It's November, and it's still raining.

There is an excerpt in the imperial history, saying that the queen mother left suddenly, from the queen mother's line to today, the rain has not fallen, very weird, please ask the emperor to strictly investigate the hospital, whether there is negligence and mistakes, the excerpt at the end, listed a bunch of emperors and queens were killed, the sky changed greatly, especially the drought and rainstorm landslides and other disasters.

The emperor didn't say a word, and gave the fold to King Qin.

The little chamberlain didn't dare to say a word, put down the fold and hurriedly left, King Qin looked at the fold from beginning to end, handed it to Jin Zhuoyan, Jin Zhuoyan swept ten lines at a glance, and raised his eyebrows, "Damn!" ”

Lu Yi had already looked at Jin Cunyan's hand, and looked at King Qin with some pity.

Although King Qin's face was pale, he didn't have much anger.

"This is just the first one, for pathfinding." Jin Shuyan slapped the fold on the long case.

"The emperor gave me the fold and didn't say a word." King Qin's tone was calm.

"Well, the emperor's attitude is more than this fold...... Matter. Lu Yi answered, what he wanted to say was terrible, and when he was about to exit, he changed it to important.

"You have to hurry up and ask the emperor." Jin Zhuoyan's face was gloomy, and he endured it again when he thought about it, "I have to see what he means in person." ”

"Hmm." King Qin took the fold, looked at it carefully, put it down, thought silently for a moment, and ordered to change his clothes, he was going to enter the palace now to ask for a meeting.

King Qin's diligent palace waited outside for more than an hour before the little chamberlain came out of the hall and took him into the main hall.

The emperor sat leisurely on the kang under the south window, the warm sunset shone obliquely on him, and the five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on his clothes shone brightly in the sunset, as if alive.

King Qin respectfully knelt down and kowtowed, holding up the fold, "Your Majesty, this fold ...... Alas. King Qin sighed lowly, "After leaving Niangniang, the minister had nightmares almost every night, and the most dreamed of was a bloody baby, babbling and laughing, crawling in front of the minister. ”

The emperor was clever and scolded, and the bloody baby ......

"The minister heard that the Buddhism of the Potai Temple is profound, and it has surpassed countless ghosts, so the minister asked the emperor for permission to go to the Potai Temple to do 7749 days of supernatural Dharma and replace ...... Transcend. King Qin's voice was sad and low, "Niangniang has a heart of love for her son, and the minister ......" King Qin's voice choked, and after a moment, he was able to speak again, "After all, the baby is innocent." ”

"You have to do such a transcendent ritual ......" the emperor frowned, "You must always be famous, and nothing else is appropriate, let's just say that I am a lonely soul and wild ghost who surpasses the world." ”

"Yes." King Qin answered, kowtowed again and retreated.

Out of the palace gate, Lu Yi greeted him, King Qin got on the horse, and said to Lu Yi: "Let people go to Potai Temple to say, the princess and I are going to Potai Temple to do forty-nine days of transcendent rituals, and the souls and ghosts of the world are overcome, you go in person, quietly find a trip to Qin Tianjian, and tell him that there are many babies who have died in the palace, please ask him to order a tablet." ”

Lu Yi's eyebrows raised, King Qin looked at him, and nodded slightly with a smile, "It's an edict, but don't mention the edict and force them back." ”

"Wouldn't it be better to lure in?" Lu Yi asked in a low voice.

"We have too many taboos, the eldest princess is an insider, it's best not to touch it if you force it back, besides, I don't want A-Niang to die, and I can't be quiet." King Qin's expression was gloomy.

Lu Yi responded, and instructed Chengying and others to escort King Qin back to his house, and he sent a horse to find Qin Tianjian to ask for the baby's tablet.

Not long after Lu Yi left, Jiang Yanshi got the report, twisted his eyebrows and thought carefully for a while, and went straight to the palace, where the prince happened to be there, and he was discharging a piece of folds on the long case, twisting his brows and looking at them one by one.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yanshi stretched out his head.

"The excerpts of reporting rain, not only in Gyeonggi, but also on the four roads in the north, these prefectures and counties have not rained since the end of August." The prince let out a long sigh of annoyance.

"It is common for there to be little rain in autumn, and if there can be one or two heavy snowfalls in winter, next year will still be a good year, Your Highness don't worry too much." Jiang Yanshi didn't care too much, even if there was a drought, the world was so big, there were no natural disasters in any year.

