The chief manager in the warehouse took out the gift list and showed it to the chief manager, and said to him: "The Shen family sent three copies, and the Shi family sent two copies, each of which is the same." ”

The chief steward nodded, checked the beef and some other tributes brought out by the little eunuchs, and arched his hand with the chief of the treasury: "That's it, our family will send someone to send it out, you have worked hard." ”

"Don't dare to say that it's hard, the chief manager walks slowly." The treasurer replied respectfully.

After sending the chief manager away, the chief of the treasury went to the treasury to count the remaining tributes, and after a check, he found that he had taken more than half of them, and the little eunuch who had taken care of the tribute before muttered to himself: "I don't know if the emperor still has anything to send, I'm afraid it will be gone as soon as it is sent." ”

The chief manager stood up with a slap on his head, and shouted to the little eunuch: "Of course, there is something to send, and the Queen Mother should send one." "Forget that no one can forget the Queen Mother, that is the most noble woman in this palace.

The little eunuch took the gift list and asked, "Is it the same as the previous one?" ”

The head of the treasury thought about it, and the queen mother was just a person, so he nodded and said, "The same is enough, go and do it." ”

From the remaining tribute to the Queen Mother, the head of the treasury took someone to personally send the Queen Mother to the Jiuluan Palace, and said with a courteous smile: "This is beef from Northern Burma, which is different from ours, and the slave sent it to the Queen Mother as soon as possible." ”

The queen mother rewarded some silver and let the treasury manager retreat, since the last time she vomited blood and fell into a coma, she was waiting for her personally, although she liked to play some cleverness, but there was no choice to take care of people, and the queen mother was very satisfied.

"The mourning family is old and their teeth are not good, so I will reward you with these beef." The Queen Mother called Zhenzhen to her and said with a smile, "You have served the mourning family for many days, it is really hard, and you have to eat a little more to make up for it, look at the two days your chin is sharp." ”

Zhenzhen blessed her body: "Thank you for the reward of the Queen Mother, but serving the Queen Mother is the blessing of Zhenzhen, and it is also a matter of internal affairs, not hard." ”

The quarrel between Pei Yuan and the Queen Mother that day made Zhenzhen's heart lively, although she was a little afraid of the Queen Mother, after all, listening to Pei Yuan's words, the Queen Mother stepped on the corpses of many people to achieve today's position, but in the end, she is now older, and it is difficult to say whether she can be the same as before.

Thinking like this, Zhenzhen's face became more and more respectful: "Queen Mother, Zhenzhen helped you in to rest, didn't you say you had a headache this morning?" Chastity rubs it for you. ”

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and put it on Zhenzhen's arm, and obediently went to lie down on the bed in the inner room, and Zhenzhen first lit the requiem incense in the room: "The Queen Mother, this is the new incense made by the imperial doctors, and it is said to be the most effective for your insomnia and dreams." ”

The aroma came out slowly, the queen mother on the bed hummed, Zhenzhen walked over and knelt beside the bed, gently massaging her scalp, until she heard the queen mother's even breathing, Zhenzhen withdrew her hand, and whispered twice, no response, then relieved to tiptoe away from the bed.

But he didn't leave the room, but said softly to the palace people in the house: "You all go out, I'll just watch the Queen Mother here, but the large number of people will make the Queen Mother sleep unstable." ”

The palace people retreated one after another, the queen mother liked the virgin girl, and it was no problem to leave her alone to watch inside, but after they left, Zhenzhen began to rummage in the queen mother's bedroom.

The queen mother is clever, and she likes to lay out behind her back, maybe she has some secret weapon in her hand, but she will never put it in a place that can be seen at a glance, there must be some mechanism or a secret grid or something like that in this hall.

Under the bed where the Queen Mother slept, the third floor tile was of a different color from the one next to it, and it seemed to be sprinkled with a layer of gold dust, shining brightly under the light of the candle flame.

Zhenzhen reached out and knocked on it, the sound showed that there was an open space underneath, she reached out and touched around the side of the bed, and sure enough, she felt a bump at the head of the bed, and when her fingers pressed it hard, she could hear a click.

Zhenzhen was shocked, raised her eyes to see that the Queen Mother was still sleeping very deeply, so she went to the position of the third blue brick that was opened with confidence, and took out a porcelain vase inside.

She knew that this must be an important thing, otherwise she would not hide in such a secret place, but she didn't dare to peek into the secret inside in front of the Queen Mother, so she had to stuff the porcelain vase into her sleeve, raised her eyes to look at the Queen Mother, who was still not moving, and walked out lightly with something after restoring the mechanism.

"The Queen Mother is still asleep inside, I remember that there are still some things to do, go back first, if the Queen Mother wakes up, I will trouble you to tell me." That's what Zhenzhen said to the palace maids at the door.

Seeing that they nodded without the slightest suspicion, Zhenzhen quickly returned to her resting place, then closed the door and window, and carefully took out the porcelain vase from her sleeve.

There was still a seal on the bottle, and after Zhenzhen carefully removed it, she found that the back was actually written what was inside the porcelain bottle.

Poison, but not an ordinary poison, is a unique Gu poison in southern Xinjiang, it is also written how to give the other party to take, it is very simple, put it directly into the food, it will not be burned by the heat of the food, and the silver needle cannot be tested afterwards, it is really a good thing to poison.

Zhenzhen only felt that her heart was beating like a drum, with this, could she let whoever she wanted to die, could this be the secret of the Queen Mother's position today? And now that she has a weapon as powerful as her, Zhenzhen couldn't help but laugh at the end.

She was a little uneasy, went to find a silver needle back, slowly put it into the porcelain bottle, half a cup of tea time passed, the silver needle did not react, and saw that the smile on the face of this chastity became bigger and bigger.

