Coming out of the palace, Xi Yunzhi went back to the General's Mansion to change into regular clothes, and went to Lanfu Garden. Recently, Lan Fuyuan's business is really good, because the new emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, the situation is relatively turbulent, some officials have been transferred out, or transferred back to the capital, anyway, for other reasons, there are more and more people buying and selling houses, and Xi Yunzhi buys and sells, taking intermediate transition fees, each of which is a very considerable income.

Beginning in August, Bu Qin was ordered by the emperor to take over the Criminal Department and deal with various cases of official rebellion and forming parties for personal gain. Every night I have to be busy until the end of the night before I can come back.

In mid-August, the new emperor draft was ushered in.

Because the new queen's palace was empty and there was only one queen, so throughout August, Zhen was busy with everything, and with the assistance of the Ministry of Rites, fifteen outstanding show girls were selected for the new emperor.

Among them, Helian of the Zhenguo Mansion won the first place and was named a concubine, Li Lanjin, the second lady of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion, was named a concubine, and the remaining thirteen were all beauties. And among these thirteen beauties, one of them was left by the emperor himself - a beauty sent by the Imperial History Mansion of the Governor Zuo, Xi Yuntong.

At the draft banquet, the emperor looked at Xi Yuntong again and again, and finally said: Unsatisfactory, stay.

So far, Xi Yuntong has become a dark horse to enter the show girl pile as a cousin of the Zuo Governor's Imperial History Mansion and the emperor's personal stay, and has become the first woman to be favored by the new emperor among all the show girls.

The next day, he was named a nobleman, and he was in the limelight for a while.

***

A month after Bu Qin took charge of the Criminal Department, Xi Yunzhi could hear some rumors about his husband's bad husband one after another.

But because Bu Qin had already prepared her psychologically before, when she heard these words, she was not too surprised, and she could only do a better job of maintaining her husband's foundation.

Unless Bu Tan sent someone back to say that he would not return at night, no matter how late it was, Xi Yunzhi would wait until Bu Qin came back to fall asleep.

The husband and wife get together to exchange ideas about what happened during the day, and then exchange their opinions or communicate physically, and then they hug each other and fall asleep.

On this day, Bu Qin sent a message back to say that he had slept in the criminal department at night after taking bribes before participating in the trial of the criminal department, telling her not to wait for him.

After Xi Yunzhi put Xiao An to sleep, he was about to go back to his room to rest, but suddenly, in the quiet night, there was an ethereal and mournful flute sound, Xi Yunzhi stopped and listened for a while, only to feel that the tune was very familiar, and before he had time to think deeply, he looked back and saw Xi Zheng standing under the moon with his hands in his hands, closing his eyes and listening.

"Daddy." Xi Yunzhi walked over and called Xi Zheng.

Xi Zheng didn't seem to hear Xi Yunzhi's shouting, he just listened blindly, Xi Yunzhi looked at his father so obsessed, and suddenly remembered the melody of this song, isn't it the melody that his mother used to love to blow?

"Dad, this is ......" Xi Yunzhi couldn't say the name of this song, but it was certain that this was written by his father to his mother back then, and only their family could play it all day, father, mother, and Yunran......

My mother is dead, but where did the flute come from?

Xi Yunzhi saw that Xi Zheng was already stupid, and he couldn't think of the source of the flute, so Xi Yunzhi hurriedly went back to the room and got a cloak, and didn't even bring Ruyi and Ruyue, so he chased out of the house alone.

Because the General's Mansion was located in the southern suburbs, and the ground around it was empty, Xi Yunzhi could easily distinguish the direction of the flute, so he ran towards the flute with all his strength.

Chased from the southern suburbs to the Sun Moon Lake in the city, the flute is still ringing, she stands on the bridge deck of the Sun Moon Lake looking around, the flute sounds closer and closer, but the Sun Moon Lake is full of lotus lanterns frolicking people, noisy voices, overshadowing the flute, so that she can no longer distinguish its direction.

