When Xu Li'er arrived at the bamboo house, Nanny Gui came up and warned her, "You and Xueying will serve Miss Wen at night. Remember to serve her attentively and don't neglect her."

Xu Li'er said "yes" with a smile and pushed the door in.

On the small couch by the window, the girl with a calm temperament stood up and saluted as soon as she saw them coming in. Her every move and look was so regular that no one could fault her.

Xu Li'er looked at Wen Xi's beautiful face and stepped forward gently.

At night, half of the lights in the bamboo house were extinguished, but the room where Queen Qi lived was still brightly lit.

She was dressed in plain Zen clothes and was sitting behind a table, flipping through Buddhist scriptures.

In the dark night, a group of monks dressed in silk robes walked slowly on the snow. Among the monks was an old woman in ragged clothes.

Not long after, everyone arrived at the bamboo tower. The leading monk knocked gently on the door. When he heard a "come in" from inside, he opened the door and led the old woman into the house.

Queen Qi raised her eyes to look at them. When her eyes swept over the old woman, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows -

the old woman's face was actually covered with criss-cross scars.

The monk in silk clothes put his hands together and said "Amitabha".

"Empress, Lord Meng specially sent someone to escort Donor Ding to Da Ci'en Temple this morning. Lord Meng, Donor Ding is the one you want to see."

Empress Qi put down the Buddhist scriptures in her hands, nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you, masters. Come on."

After saying that, she glanced at Aunt Gui, who hurriedly sent the monks out of the bamboo building.

Empress Qi and the old woman named Ding were the only ones left in the room.

The old woman tremblingly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Women of the common people kowtow to the Queen, may the Queen be blessed with peace and prosperity."

Her voice was very soft and smooth, not old, and it didn't sound as old as her appearance.

Queen Qi looked down at her and said warmly: "Raise your head and let me take a look."

Ding lowered her eyelids and raised her face, the soft yellow light fell on her face with scars, and her hands on the ground Can't help but tremble.

Queen Qi's eyes showed a hint of pity.

"Did you scratch it yourself that night?"

Ding replied, "Yes, the woman didn't want to die, so she decided to give up her face."

"It's hard for you." Queen Qi said, "This matter is Qi's. I will definitely compensate you for your family's fault in the future. Now tell me, do you remember the characteristics of the child?"

Ding said: "When the little princess was born, it was a civilian woman who wiped her body. Infancy. If the peasant woman remembers correctly, the little princess has a cinnabar mole on her right shoulder."

She gestured on her shoulder.

Cinnabar nevus.

Queen Qi looked at Mr. Ding for a moment, and then asked: "Besides the cinnabar mole, is there anything else?"

Ms. Ding's fingers on the ground trembled slightly and said: "No more."

Queen Qi added After asking a few questions, Mrs. Ding nodded and said, "Today you will stay in this bamboo house. I will ask Aunt Gui to take you down to have a rest."

Mrs. Ding refused to move, however, and begged while lying on the ground. : "Please, the Empress, save the daughter of the common woman!"

"Your daughter?"

"Yes, the daughter of the common woman is called Chen Mei, and she is now in Dali Temple Prison."

Chen Mei...

Empress Qi responded to this murder She had heard about her husband's case for a long time, and when Ding mentioned it, she suddenly remembered it.

"Is it because of your daughter that you just showed up in Beijing?"

Ding said "yes" with tears in her eyes.

Meng Zong's people have been looking for her these years, and finally found the Taoist temple in Baiping Mountain, but failed.

Not long after, this woman appeared in Shangjing out of thin air.

A person who would rather scratch his face than disappear would be suspicious if he suddenly appeared in Shangjing. Now that we know she came here for her daughter, it makes sense.

A mother is indeed willing to sacrifice anything for her daughter.

Queen Qi lowered her eyes and said warmly: "Since you are Chen Mei's mother, the marriage between Chen Mei and Qian Da is naturally invalid. I will inform Lord Meng of this matter, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will then state the grievances of Chen Mei."

Mrs. Ding kowtowed vigorously and sobbed her thanks: "A common woman has thanked the Queen!"

Aunt Gui sent Mrs. Ding to a nearby bamboo building. When she came back, she heard Empress Qi say: "When you ask Xueying to serve you, pay attention to that. "Is there a cinnabar mole on the child's right shoulder?"

Aunt Gui responded, paused, and said, "Do you want me to take her back to the palace to have the envoy from Sun Hospital examine it?"

"Let's see what Xueying says first. , If this child is really her, her relationship with the prince..."

Queen Qi rubbed the center of her eyebrows, remembering Wen Xi's eyes when she asked about the prince in the small Buddhist hall, her heart sank.

No matter how hard the girl tried to act calm, she couldn't hide the affection in her eyes. It was the look in a woman's eyes when she mentioned a sweetheart.

Is this Xiao Fu's revenge on her?

In the past, it was Xiao Fu's hot and crazy affection hidden deep in her eyes that revealed her feelings for Prince Qiyuan.

