He Zili talked for a while, and the sky gradually darkened. It was already winter, and it was getting dark early, so Ansu quickened his pace and walked back. I walked near the shelter and saw the guard I had seen before. It was when An Su first entered the palace and secretly ran to the eunuch's house to find his younger brother, and accidentally saw a guard and the palace maid talking in the alley, but the maid last time was Chunhan next to Mrs. Emei, but this time it was a different person, and she looked very raw.

If An Su wanted to go back to Huanning Palace, he had to go through this alley, but if he walked forward rashly, wouldn't it disturb the two of them. She stopped in the corner, and waited for the two of them to finish talking and leave, and it was not too late to go over.

It's just that An Su looked at it, and felt a little strange, the behavior of these two people was very similar to what Chun Han did last time. The maidservant handed the guard several squares of handkerchiefs and a package, and then gave some instructions, but they were too far away to hear the exact speech.

Ansu quietly walked a few steps forward before she could faintly hear some sounds.

"Next time, I wish the beauty to meet you in person, explain some other matters, and meet in the evening of January later, at the north side of Xingyue Taipei. You've got the time and place, but don't forget it. ”

Originally, An Su thought that this guard was a good friend of Chunhan, and that day he was bumped into them to meet. After all, handing over the handkerchief can be regarded as a matter of love. But now, it seems that this is not the case, and there must be a hidden secret.

The two of them spoke very briefly, and they didn't stay long, and after they left, An Su walked through the alley and returned to Huanning Palace. It was only when they walked to the place where they had stood, but it seemed that they had stepped on something. She looked down and saw that there was still some handwriting on a white handkerchief, perhaps the guard had accidentally lost one.

Ansu picked up the handkerchief and checked it, and there were several names on it, but she didn't know any of them, and she didn't know what it meant. Thinking that Xu Meiren might know, she put away the handkerchief and left it to ask after returning to Huanning Palace.

"Ansu, you are back, Niangniang is happy today, I ordered the small kitchen to make a lot of snacks, and distributed them to the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, and the one left for you is still there, but I can't find where you went." As soon as Moshang saw An Su enter the door, she hurriedly pulled her to the main hall.

Sure enough, as Mo Sheng said, there were a lot of snacks on the table, and Xu Meiren was sitting next to her, waiting for An Su to come back.

"Ansu, this palace has already informed the dance workshop, Bo Churuo will be able to come to Huanning Hall to be your companion in the next few days."

An Su thought that it might take a while, but she didn't expect Xu Meiren to move so fast, she was a little moved in her heart, Xu Meiren was a high-ranking master, and she would really take her words to heart, which was really rare.

"Thank you for your grace." An Su wanted to kneel down again, but was held by Xu Meiren first, "Don't kneel at every turn, you know that this palace doesn't like this,"

Yes, Xu Meiren is different from other masters in the palace, so she naturally doesn't like these cumbersome rules. She beckoned An Su and Mo Sheng to sit down, using the snacks on the table like sisters, and the three of them talked and laughed together, and the atmosphere was not harmonious. An Su suddenly remembered the handkerchief he had just picked up in the alley, so he quickly took it out.

"Niangniang, when the slave maid went out in the afternoon, she picked up this handkerchief on the palace road, and I don't know whose it was, and there seemed to be several names written on it."

"Cao Shen, Chen Ping, judge his ......," Xu Meiren said suspiciously, "These seem to be important courtiers of the dynasty, why are their names written on this handkerchief?" ”

An Su shook his head: "The slave maid doesn't know, but this handkerchief fell from a guard, and the slave saw that a palace maid handed this handkerchief to him, and thought it was a love thing, but I didn't expect it to be written on it." ”

"The palace maid for the guards?" Mo Sheng took the handkerchief over and looked at it, and looked up to Xu Meidao, "Before the slave maid came to serve Niangniang, she also stayed with Mrs. Qi for a while. I heard from the sisters who were on an errand together at that time that some of the ladies who had people in the court would secretly inquire from the emperor which ministers were really favored by the emperor, and then secretly sent the names of these ministers out of the palace, informing the family behind them, and letting them have a good relationship with these courtiers in order to seek official promotion. ”

"It's just that this palace has heard about it a few times occasionally, could it be that the palace maid is using a handkerchief to deliver news?" Xu Meiren stared at the handkerchief and guessed.

An Su thought for a moment: "It's possible, I see that both of them have serious faces, and they seem to be doing something cautious." ”

"There are not many such things in the palace, even if you bump into them, it's better to turn a blind eye to them, protect yourself, and don't get involved in other people's affairs."

"Niangniang, what should you do with this handkerchief?" Mo Shang looked a little distressed, this handkerchief was placed here, if they noticed that it was lost, maybe they would find Huanning Hall along the vine and find it, and offend people in vain.

