Chapter 62 Hongmen Banquet
Everyone has seen Leng Shuang's skills just now. People who can react so quickly must be capable, but what Princess Zhaojing accused this time is General Leng's favorite wife, Princess Ping of Wupin. Everyone dares not speak and seems to be watching Princess Zhaojing stupidly stand out alone.
"What Princess Zhaojing means is that the maidservant beside me, Leng Shuang, disguised herself as Queen Chen with a human skin mask and pretended to scare Princess Shuhua at night? How precious is a human skin mask that is completely similar to the human face? Princess Zhaojing actually thinks that Yu Nuan got the human skin mask of Empress Chen within just a month after Empress Chen's death, which really looks up to Yu Nuan. Qin Yunuan turned her head and looked at Princess Zhaojing with a smile.
Qin Yunuan's calm eyes are undoubtedly another provocative to Princess Zhaojing. She said harshly, "What can't you do? You just rely on yourself to bully Sister Shuhua."
Princess Jing couldn't sit still and scolded from afar, "Jinger, you are still a little confused after suffering from the wind and cold. Come to me, don't talk about it again." After saying that, he directly ordered the two maidservant beside him to forcibly bring Princess Zhaojing, but Princess Zhaojing always shouted to Leng Suxin, "The evidence is on the face of this ugly woman. If you don't believe it, look at her face is also a human skin mask, which Qin Yunuan found for her."
"Brother, Zhaojing is tired. She will talk nonsense when she is tired. The royal sister took her home first." I'm afraid that Princess Jing has never been so embarrassed in her life. She ordered her maidservant to hold Princess Zhaojing's arm, and one of them even clicked Princess Zhaojing's dumb hole at the sign of Princess Jing. Princess Zhaojing suddenly became mute and opened her mouth desperately, but she couldn't make a sound.
Emperor Zhaoxuan didn't want Princess Zhaojing to stay for a long time. He nodded and acquiesced.
However, Leng Suxin's face became the target of public criticism. She stiffly accepted everyone's torture-like eyes until Qin Yunuan personally came down to her seat to pull her.
"Four girls, it's okay. Princess Zhaojing is just sick and has a little temper." Qin Yunuan comforted and whispered, "Believe me, since I dare to let you come, I won't let you have an accident."
Qin Yunuan pulled Leng Suxin back to the table. Princess Ning sent Mo Ju around her to ask about the situation. Mo Ju was obviously not as proficient as Qingzhu, and her tone was a little strange.
Qin Yunuan looked at Princess Ning from afar, who had been looking at this side, nodded and smiled, and then returned to Mo Ju and said, "Tell your mother that everything is fine. Since the fourth girl is here, please stay."
Emperor Zhaoxuan and Murong Feng were still greeting, and the banquet continued awkwardly, but it ended half an hour earlier than the scheduled plan. However, Qin Yunuan can conclude that Leng Suxin absolutely left an excellent impression on Murong Feng. In addition, her previous points have been sent to Murong Feng's channels to inquire about intelligence. If there is no mistake in the news from Murong Feng, Qin Yunuan should have deliberately released it.
Just as the guests were about to disperse, the emperor's father-in-law suddenly arrived at Qin Yunuan's seat and Leng Suxin, with a kind smile. However, since the last assassin incident, the emperor obviously did not have much love for the slave who only cared about his life when he was in danger.
"Please ask Princess Leng Si to stay. The emperor and Concubine Yun also prepared a small banquet at the lotus pond. Please take two steps to enjoy the glory."
Leng Suxin was a little hesitant, but Qin Yunuan replied very naturally, "We will go immediately and ask my father-in-law to convey Yu Nuan's gratitude first."
Qin Yunuan probably guessed what it meant when the emperor and the imperial concubine Yun specially called her and Leng Suxin to go. Princess Ning came in the distance and asked why she had just come from her father-in-law. After Qin Yunuan answered truthfully, Princess Ning did not have much expression on her face. She only said that she had not talked to the empress dowager for a long time and just went to the empress dowager's palace to greet her first. Wait for Leng Suxin and Qin Yunuan to return home together.
Looking at the back of Princess Ning leaving, Leng Suxin was a little distracted.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yunuan asked while tidying up her clothes that since she wanted to see the emperor and the noble concubine, no matter what happened, Qin Yunuan should appear in the most appropriate image.
"I'm afraid." For the first time, Leng Suxin's eyes showed a kind of worry and panic from her daughter's family. She was like a deer trapped in a trap, waiting for the hunter to bind and kill her.
Qin Yunu smiled and said, "I thought you had always been fearless."
Leng Suxin lowered her head and said, "That's you, not me."
A little tenderness flowed from Qin Yu's warm eyes: "I'm not afraid of those, because I know that I have Changxi. There is nothing else that can scare me except losing Changxi."
"How I want to be like you," Leng Suxin's attitude towards Qin Yunuan has now been regarded as a confidant from the initial cold resistance. "If you have love in your heart, you will be fearless."
Qin Yunuan sighed: "If you really don't want to marry Xixia, just say that I still have a way."
