The little eunuch went to the Shanggong Bureau in a hurry, and came over with Zhang Zhangshi after a short time.

Xiao Liulang was waiting for her outside Renshou Palace.

Zhang Zhangshi is the old lady in the palace, and there is a rule that palace maids can be released from the palace when they are twenty-five years old in the Zhaoguo Palace, and if they don't go out, they can comb their hair and be an aunt.

Zhang Zhangshi is the latter.

From the palace maid to the aunt, to the grandmother in charge, she has been handed over to the palace for most of her life.

The little eunuch who passed the word didn't say the specific matters, Zhang Zhangshi thought that the Queen Mother had summoned her, she came to the door of Renshou Palace, and when she saw Xiao Liulang, she was shocked for a while, and she was so frightened that she took a few steps back!

Because of his face, more than one person thought he had seen a ghost, and Steward Zhang was getting older, so he was inevitably more afraid.

Xiao Liulang didn't take it to heart, he said: "My surname is Xiao, my name is Liulang, and I am a Hanlin cultivator. ”

"Xiao, Xiao Liulang? It's not Xiao ......" Zhang Zhangshi was about to pronounce the name, but he suddenly remembered his humble body, and he was not worthy of pronouncing the name of the little marquis of Zhaodu.

She calmed down, wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, and said, "I'm sorry, the slave and maid recognized the wrong person." ”

Xiao Liulang didn't care much, he took out the token given to him by the old sacrificial wine-an inkstone that was missing a piece of the party.

Zhang Zhangshi's face changed again when he saw the inkstone: "You ......" She wanted to speak and stopped, and after a moment, she asked, "Did Huo Xijiu ask you to come to me?" ”

Xiao Liulang nodded and handed her the inkstone.

Zhang Zhangshi took the inkstone, as if he remembered something, and his eyes became complicated: "I didn't think he would come to me this time, is he okay?" I heard that he has returned to the capital and has returned to the country as a priest and wine ......"

Xiao Liulang said to her: "He's all right, please rest assured." ”

Zhang Zhangshi smiled bitterly: "What am I worried about?" Even if he is exiled to a bitter cold land, he will not see him die in a foreign land, so he will naturally take good care of himself......"

I always feel that the relationship between the two is not very simple, but Xiao Liulang is not good at inquiring about people's privacy.

Zhang Zhangshi looked down at the inkstone in his hand, angry and funny: "After so many years, he still has this broken thing, I thought he had already thrown it away." Then again, it's not a valuable thing, so why keep it? The fact that he was able to let you come to me with this shows that he trusts you very much. Say, what are you looking for me? No, what are you looking for me? He will never come back to me in his life. ”

This appearance made Xiao Liulang sigh, but he would not comfort people.

Tears flashed in Zhang Zhangshi's eyes, she smiled, and said casually: "Let you see you laugh, you say, what's the matter?" ”

Xiao Liulang didn't make a detour, and said bluntly: "I'm here to ask Zhang Zhangshi about someone." ”

"Who?" Zhang Zhangshi asked.

Xiao Liulang said truthfully: "A person with a mole on his left wrist was in the palace more than ten years ago, I don't know if it was a palace maid or a palace concubine. "It won't be Queen Xiao, Queen Xiao is his aunt, she won't hurt him, and Queen Xiao often hugs him, he knows what her wrist looks like.

Zhang Zhangshi frowned and fell into deep thought: "I don't have any impression...... But I can help you find it, as long as she hasn't been released from the palace all these years, I can help you find it. But. ”

Xiao Liulang understands that after all, in the past ten years, there are palace maids released in the palace every year, and if she is also one of them, it will be a stone in the sea.

But soon, Xiao Liulang shook his head again: "No, she shouldn't have been released from the palace." ”

Poisoning Xuanping's concubine is a felony, and once discovered, he will definitely die. If it is a palace concubine, the palace concubine cannot leave the palace; If she is a palace maid, she must be instructed by someone.

has done such an important thing for the master, how could the master let her out of the palace? Either kill and kill him, or stay by his side and continue to work for himself.

But after he was poisoned, he didn't hear about any palace maids who died in vain.

The man was still alive.

Live in the palace.

Zhang Zhangshi asked, "How many years ago?" ”

Xiao Liulang said: "Fourteen years ago. ”

"Ah......" Steward Zhang seemed to think of something, glanced at Xiao Liulang deeply, nodded and said, "That is, I want to find the person who entered the palace fourteen years ago, okay, leave this to me." ”

Zhang Zhangshi took the inkstone and left.