Suddenly, the sound of the flute stopped suddenly, and Xi Yunzhi was so anxious that he turned helplessly around the bridge, and his anxious expression attracted the sideways glances of passers-by.

Yun Ran ...... It must be Yun Ran...... Xi Yunzhi silently recited the name in his heart.

But she stood on the bridge for a quarter of an hour, and the flute never sounded again.

The people who put the lotus lanterns were almost scattered, Xi Yunzhi leaned on the bridge pier and waited and waited, turned around in frustration and planned to go back.

She walked with her head down, but she didn't see the front clearly, and unconsciously hit someone's chest, and when she looked up, Xi Yunzhi was so frightened that she took two steps back, but she tripped over her heel on the bluestone slab on the bridge deck, and her body fell backwards uncontrollably, and her long arms reached out quickly, hugging her waist and preventing her from falling to the ground.

As soon as Xi Yunzhi stood still, he quickly waved the arm on his waist away, and then, after watching the road behind, he hurriedly took a few steps back, keeping a distance from the comer.

"What is the shopkeeper nervous about? I'm just afraid you'll fall. ”

Xi Yunzhi looked at the man in front of him who was always smiling at the corners of his mouth, but there was obvious aggression in his eyes, and nodded to him in shock:

"Thank you, Commander Gu, farewell."

"Shopkeeper Xi walks slowly and says goodbye." Gu Ran smiled and didn't entangle, then turned around and passed by Xi Yunzhi, who happened to see the pink spike jade flute he was holding in his other hand.

Xi Yunzhi immediately stopped him when he saw the jade flute:

"Wait."

Gu Ran stopped, looked at her puzzled, and jokingly said, "What's the matter?" Talk to me, aren't you afraid that General Bu will fall into the vinegar jar again? ”

Xi Yunzhi looked at the jade flute in his hand stupidly, ignored his ridiculous words, pointed to the flute and said:

"How can you have this flute?"

Gu Ran saw her strange expression, so he raised his eyebrows and smiled, sent the jade flute to Xi Yunzhi, and said:

"It's just a flute, the shopkeeper likes it, so take it."

Xi Yunzhi looked at the jade flute that was given into her hand, and didn't know what to say for a while, but she remembered that when she was a child in the yard, her mother played the flute, her father stroked the qin, and she and Yunran chased butterflies all over the yard.

When he came back to his senses again, Gu Ran had already left Sun Moon Lake, and the people who put lanterns around him also went back one after another.

Xi Yunzhi took the jade flute and walked all the way back to the General's Mansion, and happened to meet the people from the General's Mansion who came to look for her on the way.

Lost his soul and returned home, handed over the pink spike jade flute to Xi Zheng's hand, Xi Zheng immediately burst into tears, the hand holding the jade flute was trembling, and shouted Xi Yunzhi's mother's maiden 'Zhen Niang' girl's name, when Xi Yunzhi said to Xi Zheng that the person holding the flute was a man, Xi Zheng insisted again, that person was Xi Yunran, Xi Yunzhi's younger brother.

Of course, Xi Yunzhi would not identify Gu Ran's identity because of Xi Zheng's guess and the coincidence that happened to Gu Ran.

First, there are too many suspicions, and second, she really has no feelings for Yun Ran for Gu Ran.

She asked Xi Zheng to calm down, and she called Xiao Hei and the others to secretly go to the northwest to investigate Gu Ran.

She doesn't guess until she jumps to conclusions. As for Bu Tan's side, she wouldn't mention this matter in advance, after all, what the truth is, no one knows now, and she can't use her guess to influence Bu Tan's judgment of Gu Ran.

***

At the beginning of September, Xi Yunzhi was introduced to the palace again, and Zhen said that he had recently obtained a statue of Guanyin carved from jade, which was a person tall, which was really rare, so he wanted to ask Xi Yunzhi to enter the palace together to admire.

