With such a mind, Minghe naturally can't let go of this matter easily. So, after some consideration, he explained a few words about the affairs in the palace, and then found an excuse to tell Mei Niang the reason for going back to Taiji Palace to sample important things, and hurriedly came to Taiji Palace.

Entering the Taiji Palace, he did not hesitate to go straight to the Lizheng Palace, looked in the hall for a while, and under the pretext that he needed to offer the things commonly used by the mother, he held a small jade peony and went down to the apse.

Walking into the apse, you will see a wooden Buddha statue the size of a small child - this is also the most common place for Mei Niang to meditate. After Ming He stepped forward and bowed respectfully for a few times, he got up, turned to the gap behind the Buddha statue, stretched out his hand and gently pushed, and a secret door cracked out of the wall silently.

After looking left and right to see that there was no one, he turned and walked into the secret door.

As the door closed silently behind him, the space in the secret door lit up - it turned out that there was a mechanism on the door, and when the door closed, there were naturally flints to ignite countless lanterns connected by a thin oil pipe.

When he landed, the whole dark room was bright. Minghe looked around again, tried to reach out, and pushed against the wall opposite the secret door from which he came.

Immediately, another secret door opened.

Different from the previous one, when this door opened, the door was also arranged like a permanent lamp outside the door, and it immediately lit up. Illuminate a deep path with twists and turns.

Exhaled, Minghe glanced left and right again, then hurriedly walked in and closed the door casually.

In an instant, the dark room was dim again, leaving only a few lingering traces of oil lamp smoke and smoke circling in the room.

A moment later.

In the atrium of the secluded courtyard, under the apricot trees that have fallen like rain.

A middle-aged man with gray temples sat on a stone bench beside the stone table, flipping through a roll of old bamboo slips in his hand, and next to him stood a waiter holding a jasper handle to whisk the dust.

"It's weird, too...... In the entire Taiji Palace, I saw such an apricot tree here. It's just that it's so late...... It can be seen that people say that there is a different kind of heaven in the secluded court, but it is good. ”

Looking up at a few apricot blossoms swirling from the branches and falling into his arms, Minghe smiled faintly.

Ryan, who was looking down at the bamboo slips while looking down, also smiled faintly, flipped over the bamboo slips casually, and replied in his mouth: "The flowers in the Great Treasure Palace, I'm afraid they will fall later than here—if you don't want to guard the mother over there, come here to ......"

Gently closing the bamboo slip, he couldn't put it down and stroked the slippery and shiny slip that had been touched by countless people, Ryan hooked his lips and smiled again before saying: "Don't cause anything that you don't have to do again, come and ask the master to settle you down?" ”

Hearing Ryan's words, Minghe hung his head embarrassedly as if he was a child, and said lightly after a while: "In front of the master, Minghe has nothing to hide." But this time...... But it wasn't Minghe who got into trouble. ”

"It's not you, it's Qinghe?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and looked at Ming He with an indifferent expression, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said, "It's not him...... That would seem...... There's something big about it. ”

Putting the bamboo slip on the stone table, he glanced at Minghe, and after watching Minghe salute himself with the dust in his arms, he turned around and sat opposite him, and said in a low voice: "Niangniang these days, it's very strange......"

Rui Anxin moved, raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything, just looked at Minghe quietly, waiting for him to sort out his mind and tell himself all this.

At the same time.

In the Great Treasure Hall of Jiucheng Palace.

Mei Niang looked ahead in a daze, and suddenly as if she remembered something, she turned her head and asked the little waiter beside her: "Where did Minghe go?" ”

"Niangniang, your new hairpin, we were in a bit of a hurry when we left the palace, and we forgot about it in the palace. Thinking that the big banquet was imminent, Niangniang would inevitably need to use it, so Master Minghe went to get it in person. ”

That little waiter is just Xiao Bao'er. Smart and clever, but not a vain head. Seeing Mei Niang asking, she told Mei Niang what Ming He explained when he left.

"It's just a hairpin, just send someone to get it? Why go in person? Mei Niang frowned.

"Niangniang, since the last time there was a disturbance about the moth in the palace, the master has gone to all the affairs between you and the three highnesses." glanced at Mei Niang in some surprise, but Xiao Bao'er still replied honestly.

Mei Niang was stunned again, and after a while, she muttered, "That's right...... Indeed...... It's the main palace these days, and it's been a mess......"

With this softly, she lay down on the bench and said no more.

Xiao Bao'er saw her so listless, although she knew that she had been like this for the past few days, she still couldn't help asking, "Niangniang, are you tired?" If so, go into the temple and rest for a while. I'll get up later, but I'll still be busy for a while. If you don't have a good rest and nourish your spirits, I'm afraid that when you're busy, you'll be out of spirit. ”

Mei Niang looked at him, but nodded with a smile: "You are right...... Hongu is too proud...... I always thought that I could still carry everything like I did back then......"

There is some deep meaning in what he said, and Xiao Bao'er didn't hear it. But he didn't know anything when he came, so he didn't dare to ask; Second, he really wasn't the kind of nosy and talkative human nature, so he responded a few words casually, helped Mei Niang, and walked to the palace well.

After entering the inner hall, after a busy job under the leadership of Xiao Bao'er, Mei Niang was placed on the Hu bed, reclining on the backrest, as if she was sleeping.

Xiao Bao'er saw that Mei Niang's phoenix eyes were lazy, and hurriedly waved to the two little palace maids next to her. Immediately, a cool and refreshing wind came slowly.

"Little Bao'er."

Mei Niang's voice, like a silk thread, gently swayed in the air, making Xiao Bao'er, who was already full of spiritual service, immediately feel more energetic: "Niangniang, what else is not to your liking?" Xiao Bao'er asked someone to rectify it. ”

"That's good." Mei Niang pursed her lips and smiled, closed her eyes, and said lightly: "It's just that Bengong has a question in her heart, and she is a little bored, and she wants to ask you." ”

"How can Bao'er be able to relieve her worries? Please also show the mother. "Xiao Bao'er's days with Mei Niang are not short, this is the first time I have heard from this queen mother who is always not surprised, suspicious, and difficult to ask about things - not to mention herself (naturally, Li Zhi is not counted).

So he immediately responded with great surprise - because of the joy, and even a little louder. So much so that the little attendants next to him couldn't help but want to laugh.

Mei Niang didn't mind, still closed her eyes, and said lightly: "It's nothing...... Hongu just wants to ask you one thing - you ...... Have you ever resented yourself? Or...... Tell yourself to resent your own things? ”