Yanyun was originally the concubine of the Zhong family of Guangping, and she has always had a head and face in the palace, Yanxia is just a little girl who was promoted later, even if Yanxia was later mentioned to the first class and waited with her in front of the princess, she also felt that her status was far above Yanxia. Although she has now been punished by the princess and demoted to the third class, she can't even enter the house, and can only do some rough work in the yard, but she still feels that she will have to go back to the princess sooner or later.

She vigorously shook off Yanxia's hand and said coldly: "Don't preach to me, do you think that now that I am down, I think I can show off my power in front of me?" I tell you, even if I can only work in the courtyard at the moment, I am still a confidant by the princess's side! Are you playing tricks on me? Beware of the feng shui rotation in the future, and the mold will run on your head! ”

Yanxia was kind enough to remind her, and she hated that iron could not become steel, but she didn't expect Yanyun to listen to her words, and her first reaction was to think that she had counted her down, and she was really angry and funny in her heart: "Why should I play prestige on you?" In the past, you were first-class, I was also first-class, you were the princess's confidant, I was also the princess's confidant, if I stepped on you, would I have a face? Or can it go up one more liter? You really don't know what to do, I kindly remind you, for fear that others will see you peeping into the upper room, sue the princess and the prince, and let you be punished again, but you will regard me as a bad person. ”

Yanyun then understood, but his face was a little unbearable, and he said stiffly: "So you mean well?" So what are you doing to speak to me in that tone? I'm a few years older than you, and I'm your senior. Instead, you think I'm a rough girl, and there are no rules for the elders and the young? Do you still want me to have a good face for you? ”

Yanxia didn't bother to study with her, and went straight back to the topic: "What are you looking into the house just now?" The girl of the Zhao family is here today. After talking to the princess for a while, the princess left her to eat, told her to continue to joke with her in the afternoon, and did not allow her to leave so quickly. The girl of the Zhao family is a very kind person, she recognized me at a glance after so many years, and greeted me. I asked about you and Cao's mother again. I thought it wasn't a shameful thing for you to be relegated to the yard, so I told her that you were sick and went home. These days are not there. If you peek into the house and look at it, if she sees it, won't you pierce my words? You don't necessarily have face. ”

Yanyun's eyes were a little drifting: "Really? Miss Zhao...... So pleasing to the princess? What did the princess tell her? ”

"It's just a holiday business." Yanxia glanced at her, "Sister." Miss Zhao is still young. Don't keep thinking about what you don't have, let people know, but lose the princess's face. I've guessed a few things in your heart, but why do you bother about these? Even if there is no Miss Zhao, it will not be the turn of the Zhong family cousin. Now that the Zhong family is angry with the princess like this, you don't think about how to serve the princess well and make her angry. Transferred you back to your side as an errand and only worried about the Zhong family. Is it wrong to remember who your master is? ”

Yanyun's face turned red and white for a while, gritted his teeth and turned away. Yanxia's words came out, as if she had slapped her in the face, making her ashamed, annoyed, and a little weak-hearted. She didn't want to be preached by her juniors anymore, so she had to leave.

But she didn't go far before she was intercepted at the gate of the courtyard, and this time it was an acquaintance who intercepted her: Cao's mother.

Cao's mother looked at her expressionlessly, dropped a sentence of "follow me", and turned to leave. Yanyun only felt inexplicable, but Mother Cao's dignity in front of the princess was not as good as others, she didn't dare to disobey the other party's wishes, so she could only follow.

When she got to a secluded place, Cao's mother stopped, turned around, and before she could explain her intention of calling Yanyun, she first raised her right hand high and slapped Yanyun so hard that she almost fell to the ground.

Yanyun covered her face and looked at her in disbelief: "Mother Cao, why are you hitting me?!" ”

Mother Cao sneered, took out a golden hairpin from her sleeve pocket, and fell on her: "Are you embarrassed to ask me?" Take the golden hairpin to buy the concierge person, ask her to deliver news to you every day, once the Zhong family people come to the door, they will immediately report it to you, and then you will go and sue Princess Sù. Even if the prince does not allow the Zhong family to come to the door, as long as the princess speaks, this ban will be useless. Do you dare to say that this is not a good thing you did? Idiot! Although the prince is young, he is not a fool, and he was about to find out who delivered the words to the princess, but none of the people in the concierge ran away, and they were all arrested and strictly interrogated. You still sent your hairpin to others, are you afraid that the prince will not be able to grasp the evidence? This golden hairpin is rewarded by the princess, and there is also the mark of the craftsman of the palace on it, and the reward has always been recorded in a booklet, and it is accurate to check. When the time comes, you will be found out, and your life will not be saved, I don't know if you will ask again, why did you want to kill you?! ”

