Sword·Qinxin

It has been more than two months since Yunying was invited by the princess to give the piano, and she will enter the palace every five days, and Zhan Zhao personally arranges all the matters of welcoming and sending off.

On this day, as usual, the sedan chair was waiting outside the thatched cottage.

Seeing that the person in front of the sedan chair was a purple-robed palace prisoner, Yunying couldn't help being slightly startled, she didn't see the familiar figure in Zhu Yi.

Yunying's heart moved, her eyes turned around, and they swept across the sedan chair.

The purple-robed palace supervisor smiled and said: "Master Zhan was ordered to go out to Beijing to handle business last night. Before he left, he came here to explain the matter of our girl's entry into the palace. He reminded me to arrange it properly, so you can rest assured."

"Thank you, father-in-law." Yunying smiled lightly, her eyebrows drooping, and a hint of disappointment flashed in her eyes that she didn't even notice.

Yinhua Hall in the Imperial Palace

Yunying was lying on the bed, and the maid beside her was carefully applying the plaster, thinking about the situation a few days ago, she couldn't help crying again.

"Qing'er, why are you crying again? I told you it's okay." Yun Ying smiled back and comforted Qing'er.

"It's a pity that Qing'er is on behalf of the girl. She was beaten like this when she was doing well."

Qing'er wiped away the teardrops, carefully looked at the place where the plaster was applied, got up and put down the curtain on one side of the bed, and said softly: "Miss, be careful not to move, Qing'er will fetch a basin of water again."

The sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the hall, Qing'er stepped out of the hall, and saw a man in crimson official robes walking briskly ahead, followed by a strange girl.

"Master Zhan..."

Zhan Zhao was enshrined by the Holy Master as a fourth-rank guard with a knife in front of the imperial palace. Although he has the qualification to walk in front of the palace, the palace is full of people, and it is always a place of right and wrong. Except for necessary entry and exit, Zhan Zhao rarely goes out of the palace on weekdays.

Qing'er didn't expect Zhan Zhao to come, she was at a loss for a while, suddenly felt someone's figure passing by her side, she hurriedly bowed her head and saluted.

Yinling anxiously walked into the hall, seeing Yunying on the bed was pale, with bright red below the waist, she couldn't bear to look directly at her.

Throwing to the bed, the tears could not stop falling, weeping uncontrollably.

Zhan Zhao was also stunned by the situation in front of him, speechless for a moment.

The sound of the piano is wonderful, and the laughter is still in my ears:

... Mr. Zhan greeted and sent him off in person, could it be that he is afraid of my assassination? ...

...The girl's martial arts skills really made Zhan feel worried...

...Heh, with Master Zhan being so outspoken, aren't you afraid of annoying me and ruining the princess' invitation? ...

...Zhan Zhao believes that the girl will not...

...People in the palace are unpredictable, maybe I will be bullied one day...

...Zhan Zhao will definitely protect the girl well...

... Hey... It seems that if I don't agree, I won't succeed...

Five days ago, he was ordered to go out to Beijing to handle errands. He had entrusted someone to take care of Yunying's entry into the palace. back.

Haven't returned in five days?Something must have happened in the palace.

Outside the Yinhua Hall, a purple-robed palace supervisor shook his hand and said loudly to the people in the hall: "Lord Zhan, the Queen Mother is here to invite you."

Looking at the figure behind the bed curtain, Zhan Zhao hid his anger and followed the palace supervisor to the Empress Dowager's Longevity Palace.

"See the Queen Mother for a humble position."

"You don't have to be too polite as a guard."

"Queen, I have something to do with my humble position..."

"Guard Zhan, sit down if you have something to say." The queen mother interrupted Zhan Zhao, motioning him to sit aside, then looked at the maid next to her and said, "Bizhu, tell Zhan Wei what happened that day. "

"Yes, Queen Mother."

Bizhu walked up to Zhan Zhao, saluted, and told the story of what happened five days ago.

"That day the princess played the piano with Miss Yunying. After lunch, Concubine Pang came, saying that she had heard that the princess had invited a violinist to take a look. Not long after, Concubine Zhang also came, saying that she was pregnant. He wanted to listen to the music more. So the two empresses chatted with the princess while listening to the piano.

