Empress Changsun spent nearly half a month investigating, and the result was that there was no useful information except for finding out that a few palace maids had said a few words about Zheng Jieyu's good-looking appearance in front of Yongjia.

At first glance, this matter is that Yongjia is competitive, I heard that Zheng Jieyu is very good-looking, I am not convinced, I want to see her, and by the way, find some stubble, frustrate her limelight, and there is no conspiracy to promote it.

But Queen Changsun has gone all the way to today, after so many things, although she doesn't like fighting, political consciousness and instinct have never been lacking, she doesn't believe that Yongjia is a princess, and she will think of finding a new Jieyu in the palace.

Yongjia is competitive and doesn't like people to overshadow her, but if no one deliberately presides on Zheng Jieyu's beauty in front of her, constantly exaggerating her influence in the palace, how could Yongjia think of coming to have a long time with her?

It's just that the origins of the palace maids who chew the root of their tongue in front of Yongjia are very simple, they are all daughters of poor families, they entered the palace through normal channels, and they were transferred to Yongjia after training, and they usually don't have any traces of impropriety, and they don't see any dealings with people who have nothing to do with the outside world.

When they talked about Zheng Jieyu, it seemed to be a normal harem gossip, after all, Zheng Jieyu was good-looking, and it was a well-known thing in the harem, and there were many people who talked about her appearance in private, and it was not strange that Yongjia had someone around her to talk about it occasionally.

Everything seems reasonable and reasonable, but the more this is the case, the more Empress Changsun feels that it is inappropriate, without it, everything is too logical.

There are indeed many coincidences in this world, but the coincidences are so inconspicuous, and one thing that may cause a head-on conflict between the emperor and the emperor is not enough to make people think about it.

With Yongjia's temperament and the emperor's favor for Yongjia, if it weren't for the presence of Concubine Wan that day, the emperor really summoned the emperor regardless of it, and scolded him with a stinking scolding, it is really difficult to conclude what things would have developed.

"Niangniang, do you want to tell Your Majesty about this? Ah Chou and I have been checking separately for a long time, but we can't find any clues, Zheng Jieyu's entry into the palace, except for our Lizheng Palace, there are people in other palaces talking about it, even Wei Guifei's Qingluo Palace and Yang Shufei's Lanxiu Palace are no exception. ”

"For this reason, if you want to find out who instigated the palace people to discuss Zheng Jieyu's appearance privately, there is no way to start." Time came to the end of November in a blink of an eye, and at noon one day, Empress Changsun got up from a nap, Qinglan walked in and said in a low voice.

"No need, Your Majesty has a lot of affairs, don't disturb him with these little things, don't check this matter if you can't find out, you can accompany me to Da'an Palace tomorrow." After listening to this, Empress Eldest Sun was silent for a while before answering.

"Yes, Niangniang, do you want to order a ban on discussing Zheng Jieyu?" Qinglan nodded, and asked again.

"Forbidden, pass the order, the harem people are not allowed to talk about the palace concubines in private, and the violators will be severely punished." The eldest grandson queen said.

After saying this, he didn't let Qinglan follow, took a warm cloak and put it on, walked out of the hall, and stopped until he walked to the plum forest in the west, looking at the plum blossoms in the forest, and muttered to himself: "The children are all older, and I'm afraid that the dispute will start again." ”

"Niangniang, what are you talking about?" Xinyue and Yanqiu, who followed her, stood three or four steps away from her, and only faintly heard what Niang Niangshuo said, but they didn't hear it clearly, thinking that they had something to tell them, so they couldn't help but ask.

"It's nothing, seeing that the plum blossoms are blooming well, I suddenly sighed, Yanqiu, if the palace remembers well, you are from Weiwu County, Liangzhou, right?" Empress Eldest Sun turned her head, her gaze fell on Yan Qiu, and she asked.

"Hui Niangniang, yes." Yan Qiu replied respectfully.

She is now twenty years old, she entered the palace in the second year of Wude, and it has been twelve years, and when she entered the palace, she was only ten years old.

After entering the palace, she got the eyes of a grandmother who trained the rules, was carefully raised for a few years, and learned to read and write, and became a high-ranking palace maid step by step.

She has a steady temperament and a tight mouth, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, she was favored by the eldest grandson and transferred to her side, and now she is next to the eldest grandson, except for Qinglan and A Chou, one of the four palace maids with the highest rank.

"I heard that the ancestral hometown of Concubine Yin De and Yin Shilang is also from Weiwu County, Liangzhou, do you know?" Empress Eldest Sun asked again.

"Hui Niangniang, Yan Qiu didn't know before, until His Majesty ascended the throne and occasionally listened to the people in the palace talk, I knew that Concubine Yin De and Yin Shilang were actually fellow villagers with slaves and maids." Yan Qiu replied.

"This is true, the origin of the palace concubines, if you don't hear people talk about it, it is impossible for ordinary people to know that Liangzhou is a good place to produce talents." Empress Eldest Sun smiled slightly and withdrew her gaze.

She turned her gaze to a red plum in front of her, raised her hand, and prepared to pick it, but when her fingers landed on the plum branch, she paused again, and finally only lightly touched the petals with her fingertips, and then withdrew her hand.

"Niangniang wants to pick plums? I'm here to help. Seeing this, Xinyue hurriedly spoke.

"No, these plum blossoms bloom so well, let's let them stay where they should be, pick them, and thank them in a few days." Empress Eldest Sun shook her head.

"But after they have passed the flowering period, they will thank the branches just as much." Yan Qiu said.

"Yes, people are not good for a thousand days, flowers are not red for a hundred days, when it is time to thank, always have to be thanked, but the flowers are thanked on the branches, and they will eventually fall into the mud, and it can bloom by relying on the nutrients given by the fertile soil under the tree."

"After Can's release, they turn into nutrients and return to the ground under their feet, which is the way to feed, which is better than us picking it back and putting it in a bottle, and withering a little bit." Empress Eldest Sun shook her head and spoke.

Yan Qiu and Xinyue's hearts tightened when they heard this, and they didn't dare to speak casually for a while, but at this time, a crisp and pleasant voice came: "Queen Mother." With this voice, Princess Changle's delicate face emerged from a path in Merlin.

"Changle, when did you come over?" When Empress Changsun saw her daughter, her eyes suddenly became gentle as water, and she beckoned to her daughter and said with one hand.

"I came once, Erchen was about to pick some flowers and go back to plug them, but I didn't expect to hear my mother's words, after listening to my mother's words, my daughter suddenly felt guilty if I picked flowers again, so I decided not to pick them, and I came out to see when I liked them."

Princess Changle came to the eldest grandson with a bang, looked up at Yuxue's lovely face, stuck out her tongue at her, and said with a smile.

"Poor girl, such a big person, you even jump when you walk, and people outside say that you are sensible, you should really let them see your true face." The eldest grandson queen looked at her daughter's funny appearance, and couldn't help but stretch out and gently pinch her face.