Qin Hanzhen greeted the princess of Huangyang County, Sun, to drink tea, eat snacks, chat, and take her to visit the garden of the palace of Suning County for a while. The two exchanged their daily preferences for each other, decided to reunite when they were free in the future, and met again at the laurel banquet of a certain royal mansion in August. Qin Hanzhen personally sent her out of the second door and gave her enough face.

When she said goodbye, she also took Qin Hanzhen's hand and said: "You and I are close in age and have similar temperaments, it would be nice if we could be sisters." When you call me aunt, it always makes people feel weird, as if you call me old, and it doesn't seem so close. Why don't you still call me like that in front of outsiders, but only when the two of us meet, you call me sister?"

Qin Hanzhen said with a smile: "I called you aunt in front of such a young and beautiful face, and I felt strange in my heart, and I couldn't open my mouth." It's just that the rules are like this, if we are used to it in private, in case we get to the front of people, we habitually call out, can we not let the elders pick on the thorns? When we get along, we don't pay attention to the red tape between many elders and juniors, how easy and comfortable we can come, and the title is just a trivial matter. ”

The princess of Huangyang County, Sun Shi, suddenly felt that this was in line with her heart, and nodded with a smile: "You are right, it will be decided in the future, don't you see me, call me an aunt, and you will really treat me as an elder." Then I don't follow. ”

The two said goodbye to each other with a smile, and Qin Hanzhen put her in the carriage again, and sent the person away enthusiastically before turning back.

Then she immediately went to talk to Zhao Mo.

Zhao Mo was at the other end of the courtyard at this time, talking to several subordinate officials, and dealing with some affairs in the fiefdom. The subordinate officials have already set a date and are ready to move into the county king's mansion, but it will take some time for everyone to pack up their houses, so they are still staying in the other courtyard for now. Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen have been newly married for more than half a month, although they are still like glue, they also need to be a little distracted to deal with some official affairs, it is impossible to really leave business for too long, and only care about living a two-person world with their new wife.

When Qin Hanzhen found Zhao Mo in the courtyard, he had just finished handling the affairs that had been piled up at hand, and was going to go back to the backyard, when he saw Qin Hanzhen coming, he happily took her hand and said: "Although the weather is getting cooler, it is not cold, should we move back to the courtyard for a few days? The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, if we live here, not to mention the interest of admiring the moon, it is also much more convenient to eat with Brother Qi." Also, if we live here and close the second gate, we will quietly go back to the Yongjiahou Mansion and accompany our grandfather, grandmother, and father-in-law to reunite together, and no one will know, so we don't have to gossip. ”

Zhao Mo was really careful, he found that since the newlywed, although Qin Hanzhen had lived with him quite happily, there were still many places where he felt unaccustomed, and there were fewer opportunities to meet his parents' relatives, and he missed it very much. But if she wants to return to Yongjiahou Mansion from Suning County Palace, and she doesn't want to go through the gate outside, she can pass through the front yard through the promenade on the west side of the Junwang Mansion, cross the street bridge to reach the other courtyard, and then turn to the back door to go to the garden of Yongjiahou Mansion. But not to mention the long distance of this road, the subordinates and subordinates who live and work in the front yard or other courtyards of the county king's mansion will inevitably bump into each other. Although they are all loyal and don't gossip about their mothers at will, Qin Hanzhen always feels very embarrassed.

If they move to another courtyard, Zhao Mo sacrifices the banner of "convenient handling of official business" and "convenient to take care of younger brothers", no one will be picky, but will praise Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen for their virtuous friendship or something, and Qin Hanzhen wants to return to his parents' house from the other courtyard, it is really a matter of a few steps, and he can walk there with his feet, which is convenient and trouble-free.

The sandwich road at the back door of the annex, on both sides of which is the Chengenhou Mansion and the Yongjiahou Mansion, is a dead-end road, and no other family member will pass through it in normal times. Even the emperor occasionally went to the Evening Fragrance Pavilion of Empress Qin's former residence in the west of the garden of the Chengenhou Mansion from the back door, and he also took the corner gate and Qingyun Lane in the northwest corner of the Chengenhou Mansion, and did not pass through the road between the two Hou Mansions. Zhao Mo bought the land in this sandwich road a few days after marriage, and he was willing to share it with the two Hou Mansions, so naturally no one would object. Now that the opening of the meazzanine road has been sealed with a wooden wall, when the three ladies visit each other, they no longer have to worry about the eyes of passers-by, nor do they have to observe in advance whether outsiders pass by. Of course, in this way, Qin Hanzhen will not be discovered by outsiders again when he goes to his mother's Yongjiahou Mansion or Chengenhou Mansion in Changfang from the back door. Unless someone from the two Hou Mansions leaks it out, who will know?

This is one of the small surprises that Zhao Mo prepared for Qin Hanzhen. Of course, Qin Hanzhen would not complain that he spent money to buy a useless piece of land, but was very happy, and gave him a "big surprise" that night.

Now that Zhao Mo proposed to move back to the other courtyard, he was also thinking about her everywhere, how could Qin Hanzhen not appreciate it? She smiled and said: "Of course, although the county prince's mansion is good, the place is too big, and I am still a little unaccustomed to living there." When the annex was first built, I came here to visit it, and I thought that I would definitely stay here for some time in the future. But when we got married, it was already autumn, and if we want to escape the summer here, we have to wait until next year, and we don't know if we are in the capital or back to Suning, and I regret it in my heart. If you're willing to let me not leave this regret, of course I'm sorry. ”

Zhao Mo smiled and took her hand and said, "We don't have to bother too much, just ask someone to pack up some daily clothes and utensils, everything here is ready-made, and there are people waiting for it." If there is something missing temporarily, just send someone back to the county king's mansion to get it. ”

Qin Hanzhen's requirement for a standard of living is that as long as it is comfortable and convenient, he doesn't need too many things, so he nodded and agreed. Then she pulled Zhao Mo to sit down again, so that the girls avoided it, and only then did she whisper what Fang Cai Huangyang County Princess Sun told her to Zhao Mo.

