This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is the most tragic year Su Miao has ever had, a good Chinese New Year's Eve, a happy day for family reunion, but she wants to eat with the emperor and the two people in the Wuji Palace. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

She couldn't think of a reason why she needed to have dinner with her future husband's uncle, an old man over half a hundred years old, on Chinese New Year's Eve. Although Liang Shuo's face was not as bad as that of an old man, he was an old man, and she didn't want to eat with him at all.

The twenty dishes of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are still made by her, she has been in the industry for many years, this is the first time she has taken the initiative to make overlord meals for people, it is estimated that Liang Shuo does not plan to pay her.

At dinner she was bored and had no appetite. The Imperial Palace, where firecrackers and singing and dancing are banned, is like an infinitely expanding black hole in the dark night, as if it is about to swallow people into it. At this time, she misses Xiaoweiwei even more, and the days without Xiaoweiwei by her side are simply boring.

Liang Shuo's appetite is very good, his sick body is recovering well, except for food that is particularly difficult to digest, he basically doesn't have to avoid eating now.

He was not interested in food and drink in the past, but he liked Su Miao's cooking, Qian Dehai told Su Miao so, and was grateful to Su Miao for satisfying the emperor's appetite. Qian Dehai's old guy is a loyal man, and he has always been worried that Liang Shuo will collapse his body if he works day and night but has no appetite. Qian Dehai once tentatively asked Su Miao if he could stay in Liangdu after marriage and take care of Liang Shuo's diet more. He didn't say it explicitly, but Su Miao understood it all of a sudden, and of course she decisively refused.

"Your girl's cooking skills are very satisfying, why don't you move to the palace after you and Ah Wei get married, I will give you a good errand and make you a first-class female official." Liang Shuo was happy to eat, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and proposed to Su Miao with a smile.

Su Miao glanced at him: "Thank you, Lord Longen, the folk girl will go back to Fengzhou with Xiaoweiwei after marriage." ”

"What do you mean by 'carrying', Ah Wei is not an upside down door!" Liang Shuo said unhappily.

Su Miao stared at him with vigilant eyes, emphasizing word by word: "Xiao Weiwei is mine!" ”

Liang Shuo is very unashamed of her unashamed temperament: "You are a girl's family, you are not ashamed of 'yours' and 'your'!" ”

"Little Flavor is mine!" Su Miao accentuated her tone and emphasized again.

Liang Shuo tried to resist the desire to roll his eyes: "I know that you have a deep love for Ah Wei, because of this, you have to consider Ah Wei's heart, when he comes back from Lunan, he is not the same as before, his military merits are enough for him to have a bright future in the court, and at that time, you will also be rich and unlimited." I don't look down on what you do, but you're a smart girl, what's the good of living in the kitchen all day long and suffering from the waste of oil smoke, wouldn't it be better to let Ah Wei earn you a first-class lady? ”

"Back to the emperor, the folk girls like to nest in the kitchen, the folk girls like to use their crafts to make a living, the folk girls like to follow the folk girls with a little taste, the folk girls hate to be a lady, and the folk girls don't feel good at all."

"You girl, why do you love to talk back so much?" Liang Shuo was dumbfounded by her, and said unhappily.

Su Miao glanced at him, looked at the endless dark night outside the window, and sighed faintly:

"When will Xiao Weiwei come back?"

"He hasn't arrived in Lunan at this time, and you're looking forward to his return now, it's too early." Liang Shuo blew hot tea and said.

"Your Majesty, you have already recovered, why don't you come out of Wuji Palace to preside over the overall situation, if you leave Wuji Palace, maybe Xiao Weiwei will be able to come back soon." Su Miao flattened her mouth, looked at him with complaining eyes, and said.

"I haven't recovered, didn't you hear the imperial doctor say this morning that I need to recuperate? Besides, Liangdu is far away from Lunan, even this section of the road, and it is impossible for him to come back soon. Liang Shuo replied lightly, completely playing haha.

Su Miao wrinkled her nose and looked at him. In fact, the purpose of her question was to get him to tell her why he wanted to stay in Wuji Palace and hand over all state affairs to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Although she could guess a little bit about Liang Shuo's purpose in doing this, she still wanted to hear an accurate answer. However, Liang Shuo didn't tell her...... She had expected his perfunctory.

She flattened her lips.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was no Spring Festival and no artillery battle, and Su Miao now misses the sisters and old lady who have stayed in the prince's mansion since they left.

