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Twenty-fifth: Garden Party Drama (2)

After Mu Yanqing watched the scene carefully from the perspective of God, he could see it clearly. From the beginning of the prince's journey over and greeting Li Jingci, Li Lanyu pulled Li Lanxuan to the emperor. She only whispered a few words in her fifth sister's ear. The innocent Li Lanxuan ran towards her father, and was unbiased between the two brothers and the emperor.

"Cailian, I heard that the second prince's biological mother died early, why didn't the emperor love her much, and she seemed to be unwelcome to her?" Mu Yanqing asked with a light fan.

"Sister is not sure, the second prince is not very lucky," Yang Guiren just came over and happened to hear, "Sister told you that since the second prince was born, not only has his biological mother been sick, but his prince, who was born in the same year, is also weak and sick. On the contrary, the second prince has eaten and slept soundly and grown fast. Over time..." She covered her mouth with a handkerchief, shook her head regretfully when she said this, and then said, "Sister, please don't inquire about these things, and think of a way to protect yourself first."

Mu Yanqing said: "Sister Xie reminded me. It's just that my sister doesn't understand what my sister said, why should I protect myself first?"

Yang Guiren looked around and said, "You must have heard of Xiaopin's bad things, and the emperor has been deliberately dealing with them. You guess why she left mysteriously? Who else left with guilt just now? My sister is so smart, I must know it. My sister may still be swaying before, but today she would rather drag you down than meet her lover alone. Do you still have to wait for the story of the matter to be implicated by innocent people?"

Mu Yanqing had no sound of pitfalls, as if he had made a pity, and his face suddenly became heavy.

"Sister, stop being obsessed with it anymore. You treat her as a sister in your heart. You are sincere. It doesn't matter if you are buried with you. With me and Concubine Yi, as long as my sister is willing to give a testimony, we will work together to protect you. What else do you have to worry about?"

Mu Yanqing looked over to the empty seat of Concubine Yi, thought for a moment, and said, "It seems that Concubine Yi is decisive and has gone to turn the tide, but I am still very uneasy here."

Yang Guiren was puzzled, "What are you worried about? Concubine Yi's words and words will definitely protect you from danger."

Mu Yanqing shook his head quickly, held Yang Guiren's hand with a panic expression, and said, "Sister, I don't mean that. Think about it, no matter how brave Concubine Yi is, she is well-behaved. In order to prevent the scandals in the palace and protect the royal face, she will definitely not bring many people there. Sister, think about it, in this situation of a small fight against the many, not to mention that they can refuse to admit death. In the imperial court, Xiaopin and General Zhou both have the ability to do so. If Concubine Yi breaks the scandal, in order to protect herself, wouldn't it be in a hurry..."

Yang Guiren also trembled all over, holding Mu Yanqing's hand tightly to calm himself down, and said, "This... why didn't I expect it... Sister, you are so careful, can you deal with it?"

Mu Yanqing turned his eyes to Cuju venue. The people had almost dispersed. She was silent for a moment before making up her mind and said, "Sister, for the sake of the present, only if one person goes to see it with his own eyes can there be no turning point in this matter."

"You mean...the emperor?"

"Yes, sister, think about it. If the emperor saw it with his own eyes, the two of them would never have the chance to deny it. Otherwise, they would not be able to do anything with such courage? What's more, my sister said something about her own words and brought the emperor to help Concubine Yi. This is a life-saving grace. She will definitely look up to her in the future." Mu Yanqing said and stood up and wanted to leave.

"Yes...you're right. What are we going to do?"

Mu Yanqing thought for a while and said, "I'll go over to find Empress Yi first. With me here, maybe I can hold Xiaopin for a while. Sister, go and find the emperor quickly and bring him here, and don't delay it for a while."

Yang Guiren realized that the situation was urgent, so he hurriedly carried the hem of the skirt and left.

Mu Yanqing frowned and watched her walk away, then she let go instantly, smiled slightly, and was satisfied with the acting skills she had just passed.

Cailian was stunned and said, "Master, if I hadn't known this in advance, I would have been almost frightened by you and felt that this matter was like a false one."

"Fortunately, she came to find me, so I didn't want to run over and have to play another "difficult" period. Let's go Cailian, we should meet with Xiaopin."

Cailian supported Mu Yanqing and asked as she walked, "Master, does Xiaochuan really have time to intercept General Zhou? I am worried that if..."

"If it doesn't matter, then think about it, who is missing who serves Xiaopin around you today?"

Cailian blurted out: "Aunt Rong...Master, are you saying that if something happens to Xiaochuan, will Aunt Rong be the backup?"

