Outside, Xu Mian and a few girls were startled when they saw Xu Zhao coming.

Is the second master going to come over and fight?

When he heard Xu Han say please come in, he put Xu Zhao in.

Xu Zhao entered the house with a jar of wine in his hand.

He was very tall and had a steady stride, and when he came in, he only glanced at her faintly, and then sat down across from her.

Xu Han looked at the wine jar on the table and asked Xu Zhao what this meant with his eyes.

He leaned back in his chair and sat in a relaxed posture, "It just so happens that I'm fine, I haven't seen you for a long time, let's have a drink." ”

Xu Han, "......"

I saw her jokes in the study that day, and I would open my eyes and tell nonsense, and I hadn't seen her for a long time......

Xu Zhao raised his chin, "The man doesn't drink a drop of wine, and he doesn't look like it, you are about to go to Jin Wuwei to be an official, and when the officialdom copes, how do you do it?" ”

Xu Hanpi smiled and said, "If you don't drink, you can't be an official?" Besides, I'm the head, is it possible that someone will not make me successful? ”

"As for the other colleagues, didn't my father say that he would not set foot in the Fengyue place, naturally the father is the son."

Xu Zhao laughed angrily at her scoundrel words, "Father is the son, when the father wants to hear this, he will probably ask you who you don't know who is who." ”

"When did you hear what your father said?"

He raised his wine glass and drank it all, and saw that the wine in Xu Han's wine cup was still full, "Don't you dare to drink it?" I've already had three drinks, what are you afraid of. ”

"This is not a jar with a mechanism, drink it with confidence."

Xu Han was silent, Xu Zhao was very strange today, he actually came to her to drink, and he kept drinking one cup or two like this.

The two of them didn't talk much, basically Xu Zhao drank three cups, and Xu Han drank one cup.

A jar of wine was quickly drunk, and of course most of it went into Xu Zhao's stomach.

Xu Zhao leaned back in his chair, his head hanging behind his head, and looked at the roof beam above his head with blank eyes.

Xu Han originally wanted to play a cold war with him, but she didn't say anything if he didn't speak, to see who survived.

In the end, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she let people serve tea, "Second brother, but there is still something to do, if you have nothing to do, go back." ”

Xu Zhao didn't look at her, but said nonsense seriously, "Your tea here is delicious." ”

That is, I don't want to leave for the time being.

Xu Han just wanted to punch him in the head, but the tea that came up from the maid was clearly made from the end of the tea leaves, and he said that it was delicious.

She looked at Xu Zhao suspiciously, it couldn't be that she drank too much and talked nonsense, right?

There's a lot of wine in that jar!

Or did he run into something out there?

But what do you do with her? If you want to go, you will go to the Bai family.

Thinking of Xu Zhao's plots against herself in the past, as well as the birth of a child, she suddenly stepped forward and pinched him in the face.

Xu Zhao suddenly hissed, looked at her with misty eyes, with a slight grievance, "What are you pinching me for?" ”

At this time, Xu Han was very sure that Xu Zhao was drunk.

She sneered and asked her how to deal with the people in the officialdom, what about himself?

Xu Han withdrew his hand, "Don't pinch you, you can sit." ”

She didn't sit anyway.

She went to the clean room of the cubicle to wash her face, and when she came out again, she found Xu Zhao curled up on a chair and fell asleep.

"Xu Zhao, get up and go back to your own yard to sleep."

Xu Zhao opened his eyes in a daze, looked at her, and stood up very obediently.

Xu Han thought he was going back, but he didn't expect him to go straight to the bed next to him, hold her pillow in his arms, and fall asleep.

She didn't know what to say, so she stepped forward a few steps forward and patted his face, "Xu Zhao, get up." ”

Xu Zhao turned around, facing inward, "Don't make noise, you have a headache, you have to respect my brother, let me sleep well." ”

After that, no matter how much she screamed, she didn't wake up.

Xu Han stroked his forehead, there was no way at all.

In her eyes, Xu Zhao has always been a ruthless brother who robbed her of the throne of the world.

I really should let the ladies who are thinking of Xu Zhao outside see his drunken appearance.

Like a child, ignorant, there is no pine and bamboo that I see on weekdays.

Xu Han stood beside the bed for a while, and suddenly showed a malicious smile.

