When Zichu heard this, he vaguely guessed what she wanted to say next. said: "So, now Ziqing's sister's daily production is very poor?" ”

Song Zilan shook her head a little helplessly, and said truthfully: "She came to me twice, and I gave her a few hundred taels of silver in private, thinking that I could always cope with it for a while." Besides, my mother is under house arrest in her own yard, and she always has to deal with the people around her, otherwise wouldn't it be even more sad? However, what worries Ziqing the most is not these, but .......".

"What is it?"

Seeing Zichu's question, Song Zilan lowered her head a little embarrassed. After thinking about it, she knelt down decisively and said to Zichu: "Sister, I know that the previous things were all my mother's confusion, she was selfish and vicious. She treats you like that, Ziqing and I don't distinguish between right and wrong, and then come to deal with you, those things are too wrong and wrong for us to do! All along, I dare not ask you to forgive us, because our behavior is not worthy of forgiveness in the first place. But now that my mother has fallen to this point, she has learned a little lesson. As for me, it goes without saying. Even if you are a person who dies once, if you have any confused thoughts in the future, it is not a pity to die! But Ziqing, Ziqing, she is still young after all, she was not sensible before, and now she ....... Now because of my mother, even marriage has become a difficult thing! Father's temperament, sister, you know, he is already cold, and he has no feelings for our daughters. Now that Aunt Zhang is in charge of the house, she has been suppressed by my mother for so many years, and now that she has achieved her ambition, how can she give Ziqing her heart to find her mother-in-law? Sister, I beg you to do a good job again, find Ziqing a husband who is safe and secure, even if the family is thin, as long as you can be good to her, it will be a good match! ”

Listening to Song Zilan's words, she was sincere, and tears also rippled down when she spoke, and then heard her mention the requirements later, Zichu also thought so.

After all, whether she wants to or not, Song Ziqing is the half-sister of her own body. The requirements for women in this era are very harsh, with Song Ziqing now fourteen years old, if she can't decide on a marriage, she will wait for two years, maybe Aunt Zhang will choose someone for her. If the marriage is not good at that time, Song Zilan will inevitably be worried. After all, they are sisters, and besides, there is the face of Nangong Qingyang's brother-in-law, even if he asks for Jun Yuchen, with his personality that values brotherly righteousness, he will not ignore it.

However, if she said that she would come forward to find Song Ziqing's in-law's house, not to mention how people outside would talk about it, Song Shi'an alone would not be able to pass it.

After Zichu expressed the doubts in his heart, Song Zilan hurriedly came over, looked at no one around, and said in a low voice: "Sister, you don't know, the two times Ziqing came to me were during the day." Although Aunt Zhang also had omissions, she once told me that it seemed that my father had been away from the house for some time in the past two years......".

"What? Don't talk nonsense, he is now going to be filial at home, where else can he go except in his own yard? ”

Song Zilan also knew that the stakes were high, so she shook her head and said, "Really, sister, I didn't talk nonsense." Do you remember? My father has always liked to drink Puning tea, which is to add a kind of dried cinnamon flavor to enhance the fragrance. However, this dried cinnamon must be bought with good quality, and it is best to be newly harvested in the season for the top quality. However, according to Ziqing, when she asked the steward in her father's yard for this dried cinnamon, she was told that we had not bought this thing in our house this year. Isn't that weird, you say? ”

Hearing this, Zichu's heart also suddenly accelerated the speed of beating. Yes, she also remembered that Song Shi'an liked to drink such a tea. Once, because the mulberry accidentally bumped into the maid who delivered the tea, he was almost beaten. Therefore, the impression left on her was not shallow.

For a tea drinker, the formation of tastes and preferences does not happen overnight. Therefore, for Song Shi'an, who is already in his forties, if he suddenly changed his taste and preference for tea because of his mother's death, even Zichu does not believe this.

So, if this is true, Song Shi'an has been filial piety for the past two years, and he said to the outside world that he was mourning for his mother at home, but in fact, he was not in the capital, so what does this mean?

A strange thought suddenly flashed in Zichu's mind, and then, the sides of his temples began to beat suddenly.

Seeing that her face was not very good, Song Zilan hurriedly said, "Sister, what's wrong with you?" I see your face is ugly, are you suffering from heat stroke? ”

Zichu smiled at her and nodded, "Well, it should be!" After sitting in this garden for a long time, I also feel tired. Zilan, you see that Nangong Qingyang has been standing there waiting for you, you should go back early! ”

"Well, sister, then you should be careful on the road, if you set a date to come, when you go back to worship Madame, please send someone to tell me."

Zichu nodded, and after seeing her leave, he got up with a solemn face.

