At the beginning of the new year, the officials all entered the palace to worship, and the wives who had a decree also entered the palace to celebrate the New Year according to their makeup.

When Old Madam Sun returned to the Hou Mansion, she looked a little tired, which was not quite the same as she usually did. Wang didn't see anything unusual as always, but Mrs. Tuesday's face looked very strange.

The family opened an ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and they were busy for several hours. It was a major event of the year, and no one dared to ask what was going on in the palace.

It wasn't until she returned to the newly decorated Yuhua Pavilion that Hui Zhi got clear news. It turned out that the queen mother Yuan, who had not presided over the internal and external orders to enter the palace for many years, suddenly re-dressed in a wide-sleeved Zhai dress in the New Year this year, wearing a crown of three phoenixes and two dragons playing with pearls and phoenixes, and presided over the ceremony in Kunning Palace.

In the second room, Mrs. Tuesday also sighed to the second master: "I haven't seen the demeanor of the queen mother for many years, and the Zhai bird embroidered with gold thread on Zhai's clothes is really lifelike." Over the years, the concubine Niangniang presided over the ceremony, and the wives had not seen the crown of the three phoenixes and double dragons for many years. ”

The second old man, Qin Huaien, also got the news early, and frowned: "What is the reaction of the concubine?"

"Shen Guifei is very calm, she respects the queen first in everything, and she has not trespassed for half a point; Zhou Shufei still looks like she doesn't care about herself, no different from usual. On the contrary, Li Concubine and several low-ranking concubines had very ugly faces. Mrs. Tuesday said slowly as she recalled.

The concubines of status, of course, will be very, very ugly.

Although the queen has not been in charge of palace affairs for many years, there are still concubines like Jing Zhaoyi who are loyal to the throne; Shen Guifei covers the sky with one hand, and the most people ask her for protection; Concubine Shu keeps to herself, neither gets close to the queen, nor does she go along with the concubine's faction.

From this point of view, the harem faintly has a three-legged faction.

It's just that one is stronger, and the other two feet are slightly lacking, and some are a little emaciated.

But no matter how thin he is, he is still a foot in the palace, and he is very weighty when he speaks in front of the emperor.

Now the queen is sitting firmly in Kunning Palace, and these low-ranking palace concubines who often use the wind as knives when they see the wind and rudder are afraid that they will be uneasy for a long time, for fear that if they are not careful, they will either be killed by the queen and set an example for the monkey, or they will be taken out by the concubine to show that the concubine is still loyal to the queen.

Second Master Qin lowered his head and pondered. Since the emperor asked the empress, who had retired for many years, to preside over the New Year's ceremony, does that mean that the crown prince's position is a sign of stability?

Although he is only a Qing Xiu scholar of the Hanlin Academy, he also pays a lot of attention to the current affairs and political situation, not to mention that he has recently become very close to his eldest brother, and Cheng'an Hou, who is the head of the Hou family, is also willing to talk to him more.

Fortunately, the Cheng'an Hou Mansion has always adhered to the golden mean, and it is neither like Chengyi Bo, who is obviously classified into the prince's party, nor like those disciples and ministers under Su Ge's old sect, who appreciate the three princes as much.

The emperor is still in the prime of life, and the crown prince is still sitting in the East Palace.

What's more, the queen mother is now back in power.

***

When the fine Xin was over, he entered the listening hall.

Banxia stood left and right, serving tea and water, and Pei Gu listened to the news brought back by Xi Xin in silence as always.

Master Tu Anqing found out that the origin of the gang of robbers back then was probably related to a certain faction in the palace.

After all, the master came forward to save him, and the forest where the accident happened was actually very close to the Silent Valley, and the viciousness of that group of people angered the master, and secondly, in order to protect the Silent Valley from outsiders, all of them were killed by the master.

The place where the incident occurred should not be left for a long time, and the master did not give him time to clean up his mother's remains.

The master immediately took him back to the Valley of Silence, and when he went out to check the robbers' information when he was ready, he found that the mess was cleaned up.

Tu Anqing searched and pursued for a long time before he found a little trace.

From beginning to end, this matter seems to be silently manipulated invisibly, making it elusive.

It is only now that I have peeled off the cocoon little by little, and found out that the group of people back then had a close relationship with the people in the palace. It's just that I don't know which faction of people did such a ruthless thing.

If they had succeeded back then, Wu Weihou and General Xiao's Mansion would have become a big joke.

Wuwei Houfu, who was born in military service, actually let his relatives kill his wife and son by robbers on the way back from visiting relatives;

Utterly humiliating.

This New Year, it's really not very happy.

Pei Gu's eyebrows furrowed tightly.

It shouldn't be the prince's faction. Although the crown prince is absurd and the emperor doesn't like it, he finally sits firmly in the East Palace, and there is no reason to kill the family members of the important ministers.

Moreover, the crown princess is the granddaughter of General Xiao's mansion, the niece of his mother's mother, and his cousin Xiao Jin, whom he has known since childhood. With such a close marriage relationship, even if the crown princess is no longer favored in the East Palace, she is also the best lady of the main house.

Pei Gu felt that it was very likely to be Shen Guifei's faction. The Yang family and the Shen family secretly colluded, although the Yang family, the concubine in the palace, and Shen Guifei were at odds with each other, but they still broke the relationship between the bones and the tendons, not to mention that after the father guarded the system for his mother for two years, the Shen Mansion secretly acted and asked the female relatives of Ding Ge's hometown to protect the media, so that the current stepmother Yang married in.

From this point of view, if he was also eliminated as the prince of the world, the Yang family would be the undisputed winner, and the Shen Mansion behind the scenes would also benefit a lot.

However, since the master did not explicitly say that it was Shen Guifei's faction, there should be another hidden meaning in this matter.

Could it be Concubine Zhou Shu?

However, although Concubine Zhou Shu has a firm foothold in the palace, she often stands in a safe place in the battle between the queen and the concubine, not only with her own ability, but also with the stable power behind the Zhou family, who has been out of the crown prince's Taibao.

The Zhou family is such a clear stream, although there are very few words in the court, but the protégés and disciples are all over the court and the opposition, and the elegant name is well-known all over the world, and the indifferent nature of the concubine who only seeks peace in the harem and does not seek power is also very liked by the emperor.

Such a family doesn't seem to do anything to kill someone's wife.

The wind passed through the hall and the cold was blowing. Pei Gu made people light the lamp, changed to hot tea, and the faint Sichuan characters twisted out between his eyebrows still failed to unfold for a long time.

It was as if his thoughts had suddenly reached an impasse.

The enemy who killed his mother was like a veil that was close at hand, but he couldn't see clearly, which made him feel very distressed.