The next afternoon.

In the Imperial Palace.

Mei Niang was sewing a new dress for Li Xian, and she heard the noise outside the hall, and she didn't know what was going on.

She was curious for a moment, and looked around, but saw a little maid named Xiao Zhu'er, holding a branch of red plum, running in with a smile, and said in a loud voice:

"Niangniang, Niangniang, Mei is open, Mei is open!"

Mei Niang raised her eyebrows, looking at the little red condensation beads like fire and blood, but her heart was in a trance, and it took a while to come back to her senses, and said lightly:

"Sure enough, it drove very well...... Take it to the apse and offer it to Concubine Xu! ”

Xiao Zhu'er blinked, then said yes and ran back.

Mei Niang looked at her jubilant appearance, and her heart was inevitably funny, so she shook her head and didn't speak.

Not long after, there was another sound of footsteps outside the hall, but this time it was very familiar, and Mei Niang did not raise her head and said:

"What? But the front hall has some reply? ”

The person who came was Minghe, and when he saw Mei Niang's question, he nodded and said:

"Niangniang really knows it, now the front hall is already in a commotion, everyone is talking about it, saying that it is the spies of the Japanese country, but what should I do!"

Mei Niang raised her eyes, looked at him, and said with a smile:

"But take this opportunity, whether it's Wei Zhiqi or Xue Li, can I finally move the official house?"

Minghe nodded, and said with a smile:

"Niang Niang Yinghui, that's exactly the case. Because of the meritorious work of chasing down the Japanese spies, the lord has already ordered the two to be raised. Although the responsibilities have not shifted, in the end it is half a step long.

It's okay for Lord Xue, it's rare to be Lord Wei, and he has finally taken a step out of King Jiangxia's affairs. ”

Mei Niang nodded and sighed:

"The matter of King Jiangxia is the most heart-wrenching for Jiro. Knowing that this Jiangxia King is a rare general in my Tang Dynasty, but for the sake of Princess Gaoyang, and his old hatred with Yu Suiliang, Jiro still had to exile him...... In the end, let the veteran die in a foreign country......

Every time he mentions this, Jiro still has heartache and blames himself for being incompetent. ”

She shook her head again and asked softly:

"Jiro secretly arranged for the people who were by the side of Mrs. Jiangxia Wang to protect her mother and son all the way to the river, but what reward did he have?"

Minghe was stunned, and said softly:

"Even this mother knows ......"

As soon as he said this, he immediately closed his mouth, and after a long moment he said lightly:

"Back to Niangniang, everything is fine, but a few days ago, Mrs. Junwang seemed to be a little unwell, but fortunately, the accompanying medical conditioning is also quite a set, and now everything is fine, but ......"

Minghe shook his head and sighed lightly:

"In the end, it is also far away from Xiangzhou, no matter how well Mrs. is, I am afraid that it will be difficult to last long."

Mei Niang was gloomy, and said lightly after a while:

"For now, we can only do what we can...... After all, the current Chang'an is full of Guanlong's eyeliner, and it is not easy to take their mother and son back to Beijing and place them properly!

That's it......"

Mei Niang thought about it for a while, but suddenly said:

"Speaking of which, there is one person who may be able to keep them."

Minghe said:

"What does Niangniang mean ......

Master Di? ”

Mei Niang nodded and said lightly:

"Huaiying is Geng Hui, and he has regretted the matter of King Jiangxia many times, and he thinks that if it is him...... but he can keep the orphan and the widow. ”

Minghe nodded again, and then said worriedly:

"But Niangniang, Master Di is in the Guanlong family, if he is exposed once......"

Mei Niang shook her head and said with a faint smile:

"I only ask you, where is Huaiying's hometown?"

