Early the next morning, the old lady suddenly summoned the grandmothers and maids in the courtyards, and since the old lady was unwell and had been recuperating, the palace had never had such a big battle.

Everyone arrived, Qin Yunuan took Man'er and Tingxue to wait quietly, and the old lady leaned on a Zen chair covered with brocade mats on the steps to close her eyes and recuperate.

The mandarin duck looked around at the people in the courtyard quite pretentiously, and said with a grim expression: "Yesterday, an extremely precious agarwood box of the third young grandmother suddenly disappeared, and the maids and subordinates in Jiyuxuan have been checked, but they still haven't found it, this thing is extremely valuable, you have been there, even, which hands and feet are not clean, and they are greedy for a while, and they are honestly handed over, the old lady can not blame the past, if not, then don't blame the old lady for not thinking about everyone's dedication to the palace." ”

Most of the people below are submissive, but a few old grandmothers who have worked in the palace for forty years speak with some confidence: "Old lady, you are so unfair, the third young grandmother is suspicious of all of us if she loses something, if it is really treated equally, why don't you pull the people in the courtyard of the side concubine over and question it?" ”

Immediately, someone shouted in agreement: "Yes, only I don't see the people in Concubine Sun's courtyard, look, our palace has never lost such a valuable thing before Concubine Sun got married, who knows if the maid in Concubine Sun's courtyard is not honest." ”

"Shut up." The old lady suddenly snorted with confidence, and when she opened her eyes, her eyes, which had experienced countless vicissitudes and ups and downs, flashed with wisdom and coldness. "Mandarin ducks, I have found it all out."

"The slave and maid are not convinced." The first to make a noise shouted, "Although the third young grandmother is also the lord of Pingjun and a member of the Shangguan family, you must not bully people like this, if you want to search, you have to search from the courtyard of Concubine Sun, we are all old people in King Ning's mansion, only the bottom of the courtyard is unknown." ”

Suddenly, the call to check the people around Sun Baozhen sounded first, Qin Yunuan glanced at the old lady silently, this is exactly the purpose of her and the old lady, Qin Yunuan showed a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, judging from the previous events, the methods of the Sun family can be said to be everywhere, this time, if she does not strike first, sooner or later she will be restrained.

Sun Baozhen's winter and spring courtyard was quiet at this time, Sun Baozhen got up early, the personal maid Xiuru was combing her sideburns with broken hair, Sun Baozhen picked a pomegranate hairpin made of rubies in the makeup box, this is her favorite one, the gem luster is round, and the pomegranate-shaped shape is gorgeous and lovely.

"Concubine Fang," Xiuru reminded quietly, "Concubine Fang is now a married woman, and she can't wear such gorgeous jewelry anymore." ”

Sun Baozhen was slightly angry, sideways speechless, and listened to Xiuru resignedly: "Madame added a box of jade jewelry to the dowry, saying that it was reserved for the side concubine to wear when serving tea to the old lady." ”

Xiuru trembled as she spoke, opened a small box and handed it to Sun Baozhen, Sun Baozhen only glanced at it, and saw that it was all dignified and generous, but the old dark green jade hairpin and jade bracelet, and replied lightly: "I'm still so young, I'm going to wear such an old-fashioned thing." ”

"Side concubine."

Sun Baozhen shook her head and sighed, she knew her situation: "Okay, dress up for me, just wear this hairpin." Sun Baozhen took out a hairpin from it without even looking at it, for her, there is no difference between this box of jewelry;

At this moment, the maid who was waiting outside suddenly ran in out of breath and gambling: "Concubine Side, it's not good, the grandmother next to the old lady brought a lot of people here, saying that she wanted to search the courtyard of the concubine." ”

Sun Baozhen's eyes widened, and he suddenly shook off Xiuru's hand combing his hair, and the beautifully made jade hosta was broken into three knots.

"On the second day of the wedding, he gave me such a dismissal, so what does Ge Yunying mean?"

After hearing this, Xiuru hurriedly covered Sun Baozhen's mouth and said, "Concubine Fang, you can't call the old lady by her name like this." ”

Sun Baozhen has a short temper, but because she is the best contact in the Sun family in the soul dementorship, she has always been the focus of Mrs. Sun's training, and Xiuru is a maid carefully selected by Mrs. Sun for Sun Baozhen.

Outside, it was already a bustle, and it was the right-hand man next to the old lady who was arguing with the maid next to Sun Baozhen.

"Since you have entered our Ning Wangfu, you have to listen to the rules of Ning Wangfu, and now the entire palace is investigating, how can Concubine Sun's courtyard be an exception?"

"What the hell did you drop, you have to make such a big fanfare, if you find it, let's just send it to the third young grandmother."

"It's an heirloom given by the old lady to the third young grandmother, priceless." Mama's attitude is very resolute.