Sleep, sleep, see what Xu Zhao's expression will be when she wakes up tomorrow and finds herself in her bed.

She could already imagine that it must have been wonderful.

She helped him cover the quilt, walked to the side of Luohan's bed resignedly, and called the maid to bring the cover in.

Before falling asleep, she called Xu Mian in, "You go and ask the people on the second master's side, where did the second master go today, and if something happened." ”

When she woke up the next morning, it was bright outside, and although the Luohan bed was covered with a thick bedding, it was still very hard, and her feet had to be bent.

This night, tossing and turning, I didn't fall asleep until it was almost dawn.

Before she could call someone in to serve, Mama Ying came in with her smoked clothes.

"Shizi, it's snowing outside, it's cold, wear more today."

Xu Han knelt on the couch and pushed open the window, and sure enough, there was already a thick layer of snow outside, covered in silver.

She looked at the snow for a while, and then looked at the bed, which was empty, and the quilt was neatly folded, and she pursed her lips and smiled.

"Shizi, how did the second master rest here yesterday?"

Xu Han told Xu Zhao about coming to drink yesterday, and said, "He got up early." ”

It's a pity that she didn't sleep well all night.

Mama Ying served Xu Han to put on clothes, "No, when I got up, I went out without saying a word, and my face was as black as the bottom of a pot." Ignore anyone who says hello. ”

Xu Han's heart fell with a smile, but unfortunately she couldn't see Xu Zhao's black face, which must have made her laugh for a long time.

She and Xu Zhao were born with the same peace as other people's brothers.

The two of them will drink this time, and it will probably only be the only time.

When she finds out about Concubine Bai, she will probably tear her face with Xu Zhao.

When it comes to investigating things, Xu Han is a little anxious, she has a lot of people at hand who can't do it.

Riding a donkey to find a donkey, she first instructed Xu Mian to visit those people around her eldest brother in the past, and after the death of her eldest brother, these people all went out of the house to raise them.

Find these people first and see if they can take them for their own use.

Xu Mian was called by him during this time, but the efficiency was still quite high.

But in three days, he came back to report her,

"Shizi, the two grandmothers beside the eldest prince are now one of them is honored in Zhuangzi, and the other has left his nationality, so I don't think these two will be willing to come back to help."

Drop-off? Xu Han frowned, why didn't she hear her mother talk about the resignation of her servants.

Xu Han motioned for Xu Mian to continue.

"The divorced grandmother's surname is Li, she is the princess's dowry maid, married to the housekeeper Zhu, and later became a housekeeper in the courtyard of the great prince.

After the prince went, she asked for the princess's consent, and the family left the house.

However, her son left the country before Mama Li. ”

Xu Mian paused here as he spoke, took out a folded piece of paper from his arms, opened it and presented it to Xu Han.

"The prince asked me to check on them so that they could come back to help, so I also checked the affairs of the two grandmothers and her family by the way, and let the little one check a lot of things."

He pointed to what was written on the paper, and continued, "Other people's servants leave the house, either because they want their children and grandchildren to go through the imperial examination, or they have great skills, but Mama Li's family has no intention of letting their children and grandchildren go through the imperial examination."

That's weird.

Xu Han nodded, what made Mama Li's family have no choice but to leave the house.

The seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, Mama Li's family is the steward of the palace, although they are servants, they are even better than ordinary people.

After leaving the country, the children and grandchildren of Mama Li's family did not go to the imperial examination, and their lives were definitely not as good as in the house.

The denaturalization of her family seems to be a last resort, and she must be denaturalized.

There must be some reason for this.

Xu Han didn't doubt for long, and three days later, Xu Mian came to see Xu Han with a stack of papers.

"Shizi, this is all about the eldest son of Mama Li's family."

Xu Han picked up the file, Xu Mian wiped his sweat, "Shizi, the affairs of Mama Li's family have been clarified." ”

"Her eldest son killed someone and was caught red-handed, and he was detained after the trial that day, and he was ready to ask for beheading after the autumn, who knows, someone interceded the next day.

Even the family of the bitter master came forward to retract his confession, saying that the person was not killed by Mama Li's son, but killed by himself! ”

"Not only that, but even the file of this case has been taken away and not kept in the yamen for archiving. In other words, it was as if the case had never happened. ”

Xu Mian took a big sip of tea and continued,

"I bought this dossier from one of my yamen's bookstores.