Mu Yanqing cast a look of admiration and said, "It's a little smarter. Aunt Rong is an old man from the Qin family. With her around, General Zhou has nothing to doubt."

Mu Yanqing remembered the route he had taken a few days ago. Today, he went through the huge imperial garden again. He still took some effort to find a grass. There were often people coming and going here. She looked around and saw a nanny leading a few guards to trot over.

She took out Bu Yao and a note from her sleeve and threw it on the ground. When Cailian saw the opportunity came, she flashed with excitement in her eyes, cleared her throat, and said loudly: "Master, isn't this Bu Yao of Concubine Xiao? Why did she fall here?"

Mu Yanqing met this exaggerated acting skills and met this group of people saluting her again. He had to turn his back and laugh, saying as if no one else was around: "Yes! Why is there a note? It's really strange. Let's go, the empress is afraid that it will be searching everywhere, so let's tell the empress to go."

So, the two men who tried to pursed their lips and smiled, walked through the palace people and left the first set with a swagger.

After walking around several places of flowers and willows, Concubine Yi was walking towards the direction of Jiuxiao Pavilion with a few people. She suddenly stopped as soon as she looked up.

Covered by dense green trees, the gate of Jiuxiao Pavilion not far away is open, not like someone inside.

Wen Ling also saw something wrong and attracted the person who reported the news to ask: "Didn't he say that both of them are coming here? Where are the people?"

The eunuch who reported the news felt innocent and said, "I dare not lie if I have ten lives. Concubine Xiao and General Zhou did come here. The kung fu should have arrived early at this time."

Yi Guihua thought for a moment and realized, "No, those two are not stupid. Maybe you can tell at a glance that although Jiuxiao Pavilion is deserted and secluded, it is easy for people to catch turtles in the jar."

"Empress, since that's the case, these two people must be nearby and not far away..."

"Is Concubine Yi looking for me?"

Yi Guihua was caught off guard and was shocked and took a step back. When she stood firm, she calmed down immediately. Qin Peiying was indeed in front of her, and it seemed that she was waiting for her here.

Qin Peiying smiled coldly, saluted casually, blocked Yi Guihua's face, and asked, "I heard from the Empress that the concubine mentioned, are you looking for me?"

Yi Guihua still didn't understand it, and Wen Ling quietly reminded: "Empress, this may be delaying time, we can't miss it."

"Search for me immediately." With the order of Concubine Yi, the people following him immediately spread out everywhere, like a spread net, covering this cool and secluded place in the horizontal and vertical shuttle.

"What is the queen searching for? Could it be that there is a thief entering the palace?" Qin Peiying said slowly.

"What I am looking for, my sister knows what I am looking for." Yi Guihua looked calm, "If my sister came from the truth, I might be able to plead for you."

Seeing that Yi Guihua had not expressed his true intention and the movement was not big enough, Qin Peiying took a few steps forward and approached Concubine Yi. Wen Ling reached out to stop him vigilantly, but Yi Guihua looked directly at Qin Peiying and said lightly: "Wen Ling, don't be rude. Do you still think that the only daughter of the Qin family will hurt me in full view of everyone?"

Wen Ling took a step back, and Xiaopin leaned closer to Yi Guihua's ear and whispered: "Empress is late, the person you are looking for has already walked away."

Yue Lan stood behind, looked in one of the directions of the rockery with a panic expression, then immediately withdrew her eyes and stretched her hand into the other cuff.

Wen Ling caught this moment and shouted: "This is the rockery! Hurry!"

Yi Guihua glanced at Yue Lan and asked Qin Peiying coldly: "What is your personal palace maid hiding? Is it that love letter?"

Wen Ling immediately called two eunuchs and walked towards Yue Lan.

Qin Peiying shouted, "Stop! You can't move the people in this palace just by just talking!"

Several people were stopped by Qin Peiying's aura, and Yue Lan in front of her was also glaring and was hesitating to turn back to ask Concubine Yi for instructions.

Seeing that time was dragged by little by little, Yi Guihua simply shouted: "I received a secret report saying that someone had met a man in private here. You two are suspicious. I will naturally have the right to search the Six Palaces. Search for me!"

Wen Ling rushed towards Yue Lan with two eunuchs. Yue Lan immediately stood up and fought back, but only made a few moves, and the three of them had no power to fight back and had fallen to the ground.

"Qin Peiying! This is the important place of the palace, you are so arrogant!" Yi Guihua didn't expect that a palace maid actually attacked.

