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Ruan Yunqing still had bruises from being beaten by Sun Changfu just now on Ruan Yunqing's face, one spot was blue and the other was red, it was very eye-catching.

The queen could see it clearly, and Sun Jieyu could see it clearly, but the two of them didn't say a word, they smiled and said a few words to Ruan Yunqing, and the two continued to gossip.

It's lonely in the deep palace, and they, the harem women, gather together and just talk about flowers and plants, needlework and embroidery. The conversation seems casual, but they each have their own thoughts, and they have their own calculations at every step. Even the slightest thing may set off turbulent waves in the palace and even the entire court.

The queen usually does not care about political affairs, and is the most peaceful and uncontested, but since she has been sitting in the harem for more than [-] years, no one can shake her position, which shows that she is resourceful and resourceful, and she is by no means comparable to ordinary women.

Although no relatives in the queen's family are said to be involved in politics, her father has been in the position of supervisory censor for a long time. History, plus the six subjects were given to advance and retreat together. With such momentum, no one from the prime minister to the six ministers could stand it. Even the prime minister Liu Tong was overwhelmed by the participation and kept yelling: "Insane."

However, this Master Wei Zhanwei is upright and upright, and he doesn't rub the sand in his eyes. When he heard Liu Tong scolding him, he was happy to accept it and made it worse. The injustice made everyone in the court tremble with fear, wondering which one the head of the country will use again.

The queen was gossiping with Sun Jieyu, leaving Ruan Yunqing to wait on her, and told Pingxi and others to withdraw.

Pingxi agreed, led a group of eunuchs and a few palace maids, backed out of the room, and waited under the eaves.

The thirteenth prince sat for a while, feeling impatient, jumped off the soft couch, ran back and forth on the ground, touching here, playing there, making a lot of noise.In Dongli Kingdom, all the princes under the age of fifteen stayed in the inner court with their mothers, and after the ceremony of tying their hair and crowns, they received the fief and title before leaving the palace to live in another mansion.

The thirteenth prince had just turned five years old, and it was the time when he was lively and active. Sun Jieyu smiled and watched the children play while the queen held a teacup and looked at a banana tree outside the window. The two were speechless for a moment, and only the thirteenth prince was in the room. light laughter.

Sun Jieyu looked at it for a while, then turned her eyes away from the thirteenth prince, turned her head to Empress Wei, pondered for a moment, with a serious face on her face, and then asked: "How is the prince's body? When the son came, he asked me, when will the prince's brother wake up? It's the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's been more than half a year, why is the prince's health still not showing any improvement? What do the people in the Tai hospital eat!"

The queen sighed softly, "The imperial physicians have also tried their best. The poison the crown prince suffered from is a slow-onset poison. It will not be poisoned immediately after taking it. It will only take effect after encountering something that generates and inhibits each other. It is for this reason that it is impossible to find out when and where the prince was poisoned, and it is even more impossible to find out what kind of poison it is."

The queen caressed the delicate pattern on the teacup, and said slowly: "Thanks to the hard work of Imperial Physician Ning, who searched the pharmacopoeias, he roughly guessed several kinds of poisons, but I don't know which one is the one that the prince is looking for, so I dare not try it randomly for a while. , can only be controlled with antidote first, and then slowly find a way to pull out the poison in the body, so it has been delayed until now."

Sun Jieyu listened carefully, nodded and smiled and said: "Finally, it's a lucky person. If it wasn't for His Royal Highness the crown prince's prosperity, wouldn't it be the villain who plotted it. Don't worry too much, empress. Take care of your phoenix body. Where is the crown prince? And counting on you to back him up."

The queen smiled faintly, replied, and continued to drink tea.

Sun Jieyu took a look at the empress's face, it was still stormy, it hadn't changed at all from the gossip just now, when talking about the prince's poisoning, she didn't see the slightest anger on her face, she couldn't help beating her heart, and didn't know what to say next Still should not say.

After a long pause, Sun Jieyu said again: "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Tianjian should really do a ritual to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. There have been many disasters in the palace this year. First, the crown prince was poisoned. A few days ago, even Zhao Shurong also……"

Sun Jieyu stopped after speaking half a sentence, raised her eyes to look at the queen again, and saw that she seemed to be moved, and finally her face was no longer calm and breezy, her eyebrows were slightly frowned, thoughtful.

Sun Jieyu was secretly happy, she was afraid that the empress would still ignore this issue as before, and it would be difficult to say anything further.The empress frowned, indicating that she also had doubts about Zhao Shurong's matter, so that she could take the opportunity to fan the flames, and in front of the empress, put some eye drops on that little goblin Concubine De.

Sun Jieyu called the thirteenth prince over, hugged him in her arms, rubbed his cheeks, gradually her eyes turned red, and her eyes were wet with tears, she sighed mournfully: "Sister Zhao is just gone, I have been here for a few days Every time I think about it, I feel chills in my heart, and I can't rest my pillow all night. Madam, I'm really afraid... I'm really afraid that if I say something wrong, I will offend Concubine De, and I will disappear in such a daze... Brother Xi is still young, I want to make troubles, how does he live in this palace, look at the Ninth Prince, since Zhao Shurong passed away, his life was just..."

"okay."

The queen spoke coldly, not only Sun Jieyu, but even Ruan Yunqing who was standing in front of the table shivered.

