Chapter 042 Chapter 42
Chapter 42
Ruan Yunxing's eyes darkened. Is this such a coincidence?
Wen Yunu supported Ruan Yun at this time and asked, "Sister Ying, have you remembered anything?"
Ruan Jun turned her head to look at Wen Yunu and shook her head dully. In the end, she swallowed the words back before she could say them.
The Queen was in a great dilemma. This matter was not a small one, not to mention that there were so many relatives, princes and ministers present. If Ying Cairen could not remember who it was today, she would be punished.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
Ji Xuanshi had a pale face and a thin, shaky body. Her entire body was wrapped in a cloak, and her hair was a little loose.
Yan Shiyu frowned and strode over, holding Ji Xuanshi's shoulder and asked, "Why did you get out?"
When he looked at Yicui, just one glance made Yicui break out in cold sweat, and she bent down and knelt in front of Yan Shiyu.
Concubine Ji tried hard to put on a smile, and put her hand on the back of Yan Shiyu's hand, and said softly: "Your Majesty, please don't blame them. It was this concubine who wanted to come out."
Wei Maoyuan sent someone to place a stool and a charcoal basin next to Ji Xuanshi, and couldn't help but sigh. Now both Yu Ronghua and Ji Xuanshi in the palace are pregnant, but the two look very different. If the incident today happened to Yu Ronghua, I'm afraid everyone would be disturbed. Ji Xuanshi is a smart person.
Concubine Ji looked at Ruan Yun anxiously, and then wanted to kneel down, but Yan Shiyu said in a deep voice: "You are not in good health, so forget about these formalities."
After standing there in a daze for a moment, Ji Xuanshi finally did not kneel down, and was helped by Yi Cui to sit on the stool.
"What happened just now was not done by Yingcai people."
There was a mist in Ruan Yun's eyes that covered the original emotions in her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her weak appearance was seen by everyone.
The concubine Ji covered her lips and said, "I also heard Ying Cairen asking Doctor Liu about my pulse that day. Today, I am standing behind Ying Cairen. Although I did not see clearly what happened at that time, I believe that Ying Cairen will not harm me."
The queen's voice softened. "Are you telling the truth?"
Concubine Ji nodded, with determination in her eyes. She smiled bitterly and touched her belly, saying, "It was my own carelessness that almost caused me to lose the dragon fetus. Although I was framed, I don't want to blame it on someone who has nothing to do with it, so I..."
Taking a deep breath, Concubine Ji chose to kneel down and said, "I am willing to take all the blame for protecting the descendants of the dragon, but Ying Cairen is indeed innocent."
Yan Shiyu frowned and looked at Ji Xuanshi. When he approached the table with his fingertips slightly bent, he stood up and helped Ji Xuanshi up. "You did a good job."
These words have two meanings, and most people present can hear them.
Ji Xuanshi looked at Ruan Yun and forced a smile. Ruan Yun wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief. No matter what, she owed Ji Xuanshi a favor today.
Wei Maoyuan suddenly brought someone in, placed the things on the support in front of the emperor and empress, and said in a very low voice: "I just went to the stone steps of the main hall and saw that some bricks were smeared with honey wax, just where Yingcai was standing."
Yan Shiyu glanced at him and asked slowly, "Where are the maids who sweep the Qingxuan Palace?"
Wei Maoyuan knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me! When I went there, the maid had already committed suicide."
Yan Shiyu concealed the disgust in his eyes and rolled these two words back and forth with his thin lips:
"What a coincidence."
Ruan Jun lowered her head. It was really a good idea. Not only did he want to take her life here, but he also wanted to use her to knock Ji Xuanshi onto the stone steps, killing two birds with one stone.
There was a distinct feeling of being pushed on the back, and the ground beneath her feet was indeed slipping. Ruan Jun was not sure if the feeling was just an illusion. If it wasn't...
"Investigate." Yan Shiyu's dark eyes gradually turned cold, "Find out if there are other people involved."
Wei Maoyuan accepted the order and the matter had to be dropped.
Walking back to Ruiyu Pavilion with Yingning and Tingxu, Ruan Yun looked at the fireworks under the corridor and said to Chunqing, "Bring me a fire starter."
