"Miss, Mrs. Zhang, the Cui family, sent a post." Meteor walked in and saw that Song Zhi had finished his meal and was drinking a small bowl of eight-treasure duck soup.

Moon by month said on the side: "It's just right to drink duck soup in autumn, but Miss has just finished eating, if you drink too much soup, I'm afraid it will be difficult to restrain it." ”

Song Zhi put down the soup bowl, took the post in Meteor's hand and looked at it, and said, "I'm afraid that Zhang's has been depressed these days, so he can only talk to me." ”

"The Zhang family is trying to shrink the head of the turtle. No one came out to say a word about it. Seeing that Song Zhi didn't plan to use it anymore, he beckoned and asked the little maid to come in and clean up.

He helped Song Zhi to get up, planning to walk around to eliminate food.

The two went around the back garden, fed Tengyun a handful of soybeans and hay, and when they came back, they saw Zhang Xinlan standing under the porch, looking up at the two parrots in the birdcage.

"My sister is here." Zhang Xinlan didn't know what she was thinking, and Song Zhi's sudden voice startled her.

"Princess." Song Zhi's identity is different now, and Zhang Xinlan wants to salute her.

The two argued for a while about the number of etiquette, but Song Zhi still accepted her a full gift.

"Sister, is it uncomfortable to be cynical at home these days, and she has fled to me?" Song Zhi tugged Zhang Xinlan's wrist and said with a smile.

"You! Why do you still make fun of me when you know I was on the run? Shouldn't you be comforted and comforted? As soon as these words entered Zhang Xinlan's ears, she suddenly became a little angry, but after she was angry, she felt funny.

"Come, use the snow water collected last year to make tea for my sister and go to the fire. You see, there are little red envelopes on the chin. Although Song Zhi and Zhang Xinlan are not close friends, they occasionally talk a few words, but they also surrender.

Zhang Xinlan hurriedly took out a small bronze mirror from her purse, and when she saw it, she really picked up a small bag, "Ah, what kind of small bag, I didn't even notice it." ”

Women love beauty, Zhang Xinlan only cares about taking self-portraits in the mirror, and almost forgets the purpose of her trip.

Meteor put a cup of tea in front of Zhang Huilan, and went outside to listen to the instructions of Zhuyue.

"My brother has been at home all day since he got into trouble, and he doesn't dare to go out. Although I am not a brother of the same mother, but after all, I am surnamed Zhang, I have been scraped off a layer of dough for the past few days, it hurts hotly, you ask this maid next to me, how long have I not been out? ”

Zhang Xinlan said, I don't know if it was because she was excited, or because she was too spitting Xingzi, she also felt dry mouth, so she took a sip of tea.

At first glance, this tea looks ordinary, nothing special, but as soon as it enters the throat, there is a feeling of clarity.

Zhang Xinlan was quite amazed, took a sip, and took another sip.

Song Zhi is not as thin-skinned as Zhang Xinlan, the last time I went to see Jiang Changwan, I was sneered at a few times, but Song Zhi stabbed them back one by one.

Who doesn't have something bad at home? How can you hide the water chestnut?

Sun Shangshu's wife stabbed Song Zhi in a strange way, and the water chestnut whispered in Song Zhi's ear: "Sun Shangshu lingers in Fan Lane all day long, and he has come back from a dark disease, and now he is secretly healing." ”

Song Zhi hooked his lips and said loudly: "Mrs. Shangshu can come out and walk around today, I think it is because Sun Shangshu's illness has improved a lot, so there is such leisure?" ”

Mrs. Shangshu was as quiet as a quail, and only glanced at Song Zhi timidly, as if she was some kind of monster with hands and eyes.

Mrs. Shangshu was overwhelmed by the women who surrounded her and greeted her, and her speech was slurred, arousing suspicion.

Some good people blatantly inquired about it, and the scandal of Sun Shangshu became known in an instant.

I don't know how this matter reached Zhang Xinlan's ears, she pulled the handkerchief, and said with some curiosity: "This thing is really happy!" Tell her to break her mouth! But sister, how did you know that? ”

"If no one knows, he must not do it. He asked for medical advice, how could he not show traces? Song Zhi said so, but Sun Shangshu's matter was really hidden. If it weren't for a few hidden piles buried in Powder Alley, how could you find out about this?

However, this set of rhetoric was more than enough for Zhang Xinlan, and she nodded thoughtfully.

"Did Song Yan say something over there?" Song Zhixin said, Zhang Xinlan came here today, shouldn't it be just to complain, right?

When Zhang Xinlan heard this, she frowned slightly, and the corners of her mouth drooped, as if she remembered something extremely disgusting, "You know my sister, she has a round and flat temperament with others, and it is better to be pregnant, at least Song Jian will not be too biased in handling things for the sake of the child." After that incident, she was a bag of anger, sandwiched between the two families and angry on both sides, which was also pitiful. ”

Song Zhi sighed lightly, and was really worried about Zhang Huilan's situation.

Zhang Xinlan continued: "Yesterday, my sister quietly asked me out and cried with me for a long time, saying that Song Yan pestered her all day long, asking her to go back to her parents' house, let my brother go to see her, and ask my brother to marry her. The younger sister said that her brother already has a wife, if she marries, won't she be a concubine? But you know what she says? ”

When Song Zhi heard this, he had already guessed Zhang Xinlan's words, his expression was slightly cold, and he said firmly, "What did she say?" ”

Zhang Xinlan saw that Song Zhi's expression was wrong, so she softened her voice and said, "What good things can she say, she actually thinks about comparing Mrs. Song's relationship with being a flat wife back then......

