Mrs. Xian Su Yusheng, in this palace, people like to call her the lady of the splendid palace, because it looks kind, and there is no one on the errand under her who does not love this master. Speaking of which, she was originally the queen of this palace. It's a pity that she is a Qi countryman.

When Ji Hongduo was still the king of Xia, she was sent to the Wei State as the granddaughter of Su Yun, the founding county prince of the Qi State. Emperor Wei liked her dignified and generous very much, and found Ji Hongduo, who had the most similar personality to her, to marry among the sons, and became the rightful Princess Xia.

In that battle for imperial power, she accompanied Ji Hongduo here, and even killed Ji Hongduo's first child on the way. It was a child who lived only one day, born in the morning and died in the evening. Ji Hongduo hadn't even had time to give him a name. But later, when the palace people mentioned this child, they would always say that there was once a sun king.

Yes, this child is like the sun, rising and setting.

For many years after that, Su Yusheng was never able to conceive a child. Until Ji Hongduo ascended the throne, the important ministers deliberated and made a decision that affected her life. Jing Wei entered the palace and was canonized as the queen, while she was only named a lady.

Ji Hongduo always felt that she owed Su Yusheng, she was always so sensible and never argued. Soon they had another child, the first daughter of Ji Hongduo. However, Da Bu said that her fate collided with the national fortune of Wei, and she could only be fostered outside the palace.

This eldest princess is five years old this year, and she is fostered in Taifu Feng Chongxiao Mansion. Mrs. Feng named her Zhilan, hoping that this child could have a noble character like an orchid and be unswerving. Although she was fostered outside, Ji Hongduo still issued a decree to crown her as Princess Zhaoqing and tell the world.

At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Xian gave birth to the fifth prince, Ji Jinxiu. She was particularly worried that the previous thing would happen again. Therefore, it is not easy for people to see this child. Especially after Qi Guo's proton entered the palace, he even said that he was in poor health and no longer stepped out of the Splendid Palace.

"Madam, Wan Bazi is here."

Wan Bazi Yan Manshi is the only concubine who lives in the same palace with Mrs. Xian, she has a calm personality, is not public, and knows poetry and books, and she can talk to Su Yusheng very well on weekdays. The other concubines all felt that the Splendid Palace was like a pool of stagnant water, and they moved away thinking about Fa'er, only Yan Manshi stayed.

From the first day she entered the palace, her heart was not on the emperor, and for her, entering the palace was no different from becoming a monk. Instead of going to those noisy places, it is better to be quiet in the Splendid Palace, not to mention that there is someone to talk to here.

"Sister, sister came to you to find books to pass the time."

Searching for books is fake, and it's true to find someone to talk to. Jingwen took the fifth prince Ji Jinxiu to the garden to bask in the sun, and Su Yusheng and Yan Manshi were left in the main hall.

"Are you looking for me to borrow books, or are you going to tell me books?"

Su Yusheng pursed her lips and smiled, and handed a cup of hot tea to Yan Manshi.

"Mrs. Xuan is making a big fuss in Qifeng Palace again, she went to bed last night, and it is an old saying that she was late this morning. But she actually wore red clothes like the queen today, and she showed off for a while, saying that she was rewarded by the emperor. ”

"So flamboyant? Aren't you afraid that the queen will embarrass her in the future? ”

"If the queen wants to embarrass her, I'm afraid she will already be embarrassed. But today, isn't it good for Mrs. Xuan to do her own thing? However, my sister heard that there is a reason why she is so flamboyant today. Da Situ Zhu Min proposed the idea of expanding the salt fields to fill the treasury, and the emperor adopted it, and asked Mrs. Xuan's father to start doing it. ”

Su Yusheng savored it carefully and said: "Historically, those who can be contaminated with salt are people who are quite trusted by the emperor, and this is another fat difference. It seems that the emperor really attaches great importance to the He family. It's normal to love the house and the black. ”

"Sister also thinks this is normal?"

Yan Manshi had something to say, Su Yusheng raised his eyes to her, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that what you want to say is not Mrs. Xuan?" ”

Yan Manshi bit her lip lightly, as if she was worried about something, but soon became cheerful again, and said: "Sister, have you ever thought that the proposal was given by Zhu Min, and it stands to reason that the saint should appreciate Zhu Min more." In other words, Zhu Min's official residence is Dasitu, and he has always been trusted by the saints. But why did his only daughter die tragically in the palace? ”

"This ......"

Shaking his head and smiling, Su Yusheng knew that he couldn't get around this topic today. Zhu Zhiyi's tragic death in the palace was deliberately done by someone. However, according to Su Yusheng's conjecture, all the disasters also came from Zhu Zhiyi.

"Manshi, since you have already started, let's just make small talk and talk about it." Su Yusheng likes to use flowers and fruits in tea, so the tea in Splendid Palace is also famous for its sweetness. At this time, Su Yusheng was holding a cup of jasmine tea, which was fragrant in his mouth.

