When the palace was in chaos, the Qin Mansion had just received the news of the queen's premature birth.

When Qin Zhongguang heard the news, he immediately left the courtyard of his concubine Aunt Su and returned to the main courtyard to talk to Mrs. Qin.

"Why did it start all of a sudden? I remember, isn't the mother's fetus less than eight months old? ”

Mrs. Qin was already as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and she was circling around the house at this moment, as if this could relieve the anxiety and worry in her heart.

"That's true, when I entered the palace a few days ago, my mother was fine, and the doctor said that everything was fine, and there was no sign of premature birth. It must be those little sluts in the palace who have done it to Niangniang! ”

She tore a brocade in hatred: "These little hooves are really bold! It's not a lady's concubine, it's a virtuous concubine! Hum! When the mother survives this catastrophe safely, I will definitely help the mother to get this breath back! ”

Although Qin Zhongguang was also anxious, he was unimpressed by his wife's suspicions.

"Niangniang is the queen of the main palace, although she is not in charge of the palace, but she is protected by the queen mother, where can those concubines really hurt her? Now that the situation is unknown, you still don't want to climb those mothers indiscriminately, they all have heirs in the end! ”

After warning his wife, Qin Zhongguang took a sip of hot tea, and his tone was slightly relaxed.

"I've already asked people to wait outside the palace gate, and as soon as there is any news, it will be delivered to our house immediately. Premature birth hurts the body, you prepare some food, and bring it into the palace at that time. If I can give birth to a prince, I ......"

Speaking of this, the smile on his face faded, his thoughts seemed to drift away, and after saying a few words, he went to his martial arts hall to dance the knife and get the gun.

Mrs. Qin was disappointed to find that her husband's mind had returned to leading the troops to fight.

He only thought about the impact of his daughter giving birth to a prince or princess on him in the next few years, but he didn't think about "whether his daughter was really harmed" or "whether his daughter can survive this difficulty".

It is said that female cousins are ruthless and drama is meaningless, but men in this world are not far behind being ruthless!

Back then, when Su Shi entered Qin Zhongguang's eyes, it happened to be when she was pregnant with her second child.

She tried her best to get rid of the Su family, and also ruined her reputation, forcing her to marry the scholar surnamed Song with the child in her belly, she thought she had won at that time, but it was only now that she sadly discovered that Qin Zhongguang could break with the Su family because of his ruthless face, but he could also treat her and her children coldly.

This man will always love himself more than anyone else, and he loves the military power in his hands more than anyone else.

But he has a low eye, a thief but no thief, otherwise he would not have fallen to the point where he is now.

Such a man, what was it about him that fascinated her in the first place, and made her do the next wrong thing for him?

Mrs. Qin can't remember how she felt when she first became a wife, but she is still a mother at the moment!

After despairing of her husband, she must also plan for her children!

At this moment, the henchman came over and whispered something to her, which made her even more vigilant.

"What? The queen mother actually gave that cheap maid to King Xin as a concubine? Was he taken away from King Xin's Mansion again on the same day? ”

Madam Qin was shocked.

After stringing all the clues together, she thought of a possibility.

His Majesty was a filial son yesterday, sent the Queen Mother out of the palace, and returned to Beijing in the afternoon. When Zhiwei was sent to the Xinwang Mansion by the frame with the emblem on Tangshan Zhuangzi, it was not time, Shen Shi left, and it seemed that it was the time when the queen started premature birth!

If it weren't for the key under the door of Youzheng Palace, the news of the queen's launch would not have been delayed until this morning before it was sent to the Qin Mansion.