Yanyun saw the golden hairpin, and then heard Cao's mother's words, and was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and couldn't help but hug Cao's mother's leg in fear and cry: "Mom save me!" It's not that I want to eat inside and out, but my old son and mother are in the Zhong family, and if something bad happens to the Zhong family, they won't be able to escape. I'm not like you, since I got married, you even brought your husband and children here, a few years ago, I went out of the house to raise honor, and the children were taken care of by the palace, so I don't have to worry about it, but I even have my parents, brothers and sisters, and all my relatives are in the Zhong family. Can I abandon them for the sake of my own freedom?! ”

Seeing her crying pitifully, Cao's mother poked her in the head angrily: "Stupid, stupid!" Even if you want to contribute to the Zhong family, you don't need to use this method, don't you know how the princess fell ill? Aren't you still angry with the old lady of the Zhong family? Do you think that my family has left the Zhong family, and I have no affection for the Zhong family in my heart? I'm not that heartless and unrighteous person. is really the current head and mother of the Zhong family, and his actions are too chilling. They don't take advantage of it, and the princess is my grandmother, so I naturally favor the princess in my heart, but I never thought of wanting the Zhong family to die! ”

Yanyun was stunned when he heard this: "Is my mother willing or unwilling to help the Zhong family with me?" ”

"Call you stupid, you're still not convinced!" Cao's mother glared at her angrily, "Who are you?" Who am I? Which card are we? The prince, the princess, and the prince give us decency. It is our blessing to be willing to exalt us, but we can't think that we can really be the master of the master! Do you want to help the Zhong family? How can you help? Desperately say good things about the Zhong family in front of the princess? The Zhong family is the princess's maiden family. Wouldn't she miss her mother's family and ask you to remind her? ”

Yanyun gritted his teeth and said, "Mom thinks this idea is not good, so what good idea do you have?" ”

Cao's mother sneered: "Good idea? Doing nothing is a good idea! The Zhong family is the princess's maiden family, the princess is filial and friendly, it is impossible to watch her mother's family die, and King Guangping will not let the princess suffer such a blow. As long as the princess is fine. Whether it is the crown prince or the king of Guangping, they will be open to the Zhong family. Perhaps the official position cannot be saved, but the life is not hindered. But if you make your own decisions. Put the Zhong family into the mansion and let them talk nonsense in front of the princess, which makes the princess angry, and the prince and the prince will not care about the life or death of the Zhong family in the future! ”

The smoke clouds are like waking up from a dream. She looked at Cao's mother. I was almost speechless: "Then I...... I ......"

"What am I? Do your job! Cao's mother said hatefully, "I have already sent the mother-in-law you bought, and I said that she passed on the words casually and made a mistake." Hengzhu did come to the princess's courtyard to report the news, so let her take this responsibility. I sent her to work in the village on the outskirts of Beijing, even if she was punished. Even if the prince knows, he will not be punished again. Without her testimony, the golden hairpin is back in your hands. You can rest assured and bold to continue on errands without worrying that the world will find out what you have done. But if there is a next time. Not necessarily so lucky. You give me to remember! ”

Yanyunji didn't remember, only she knew. Gao Zhen ordered the head of the palace to thoroughly investigate the people in the gatehouse, who disobeyed his order and sent a letter from the Zhong family to the inner courtyard. But the result of the investigation was that it was just a mother-in-law who made an assertion, thinking that the princess would miss the Zhong family, so she hid it from everyone and ran to the inner courtyard to report the news, thinking that she could get a big reward. Now that something has happened, she has been driven to Zhuangzi by Cao's mother.

Gao Zhen's heart was full of resentment, but he was taught by his biological mother since he was a child, and he was not a ruthless person. However, after this incident, he also became cautious, and intensified his efforts to shrink the power of the stewards in the palace who were close to the Zhong family, and knocked them from time to time, so that they would no longer dare to disobey his orders.

After taking care of a few important affairs in the house, Gao Zhen returned to his mother's room. Princess Zhong of Guangping had finished her afternoon nap, sat on the bed full of energy, and bowed her head to drink a bowl of warm soup. Zhao Xiu and Zhao Wei both came over from the Dongnuan Pavilion, looking at the lamp-making materials all over the floor in the East Room, discussing what to do. After Zhong had finished drinking the soup, he listened to their argument with a smile and a groan, and did not feel noisy at all, and even asked the maids to remove the satin curtains and obstructive decorations between the Xinuan Pavilion and the Xijima, and make room for them to do something.