When she saw that Song Zhi froze like a sculpture, her eyebrows were solemn, she knew that she was extremely angry, and she hurriedly said with good words: "Mrs. Song was so affectionate and righteous with General Song back then, how can she be compared to a broken flower and a willow like her?" My sister immediately reprimanded, Song Yan brushed her sleeves and left, and actually sued in front of Song Jian! To tell the truth, I don't have a deep relationship with my concubine, but I can't bear to see her pregnant, but she was beaten by her husband and her face was red and swollen. I want to discuss with my sister today, how to solve this matter? ”

Zhang Xinlan said all the good things, and moved out of Zhang Huilan's pitiful appearance, Song Zhi really didn't feel good about facing people coldly, so he eased his expression and said, "Why is my sister here to ask me about this?" Should I ask those two siblings? ”

Zhang Xinlan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and reluctantly smiled: "I'm just talking to my sister about this, I just want to hear my sister's opinion." ”

"What does the Zhang family mean?" Song Zhi looked at the corner of the floor tile that was accidentally smashed by Shen Ze with a flower bottle, and said in his heart, "It's time to hire a craftsman to repair it." ’

Zhang Xinlan saw that Song Zhi didn't care about it, and knew that she didn't want to get involved in this matter too much, but she still stubbornly said: "When the limelight passes, it's enough to secretly carry it into the door and seal a concubine." ”

After she finished speaking, she looked at Song Zhi with some apprehension.

Seeing Song Zhi turn his head, his slender and soft white neck tensed slightly, "The Zhang family's idea is good, Song Jian doesn't have an official position now, but it's just a cloth cloth." ”

The words are finished, but the meaning is not finished.

Zhang Xinlan breathed a big sigh of relief and said, "That's it!" I think the concubine is still a little more elevated. It's just that because of that layer of in-law relationship, I have to add this layer of face. ”

Zhang Xinlan came here today to probe Song Zhi's tone, lest General Song still have some worries in his heart, and blame the Zhang family for not giving face in the future.

Hearing Song Zhi say this, Zhang Xinlan knew it in her heart.

Now no one knows that the regent Shen Baiyan is the number one in this dynasty, and the rest of the important ministers are either friendly with the regent or have an in-law relationship with the regent's palace.

Even Emperor Shunling Shen Ze is close to the regent, except for those princes in this court, it is okay to describe Shen Baiyan with one hand covering the sky.

Zhang Xinlan once listened to the conversation between Cui Daowu and his brother in the study, and the two brothers were very puzzled by the relationship between Shen Ze and Shen Baiyan.

"Why does the old emperor trust Shen Baiyan like this? But beware of the Queen Mother everywhere? ”

The Cui family is Shen Ze's mother's family, but the relationship is so thin. Shen Zeke has never stayed overnight in the Cui Mansion, and even the Cui family only knows an old lady now. The people of the Cui family inevitably have some complaints!

Zhang Xinlan caught a glimpse of a dragon-patterned gown on the table in the inner room, which was the size of a child at a glance, she hurriedly withdrew her gaze, and took a sip of the teacup, but was embarrassed to find that the tea in it had dried up.

Song Zhi didn't break it, but only called Meteor to come in and add water to her.

"On the birthday of the Empress Dowager in a few days, can my sister go with me?" Zhang Xinlan felt embarrassed, so she talked again. But as soon as the words came out, I felt that I had said the wrong thing.

The relationship between the Queen Mother of the West and Song Zhi is not very good now, when she was still Concubine Jia, she gave Song Zhi a cat called Edelweiss. As a result, the cat was not drowned, and after Concubine Jia was named the Queen Mother of the West, she took advantage of Shen Baiyan to go to Beijing to do errands and put Song Zhi into the palace.

The origin of edelweiss is not small, it was originally given by Emperor Shun'an to a pair of tribute cats to the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West punished Song Zhi for taking care of him poorly and disrespectfully on the grounds that Song Zhi knelt on the stone brick floor at the entrance of the main hall, and wanted to kneel for a stick of incense.

The time of a stick of incense is not too much, but the incense of the Queen Mother of the West is strange. Month by month, I calculated in my heart, obviously the time for a stick of incense had already passed, but this incense burned half a finger long.

Song Zhi had long been guarding against the hand of the Empress Dowager Xi, and only brought one person into the palace of the Empress Dowager Xi every month, and the meteor was outside to deal with it.

Meteor originally wanted to go to the Empress Dowager Dong, but he met Mama Zhao and Shen Ze halfway through, and when he saw Meteor looking hurried, he stopped her and asked her carefully.

The meteor is not good not to answer, and when Mama Zhao heard it, she followed the meteor to the Queen Mother of the West.

When Shen Ze saw Song Zhi kneeling on the hard stone brick ground, he quickly pulled her up. Empress Dowager Xi's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

As soon as this incident came out, the Cui family was busy asking Zhang Xinlan to come to see Song Zhi, for fear that because of the matter of the Empress Dowager Xi, the Cui Mansion and the Regent's Mansion would be divided.

"Naturally, I want to go, the Empress Dowager Dong has already asked the little eunuch to pass the word." In order to be alone with her son, the Queen Mother of the West simply had a light meal to celebrate her birthday.

But the Empress Dowager Xi was so big and drummed, Song Zhi had a hunch that she would not be able to live that day.