Royal daughter-in-law

Chapter 544 Seeing him upset (1)
That's okay, if, like Yun Xuanchang, he hid some secret compartments at home, in such a big place, it would be hard for even a god to find.

She put down the bonsai, first approached the head of the bed, and touched it.

The area near the bed is the most private area, especially for women, just like myself, many light and valuable things that are not convenient to put in the warehouse at home are all locked in the small cabinet in the Duobao Pavilion next to the bed in the boudoir.

It's just that it's black powder, and besides being a valuable thing——it's still a dangerous thing, so it shouldn't get too close to people.

I also heard from Yun Jinzhong that this thing is easily affected by moisture, and it will lose its effect if it is slightly wet. Then, it may be stored in a relatively cool and dry environment.

I groped around the phoenix couch for a while, but couldn't find anything suspicious.

Maybe it is true as the prince said, Empress Jiang would not keep such an important thing in her palace.

Yun Wanqin originally thought that black gunpowder would kill people and blow up corpses to pieces. It would be hard to find clues and traces. According to Empress Jiang's temperament, since it was rare to get it, she would definitely keep more.

Since she couldn't find it now, Yun Wanqin was afraid that the consular eunuch would not be able to trap the nanny for too long, so she picked up the bonsai first and was about to go out, but she felt something flashing in front of her eyes, she stopped her footsteps immediately, and her eyes drifted to the phoenix couch. On a dressing table at the feet.

The jade-inlaid dressing mirror table carved with peonies is standing quietly in the corner, and a row of large and small mahogany dowry boxes are placed on the table. Although it is gorgeous, it looks like an ordinary woman in a boudoir. There are some rouge and gouache, eyebrow and lip gloss, jewelry and brocade hairpins and other things.

The one that caught Yun Wanqin's eyes just now seemed to be one of these boxes.

Because the weather is fine today and the master is not there, the servants of the palace opened the skylight on the algae well by half.

She wandered her eyes and suddenly settled on one of the boxes.

The sunlight came in and shone on the box, causing some slight reflections.

Although it looks like other dowry boxes, it is made of precious mahogany, but if you look carefully, there is a thin layer of yellow wax on the box, if it wasn't for the reflection of the sunlight from the angle she passed by, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

Yellow wax?Yun Wanqin put down the potted plant in her hand, walked a few steps over, and picked up the box beside the dressing table.

Yellow wax has always been one of the best moisture-proof and insulating materials.

With a click, she opened the box.

The moment I opened it, I smelled a faint odor under my nose.

For Yun Wanqin, who has experienced it up close in the tea room of Wancai Theater, this taste is familiar.

I looked in, and unexpectedly, the box was empty, with nothing in it.

She frowned, impossible, absolutely impossible, there must be ghosts, there must be no reason outside a dowry box containing jewelry, she can't apply yellow wax, and the smell can't deceive anyone.

Without hesitating for a long time, she turned the box over, checked it, and reached in again.

The dowry box for jewelry is not big, just about the size of two palms. Because of the characteristics of mahogany material, the box wall is very thick.

At this moment, outside the curtain, the voice of the nurse in charge came, as if asking the maid at the door: "...Where is Princess Qin?"

"I'm lying in the empress' bed, and I haven't come out yet."

The nurse in charge approached, as if she was about to open the curtain to come in, "Your Majesty has returned to the palace."

She was a little flustered in her heart, but she was still unwilling to let it go. It was so rare to come in and find some clues, it was not easy!She took advantage of the opportunity to rub along the box wall carefully, and raised her voice, trying to make her voice as light as possible: "Okay, come out now."

The nurse in charge just stopped and didn't come in.

With a heart that was about to jump out, she felt that she was looking for death, but the box in her hand was too tempting. Now that she had found the box, if she didn't find it clearly, she would regret it to death.

Die or die!

The fingers finally felt something strange.

Taking advantage of the bright light, she looked inside, her eyes lit up, but she didn't waste any more time. She closed the box and put it back intact into a pile of dowry boxes, and quickly picked up the wooden bonsai in her hand. Hastily put it on a small incense table, held some messy breathing, and opened the curtain to come out.

At the same time, outside Fengzao Palace, the palace people all greeted Fengjia.

Treating the female relatives to the banquet in the imperial garden exhausted some physical strength. Empress Jiang was a little tired at the moment, so she took Bai Xiuhui's arm up and down the phoenix chariot. With a glance, she happened to see a strange eunuch guarding outside the palace gate, obviously not from her own palace. Doubt: "Who is here?"

A person from Fengzao Palace replied: "If you go back to your mother, the crown prince sent several people from the East Palace to give her a birthday gift. It is a handmade woodcarving by Wan Lao Qi, a craftsman from the folk. .”

Empress Jiang's face relaxed, and she was about to groan, indicating that she understood, but saw the palace man turned his head again, and whispered: "...why haven't you come out yet? Tell those father-in-laws and Princess Qin to come out and meet the phoenix. .”

Princess Qin?
Is Yun Wanqin here too?

Empress Jiang's expression tightened again: "Princess Qin is here?"

"That's right," said the palace man, "the crown prince called here to help... Is this servant calling the princess out?"

Bai Xiuhui obviously felt that Empress Jiang shook her arm slightly, and looked at her master.

Empress Jiang's complexion was not disturbed, but there was something strange in her heart, her brows twitched, most of her fatigue dissipated, she walked quickly towards the gate, and said softly, "Don't call, go, go in."

Seeing this scene, the imperial guards sent by the crown prince to watch the escort were afraid that there would be something wrong with Princess Qin colliding with the queen inside. Cold sweat dripped from her forehead, and she was about to walk out when she heard a voice from ahead: "Mother queen."

Empress Jiang, who was surrounded by everyone, turned her head, and it was King Qin.

The man in the pale gold brocade robe came over with his bodyguards, stopped not far away, and saluted.

Empress Jiang could only stop her footsteps, narrowing her eyes: "Qin Wang has something to do with me?"

Xiahou Shiting said: "Today's birthday banquet is organized by my ministers. I want to see if the queen mother is satisfied. If the queen mother is dissatisfied and lives up to the emperor's instructions, the ministers will be responsible."

Empress Jiang looked him up and down: "King Qin is now in the favor of the emperor. The emperor regards King Qin as the backbone of the humerus. Today in the Jinhua Palace, all the courtiers are close to you and flatter you. You are a very popular person. How dare you blame me." After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and turned around.

When Xiahou Shiting saw that she was about to leave, he lowered his head so that people couldn't see his expression clearly: "What the queen mother said made my son even more frightened."

As soon as the words fell, Shi Yao'an yelled: "Third Lord——"

There was a rustle of palace people around.

To everyone's surprise, at the gate of Fengzao Palace, King Qin lifted his robe and knelt down.

Empress Jiang stopped again, and walked slowly in front of him, not in a hurry, and she raised her eyebrows when she had enjoyed enough honor: "What are you doing, King Qin, and I didn't say anything about you, the man has gold under his knees. Get up."

(End of this chapter)