This queen is not too curly

Yan Yuan didn't know why.

But Chen Lingchen obviously didn't want to continue the topic.

He lowered his head, playing with the cup in his hand with his fingertips, his long eyelashes drooping, with an indifference that rejects people thousands of miles away.

"..."

The family feast is still going on.

Yan Yuan had no choice but to continue eating grapes.

After a while, another person was escorted into the garden.

This time, it was the palace eunuch who brought people here. Behind the eunuch was a pale woman who seemed to be limping and held a baby in her arms.

The eunuch took her to the center of the garden and said: "Go back to the Queen Mother, Suzuyu has brought her here."

Suzutama?

Yan Yuan's heart moved and she looked curiously.

Is she the sister Suzuyu that He Yuan talked about?
Most of the women in Meiyuan Well escaped from Mr. Tu Shan, except for one, Suzuyu.

She was originally a servant in the Empress Dowager's palace, but she was imprisoned in the Department of Internal Affairs because of an affair with someone, and she was imprisoned in the Department of Internal Affairs. Later, she escaped by chance and gave birth to a child in the well seven months ago.

The sun is mild at this time.

The seven-month-old baby is snow-white and flawless.

Mother Suzutama looked haggard beyond description. Her eye sockets were deeply sunken, her body was as yellow as wax, and she seemed to have crawled out of a grave.

She knelt on the ground, before she could speak, tears were already streaming down her face.

The Empress Dowager looked down from above and said slowly: "Raise your head."

Suzutama raised her head trembling.

The queen mother was stunned.

She hadn't seen Suzutama for almost a year.
The last time we met was because Suzuyu refused to reveal who the man she had had an affair with was. In a fit of rage, she sent someone to the Department of Internal Affairs, but she didn't want to hear that he accidentally ran away and jumped after a few days of interrogation. up the lake.

A few days later, Suzutama's body was fished out of the lake. It was the scorching heat at that time, and the body had already been devoured by fish and shrimp, so the case was closed hastily.

The queen mother's eyes were fixed on Suzuyu: "Why do you..."

The eunuch replied: "Back to the queen mother, Lingyu escaped from the Department of Internal Affairs at that time, and entered the plum garden as soon as she saw it, Mr. Tu Shan... that guy Tu Shan didn't dare to search extensively, lest someone would find out the secrets of the plum garden, so he went to the imperial court Randomly found a carrion corpse of a woman in the garden for work."

The queen mother said: "How did he know that there was a dead body in the imperial garden?"

The eunuch replied: "The corpse was not really dug out from the imperial garden. You don't know, Queen Mother, that guy Tu Shan did that utterly evil deed. Before selling the woman, he always trained and developed it. A person who was accidentally killed...he tied him to a stone and sank...in the pond in the plum garden."

The eunuch's voice became softer and softer.

Everyone present thought of the lush vegetation in the plum garden.

The weeds in the plum garden are as tall as a person. Everyone thought it was because of the pond in the garden, but now it seems that it is because there are dead bodies at the bottom of the pond...

This is this...

Everyone in the garden felt shivers down their spines.

The Queen Mother settled down and said: "Lingyu, now that you have narrowly escaped death, are you still unwilling to reveal who the man you were having an affair with is?"

Suzutama's whole body trembled, and she bent down deeply.

She opened her mouth, but there was only a dry "ahah" sound from the bottom of her throat. The sound was extremely shrill, like the sound of yellow sand rubbing against broken porcelain.

The eunuch said: "Queen... Lingyu's throat has been burned. The slave asked the person in the Department of Internal Affairs, saying that she had tortured her by branding at that time. She didn't want to find out who the man was, so...he robbed her." swallowed the soldering iron..."

For a moment, there was silence in the garden.

The shock on the queen mother's face faded away, leaving only the overwhelming anger.

"Confused!"

"That man didn't dare to stand up from the beginning to the end, what's the point of doing this!"

"Things that don't know good or bad, if you want to die, you can fulfill them, so why bother to insult yourself!"

The haggard woman knelt on the ground, and let out a mournful "ahhh" sound from her throat. The sound was so sharp that the baby in her arms also burst into screams.

The scene suddenly became out of control, and the eunuchs went back and forth to appease:
"The Queen Mother calms down, the Queen Mother calms down!"

"Suzutama! If you can't speak, stop!"

"Oh ancestor, why are you crying so much..."

For a while, the scene was chaotic.

Seeing that the baby's head was about to hit the ground several times or hit the eunuch's leg in the chaos, Yan Yuan finally couldn't help but stood up.

She went through the messy crowd, walked up to Suzuyu, and said to her, "Give me the child first."

Suddenly, Lingyu felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy, she defended the baby desperately, and kept struggling to retreat.

Yan Yuan said: "You don't recognize my face, you should remember my voice, right? I gave lotus cakes to you and the child, remember?"

Suzutama panted heavily, but stopped struggling.

Yan Yuan said: "In this situation, it's safer for me to hug than you to hug, do you think about it?"

Yan Yuan's gaze was open and sincere.