Xiaopin was not drunk by her, but still looked calm and said, "I should be asking the Empress, you are assisting in the Six Palaces. Can you bully others and arbitrarily accuse the concubines?"

The two quarrels have attracted the inspecting guards. Qin Peiying is a concubine, and the guards cannot meet them at any time. Yi Guihua forced him to go further and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Pin Xiao, if you don't accept it, I won't let your palace maid be searched. I'm not polite. Are you innocent or guilty? You know."

At this time, the guards suddenly made way, and then someone whispered: "The emperor is here!"

A group of people who were tit-for-tat salutes one after another, looked up and found that Yang Guiren and the Sixth Princess were also accompanied by Emperor Rongzhen.

Li Lanyu was anxious and ran over and hugged Yi Guihua, with a hint of crying and said, "My mother is okay... okay..."

Before Yi Guihua could figure out the situation, she could see that her daughter was really anxious and scared, so she had to stroke her head and comfort her: "I'm fine."

Li Lanyu glanced at Qin Peiying in disgust and said, "Yang Guiren went to find his father. When I heard that my mother might be in danger, I hurriedly followed him."

Li Yuxuan whispered in a low voice: "Come on, take the Sixth Princess down and take good care of her."

This small place suddenly became full of people, as if it was breathless. Li Yuxuan looked around and asked in a cold voice: "Did anyone tell me what happened here that my two concubines actually had to argue in public?"

Yi Guihua just lowered his head and didn't say anything. Qin Peiying still kept the gesture of saluting and did not get up. He was angry in his voice, saying, "Go back to the emperor, I wanted to come out to have a blow after drinking. Concubine Yi suddenly came and said that she had received a secret report and suspected that I was secretly meeting a man here. She would search for my concubine's people without saying a word. Please investigate."

Of course, Li Yuxuan knew why the two concubines who had blushed faces quarreled. After looking around, he didn't find the so-called "outsider man". He lowered his head and asked Yi Guihua, "Concubine Yi, what Xiaopin said is true?"

Yi Guihua still couldn't figure it out, but so many people just listened to her criticism and said, "When I returned to the emperor, I did receive a secret report and came to check it out, but I saw that Xiao Concubine and the palace maid were here, with different expressions, but I didn't dare to offend Xiao Concubine's sister rashly, so I could only ask Yue Lan a few more questions. This is because I was reckless and indecent, so I asked the emperor to punish me."

Qin Peiying was very familiar with this trick, so she snorted coldly and said, "Concubine Yi recognizes it quickly now. When she was about to search people for her body, she would not see you considering her sister and the royal face."

Seeing the scene stalemate, Yang Guiren stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, you have also seen it. If I hadn't arrived in time and I had arrived in time, Concubine Yi would not know what to be bullied. Look, Concubine Yi, the palace maids and eunuchs, were indeed injured."

Qin Peiying raised her head again and was already a little tearful, saying, "Emperor, as a concubine in the harem, if I am a concubine in the harem, if I use someone else's words, I will be searched for my personal palace maid because of a private meeting with a man. How should I deal with myself in the future?"

Yue Lan kowtowed, and said loudly, "Go back to the emperor, Concubine Yi, I am wrong today, and I will be punished without complaints. But I have followed my master since I was a child and would rather die than let my master's reputation be damaged. Please give me a clear explanation."

Li Yuxuan knew Qin Peiying's temper and temperament, not to mention that things were unclear and it was not easy to attack at once. However, it was really not nice to say that "outsider" and "secret meeting" at once, so he sent some people back and said, "You are going to punish them one by one, so at least let me punish them clearly. Xiaopin, tell me the truth, why are you here?"

The emperor's implication was to ask Qin Peiying to tell the truth. If it was to scatter the smell of alcohol, it would be obvious that it would be a little far away from here.

However, Xiaopin was not as determined as before and lowered her head and felt embarrassed.

"If you don't say it, it's because you feel guilty?" Yang Guiren was about to add fuel to the fire, but was suppressed by the emperor's eyes and immediately fell silent.

Faced with Qin Peiying's silence, Li Yuxuan even remembered why he came over. After a moment of silence, he said, "Since you don't say anything, I know nothing, so I can't just believe in your words. The person who comes, take Yue Lan over to search for her body."

Qin Peiying did not resist any more this time. She was stronger and calmer than before. At this moment, she was rarely wronged and held back tears and said nothing.

Yi Guihua didn't care why Yang Guiren suddenly pulled the emperor over. In this moment of silence, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

The two nannies who searched their bodies came back with Yue Lan and said, "Go back to the emperor, Miss Yue Lan has no suspicious supplies."

