Ling Tiancheng didn't return to the Xuan Hall until the next day.

He originally thought that Zhuang Siyan would not listen to him, and maybe he would go out and walk around.

But according to Li Fu's report, she was very well-behaved this time, and she didn't make any trouble at all, but just went to the main hall to wait for him for half a night, and then went back to rest.

Ling Tiancheng felt sorry for her in his heart.

He also wanted to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible and give her an explanation.

He knew how Zhuang Siyan usually behaved, he was so anxious, so willing to do it, and he wanted her to stay obediently, which was really a bit like him.

And Ling Tiancheng didn't want to change her into another look, the person who used to be cold to him was annoying at the time, but when he thought about it later, he felt very cute.

She was different in the end, something he loved so much.

The snow had stopped, but a thick layer had fallen on the ground, covering the original bluestone pavement tightly.

The palace people were clearing the snow with all their might, and when they saw the emperor coming, they avoided it from a distance, hung their heads on the ground and saluted, and did not get up again until he was far away, and continued to do the work in hand.

The snow in the Xuan Hall had already been cleared, and only one piece was left in the side hall, and Chu Yirong was standing there at this time.

As soon as Ling Tiancheng walked over, he took her into his arms and clasped her hands: "Your hands are so cold, why don't you go in?" ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't even say a word of nonsense, and said, "I want to go to Shou'an Palace." ”

Ling Tiancheng's face did not move, and his voice was still very soft: "Why do you want to go there?" It's just snowed, it's cold there, and you're ......pregnant."

"I'm just going to go there and see and do nothing, you can ask someone to come with me, I really don't do anything." Zhuang Siyan interrupted him.

Ling Tiancheng: "...... I'll go with you. ”

Zhuang Siyan was stunned for a moment, and finally walked out.

Ling Tiancheng brought her back and said, "It's really cold there, wear more clothes, I just came back from Chaoshang, and I have to change this outfit too, you wait a minute." ”

It's good to be able to go, Zhuang Siyan doesn't care about waiting a little longer.

It wasn't until the two of them changed into thick brocade robes and covered them with thick cloaks outside, and then they walked all the way to Shou'an Palace.

Su'an Palace is the westernmost part of the entire imperial palace and lives against the palace wall.

As Ping'er said, there is no palace plaque outside, and the door is locked, and no one comes and goes.

Gonggong Zhou of the Internal Affairs Office had already hurriedly followed, and when he arrived at the gate of the palace, he was still saying to Ling Tiancheng: "Your Majesty, it's pickled inside, you better not go in, and Niangniang is still pregnant, it's really ......"

Ling Tiancheng's eyes slashed at him sharply: "Open the door." ”

Zhou Gong's hands kept shaking when he opened the door, and he dropped the key twice.

The snow at the gate of Shou'an Palace is not cleaned, so the snow for a day and a night is almost piled up at the palace gate.

He fell the key and fell into the snow, and when he pulled it out again, his hands shook even more.

No one knows if he was scared or frozen.

Zhuang Siyan must come, Ling Tiancheng was determined to accompany her, so the two of them looked at the head of the Internal Affairs Office very patiently until the big iron lock was finally opened.

Before coming in, Zhuang Siyan had thought about the situation in Shou'an Palace many times.

She knew it wouldn't be too good, it wouldn't even be bad, but she never thought it would be like this.

Even after the heavy snowfall, the heavy white snowflakes could not suppress the smell inside.

The door only looked at a crack, and the stench rushed out, caught in the fierce cold, like a knife dipped in chili water, straight into the heart.

Zhuang Siyan unconsciously covered his nose with his hand, and Ping'er next to him hurriedly handed over Jinpa.

She didn't answer, and after calming down for a while, she took her hand down and took another breath, and then asked her father-in-law Zhou on the side: "What does this smell like, is it a dead body?" ”

Zhou Liping sweated on his head and stammered that there were some rats in the palace, probably dead at the door.

Zhuang Siyan: "That rat has to die on a bunch of hills to make such a big smell, right?" Open all the doors. ”

Her voice suddenly became fierce, which startled Zhou Liping, and her already nervous heart almost stopped beating at this moment.

But Concubine Wan he can't afford to offend, and the emperor doesn't dare to provoke him, now the two of them are staring at him with four pairs of eyes, and the locks are down, even if he doesn't want to open the door, he can't do it.

Finally, the door was slowly pushed open.

Mountains of garbage were piled up at the door.

It was only at this time that Zhuang Siyan deeply understood the true meaning of "getting straight to the point".

She turned her head and asked Zhou Liping, "Is this mouse too big?" ”

The sweat on Zhou Liping's head came out layer by layer, and the new one opened the old one and landed on the placket, which soon formed into Xiaoice slag because the temperature was too low.

His legs could no longer stand steady, and he knelt in the snow with a "plop", begging the emperor to spare his life while explaining the origin of this "big mouse".

According to Zhou Liping, everyone in Shou'an Palace only opens the door for half a day a month, and they have to send in the things they use and pull out the things they don't use.

But in such a big palace, there are too many things to clean up, and the housekeeping is worried about the lack of time, and if it is delayed, it is afraid that something else will go wrong, so I thought of such a trick.

It is to ask the people in the palace to pile up the garbage at the door, so that when they come every month, as long as they take the things to be sent, the garbage does not have to go to each room to collect, just pull it away from the door.