The clerk was the one who handled the case at the time, and he had an extra eye at that time, and copied a copy of the file before it was taken away.

I was thinking that one day I would run out of money, so I took this file to Mama Li's house to exchange money. ”

Xu Han sighed while looking at the file, "This is really everyone's own way of making money." ”

Xu Mian has been walking around a lot outside recently, pointing to the file in her hand, "No, I spent a thousand taels of silver to buy this file." ”

He rubbed his hands, "Shizi, it was supposed to cost two thousand taels of silver, so that I could say that I preached one thousand taels, I told him, if it wasn't cheaper, I would go and denounce him......"

Xu Han glanced at him, and recently his monthly silver was confiscated by Mama Ying, so he thought of coming to her to ask for silver.

She took the file and read it from the beginning, and looked at Xu Mian in amazement, "Are you sure that the bookstore didn't lie to you?" Why did the person who came forward to intercede turn out to be Bai's brother? ”

"Isn't it someone sent by Big Brother?"

When she heard Xu Mian say, she thought that it was the person sent by the eldest brother to intercede that saved Mama Li's son from beheading......

After all, Mama Li is an errand boy in the yard of her eldest brother, and her husband is still the housekeeper!

Xu Mian leaned over to look at it, and was also surprised that the person who interceded was not the eldest prince.

"The little one is absolutely not wrong, if the bookstore really gives a fake file, aren't you afraid that we will report him? He still wants to continue working in the yamen? ”

Xu Han took out the documents that Xu Mian gave her a few days ago, read them carefully, and went through the clues again.

Mama Li's son first got out of the country, and then after the eldest brother died, Mama Li went to her mother to ask for instructions, and the whole family left the country.

And after her son left the country, he went to do business and opened two stores at once, although he still lived in these two stores all these years.

The days were not much prosperous, and they were not even as good as the days in the palace back then.

Where did the two shops come from? Or, she doesn't need to verify it anymore, it must be from Bai's hand.

Xu Han took a cool breath gently, and suddenly felt resentful in his heart, uncomfortable with grievances, and his eyes were sour and wanted to cry.

Xu Mian didn't care about asking for money, and asked her worriedly, "Shizi, what should we do?" I have to tell the princess about this. ”

"Hmm." Definitely have to tell my mother, just now?

She looked at the two things in her hand, although it was true that Mama Li's son was saved by the Bai family, and the son Fang ...... It's all true.

She thought of her mother's temperament, and then thought that Mama Li was the dowry she brought from Shudi, although her mother was in charge of the affairs of the house, but her temper made her unwilling to use those conspiracies and tricks in the back house.

She always uses the simplest and rude way to deal with the affairs of the back house, such as making mistakes, she will not beat around the bush, but directly call someone over.

Then he put the matter in front of the man and asked him if he could change it, and if he couldn't change it, he would sell it directly.

And Mama Li is someone she trusts, otherwise she wouldn't have been sent to take care of her eldest brother.

Someone she trusted betrayed her and killed her son.

Will she be able to accept it?

What did Mama Li do to her eldest brother, whether she was responsible for her eldest brother's death, what happened three years ago, although it was not long, it would be wishful thinking to find out anything from the house.

Xu has been investigating for three years, but he hasn't found anything.

Therefore, with the birth party, the case file of Mama Li's son, and Mama Li's confession, it's just a question of how to get Mama Li's confession.

Mama Li can deceive her mother, she must be a shrewd, old and sophisticated, and Mama Ying is not the same type.

"Xu Mian, you take Changying to find a way to bring Mama Li to Wuqian Nunnery, I want to ask Mama Li something!"

"No matter what method you use, don't show any traces, you know?"

Xu Mian nodded.

"Shizi, it just so happened that there were temple fairs everywhere a year ago, and it was most convenient to do it at this time. The small ones will send someone to guard outside Mama Li's house. ”

This year, it's going to be a terrible one.

Xu Han thought.

After the New Year, the taste of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, that is, the whole palace is sprinkled everywhere, and the stewards go in and out all day long, buying the things needed for the New Year.

