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As the sun slanted to the west, the maids lit up the lanterns inside and outside the courtyard, and some servants came to ask if there was a meal.

Lin Qingyun had been waiting for Tu Yan, anxious to hear the news, but no one came back after Xu time.Seeing that Chuyang Rui's two brothers also ran out to ask their father when he would come back, they were afraid that they would be hungry, so they ordered a meal to be sent to the palace for resettlement in the morning.

As soon as he ordered his subordinates to prepare meals, he saw Xiao Xiazi, the eunuch who often followed Tu Yan, came back.

"The servant greets the princess. I report to the concubine, the prince ordered the servant to come back and say that the prince will not be able to come back for dinner today. Please use the concubine, His Royal Highness, and the second son first. I am afraid that the prince will be delayed until very late. Please don't worry about it." wait."

Lin Qingjun hurriedly asked: "The prince is still outside the city at this moment?"

"My lord has returned to the city long ago, now Dali Temple."

Lin Qingyun knew immediately, and ordered Xiao Xiazi to go down and rest.

After dinner, Brother Rui started playing again, and he wanted Chuyang to play with him.Chu Yang thought that he would live in the palace from tomorrow and would only come back once every ten days, so he was reluctant to part with it, but he refrained from saying it, and accompanied Brother Rui to play with things that he thought were very naive.Even though Chu Yang matured earlier than his peers, he was still a child after all, and he was not good at concealing his emotions. What's more, the so-called knowing children were more like mothers, Lin Qingyun could tell at a glance.

She was afraid that Chuyang would be bored with too many things, and she would miss things in the future, so she went to Chuyang and said to him: "Chuyang is reluctant to leave home? You will live in the palace in the future, blame mother and Father?"

Chu Yang shook his head: "My mother is doing it for my own good. I went to live in the palace to study better and learn to be the grandson of the emperor, so that I can protect my father, mother, younger siblings. Mother, don't worry, the emperor's grandfather and grandmother will take care of me , I will be obedient."

"Mother knows that Chuyang is the best, and do everything according to her ability..." I was afraid that he would not understand, so I changed the popular saying: "Chuyang, mother taught you that the most important thing is your body. Only when you are in good health can you learn your homework, mother I don't want you to do things like 'head cantilevered, cone stabbed'. Do you know?"

One time, Chu Yang got up in the middle of the night to endorse a book, but accidentally caught a cold in the cold wind.Although it is a good thing to love to study, it is not worthwhile to get sick because of it. I just caught a cold today. If I don't persuade me, I may not know what will happen next time.Lin Qingyun was not against studying hard, but she was afraid that he would not know how to stop when enough was enough, so she made a rule that he would never be allowed to light up the lamp to read at night, for fear of hurting his eyes, and fearing that he would forget to sleep while reading.

At first, Chuyang didn't understand, and asked her naively: "Isn't reading good?"

Reading is not bad, but he doesn't have to read like this.

Not to mention that Chuyang will govern the country in the future, even if he is only a prince or county king, he doesn't have to study hard like a student.Everyone has different identities, needs to do different things, and needs different abilities, but these are not clearly explained in a few words, let alone understood by Chu Yang at his age.

Brother Rui made a fuss all day, and soon started to feel sleepy. As soon as Brother Rui fell asleep, Lin Qingjun listened to Chu Yang recite a book, and Chu Yang fell asleep too.She wanted to wait for Tu Yan to come back, but she became sleepy and fell asleep without knowing it while leaning on the bed.

Hearing the voice dimly, he opened his eyes and saw that the lights in the room were still bright.

"Lark?" she called out.

"Princess is awake?" Bai Ling lifted the beaded curtain and came in, holding a tea tray in his hand, Hua Mei helped her up, and handed her mouthwash tea, there was already a little girl serving her with a spittoon.After rinsing his mouth, Thrush took his cup of tea.She has been pregnant twice, and everyone in the audience is familiar with what she eats and what tea she drinks in which month.

After moistening her throat, she asked just now: "I seem to hear the voice of the prince, but the prince is back?"

Bai Ling has served by his side for many years, and his qualifications are very old, so he couldn't help laughing and jokingly said: "The princess is so concerned about the prince, I can hear it in my sleep, and it is indeed the prince who has returned." Then he said: "The prince just asked the princess and His Royal Highness As well as the second young master, when he found out that they were all asleep, he didn't disturb him. The lord asked for water to take a bath, and ordered the kitchen to cook and deliver food, but he hadn't eaten yet."

