Songhe never thought that An Su would interfere with it, and I don't know if she saw the movement of her hand, or if she did it unintentionally. But now that there is one more person around, the golden needle must not continue to pierce down. Songhe glanced up at the Queen Mother, frowned and shook his head, and this scene was also seen by An Su beside him.

"Cheng Jiao, take the two of them down and settle them." The expression on the Queen Mother's face barely changed, "Gao Yi, you are really too disappointed in the mourning family, for the sake of saving your life for the mourning family in the early years, you will be exempted from punishment, and you will only be stripped of the position of deputy head of Changle Palace, and you will just be an ordinary palace person like them." ”

These words made Gao Yi like a lightning strike, he looked at these palace maids who had just been whipped by him, their bodies were still covered with blood, and they looked very embarrassed. And the Queen Mother actually stripped him of his title and made him the same as these people, which was obviously a great shame for him.

"Queen Mother, the minion is loyal to you, you can't treat the minion like this!" Gao Yi didn't care about the dust and mud on his hands, and grabbed the corner of the queen mother's skirt tightly, "The slave just wants to help you discipline the palace people, and the slave has no intention of trespassing!" ”

"Well, if there is a mistake, it should be punished, just because you have followed the mourning family for many years, and the mourning family cannot bend the law for personal gain. Go down and rest. Don't cause trouble again, and don't go to these two girls in private to vent your anger. The Queen Mother tugged at the hem of her skirt in annoyance, and said to everyone in the courtyard, "You all listen well, every word and deed in Changle Palace must abide by the rules, if someone commits it again, the mourning family will be severely punished." Gao Yi, you also listen well, if you wantonly hurt people like this again, the mourning family will definitely not spare you. ”

"No." Gao Yi knew that it was useless to beg for mercy again, so he could only bear the responsibility first. It's just that he really didn't expect that the Queen Mother, who was biased towards him on the surface, was laying a net for him step by step, and he just stepped into a dead end by accident.

Everyone dispersed, and An Su also carried Zhou Meihong, who had fainted, into her residence with the help of Cheng Jiao. She wasn't too seriously injured, but the skin of her delicate daughter's family was whipped a few times, leaving a few hideous blood marks.

An Su fetched water to help her scrub the blood stains clean, and gave her some of the wound medicine that Cheng Jiao kindly brought, and then went back to her room. Although he was injured, he was not the master after all, and it was already a rare blessing to be able to apply some wound medicine to clean it.

Cheng Jiao is righteous, and when he met them for the first time today, he gave them a lot of help, which is also rare. In this deep palace, I occasionally get some small favors, and I feel that it is a great affection. I don't know if it's a true pity or a deep palace is sad.

"Miss Shangguan's room is here." Cheng Jiao led An Su to spare two or three corners before leading her to the room.

An Su originally thought that when she and Zhou Meihong first entered Changle Palace together, they naturally wanted to live together. But it doesn't seem to be the case at the moment, Xu Changle Palace has the rules of Changle Palace, and it is inconvenient for her to ask when she first arrives. It's just that this room is much bigger and more gorgeous than Zhou Meihong's, and An Su feels uneasy.

Just now in Zhou Meihong's room, An Su felt that this place seemed to be too dilapidated. In the Empress Dowager's Palace, even the houses where ordinary palace people live should be better than other places, even if they are not much better, they should not be like uncleaned firewood houses. Fang was worried about her injury, and didn't pay too much attention to the style in the room, and now that he went down to his room, he was immediate.

"Cheng Attendant, the slave maid just said to the Queen Mother that she would take care of Zhou Meihong, if she lives too far, it will be a little inconvenient." Ansu only said this as if it were small talk.

Cheng Jiao really took the initiative to explain: "Our Changle Palace is different from other palaces, although most of them are old people who have been with the Queen Mother for many years, but all the food and accommodation treatment is not based on age and seniority, but according to whether it is useful for the Queen Mother. ”

"It's a new rule." An Su thinks it is good, and it is indeed too superficial to use people's age as the standard for judging superiority.

"The Queen Mother likes people who are useful. That Zhou girl was whipped as soon as she came, and she didn't even have the ability to protect herself, and it was already the queen mother's kindness to be able to live in such a house. And Shangguan girl, you are safe and sound, and you can still teach Gao Yi a lesson, so you can naturally be treated better. Cheng Jiao deliberately mentioned An Su Dao, "If you want to stay for a long time in Changle Palace, you must learn to talk less and see less, and know what to do and what not to do." However, if the girl is self-motivated, it is feasible to occasionally take risks like this today. ”

No wonder everyone says that if you stay in the palace for a long time, you will become a human spirit, and An Su's mind has nowhere to hide in front of Cheng Jiao. In this Changle Palace, there are many palace people who have been in the palace for decades, and An Su seems to understand a little why the newcomers who were sent over in the past have not been able to stay in the Changle Palace for a long time.

