No matter what Mrs. Wang's reason was this time, Jiang Ling didn't want to get involved anymore.

She is in a mess right now, a mess.

However, in just a few months, what happened in the palace, in Rehe, and even in the entire capital city had already exceeded Jiang Ling's expectations.The current situation can only be stabilized temporarily by carefully maintaining the surface calm.

As for the future, Jiang Ling didn't know, and didn't dare to make a judgment.

In her entire two lifetimes, she has never lived so cautiously like these two months.

Caiyun's expression changed upon hearing this, but she quickly laughed again: "My lord was joking. Our wife just found out today that my cousin and my lord met in a Buddhist temple and didn't come back until evening, so I'm not feeling well." 'Yu Yun, I'm afraid it's an excuse? The young master probably didn't know, but our wife asked me to wait here since noon, and I waited for the young master for a long time. The young master..."

Jiang Ling's face changed slightly, and then he remembered that Lin Daiyu lived in the Grand View Garden, and Mrs. Wang would know every move she made, so she realized it.Mrs. Wang came here today, whether she was visiting the imperial concubine in the palace, or letting Caiyun wait for her here, she had just timed the time and was waiting to take herself to the imperial concubine's palace, and it was inevitable OK.

So, to go, or not to go?

Jiang Ling thought for a moment, then said to the nuns beside her, "Go back first."

Now she lives in the empress dowager's palace, and borrowed two female officials from the empress dowager.If she can't go back at night, the nuns will definitely report to the Empress Dowager in advance, which can be regarded as an extra guarantee.

The nuns immediately guessed what Jiang Ling meant, and they all agreed.

Jiang Ling took a deep breath, temporarily suppressed the sudden sense of uneasiness, and said to Caiyun, "Let's go."

Caiyun's expression relaxed.If Jiang Ling couldn't be taken away today, she would have to be spanked by the second wife.Jiang Ling himself was willing to go with her, that was the best thing, so he led Jiang Ling along a winding path towards a lonely palace.

When Jiang Ling and Caiyun could no longer be seen, the nuns hurried back to the palace.

Jiang Ling followed Caiyun to the front of Jia Yuanchun's palace, and before he entered, he heard a burst of crying.

"Heart disease...Heart disease...How can I contract heart disease...What should I do..." Crying, accompanied by a murmur of sadness or joy, came from the dormitory.It was Mrs. Wang's voice.Jiang Ling listened carefully. Apart from Mrs. Wang's crying, there were two or three low sobbing sounds, which seemed to be holding a piano, and the two little maids who were just sent in half a year ago.

Jiang Ling stopped, and saw that Caiyun also stopped, and turned around, "Master?"

The door of the dormitory during the conversation had been pushed open by Caiyun, and there was the sound of crying in the room inside.Mrs. Wang sat at the lower head of the main seat, crying intermittently and out of breath.The two little servant girls were supporting Mrs. Wang on one side and the other on the right, handing her a handkerchief to wipe her tears, trying to comfort her.There were also two nuns sent over from the manor who were sitting in front of the bed, one was supporting Jia Yuanchun, and the other was feeding Jia Yuanchun medicine.Jia Yuanchun's complexion was a little pale, but Jiang Ling's eyesight was better than ordinary people's, so he could see that Jia Yuanchun had not lost his color, but had been smeared with powder.

——Sure enough, he was pretending to be sick.

Jiang Ling paused, then looked at the surrounding ladies.As a noble concubine, Jia Yuanchun had far more than two court ladies serving her.But apart from holding the piano, the expressions of these court ladies are quite indifferent, and some are even sneering, obviously they don't even bother to pretend.On the contrary, there were two imperial doctors cleaning up the sundries in the room, with a sad expression on their faces.

Caiyu took two steps forward and said softly: "Madam, I have invited the young master here."

Mrs. Wang's crying stopped for a moment, and then she cried out of breath again: "She, she is here, come and see what our girl has become. It is clear that two people with the same fate love each other. Yes, but the snipe and the clam must fight each other, for, for..." Another burst of breathlessness.

