After Zhao Ziqian gave the order, Kang Rui's only thing in the past few days was to find the whereabouts of the twenty-four ghosts, in order to find out where Yi Xiangxiang's people were. Although he didn't know why His Royal Highness was so anxious to find Yi Xiangxiang, he was also anxious, and he couldn't wait to see this Huanxi Pavilion Master who had repeatedly frustrated him.

In fact, the fact that the owner of the Huanxi Pavilion is a little girl, forgive Kang Rui and still can't accept this reality, because this Huanxi Pavilion not only gave him a headache, but also let him enter the silent building twice.

The Silent Building of the Seven Princes' Mansion is specially used to punish the secret guards who have made mistakes, including him, the person in charge of the secret guards, the information of the Huanxi Pavilion was wrong before, and Kang Rui went in to punish himself. Later, Zhao Ziqian Qishan was in distress, and Kang Rui also blamed the indirect impact caused by his misjudgment of Huanxi Pavilion, so he went in again.

Later, after Kang Rui and Yi Xiangxiang met, he told Yi Xiangxiang about this stubble, and the latter said that he was very wronged! Say, "Do you blame me for your own ability?" And the two also launched an intelligence battle for this. Of course, that's an afterthought.

Having said that, Zhao Ziqian sprinkled manpower and material resources to find Yi Xiangxiang's whereabouts, but the latter was like a stone sinking into the sea without any news.

Zhao Ziqian's people naturally didn't find Yi Xiangxiang so easily, after all, this Huanxi Pavilion was originally for intelligence, and the secrecy work was naturally done very well. And even if Kang Rui found out the movements of all the twenty-four ghosts, he would have to check who Yi Xiangxiang was with.

So more than ten days have passed, and Zhao Ziqian still hasn't gotten any news from Yi Xiangxiang. His anxiety was seen by Xiong Wei, which made it difficult for the latter to understand. Of course, Xiong Wei was also anxious before, but after knowing that others have some self-protection ability, he is not so worried. Xiong Wei didn't know what His Highness was worried about, even if His Highness said that what Yi Xiangxiang did personally would definitely be dangerous, he felt that even if he was worried, he wouldn't be anxious like His Highness! But now he didn't dare to ask more.

At dinner time, the back kitchen of the Seven Princes' Mansion was passing food to the courtyards.

"You guys do everything and give our family a little bit of profit! Your Highness has been in a bad mood these two days, don't bump into it! In the kitchen at the back of the Seven Princes' Mansion, Father-in-law Yang, who was in charge of arranging meals, told the little fathers-in-law to serve the dishes.

One of the fairer little father-in-law asked when he heard this: "Your Highness has a cold face all day long, how does Gonggong Yang know that His Highness has been in a bad mood recently?" ”

Their Seventh Highness is a rare time to see a smile a few times a year, and in the eyes of many people, he is in a bad mood all seasons.

Gonggong Yang proudly straightened his back and said, "This is what you want to learn, you know?" Know how to read words and looks! Ahem...... Your Highness dropped a teacup this morning, and another in the afternoon! You must know that although His Highness doesn't like to laugh, he is not a person who throws things at every turn, which shows that His Highness has been very hot recently! You all pay attention to our family, don't do anything wrong and bring it to our family! ”

The last sentence he said was stern, and everyone present praised it again and again when they heard it, promising that they would be cautious and cautious.

At this time, Xiangqiao happened to come to the back kitchen to pick up the soup that his master had made the kitchen stew in the afternoon, and overheard Yang Gonggong's words.

"Then Gonggong Yang knows why His Royal Highness is anxious?" She asked, walking into the courtyard of the back kitchen.

When Gonggong Yang turned around and saw the person coming, he stepped forward with a smile and said, "It turned out to be the Xiangqiao girl next to the side concubine, why are you here?" This kitchen is dirty, if there is anything you can send a little maid to say, you don't need to come in person! ”

Now the biggest in the backyard of the Seven Princes' Mansion is the side concubine Lin Zhimeng, who is very sensible and flattering to the big girl beside her.