It just so happened that Linglong and Qiaoyi walked over from the other side of the garden with Ning Huan, and saw that Ning Huan still had two teardrops on her face, her small mouth pursed high, and she looked unconvinced and unhappy, so she asked with a smile: "Yo!" What's going on? Who has offended our little lord? ”

Linglong and Qiaoyi were also very happy, Linglong wiped Ning Huan's tears and said: "Princess, the county lord is very unhappy now, how can you be a mother like this?" It's just insolent and makes fun of others! ”

Zichu smiled and said, "You didn't see it!" I used to have a good time with the eldest prince, but then the eldest prince was taken away by my grandmother, and you also wanted to follow the past, but people didn't let you, so you cried your nose? ”

Ning Huan was laughed at by her mother, and immediately cried. And then paused: "Why don't you let me go to the study with my eldest brother?" Say I'm a girl, I don't have to go to the study so early to listen to the class. But isn't my big brother only a few months older than me? ”

When Zichu heard this, he hugged his daughter in his arms angrily and funny. Linglong and Qiaoyi thought that she was going to hug Ning Huan, but their faces changed in fright. When she pulled Ning Huan aside, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ning Huan, my baby, the eldest prince is the son of the emperor, and in the future, like your father, he will be the prince, and he will shoulder the affairs of the family and the country. But you are a little girl, you don't need to study too early, your mother and your father only want you to play happily and spend your childhood carefree. Besides, if you want to study, go back and find a gentleman for you, let you taste what it's like, if you think it's fun, then go and intercede with your imperial uncle, and let him promise you to enlighten with the eldest prince, okay? ”

Hearing her mother say this, Ning Huan didn't smoke her nose anymore. However, she quickly said: "Then I will go and plead with Uncle Huang now, so that he will not force the eldest brother to study first." Anyway, Uncle Huang agreed, as long as I have anything, I can go to him. ”

After speaking, the little girl's buttocks twisted, and she ran away like a gust of wind. It made Zichu very anxious, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up, hurry up!" Stop her, this girl, where can she do this? Wouldn't it be a mess for the emperor to run over like this? ”

At this moment, Jun Yuchen happened to be pacing from a distance, and there was Jiang Jiantao beside him. When the two saw Ning Huan, Jun Yuchen naturally picked up her daughter, and after asking a few words, she sent the child to Zichu's side.

Because it was in the palace, it was always a little inconvenient, so Jun Yuchen invited Jiang Jiantao and Ye He Minglu to come to the Magnolia Palace as guests. Ye He Minglu heard that Zichu specially asked the cook to prepare a lot of good dishes, and on a whim, he joked: "Then otherwise, I will invite my mother to come into the palace to eat together?" She also often told me that she really wanted to die if she hadn't seen you for so long. ”

Zichu had a good impression of Chang Xiangyu, and now because of Ye Heminglu, he is even closer to her. Looking over there again, Nangong Qingyang and Song Zilan didn't go far, so they simply said: "Okay, Linglong, you ask someone to go back to Yulan Palace first to send a message to the cook, just say let me prepare more wine and food, tonight the prince and I are going to have a banquet, don't neglect our guests!" ”

Linglong nodded, and hurriedly turned around to pass the word. The three couples here, with two children outside, just talked and laughed all the way, and went straight to the Yulan Palace.

In Yi'an Palace, there was smoke curling, and the silence was almost oppressive.

In the Jinluo curtain, the Empress Dowager Nalan was weakly leaning on the pillow with a gold embroidered python pattern, her sideburns were scattered, her face was pale, and her expression was haggard and depressed.

She didn't like too rich colors, so the decoration of the dormitory was mostly blue and blue, embroidered with gold thread, which was both elegant and magnificent. But now, her black hair, pale face, and half-dead blood lips are reflected in this blue and cold color, which makes her look even more depressed and sad, and she can no longer see the majesty of the queen of the palace in the past, which looks quite desolate.

In the previous Imperial Garden, after the confrontation between the two sides ended, she lost face, and hurriedly left the scene despite Madame Shanda's repeated pleas. But what happened next, the grandmothers around her have already told her.

Her own son, Jun Yuchen, who has always been pure and filial, did not pretend at all after watching his mother's dejected departure, but stood by his wife's side to comfort his wife and the wronged sister-in-law.

What this means, the Empress Dowager Nalan knows better than anyone else in her heart.

I really didn't expect that there would be such a down-and-out time in my life. Originally, when she first entered the palace, although she was only a concubine and had never been crowned, she had all the power, grace, and prince, although she still firmly occupied the position of the queen at that time, but she could always rely on the emperor's favor for her and make the queen of the yuan sad, as for the other concubines, they were beautiful and outstanding, and they couldn't compete with her at all.

For a long time, she Nalan Liancheng is the undoubted first person in the harem, and her position is stable, and no one can shake it.