Not long after, Eunuch Liao came to spread the word that the Holy Majesty invited Concubine Pang to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden, and the princess sent Concubine Pang out of the palace.Afterwards, Concubine Zhang Guifei left after listening for half a stick of incense, saying that a pregnant woman gets tired easily and needs to rest.

The princess sent Concubine Zhang away and continued to learn the piano. After an hour, Concubine Zhang angrily told the princess that she had lost a piece of jade pendant. search.Seeing that the situation was not good, the princess ordered the servants to invite the queen mother over quickly.

When the Queen Mother arrived, Miss Yunying had already received ten boards.Concubine Zhang insisted that the girl stole the things and hid them and refused to give up, so the queen mother put the girl under house arrest in Yinhua Palace. "

Listening to Bizhu's statement, Zhan Zhao frowned, his complexion sank, and his bright black eyes were already on fire.

How could this groundless and full of loopholes beat up a good girl like this.

Zhan Zhao stood up, bowed solemnly to the Queen Mother, and said, "Queen Mother, I believe that this matter has no basis at all. I would like to guarantee my life, and Miss Yunying has nothing to do with this matter!"

"Zhan Huwei, how could the Ai family not know that the girl was wronged." The queen mother sighed, "Although the noble concubine Zhang is pregnant, the sage doesn't like her very much. Naturally, I feel uncomfortable looking at it. Yuyang and Concubine Pang are on good terms on weekdays, and this time the things were lost at Yuyang's place again, so why don't she take the opportunity to show her prestige? It's just that the girl has been hurt for nothing."

Zhan Zhao finally understood what the Empress Dowager meant, this was just a jealousy among women, and it was about the face of the royal family, even if they were beaten, they didn't kill her.

"What does the Queen Mother mean?"

"Guard Zhan, that girl will stay in the Yinhua Palace for the time being, and the Ai family will order someone to take care of her. No matter how unwilling the noble concubine Zhang is, she would not dare to come here to play wild with the Ai family. However, Concubine Zhang lost her jade pendant after returning to the palace. This is the truth, that jade pendant was given by the Holy Concubine Zhang Guifei when she was pregnant, Aijia hopes that you can find out the truth as soon as possible."

Saying goodbye to the Queen Mother, Zhan Zhao walked towards the Yinhua Hall while thinking.

The harem has always used all means to compete for favor, and there is no need for reason, but Yunying was tired and implicated, and she was punished for nothing.

The most important thing right now is to find the jade pendant first.

As soon as Zhan Zhao stepped into the palace gate, he heard Yinling's angry voice: "Sister, why didn't you fight back, why did you have to suffer this board, with my sister's skills, killing them is more than enough."

Yunying chuckled, and wiped away Yinling's tears, "Silly girl, don't talk nonsense in the inner courtyard of the palace. If people listen to it, they don't know what troubles will happen. That noble concubine is pregnant, if I really do something , haven't you been caught as an assassin?"

Yunying looked at Zhan Zhao who was coming forward, his eyes were full of self-blame, unbearable, concern, and...

She smiled and said: "Although I was invited by the princess to play the piano, after all, Master Zhan brought me into the palace. If it is serious, Master Zhan can't delay the relationship; if it is used by a treacherous villain, it will be difficult for Kaifeng Mansion." Wouldn't it be more injustice to abdicate Mr. Bao?"

"But...but..."

Yunying's words made sense, and Yinling couldn't refute anything, but felt worthless for Yunying.Looking at her wounds, I couldn't help feeling sour in my heart, and shed tears again.

"Don't worry, I can still take ten boards."

Hearing Yunying's words, Zhan Zhao felt deeply moved, and looked at Yunying's slightly pale face with gratitude, pity, and guilt.

"Zhan Zhao is grateful for the girl's understanding of righteousness! Zhan Zhao guarantees that the girl will be innocent within three days!"

There are so many eunuchs, maids, and guards in the inner courtyard of the palace. It would be difficult to find out if someone picked them up.

Anyway, let's start with Concubine Zhang.

Not a moment later, Zhang Guifei was resting in the bedroom, and the maids retreated outside the bedroom to wait quietly.

"My maidservant has met Mr. Zhan." A court lady saluted Zhan Zhao respectfully.

