"What do you know?" An Geun asked, her tone was solemn and sincere, completely different from normal days, she gently rubbed the carving on the arm of the chair, and said slowly, "Don't worry, as long as you help me, I will repay you with the same value in the future." ”

"I don't know the specific situation for the time being, I only know that the emperor's great-grandmother once summoned Mrs. Yuan and Yuan Buliang, and I heard some clues from my mother, and they seem to be arranging some plans." Jiang Liuwei frowned slightly and muttered, "Let your third sister be careful when she goes to a banquet or goes out, those methods are nothing more than those bridges that ruin people's reputation." ”

Ahn thought to herself, yes, those methods are old-fashioned but useful. She lowered her eyebrows and pondered, and after a while, she raised her eyes and thanked Jiang Liu: "Well, I know, I will remind my third sister to pay special attention, thank you." ”

Jiang Liu nodded: "I will also pay attention to the news, and I will inform you if there is any situation." After speaking, he snorted coldly, "I'd better go first, otherwise my fifth aunt doesn't know what moths are going to come out of, hmph, in this palace, every step is watched." He glanced at An Jin's red and swollen hand again, and said, "You are quite clever, in fact, that day, the county lord of Shu'an did not push the seventh princess." I don't know, though, if I've ever stumbled. ”

This An Jin naturally knew, she glanced at Jiang Liu with a smile, then called Cai Qing to send off the guests, and took out a sketch of the bead crown from a picture book and gave it to her.

Jiang Liu walked out of the study door, couldn't help but glance back, she saw An Jin with her head down, her uninjured left hand drawing something on the desk with her bare hands, and her tender little hand looked particularly fragile and petite on the dark red Nanmu desk, but the silhouette of her serious thinking was extremely peaceful and stable. She wondered with a little envy why she didn't have such sisters.

An Jin thought about the Yuan family, and while thinking about where to find a breakthrough, on the other hand, he sent Biluo back to Ruan's house, sent some small gifts to the family, and also sent a message to Ruan Ji. As soon as it came time to inquire about the outside news, she felt more and more that the manpower resources in her hands were not enough, or that it was time to slowly build her own information network, right?

On the other hand, Xiao Ye's efficiency is very high, not long after An Jin finished dinner in Concubine Zhao's palace, the concubine gave her a palace maid named Cai Zhi, saying that she had been serving Xiao Ye in the Changhua Eldest Princess's Mansion, which was very proper, and Xiao Ye would leave Kyoto and return to Lingnan in the near future, so she sent her to serve An Jin.

Before An Jin had time to look at the branches, she was shocked by the news that Xiao Ye was leaving Kyoto, she opened her mouth slightly and was still thinking about how to follow Concubine Zhao's words and ask a few words, and saw that Concubine Zhao didn't seem to think that she had said anything important, and continued: "I heard Ye'er say that you want to practice martial arts?" This is not bad, it's rare that you have such an idea, but in this palace, there are many eyes watching everything. I thought about it, so I helped you find a former court dancer Xue Niang, and said that she was practicing dance outside. ”

Wu and Wu were originally pronounced with the same pronunciation, but An Jin did not misunderstand at all and understood the meaning of Concubine Zhao. At first glance, when she heard that Concubine Zhao had helped her arrange all the things for her martial arts, of course she was very happy, and she knelt down and thanked her, just because of the news that Xiao Ye was leaving, this happiness was mixed with some lost feelings.

During this time, she and Xiao Ye also got along well, Xiao Ye would always disappear for a few days, and then suddenly appear, give her something strange, and sometimes tease her twice, but in the end, she was often upset by An Jin, and slowly the two got along quite well, and they felt like brothers and sisters next door, of course, this is what An Jin thinks.

led Caizhi and Xue Niang back to the courtyard, An Jin took a pen and paper, wrote a few words, put it down again, and sighed rarely. She rubbed the note, then turned to look at Cai Zhi and Xue Niang, who were still standing on the side waiting for her to speak.

Cai Zhi is seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a dark green piping light pink palace skirt worn by a big palace maid, thin cheeks, ordinary appearance, eyebrows and eyes look comfortable, but there are no memorable qualities, the sense of storage is extremely low, it seems that after you look at her a few times, you turn around and want to remember what she looks like but can't remember anything.