The house has a new look, the old decorations are gone, and the new ones are replaced.

The same is true in the courtyard of the white concubine.

Since the last time she was shot by Xu's arrow in the study, Concubine Bai has not been out of the courtyard for a long time.

King Zhenbei has never been to the courtyard of Concubine Baifang.

There is speculation up and down in the house, and Concubine Bai has fallen out of favor from time to time?

The day came a little suddenly, without warning, and it was hard to believe!

Originally, the princess of Zhenbei shot the white concubine with an arrow, according to the degree to which the white concubine was favored, the prince should have comforted her, why did he leave her alone.

It's just that everyone thinks about it again and thinks it's normal.

After all, Concubine Bai has been favored for more than ten or twenty years, which is a very long time.

It's so long that everyone thinks she'll be spoiled for the rest of her life.

Sure enough, flowers are not red for a hundred days, and people are not good for a thousand days.

Although Concubine Bai said that she still looked gentle and moving, because she was properly maintained, there were no roots in the corners of her eyes and wrinkles, but it could not be denied that she had given birth to three children, and she was not a tender little girl.

It was also too natural for King Zhenbei to get tired of her.

In addition to the white concubine in the house, there is only the princess in the main room, so those maids who have some posture and ambition are ready to move in their hearts.

In the courtyard of the white side concubine.

Her maid was looking at the white side concubine with yellow appliqués on the side of the mirror, "Niangniang, how is this good, the prince hasn't come to see you these days." ”

It's really ruthless, it was obvious that the side concubine was wronged that day, but the prince didn't even look at it, and just left.

Where there is a hint of pampering, which makes the maid wonder if the old days were dreaming!

Concubine Bai took a hairpin to compare it on the left and on the right, and was not affected by the maid.

"It's come to this, don't think about it, just let it be."

The maid on the side didn't understand what her master meant.

Why not be in a hurry at all.

The maid flattered, "Also, Niangniang is much more beautiful than the barbarian woman in the main courtyard, but the prince has pampered you for so many years, and you don't even have two colors." ”

Concubine Bai looked at the dankou on her finger and smiled,

"The prince likes to pamper me, I will let him pamper me, if he doesn't pamper me, he won't pamper me, I will listen to him."

The maid asked curiously, "Niangniang, is it because you listen to him in everything that the prince loves you so much?" Do men like obedient women? ”

No wonder the prince doesn't like the barbarian woman in the main courtyard, who would like a woman who shouts and kills her husband.

Concubine Bai nodded her red lips with rouge and pursed her lips, "How do I know this, in my life, there is only one man in my eyes, and since the day I entered the mansion, he has never been to the main courtyard." ”

The maid looked envious, "Niangniang, the prince is so good to you, he must love you to the core." ”

"If it weren't for that incident, where would you be in the position of the side concubine, the position of the princess of Zhenbei should be yours."

Concubine Bai's face sank slightly, but it changed again in an instant, and she smiled,

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not that kind of vixen, how can I hook the prince to give me the position of the concubine."

"However, the prince promised me that the position of the son of the world in the future will be my son's.

Now Xu Han is just temporary.

When the time comes, it will depend on what happens to Xu Danxiu. ”

She lifted her lips, and her face was full of spirit, which was completely different from the weakness she had seen in the study that day.

……

Xu Mian did what Xu Han ordered when he was twenty-eight years old, and at noon that day, Xu Han went to the main courtyard to talk to Xu, and then took Xu Mian and Changying out of the house.

After she left, Xu said to the grandmother beside her,

"I haven't seen Han'er so busy when I was on duty before, what is she doing secretly?"

Mama smiled,

"The prince is now older, and he will be promoted to Jin Wuwei to command the affairs in the future, and he will be a hall official in the future, and he can discuss court affairs with those men."

Xu didn't look very happy, she sighed, "I hurt her in the end, otherwise, why would she be like this." ”

"It's just that if you don't do this, I'm not reconciled."

"Xu Jun is just a concubine, if there is no me, how can he inherit the title?"

"But after he accepted the title, he turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, leaving me and the Xu family aside. I want to reconcile and leave, but he won't allow it! ”

Mama comforted Xu, "Niangniang, now that the world is older, it will always get better." ”

"You can live your own life from now on."

