After Zhu Heyu left, his words stayed in the huge Chenghuan Palace, lingering in Zhuran's ears for a few days.

You remember, even if I am disgusted with you and disgusted with you, I will not kill you and give you freedom! Even if you die, you will be buried with me, and I will torment you for the rest of my life......

The funeral of the Empress Dowager is over, followed by the new emperor's enthronement and the canonization ceremony of concubines. Du Yuyan is beyond reproach for being the queen of the Yuanzhen Kingdom, but who will be the imperial concubine, concubine, concubine, and concubine under the queen cannot be predicted, it all depends on Zhu Heyu's preferences.

It was very inopportune that Zhu Ran and Zhu Heyu were angry at this time. The eunuchs in Zongzheng's mansion all bowed high and stepped low, and when they first entered the palace, Zhu Ran was favored by Zhu Heyu, and they needed to live, so they didn't have to wait for the female eunuchs of Chenghuan Palace to get them, so they sent them diligently.

It's just that it's different at this time, Zhu Heyu no longer favors Zhuran, and the Chenghuan Palace is very cold, even the ice cubes used to cool off in summer, the palace maids in the palace go to Zongzheng Mansion to get it, and they can't get it if they don't give another silver to please the head of Zongzheng Mansion.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, a group of show girls were selected to enter the palace, all of whom were the daughters of courtiers. Among them, Zhang Xiang, the left Shangshu of Menxia Province, and Li Gongxi, the right Shangshu, were loyal to Zhu Heyu when he was the prince, in order to show the grace of God, Zhang Xiang's eldest daughter Zhang Yuying, and Li Gongxi's niece Li Tinghui were all favored by Zhu Heyu, just waiting for the concubine to be canonized and given the title of the two. Zhang Yuying, the daughter of Zhang Xiang, has been favored by Zhu Heyu for five consecutive days since entering the palace. Everyone in the palace respectfully let in, and even Du Yuyan authorized Zhang Yuying to serve the saint hard, and did not have to go to the Duanli Hall every day to ask for peace. It's just that I heard that this Zhang Yuying has been taught by his father Zhang Xiang, not only is he not pampered and arrogant, but he knows the general situation and has the demeanor of a young lady. When Zhu Heyu summoned her on the sixth day, she came to Zhu Heyu's dormitory Yiqing Hall, knelt down in front of Zhu Heyu, and gently persuaded Zhu Heyu to be wet with rain and dew......

On this day, the ice cubes for the summer were used up again, and Xiaoge quietly went to the wooden box to get some more silver, for fear of being known by Zhuran, Zongzheng Mansion was so high and low, and he was worried that he always carried Zhuran on his back when he exchanged silver for ice.

It's just that Zhu Ran already knew, and stopped Xiaoge and said, "Don't change it, I'm not hot." ”

"... The slaves and maidservants can do it on this hot day, but you can't! ”

"What's the can't be, leave some silver for other purposes, the emperor will never come to Chenghuan Hall in the future......" Zhu Ran knew that this was the truth, and reminded himself thousands of times in his heart, but when he said this to Xiaoge, his heart was still faintly uncomfortable.

"Niangniang doesn't think so!" Xiao Ge quickly knelt on the ground when he heard Zhu Ran say this, and reminded Zhu Ran: "This is about to hold a canonization ceremony, Niang Niang can't miss this opportunity!" ”

In the past few days, the people of the Shangyi Bureau have been busy measuring the size of the mothers of each hall, and rushing to make the skirts to be worn at the canonization ceremony. Just listening to the tone of Zhu Ran's words at this time, he didn't think of the Sacred Heart, and he couldn't help but be disappointed in his heart.