Only Liang Shuo was happy to eat for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and after dinner, Su Miao also had to help Qian Dehai clean the study room of Wuji Palace. The study has to be cleaned once a year, and it has always been in charge of Qian Dehai and a palace maid, this year the palace maid in charge of the study of Wuji Palace passed away, and Qian Dehai lacked a palace maid to call, so Liang Shuo sent Su Miao.

Su Miao went to clean up the study with a dark face.

She felt that Liang Shuo Bacheng regarded her as coming to the palace to eat white food, and in order to prevent her from eating white food, he desperately called her. Su Miao understood Huiwei's intention to stuff her into the palace before leaving, the situation was turbulent, and Huiwei was in the limelight at this time, she was not staying by Liang Shuo's side, and she might be in danger because of the relationship between Huiwei and the limelight. Although she understood this, Su Miao was very angry at Liang Shuo's exploitation of treating her as a maid and refusing to pay her wages.

The study room of Wuji Palace is Liang Shuo's private study, which contains a lot of old things, all kinds of old wooden boxes, which need to be opened one by one, check whether the things inside are damp and need to be dried, and then put the checked things back into the box neatly.

Su Miao lay on the ground rummaging through the box and wiping the box, shaking her knees that were hurting, while complaining hatefully in her heart, what a good Chinese New Year's Eve, why did she do this kind of coolie in the palace, she didn't sell it to the Liang family!

"Second Miss Su, you have to be careful when you move the box in front of you, that is what the emperor attaches the most importance to, don't rummage around!" Qian Dehai dusted the Nanmu bookshelf with a feather duster, took the time to glance at Su Miao, saw that she was lazy, and warned her with a throat.

Su Miao glanced at the box in front of her, turned her head and glanced at Qian Dehai again, and said with a smile:

"Since it's such a precious box, Mr. Qian, why don't you clean it up?"

Qian Dehai glanced at her: "Second Miss Su, don't blame the old slave for being too talkative, you girl is too lazy, is there any girl in the world who is so arrogant in her mother-in-law's house like you?" It's right for the third son to pamper you, but you have to be a little measured in your favor. The old slave is for your good, if you take care of the future in-law's family up and down, no matter who you are, you can't say that you are 'bad', the third son's face is bright, and he will feel that he doesn't hurt you in vain, and he will spoil you more, don't you say? ”

Su Miao glanced at him and asked dryly, "Manager Qian, are you the big mother in charge next to my mother-in-law?" ”

Qian Dehai choked for a moment, looked at her with hopeless eyes, and pouted:

"Second Miss Su, what the old slave told you is a good thing, don't believe it, the hard-tempered girl is not popular, and sooner or later she will suffer. Besides, what is the housekeeper mother, that is called 'housekeeper mother' or 'housekeeper mother'. ”

Su Miao rolled her eyes impatiently, ignored him, turned her head, pulled out the box that the emperor valued most in the mouth of Qian Dehai, and opened it, which was full of scrolls, letters, and the like. The letters were packed in Nanmu boxes, neatly placed, Su Miao opened one of the boxes, and a stack of orchid letterheads with a faint fragrance came into view, and the patterns on the letterheads were elegant and chic, like women's only.

"You girl, the old slave said that he wouldn't let you flip around, why do you still flip around!" Qian Dehai found her open the letter box, and said loudly with his eyes wide.

"Earlier, you said that I should open them one by one to see if there are any worms in it, but now I won't let me turn it over, what do you want me to do? If you're not satisfied with me helping you, just let me go to sleep! Su Miao flattened her mouth and said unhappily, looking at the orchid letterhead in her hand, "This envelope is so beautiful, it looks like a woman's use, is it a love letter from the emperor?" ”

Qian Dehai's scalp was numb because of her audacity and presumptuousness, but he didn't dare to really reprimand her, or rather, in fact, Qian Dehai still liked Su Miao, a girl who was bold enough to cook and really delicious.

"Second Miss Su! Second Ancestor of Su! You honestly help the old slave clean and clean the study, and then you can do whatever you want, okay? Qian Dehai asked helplessly.

Su Miao glanced at him and pouted: "Seeing that you are so flustered, this must be the emperor's love letter." ”

As she spoke, she was about to seal the box and put it in the box, when a hand came out from behind her back and took the box from her hand. Su Miao was startled, and turned around, the person who snatched the box was Liang Shuo, who had been playing chess with herself since dinner, when playing chess, Liang Shuo originally wanted to play with Su Miao, but Su Miao said that she hated playing Go, so she was sent to clean the study.

Qian Dehai was no longer numb in his scalp but numb all over his body, he knelt down and pleaded with trembling:

"The emperor forgives the sin, it was the old slave who didn't explain it to the second girl Su, and the second girl Su was also afraid of the insects in the box before opening it, asking the emperor for forgiveness!"

