The rebirth of a concubine: Gong Du will become the Queen Mother

Zhang Baolin lived in Yikun Palace and came very quickly.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw everyone in the room staring at her.

Zhang Baolin suppressed the anxiety in his heart, stepped forward and saluted: "Concubine, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, I pay my respects to the Queen, and I pay my respects to all of you."

"Get up." Lu Zhaolin said, "Zhang Baolin, come and identify yourself. Is this your hairpin?"

After finishing his words, Yao Xingde took the coral hairpin and handed it to Zhang Baolin.

Zhang Baolin took the hairpin, looked at it for a moment, and said in surprise: "This is indeed my concubine's hairpin, why is it here? When I got up in the morning to dress up, I saw it in the dowry."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Xiurong sneered: "You said you saw it in the dowry when you got up in the morning. Who can prove it? It's just empty talk."

Zhang Baolin's eldest maid, Fuliu, stepped forward and looked at Qin Xiurong eagerly: "This slave can prove that our young master's hairpin is indeed in the dowry."

Qin Xiurong rolled his eyes: "You two masters and servants are nothing more than the same person."

No matter how stupid Zhang Baolin is, he should know at this time that this hairpin must be involved in something big. She asked: "May I ask Your Majesty, what is wrong with this hairpin?"

Lu Zhaolin raised his chin, and Yao Xingde spoke knowingly, telling what happened just now when the midwife was caught trying to kill Zhenmei.

Finally, I heard him say: "This hairpin fell out of the midwife's arms."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Baolin was shocked and the hairpin fell from her hand to the ground, breaking into two pieces.

Li Bin said: "Is Zhang Baolin so anxious to destroy the evidence?"

Zhang Baolin glanced at her, then turned to look at Lu Zhaolin and said, "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with the concubine. The concubine's hairpin is really still in the dowry."

Jiang Shiying frowned and said, "Your Majesty, what Zhang Baolin said is true or false. Just ask someone to go to Pingyizhai."

Lu Zhaolin nodded: "Yao Xingde, take someone with you and Zhang Baolin, the palace maid, to go to Pingyizhai to see if Zhang Baolin's hairpin is still there."

Yao Xingde took the order and left.

Not long after, several people returned to the flower hall.

Yao Xingde walked up to Lu Zhaolin, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, there is indeed a red coral hairpin in Zhang Baolin's dowry."

As he spoke, he took out the hairpin from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Zhaolin.

After Lu Zhaolin took it, he looked at it carefully for a moment, and then compared it with the one that Zhang Baolin had just smashed.

He frowned and whispered: "The two hairpins are exactly the same."

Yao Xingde said: "If you look carefully, there is still a difference."

He took a step forward, picked up the upper half of the broken hairpin, turned it over to the back, pointed at the back of the crabapple flower and said, "Your Majesty, please see, there is the mark of the palace here. There is no such mark on Zhang Baolin's hairpin."

Lu Zhaolin turned over Zhang Baolin's red coral begonia flower hairpin and indeed saw the back of the begonia flower. There was no trace of it.

Qin Xiurong said: "Could it be that after Zhang Baolin gave this hairpin to the midwife, he was afraid that someone would find it on him, so he found someone to make an identical one again? It's a pity that he forgot to mark the hairpin with "宫" The mark inside.”

Before Zhang Baolin could speak, Li Bin said: "It may not be a hundred secrets. Not everyone can imitate the mark in the palace."

Zhang Baolin denied it flatly: "I don't have any concubine. I really am not a concubine. This is the one that the pure concubine gave to my concubine."

Qin Xiurong covered his mouth and said, "You mean, what Concubine Chun gave you was this imitation hairpin?"

She blinked and looked at Jiang Shiying: "What about the real hairpin? Was it used by the Pure Concubine to bribe the midwife?"

Jiang Shiying chuckled lightly and said: "If I want to bribe the midwife, why go to such trouble? Isn't it better to just use gold and silver? It's not too troublesome to get real or fake hairpins."