Zhu Ran saw the gloom in Xiao Ge's eyes, and said softly: "I know that you are a high-spirited girl, if you feel that I have restrained you here, you can leave and find a way out, not only do I not blame you, but I will help you," said he took off the two golden hairpins on his head in turn, handed them to Xiao Ge, and continued: "You sent these two hairpins to the steward of Zongzheng Mansion, thinking that you could ask for a good errand." ”

Xiaoge didn't go to pick up the golden fork handed over by Zhu Ran, shook his head and looked at Zhu Ran and said: "The slave has no two hearts for the mother, the mother is favored, the slave and the maid will follow the mother, the mother will fall out of favor, and the slave and the maid will share the joys and sorrows with the mother!" Although she and Zhu Ran have been together for more than a month, Zhu Ran treats people gently, never harshly criticizes people, and has entered her heart.

To the relief of Xiaoge and the palace maids of Chenghuan Palace, the aunt of Si Yisi came to measure Zhuran on the second day. Zhu Ran looked at the person as an acquaintance, and he measured her when he was in the palace and asked her if she knew Dong Changqing's aunt.

His name is Dong Fang. When he lowered his head to measure the size of Zhu Ran's sleeves, Zhu Ran couldn't help asking, "Does my aunt still know me?" ”

"Zhu Niangniang, how can the slave not recognize it!" Dong Fang saw that Zhu Ran still remembered her, and her eyes showed joy.

"When I was in the palace, why did my aunt ask me like that?" Because Dong Changqing is already a sinner, Zhu Ran deliberately avoided talking about it, if this person is Dong Changqing, he will bring up the conversation, if not, he will not cause any unnecessary trouble for himself, Zhu Ran just thought like this in his heart, he didn't want Dong Fang to listen to Zhu Ran ask, plopped, knelt on the carpet, and said to Zhu Ran with a face full of hope: "Niangniang, the slave has something I want to say to you alone!" ”

Zhu Ran suppressed the doubts in his heart, looked at Xiaoge and a few palace maids in the hall and said, "You take them down first." ”

When there were only two people left in the hall, Dong Fang said to Zhuran: "Slave maid Dong Fang, originally a helpless orphan with both parents dead, Lord Dong Changqing saw that I was pitiful, took me back to Dong's mansion, and became a maid in Miss Dong Yuqing's room, and was given the surname Dong Fang by Miss Dong Fang......"

Zhu Ran and Dong Yuqing look very similar, which is why Dong Fang asked Zhu Ran if he knew Dong Changqing, the secretary of Dali Temple, when he saw Zhu Ran for the first time in Ruixin Palace.

Dong Fang is Dong Yuqing's personal maidservant, and the two are like sisters, and they have nothing to talk about. Dong Yuqing was cleaned out of the house by Dong Haojie back then,Driven out of the Dong Mansion,Since then, he has been separated from Dong Yuqing。 After Dong Yuqing left, the imperial court draft, Dong Changqing loved the house and Wu, knowing that Dong Yuqing and Dong Fang had a very good relationship, so he gave Dong Fang a chance to change his fate and let Dong Fang participate in the draft. Dong Fang really lived up to expectations, calm and steady, with her superb female celebrity, she worked hard for many years and became the head of the Yisi Division in the Shangyi Bureau.

Zhu Ran heard Dong Fang say this, and asked him to get up and speak. Dong Fang looked at Zhu Ran, with tears in his eyes, and told the purpose of this trip.

The Dong family was wiped out, and Dong Fang survived because he was on an errand in the palace and did not contact the Dong family for many years.

The eunuchs in the palace who are in charge of purchasing borrow errands to facilitate the practice of sending messages to aunts and palace maids to ask for benefits. Just two months ago, Dong Fang received a letter signed by Feng. After seeing it, he was overjoyed and afraid, so he gave the messenger a lot of silver and sealed his mouth. It turned out that Dong Changqing's character Yuanfeng, this nickname is only known to a few people, and when he saw this letter, Dong Fang thought that Dong Changqing was still alive. When I opened the letter, I realized that it was written by his son Dong Jie, and I was afraid of suspicion, so I used Dong Changqing's nickname.

Dong Jie wrote in the letter that he embezzled three million taels of silver from the imperial court and was framed by Lu Changxu and Lu Zihan's father and son.

The matter began when Lu Zihan went to the Wula tribe to negotiate border trade matters in July last year......