Zhuang Siyan didn't care about the things in the Lingshuang Pavilion.

Among those paintings, she only picked one that was combined with Ling Tiancheng and hung it in the dormitory, and let the Internal Affairs Office take back the rest.

And when the Ministry of Internal Affairs was doing these things, she had already gone to Concubine Zhen's palace.

Concubine Zhen's palace has always been deserted, and this has existed since she entered the palace.

It's just that there were other concubines in the past, there were always more people, and there were occasional movements, but it wasn't as cold as now.

Now she lives in a palace by herself, and the day is fine, and there are palace maids and eunuchs walking around, cleaning up the flowers and plants in the yard, cleaning or something.

At night, when I walked out of the house, all I saw was calm.

There are still lights here where she lives, but the side hall is dark and lonely all the year round, and it makes people scary to look at, so she usually doesn't go out at night, and she is really bored, so she sits under the lamp and is a female celebrity.

Now that it is winter, it is already very cold when I get up in the morning, and the cotton clothes are added to the body, but when I open the door, the cold air enters inside, and it is still frosty.

And now, before it is really time to use the charcoal stove, it is even colder.

Concubine Zhen shrank for a morning, until the sun finally climbed to midheaven and the temperature rose a little, before she walked out of the house and stood in the courtyard, enjoying the comfort of the sun shining on her body.

It was also at this time that the little eunuch guarding the door hurriedly ran in and said, "Niangniang, the queen is coming here, it seems that she is coming to our palace." ”

Concubine Zhen was stunned for a moment: "Why does the queen mother want to come here, but is there anything going on in the palace?" ”

The little eunuch shook his head: "I haven't heard of it." ”

In Concubine Zhen's impression, although Zhuang Siyan is not harmful, he is by no means a person who is approachable.

Her eyes are above the top, she rarely sees people in her eyes, and she will not be idle and chat with these idle concubines.

If it comes, there must be something.

Judging from this point of view, she really knows Zhuang Siyan quite well.

It's just that she doesn't look up to them and doesn't look down on them, it's just that she is too busy and is in no mood to talk to these people who are slumped all day long, and she really can't talk about anything meaningful.

Of course, she really came for something.

Concubine Zhen had already gone to the palace gate to greet her, and when she turned around, she instructed her personal palace maid: "Prepare the new tea sent in by the Internal Affairs Office in a few days, and then prepare some pastries, the queen likes to eat sweet." ”

The palace maid hurriedly agreed to go out.

For the palace maids, they hope that Zhuang Siyan will often come to the palace.

It is impossible for the emperor to attach importance to the concubine, although there is no fighting in the inner palace now, but if you want to live a better life, you still have to hope for the queen's mother.

It is because of her that those internal affairs offices who worship the high and low do not dare to detain the Tesh in their palace, and send the cases over on time every month.

And every time their mother meets the queen mother, she can always get some reward, whether she goes to Lingshuang Pavilion or the queen mother comes here.

The things that were rewarded were even better than those in their palace.

But the mother usually uses very little, and many of them are cheaper.

Most of these little palace maids are also from poor families, which is different from the palace maids in the previous palace.

When Ling Tiancheng's father was on the throne, many of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace at that time still had identities.

But later there were several palace riots, and the palace people died earlier and fled.

By the time Ling Tiancheng succeeded to the throne, the palace was actually much empty, but fortunately, there were not many of his harems at that time, and when each concubine entered the palace, he also brought a personal palace maid, so he made do with it.

But later there were frequent accidents in the palace, and the number of concubines became smaller and smaller, and the palace people

It also decreases accordingly.

If it weren't for the fact that the entire palace was too big and had to be taken care of everywhere, there might not be a need for such people.

The head of the Internal Affairs Office has changed several times, and the people who do things under him have come and gone, and now, there are almost no old people in the palace, and almost all the rest have come in the past few years, and the oldest ones are almost Ping'er.

And those former wealthy families, some of whom have some relationships, have not saved much in the several reshuffles of the Dasheng Dynasty, and naturally no one has sent them to the palace anymore.

Today's palace people, most of them are recruited from the people, and many of them are too difficult at home to survive, and they heard that there is such a way, so they came.

Zhuang Siyan does not have high requirements for the palace people, and does not let them set rules everywhere, as long as they don't have anything to do, do the things in their hands well, and don't talk about the things of the masters every day, it's almost the same.

She herself is not a person who is looking for trouble everywhere, anyway, if she can make do, she will not say anything.

Only the people in Ling Tiancheng's palace have stricter rules, like them, they are usually fine, a few people sit in one place and are lazy or something, even if they are seen, it doesn't matter, but they can't play cards, they will directly deduct the monthly money if they are caught, and they will be kicked out of the palace if they commit the second offense.

The palace people know what the situation is at home, and they don't want to go out, so they usually have to save their monthly money and send some back to their families.

It would be even better if there was a reward, not only would they be able to eat better, but their families would also be blessed.

So almost all the palace maids were happy to see Zhuang Siyan.

Before she reached the palace gate, Concubine Zhen and her palace people greeted her.

Concubine Zhen also wanted to salute Zhuang Siyan, but she graciously grabbed her and said, "Don't fix this, I'm just idle, thinking that I haven't seen you for a few days, come and have a look." ”

As he spoke, the man had already walked inside.