Jiang Ling walked up to Jia Yuanchun, greeted Ann, and stood quietly aside.

Afterwards, the few maids in front came up to pay her respects, and the other two looked at her vigilantly, with strange expressions on their faces.Jiang Ling knew that the backgrounds of those court ladies were not simple, so he didn't care.But Jia Yuanchun waited for her to pay his respects, then smiled as usual: "Sit down."

Jiang Ling didn't refuse. He found a suitable seat and sat down.

Jia Yuanchun's expression changed, but he didn't know how to deal with it.She glanced at Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wang understood, raised her sleeves and wiped her tears for a while, before saying: "You all go out. Your master has something to say, and you want to say it to the young master alone."

Jiang Ling smiled, and the alarm sound in his mind was pulled to the highest level in an instant.

The maids and nuns in the room all looked at Jia Yuanchun, saw Jia Yuanchun nod his head slightly, and retreated together.Baoqin wanted to keep it, but saw that Jia Yuanchun and Mrs. Wang looked very bad, so he also withdrew.When they were all gone, Mrs. Wang raised her sleeves to wipe away the tears, and her voice changed from crying to her usual one: "You are really lucky."

Jiang Ling was still smiling, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

Mrs. Wang continued: "Okay, Ming people don't talk dark words. I brought you here today to make a deal with you. Your master has a heart disease, which is only worse than your last injury. Not lightly. The imperial doctors have reported the matter to the Empress Dowager, and they are only waiting for the Empress Dowager to speak. I heard that you are favored by the Empress Dowager? Well, go and tell the Empress Dowager that your lord is very ill. Seriously, I'm afraid it won't be done in a few days, please ask the empress dowager to give your master a position, and being the imperial concubine is also an explanation to your master."

The imperial concubine is the only queen in this palace.

Hearing this, Jiang Ling suddenly understood their intention of pretending to be sick.Just in time to get sick two months ago, and just before the New Year's "heart disease worsened", for the sake of being the imperial concubine.The Rongguo Mansion was exhausted, and only by Jia Yuanchun raising his status could he give the outsiders a shot in the arm and make them struggle for a while longer.

but……

"Why should I do what the second wife ordered?"

Not to mention the usual grievances between Jiang Ling and Mrs. Wang, even if she had no grievances with Mrs. Wang, there was absolutely no need to do such a thankless thing to offend the Empress Dowager herself.

Mrs. Wang gave Jiang Ling a sideways look, and almost laughed out loud: "Don't do it?"

Jiang Ling nodded and said, "No."

"You..." Mrs. Wang pointed at Jiang Ling, her expression seemed to want to laugh, and she seemed to have seen something extremely absurd, "Look at you, you are usually very clever, but why are you confused when it comes to this matter? Don't think that I don't know, although you are the only beautiful girl who has been awarded this year, you have already lost the favor. Not only did you not favor the Queen Mother, but even the Long Live God ignored you. Didn’t the bamboo basket fetch water in vain? At first I thought how capable you are, but now it seems that you are still far inferior to our noble master.”

Jia Yuanchun heard that something was wrong, so he stopped Mrs. Wang's words: "Mother."

Mrs. Wang pressed Jia Yuanchun's hand, and said: "You wait and listen to mother's words. No one in this palace knows that before entering the palace, young master Yunling lived in Rongguo Mansion for a while. Whether you want to or not, you are already firmly tied to the Rongguo Mansion. Your master's life will be better, and your life will naturally be easier. Don't you understand the truth of this? "

Jiang Ling smiled again, thinking to himself, if life is not good, I can leave naturally.

Jia Yuanchun stopped again: "Mother..."

"Don't talk." Mrs. Wang left her aside, walked up to Jiang Ling, looked down at her, and continued, "I always let you live in the palace for your own good, for the sake of master and servant. Take it easy. Why, don't you want to appreciate it?"

Jiang Ling shook his head and said: "If the second wife called me here today, it is for this reason, then the second wife is probably worrying too much."

Mrs. Wang suddenly changed color: "You..."