"It's okay, I'll take the soup that Niangniang let stew in the afternoon, Gonggong Yang, you haven't answered my question yet!" Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Xiangqiao also smiled enthusiastically at Yang Gonggong.

She just heard Gonggong Yang say that His Royal Highness was in a bad mood, so she made a special inquiry, after all, now her own young lady is already His Royal Highness's side concubine, and it is also necessary for her to know more about His Royal Highness for Miss.

"Oh, we really don't know about this! Xiangqiao girl came to fetch soup? Is that a meal all in one? Father-in-law Yang is also an old slippery head, so he immediately changed the topic.

In fact, he can't be blamed for changing the topic, mainly because he really doesn't know why His Highness is in a hurry, and he can't guess. But he didn't want to say that he didn't know, because that would save his face, after all, he would have to manage the people in the back kitchen in the future! It is to change the topic in a way that can only be pretended to be profound.

Xiangqiao knew that Gonggong Yang deliberately changed the topic, so she stopped pestering: "Niangniang asked me to take the soup back to Lingmengyuan first, and then pass it on later." ”

Lingmeng Courtyard is the residence of Lin Zhimeng, the concubine of the Seventh Prince, and the original courtyard was not called this name, but it was changed after Lin Zhimeng moved in and asked for Zhao Ziqian's consent.

Yang Gonggong naturally said when he heard this.

So Xiangqiao took the soup and went back to Lingmeng Courtyard first, and told Lin Zhimeng what she heard in the back kitchen. Lin Zhimeng also clearly felt that Zhao Ziqian was in a bad mood in the past two days, although he had a cold face in the past, but in the past two days, he was full of bad spirits.

"Your Highness can be in Qian'an Yuan right now?" Lin Zhimeng asked Xiangqiao.

Xiangqiao made soup for Lin Zhimeng and brought it over and said: "The slave maid asked the manager of Jiang in the afternoon, and he said that His Royal Highness did not go out today, so he should be in the Qian'an Courtyard." ”

Mr. Jiang was originally the father-in-law beside Concubine Rong, but later when the Seventh Prince Zhao Ziqian left the palace, he was sent to help the Seventh Prince take care of the mansion and was the chief of internal affairs of the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

Lin Zhimeng didn't drink the soup after taking it, but stared at the soup bowl for a while and said, "Xiangqiao, don't cover the soup and don't let it be cold." Then you go find a food box and put it in, and we'll go to the Qian'an Hospital. ”

"But you haven't had dinner yet!" Xiangqiao said when he heard this.

"It's time for the Qian'an Courtyard to pass the food, and I just happened to be able to use it in the past. You wrap the soup and I'll go change my coat. Lin Zhimeng didn't even drink the soup in her hand, but put down the soup bowl and went into the inner room.

Xiangqiao naturally couldn't, so she could only go outside to get the food box.

There is a distance from Lingmeng Courtyard to Qian'an Courtyard, and Zhao Ziqian was tired of his father's warblers and Yanyan when he was in the palace.

Lin Zhimeng did not bother the servants to prepare a small sedan chair, but walked to the Qian'an Courtyard with Xiangqiao and two little maids. When she walked to the gate of the courtyard, she was told that Zhao Ziqian was in the study of the outer courtyard, because when she walked to the outer study, there was already a thin sweat on her back.

Xiangqiao and the two little maids were stopped by the glimpse at the door, and Lin Zhimeng carried the food box into the outer study by herself.

"What's going on, Your Highness? You might as well talk to the concubine. Lin Zhimeng entered the study and opened the food box as she spoke. She made a bowl of soup for Zhao Ziqian, walked over and said, "This is the chicken soup stewed in the kitchen in the afternoon, Your Highness will taste it?" ”

Zhao Ziqian was looking at the news sent back by Kang Rui, talking about some information about the twenty-four ghosts, but when he was in his mind to analyze, he was interrupted by Lin Zhimeng, and he was a little annoyed in his heart.

"Get out!" Zhao Ziqian said coldly.