"Could it be that the little slut was sent to the palace by His Majesty, and the queen mother was in a hurry for a while, so she suddenly launched it? But after talking to Niangniang a few times before, Niangniang didn't know the true identity of the, and seemed to accept the reality, and wished that His Majesty would quickly get people into the palace, so that she could clean up the, how could she be angry about this matter? ”

The maid hurriedly explained: "That woman did not enter the palace, but lived in the small courtyard of the Song family before, can you remember?" It is the place where the Su family settled in the capital, and General Song Xiao also lived there for a period of time after returning to Beijing from South Vietnam before going to the northern frontier. ”

Knowing that Zhi Wei was sent home surrounded by a group of slaves, there were even guards from the Xinwang Mansion, and there was also the matter of the Xinwang Mansion later sending things to the small courtyard, Mrs. Qin was suddenly a little confused.

"Could it be that King Xin thinks that it is too cold to be carried directly into the mansion, and if you want that girl to marry from her own house, you have to choose a good day?"

She sneered and instructed the maid to order someone to keep an eye on the Song family's courtyard again.

The queen mother's trick can be described as clever, if she can send that girl away, even if her identity is revealed in the future, she will have no chance to turn over after being named a concubine, let alone compete with the queen. Although the emperor is young and vigorous, he shouldn't be able to do the foolish thing of robbing his brother and woman, right?

Mrs. Qin comforted herself like this, and as a result, before she had finished her lunch, she heard bad news.

One of the concubines of the Xinwang Mansion suddenly fell ill and died, and was hurriedly carried to the north of the city to be buried.

This news can be hidden from most people who don't know, but a noble lady of Mrs. Qin's level, who doesn't know that King Xin's reputation for women is surprisingly good, and the backyard is so clean that even a wild flower can't grow?

It happened that a concubine died at this time, and the timing was too coincidental!

Sure enough, Mrs. Qin's henchmen hesitated to come back to report after a while, saying that someone saw a young man who looked like an emperor by a small side door of King Xin's mansion yesterday.

Madame Qin no longer needs more precise evidence, and can already conclude that this is a scene made by the emperor and the king of Xin!

"Good! How can that be so virtuous that she can let His Majesty do this for her? Aren't you afraid that the Queen Mother will be angry and blame her? Yes, it must be because I was afraid that the Queen Mother would blame, so I didn't bring people into the palace immediately. There will be a draft again next spring, maybe Your Majesty is planning to let her go on a clear path? ”

Although Zhiwei is from a civilian background, her brother now has an official position, although the martial arts position has never been valued, but she can still fool people when she says it. Song Zhige is a five-grade young general, and Song Zhiwei can be crowned a five-grade talent with the highest position when she enters the palace. With the emperor's preference, it will jump up in a few days.

But if she doesn't go through the draft and is carried directly into the harem, Song Zhiwei is still one of the palace maids at this time, and she usually has to start from the last dressing.

The timing and identity of entering the palace are different, and the treatment after entering the palace is also completely different.

Mrs. Qin figured out these tricks, and then thought about the daughter who was giving birth in Kunxu Palace, and she mourned in her heart, and hated Su's mother and daughter to the core.

"No, you can't let her enter the palace! There are more than two months left before the draft, and there is still time, so I have to think of a way to do it. ”

The confidant maid admonished: "Madam, didn't we rent a room on the edge of the small courtyard before? The courtyard walls there are low, and they are all ordinary wooden doors, which are not strong at all. It is very likely that some homeless ruffians came to the alley and accidentally went to the wrong house in the dark at night. ”

Mrs. Qin nodded again and again: "Yes, that's it!" You go looking for someone now, this matter is sooner rather than later, but I am afraid that Your Majesty will not be able to wait for the draft next year. ”

The henchman maid smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Madame forgot, where is the need to find someone, didn't there happen to be a few poor relatives in the backyard recently?" ”

Mrs. Qin slapped her forehead, and suddenly remembered that Aunt Su's brother defected to the capital a while ago, and after fighting the autumn breeze, he lived in the Qin Mansion with a cheeky face, looking like he was going to rely on the earth for a long time.

