Regent's Palace.

In the west courtyard of Zhuxuan, a beautiful woman with weak willows supporting the wind sat aside, watching a pink and tender girl teasing the white lion cat at her feet, but her expression was not relaxed at all, but a little dignified.

She muttered, as if to herself, "Is the news accurate? ”

The man who stood bent nodded, "It's more real than real gold." ”

The beauty frowned, and suddenly smiled: "A mere civilian, can actually let people run away, our side concubine Niangniang is really used to a good life, and her brain will not turn." The corners of the crooked upturned mouth were full of mockery.

She dared to say this, others didn't dare to take it, how could she say that Concubine Lin was also on the royal jade and had a grade, where was it their turn to break their mouths. Not to mention, this Concubine Lin has always been straightforward, with clear love and hate, which of the servants and maids in the mansion who has provoked her dissatisfaction has not suffered from her? Only this master is not afraid.

The maidservant girl looked at the beauty in front of her in awe.

The other party suddenly clasped his palms lightly, and said in a brisk tone: "Such a good thing, the prince is hiding from the old lady, presumably to give her old man a surprise, how can we be happy alone and not happy?" ”

The beauty glanced at the bamboo forest around her, it was extremely quiet, but it felt like something was missing.

She sighed faintly, and got up and left directly: "Take the little county lord to the garden to flutter butterflies, it's too deserted here." ”

Now that it has just entered summer, the summer heat has not yet fully invaded, and staying in the largest bamboo forest in the whole palace, and even in the mansion of Manjing, for a long time really makes people feel cold hands and feet. If there are a few more gusts of wind, goosebumps will rise. Not to mention, there are still horror stories circulating here from time to time, such as hearing a woman sighing and crying in the middle of the night when no one is around, and when you go to see it, you find it empty, and so on.

Over time, this place has been covered with a layer of mysterious ghosts, and even fewer people come, and the timid and lonely would rather take a long detour than pass through here. It can be said that the only person in the Manwang Mansion who likes to hang out here when he has nothing to do is the only one.

Thinking of this, the servant girl who had been in awe before lowered her head even lower.

The huge royal mansion, the relationship between the lower people is like intertwined and extremely complicated. Under such a network, all kinds of reliable and unreliable gossip naturally spread quickly, not to mention that there has been no serious hostess in the house in charge of the back house in recent years, these servants dare not be lazy in doing things, but they are a lot more presumptuous in spreading gossip and gossip.

Someone had the intention to reveal it, so Beiyuan soon got the news, but it was the next day when the bamboo forest played with cats.

Sandalwood curls in the Buddhist hall, and a middle-aged lady with a pale face is chanting.

She was dressed plainly, wearing only a simple jade hairpin on her head, kneeling on the futon, half-closing her eyes, chanting words in her mouth, and the dark blue Buddha beads in her hand were unhurriedly dialed, even if the footsteps from outside were a little hurried than usual, she didn't even move her brows, the whole posture remained unchanged, and she had no intention of turning her head to inquire.

The person who came was about forty or fifty years old, and he should be dressed as a very useful housekeeper lady, or a nursing grandmother. Her temples were a little gray, but her face was ruddy, and her spirit was much better than that of the noble lady kneeling inside. She knew the other party's habits, and she didn't say anything, just stood outside with her hands down solemnly and waited.

Finally, when the string of Buddhist beads was twisted around again, the middle-aged lady finally stopped chanting in her mouth, slowly opened her eyes, but was not in a hurry to get up, only silently stared at the white jade Bodhisattva in front of her, as if she wanted to find something from the compassionate and kind eyebrows.

The old lady walked over lightly, helped the lady up with ease, and offered a cup of tea, and waited for the other party to take two sips, and her face eased, and then she told all the news from the kitchen today.

“…… It is said that the prince has fallen in love with a folk woman, and it is just a merchant background, he is still a widow, with a child, and he is about the same age as Dalang......"

The middle-aged lady listened to the one in front of her, and her face was still unwavering. Left and right is just a concubine, whether she is a merchant or a family, what if she is a widow, she has a husband, as long as her son dares to think, what can't be done?

"It is said that the appearance of that woman and the deceased princess is very similar, if it weren't for the dragon and phoenix fetus that Tao gave birth to back then, the people who saw it would have thought that it was the princess's siblings, it was exactly the same......"

Hearing this, her eyelids suddenly jumped.

"Is that serious?" Concubine Wei was obviously not very happy to hear this, and said with a suspicious face: "Who saw it with their own eyes?" ”

The old lady said a name and explained: "It was said that Concubine Lin's companion saw it in person." ”

Concubine Wei sneered silently: "How do I remember that not long after the Lin family entered the mansion, the Pei family went to accompany the capital." A small companion room, the number of times I have entered the inner courtyard is only a handful, I have never seen it, and it has been so many years, how can I remember it clearly! ”

The old lady was stunned, this is also true, she didn't expect this layer.

"That ......"

Concubine Wei's tone was cold, "It must be the two in the West Courtyard who are thinking about something, hmph, I dare to think very much~ He has hard wings now, and his idea is very big, even if he really marries a widow and enters the door, or my short-lived daughter-in-law crawls out of the coffin, what does this have to do with me!" I'm half a foot in the coffin now, but I'm just a nasty dead old woman! ”

The old lady didn't dare to make a sound.

She is the old man that Concubine Wei relies on the most, and she has followed her for thirty years, and she knows a lot about those secret things. For example, how did the original relationship between mother and son gradually collapse in the past two years. For another example, Concubine Wei originally didn't plan to leave the palace to live for the rest of her life, how did she reluctantly move out, and the timing of her departure from the palace was so coincidental that people didn't dare to think about it......

At this time, thousands of miles away.