Having said all the words, there is absolutely no one who returns in vain. Sun Jieyu gritted her teeth, stabilized her mind, and said: "I know, what I said is presumptuous. But, but I'm really afraid. The concubine De is getting more and more The more daring she is, she dares to lynch even the concubine in the harem. I live under the same roof with her, and I am worried all day long. The empress doesn't even look, who else is in her eyes now, she dares to push Zhao Shurong into the water today , she will dare to drive you down tomorrow. If the empress doesn't try to punish her, that lowly servant girl will climb on top of you."

When the queen heard the phrase "get off the back seat", her complexion changed instantly. She threw the teacup on the table and shouted: "Shut up! Don't mention this again. The palace has sent the imperial horse inspector to check Zhao Shurong's matter. She fell into the water after being drunk, so she can't blame others. Don't blame others for nothing."

Sun Jieyu sneered, and said urgently: "Madam, how smart you have been all your life, you are now confused. The admiral of the imperial horse inspector has always been on good terms with Defei's elder brother. Zhou Qingshan and Feng Kui are so good that they almost wear a pair of trousers. Who can believe what he said!"

Sun Jieyu spoke hastily and quickly, she forgot all the restraint and calm just now, she raised her voice, leaned forward, and said hastily: "I have been investigating the prince's case for so long and have no clue, how can I know it's not Zhou Qingshan?" Deliberately playing tricks, deliberately concealing important clues, otherwise, such a sieve-like investigation, how could even the murderer not be caught until now? I don’t know what the poison is, and there is no way to investigate it. From my point of view, it is clear that Zhou Qingshan deliberately protected the concubine De It’s just an excuse. Concubine De was responsible for poisoning the crown prince... and Zhao Shurong, she is a weak woman with no one to accompany her, how could she go to the imperial garden alone, think about it carefully..."

The queen frowned and waved her hand lightly, asking Sun Jieyu to stop talking.

What Sun Jieyu said was very reasonable, leaving aside the matter of the crown prince, the matter of Zhao Shurong's drowning was absolutely inseparable from the concubine De.But what about the evidence?After all, there is no evidence now, no matter whether it is witness or physical evidence, there is nothing that can prove that De Fei did it.With a red mouth and white teeth, is it possible to ask Concubine De's crime based on a few guesswork?

The queen sighed, and when she was about to speak, she felt short of breath, covered her chest with her hand, and coughed lightly twice.

Ruan Yunqing was the closest, and hurried forward, not daring to use tea, took the clay pot from the stove, poured out a bowl of warm water, and handed it to the queen.The queen took a sip before Sun Changfu bowed and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to teach the imperial physician?"

The queen shook her head lightly, "No need."

The queen suffered from an old illness again, and Sun Jieyu was also frightened. She hurriedly stood up and waited on the queen to drink a few sips of water before she dared to sit down again.

A court lady brought a soft pillow, the queen leaned on her, slowly calmed down, and sighed leisurely: "Concubine De is domineering, I know it. What can I do? Long live loves her beauty, and in recent years, she has been rewarded and loved more and more. Her elder brother holds the military power in his hands and has made great achievements in defending the border. Even Long live is afraid of three points. The concubine De is favored by Long live, and she is more and more confident outside relying on her brother's prestige. You come to this palace to complain, but I want to ask you, you How do you plan to punish Concubine De? Will Long Live agree?"

Sun Jieyu's heart turned cold, the emperor doted on Concubine De so much, he really wanted the stars not to give the moon, and he didn't have any real evidence in his hands, he just speculated that Concubine De was responsible for Zhao Shurong's failure to escape.But will the emperor believe it?Sun Jieyu thought about it for a while, and she believed that it was really a ghost, a dream.

The more I think about it, the more afraid I feel, if today's words reach the ears of the Emperor or Concubine De, then her little life will really be on the line.

Her heart was pounding, and Sun Jieyu was terrified. She pulled the thirteenth prince to kneel down, and begged: "Your Majesty, please save the lives of our mother and son."

Tears rolled down, and Sun Jieyu wept bitterly. Her father was a border official, and she climbed from an ordinary court lady to Jieyu's seat only because she was smart and could please her.

Concubine De has always been domineering, even the Queen and Concubine Shu Gui are ignored, let alone her little Jieyu.She lived in the Dexin Palace, and she had to greet the concubine Dexin every day, and was ridiculed and humiliated by her in every possible way. She didn't even dare to reply loudly, and she was careful with her, lest she would offend her in any way. I also ended up in the same end as Zhao Shurong.

What kind of day is this? Sun Jieyu originally planned to provoke the empress and ask her to come forward to punish Concubine De, but at this time, the empress's few words brought up a sad past, and the tears never stopped Can't stop.

The queen stretched out her hands, pulled Sun Jieyu up, and hugged the thirteenth prince to her, hugged him and smiled: "Our sisters talk, and they say what they say, are you still afraid that I can't tell the secret behind my back? See You are so frightened that you are already a mother, and you are still so unstable. Hurry up and wipe it with a veil, and you are not afraid of the slaves' jokes."

Only then did Sun Jieyu feel at ease, besides her personal maid, only Sun Changfu and Ruan Yunqing were left in the room. Sun Changfu was the Queen's confidant, and if she didn't trust her, the Queen would not keep him by her side to serve her personally.Not to mention Ruan Yunqing, what can a teenager understand?Even if he understood, he didn't have the courage and ability to make any big waves.

Sun Jieyu smiled through tears, blushed and said, "Your Majesty has never lived my life, so naturally she doesn't know my difficulties. You are generous and generous, so I dare to be so presumptuous. Telling you a few words of truth, changing others , I don’t dare to do it again.”

The queen smiled and said nothing, and didn't mention the matter anymore, let Sun Jieyu sit down, and the two continued to chat.