After the young man walked in, he stopped beside Jiang Rao in the center of the hall and saluted the empress and emperor on the seat.

When he raised his head, he showed a jade-like face, with a slight smile on his thin lips, as if he could make this Gong Yu shine brightly.

He was dignified and elegant in his every move, but Empress Jiahe, who had always been dignified beside Emperor Zhaowu, could no longer maintain his dignity and decency, staring at the slender figure in the hall, almost staring his eyes out , horrified.

The envoy saw the person coming, and stood up in surprise. The table in front of him swayed, and the wine almost splashed him, "His Royal Highness?"

Emperor Zhaowu had an indifferent look that he had known for a long time.

Jiang Rao shuddered a bit when she heard the sound outside the hall, and looked back.

Rong Ting came to her and stopped, glanced down with his eyes, hooked his long fingers, opened Jiang Rao's fingers, and took out the smashed rice paper from the five fingers she clenched tightly.

He glanced at Xingxing's eyes, which were trembling. It was obviously a frightened little girl. His eyes were heavy. When he got the secret letter and wanted to withdraw his fingers, he gently touched Jiang Rao's hand.

Jiang Rao was touched by his cold fingers and did not escape.

It was only a brief touch, Rong Ting quickly removed his fingers and looked at Emperor Zhaowu and Empress Jiahe, "My son is a little late."

This is for the Queen Jiahe.

Seeing Rong Ting standing tall and straight in the hall, Empress Jiahe couldn't help trembling.

Huaizhou and his party did not kill him, but cured his leg instead?

What went wrong?

She glanced at Jiang Rao, the little girl was upright and upright, her face neither happy nor angry, as if she had just been facing the enemy, she was not relaxed or surprised.

Apparently he already knew something.

No wonder she had a smile on her face when she came out of Qingluantai and ran into her.

Empress Jiahe was about to have a seizure. In her ears, Emperor Zhaowu's ironic words slowly came, "I thought that the Empress should be happy when she sees Ting'er back."

Empress Jiahe was shocked and turned her head to look at the man beside her.

She saw Emperor Zhaowu's gaze, calm and calm, and suddenly understood something.

He already knew that Rong Ting was not dead.

What were the words he comforted when she pretended to be sad and the words he praised Rong Ting in front of her for the past six months...what are they?

Empress Jiahe's forehead ached sharply. She put away the appearance of showing her teeth and claws just now, and said to Emperor Zhaowu in a panic, "My concubine is unwell, and I want to go back to Jinxiu Palace first."

Emperor Zhaowu did not allow her to get up, and said indifferently: "Adanu needs to give an explanation."

Empress Jiahe was frightened, and an ominous foreboding arose, but she could only reluctantly smile, and stayed in the Golden Palace, feeling uneasy in her heart. Although there was a reluctant smile on her face, it looked like a thick cloud was pressing on top. .

She noticed the sudden change of Emperor Zhaowu's attitude towards her after Rong Ting appeared, and tried to approach Emperor Zhaowu, trying to pull Emperor Zhaowu's hand.

Emperor Zhaowu raised his hands on the table, both intentionally and unintentionally, just avoiding Empress Jiahe's fingers to hold him, his eyes were as cold as frost.

He looked at Rong Ting, "Since you wrote the secret letter, what basis do you have?"

"Of course my son does not dare to lie."

Behind Rong Ting followed the men of Jin Yiwei, Rong Ting made a gesture, and Jin Yiwei led the guard to come up with a middle-aged woman who was tied with hemp rope and dressed up as a maid in the palace, and said, "Someone in the inn saw it with his own eyes. When someone put medicine in the meal of the Qiang warrior, I followed the person all the way, and found that the person went to the gate of the palace, and was connected with the Qi mama in the splendid palace, besides..."

"Mother Qi has recruited everything."

He pulled away the white cloth from the mother's mouth, and the mother kowtowed a few times and shouted: "Your Majesty, it was the queen who wanted the seventeenth prince to win over Adanu, so she made the plan to put soft tendons in Adanu's meal. , that medicine is colorless and tasteless, it will not affect the pulse, the imperial doctor will definitely not be able to find it, but it only takes seven days, and Adanu will be able to return to normal after seven days.

