Yin Lingyuan was thinking about Lady Li's words all the way, and when she returned to Yinghua Palace, she heard Han Lu ask: "What does Lady Li mean, the master ......"

Yin Lingyuan glanced at her and ordered, "In the future, you will secretly take care of Liqing Palace." ”

Hanlu nodded: "The slave understands." ”

On the seventh day of the eighth month, there is still one day before the day of leaving the palace, Yin Lingyuan rushed to the North Five Institute before the end of this day, determined the list, and announced that tomorrow, the people who received the voucher gathered here, and they could leave the palace after receiving the silver ticket.

met Zhang and Hong'er, and when she left, she invited the two of them to Yinghua Palace for dinner, which was a farewell.

"You're going to leave the palace tomorrow, but what are your plans?" After dinner, the three of them sat down and drank tea, and Yin Lingyuan asked Zhang.

Although Hong'er is a little older between the two, Zhang is bold and has many ideas, so she is still in charge of many things.

"Sister Hong and I don't have any family anymore, and we are two people who depend on each other when we go out," Zhang replied, "We plan to go to the south, where the people are civilized, and my sister and I plan to go there to make a living or do some small business." ”

"I never thought about finding a good man to marry?" Yin Lingyuan asked with a smile.

"Jieyu teased", Zhang shook his head, "We are all so old, where will there be a good family willing to marry, if you fight for your own life and live on your own, even if you don't marry in your life, what's the matter?" ”

When Yin Lingyuan said this, she looked at Zhang approvingly: "I knew that I didn't mistake you." Saying that, he whispered to Han Lu, and Han Lu should go down, and after a while, he came back with a tray in his hand.

Yin Lingyuan pointed to the things on the plate and motioned for the two to taste it: "On the day of the Qixi Night Banquet, I promised the county lord of Le'an to make this for her to eat. ”

Both of them saw this novelty snack for the first time, and they didn't know how to eat it, so Yin Lingyuan simply pinched one and put it in his mouth to demonstrate to the two.

Zhang's learned from Yin Lingkite's appearance, and also took a bite, the entrance was first crispy and sweet on the outside, and then the yellow sauce meat on the inside was like a tender egg custard, which dissolved in the mouth, but it had more rich milky aroma than the egg custard.

"This taste is so peculiar", Zhang took another bite and added: "But it is very delicious, and people can't stop." ”

"This is called an egg tart, the method is simple but not easy to imitate, it can be regarded as my unique creation", Yin Lingyuan said, "How about selling it?" ”

"It's going to be a big hit." Zhang affirmed.

Yin Lingyuan smiled and took out a piece of paper from under the plate: "This is a recipe, except for the county lord of Anle, who has a copy, which is made to eat for himself, there are no two copies in the whole Tianqi, so I will give it to you as a parting gift." ”

Zhang was stunned for a moment, then reacted to what this recipe meant, and immediately refused: "How can this be done, Jieyu has finally developed such a good recipe, if it is placed in Xianming Xiaozhu, it will definitely be able to make money every day." ”

Yin Lingyuan smiled: "Even you know that Xianming Xiaozhu has it?" ”

"Who in the palace doesn't know that Niangniang is not only good at vegetables and vegetables, but also a must-have in making food." "But this thing is too valuable, and our sisters really can't accept it." ”

Yin Lingyuan folded the recipe and put it in their hands: "Although the emperor has rewarded the silver, there will always be a time when it is spent, you can take this snack recipe, whether it is to open a shop to make a living in the future, or to sell this recipe to make money, it is good, even if we get acquainted, I have a little heart." ”

"Jieyu ......" Hong'er and Zhang's Gu had red eyes, and looked at Yin Lingyuan and didn't know how to thank her.

"Okay, it's not early, you should go back and rest early, don't miss the time to leave the palace tomorrow." Yin Lingyuan said.

The two of them thanked each other for their kindness before leaving.

Yin Lingyuan sent them to the door and breathed a sigh of relief, as soon as the day passed, her errand would be over.

She did this, there were a lot of gossips in the palace, it was nothing more than the same as Concubine Sun, who felt that she was trespassing and seizing power, and only she understood that although this matter was not difficult to deal with, it was also indispensable to worry about it every day.

If it weren't for the trust of others and the matter of loyalty, she would not have bothered to take over.

Fortunately, after tonight, everything is over, Yin Lingyuan thinks so, but someone doesn't tell her to get her wish.

