Dirty color

Chapter 214
Du Juan and Gu Mingxuan have the affection of these two lives in them. At this sensitive time, Du Juan suddenly disappeared. Gu Mingxuan can't worry about it, but now that the queen is like this, Gu Mingxuan is not easy to take this matter. Don't bother her, after all, Du Juan is nothing more than a servant no matter who sees it.

Gu Mingxuan could only speak to the aunt in charge of the Queen's Palace, at any rate, it was considered a report, but in her heart, she felt that things were no longer that simple.

It can't be said that this matter was aimed at her, and Du Juan just suffered. What's more, he got Du Juan to get involved with her.

Gu Mingxuan was worried in her heart, but she didn't dare to make herself tired. She lay down and ordered the queen's palace staff to send out their hands to find Du Juan.

Gu Mingxuan lay on the bed by herself, with a worried look in her eyes. When she entered the palace, she only brought Du Juan with her. After all, she was only a princess, so it's not good to go too far. Now, she can only wait for the day to dawn, and let the noble concubine send a nanny coming.

Not long after, there seemed to be some noise outside, and it was just around the corner. However, the people in the queen's palace naturally didn't want to cause trouble, so they just closed the door tightly to serve the queen.

But before Gu Mingxuan went to the imperial concubine's palace to pay her respects in the morning, an eunuch brought someone over and broke into the empress's palace. She lit up the signboard of the Forbidden Guard and the Clan's Mansion, and wanted to take Gu Mingxuan away. She even asked about Gu Mingxuan's side. When she brought the girl into the palace, when she heard that the girl was missing, she had a "really so" look on her face. Gu Mingxuan frowned slightly when she saw that girl. Sure enough, did Du Juan become a raft?

Although the queen was uncomfortable and very irritable because of the headache, she still knew that if she couldn't protect Gu Mingxuan, the relationship between Yong Wang Fengqingli and herself would be very bad. The queen herself was fine, but the queen still read What about my son and granddaughter?

However, if it's just a guard, the queen is not afraid, and the clan's mansion has a sign, so it's hard to talk about it.

Enduring the headache, the queen asked the reason, but the other party kept her mouth tight and said nothing. The queen had no choice but to act both soft and hard, threatening to let the clan mansion take good care of Gu Mingxuan. If the fetus in Gu Mingxuan's womb had any Mishap, I'm afraid Feng Qingli won't let them go, even if it's the emperor, it's impossible to let them go.

Gu Mingxuan was taken away and sent to the clan's mansion - in this place, as a child of the royal family, there is generally no one who is not afraid. After all, neither the Ministry of Punishment nor the Dali Temple has the right to interrogate the children of the royal family. All, those Noble princes and grandsons of Tianhuang rarely go to the execution ground at Caishikou, and almost none of them are beheaded at the Meridian Gate. Eight out of ten will die in the dungeon of the clan mansion. Because of this, there are no royal children who are not afraid. The clan mansion came to the door.

When Gu Mingxuan arrived at the clan's mansion, she was arranged in a room that was simple but clean and tidy, and a girl was assigned to take care of her. After a while, a man with a serious face walked in.

Gu Mingxuan had met him at the Xin'an Palace's family recognition banquet, and she had recited the current relationship of the royal family before and after her marriage, so she knew that this person could be regarded as a phoenix. Qingli's cousin, who lives across the room, is also Zuo Zongzheng of the clan's mansion.

Gu Mingxuan got up slowly, and called out to her cousin, in exchange for the other party to nod slightly, but her face was still serious, obviously in a bad mood.

After a while, Gu Mingxuan calmed down instead. Looking at the place where the clan's residence placed her, she knew that they should have no ill intentions towards her, and they should be regarded as acting impartially.

The other party got straight to the point and talked about the matter directly: "Last night, someone robbed the emperor's imperial study and lost a few things. Although the things were not valuable, they were really bad in nature. There were four thieves at that time, three men and one woman. The two male thieves have already been executed, and the other two thieves, a male and a female, have fled..."

Zuo Zongzheng said while looking at Gu Mingxuan's expression, he was very surprised to see her, then looked at him with a frown, guessing in his heart that Gu Mingxuan should be ignorant, otherwise, the expression should be more exaggerated and stay longer. .