"Miss Xi'er, you don't need to be too polite." Zhan Zhao said, "I am ordered by the Queen Mother to investigate the theft of the jade pendant."

"Master Zhan just ask, Xi'er will know everything." Xi'er raised her eyes and glanced at Zhan Zhao, her face blushed and she quickly lowered her head.

"You are Concubine Zhang's maid in charge. That day when Concubine Zhang went to the princess to listen to the piano, would you accompany her?"

"Reporting to Mr. Zhan, the slave girl accompanied the empress. That day, the empress heard that Concubine Pang Gui went to the princess to listen to the music, so she said she would go and have a look. The jade pendant was tied by the servant herself when the servant waited for the empress to wear it. When the princess came back and the slaves were arranging their clothes, the jade pendant disappeared."

"But it will be lost on the way?"

"No, the empress showed it to Concubine Pang Gui at the princess's place, and said that the jade pendant was given by the sage when the empress was pregnant."

"..."

Zhan Zhao pondered for a moment, then asked, "Apart from you, who else will accompany the empress that day?"

"Report to Mr. Zhan, and Jingjing is also accompanying me. Jingjing is currently taking samples for the empress at the Shangdian Bureau."

"Thank you Miss Xi'er."

"Master Zhan, you are welcome, Xi'er will leave."

The noble concubine is pregnant with a dragon heir, after all, it is the most important matter in the palace, the emperor ordered to create a batch of new jewelry for the empress, the servants dare not neglect, Shang Dian Bureau has been rushing to make drawings all night for several days.

The court lady Jingjing was ordered by Concubine Zhang to take some patterns.

"Miss Jingjing." Zhan Zhao called to stop the maid who had just come out of Shangdian Bureau.

"This servant has seen Mr. Zhan."

"Miss Jingjing, you don't need to be too polite. I have ordered the Queen Mother to investigate the theft of the jade pendant."

When Jingjing heard about Zhan Zhao's intentions, she panicked, and hurriedly lowered her head and said, "Master Zhan, I want to know... what?"

"Miss Jingjing, you don't have to be restrained." Zhan Zhao asked calmly, "Dare to ask, Miss Zhang Guifei went to the princess to listen to the piano that day, would you accompany her?"

"The servants are...accompanied."

"I heard from Miss Xi'er that Concubine Zhang Gui once showed the jade pendant to Concubine Pang, is there such a thing?"

"It's true, empress...empress also said that it was... given by the sage."

"After the noble concubine returned to the palace, did the girl notice something was wrong?"

"After the empress returned to the palace... she rested, and the servant... didn't... didn't think it was wrong."

"Thank you, Miss Jingjing, for interrupting."

"Your servant will leave." Jingjing walked away quickly with her head lowered, never looking up at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao has been awarded the imperial cat title since performing in front of the Yaowu Tower. Every time he enters the palace, he can always see some court ladies secretly looking at him. open.After a long time, he didn't care that much.

With Zhan Zhao's appearance and demeanor, maybe when he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he would be the object of the palace maids' whispering and caring by the pillow of their boudoirs.

When Zhan Zhao questioned Jingjing, Jingjing's undisguised expression and uncharacteristic behavior already showed that she was suspicious.Jingjing did not go back to Changle Palace where Concubine Zhang lived, but sneaked to the very remote Qiuyang Palace.

At this time, she came to this place close to the cold palace by herself, probably to meet someone.Zhan Zhao hid behind the rockery, watching Jingjing's every move.

Jingjing was digging something beside an abandoned well. She dug out a bag of things and put it in her bosom, then took out another bag of things from her bosom and buried it in, filling up the soil.Looking around for no one, he left.

After she walked away, Zhan Zhao dug out the bag, opened it, and found that there were indeed stolen jade pendants and some jewelry inside.It seems that what was dug up earlier should be the silver earned by selling it privately.

It is nothing new for the servants in the palace to sell the gadgets rewarded by the master in private to earn some money.

Zhan Zhao took the jade pendant away, and buried the other things in the soil intact.

Since there is coming, there must be going, and you can always wait for the person who comes to pick you up.

When Haishi just arrived, a man who looked like a palace supervisor came sneakily, stayed by the well for a while, and dug soil to get something after making sure that no one was around.After he took the things, Zhan Zhao followed him all the way, after confirming which palace the visitor came from, he left quietly.

