Chapter 22

Manager Zhao glanced at the four palace maids behind him, and the palace maids stepped forward to salute Pan Chen, and Manager Zhao said with a shy face:

"Niangniang, the star frost girl is gone, these four palace maids were personally selected by the slave for Niangniang, you look at it and want it to be pleasing to the eye, so you will stay and call."

Pan Chen glanced at these girls, not particularly beautiful, but neat, this type that is not ugly or beautiful, should be the most popular servant among the concubines, but Pan Chen shook his head: "Forget about the things, if you are a person, take them back with Mr. Zhao." ”

Manager Zhao's face stiffened: "Niangniang, don't be embarrassed by the minions." In such a big hall, just these few people are serving, and the servants feel sorry for the mother. ”

After speaking, Manager Zhao made a bitter gourd face, and wiped the tears that were not there at all with his sleeve, looking funny and ridiculous, Pan Chen didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and said directly: "Okay, okay, everyone take it back, you can say that I don't like what you picked, and I will pick the right one myself when I have the opportunity in the future." ”

Manager Zhao was a little embarrassed: "Niangniang, this ...... It's not good, or you should stay and use it first, and if the mother likes it in the future, the slave will arrange it for the mother. ”

In a word, it means that Pan Chen must accept it, Pan Chen stared at him and smiled: "People use it, they have to use their feelings, which heart is no longer wild, Manager Zhao is distressed, and I have to arrange a way out for her, I am not a springboard here, come and jump one by one, don't you say?" ”

Pan Chen's words were soft, but in the ears of Manager Zhao, they were like stormy waves, and a thin layer of cold sweat involuntarily broke out on his forehead, he thought that this lady was soft and easy to speak, but he didn't expect his words to be so sharp, and he pinched his weakness at once, he regretted it in his heart, he shouldn't have been for a little profit, for the little hooves that had no eyesight.

Laughed dryly, Zhao Liu also knew each other, and bowed to Pan Chen: "Yes, yes, since Niangniang said so, the slave also understands, but Niangniang has to pick people as much as possible, and it really doesn't look like no one in this palace is serving." ”

After saying this, he saluted and withdrew from the Roufu Palace, and after Pan Chen waited for them to leave, he called to Yueluo and Zhang Neng and said in a low voice:

"Go to the Inner Court Division and ask if Li Quan is there."

Manager Zhao will not give her people and things for no reason, it must be Qi Mozhou who explained what Li Shun said, Li Shun found trouble with the Inner Court Division, and the Inner Court Division came over to deal with it in a hurry, and Li Quan was in charge of the Roufu Palace, and the Inner Court Division must also find trouble with him. Although Li Quan's kid is also a little contemptuous of her, he doesn't have two hearts like Xingshuang, he just wants to mess around, if he is implicated in this matter, Pan Chen will not feel good in his heart.

Yueluo and Zhang Neng glanced at each other, and took the order to go. After a while, I came back to my life:

"Niangniang, the Inner Court Division said that Li Quan had been there, but he should have come back a long time ago, so he couldn't ask anything?"

Pan Chen began to be really worried in his heart, and after thinking about it, he asked Yueluo: "How do you generally deal with people who make mistakes in the palace?" ”

"Niangniang, why are you asking this, those methods in the palace are dirty, and I am afraid that you will be afraid." Zhang Neng is a tiger-headed little boy, because he is clean, he has no beard at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and he looks round.

"Li Quan may have been locked up, maybe he was tortured, you think about where he may be locked up, in the end, it is a life in our hospital, if it can be saved, it still has to be saved, don't delay."

As soon as Pan Chen's words came out, Yueluo and Zhang Neng were stunned, not daring to doubt their mother's words, Zhang Neng hesitated for a moment, and took the initiative to say: "The eunuch and the maid in the palace have committed a crime, if it is a trivial matter, it will be directly beaten by the court division, if it is a major matter, you have to go to the inner court to receive punishment, and if you want the inner court department to control it, you have to go to the criminal department." ”

Zhang Neng said so much, but he didn't tell Pan Chen There is another possibility, that is, he offended the nobles and solved it inexplicably, if this is a possibility, he can't even find the body in a short time.

"Niangniang, what did Li Quan do?"

Pan Chen didn't answer, thinking about Li Quan's crime, he would not go to the Criminal Division, since he had already alarmed Zhao Liu, then Li Quan must still be in the Inner Court Division, and said to them: "A person first goes to the Imperial Court Division and the Criminal Division to ask, see if Li Quan is not there, if there are no two places, then continue to go to the Inner Court Division to ask, Chief Zhao wants to embarrass you, you will say what I ordered, let him come to me." ”

"Yes, sissy."

The next day, Li Quan still did not come back.

Pan Chen went to Kangshou Palace to ask for peace, and after he went, he obviously felt that everyone's eyes were wrong, especially Song Jieyu and Shen Shuyuan, there seemed to be knives in their eyes, and Pan Chen slashed Pan Chen up and down with his eyes, Pan Chen just didn't see it, and saluted Concubine Xian, Concubine Shuyuan and Shuyuan in a proper manner, and then sat in the back row.

"Oh, the emperor really loves Pan Zhaoyi, and he only went to her palace several times in a row, and I don't know what means Pan Zhaoyi used, and he also said it for everyone to learn, and it always rained and dewed, right?"