Su Dazhuang was born with thief eyebrows, and he likes to run to the willow alley of the flower street all day long, otherwise he will go to the gambling house. In order to catch Aunt Su's handle, she did let Su Dazhuang follow Su Dazhuang for several days, and collected a lot of his gambling debts, and Mrs. Qin alone bought a thousand taels from others, regardless of other people's.

Although Aunt Su was pleased with Qin Zhongguang, Qin Zhongguang was a martial artist, and he could only fight and kill on the battlefield, and he had no economic acumen at all, and the financial power of the Qin Mansion had always been in the hands of Mrs. Qin. In the past few months, Aunt Su has only eaten a few hundred taels. Qin Zhongguang's own private room will not exceed 1,000 taels, and it is impossible to use it all to supplement Aunt Su.

In other words, Su Dazhuang had already pinched it in the palm of Mrs. Qin's hand, just to see when she wanted to press Aunt Su's face to the ground and step on it, and then it would all shake it out.

"Not bad! Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while. This thousand taels can't be spent in vain, so you go and talk to Su Dazhuang. If you can do things well, don't talk about this thousand taels, I will subsidize him with 500 taels to raise a woman! There's just one thing, things have to be done beautifully! ”

In the second half of the day, when Jinxiu came back from the shop, he saw two men with thief eyebrows standing at the entrance of the alley, looking towards the small courtyard of the Song family with his hands copied.

As she passed, the two of them were still making jokes, and their greasy eyes fell on her.

Jinxiu frowned, pressed the hood lower, walked quickly to the courtyard door, knocked on the door.

When Zhiwei heard her say this, she comforted her: "Maybe the neighbors came to see the excitement? You went out to shop today, I don't know how many times our door has been knocked on during the day, I don't believe you asked Jiangxue. ”

"But no, when I went out to buy vegetables, I was surrounded by those three aunts and six mothers-in-law and asked for a while, and finally squeezed out, and I almost failed to grab fresh vegetables." Xiao Ling's face was a little embarrassed, but she still squeezed out a smile and talked to Jinxiu, looking like she was trying to resolve the misunderstanding in the morning.

Jiang Xue also smiled and said, "Yan Qiao is the hardest today, and she has answered the door at least ten times." If it weren't for the two big guards who could still scare people with their faces, we would have to order new door panels and thresholds today. ”

Zhi Wei shook her head helplessly, the battle when she came back yesterday was seen, maybe it was spread again, and I don't know what it was rumored to be at this time.

Jinxiu put her mind at ease and dutifully reported the situation of the shop to her girl, and she was dizzy when she heard it.

She has never received this kind of training as a shopkeeper, and the few skills on her body are basically all honed in the palace, and the total is just planting flowers, drinking water, and serving others, which is really embarrassing to say.

Fortunately, there is also a grain shop in the shop run by the Su family, and Zhiwei, who has "farmed" on the Huangzhuang, finally got on the channel.

When Jinxiu talked about the price of food now, she finally cheered up.

"But the bad harvest in the autumn is the result? I've been in the palace for a long time, and I don't know what the prices are outside. Instead, he came out to live in the Huangzhuang for a few months, and only then did he know what the steward and others said. But I seem to remember that in August and September, the price of food was not so high. ”

"I guess it's because of the weather. This year, it was cold early, and I heard that the canals were about to freeze, and there were many frozen roads on the official roads, so it was difficult to transport grain to the north, so the price of grain rose vigorously. Madame once instructed us not to follow the trend of indiscriminate price increases, and not to earn the hard-earned money of poor families. Now the cheapest grain and rice in the city is in our grain shop, but there is not much stock left, and the door is closed early today. If the grain trucks from other places don't come again, it will last for another three days at most, and our grain store will be closed. ”

Zhi Wei was touched: "My mother is far-sighted and compassionate. It's just that in ancient times, 'Dou Mien promoted rice hatred', and those people who were used to buying our grain and rice didn't know if they would do anything drastic if they saw us close. It would be nice if I could put the official warehouse into the market......"