Mu Lan stood in place in a daze as if she had been immobilized by a spell, and her hands that were dexterously roaming between Xiao Yuexi's hair also paused, staring at Xiao Yuexi's face in the mirror without blinking.

Xiao Yuexi sighed, looked up at him and said: "The three of us grew up together, you and Mukou eat and live together, almost inseparable, if you talk about sadness, you are only more than me, not less than me." So Mu Lan, you're not going to let me go through this kind of change again, are you? ”

Mu Lan's eyes were red, and he shook his head hurriedly: "No!" Madam, Mu Lan won't! ”

"That'll be fine." Xiao Yuexi let out a long breath, and her face was very soft. "Mu Lan, there are not many things that I can hope for for the rest of my life, can you understand?"

Mu Lan nodded violently, and while continuing the work in hand, he said solemnly: "Mu Lan understands, please rest assured, Madame!" ”

Finally took off the luxurious clothes, Xiao Yuexi felt as if she had broken free from the cage, and her whole body was indescribably relaxed, and even the fatigue just now had subsided a lot. Mu Lan took out a light cyan dress that she usually weared, and said, "Madame, wear this, lighter." ”

Seeing Xiao Yuexi nodding, she shook off her clothes. Xiao Yuexi obediently let her fiddle, and somehow, the thin and wrinkled face of her mother's nurse Granny Chang suddenly flashed in her mind, Xiao Yuexi paused, as if grasping the key, and asked in a low voice: "Mu Lan, I remember that Granny Chang has a daughter, who should be about the same age as my mother, right?" ”

Mu Lan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously nodded: "Yes, not long after Granny Chang passed away, she left the Hou Mansion, how could Madam remember to ask this person?" ”

Xiao Yuexi said thoughtfully: "I'm thinking, since she is about the same age as my mother and is the daughter of Granny Chang, will she know something?" Or...... The owner behind the scenes only found out about my background through Granny Chang's daughter? ”

The comb in Mu Lan's hand fell to the ground with a "click", and she suddenly shouted: "Yes! Why didn't we think of this before? It's been too long, and Mrs. Chang's daughter was still very young when she left the Hou Mansion. ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded: "Yes, I still don't remember what she looks like and why she left the house." Speaking of which, at that time, Granny Chang had just passed away not long ago, so it would not be because of marriage...... Mu Lan, what's her name? ”

"......" Mu Lan tilted her head and thought for a while before he hesitated: "It seems to be called Chang Cui?" It's still Chang what Cui, I remember that Granny Chang seems to call her Cui'er. ”

Saying this, Xiao Yuexi also had some impressions, and suddenly pronounced a name: "Evergreen." ”

"Yes, yes, yes! That's it! Mu Lan nodded violently.

Xiao Yuexi thought for a while and said: "Chengfeng should come in the next few days, no matter whether there is a result or not, he should come back to recover his life, if there is still no progress, I will let him take you to check." You know the old servants of the Hou Mansion better than me, help him find out all the old servants who have left the mansion to retire, ask them one by one, and someone will always remember this daughter-in-law Chang. ”

Mu Lan wrote down the matter and secretly decided to pack up first and be ready to leave at any time.

However, I didn't expect the departure to come so quickly.

At night, the wind, frost and snow came back from the Jiaofang Palace, and it was not long before they brought back the wind.

With a little guilt on his face, he replied with a weak heart: "Your Majesty, Mrs. Xiao, my subordinates are not doing things well, and I have not been able to find clues for many days, and Mrs. Xiao's life experience may not be so complicated......"

"There's no need to jump to conclusions, I suddenly have a new discovery here." Xiao Yuexi hadn't mentioned to Mu Yun what she had suddenly thought of during the day, she originally wanted to wait for Mu Yun to finish the excerpt, but she didn't expect it to be delayed until now, and now she is just going to explain it together.

Hearing the whole thing, Mu Yunqing was silent for a while, looked at Xiao Yuexi and asked, "Are you trying to find out this person?" ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Uh...... I also know that it has been a long time, and it is indeed a bit difficult to find it when I think about it now, and if the owner behind the scenes really came into contact with Evergreen first, then it will be even more difficult for us to find it again. But I still think that this person is very important, and it is really necessary to look for him. ”

Mu Yun nodded lightly, obviously agreeing. Xiao Yuexi said to Chengfeng again: "I will let Mu Lan follow you, although her kung fu is not as good as yours, but it will not be delayed, with her assistance, you may save more effort to find it." ”

Riding the wind, Mu Yunqing suddenly said on the side: "It's not a bad thing to properly scare the grass and snakes." ”

Chengfeng was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted and said: "My subordinates understand!" The subordinates retired. ”

Mu Lan was about to leave the palace unexpectedly, but she also knew that the situation was urgent, and she didn't have time to prepare anything, so she simply traveled lightly, and really followed the wind out of the palace without anything.

