Shang Jing opened his eyes and thought for a while, shook his head in disappointment, and said with a wry smile: "Our family's brain, something has gone wrong in the past two years, and there are not many people and things in the past that can be remembered." Little father-in-law, you don't want to laugh. ”

Lai Xing'er saw that he was wearing a brand-new set of crimson robes, and he was clearly in a prominent position, but he was so polite to such a low-grade eunuch, and even had some lowliness in his tone, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Father-in-law Shang, where are you going?" Where are you on an errand now, can you tell the little one, it's better to visit you another day, the little one looks at your body and bones are not as good as before. ”

Shang Jing seemed to be flattered, took a few steps back one after another, rushed to Xing'er and waved his hands vigorously, and muttered in his mouth: "Shh, the envoy assigned by the emperor can't say it, can't say it." Little father-in-law, don't blame our family. ”

Lai Xing'er saw that he reacted so strongly to his extremely ordinary greetings, and he didn't want to ask anything more, so he had to say goodbye to Shang Jing in a hurry, and continued to walk briskly in the direction of Yanying Palace.

Lai Xing'er entered the Daming Palace from the Chengxun Gate, and was supposed to go west through the Xuanzheng Hall and return to the Yanying Hall from the Yanying Gate, but he seemed to suddenly think of something, turned around and walked straight in the direction of the north: he decided to go to Yuxiu Palace to ask Jingxuan to intercede with the emperor, let himself out of the palace to join the mission of King Mu, and go to Luoshu City to pick up his mother back to Chang'an.

Jing Xuan has been unusually busy these days. She originally thought that after the newly elected palace concubines were registered as the king, she would ask the emperor to go back to her mother's house to save her relatives, and go to visit her mother who had been sick for a long time. However, there were waves in the palace. completely disrupted her plans, so that she had no time to get out of the palace.

Except for the emperor himself, Jing Xuan is the only person in the Daming Palace who knows exactly what Xia Haitang's true identity is.

Ever since she was instructed by the Emperor. From the moment she agreed to raise the Xia family when the new palace concubine rank was decided, she roughly guessed that it would not be her and Wanrong who would be in charge of the six palaces in the future, but this young woman who entered the palace in the name of Mama Xia's righteous daughter and looked like the former crown princess Yang.

Unexpectedly, overnight, Xia Haitang died in the Hanbing Palace before he met the emperor, and Jing Xuan, as the head of the palace concubines, naturally took on the heavy responsibility of arranging the funeral for the Xia family and checking the harem.

But out of nowhere, the news leaked. for a few days. In the harem, from the concubines to the rough palace people, everyone is talking about one thing in private: Xia Haitang is the reincarnation of the former crown princess Yang, because she is in a hurry to enter the palace to snatch the queen's throne. was jealous of Empress Zhang, who had not yet had time to reincarnate in the netherworld, and begged Black and White Impermanence to sneak into the Hanbing Palace with a group of imps on a rainy night, and take her to the king of Hades to reason.

Some people even linked Xia Haitang to the emperor's biological mother, Concubine Wu Xian, from the fact that the emperor posthumously presented Xia Haitang as a virtuous Zhaoyi.

When Jing Xuan heard these absurd and bizarre rumors from Jinping and others, she immediately realized that there were people in the palace who were secretly haunting. Deliberately trying to disturb people's hearts by fabricating the story of the so-called evil ghost asking for his life. Distract from tracking down the Assassins.

So, she quietly sent someone to secretly investigate the source of the rumors, and within two days, the secret investigation had an eyebrow, and all the clues pointed to the same place: Shangfu Bureau.

Jing Xuan was holding a thick roster of palace people in the Shangfu Bureau, examining the origins and origins of each person on it one by one, Zhu Shuang trotted in all the way to report, saying that he was coming to Xing'er to ask to see his mother outside.

The eunuchs who were on errand in the previous dynasty were not allowed to enter the harem. Coming to Xing'er rashly, there must be something important. Jing Xuan thought so. Chong Zhushuang commanded: "Call him in." You go outside the temple and keep watch, and no one is allowed to come near. ”

Zhu Shuang agreed, turned around and walked out of the hall. After a while, I saw Lai Xing'er walking in sweating profusely.

"Xing'er, is there anything important about coming to see the palace in such a hurry?" Jing Xuan closed the roster in his hand, put it on the side of a few cases, and asked Lai Xing'er.

Lai Xing'er couldn't help but say, threw herself down in front of Jing Xuan, and begged in a hissing voice: "Please be merciful and save my mother." ”

Jing Xuan was confused by him, and Wen Yan soothed: "Don't worry, stand up and talk slowly, what's going on?" ”

Lai Xing'er wiped the sweat from his head, stood up, and then recounted in detail the news that his mother was now a slave in the palace of the Tubo general in Luoqi City from Li Jinzhong, and finally knelt down again and said: "The little Su Zhi Niangniang is kind-hearted, and she begs Niangniang to tell the emperor that let the little one go to Luoqi City with King Mu to rescue his mother. The little one will swear to death to repay the mother's great kindness. ”

Jing Xuan listened, her face gradually became gloomy, and when Lai Xing'er finished speaking, she only asked coldly: "As the prime minister of the current dynasty, why did the Duke of Jin suddenly care about your mother's whereabouts?" ”

Lai Xing'er was stunned by her question, and said with a red face: "When the little one first entered the palace, the Duke of Jin took the initiative to inform the little mother of the news, and the little one also asked him to find the whereabouts of his mother......"

