Zhao Guang glanced at it, he didn't want to say anything, but he still couldn't hold back, and said sourly: "Old Seven, can you still play chess with your heart?" ”

"Yuexi's hands and feet are willing to be cold, I will help her warm up." Zhao Zheng looked at the chessboard with his eyes and replied with a smile.

"There are so many braziers in this house, which one is not warmer than you." Zhao Guang snorted.

"That's what the royal brother said." Zhao Zheng responded with a smile, but did not let go of Shen Yuexi's hand.

Zhao Guang sighed and put down the chess pieces in his hand, "It's not too early, let's get here today, this game of chess is here, and tomorrow will continue to play when I have time." ”

As he spoke, Zhao Guang got up, and Sun Delu on the side hurriedly stepped forward and handed over the emperor's crown.

"Queen Mother, the sons and daughters are retired," Zhao Guang said to the Queen Mother, and then looked at Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi, "You should rest early." ”

Sun Delu put the cotton on the emperor, and then went out of Fushou Palace.

Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi also said goodbye to the Queen Mother and went back to the side hall.

"Who do you guess I saw when I first went to see the palace lanterns?" When everyone in the palace went down, Shen Yuexi came to Zhao Zheng and whispered.

Shen Yuexi was too close to Zhao Zheng, and the breath of speaking hit his face, with an inexplicable fragrance.

Zhao Zheng stabilized his mind and asked quietly, "Who?" ”

"Chen Lingxiu, she is now in the Huanyi Bureau in the palace." Shen Yuexi leaned closer and spoke in a lower voice.

Chen Lingxiu's three words are too extraordinary, Zhao Zheng thought for a moment, and felt that it was a little impossible, the palace maids in the palace could only come in after the household registration review, if Chen Lingxiu was in the palace, the emperor should have found out a long time ago.

"It's dark night, are you sure you're right?" Zhao Zheng asked.

Hearing this, Shen Yuexi also became cautious, she thought about the situation just now, and then nodded, "It won't be wrong, I have been fleeing with Chen Lingxiu for more than a month, I remember her appearance and expression very clearly, and the voice, her voice to the Queen Mother is exactly the same." ”

This made Zhao Zheng a little confused, "How did she enter the palace?" ”

Shen Yuexi naturally didn't know the answer, she looked at Zhao Zheng, and when he came up with a solution, Chen Lingxiu found it, what next?

Zhao Zheng didn't have a good way for a while, if he was outside the palace, it would be easy to say, but it would be difficult to do it in the palace, the palace maids were all registered, one less or one dead would definitely be checked all the way, if Chen Lingxiu's true identity was found, it would be bad.

"Wait for Ming'er to find an excuse to resign and go to the Huanyi Bureau, and then make a decision when I meet her." Seeing that Zhao Zheng was silent, Shen Yuexi said.

"I'll go with you to deal with the scene." Zhao Zheng said.

Shen Yuexi nodded. Then she looked at the tea on the table and asked in a low voice, "You can't drink this tea in the future, right?" ”

Zhao Zheng couldn't help laughing, "I've wronged you in the past few days." ”

"How can there be grievances, today the queen mother told me a lot of things about the seventh master when he was a child, no matter how noble the queen mother's identity is, in the final analysis, she is still a mother, and the mother has a heart that cannot be borne for her children, I was only 11 years old when my mother died, and she was most worried about whether I could find a wishful husband in the future, and until she died, she still told her father to treat my marriage well......" Shen Yuexi said and stopped. It was precisely because her father always remembered the entrustment that when she learned that she was in love with Huchuang, she finally agreed.

"Now that you are by my side, if Mrs. Shen knows about it, I don't know if she will be relieved?" Zhao Zheng asked softly.

"Yes," Shen Yuexi replied affirmatively: "The Shen family will be grateful to you if they have knowledge." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Zheng hugged Shen Yuexi in his arms, stretched out his hand and patted Shen Yuexi's back comfortingly, Zhao Zheng's arms were very warm, even if Shen Yuexi did not fall in love with Zhao Zheng now, but the breath on Zhao Zheng's body made Shen Yuexi feel at ease, so she didn't move, quietly leaned on Zhao Zheng's arms, she was too tired for a while, and she wanted to have a hug for a while.

"Sleep, don't think too much, sleep well." After a while, Zhao Zheng said softly.

Shen Yuexi left Zhao Zheng's embrace, looked up and smiled at him, and then nodded.

Shen Yuexi went to bed, Zhao Zheng rested on the couch as usual, but he never slept, thinking about Chen Lingxiu, how to solve her perfectly?

On the second day, Shen Yuexi accompanied the Queen Mother to finish breakfast, and talked with the Queen Mother for a while, and then said that she wanted to go to the palace to have a look.

"When I asked about the Seventh Prince yesterday, I learned that the place in the palace is really big, I haven't been to the Imperial Dining Room, the Huanyi Bureau, the Imperial Pharmacy, the Internal Affairs Office, the Library and many other places, by the way, the Queen Mother," Shen Yuexi suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "I heard that there is a cold palace in the palace?" ”

If someone else asked, the Queen Mother would have been angry, but Shen Yuexi asked, and the Queen Mother only thought she was innocent and cute.