Xiao Liulang looked at her back that gradually disappeared into the night, and somehow, inexplicably felt that her back was a little stumbling and lonely.

It's getting late, and the palace is closing.

The small clearance said goodbye to the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Xiao Jingkong said with a glance: "Auntie, you can steal candy, you can't drink sugar water, and you can't eat fried shortbread, I will tell Jiaojiao." ”

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked disgusted: "I know, I know, you talk a lot, don't leave quickly!" ”

Xiao Jingkong put his little hands behind his back, tilted his head and raised his eyebrows: "Then don't miss me too much." ”

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "The mourning family will miss you when they are tired!" ”

Horn horn, noisy to death!

Xiao Liulang walked over unhurriedly, took Xiao Jingkong's hand, and said goodbye to Empress Dowager Zhuang.

He and Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't have so much to say, the two stared at each other, and quickly looked away.

Look, even a glance at him is superfluous.

"Grab the stuff." Mrs. Zhuang said expressionlessly.

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Xiao Jingkong broke away from the bad brother-in-law's hand, ran over, picked up a brocade box on the table, and ran over again, "Let's go!" ”

Xiao Liulang looked at the brocade box in his arms, and then looked at himself empty-handed, and he was hit by ten thousand arrows in his heart!

He glanced at the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang lowered her eyes and skimmed her face.

He looked at the table where the brocade box was placed again, and saw that there were a lot of blind boxes on it, but none of them were his own.

He took a deep breath, pressed his blocked chest, and went out with a black face.

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the back of one big and one small departing and snorted.

On the way home, Xiao Jingkong fell asleep in Xiao Liulang's arms, and his hand holding the brocade box was also released, Xiao Liulang held him with one hand and held the brocade box on the other.

There was an urge to open the brocade box and take a look, wanting to see what the Empress Dowager Zhuang had given to the little guy.

Why does he have it and he doesn't?

"What was I thinking?"

Xiao Liulang was ashamed of his naivety, he shook his head, and pressed the urge to watch the brocade box.

He forgot that he was only eighteen years old, and that he was a teenager who had not reached the crown.

He doesn't have to be young and old, and he doesn't have to be so calm.

Back at Bishui Hutong, it was already late at night.

Yao and Gu Yan both rested, Mama Fang and Yu Ya'er also went back to the next door to rest, and Gu Jiao was in the hall to make black powder.

The ratio of medicinal powder is almost determined, but only the medicinal powder is not enough, and it has to be made into a powerful weapon or hidden weapon.

Hearing the movement at the door, she put down her work and walked out, "Are you back?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Liulang nodded.

Gu Jiao walked over and took the little clear space that was sleeping and put it on the bed in the West House.

"What is this?" Xiao Liulang looked at a pile of small black things on the table and asked.

Gu Jiao walked out, thought about it, and said, "I don't know what it is, huh...... Black firecrackers? ”

Xiao Liulang: "......"

What is this name?

Gu Jiao made the black powder the size of a projectile, and packed it with a modified small bamboo tube, which added phosphorus powder to the device of the small bamboo tube, which had a low ignition point and would spontaneously combust after friction and heating, igniting the black powder in the bamboo tube to form a small blast.

The power of the blast is not too great, and the deterrence is the mainstay.

It's just that there is a hidden danger here, that is, the weather is too hot, what if there is no friction phosphorus powder and spontaneous combustion?

So we have to improve it.

Gu Jiao said: "I'll boil the water, you go wash and sleep first, I'll be fine for a while." ”

Xiao Liulang thought she was making pills and didn't say anything.

Gu Jiao continued to bury her head in the black powder, and seeing that he seemed to have something to say, she asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Xiao Liulang opened his mouth: "...... No. ”

Forget it, let's find out the person first.

The next day was the day when Xiao Liulang entered the palace to give a lecture to the prince, and as soon as he entered the study, he heard that something happened in the harem - a head of the Shanggong Bureau died in his room, and the emperor Long Yan was furious, and immediately rushed to the harem after the early court.

"Who's in charge?" Xiao Liulang asked an old eunuch in the study.

The old eunuch whispered: "Zhang Zhang, Your Majesty's clothes are all made by her, and Your Majesty was talking about her a few days ago......"

Xiao Liulang didn't know that Zhang Zhangshi was actually a female official who had been valued by the emperor, and the old sacrificial wine didn't say it, of course, it could be that the old sacrificial wine itself didn't know, after all, it was a matter of the harem, and it was not surprising that he, as a minister of the previous dynasty, didn't know.

But I only looked for her last night, and today she had an accident, which is very weird.