The pure sister in Sister Chu's mouth is the little county lord of the Xianwang Mansion.

Duan Shaolan looked at Sister Chu'er's happy appearance in front of him, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

"You two brothers and sisters don't just stand and talk, come and sit down." Xiao Xuan greeted.

"Thank you, princess, for taking care of Sister Chu." Duan Shaolan took Sister Chu over and sat down.

"Don't say polite words." Xiao Xuan sent the herbal tea that had just been poured by Dan Tangerine to Duan Shaolan and said angrily. "I take care of Sister Chu not because you asked me, but because I like Sister Chu."

Xiao Xuan, Duan Shaolan, and Sister Chu sat outside talking, and Emperor Liu and Duansu County Lord also talked happily in the courtyard. As he spoke, it was almost noon. Emperor Liu's concubine simply sent someone to the kitchen, and at noon today, she left Duanjun Lord's mother and son to eat in her courtyard.

Usually a palace maid like Linhe is just temporarily assigned to various courtyards. Basically, they will not be very close to the master, at most they will do some cleaning and washing chores in the courtyard.

When Xiao Xuan knew that Linhe had contact with Brother Parrot in private, on the one hand, she asked the palace maids she brought from Yihua Palace to keep an eye on her, and on the other hand, she also intentionally or unintentionally let her into her room from time to time to serve.

Today, Xiao Xuan took Sister Chu to talk by the lake, and the old people around her were all serving, leaving Linhe in the courtyard.

After Linhe took the broken silver from Brother Parrot that day, there was no valuable news in her mouth that could be passed through to Brother Parrot. Brother Parrot was punished by Xiao Lu, and he was also anxious, threatening Linhe if he didn't think of a way to get some useful news, don't blame her for turning her face.

Linhe was also extremely helpless in her heart, she was in urgent need of silver taels to go to the hospital for medical treatment and medicine because her father was suddenly ill, but she got a meager monthly salary in the palace, even if she saved a few months to send home, it was just a drop in the bucket. But my father's illness was so sick that she had been fed with medicine, and she was so anxious in the palace that she couldn't do anything for a while, so she accepted the silver given by Brother Parrot in a daze.

After receiving the money, the family's predicament was solved for a while.

Princess Zhaoyue will follow Her Majesty to Feiyu Mountain Palace every summer to escape the summer, a few years ago, Linhe, who had just arrived at the palace, was assigned to the courtyard of the second princess at that time. In the years since, she has been assigned to serve in her yard every year.

Princess Zhaoyue has a gentle temperament and treats her generously, plus she is the daughter of the favorite concubine Liu Huang and the most beloved daughter of Emperor Chu, her subordinates are relaxed, and serving in her courtyard is not only easier than in the courtyards of other nobles, but also the rewards and objects are much more than in other courtyards.

Although Linhe only serves in the palace, the fact that the eldest princess and Princess Zhaoyue have a bad relationship is still known to everyone in the palace. Brother Parrot is a first-class palace maid next to the eldest princess, and Linhe also knows it.

The current dilemma is that the eldest princess wants to know Princess Zhaoyue's every move, but Linhe looked at it coldly, although Princess Zhaoyue ran around in the palace all day long, she was either throwing pots and archery with Ning Guiren, or pulling a group of nobles to talk and enjoy the scenery, or she was talking with Emperor Chu.

Besides, a palace maid like Linhe is only doing chores most of the time in Princess Zhaoyue's courtyard, and there are very few opportunities for Linhe to really get to Princess Zhaoyue.

There are always times when she makes a mistake, and Princess Zhaoyue takes the orange and green forest around her and doesn't know where she went. She sometimes wants to sneak up and follow, but Yuezi and Huangyu always pop up out of nowhere and arrange for her to do a few things, so that she can't get out of it for a while.

Finally on this day, there were finally outsiders in the courtyard of Emperor Liu and Princess Zhaoyue. Princess Zhaoyue went out with someone, and Linhe finally spotted a gap and ran out, hiding in the dark and watching quietly.

At first, there was only a little girl who looked to be in her teens beside Princess Zhaoyue, and she squatted behind a big rock in the river and shrank her head for a long time, and she didn't see anything valuable. She came out on the pretext of coming out of the yard to beg for something, and she couldn't keep hiding behind the rocks and snooping.

She was about to get up to leave, when a man's voice suddenly came from outside. Linhe was overjoyed and hurriedly squatted down again, carefully poking his head out and looking out.

I saw that the little girl got up very happily, called her brother and ran towards a tall man, and waited for the man to lead the little girl to Princess Zhaoyue. Only then did Linhe see the man's outfit clearly, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground with a soft buttocks, which was the flying fish suit unique to the people who held official positions in the pennant guard.

Almost the moment Linhe fell weakly behind the stone, Duan Shaolan, who had just walked in front of Xiao Xuan, noticed her, his eyes flashed sharply, and as soon as his feet were about to move, Xiao Xuan hurriedly reached out and grabbed his wrist through his sleeve, and shook his head at him without a trace.

