In the spring of the following year, Zhang Meiren's daughter Youwu became seriously ill, and in April, the imperial doctor said that there was no way to return to heaven. Today, he was worried, and first named Youwu as the princess of Deng Guo, and a few days later he was named the eldest princess of Qi State, ranking above Princess Fukang. But such a rush of joy still failed to drive away the disease, and soon after, the bad news spread all over the world: the eldest princess of Qi State.

Hearing this, Princess Fukang immediately burst into tears. Although she dislikes Zhang Meiren, she has no hostility towards Zhang Meiren's daughter and adopted daughter, and even likes to play with them very much, and she is really sad about the death of her young sister.

She couldn't stop crying and said to me, "I want to go see Woogo." ”

I hesitated, remembering the witch incident.

She could clearly see what I was thinking. "Brother," she said this time, with a particularly serious expression, "I have never cursed Satoru. ”

I bowed my head and gave her a gentle smile, "I know." ”

But Zhang Meiren may not know. When I conveyed the princess's meaning to Miao Zhaorong and asked her for instructions, Zhaorong also sighed: "Huirou going at this time, isn't it equivalent to hitting the tip of Zhang Niangzi's knife?" ”

She secretly asked Wang Zhaoming to ask for Jinshang's opinion, and Jinshang ordered the princess to go again the next day, and serve Youwu.

The death of a child before the age of eight is a loss of service, and the family does not need to mourn for him. The official family asked the eldest daughter of the emperor to serve the hemp for **, in fact, it was not in line with the ceremony, and it seemed that the funeral ceremony was particularly noble, and she was also quite aggrieved by Princess Fukang, but the princess did not complain, and the next day she really took the hemp and went to Lindian.

Zhang Meiren's Xiangluan Pavilion courtyard is full of green smoke, a group of monks sit in line and chant sutras, Zhang Meiren is guarding in front of the coffin of Youwu, thinking that she has cried too much before, at this time her eyes are red and swollen, her expression is dull, and she is lifeless. I'm by her side, and I comfort her from time to time, but I can't help but wipe my tears frequently.

When Zhang Meiren saw Miao Zhaorong and Princess Fukang, she seemed to wake up suddenly, hooked the corners of her lips and smiled coldly: "It's the third time, aren't you still satisfied?" ”

I followed the princess in, and when I heard this, I didn't understand it for a while, and I was still pondering, Zhang Meiren's sharp eyes had already slashed towards Miao Zhaorong's mother and daughter: "An Shou is dead, Baohe is also dead, and now you don't even let go of Youwu!" I know you hate me, so let the officials kill me, why do you want to hurt my daughter? ”

Princess Anshou and Princess Baohe are the third daughter and the fourth daughter of the emperor, born by Zhang Meiren, and they have all passed away before. Listening to Zhang Meiren's meaning, it seems that she suspects that these three daughters died unexpectedly. Since there was a puppet matter, she poured all her anger on the princess and Miao Zhaorong.

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and she got up and rushed straight at the princess. Today, he hurriedly left his seat and grabbed her.

The princess burst into tears, shook her head again and again, and said, "I haven't hurt Youwu, I haven't hurt any sister......"

Zhang Meiren didn't listen to her at all. The appearance of the princess gave her a reason to vent her anger, and she continued to cry and curse, cursing the so-called murderer of her daughter, and after scolding for a while, she came back to her heart, and snuggled up to the present, and began to recall the deathbed events of her three daughters.

As the conversation continued, her expression softened and her tone softened: "...... Youwu was very well-behaved, afraid that I would be sad, and did not cry out for pain when I was most uncomfortable, and when he saw me crying, he stretched out his little hand to help me wipe it, and said, 'Sister, don't cry, the face has fallen.' ’…… Later, I couldn't even breathe, my little face was flushed, and I tried to smile at me...... I just hugged her, hugged her, her face was against my chest, her hands were still grasping the edge of my clothes, but her body was getting colder and colder......"

