The deep palace is full of longing and majestic momentum, Qionglou Yuyu is still brilliant and gorgeous, and countless palace maids and eunuchs come and go in a hurry, but they always feel like they are missing something.

It's not the first time Jia Yidao has entered this imperial city, but it's the first time to go deep like today.

He was called by Queen Xie, and the messenger was the personal maid named Xing'er next to Queen Xie, and there were two little eunuchs. At this moment, Xing'er walked beside Jia Rudao to lead the way, but the two little eunuchs only dared to follow cautiously, and they didn't dare to make a noise.

Empress Xie, who had never dealt with her, suddenly sent someone to summon her, and Jia Rudao was surprised but not too worried. With his current status, although he can't be compared with Shi Songzhi and others, it is obviously not something that can be kneaded at will. Especially now that more than a million displaced people are all supported by him, Empress Xie obviously will not risk the world's disapproval to do things like attracting the king into the urn or the Hongmen banquet.

For this Queen Xie, who has lived in the palace all the year round and is not even very famous, Jia seems to know not much, but it is definitely much more than some people imagine.

Ning Zongchao is the granddaughter of Xie Shenfu. Empress Gongshu of Song Ningzong died, the middle palace was vacant, and Empress Dowager Yang and Cao Meiren, who were already concubines at that time, were very favored by Emperor Ningzong. Han Yanxuan, the left minister of the Ningzong Dynasty, saw that Yang Guifei liked to play with power, and Cao Mei's nature was soft, so he persuaded Emperor Ningzong to make Cao Meiren the queen. Under Xie Shenfu's strong recommendation, Ning Zong finally appointed Yang Guifei as the queen and was called Empress Gongsheng.

Emperor Ningzong died, and Shi Miyuan had a trace of affection with Empress Dowager Yang because of the edict of killing Han Yanxuan, so with the support of Shi Miyuan and Empress Dowager Yang, Lizong Zhao Yun succeeded to the throne. Song Lizong succeeded to the throne, because Xie Shenfu had the merit of aiding the Empress Dowager Yang, so the Empress Dowager Yang was very grateful to Xie Shenfu, in order to express her gratitude to Empress Gongsheng, she ordered Zhao Yun to draft a girl among the daughters of the Xie family into the palace, only Queen Xie was not married at home at that time, so she sent Empress Xie, who was still unmarried at that time, into the palace.

Empress Xie has an average appearance and dark skin, which is obviously very unsuitable for Song Lizong's appetite, so Zhao Yun wanted to make Jia Guifei the queen, and Empress Gongsheng insisted on making Empress Xie the queen under the pretext of Jia Guifei's surname Jia, but Zhao Yun had no choice but to set up Empress Xie as the queen in the third year of Baoqing (1227).

However, even if Zhao Yun established Queen Xie as the queen, but in the palace, she has always favored Concubine Jia, in this regard, it is said that Queen Xie abides by her duties and has always been very generous, without showing any dissatisfaction, and she is even more favored by Empress Dowager Yang, so Queen Xie's position in the palace is extremely stable. Even though Empress Dowager Yang has passed away a long time ago, Zhao Yun has no idea of wanting to re-establish the queen, which is more or less due to Concubine Jia.

Now he has just taken over the affairs of the General Department of the City, and at the same time, because of the disaster relief, the prestige in the entire Lin'an Mansion, especially in the hearts of the more than one million victims, has soared to the top.

After all, the six departments of the Great Song Dynasty are now in charge of the treasury and have no money; The Ministry of Rites, not to mention, is in constant war, where is there diplomatic relations and other things? There are a lot of colleges, how much real power can they have?; The Ministry of War, with the Privy Council, is an empty shelf; Not to mention the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Justice.

Jia Guifei was assassinated a few months ago, although Jia Nidao said that there were a lot of things, but the Detective Department did not give up collecting evidence to find the murderer, but the mastermind behind the scenes had obviously planned for a long time, and there was not even a trace left, which made Jia Nidao more vigilant while being depressed.

But no matter what, the real murderer has not appeared for a day, and everyone in the palace is suspicious, especially Queen Xie's suspicion.

In such a situation, Empress Xie, who has always behaved as if she was transparent, appeared, and even directly sent someone to find the yamen of the general department of the city to summon Jia Nidao into the palace, so Jia Nidao couldn't help but wonder what this Empress Xie wanted to do.

Regarding the matter of Queen Xie's summons, in Jia Yidao's opinion, Zhao Yun should know the truth. After all, the queen summoned the ministers, and she summoned them alone, and as the queen, the Xie family still had to be afraid of a little influence.

Of course, Jia Rudao is obviously not sure about this, whether Zhao Yun knows the Tao or not, only Queen Xie knows.

Thinking like this, Ronghua Palace was already in sight in front of him.

"Lord Jia, please come in."

As Queen Xie's personal maid, Xing'er didn't seem to want to go in to report or go in together.

Jia Rudao raised his eyebrows, thinking that this was not passed on first, and he did not pass on himself in the second, so he went in directly, which was inevitably a little unruly, in case Queen Xie found a reason to charge herself or more simply ordered the guards to cut him with a knife, who would she find to reason? Didn't Lin Chong fall into such a way back then?

