Feng Yuheng's carriage was stopped, and the driver had to rein in the horse and stop. om. -79-Huang Quan quickly stood up and lifted the curtain to look out, and heard her exclaim "Ah", then turned around and said to Feng Yuheng, "It's Bai Qiaojiang;" At the same time, he stopped the driver from shouting and told him, "It's someone I know."
Feng Yuheng also said at this time, "Quickly invite Bai Qiaojiang to get on the car." As he spoke, he stood up and personally helped Bai Qiaojiang who got on the car, calling him "Uncle Bai."
Bai Qiaojiang quickly waved his hands and said repeatedly, "I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it. I will pay my respects to the princess." Then he was about to kneel.
Feng Yuheng quickly stopped him and said in a hurry, "Uncle, you don't have to be so polite. Just based on my relationship with Furong, you deserve to be called uncle. Come in and sit down."
Bai Qiaojiang was no longer polite. He walked a few steps into the palace carriage and sat on the side, just opposite Wangchuan Huangquan. The carriage continued to move forward.
Wang Chuan noticed that he looked rather flustered, with sweat on his forehead. After he sat down, he would occasionally lift up the curtain to look outside. He couldn't help but become suspicious and asked, "Who is Bai Qiaojiang hiding from?" As he spoke, he poured him a bowl of light tea from the silver pot that was a must in the palace carriage.
Bai Qiaojiang took it and drank it in one gulp. Then he said, "To be honest with you, Princess. I received an imperial decree when I was in the palace just now. It said that the Princess asked me to help modify a few pieces of jewelry. The Queen allowed me to leave the palace. I have been locked up in the palace for nearly a year. Now that I can leave the palace, I should have waited for the Princess at the palace gate. However, because we did not go through the same palace gate, the location of the workshop is opposite to the harem, so I thought about going back to the mansion to see Furong first. As a result, I always felt like someone was following me all the way. I looked back several times, but I could not see anyone. However, the feeling of being on edge still lingered. I happened to see the Princess's carriage, so I dared to stop it."
"Someone is following us?" Feng Yuheng frowned, then raised his voice to the air, "Let's go and take a look."
But she heard the sound of wind passing by her ears, and she knew that it must be Ban who left. After calming down a little, she said to Bai Qiaojiang, "I will check this matter myself, don't worry, uncle."
Bai Qiaojiang nodded, and then asked Feng Yuheng, "I heard that the princess wants me to help her modify a few pieces of jewelry?"
Feng Yuheng briefly told him about what happened between the Lu family and the Phoenix Pavilion yesterday, but Bai Qiaojiang snorted coldly, "If it's for the princess and the Yao family, then I should do it, but if it's for the Lu family, I will definitely not accept it."
Feng Yuheng smiled and said, "If it was just for the Lu family, Ah Heng wouldn't have asked Uncle to leave the palace. Of course..." She lowered her voice and said, "Changing the jewelry is just an excuse. The most important thing is that I want to 'get' Uncle out of the palace;"
Everyone is smart. Bai Qiaojiang has been in the palace for so long. Is he really busy or forced to stay? Although he didn't catch any evidence, he guessed it. Now that Feng Yuheng said this, his suspicion became even stronger. But the palace carriage was not a place to talk, so he changed the subject and said to Feng Yuheng, "The jewelry alterers are all in my house. Princess, do you want me to do it at home or at the Phoenix Pavilion?"
Feng Yuheng shook his head, "Nowhere is safe, uncle, just follow me back to the Princess's Mansion. As for those things, I will send someone to the mansion to get them."
The two of them spoke nothing along the way, and soon arrived at the gate of the Princess's Mansion.
Huang Quan helped Bai Qiaojiang down from the car, while Wang Chuan helped Feng Yuheng down from the car, and they all walked back to Feng Yuheng's courtyard. Feng Yuheng waved his hand, dismissed the servants waiting in the courtyard, and then took Bai Qiaojiang into the hall of the courtyard.
Bai Qiaojiang couldn't wait any longer, and as soon as he entered the house, he asked, "My princess, do you know where Furong is?"
Feng Yuheng asked back, "Where do you think she will be, uncle?"
"This..." Bai Qiaojiang hesitated. Bai Furong should be in the mansion, but he had been in the palace for several months, and his sense of crisis had become stronger and stronger. Until now, he felt that someone was chasing him when he left the palace. Bai Furong's safety had become uncertain.
He told Feng Yuheng what he was thinking, and Feng Yuheng no longer hid it from him. He told him everything about how Qian Zhou people secretly found Bai Furong and told her about her life story. Except for what kind of poison Bai Furong had been poisoned with, he did not hide anything else.
Bai Qiaojiang never expected that things outside would develop into this state. When he heard that Bai Furong had followed the army to Qianzhou, he was even more frightened. But even if he had not participated in what Feng Yuheng said, he knew it must be the truth. First, Feng Yuheng had no need to lie to him. Second, if Qianzhou had not intentionally leaked the past events between her and Kang Yi many years ago, Feng Yuheng would never have known it anyway.
He sighed and nodded, accepting this bad fate. At the same time, he told Feng Yuheng, "In fact, Furong is older than Rujia. After we fled to Dashun, we were afraid that our identities would be exposed, so we changed the household registration after the child was a little older and shortened her birthday by two years. Princess..." He asked anxiously, "How is Furong now?"
"Don't worry." She told Bai Qiaojiang, "My grandfather Yao Xian is doing his best to treat her. I will keep her alive. As for the jewelry, I will modify it slowly after it is delivered. There is no rush."