After saying that, she added: "I always feel that something is wrong. Although the ladies of the clan have nothing to do and chew their tongues, it is not a special thing, it is very common, but there are all kinds of gossip in the capital every day, and there are always people who repeat the gossip in the backyard of the East Palace, as if there is some suspicion of rhythm. Especially the contradiction between the Queen Mother and the Crown Princess, as well as the fact that the Crown Princess doesn't want to see Chen Liangyuan and values Chu Liangyuan or something, these gossips are too much. I didn't pay attention to it at first, but then I noticed that there was a strange time when I thought about it, at first I heard someone openly promote this kind of gossip, as if it was in the Hunan Palace, and later when I was a guest in another palace, I also heard others say this, but the lady of the palace mentioned it more, saying that she heard it in the Hunan Palace. I thought to myself, the holy family of the Xiang Wangfu is not very good, could it be that the Xiang Wang and his wife have complaints about the royal family in their hearts, so they are there yin and yang? But today, when I heard Aunt Huangyang talk about it, I felt that even if the Xiang Wangfu was one of the sources of rumors, it did not mean that it was related to the Xiang Wang and his wife. That Grandma Lu Si was very suspicious. ”

Zhao Mo frowned: "Zhao Lu, he doesn't seem to be a person with such courage." ”

Qin Hanzhen said: "But Grandma Lu Si's maiden brother may be related to Chu Zhengfang. If you explain the source of Grandma Lu Si from this, it makes sense. I just wondered in my heart, if these news were deliberately released by the Chu family, what were they thinking? Chu Zhengfang and the Chu family can have today, and the battle is completely the crown princess. The reputation of the crown princess has been ruined, can they still be beneficial? Although there is a Chu Liangyuan in the Chu family, the news that Chu Liangyuan is not favored is even known outside the palace, and they naturally know about it. Before Chu Liangyuan clearly gave birth to an imperial grandson, the Chu family's wings were not able to harden, how could they destroy the Great Wall at this juncture?"

Zhao Mo said: "This can't be instructed by the Chu family. If it is said that it is the opponent of the Chu family, I dare to believe it. Chu Zhengfang did not get the help of the East Palace before His Royal Highness the Crown Prince recovered and regained his authority, but he still walked to a high place on his own. Such a person cannot be stupid enough to destroy the Great Wall. ”

Then Qin Hanzhen couldn't figure it out: "Since it's not the Chu family who is making trouble behind her back, then what's the matter with Grandma Lu Si? Although she likes to chew her tongue, but her mother's younger brother just left the path of the crown princess and the Chu family, made up for the errand in the city guard, and turned around and said bad things about the crown princess, this is too white-eyed, isn't it? Could it be that she is at odds with her brother?"

Zhao Mo also felt strange: "I will let people pay attention to this matter." Then he asked, "In the palaces you have been to, do the ladies like to gossip about the East Palace?"

Qin Hanzhen shrugged: "Everyone's gossip is discussed, but some people especially like to talk about the backyard of the East Palace." Even if they were just talking about other topics, there would always be people who would go around to the East Palace. I don't think it's an unintentional situation. Some things, once or twice are coincidences, and three or four times are deliberate. ”

Zhao Mo said: "In this case, then I will talk to Zhao Qiong." It was his sister-in-law, who lived in the same house as him, so it must be easier to check. ”

Zhao Qiong really deserves to be a well-informed person, Zhao Mo only had a meal, and there was a response two days later.

Grandma Lu Si's maiden brother really followed the path of the Chu family, so he successfully filled his post in the city guard, and he didn't have to move far to the local area. But he did not follow the path of Chu Zhengfang, but the path of a son of a man who served as an official in the city guard next to the Chu family. Of course, the latter also relied on Chu Zhengfang's power, and there was nothing wrong with saying that Grandma Lu Si's maiden brother had a connection with Chu Zhengfang, but this kind of distribution of seven or eight low-cost martial arts, Chu Zhengfang himself might not pay attention to it.

As for Grandma Lu Si's source of news about the East Palace, there is indeed a part of it that her brother heard from the Chu family. In addition to Mrs. Chu Zhengfang, who often enters the palace to see the crown princess, Chu Liangyuan's maiden mother and aunt also enter the palace every half month to see her, which is a special reward for the crown princess. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the daughters of the Chu family to know the news of the East Palace. And because Chu Liangyuan has not been favored for a long time, the ladies of the Chu family are also fighting for her in their hearts. Some of them complained that the Queen Mother refused to help Chu Liangyuan, some complained that the crown princess Tang was not strong enough, and of course some people felt that Chu Liangyuan was useless. There are different attitudes, and so are the discussions. As for how Grandma Lu Si formed that argument after hearing about it, it is not clear.

Zhao Qiong only said: "My sister-in-law pretends to be sweet on her face, but in fact, she is very sour and mean. If you don't have a good life at home, you can't see that others are doing well. People are stupid and don't know the severity, they just think that with the favor of the princess, they have no scruples. Anyway, she has now been punished by the princess and confined to her home, so she doesn't dare to be rash for the time being, and you don't have to worry too much. ”

Zhao Mo thanked him, and then planned to go back to inform Qin Hanzhen of the result, but when he saw Ah Shou's face change greatly, he rushed to report: "Lord Jun, there is an urgent report in the palace, there is a fire in the East Palace!"

Zhao Mo was shocked: "What did you say?!"