Lin Zhimeng's hand holding the soup trembled, and she said in slight surprise: "Your Highness, the concubine is ......."

"Glimps! You dare to let outsiders in the study, don't you want to be the commander anymore? Go to the silent building to receive the penalty! Zhao Ziqian shouted outside the study.

Glimpse is the commander of the guards of the Seven Princes' Mansion, and he is also Zhao Ziqian's close entourage, what a bitterness in his heart now! He also wanted to stop it just now, but on weekdays, seeing that the relationship between His Royal Highness and the side concubine is also very good, he feels that it should be fine. It's still to blame yourself for being careless, it stands to reason that you should really report it, if Your Highness is on weekdays, you might just reprimand it, but recently His Highness's temper, that is even Xiong Gongzi hiding away from His Highness! Now he is completely going to hit the muzzle of the gun, and he deserves to be punished!

Lin Zhimeng was driven back to Lingmeng Courtyard, and Zhao Ziqian specially recruited Gonggong Jiang and asked him to tell everyone in the backyard that they should not approach the outer study without a call.

"Miss! Your Highness has been in a bad mood for the past two days, don't take it to heart. Xiangqiao comforted Lin Zhimeng in the Lingmeng Courtyard.

"Well, I know. You go and investigate secretly to see what problems Your Highness is encountering. Although Lin Zhimeng was taken aback by Zhao Ziqian's indifference at that time, she didn't feel scared after coming back to her senses, she liked his undisguised true temperament.

When His Royal Highness temporarily summoned Kang Rui and Xiong Wei to discuss matters at breakfast that day, she specially asked Xiangqiao to go back to Lin's house to ask her mother if there was a disturbance in the court, but her mother later sent someone to say that the court was calm and nothing happened. She just went to the study to see His Highness, ask him what was wrong, and see if she could help.

If it's not a matter of the court, what else can there be? Lin Zhimeng was puzzled.

The dinner had already been passed on, and Xiangqiao handed the chopsticks in her hand to Lin Zhimeng and said, "Miss, why do you bother to think about it, His Royal Highness obviously doesn't want you to participate." In that case, what else do you ask? And even if you find out, there is a bosom maid by your side now, how can you help Your Highness! ”

Lin Zhimeng was a side concubine who entered the mansion, because she did not marry the maid and mother-in-law, and even with Xiangqiao, she specially asked Zhao Ziqian for it. However, these slaves and maids in the prince's mansion have not yet sorted out the details, so Lin Zhimeng really does not have too many trustworthy manpower now.

"I can't do it if I find out, but the Prime Minister's Mansion can do it! Now His Royal Highness does not move around with the Lin family, presumably to avoid suspicion. But no one knows about it in private! Also, now that we are no longer in the Lin family, you have to be more restrained, and don't call me Miss in the future. ”

According to the rules, Xiangqiao should call Lin Zhimeng a mother, a side concubine.

"Eh,! You just eat salty radish and don't worry about it! If Your Highness really wants your help, you should take this opportunity to wait for him to bow his head and come to you, why rush to it! Although Xiangqiao changed her name, she still spoke politely.

Lin Zhimeng looked at Xiangqiao coldly and said, "Xiangqiao, you have overstepped the rules!" ”

Xiangqiao sighed, and could only bow down and ask for guilt. In fact, she has always been dissatisfied with the fact that the young lady was assigned to the seventh highness as a side concubine, in her opinion, the young lady should be the main concubine! But His Royal Highness the Seventh gave the young lady a large courtyard and let the young lady exercise the power of the princess, and she slowly felt that this was not bad. But just now I saw that His Royal Highness the Seventh didn't give face to his own young lady, Xiangqiao was really a little angry.

But Mademoiselle was right, she was transgressing in those words.

Lin Zhimeng cared about whether Zhao Ziqian had encountered an intractable trouble, and Zhao Ziqian's "trouble" was in Meihuanyuan at this time.

Why is it Mei Huan Yuan? Because Yi Xiangxiang was stopped by the dragon girl as soon as she entered the city, the latter said that the people of Zhao Ziqian, the seventh prince, have been staring at the helm of Huanxi Pavilion these days! As a result, Yi Xiangxiang could only enter Meihuan Garden and settle down.