"What time is it?" Lin Qingyun got up while speaking, and put on a large smock with wide sleeves over the chest-length skirt, with her hair tied behind her.

"Hai Zheng."

Lin Qingjun came out of the bedroom, just in time to see Tu Yan coming out from another door.In order to facilitate the bathing and prevent the water vapor from getting wet on the furniture floor, a small room was specially separated by a lattice shelf.Tu Yan's hair was loose, and he was wearing simple homely clothes of light blue soft silk, his face was slightly tired.A servant girl followed, holding a folded dry and white cotton towel in her hand for wiping her hair.

"Why did you wake up? But I was yelling at you?" Tu Yan took a soft cotton towel to wipe his hair.

"No, I woke up by myself." Lin Qingyun poured a cup of tea for him, took the towel from his hand, pushed him to sit there, and carefully wiped half of his hair that was stained with water.

Tu Yan took two sips of hot tea, pulled her to sit beside him, and looked at her complexion carefully under the bright light. Except for the sleepy look on her face, everything else was fine.He asked her again: "How was the dinner? Are you hungry now? Is Brother Rui making a fuss? When did Chuyang sleep?"

Lin Qingjun answered them one by one.

After a while, the servant girl brought the food, and Tu Yan ordered more bowls and chopsticks for her to eat with her.

Lin Qingyun was a little hungry, so he didn't refuse, and the two ate quietly.After the meal, Lin Qingyun dismissed all the maids, and then asked about the old nanny.

Tu Yan knew that she was worried about this, so he said to her: "The old mama's surname is Cui, she is the dowry nanny of Princess Dingjun, she is very respectable in the mansion, and it is said that she is trusted by Princess Dingjun. She came out of the palace and served as the foster mother of Princess Yongzhen. After the Liang family received a marriage proposal, they invited Nanny Cui for the eldest daughter. Nanny Cui was never married, and she never mentioned her parents. Follow Princess Dingjun all the time."

Princess Yongzhen?

In addition to Lin Qingyun walking and getting close to Princess Yongjia, there are two princesses, Hui Yi and An Le, next to her, and the princesses and princesses next to her are only seen on New Year's Day occasions or someone's banquet.Princess Yongzhen's biological mother was originally a court lady next to Concubine Rong.From a normal point of view, Yong Zhen is not close to Concubine Rong and the others, so there may not be any secrets involved.

"Did Madam Cui give the poison and medicine to Vanilla?"

"Ask people who live near Jiang's house. Some people have indeed seen Cui Madam talking with a maid from Jiang's house. There is no reason that Cui Madam will not go there, and it is such a coincidental timing. This incident has nothing to do with Cui Madam. Mammy must be involved, otherwise she won't be silenced." Tu Yan couldn't help but frowned, always taking a step back, how could he not be frustrated: "According to the autopsy, Mammy Cui died of poisoning, and there was no wound on her whole body. There was no sign of struggle, so he should have been poisoned without warning."

"It must be her acquaintance who can make Nanny Cui drink the poison and medicine without warning."

Tu Yan nodded: "Nurse Cui has no children, no father and no mother, and everyone she knows lives in this square inch of the capital, and because she is older and older, she has not received much work in recent years and is in the care of her." , so it would save a lot of trouble to check the people she came into contact with."

Lin Qingjun heard the overtones and asked, "Don't you doubt Dingjun Wangfu?"

Tu Yan asked back: "Don't you doubt it?"

"No." If Nanny Cui was still alive, Dingjun Prince's Mansion would definitely be on her suspicion list, but now that the person died, it gave Dingjun Prince's Mansion a chance to excuse.Princess Dingjun's palace is so deep, how could she do such a stupid thing?Even if you really use people close to you to do things, you won't silence them at this juncture, and you will quietly find someone in the dark.

It can be seen that the people behind the scenes are scared.

As long as the clue of Cui Nanny is found, it is extremely important. As long as Cui Nanny got the poison and medicine from whom, the truth will be revealed.Thinking about it, the scope is not very big, and Mother Cui is alone, who can make her risk her life to do such a thing?Or, Mother Cui was also kept in the dark?After all, Nanny Cui only gave the poison and medicine to Vanilla, but Vanilla was He Yuefu's servant girl. It was no secret that Jiang's and He's family's affairs had been a secret in the capital. At first glance, who would have thought that He Yuefu would use poison and medicine to kill her? To poison the pure princess.