With such a conclusion in mind, and Gu Mingxuan being very polite to herself just now, she didn't treat him as a distant relative of the emperor just because she was the concubine of the emperor's own prince.

Zuo Zongzheng continued to talk about what happened last night: "The male thief is very skilled and didn't suffer any injuries, but the female thief was injured on the waist, and she was also torn off her face scarf. The pair of twin maidservants are exactly the same, yesterday, when they chased to the vicinity of the palace, they lost the figures of the two thieves."

Gu Mingxuan took a deep breath, nodded to Zuo Zongzheng, and said, "So that Tang Bo will know that the girl next to me was indeed missing last night, but I can assure you that she is absolutely determined not to commit a crime of stealing." Things like the study room, and her father is just an escort, although she has some martial arts, but it is just very common, how could she escape under the pursuit of many guards."

From Zuo Zongzheng's tone, Gu Mingxuan could tell that the things stolen last night were probably unusual, and her heart became serious, and she was very worried about Du Juan.

When Zuo Zongzheng heard Gu Mingxuan's words, he neither said yes nor no, he just said: "I have sent someone to invite another girl from your house, but as for this matter, I still want to wrong you to live here. In a few days, if you need anything, just write it, and I will send someone to fetch it for you from the palace."

Gu Mingxuan felt that she would probably be staying here for a long time this time, so she was not polite, and said to Zuo Zongzheng: "I use it frequently, and Du Ying and the nuns around me all know it, so please ask my cousin Tell them to pack the things I use, if possible, it is best to let the two nuns and a few girls around me also come in..."

Apologetically smiling at Zuo Zongzheng, Gu Mingxuan explained: "It's not because I'm coquettish, it's because I'm getting older, and it's inconvenient for me to do things by myself, so I can only make things worse."

Zuo Zongzheng just nodded with a serious face, and led the person away without saying a word. Gu Mingxuan was supported by the maid, and slowly lay down on the bed. She had to ask the nanny to follow her in. What can and cannot be entered , What can and cannot be close, the nuns are clear, although she knows a little bit, but it is not as good as the nuns.

Gu Mingxuan would definitely not be careless, and felt that no one else could harm her in the clan's residence.

Gu Mingxuan uses a lot of things in daily life. Although rouge and gouache are not used, everything must be fine when sitting, lying and walking. Also, because she is pregnant, she eats different things every day. There are so many things , the guards of the clan's mansion waited and waited, but their faces turned dark before they finished cleaning up.

In the end, it was a nanny who said, "Let's go over today, let the rest of the people clean up in the mansion slowly, and then send them off at that time." The guards of the clan's mansion looked a little better.

The others entered the clan mansion and were taken straight to Gu Mingxuan's residence, but Du Ying, because she was Du Juan's twin sister, was taken to the cell by the guards of the clan mansion. Zuo Zongzheng began to interrogate with a serious face.

After interrogating for a while, Zuo Zongzheng felt that if this girl's elder sister was also as skilled as her, then it was really impossible for them to enter the imperial study to steal things.

However, after all, the appearance of the female thief was so similar to this girl, it was impossible for Zuo Zongzheng to let her serve Gu Mingxuan, and directly ordered her to be locked in a cell.

Du Ying has been helping Gu Mingxuan in handling affairs for these years, and she is already able to take care of herself. When encountering such a thing, although she is afraid, she still tries her best to explain the matter clearly. shouted again.

Even at the moment of being locked up, Du Ying still said: "My lord, my sister must have done nothing wrong, definitely not."

"My lord, such a mortal with a stubborn mouth like this should be beaten severely. If he is afraid of being beaten, he will confess." Seeing that Zuo Zongzheng was going to let Du Ying go lightly, one person said angrily: "Could it be that Zuo Zongzheng is afraid? His Royal Highness, so the maids around Princess Yong dare not use torture?"

But Zuo Zongzheng just glanced at the man who spoke in a strange way, seeing that person trembled, Zuo Zongzheng turned his head, ordered people not to torture Du Ying, and then left.

The man who was left with the strange voice cursed fiercely and left.

At this moment, Gu Mingxuan's side had already tidied up, and they used a screen to divide the shallow and narrow room, finally separating the inside and the outside. Once the other things were laid out, the room was shallow and narrow, but it could still be used for people.