Xu Meiren thought for a while: "Ansu, this handkerchief is what you brought back, so you can dispose of it!" ”

"No."

Ansu took the handkerchief back to the room, and if he thought about it, he would burn it. But she always thought that Zhu Meiren was attached to Mrs. Emei, and she may have been instructed by Mrs. Emei to behave like this. And he has always offended Mrs. Emei thoroughly, if he leaves this veil, maybe it will come in handy in the future.

After hesitating for a long time with the handkerchief, An Su still hid it in the cabinet.

As Xu Meiren said, in less than two days, the dance workshop sent Chu Ruo'an to Huanning Hall safely. At that time, she had changed into a palace maid's costume and no longer wore a dance dress, although she was a little simpler than before, but the smile on her face was rare before.

Chu Ruo met Xu Meiren under the leadership of An Su and thanked her for saving her life, so he was arranged to live next door to An Su. Chu Ruo was very happy, as if he had returned to the time when he was in the palace maid's house, and he didn't have to be bullied by those people in the dance hall anymore.

Xu Meiren has a kind temperament, and at night when the emperor doesn't come, he always takes them to play in the courtyard. In the past, I used to fiddle with music, but now I have more Chu Ruo, and I can dance more, and I even learned a lot with Ansu. During this time, everyone is very happy, but such a stable life cannot last for a long time. As long as you are in this house for a day, you can't be alone, even if you don't look for trouble yourself, trouble will come to you.

I don't know when, a small piece of news suddenly came out of the palace, saying that Xuan Rong in the dance workshop was confusing the palace, which set off a private meeting in the harem, even the emperor's very favored Xu Meiren.

"Sister Shangguan, Sister Shangguan." Early in the morning of this day, An Su had just waited for Xu Meiren to get up, and Chu Ruo rushed in in a hurry.

"What's wrong? Running in such a hurry, be careful to quarrel with the mother. Ansu gestured to her in silence, "Let's go outside and talk about something!" ”

Chu Ruo rested in the courtyard for a while before she evened out her breath, and she hurriedly pulled An Su's sleeve: "Sister Shangguan, it's not good, people outside are gossiping about our mother!" ”

"You mean our Xu Ji Niangniang?" An Su hadn't left the gate of Huanning Hall these days, so Ben Hu asked, "What gossip can our mother have?" ”

"People outside say that someone saw our mother having a private meeting with a man, and he said that he had a nose and an eye." Chu Ruo's face wrinkled, "There are many people who don't believe it, but those who spread this word are very sure, and they still pat their chests and promise!" ”

"Rumors are rumors after all, and in the face of facts, they will always be self-defeating." An Su said this obviously to comfort Chu Ruo, but her heart was faintly uneasy.

Xu Meiren rarely goes out of the gate of Huanning Hall these days, An Su and Mo Sheng have been with her, and even they hardly go out, so they naturally know that this message is fake. But the emperor and the queen mother don't know about this matter, once it reaches the ears of the emperor and the queen mother, even if they testify, they will be untrustworthy because they are people around Xu Meiren.

I think it must be Mrs. Emei who holds a grudge because the position of the female dependent of the Dharma was snatched away by Xu Meiren last time, and she must make some trouble before she stops. An Su remembered that he had asked Deng Tong why he wanted to replace Mrs. Emei with Xu Meiren, and he actually said that it was because he knew that she was working by Xu Meiren's side, and if Xu Meiren was in the Dharma Hall, he would be able to see her all the time. Such an inconsequential reason actually caused Mrs. Emei to hate Xu Meiren, which is really undeserved.

But at this point, it is natural to come up with a solution. An Su asked Chu Ruo to ignore those rumors at first, just pay attention to the movements outside, and report to her immediately if there is any trouble.

Rumors are the easiest thing to hurt people in the palace, and they can ruin a person's reputation by just using the idle efforts of the palace people. Mrs. Emei has been in the palace for so long, so she naturally knows this well. But rumors are easy to spread, but they are not so easy to extinguish, and An Su is really distressed by this.

In the afternoon of this day, she went out for a walk to hear what the rumors had become. I was a little shocked when I heard this, but I didn't come out for a few days, and there were palace people everywhere mentioning Huanning Hall and Xu Meiren, and words like private meetings always appeared in their words.

An Su listened with panic, the rumors had spread to such an extent, they must have reached the ears of the emperor and the queen mother. It's just that they haven't taken some measures yet, and if they wait until then, Xu Meiren's life will definitely not be easy.

Ansu carefully thought about the countermeasures, and before he knew it, he walked near the shelter again. This is the place where the palace maid and the guards had a private meeting before, and this alley is not empty at this time, and there is a master and a servant walking outside. Ansu was so close behind them that she could hear their voices clearly. This master seems to be another concubine attached to Mrs. Emei, the lover Qian Tiansi. Well