"Come in." Hearing Cuixi's communication outside the hall, I answered in the study, and then continued to select the scrolls on the shelf that made me feel interesting today, turned over one volume after another, and found a scroll that recorded the beginning and end of the Yibu, flipped through it, and just turned around with the scroll, I saw Zhao Sheng standing in the study and bowing for a while, I was surprised, "Why are you?" ”

"Minister Zhao Sheng, see Mrs. Zhaohua." Zhao Sheng saluted respectfully, bowed down and waited for the order.

"Get up." I thought he was a little strange, but since he saluted me according to the rules of the palace, I could only raise my hand and signal him to get up, "I heard Cui Xi say that it was a eunuch just now, but I didn't expect it to be you." Have you been comfortable in the palace these days? ”

"If you go back to Madame, everything is fine." Zhao Sheng deliberately did this, as if he was deliberately estranged from me.

"Okay then." When I saw his attitude, I didn't want to ask any more questions, so as not to be bored. "Did you come to me? What's the matter? ”

"Back to Mrs. Hui's words, the other eunuchs in the palace are joining forces with Si Jiansi at the moment to prepare for the matter of falling into Xiangshan. His Majesty sent a minister to come alone, and asked the minister to deal with the matter of the recognition of the wife and General Hou. ”

Although Zhao Sheng makes me feel weird, you can see his words and deeds at the moment, I know that this is not the best time to ask all this, from the time he entered the palace to now, it is only a short period of two months, I can understand that he was experiencing the changes after losing his mother, but I can't understand the changes he has changed in just two months after entering the palace, why it has only been less than two months, he has become like this, just like other palace people in this palace.

"Really? So what am I going to do with you? I put down the scroll in my hand and sat back down at the desk.

"Sister......" Hou Yue walked into the dormitory at this time, and he saw me sitting in front of the bookcase in the study, so he walked straight over. It wasn't until he walked in front of me that he noticed Zhao Sheng standing aside, was stunned for a moment, then took two steps back, and respectfully saluted me, "Madam." ”

Zhao Sheng just now already made me feel very strange, and Hou Yue's reaction when he saw Zhao Sheng at this moment made me even more puzzled.

Hou Yue told me that Zhao Sheng was originally arranged by Yuan Jue in Xiangcheng. At that time, he was trapped in Xiangcheng, and Hou Yue went to see Zhao Sheng with Yuan Jue, but when Hou Yue saw Zhao Sheng here for the first time, he was obviously a little weird at the time, even if Hou Yue later explained that he didn't expect to meet Zhao Sheng here, and he and Zhao Sheng had only been friends before, so even if he suspected that Zhao Sheng who saw him in the dormitory at that time was Yuan Jue's person, he didn't dare to confirm his identity. But now that I think about it, there are too many unspeakable coincidences in the middle of all this process.

For this obvious embarrassment between the two of them, I can only pretend not to see it, although I found out that something was wrong, but I can't say it clearly, I trust Hou Yue, but I can't completely trust him, after all, he came from Yuan Jue's side. I could only observe secretly, but I could not reveal any doubts, and the embarrassment between them now made them ignore my feelings. But once they find out, I already become suspicious, and I'm afraid that I won't notice any other flaws in the future.

"General Hou." Zhao Sheng turned sideways and bowed slightly to Hou Yue.

Hou Yue nodded, the relationship with him was passable. "Lord Zhao."

Zhao Sheng paused for a moment, but he didn't look at Hou Yue, from beginning to end, all his actions seemed to be taken for granted, but I found out that he was deliberately avoiding eye contact with Hou Yue.

Zhao Sheng said, "Your Majesty's will, the first day of the first month of next month is a rare auspicious day. Please Mrs. Zhaohua and General Hou go to the ancestral temple of the Yuwen family to worship the ancestors and recognize the ancestors, and now someone has been sent to rebuild and renovate the ancestral temple of the Yuwen family, please Mrs. Zhaohua and General Hou to prepare in advance and spare time. ”

"On the first day of next month, ......" Hou Yue thought for a while, raised his head and looked at me and asked, "Isn't that six days later?" ”

"Do you have other arrangements?" I thought he meant that the time was too rushed, and he had other more important things to do that day, so I asked in passing.

