Emperor Chongzhen promised to give Xu Liang ten days to observe and observe, and then a large number of Jinyi guards and Dongchang Fanzi cautiously sneaked into Shaanxi, paying close attention to the movements in Shaanxi.

This kind of thing in the court must not be hidden, and two days later, several women in the Ciqing Palace knew about it. Although the relationship between the court and Shaanxi was a little stiff, Empress Zhou, Zhang Yan and others were very good to Mrs. Sipin, who lived in Ciqing Palace, and Feng Suqin was very good.

Sometimes, even Zhang Yan had to admire Feng Suqin, and it only took half a month for Feng Suqin to enter the palace, and she quickly eased her relationship with Empress Zhou. Originally, Empress Zhou was very uninterested in this Sipin lady because of the relationship with Emperor Chongzhen, but she couldn't stand Feng Suqin's deliberate flattery.

This lady of the Xu Mansion always seems to be able to get amazing fresh objects to give to Queen Zhou and please the queen.

Once or twice, Queen Zhou can pull down her face, and then after three, four, five, or six times, even Queen Zhou is not good at holding other people's things in one hand and still having a cold face on the other. Especially after Feng Suqin, the eldest lady of Xufu, didn't know where to get two pairs of things called glasses and gave them to Queen Zhou and Zhang Yan, Emperor Zhou finally looked at this eldest lady of Xufu differently.

Few people know that Empress Zhou and Zhang Yan are actually mildly short-sighted, in the past, Empress Zhou sewed new clothes for Emperor Chongzhen, and she had to get close to the oil lamp and widen her eyes to see the eye of the needle, but since wearing the glasses given by Feng Suqin, the situation has changed greatly.

Yes, in fact, the relationship between Feng Suqin and the two mothers in the palace is extremely good.

No, Empress Zhou got the news from Emperor Chongzhen the night before, and came to Ciqing Palace the next day, and after Feng Suqin came back from the women's school, Empress Zhou and Zhang Yan took Feng Suqin to the imperial garden to enjoy the coolness.

While admiring the lush flowers and plants in the garden, I took a small sip of preserved fruits. Empress Zhou told Feng Suqin and Zhang Yan what happened in the court.

Empress Zhou worriedly took Feng Suqin's hand and said, "Sister, although the harem does not interfere in state affairs, but your family Lord Xu has tens of thousands of troops in Shaanxi, and the emperor is always not at ease." Now that the emperor has ordered Lord Xu to send troops to Shanxi, the mourning family believes that this is an excellent opportunity to ease the relationship between Lord Xu and the court. Lord Xu must not be confused. ”

Feng Suqin naturally understood the meaning of Empress Zhou's words, and as the queen of a country, she naturally hoped that Xu Liang, a feudal official with heavy troops, could be used by the court. However, Feng Suqin was far away in Beijing, although he knew Xu Liang's thoughts in the letters exchanged with Shaanxi, but this must not have been confirmed in person, so Feng Suqin was not good at talking.

Now that Queen Zhou has opened her mouth, in order to maintain a rare harmonious relationship with Queen Zhou, Feng Suqin thought about it, got up and bowed to Queen Zhou, and said: "Queen Mother, Suqin's father Xiong Tingbi was also a court official, and Suqin has been taught by her father since she was a child to be loyal to the monarch and love the country. If Suqin was by Xianggong's side, he should try his best to persuade Xianggong to obey the court. It's just that Suqin is now far away in Beijing, and he must be far away from Shaanxi, so he doesn't know much about Xianggong's affairs. ”

When Empress Zhou saw Feng Suqin getting up, she hurriedly pulled her down again, patted her hand and chuckled: "Sister doesn't have to be like this, we can't decide anything about things outside, as women." Even if he turns against the court every day, the mourning family can't blame his sister. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Yan also agreed: "That is, Suqin, no matter what the trouble is outside, this palace will protect your sister." ”

Feng Suqin listened, her face was moved, she looked at Queen Zhou, then at Zhang Yan, and said affectionately: "Suqin can get the understanding of the two mothers, it is really a blessing from three lives. ”

Queen Zhou said: "Where does my sister say, the imperial sister-in-law is right, the three of us should always be good sisters." ”

The three of them said intimate words, but they really meant to be sisters. Empress Zhou said, remembering that Emperor Chongzhen was busy until late at night because of the affairs in Shaanxi last night, even if he went to bed to rest, he tossed and turned, and it was difficult to sleep. Empress Zhou sighed: "It's a pity that the emperor didn't allow my sister to leave the palace, otherwise, with my sister beside Lord Xu, the situation in Shaanxi will definitely not develop like this." ”

Empress Zhou said, and the three people in the garden fell silent for a while. Although it was not explicitly stated, people inside and outside the palace knew that although Feng Suqin was named Mrs. Sipin, she wanted to enter Ciqing Palace to accompany her, which was actually house arrest in disguise, in order to hold the unruly Shaanxi governor Xu Liang.