Minghe was stunned:

"It's not the place where the mother and the phoenix first sang (the place where the phoenix chirped, the earliest reference to the place where the phoenix sang in Qishan to refer to the place where a dynasty flourished or the hometown of a king. But then China's totem worship gradually shifted from the phoenix to the dragon, and the place where the phoenix sang became the hometown of the emperor's high-ranking concubines. But maybe in order to avoid the homonym of the Phoenix Emperor, the kind of books I see that have this statement are all used in the phoenix. Is it? ”

Mei Niang nodded and said:

"Yes, Huaiying and I are both from the state. So have you thought about it, why didn't Uncle Yuan think of this? ”

Minghe was stunned again, blinked, and said in surprise for a while:

"Niangniang didn't say it, Minghe really didn't notice it......

Speaking of which, Uncle Yuan is on guard against Niangniang in every way, and everything is everywhere, but if it is about Niangniang, you must be very careful.

But when I think about it today, Master Di can be regarded as a fellow villager, and Uncle Yuan is so completely convinced of love...... It's also surprising. ”

Mei Niang shook her head and smiled:

"Faith in love? Not necessarily, at least Uncle Yuan has some things that cannot be publicized in front of people, and he will definitely not let Huaiying know.

But one thing you said is right, Uncle Yuan's love for Huaiying, who was also born in Bingzhou, is so much that it is enough to show that in his heart, Huaiying is very upright and credible.

In fact, he did. Although in secret, he is willing to do everything for Jiro, but Jiro never hands over some secret things to him, which is why Jiro.

His temperament is too straightforward, and his talent is too rare, so no one wants to let Mingzhu cause dust.

Uncle Yuan thought the same way, so you thought well, as long as Huaiying took over Mrs. Jiangxia Wang's mother and son, Uncle Yuan would know immediately.

But he won't stop it, let alone ask about it-because it was Huaiying who took up Mrs. Jiangxia's mother and son, not someone else.

If it was someone else, any person, Uncle Yuan would have to doubt the other party's intentions and plans. Only Huaiying, he knows that it is just for a little mercy and a little bit of righteousness.

Not only did he know, but even Yu Suiliang, who had succumbed to the death of King Jiangxia, also knew. And although Yu Suiliang's life was sometimes too biased, he was also an upright person. The only thing that made him unable to admit that Guangfeng Jiyue was worthy of others was the King of Jiangxia who deliberately suffered his wrongs in the case of King Wu just because he had some personal grudges with him.

With such thoughts, Yu Suiliang did not dare to discuss with a loyal man like Huaiying, who could really be described as a glorious man, so he could only avoid it. Even if he was really brave enough to force Huaiying to give up protecting Mrs. Jiangxia's mother and son, he was afraid that when the time came, there would be a group of Guan Long's old ministers, especially Uncle Yuan, who would not be compatible with him.

Therefore, in the final analysis, the only place where Mrs. Jiangxia Wang and her children can be protected is Huaiying's hometown.

Even if that's my hometown. ”

When Minghe heard this, he also understood, so he immediately asked someone to arrange a message and asked Di Renjie to leave immediately, but was stopped by Mei Niang:

"You don't have to go, according to Huaiying's temperament, he won't wait until I'm good, Jiro is also a good order to do it explicitly and secretly, and he will go.

I'm afraid that at this moment, the person is already in the old mansion of the Di family in his hometown.

What you have to do now is just send a message to De'an, asking him to remind Jiro and arrange more manpower in the Di Mansion in Bingzhou. ”

Minghe was stunned again:

"Niangniang, didn't you say that as long as Master Di protects them, no one will be embarrassed or asked......"

"Naturally, it won't be in the open, but it's hard to say in the dark. Besides, it's just that Guan Long's family won't embarrass them. If King Han had any thoughts about the bereaved family of King Jiangxia and made a move, it would make these poor mothers and sons suffer a little hardship......"

Mei Niang thought, shook her head and sighed:

"Don't say that Huaiying can't get better, the first one who can't forgive himself is Jiro."

Minghe immediately understood, so he nodded and beckoned someone to pass the word.

The master and servant had just watched the little maid who was passing the word and hurried out, and they saw a person hurrying in, but it was Qinghe, who had not seen him for a long time.