The emperor issued a strict order on this matter, and the investigation was very tight. Even Tu Yan was not allowed to touch it, let alone other people.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, not to mention that this time Madam Cui's matter is not a secret, she was discovered by Orion and reported to the yamen, and the news spread early when Dali Temple went to visit people.Let Dali Temple go to someone to investigate the case, it can be seen that the death matter is important, and someone must inquire.

The censorship in the palace has been extremely strict recently, and communication with the outside world has not been as convenient as before. It was not until the next morning that several people in the harem got the news about Nanny Cui's death and the secrets outside.Concubine Wu Guifei's fright and anger can be imagined, this is a poisonous plan for someone to frame Dingjun's palace!In the end, even if it was found out that Nanny Cui was not instigated by the Dingjun Palace, whoever made Nanny Cui belong to the Princess of Dingjun would have to shed her skin if she didn't hurt her muscles or bones.

Mother Cui!

Naturally, Concubine Wu Gui knew the details of Nanny Cui. After all, she had received the letter when the Liang family chose the nurturing nanny for the eldest daughter. Mammy ordered people to check it several times carefully, and entered Liang's house only after there was really no problem.As for Mammy Cui being Princess Yongzhen’s nurturing mother, this kind of thing is very common. As far as the mother of the princess is concerned, Mother Cui is the replacement of the previous mother who died of illness, and the later ones are not deeply involved with the people around the princess.

However, Concubine Wu Gui ignored a question, Mother Cui was an old man in the palace, how could she not be involved in the palace at all?It's just that at the time Concubine Wu only thought that this was Nanny Cui's network, which might be useful in the future, but in the end, Nanny Cui was regarded as a network and used by others!

The most suspicious thing is Concubine Rong!

Concubine Rong is not to be underestimated.

Little did they know that Concubine Rong was the one who was the most frightened and angry at this time!

Concubine Rong is indeed a very intelligent person, once she heard about the death of Nanny Cui, she immediately guessed something, and immediately shouted: "Call Nanny Cai!"

Concubine Cai has been by Concubine Rong's side for 40 years. She was the maid who was with Concubine Rong when she first entered the mansion. Absolutely inseparable.Mammy Cai is kind-hearted, very easy-going and friendly. She is very popular in the palace, and she never criticizes the little maids and eunuchs under her dignity. Besides, Mammy Cai has never been in charge of things, and the big and small things around Concubine Rong are handled by female officials. And the personal palace daughter, the palace affairs have the chief eunuch, and even the trivial matters of the big and small palace ladies are also in charge of another Hu mama.Outsiders all said that Concubine Rong was merciful and kept Cai Mama in the palace to enjoy the favor. After all, Cai Mama was here, and the family benefited greatly. Children are hard to see.

For example, although Nanny Cai is rare in the palace, it is not without it. After all, they are too old to do errands, and the palace does not support idlers.

Outsiders only know one, not the other.

Cai Mama is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface. These new palace people don't know it, but senior concubines such as the Queen, Wu Guifei, Qi Shufei, etc., can know Cai Mama's secrets. Even the empress suffered under the hands of Nanny Cai.Concubine Rong first entered the submerged mansion, even though she was more scheming than ordinary concubines, she had to deal with the unfamiliar county prince's mansion and the complicated relationship, and she had to deal with it very hard. Madam Cai rescued her.This made Concubine Rong see Cai Nanny's ability, after repeated inspections, she became her confidant.It can also be said that Concubine Rong is a student taught by Madam Cai.

Not long after, I saw a slightly fat old woman walking in steadily, with a gentle smile on her face.

Concubine Rong waved away a group of palace people, not in the mood to go around with Cai Nanny, and asked directly: "Then what happened to Cui Nanny? Why did she die? It's still buried in such a conspicuous place!"

The "conspicuous" in Concubine Rong's mouth refers to the people coming and going in the small forest. Not only hunters often come in and out, but villagers also go to collect firewood and herd cattle. What's more, there are wild animals coming and going, and the corpses are picked up, so you can see the buried ones. not deep.This is not like Madam Cai's style of acting.Mammy Cai took care of things with careful consideration. For example, in the past 40 years, the two of them had calculated many lives. Although there were dangers, none of them involved them.This is the case in the strictly forbidden palace, why is it so careless outside the palace?

