Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

When Xiao Zuochen and the others returned to the mansion, it was almost past the 3:00 p.m.

"Uncle Mo, have you prepared dinner?"

Uncle Mo nodded quickly.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready. Today, Zhizuifang has received several jars of fine wine, and two jars have been delivered."

Before Xiao Zuochen could speak, Chu Yao spoke first.

"Your prince has always been in poor health. He cannot drink this wine."

"this..."

Uncle Mo was stunned by what he said, and turned to look at his own prince, and then he thought of something.

"Look at my memory. Your Majesty, you caught a cold last night and can't drink... But, the medicine given by Imperial Doctor Li is really effective. Your Majesty, you don't look like you have a cold now."

After hearing what Uncle Mo said, Xiao Zuochen couldn't help but laugh.

"Two cups then!"

"Okay~ Then I'll go to the kitchen and prepare it!"

After Uncle Mo finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the kitchen.

Ok?

Chu Yao scratched his head. Shouldn't Uncle Mo be worried about Xiao Zuochen's health and not let him drink? Why did he find excuses for him to have a couple of drinks? Is this the legendary doting?

Just when Chu Yao was still trying to figure it out, Xiao Zuochen patted him on the shoulder.

"The more carefully you raise a person, the more delicate he becomes. The rougher he is raised, the stronger his vitality becomes!"

After saying that, he clapped his hands twice more, his eyes seemed to mean "You are still young, you don't understand." Xiao Zuochen walked into the house in a good mood.

Yunyou took Liuli to change into men's clothes.

After a while, King Qing also slipped in from the back door.

"I asked my attendants to drive the carriage back to the mansion first. I was afraid that there might be spies on the road, so I sneaked in through the back door and had dinner with you!"

Several people sat down and Uncle Mo poured them some wine. Just as King Qing raised his glass and said "Celebrating the successful completion of the first mission", a man rushed in from outside the courtyard.

"What? You guys are just killing me. You didn't even wait for me to eat?"

Zhen Luo suddenly appeared outside the yard. She was wearing a tight suit, holding a whip in her hand, her hair was a little messy, and she looked like she had just had a fight with someone.

Originally, the task assigned to Zhen Luo today was Chu Yao's, but for some reason Zhen Luo was arrested by his family as soon as he left the house. However, everything was not affected, after all, there was still Chu Yao as a substitute.

"Of course I wanted to wait for you, but I thought you were captured and taken back to the Zhen Mansion, and were under guard again, and couldn't leave the house."

Xiao Zuochen smiled at her and explained.

"But today's matter involves my father and the queen. If Lord Zhen knew that I wanted to take you with me, I'm afraid he would fight me to the death."

"It's okay. Even if the sky falls, I still have you two big Buddhas to hold it up. I'm not afraid."

Zhen Luo looked at Prince Qing and Prince Yun with an indifferent look.

Uncle Mo moved another chair and Zhen Luo sat down.

"Who did you fight with again?"

Chu Yao asked curiously.

"Need I say more? He must have had some discussions with the maids at home, which earned him the chance to go out and have a chat."

Liuli has now become familiar with them and is no longer as reserved as before. She also starts to make jokes about others.

"Alright, alright, stop talking about me. Judging from the way you guys are doing, today should be going smoothly."

"Well, it went quite smoothly, but we have to wait for the final result. Right now, Father only thinks that the Queen is targeting Mingxiang Pavilion. We don't know what they talked about in the pavilion today, and we don't know what Father will do next. We still have to wait and see what happens in the palace before making the next plan."

The others nodded after hearing this. This was not something that could be accomplished in one step. The important thing was not to let the emperor find out that they had done it.

"Oh, right! The first day of next month is Princess Jiashan's birthday. The Zhen family has received the invitation from the princess. Have you all received it as well?"

Prince Qing and Xiao Zuochen looked at each other and shook their heads. They had not heard of this.

"Your Highness, the eldest princess also sent an invitation to Prince Yun's Mansion this afternoon. I haven't had time to tell you yet."

Uncle Mo spoke from the side.

Xiao Zuochen nodded and looked at King Qing again.

"The Qing Palace must have received the invitation as well."

"Ah."

They would receive invitations to Princess Jiashan’s birthday every year.

Liuli and Chu Yao had never seen this county lord and princess before, and they were very curious.

"Then can I follow?"

Chu Yao looked at Xiao Zuochen with an expectant expression on his face.

But before Xiao Zuochen could speak, King Qing answered him first.

"Of course, Liuli can go too."

Chu Yao turned his head and looked at Liu Li.

Tsk, it turns out that I am relying on Liu Li’s help. Anyway, it’s fine as long as I can go.

But he turned around and looked at Xiao Zuochen, who was eating his food slowly.

Tsk tsk, you don't even know how to be on my side. Look at the King of Qing~

"Do we need to prepare gifts for the Emperor of Jiashan?"

Liuli asked. If it were in modern times, you would definitely bring a gift to someone's birthday party. But in ancient times, it seems that not everyone needed to do so.

"No need, just follow me in and I'll prepare a big gift."

"Remember not to wear anything too bright."

Zhen Luo reminded.

"why?"

"Princess Jiashan likes plain clothes, so she definitely won't wear anything brightly colored. If you wear something more eye-catching than her, the princess will definitely find a way to skin you alive afterwards~"

"The princess is so fierce?"

