Chapter 38

Li Quan dragged the sick body out, ran outside all day, and returned to the Roufu Hall at night to return to Pan Chen:

"Song Jieyu is looking for Liu Zhen, the deputy head of the purchasing department, to send things out for her, and occasionally bring some things into the palace, because Liu Zhen is from the Du family, and after entering the palace, Liu Zhen took a fancy to him, so he began to do things for Song Jieyu, in the past, Song Jieyu looked for him for a while almost a month, but in the past month, Song Jieyu has looked for him three times, and Liu Zhen brought a lot of letters out for Song Jieyu."

When Pan Chen heard this, he asked Li Quan puzzledly: "What does she let people say?" ”

"What the specific words are, the slave doesn't know, but Song Jieyu just asked Liu Zhen to bring three thousand taels of silver tickets from outside the palace into the palace five days ago, and it seems that she is particularly short of money." Li Quan told Pan Chen everything he inquired about today.

"Three thousand taels." Pan Chen was speechless: "Where are these silver tickets used in the life of this palace?" "This Pan Chen really doesn't understand, because since she entered the palace, she hasn't spent any money in particular.

Li Quan raised his eyes and looked at Pan Chen, and his tone was a little helpless: "Niangniang, there are many places in the palace where silver is used." Not everyone is like you......" Without the words self-motivation, Li Quan hesitated for a long time, and finally decided not to say anything to hurt Pan Zhaoyi, and explained instead:

"The lady in the palace will fight for whatever she wants, eat, wear, use, as long as she wants to live a better life than others, then these things have to rely on yourself to fight, when there is the emperor's favor, the people who serve below naturally dare not slack off, but when there is no favor, if you don't make the silver, how can you get what you want."

Li Quan used to feel that Pan Zhaoyi was very lacking in this regard, never bothered, never cared, such an upright concubine generally has no future in the harem, and he also fought to leave the Roufu Palace, and the mind of climbing high branches was like Xingshuang, but before he rebelled, he almost killed someone, it was this Pan Zhaoyi, who he was never optimistic about, tried his best to save his life.

Li Quan was grateful at the same time, during this time in the Roufu Hall to recuperate, but also to understand some things, although the palace is saying that Pan Zhaoyi is favored, but Li Quan feels that it is not so simple, the emperor is suspicious, not the kind of foolish emperor who will waste the government for the sake of beauty, Li Quan grew up in the palace, although he has not served a serious master, but he has also seen a lot of favored concubines, not Pan Zhaoyi is like this, the emperor is more than pampered to Pan Zhaoyi, and there is no pity, this is not a favor, it is harmful. Just like the former Emperor Ningguo, for a period of time, he obviously favored Concubine Liu the most, but he always put Concubine Zhang in front of Concubine Liu to block arrows, although Concubine Liu was also disgusted later, but when Emperor Ningguo favored her, it was also a real favorite, at least he wanted to protect her.

Pan Zhaoyi is like the former Concubine Zhang, a target with a clear goal, maybe Pan Zhaoyi has already discovered this problem, but it is difficult to ride a tiger, there is no way, Li Quan has received Pan Zhaoyi's great favor, and he doesn't want to watch Pan Zhaoyi die, so he can only try his best to help her.

What Pan Chen said to Li Quan can also be understood, her material needs are not high, as long as she has food and sleep, a tile to cover her head, cotton clothes in winter and a fan in summer, but whether others can do it, Pan Chen doesn't know. But I still think it's strange, it's not been a day or two since Song Jieyu entered the palace, why can't she wait for this month? Although Li Quan didn't listen to it, she asked Liu Zhen to bring her something out of the palace, but Pan Chen could know if she thought about it, she must have asked the Du family to help and let the emperor spoil her, how and thirsty it was! Also, this hunger is a little abnormal.

Because from a psychological point of view, Song Jieyu is a big beauty, her background is also very good, she was pampered and grew up, it can be seen that she should not have suffered any setbacks, such girls are generally more squeamish, even if she has the heart to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, but she shouldn't be so anxious, it is more dangerous to spread the word from the palace, and she does it three times a month! This is really in a hurry.

Could it be because Qi Mozhou has favored Pan Chen during this time, so Song Jieyu is in a hurry? But Qi Mozhou didn't spoil her for a day or two, why did Song Jieyu start to be anxious this month?

Pan Chen thought for a while and then said to Li Quan: "You go and see where Song Jieyu's money is used, if it is really as you say, just for food and clothing, three thousand taels of silver is too much." ”

Li Quan wanted to speak and stopped, but he still decided not to raise the bar with Pan Chen, and went down in response.

The next day, I went to Kangshou Palace to ask for peace, I wanted to see Song Jieyu again, but Song Jieyu sent someone to take leave early in the morning, the three Jieyu of the Splendid Palace, only Zhao Jieyu and Su Jieyu came, Su Jieyu is a nerd, since Pan Chen wrote that tutorial, Su Jieyu obviously admired Pan Chen a lot, saw Pan Chen knock over, and took the initiative to stand up, gave Pan Chenfu a salute, Pan Chen returned the salute, and then looked at Zhao Jieyu next to him, Zhao Jieyu is a small jasper, thin figure, small facial features, born in a four-grade military general family, Her father was a striker for the first emperor back then, and he rose all the way, but Zhao Jieyu followed her mother, studied since she was a child, is literate and hyphenated, usually doesn't talk much in the harem, and always has a little inferiority, Pan Chen's impression of her is that she follows Song Jieyu and doesn't speak.