Bai Qiaojiang sighed. Knowing that the matter was complicated, he did not ask any more questions. With Feng Yuheng's assurance, he believed that all this would pass one day. Qian Zhou was dead, Kang Yi was dead, and even his old bones had smelled the smell of soil in recent years. How many more years could he hold on? At least he could see his daughter safe and sound in his lifetime.
Huang Quan sent someone to escort Bai Qiaojiang to the guest house, and also delivered the jewelry-making table that was moved from Bai's house. Bai Qiaojiang immersed himself in making jewelry and didn't say anything more to anyone.
After Feng Yuheng and Concubine Yuan Shu left, the Queen was leaning on the kang in Jingci Palace, with a sad face. Fang Yi was waiting carefully beside her, peeling grapes for her one by one.
The Queen looked at the grapes peeling off their skins and suddenly asked Fang Yi, "Tell me, how much do you believe what Concubine Yuan Shu said?"
Fang Yi paused while peeling the grapes, then continued, saying, "In my opinion, whether Concubine Yun is in the palace is another matter, but the strange things listed by Concubine Yuan Shu do not seem to be made up out of thin air."
"So, Yuehan Palace is indeed behaving strangely?" She thought for a moment and asked uncertainly, "The Yun Fei has always behaved strangely. If she suddenly changed her personality, it wouldn't be too strange."
Fang Yi nodded, "Indeed, the most difficult place in the palace to figure out is Yuehan Palace, but the emperor protects it tightly, and no outsider can get in. If you really listen to Concubine Yuan Shu's words and interfere with this matter, what if Concubine Yun is still alive in the palace, won't the emperor punish you?"
"But what if Concubine Yun is really not here?" The Queen smiled bitterly. "If she is really not here, then what Concubine Yuan Shu said will come true. As the Queen of the Palace, I failed to stop a concubine from escaping. This is also a serious crime. Concubine Yun, you really gave me a difficult problem."
Fang Yi handed a small bowl of peeled grapes to the Queen, "Have some, Your Majesty. These are seedless grapes that were newly tributed from the border. I found them sweet even when I was peeling them."
The Queen had no appetite to eat. She looked at the bowl of grapes as if it were a bitter medicine soup. However, she took the medicine pills given by Feng Yuheng in her hand and said happily, "That girl is really resourceful. She can make such a good medicine. It's thanks to her filial piety. Otherwise, I'm afraid this illness of mine would be difficult to cure."
Fang Yi said helplessly, "There is something I didn't want to tell you about earlier, fearing that it would disturb you from recuperating. I was planning to investigate privately and report back after I found out. But after thinking about it, I still don't know where to start, so I can only ask you for advice." She repeated what Feng Yuheng had said to the Queen, and then asked, "Your Majesty, do you think we should start investigating this matter from the Imperial Hospital or the harem?"
The Queen didn't speak for a long time, as if she was thinking about something. When Fang Yi wanted to ask again, she said quietly, "There are many troubles in the palace, and finally it has been plotted against me. What can I do if I investigate? If you dare to do this, then you are not afraid of investigation, because you can't find anything. After all these years, there have been many unsolved cases in the palace, haven't there been many?"
"Your Highness means... not to investigate?"
"I didn't say I wouldn't investigate, it's just that I can't take care of it right now." The Queen's mind was full of whether Concubine Yun was in the palace. She would always feel uneasy until she figured out the matter.
Fang Yi thought for a moment and said, "I think we can only cooperate with one person on this matter, and that is Princess Ji'an. Regardless of whether Concubine Yun is in the palace or not, we should keep a close eye on Concubine Yuan Shu. Once there is any movement from her, we should immediately spread the news outside the palace. As for what to do, if there is really something wrong, the Princess and His Highness the Ninth Prince should be more anxious than us. If there is nothing wrong, we might as well do her a favor."
The Queen nodded and said to Fang Yi approvingly, "You are getting smarter and smarter." As soon as this idea came out, her mood improved. She threw the peeled grapes into her mouth one by one, "Mm, very sweet." After thinking about it again, she reminded, "Watch your mouth. This matter must not be passed on to the ears of the Emperor. He will easily become impulsive when he hears about Concubine Yun's matter. The court cannot be in chaos because of this!"
Let's talk about Cunshan Palace. After being shocked by Feng Yuheng, Concubine Yuan Shu hesitated. Thinking carefully, she was indeed too reckless before this matter. Although Concubine Yun was not in the highest position in the palace, she had a different weight in the emperor's heart. No one in the palace, including the queen, could enter the heart of Emperor Tianwu. The reason was that Emperor Tianwu went out of the palace incognito and met Concubine Yun in a mountain village. Since Concubine Yun, the palace has not added any concubines, and he has never favored any concubines. For so many years, he has lived alone in Zhaohe Palace, only with a eunuch as a company. He was just pretending to be with the queen in front of others, but he was unwilling to even pretend to be with the concubines.
If she tried to touch such a being, no matter whether she succeeded or not, she would touch the emperor's thorns. If she succeeded, she would not be able to win back the emperor's heart, and if she failed, she would be doomed forever.
When Concubine Yuan Shu understood this, she couldn't help but feel scared. She shuddered and her whole back was wet. She was about to tell Yuexiu not to mention this matter again, but she saw the lame eunuch Rong Zhen come in again and whispered to her, "My master, there is movement in Yuehan Palace again."
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