"The cold palace is just a name passed down by the people, those palaces are also serious palaces, but no one moves around all the year round, and it is slowly deserted, there are thousands of rooms in the palace, and there are always places that cannot be taken care of for many years, and the places where the unfavored concubines who have lost their power have lived for a long time has become a cold palace." The Queen Mother patiently explained to Shen Yuexi.

If you want to talk about the things in the harem, you can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights, it's deceitful, thrilling, tragic and hateful, everything has happened, the queen mother has come all the way from the mother of a country, and she has seen a lot of joys and sorrows in the harem, but she doesn't want to tell Shen Yuexi about these things, she likes her innocent appearance, and she is not in the palace, so let her live so simply all the time.

Shen Yuexi listened attentively, "What about the concubines of the previous dynasty?" Is it still in the palace? ”

"Some people who have no heirs live in the palace, and those who have children are a little better, after the death of the first emperor, they were able to leave the palace and go to their children's fiefdom to live for the rest of their lives, which is a good place." The Queen Mother said.

Shen Yuexi nodded, looking thoughtful.

"Yuexi is just too curious, she can't change her temperament, let Erchen take her to Hualou outside the palace, and ask Erchen to take her to various job halls in the palace." Zhao Zheng came over to interrupt the conversation between Shen Yuexi and the Queen Mother, pretending to blame.

"She wants to see you take her to see it, you don't think anything when you grew up in the palace, Yue Xi has only entered the palace twice, so she is naturally curious about everything, go, take Yue Xi around to see, the palace is so big, she has also gone to see the imperial garden." The Queen Mother still protects Shen Yuexi.

"Empress Dowager Xie." Shen Yuexi smiled and bent her knees to the Queen Mother, then looked at Zhao Zheng, and said deliberately: "It's still the Queen Mother who loves me." ”

Zhao Zheng complied with Shen Yuexi's helplessness, and then left Fushou Palace with Shen Yuexi.

Out of Fushou Palace, Shen Yuexi looked around, "The palace is really too big, I really want to go to the various vocational halls in the palace from the bottom of my heart, it should be not quite the same as the outside." ”

"It's no different, it's just that there are more people." Zhao Zheng, who grew up in the palace since he was a child, didn't think the palace was mysterious.

"Seventh Master, have you ever seen the suffering of the people?" Shen Yuexi suddenly asked faintly.

Shen Yuexi is like, Zhao is a prince, born in the royal family, since he was a child, he has been wearing fine clothes and jade food all the way, and he may not see much of the suffering of the people, so he will feel that everything in the palace is no different from the people.

Zhao Zheng squinted his eyes and thought for a while, he knew the suffering of the people, but he didn't see much with his own eyes, the suffering of the people in the capital was still different from the suffering of the people outside the capital...... He knows this.

Seeing that Zhao Zheng was silent, Shen Yuexi said: "I fled all the way back from the frontier, after twists and turns, I have seen those places that have suffered floods, the fields and houses have been destroyed, the epidemic caused by the flood is raging, the people can escape, some fled to die on the side of the road halfway, and no one is buried, just like that, the corpses are in the wilderness, and I have also seen those hungry people eating the same kind ......"

This topic was too heavy, Zhao Zheng stopped and looked at Shen Yuexi.

"Human flesh is tender and fragrant." Shen Yuexi looked at Zhao Zheng and said again.

Zhao Zheng's heart tightened, "Yuexi ......"

"If a person is hungry, there is nothing that cannot be done." A cruel smile welled up at the corner of Shen Yuexi's mouth.

Zhao Zheng knew that Shen Yuexi's journey must be difficult and difficult, but he never expected that she would experience such a hellish thing, she was so beautiful, but God treated her so cruelly.

"Yuexi, I'm sorry for you." Zhao Zheng hugged Shen Yuexi in his arms distressedly.

When the palace people who passed by saw this picture, they hurriedly bowed their heads, said "Say hello to the Seventh Prince", and hurriedly walked by.

And the matter of Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi embracing each other on the palace road spread quickly, there is nothing new in the palace, this matter is not only fresh but also very fragrant, especially those palace maids, speaking of this, most of them envy Shen Yuexi, who is so favored by the Seventh Prince, and lives up to this life.

**

Zhao Zheng took Shen Yuexi not to the Huanyi Bureau first, but to the study.

The study hall is a place where the princes and princesses read. Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi stopped outside the study hall, and the palace people who were guarding outside the study hall wanted to go in to teach the Taifu, but they were stopped by Zhao Zheng.

In the study hall, the prince is the largest, and even the prince also needs to abide by the rules of the study hall. Zhao Zheng didn't want to disturb the cleanliness of the study hall because of his arrival.

Zhao Zheng told Shen Yuexi about going to the study hall when he was a child. The most interesting thing is that his daughter Hexi married him as a side concubine.

"Is the Taifu who teaches now still your father-in-law?" Shen Yuexi asked.

Zhao Zheng shook his head, "In the second year of Hexi's marriage to the palace, my father-in-law was transferred to the library to classify, excerpt, and keep the books in the palace. ”

Shen Yue nodded in amazement.

Yes, all the people who are related to Zhao Zheng are no longer in heavy positions. The reason why An Peiquan is still in the position of prime minister is that he betrayed his own daughter in exchange for the emperor's trust, people, in the face of huge rights and interests, family, friendship and love are sometimes worthless.