After sending the two away, Xiao Yuexi called Fengshuangxue again, as if asking about tea gossip, her face was full of curiosity and expectation. Feng Shuangxue said respectfully: "After the queen mother left the table, she went to the Longevity Palace, and when the slave came back, she had just returned to the Jiaofang Palace. ”

Xiao Yuexi asked, "How is the situation?" ”

Wind, frost and snow: "All the palace people in the Longevity Hall have been taken away, and there are only three people in the inner hall: the Queen Mother, the Queen and Jin Gui." The aunt and nephew quarreled fiercely, and the slave and maid saw that they were not far from parting ways. ”

"Noisy? What is the noise? "At this time, the Lu family has suffered such a big change, shouldn't the aunt and nephew comfort each other and then find a way to stabilize each other's backers? It is true that the Queen Mother's backer is the Lu family, so why doesn't the Lu family need to rely on the Queen Mother's reputation?

Feng Shuangxue replied: "Basically, the queen mother thinks that the queen is useless, and this time not only did the plan fail completely, but also implicated the mother family." And the queen must have been bullied for too long, and she said what she had been holding in her heart for a long time, presumably she didn't scold her last time, but this time she scolded it openly, and accused the queen mother of wrong information, which would lead to the failure of the plan. ”

Xiao Yuexi imagined this wonderful dog-eat-dog scene in her mind, and felt a little sorry that she couldn't be able to do it at that time, and paused before asking, "Intelligence?" Does the Queen Mother still have her own intelligence network? ”

Fengshuangxue nodded and said, "It seems to be." And the slaves and maids heard that they seemed to have some misunderstanding of Prince Tortoiseshell this time, and seemed to think that the envoy was on their side. ”

"That's normal." Xiao Yuexi analyzed. "After all, Tortoiseshell picked a good time, and the gift list was so heavy that it was amazing, it was like he came to pat the queen's ass, although we don't think so, but it doesn't prevent them from thinking about it, I can't make sure that the tortoiseshell prince gave any hints, deliberately misleading them."

Mu Yun glanced at her with a strange expression, but she didn't realize it, and continued to herself: "But this situation is very good at the moment, we can take the opportunity to speed up the disposal of Lu Taibao, in order to prevent the two of them from suddenly coming back to the outside world in the middle of the bite, should we have a countermeasure?" ”

Mu Yun said lightly: "The best measure is that when they don't have time to come back, one of them will not be able to turn over at all." ”

Xiao Yuexi looked at him with curiosity on his face and asked, "What should I do?" ”

"There is one thing that is just right to be turned out at this time, which is enough to make the Queen Mother the target of public criticism, but I can't turn it out myself."

Xiao Yuexi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "You mean the matter of His Royal Highness King Xian and your mother?" ”

Mu Yun nodded lightly, and Xiao Yuexi fell into deep thought.

The wind, frost and snow should have been explained, and at this time he felt that there was nothing to do with himself, so he said calmly: "If the lady has no other instructions, the slave and maid will retire first." ”

Xiao Yuexi nodded casually, and after leaving the wind and frost for a while, she didn't move.

Mu Yun couldn't bear it in his heart, and said softly: "Don't be in a hurry, it's too late, let's rest!" ”

"Oh." Xiao Yuexi responded obediently. After a pause, he said, "I want to leave the palace tomorrow and go to see my sister-in-law." ”

Mu Yun nodded lightly, and finally coaxed her to rest. But really lying on the bed, Xiao Yuexi still couldn't sleep, and in the mess in his mind, he gave a share to Prince Tortoiseshell, and the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't feel at ease.

“…… Yun Qing," Xiao Yuexi said solemnly: "After meeting my sister-in-law tomorrow, I want to go to the post house to meet the tortoiseshell prince by the way." ”

Mu Yun didn't think about it lightly and refused: "No! ”

Xiao Yuexi turned over to him and encouraged: "Since he asked me to go by name, I will go and check what tricks he wants to play by the way." And he treated His Royal Highness King Xian, can you really rest assured? Like he said, what did he really do, and what can you do about it? ”

"I ......" Mu Yun didn't come out of "me" for a reason. Oh, yes! What can I do? Abandon the people and kill him? Impossible!

Xiao Yuexi continued: "And I have a way to deal with him, I'm not afraid that he will really rob him, you let me give it a try, what if there is an unexpected gain?" ”

Mu Yun looked at her lightly, his face full of vigilance: "What do you want to do?" ”

"......" Xiao Yuexi's face darkened, and she asked with a smile: "I said the emperor, am I particularly unreliable in your heart?" ”

Mu Yun said indifferently: "That's not true—it's just that it's too adventurous, and it's a headache." ”

Xiao Yuexi: Is there any difference between "......" and unreliable? She spoke again, "All right! I'm really tired, you tell me well, I can rest, or I won't be able to sleep all night! ”

"......" This time it was Mu Yun's turn to be speechless.

Very good! learned to threaten him, and he ate her when he was born!

Mu Yun said helplessly: "Okay!" But I'll have to let Shouyue take care of it secretly. ”

It is not easy to compromise to this point, Xiao Yuexi didn't ask for anything else, nodded and said, "Okay, sleep!" ”

The next day, the emperor released Xiao Yuexi from the palace on the pretext of visiting Mrs. Decree. Xiao Yuexi only took a coachman, a wind and frost and snow, and set off leisurely.

Thinking of Ji Bingxin's childbirth, but Xiao Yixuan was not around, he felt sorry.