Fingers of crossing

Chapter 78

The king of Beiyang led his people to Lin'an City within three days. As soon as the news was posted on the imperial list, there was an uproar in Lin'an City.

Of course, the most talked about is the well-known marriage between King Beiyang and Yan Yilan.

Yan Guo has always been inferior in strength among the four countries. For many years, it has relied on the support of Yang Guo from many parties. It is not as good as others in terms of national strength. He rejected King Beiyang's marriage proposal.

Lu He talked with great relish, but Jiang Ningzui just sat silently under the magnolia tree, looking up, she could look at the magnolia flowers in full bloom above her head through the shadow of the whirling tree.

A pure white stamen fell down in the wind and landed on her lap. She twirled her fingertips, and couldn't help thinking of the scene of Yan Yilan holding the flower that night. Sharp and clumsy, she couldn't imitate Ye Yan Yilan's unrestrained and unrestrained appearance.

"Niangniang, Niangniang?"

Lu He was talking enthusiastically to herself, but when she turned her head and saw Jiang Ningzui's indifferent face, she stared blankly at the magnolia flower in her hand at some point.

Hearing Luhe's call, Jiang Ningzui came back to her senses, and Luhe said excitedly again: "Whenever the king of Beiyang comes to Dayan, the eldest princess will always pardon the world to show the joy with the people. Yesterday, the eldest princess pardoned in advance. After leaving the empress, the empress does not need to confine her feet in the Zhaoling Hall, if the empress is bored, why not let the servants accompany the empress to go out of the palace?"

Jiang Ningzui heard the words, and looked sideways at the palace people coming and going to clean Zhaoling Palace, she did not answer Lu He's words, but said in a concentrated voice: "Lv He, ask the father-in-law in charge for me, come down How long will people be cleaning at my place." After that, Jiang Ningzui patted her clothes lightly, brushing off the heat from the scorching sun, "The sun is too big, it makes me drowsy."

"Yes."

Luhe hurriedly listened to the order to answer, Qingfu stepped forward, handed iced sour plum juice to Jiang Ningzui, and said: "Estimated time, the inner hall should have been cleaned, if the empress thinks sitting under the tree It's stuffy, why don't you move to the inner hall to rest."

She took a sip of the sour plum juice handed by Qingfu, the sweet and sour taste quickly spread over her taste buds, and also brought back some vitality for Jiang Ningzui. In the scene of busy work in the Ling Palace, he asked lightly: "In the past, when the King of Beiyang came to Dayan, did he also need to clean up like this?"

"Yes." Qingfu replied: "Every time King Beiyang comes, the Eldest Princess attaches great importance to it."

Jiang Ningzui's expression remained calm, she got up and patted the crumpled clothes, only felt the scorching sun above her head, she was a little dizzy when she stood up abruptly, her eyes fell back to the magnolia flower in her hand inadvertently On the table, she concentrated her attention, and she didn't know what she thought of, and finally put the stamen on the stone table, turned and walked towards the inner hall.

Suddenly, the wind picked up the magnolia flower on the table, rolled around the table in vain, and fell to the ground.

When she first stepped into the Zhaoling Hall, there was a gust of cold air, which was naturally much cooler than under the trees in the small courtyard. Jiang Ningzui turned into the inner hall, and heard Lu He's reprimand.

"what happened?"

Noticing that Jiang Ningzui frowned, Qing Fu quickly asked Lu He, who was scolding the palace maid, "Lu He, what is it worth you to embarrass her like this?"

"It's not that she is clumsy," Lu He said, picked up a wooden box on the ground, and said, "Here, I broke the empress' brocade box."

Qing Fu was still blaming Lu He for making a fuss, but when she saw the wooden box in Lu He's arms, she said with a solemn expression: "This is the most precious brocade box of the empress. I'm afraid you're new here, why are you so messy?"

The little palace maid was already terrified, and when she saw Jiang Ningzui coming in, her knees softened, she knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your maidservant knows your mistake, this maidservant knows your mistake, please forgive me crime."

It was just a wooden box, and there were no valuables in it, Jiang Ningzui was a modern person after all, and she couldn't see people kneeling and kowtowing so casually, so she just waved her hand lightly and said, "Get up. "After that, she turned her gaze back to the wooden box that Lu He held in her hand, and she couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

Since it was the favorite thing of the Crown Princess during her lifetime, but it was the first time she saw it today, if the little palace maid hadn't accidentally broken it due to recklessness, she probably wouldn't even know where the wooden box was hidden.Thinking about it, she said to Lu He: "Bring me the brocade box and show me." While reaching out to take the wooden box, Jiang Ningzui turned to look at the trembling little maid, and said, "Where are you?" found?"

"Back... If you go back to the Crown Princess, it's there." The little maid was referring to the interlayer of the bookshelf, which is hidden in the first place, and it is indeed extremely difficult to detect it unless someone knows it. "Because the Crown Princess' brocade box is placed in a really hidden place, so the maidservant accidentally dropped it on the ground without noticing it for a while."

There was nothing special in the wooden box, and it looked empty at first glance, but Jiang Ningzui felt that there was something else going on, until her fingertips stroked every corner of the wooden box one by one, and finally found a place in the middle of the box. I felt a protrusion under the flannel, and when I opened the flannel, there was a letter wrapped in an envelope inside.

