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Mother's question really stumped me, not that I trust the people around me much, it's just that I've always been used to being careless, and treating people is gentle, so in my palace, there are endless things such as theft, coaxing, and deception, asking me to guess, but it's like looking for a red bean in a handful, how can I find it in a while? Besides, since this matter has gone to my mother, it must be the people in front of me, if I guess at will, it is to expose their evaluation in my heart, my mother is for the sake of her children, she really can't rub a little sand in her eyes, in case she thinks that they are not serving well, I guess their names, and I am very angry, and I am involved, how can I be good? It is better not to show off this meeting, so as not to affect others, thinking about this, shaking his head and saying: "I can't guess." He specially left a word and said: "I have a loose hand, there is no number of rewards, and there is not much to keep a file, maybe it is something I reward, they are short of money for a while, temporarily pawned, but were arrested as theft, A-Niang wants to call those people in the court to check carefully, don't slander good people indiscriminately." ”

My mother looked at me with a smile and said, "It's okay to be on the side, the gold pills you gave by Aya, the jewelry given by Erlang, you also casually rewarded these palace people, huh?"

When I heard these two things, I realized that this matter is probably not as simple as "the person in front of me", and I am afraid that this person still has a lot of face in my place. The people around me have all changed last year, and many of them that I can't even remember, and who are often in front of me and have faces, are just Song Foyou, Wang Xu, A Yang and Wei Huan - these four people except Wang Xu, no one can move, but Wang Xu is a eunuch, and most of the guards are in charge of honor guards and internal and external communication, and they may not be able to get this lot of property, and Wanguan is not a small amount, and half of my things are managed by Ah Yang and Wei Huan, and the eunuchs are not very handled, so it is not easy to steal so much.

I remembered my mother's laughter, shuddered for no reason, and said carefully: "I can't guess, Ah Niang sued me." "I made up my mind, as long as my mother said the word "Wei", she would say that she would recognize it as a reward, and then she was stunned again -- in just one day, I had already recognized Wei Huan as such a person? However, if it weren't for Wei Huan, it would probably be Ah Yang, but Ah Yang, as the head of the nursing mother, was generous, and her husband was also a state assassin, would she be so greedy for money? If I told my mother her name, would it make my mother think that she was usually misbehaved?

As if she was deliberately teasing me, my mother refused to tell me what was going on, but smiled and said, "If you guess at random, and if you guess wrong, I won't say anything about you, don't you still want to reward me with me?" If you can guess correctly this time, you will be rewarded, and if you don't guess, you will also be rewarded, but it is better to guess more than you can get more." Zhenguan Hall has arrived, the mother slowly got up from the step, Wan'er was about to step forward, but saw the newly favored Tuan'er come out from behind, one step ahead of her to grab her mother's side, bent down and raised her arms, and respectfully called: "Your Majesty." ”

My mother smiled, helped her men, and turned to look at me.

Tuan'er was about to come to help me again, but I thought she was flattering, so I ignored her, jumped down by myself, rushed to the front, dragged my mother's arm with both hands, and my mother took me a few steps, and when I got to the bottom of the porch, she urged me again: "Can you guess? If not, wait until you get it and then go in." "I have to choose one.

I was ruthless and said, "If you are a repeat offender, it must be someone who has been by my side for a long time." The number of people who can move thousands of times must have quite an identity, forget it, about... Only Ah Yang. Who did A-Niang find out?" There are many palace attendants around, and when this is said, the rumor that "Princess Changle suspects that Ah Yang Niangzi is stealing" must have spread, even if it is not her, I am afraid that she will also have a bad reputation, but unfortunately compared to making Wei Huan wronged, I had to wronged her first.

My mother looked at me with a smile and didn't answer, but only lifted one foot and asked her to take off her shoes. The group was busy kneeling on the ground and was about to do it, but Wan'er smiled and said, "Your Majesty forgot, the sage said that he would enjoy the newly made music and dance on the Baiqu Stage tonight." ”

The mother said, "I forgot." I remembered that she helped me last time, grabbed her hand and smiled: "I also saw a new dance in Brother Sheng's place today, which is accompanied by my mother's old work, called "Ruyi Niang", has Master Shangguan ever seen it?"

Wan'er was taken by me, and unconsciously followed closely by the side, and said as she walked: "No, the concubine is just serving the princess to teach, and the princess should not be called 'master'." ”

I let go of her hand and said, "This dance is excellent, you should take a look." ”

The mother turned her head sideways and said to Wan'er: "Since the son likes it, you go to the Baiju Stage first to spread the word and ask them to line up." ”

Wan'er nodded in agreement, and walked forward first, as soon as she left, Tuan'er leaned over from the side and followed closely to serve.