Gu Mingxuan sat on the bed, thinking of Du Juan, and worried in her heart. The meaning revealed in Zuo Zongzheng's words was that someone pretended to be Du Juan to be that gangster, planting the blame on Du Juan, with the intention, presumably, to kill herself.

Since they want to do things well, it is naturally impossible to save Du Juan's life, she can't help but not worry, and the other party dares to do something to her, then, where is Cousin Qingli?
Although this situation is not easy to break, as long as she kills her and refuses to admit it, when cousin Qingli comes back, at most she will be sacrificing Dujuan and Duying—yes, Dujuan and Duying are very important to her, But in the eyes of others, sacrificing Du Juan and Du Ying to keep her is a very normal thing. From this, it can be inferred that if the other party wants to do something, they will not only do it on their own side, but will definitely do it on Qing Li's side. My cousin did it.

Otherwise, what's the use of shutting oneself down for a while.

Gu Mingxuan's thoughts turned and turned. After much deliberation, the only one who would do this kind of thing is probably only the Fifth Prince... Yes, there are also those foreigners!

I don't know if the secret guards and the chief envoys have captured those foreigners.

"Your Majesty, let's take a rest, even if it's not for yourself, you have to do it for the little county king in your womb." Gu Mingxuan troubled herself, and the nanny hurried over to persuade her, for fear that she would hurt her spirit and body.

Gu Mingxuan came back to her senses, smiled at the nanny, and when she was helped to lie down, another thought came to her mind.

At this time, it is inconvenient for father to intervene. After all, the clan mansion is not a place where outsiders can interfere. If it is a taboo to intervene in the affairs of the clan mansion, it is almost tantamount to conspiracy.

Seeing that Gu Mingxuan was still troubled, Mammy quietly lit up the soothing incense, and after a while, she saw Gu Mingxuan fell asleep, and then she let out a sigh of relief.

Gu Mingxuan entered the palace and didn't know the situation, but she knew it. Not only was there something going on inside the palace, but there were also many things going on outside the palace. She didn't know about the matter, so the nanny touched the note Xiaofeng gave her in her bosom, wondering if she should give it to Gu Mingxuan, if she didn't give it, she was afraid of making trouble; if she gave it, she was afraid that Gu Mingxuan's overwork would affect the fetus in her womb .

If there is something wrong with the fetus, how can the old lady spare them.

After thinking about it, when Gu Mingxuan got up, the nanny still handed over the note and explained why.

Gu Mingxuan got the note, and only then did she know that Jiang Yang's bandit not only entered the palace last night, but also entered the courtyards of seven or eight dignitaries, burned, killed and looted, and wreaked havoc. When they arrived at the rich and powerful's house, they rushed into the granary where the grain was stored in the capital, and wanted to set fire to the granary. They killed anyone who put out the fire one by one. As a result, seven or eight out of ten of the granary were burned.

However, Xiaofeng also said in the letter that because of the unrest in recent years, in fact, there is not much grain in the granary in the capital, and it has to be transported by water all the year round, so in fact, most of the food that was burned was empty. Not too big.

There was another incident. In the prisons in the capital, many prisoners who had been sentenced to death were also released. At the same time, another place was also attacked—that is, the gardens where two nobles were locked up.

The specific loss has not been found out yet, but the grandson of the Khan of the Qiang tribe has disappeared. From this point of view, it seems that the turmoil in the capital was caused by those foreigners in order to rescue some people from the two tribes. Yes, the purpose is to create turmoil so that they can save people.

No matter what it is, in short, the capital is under martial law at this moment.

After reading it, Gu Mingxuan slowly threw the note into the tea and soaked it. After stirring it, it became a paste. Since she couldn't see what was written, Gu Mingxuan's mind was also a little chaotic at the moment.

Things were numerous and chaotic. At first glance, those foreigners really seemed to be trying to save some people from the two parts by creating turmoil. They fished in troubled waters, but Gu Mingxuan always felt that it shouldn't be that simple.

Surely it can't be that simple—otherwise, how could the inside and outside of the palace be activated at about the same time?

coincidence?

This is too much of a coincidence.

It is believable to say that it was planned long ago.

Taking a deep breath, Gu Mingxuan forced herself to calm down, and began to straighten things out one by one.

(End of this chapter)