Empress Zhou sighed there, Feng Suqin felt uncomfortable when she heard it, and groaned, Feng Suqin said, "Niangniang, or ...... I wrote a letter to the prime minister to urge him? ”

Queen Zhou's eyebrows suddenly moved, and she said eagerly in the blink of an eye: "My sister can be like this, then it is naturally very good." ”

Looking at Queen Zhou's eager eyes, Feng Suqin pushed the boat down the river, got up and said, "Without further ado, I'll go back to the palace to write." ”

Queen Zhou grabbed her and said with a smile: "Why bother, this is the Imperial Garden, and there is still some way to Ciqing Palace." The mourning family asked those minions to bring the pen and ink. ”

After speaking, Queen Zhou signaled to the palace maid beside her, and the palace maid trotted out all the way.

The three of them sat and waited for a while, and then saw that the palace maid who had just left led two eunuchs to bring pens, ink, paper and other things to the pavilion.

The thing was put in front of Feng Suqin, Feng Suqin saw that Queen Zhou had no intention of evading it, thinking that this letter was going to be sent out of the palace, and it would be seen by Queen Zhou as soon as possible, so she simply chuckled: "Two mothers, Suqin doesn't understand anything about military affairs, I write, and the two mothers will refer to it in detail." ”

Zhang Yan smiled: "This palace doesn't understand either." ”

Queen Zhou pulled Zhang Yan and said, "There are three stinkers, one Zhuge Liang." Sister-in-law, let's come up with ideas together. ”

Zhang Yan Bingxue was smart, and naturally understood that Zhang Yan wanted to know what was written in Feng Suqin's letter, and glanced at Feng Suqin, seeing that she was smiling and groaning, and couldn't see the slightest annoyance, so she leaned over and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

So, Empress Zhou, Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin crowded on a small stone table, and you and I began to discuss how to write this letter to Xu Liang.

Because Empress Zhou and Zhang Yan were on the side, Feng Suqin naturally didn't dare to have a word in the letter, and it took nearly an hour for the three of them to reluctantly finish writing this patchwork letter of urging, and read it again from the front to back, Feng Suqin saw that Queen Zhou and Zhang Yan had no opinions, so they folded it, sealed it, and let the palace maid send it out of the palace.

In the next few days, the palace was paying attention to the movements in Shaanxi, and the spies of Jinyiwei and Dongchang were passing the latest news to the palace several times a day.

Seeing that eight days have passed, it seems that Shaanxi is too calm, according to Jinyiwei's report, Shaanxi Governor Xu Liang has been staying in the governor's yamen for a while, which can be said to be at home. As for the garrison troops in various parts of Shaanxi, there is no sign of mobilization.

On the ninth day, the emperor couldn't sit still, and summoned a group of cronies and ministers to Yangxinzhan to discuss until late at night, and the result of the discussion was that at the insistence of Xu Guangqi, the second assistant of the cabinet, the court waited for another day, and when the ten-day period had passed, Sun Chengzong was summoned to Beijing again.

Not only are the ministers in the court nervous, but the queen of Zhou, Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin in the harem are also nervously waiting for the reply of Xu Liang, the governor of Shaanxi, in the past few days.

Seeing that the tenth day had come, Empress Zhou came to Ciqing Palace early in the morning, and when she saw Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin for the first time, she asked nervously: "Sister-in-law, sister, how is it?" Did Lord Xu reply? ”

Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin both shook their heads regretfully.

When Empress Zhou heard this, she sat on the chair weakly, holding her head, and did not speak for a long time.

Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin looked at each other, knowing that Queen Zhou was in a bad mood, but they didn't know how to comfort her, so they could only sit with them carefully.

Feng Suqin looked at Queen Zhou's depressed look, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Don't look at Queen Zhou's soft and weak appearance, she really deserves to be the mother of a country. As an empress, she can find ways to share the worries of Emperor Chongzhen, and from this point of view, Emperor Chongzhen is really blessed. Unlike that Yuan Guifei and Tian Guifei, who put the concubine's shelf all day long, except for painting makeup and eyebrows, making a commotion, and being jealous, there is no fart ability!

The atmosphere in the room was dull, Feng Suqin hesitated for a while, and then said with a smile: "Niangniang, could it be that our letter has been put on hold on the road, and he hasn't received it yet?" ”

When Empress Zhou heard this, she raised her head, her phoenix eyes were stunned, and she shouted: "Who is so bold as to dare to take my sister's letter wrong!" The mourning family has already spoken, and my sister's letter will be sent out urgently in eight hundred miles! ”

"Huh?" Feng Suqin and Zhang Yan listened and immediately looked at Queen Zhou in surprise. The queen actually used 800 miles to expedite the letter?