Seeing that I kept turning my head to look at Tuan'er, my mother instructed again: "Tuan'er, you go to Shangshan to have a look, the sage's paralysis is cured, and there are some taboos, so tell them not to go up." ”

The group was also sent out, and the rest of the people were not as good as her two loves, so they didn't dare to stick it up, and for a while there were only four attendants around to carry the public opinion. I turned my head to look at my mother, who smiled at me and said, "You have Ah Yang, Ah Song, and Ah Wei there, and I also have Wan'er, Tuan'er, and Ah Qing here." ”

I was reluctant to compare Wei Huan with Ah Yang and Song Foyou, so I only said humbly: "How dare the three of them compare with Ah Niang's deacon?"

My mother knew what I meant, but she deliberately said: "Yes, the three of me here are all maids of the Imperial Palace, how can I compare with the little fourth lady of the Wei family who is famous in Beijing and has an equal relationship with the princess?"

My face changed color, calling "A-Niang", my mother was still smiling, and suddenly she lost her smile, glanced at me, and said: "Don't cover her up anymore, let me ask you, last time you went to Wei Xuanzhen's house, Chang'an ordered you to go there to arrest the maid who left the palace without permission, how did you get out?"

I argued, "I went out through a small door." ”

Mother said: "I sent someone to his house to see, his small door is locked all the year round, and Wei Huan's house is not open to the small door." ”

I said, "That time it happened to be unlocked." ”

The mother sneered: "Yes, then it is just right for her to be angry on the spot and give you a look?"

I thought about it for a while, and then I realized that my mother was talking about Wen Tang, and said, "That time... It's true that I'm not good. ”

My mother glared at me suddenly, and said sharply: "You are a princess, she is just a concubine of the side branch of the big clan, a concubine, you allow her to bathe in the same soup, it is already a great grace, what qualifications does she have to dare to make you pale?" The voice was so loud that the few people who were frightened paused for a moment, and the mother shouted: "Go!" They walked up quickly, and I took my mother's hand with a pale face and said: "Ah Niang, these yuan don't do Ah Huan's business, it's my own fault, I will in the future... Not anymore. Seeing the rare coldness on his mother's face, he was secretly aware of it, and said in a trembling voice: "Ah Niang, could it be that the person who stole things... Is it Ah Huan?"

My mother glanced at me and said hatefully, "What do you say?"

I am already the master of the six gods, and I said in a panic: "Xu is wrong, the gang of people in the court are used to weaving plants, and there is nothing to do, but it must be said that there is something, and if there is something, it will be done in a big way... Ah Niang checked again, no, I want to check it myself, I gave her a lot of things, but I didn't keep a record..."

My mother raised her hand suddenly, I thought she was going to beat me, and I was just about to lower my head to avoid it, but my mind turned around, but I was busy kneeling, only hoping that my mother would be angry with me, and it would be less on Wei Huan's head, who knew that my mother just patted the cushion on her side and said angrily: "It's not her." ”

I was still about to plead, but suddenly I came to my senses, and said in a daze: "Is it really Ah Yang?" Once it didn't involve Wei Huan, the spiritual aperture was opened, and I had already figured out the middle joint in an instant-as I said to my mother, the recidivist and the face in front of me, except for Ah Yang, there was really no one else, but she stole something, why was her mother so angry with Wei Huan? Yes, Ah Yang is now in the capital, even if he waits for his mother's ruling, he will not send someone to send a letter for this trivial matter, but he will only mention it when the holy driver returns to Luan, this news can be transmitted, someone must have done something, and I am not on good terms with Ah Yang here, only Song Fuyou and Wei Huan, Song Foyou has a stable position, and he is upright, he may not bother to plan such a thing, but Wei Huan's identity is embarrassing, if Ah Yang is brought down, she will be the person I trust the most from now on.

Mother was angry, first, Wei Huan was bold, even she was calculated, and second, she hated me for being incompetent, not only could I not restrain the slaves and maids, but I was also at the mercy of others, losing the system of the heavenly family. Come to think of it, my mother, a native of the Tang Dynasty and the noble daughter of a wealthy family in Guanlong, has called slaves and maids since she was a child, and the private soldiers in the family are all like property and goods, and she is not even a "person" in the law, how can she know that her nominal daughter is actually from a world where everyone is equal in law and there is no difference between master and slave, and how can she know that this daughter actually doesn't want to treat the ant-like concubine in her eyes as a slave, a subordinate or a servant?