Leng Suxin laughed and laughed at herself: "I know you are so powerful that you can make up the identity of a small Fengxian's disciple, but going to Xixia is the only way for me to get rid of love. Providing information for you and the third brother there is also a little contribution I can make."
Qin Yunuan didn't say anything. In a blink of an eye, the two have walked to the corner door of the lotus pond. Now it is the middle of winter. The lotus flowers in the lotus pond have already withered. The cold wind blowing through the cold pond makes people's hearts colder, and the fingertips are colder.
From afar, I saw two rows of palace girls standing outside the painting hall by the lotus pond. There must be no doubt that the emperor and Yun Guifei were inside. Qin Yunuan was in front and Leng Suxin was behind, and then they walked to the painting hall. It was just when he was about to let the eunuchs at the door inform them, but suddenly came a delicate female voice inside: "Come on, arrest these two people to this palace. Get up."
In a short time, four or five vigorous bodyguards surged around. Just before Qin Yunuan and Leng Suxin could react, they grabbed their arms one by one on the left and one on the right, so that they could not move.
Leng Su subconsciously resisted, but her arms could not twist her thighs, but Qin Yunuan was very calm. Before she came, she had thought of such a result, and even told the cold frost hidden in the dark not to act rashly.
There is only Concubine Yun sitting in the middle of the painting hall. There is no shadow of the emperor. At this time, Concubine Yun is smiling beautifully, and her charming eyes are like spring silkworms.
Even though her hands were tied, Qin Yu Nuan was still proud: "The father-in-law said that the emperor and the imperial concubine Yun invited me and Leng Si girl in private. Is this the way of hospitality for the noble concubine? Also, why is the emperor not here? Isn't the imperial concubine afraid of the emperor's investigation by using the father-in-law's false transmission of the emperor's oral edict?
"Are you afraid?" Yun Guifei seemed to think that Qin Yunuan's words were ridiculous. "If I'm afraid, I won't call you over. I'm a fake word of mouth, but so what? I'm here for the royal family and for the emperor. The emperor will understand the painstaking efforts of this palace. Dr. Zhang, go and check the face of the cold fourth girl. Let's see if it's true or not, and whether it's really wearing a human skin mask.
It seems that Concubine Yun really took the words of Princess Zhaojing to heart, and the doctor in Concubine Yun is Zhang Ruting, whom Qin Yunuan hasn't seen for a long time. Now Zhang Ruting has lost a lot of weight than before. Since Fang Ziying married Jiangnan, Zhang Ruting has been getting thinner and thinner. He doesn't think about tea and food, and people can see Zhang Ruting. Only Fang Ziying doesn't understand the feelings of the other party, and Zhang Ruting will appear here today. Qin Yunuan knows very well that Zhang Ruting must have defected to the noble concubine Yun.
After all, in the palace, no matter who is leaning on without a big tree, it is like a sea boat and may capse at any time.
Zhang Ruting nodded and slowly approached Leng Suxin. Qin Yunuan knew that Zhang Ruting had been staring at herself with his spare light. She narrowed her eyes slightly and watched Zhang Ruting carefully study back and forth on Leng Suxin's face with wooden tweezers and small needles. Leng Suxin closed her eyes tightly, but her heart beat wildly.
"If you want to verify whether the face of Leng Si's girl is true, you can check it directly. Why use such a tough means? If you make a mistake and privately detain the daughter of the minister and the five-grade princess, I'm afraid that the reputation of the noble concubine will not be guaranteed." Qin Yunuan said calmly, but the more she was like this, the more confident Yun Guifei was.
"Since I dare to do it, I naturally have the confidence of my palace," Yun Guifei's face showed a different kind of excitement. If she really checked this matter for the emperor, she would definitely be valued by the emperor, and the queen's position was within reach.
Qin Yunuan sneered in her heart, but she didn't know that there were many people in this palace who watched Yun Guifei make jokes. This time, most of people took advantage of Yun Guifei's eagerness to make mistakes. After the mantis caught cicadas and yellow finch, the man was really treacherous.
"Doctor Zhang, have you got the result?" Concubine Yun urged.
Zhang Ruting paused slightly, handed over all the tools in his hand to the medical boy beside him, and arched his hand and said, "Go back to the noble concubine, there is nothing wrong with the cold fourth girl's face."
"What do you mean?" Yun Guifei opened her eyes wide and couldn't believe it.
Zhang Ruting said in a low voice, "Weichen means that the face of the fourth girl is real, and there is no human skin mask."
"Impossible." Yun Guifei took a picture of the case, and her eyes clearly told her how terrible the real skin was and how ferocious the burn wound was when she saw Leng Suxin taking off her mask in front of Qin Yunuan.
"I don't believe it," Yun Guifei shouted to Zhang Ruting, "check it again and find out for me."
Zhang Ruting seemed a little embarrassed and subconsciously dropped his eyes on Qin Yunuan.
Qin Yunuan said sarcastically, "Doctor Zhang, since the imperial concubine asked you to investigate, you should check it carefully to avoid a little mistake. Can you afford it?"
At this moment, the eunuch's voice suddenly came from outside: "The emperor is here."