At the 15th Dynasty Meeting, the emperor approved the request of the Ministry of Rites, announcing that Concubine Wen would be posthumously named "Yiwen Guifei", and the funeral ceremony would be supplemented according to the concubine etiquette system.

When the holy decree arrived at the Bai family, Qu Muge and the Bai family received the decree in the lobby to thank them, and opened the ancestral hall and set up an altar to comfort the spirits of Yiwen Guifei and the ancestors of the Bai family.

coincided with the New Year, and all the families in the capital congratulated the Bai family on winning the reward in the name of a hundred years, and also wanted to take the opportunity to meet Li Muge, the princess of the holy grace.

But Qu Muge thought that his mother Dai Xiao was not suitable to attend the banquet, so he refused all entertainment, and Baiyutang and Wuya Academy lived in a simple place, without the slightest sense of existence.

Huanhuan also came back with the news and said, "After the court meeting, the documents of the Criminal Department also came down. Mrs. Wei sent it to the Huanyi Bureau in the palace, Miss Wei went to the Teaching Division, Wei Changfeng raised horses in the Beijing suburb horse farm of the Ministry of War, and Wei Wenyu wanted to go to the Yuzhao Stone Farm of the Ministry of Industry to work as a coolie. ”

The good officials and eunuchs have all been reduced to hard labor, which is really sighing.

Qu Muge thought for a while and muttered: "The Huanyi Bureau, the Teaching Division, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War ......."

The Huanyi Bureau and the Ministry of War are Zuo Guifei's sphere of influence, and it is not surprising that Mrs. Wei and Wei Changfeng were assigned there, but the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Rites belonged to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry robbed Wei Xiaomeng and Wei Wenyu, I don't know if it was a normal arrangement, or if someone deliberately did it.

"I remember that the three sons of Lord Xie of Jinling have all gone out, but are there any errands in the Ministry of Rites or the Ministry of Works?"

Huanhuan's eyes widened and exclaimed: "Wow, Master Hou really understands what the princess thinks!" Hou Ye explained that if the princess asked about the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, she would ask the princess to go to Tianyin Pavilion for a detailed discussion after the 20th holiday. ”

Qu Muge was speechless for a while, what did Gu Nanye mean? She ignored him, and he deliberately provoked her curiosity?

In her previous life, Ye Taohua returned to the palace after the fall of Zuo Guifei, and she did not know the specific details of Zuo Guifei's fall, but she had roughly heard that it was the result of the battle between the eldest prince and the second prince.

Ever since Qu Muge found out that Gu Nanye deliberately took advantage of Mrs. Gu's banquet to build a bridge for the Xie and Wei families, she suspected that Gu Nanye was secretly pushing the eldest prince to investigate Zuo Guifei through the Wei family.

Now that Master Wei is dead, if he has any secrets or handles to leave Zuo Guifei, he must leave them to his family as a life amulet.

The eldest prince must compete for the Wei family's dependents, so the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry should be the arrangements for the eldest prince to strive for.

Qu Muge felt that what he had speculated was inseparable.

It turned out that the eldest prince had already started to do it, so she just watched from the sidelines, as for the details, she didn't know what to do, so she wouldn't go to Gu Nanye to ask!

"I'm not going, you tell Master Hou, I am filial piety, how can I go to a place like Tianyin Pavilion to have fun?" Qu Muge was a little arrogant, she didn't want to be teased around anymore, she had to give Gu Nanye a little color.

Two days before the academy's holiday, Bai Lingjia was the only one who came to Qu Muge for dinner during the lunch break.

"Where's your sister?" Qu Muge asked.

Bai Lingjia hung her head and said: "My sister was distracted in class, and she was punished by Mr. for copying books, and she was about to go on vacation, and Mr. is still so strict." ”

Qu Muge asked, "Lingxiu is distracted in class?" Is something going on in your house? ”

Bai Lingjia nodded repeatedly.

