"Didn't you go to invite the grandmother next to the Queen Mother? How do you invite someone to the Shangfu Bureau? Su Ruhui frowned, "I hid the Shaoying Spring Soul just to suddenly take it out at that time to please the Queen Mother, and you also gave me the idea of cutting another piece of satin to hide people's eyes, don't you know that if the starter knows our plans, there will be a plot against us?" This Aunt Gu Xiang doesn't know the details, how do you tell me to trust her? ”

Xiuwan knew Su Ruhui's worries at this time, and sighed and said: "The slave maid went to Renshou Palace to invite, but Mama Qi was waiting for the Queen Mother, and she didn't have time to see the slave and maid at all, it was Aunt Xiangxiang beside the Queen Mother, who received an eight-treasure pearl and told the slave maid, saying that in addition to Mama Qi, the Queen Mother's favorite thing is the clothes made by Aunt Gu Xiang, the secretary of the Shangfu Bureau, so the slave went to the Shangfu Bureau again and invited Aunt Gu Xiang to come and run this trip!" ”

Su Ruhui listened, frowned slightly, and said: "Even so, since this Gu Xiang is not familiar, you still can't be gullible, you watched it when she cut the material just now, can you be sure that it will be cut out in the same way?" ”

"Difficult." Xiuwan said truthfully, "Although the slave maid has been in the palace for some years, she used to do some rough work, although she also learned to be a female celebrity for a few days at home, where can she compare with the aunts in the palace?" What's more, this time the young lady is making clothes for the Queen Mother, and it cannot be ignored. ”

"Mama Qi really can't be invited?" Su Ruhui was still a little unwilling.

"Miss, the slave maid thought, since the Queen Mother wants to give Miss a try, it will naturally depend on Miss's own means, Mama Qi is the first person close to the Queen Mother, if she comes to the Chunsheng Palace once, it will obviously be of great benefit to Miss, since the Queen Mother has already expressed her stance to take Miss back to Renshou Palace, I am afraid that Mama Qi will not be allowed to help again." Xiuwan reminded.

Su Ruhui immediately came to his senses: "What you said is extremely true. ”

"But Miss is also worried, Aunt Gu Xiang was only introduced by Aunt Xiang Xiang, the Su family has no dominant position in the harem, and no one knows who this Aunt Gu Xiang is, in case she has the heart to get along with us, she doesn't need to make other hearts, deliberately cut it with scissors, let's just have such a little Shaoying Spring Soul now!" Xiuwan frowned, "It's difficult now, in less than five days, it will be Laba, but we haven't even cut the materials." ”

Su Ruhui held her chin and thought about it, and suddenly heard the noise outside the hall, the master and servant were stunned, thinking that trouble had found the Chunsheng Hall so quickly, but after listening carefully, it was not like it.

"It's Shuyue Palace!" Xiuwan put down Yunjin and ran out to take a look, came back and stood at the door of the hall and stomped the snow on her feet hard, and told Su Ruhui through the curtain that there was an unconcealable tremor in her voice, "I heard the shouting over there that there was a dead man!" ”

"What?" Su Ruhui exclaimed in surprise and ran out, and suddenly a cold air hit her, making her tremble.

Xiuwan was startled and hurriedly urged her to go back behind the curtain quickly.

After the charcoal basin is burned in the palace, thick curtains are hung on the doors and windows, which is not only convenient to enter and exit, but also to prevent the invasion of the cold. Therefore, Su Ruhui, who was in the curtain, only wore thin single clothes, and was stirred by the cold wind outside, so she couldn't say that she would get sick.

Now that the Queen Mother has shown her mouth, it is the critical moment to move back to Renshou Palace, if Su Ruhua is sick herself, then she will laugh at the people of the county lord Huaizhen in vain. Xiuwan was so anxious that she stomped her feet again and again, "Miss, what are you doing?" I just want to go out and see it, and I wear a coat and come out again! ”

Su Ruhui was reminded by her, ran back to the curtain, took the fox fur she usually wore and put it on, took off her silk shoes and put on a pair of deerskin boots, and ran out with Xiuwan.