Early in the morning of the eighth day of the first month, Yin Lingyuan came to the North Fifth Institute according to the hour, and as soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she listened to the chaos inside, the noise and quarrels continued, and the palace people around her shouted "Yu Jieyu has arrived", and the courtyard was quiet.

"What's going on?" Yin Lingyuan entered the courtyard and asked in a loud voice.

"Qi Yu Jieyu, several of the vouchers for picking girls have been lost, and they can't get the silver, so they are looking for it everywhere." The little eunuch in charge of registration hurriedly came to report.

"Lost?" Yin Lingyuan was stunned for a moment, the Internal Affairs Office looked at the voucher to give the silver, if it was lost, it would be really difficult to get the silver out, "How did you lose it, who lost it?" ”

"The concubine is lost."

"The concubine's is gone."

Immediately, several people stood up, all of them looked anxious, you must know that they made up their minds to leave the palace, a large part of the reason is this thousand taels of silver, instead of continuing to suffer in the North Five Institutes, it is better to receive the silver, buy land outside, and live their own stable life, but if there is no silver, how can they these weak women go out to live?

"Master Qiyu Jieyu, the concubine's voucher is placed in the cabinet, it was fine yesterday, but it disappeared when she got up early this morning, and the concubine still pointed to this silver for the rest of her life, how can it be good without the voucher." While crying, this picking girl knelt down for Yin Lingyuan, "Please ask Jieyu's master to be the master." ”

"Ask Jieyu to be the master."

Suddenly, a large area of the courtyard fell to its knees, and Yin Lingyuan looked roughly, there were seven or eight people, and they were about to reach halfway.

Such a collective large-scale loss is not an accident, it must be a human being.

"Tell me how you found out that the slip was missing." Yin Lingyuan asked about the past one by one, and the answers he got were almost the same, almost all of them were still there last night, and he woke up early this morning and found that he was missing.

It could only have been lost yesterday night.

"Master, every night the gates of each palace will be keyed, if it was lost last night, it must be among the people in the five northern houses." Whispered reminder with green.

Yin Lingyuan also thought so, she raised her voice: "Where is the eunuch in charge of the North Fifth Institute?" ”

Immediately, a person came out of the crowd, walked in front of Yin Lingyuan, and replied respectfully: "The slave is the new steward eunuch Jiang Hong, please give Jieyu orders." ”

Yin Lingyuan nodded and asked, "Are all the people from the North Five Institutes here?" ”

"There are also a few women who don't plan to leave the palace, so they are not on the spot." Jiang Hongdao.

"Call all the people out, and send a few more men to guard the gate, and no one is allowed to go out." Yin Lingyuan commanded.

"Yes." Jiang Hong took the order and left, and after a while, Su Mei and a few other picking girls were late.

"It's early in the morning, and I don't let people rest." Su Mei walked over with a yawn, and saw that Yin Lingyuan only bent slightly as a salute.

"Su Cainu didn't rest well?" Yin Lingyuan raised her eyebrows, "I don't know what you did last night?" ”

"What else can the concubine do, of course it's sleeping", Su Mei quickly glanced at Yin Lingyuan, and added: "It's just that the concubine has never been used to getting up early, Yu Jieyu knows, we are not qualified to ask the concubine every day." ”

Yin Lingyu looked at her suspiciously for a moment, and then turned to everyone: "A few of the vouchers that were ready to go out of the palace to collect girls were lost, just yesterday night, so call the big guy out and ask, from last night to this morning, what are they doing, whether there is anyone to witness, and whether they see any suspicious people." ”

As he spoke, he instructed Hanlu to vacate the small room for registration, and then he would ask questions in the small room one by one.

"Jieyu's words, is it because you suspect that we stole the voucher?" A Cainu standing next to Su Cainu said loudly, "Maybe they didn't keep it themselves, and it doesn't matter if they lose it, why did Jieyu interrogate us as thieves?" ”

"Bold, is this the attitude of talking to Jieyu?" Midori asked loudly.

The girl gave a green look, and finally softened her tone: "The concubine just doesn't understand, and please don't blame Jieyu." ”

"The eight of them lost their receipts at the same time, how could they all be careless, and after the palace gate was under the key, only the people from the North Five Institutes were there, so naturally they had to ask us first." Zhang then explained.