Before the Queen Mother came, Shen Shuyuan became sour first, she was the oldest and said the most daring words. Pan Xiao raised his eyes to look at her, and said in a deep voice: "Shen Shuyuan is cautious. ”

Shen Shuyuan was originally dissatisfied with Pan Xiao, but she didn't forget her position, pursed her lips, and said softly: "In the end, it is a family of sisters, this will help." ”

Concubine Ning Shu looked at Pan Xiao and took the initiative to stand up and accuse: "Shen Shuyuan, don't break the rules, you are also an old man, what to say and what not to say, don't you understand?" ”

Shen Shuyuan was given faceless by Concubine Ning Shu in person, and felt quite faceless, so she didn't dare to talk back to them, so she turned the target to Pan Chen, but Pan Chen had something in his heart, Li Quan had been all night, asked many places, and said that he hadn't seen him, and he always felt that the kid was more than lucky. For Shen Shuyuan's angry eyes, Pan Chen only looked at his nose and eyes, and Shen Shuyuan's teeth itched.

Pan Xiao's gaze also swept towards Pan Chen, and he tightened his jaw without a trace.

Song Jieyu was the most lively, staring at Pan Chen, but she sat next to Yan Zhaoyi, and her voice was very small, but she could be heard by everyone: "Our young lady, in these aspects, is naturally not as good as the concubine, there is a seductive fox girl, who has been nurtured since childhood, how can we be like us, all of them have been etiquette dogmas since elementary school, and now they are not going to suffer some losses?" ”

Song Jieyu said these words that she had thought about it, looking at the mothers gathered in the entire Kangshou Palace, only Pan Zhaoyi and Yang Liangyuan were concubines, and the others should be concubines, Yang Liangyuan She didn't look at it, she was injured, mainly because she wanted to respond to Pan Chen, if she could unite a faction that was born out of the palace, it would always be beneficial for her to walk in the harem in the future.

Pan Chen was impatient in his heart, but he didn't have the consciousness of standing still and being beaten, raised his eyes and looked at Concubine Ning Shufei in surprise, and then waved his hand at Song Jieyu, pretending to be naïve:

"Song Jieyu is not good at saying this, I just can't do it, I was born with no way, but the concubine is noble, although her mother is the concubine of King Ning, she shouldn't be a seductive fox, besides, if Song Jieyu wants to think that the concubines are all foxes, then what do you want to do in the palace?"

Song Jieyu's whole face turned green by Pan Chen's words, the atmosphere in Kangshou Palace was also very delicate, and Concubine Shu's face was especially bad, because she was hurt twice, her mother was the concubine of King Ning, and she was the concubine of the new emperor. Song Jieyu pretended to be clever and planned to humiliate Pan Chen's words, but she didn't expect that in the end, all the concubines in the harem were counted, what about the mothers in the palace, except for the queen mother, who else dared to say that she was not a concubine? Yan Zhaoyi glared coldly at Song Jieyu beside her, Song Jieyu was weak-hearted, where did she dare to be close to her, stood up, returned to her seat in a gloomy manner, lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief, and didn't dare to make a sound.

The atmosphere of Kangshou Palace was stagnant for a while, and the arrival of the Queen Mother eased the atmosphere in the palace a little, she glanced at Pan Chen, last night, the Queen Mother couldn't wait to send Pan Chen a soup to avoid children, Pan Chen naturally did not shirk, and drank it very refreshingly, it is estimated that after Wang Fuquan returned to Kangshou Palace, he told the Queen Mother about Pan Chen's table, so now the Queen Mother looked at Pan Chen's eyes not very prickly, and praised Pan Chen in public, and appreciated a pair of jade butterfly hairpins.

After the regular meeting, the Queen Mother left Concubine Pan Xian and Yan Zhaoyi behind, and the others knelt down.

Pan Chen was rarely the first to go out of the palace, and when Concubine Shu passed by her, Pan Chen took a step back, and Concubine Shu said calmly:

"It's really unseemly, Pan Zhaoyi looks honest, but in fact she is cunning and old-fashioned, she really underestimated you in the past."

Pan Chen didn't want to stir up trouble, so he looked at his heart: "The concubine doesn't understand the meaning of the concubine." ”

Concubine Ning Shufei snorted coldly: "Hmph, if you don't understand, you don't understand, I want to see how long you can pretend." ”

Pan Chen lowered his head and retreated, and under the angry gaze of Concubine Ning Shu, he hurriedly left Kangshou Palace and walked towards the Roufu Palace.

After going back, Zhang Neng was already waiting for her at the door, and when he saw her, he trotted over: "Niangniang, I have searched for three places, but they all said that they didn't see Li Quan, and the small black house slave of the Inner Court Division also asked Qian Tuo to go to see it, but he was indeed not there, Li Quan seemed to have disappeared out of thin air." ”

"Disappear into thin air?" Pan Chen repeated the words in Zhang Neng's words, chewing repeatedly, for the first time, she felt that death was so close to her, it was not that she had never seen dead people, but a person like Li Quan, who had served her for so long, might have been victimized because of her, this feeling was completely different, and the responsibility on her shoulders made her have to pay attention to this issue.