The moon and lantern viewing banquet has begun.

"Sister." Shan Lan, wearing the clothes of a noble lady, also attended the banquet. When she saw Concubine Shan, she hurriedly grabbed her hand, handed a folded red paper from her palm to Concubine Shan, and whispered a long speech in her ear.

Concubine Shan listened with a faint smile, her expression normal.

At the second watch, Concubine Shan put on a fox fur cloak, and with the help of her maid Lian Xin and the escort of several eunuchs, she left the banquet and walked towards Yuanheng Palace.

When they arrived at the gate of Yuanheng Palace, she left Lianxin and a few eunuchs behind and entered the palace alone.

As soon as I came in, I heard the soft sound of a zither coming from the side hall.

Candles were lit in the side hall and the main door was open. Yun Weizhi was playing the zither alone in the side hall.

The main hall was also brightly lit, with maids coming and going. It seemed that the empress and the prince were there.

It was a pity that the Queen was not in the same room with the musician Yun. However, no matter how careful they were, they could not escape this.

Concubine Shan adjusted her hair, put on a smile, and walked towards the main hall.

"Hey, why is Sister Shanfei here? Aren't we having a banquet now?" The Queen smiled and sent a maid to help her down quickly.

"I was thinking about the Empress, and I decided to come over to pay my respects. I wonder if I disturbed her?" Concubine Shan smiled respectfully, "Tonight is the Lantern Festival. Does the Empress have any good words to say?"

"There are no good words or sentences here. I just scribbled a few words." The queen invited Concubine Shan in and gave her a seat.

"How is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today? Is he feeling better?" Concubine Shan asked with concern.

"Much better, but it's been cold, so I haven't been out." The queen's tone was particularly gentle today, unlike her usual aloof and arrogant self.

After exchanging pleasantries, Concubine Shan approached the Empress mysteriously and said, "Your Majesty, I have something personal to say to you in private."

"Oh? Is there anything you can't say in front of them?" The queen said with a smile, "My maids and eunuchs are not outsiders either."

"This..." Concubine Shan looked embarrassed.

Seeing that she was determined to insist, the queen ordered everyone around her to leave and closed the door.

Concubine Shan took out a piece of red paper from her bosom, unfolded it, and pointed it out to the empress in the bright moonlight: "This is a fragment of a poem left by the poet Wu Zidao of the previous dynasty. It was copied by a folk poet. I happened to get it today. I thought that Your Majesty would love to appreciate it, so I came here to present it to Your Majesty."

"Why don't you appreciate such a beautiful thing under the lamp?" the Queen asked with a smile.

"Wu Zidao's poems are elegant and graceful. I think they are even more poetic when read in the moonlight," explained Concubine Shan.

"Sister is indeed thinking about me, and I am very pleased." The Queen said with a smile.

"I don't understand what poetry is, but I thought that Your Majesty would love this one the most, so I hurried over to present it to You." Concubine Shan breathed a sigh of relief.

"I accept your kindness, sister. I have always loved poetry and will copy it down carefully under the moonlight."

After exchanging pleasantries, Concubine Shan drank two more cups of tea before she put on her clothes and left.

Back at the banquet, Shan Lan asked hurriedly, "How is it? Is everything going well?"

"It went smoothly, but too smoothly. I'm a little worried." Concubine Shan rubbed her temples. No matter how she thought about it, she felt that the Empress was a little weird tonight. She was too easy to talk to!

But when I think about the whole process carefully, I really can't find any imperfections.

"It's only right that it should go smoothly." Shan Lan sighed, "Sister, you've worked so hard for so many years and have understood the Queen's temperament thoroughly. You even know how she loves poetry, whose poetry she loves, how she copies poetry, which languages ​​she is familiar with and which she is not... You know everything. How can it not go smoothly?"

"Yes, I know that the Queen loves Wu Zidao's poems. I also know that she loves to copy poems under the bright moonlight. I also know that she likes to put letters in a box at the head of the bed and likes to press poems under the box..." Concubine Shan stretched out her slender hands and stroked her forehead and eyes: "No matter how hard it is, it is worth it."

"Sister, you should take the Baiwang Powder quickly." Shan Lan reminded her, "Otherwise, the time will be wrong. When you wake up tomorrow, I will tell you everything that happened tonight."

Shan Lan took out a small packet of medicine powder from her sleeve and handed it to Concubine Shan, covering it with her wide palace sleeves. Concubine Shan took it, sprinkled it into the teacup, and drank it all in one gulp.

Even though the imperial physician could be bribed, there was no guarantee that he would not temporarily invite other uninformed imperial physicians to treat the patient. Therefore, whether in the original work or this time, Concubine Shan really took Baiwang Powder.

That night, Shan Lan used the excuse that it was late and it was inconvenient to go home, so she stayed overnight in Shan Fei's palace. The two were real sisters and often visited each other, so no one in the palace suspected anything.

The next day, news spread in the palace that Concubine Shan was ill in bed.

Before the imperial physician arrived, Shan Lan had already told Concubine Shan everything that happened last night, word for word. Therefore, although Concubine Shan seemed to be oblivious to everything because she had drunk Baiwang Powder, she actually knew everything.

In order to make it more credible, Concubine Shan also specially invited several imperial doctors who were known to be upright and could not keep their mouths shut to diagnose and treat the case.

"This... this is Baiwangsan!" The imperial physician was horrified: "Your Majesty, this is a serious matter. I dare not speak nonsense, nor do I dare to hide it!"

"I beg you to keep silent for the time being." Concubine Shan was lying in her tent, her voice a little weak: "The matter has not been investigated yet, and I don't want to cause a commotion in the palace... Please wait for half a day."

