This queen is not too curly

The sun finally rose.

Yan Yuan was woken up by the chirping of birds outside the window, she didn't sleep well last night, she just felt drowsy and haunted by nightmares.

When I woke up, I was sore all over my body.

The sunlight outside the window jumped over the window panes, casting shadows of dust in the air.

Yan Yuan stared blankly for a long time, and suddenly realized something:

This is not Wangshu Palace.

Where is this?
After lighting the lamps in front of the Buddha Bone Pagoda yesterday, didn't she get on the sedan chair looking back at Shu Palace?
Yan Yuan woke up completely, she held her breath and looked around in a panic, only felt that the room in front of her looked completely strange, empty and cold, everything looked hard and simple, only the gauze curtain in the distance was slightly blown by the wind. flip.

Outside the gauze tent, more than a dozen court ladies knelt on the ground.

Seeing her wake up, the leading palace maid said softly: "The servant Mo Niang, who is in charge of the Qianzheng Palace, greets the empress good morning."

Do... the government hall?
Yan Yuan sat on the bed blankly.

This is actually Chen Lingchen's emperor's bedroom?
Why is she here?

While Yan Yuan was in a daze, the ladies of the court had already filed in, holding various utensils and utensils in their hands, washing Yan Yuan.

"No, I will come by myself."

"Yes."

It has been a few days since Yan Yuan entered the palace, but she still couldn't adapt to the style of these paralyzed people in the palace. She resolutely refused the maid's service, twisted the handkerchief herself, and went through the process roughly.

But only half of the maids retreated, and a few of them bent over and knelt on the ground with the food table on their heads.

Yan Yuan was puzzled: "Is there anything else?"

Mo Niang said: "This is a reward from His Majesty, not a washing utensil, please accept it, Your Majesty."

reward?

Yan Yuan's suspicious eyes fell on the food table.

The thing on it is covered with a layer of cloth, slightly raised, it seems that something is stored.She hesitated and reached out to tear off the cloth, only to see several layers of dry branches piled neatly inside.

This is……

Yan Yuan's heartbeat suddenly increased.

Yan Yuan didn't dare to breathe or open her mouth, fearing that she would spit out her beating heart, so she could only clenched her fists and stared blankly at the things in front of her.

Others may not recognize this thing, but she has seen it thousands of times.

It was a leak!
Where did so many days of leaking weeds come from?

Yan Yuan took a deep breath: "This is Chu... His Majesty gave it to me?"

Has Chen Ling suddenly changed his sex?
It can't be poison, can it?

Pretend to be a weed, lure her into the bait, and then use her severely?
Mo Niang said in a low voice: "Yes, these are sent by His Majesty this morning from the Royal Pharmacy."

Mo Niang raised her head and glanced at Yan Yuan, she seemed to be unable to speak, she contemplated for a long time before opening her mouth with difficulty: "Your Majesty ordered your servants to convey, if your Majesty refuses to accept her doubts, then...just..."

She "just" for a long time, but she couldn't say anything.

Yan Yuan: ...

Yan Yuan seemed to be able to imagine that Chen Lingchen must have said something that made it difficult for her to say, which made her so obscure.

"This Palace accepts it."

Yan Yuan interrupted Mo Niang's words.

Anyway, she still has Chen Niang, so let Chen Niang see if there is any poison.

Don't be in vain!
Mo Niang breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The servant sent someone to send these rewards to Wangshu Palace. If you are tired, you can rest in the palace for a while and have some breakfast."

Yan Yuan asked her, "Where is Your Majesty?"

Mo Niang's smile became more and more gentle: "Your Majesty, he watched over for your empress last night, and this morning he went to the imperial study to deal with official duties."

Chen Lingshen... stayed overnight?
She still survived to wake up?

Yan Yuan's chest was turbulent, and the expression on her face was also blank.

Mo Niang called softly: "Your Majesty? Breakfast..."

Yan Yuan regained consciousness in a trance, shook her head and said: "There is no need to prepare breakfast, Bengong..."

She squinted her eyes, staring at the skylight outside, and there was light in her eyes: "Please guide me to the imperial study room, I want to pay my respects to the Holy Majesty in person.

"Yes."

