The later queen was infected with illness for many years, and finally died in the west half a year after the prince's wedding, and was nicknamed Queen Xiaoyi.

The world knows very little about this Empress Xuanhui, and the queen's maiden family has long since moved back to her ancestral home. So the four characters of Queen Xuanhui have become legends.

"Why are you cleaning all of a sudden?" Xie Wan asked inquiringly.

Concubine De lowered her head and was silent, then sighed faintly, "That's Prince Hui'an's residence. ”

Prince Hui'an? Xie Wan is very unfamiliar with this name.

In both lives, she only knew about the crown prince in the East Palace now, and she didn't know what else Prince Hui'an was! In the main palace of the Empress Yuan, he made a taboo for this Prince Hui'an, could he be the son of Queen Xuanhui? But she has been in Beijing for so many years, and she has never heard that Empress Xuanhui left a son, why did she suddenly have a prince of Hui'an?

She couldn't hide her surprise and looked at Concubine De, but the second concubine didn't have the slightest intention to explain, but looked at her calmly and said, "Let's go." ”

Zhang Zhen, who had just stepped out of Zhong Cui Palace, looked at their backs, and her eyes fell on Yin Xu, who was bouncing around, and suddenly became strange.

Xie Wan took Yin Xu to stay in Concubine De's Palace, and no one mentioned half a word about Zhong Cui Palace during the whole process. It seems that it is a thing that does not deserve special attention as the flowers and trees blooming on the side of the road, but Xie Wan still has an intuition that they are pretending to be relaxed, maybe they don't really care about it, but maybe they are avoiding it.

After the meal, Xie Wan took Yin Xu to the East Palace.

The crown princess was reading a book and heard that Xie Wan's mother and son were coming. And he got up. Xie Wan looked at her Yin Xu in his arms, stuffed the red gold bell in his hand for him to play, endured it for a long time, and still asked: "When I came out of the imperial garden, I saw the eunuchs cleaning in the Zhongcui Palace, and Concubine De said that the side hall where the cleaning was once the residence of Prince Hui'an, and the mother concubine could see this Prince Hui'an?" ”

The crown princess stopped her movements, raised her head, stared at the door for a long time, and said, "Prince Hui'an? ”

Xie Wan looked at her and said, "Say so." The concubine knew him. ”

The crown princess was silent for a long time on the floor. nodded, stuffed the bell in his hand to Yin Xu, and asked Ziying to take him to play, and then said quietly: "Prince Hui'an is the only son of Empress Xuanhui. He was four years older than me and the Prince. I haven't met him, though. Because he died before he was three years old, but I heard my mother say that he was very beautiful and smart, because my mother had a very good relationship with Empress Xuanhui at that time.

"That's a poor kid too. Three months after she was born, Queen Xuanhui died, leaving him to be fed. It's a pity that God didn't pity him. He died of smallpox when he was three years old. At that time, there was only one imperial heir in the harem, and it was said that the emperor was like crazy, and killed all the palace people in the entire Zhongcui Palace, but he didn't pull them to the burial of Prince Hui'an.

And Concubine Lan, who was ordered to take care of Prince Hui'an at that time, was also given white silk, but fortunately, Du Cen persuaded the emperor later, so they didn't make trouble to the court. After a long time, no one gradually remembered this matter, although more than 40 years have passed, but few people will talk to the emperor about it. I don't know how he remembers. ”

Xie Wan was speechless after hearing this, from the day she met the emperor, the emperor was a cold-blooded and ruthless old man in her impression, he was even willing to give up his eldest grandson, to say that he would lose his mind for his son, she really couldn't believe it. Is it because he is his son, and Yin Yu and Yin Xu are just his grandsons and great-grandchildren?

However, after knowing the birth of Prince Hui'an, she couldn't help but sigh, counting that he was not much older than Yin Xu when he died, a smart and clever child, obviously with a very broad future, but died suddenly, which cannot but be said to be a pity.

It turns out that there was another possibility more than 40 years ago, if it weren't for that smallpox, the crown prince would be just a prince now, and Yin Yu would just be a prince's son, where did these party disputes come from? Even if there is, it's none of their business.

"At that time, there was smallpox in the palace, and Prince Hui'an died alone?" She suddenly remembered.

The crown princess was slightly stunned, "I don't know about this." ”

In the small courtyard filled with the fragrance of magnolia flowers, a person in a green shirt stood tall and jade, standing under the tree and playing the flute. The sound of the flute drifts away with the fragrance of flowers, and the breeze fades and disappears in the eternal night.

The full moon hung in the sky, and a wisp of cloud silk hung on the edge, making it look a little more lingering.

In addition to the flute body in the quiet courtyard, there was a light and fast footstep, with the light and shadow of the corridor lamp under the hall, a person turned in the outer courtyard, and when he arrived at the porch, he glanced at the figure with his back to the door, and then walked quickly with the hem of his clothes.

"Sir, there's news!" The person who came was still the old man with a gray beard, and his voice was a little excited.

It wasn't until the next piece of music was perfectly passed that Mr. Seven stopped.