Qin Xiurong choked and muttered in a low voice: "Who knows what you are thinking."

At this time, Zhang Baolin knelt on the ground and defended himself: "Your Majesty Rong Bing, my concubine has a low status. This red coral begonia hairpin is a rare and good item for me. I will I want to imitate one, but I can’t find anywhere to find red coral in such good condition, so I am really powerless.”

Jiang Shiying clapped her hands and said, "Your Majesty, I think Zhang Baolin is right."

Everyone in the small hall looked at her in surprise.

Chun Fei, what does this mean? She and Zhang Baolin were the only two people involved with the hairpin. She said that Zhang Baolin was right. Could it be that she recognized the person who asked people to copy the hairpin?

The next moment, Jiang Shiying was heard saying: "Since Zhang Baolin does not have this ability, then there must be someone else conspiring behind her. I just don't know which one of them is present."

Having said this, a smile appeared on her lips, and her eyes slowly passed over the people present.

Before anyone else could speak, Qin Xiurong took a step back and said, "It's not me."

Li Bin also avoided it out of fear: "It has nothing to do with me."

The other people looked very calm on the surface.

Jiang Shiying's eyes finally fell on the queen: "I heard that the queen cares very much about Zhenmei's child."

The queen's face was calm and her tone was calm: "As a queen, I naturally care about the emperor's heir. Not to mention Zhen Meiren, I also care about the child in the belly of Concubine Chun."

Jiang Shiying smiled and said: "I thought that the Empress was particularly concerned about Zhenmei and wanted to take her child to Fengyi Palace. It seems that I have misunderstood, and the Empress has no such intention." meaning."

The queen's heart tightened.

Her mind has been exposed, and it doesn't matter if she admits it, or if she doesn't.

If you admit it, you will increase your suspicion.

If you don't admit it, you will cut off your path to raising the seventh prince.

Her thoughts were spinning rapidly, and she only said: "Who will raise the emperor's heir will naturally depend on His Majesty's wishes."

Lu Zhaolin's eyes narrowed slightly, and it was hard to tell the difference between happiness and anger in his voice: "It is natural for princes and princesses to grow up next to their biological mothers. What do you think, Queen?"

The Queen forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty said it is."

Jiang Shiying smiled brighter than the empress, and she said, "I originally thought that the empress wanted to stay with her mother. But now it seems that I made a wild guess."

Saying this, she stood up and blessed the queen: "Please don't blame me."

"Of course I have never had such vicious thoughts." The queen did not say whether she was to blame or not, she just said: "It's just that, after all, this hairpin was originally a pure concubine's possession. Why did it appear in this Wen Po? In my hands, I still have to let Concubine Chun explain it clearly."

When saying this, the queen did not look at Jiang Shiying, but at Lu Zhaolin.

When Lu Zhaolin heard this, he first sneered, and then asked: "What do you want to say, Ah Ying? The Queen asked you to explain."

With this tone, who can't tell where his heart is?

The queen is also very calm and can maintain a dignified and cheerful appearance.

Jiang Shiying said: "As for explanations, they are nothing more than those words. Ah Ying is the favorite in the harem, why should I be afraid of such a precious beauty? There is no need to dirty my hands for her, or use such a clumsy method. "

Speaking of this, there was a mocking smile in her tone.

These words sound jealous and angry. However, everyone has to admit that she is right.

Then she said: "If it means leaving the mother and leaving the child, then it is even more unlikely to be Ah Ying. Ah Ying already has a child with Your Majesty in her belly."

As she spoke, she saw her hand gently caressing her belly, but her eyes were looking at Lu Zhaolin.

The gentle and lingering look in his eyes made Lu Zhaolin's tone soften unconsciously: "Ah Ying is right."

Jiang Shiying smiled and said: "Besides, let Aying explain something. It's just a matter of words. It's better to provide some evidence."