"It's not." Hou Yue said, "Is it just that these six days are in time?" ”

Only then did I react, he was originally worried about this problem, but I didn't think his worry was superfluous, because after all, we have nothing to do with the Yuwen family, if we want to recognize relatives in the name of the Yuwen family, we must find out the doorways and doors, so as not to expose the flaws in the future, it will be more troublesome.

So I looked at Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng didn't say anything to Hou Yueming, he bowed down and replied to me, "Please rest assured, Madame, the minister has found out the relationship between the Yuwen family, and the Yuwen family has been passed down to the present day, and it has long since lost its original trend." The Yuwen family died of illness in the early years, and there is no successor, and now the Yuwen family is in charge, or the person who can call the shots, is the younger brother of the descendants who died of illness, and there is a son who is four years old this year, they live on two acres of land in the village, and he also has a sister, and the family is a little miserable. Therefore, it was naturally very happy to hear that Mrs. Zhaohua and General Hou had recognized their marriage, and the minister was discussing the details with them. The minister ensured that on the first day of the first month of next month, Mrs. Zhaohua and General Hou could go to the ancestral temple as scheduled to worship their ancestors and recognize their relatives. ”

Zhao Sheng replied so cautiously that Hou Yue couldn't say anything more.

I saw that Hou Yue's face was a little strange, and I was a little worried that he would suddenly have a conflict with Zhao Sheng, and ruin everything that was originally planned. I said to Zhao Sheng before Hou Yue's face became more ugly, "Since this is the case, all this will be troublesome to Lord Zhao." ”

"The minister won't bother Madame and General Hou." Zhao Sheng's words have been clarified.

"Okay, if Lord Zhao has something, just go and get busy first." I say.

Zhao Sheng bowed slightly to me, exited the study, and turned to leave.

Hou Yue stood in place, still a little unconvinced, dressed in silver-gray armor and a slightly childish baby face, clearly a teenager who had not yet grown up.

"Tell me, what's wrong with you." I waited for Zhao Sheng to leave before I asked slowly.

"Sister, he is now doing things with adults, do you know." Hou Yue rightly pointed at Zhao Sheng's departing back and shouted.

I nodded, "Yes." ”

"If you know, why are you so close to him? Don't you know what kind of person you are? Hou Yue simply bypassed the bookcase and stood next to me.

I thought it was a little interesting, and Hou Yue's questioning made me laugh, so I asked him rhetorically, "Then what kind of person do you think Cheng Daren is?" ”

"Profit-seeking villains! Sanctimonious hypocrites! Hou Yue didn't think about it, and blurted out that I was particularly surprised that Cheng Jing's judgment was so unbearable.

"Tell me about it." I don't refute him, from my standpoint, Cheng Jing is indeed such a person, but I am curious and want to know why Hou Yue has such an opinion of him.

"I was ......" Hou Yue was so angry that he almost said it casually, but as soon as these two words came out, he quickly came to his senses and looked at me very carefully.

It was his reaction that made me realize that Hou Yue's "beginning" was undoubtedly related to Yuan Jue and the Qu family.

I pursed my lips, "It's okay, you can go on." ”

Hou Yue carefully observed my reaction for a long time, and it was not until he was sure that I was really okay that he breathed a sigh of relief and began to say slowly, "When Lord Cheng first served as the eunuch in the palace, he was not surprised, do you know about this, sister?" ”

I nodded casually.

"At that time, it was Lord Cheng who first asked the second son...... No, I mean King Moyang, it was Lord Cheng who first showed favor to King Moyang, saying that he intended to help him, so King Moyang ventured into the city to meet him in Chengfu at that time, but at that time, King Moyang didn't know that sister, you would also go to Chengfu...... "Hou Yue was angry.

He didn't say it explicitly, but I probably understood what Hou Yue meant, he thought that Cheng Jing deliberately led Yuan Jue to Chengfu, and then designed to make me see him. My parting of ways with Yuan Jue made Hou Yue mistakenly think that it was because of Cheng Jing's provocation.

I laughed at him for being more childish than Yuan Jue, "I shouldn't blame anyone for my separation from him, I have already made it clear to him." I'm afraid that at this time, he himself understands that if you blame your colleagues for such a trivial matter, you may offend many innocent people. ”

"Sister, you don't understand what I mean." Hou Yue and I emphasized.

"So what do you mean?" I know he's just arguing with words.