"Where are the people who went to investigate?" Li Yuxuan's face darkened.

The imperial guards hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Go back to the emperor, Weichen has quickly blocked the nearby areas just now and tracked down the surrounding area. There is no suspicious person here except the patrol palace servants and guards. Except..."

"Say." Li Yuxuan's face looked even more ugly. Yang Guiren had realized something was wrong and was about to kowtow to admit his mistake. When he heard the last sentence, he seemed to have grabbed the last glimmer of hope and raised his head suddenly.

"Mu from Yongshou Palace promised to ask for a meeting. He was waiting outside. I would like to ask the emperor to show his advice."

Li Yuxuan didn't care much, only knew that the mess in front of him was now difficult. When he looked down, he found that Xiaopin's beautiful face had two lines of tears on his face. He still lowered his head stubbornly, as if he didn't want anyone to see this scene. He suddenly had an illusion that this woman, who had always been strong but never showed weakness, was the first time she cried in front of him. It was like this, and she felt pity for me, and she had a unique charm.

He walked forward, stretched out his hands to Qin Peiying, slowly helped her up, gently brushed away the tears from her face, and said softly: "Look at you, how big it is, why are you crying? Ask why you came here, but you didn't say that, I just want to give you a cleansing."

The emperor did not make it clear, bypassing the matter of whom the guards in front of the imperial court just searched for. Qin Peiying still remembered Mu Yanqing's instructions that if the emperor did not respond to these directly, he must not be "shamed" and keep stinging the emperor's mistakes.

She hesitated for a while and said in a crying voice: "Do you remember that when I entered the palace and named a noble person, you rewarded me with Bu Yao? I just came out to sober up. There were many people coming around. I don't know who was touched by Bu Yao. I had to search all the way and then I met Concubine Yi and suddenly came over angrily."

"Just just shake it, why do you have to look so far? Just send a few people to help you find it?" Li Yuxuan felt uncomfortable, but he still felt that it was a little unreasonable in his heart.

Yue Lan stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Go back to the emperor, the master knew that he had done something wrong recently, which made the emperor unhappy, and was sad about it. Today, he put on Bu Yao out. He originally hoped that the emperor would be able to care about his old love and hoped to be forgiven by the emperor, but he accidentally lost it. The empress said that Bu Yao symbolized the original affection between the emperor and the empress. She was worried that you would blame him for it, so she could not speak."

So that's it. Li Yuxuan remembered the misunderstandings that had been in recent days. In fact, when he thought about it carefully, it was just someone who caught the scene and found some old stories about Chen Guzi rotting sesame seeds, but he did not distinguish between the previous dynasty and the harem, so he neglected Concubine Xiao.

Seeing that the matter was about to be irreversible, Yi Guihua turned his head and glared at Yang Guiren, but Yang Guiren suddenly remembered that there was a reinforcement outside and could not come in, saying, "Emperor, please forgive me for saying frankly. Mu promised to live in the same palace with Concubine Xiao. At this time, I hope there must be something important, so please check it out."

Yi Guihua didn't say a word, thinking that maybe Mu Yanqing was really convinced to come and testify. Even if it was no longer helpful, it would at least help him to transfer his fault.

Li Yuxuan was already impatient and was about to scold Yang Guiren, but Xiaopin pulled Li Yuxuan's hand, blinked his red eyes and said, "Emperor, Mu promised to see him even though he knew that the emperor and his concubines were still asking for a meeting here. I guess things are more important, so the emperor might as well meet him."

Concubine Yi's heart sank for a moment and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Mu Yanqing walked through the walls of people, lowered his head deeply and knelt down in front of Li Yuxuan, "I wish you a blessing to the emperor."

Li Yuxuan just looked at her quickly and asked, "Get up. What important thing do you have to ask for a meeting at this time?"

Mu Yanqing stood up tremblingly and did not dare to look directly. The tall man in the dragon robe in front of him exuded his innate majesty, which made her feel oppressed. She calmed down and the lines arranged in her mind were already familiar. "When I returned to the emperor, I saw that Concubine Xiao had not returned, and I followed him out because I didn't know that in the flowers ahead, I picked up the Bu Yao that the Queen was wearing today, and there was a note underneath. The Queen told me that this Bu Yao was a thing of gold, and it was the relationship between the Emperor and the Queen. I was worried that the Queen would be anxious, so I wanted to come here quickly."

Qin Peiying asked: "Note? What note?"

"Empress, I don't know if it's your item, so I dare not open it without authorization."

When Yi Guihua heard this concert, he was completely disappointed.
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