"Thank you Cheng for mentioning it, the slave is grateful." Ansu said this from the bottom of his heart.

"Our family, like Gao Yi, is also the deputy head of Changle Palace, don't call it wrong." Cheng Jiao didn't care, just smiled and corrected her, but as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong, and added, "Oh, our family forgot, Gao Yi is no longer the deputy head of Changle Palace now." ”

An Su heard his tone ordinary, without schadenfreude, but without even a trace of regret, as if he was talking about the life of a stranger. But in the end, Gao Yi is also a colleague who has been on an errand with him for many years, and now he is in trouble, and he can't affect the slightest joy, anger and sorrow of Cheng Jiao, and the deep palace is so cold.

"The slave and maid remembered, and the deputy chief manager walked slowly." Despite all the thoughts in his heart, An Su still smiled and sent Cheng Jiao out of the door.

On the first night of coming to Changle Palace, An Su couldn't sleep as if she had just entered the palace maid's house, and her mood was very different when she changed places. She leaned against the window and looked up at the sky, but tonight the fog was so thick that she couldn't see even a little moonlight and starlight. Ansu closed the window in disappointment, hoping that his fate would not be like this foggy night.

The next day is also to learn the rules, in the palace maid to learn the rules of the harem, assigned to the palace masters, what they learn is the rules set by the masters. There are not many rules in Changle Palace, they are all extremely practical, and the palace people who get along with each other are also old people who have stayed in the palace for a long time, and they all take care of the newcomers on the surface. At the end of the day, Ansu is still very adaptable.

It's just that at night, An Su was about to take a look at Zhou Meihong, who had been bedridden for a day, and when she stepped out of the room, she saw Cheng Jiao waiting here.

"Miss Shangguan, the Queen Mother asked you to come over."

"The Queen Mother wants to see me now?" An Su thought that after yesterday's incident, the Queen Mother would definitely summon her alone, but there was no movement for a whole day today, and she felt that she was speculating wildly. I didn't expect that until now, I really waited for the summons of the Queen Mother.

"That's right, hurry up and put your things down and go with us!" Cheng Jiao's gaze was almost invisible and glanced at Zhou Meihong's room, urging An Su very tightly.

"No." Since it was the queen mother's summons, it was naturally sloppy, An Su responded, and followed Cheng Jiao to the queen mother's bedroom.

They passed through the courtyard and the small courtyard all the way, and then bypassed the two side halls before arriving at the queen mother's bedroom. There is also a small courtyard at the entrance of the dormitory, which is surrounded by a circle as a flower garden. An Su looked through the light of the lantern in Cheng Jiao's hand, and it was full of large roses. The flowers are not too gorgeous, but the thorny vines that wind up are hideous all over, which actually gives people a chilling feeling.

"That's the Queen Mother's extremely cherished flower, usually people are always good to protect it, and you are not allowed to hurt a penny!" Cheng Jiao explained behind him, and urged again, "Don't look at it, the Queen Mother is waiting to see you!" ”

An Su took two steps forward, looked back at the flower garden reluctantly, and then walked up the steps with her skirt and entered the queen mother's bedroom. The candles in the dormitory are bright, and compared to the darkness outside, they are almost in two worlds. An Su glanced at the environment in the hall and saluted in a proper manner.

"The Queen Mother is extremely happy."

"It's coming pretty fast." The Queen Mother raised her hand towards her, "Get up and speak." ”

"Empress Dowager Xie." Although An Su stood up, she still felt an inexplicable sense of oppression coming over her face in the face of the most noble woman in the palace, which she had never felt when facing Xu Meiren, Madame Emei, the queen, and even the emperor.

"Are you used to living in Changle Palace?" The Queen Mother looked at An Su gently, like a kind old man looking at her granddaughter, but An Su felt a chill down her spine for no reason, and she felt a chill coming.

"Being able to come to Changle Palace to serve is a blessing that slaves and maids have cultivated for several generations." An Su still doesn't know the temperament of the Queen Mother, but saying more beautiful things is always likeable.