This day is the third day of the lunar month, the snow is very heavy, covered with six palaces, almost completely abandoned Qiongtong Palace empty splendid palace room, but no one cleans, overnight the ground accumulates up to two feet of snow thick, Su Ruhua did not take precautions, stepped on one foot, the snow directly did not reach the knees.

The cold snowflakes fell on her cheeks that were still warm with charcoal fire, and then turned into ice water and slid into her neck, she walked to the vicinity of Shuyue Hall with difficulty, and a small yellow door in Tsing Yi flashed on the side of the road, and asked her to go back in a respectful but resolute tone: "This young lady, there are some unclean things ahead, I am afraid that the eyes of the young lady will be stained, and please turn back first, drink a cup of hot tea, and wait for the slaves and maids to deal with this place, and then go from here." If the young lady is in a hurry to get out of Qiongtong Palace, she can go first from the corner gate in the northeast corner. ”

Su Ruhui took a deep breath, and saw that although the snow around was extremely dirty, obviously many people walked over, but no one noticed this side for the time being, and quietly handed over a silver ticket, and whispered: "Dare to ask my father-in-law, what is going on?" ”

"I heard that one of the aunts inside hanged herself." Xiao Huangmen is about the same age as Xiuwan, and seeing that he is dressed in green clothes, he is not a person who is not in charge, so he will be sent here to prevent others from approaching, so he readily accepted the silver ticket and said, "Miss is the Miss Su family of the Chunsheng Palace, right?" In a moment they will carry the man out, and the young lady shall go back quickly, so as not to stain her eyes." ”

Su Ruhui's face turned a little pale, she thought about it, and said, "Father-in-law, I won't go over, can I just take a look here?" She suspected that the dead aunt was Siyan, and wanted to confirm it with her own eyes, the little yellow door was a little surprised, probably didn't expect that Su Ruhui, who was only eight years old, was so bold, but he was ordered to stop people out, but he didn't say that he wouldn't let people watch from a distance.

Besides, everyone in the palace now knows that Miss Su, who was punished by His Majesty for moving to the palace, has not been forgotten by the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother intends to take her back to Renshou Palace after the Laba Festival, Xiaohuangmen naturally will not offend Su Ruhui, who makes the Queen Mother worry, hesitate a little, and nodded.

Xiuwan, who followed Su Ruhui over, heard it, and was so anxious that she grabbed Su Ruhui again and again, and persuaded her to go back.

"If Miss wants to know if it's Aunt Siyan, let the slave and maid see it here?" Xiuwan saw that Su Ruhui had to stay, so she had to lower her voice and said, "Now that Laba is coming, the queen mother in the palace is the most festive, if such an incident happens, it's not bad to blame our Chunsheng Palace for being unlucky, and Miss still wants to look at those unclean things here, isn't this a ready-made excuse for the county lord Huaizhen to talk to them?" ”

Su Ruhui's face changed suddenly, and she didn't need to be Xiuwan to pull it, she nodded to the little yellow door and turned back to the Chunsheng Palace.

When he arrived in the hall and took off his clothes, Su Ruhui said astringently: "The lives of people in the palace are worthless!" ”

"Which slave or maidservant is not like this?" Xiuwan smiled sadly and said, "It's just a slave of an ordinary rich family, as long as it's the one who has signed a life and death contract, it's not that the master can fight if he wants to, and he can kill if he wants to, or if he doesn't sign a contract, the master really kills it, and he will be fined a few taels of silver." Those wealthy families...... "She seemed to remember that Su Ruhui's family was also a so-called wealthy family, and it was also the leader among the big families, the door valve, and hurriedly stopped.