After the doctor left, Shan Lan asked in confusion, "Why didn't my sister speak out immediately?"

"The timing is not yet ripe." Concubine Shan smiled and said, "It is early morning now, and His Majesty has not yet gone to the morning court. He is in a good mood. If I speak out now, His Majesty may let me go easily and will not put the Queen to death."

"That's right. Your Majesty just hosted the Persian delegation last night. I heard that they had a very pleasant conversation. Your Majesty must be in a good mood this morning." Shan Lan nodded.

"But the situation will be different after His Majesty finishes the court session. According to what my sister said last night, the Grand Tutor knows that several memorials will be submitted to today's morning court session, and they will contain all unpleasant words! His Majesty will definitely be very angry after the morning court session!" Concubine Shan's eyes flashed.

"If your majesty is in a bad mood, the Queen and Master Yun will definitely die." Shan Lan said with a smile.

"Also, the Queen got Wu Zidao's poem from me last night, so she must be very inspired to write poetry. Maybe she has already written a few poems herself." Concubine Shan counted on her fingers, "And your Majesty has never liked the Queen writing poems. When he returned to the harem after the court session, he knew what new poem the Queen had written, and his face became stern."

"Then we will use this opportunity to tell everyone what happened last night. They will be furious!" Shan Lan's voice became lower and lower, but she couldn't suppress the ecstasy in her tone.

Concubine Shan harmed the empress for the sake of wealth and glory for herself and her son. Grand Tutor Zhao Ne harmed the empress because of family conflict and for his own career advancement. Shan Lan harmed the empress not only for profit and to help her sister and husband, but also for her own selfish reasons.

It turned out that twenty years ago, when the emperor was still the crown prince, Shan Lan and Xiao Wenyin were both proposed as candidates for the crown princess. However, after comparing them in many aspects, Xiao Wenyin was of high birth, more beautiful, and more elegant. She immediately outshined Shan Lan and was chosen as the crown princess. Shan Lan lost the election and married Zhao Ne. Therefore, she had a different kind of hatred for Xiao Wenyin.

At Yuanheng Palace, Li Yuebai sent a young eunuch to see how Concubine Shan was doing.

The eunuch came back soon and said, "Empress Shan hasn't gotten up yet. She said she caught a cold from drinking too much last night and is feeling a little unwell."

Li Yuebai understood.

He turned to Murong Nan and said, "Your Highness, did the Empress take care of everything I asked you to do last night?"

Murong Nan smiled nonchalantly: "Of course."

Li Yuebai was puzzled: "My instructions are somewhat strange. Why did Your Highness not doubt them or ask me, but just did everything?"

After thinking for a while, he felt that he still had to explain it, so he racked his brains and said: "Your Highness, this is what happened. There are a few villains in and outside the palace who always suspect that the Queen and I have... that..."

"Oh?" Murong Nan raised his eyebrows and turned over to bully him again: "Brother Yun, do you really have... towards my mother?"

"No! Absolutely not!" Li Yuebai was so scared that he quickly raised his hand and swore to prove his innocence.

"I'm sorry you wouldn't dare." Murong Nan smiled and pinched Li Yuebai's neck: "But, I remember when we were in Ningzhou, Brother Yun didn't have the quirk of being afraid of women. How come he has this habit now that he's in this palace?"

"It's because I was scared by you!" Li Yuebai argued.

"That's right..." Murong Nan thought for a moment, "How about Brother Yun have another quirk in the future? Not only is he afraid of women, but he also hates men, except me."

"..." Li Yuebai was speechless. What was this called? The jealous little king in Beijing?

"Hey, Your Highness, I have a question." Li Yuebai kicked Murong Nan's ankle: "Does the Queen have any new poems today?"

"Brother Yun likes mother's poems so much?" Murong Nan's eyes dimmed.

"No, no, I'm just asking." Li Yuebai secretly groaned in his heart, what kind of Shura field is this!

According to the original work, today, Empress Xiao’s poem “Reminiscence of the Past” will be released freshly.

If the other incidents were premeditated frame-ups by Concubine Shan and others, then this poem "Reminiscence of the Past" was the Empress's own fault.

In the original work, the Empress thought that the musician Yun Weizhi's name was nice to hear and she also admired his skills. Also, because the Crown Prince's health had improved and she was in a good mood, she wrote this poem and included Yun Weizhi's name in it.

The whole poem consists of four lines: There are only a few Zhao family beauties in the palace, the rain and clouds misled the King of Han. Only the moon knows the truth, and it once saw Feiyan entering Zhaoyang.

At first glance, there seems to be nothing special, but if you look carefully, you can find the three words "Yun Weizhi".

This poem "Nostalgia" first spread from the palace, causing the emperor's anger. Then, the incident of Concubine Shan losing her memory broke out, and the anger escalated.

Li Yuebai believes that after the news of "Nostalgia" came out, Concubine Shan saw that the opportunity was perfect and immediately decided to close the net.

"Your Highness, I heard that the Queen wrote a poem for me." Li Yuebai smiled and said, "Your Highness, please ask Your Highness to read it to me."

Murong Nan left with a cold face.

The prince's recovery speed is also much faster than in the original novel. In the original novel, he was still bedridden and often unconscious. Now this naughty child can walk freely. Is it all because of being bullied by him every day? Li Yuebai was secretly puzzled.

After a while, Murong Nan returned with a small carved incense burner and handed it to Li Yuebai with a smile: "Brother Yun, I have sent people to look through all of our mother's poems. There is a new one called "Reminiscence of the Past" that has Brother Yun's name in it."

"Where is the poem now? Bring it to me!" Li Yuebai pretended to be excited.

"No more." Murong Nan leaned close to his ear and whispered, "I put them all in the incense burner and burned them to ashes."