In the main hall, the palace maids had already prepared the tea and water, and stood aside to listen to their orders.

Concubine Zhen knew that even if the queen was idle, she would not really come to her to chat, and when she said this, she thought that she had something to ask her.

She used to be arrogant and domineering, but now she has learned to be gentle, and she took the first step to spend the palace maids, and then she spoke: "Is there something wrong with the queen?" ”

The people created the atmosphere, Zhuang Siyan was not pretentious, and said directly: "There is indeed something." ”

She paused slightly, looked at Concubine Zhen and said, "You have been in the palace for a long time, but you have heard about the princess of the Dasheng Dynasty." ”

Concubine Zhen was obviously stunned, and didn't reply to her words for a long time.

Zhuang Siyan didn't speak, didn't look away, still looked at her.

After a long while, Concubine Zhen said as if she had come back to her senses: "I don't know about the other concubines, I only know that in the emperor's generation, there are quite a few princes, but there are very few princesses, and there are only three before and after." ”

Zhuang Siyan's spirit suddenly lifted: "Then where are they going now?" ”

Concubine Zhen glanced at her and was silent for a while.

This interval made Zhuang Siyan lose her temper, and it was her usual style to say that it was her usual style, even if those words were not good, just say it and find a way to remedy it, why bother with it?

But she is not a concubine, she doesn't know her concerns, and besides, this time she is begging others, so she has to show some sincerity.

Qiang held down his temperament, did not urge her, and waited for a while.

Just when Zhuang Siyan's patience ran out, Concubine Zhen spoke again, but lowered her voice a little.

"I heard that one princess died at a young age, and the other two went to kiss each other, and the other disappeared."

Zhuang Siyan stood up all of a sudden, his eyes widening: "What did you say?" Missing? ”

Concubine Zhen was a little panicked by her

, busy said: "The queen mother is not strange, I don't know the specific situation, I just heard about it." ”

Zhuang Siyan: "Who did you listen to?" ”

Concubine: "......"

After thinking for a while, he replied: "When I was just in the main palace, I heard others say a few words, and now the old people in the palace are gone, and naturally no one mentions these words, but why did the queen suddenly ask about it......"

Before she finished her words, she raised her eyes and saw that Zhuang Siyan was looking at her, so she quickly stopped talking: "It's the concubine who is reckless, but the concubine really doesn't know about this matter, if you really want to know the inside story, it may be more reliable to ask those old ministers." ”

Zhuang Siyan's head immediately had a flash of inspiration, yes, no matter how long Concubine Zhen has been in the palace, she doesn't have as long as those old ministers, like Jia Mingyuan and Han Ying, who have been in the court for decades, and they have assisted Ling Tiancheng's father, so you should have heard about what happened back then, right?

It turned out to be exactly what she thought.

Zhuang Siyan took a lot of effort, and finally pestered Ling Tiancheng to let her out of the palace again, but the old ministers who could be found were all secretive about this topic and refused to say a word.

She wondered, since the princess really had something to do, she couldn't take it out and say it, but now that things have changed, and people are gone, what if you say a word or two?

What is the real reason why these people don't say it?

She took the time to go to the detective agency, but she didn't get any clues there, but saw Hu Yun in contact with Xiang Ziyang again.

Since the last time he provided false news to Ziyang, Zhuang Siyan had a bad impression of him.

Originally, a good young man must first focus on his career and become famous, so that he can give his favorite woman a good life.

Although Xiang Ziyang received a job in the yamen, he didn't care about it, and the ultimate goal of this errand was Hu Yun.

And Hu Yun didn't refuse, and he was either chatting with him all day long, or playing chess.

It's just a matter of being friends, but she is a woman after all, and she always sees this man alone, which inevitably makes people think about it for a long time.

Either she really wants to marry this person, or it's really incomprehensible.

In front of Hu Yun, Zhuang Siyan didn't have anything, but when Xiang Ziyang went out, she intercepted him directly from the middle of the road, and asked: "Why don't you do business all day long, why do you run here every day?" ”

Xiang Ziyang naturally knew who she was, so he didn't even dare to say anything, so he knelt down directly to make amends.

As soon as he knelt down, Zhuang Siyan didn't let him get up.

stomped a few steps in front of Hao, and brought up the previous question again: "Come here every day, what is the so-called thing?" ”

Xiang Ziyang beat a small drum in his heart, hesitating whether to confess.

However, maybe he was still quite confident in himself, and he thought that the relationship with Hu Yun was already so good, and it was still good to inquire about Zhuang Siyan as the queen from her, so he thought about breaking it here, maybe he could speed up the affairs of the two of them.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that Zhuang Siyan's impression of him had dropped to zero points.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhuang Siyan kicked at him: "You have eaten the bear's heart and leopard, do you know who she is?" Dare to go up? Nor do you take a mirror to see who you are? Looks very handsome and has a rich family? Or is his family background better than that of the emperor, and he dares to find a daughter-in-law in my detective agency? ”

Xiang Ziyang was a little dizzy, and he didn't dare to move when he crawled on the ground, and it took a while before he chirped: "Queen Mother, Miss Hu has left the palace, and we are also happy with each other." ”

Zhuang Siyan was angry in his heart, Hu Yun even told him this?

But he asked sternly: "Yes, that's what she told people, you won't marry?" ”