Su Ruhui didn't pay attention to her caution, and said quietly: "Xiuwan, I'm thinking, if it's Aunt Siyan who dies, she should be counted as my harm!" ”

Xiuwan was taken aback, she didn't expect Su Ruhui to have such an idea, and hurriedly shouted: "Is Miss stunned?" How do you say such a thing? ”

"That night, if I hadn't been led to the Shuyue Hall by the sound of the piano, Aunt Siyan wouldn't have found me, she wouldn't have found me, she wouldn't have borrowed charcoal from me, so she continued to live quietly in the Shuyue Palace, and naturally no one thought of them. Maybe I'm still alive and well. Aunt Siyan had been serving Mrs. Yinghua in Shuyue Hall for seven years, but she died shortly after I lent her charcoal. Su Ruhua's face was gloomy, and she said to herself, "What a favored person Mrs. Yinghua was at the beginning!" Aunt Siyan is the right-hand woman by her side, and she is only three points more decent than the green clothes, but now she is so inexplicably dead for a little thing! ”

Xiuwan's eyes straightened when she heard this, and she exclaimed in a daze: "Miss! This is never to be said in the future! ”

Saying that, she hurriedly ran outside the curtain to see if Gan Tang had crept in like last time to eavesdrop, and after closing the door of the palace, she lowered her voice and said to Su Ruhua with a crying voice, "Is Miss crazy?" When these words spread out, there is no need to add oil and vinegar, report to the Queen Mother, an ominous hat is buttoned down, my good miss, this can ruin your reputation more than anything else! ”

Su Ruhui bit her lip for a long time before she whispered, "Yes, I lost my temper." ”

"It's an ominous thing for concubines and palace maids to cut themselves, Miss must remember that the affairs of Shuyue Palace have nothing to do with us! If anyone dares to slander Miss with this matter in the future, Miss must not admit it! Xiuwan was so shocked that her voice was hoarse, and Zhengse admonished, "With an ominous body, not to mention the royal family, even ordinary people refuse to accept it, if a woman is charged with this crime, this life will be over, and even her mother's family will be ruined!" ”

Seeing that Su Ruhui was still pondering, Xiuwan gritted her teeth and said in a low voice: "The slave maid had a sister before entering the palace, it was precisely because her husband died as soon as she passed the door, and the fortune diviner who was invited by her in-law calculated that her fate was ominous, and she was abandoned out of the house, and even her father and mother refused to accept it, and she became a beggar and was tortured. The slave maid just gave her a steamed bun, and she was beaten by her father and brother! ”

She said sadly, "Just a few days before the slave maid entered the palace, I heard that a female corpse floated in the moat, which was probably the slave's hard-working sister!" ”

Su Ruhua grew up with a gate valve, but it was the first time she heard that ominous words had such a great impact on a woman, and she was surprised: "How can this be?" Isn't she your father's own? ”

"It's biological, but my father and mother are not just her daughter, my father and mother have to live by themselves, if she is taken back, I am afraid it will be in the way of my mother's family, and my brother and sister-in-law will not agree." Xiuwan sneered, "Even the sister in the kiln may be favored by the benefactor and marry home, and become a serious housewife, but it is impossible for a woman from a white family with an ominous reputation to have such a result!" In fact, the slave maid's brother-in-law was not in good health, and the labor of getting married would inevitably increase all of a sudden, but their family suspected that their sister Kefu was invited, and the tongue-chewing diviner invited him was alarmist again, and he ruined the slave maid's sister's life! ”

Su Ruhui felt chills all over her body when she heard this, and she couldn't help but think that if such a thing happened to her, her parents would ...... She shook her head, and threw the analogy aside, glad that nothing bad had happened.

was persuaded by Xiuwan like this, because it may be that the shadow of Siyan's palace maid hanging herself finally dissipated a little. Su Ruhui looked at the cut Yun Jin on the table and said: "It's time to go to the imperial dining room to get food, according to the instructions of the little yellow door, you can go to the northeast corner door this time." ”