What kind of letter is it that deserves the princess's painstaking efforts to hide it?

Thinking of this, Jiang Ningzui suppressed her curiosity, first glanced at everyone in Zhaoling Hall, and then ordered coldly: "You all go down first." After all the idlers in the room had retreated, Jiang Ningzui Looking at Qingfu and Luhe standing in front of him, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Luhe, go out and tell the father-in-law in charge that I don't need to clean up here for the time being. If the eldest princess asks, just explain that I ordered it .”

After everyone in the room dispersed, Jiang Ningzui turned around and sat back at the desk, and slowly opened the letter that had never been opened.

It was as if all the voices in the room had been cut off from the outside. Qing Fu didn't know the contents of the letter, but seeing Jiang Ningzui's face becoming more and more condensed, her heart was tightened unknowingly. Beating the drums over and over again, meditating silently must not produce unnecessary side effects.

Jiang Ningzui's expression on reading the letter was too calm, she was so calm that she didn't leave any message to Qing Fu, but Qing Fu noticed her face turning pale bit by bit, thinking of this, her heart became more uneasy up.

The letter is only one and a half pages long, and the words and sentences in it are not difficult to understand, but it is such a few short sentences that Jiang Ningzui read it several times before she can understand the huge truth hidden in it.It's just not right, there is another point that she didn't want to understand, but this is what she is most afraid of.

However, she must know the answer, know the truth behind the whole incident, and know what kind of role she plays in this situation carefully set up by Yan Yilan.

Even this answer will pull them into a situation where there is no redemption.

The originally somewhat drowsy consciousness suddenly dimmed at this moment, Jiang Ningzui sat down weakly on the arm of the chair, her heart was tightly locked, and the fact that it was too cold forced her to frown uncontrollably .After a long while, she raised her head from the letter, her gaze was as cold as ice, just looking at Qingfu so lightly, already made Qingfu's back feel cold.

"Qingfu," Jiang Ningzui called Qingfu in an extremely calm voice, her fingertips slowly retracted as she spoke, crumpling the letter paper in her palm, "Let me ask you a few words, you Just answer me frankly."

At this time, Qingfu also realized that the matter might not be trivial, she didn't dare to be vague and negligent, so she could only nod her head emphatically, and said: "Well, the empress just ask."

"You once told me that when I fell into the water that day, it was the princess's people who found me first?"

Qing Fu replied: "If you go back to your mother, it is true."

Jiang Ningzui pursed her lips, and her voice was uncontrollably hoarse, "Then let me ask you again, what did the princess do when she found out that I fell into the water?"

"When the eldest princess arrived, the guards had already rescued the empress from the water to the shore." Qingfu tried hard to recall all the scenes that happened that day, but it was a pity that things were so unexpected that all the scenes piled up , the memory is really messy. "The eldest princess didn't have any expression on her face, but the servant girl looked at her and felt that her whole heart was shattered. The eldest princess just walked over slowly, hugged the empress in her arms, and didn't let go for a long, long time. .”

Hearing this, Jiang Ningzui should have felt sad, but she just closed her eyes tiredly, and when she opened them again, the indifferent eyes were filled with an almost ruthless composure. "It's been a long, long time... and you haven't let go?" Jiang Ningzui smiled inappropriately after slowly repeating Qingfu's words, the smile looked so sad and ironic. "Since I accidentally fell into the water, why did the eldest princess just stand by and hold her, but didn't send an order to the imperial physician at all?"

Qing Fu's shoulders trembled suddenly, she raised her head in amazement, and saw Jiang Ningzui's indifferent and calm eyes, her heart sank, and in Jiang Ningzui's eyes, she suddenly felt palpitations and despair.

"Why?" Every word she uttered seemed to cut Jiang Ningzui's heart repeatedly. It was the only suicide note left by the princess before she fell into the water. "Is it because the eldest princess wanted the crown princess to die at that time, or was it because the crown princess was not breathing the moment she was rescued?"

Qingfu's shoulders seemed to be unable to bear any more trembling. She didn't dare to look directly into Jiang Ningzui's eyes at this moment, nor did she dare to answer Jiang Ningzui's question, so she could only kneel down with her head down, whispering Exclaimed: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

What a big game of chess.

It seems that I was destined not to be your opponent.

Jiang Ningzui thought, her eyes were burning, but there were no tears to fall.

Yan Yilan, I still lose in the end.Forget it, I was a loser from the very beginning of this game of chess, so why regret it when I know the result?

Standing up slowly from the chair, Jiang Ningzui turned around and walked out of the hall. The moment she pushed open the door, she bumped into Luhe who was turning back. Drive Fengyi Palace."

Lu He was taken aback by Jiang Ningzui's sudden words, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Qingfu kneeling on the ground in a daze, her face was full of anxiety, her shoulders were trembling slightly, as if she was about to break into pieces The bones of the whole body.

"Sister Qingfu, what's the matter?"

"Hurry up, hurry up and tell the princess." Qingfu didn't have time to answer, she just kept pushing Lvhe out of the palace, and murmured in a daze, "If it's too late, I'm afraid the palace will be in chaos." gone."