……

Mo Niang led the way and led Yan Yuan to the door of the imperial study.

Yan Yuan also didn't expect that God would take care of her in advance. She thought that she would have the opportunity to sneak into the Qianzheng Hall to check it out until the day she went to bed, but unexpectedly, she came in early by mistake.

"Your Majesty, this is the Imperial Study Room, Your Majesty, please come in."

Holding her skirt, Yan Yuan stepped into the threshold of the imperial study room, and suddenly felt that the scriptures she had copied in the Buddha Bone Pagoda might have been received by the Great Buddha, and she was very satisfied.

because……

Chen Lingshen was not in the study.

The imperial study room was filled with a faint fragrance. The books were neatly arranged on the bookcases, and unapproved memorials were still spread on the desk. The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all available on the table, except for the emperor himself.

It is really a Bodhisattva blessing!
Mo Niang is also a little confused, but people have already been introduced into the imperial study room, and she can't let the Queen Empress go back the same way, so she can only say: "Your Majesty, please take a rest, the Holy Majesty probably left temporarily, and this servant will send someone to Searching."

She placed Yan Yuan on the guest chair in the study, poured a cup of tea, and said worriedly: "The books on the shelf can be read by the lady, but the cabinet by the window is never allowed to be approached by the emperor, the lady..."

There was a little anxiety in Mo Niang's eyes.

Yan Yuan said clearly: "I understand."

She lowered her head and took a sip of her tea, without even turning her eyes to the bed. When she raised her head, her face was full of sincerity: "Don't worry, I have a strict family education, and I always obey the rules."

Mo Niang immediately knelt down: "I don't dare."

She ordered some more things before she walked out of the imperial study room and sent someone to look for Chen Lingchen.

Yan Yuan stayed alone in the imperial study, listening to the sound of footsteps walking away outside, she lowered her head and took another sip of her tea.

At last the footsteps were too far away to be heard.

Yan Yuan put down the teacup and went straight to the window.

There was indeed a cabinet by the window, as the maid said, the cabinet was black in color and looked to be made of high-quality ebony.There was still a stick of incense burning on the window lattice beside the cabinet, and the fragrance she smelled just now probably came from that incense.

What's in the cabinet?

The documents seized from Kuiyu Camp?

Yan Yuan's heart moved, and she stretched out her hand without hesitation, and at the moment when her fingertips were about to climb on the latch door of the cabinet, she suddenly heard a very slight sound of footsteps behind her.

"..."

Uncle's!
What a disaster!

The outstretched hand changed direction in the air.

Yan Yuan straightened her clothes, turned her head and looked out the window, and waited for the footsteps behind her to get closer, she pretended to have just realized that she had turned around.

It really was Chen Lingshen.

He was standing a few steps away from her, with the corners of his blue-gray eyes drooping slightly, and his warm eyes locked on her face, making it impossible to see the emotion at this time.

Yan Yuan looked at him frankly.

Eyes met.

Chen Ling blinked heavily, avoiding her sight.

"What are you here for?"

His voice was very indifferent.

He had already turned around while speaking, returned to the desk and sat down.

Yan Yuan took a look at the ebony cabinet calmly, groaning in her heart, she had no choice but to keep up with Chen Lingchen, and walked to his desk.

"I... my concubine came to look for His Majesty."

It cannot be said that he made a special trip to the Imperial Study to find out.

Chen Ling lowered his head without raising his head: "Why are you looking for Gu?"

Yan Yuan stared at him thoughtfully.

Chen Lingchen was a little different today.

She couldn't tell what was different, but she vaguely felt that he seemed to be colder than before, with an indescribable estrangement in his whole body, and because of this estrangement, he seemed calmer.

Was it because she was sick last night that her conscience discovered it?
That's why it was sent to the sky early in the morning?

Yan Yuan's thoughts fluttered, her face was full of sincerity, and she said softly: "I heard that the Holy Majesty took care of my concubine last night, and sent the concubine to the sky in the morning. I am grateful for the kindness of God, so I am here...to thank you face to face."

Chen Lingchen still didn't look up.

He just gave a faint "hmm" and didn't say anything more.