Su Miao was inexplicable.

Liang Shuo stared at the box for a while, and then glanced down at Su Miao, who was looking at him in confusion with a pair of big eyes that were as clear as water.

"Guess what this is?" Liang Shuo had eaten a lot of good things that were particularly to his liking before, and he was in a good mood this time, but he was not angry, he asked her with a smile.

"Love letters." Su Miao ignored Qian Dehai's hideous expression of killing chickens and wiping his neck, and answered two words succinctly.

Liang Shuo laughed out loud: "What love letter?" This is the letter that the Queen wrote to me before she married me. ”

…… Isn't that a love letter?

Liang Shuo sat down on a chair beside him, flipped through the letters in the box with nostalgia, and said with a smile:

"These letters are more than thirty years old, and the queen has been dead for thirty-one years."

Su Miao leaned over to look and found that the covers of all the letters were blank, and she asked suspiciously:

"Why are all the letters not signed and the names of the recipients?"

Liang Shuo was stunned for a moment, looked at the blank cover, paused, and replied:

"The queen was in Lingshui Palace at the time, and I was just an inconspicuous prince at that time, probably because I was afraid of being discovered, the envelopes she sent were blank, so the envelopes I sent back to her were also blank, and it became a habit after a long time, and the envelopes she gave me after marriage were also blank."

Su Miao tilted her head and thought for a while, but she couldn't hold back and asked:

"What exactly is Lingshui Palace?"

"Ah Wei didn't tell you?"

"No, he doesn't tell me about these things, and I don't really want to hear him tell me about them."

"Don't want to hear it and be so curious?"

"I'm not curious, I just think it's strange, why is there a Lingshui Palace in the palace, there are really only women and no men in the Lingshui Palace?"

"In the beginning, it was both men and women. Lingshui Palace was founded by Empress Shengwu, in the troubled times before the founding of the country, Empress Shengwu was a famous female general, and at that time she had both men and women under her command. Lingshui Palace is called 'Palace', but it is not the meaning of the inner palace, Lingshui Palace belongs directly to the queen, Queen Shengwu is followed by Empress Xiaowu, Empress Xiaowu is followed by Empress Xiaoping, the women of Yueliang Kingdom during that period are still martial, several virtuous queens are military generals, and that time is the most prosperous period of Lingshui Palace. But later, the world began to change, peaceful and prosperous, women were bound by traditional etiquette, and there were fewer and fewer women practicing martial arts, resulting in the decline of Lingshui Palace. Although it still exists, although it still belongs directly to the queen, Lingshui Palace gradually disappeared in the inner palace and became a tool to help the queen govern the six palaces and eliminate dissidents, and the role of Lingshui Palace was completely changed. ”

Liang Shuo was willing to speak carefully, and Su Miao was also willing to listen carefully, staring at him directly, and he was fascinated by the listen.

"Lingshui Palace was used as a vase for many years, until my grandmother Duanjing became the Empress Dowager. You should know that the first emperor ascended the throne in 18 months, and the Empress Dowager Duanjing listened to the government from then on, until the death of the Empress Dowager Duanjing, for more than 40 years, the Empress Dowager Duanjing controlled the government and monopolized power. When the Empress Dowager Duanjing was alive, she imitated Empress Shengwu and established a female official system in the palace, and the women at that time were proud to be female officials in the palace. At that time, a large number of women poured into the palace, but there were very few women who could become female officials, and these women who became female officials were all from Lingshui Palace.

On the surface, Lingshui Palace is a place for raising female officials, but in fact, it is an intelligence office and supervision office directly under the Empress Dowager Duanjing. The Empress Dowager Duanjing was worried that the courtiers would make her hand over power after the emperor took power, so she set up the Lingshui Palace, because the selection of men was too eye-catching, so she boldly used women. The women in the Lingshui Palace are known as the 'fat pink thorns', who can arrest their subjects at will, collect intelligence for the Empress Dowager Duanjing in various ways, and even assassinate them with the acquiescence of the Empress Dowager Duanjing.

In the twentieth year of the reign of the Empress Dowager Duanjing, the assassins in the Lingshui Palace were even all over the inner mansions of almost all the noble men in the Liang Capital City, and the Yue Liang Kingdom at that time was actually controlled by the Empress Dowager Duanjing and her Lingshui Palace.

When the emperor was young, he probably thought about resisting, but at that time, the power of the Empress Dowager Duanjing was too strong, and the emperor had never been able to resist the Empress Dowager Duanjing. ”