After tasting it carefully, he opened the conversation: "When Zhu Zhiyi entered the palace, she was so honored, although she was a concubine, she was a beloved. At that time, there were more than ten days in a month, and the Holy Lord had to summon her to sleep in Zichen Palace. As the saying goes, a collection of thousands of favors in one is also a collection of thousands of hatreds. At that time, the women of the palace who were not jealous of her, who did not resent her. However, Zhu Zhiyi did not understand this. Speaking of careful budgeting, she is much worse than Zhu Minke. After a year like this, Zhu Zhiyi showed no signs of pregnancy, and there were rumors in the palace that she would not get pregnant. ”

Yan Manshi remembered these rumors, and then Su Yusheng's words: "Therefore, the saint dislikes her, and his favor for her has decreased. But it's not like that, in the end, it will be degraded to a palace maid. ”

"Yes, there can be a lot of idlers in the palace, like you and me. However, Zhu Zhiyi's death involved another person - Liu Wan! ”

Liu Wan, as soon as this name came out, Yan Manshi couldn't help but shudder. In the past two years, no one dared to talk about her. How could Zhu Zhiyi get in touch with her? Yan Manshi was puzzled and looked at Su Yusheng suspiciously.

Of course, Su Yusheng didn't know the details, but her intuition made her guess so. Liu Wan is pregnant with a dragon son, and no one knows about it. She sprinkled and cleaned in Xinghua Temple every day, and covered everything up very well. However, in the palace, the only person who will go to Xinghua Temple on the first and fifteenth days of the new year to offer incense is Zhu Zhiyi.

She must have discovered Liu Wan's abnormality, or not just discovered that she had even done something to Liu Wan. Because, not long after, the proton nurse who was in the same house as Liu Wu died violently. At that time, the doctor said that it was poisoning, but it was just a nursing mother, who would care.

Therefore, Su Yusheng speculated that the nurse should have accidentally eaten the food that Zhu Zhiyi originally wanted to poison Liu Wu, and then suddenly died. However, this just reminded the saint that there is still a Liu Wu in the Yong'an Palace, and Liu Wu is pregnant.

"So, Zhu Zhiyi inadvertently made a self-defeating accident and ran into the reverse scale of the saint, and finally died tragically?" Yan Manshi summarized Su Yusheng's words, but she was not completely sure, after all, this was just their conjecture, and no one knew what the truth was.

Liu Wan survived secretly in Yong'an Palace, but she didn't know that the conjectures and rumors about herself outside the palace had never stopped. On the swing frame, the protons are frolicking happily. The nurse and Liu Wan are hurrying to make clothes, so the proton naturally doesn't have to worry about the winter. However, Liu Wan's daughter can't.

After being sick for half a month, Fei Yi finally survived. The big stone that had accumulated in Liu Wan's heart also landed. Take advantage of the sunshine to take your daughter out to breathe. It's also good to make some embroidery pieces and some quilts and jackets.

"Ah, it's still Mama Hong, you embroider well, the two sides look at different patterns, and you can't see the thread at all." Liu Wan carefully admired the embroidery piece embroidered by Mama Hong to the sun, and then looked at her embroidery, but she couldn't see it at all.

"When I was young, I was an embroiderer in the embroidery room in the palace. At that time, I could learn a lot of skills from the masters. Before Zhou Shanggong asked me to enter the palace as a nurse, I relied on these embroideries for a living. ”

Mama Hong proudly said that with this hand embroidery, she supported her three children. But in the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and it is rare to show off in front of Liu Wan.

"Embroidery room? There was an embroidery room in the palace? ”

Liu Wan is too young, how could she know about these past events? So, Mama Hong told her a lot of things in the embroidery room. For example, once, when there was water in the embroidery room, how did she put out the fire.

Liu Wan held her chin and listened with relish. However, when it came to walking the water, Mama Hong still felt that it was very strange to walk in the water in Yong'an Palace that day, so she asked Liu Wan: "I remember, when we found that Mrs. Wen Shu lit the candle, we went in, and the fire was very small at that time, and we extinguished it in three or two clicks." Later, she said, I want to say a few words to you, and the fire is burning again, what's going on? What did she tell you? ”

"Alas!" Liu Wan sighed, "It's all poor women." She originally thought that as long as her wound was not good and she kept passing on the imperial doctor, the emperor would still remember her existence, and it was hard to say that he would take her back when her anger subsided. Therefore, she uses a hairpin to break the wound every day. However, the emperor didn't wait, and waited for the holy decree to ask her to go to the Huanyi Bureau. was completely desperate, and asked you for candles, intending to burn Yong'an Palace to attract the emperor's attention. ”

"Tsk, the old body almost became a sinner!" Mama Hong rubbed her chest and said fearfully.

"Do you remember the burden that Qingmeng sent?"

"Of course I do! I was in a hurry to send it, and I was in a hurry to go, and I heard that Qingmeng was later transferred to other palaces as a rough palace maid. ”

"Well, in that bag is the bracelet given to Zhu Zhiyi by the queen, and after it was broken, Qingmeng went to beg Qiu Shanggong to repair it quickly. She showed me the bracelet that day, maybe the fire wasn't completely extinguished, so it started burning again. ”

Liu Wan knew that Mama Hong was a simple-minded person, and she would not know that the less she knew in this deep palace, the more down-to-earth she would be. That night, Zhu Zhiyi did show the bracelet to Liu Wan, but there was something wrong with the bracelet.