It seems that the steward of the palace is also a good person, and he will come back with some semi-finished products, and he will save a group of young masters and ladies from having trouble with a bunch of bamboo strips and wood strips, as long as they assemble them, they can make good lanterns. It is not the same as the lantern that Zhao Xiu and Zhao Wei could only use simple bamboo strips and paper to tie last night.

When Zhao Xiu saw these materials, he felt that if he couldn't make a good lamp out of semi-finished products, it would be too embarrassing for the traverser, and he was determined to make a decent lantern to repay the princess's trust. Zhao Wei was holding a carved wooden strip in one hand and a bamboo strip in the other, worrying about how to act. Since it was to be shown to the princess, of course it was impossible to get a crooked lantern-like thing that my sister made yesterday out and lose the faces of their brother and sister.

Zhao Xiu snatched the wooden strip in his hand, selected a single piece that was obviously a set of materials in a pile of materials, and then installed them by analogy, although it had not yet been covered with a veil of lights, painted with paintings, and lit candles, but at least there was a shape of a lantern. Zhao Wei watched his sister's movements, and was also inspired, picked out another pile of materials, quickly assembled a small square lamp, lit a candle, lifted it and walked a few steps, this time it was really successful!

It didn't take long for Zhao Xiu to succeed. In fact, holding the lantern that has already been half made by others is like building a three-dimensional puzzle, and it is still a version suitable for children under the age of five. She didn't feel a sense of accomplishment at all.

Zhong would not know Zhao Xiu's thoughts, she only asked Zhao Xiu: "Do you want to write some poems on the lantern yarn and draw a few sketches?" In the past, the prince loved to do this kind of thing, and he even pulled me to do it together. ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "I'm not good at poetry, when I encounter this kind of thing, I must hide, or ask the princess to write poems for me, right?" ”

Zhong thought for a while: "Where can I come up with good poems this time?" There is my poetry book over there in the East Warm Pavilion, which contains the poems I made during the Lantern Festival a few years ago, you can take it, just look for a few and copy it. ”

Zhao Xiu went to the East Warm Pavilion, and sure enough, he found a poetry book, which was handwritten and silky, and thought it was the princess's masterpiece, and hurriedly brought it back to the West Warm Pavilion, turned out two poems that she thought were good, and copied them on the lamp yarn with hairpin flowers, and felt that the lamp surface was still a little empty after copying, so he changed the pen, dipped it in paint, and painted two paintings on the other two sides of the lamp yarn, one was the red plum spring, and the other was the magpie Dengmei. Although there are only two colors, red and black, with these two paintings on the lamp, the whole lamp becomes much more beautiful.

Zhong praised: "These two sketches are well drawn, the meaning is good, and the poems I picked are also the two best I wrote." You little girl, you are really a crystal-hearted glass person! ”

Zhao Wei also mentioned a few lines of poetry on his lamp, but the painting was not as good as his sister, painting an eagle, just like a sparrow, was greatly teased by Zhao Xiu, and his face turned red. Zhong looked at it and pursed his lips and smiled, and somehow, he remembered the situation when he was a child and joked with his brother. At that time, their brother and sister were also close, but unfortunately that was a long time ago. The brother-sister relationship is long gone.

Zhong's expression quickly dimmed, and the interest in joking was gone. Seeing this, Zhao Xiu had to quietly pull Zhao Wei's sleeve, and the brother and sister looked at Gao Zhen together.

Gao Zhen put down the half-assembled lantern in his hand and said, "Is the mother concubine tired?" You've been chatting with the guests for a long time today, so let's let Brother Wei go back first. Later, when the mother concubine recovers, she will invite them to play in the palace. ”

Zhong smiled reluctantly and acquiesced. Zhao Xiu hurriedly put down the lantern, saluted respectfully, said goodbye, and asked Gao Zhen with some worry: "Is the princess okay?" Was my brother and I too casual just now? Zhao Wei was also worried.

Gao Zhen just said lightly: "It's okay, it has nothing to do with you." My mother has been prone to sentimentality lately, and it will be fine after a while. You guys go back first, and when you're free another day, just come and play." ”

Zhao Wei responded, and Zhao Xiu looked at the dark circles under his eyes with some concern: "Brother Zhen, you also have to pay attention to rest and take care of your body." There are some things, don't think too much, there will be plans from above, you are still young, those things have nothing to do with you. ”

Gao Zhen was stunned, and then smiled slightly. (To be continued......)