But thinking about it, Jia Rudao didn't hesitate for long before stepping directly into the gate of Ronghua Palace.

For him, even if this Ronghua Palace is really Longtan Tiger's Den, he wants to go on it today. If Empress Xie really wanted to kill him or say that she wanted to trap him, he wouldn't mind trying to see how good Empress Xie's teeth were. Not to mention, there are not a few people who know that he came to Ronghua Palace.

Although there are only a handful of officials in the Yamen of the General Department of the city, they are also his henchmen.

The sun was shining outside, but it was extremely cool in Ronghua Palace. In broad daylight, the gate of Ronghua Palace is naturally irrelevant, standing outside the door, you can clearly see the various flowers that are blooming in the courtyard inside, elegant orchids, emerald green bamboos, bright peonies and so on. The palace is very large, and you can see all kinds of curtains flying gently in the wind everywhere, giving people the feeling of suddenly entering a colorful fairy tale world, pure and a little immature.

Jia Rudao's eyebrows were very relaxed, and he seemed to unconsciously want to be consistent with the breath of this palace.

Just after passing through the forest in the courtyard, a palace maid about seventeen or eighteen years old appeared at the door of the inner court and bowed slightly to Jia Rudao.

Seeing this palace maid, Jia Rudao's heart was even more relaxed. At least you don't have to think about whether you are Lin Chong of the Li Dynasty or not? Although he wasn't too worried, trespassing on the imperial city and trespassing into the queen's palace was really not fun.

"Master Jia, please come here!"

This palace maid is very immature, there seems to be a little baby fat left on her cheeks, her eyes are clear and pure, but her delicate body is already convex and backward, and her face is extremely asymmetrical. However, his speech and body movements were extremely polite, and he respectfully introduced Jia Yidao into the palace.

Flowers, you can see flowers everywhere, all of them are flowers. On the ground, on the wall, on the windowsill, in pots and pots recognizable, unrecognizable, named, unnamed, open, budding, or withered, tall, big and small, all kinds of flowers, all kinds of flowers mixed together, this not too gorgeous palace is full of clouds, even Jia Yidao's nose is a little unbearable.

Rubbing his nose, lest he sneeze and lose his manners, Jia Rudao followed closely behind the baby fat palace maid, and carefully flashed one pot after another of flowers.

I don't know how these flowers in the house come to life and bloom so brightly.

This Ronghua Palace is obviously another alternative in this deep imperial palace, not as splendid and extremely luxurious as Jia Guifei Chaohua Palace, and it is not in line with the solemn atmosphere of this imperial city, but it is more like a place where little girls who are still waiting to be in the boudoir and have some little fantasies.

Well, if there were a few more cats and dogs, it would be even more per second. Such a thought unnaturally appeared in Jia Yidao's mind.

Passing through the pots of tall, blooming thin flowers and trees, there is a faintly transparent screen, on which as Jia seems to have expected, is still painted with flowers and plants.

"Meow!"

A tactful cat meow made Jia Yidao stunned.

Turning his head, two or three white kittens were rolling in a ball among the flowers and trees, lazy and cute. Seeing the living people, these fat little white cats were not afraid at all, but stared at Jia Yidao with yellow eyes.

There are really two or three cats, but I forgot that cats and dogs are enemies.

Through the thin screen, Jia Rudao could vaguely see that there was a figure inside. Come to think of it, this is to talk to yourself through the screen. Jia Rudao was slightly disappointed.

Don't look at Queen Xie now seems to be a transparent person in the harem, but she has confirmed the sentence "If you don't fight, you will fight". Originally, in history, during the decades that Li Zong sat on the throne, whether he favored Jia Guifei or Yan Guifei after Jia Guifei's death, Empress Xie's throne has always been as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can shake it. After Duzong succeeded to the throne, he supported the crippled Great Song Dynasty with his own strength, although it was just barely surviving, but it was really not easy.

Of course, Empress Xie still ended up being captured by the Mongols.

However, to Jia Yidao's surprise, Zhu'er didn't seem to have the intention of letting Jia Yidao talk to Queen Xie through the screen. This pearl is the name of the baby fat palace maid who led Jia Nidao into this palace, although the journey is not far, and Zhu'er is also very shy, but Jia Rudao still asked the name.

In the queen's bedroom, boldly talking to the queen's personal palace maid and asking for the name, Jia Rudao also thinks it's very funny.

Turning the screen, it was a low yellow brocade couch, a woman in a light pink dress reclining there, one arm supporting her chin, the waist naturally revealed a bit of style, her face was fair, she was painted with light makeup, and her black hair was coiled up with a gold hairpin with tassels, but there was no other makeup, compared with Jia Guifei, who was full of gold and jade, Queen Xie was really simple.

The eyebrows are in the sideburns, and the pink lips are tightly pursed, which naturally gives people a sense of stubbornness.

A woman with a lot of personality.

This is the first time Jia Yidao has seen the queen mother of the Great Song Dynasty. This is also Jia Yidao's first impression of Queen Xie.