Jiang Ling continued: "Your master claims to have a heart disease, but from the look of his face, he doesn't have the slightest hint of bleakness. Even if there is a medical certificate from the Imperial Hospital, this condition is—— it's really fake." She turned to Jia Yuanchun Glancing over there, he continued, "If your master wants to pretend to be sick, you can pretend to be more like it." Instead of falsely issuing a diagnosis sheet, then removing the rouge, and then using makeup to cover it up.

Jia Yuanchun was startled, then glanced at Mrs. Wang with complicated eyes.

Apparently, Mrs. Wang also taught her daughter the idea of ​​claiming to have heart disease.As for whether there are others behind it, it is unknown.

Mrs. Wang's complexion changed again and again, and she was about to speak out to reprimand, when suddenly there were three long knocks, four short knocks and seven knocks on the door outside, and the sound of holding the piano rang out hesitantly: "Girl, Second Wife, Long Live There—no movement."

Mrs. Wang's complexion changed suddenly, and she asked in multiple voices: "No movement? What do you mean no movement? This is heart disease!"

The voice outside became a little quieter, but still hesitant: "That's right... But there was no movement, and there was no movement from the queen mother, only two female officials came to deliver some medicinal materials. Second wife, I still need to report To the Empress Dowager?"

"Report! How can you not report it!" Mrs. Wang anxiously walked around the room, "This matter is absolutely impossible, why is there no movement? This is obviously a very good reason, how could there be no movement? ... This , This cannot."

"mother."

"You rest." Mrs. Wang waved her hand irritably.

"Mother." Jia Yuanchun squeezed the corner of the quilt, and said sadly, "I told you earlier in the morning, Long Live Lord has a clear heart, the deficit in the mansion, the official talisman in Jinling, and the pickled things in the second mansion of Ning Rong He knows all about the messy things, and the shops outside... He didn't care about the Rongguo Mansion in the early years, but it was because the matter was not brought to the fore, and he just waited for a suitable opportunity to explode. I lived in the palace Over the years, from the initial selection of Fengzao Palace, to the skyrocketing all the way, surpassing the four concubines of Huiyi Derong to Feng Guifei, I even have to let me three points, how similar to Rongguo Mansion! Long live God, his heart is cold Yes, the eyes are also cold, never—never—”

"Yuanchun." Mrs. Wang tried to stop her.

Jia Yuanchun felt a little out of control: "Am I wrong? The Rong and Ning mansions cook with fire every year, so why am I not cooking with fire in this palace? On the surface, the scenery is infinite, but what about the inside? No one has ever seen it." Take a look at me! Those things that Long Live Lord and the Empress Dowager didn't mention are not because the mansion hid them well, but because Long Live Lord has long known, long ago!" When she finished speaking, she seemed to have collapsed.

Mrs. Wang pointed at Jia Yuanchun, she was too angry to speak.

"You...what did my grandmother and I tell you before? Most of the glory of the whole mansion has long been tied to you alone. What you do in the palace is what the mansion is like, not what the mansion is. You are in the palace Whatever! You...why don't you get your head around it?" After talking about it, it seemed that there was a sense of hatred for iron and steel.

Jia Yuanchun asked rhetorically: "Really? What about me in the palace, what about the mansion? What about beating people to death in the mansion? What about the matter about uncle killing a stone nerd because of two fans? What about the mansion? What about closing the deficit on the books, wantonly giving interest and increasing rents? And after taking over the title, sitting on the seat and eating vegetarian food, doing nothing and doing nothing..."

"Okay!" Mrs. Wang was a little irritable, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Since you know, you should also know what the state of the mansion is now. The only thought can only be tied to you girls , Baoyu is still young, not yet ready for imperial examinations, if you don't help them, how will they survive in the future! Are they standing against a dilapidated Rongguo Mansion!"

Jia Yuanchun stopped talking.

After a long time, she glanced at Jiang Ling and said with a smile, "Yun Yun... laughed at me."

Jiang Ling's heart tightened, and a sharp alarm sounded in his mind again.

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