"Of course! When Princess Jiashan celebrated her tenth birthday, Zhang Mingli's youngest daughter wore a bright pink dress, but she didn't wear any jewelry. It was just this dress that stole the limelight from Princess Jiashan. Two days later, news came that his youngest daughter was assaulted and later hanged herself..."

"So scary?"

It turns out that those dirty tricks in ancient times were real. Liuli suddenly felt a little scalp tingling. It was really not easy to survive in ancient times.

"The previous emperor's princes and princesses were everywhere, but in the end only Emperor Mingren and the eldest princess survived. Just think about it, if she didn't have some tricks, how could she have survived!"

"You still know this?"

Prince Qing was somewhat surprised that Zhen Luo could actually say these words.

"Listen to what my mother said~"

Zhen Luo said it without any hesitation, then suddenly covered his mouth, as if he realized that he had said something wrong. He looked left at Prince Qing and right at Prince Yun.

"Don't worry, there aren't that many taboos between us. But don't talk nonsense in front of outsiders!"

"Yeah, I know, I know. I'm still very cool in front of outsiders and I don't even talk to them!"

The others shook their heads helplessly.

......

Fengqi Palace——

The Queen was also preparing to have dinner. Just as she picked up her chopsticks, there was a burst of noise outside the courtyard.

"Get out of the way! Don't block the road!"

"What are you doing! Ah——"

"Stay where you are, we won't be responsible if anyone gets hurt!"

"..."

The queen frowned when she heard the noise outside, and had a bad feeling in her heart. She looked up at Teng Sen.

"Would you like to hide for a while?"

Teng Sen calmly put down his chopsticks and nodded. After so many years, he has become very skilled at this.

But the person outside seemed to have X-ray vision and suddenly spoke loudly.

"Your Majesty, there's no need to keep him in hiding. After all these years, can't he see anyone?"

The extremely sarcastic words immediately irritated the queen. She immediately stood up and rushed out to see who was so arrogant.

When I arrived at the door, I saw a man wearing a facial mask, followed by a group of guards.

The person he brought was not a eunuch, but a guard. What was that person going to do?

"Who are you? How dare you casually barge into my courtyard? You're wearing a mask, are you afraid to see people?"

Yue Wu sneered behind his mask.

"I am here to search the palace on the orders of the Emperor. I hope the Empress will stand still. After all, the guards behind me are carrying knives."

"The Emperor wants you to search my bedroom? Is the Emperor crazy? To let you insult me ​​like this?"

Yue Wu ordered a guard beside him to show the emperor's edict to the queen, while speaking.

"Empress, you can't think like that. After all, we just searched the palace and didn't cause any substantial harm to you. But some people are different. Some people actually touched you..."

"Shut up!"

The queen was so angry that she was shaking. It was obvious that the emperor deliberately sent people to humiliate her. He clearly said that he would make her the honorable queen, but he changed his face so quickly!

But Yue Wu seemed to have the ability to read minds and just threw out a sentence.

"Don't worry, Queen. The Emperor said that since he wants you to be the most honorable queen in Tai'an, you must be the most honorable! Search!——"

"How dare you!"

The queen shouted loudly, but no one listened to her. These people were guards protecting the imperial city, unlike the eunuchs in the palace who would be frightened to death by the queen's random shouts.

The queen couldn't stop them, and the other maids didn't dare to stop them. But the guards searched around and didn't take anything away.

"My lord, no."

"Nothing was found, sir."

......

Guards kept coming back to tell Yue Wu that they had not found any problems. Until -

"Sir! Here is a clue!"

Yue Wu, who had originally closed his eyes, suddenly opened his eyes and ran straight to the source of the sound - the queen's study.

The queen hurriedly followed behind them, wanting to know what they were looking for.

"grown ups!"

The guard handed Yue Wu a letter with "Qingning's personal letter" written on it.

Yue Wu hurriedly opened it and saw something written on it: Chu Yao is now beside King Yun, so it is not appropriate to take action.

This letter was written in Liuli's imitation of the Queen's handwriting.

When the queen left the palace and went to Mingxiang Pavilion, Yixing took all her writings and papers. Then, when Yunyou went to move Yuying for the second time, when Liu Li finished copying the letter, he put the letter back to the queen's study and waited for Yunyou in a hidden place outside Fengqi Palace, while Liu Li waited for Prince Yun at the original place.

"withdraw!"

Yue Wu didn't say much. He didn't need to verify the authenticity of the letter. He was only responsible for handing it over to his master.

"what is this?"

But the queen stopped him and tried to snatch the letter from his hand. She had no recollection of having such a letter and had no idea what was written on it.

"It would be better for you, the Queen, to explain this to the Emperor in person."

Yue Wu simply pushed away the Queen who was blocking his way and walked out, leaving the Queen standing there in a daze with a slightly frightened expression.

Now someone is framing her and the emperor suspects her, the situation is very unfavorable to her.

"Teng Sen!"

The queen called out to Teng Sen, without any of her usual tenderness and loveliness.

"Ning'er."

"Help me run a trip!"

Teng Sen was stunned for a moment. This woman actually asked him to run errands personally. It seemed that the situation was quite serious.

"it is good!"

Teng Sen didn't refuse, so he agreed. It was just the right time to leave the palace and go look for her!