At the corner of Lane 45, Xiao Huang lowered his eyebrows and knocked on the door of one of the small courtyards.

The courtyard was a little deserted, except for the little maid who opened the door for him, only the strong smell of medicine came to greet him.

"Xiao Tanhua is here, please come into the house and talk, the son will be happy to see you." The little maid smiled briskly at him, and looked at him heartily, with only pure appreciation in her eyes, and no twisting.

Xiao Huang nodded and said, "There is a girl with Lao Jinxiu", but his steps were a little hesitant.

Jinxiu said: "Madame took the beautiful girl out to settle accounts today, and the son doesn't have to be formal." ”

Xiao Huang calmly took a step into the inner room, and after just a dozen steps, he asked Jinxiu a few words about Song Zhige's recovery, and when he saw the person who was leaning on the collapse and greeting him with a smile, he felt a sense of helplessness in his heart.

"Brother Song, have you been better these two days?"

Song Zhige nodded: "It's just some flesh wounds, and the doctor also said that it will get better in ten days and eight days." ”

His tone was calm, and his face was generous, which seemed to be completely different from the gloomy image a few days ago, which made Xiao Huang feel comforted and feel even more sorry for this friend.

Xiao Huang saw Jinxiu retreat, so he came to the bed, lowered his voice and told his friend about the scene he accidentally bumped into in Qingyun Teahouse today and his own guess.

Song Zhige habitually raised his right eyebrow, which made the long, healed and scabbed scar on his right face even more terrifying, like a big centipede crawling on the good jade, destroying the latter's original beauty.

"Someone went to the teahouse to inquire about me? And in the name of my slave? ”

Xiao Huang said worriedly: "Exactly." That person was dressed ordinary, but he didn't leak a drop in his conversation, and he was not a person from Haisheng at all, let alone a merchant like us who could be trained by a family of merchants. I'm worried that Anpinghou is still not giving up on you......"

"No, it shouldn't be An Pinghou. This time, they ruined my appearance and cut off my way to becoming an official, and they have already achieved their goal, so there is no need to do more. ”

Song Zhige's tone was very steady, but as a friend, Xiao Huang still sniffed out a little coldness.

Thinking of the conflict that occurred when he and Song Zhige "encountered" the Hou Shizi of Anping a while ago, he still regrets it now. If it weren't for the fact that he was young and vigorous, he insisted on distinguishing from the other party, and he would not have been jealous of the other party and used the hands of "bandits" to deal with them.

Song Zhige was affected by him, but that night, he was delayed in a relative's house because of something, and the "bandits" who went to his yard only took some gold and silver, but Song Zhige paid a great price for his frivolity.

How could this not make him ashamed and guilty?

Because of Song Zhige's accident, Xiao Huangdian was unstable when he tried it, and he forgot his master's instructions before leaving, and no longer pretended to be sleek, and the paper was full of sharp and sharp cynical words, and it was really unexpected for him to be able to win the first and third places in the end.

However, his grief and guilt could not change the reality, he could only work harder to devote himself to the court, and constantly sharpen himself into the sharpest knife. At that time, the Anping Hou Luo family will have to pay the due price!

"Who could it be? You've been harmed like this, do you still haunt you? ”

Xiao Huang said worriedly: "Jing Zhaoyin probably got the signal of An Pinghou, and the matter of your injury was blocked, except for a few neighbors and good friends, almost no one knew about it, but said that the robbers stole a lot of gold and silver that night." The Marquis of Anping is narrow-minded, and his father is also a femme fatale, which is really indignant! ”

Song Zhige shook his head and comforted his friend in turn.

"You don't have to worry, maybe someone I knew before? Now that it's all like this, what else do I have to worry about? But you, since you don't go home, just take advantage of this time to have a good relationship with your classmates who stay in Beijing, which will always be good for you in the future. I've heard you've been looking at the house lately? Now it's okay for you to live outside, and when you have your own mansion, I'm afraid that the threshold there will be broken by the matchmakers. ”

At the end of the day, there was even a hint of the usual teasing on the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Huang glared at him: "Don't talk about me, what are you going to do now?" Is it possible that you really want to go back to Jiangnan to inherit the family business? I'd rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow, I don't believe your ambition is like this......"

Song Zhige came out of his mind and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the splendid scenery that came in to serve tea, so he simply didn't speak.

Zhiwei in the palace didn't know what happened to her brother, and after getting a message from Wang Dexi, she fell into confusion and worry.

Although Wang Dexi didn't tell her about her brain supplement, she could guess that most of the time something happened to his family or brother himself, which dragged him back and couldn't participate in the palace exam.

But what could it be?

Could it be that there was something wrong with my mother?

Zhi Wei's heart was anxious, and her desire to leave the palace had never been so strong.

She works hard every day, but fortunately, she is cautious and does not make any mistakes, but her whole spirit is very different from before. Even Yuxue, who had just recovered from a serious illness, rarely asked two questions, and she could only force a smile and perfunctory.

Recently, there has been nothing major in the palace, Yuxue saw her dejected appearance, and couldn't help but be suspicious again, and after some inquiry, she learned about it from Wang Dexi.

It just so happened that when the two were talking, Zhao Jiufu walked by with his fat and dexterous body, listened to it, and under the reflection of the two, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious of His Majesty's orders two days ago.

After two days, Yuxue's female official rank finally came down, and she became more justified from being the actual head of the palace before.

But with this, there were all kinds of more tedious daily affairs, and it was impossible for her to continue to serve the emperor every day. After thinking about it, she discussed it with Manager Zhao again, and this heavy responsibility fell on Zhi Wei and another palace person named Yuling.