No matter how much Concubine Rong trusted Cai Nanny, Cai Nanny was just a slave in her eyes, a valuable slave that could be used.Besides, Nanny Cai taught her that she should not trust anyone except herself, even her own children.

Cai Nanny's expression remained unchanged, and she looked at Concubine Rong with a little surprise: "Your Majesty, didn't you instigate this matter? As for the carelessness in the aftermath, please forgive me, I am an old woman who has limited strength and can make people fool me." It’s not easy getting out of town.”

Concubine Rong was extremely surprised, staring at Nanny Cai as if she didn't recognize her: "You, you..."

"Your Majesty, why worry, dead people can't speak, even if the cause of Mammy Cui's death is suspicious, how can we find out about Madam?" Cai Mama smiled and comforted her, but the more she said that, the more frightened Concubine Rong's eyes became.

"Who the hell are you?!" Concubine Rong is not stupid, she can't hear what Nanny Cai said at this moment, so she has lived in vain for so many years, when she thinks that this person is regarded as her confidant, and stays by her side After 40 years, I feel shuddering.Then, Concubine Rong felt terrified again, Nanny Cai was too familiar with her, she knew everything about her past, if anything was revealed casually, she would be doomed forever.

Concubine Rong felt murderous.

Cai Nanny couldn't see what she was thinking, but she just smiled and sat on the stool beside her: "Madam, you and I have been in this palace for decades, it would be too embarrassing to tear our faces apart today. .”

Concubine Rong couldn't accept that Nanny Cai had someone else, and asked, "I've treated you well these past few decades, yet you betrayed me!"

Cai Nanny smiled and shook her head: "I have only had one master from beginning to end."

Concubine Rong's face turned pale.This is tantamount to admitting that Nanny Cai was indeed arranged by someone else by her side, but who?Concubine Rong was panicked and angry on the surface, but her heart was calm, and she quickly analyzed who in the harem was most likely to do such a thing.She was only a concubine when she first entered the Qian Mansion. Concubine Wu Gui was already one of the side concubines at that time. Concubine Qi Shu entered the Qian Mansion two years later than her. The other concubines did not have the ability to do so. Only the Empress was in charge of internal affairs as a concubine. , it's really convenient to install someone, but...

How could the queen go to harm the princess Chunqin, she is the daughter-in-law who gave birth to her two grandchildren, and she only has to be her own daughter.

"Who is it? Who is your master?" Concubine Rong really couldn't figure it out, let alone the reason why that person put Nanny Cai next to her and helped her ascend to the concubine position.Or Concubine Rong didn't dare to think deeply, but was eager to know the answer.

Madam Cai smiled and said nothing.

Concubine Rong sneered and said, "You think you are Nanny Cui? Even if you are not afraid of death, don't your family members also? I remember your little grandson just turned three years old, right?"

Although Nanny Cai was not married, she adopted a son from her natal brother, and now she is an official in another place.With Cai Mama's status in front of Concubine Rong, the family lived a very happy life.

Cai Nanny sighed, just when Concubine Rong thought she was afraid, she heard Cai Nanny say: "Your Majesty, you and I have been master and servant for many years, and I have taught you a lot, and I will teach you again today. Everyone in the world says 'seeing What is true is false, but sometimes people's eyes are the most easily deceived, and what they see is not necessarily true. Your wife has seen my daughter-in-law and grandson, but I said their identities. Must be my family?"

Concubine Rong clenched her hands, she didn't expect that even Nanny Cai's identity was fake, who on earth has such extraordinary abilities?

Taking a deep breath, Concubine Rong slowly leaned back on the chair when thinking about the current situation: "What do you want?"

Cai Nanny said: "I don't want to do anything, I just want to serve the empress as usual. The empress doesn't have to worry, this time it's up to God's will, if I really find out about the empress..."

Nanny Cai didn't say what happened next, but the meaning was already very clear. It was really bad luck for her to find out about Concubine Rong.

Concubine Rong was so angry that her heart, liver and lungs ached, but she couldn't do anything to kill the weeds when she watched Nanny Cai leave.Not to mention that Nanny Cai usually likes to stay behind, just thinking that the emperor is currently investigating the poisoning of the emperor's grandson, and a very respectable nanny died in his palace, even a fool would be suspicious.

