Mu Qingjing walked in quietly, handed over a note, and said softly: "This is the note that Xia Cicada pressed against the stone wall." ”

Xia Chan is the palace maid sent to Wu Guifei by Changkun Palace.

Lin Yan opened the note, and only the word "King Qi" was written in it.

What does that mean?

Lin Yan was puzzled, raised her head and asked Mu Qing with her eyes.

Mu Qing shook his head.

Niangniang wanted to find out what the Wu family had in the hands of the Marquis of Zhongshan, so she asked the Duke of Wuguo to investigate the bottom of the Marquis of Zhongshan's Mansion, but in the end there was no progress. And she naturally signaled Xia Chan and asked her to start from Wu Guifei to see if she could find out something.

Mu Qing said again: "Xia Chan doesn't know what is going on, but I only vaguely heard that when Wu Guifei and the second prince talked about the Zhongshan Hou Mansion, they mentioned the name King Qi many times, so they suspected that the handle of the Zhongshan Hou Mansion in the hands of the Wu family was probably related to the King of Qi." Although the concubine has relaxed her vigilance against Xia Chan now, she has not fully trusted her after all, she wants to test the concubine by knocking on the side, but she is afraid of arousing the suspicion of the concubine. ”

Lin Yan nodded, and then looked at the note in her hand.

King Qi, eight or nine years ago, conspired with Empress Chen to oppose the condemned King Qi. And Concubine Xian was almost killed, her aunt was poisoned, and the three princes became what they are now, all of which are related to King Qi.

If the handle of the Marquis of Zhongshan in the hands of the Wu family is related to King Qi, then what will it be?

This handle must be not small, so that the Zhongshan Marquis Mansion is so scruples.

Don't......

A thought flashed through Lin Yan's heart.

Could it be that King Qi's rebellion back then, the Zhongshan Marquis Mansion also participated? At least he had helped King Qi before.

Lin Yan felt incredible, but when she thought of the style of the Marquis of Zhongshan, she felt very reasonable.

Lin Yan laughed in her heart, if this was really the case, then it would not be surprising that the Marquis of Zhongshan Mansion was so jealous of the Wu family.

But back then, King Qi's rebellion, those who participated were executed, those who were exiled were exiled, and those who were degraded were demoted, and the Marquis of Zhongshan Mansion was able to retreat with his whole body, and no one had ever heard of their participation in it, which can be regarded as their Jiang family's ability.

So did the emperor know about this?

He is currently planning to use the Zhongshan Marquis Mansion, and it doesn't seem like he knows.

However, with the style of the Marquis of Zhongshan's mansion not on the stage, the emperor still used them, and they have always not met the emperor's usual criteria for making good use of meritocracy. Unless the emperor has a deeper purpose in using them, and this purpose is likely to trap the Marquis of Zhongshan......

Lin Yan couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts.

It was absolutely impossible for him to promote and appoint the Jiang family because he favored the Jiang family, although many people outside thought so. The emperor is a person who will separate the government from the harem, and he looks at the women of the harem as important to the government. He will pamper the woman sent into the harem by this family because he wants to promote and appoint a family, but he will never reuse her maiden family because he loves a harem.

Lin Yan couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts for the time being, so she didn't guess for the time being.

Lin Yan said: "Concubine Wu can't fully trust Xia Chan, that's because there is a jade by the side of Concubine Wu. ”

The jade is the subordinate sent by the Wu family to the palace to serve the concubine, and it is also the bridge between the Wu family and the concubine. Compared with Xia Chan, the palace maid assigned to her in the palace, it is naturally more credible and reliable to be born in the Wu family.

Lin Yan said: "Find a way to separate the concubine and the jade, so that the jade will lose the trust of the concubine." In this way, Xia Cicada can get close to the concubine.

Mu Qing understood what Lin Yan meant, but he just ......

She was a little embarrassed: "I'm afraid this matter is not easy, after all, Yu Yu has been with the concubine for nearly ten years, and she has followed the concubine since she was in the palace, and the concubine's trust in her should not be ordinary." ”

No matter how strong the master-servant relationship is, you can find out the weaknesses, as long as you find the weaknesses, you can be separated, not to mention that the concubine is a suspicious person.

And what is the weakness of the concubine? Emperor.

The concubine loves the emperor, so the emperor is her weakness. And what is it that makes a woman distrust another woman the most? It's a woman's suspicion and jealousy.

As long as you take advantage of the emperor, you can make Jade lose the trust of the concubine.

Lin Yan leaned next to Mu Qing's mouth and whispered a few words, Mu Qing's eyes lit up, then nodded, and said to Lin Yan: "The slave understands." ”

At this moment, a palace maid came in outside and reported: "Niangniang, Princess Heng handed over a sign to ask to see?" ”

Lin Yan smiled helplessly, since Concubine Lian was taken to Yanwang's Mansion, her Changkun Palace has been lively, her concubines who have never been seen before, now they are on the door of her Changkun Palace every once in a while, and even the princesses often enter the palace and knock on the side.

The princess could not support the concubine, but most of them were entrusted by other princes and county kings to come to her Changkun Palace to inquire tentatively.

Lin Yan said, "Please let her in." ”

King Heng's step-princess was also remarried last year, and compared to Princess Yan's clumsiness, this Princess Heng is much more enchanting and exquisite.

This Princess Heng also has some background, her surname is Qi, and she is a girl from the Yongxing Marquis Mansion, the emperor's maternal family.

The title of the Marquis of Yongxing was originally Wu Guifei's maternal grandfather, and the family inherited it. But the two sons born to the eldest lady of the Qi family died early one after another, and they failed to leave their grandchildren, and the eldest family was extinct.

Although the eldest old lady of the Qi family later succeeded a son from the clan, after the death of the eldest old lady of the Qi family, the first emperor did not know if he remembered that Concubine Xian was oppressed by the long house when she was in her mother's family, and finally did not recognize this son, so that the title was inherited by the third room who had taken care of Concubine Xian.

And this Princess Heng is neither a person from the long house, nor a person from the third room of the current Chengjue, but a person from the second room of the Qi family.

Princess Heng is a very bright woman, I heard that there are some means, after she entered the door, she cleaned up the warblers and swallows in Hengwang's mansion, so that the backyard of Hengwang's mansion was rare and clean.

I heard that because King Heng has too many concubines, in order to get wet with rain and dew, this Princess Heng also arranged a shift for the concubines in the backyard, and King Heng can only rest in the main courtyard every five and ten times every month, and the concubines take turns to arrange the rest of the time, even the side concubines are the same. If it's not your turn, you can't compete for favor, as for whether King Heng can pet you when it is your turn, whether King Heng can pamper you when he enters your house depends on his own ability.

When Lin Yan heard this, she praised this Princess Heng in her heart for really having ideas, and joked with the emperor: "One day, the concubine will also learn Princess Heng's methods and use them." ”

The emperor smiled and pinched her nose and said, "If you really do this, you will suffer, and I will rest with you for most of the month." ”

Lin Yan said with a smile: "Then learn it first, and when the concubine is old and decrepit one day, the emperor is unwilling to enter my door, and the concubine will take it out and use it." ”

And the result of this sentence was to ask the emperor for a beating.

However, Concubine Duan Gui didn't like Princess Heng's practices very much, and felt that she was too jealous. (To be continued.) )