Qi Zhen had liked Prince Qiyuan, and the two had been childhood sweethearts and loved each other. The way Xiao Fu looked at Prince Qiyuan made her feel unhappy.

It was precisely because of her displeasure that Prince Qiyuan rarely came to Da Ci'en Temple to see Xiao Fu.

Wenxi and Gu Changjin were childhood sweethearts. I don't know if they are in love with each other, but at least Wenxi likes Gu Changjin.

Empress Qi muttered: "We can't take her back to the palace for the time being. We will take her back after the prince has arranged a marriage."

Aunt Gui stepped forward to massage her head and said, "Did the little princess say why she went to Suzhou?" State? Did the Marquis of Cheng'an force the little princess to leave for Beijing? "

Nanny Gui always remembered that it was because the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Cheng'an fell in love with the prince and wanted to marry the Gu family that the little princess had to Leave for Beijing.

Empress Qi also asked Wenxi about this question. The child was hesitant and only said that she overheard her grandma saying that her parents were in Suzhou, so she went to Suzhou to find her relatives.

Queen Qi could tell that she was lying, and it was not difficult to guess why.

It's just that I don't want to see my sweetheart getting married and having sex with the girl next to me. Queen Qi had also felt this way before.

On the day when Prince Qi Yuan married the crown princess, Qi Zhen did not go to the East Palace to have their wedding banquet because she was sick.

"It has nothing to do with the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion." Queen Qi said calmly: "It's just that she didn't want to stay in Wutong Lane, so she wanted to leave Shangjing secretly. Thanks to the people from the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion for sending her away to Shangjing, otherwise She is probably still in Xiao Fu's hands."

Speaking of this, Queen Qi felt vaguely that she had overlooked something.

Xiao Fu had been planning for so long, firstly to send Prince Qiyuan's son to the throne, and secondly to take revenge on her.

When the child mentioned Xiao Fu, the admiration in his eyes was real.

Xiao Fu took away her child and made the child fall in love with his blood brother. After experiencing everything she had experienced, he was indeed taking revenge on her.

Based on Qi Zhen's understanding of Xiao Fu, he was extremely hateful and would probably have more than these ways of retaliating against her.

According to the child, Xiao Fu's health has been getting worse day by day over the years, and he has become unable to do many things.

Is it because of this reason?

Or was it because he had spent more than ten years with that child day and night, and had some feelings for him?

Empress Qi pinched the jade Buddha bracelet with a missing rosary in her hand, and slowly frowned again.

While thinking about it, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door.

"Mother, it's not good! Miss Wen is vomiting blood!"

Upon hearing this, Queen Qi hurriedly put down the rosary and said, "Quickly go and invite Master Fanqing!"

Two quarters of an hour later, Master Fanqing arrived in a hurry.

Master Fanqing was the abbot of Daci'en Temple and had excellent medical skills. After feeling Wenxi's pulse, he asked someone to cook two bowls of antidote.

"Wen Donor has been poisoned by a chronic poison from the Western Regions. This poison is very difficult to deal with. Wen Donor has been accumulating toxins for more than ten years. If he does not detoxify within half a year, he may be in danger of dying."

Empress Qi was worried. Master Fanqing said: "Master, do you have a way to detoxify?"

Master Fanqing said: "The poor monk is also helpless about this. The best person in the world who is best at detoxifying is the former Imperial Hospital envoy Hong Lao Taiyi, and the second is the current envoy. Sun Bailong. "

Old doctor Hong disappeared after the death of Prince Qiyuan, and now he can only find the envoy Sun.

Queen Qi looked at the pale young lady lying on the couch.

Is this Xiao Fu's final revenge?

Let her find her biological daughter, and then let her watch her daughter die in pain and be helpless, just like Xiao Fu could only watch the death of Prince Qiyuan.

Queen Qi lowered her eyelashes and seemed to have made up her mind, saying, "We will set off back to the palace tomorrow."

Wen Xi fell into a deep sleep after taking the decoction prescribed by Master Fan Qing. The clothes on her body were stained with blood, Qi Zhen He personally changed her clothes and when he opened the inner garment, she stared at him for a moment.

On the girl's right shoulder, there was a cinnabar mole the size of a pinhead.

Xu Li'er took clean clothes and came in. When he saw Queen Qi looking at the little mole, she asked softly: "My Lady, do you want Li'er to come and change for Miss Wen?"

Qi Zhen shook her head and said, "I'll come here. "

After changing Wenxi's clothes, Queen Qi sat by the couch and stayed with her for a long time. When the girl on the couch breathed evenly, she extinguished the Buddhist lamp and walked outside.

The footsteps gradually faded away. In the dark inner room, Wen Xi slowly opened his eyes, touched the soothing medicine bag that Master Fan Qing had placed on the bedside just now, and took out a pill from it.

Outside the bamboo house, the ground was covered with frost and snow.

Master Fan Qing walked slowly through the silver frost on the ground.