It is very difficult to sort out Madam Cui's relationship in the palace in the past. After all, it was an old story many years ago. Most of the old people in the palace have been released, and those who stay may not know about it.Speaking of it, the empress dowager and the people in the empress palace know more.Princess Yongzhen was five or six years older than Tuyan. At first, she didn't even have the official title of county head when she was in Qiandi, and there were only two nuns. Later, when the emperor ascended the throne and named her a princess, she only arranged for people to serve her according to the rules.Nanny Cui was assigned to Princess Yongzhen two years before she got married. The princess only brought some people with her when she got married, and Nanny Cui was in the batch released.

Things suddenly reached an impasse.

Although Tu Yan kept it from Lin Qingyun, Lin Qingyun was not an idiot. Seeing that half a month had passed without any news, he knew that things were not going well.I also want to know, how can the people behind the scenes put so much effort into exposing themselves so easily?It's just that Lin Qingjun was still depressed and angry even though he was mentally prepared, and his appetite that had improved was affected again.

At this time, Wang Xifeng came to the door.

Since Chuyang moved into the Chonghua Palace half a month ago, Jia Kui, who was a companion, was also sent in with a bundle of money, once every ten days.Originally, Jia Kui's role as the prince's heir was already envied. Jia Lian was completely imprinted with the imprint of the pure prince's mansion, and I don't know how many people envied and flattered him. Fortunately, just a few years after the disaster of the Jia family, the whole family did not dare to publicize it.Now that Chuyang's status has changed, he has been named the grandson of the emperor!

Grandson of the emperor!But anyone knows what that means.

As the companion of the emperor's grandson, the future is limitless. All of a sudden, Jia's family is very prosperous, and several families even want to have children with Jia's family, which makes Jia Lian and his wife both funny and proud.Mrs. Jia Shexing saw that Tian'er couldn't close her mouth, so it was inevitable that she was a bit solid and cute. Fortunately, Jia Lian could understand clearly, and Wang Xifeng also took care of Changtai Garden. Lin Qingyun often talked about history with her on weekdays. Too much, Wang Xifeng couldn't recall it.

Wang Xifeng came to deliver the accounts of Changtai Garden, and told about the current situation, and finally said one thing: "Baoyu wrote, and the letter said that he got married, and it was in June. Princess guess who Baoyu married?"

Lin Qingyun was surprised at first, and then laughed: "It's still a guess, it must be Miss Shi."

"After all, the concubine is smart, she guessed right, it is sister Yun!" Wang Xifeng said with emotion, "Who would have thought that the two of them would end up together, which shows that the marriage is wonderful. It's just that Baoyu is too outrageous. Such a big event as marriage I didn’t go back to Beijing to make arrangements, I just wrote a letter and it’s over, I’ve wronged Sister Yun.”

Lin Qingyun was also surprised. Although Baoyu was rebellious, getting married was indeed a major event. At least to respect Shi Xiangyun, it should be more formal.If there is no matchmaker and no wine, wouldn't it be a dishonorable name, and in the eyes of the world, it is no different from prostitution.

Seeing her expression, Wang Xifeng hurriedly said: "Princess, don't think about it. After all, Baoyu still understands etiquette. Although he didn't come back to Beijing to make arrangements, he followed the rules for the three letters and six appointments. The two of them It's really interesting. I stopped when I walked to Jinling, contacted the people in the clan, and asked the clan to help arrange the marriage. There was a matchmaker, and I also paid homage to the ancestors. The reason why I said I wronged sister Yun was just thinking of the two Not one of our direct descendants is present for the important event of marriage. In addition to Baoyu’s letter to announce the good news, he also asked the elder to open the ancestral hall on an auspicious day and add Sister Yun’s name to it.”

Since the defeat of the Ningguo Mansion, the position of patriarch fell to Jia She. After all, the Jia family is an official in Beijing, which can protect the clan.

Lin Qingyun suddenly asked: "Is there any news about Xichun recently? I haven't received her letter for some days."

Wang Xifeng patted his head and laughed: "I was about to tell the princess, but I almost forgot. But Baoyu mentioned it in my heart. The fourth younger sister and the fourth younger brother-in-law went to the deep mountains and old forests to live in the same place just to see some flowers. In the old temple, this was what my fourth brother-in-law and Baoyu said two or three months ago, and now the two are still in the mountains, so I am afraid they don’t know anything about it.”

"They are happy." Lin Qingyun was also surprised that Xichun did not write a letter because of Chuyang's accident, knowing that Xichun often went to the mountains and forests with Fan You, fearing that something would happen.Now it sounds like everything is fine, that's all.

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