Lingyu struggled again and again, and finally hesitantly handed over the baby in Yan Yuan's hands.

Yan Yuan took the baby and returned to the table.

She didn't know how to coax the baby, so she could only hug the baby and shake it, muttering: "Don't cry, don't cry, I'll give you whatever you want."

Chen Ling frowned and looked at her, his eyes full of sarcasm.

Do you think this is all right?

His eyes said so.

Sure enough, her comforting had no effect, and the baby even cried harder.

Yan Yuan: "..."

How can this be done?
Yan Yuan was at a loss what to do, she just felt that the baby in the soft compress turned into a prickly ball in an instant, and she couldn't find any place to strike.

But you can't return people back, can you?
Yan Yuan was desperate, so she could only ask Chen Lingshen for help: "Your Majesty..."

Chen Ling's face was expressionless.

Yan Yuan bit her head and said: "What can your Majesty do? The concubine is really..."

Chen Ling said calmly: "Aren't you very good at deceiving and abducting? Why, don't you persuade him?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

But how can I advise you?

The other party is a seven-month-old baby. Even if she is the reincarnation of Confucius, she can't persuade her, right?

No, who was cheated? !

Yan Yuan felt that she was in a mess, she had never been so bewildered on the battlefield.

In a panic, she had a sudden idea, took a grape, peeled off the skin, dipped a little sweet juice with her finger, and put it into the baby's mouth.

In an instant, the whole world was at peace.

……

Amitabha, Buddha bless.

Yan Yuan kowtowed to the Buddha devoutly from the bottom of her heart.

……

The little baby ate the sweet grape juice, and instantly turned back into that soft and cute little dumpling, staring straight at Yan Yuan with his bright black eyes.

Yan Yuan finally let out a long breath, stretched out her finger, and poked the baby's face.

Chen Ling stared at her deeply, his eyes dim.

This was the first time that Yan Yuan was not so keenly aware of Chen Lingshen's gaze, all her attention was taken away by the baby in front of her.

The little baby lived in the well all year round, was sick and lacked food, and was as thin as a monkey, but only his eyes were round and black, as clear as a pool of spring water.

Yan Yuan looked at Ai Ai and couldn't help poking her finger.

Chen Ling's cold snort sounded from beside him: "The empress is kind and courteous, and she is the mother of the world."

Yan Yuan raised her head with question marks all over her face.

Why is something bothering him again?

Why do you suddenly start to feel weird?

Chen Ling's eyes met Yan Yuan's, and then he looked away without a trace, and said in a low voice, "Since the queen has a compassionate heart, why not save her as well?"

Yan Yuan followed Chen Ling's deep gaze and looked towards the garden.

In the garden, the eunuchs had already brought pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and all the maids in the palace could read and write. Since Lingyu couldn't speak anymore, she could write it down.

Who knows that Suzutama still refuses to confess.

She writhed her body desperately, with a desperate light in her eyes, and knocked all the pens, inks, papers and inkstones in front of her to the ground.

The Queen Mother was furious, and ordered the eunuch to slap his mouth and beat him to death.

Suzutama bit her lips and teeth abruptly, without saying a word.

Save Suzutama?

Yan Yuan shook her head.

She didn't actually intend to.

Chen Ling said calmly: "Why, you pleaded for those people just now because Yu Xingzhi looks like a 'dignified son, elegant and famous official'?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

Why did the subject come back again?
Chen Ling's eyes were full of sarcasm.

Yan Yuan thought for a while and said, "I saved those girls just now because they were not at fault."

She looked over the layers of eunuchs, landed on Lingyu, and said in a low voice: "And she violated the criminal law of the palace. Since she made a mistake, she should be punished."

Chen Ling was taken aback, as if he didn't expect to get such an answer.

He asked Yan Yuan: "So you also agree with the Queen Mother's rule that court ladies should be strangled for adultery?"

Yan Yuan shook her head: "I don't agree."

If you have an affair with someone, you have to strangle both of them. This rule is too strict.

After all, it is only adultery between men and women, not collaborating with the enemy and treason.

Chen Ling sneered deeply: "So you are afraid of the Queen Mother?"

Yan Yuan shook her head again: "If the rules are unreasonable, find a way to change the rules instead of destroying them when they are implemented. Otherwise, all the rules will lose their majesty and their meaning will no longer exist."

Forbidden.

This is the first iron rule that every recruit learns, and it is also the education that Yan Yuan has received since she was a child.

She lowered her head, looked at the baby in her arms, and thought about how to use the rules to let her redeem her faults and save her life. For example, let her confess more evidence of Father Tu Shan's crimes?

Chen Ling stared at Yan Yuan deeply, with a raging cold wave in his eyes.

After a long time, he squeezed out a cold snort from the bottom of his throat: "You really deserve to be Yan Zhou's daughter."

What happened to Yan Zhou's daughter?
Don't you have any idea how the Chu family came here?

Yan Yuan rolled her eyes in her heart, and peeled another grape without stopping.

She didn't dare to stuff the whole grape in directly, she just dipped her fingers in some grape juice and fed it into the baby's mouth bit by bit.