The queen's face changed drastically. Ever since she saw that the old lady in her palace was caught, she knew that this matter had nothing to do with it, but she didn't believe that Emperor Zhaowu would really punish her, so she shook her head and held Zhao Emperor Wu's sleeve: "There must be some misunderstanding in it, Your Majesty, don't doubt your concubine, someone is going to wrong him..."

Emperor Zhaowu flicked her hand away, "Who do you think Jin Yiwei has the permission to search the Splendid Palace?"

There was not a trace of tenderness in his eyes, and he said coldly, "It's me."

"No injustice, no misunderstanding, I know what you did."

Empress Jiahe collapsed, her face ashen.

Emperor Zhaowu looked at the Qiang envoy and said apologetically, "I will definitely give you and Adanu an explanation for today's affairs."

He got up and asked Jinyiwei to take the maid to Dali Temple to continue inquiries. Empress Jiahe still did not give up, and chased after him and shouted grievously, "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Zhaowu strode away from the Golden Palace without looking back.

Empress Jiahe felt a tingling pain in her heart, and fell to the hall, unable to figure out what went wrong, she smashed the ground twice, and she was in a state of embarrassment.

...

Not long after Emperor Zhaowu left, he ordered Empress Jiahe to be imprisoned in the Splendid Palace, and she was not allowed to leave the Splendid Palace for half a step without his approval.

In order to win the seventeenth prince, the Qiang warriors used medicine in Adanu's meals. There was also a lot of rumors in the palace. The palace staff who had some experience shook their heads and said that Queen Jiahe had a gold medal that showed her status as the only master of the six palaces. Yin, maybe it's going to change hands.

Empress Jiahe naturally knew what the veteran palace servants could see.

She still couldn't figure out why Rong Ting was able to come back alive, or when Emperor Zhaowu noticed something was wrong and actually acted with her.

Thinking of the tender feelings of the past few months, it was just a trial, and it was a mirror that could no longer be caught. Queen Jiahe cried to the point where her eyes were red and swollen in just a few days, her vision was blurred, she could not distinguish objects or people.

Even the Seventeenth Prince hurriedly entered the Splendid Palace to see her, but she almost didn't recognize her. When the palace maid on the side told her that this was the Seventeenth Prince, the Queen's eyes lit up with hope, and she groped for it and held the Seventeenth tightly. The prince's hand, her voice was hoarse like a broken gong, "Yuan'er, go and talk to your father, I do all this, not for the sake of Da Zhao's reputation."

But just like Emperor Zhaowu shook off her hand, the Seventeenth Prince also shook her hand away.

The seventeenth prince's eyes were split, and he looked at Empress Jiahe angrily, "Does the queen mother really give Adanu medicine?"

The queen tightened her fingers and heard the questioning in the tone of the seventeenth prince, and she was not angry.

Who did she get into trouble for, how could he be qualified to reprimand her?

The Queen's face froze, "If it wasn't for you, why would Ben Gong use Soft Tendon Powder to deal with that samurai?"

The seventeenth prince clenched his teeth, clenched his fingers into fists, and shook a few times by his side.

He held it back for a long time, and finally his eyes were red, and he raised his voice, and shouted to Jia and the Queen: "When will I ask the mother to help me again!"

He won Adanu, and after only half a day, he was ridiculed and laughed at again!

No one believed what he said that he didn't know anything about it. Others said that in order to win Adanu, he begged his mother to help him put medicine in Adanu's meals!

Empress Jiahe couldn't see the expression on the seventeenth prince's face. She could only hear the resentment in his voice. The deep hatred for her made her tremble. She stretched out her hand and shouted in panic. With a sound, "Yuan'er..."

No more answer.

The hand she stretched out did not touch the edge of the seventeenth prince's clothes, and the sound of running footsteps gradually faded away, and the seventeenth prince rushed out of the Splendid Palace in tears.

...

Back garden, by the pond.