When he was proud, there was a sudden bang outside, Zhenzhen's hand shook, and the porcelain bottle in his hand was almost unable to hold it.

The fireworks are naturally the closest to the palace, the Lingwang Mansion, bring the fireworks back from Pei Shu, Pei Niting can't wait for the Lantern Festival, and now she is clamoring to set off fireworks.

After Jintai and everyone had dinner, he asked Yongzhen to accompany Pei Niting to play with fireworks outside, Pei Niting was clamoring to light fireworks with his own fireworks, Yongzhen was naturally unwilling.

"You're too young to light fireworks yourself, in case you hurt yourself, you're going to suffer." Yongzhen was frightened and coaxed, "Uncle will let you go, just watch from the sidelines, Tingting has to be obedient." ”

But Pei Niting stretched out her hand and snatched the fire fold from Yongzhen, and then went to light the fireworks not far away, Yongzhen dragged Pei Niting when the spark came out, but the hem of her clothes touched the spark, and the good clothes touched it, burning a big hole.

The fireworks suddenly rose into the air and exploded, and in an instant, Pei Niting saw Yongzhen frantically slapping her clothes, and she was stunned in fright.

Jintai came out to watch the two set off fireworks, and didn't want to just walk into the yard, Pei Niting ran over and threw herself into her arms and cried, she anxiously pulled Pei Niting away for a good inspection, and found that there were no traces of bumping, and there were no traces of being burned by fireworks.

While breathing a sigh of relief, Pei Niting was still sobbing and choking, Jintai looked at Yongzhen not far away and scolded: "Let you see a child, that's how you see it, I asked you to accompany her to set off fireworks, not to let you bully her, how can you bully a child as an adult!" ”

Yongzhen stiffened his neck and said: "I didn't, you don't wronged people!" ”

Jintai said unhappily: "Why are you crying so much without Tingting, don't give me quibbles, and don't dare to admit that you did something wrong!" Pei Niting was still crying, she was really frightened, she was a child, and she forgot to explain to Yongzhen.

Yongzhen felt very aggrieved, he was kind enough to come to see his sister and help his sister take Pei Niting to play, but in the end, he had to be misunderstood, and his sister didn't seem to miss him very much.

"Since my sister said so, then I will leave, you can bring the child yourself, you can bring it yourself!" Yongzhen turned around and walked away unhappily.

Jin Tai shouted behind him: "What kind of attitude do you have, how can you talk to your sister like this!" ”

Pei Hao heard the quarrel outside, put down the conversation with the housekeeper for the time being, and saw that the two sisters and brothers were both blushing and thick-necked, so he had to persuade: "You take Tingting to the house to rest first, I see that she seems to be frightened, and I will send it off on my brother's side." ”

Jintai snorted and took Pei Niting back to the house, Pei Hao took Yongzhen one after the other to go outside, only to notice that Yongzhen's clothes were burned with a big hole on the way, and hurriedly pulled him and said: "You can't wear this clothes, why don't you tell your sister, hurry up and go back with me to change into one and go back." ”

Yongzhen broke free gently: "No need, there are clothes brought from the inn, and my brother-in-law's I am not suitable for wearing." ”

Pei Hao looked at the size of the two, his clothes should be bigger on Yongzhen, Pei Hao had to continue to send him out, the two didn't say anything all the way, Pei Hao only looked at Yongzhen's face was not good-looking, and he didn't know whether he was wronged or lonely.

Standing at the door of the inn, Yongzhen said softly: "It's been delivered, brother-in-law, go back quickly." ”

"Pei Niting's identity is quite special, so your sister is so nervous." Pei Hao explained to Yongzhen, and apologized to him for Jintai, "She didn't mean to blame you, I'm really sorry, you came all the way, but we didn't receive you well, and we made you wronged." ”

"Brother-in-law doesn't have to blame himself, I can understand that." Yongzhen lowered his head awkwardly.

Pei Hao smiled, but he wasn't so careful, and said to him: "Since you are not angry, then stay and spend the Lantern Festival with us, the Lantern Festival here is very lively, and it can be regarded as giving me a chance to receive you well." ”

One of the envoys who was resting in the inn came out to buy some food temporarily, and he would hear the conversation between the two, and before Yongzhen could speak, he agreed: "The prince is kindly invited, and we will naturally not refuse, so stay here and disturb." ”

Yongzhen looked at the envoy strangely, how could this kid be the same every day, he couldn't wait to return immediately, and he didn't know which tendon was wrong, but he really wanted to stay in the capital for a few more days, so he didn't refute, only nodded and said, "Then thank you brother-in-law first." ”

After sending Pei Hao away, Yongzhen went to the inner room to change his burnt clothes, and the envoy saw that he threw away a piece of clothing that he had just worn today, and hurriedly asked: "Young master, you are too wasteful, this piece of clothing is worth a lot of silver!" ”

"I burned a big hole, and I can't wear it." Yongzhen pursed his lips, and thought of Jintai's wronging of him, and his mood was a little annoyed, but thinking of his brother-in-law leaving him to spend the Lantern Festival, that little boredom was offset again, and he asked the envoy, "What kind of wishful thinking do you have in your heart, you want to stay." ”

Seeing the flattery of the envoy's smile, Yongzhen turned pale and said, "Don't say it's for me, I don't admit it!" ”

The envoy blushed, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and only spoke for a long time: "The subordinates didn't say that it was for the master, the subordinates did it for themselves, this capital is too prosperous, and the subordinates were also confused." He also took out the pastries he had just asked people to buy at the night market to show him a great deal of courtesy.