"Just now, Lu Yi went to find Qin Tianjian, saying that King Qin had been instructed by the emperor to go to Potai Temple to do 7749 days of transcendent rituals, and to surpass the world's lonely ghosts and wandering souls. Lu Yi looked for Qin Tianjian and said yes," Jiang Yanshi paused and looked at the crown prince, "There are also many babies in the palace who died before the order, and there is no one to sacrifice, this time it is also necessary to exceed the excess, please Qin Tianjian order a spiritual master tablet." ”

"How can a baby who died in the palace be sacrificed without sacrifice......" The prince didn't finish his sentence, his eyes widened slightly, and he looked at Jiang Yanshi, and the rest of the words came to an abrupt end.

"That Jin Guifei." Jiang Yanshi said slowly. "Auntie is right, all rumors are true."

"Yes...... Empress? The prince looked shocked.

"This baby must be a man, maybe it's still the eldest son, so it makes sense, I couldn't figure it out before, a person like the Empress Dowager Jin is extremely smart and visionary, how could he kill someone because of jealousy, hey, let the emperor grow up next to the Empress Dowager Zheng, I'm afraid it's not the meaning of the Empress Dowager Zheng, but the meaning of the Empress Dowager Jin, this is also a punishment for the Empress Dowager Jin, now."

Jiang Yanshi laughed dryly, "Everyone has seen this punishment, the emperor and the Empress Dowager Jin's life." can let King Qin go to Potai Temple to overdue, it seems that the emperor knew about the events of the year, and the death of the queen mother can not be mentioned again. ”

"Hmm." The prince stood up and sighed a few times, "For that chair, one by one, they are all doing everything like this, alas. ”

"Since I had that chair, that's it, Your Highness, don't think about it too much." Jiang Yanshi persuaded.

It took a long time for the prince to snort.

When King Qin returned to the palace, Li Xia was in the warm pavilion in the back garden, looking at a piece of yellow chrysanthemums, looking at the folded manuscript.

From the Queen Mother's trip to the present, before the rain fell, Li Xia put down the manuscript, walked to the window of the warm pavilion, and stretched out his head to look at the blue sky with white clouds.

"The gardener said that there must have been no rain these days, and it was very dry everywhere." Seeing Li Xia looking up at the sky, Duan Yan looked up and said worriedly.

Li Xia replied absentmindedly, she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart.

The last time, when the Queen Mother was on a big trip, it was the same, from Gyeonggi to the north, it didn't rain for nine months, and the last time, the Queen Mother was on a big trip in the first month, until the beginning of October, only a heavy rain fell for two days and three nights, watering the dry earth.

It was a tough year, how did she get through it?

"It would be nice to have a few heavy snowfalls in the winter, and next year will be a good year, if there is no snow in the winter." Li Xia's apprehension was interrupted by Duan Yan's worried words, "Those people should be happy again." ”

"You were sold by your family because of a famine?" Li Xia turned his head to look at Duan Yan and asked.

"It was also a big drought, and it didn't rain for more than half a year since the beginning of spring. When I was two or three years old, I was sent to Yao's house as a child daughter-in-law, I couldn't stand the hunger, I fled home in the middle of the night, seven or eight miles, walked all night and one day, it was almost dark and I got home, the family was starving to death, only the little brother still had a breath, looking at me with straight eyes, and I couldn't even call my sister. ”

Duan Yan's throat choked, and after a while, he returned to normal, "I'm just so hungry that I want to go home and beg for food." When I was about to starve to death, I was picked up by a few people, round by round, I was literate in Yao's house, but they said that my temper was too hateful to be a superior person, so I still stayed in the girl group and pulled to the capital. ”

"If there is really a big drought, I am afraid that more people will die in this one than the year you experienced." Li Xia's voice was slightly low, but she didn't have much emotion, she had heard too much tragedy.

"Princess, can you think of a way?" Duan Yan shuddered when he thought of the purgatory he had experienced.

"The empire is huge, from south to north, if there are six or seven percent of places where there are no major disasters, that year, even if the wind and rain are smooth, if you don't need relief all the way, such a year will be ......" Li Xia thought about it carefully, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, the year she came back, it was like this, but it was a pity that she fell back on her heels.

"In more than ten years, there can be one or two times."

Duan Yan's expression was gloomy, and he sighed lowly, "The former Tianqing quarreled with Zhuyu, a first-class girl from the tea and water division, in the east kitchen, because Zhuyu smashed a box of food sent by the east kitchen, Tianqing said that she can quarrel or fight, and she shouldn't be angry with food, saying that if it is in a famine year, this box of meals may be able to live the life of a family."

Hu Ying, Tianqing, and Venus and I are all too poor to eat, or picked up by someone's teeth, or sold by their families, and are hungry and afraid, and we have been with the princess for so many years, and we are still ...... Especially in this house, it's really ...... to watch a big bucket of leftovers being carried out every day."