The old man went down the courtyard, walked behind him, and said, "The emperor handed over the marriage to Yin Yao to Concubine De this time, and it is said that Concubine De is not satisfied with the few ladies sent by the Ministry of Rites. It looks like there will be a re-election this time. ”

Mr. Seven paused slightly, turned around, his eyes were as bright as stars, "Really?" Walking under the porch, he took a flute and teased the flowers under the porch. The moon season of the tree that had just bloomed was teased by him a few times, and the petals fell one after another.

Two streets away in the four-leaf alley, Xie Rong is also looking at the moon in the sky, the courtyard that was smashed by King Zheng has already been restored to its original appearance, standing in this breeze at the moment, listening to the melodious flute from nowhere, his mood is as calm as this summer night.

He still doesn't know why Zhang Zhen came to his house, that day he was dressed in regular clothes, standing under the gatehouse with his hands behind his back, just bending down to help him kick the past flower stand, when he raised his head, his eyebrows seemed to contain thousands of mountains and rivers, so that people could not see the depth.

He only asked him one sentence in total, and he asked him, "Do you still want to be an official?" ”

Of course he wanted to, he dreamed of it! He not only wants to be an official, but also wants to be an official with power leaning towards the government and the opposition! He wants to return to the court, destroy Wei Bin and Jin Yong, and subvert the current situation, he uses the sensitivity he has cultivated for forty years to deeply feel that Zhang Zhen is the hand that pulls him out of the quagmire, and it is the most powerful life-saving straw for him now!

"Yes."

He only gave this one word, and nothing else.

And Zhang Zhen nodded, and walked out like this.

It was only a moment before and after, blinking as if it was his hallucination, but he believed that it was true, Zhang Zhen was pulling him up the mountain, and the news that Xie Yun inquired about next also proved that his feeling was right. King Zheng was summoned to the palace by the emperor yesterday for questioning, and then the people of King Zheng's mansion sent 3,000 taels of silver tickets to compensate for the loss suffered by smashing the courtyard that day!

What else could he not believe? Life once turned a corner, knocking him off the position of the waiter who had worked so hard to climb up, and now he turned a corner again, allowing him to meet Zhang Zhen.

He had no way to guess Zhang Zhen's purpose, but no matter what his purpose was, he was stronger than Ji Zhenyuan, more powerful than him, he had been an official in the court for so long, and he had never focused on Zhang Zhen, but it was the most inconspicuous old eunuch, when he stood alone in front of him, he was so extraordinary.

"Father, Mr. Seven has not moved so far, could it be that he is determined not to appear?"

Xie Yun walked up to him and said.

Xie Rong shook his head, "No." "A person who can work hard for more than ten years can give up because of a failure." He's just waiting for an opportunity. Didn't I ask you to put your target on the Huansha Hutong a few days ago? How's it going? ”

"Nothing was found." Xie Yun shook his head.

Xie Rong sighed. Although he said that he met Zhang Zhen, he would never give up on Mr. Seven's side. He once thought that Zhang Zhen would be Mr. Seven's person, but when he thought about it, it didn't look like it, if Zhang Zhen was Mr. Seven's person, then what did Mr. Seven want Ji Zhenyuan to do? The point is that the emperor and Yin Yu teamed up to investigate the matter in Yunnan to confirm that Zhang Zhen must know, if the two of them are connected, then why is Mr. Seven kept in the dark?

It can be seen that Zhang Zhen is another faction, and as for the purpose, he will know sooner or later.

"If you can't find Huansha Hutong, you can go to the Donghua Temple to find it." He then instructed Xie Yun again. "These two places are the only place names mentioned in Ji Zhenyuan's codex, and maybe there will be clues. Remember, don't show your feet to anyone, let alone let Yin Yu's people bump into them. It's better to pay for a few face-to-face people. ”

Xie Yun nodded.

Yin Yu has also been pondering about Mr. Seven's delay in showing up recently. Twelve days have passed since the end of the month, and if you add the half month before the ransom letter, it will be nearly a month. In the past month, Luo Qian has almost turned Huansha Hutong upside down, and he has not found any traces of spiders and worms.

And Wu Kui and the others secretly went to check on those young scribes who matched the conditions, and they didn't find anything particularly suspicious.

Could it be that Mr. Seven is really so calm? If the emperor agrees to Chan Rang, then it will be difficult for him to rebel again. Although the emperor has not yet agreed, there is at least half a chance that Mr. Seven will really stabilize until the last day?

"Lord Wang, Luo Qian is back!"

Hu Shilian, the former eunuch, came into the door with the dust in her arms.

Yin Yu waved his hand, and Luo Qian strode into the threshold.

Without waiting for him to speak, Luo Qian said, "Lord Wang, we seem to have found something!" As he spoke, he took out a half-burned piece of paper from his bosom and put it on his desk. This is what we found out from Donghua Temple, because we had followed suspicious people to Donghua Temple before, so at that time we pretended to put incense in the temple and then observed the pilgrims, but we accidentally found this under the temple worship group. ”

It was a piece of paper with only a few words written on it that couldn't see the content, but as soon as this handwriting came into view, Yin Yu's spirit immediately lifted up!

He has been studying Mr. Seven's handwriting for several years, and there is no mistake in Mr. Seven's handwriting! (To be continued.) )