Chun Qing quickly went to find a lighter, opened all the fireworks and placed them in front of Ruan Yun, saying, "Look, young lady, which one do you want to play with?"
Ruan Yun smiled and said, "I think it's not me who thinks, but you who thinks."
Chunqing shook his head in embarrassment, and Tingxu said unceremoniously: "Go, go aside, don't disturb the young lady's elegant mood."
Ruan Yun searched for a long time before finding the kind she liked when she was a child. After picking up some, she said to the palace servants in Ruiyu Pavilion, "Today you are allowed to play together."
Ying Ning smiled as she helped Ruan Yun light the fireworks. With the palace gates closed, no one knew what Ruiyu Pavilion was doing.
The snow stopped today, but it started snowing again unexpectedly.
In the flying snow, the dark pink figure was agile, Ruan Yun's beautiful face was illuminated by the faint light of the fireworks, and her almond eyes were soft and bright under her curled eyelashes.
This was the scene when Wei Maoyuan pushed open the palace gate of Ruiyu Pavilion.
The movement of the imperial carriage was so loud that all the palace maids in Ruiyu Pavilion looked over, until they saw that it was the emperor who knelt down in panic, holding the fireworks in his hand.
Ruan Jun's eyes were wide open, she never thought that the emperor would come.
After Ying Ning reminded her, Ruan Yun bowed softly, "Your Majesty, all is well."
He quickly ran to Yan Shiyu, still holding the burnt firework in his hand, "Why is the emperor here?"
Yan Shiyu sneered, pinched her face which was red from the cold wind and said, "If I hadn't come, how would I have known that you were so careless."
Ruan Yun's cheeks immediately flushed, and she covered her face and timidly called out, "The fireworks were given by the Emperor, so of course I want to play with them."
Everything was in the past, and what the left and right concubines said was not enough to pin the blame on her, so why didn't she be happier and put her worries aside for tomorrow.
Ruan Jun shook Yan Shiyu's sleeve, and her cold fingertips unconsciously touched Yan Shiyu's rough and thin fingertips. She raised her little face and frowned, saying, "The emperor hasn't said anything yet, why are you here?"
Yan Shiyu held her hand calmly and said, "I said I would come to accompany you."
Ruan Yun thought about it carefully. The emperor said that day that he was willing to send her fireworks, but his words did not indicate that he wanted to accompany her.
Yan Shiyu didn't care what the woman behind him was thinking. He directly pulled Ruan Yun to the corridor and asked, "Which fireworks did Yun choose just now?"
Another name popped out of Yan Shiyu's mouth. Ruan Jun shyly tapped him with her fingertips. His onion-like fingertips looked white under the candlelight in the dark night, which was so alluring that she wanted to pull him over and rub him in her hands.
Yan Shiyu personally bent over and picked up one. Seeing this, Wei Maoyuan immediately wanted to use a tinder to help the emperor light it, but was stopped by Yan Shiyu. He took the tinder himself and watched the fireworks burn in his hand.
"Do you like it?"
Ruan Yun nodded heavily and said beside Yan Shiyu: "I like it very much. This is the first time I have seen it in many years."
Yan Shiyu pinched her earlobe until it turned red like a blood-red jade bead before letting go, saying, "Since Ayun likes you, come by yourself in two days."
The palace people were still around, and although they were not far away, Ruan Yun was still angry and said, "The emperor is a wise ruler!"
Yan Shiyu said seriously: "But I like Ayun like this."
Ruan Jun turned her face away, and fireworks danced in the afterglow. "I don't want it."
Yan Shiyu said coldly: "If you don't want it, I will have the small kitchen removed and will not allow the dining room to send you cakes."
Ruan Yun looked sad and was extremely coquettish. "Of all the people in the palace, the Emperor chose to torment me alone. I am tired enough every day, and I have to copy books and practice calligraphy all day long. Now I can't even use the cakes."
Ruan Yun was carried to Yan Shiyu's front. A sweet fragrance filled her nose. Ruan Yun said pitifully, "Your Majesty, please look. My hands are swollen."
Yan Shiyu hit her waist and hips unhappily, and said in a clear voice: "I see you have strength again?"
Ruan Yun hurriedly shook her head, "I don't have any."
After lighting the fireworks in her hand, Ruan Jun remembered what day it was and looked at Yan Shiyu with some hesitation.