Yuling was recommended by Yuxue, has a cheerful personality, and does things properly. Zhiwei was mentioned by Zhao Jiufu on his own initiative, Yuxue hesitated, and nodded.

Such a "surprise" of promotion and salary increase hit Zhi Wei's head, but her mood did not improve in the slightest.

She vaguely felt that she and His Majesty seemed to have more opportunities to meet each other, and the other party was also unusual, using her as a background passerby, but now he glanced at her from time to time, and his eyes were a little strange.

In addition, the little sister Lianzhu came to see her and told her something, which made her even more worried.

It was five days ago, and it happened that a new batch of exotic flowers and plants were paid tribute to, and it was inevitable that they would have to hand over one or two to the Siyuan Bureau, and there were Lianzhu among the people who happened to come. The two reunited after a long absence, and naturally rejoiced, and after finishing their errands, they talked privately for a quarter of an hour before parting.

"Do you remember Lianzhi?"

"Lianzhu? The tall one who came in with you? ”

"Yes, she has a good relationship with Hua Ying."

“…… What do you mean? ”

"After you left, once, I met a little palace maid outside who came to her, and before parting, she stuffed a ball of handkerchief into her hand, which looked like something was breaded in it, and it was heavy."

"That little palace maid ......"

"It's from Yongle Palace, I've seen Lilac take her to serve Concubine Xian Niangniang out of the garden before......"

The point of the beads stopped, and Zhiwei's mind flipped a few times before she realized it.

The two of them met in the air, and they both saw a trace of panic and fear on each other's faces.

After a moment of silence, Zhiwei took the initiative to pat Lianzhu's hand and said with a forced smile: "It's been so long, and it's just a trivial matter." If you want to talk about punishment, I have also been punished by the queen's mother, and there is nothing to be afraid of. They can't put on my shoes again, can they? ”

Lian Zhu sighed: "I don't believe you don't understand, where is this just this?" I'm only afraid that you have become a thorn in the side of others since then, and I am even more afraid that you have become a pawn in the hands of others...... Especially, you are still in the front of the palace, and you are ...... in the harem."

When Lian Zhu left, the gloom on her face was a little heavier than the last time she sent Zhi Wei to the Huanyi Bureau, although Zhi Wei barely comforted her friend, she was also up and down in her heart, and she couldn't figure it out.

If Lian Zhu's guess is true, there was a virtuous concubine intervening in the Rose Flower Branch case before, so what did she want?

Wen Meiren lives in the side hall of Yongle Palace, and is under the control of Concubine Xian, but before going back to bed, Wen Meiren is a little transparent in the palace, and Concubine Xian doesn't have to bother to move her at all.

Unless, the gentle beauty is in the know......

Hua Ying may really do something stupid because she was jealous of herself, so why did the virtuous concubine who was involved in it do?

suppressed the queen's prestige and made her lose face in front of everyone?

Zhi Wei didn't understand the twists and turns in this when she wanted to break her head, and in the end she could only choose not to, and be more cautious in her words and deeds.

The first day after the "promotion" happened to be a rest day, and Zhiwei received a difficult task.

Serve the emperor to bathe.

Of course, she served her master to bathe, but her former master was Concubine Kang, who loved to talk and laugh, and looked down on everything, but she was not such a young emperor with an eccentric temperament.

As a big girl who temporarily catches ducks on the shelves, Zhi Wei is very twisted in her heart.

However, when she learned that today was different from the daily bath, but that she had to bathe and burn incense and copy scriptures with her hands in the most pious manner, she suddenly understood.

This time seems to be the death day of His Majesty's brother, the late King Lao'an, right?

If she remembers correctly, Lao An Wang was less than twenty when he died, and he had just been married for less than two years, and he almost struggled to drag Xiao An Wang to the ground, and he went to Huangquan with a smile in a few days.

At that time, Zhiwei was still learning the rules in the palace, there were many people there, and there was any news, so she listened to it, and many people also sympathized with Princess An, who became a widow soon after she got married.

According to Yuxue's confession, every year on the twenty-seventh day of March, there will be such a time in the Qiande Palace.

And Zhiwei also vaguely heard that at this time of year, the Queen Mother would go to Ci'en Temple to live for a few days, so that the monks would give Lao An Wang a safe Jiao, and pray for the blessing of the dynasty by the way.

She sighed in her heart, this is the most noble mother and son in the whole empire, it is different from what is said in the play, what "the most ruthless is the emperor's family", at least, the queen mother's love for the eldest son's mother and son, and the emperor's brotherly love for King An, should not be fake.

Thinking of this layer, she was not shy in an instant, and entered the bathroom with a pity and solemn attitude.

Think of it as scrubbing the jade Buddha statue in the storeroom!

Zhi Wei thought.

She and Yuling worked together, and it didn't take long for them to be ready, and the emperor was also invited in.

Zhi Wei kept her face open, lowered her eyes, and tried her best to let her eyes be empty, but her subordinates did the work they had to do with precision and lightness.

After the psychological hint of the Jade Buddha, she successfully suppressed the shyness in her heart, her face was not red and her heart was not beating, and her wide clothes were also very easy to untie, just like she did for Concubine Kang in the past.

When it came to the last one, she finally hesitated.

exchanged glances with Yu Ling, who was very considerate to take over this work that was more familiar to her.

At this moment, a scream suddenly sounded next to him.

"Ahh Rogue! Who folded Lao Tzu in to see this living spring palace! Take Lao Tzu out quickly! ”

Zhiwei and the emperor's faces are all in unison.