"Mo'er, go and ask Liu Changzai to come in." Ling Ruo gave such an order, and he sat down on the stone bench under the cherry blossom tree.

Shi Shiran of the Liu family followed Mo Er in, and bowed, "The concubine has seen Concubine Xi, Niangniang, Niangniang, Jin'an." ”

"Get up, sit." Saying this, Ling Ruo motioned to Mo Er and a few other palace people to retreat, leaving only Shui Xiu by his side, and the Liu family only brought one palace person.

After Liu sat down cautiously, she smiled and said, "Why is Liu Chang so good to come to see the palace today?" ”

Liu lowered his head and smiled, his eyes bent into a good-looking shape because of the smile, "Niangniang's words are in the strange concubine who doesn't come to say goodbye to Niangniang on weekdays?" ”

Ling Ruo didn't say anything about her, but looked at the palace man behind her: "There are rules in the palace, palace maids can leave the palace when they reach the age of twenty-five, unless they voluntarily stay, and there is their master as a guarantor." You should be thirty years old in this palace, why haven't you left the palace? ”

Without waiting for the palace maid to speak, Liu had already said: "Niangniang misunderstood, she was brought into the palace by the concubine, and she is also the nurse of the concubine, called Jin Gu." ”

"Jin Gu." Ling Ruogang read it, and the palace people had already knelt down, and said with a frightened face: "Slave and maid are humble and jian, how dare you be called Niangniang like this, slave maid jian name is a peach character, and Niangniang calls slave maid golden peach." ”

"It's okay, it's just a title, don't worry too much." Saying this, Ling Ruo shook the hexagonal palace fan in his hand and said with a smile: "When did the palace bring the slaves and maids from the previous family into the palace, why didn't the palace know the way?" ”

Liu's face turned red, and he quickly knelt down to ask for guilt, "It's all bad for the concubines, the concubines are brought up by Jin Gu when they are small, and they have never left, and they have been missing Jin Gu when they entered the palace, and the tea and rice are hard to swallow. ”

Ling Ruo put the palace fan on the stone table, helped Liu up and said: "Liu Changzai is serious, since the emperor agreed, why do you need this palace to forgive your sins, besides, this palace is just a casual question." Seeing that Liu got up, he kept looking at Jin Gu, waved his hand one by one and said, "Okay, don't kneel either, otherwise you will make your master feel distressed and complain about the palace." ”

Although her sentence was a joke, it still made Liu a little embarrassed, and it took a while to change the topic by looking at the cherry blossom trees, "In the spring, the concubine once passed by Niangniang, and saw the beautiful scenery of the wind blowing flowers from a distance across the palace wall, and I really wanted to come in and have a look, but I was afraid of disturbing Niangniang's tranquility and causing Niangniang to blame." ”

"Is this unkind Hongu? It's a pity that there are no flowers now, and if you want to see it again, you can only wait for next spring. Ling Ruoying smiled and said: "In the future, you can come over when you are free, and it is good to chat with this palace, alas, looking at you all young and young, I should really be envious." ”

Hearing this, Liu said hurriedly: "Don't say that, Niangniang's demeanor is peerless, and the country and the city are captivating, so the concubines should envy Niangniang." ”

Ling Ruo covered his lips with a fan, and said through the thin fan: "Liu Changzai is really good at talking, but ...... Liu Changzai made a special trip to come over, wouldn't it just be to say this? ”

"Niangniang is not only beautiful, but also brilliant. Don't hide it from Niangniang, the concubine is here to thank Niangniang for Imperial Doctor Jin Xie Lu! Rao is Ling Ruo had already guessed, and Liu's later sentence still surprised her, but she said on her face: "This palace doesn't understand what Liu Chang meant. ”

Liu bit his lip and said: "Yesterday, Niangniang dropped the pearl ear bell, and when the concubine picked it up for Niangniang, she found that the ear bell was not broken, and the interface was also good, it stands to reason that such an ear bell would never fall off......"

"But the palace has just dropped." She glanced at her and said, "Does Liu Changzai want to say this?" ”

Liu hesitated for a moment and said: "Yes, so the concubine dared to think that Niangniang was deliberately dropped, in order to give Imperial Doctor Jin a chance to snatch the knife in Liu Yidao's hand and commit suicide." Don't hide it from Niangniang, in fact, the concubine always felt that there were doubts about Imperial Doctor Jin harming the third elder brother, especially in Yikun Palace yesterday, if she really did something with a weak heart, she should be afraid, how could she be like Imperial Doctor Jin. ”

"How is Imperial Doctor Jin?" Ling Ruo asked casually, and between her indifferent eyebrows, she couldn't tell what she was thinking.

Looking at her, Liu seemed to have made a lot of determination, and said word by word: "From beginning to end, Imperial Doctor Jin has a sense of resentment, although the concubine is young, he can see that he has a grudge in his heart; It is impossible for a person with a weak heart to have such deep resentment. And the hatred he showed to Imperial Doctor Liu yesterday was also quite real, so the concubine selfishly thought that the third elder brother was ...... It wasn't Dr. Jin who was harmed. ”

"But what does all this have to do with this palace, this palace is not familiar with Imperial Doctor Jin." Ling Ruo said quietly.

Liu was a little surprised, she didn't expect that she had said it for so long, Ling Ruo still refused to admit it, and said at the moment: "Niangniang, do you think that the concubine has other plans?" ”

"Hongu never thinks about it." Ling Ruoyan smiled, holding a green leaf falling from the top of her head in her fingertips, and said slowly: "Don't misunderstand Liu Changzai, this palace is real...... I don't understand it very well, so please make it clear to Liu Changzai. ”

Liu didn't expect Ling Ruo to be so cautious and difficult, obviously she had already said this, but she still pretended to be confused, it seemed that she would not admit it. Thinking of this, Liu frowned and said: "Yes, the concubine has the courage to say, if there is something wrong, please ask the mother for advice." ”

Jin Gu's arm standing behind her moved slightly, as if she was pulling Liu, but this action stopped after Liu glanced back at her, Ling Ruo saw all this in his eyes, but didn't say anything, just waited for Liu to speak.

"The concubine remembered that Liu Yidao was asked by Niangniang to invite the emperor to send him in, and the reason why Imperial Physician Jin was able to take the knife and commit suicide was also because Niangniang's ear bell fell to the ground, and when Imperial Physician Jin died, Niangniang showed an unbearable look; The concubine dared to speculate that Niangniang should have known that Imperial Doctor Jin had been wronged, and she had the intention to help him get rid of Ling Chi's punishment. Although the concubine is just a small constant, she also knows that the people in the deep palace of Ludao are sinister, and she can be as kind-hearted as Niangniang, not to mention that there is no one in ten thousand, but it is almost the same. After that, she got up and gave another big salute to Ling Ruo, and said with a sincere expression: "The concubine admires Niangniang's benevolence very much, and even more admires Niangniang's delicate thoughts, and hopes that she will have the opportunity to ask Niangniang for advice in the future." ”

Another meaning hidden in this sentence is attachment, she wants to be attached to Ling Ruo, and this is not an uncommon thing in the harem, some new concubines who have entered the palace, in order to gain a firm foothold in the harem, or climb up as soon as possible, will try their best to attach themselves to the concubines with the position and power; And those concubines, in order to consolidate their position and power in the palace, will also allow them to be attached

However, before she could lean over, a good-looking jade hand was already horizontal in front of her, raised her head, and met a pair of eyes that were so deep that she couldn't see the bottom, "I don't know what Liu Chang wants to ask this palace for, is it the benevolence or the heart in your mouth?" ”