Resourceful beauty

Chapter 307 Fishing in troubled waters
"Are you really planning to stay in Shouchang Palace to serve the Queen Mother and her elders?"

In a wing room in the West Side Hall of Shouchang Palace, Xin Lan sat on the edge of a soft couch and asked Lin Ke'er who was facing her with her head down.

Lin Ke'er twitched the corners of her mouth, showing a helpless wry smile, "Then what else can I do? I just want to go back, but can I let me go? Besides, even if I go back, I will be banned in the yard. If you don't go to see me, I'm afraid no one will know if I die in the courtyard, so it's better to serve the Empress Dowager, and I'll be fine."

Knowing that what she said was true, Xin Lan sighed with some regret.

"Thank you, you still want to come and see me."

Pushing the plate of cakes on the table towards Xin Lan, Lin Ke'er thanked her and asked softly, "Is everything okay in the East Palace now?"

Xin Lan nodded, "It's no different from when you were here. However, there are many things happening in the womb these days. Except for when His Highness is away from home, His Highness is always in Xuanyi Hall and Qixia Hall. Been there."

"Crown princess, it's really lucky..."

With a smile on her face, Lin Ke'er lowered her head, but her eyes were full of vicious resentment. She always felt that if it wasn't for Fang Ruxuan, these few of them would not have fallen into the current situation, especially is her.

After entering the East Palace, they are the prince's women, even if they plan to serve the bed, it's not a big deal.

If it wasn't for Fang Ruxuan's troubles, whether she or Luwu, how could she become what she is now?

"Where is Luwu, is it better?"

As soon as the conversation changed, Lin Keer asked about Luwu.

"Hey……"

Xin Lan sighed and said, "Thirty sticks, almost did not kill Lu Wu, even if it is so, it will only be able to get out of bed after being raised until now. I look at her, she is terribly frightened I guess, even if the illness is cured, I dare not approach His Highness and the Crown Princess again."

Lu Wu, this is ruined.

The last word in her heart, Xin Lan didn't say it to Lin Ke'er.

"how about you?"

It seemed that she was just casually asking something about Lu Wu. Hearing Xin Lan's emotion, Lin Ke'er didn't continue to ask, but instead asked about Xin Lan.

"I?"

Xin Lan glanced at Lin Ke'er in surprise, and saw that she was staring at her in a daze. Xin Lan was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't that like that? I read books every day, copy Buddhist scriptures for the Queen Mother, and just dawdle." That's all. In the past, I could talk to you and Lu Wu, but now, I have nowhere to go, so I can only feel bored by myself."

"You don't hate it?"

Lin Keer asked with a sneer.

"Who do you hate? The Crown Princess? If it weren't for the empress dowager's promotion, I would still be a servant girl in Shouchang Palace. Still in Shouchang Palace, I can still talk and laugh with my former sisters, but now, it’s like being locked in a cage, and I don’t know when this day will be the boss.”

After talking on the phone for a long time, Xin Lan said with a blank face: "In this palace, I don't know how many people envy us, but who knows the pain in our hearts?"

This sentence made Lin Ke'er, who was a little apprehensive, feel hesitant immediately, as if she had been reassured.

"Empress Dowager, what did I tell you to do before?"

Lowering her voice, Lin Ke'er moved closer and asked Xin Lan.

Startled for a moment, Xin Lan looked up at Lin Keer, "What do you mean?"

Seeing her pretending to be stupid with herself, she knew that she didn't trust herself. Lin Ke'er said in a vigorous manner: "The Queen Mother doesn't like the Crown Princess. We all see it clearly. I don't believe it. The Queen Mother sent you to the East Palace. It really makes you happy."

Xinlan hesitated.

She naturally knew what the Empress Dowager Lou was thinking. Her original intention at the time was to let herself pass on the news from the Eastern Palace, so that if something happened to the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, the Empress Dowager Lou would also know about it immediately.

However, no one thought that the Xuanyi Palace was guarded like a iron pass, Chu Yuan would never go to other palaces except Qixia Palace, and Xin Lan was useless in the East Palace.

When King Rui became the king and left the palace, now he has his own fief again. Hearing that he will go to the fief after the next year, Empress Dowager Lou changed her mind again.

Regardless of whether King Rui is the Crown Prince's opponent or not, the Queen Mother Lou's whole heart, including the residence of the Marquis of Lin'an, is now directed towards King Rui. What about the suppression?What's more, King Xuan is not easy.

"His Royal Highness, after all, he is a justifiable crown prince."

Xin Lan said hesitantly.

"Well, since you said that, let me explain to you a little more clearly."

Looking at Xinlan angrily, Lin Ke'er said in a low voice: "Even if the crown prince ascends the throne in the future, do you think he will favor you when he becomes king? At that time, just change to a bigger one." It’s just that there are more people serving you, to you, isn’t it just a new cage?”

Xin Lan listened earnestly, and Lin Ke'er continued: "But what if he wasn't the one who took the throne? If we contribute to it, the future will be better than the present, right?"