Jinshang put his arms around her, turned to the side slightly, and turned his back to us, we couldn't see his expression for the time being, but seeing his shoulders trembling slightly, he should be holding back his sorrow.

Zhang Meiren's last words also made the corners of my eyes moisten. In addition to the arrogance on the outside, she is just a sad mother at this time.

The princess wiped her tears and stepped forward, wanting to burn incense and worship, but Zhang Meiren said coldly on the side: "Princess, please go back, I don't think Youwu wants to see you now." ”

The princess took two steps closer to her, looked up at her, and with the sincerity that she had never given to Zhang Meiren: "Zhang Niangzi, I ......"

She should have wanted to explain something to Zhang Meiren, but Zhang Meiren immediately interrupted her and mercilessly ordered the eviction: "Get out!" ”

The princess looked at Jinshang with tears: "Daddy......"

Jinshang sighed and waved his hand, "You go back." ”

The princess still did not leave, and cried, "Daddy, listen to me......"

"Get out!" Zhang Meiren was angry again, stared at the princess's linen clothes, and said, "This mourning dress doesn't have to be worn pretendically." Even if you wear ten folds of decay, can you atone for your sins and come back with enlightenment? ”

This sentence slightly aroused the princess's emotions, she stood up straight, frowned and said coldly: "I have not done what you said, and I am not guilty of atonement." ”

"That's enough, Huirou!" Jinshang suddenly raised his voice and scolded, "Get out, get out quickly!" ”

The princess looked at her father in a daze, and saw that his face was grim, not like her usual loving appearance, her eyelashes lowered, and two strings of tears fell out, and she turned around and ran out quickly.

I, the Han clan and the palace people of Yiyi Feng Pavilion rushed out one after another, and chased them outside the Xiangluan Pavilion, and the princess stopped and turned around, shouting angrily: "Stop!" Behead them all with me! ”

The crowd reluctantly stopped, and the princess continued to run forward. At this time, Han pulled my sleeve and mouthed Nunu at the back of the princess, I understood what she meant, and quickly chased after her.

The harem was so big, she ran around, and finally came to the back garden again, sat down against a mountain rock, and cried loudly.

I knew that she was full of grievances, and it was good to cry now, so I didn't try to persuade her, but just stood behind her and watched silently, and she soon found out, got up and ran to another place to sit down, and continued to cry. I followed again, and she knew that this time she only glared at me and didn't change places.

She cried for a long time, and it was a child who did not care about her posture, she exchanged tears, and she didn't bring a handkerchief, so she brought her sleeve to wipe it, and soon her sleeve was half wet. When she was about to wipe her nose again, I walked up to her and bent down to reach for my clean sleeve to her eyes.

She looked at it, and she was not polite, pulled up my cuffs and blew her nose.

That nose was wiped so calmly that it made me laugh.

She snorted, stared at me with dark eyes, and asked, "Why are you following me like a shadow?" ”

“…… I am not like a shadow," I replied to her, without thinking long, "I am a shadow of the princess. Where the princess is, I am. ”

She stared at me silently for a long time, then looked up at the sky, and then suddenly her eyes lit up, and she jumped up and ran to the open place where there was no shadow of the flower, and stood up straight, with her hands hanging at her sides, and looked up at me, trying to stay still, and said, "Look at the ground!" ”

There was a golden sunlight in front of her and behind her, and there was no shadow. It turned out that the sun was shining high, and it was noon, and she stood upright in this contraction, so naturally she could barely see the shadow.

"Where is the shadow? Where is Waiji? She asked with a smile.

I smiled at her and didn't answer.

"Stupid!" She drew conclusions for me and then told me the answer she thought fit, "You can say something like: 'The shadow is at the princess's feet, and the waiji is in the princess's heart.'" ’”

She smiled innocently in the sun, oblivious to my shock. I don't think she sensed the ambiguity of the meaning at all, but only stated it as a fact, for example, the clouds floated on the smoke waves, and the yang flowers floated in the palace walls.