Pei Baoer didn't know what was waiting for her ahead, and now, the treacherous and turbulent "battlefield" was still too far away.

Her goal at this time is very clear, that is, to do ideological work for Qi Heng, referred to as brainwashing.

“…… I tell you, the twisted melon is not sweet, and if you insist on pulling us together, you will not be happy. It's like, for example, if you appoint those officials, some are good at arithmetic, some are good at engineering, some are good at farming, you have to match them with different official positions, right? So ......"

She was about to speak, but Qi Heng said faintly: "Strictly speaking, it is not me who appoints officials, but the officials." ”

"What's the difference, you're pretty much the top ruling class, aren't you?" Pei Baoer retorted.

Qi Heng raised his eyebrows, "This word is very interesting, keep talking." ”

Pei Baoer didn't think much about it, so she followed his words and told him about Ma Zhe's class theory with the scumbag thinking of a science and engineering woman.

After a stick of incense, she realized that she was completely led by the nose.

She is not an opponent at all in such a verbal war, and often not long after the beginning, I don't know where he is crooked. It's just that guy is always serious, as if he is seriously discussing his outlook on life, worldview, and values with her, without any deliberately crooked bad sense and pride, she can't get angry.

In the first round, Pei Baoer was defeated.

She thought, since she can't talk about him, let's go to the actual battle!

When they arrived at the next city, everyone did not stay at the inn, but entered the post station of the official family, and received all-round warm and even thoughtful service of kneeling and licking.

The post station is a two-story building, so they naturally asked for two upper rooms, one for Qi Heng to live in, and the other for Pei Baoer's mother and son. The two rooms are not next to each other, and Yicheng explained that the ceiling is a little problematic and is being renovated, which is not very convenient for people.

That night, Pei Baoer pretended to be asleep for a long time, and when she heard that there was no movement on the second floor, she quietly got up from the bed. She touched the silver ticket sewn into the placket of her clothes, and decided to go out to see the number of people on the night watch first, and then decide on the battle plan. After all, she was good at walking alone, but with a little fat man who slept like a pig, the physical strength required for the job was greatly increased.

As a result, as soon as she opened a crack in the window, something felt wrong.

The guard of the night watch turned his back to her, but she didn't move, but she suddenly felt a faint coercion, as if someone was staring at her in the dark.

Her room is in the innermost, and if she wants to go out, she must pass through Qi Heng's room, and she must pass through the two strong men outside the room, no matter how you think about it, it is a little impossible. Pei Baoer wilted and lowered the window sash and turned to open the back window.

Well, this building is much shorter than modern buildings, and the ground is not bluestone slabs, and the soil is quite soft. If you add the rope escape method of bed sheets, maybe you don't even have to risk breaking your feet!

Pei Bao'er condescendingly glanced at the environment, and was even more relieved to find that there was no one on duty behind her.

She began to plague the thin sheets in the room, the first hissing of the cloth was loud in the silence of the night, and she could not find the scissors, but cut them slowly with the little dagger that had been sharpened with clay from the chariot. Finally, she turned the sheet into a strip of cloth, and then the strip of cloth into a thick twisted rope more than five meters long.

Pei Baoer tied one end to the foot of the bed, this was the most suitable support point she could find, which is why she had to make it so long, the window was still a little far from the foot of the bed.

As a result, when she tiptoed to take out the bib prepared in advance, tied Xiao Yan'er tightly behind her, and prepared to slide the rope late at night, she was horrified to find that there was a person standing under the window at some point, looking up at the moon in a daze.

She pinched the sheet rope in her hand and couldn't help but shiver a little.

"The moon is very good tonight, do you want to come down and take a walk?" The man finally turned his face to look at her.

Pei Baoer covered her face and silently closed the window.

In the second round, Pei Baoer was defeated.

But she didn't give up, she decided to mobilize the power of the masses to save herself!

She still remembers that in July last year, when the black-faced man sent Xiao Yan'er back to Osmanthus Lane, he was watched by many enthusiastic neighbors, and he did not pose his identity to intimidate them to get out, let alone use force. Just as she traveled along the way, she found that this unsmiling prince was not as domineering as the legend, at least his subordinates were extremely well restrained, and the only time he showed his fierce appearance was that there was an idler who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and they looked like a rich and noble family wanted to pretend to be hit by a carriage and touch porcelain.

Therefore, Pei Baoer felt that she might be able to give it a try.

The day after the failed plan to escape at night, she asked to go to the market to buy something according to the script she had come up with overnight.

Qi Heng followed, although she was a little disappointed, but this was also what she expected. After all, if he didn't have a defensive heart after last night's incident, then he, the regent wouldn't have to be the regent, and just go home and farm.

When she arrived at the most crowded area, she wiped the sleeve of her coat smeared with the gold sore medicine from the dark gli to her eyes, and suddenly a spicy breath hit her, her eyes turned red, and big tears suddenly fell.

Pei Bao'er hugged the child, looked at Qi Heng with an accusatory and resentful look, and said sharply: "You, what do you want?" Do you want to force me to death? ”

Due to her high decibels, she immediately attracted the attention of several people around her.

Qi Heng was stunned, and she said again: "I have nothing to do with you anymore, why are you pestering me?" Huh~ You are a ruthless person, you suspect that this child is not your own, you divorced me, and you don't want the child, and you don't give alimony, and you also account for half of my dowry, woo woo~ As a result, now you can't give birth and want to come back and grab a child with me as a weak woman? You, aren't you afraid of being ridiculed by the world when you act like this? ”

Now there are more onlookers, and they listen to it with relish, and there are still gossiping and commenting on it.

The circle of people centered on Pei Baoer and others began to be full of people, attracting more people who don't know what to do and love to watch the excitement.