine by letter. The imperial concubine knows that our prince values ​​this child very much, so this is a big deal."

Jiang Ling nodded slightly and said, "I understand."

The nanny said again: "Our prince also said that if the imperial concubine has any letters or the like, just hand them over to the prince, and ask the prince to pass them to the princess. The prince promises not to peek, otherwise the princess will make a fuss." Oh, and, our lord said that there are many and complicated things going on outside the palace these days, so I ask the imperial concubine to stay in the palace and watch more."

Jiang Ling thought for a moment, then guessed that King Beijing Jing was referring to Jia Yuanchun, and said, "I see."

Not long after, she wrote a thick reply letter, listing the matters of childcare and childcare in detail, and also prepared a big box with all kinds of small gifts in it, waiting until dusk When it was time, I packed it up and handed it over to the nanny to take it back to the palace.

When the nanny was about to leave, Jiang Ling called his confidant nanny to him, and said, "You guys have to go outside to see if there is any movement in Rongguo mansion these two days. The second wife and the second grandma Bao returned to the mansion After that, have you ever seen anyone there?"

The nuns lead off.

The next morning, Jiang Ling heard that Jia Yuanchun had fallen ill again, and it was said that he was seriously ill.

Jiang Ling frowned, and according to past practice, sent several highly respected imperial physicians to Jia Yuanchun.Jia Yuanchun's condition was said to be very stubborn, and he had repeated it many times, but the cause could not be found.Jiang Ling asked several times, and the imperial physicians all acted like "I have tried my best".

On the third day, Baoqin managed to spread the news of Jia Yuanchun's serious illness to Rongguo Mansion.

Rongguo Mansion is already in a bit of chaos now. Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai entered the palace on the Mid-Autumn Festival, but there was no result. Jia Zheng and others were already displeased. There is no excessive reprimand.When the news of Jia Yuanchun's serious illness reached the mansion, several people in Rongguo Mansion were surprised for a long time.

When they entered the palace a few days ago, Jia Yuanchun was obviously in good shape.

Several people in the mansion discussed for a while, and decided to let Xue Baochai visit Jia Yuanchun in the palace.

Although Mrs. Wang is Jia Yuanchun's biological mother, because Mrs. Wang is white now and has just been in and out of the palace once, it is inconvenient to go in again.But Xue Baochai is different. She is an official grandma and Jia Yuanchun's sister-in-law.Coupled with Xue Baochai's mellow temperament, he was more proper than Mrs. Wang, so he handed over the post and went to the palace.

It was the end of August, almost the beginning of September.

What Xue Baochai and Jia Yuanchun talked about in the palace, Jiang Ling has no way of asking.But on the afternoon of the day Xue Baochai entered the palace, he took the badge to walk in the imperial concubine's palace, and brought the piano with him to meet her in Jiangling Palace.

In view of Xue Baochai's previous actions, Jiang Ling had no choice but to be vigilant and muster all his energy to deal with it.

As soon as Xue Baochai entered Chengqian Palace, she gave Jiang Ling a complete gift. The etiquette was comprehensive and there was no mistake.

The more so, the more Jiang Ling didn't dare to take it lightly, and ordered flatly: "Show Mrs. Jia a seat." Because it was a formal meeting, Jiang Ling no longer called her Second Grandma Bao.

Xue Baochai thanked Jiang Ling, and thanked the two female officials who set up seats for her, and now she took up a third of the seat on the chair.

Jiang Ling asked: "I don't know why Mrs. Jia came to my Chengqian Palace today?"

Xue Baochai bowed in Jiang Ling's direction to show respect, and then said: "Return to the imperial concubine, today the minister's wife is here to greet the imperial concubine, to express her heart, and the second is to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet last time." , The minister's wife has offended the imperial concubine a lot, and she came here this time to make amends to the imperial concubine. Three reasons are because the imperial concubine is seriously ill, and she wants to use the minister's wife to say something to the imperial concubine."

Jiang Ling leaned back a little, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

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