Mei Niang blinked, but watched him step forward and salute, swept left and right before taking a step closer, and whispered a few words in her ear.

Minghe, who was standing on the side, was stunned when he saw Mei Niang hearing a few words, and turned his head to look at Qinghe, his eyes full of doubts. And Qinghe also nodded in the face of such a puzzled gaze, signaled for affirmation, and then attached his mouth to Mei Niang's ear and said a few words.

So I saw that Mei Niang's eyebrows were raised higher and higher, higher and higher, and the look on her face became more and more unbearable to laugh, and in the end, she burst out laughing and said:

"But really?"

"Not really?"

Qinghe looked at Mei Niang smiling happily, and couldn't help but laugh too:

"The Lord said, such interesting things must also be known to the mother, and have fun. After all, Niangniang has to take care of the two little highnesses now, and the state affairs are tight these days, if there are no such things, I am afraid it will not be good to tease Niangniang. ”

Mei Niang shook her head, and then smiled:

"That's it, you can go back to Jiro, and just talk about raising the New Year's level, but you can stop for a while. After all, I am only the head of the nine concubines at the moment, and I am only at the rank of the second grade according to the etiquette system.

If it is forcibly sealed from the rank of the first grade, I am afraid that it will make those ministers noisy again. ”

Qinghe blinked and said:

"But Niangniang, the Lord has already ordered the Inner Division, from now on, Niangniang will send all the food and food according to the rank of the first product......

Niangniang, the Lord has actually thought it through. Originally, the main intention was to directly promote the rank of the first product.

If it weren't for the worry that Niangniang was still wronged in the position of the head of this concubine, there was really a gap between the position of the fourth lady, and I was afraid that she would have to carry out the decree.

Niangniang, anyway, the lord also said it, knowing that Niangniang was worried about the courtiers outside chewing their ears, so she didn't give the title of concubine, only the same amount of food-

In this way, people outside the palace will not talk about anything. After all, the food consumption of the ladies in our palace is all from the inner treasury, and it is far from the turn of people outside the palace to see, and it is not their turn to care. They don't know what they know, let alone talk about it.

Niangniang just use it with confidence. ”

Mei Niang still shook her head and said:

"You guys...... I just follow his will......

Just use it with confidence......

You have said this lightly. That is, the food and consumption of the concubines in the palace are distributed by the palace department, and the palace cannot be governed by the outside of the palace, but the emperor will carry out the decree, which piece of paper, do not use the Inca seal in the Chinese book?

Once you pass through the Zhongshu Province, others don't know, how can Uncle Yuan not know?

You guys...... didn't think about it, although Uncle Yuan has a lot of money, but in the end he is also the founder of the country, and in the end he doesn't look down on me as a person. Once I told him that my food was on the same level as him......

No matter how much he loves Jiro, won't he feel chills in his heart?

No matter how hard he is on me, it's all on me. In the matter of Jiro, he rarely did anything wrong......

You should also think about his feelings. ”

Qinghe heard this, but he pursed his lips and said:

"If the mother is worried about this, there is no need. After all, this matter was originally the Lord's intention to be angry with Uncle Yuan. Moreover, the lord also said that although it seems that Niangniang's food is the same as Uncle Yuan's, but in the end, Uncle Yuan is not the one who lives with this idea, so it doesn't matter.

As for why you want to be angry at this time......

It's not because you are already the mother of two sons, and in terms of arguments, you have to be a concubine. But Uncle Yuan kept stopping him. Although we all know in our hearts that he is doing this to know that once he nods his head and agrees to the lord's promotion of your position, he will inevitably ascend to the throne, which is also the most intolerable thing for him...... But in the end, the Lord is not willing to watch the mother suffer a day of grievances. That's what the Lord wants.

Therefore, the more the Lord compares with Uncle Yuan in such trivial matters as money, the more Uncle Yuan will not think that the Lord has already decided to change within this year! ”

When Mei Niang heard this, she shook her head after all, but in the end, she didn't say much, but there was inevitably a look of worry between her eyebrows.