She is younger, her mouth can't keep secrets, and Qu Muge gives her her good things every day, she seems to be too close to her.

"Aunt Wei and several cousins and cousins were all used as official slaves, and the people of the Wei family in Jinling didn't care whether they lived or died, and my mother went around trying to buy them back. My grandfather found out about this, and my grandfather lost his temper and forced my father to divorce my mother, saying that she would only find trouble for the family and not know how to think about the family......"

After being assigned to the various yamen, the degraded official slaves can be converted into private slaves through trading, but they need to accommodate the connections in the yamen to obtain a release order.

Bai Min wants to buy his sister and children back, although he can't get rid of his slave status, but with her care, it won't be too miserable.

But Old Lady Bai couldn't wait to get rid of the Min family together, so naturally he wouldn't help her.

"Don't the Min family care?" Qu Muge asked.

Bai Lingjia said indignantly: "Don't mention it, my uncles are dead." They said that they couldn't come up with so much money to redeem their aunt, and that several cousins were going to take the exam next year, so that their mother would not have another incident. ”

Qu Muge sighed, she knew that the four members of the Wei family were controlled by the eldest prince and the second prince, and most of them couldn't buy it, but this so-called relative didn't even try, and the Min family must have felt very chilled.

Every time you slaughter more dogs, you are all readers.

The Bai family is like this, and the Min family is like this, is this the atmosphere of the Yong Dynasty?

Wuya Academy has a Spring Festival vacation from the twentieth day of the lunar month, and the book clubs and painting clubs in the academy frequently communicate with other book clubs in the capital to hold New Year activities together.

Qu Muge was not interested, and there was an excuse to keep filial piety not to go, so he pretended salted fish in Baiyutang.

But just after three days of relaxation, someone from the palace came to take her back to the palace for the New Year.

Aunt Mo Xin came with the emperor's message and told Qu Muge: "The queen mother returned to the palace, and when she learned that you were not living in the palace, she also reprimanded the emperor, saying that this is too unruly, and she will take you back to the palace for the New Year anyway." ”

Qu Muge dared to perfunctory her grandfather Bai Yicheng at will, but the Queen Mother was different, she had to say: "The imperial grandmother has returned to the palace, I naturally want to go into the palace to visit, and my aunt will wait for me to clean up and enter the palace tomorrow." ”

After Mo Xin left, Qu Muge's face was lost.

Empress Dowager Yu is not the emperor's biological mother, the queen mother who was promoted by the queen of the main palace, in the early years, because of the emptiness of Emperor Yong's postscript, it has always been the queen mother to manage the harem, in recent years, her health is not good, so she moved to the palace to recuperate and raise the emperor's heir.

Seeing Qu Muge, Huanhuan sighed and asked, "Is the princess worried that the Queen Mother will embarrass you?" ”

Qu Muge shook his head and said: "Although I don't know what the Queen Mother thinks of me, but the eldest son of the emperor was born to the palace maid in front of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother should support him, so she must be at odds with Concubine Zuo." The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and she shouldn't embarrass me for the time being. ”

"Then why aren't you happy?"

The reason why she sighed was that the queen mother returned to the palace, which meant that the other three princesses had also returned to the palace.

Among the five princesses of Emperor Yong, the three princesses Li Muzhen, Li Muyan, and Li Mujin, who have not yet married, all grew up beside the Queen Mother.

Especially Li Muzhen, she has bullied Ye Taohua before.

However, time has passed, and with her current situation, these sisters should not dare to bully her blatantly anymore.

The next day, the Bai family's carriage sent Qu Muge back to the palace, and when he got off in front of the city gate, Gu Nanye, who was on duty in the palace, coincidentally patrolled under the city gate.

"Your Highness, Wan An." Gu Nanye clasped his fists and saluted.

Qu Muge said a little coldly: "Master Hou is exempt." ”

Then he made a gesture to go to the Queen Mother's Cining Palace.