Zhuang Siyan looked at him and smiled.

Zhou Liping was so laughed by her that he almost stopped his heartbeat meridians, and he didn't dare to say another word with his head in the snow.

Zhuang Siyan: "Father-in-law Zhou, you are really good at writing jokes, is it a month for so many things?" What are you doing in this Shou'an Palace? Well? ”

Zhou Liping didn't dare to speak.

Zhuang Siyan was so angry in her heart, it hurt her heart.

Ling Tiancheng didn't attack Zhou Liping this time, he only called the palace people who came from the Internal Affairs Mansion to clear these things as soon as possible.

They walked around the huge mountain of garbage and walked inside, and then they entered the courtyard.

Xu was due to the heavy snow just now, which covered all the dirt on the ground, so the inside of the palace gate looked much better.

But whether it's the garbage at the door or the cleanliness inside, there's no way to hide one thing.

It's a weird place.

A large group of them came in from the main gate, walked along the road in the palace, and walked to the middle of the courtyard. ”

However, Zhuang Siyan and Ling Tiancheng waited for a pillar of incense in the courtyard, but they didn't even come out.

There was a dead silence in the entire Shou'an Palace, as if there was no one.

Ling Tiancheng instructed Li Fu: "Go and see, there are twenty-eight widows of the first emperor registered here, minus those who have died in the past few years, there should be sixteen, let them come out to see me." ”

Li Fu received the order, took the two little eunuchs, started from the east, opened the palace doors one by one, and looked inside.

Finally found someone, a woman who couldn't even walk.

His hair was all gray and messy all over his face, and his clothes were thin and dirty, smelling like the garbage at the door.

She must have been extremely cold, so she kept gritting her teeth, and the tip of her exposed chin was gray and blue, and there were lines all over it.

Zhuang Siyan kicked Zhou Liping's body: "Still watching? Why don't you get some charcoal and clothes? ”

Zhou Liping immediately rushed out as if he had installed a motorized spring.

Ling Tiancheng turned his head to look at Zhuang Siyan, and was silent for a moment before saying, "This has been the case in all dynasties. ”

Zhuang Siyan had a lawsuit.

Before she came, she had been telling herself for a long time, what is in the palace, you have to listen to the emperor's words, but now that she is pregnant, she can't make a mistake.

Ling Tiancheng restricted her freedom, but also to protect her and make her live a better life, and he had no outside intentions.

There are also those cases, even if she doesn't come forward, someone will solve them in the end, the emperor in front of her is a clean monarch, and he won't do those foolish things.

That's why she was able to stay in the Xuan Hall for half the night without making trouble, so she even listened to what Ping'er said, so although she insisted on coming here, she didn't make Ling Tiancheng ugly.

But the moment she saw Shou'an Palace, she regarded everything she said to herself before as garbage, and she didn't want to mention half a sentence again.

These remnants of feudal society have poured out everyone's brains.

Ling Tiancheng may be a Ming Jun, but he still doesn't treat these outdated women as human beings in his mind.

They live here, and they don't see the light of day, and it is estimated that those so-called monthly rules will not be given, and maybe all of them have been embezzled by the Internal Affairs Bureau.

And since Ling Tiancheng ascended the throne, it has only been a few years, and nearly thirty people have died to only a dozen.

This is still an account on the surface, it is estimated that they are counting now, and there are not even a dozen digits, and even if there is, it will be like the old man who invited out, which is basically abolished.

There was a group of palace people standing in Shou'an Palace, and they didn't dare to move at this time.

They are accustomed to observing their faces, and some of them may also realize that the Internal Affairs Office is about to make trouble, so no one dares to act rashly.

He didn't dare to raise his head, but he watched Ling Tiancheng and Zhuang Siyan's every move with the corner of his eye.

Zhuang Siyan's anger surged upward, but he didn't know who to be angry at, and when he saw that those people were not moving, he yelled at them: "Keep looking, what are you doing standing there, don't you wait for the board to be taken before doing anything." ”

As soon as these words came out, the people who were originally standing ran away with a "bang".

The snow in the yard was trampled by the miscellaneous footsteps and scattered everywhere.

Zhuang Siyan stood and watched for a while, and didn't see anyone come out for a while, and was about to move forward, but was stopped by Ling Tiancheng.

He looked at the front with a firm gaze and said, "You can't change anything in the past now, so let's wait here." ”

Zhuang Siyan's temper was not so good: "I said that I came to see, that is, to see, everyone is here, what else can't be seen." ”

Ling Tiancheng: "Originally, I could see you anything, but now I can't, you have a body, you have to think about the child, don't make trouble." ”

Zhuang Siyan instantly felt that he was actually the same as all the women in this palace, just a tool that he Ling Tiancheng used to give birth to a child.

The difference is that he doesn't like those tools, while he likes this one.

She was not even afraid of death when she was willful, and she directly tried to break out of Ling Tiancheng's arms.

But this time, Ling Tiancheng didn't let her succeed, but restrained her more tightly, and said in her ear: "Yan'er, standing here can see everything in your eyes, no worse than if you walk into that house, if you really get too close, you will cover your eyes because of something." ”

When he said these words, Zhuang Siyan didn't believe it, but it didn't take much time at all, Ling Tiancheng proved that his gaze was still very far-sighted.