Xue Niang is wearing a plain and elegant moon-white fine cotton plum blossom embroidered skirt, with a mature and elegant temperament, exuding a soft and beautiful woman's breath, her body skin is well maintained, and her age looks a little blurred, blending pure and sexy beauty. On weekdays, An Geun must be very interested in appreciating the beauty and asking questions, but at this time, she is a little interested.

only said: "Since you are arranged by the concubine Niangniang, it must be very proper, and you must be tired when you enter the palace today, so I will ask you another day." Cai Qing, you help them arrange a place to live, let them go to rest first, don't slack off. ”

Cai Qing promised to lead the two to retreat.

An Jin waited for a few people to retreat, thought about it and went to his small study, opened the window, An Jin sat in front of the window, smelling the strong fragrance of osmanthus in the night, his hand slowly touched the table, and his mood slowly calmed down.

Xiao Ye is the prince of Lingnan, as long as His Majesty the Emperor does not detain him and let him stay in Kyoto, he will naturally return to Lingnan, and An Jin naturally knows this, but she didn't expect him to leave so soon. An Jin is not reluctant to let him leave Beijing, she feels that they don't have such a deep friendship, but Xiao Ye has helped her a lot during this time, and he suddenly wants to leave, she feels that she can't return this favor, but what should I do?

And An Jin's lonely expression fell into the eyes of Concubine Zhao, but she felt that this child was very reluctant Xiao Ye, and she didn't miss her family for An Jin for a few months but expressed sadness when Xiao Ye was leaving, Concubine Zhao was very relieved, this is really a beautiful misunderstanding.

On the second day, An Geun summoned Cai Zhi in the study for questioning.

Caizhi didn't hide anything from An Jin, she saluted An Jin and told her all about her origins.

Cai Zhi is not really Cai Zhi, she is actually Cai Zhi's twin sister, the two of them were secretly adopted by Princess Changhua's guards since they were young, Cai Zhi was given to the side of Concubine Zhao in the Kyoto Palace when she was young, and she was sent to secretly train, and when the trained person felt that it was okay, he went to Kyoto to replace Cai Zhi and serve by Xiao Ye's side.

"And your sister, what about the real branches?" An Geun asked.

Cai Zhi smiled faintly and said, "When the slave maid arrived in Kyoto, it was the real branch picking." The slave sister has never left Lingnan, and now she is married and married. ”

An Jin looked at her plain face, but when she smiled, she had a look of courage and perseverance, which was very heroic and reassuring.

An Jin nodded, looked sideways at a pot of yellow daisies on the table, was silent for a while, then pinched a few petals with a little annoyance, put them on the table and tossed with them, and asked for a long time: "Did you hear that the concubine said that your son is about to leave Kyoto?" ”

"Yes, the prince will leave for Lingnan in three days." Cai Zhi replied, his voice calm, and did not contain any emotion.

Three days? An Geun was even more annoyed.

An Jin couldn't think of anything practical to send Xiao Ye, sighed, and asked Cai Zhi again: "After your prince leaves, will you have a way to send a message to him in the future?" ”

Cai Zhi replied: "Miss Hui, the slave maid has a way to pass on the message to the prince, but the prince has instructed that the slave and maid will send the lady here, and they will listen to the instructions of the lady in the future." ”

An Jin hummed and said that she knew, in fact, she didn't care much about it, as long as it was easy for her, she wouldn't have any conflict with Xiao Ye, for the time being, he sent his own person, there was nothing to worry about.

After Cai Zhi left, An Geun took her own drawing board, took a homemade charcoal pen, and slowly drew it, and after a while, she drew a prototype of a sleeve arrow, the drawing of this sleeve arrow was turned out by her from the only book of Zhao's dowry, she liked to collect all kinds of drawings, her mother showed her, she happened to see this, thought it was very interesting, and studied the mechanism and possible improvement methods according to the drawings, but never tried to do it, but secretly hid the drawings, because she felt that this might involve some things in the previous dynasty.

Thinking of this, An Jin still took out this drawing and slowly shredded it, she knew that Xiao Ye's situation might be very dangerous, so she wanted to give him something to defend himself, but the balance in her heart was still biased in favor of the Zhao family in the end, and when she was not sure about the situation in many things, she couldn't push the Zhao family to the forefront.