Duan Shaolan lowered his head and looked at Xiao Xuan who was sitting with a slight puzzlement, but in the end he sat down according to her movements.

"That palace maid was not brought out of the palace by me, but a palace maid in the palace." Xiao Xuan pushed the plate containing fresh fruit in front of Duan Shaolan and said to him with a smile. "She's been getting quite close to the palace maids under my big sister lately."

Duan Shaolan naturally knew that the relationship between Xiao Lu and Xiao Xuan was not harmonious, and he couldn't help but be worried when he heard this.

"It's okay, my diet and daily necessities are personally taken care of by Dan Tangerine and Green Forest, and I won't let outsiders have a chance to mix." Xiao Xuan probably knew where Linhe was hiding, as long as she lowered her voice a little, Linhe couldn't hear what she was talking about. "Besides, since I already know who the person behind her is, it is inevitable that there will be boring times in the palace days, but just find some opportunities to tease the big sister."

"The princess knows what she wants." Obviously, Duan Shaolan has not forgotten everything that happened when he accompanied his mother-in-law, Duansu, the county lord, and his sister Sister Chu, when he entered the palace for the first time, and met the eldest princess Xiao Lu. "Be sure to put your own safety first, and if there is any situation, you can send someone to inform the ministers at any time."

"yes, I see." Xiao Xuan knew that Xiao Lu was not stupid, she didn't dare to let Linhe do anything about Xiao Xuan's diet and daily life, but Duan Shaolan's worry made her feel a lot more relieved, and she responded with a smile.

Jinxiu sent the Duansu county lord back, and returned to the queen's flawed courtyard, but saw all the palace maids kneeling outside the queen's house.

"What's going on?" Seeing this, Jinxiu hurriedly lifted the hem of her skirt, stepped up the steps in three steps and two steps, and dragged one of the palace maids to question.

"Sister Jinxiu, you're back." When the palace maid saw Jinxiu, she seemed to have seen a life-saving straw, and hurriedly pulled her to bend down and whispered in her ear. "Just now the prince of Zhenguo came to talk to Niangniang, and we withdrew. After a while, Zhen Guogong got up and left, and when we were about to go in to serve Niangniang, Niangniang suddenly got angry and drove us out, we didn't dare to leave without permission so we knelt outside the door and waited for Niangniang to speak. ”

"Alright, what do you all look like when you kneel out, get up quickly." Jinxiu commanded in a deep voice. "I'll go in and see how it goes, and you guys go and bring the heart-nourishing tea that Niangniang is used to in the summer."

"Yes.... Yes, I'll go. ”

Jinxiu gently pushed open the hidden door, but there was no queen in the front hall. Jinxiu turned around and closed the door lightly, and slowly looked for the house.

When she reached the innermost bedroom, she saw the queen sitting in front of the dressing table with her back to her.

"Mother.... Niangniang..."Jinxiu called the queen a few times, and walked forward lightly.

"Jinxiu, are you back?" The queen, who was sitting in front of the mirror, listened to the voice of Jinxiu, and slowly moved and turned around.

"Yes, sissy." Splendid stepped forward. "The slave maid sent the county lord of Duansu to the concubine of Liuhuang, worried that the feather silk would not serve the lady well, so she rushed back immediately."

"Hey, Splendid." The queen's appearance seemed to be a lot haggard for a moment. "My heart is bitter."

"Mother, but what's wrong?" Jinxiu hurriedly stepped forward and took out a box of pills from the lattice on the dressing table, which was a pill specially made by the Tai Hospital using a century-old ginseng. "Hurry up and take the pill, I immediately asked someone to ask the accompanying imperial doctor to see Niangniang."

"No, no." The queen pushed away the pill handed by Jinxiu, shook her head and said.

"Then I'll help my mother to rest on the couch?" Jinxiu was helpless, so she had to put away the pill, leaned over and tried to ask.

The queen nodded, Jinxiu breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the queen sit on the couch, and then pulled a pillow and came over to serve the queen to take off her shoes and lean crookedly.

"Niangniang, I told the feather silk to go and bring the heart-nourishing tea." Jinxiu asked in a low voice. "It's better for me to wait for my mother to drink tea later, and then rest for a lunch to recuperate."

"No, you can sit down and talk to me for a while." The queen sighed and said. "Right now, you're the only one who can talk to me."

Jinxiu had no choice but to sit obediently on the foot pedal on the edge of the couch.

"Jinxiu, do you know what my father said when he came to the palace and told me?" The queen sighed.

"The slave doesn't know." In fact, Jinxiu can probably guess some reasons today, but for now she can only pretend to be stupid.

"Don't play dumb, you're a rare smart person." The queen said. "A month ago, I sent you back to the imperial capital in person, and invited Duan Su to bring Sister Chu to the palace for summer vacation, but Duan Su immediately refused me. But with a post from her Liu Huang Guifei, she immediately set off with Sister Chu and came over, and even my father came with her, and brought me bad news. ”

The queen leaned on the pillow and laughed dryly twice, and Jinxiu, who was sitting on the footrest, was even more sure that the thoughts in her heart were correct, but she was more and more afraid to answer.