Xu shook her head, living her own life, why didn't she want to?

Xu Han followed Xu Mian and went to Wusang.

When the owner of the nunnery saw Xu Han coming, he took Xu Han to the dungeon, "The people are inside, and everything is ready." ”

Xu Han nodded.

She thought about how to get a confession from Mama Li, no matter what, Mama Li would definitely not tell the truth honestly.

I don't know if I did something wrong, Mama Li is very devout to the gods and Buddhas.

Back then, she heard her father Huo Zheng say that half of the people who are devout to God and Buddha are true and benevolent people, and most of them are people who have done bad things.

Since you can't use normal means to get words out of Mama Li's mouth, let's try the gods and Buddhas.

Mama Li came out to buy New Year's goods today, although her family's life is not as good as before, half-dead, but it is better than ordinary people.

New Year's goods can still be purchased decently.

She had just gone out with the basket when she suddenly felt a headache, and then she lost consciousness, and in a daze, she seemed to have arrived in a fairyland.

She felt like she was dreaming, but it was too real. Moreover, she is clearly going to buy New Year's goods, how can she dream.

But the surrounding environment is not a market at all, it is very quiet and cloudy.

The more she walked, the more frightened she became, and suddenly there seemed to be a Buddha statue in front of her, no, no, it was the real Guanyin Bodhisattva.

The Bodhisattva smiled at her and beckoned to her, she moved her steps forward, and Guanyin Bodhisattva looked at her kindly and said,

"Li, you are devout to participate in the Buddha, the Buddha was moved by you, and wants to let you enter the fairyland, why are you still rubbing here?"

Mama Li seems to understand this, she participates in Buddhism to make her conscience calm, not for anything else.

Guanyin Bodhisattva looked at her stunned, sneered, and after laughing, he suddenly sighed.

"Li, have you ever done something wrong? If you harm your master with a servant and make a big mistake, you will soon be told how you hurt your master.

Perhaps, you still have a chance to enter the fairyland. ”

The Bodhisattva's voice suddenly became erratic.

When Mama Li heard this, she suddenly shuddered, and sure enough, the Buddha was clear about her thoughts, and her feet were soft.

"I didn't, I didn't want to harm the world."

"It's her, it's she who asked me to put half of the flag in the decoction of the prince, she said it's okay, the half of the flag is a nourishing medicinal herb, the son of the world is weak, just right to use.

I also want the son to get better, so that the mother will be happy. ”

"I didn't want to harm the world, how could I hurt him! Don't blame me, I don't dare. ”

The Bodhisattva let out an 'oh', "Who told you to put it?" Who gave it to you? Say. ”

"It's the side concubine, it's the side concubine, I don't want to, I don't know it's poison, I don't know that the son of the world will die!"

Mama Li's face was full of tears, she really didn't expect it.

Concubine Bai used her son's case to blackmail her, and let people eat half of the flag to show her, it was really no problem, and she would put it in the decoction of the prince.

She really has a heart for the princess!

The Bodhisattva paused for a long time before continuing to ask, "When did she give it to you, how many times did she give it to you, how many times did you put it away?" ”

"When exactly did you forget it, and how many times did you put it on? About two or three times? Three or four times? Each time, very little was put in, only a drop the size of a grain of rice. ”

Mama Li's eyes were dilated, she collapsed to the ground, and she began to cry.

"No wonder you can only wander here, you first put this painting in charge, this Bodhisattva and the Buddha to read it, I hope the Buddha can bless you and forgive you......"

Mama Li was chaotic, and she didn't know that she had drawn a charge there.

She didn't want to become an immortal, her mind was so secret, she didn't dare to talk to others, and even, she didn't dare to see the princess.

After Mama Li's painting was postponed, there was a loud noise outside, the white mist dissipated, and the fairyland was gone, only a small room with three people standing in it.

Xu Han, who was dressed in white, and Xu Mian, who was holding a paper on the side, and the owner of the nunnery.

It's just that the three of them were stunned, ignoring the embarrassed Mama Li on the ground, they all looked at the door, and the loud noise was caused by the kicking of the door panel.

Xu stood at the door with a pale face, his lips trembled, looked at Mama Li, and asked word by word,

"You say, you listened to the order of that slut of the Bai clan and put the poison into my son's decoction?"