On such a program as Qionglin Banquet, which is extremely important for the Great Song Dynasty, he has never seen Queen Xie, but Jia Guifei, who is just a concubine, has an appearance rate much higher than that of Queen Xie. In addition to showing that Jia Guifei favors the harem alone, I really don't know what else Lu Dao can mean.

However, seeing Queen Xie today, Jia Rudao also made it a little clearer, that is, Queen Xie is actually not as ugly as said outside, and can even be regarded as middle-class, and her fair skin is not as dark as rumored outside.

It's really a rumor.

Jia Nidao was looking at Queen Xie, and Empress Xie was also looking at Jia Nidao. However, people who can directly face the queen like Jia Nidao and even look at it a little distracted, and even forget the number of etiquette, Jia Nidao is the first one.

Fortunately, Empress Xie doesn't seem to care about these things at all.

Rumors from the outside world, the truth of some things, even in this deep palace, Queen Xie, who can only walk around one acre and three points in this Ronghua Palace every day, is not ignorant of the Tao.

Since the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the Xie family has been a scholarly family for generations, and the ancestral home is Taizhou, and the Xie family moved to Jiangnan during the Six Dynasties, which is a rare family with a big surname at that time. As for the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Xie family even had three or four prime ministers, although it has withered and declined in recent years, but the background is still not comparable to an upstart like Jia Yidao.

After Empress Xie was sealed, when Empress Dowager Yang was still alive, more than ten brothers of Empress Xie also entered the court as officials, although now although they are not as prominent as when Xie Shenfu was alive, they are also a few high-grade families in the Great Song Dynasty, especially in Lin'an City.

Queen Xie's name is clear, but she is also as good as her name, indifferent to fame and fortune, and the Xie family is even more cautious in following the training, and rarely fights for power and profit in the court, so it can be regarded as a family with excellent reputation in Lin'an City.

In fact, Xie Dao wanted to see Jia Yidao early in the morning, as for Jia Guifei, it was not that she didn't want to see it, but that Jia Guifei was not something she could see if she wanted to. Not to mention, after the assassination of Concubine Jia Guifei, the court didn't know how many pairs of eyes Lu Dao had stared at her, and there were even rumors in the palace that she was the one who instigated it. However, Xie Daoqing insisted on upholding the attitude of being a pure person, not spreading rumors, and not refuting rumors, but even so, she is still only a girl in her twenties after all, and she is also the nominal mother of a country, how can she not have a little grievance in her heart?

This time, she took the liberty of summoning Jia Xiangdao, although it was not her intention, but she had already thought about it in her heart.

In just a few months, Jia Rudao has gone from being a gentleman to becoming famous, promoted like eating, and rising steadily, if she doesn't have any news and understanding, it would be really ashamed of her Xie family's background.

Who Jia Guifei is, Xie Daoqing knows very well.

People are beautiful, that's for sure; wants to monopolize the emperor's favor, but he is also sure, people are not stupid, but they are definitely not a lover in power, let alone a woman with a vicious heart like a snake and scorpion.

At the end of the day, she's just a little selfish little woman who wants to protect herself.

If Jia Nidao was favored by Zhao Yun before, it was because Jia Guifei was blowing the pillow wind in the back, then when Jia Nidao faked his death and came back to life, he didn't even need to entrap him to make Zhao Yun leave at all, but it all relied on his own ability. It is impossible for Jia Guifei to make Zhao Yun so favored by a waste, and even to make concessions to some people for the sake of Jia Yidao.

Today's Jia Rudao, in addition to having a shallow foundation, is no one to be underestimated. Therefore, even though Jia Rudao's extreme rudeness at the moment made Xie Daoqing a little annoyed, he still didn't directly reprimand.

"Ahem!"

There was a timely cough from Zhu'er in his ears, which made Jia seem to be a thriller. But it was Zhu'er who noticed the displeasure in Xie Daoqing's eyes, and hurriedly reminded Jia Yidao.

"Wechen has seen the queen's mother, the mother is a thousand years old!"

What's wrong with you? Jia Rudao scolded secretly in his heart, and bowed respectfully to Xie Daoqing.

Xie Daoqing glanced at Jia Yidao, he didn't know how much content Lu Dao contained, and said lightly with light lips: "Jia Qing's family doesn't need to be polite, find a stool to sit on, don't be too restrained." ”

Jia Rudao looked around in amazement and found out if Xie Daoqing was deliberately fixing himself. In addition to the various flowers and plants in this palace, he really didn't see a place for people to sit on this way.

Fortunately, Zhu'er on the side relieved him, and moved a brocade stool from behind him like a trick and moved it to Jia Rudao. Jia Rudao took the brocade stool and smiled gratefully at Zhu'er, but it made Zhu'er's cheeks fly in an instant, and she shrank to the side as if she was escaping.

Seeing this scene, Xie Daoqing's eyes flashed a few different colors.

"Zhu'er is eighteen years old, and he has been delayed by following the mourning family into the palace for so many years." Xie Daoqing spoke again slowly.

Jia Rudao was a little stunned, he couldn't figure out Xie Dao