After thinking about it for a long time, she called Biluo back to Ruan's mansion and asked her to take some of her albums from home.

Xiao Ye seemed to be very busy every day before leaving, and he no longer felt like he used to suddenly run to An Jin, who only saw him three days later, that is, the night before Xiao Ye left, when he was dining with the concubine.

However, throughout the dinner, An Jin saw Concubine Zhao and Xiao Ye talking, and never had the opportunity to say a few words to him alone.

Back in the study, An Jin asked the palace people to retreat, bolted the door, and ordered Biluo and Caizhi to guard outside, before carefully pulling out a folded piece of drawing paper from the inner layer of the bookshelf.

She sat down at the desk and slowly opened the drawing paper, which was very large, covering almost the entire tabletop, and it was densely covered with drawings and words, which was a slightly cartoon version of the map.

"Knock knock" An Jin was startled, and looked sideways in the direction of the window, but saw that Xiao Ye's smiling face was outside the window in the night, and his dark costume blended into the night.

An Jin said angrily: "What are you doing pretending to be a ghost, it's not scary." ”

Xiao Ye smiled: "Before, you frowned at your grandmother's place and stopped talking, didn't you just want to talk to me?" Open the window on the other side and I'll come in. ”

An Jin pursed her lips and "cut", muttering, "What are you squeezing your eyebrows and making eyes", while reaching out to open the window bolt from the inside, and pulling open the other window, Xiao Ye jumped in according to the windowsill.

He jumped into the room, looked at An Jin's dissatisfied little appearance, and just wanted to laugh at her, but his eyes swept to the drawing paper on the table, and he was stunned, and then walked to the table, his eyes followed the lines on the drawing, and sometimes he would reach out and touch it carefully, as if he was afraid of damaging the drawing paper, and shrank back.

An Geun stood aside, looking at his appearance, and did not say anything. Xiao Ye looked at it for a few quarters of an hour before he withdrew his gaze, looked at An Jin with a little scrutiny, and asked, "This, you painted it yourself?" He recognized Anjin's handwriting on it.

An Jin nodded and said, "You know that I have been sick for a long time, and I am very bored lying in bed, so I collected a lot of travelogues of my predecessors and drew some scattered pictures. You wandered around all day long, thinking that you might be useful, so you sorted out and drew a whole picture. But you can't trust it all, after all, it's a collection of manuscripts from many people, and even many of them are contradictory, and I don't know who to believe. Speaking of this, An Geun said with a little envy, "If you go to these places, you can note the things that need to be modified, and then bring them to me, and I will help you draw another one." ”

Xiao Ye looked at An Jin's slightly red eyes, and knew in his heart that she must have been lighting the lamp and boiling oil in the past two days, but before he blamed this girl for being cold-hearted and cold-hearted, he deliberately revealed the news that he was leaving, and this girl didn't come to look for her, and she mysteriously closed the door, ignoring herself completely, thinking of this, I felt a little guilty, and a little sour. He nodded, as if to hide something, turned around and reached out to carefully and quickly refold the drawing paper, and carefully tucked it into his arms.

After putting away the drawing paper, Xiao Ye turned to look at An Jin again, the faint halo of candle flame in the study was beating, making An Jin's white little face seem to be a little far and near, Xiao Ye suddenly felt a little suffocated, he looked at An Jin with big eyes and looked at himself happily, his long and black eyelashes trembled slightly, but he couldn't cover the Xinghua of those eyes, his soft pink lips were lightly pursed, and the corners of his mouth were slightly playful. He suddenly reached out to cover her eyes, and then the ghost looked down and licked An Jin's lips gently.

This was only a matter of a moment, both of them were obviously stunned by this change, and after a few seconds of silence, Xiao Ye suddenly took a few steps back and hit the table, the table was slammed, Cai Zhi and Biluo heard the movement outside the door, so they hurriedly knocked on the door and asked An Jin if there was anything wrong.

An Jin's mind was in a mess, she covered her mouth and turned her head to the door and said, "No, it's okay." Xiao Ye took advantage of this gap and jumped out of the window directly.

An Geun turned her head again, staring at the empty window, dumbfounded. She thought that she should be angry, she scolded the bastard in her heart, perverted, but looking at the leaves rustling in the wind from the empty window, she felt that Xiao Ye's appearance was really ridiculous.