If the emperor doesn't leave now, it may be too late.
Yan Shiyu's face turned pale, and when he saw Ruan Yun's appearance, he asked, "What happened?"
Ruan Yun placed her hand gently on Yan Shiyu's chest and said softly, "Your Majesty, it's time for you to go to the Empress."
Yan Shiyu looked at Ruan Jun with complicated eyes, but he could only see that her clear eyes were without any other emotions. Even when she said this, what she hoped in her eyes was that he would leave quickly.
If it were any other concubine, if she knew he was coming, she would definitely ask him to stay, but when it came to the woman in front of her, she behaved completely differently.
Ruan Jun's hands curled up slightly, and she felt a little nervous, fearing that the emperor would really want to rest in Ruiyu Pavilion. Wouldn't that be too impolite? Besides, the emperor always respected the empress and would not do that.
The remnants of fireworks in his hand fell to the ground and were soon covered by the snow.
Yan Shiyu said in a deep voice: "I understand."
Taking a glance at Wei Maoyuan, he immediately understood what he meant and sent people to prepare the sedan chair. Ruan Jun breathed a sigh of relief, saluted to Yan Shiyu, and then sent the emperor out of Ruiyu Pavilion.
Tingxu ran over and put the hand warmer into Ruan Yun's hands, protecting her and saying, "Young Master, do you still want to play?"
After what happened just now, Ruan Jun no longer had any other thoughts in her mind and shook her head as she walked into Ruiyu Pavilion.
Ying Ning placed a cup of milk tea next to Ruan Yun, "My lady, would you like to drink some? It will also warm your body."
Ruan Yun saw the milk tea on the table today but didn't move it. Instead, she said softly, "I find what happened today strange."
Ying Ning asked, "My young lady is very favored by the emperor in the palace, so it is hard to guarantee that she will not be hated by others. But now others are in the dark and we are in the light. I don't know how many things will happen in the future."
"Honey wax suddenly appeared on the floor tiles of Qingxuan Palace, and the palace maiden involved committed suicide out of fear of punishment. It is impossible to find the murderer behind it." There was a flash of doubt in Ruan Yunxing's eyes, and the figure kept swaying in front of her eyes.
Ying Ning understood Ruan Yun's meaning immediately, and knelt down beside Ruan Yun and said, "My lady, do you have any suspicions?"
Then she added, "I'm sorry to say this, but if you really have any doubts, don't speak them out lightly."
Ruan Yun tapped the lid of the milk tea cup with her fingertips and said, "Ask Yuexue to come to the inner hall tomorrow."
Ying Ning quickly agreed, and seeing Ruan Yun yawning slightly, she smiled and said, "I will help the young lady to sleep."
She was really tired tonight. Of course, there was the palace banquet in Qingxuan Palace. She had to put on a smile to everyone she met. Then there was the incident of Ji Xuanshi. No wonder the emperor looked like that when he saw her setting off fireworks in Ruiyu Pavilion.
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Fengyi Palace.
Qiyue took the book from the Queen's hand and said, "Your Majesty, just now, went to Ruiyu Pavilion first."
The Queen paused as she grasped the spine of the book. She only murmured, "I never expected this."
When Concubine Ji was sent back to Yixiang Pavilion today, she looked unwell. People thought that the Emperor went to see Concubine Ji, but unexpectedly he went to Ruiyu Pavilion. However, it is true. Concubine Ying has been wronged, how can she be comforted if she is not comforted?
The queen sat in front of the bronze mirror, slowly took off the earrings from her earrings and asked, "How is the Ministry of Punishment going?"
Qiyue took off the other earring for the empress and said, "Don't worry, madam. Everything has been arranged."
The Queen responded to Qiyue in a neutral tone. Yan Shiyu came out of the bathroom. The maids came forward to serve tea. Looking at the Emperor through the bronze mirror, the Queen said softly, "Your Majesty has been tired all day. Go to bed early."
Yan Shiyu held the teacup in his hand and said without saying a word, "Yu Ronghua and Ji Xuanshi are both pregnant. The Queen should pay more attention to them."
The queen was startled for a moment, then sat down beside Yan Shiyu and smiled kindly, saying, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will definitely check on you every day."
“Nothing will be overlooked.”
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