After Xi Yunzhi entered the palace, he found that Zhen's Kunyi Palace was full of people, think about it, the emperor re-drafted, and the concubines also accepted two, and in this harem, it will never be as idle as before.

After saluting the beauties, Xi Yunzhi was pulled by Zhen to the seat next to Feng, which she specially left for Xi Yunzhi.

After Xi Yunzhi sat down, the Zhen family planned to ask someone to move the jade Guanyin into the hall, but who expected that Concubine Ning Helian suddenly came out of the queue and said to the Zhen family:

"Queen Mother, the noble Tong has not yet arrived."

Zhen stopped his hand that was about to summon the eunuch to approach, glanced at Xi Yunzhi intentionally or unintentionally, and said:

"Oh? Tong Guiren is in poor health? ”

Concubine Ning shook her head: "Back to Niangniang, I haven't heard of it." ”

At this moment, a eunuch chanted from outside the palace: "Noble Tong has arrived." ”

Xi Yuntong was dressed in flowers, and was supported by three or four maidservants, with a smile on her face, looking full of blessings, and after she entered, she came to Zhen obediently and skillfully, bowed to her, and said with a smile:

"Tong'er, see Niangniang."

Glancing at Xi Yunzhi, Xi Yuntong's eyes were a little surprised, but they quickly changed, and after Zhen flattened her, he approached Xi Yunzhi and said affectionately:

"Why is the eldest sister here?"

Xi Yunzhi took her outstretched hand, smiled gently, and replied:

"The queen is polite, please come and enjoy the jade carving Guanyin with everyone, you go to your place and sit down, don't move around, break the rules."

Xi Yunzhi didn't fail to see that although Zhen smiled at Xi Yuntong on the surface, his eyes showed impatience, and seeing that Xi Yuntong still didn't know it, he reminded her not to forget the rules of the palace.

Unexpectedly, Xi Yuntong smiled shyly, and actually replied to Xi Yunzhi's unrelated words:

"I was tired of serving the Holy Driver last night, the emperor was brave and invincible, and he didn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and my waist is still sore today."

As soon as Xi Yuntong's words came out, he attracted the eyes of all the women in the harem, because everyone knew that although the emperor recruited so many show girls into the palace at one time, except for the two concubines and Xi Yuntong, a noble person, the other women were not summoned to sleep once, and Xi Yuntong was favored more times than the two concubines combined, so she was a little pampered and arrogant.

Xi Yunzhi sighed secretly, and looked at Zhen who was sitting on the throne of the Phoenix Queen out of the corner of her eye, only to see that she was still smiling as gently as water, and said to Xi Yuntong:

"Since the noble Tong has a sore back and doesn't want to sit, it doesn't hurt to walk around at will, the horizontal and vertical are in my palace, and they are not waiting in front of the car."

Xi Yunzhi frowned, Zhen was annoyed with Xi Yuntong, but unfortunately Tong'er was still confused, thinking that Zhen was telling the truth.

Xi Yunzhi will not participate in the affairs of the inner palace, how to treat these harem women, it is the Zhen family who has the final say, and she has no right to mention anyone or squeeze anyone.

The jade carving Guanyin was smoothly carried into the Kunyi Palace by the four eunuchs, and all the concubines and beauties were amazed by its craftsmanship, even Xi Yunzhi who was used to seeing treasures had to admit that the carving of this Guanyin was perfect, and there were almost no flaws to be found.

Maybe it's a professional relationship, after the concubines appreciated it, when the routine tea party began, Xi Yunzhi didn't want to talk to them more, so he still used the magnifying glass provided by the palace to make an in-depth observation of the jade carving.

But looking at it, Xi Yunzhi found that the surroundings had become very silent, and the previous gossip and laughter seemed to have been cut off from half, and there was no sound anymore.

She put down the magnifying glass and looked back, Xiao Luo was very close to her, and she didn't know when she actually walked behind her, no wonder the Kunyi Palace suddenly fell silent.

But when the emperor arrived, no one passed it on, what was going on?

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