"Why is he staring at Huanxi Pavilion so decently? Could it be that the person that the fox fairy and the yaksha said is Zhao Ziqian's person? Yi Xiangxiang was in the flower room of Meihuan Yuan at this time.

Before, Huxian said that the person mentioned the word "Prince's Mansion", and Zhao Ziqian happened to be one of the princes, so Yi Xiangxiang had the guess just now.

Hearing this, the dragon girl shook her head and said: "As soon as the boss arrived in Kyoto, he interrogated that person's witness, and when his subordinates went over, the inquiry was over, and he only heard the name of the second prince at the end, so it is estimated that it is related to the second prince." As for whether it has anything to do with the Seven Princes, the subordinates don't know. ”

Yi Xiangxiang sat in the circle chair and propped her head and asked, "What is the origin of that person's witness?" ”

Before, how Kyoto Huanxi Pavilion interrogated the other party only said that it was related to the Prince's Mansion, so they couldn't help themselves! But as soon as Mo Wen appeared, he told him everything, which shows that he has an old relationship with the Mo family.

The dragon girl only began to understand after receiving the news from Yi Xiangxiang, and now she only said that she knew: "That person's name is Tan Pengtao, a person from Jizhou, he was originally the superintendent of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is a fellow villager of the Mo family. Later, the Mo family had an accident, and the court and the central government had a slight relationship with their family, and they were secretly replaced. ”

"Sure enough, he has an old relationship with the Mo family, but he is only a seven-rank official who supervises the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, what can he know? How did you find him? Yi Xiangxiang asked.

And the people behind this are too cautious, right? Seven products! All this makes the means robbed of people?

Hearing this question, the fox fairy continued: "When Miss asked us to secretly check the Mo family before, we went through everything that had anything to do with the Mo family. The Mo family is from Jizhou, and the head of the family, Mo Jing, was a famous prodigy in Jizhou when he was young, and at the age of nineteen, he was ranked ninth in the second class and awarded Jishi. After that, he was even more prosperous, all the way to the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials, and later moved to the second assistant of the cabinet, for the Ministry of Officials, Wuji Hall Scholar, the glory of the Mo family is all because of Mo Jingming. But seven years ago, I don't know why, Scholar Mo said that he was old, so he wrote and resigned. After that, the family hurriedly went south, except for the Mo family...... Mo Zhaoxi, the rest of them were all killed by the hands of Qi Cottage. Later, Mo Zhaoxi was given the name Mo Wen by Miss Mo, and now he is the left protector of our Huanxi Pavilion,"

The official system of the Li Dynasty is somewhat similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty only set up the prime minister in the early days, and later Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system in order to strengthen the centralization of power, and distributed the power of the prime minister to the six ministries, and then set up a cabinet with the position of first assistant. However, the first assistant of the Cabinet was the highest staff of the Holy Lord, responsible for drafting edicts and deliberating on the decrees, while the prime minister was in charge of the six ministries. Yi Xiangxiang felt that this was actually a bit like the meaning of the left prime minister and the right prime minister.

Seven years ago, Mo Jingming had been promoted to the second assistant, and at that time, the original first assistant Duan Hongzhen Zhishi was about to abdicate, as long as he went further, he would be the first assistant, and it was Yi Xiangxiang who suspected the reason for his sudden resignation.

Yi Xiangxiang thought about it, and now it was Zuo Miao who was sitting in the position of the first assistant. This Zuo Miao is the maternal grandfather of the second prince...... The demise of the Mo family may really be related to the second prince.

The Zuo family is a famous hairpin family in the Li Dynasty, and it is also the maiden family of the lady concubine in the harem, and his father Zuo Miao is now the first assistant of the cabinet.

After Mo Jingming resigned, the former first assistant was promoted to Zuo Miao. And since the Mo family left Beijing, Mo Wen's maternal grandfather family has also resigned and returned to his hometown, and it is estimated that he was also sat down.