Take the princess back to Yifeng Pavilion, she went back to the room in the afternoon to rest, Miao Zhaorong summoned me to the hall, asked me the details of the princess in the back garden, I said some, as for the "shadow" section, naturally omitted to mention.

Yu Jieyu was also there at the time, and sighed after hearing this: "I really wronged the princess this time...... Sister Miao, your temper is also good, if it were me and I was wronged by Zhang Niangzi like this, I am afraid I can't help it, but I have to cross-examine her: 'You doubt me, I still doubt you!' Since you got favored, why haven't any of the newborn children in this palace grown up? ’”

Miao Zhaorong smiled and said, "Could it be that she is crazy, and we are also like her?" Having said that, she is also pitiful, her daughter gave birth to three or three, and her mood is naturally not good, so if the words are ugly, let's just bear with it for the time being, and we can't argue with her at this time. ”

"If you're in a bad mood, you can bite indiscriminately?" Yu Jieyu disagreed, and said: "When my Chongqing was gone, I didn't expect to open my mouth and say that she was killed. ”

Princess Chongqing is the second daughter of the emperor, born by Yu Jieyu, and she also died young.

Miao Zhaorong said gloomily when he heard this: "Isn't it, when I came to the school the most, I cried a lot sadly, but I didn't suspect that someone else was poisoning......

The most prosperous is the prince Yu Wang Xin's small characters. When Miao Zhaorong gave birth to the prince, he dreamed that the gods and men told each other the three words "the most prosperous", so he took this as the prince's nickname. King Yu's qualifications are duanshu, and he loves it very much, but unfortunately he died in less than half a year, and he and Miao Zhaorong were grief-stricken, and they have never forgotten it.

At the mention of her son, Miao Zhaorong burst into tears, and Yu Jieyu hurriedly laughed and said, "Okay, why am I talking about this?" It made my sister sad. ”

Miao Zhaorong sighed: "It's none of your business." We sisters are sympathetic to each other, and we understand what we say, and we don't need to explain it. ”

Yu Jieyu nodded yes and sighed: "They are all people who serve the official family, why are they so far away?" There is only one arrogant master like her in the palace, and there is no other semicolon. I don't understand, there are smart and virtuous ladies around the official family, and there are also gentle and obedient little jasper, but why do you now favor such a dilapidated family from Haiyou? Although she is a little beautiful, can she be as beautiful as heaven? ”

I have also heard about Zhang Meiren's life experience. Her father Zhang Yao was named Jin Shi and the first, but died young, and her mother entrusted her to Zhang Yaofeng's brother Zhang Yaozuo to raise. Zhang Yaozuo later wanted to go to Shu to be an official, saying that the distance was far away and he refused to bring several orphans and orphans who followed his younger brother with him. Zhang Meiren's mother had no way to make a living, so she sold her daughter to the eldest princess of Wei as a kabuki, changed to the Jian family, and gave birth to a son. The eldest princess sent Zhang Meiren to the palace and accepted her in the forbidden Xianshao Department. At that time, Zhang Meiren was still young, and the palace man Jia saw that he liked her, so he took her as a daughter to raise. Zhang Meiren worked as a haiyou for a few years, until she met Jinshang in the palace of the Empress Dowager Zhanghui. Now that she is favored, she no longer mentions this Haiyou career, claiming that she is the adopted daughter of the first emperor Shen Jieyu, but the people in the palace will naturally not forget, and in private she is often like Yu Jieyu, calling her "a broken family from Haiyou".

"You entered the palace later than me, and you may not know about the early years, but there is a reason for this." Miao Zhaorong explained to Yu Jieyu the reason why the Zhang family was favored, "Once she danced to the Empress Dowager Zhang Hui, and the Empress Dowager thought she was cute, so she kept her by her side. The official family was raised by the Empress Dowager Zhang Hui when she was young, and she was extremely filial to her, and she did not forget to settle the province in the morning and dusk when she became an adult. Zhang Niangzi was young at that time, not much older than today's Hui Rou, one day found that the little white rabbit she raised died, the throat was wounded, half of the body was bloody, she cried to death, and then someone said to her, the rabbit may have been bitten to death by a mouse, it happened that there was a little mouse running from her feet at that time, she saw the anger from the heart, running all over the ground with her skirt, must go to trample the little mouse to death. The official family happened to come in at this moment, and when he saw this scene, he fell in love with her from then on, and when she was a little older, he accepted her. ”