Yan Yuan stood at the same spot, drifting towards the ebony cabinet next to the bed from the corner of her eye, thinking silently in her heart how to get close to it in a legitimate way, or to send Chen Ling away temporarily. enough.

However, Chen Lingchen had no intention of leaving.

He kept his head down, his eyes fell on the memorial in front of the case, his thick eyelashes fluttered, and he held the slender pen holder with his bony finger bones, reviewing the memorial word by word.

What is wrong?
He didn't look like Chen Ling Shen anymore.

Yan Yuan thought quietly.

Time passed slowly.

After a long time, Chen Lingchen finally raised his head. He stared at Yan Yuan, frowning tightly: "Does the Queen have other things to do in the Imperial Study?"

Yan Yuan: "No."

Chen Ling said coldly, "Please go ahead."

Yan Yuan: "..."

What a sudden indifference.

He didn't even find fault today. Could it be that the matter with the Buddha Bone Pagoda is not over yet?Something else happened in the plum garden?A new disaster broke out in Blue City?

Yan Yuan said, "The concubine will leave", she turned around and walked towards the door, all the way she could feel the eyes behind her closely following her footsteps.

"stop."

Chen Ling's indifferent voice sounded from behind her: "What were you doing just now?"

Yan Yuan stood still.

Sure enough, I knew it wasn't that easy.

The peaceful coexistence just now was just a brief accident, he was still the sensitive and suspicious Chen Lingchen, and he would never let go of the slightest bit of weirdness in front of him.

Yan Yuan took a deep breath, and said dryly, "I'm a little hot, go to the window to breathe."

Chen Ling said coldly: "How does the queen know that Gu is talking about the window?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

Chen Ling said calmly: "The queen seems to be a little curious about that."

Yan Yuan: "..."

Chen Ling's eyes were as sharp as knives, and he looked into Yan Yuan's eyes.

This is him, Chu Lingchen.

Both sensitive and suspicious, but also cloudy and uncertain.

Yan Yuan only felt a chill rushing up her back, but she let out a sigh of relief in her chest, feeling a sense of relaxation that "it should be like this".

After all, as early as the first time she was caught, she had already figured out how to deal with it. It was only Chen Lingchen's strange behavior today that made the situation go off track.

Fortunately, everything is normal now.

Yan Yuan turned around, skillfully put on a miserable expression, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito: "The concubine is really anxious, unable to relieve it, and restless, so I went to the window to breathe..."

She was frowning, and the expression on her face was twisted into a ball.

Chen Ling looked at her coldly.

It seemed that her fever had almost subsided, and the innocence of last night was gone, and she put on this bluff again, just short of writing a few large characters on her forehead, "This person has a ghost in his heart".

He hated her hypocritical face the most.

Even watching her blink, he felt an unspeakable anxiety in his chest.

"What's the anxiety?"

He didn't want to do what she wanted, but he still asked.

Yan Yuan had been waiting for his question for a long time.

If the opponent becomes suspicious, if he answers only when he has a question, he will fall into the cycle of self-proof.If you want to win, you must surprise and open up a new battlefield.

Yan Yuan said softly: "Although the turmoil of the past few days has subsided, it is true that the concubine entered the plum garden, it is also true that the ever-burning lamp went out, and it is also true that the concubine was involved in the old affairs of Lancheng because of her father."

The things that happened to her these days, although exaggerated, were not fabricated.

She is an extremely troublesome existence, and the reason why she can still sit on the queen's seat is because both the queen mother and the emperor are basically satisfied with her as a buddy. On the way to exile.

Yan Yuan lowered her eyebrows and looked a little depressed.

Chen Lingchen's attention was drawn away, and the doubts in his eyes really faded.

He said lightly, "What are you doing with these things?"

Although he still had doubts, his tone softened obviously.

Yan Yuan drifted to the ebony cabinet next to the bed from the corner of her eyes: "The concubine is grateful for His Majesty's protection, but she is ashamed after all... The concubine still has delusional thoughts in her heart, so she is anxious."

Chen Ling frowned deeply and said, "What delusion?"

Seeing that he had already taken the bait, Yan Yuan raised her head and looked straight into his eyes: "These things are still pending..."

Yan Yuan frowned: "But the day after tomorrow will be the day when the concubine will sleep in bed."

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