"Lord Cheng ostensibly does things for the monarch, but secretly he shows favor to King Moyang; However, on the one hand, he showed favor to King Moyang, and on the other hand, he deliberately made you misunderstand King Moyang, isn't it equivalent to indirectly pushing you to the monarch, isn't this helping the monarch again, this person is two-faced and three-faced, and people can't figure out what he wants to do. Hou Yue's emotions towards Cheng Jing are all in this paragraph.

Perhaps, he wasn't trying to help anyone, he just ...... "I'm not done yet."

Hou Yue interrupted me, "Sister, you believe me, Lord Cheng really has a problem, he is not as modest and cautious as you see, a Lord Cheng is like this, and now even Zhao Sheng has turned his back on King Moyang and taken refuge in the monarch." They really can't believe it. ”

"If you think that leaving Yuan Jue and helping Yuan He do things is a betrayal. In your heart, am I also the one who betrayed him? "I couldn't help but ask, this question, asked Hou Yue stunned, seeing him stay there, my temper eased slightly." It is not a betrayal to leave whoever leaves and takes refuge, everyone has the right to choose their own destiny. I know more about Cheng Jing than you do, so you can rest assured. It's just that you have to remember one thing, be a person and do things, leave a way out for yourself in everything, there are many people like them in this world, not necessarily because they choose who to follow, whoever is the master is to become a bad person, and in the future, when you do things in the court, you must know how to distinguish the pros and cons. Don't act rashly, offend your colleagues plainly, remember to rein in everything and accumulate steadily. ”

Hou Yue's disbelief was not something that could be persuaded by these two sentences, but he understood what I meant, so he endured that breath. "I know, I won't have any more conflicts with people in the future."

"Wonhyuk intends to cultivate you, you don't want to disappoint him. On the first day of the first month of the next month, after worshipping the ancestors and recognizing relatives", you and I are sisters and brothers, and your words and deeds in the court will represent me in the future, so be careful in everything, and learn more and see more before you have the ability to compete with anyone, and accumulate your own things. I think he understood, so I said to him, "What did you do when you came to me?" ”

"Mrs. Lan......" Hou Yue was about to say, paying attention to the surroundings for a while, and then said, "Mrs. Lan asked me to bring a message to my sister, she said that she wanted to see my sister and you, but I asked my sister to pick a time to avoid people's eyes." ”

When to avoid people's eyes? It's rare for Jialan to find me during this time, but now, she should be taking care of Biluo, Biluo is about to give birth, Jialan is looking for me at this time, and she has to avoid people's eyes, I'm afraid it's for Biluo's business.

I hesitated for a moment, "You go and tell her that tomorrow the monarch will be early, and I will find a way to let the monarch drag Cheng Jing, and you let Jialan come at that time." ”

……

“…… Yuwen? After listening to me say this surname, Yun Chu raised his head and looked at me, "You mean, you want me to help you try your luck?" ”

"That's right." I said, "It's rare for me to see her."

Yun Chu seemed to have already decided that I had come for a purpose, but my motive was beyond her expectations, but after hearing me say this, she didn't ask much.

Yun Chu got up indifferently and walked outside the palace, she looked up at the dark night sky and was distracted, as if she was still thinking something in her mouth.

I walked out after her, and stood aside, not knowing what I could see in such a dark night sky, for days on end, there was not even a star in the sky, and even the moon loomed behind the dark clouds, and the strange sight seemed to suggest something.

The few maids beside Yun Chu seemed to have long been surprised by Yun Chu's eccentricity. Although I already knew that Yun Chu didn't like to have palace people around to get in the way, but now it seems that none of her personal maids are very close to her, and Yun Chu is probably the only one in this Yu Palace who has maintained his maverick side from beginning to end.

"How?" I saw her bow her head, and I waited for a while without seeing her speak, so I couldn't help but ask first.

Yun Chu smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" I'm weird.

Yun Chu turned her head to look at me, her worldly face was hidden under the pretending to be old-fashioned, which had a unique taste.

I'm still waiting for her to answer me.

Yun Chu paused for a while before looking at the busy night again. "The Yuwen family, yes, in four hundred years, the Yuwen family will have a monarch, but it's just ......"

This time, I didn't take the initiative to ask. Maybe I'm just thinking about Yun Chu's words at this time.

"You've never been to see Madame, have you?" Yun Chu said gloomily, his voice was calm as if he was not the same person as the person who was arguing with me in the study that day, but after all this, Yun Chu still called Mrs. Qimo Madame, "Go and see her, the doubts in your heart, maybe she can help you." (To be continued.) )