Chapter 720
That part of the collar is a little harder than other parts just by touching it with your hands. You won't notice it unless you check it specifically.
Xia Zihan had never paid attention before.
In the palace, because the incense burner was burning in the main hall, this little smell was covered up, and she didn't pay much attention.
Later, after leaving the palace, she didn't notice that it was cold outside. She got into the carriage and the incense burner was lit on the carriage.
The smell on her hair was probably due to the musk from the collar sticking to her hair.
Chu Jingqi cut open the collar and picked out a thin cloth bag that was as long and wide as the collar. The cloth bag had musk powder sewn inside.
Staring at the messy cut cloth bag and the scattered musk powder falling inside, Chu Jingqi's face turned extremely black and smelly.
Xia Zihan was also extremely angry.
After getting angry, she gradually calmed down and thought carefully, "The only people who dared to touch me in the palace were those people. They went to get my clothes. The little palace maid who waited on me to change clothes was someone close to the Queen Mother. , but it is also possible that she was bribed. The Queen Mother has no reason to harm me, and she will not harm me. It doesn’t make sense that she would harm me.”
"The queen...the person who deliberately bumped into someone and spilled fruit juice all over me was the old nanny next to the queen."
"Actually, it doesn't make sense for the Queen to harm me. There is no benefit at all between me and her. Even if she kills me, it will be of no benefit to her. But... besides the Queen Mother, who else in the palace is so powerful? , Dare to bribe the little maid next to the Queen Mother to attack me?”
In fact, she suspected the queen, but no matter how she thought, the queen had no motive to harm her.
Xia Zihan expressed her anxiety, "Aqi, every time I see the queen, I find that she is hostile to me. I don't know when I have offended her. If the queen is still thinking about the former Princess Zhengna, I don’t think it’s necessary to hate me. Princess Zhengna was pretended to be by Xia Ziying and she was poisoned. The queen has no reason to continue to hate her.”
What's more, Xia Ziying was executed by the emperor a long time ago. If the queen continues to hate her, it is unreasonable and inexplicable.
After Chu Jingqi pondered for a while, she said, "Let's not publicize this matter yet. I will go to the palace tomorrow. After all, this matter involves the palace. We can't investigate it secretly. We should let the emperor come to investigate in person." OK.”
"Well, I understand." Xia Zihan said, and she mentioned the two maids again, "They are obviously the queen's spies who planted themselves in Prince Anjun's palace. I am a little worried about leaving them in the courtyard, but let them I would be even more worried if I lived in another courtyard.”
As long as people with evil intentions are placed under her nose, she can rest assured.
Chu Jingqi snorted coldly, "Drive them to work in the village, or send them away and sell them. It's up to you."
Xia Zihan said, "They are the Queen's Empress. It's not easy to drive them away for no reason, and it's hard to explain to the Queen. I think it's better to take it easy first."
If you want to drive someone away or sell them, you have to find out their faults, otherwise it will be difficult for the Queen to explain to her when asked.
Although the two girls' selling contracts were in her hands, they were the ones given by the Queen after all. She couldn't give them any face without giving the Queen any face and just sell them. Doing that would be Hong Guoguo's slap in the face. The queen's mouth.
If the Queen was blamed, she would have no reason to say anything.
"It's up to you, you can do whatever you want." Chu Jingqi rubbed her hair with a doting look on her face, "You just need to remember that I am behind you. You don't have to be afraid of anything, even if you poke a big hole out of the sky. I will carry the hole for you.”
"Yes." Xia Zihan leaned into his arms sweetly. Chu Jingqi said, "Ayu, let's go, I'll wash your hair. After washing your hair, we'll have dinner."
The couple went to the bathroom. When they came out, the vegetable porridge was ready and Chu Qing had already put it on the table. After the couple finished eating, they went to bed to rest.
The next day, before Xia Zihan woke up, she heard someone talking outside.
"The queen rewarded the prince, so what's the matter? You are no longer servants. You can just break into the master's house without being summoned by the princess? Is this how the queen teaches in the palace? Don’t you have any rules?”
It was Chu Meng's voice.
"You... I have no other intention, I just want to see if the prince is awake. We are the ones who serve the prince, and we also need to know some of his habits, so... we came a little early. If the prince is We won’t go in until I wake up.”
A delicate and delicate female voice, pitiful and aggrieved, as if she had been bullied by Chu Meng, which made people subconsciously feel pity for her.
Chu Jingqi was also awakened by the movement outside. The couple were both martial arts practitioners, and their hearing skills were not comparable to those of ordinary people.
He reached out and took Xia Zihan into his arms, who was about to get up, and said, "Sleep a little longer, and don't worry about the outside."
"It's almost dawn, aren't you going to the palace today?" Xia Zihan squeezed his hand, and without moving it, she leaned against him and snuggled into his arms, finding a position that made her feel comfortable. , lie down peacefully.
"You don't have to rush to the morning court. What are you going to do so early? I'll go after breakfast, so that some people don't get suspicious and alert others."
Then he asked, "How is the child? Is he still feeling uncomfortable?"
"No more. After taking two doses of miscarriage pills yesterday, I feel much better." The child also calmed down and his belly stopped falling.
Fortunately, she and Aqi found out early yesterday and were still fine. Otherwise, if they found out today, the child would be in danger.
Xia Zihan felt particularly uneasy when she thought that someone in the palace wanted to harm her and her children, especially since the suspect was the Queen, she felt even more uneasy.
"Have you mentioned Liao Jingtang's matter to the emperor?" Unable to sleep, Xia Zihan found a topic and pulled Chu Jingqi to chat with her.
Chu Jingqi tightened his arms, kissed her on the forehead, and then said, "I mentioned something yesterday that the emperor also felt that he was overqualified in Mianyang City. After the Lantern Festival, the emperor planned to transfer him to Jiangning City. Ren Zhifu.”
"Jiangning City?" Xia Zihan was stunned, "The prefect of Jiangning City seems to be a member of the Li family now, right?"
"Well, he is the sixth uncle of the fourth cousin's husband of the Dou family." Chu Jingqi said, "The in-laws chosen by the fourth sister-in-law are the seventh young master of the sixth cousin of the Li family."
This marriage was arranged by Dou Si.
Dou Si and Xia Zilan have similar temperaments. They are both carefree foodies with no brains and act and speak only on impulse.
Perhaps due to the mutual attraction, Dou Si fell in love with playing with Xia Zilan when Xia Zihan was away in the capital. Finding that she had a good temper, he took the initiative to give her to his sixth uncle's legitimate son.
(End of chapter)