The spring in the garden is just in bloom, spewing yellow stamens. Jiang Rao held the pomegranate and stayed beside Yun Guifei, who was throwing fish food. It was cold at the moment, and the red and white koi in the pond were hard to find. Yun Guifei threw the fish food into it, and soon became tired. Now, I asked the palace maid to take the fish food away, tilted her head and said to Jiang Rao, "I thought you said that the Ninth Highness had been retrieved, but it was you who only became ill and became confused."

Concubine Yun Gui paused, "It should not be called His Royal Highness Ninth Highness, it should be called King Qi."

In the battle of Huaizhou, Rong Ting was rewarded for his merits, and he was given to the palace of the King of Qi.

Her expression changed slightly, "No wonder when the Huaizhou battle was just settled, the emperor did not mention the matter of pursuing his title. It turned out that he knew that his ninth son was not dead, and he had planned it for a long time."

Concubine Yun Gui pondered, "You said, in the future, this prince will only be in the position, will it fall on Duan Wang's head?"

Jiang Rao shook his head, "I can't figure out this kind of thing, just take a step and see it."

She said a word and didn't say anything else, looking a little absent-minded. Concubine Yun looked at Jiang Rao and pinched her face, "In other words, she wants to accompany me, obviously waiting for King Qi here."

Jiang Rao blushed but didn't refute, that's what she was thinking, and there was nothing to refute.

A figure passed by the moon gate on the east side of the back garden. Jiang Rao glanced over and saw the figure clearly, but his eyes were a little disappointed.

It was the seventeenth prince, not Rong Ting.

The seventeenth prince also saw Jiang Rao.

His eyelids were swollen, and after seeing Jiang Rao, he hesitated for two steps, as if he wanted to rush forward to explain something.

In the end, it took a step back.

Concubine Yun Gui felt very strange, glanced at the direction where the seventeenth prince left, and quietly said to Jiang Rao: "Does the seventeenth prince also have an interest in you?"

Jiang Rao frowned, as if she was stained with something dirty, "Auntie, don't scare me by saying such things."

"You don't have to guess."

Concubine Yun's eyes narrowed slightly, "Be careful, I think something is wrong."

After staying in the back garden for too long, Concubine Yun Gui stayed until noon and returned to Shuxiang Palace. Jiang Rao stayed here, thinking that she might not be able to wait for Rong Ting today.

Emperor Zhaowu didn't know what he was investigating. She kept Rong Ting in the imperial study every day. She didn't have the chance to see him a few times.

Jiang Rao went to sit in the pavilion with a wave of grief in her heart.

In the cold spring weather, the spring wind was cold, Ming Shao went to fetch a cloak for Jiang Rao.

Jiang Rao waited too long and felt sleepy, lying on the stone table bored until Ming Shao came back, looking at Jiang Rao, who was lying on the table in a drowsy state, bent over and approached her ear and said, "The wind is so cold, girl Fall asleep here, don't catch the cold."

Jiang Rao was unmoved, Ming Shao frowned, leaned closer, and said, "The servant just heard the chat between the two palace maids on the road, praising His Royal Highness King Qi."

Jiang Rao suddenly woke up a lot, rubbed her eyes and asked, "What are you bragging about?"

"Naturally, it is because His Royal Highness King Qi was born handsome and handsome, in exchange for being brave and resourceful." Ming Shao smiled, "I used to feel aggrieved when my servant replaced the girl, but now I don't feel at all. The girl's eyes are so good, those who used to look down on His Royal Highness King Qi felt aggrieved. The noble daughter of the aristocratic family must be extremely regretful now.”

After Jiang Rao heard this, she did not feel triumphant because of Ming Shao's words, but frowned slightly.

She was inexplicably worried.

They were on the road when the queen was looking for someone to put medicine in Adanu's meal.

But Rong Tinghuan knew every move of the queen.

It was as if everything in the world could not hide from his eyes.

Looking at him at this time, she vaguely had an impression of the Jiuye in the dream.

—— Cover the sky with one hand, and hold the power.

He was no longer the poor little girl who couldn't get enough to eat when she first met him.

When he finally became such a person, she was naturally happy for him.

But some things in the dream that she ignored were also remembered.

In the dream, there are many people who covet his power and want to be his woman.