"It's not going to be that simple, is it? The reason for this, you can say it if you want to, this palace doesn't want to force you. Jing Xuan could see that Xing'er wanted to speak and stopped, and he had roughly guessed a few points in his heart.

"Niangniang, the little one really doesn't dare to hide anything in front of you." Lai Xing'er turned his heart and plucked up his courage to say, "Jin Guogong did initially propose to report to him the details of each Yanying meeting, and although Xiao had to agree to it at that time, he never reported it to him once. Mother, don't you still believe the little one? ”

Jing Xuan heard that since he was willing to take the initiative to admit that he had a secret agreement with Li Jinzhong, his face gradually softened, and he nodded and sighed: "Pity you for being such a kind and clever good boy, but you have been repeatedly coerced into these dirty things. If I don't believe you, I won't ask you to tell you all the things that are hidden in your heart. But Xing'er, even if the emperor promised you to join King Mu's mission, how do you, a half-grown child who has not yet reached adulthood, plan to go to the city of Luoqi, thousands of miles away, to rescue his mother? ”

Jing Xuan's intimate and warm words touched the sore spot in Lai Xing'er's heart, and he tried his best to suppress the tears in his eyes from spurting out, trying his best to make a relaxed and confident expression, and replied, "Please rest assured." These young people have been rewarded by their masters, but they have saved some money, and I plan to use them to redeem my mother. Since the Tibetans paid for my mother from others, I think they will agree to me in order to get more money. ”

Jing Xuan was amused by his whimsy, and at the same time had to admit that there was some truth in what Lai Xing'er said.

She groaned and said, "Since you can trust this palace and tell the truth, then this palace might as well tell the truth: in the eyes of this palace, this matter may be far more complicated than you think." It is useless for you to know the specific reasons for this, and I can't say anything more now. Queen Mu will leave the capital on the day after tomorrow, and the palace promises you that you will be his attaché and go to the city of Raksha together. However, you don't need to mention your mother's affairs to anyone else until you arrive in the city of Raksha, and when you get there, you can try it in your own way, and if not, you can directly explain the matter to King Mu and ask him to help you get your mother back. Have you written them all? ”

Although Lai Xing'er didn't understand it very well, when he heard Jing Xuan promise that he would follow King Mu to envoy to Tibet, his heart was still happy, and he hurriedly kowtowed to Jing Xuan to thank him, and replied: "The little ones have been written down." ”

Jing Xuan was not happy at this time, she had a premonition that Lai Xing'er was going to go, and it was very likely to fall into a bigger whirlpool of right and wrong, but because this premonition was only based on her analysis and speculation, and there was not enough evidence and facts to prove that this premonition was right, she couldn't say anything to stop Lai Xing'er's filial piety to save her mother, and she could only do her best to remind him.

Seeing that Lai Xing'er was about to get up and say goodbye to him, Jing Xuan suddenly remembered something, and casually asked Lai Xing'er: "On the day of Xia's assassination, you went to the Shangfu Bureau, but is there such a thing?" ”

Lai Xing'er was in a state of joy, and when she asked about it coldly, she couldn't help but feel nervous, so she had to reply stubbornly: "The little one doesn't dare to deceive the mother, there has been such a thing." That day, the Duke of Jin and Lord Lin Shu had a dispute in the Yanying Hall in front of the emperor, the two of them were injured in each other's beatings, and the little one was ordered to send the Duke of Jin back to the house to recuperate. ”

He really didn't dare to tell the truth, so he could only lie to perfunctory scenes.

Jing Xuan's intention to ask about this matter was not Lai Xing'er, so he ignored the loopholes in his words, and then asked: "Who did you meet in the Shangfu Bureau that day, and do you remember what special things you talked about with them?" ”

Lai Xing'er saw that Jing Xuan inquired about the Shangfu Bureau for no reason, and secretly screamed in his heart: Could it be that the girl leaked the horse's feet and aroused the suspicion of the mother? He knew that what he saw and heard in the courtyard of the Shangfu Bureau that day was Jinping , Ying'er and others present, and he couldn't tell any lies, so he could only tell Jing Xuan the truth.

"Are you saying that there were only two people in the fashion service bureau at that time, the Zhong family's palm clothes and a weaver named Guo'er? Wanrong's dress was obviously made the day before, but the next day it suddenly fell off two lines of stitches, and in order to find the silk thread used to repair the dress, Na Guo'er went to Nannei to ask the concubine for it? Jing Xuan immediately found something strange from Lai Xing'er's narration, and asked staringly.

"Yes, haven't these Jinpings reported to you?"

Jing Xuan blinked slyly, and said in a teasing voice: "Jinping, I don't know whose mind she is on, when she asks about the events of that day, she can't remember anything except remembering to meet you outside the door?" ”

When Lai Xing'er heard this, he immediately regretted that he only wanted to punch himself twice to relieve his anger......

After Lai Xing'er left, Jing Xuanzhong picked up the roster again, and looked at the names of a person on it page by page, and after a while, she firmly remembered two lines of small characters:

Zhong's Yujuan, a native of Henan Province, Henan Province, was elected to the palace in the fourth year of Xianqing, first as an errand in the bathhouse hall, and then transferred to the Shangfu Bureau, and is currently the head of the six products;

Tang Guo'er, a native of Linyi, his father Nabro was beheaded because of the defeat, and his people were then confiscated into the court as slaves, and he worked as an errand in the bathhouse hall, and later entered the Shangfu Bureau as a weaver in the palace. (To be continued.) )