The monks in the temple were doing evening classes in the main hall, and the evening bells filled the quiet forest.

He did not go to the main hall, but went back to the monk's dormitory where he lived.

The monk's dormitory is simple, with only one couch, an Arhat chair, and a futon embroidered with Sanskrit.

At this time, there was a person sitting on the Arhat chair. The person was dressed in Zen robes, and his skinny face still had the dark green spots that had not faded away.

It was Xuance.

This was an injury he suffered in an attack on the road more than half a month ago.

That day, Ding was kidnapped.

Xuance was once the chief disciple of Da Ci'en Temple, and he recognized at a glance that the person who kidnapped Ding's family that day was a monk from Da Ci'en Temple.

Because of this, those people did not take the opportunity to take his life.

"You sent someone to kidnap Ding and let her go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Now the Metropolitan Procuratorate has sent her to Da Ci'en Temple. Why?" Xuance stared at Master Fanqing with sharp eyes.

Master Fan Qing said: "You shouldn't go to Suzhou, and you shouldn't get involved in these things."

"What? Father is worried about me?" Xuance smiled sarcastically, "Or is father worried that the world will see your true face? ? The dignified eminent monk of Cien Temple is nothing but a sanctimonious and morally corrupt hypocrite."

Master Fan Qing's face was calm, and Xuance's words did not cause any emotion on his face.

The two were silently confronting each other, when suddenly there was a flash of silver light, and a thin needle was unexpectedly inserted into Xuance's neck. Just hearing a "bang", Xuance fell to the ground and closed his eyes tightly.

Master Fan Qing's expression changed. He stepped forward and pulled out the silver needle from Xuance's neck. He was relieved to see that there was only a red spot on his neck and it was not red.

"Why does the princess need to take action?" Master Fan Qing looked back at Xiao Fu who came out of the darkroom and said, "Ce'er is extremely smart. The silver needle just now will definitely make him see something fishy."

"Master has a fatherly heart. It's touching." Xiao Fu was sitting in a wheelchair, and Aunt An pushed her out of the dark room, "Master, don't worry, the silver needle just applied was just a drug, you child will wake up after a few days of sleep. Come on. If you continue to make mistakes, you will suffer consequences. Master, you should make a decision as soon as possible. You are the abbot of Da Ci'en Temple, and Da Ci'en Temple cannot be destroyed in your hands."

Master Fan Qing said nothing, the rosary hanging on his chest. There was a dim light cast by the snow beside the window.

After a long time, he said calmly: "The poor monk has given the medicine to the donor. The princess still needs more rest. Ce'er has been informed about this, and the poor monk will relocate the princess to a new place."

Xiao Fu She glanced at Master Fan Qing with a half-smile, and said no more. She raised her fingers slightly on the handle of the chair and pushed her back to the dark room.

Entering the dark room, Nanny An helped her to the bed aside and whispered: "Xuan Ce knows too much. Since Master Fan Qing can't be cruel, he simply let the old slave do it."

Xiao Fu coughed. He said twice, "No need, Master Fanqing will not let Xuance leave Da Ci'en Temple."

Seeing her face getting more and more gloomy, Aunt An's eyes tightened.

Meng Zong, the man who had killed a thousand swordsmen, wanted to get rid of the princess after cooperating with Queen Qi, so he dared to send people to Wutong Lane to kill them. If the princess hadn't been alert, they would have died inexplicably long ago.

After all, the princess was injured in that assassination. Now her body is getting worse and worse day by day, and her coma is getting longer and longer. Aunt An is really afraid that she will never wake up again.

"Why doesn't the princess let the young master come to see you?" Nanny An said: "The young master has successfully entered the East Palace. Now that the Warrior Camp and the Jinwu Guards are listening to his orders, the princess can leave those matters to the young master. Do it."

"Xiao Yan's mind is unfathomable. We can't let Yan'er take risks. Just let Yan'er be a prince that everyone respects. I will do all the dirty things for him. Even if he goes to hell in the future, it will be up to me. Come and do it for him."

Xiao Fu couldn't help but smile a little when he mentioned Gu Changjin, "Besides, Yan'er is too kind-hearted. You don't think Liang would listen to what he was told to do. Is it true that Xiao didn't have the chance to take action because he was seriously injured? He was just afraid that there would be chaos in Jiangnan after Liang Xiao's death. But it was also because of his decision that Meng Zong decided to help him. It's a mistake."

When she heard her mention "Jiangnan", she thought of something and said solemnly: "There is new news from Shen Zhi, saying that Mother Zhang has woken up, and she wants me to find someone to pick her up from Yangzhou Mansion. ? There is no one of us around that person now. When Mother Zhang comes back, there will be someone who can continue to stare at her." Xiao Fu shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter whether Mother Zhang is with her now

."

He coughed and showed a weird smile: "Anyway, that girl from Wenxi is going to Beijing soon. By then, someone will naturally get rid of her for us. We just have to wait patiently to watch a good show."