"Let's talk about the quarrel between Tianqing and Zhuyu, and also, what is the origin of this Zhuyu, and why did you drop the box?" Li Xia sat down on the chair and ordered Duan Yan.

"It's all gone, and I've been punished, princess ......" Duan Yan's heart lifted, looked at Li Xia, and said cautiously.

"Well, I know, you talk about it carefully, there are similar things, and let's talk about it together, as well as this big bucket and a big bucket of leftovers, talk about it, in the past two or three months, things have happened one after another, and there seem to have been a lot of things in this house." Li Xia interrupted Duan Yan's words.

In the past two or three months, she has focused on the Queen Mother's Daxing and many things in the court, and she has neglected her palace of Prince Qin.

"Yes." Duan Yan saw Li Xia say this, and his heart was slightly relieved, the princess wanted to clean up the affairs of the palace, not just look at the quarrel between Tianqing and Zhuyu.

"Zhuyu's surname is Chen," Duan Yan straightened out his thoughts, starting with who Zhuyu is, "Her aunt's name is Zhao Hong, she is the director of the tea department of Xuanning Palace, she has learned from her mother since she was a child to recognize the good skills of making tea and dividing tea, Zhuyu's eldest brother is called Chen An, is the third-class purchase on our house, her second brother broke his leg when he was a child, he was a lame, he begged the queen mother, and her father released it together, and now a tea shop has opened not far from Deshengqiao, and I heard that the business is good."

Zhuyu has good craftsmanship, as soon as she enters the house, it is second-class, the tea she brews is the most suitable for the prince's spleen and stomach, and she has been promoted to a first-class level in the first two years, after we come, at least the tea soup in the main courtyard is taken care of by Xin'an with people, without the hands of others, this is the princess's rules. ”

Duan Yan said this, and added a little more with a little care.

Li Xia's eyes narrowed slightly, he didn't speak, he only nodded, and motioned for Duan Yan to continue. The people she married in with her, and the big girls in this house, want to fight and grab, and there are too many things that are not harmonious.

"Last month, General Lu came to me and said that he would hand over the dim sum tea and rice of the academy to us to take care of, and I asked the princess about this matter, and the princess said that everything in the house will not move for the time being, waiting for you to free your hands."

Duan Yan looked at Li Xia, Li Xia nodded, she remembered this incident.

"Although I replied to General Lu and said that the princess meant not to move for the time being, from then on, General Lu often asked Xin'an to bring people over to wait for the tea soup, about ......" Duan Yan glanced at Li Xia carefully, and said softly with his heart: "Zhuyu is not very happy." ”

Li Xia was expressionless and slowly sipped tea.

Duan Yan continued: "On the day of the quarrel between Tianqing and Zhuyu, it was said that it was a matter of Zhuyu Yue, which was very uncomfortable, so she asked the kitchen to cook a few hot and delicious meals for her.

Tianqing was on duty that day, and was the last to go to dinner, just bumped into Zhuyu A gust of wind swept into the big kitchen, lost his temper and smashed things, Tianqing had a violent temper, and he couldn't see the worst food, the two quarreled, Zhuyu cried angrily, saying that Tianqing was a third-class girl, and she dared to face her like this because she was the princess's companion, and. ”

Duan Yan paused, glanced at Li Xia, and then continued: "Said that the Queen Mother is a big deal, her aunt will go to guard the mausoleum, and anyone in this mansion can bully her." ”

"Who's going to dispose of it?" Li Xia couldn't see any expression on his face.

"It's Mama Shen, Zhuyu is first-class, I can only ask the chief steward to deal with it, and Mama Shen was on duty that day. Shen Mama said that Tianqing committed a crime and made noise in the house, and was punished for kneeling for an hour and deducted half a year's money; Zhuyu smashed things to make trouble, did not choose his words, was punished for kneeling for two hours, and deducted one year's monthly money; Wang Shan's daughter-in-law was unruly, caused trouble, and removed the messenger of the East Kitchen Steward and demoted her to a first-class cook.

Zhuyu fell ill after receiving the punishment, and is still sick at home, yesterday I asked Hu Ying to take a few things, and went to Zhuyu's eldest brother's house to visit her, she lived with her eldest brother. ”

"Is it not common to quarrel like this?" Li Xia looked at Duan Yan and asked.

"Yes." Duan Yan had a little embarrassment on his face, and the few wedding girls who were waiting close to them had also quarreled with others four or five times.

"Drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat, and then say, in the past two or three months, apart from Tianqing, who else has quarreled with others? Because of what, how to make noise, how to deal with it, the causes and consequences, carefully explain one by one. Li Xia sat comfortably and motioned to Duan Yan that she had to clean up and take care of this palace first.

Duan Yan hurriedly poured a cup of tea and drank it, and then said the second quarrel.