It's just that Zhao Jieyu seems to be a little different from usual today, her expression seems to be a little more confident, although she still doesn't talk much, but the whole is a little different, Pan Chen glanced at her twice, and found that her hand always reached into the sleeve, Pan Chen saw it several times, whether it was sitting or standing, and Pan Chen remembered that Zhao Jieyu didn't like to wear wide-sleeved clothes very much before, her mother is from Jiangnan, Jiangnan women are so delicate, and she herself is petite, and wide-sleeved clothes inevitably feel lightheaded and not beautiful.

Pan Chen was observing Zhao Jieyu, Yan Zhaoyi, who was sitting in front of her, turned around and called out to her softly, Pan Chen came back to his senses and looked at Yan Zhaoyi, only to see Yan Zhaoyi secretly pointing at the Queen Mother, Pan Chen looked over, and saw that the Queen Mother was staring at herself, as if she was waiting for her to do something.

Pan Chen hurriedly stood up, the Queen Mother saw her soulless appearance, her face was cold, and the grandmother beside her reminded Pan Chen: "Pan Zhaoyi, the Queen Mother asked you about the emperor's recent situation." ”

The Queen Mother likes to hate her as always, but Pan Chen is used to it, since she has eaten this bowl of rice, she has to eat it, and she has to eat it if she doesn't eat it, so don't think it's delicious or not, and replied stubbornly:

"The Queen Mother forgives her sins, the concubine was stunned before, and she didn't rest well at night."

As soon as the words 'I didn't rest well at night' came out, I was unanimous with the disdain of the other concubines, Pan Chen just didn't feel it, and continued: "The emperor has been very good recently, and his appetite is good, and he is ...... All good. ”

Pan Chen thought that the Queen Mother had already hated her anyway, even if she was modest, others who should hate her would still hate her, and it was okay to make the other concubines hate her, but they were helpless against her.

When the Queen Mother heard her say this, she nodded: "Well, be careful, and recommend other sisters in the harem if you have the opportunity, don't just care about yourself." ”

These are clichés, and Pan Chenfu received the order: "Yes, the concubine knows." I will definitely persuade the emperor to get wet with rain and dew. ”

The Queen Mother waved her hand and asked Pan Chen to continue to sit down, after Pan Chen sat down, she continued to return her gaze to Zhao Jieyu, who knew this, but found that Zhao Jieyu was also looking at her, however, she did not look at each other, Zhao Jieyu seemed to be looking at the pair of hollow gold carvings inlaid with rubies on her head, Pan Chen moved his head, Zhao Jieyu reacted, saw Pan Chen noticed, hurriedly retracted his gaze, lowered his head, and continued to put his hand into the wide sleeves.

Coming back from Kangshou Palace, Li Quan came to report:

"Niangniang, Song Jieyu doesn't seem to have anything to do with other places in the palace, and it's just the expenses in the Splendid Palace, and it is estimated that the three thousand taels of silver tickets are for personal use, and they haven't used them all."

"There's no money anywhere else?" This is even more strange, Song Jieyu's personality is always pampered by the family, and she has never lacked silver, as long as she has money left in her hand, it should be impossible to take precautions and ask for it at home, and if it is three thousand taels, which is equivalent to millions of yuan, what did she want? Don't eat, wear, or do anything, so what does she want money for?

Pan Chen had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said to Li Quan: "You go to the Splendid Palace to explore again, this time it's not to explore Song Jieyu, you go to explore Zhao Jieyu to see if there is anything strange about her recently." ”

Li Quanzhen didn't understand what Pan Chen meant more and more, and at first he said that he wanted to find out how Song Jieyu sent the news out of the palace, but now how can he find out Zhao Jieyu in the Splendid Palace. was about to go down, but was stopped by Pan Chen and said:

"Wait, you better not go, let the moon fall, she will talk to those little palace maids the most, it's not appropriate for you to go."

What Pan Chen said was true, Li Quan let him wander around the palaces, he still had some ability, but let him talk to the little palace maid, he really didn't have the talent of Yueluo, after receiving the order, he went to shout Yueluo, conveyed Pan Chen's order, and went out of the Roufu Hall with Yueluo soldiers in two ways.

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Qi Mozhou finished approving the folds, and was having lunch in the apse of the Taihe Palace, when he called Li Shun over and asked:

"What has happened in the past two days?"

It has been two or three days since he asked Pan Chen to find Song Jieyu's trouble, not only did Pan Chen not move, but he didn't even seem to have touched Song Jieyu's face, only heard Li Shun say:

"Your Majesty, there has been no movement in the Roufu Palace recently, Pan Zhaoyi is fine there, it is said that the Queen Mother said a few words when Kangshou Palace asked for peace today, but it doesn't matter, it is not hurt."

Li Shun thought that the emperor was worried about Pan Zhaoyi, so he said so.

Qi Mozhou put down the bowl in his hand, picked up the warm and wet towel on the side and wiped his hands, then stood up and walked to the front hall, Li Shun looked at the table of imperial food that had barely moved on the table, and wondered in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask anything, so he hurriedly shook off the dust and followed, Qi Mozhou sat back behind the dragon case, picked up a fold, opened it at the same time, and instructed Li Shun:

"Let Fu Ning in."