"Since the whole house is searching, our yard naturally can't be special." I don't know when, Sun Baozhen has come out of the house, she is dressed in an alizarin cyan gold Luo frowning gorgeous dress, the belt is tightly tied, outlining the girl's figure, although the clothes are gorgeous, but they lack some of the liveliness of a young girl, and it looks a little dull.

"Side concubine." When the maids outside saw Sun Baozhen come out, they naturally bowed on their knees.

Sun Baozhen glanced at this grandmother, and her eyes flickered: "Mama, please." ”

This grandmother naturally will not be polite, and entered the courtyard with the maid, Sun Baozhen's eyes signaled, Xiuru immediately followed, Sun Baozhen entered the house, although there is no time to do anything in the house, tracking down the whereabouts of the fourth map, but it is impossible to let others deduct their hats because of this search.

The Dongchun courtyard is not too big, but this grandmother still searched inside and outside for a long time, and she checked very carefully, but she still found nothing, even Sun Baozhen's house was carefully checked.

"Now Mama can also go back to the old lady to restore her life." Sun Baozhen smiled at the corner of her mouth.

"Wait," said the mamma suddenly, "there is still a place that has not been searched," she said, glancing at Xiuru beside her, "and that is Miss Xiuru's own room." ”

Sun Baozhen snorted coldly, expecting that there would be nothing in Xiuru's house, she knew Xiuru's personality, and she knew even more that the people in her courtyard were all one in a hundred who married into the palace with her.

Mama immediately brought someone into Xiuru's house, and the bedding cabinet was not spared, and after a while, a little maid pointed to an upside-down copper basin, "There is a wooden box here." ”

Sun Baozhen's eyebrows tightened, but she had already seen the little girl come out with a palm-sized agarwood box. This little maid glanced at Sun Baozhen boldly, Sun Baozhen immediately woke up, she remembered that this maid was the inconspicuous little man who had been following Qin Yunuan's side, and it seemed that her name was Xi'er;

The leading grandmother glanced at it: "That's right, it's this wooden box." ”

The anger in Sun Baozhen's heart was already raging, but she still tried to keep calm: "What do you mean, Mama?" ”

The leading grandmother said respectfully: "Please also ask the side concubine to go with this maid." ”

Xiuru's face was already pale, she never thought that why an inexplicable wooden box appeared in her room, she watched it very closely, and these searchers had no chance to do anything.

"Concubine Fang, Xiuru is innocent, you want to save Xiuru."

Sun Baozhen didn't look at Xiuru, but just looked at this indifferent look, with a slight joy after the success: "Don't worry, if someone deliberately harms you, I will not spare her." ”

In the Lotus Courtyard, the cold frost returned the latest news, in the small pavilion, Qin Yunuan and the old lady sat in front of the chessboard, the chessboard is an endgame, there are very few people who can solve it, the old lady loves to play chess, and has solved countless endgames, but this one has not been solved.

"Concubine Sun is already coming this way."

The old lady nodded, her attention was still on the chessboard, Qin Yunuan didn't know how to play chess, but this time the old lady was interested, so she let her learn while watching.

"You know, my sister once said that I was bold, so I was not suitable to play chess." The old lady held the white child in her hand and swayed, "But I think you are bolder." ”

"Preemptive," Qin Yunuan followed the old lady to slowly interpret the endgame, "Yunuan doesn't feel like he's taking a risk. ”

The old lady didn't look up: "You come and see this endgame, if it's you, how can you break it?" ”

Qin Yunuan only knows a little about the rules of Go, and only understands that in this endgame, in fact, Heizi has forced Baizi into a desperate situation, no matter which step Baizi takes, Heizi has a way to force Baizi to death again, which is why there are only two people in the world who can solve this endgame.

"Well, you don't know how to play chess." The old lady looked at Qin Yunuan for a long time and didn't speak, and shook her head to herself.

"Yu Nuan knows," Qin Yunuan suddenly smiled, and suddenly swept all the black and white pieces on the chessboard to the ground with his hand, and the sound of the crackling chess pieces falling was very harsh, "Old lady, this is Yu Nuan's method of cracking." ”

The old lady was a little stunned, but she heard Qin Yunuan say word by word: "Since you are already in a desperate situation, you don't have to follow the rules anymore and fight to the death in order to survive in a desperate situation." ”

The old lady looked at Qin Yunuan's eyes and became deeper and deeper, and at this time, the mandarin duck had already whispered: "Old lady, the third young grandmother, the side concubine is here." ”

Qin Yunuan smiled slightly, and when she turned around, she saw that Sun Baozhen had appeared dignified on the steps of the pavilion, and her shallow smile was quite the style of a master.

"The daughter-in-law has seen the old lady." Sun Baozhen saluted slowly, and suddenly said sharply to Xiuru, who was following behind: ", don't you kneel down quickly." ”

Faced with Sun Baozhen's sudden change of face, Xiuru looked a little panicked: "Husband...... Madam. ”

"Get on your knees!" Sun Baozhen's tone was extremely serious and serious.