The next day, Zhan Zhao brought the jade pendant to the Queen Mother and told him what he had seen and heard.

The queen mother was furious and sent Jingjing a message.

Seeing that the incident had been revealed, Jingjing knelt on the ground and cried, "That day when the empress returned to the dormitory from the princess, the jade pendant on her clothes happened to be caught on the gauze curtain, the empress didn't notice it, so the slaves took it away when no one noticed. The queen mother spared her life, but this servant did not intend to steal from the empress. A letter from the servant’s family said that the mother was seriously ill and urgently needed money, so the servant took the empress’s jade pendant in a hurry. The queen mother has mercy..."

For the sake of the emperor's heirs, the queen mother should not make a fuss, so she punished the maids and eunuchs involved in the case, and expelled them from the palace.

On the Empress Dowager’s birthday, Princess Yuyang’s piano sound won the Empress Dowager’s favor, and the Empress Dowager rewarded him with some silk jewelry. The Princess asked Eunuch Zhang to bring two horses of high-quality cloth and some jewelry to Zhan Zhao that night, and ordered them to be handed over to Miss Yunying. .

The morning breeze is blowing, and the kingfisher is on the branch.In front of the aviary in the courtyard, Yinling picked up some corn, hummed a little song, and was teasing three birds with red eyes and white feathers.

Someone knocked lightly on the courtyard door, Yinling smiled, and walked towards the courtyard door bouncing around.

The person outside the door is dressed in green clothes, gentle and warm, who is it not Zhan Zhao?

Yinling looked at the cloth and an exquisite brocade box in Zhan Zhao's hands, and smiled narrowly: "Master Zhan, is this something for sister?"

"Yes... no, the princess entrusted Zhan to give it to the girl." Zhan Zhao was embarrassed by the words, and hurriedly explained.

"Oh...it's from the princess..." Yinling raised her voice, deliberately prolonging her tone, seeing Zhan Zhao's slightly embarrassed appearance, she was secretly happy, and pointed to the inner courtyard and said with a smile, "Sister is in the house. inside."

Zhan Zhao nodded slightly to Yinling, and strode towards the house.

In the house, the incense burner is filled with the sweet aroma of orchid grass.

Yunying was dressed in a light blue shirt and a white veil, the silver bracelet on her white wrist shimmered faintly, she lowered her eyebrows and looked at the scroll in her hand.

Hearing someone step into the house, he looked up and saw the things Zhan Zhao was holding, and looked at him suspiciously.

Zhan Zhao smiled knowingly, and said: "Princess Yuyang was taught by the girl, and the song she performed at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was very popular with the Queen Mother. The princess is grateful to the girl and ordered Zhan Zhao to bring some gifts. I hope the girl will accept it."

Seeing that it was a gift from the princess, Yunying put down the scroll in her hand and wanted to get up to thank her.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly said again: "Princess ordered, Miss Zhi has been implicated and her injuries have not recovered, so there is no need to thank you."

Yun Ying lowered her eyebrows and smiled slightly: "Thank you, Princess, for your kindness."

Zhan Zhao put the things in his hands on the table, reached into his arms, and took out a small box. The small box was exquisite in workmanship, simple and elegant in carvings, and the size was no different from the rouge box commonly used by women.

"This is the ointment specially prepared by Mr. Gongsun. It can remove blood stasis and reduce swelling. Apply it three times a day, and it is very effective in removing scars. What happened that day really wronged the girl. I hope the girl will accept it for her little care."

The warm voice drifted into my ears, Yunying was slightly startled, and looked up at Zhan Zhao.I saw him looking at him quietly, his eyes were clear, and her figure was deeply reflected in his eyes.

Yunying slowly lowered her eyelids, her eyes fluttered, and she inadvertently landed on the small box in her palm.

She hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her hand to take the small box in Zhan Zhao's hand, put it in her palm to look at it carefully, and caressed the delicate carvings on the box.

But in just a few months, I don't know when I seem to have secretly developed feelings for him.

is true?is it wrong? ...

Is it fate?Is it robbery? ...

The moon is like a bow, the fate is like water, and there is a touch of lovesickness.

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