"Hey, eat grapes."

Yan Yuan laughed, her whole body was covered with a layer of bright light.

Chen Lingchen didn't want to admit it, but the sound of "goodie" calmed not only the baby's mood.

He lowered his eyes, and the cold wave in his eyes gradually faded away.

Only a little bit of confusion remained, and slowly wandered to the fingertips holding the cup.

Yan Yuan.

……

The interrogation of the queen mother in the garden has come to an end.

Lingyu still refused to reveal who the man she had had an affair with was to the death, after dozens of slaps, she was already groggy and unconscious, lying flat in the garden.

The Empress Dowager's complexion was not good either.

She took a deep breath, looked at Yan Yuan and said, "Yuan'er, you are the queen, what do you think?"

Yan Yuan: "..."

I do not want to see.

Yan Yuan answered silently in her heart.

Of course, Dadong's family should not know what was in her heart, so Yan Yuan just smiled and said: "Yuan'er has lived in the boudoir for a long time, so she doesn't know much about these palace affairs."

She glanced at Lingyu, and said softly: "However, Yuan'er has also heard from her father since she was a child, that when a gentleman is punished, he is taught with a stick, and punishment is used to warn others. If you have to pursue it, you can't just pursue half of it."

Since he wanted to be punished, he should be caught and punished together with that doggy man who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

If you can't catch it, you will keep it.

Yan Yuan's voice was very soft, and there was still vanity between the words.

However, this ethereal voice obviously calmed the Empress Dowager's emotions, or it gave the Empress Dowager a new step.

The queen mother sighed and said, "Yuan'er is right."

She immediately ordered the palace people to take Lingyu and the evil seed down and temporarily detain them for further investigation in the future.So the baby in Yan Yuan's hand was also carried away by the eunuch.

Yan Yuan felt a little reluctant, and watched her off for a while.

The queen mother's gentle voice sounded: "Yuan'er seems very reluctant, why, like it?"

Yan Yuan nodded: "He is very soft."

The queen mother said: "I'm afraid Yuan'er's heart is softer."

With a smile in her eyes, the Queen Mother looked at Yan Yuan with a happy expression.

She has been in this harem for many years, how can she not know that what Yan Yuan thinks in her heart is a trick of procrastination?

It's just that now that there is turmoil in the former court and the harem, she doesn't want to trace it to the end and get bloody, and she can't break the rules she has set herself.

Yan Yuan also smiled.

She wasn't sure if the empress dowager's soft-heartedness was a compliment or something else, she could only bury her head and silently peel the grapes, thinking in her heart while peeling, when will the family banquet end?

Obviously there is not even a dish.

What kind of family feast is this?
She cursed silently in her heart, and suddenly there was a chuckle at the banquet.

Yan Yuan followed the prestige and found Song Wan'er, the owner of the laughter.

Song Wan'er's clothes today are different from usual, perhaps because she is going to meet the Queen Mother, she is not dressed so coolly, but her clothes are also a little bit green, and the collar is embroidered with fresh and elegant lotus flowers, which looks very fresh and elegant.

At this moment, Song Wan'er was looking at her, her smile burst open, and her voice was soft: "The empress's kind heart is the blessing of the harem and the world."

Yan Yuan said indifferently: "The noble concubine has won the prize."

She had suffered from Song Wan'er, and although she was too lazy to argue with her, she was inevitably alert.

"The concubine heard that the empress was passing by the plum garden by accident because she was enjoying autumn, and heard the cry of a child, so she guessed that there might be a baby inside, and since then, she has delivered meals every day."

"Your Majesty is truly a bodhisattva with a heart that makes Wan'er admire her very much."

Song Wan'er changed the topic, and her voice became softer:

"There are few people around the plum garden, and the beautiful scenery is different when you think about it."

"Wan'er is also tired of looking at the fake mountains and fake waters in the garden. I wonder if the empress can..."

Song Wan'er had a decent smile on his face, every word was obviously digging a hole.

Yan Yuan raised her eyes and looked at Song Wan'er indifferently.

Song Waner just wanted to bring up the topic of Meiyuan, and wanted to find out why she went to Meiyuan for the first time.No matter what was in the plum garden, as the Queen of the Central Palace, if it was the first time she went to pay homage to Concubine Mei, it would be a taboo.

If she quibbled and said no, who would believe that she was going to "appreciate autumn"?

Worshiping the pot of Concubine Mei, she can't get rid of it no matter what.

Forcing self-certification will only backfire.

"There's no view over there."

Yan Yuan rubbed her eyebrows.

She has some headaches.

After watching several big plays in succession today, she was really tired. She didn't want to go on stage to sing by herself, nor did she want to wrestle with Song Wan'er.

She just wanted to overturn the table and smash the place.

Broken cans.

"I'm not here to enjoy autumn either."

"The queen is going to the Plum Garden..."

"Naturally, I'm going to pay homage to Concubine Mei from the previous dynasty."

Yan Yuan looked at Song Wan'er, and returned her a gentle and sincere smile.