"So you figured out that the relationship between Tan Pengtao and the Mo family is more than just fellow villagers?" Yi Xiangxiang knocked on the table and asked,

Tan Pengtao is also a native of Jizhou, he was sluggish at an early age, and his mother raised him by giving people pulp laundry. Later, his mother also died of illness due to long-term labor. After that, he sold calligraphy and paintings all the way to Beijing to catch the exam, and he was only twenty-three before the accident of the Mo family, and he was seven official residences. And because he is a fellow villager with the Mo family, he has a lot of contacts, and the Mo scholar also admires him. After the Mo family's accident, most of those who had a good relationship with the Mo family were dismissed in those years or two, and left Beijing in a hurry. Only this Tan Pengtao has never returned to his hometown since he was dismissed, but has been frugal in Kyoto, so we sent someone to follow him. ”

After surveillance, the spies of Huanxi Pavilion accidentally learned from Tan Pengtao's mouth that the Mo family's resignation and leaving Beijing had a hidden secret, so they asked people to knock on the side, but they didn't expect to be discovered by Tan Pengtao! The latter wanted to sneak away, but the spies of Huanxi Pavilion couldn't, so they detained them first, and then reported to Tongzhou.

Then Mo Wen interrogated Tan Pengtao at the rudder one step ahead of Yi Xiangxiang and others, and was heard by the dragon girl about the name of the second prince. After that, Mo Wen left alone, and at that time, the dragon girl didn't know that her boss came without telling the young lady, so she didn't stop her.

"Everyone is gone, but he is not gone? It's a little weird! But didn't he take a wife? Yi Xiangxiang suddenly gossiped, she thought that Tan Pengtao was thirty years old, right?

The fox fairy was embarrassed and said to his own lady: "He married two wives and died of illness one after another, so some people in the market said that he was a widow, and he never married another wife after that." ”

Miss's nose is a spirit, and her sense of smell is so keen that she can always spot some problems, even if they are boring ones. The fox fairy thought so in his heart.

"I want to see this Tan Pengtao." Yi Xiangxiang still decided to venture into the Joy Pavilion.

She felt that the affairs of the Mo family should have little to do with Zhao Ziqian, and he stared at Huanxi Pavilion and estimated that it was something else, but she didn't have time to check why now. And because General Yuwen sent troops on the grounds that he used Qishanzhai to kill Mo Daxue, she guessed at that time that it might be related to the four princes. Now looking at some of the testimonies of the beneficiaries and Tan Pengtao, it is estimated that the second prince is right.

Therefore, Zhao Ziqian will not hover around Huanxi Pavilion for that person's certificate, as for the reason, he has to solve this matter and then investigate.

The dragon girl pondered for a moment and said, "Although the people of the Seven Princes are just staring and not moving, if it is unfavorable to Huanxi Pavilion or if there is a sudden inspection, the young lady may be exposed there." ”

The rudder of Huanxi Pavilion is half-hidden, and he bought a big mansion next to the West Lake as a merchant, but most people who want to buy news know that it is the rudder of Huanxi Pavilion. And the patrol in Kyoto can search the house in the name of searching for criminals, and the dragon girl is afraid that Yi Xiangxiang will go in at the same time, just when Zhao Ziqian is transferred to Kyoto to patrol the house under the pretext of searching the house, then Yi Xiangxiang's true identity may be discovered. Zhao Ziqian's purpose is unknown, because the dragon girl does not dare to take Yi Xiangxiang to risk. In fact, speaking of which, it is not safe for Tan Pengtao to be placed in the helm of Huanxi Pavilion at this time.

Huanxi Pavilion only sells news, and others can't search for this news, but Tan Pengtao, a big living person, is locked up by them, so it's hard to explain.

It's a pity that Yi Xiangxiang didn't know that Zhao Ziqian already knew her identity, let alone that Zhao Ziqian was staring at Huanxi Pavilion just to find her.

"Then bring Tan Pengtao to Meihuanyuan to see me." Yi Xiangxiang said after thinking about it.