The concubine was reborn, and the cold prince was made red in the face

Pancui staggered out to the corridor carrying a bucket of hot water.

Zuo Xiangning stood up and said, "Please change the water again."

She had only soaked for a while and hadn't had time to wash her hair yet.

The three little girls looked at each other and started changing the hot water together.

Before Zuo Xiangning took a bath this time, she specifically told the three of them, "You guys are guarding the outside. No one is allowed to come in."

The three girls hurriedly agreed in unison.

Zuo Xiangning felt relieved now and soaked comfortably in the tub, thinking to herself, why did Ling Xiao only take away the jade pendant but not other things just now?

And his tone is also very intriguing.

Does that jade pendant really have any other unknown origins?

It's a pity that I can't see his face and don't know what his expression is.

Zuo Xiangning stood up and added half a bucket of hot water to the bathtub, then sat back in the hot water again.

I was enjoying my soak, half asleep and half awake, when I suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from outside.

Zuo Xiangning was startled. The person fighting must be Bingyu. She hurriedly shouted outside: "Pan Xia, what's wrong?"

"Girl, this is the third young master of the Li family. He wants to come in to see you, but Bingyu is stopping him." Pan Xia whispered anxiously under the window: "I think the third young master of the Li family seems to be quite anxious."

Zuo Xiangning frowned and said, "Let him wait outside while you and Pancui come in and help me wash my hair."

"Yes." Panxia hurriedly called out to Bingyu who was fighting.

Zuo Xiangning washed her hair, held it in a cotton cloth, and left the clean room.

Seeing her like this, Li Shaonan smiled and said: "The one named Bingyu is too dull. She just says no to you bathing. Can I still force my way in? When she gets ready, she will fight with me as soon as she gets up." , as if I was a disciple."

"What's the matter with you? Can you come in through the front door? What's the point of always climbing over the wall? If word of this gets out, how do you expect me to behave?" Zuo Xiangning said with a headache.

"I have something urgent." Li Shaonan smiled and said, "And if I come in from the front door to see you late at night, wouldn't it be easier for people to gossip?"

"Tell me, what's the matter with you?" Zuo Xiangning picked up the teapot on the table and poured herself a cup of tea.

Li Shaonan sat next to her and looked at the three girls standing in a row in the room, "I have something to tell you in private."

Zuo Xiangning glared at him speechlessly, but finally let Bingyu and the others retreat out of the door.

"There are rumors circulating outside that..." Li Shaonan looked at Zuo Xiangning's face and said, "It is said that the prince is seriously ill and will die soon."

"Where did you hear that?" Although Zuo Xiangning tried to control it, her expression still changed slightly.

"It seems true." Li Shaonan's expression couldn't help but become a little solemn.

Zuo Xiangning pursed her lips and said nothing.

Facing Li Shaonan, who was considered a friend, she could not lie against her will.

"The prince is well now." Zuo Xiangning said.

"This news has just begun to spread. We must find a way to stop it. Otherwise, it will only become more true. The prince is young now. Whether he is seriously ill is something that cannot be explained." Li Shaonan thought for a while and said: "And The palace must also be on guard against someone waiting for an opportunity in the dark." "I know." Zuo Xiangning naturally knew how powerful it was, but now she didn't know what she could do?

"Are any of the concubines in the palace pregnant? And they are about to give birth?" Li Shaonan guessed: "When the prince is born, rumors of the prince being seriously ill are spreading, so that we can take the opportunity to unseat the prince?"

"It has only been a few days since the new emperor ascended the throne? There is still instability inside and outside the court, so they are too impatient." Zuo Xiangning thought for a while and said: "And the prince is deeply loved by the emperor, so he will see him from time to time. As for the young prince, if the young prince is really sick, how can the emperor, the father, not know about it? The emperor knew about it but did not tell the emperor. What kind of behavior is this? "

Li Shaonan's eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "Then should we spread the news faster? Let the emperor know their unscrupulous intentions and let the emperor deal with them?"

Zuo Xiangning shook her head, "You must not interfere. The capital should be full of the emperor's spies now. If nothing else happens, the emperor will get the news soon."

Li Shaonan looked at Zuo Xiangning in surprise, "You know a lot."

"You haven't said where you heard it from?" Zuo Xiangning asked again.

"Didn't Gu Zhiqing have a cousin before him? I heard about it from him." Li Shaonan said: "He is now a celebrity in the capital. Many high-ranking officials and nobles come to him for fortune telling. They say his fortune telling is extremely accurate."

"Isn't his cousin from the Gu family? Gu Zhiqing's surname is not Gu anymore, so what does his cousin have to do with him?" Zuo Xiangning had forgotten this man who had infinite glory in his previous life.

"His cousin is not an ordinary person, he can do calculations. When Gu Zhiqing was in the Gu family, he was very close to this cousin. Later, when Gu Zhiqing left the Gu family, everyone in the Gu family died overnight, but this cousin remained unscathed. , Gu Zhiqing placed him in Xicheng. Others said that Gu Zhiqing was nostalgic for old friendships." Li Shaonan snorted coldly and said: "But I heard that Gu Zhiqing appeared around the Gu family the night the fire broke out. He was the one who set the fire."

Zuo Xiangning also felt that he started the fire, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

"Gu Zhiqing is a close minister of the emperor. Why did his cousin spread bad news about the prince?" Zuo Xiangning asked with confusion.

In fact, she didn't say a word. Could it be that the emperor ordered Gu Zhiqing to do this?

"Someone told his cousin, and his cousin mentioned it to Gu Zhiqing." Li Shaonan said proudly: "I wanted to marry you because of Gu Zhiqing, and I wanted to catch him, so he There were two young boys beside him, but when the Gu family caught fire, one of them ran out with his cousin, and his cousin kept him with him and became his cousin's confidant."

"Do you know who the person who told his cousin about the prince is?" Zuo Xiangning asked again.

Li Shaonan shook his head, "The boy doesn't know who that person is."

Zuo Xiangning doesn't want to stop the development of this matter now, because she always feels that the emperor will come forward to solve the matter.

But she wanted to know who was behind this, so that she could take precautions in advance.

"There is another news coming out." Li Shaonan put away his smile and looked at Zuo Xiangning with a somewhat cold expression.

"Any other news?" Zuo Xiangning's face was also a little tight.

When she was taking a bath just now, she thought about not putting too much pressure on herself and to relax properly, but within a quarter of an hour, the news came one after another, making her a little breathless.

"The Emperor wants to marry you and Gu Zhiqing..."

Zuo Xiangning stood up suddenly and stared at Li Shaonan with apricot eyes.

How many days has she been back from the outside world?

And when she entered the palace yesterday, she didn't hear any news?

She saw Gu Zhiqing in the morning, but Gu Zhiqing didn't mention it, and Ling Xiao didn't mention it when he came just now.

"Who did you listen to?"

Zuo Xiangning had a worried look on her face. In her previous life, she was pointed out to Gu Zhiqing by the new emperor not long after he ascended the throne. Will it still be the same in this life?