She was calm in her heart, but with a surprised look on her face, Xin Lan said in a low voice, "Is this what the Queen Mother meant?"

Lin Ke'er nodded, then shook her head again, "Although the queen mother didn't say that, but it's almost what she meant. I'm not in the East Palace now, so I can't do anything, otherwise, I will definitely do what the queen mother wants , or to gain a future for myself, it is better than living in such a muddle like this."

As she said that, seeing Xinlan hesitate, Lin Keer said with strong medicine: "Let me tell you the truth, not to mention King Rui, the crown prince is not even comparable to His Royal Highness King Yong. Behind King Yong is the Queen Mother." , there is Zhongshan Empress Mansion, and His Royal Highness King Rui has Concubine Jing and Lin'an Hou Mansion behind him. The two of them looked evenly matched in the past, but if His Royal Highness went to the feudal land, it would be even more difficult to say in the future. What does His Royal Highness have? ?”

"Although the prince is in charge of the court affairs now, and the courtiers are loyal to him, does he have military power? No, so, when the fish dies and the net is broken, the prince will be the one who will end up the worst. Let's , it's better to keep your eyes open, find a new owner as soon as possible, and leave a way out for yourself."

What Lin Keer said made sense, and Xin Lan's mind was already a little shaken.

"So, what can we do?"

Xin Lan asked Lin Keer.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Lin Ke'er said mysteriously: "What do you think is the prince's weakness?"

"The prince's weakness...the princess?"

Xin Lan said with some uncertainty.

With an appearance of "you are right", Lin Ke'er said in a low voice: "Then tell me, if something happens to the crown princess, can your highness still be as calm and calm as now?"

Opening her mouth wide in surprise, Xin Lan pointed at Lin Ke'er in disbelief, "Are you asking me to do something to the princess?"

Looking at Xinlan with disdain, Lin Keer shook her head helplessly, "Don't say it's me, it's the queen mother who ordered me to do so. Do you have the ability?"

Xin Lan breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest with some fear and asked back: "Then what should I do?"

"Do you know what the princess's weakness is?"

Lin Keer asked inducingly.

Xin Lan blurted out almost without doubt, "Brother Ming."

"Now, you should know how to do it?"

Speaking triumphantly, Lin Ke'er looked around, leaned into Xin Lan's ear, and whispered a few words.

When she came out of Lin Ke'er's room, Xin Lan only felt that her heart was beating wildly like a deer bumping wildly, and a thin layer of sweat broke out in her palms.

Before leaving, she went to the main hall to kowtow to the Empress Dowager Lou, and saw her looking at her with deep eyes. Xin Lan knew that part of what Lin Keer said just now was probably the Empress Dowager's instruction.

After returning to the East Palace, greeted Fang Ruxuan, and sat down in her own room, Xin Lan felt that her underwear seemed to be wet.

"Yuqing, at Lanyue Pavilion, the little princess's Xisan, did you tell me what to do?"

Calling Yuqing who has been serving her personally, Xinlan asked softly.

Yuqing shook her head, "There hasn't been a word from Xuanyi Palace yet, maybe it won't be done."

If there was any movement in the nearby palace, it was mostly Fang Ruxuan who sent the message, and then Xin Lan and the others followed Fang Ruxuan.

Although it is a sad thing for a little prince to die early, but in the palace for so many years, there have been countless princes and princesses who died early, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye and no one noticed.

On the contrary, Concubine Fang is pregnant with twins, and now the little princess is still healthy, which can be regarded as a happy event.

Xin Lan secretly guessed in her heart that even if King Yao didn't order it, Queen Zhou would order the House of Internal Affairs to do it for the bad luck of going to the palace.

"Tomorrow is the day, and the Crown Princess may not be going. At that time, I will probably go there with Concubine Hu to say goodbye."

Talking to herself, Xin Lan quickly calculated in her heart, when is the most suitable time to act, and it will not be seen by others afterwards.

"I made a small dress for Brother Ming, and it just fell to Sister Lin. Minger, remember to get it back for me."

Turning around, she asked Yuqing, and Xinlan repeatedly told her not to run around, and when she came back from Lanyue Pavilion, she had to send the little clothes to Brother Ming.

Yuqing nodded seriously.

Sure enough, in the evening, Su Ye came over to send a message, explaining that it was the little princess's baptism, and asked Xin Lan to follow Hu Moyan to congratulate her and send a congratulatory gift along the way.

After seeing off Su Ye, Xin Lan turned back to the inner hall, sat on the side of the bed and began to think carefully.

In the Hall of Xuanyi, Chu Yuan was playing with Brother Ming in the Nuan Pavilion. Fang Ruxuan looked at the gift list in her hand, and seeing that there was nothing wrong, Fang handed it to Su Ye to prepare.

After a while, Ding Xiang came in and whispered something in Fang Ruxuan's ear.

"I see."

Fang Ruxuan nodded, with a hint of thought in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)