"It is indeed a blessing, when the mourning family is as young as you, they are still working in the fields, with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky, how can there be such a good blessing to eat and dress well in the palace." The Queen Mother sighed when she thought of the past.

An Su once heard that before the former emperor Liu Bang was in Chang'an, the current queen mother Lu Pheasant has been following, and in such a chaotic era, it is indeed not as stable as them in the palace. When the Queen Mother mentioned her youth at this time, she must have felt nostalgic for the suffering of the year.

An Su thought for a moment: "When the Queen Mother was young, she traveled all over the mountains and rivers, and she had a wide range of knowledge, and now she is in a high position, and she is the most noble person in the world. ”

These words pulled the Queen Mother out of her sad and nostalgic thoughts, she stared at An Su with interest for a moment, and seemed to deliberately find fault: "You said that the mourning family is in a high position and is the most noble person in the world?" So where are you going to go to the emperor? ”

An Su was stunned, some beads of sweat appeared in her palms, she pursed her lips, and said: "The emperor is noble, but the queen mother is the emperor's mother, and she is deeply respected by the emperor, so she can naturally afford to be the most noble person in the world." ”

The Queen Mother was so happy that she couldn't help laughing: "You are really different from others, you are a smart one." ”

"Empress Dowager Xie praised her, and the slave just said what she thought truthfully." An Su saw that the Queen Mother was happy, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next moment, the Queen Mother restrained her smile: "But in this palace, there are many smart people who are mistaken by the smart, you have to understand your identity, and it is the best plan to turn a blind eye to things that should not be taken care of." ”

An Su's heart tugged again, she guessed really well, the golden needle that Songhe wanted to pierce Zhou Meihong's neck yesterday was the arrangement of the Queen Mother. Now that I think about it, if the person who fell there yesterday was myself, maybe I would have been a wisp of dead soul at this moment. But Zhou Meihong and she have been together with the palace maid for nearly half a year, although they don't like each other, and they have never had a big grudge, An Su really can't bear to see her die like this.

"Queen Mother, if you want to get rid of Gao Yi, there is a better way for the slave maid." An Su took a deep breath and said this sentence anyway.

This is like a boulder falling from the sky, if it hits the right place, it is a beautiful mountain, if it hits the people in the house, it is a catastrophe. An Su is gambling, not all for Zhou Meihong, but to make the Queen Mother feel that she has the value of staying in Changle Palace as soon as possible.

"Oh? When did the mourning family say that they were going to get rid of Gao Yi? Gao Yi is a slave who has followed the mourning family for many years, is loyal, and the mourning family is also handy. It's just a small mistake, and it's just a punishment, so why get rid of him? You girl, you are so ruthless. The Queen Mother was neither angry nor wanted to listen to An Su's words, she was not in a hurry, as if she was chatting with her.

This really made An Su difficult, she clearly saw disgust in the eyes of the Queen Mother yesterday, and even the deeply hidden killing intent. Ordered Songhe to assassinate Zhou Meihong and blame Gao Yi to eliminate him, isn't this the Queen Mother's original plan? An Su had to wonder if he had guessed wrong, but after thinking about it, he didn't realize that he was wrong.

"It doesn't matter if the slave's mind is ruthless or not, as long as it is good for the queen mother, it is a good thought. The slave maid thought like this, so she did the same, and if she did something wrong, she asked the queen mother to punish her. An Su couldn't figure out what the Queen Mother meant, so she could only show her loyalty first, and then test her words a little.

The Queen Mother nodded slightly, walked to An Su's side and looked at her carefully, only to see that she was flustered.

"There are many people in this palace, and there are only a few masters, and many of them are slaves. Most of the minions enter the palace just like your age, or they are smart, or beautiful, or they have a skill. is beautiful, so he tried his best to climb onto the dragon bed, trying to fly up the branches overnight and become a high master. And the smart one, in front of the masters, thoughtful, scurrying up the high branches, earning a lot of money in the palace, when they are old, they can go out of the palace to enjoy. If you have a skill, too hospital, imperial dining room, dance workshop, music workshop...... There are too many places that need talented people, but it is not that if you have talent, you will have a bright future, and there are many doors in the palace! These are all minions with hope, those who have nothing, if they are honest and honest, they can be a rough girl with peace of mind, if they don't have the ability and want to climb up, they will be like Jiang Qingran who was driven out of the palace by your design, and end up with either death or cripplement. The Queen Mother said a lot, so she called Ansu's name word by word, "Shangguan Ansu, the mourning family has said so much, which of these minions do you think you belong to?" ”