Queen Zhou knew that she was speechless, and she couldn't help but look ashamed, glanced at Feng Suqin embarrassedly, and explained curtly: "Sister, don't be careful, I'm also worried about the delay on the way to the letter." ”

Feng Suqin covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "Niangniang doesn't need to say more, Niangniang can help so much, Suqin is too late to be grateful." ”

When Empress Zhou heard this, her face gradually returned to normal.

For a period of time, the three of them talked in the room without a pair, but they were all absent-minded. When it was time for lunch, Aunt Ru, the chief palace maid of Ciqing Palace, ordered someone to bring lunch, but Queen Zhou and the other three didn't have the slightest heart to eat, seeing that the food was going to be cold, Aunt Ru went out to prepare to order the kitchen to heat it up again.

After a while, I saw my aunt running into the hall like a gust of wind with a letter in one hand and a skirt in the other.

"It's coming! Here it comes! The letter is coming! ”

The three women in the hall who were wandering outside the world woke up suddenly, and they didn't care about their aunt's gaffe, they all stood up immediately, and Queen Zhou stepped forward, took the letter, and shouted happily: "It's done!" ”

After that, Queen Zhou pinched the letter and tore the envelope, and with a hiss, the envelope tore open.

Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin stared at Empress Zhou's hand tightly.

However, Empress Zhou paused, raised her eyes to look at Feng Suqin, and handed over the half-torn letter in her hand, "Sister, Lord Xu's reply, you should open it......"

The people in the temple immediately understood what was wrong. What Empress Zhou held in her hand, but Xu Liang, the governor of Shaanxi, replied to Feng Suqin, the eldest lady of Xu's mansion! Although Queen Zhou has a noble status, she can't be in front of the lady of the main room and open the letters of the father-in-law.

Queen Zhou also realized this after tearing a gap, and her expression was very embarrassed.

Feng Suqin pursed her lips and smiled slightly, and said, "It's okay, Niangniang." It's the same with your demolition. ”

"No, no, no. This is Lord Xu's letter, how can the mourning family be opened. Empress Zhou blushed and shook her head again and again.

Feng Suqin was still about to say something, and Zhang Yan, the queen of Yi'an on the side, said: "Sister Suqin, you can dismantle it." ”

Feng Suqin saw that Empress Zhou was indeed uncomfortable holding the letter, so she nodded, took the letter, and opened it carefully.

Empress Zhou breathed a sigh of relief as if she had handed over a bomb.

Feng Suqin opened the letter, looked at Queen Zhou and Zhang Yan, and beckoned: "Two sisters, the letter was written by the three of us together, let's read this letter together." ”

Zhang Yan hesitated and said, "This is not very good." ”

Feng Suqin pulled the two of them and said, "There's nothing bad." ”

Empress Zhou was eager to do this, so she didn't make a sound.

The three of them squeezed on a round table, and three pairs of eyes stared at Feng Suqin's hand and spread out the folded square letter paper! The three of them stared at Xu Liang's reply.

With just one glance, the three of them were so embarrassed that their faces were flushed, Queen Zhou and Zhang Yan turned their heads in embarrassment, Feng Suqin blushed and scolded: "This person ......"

The palace maid Ru, the head of Ciqing Palace on the side, has adjusted her state at this time, seeing two maidens, a Sipin lady just read a letter and her face turned red, she couldn't help but feel very curious, she carefully leaned over her head, glanced at it, and suddenly like a lightning strike, her face instantly turned red, and her heart was like a few deer.

On the white letterhead, the first line of several dragons and phoenixes danced: "Suqin kisses the baby......"

Half an hour later, Shaanxi Governor Xu Liang's reply was finally read, and the faces of Empress Zhou, Zhang Yan, Feng Suqin and the other three in the palace gradually returned to normal.

The three of them had a look of joy on their faces, and Feng Suqin said to Queen Zhou: "Niangniang, you have also seen it, Xianggong said that there will be a big military operation in Shaanxi in the near future." ”

Empress Zhou's brows stretched, she reached out and grabbed a strand of long hair from her forehead, and said with a smile: "Since Lord Xu has taken action, the mourning family is much more relieved." Well, such an important news, you have to dare to report it to the emperor quickly. ”

Feng Suqin nodded, her eyes fell on the letter, after thinking about it, she tore off the upper half of the letter, and then handed the letter to Queen Zhou, and said, "Niangniang, take this letter with you, in case the emperor asks, there is a good proof." ”

Empress Zhou nodded, her face was slightly red, he understood Feng Suqin's intention to tear the letter, thinking of the hot words, he couldn't help but feel hot on his face, stretched out his hand and immediately took the letter, called the waiting palace maid, said goodbye to Zhang Yan and Feng Suqin, and went back to the palace to find Emperor Chongzhen. (To be continued.) )