The girl stopped talking, but Su Mei looked at Zhang's frowning and hesitated to speak: "Concubine remember, last night was the last time Sister Zhang and Sister Hong'er came back, is it ......?"

said that he looked at Zhang and Hong'er with unkind eyes, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Yesterday, I invited Zhang Cainu and Hong'er Cainu to dinner, what does Su Cainu want to say?" Yin Lingyuan looked at her.

"I wonder if the two sisters' receipts have been lost?" Su Mei asked Zhang.

"No, I didn't." Zhang's Road.

"That's weird", Su Mei turned to Yin Lingyuan, "Forgive the concubine for saying bluntly, the two sisters leaked back to the palace, and they didn't lose their vouchers, isn't it, the two sisters took advantage of yesterday night, when the sisters slept again, so they sneaked everywhere and stole the slips?" ”

"You talk nonsense!" Hong'er said loudly, "My sister and I came back yesterday and went back to our own room to sleep, and we didn't want to spew blood." ”

"Su Cainu, what evidence do you have for saying this?" Yin Lingyuan spoke.

"The concubine is just guessing", Su Mei said with a smile, "I heard that the news of the girl's departure from the palace was first proposed by Sister Zhang to Jieyu, and the concubine thought that Sister Zhang must have thought about her livelihood after leaving the palace, and wanted to get more silver so that she could live better in the future, so she speculated like this." ”

As soon as Su Cainu's voice fell, the people around her couldn't wait to echo: "What Sister Su said is reasonable, and the concubine also thinks so." ”

"Is it really Sister Zhang and Sister Hong'er?"

"Don't talk nonsense, they're not like that."

"Knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts, I look at the suspense."

For a while, everyone was talking, and many people began to doubt Zhang and Hong'er.

Yin Lingyuan was just about to open his mouth to stop it, but the Zhang family spoke first: "I was the first to propose to leave the palace, but it is not like Su Cainu said, I want to get more silver." Today I am willing to give my thousand taels of silver to the sisters who have lost their slips. ”

"Sister Zhang is really generous", Su Mei said sarcastically, "It's just that one, two, four......" Su Mei counted them one by one, and then smiled, "The eight sisters have lost their vouchers, even if Sister Zhang takes out the silver, it is only one thousand taels, and two hundred taels for each person is not enough." ”

"And me!" Hong'er then spoke, "Mine is also willing to take it out and divide it equally among the lost sisters." ”

"That's enough for two hundred taels, but compared to one thousand taels, it's still a drop in the bucket." Su Mei's face was sad, but the words he said were gloating.

Yin Lingyuan finally couldn't stand it anymore, and interrupted in a loud voice: "No one has to take the money, Zhang Cainu, Hongcainu, since you didn't steal the slip, why should you be the one who is wronged." ”

Zhang opened her mouth and didn't speak, she was afraid of delaying the time to leave the palace, if because of this incident, everyone couldn't get out of the palace in the end, it would be worth the loss, rather than this, she would rather take out her own money to subsidize others, but also to go out of the palace.

"Now in this situation, I don't think I have to ask one by one", Yin Lingyuan said in a cold voice, "Even if you ask, some people may not be willing to tell the truth, since the voucher was stolen last night, I guess eighty percent is still in this yard, including Green Baosheng!" ”

"The slave is here."

"I searched room by room, I want to see who is so bold that he dares to steal even the voucher of the emperor's clothes!"

"Yes!" The two responded in unison, and they were going to lead someone to search.

Su Mei and the other girls were obviously flustered, and hurriedly spoke to stop them: "What crime did the concubines commit, Yu Jieyu actually wanted to search the palace?" ”

"Although the concubines are humble, they are also the emperor's people, and if they want to search the palace, they have to be ordered by the emperor or the concubine."

Yin Lingyuan has been staring at the expressions of Su Mei and the others since just now, as soon as this person comes out, he grabs the tip everywhere and bites indiscriminately, which is really suspicious, and if he really sees the expressions of several people, he is more and more sure of the guess in his heart.

"The emperor and the concubine ordered me to be responsible for picking women out of the palace, and now that something like this has happened, I naturally want the power to track it down, Hanlu, don't hurry up."

As she spoke, she gave Hanlu a look and motioned for her to search Su Mei's house first.

Su Mei and the others saw that they couldn't stop it, so they were about to show their stuffing, and they were in a hurry, when they suddenly heard a crisp female voice outside: "This early in the morning, why is the North Fifth Institute so lively?" ”

As the voice approached, the owner who spoke revealed his true face, but it was Concubine Rong of Chengle Palace.