Yu Jieyu suddenly realized and said with a smile: "It turns out that the official family just likes her little temperament. ”

Miao Zhaorong smiled slightly: "Maybe in his eyes, this is the rare true temperament of a woman in the palace...... Later, someone told Mrs. Zhang that the little rabbit was actually killed by the little girl who hated her. I don't know if this matter is true or not, but after that, Zhang Niangzi's suspicion took root, and if something went wrong, she suspected that someone had harmed her. Now that her daughter is gone, she is not suspicious but strange. ”

Yu Jieyu thought about it, and said: "But before, she did find a puppet in the back garden...... Before she finished speaking, she hurriedly said: "She is so arrogant, there must be many people in the palace who resent her." provoked this kind of thing, in the final analysis, because she herself is ignorant. ”

Miao Zhaorong shook his head and sighed, "Who knows......"

At this time, Zhaorong noticed me again, so he ordered: "Just now, the official family sent someone to ask if the princess is better, you go to Zhang Niangzi's Pavilion and return to the official's house." ”

I bowed my head and agreed. When Yu Jieyu saw them talking about Zhang Mei's affairs, I stood by the side, and deliberately smiled and advised: "Don't mention what I said to Miao Niangzi to others." ”

Before I could answer, Miao Zhaorong had already opened his mouth and said to Jieyu: "You can rest assured of this." Don't look at this child's young age, but he is more stable than many old palace people. and serve Hui Rou wholeheartedly, I only treat him as my own. ”

When I went to Xiangluan Pavilion again, Zhang Meiren was no longer in the hospital, she should have been crying for a long time, and she was helped into it to rest. When he saw me come in, he immediately beckoned me to come near, and asked me about the situation of the princess, and was very concerned.

At this time, a group of chamberlains lined up, all holding a few violets in their hands. Today, he turned to the monks who were doing things in the courtyard and said, "All the monks give each a purple luo. ”

The palace does things, and the monks have customized rewards, and Ziluo is not among them, so it should be given by today's push.

The monks thanked each other. I didn't want to change the conversation today, so I seriously instructed them: "When you leave the palace from Donghua Gate in the coming day, you must pay more attention, hide the violet in your arms, and don't let the people in the Inner Dongmen Division see it, otherwise, there will be a written argument in Taiwan." ”

The monks agreed, but they couldn't help but show surprise when they looked at each other. The palace people on both sides naturally knew that Jinshang had always been afraid of the officials, and when they heard this, they all wanted to laugh, but when they peeked at it, they found that Jinshang's expression was wrong, and the smile was scared back.

He originally spoke to the monks with a pleasant face, but when he mentioned "the people of the Inner East Gate Division", his eyes turned cold. After speaking, his face was still cold and gloomy, and it was still frosty.

As soon as I heard the "Inner East Division", I immediately remembered Mr. Zhang Maoze. In connection with the silence I mentioned in front of Jinshang before, I was secretly a little suspicious, Mr. Zhang made the official family unhappy, isn't it because he is in charge of the palace and forbids people to enter and exit, and when he saw that the official family rewarded more people and property, he went to tell the official?

The Inner East Gate Division is very close to the Zhongshu Gate and the Pavilions, and it is very easy to contact the foreign ministers. But if you think about it again, it is not often that you give money to others at will, and Mr. Zhang should not upset the emperor for this kind of thing. I'm so suspicious, it's quite naïve. But why does the official family not like Mr. Zhang?

Still thinking nonsense, I didn't hear me call today. It wasn't until he raised his voice slightly and called my name again that I woke up from a dream and obeyed me.

"Let's go, go to Yifeng Pavilion, I'll take a look at Huirou." He said.