Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

Concubine Kang talked with Lu Wanning for a while at Lu Wanning's place, and saw that Lu Wanning was tired from sitting, so she got up and said goodbye.

Although Lu Wanning's month is not particularly old, after sitting for a long time, she still feels backache.

After Concubine Kang left, Lu Wanning got up and walked around the small garden in the palace.

"Has the fourth princess not come back yet?" Lu Wanning asked when she returned to the house.

The fourth princess used to go to Shou'an Palace and stay for at most two hours before returning, but today she has already gone for half a day.

"return……"

"Mother Concubine, I'm back." Just as Qingzhi was about to say that she hadn't come back, the voice of the Fourth Princess came from outside.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Lu Wanning asked while stroking the fourth princess's hair with a smile.

The fourth princess laughed and said, "Big Brother plays with Chun'er."

"Huh?" Lu Wanning looked at the eldest princess' nurse in doubt, what big brother?Where did the big brother come from?

The wet nurse explained for the fourth princess: "Your Majesty, today the old lady of the Guangping Uncle's Mansion brought their young son into the palace to greet the Queen Mother. The Fourth Princess likes to play with the second son of the Guangping Uncle's Mansion."

The old lady and the queen mother of Uncle Guangping are close friends in the boudoir, but whether it is the deceased old uncle of Uncle Guangping or the current Uncle Guangping, they are all useless. Uncle Guangping has relied on all these years With the accumulation of the ancestors and the previous friendship between the Guangping Bofu and the Queen Mother, the glory of the Bofu is barely maintained.

If Lu Wanning remembered correctly, Uncle Guangping was a flirtatious man, and he had many wives, concubines and children in his family, but there was only one child from the first line, and that was the second son of Uncle Guangping's mansion.

It's just that the second son seems to have grown up this year, can he play with the fourth princess?
Facing Lu Wanning's question, the wet nurse thought for a while, and said, "The second son of the Guangping uncle's mansion is a little over nine years old this year, and he is relatively calm. When he is with the fourth princess, he likes to play with the fourth princess."

It is talking about playing with the four princesses, but in fact it is coaxing the four princesses to play.

Lu Wanning lowered her head, looked at the fourth princess who was leaning against her, and asked softly: "Chun'er, do you like to play with this big brother today?"

The fourth princess tilted her head, then nodded and said: "I like it, Brother Sanhuang, I hate it."

Lu Wanning smiled and said: "Okay, mother and concubine understand, Chun'er doesn't like to play with the third emperor brother, but likes to play with today's big brother, right?"

"Yes." The fourth princess nodded.

Lu Wanning smiled, since the fourth princess likes it, let her do it, anyway, the fourth princess is still young, even if Mrs. Guangping has other ideas, she doesn't have to be on guard now.

Besides, the Empress Dowager is watching from the side.

After talking with the fourth princess, Lu Wanning waved her hand to let the wet nurse and the maid who served the fourth princess take the fourth princess down to play, then turned her head and asked Zhou Man beside her, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Man came in just now, and when he saw her talking with the fourth princess, he stood aside.

"Back to the master, at that time Qingren Palace passed on the imperial physician." Zhou Man said with a worried face: "The villain asked, it seems that the fifth prince is ill, and the news from the imperial hospital said that it is probably infected. smallpox."

"Smallpox?" Lu Wanning wondered, "Are you sure?"

"It should be close to ten." Zhou Man said.

"How did the Fifth Prince get smallpox?" Lu Wanning frowned and said, "Have you got any news from the Empress Dowager?"

"This villain still doesn't know."

"Go and find out if the Empress Dowager knows the news. If you don't know, tell the Empress Dowager about it." Lu Wanning ordered.

Smallpox is highly contagious, and it would be bad if one accidentally spread smallpox in the palace.

"Yes, master." Zhou Man responded, turned around and was about to go out, when a little maid came in and reported that someone from Shou'an Palace had arrived.

Hearing this, Zhou Man glanced at Lu Wanning, and did not continue walking out.

The one who came to Shou'an Palace was the grand maid Lingyuan, and Lingyuan explained her intention after paying her respects.

"Concubine Shu, the empress dowager asked the servants to come and tell the empress that the fourth princess should not be allowed to go to Shou'an Palace for the next few days. You'd better close the palace for a few days to recuperate."

Lu Wanning nodded, "Miss Lingyuan, please run for a while, I understand."

After sending Ling Yuan away, Lu Wanning immediately ordered the gate of Ruichang Palace to be closed tightly, and no one in Ruichang Palace was allowed to go out privately in the past few days.

After giving the order, Lu Wanning thought about it, and then asked Zhou Man to pass the news to Concubine Xian and Concubine Kang.

In Qingren Palace, Concubine Jing's face was very ugly when she found out that the Fifth Prince had suffered from smallpox.

"How could you get smallpox?" Concubine Jing didn't go to the Fifth Prince's room, but paced back and forth in her own room.

The people from Shou'an Palace had already arrived just now, and the Empress Dowager directly ordered people to seal the gate of Qingren Palace.

There are guards guarding the gate of Qingren Palace now, except for the Eldest Princess who was picked up by the Empress Dowager to live alone in another residence, no one else in Qingren Palace can easily go out.

"Your Majesty, the Fifth Prince's wet nurse please see me." Sujuan came in to report.

"Let her come in..." Concubine Jing changed her words in the middle of her sentence, "Forget it, go ask her what's the matter?"

"Yes." Sujuan replied, and after going out, she stood far away from the wet nurse, and said, "What is your highness asking you?"

"Miss Sujuan, please tell your majesty that I found that a cloth tiger belonging to the fifth prince has been tampered with. I suspect that the fifth prince's smallpox infection may be related to that cloth tiger," said the wet nurse.

The fifth prince has a cloth tiger that he likes very much. Every time someone teases him with that cloth tiger, he will giggle.

The cloth tiger is the handicraft of the needlework bureau, it is very delicate, the stitches are also very fine, and it is filled with carefully selected high-quality cotton.

But today, when a court lady serving the fifth prince mentioned it, the fifth prince's nanny discovered that the cloth tiger was originally fine, but there were a few imperceptible places where the stitches became rough, as if someone had sewed it on in a hurry. With the rough stitches, you can still see the blackened inside, and even the clumps of cotton.

Sujuan's complexion changed after hearing what the nanny said, and she immediately said: "You wait, I'll go in and report to the nanny."

As soon as Sujuan went in and told Concubine Jing about the matter, Concubine Jing's expression immediately turned ugly, and she said that the Fifth Prince was fine and suddenly contracted smallpox, and it turned out that someone was acting as a demon inside.

Who could have done this?

Who has a grudge against her?
Could it be Princess Fengqing?
Concubine Jing shook her head. It was the Eldest Princess who had an enmity with Princess Fengqing. If Princess Fengqing wanted to do something, she would have chosen the Eldest Princess instead of the Fifth Prince.

So who else is there besides Princess Fengqing?
Who will benefit in the end from getting rid of the fifth prince?