A few days later, the turmoil caused by the assassination of the palace maid gradually subsided.

"Niangniang, the concubine heard that Concubine De has shown signs of waking up." Fang Wan said in a low voice while boiling tea in Nie Yan's hall.

Since that day, Fang Wan has surrendered, and he will come to Nie Yan every day to say goodbye, and he will bring some news.

In the end, Fang Wan has been in the palace for a long time, even if her position is not high, but to some extent, it is incomparable to Nie Yan, a newcomer.

Just like now, Nie Yan has not heard any news about Concubine De.

"Concubine De is blessed." Nie Yan just said lightly.

Fang Wan couldn't guess Nie Yan's thoughts, so she couldn't answer, so she handed the brewed tea to Nie Yan and said, "I don't know why, Concubine Zhao has been running to the queen recently, but Concubine Qi has gone there less." ”

Nie Yan took the teacup, took a sip, and said, "The news of Concubine De can reach you, do you think they won't know?" ”

"What does Niangniang mean is that Concubine Qi intends to ally with the queen to compete with Concubine De?" Fang Wan didn't think about Concubine De, but as soon as Nie Yan reminded her, she felt more and more that it was possible.

"Don't look at Concubine Qi and Concubine Zhao because of their backgrounds, they are both impulsive in their personalities, but they can still distinguish the importance at critical moments." Nie Yan said.

Fang Wan understood, but still said: "In the past, Concubine Qi relied on her family background and the imperial heir in her womb, and she was disrespectful to the queen, and the queen mother was afraid that it would not be so easy to agree." ”

"She'll say yes. Compared with the back position, the contradiction with Concubine Qi is insignificant. ”

Nie Yan sneered. She knew very well that once Concubine De woke up, Xiao Yu would definitely not treat her badly.

Concubine De is now one of the four concubines, and if she enters again, she will be a concubine. A noble concubine who has a prince and the emperor's favor, Queen Xu, who has no children in the middle palace, is probably more anxious than Concubine Qi at this time.

Fang Wan exchanged a few more words with Nie Yan, and when she saw that Nie Yan was not interested in it later, she retreated.

Today's events made Nie Yan aware of the importance of the eyes and ears in the palace.

Now there is Fang Wan, but after all, Fang Wan's family background is too low, and ordinary news is fine, but if it is a big event, Fang Wan's role is not great. What's more, Fang Wan was not enough to earn Nie Yan's trust.

Since he decided to cultivate his eyes and ears, he had to use silver to open the way.

Thinking of this, Nie Yan called Su Yun and asked, "How much silver do we still have in our hands?" ”

Su Yun replied: "When I entered the palace, there were many dots, and now the silver sent by General Su is less than two hundred taels left. But His Majesty sent a lot of rewards a few days ago, and I think it should be worth a lot of money, but the mother wants to use it? ”

When Nie Yan heard this, she sighed and said, "That's it, you can't do anything with these silver coins." The things that are given by the emperor are even more untouchable. ”

Everything that is given by the palace is recorded, and if it falls out and goes into the hands of someone with a heart, it is not a matter of silver.

When she was young, she had a father, and later there was Song Jing in everything, Nie Yan never thought that she would have a day when she would worry about money.

"According to the current position of the main palace, how many cases of silver are there in January?" Nie Yan asked again.

Su Yun was a little embarrassed: "The prince of the Internal Affairs Office said that the mother can get four hundred taels a year. ”

Four hundred taels can be regarded as a huge amount of money in the average rich family, but in this harem, it is really not enough to see.

"So little?" Nie Yan frowned.

But then I figured it out. In previous years, my father was in the military department, although the year was not much, but the Nie family had various shop businesses under their name, not to mention the annual income, there were still thousands of taels.

This is still the situation of Nie Yan's father being an honest official, similar to the prince of Zhenguo and the princes and nobles, which one doesn't have tens of thousands of taels or even more every year?

Although there are not many palace concubines, they each have their own families to help, so they will naturally not be poor.

It seems that what Su Qingyu gave to Nie Yan at that time was thousands of taels. In the State of Chu, General Sanpin Yunlu's annual salary was no more than a hundred taels.

Seeing Nie Yan's frowns, Su Yun said in a low voice, "It's better to ...... The slave maid found a way to see General Su? ”

"Never!" Nie Yan hurriedly denied.

Even now, Nie Yan already owes Su Qingyu a lot of favors, not to mention, if she doesn't entangle with Su Qingyu, if she really asks Su Qingyu for help because of this matter, isn't there a suspicion of giving it to each other privately?

The courtiers have financial exchanges with the palace concubines who are not related to them, and if someone comes out to identify Nie Yan and Su Qingyu as having a personal affair, the consequences will be unimaginable!

"Although two hundred taels is less, let's make do with it first. The eyes and ears in the palace are not overnight, and they can be made by silver money alone. Nie Yan commanded.

The matter of ears and eyes had to be put on hold for the time being because of the relationship between the money. Fortunately, because of Concubine De, Queen Xu and Concubine Qi are like great enemies, and if she wants to come in a short time, Concubine Qi will not come to trouble Nie Yan, because Nie Yan is not in a hurry.

As for Xiao Yu, he has never been here since Nie Yan went to bed last time, but he has not heard of the news that he has recruited other concubines.

Nie Yan guessed that Xu was busy with government affairs.

In the Taiji Hall, Xiao Yu sat on the top and frowned and listened to Su Qingyu's report.

"You mean, the assassin has a Khitan tribal tattoo on his body?" Xiao Yu's face was pale.

Su Qingyu nodded and said: "Weichen guesses that this matter may be instigated by the Khitan, and the purpose is to drive a wedge between the Chu State and Nanzhan. ”

After speaking, Su Qingyu remembered Nie Yan, if it weren't for her reminder, he wouldn't have been able to prove the existence of an assassin and Khitan so quickly.

The tattoo on the assassin's body resembles the totem of the Khitan Aquila tribe.

Xiao Yu suddenly heard this, the assassin had been lurking for a long time, but he made such a move when Nie Yan had just entered the palace, which was indeed suspected of discord.

At that time, the palace maid originally wanted to prove that Nie Yan was the murderer of the emperor's heir, but later saw that she couldn't do anything, so she assassinated. And the purse on his body is a planting that has been prepared a long time ago.

That makes sense.

"That assassin must have an accomplice, otherwise how would he pass on the message?" Xiao Yu asked.

Su Qingyu said: "Weichen is ashamed, he had already found several eunuchs and palace maids, but he was one step too late, and those eunuchs and palace maids had already committed suicide by taking poison. ”

Xiao Yu sneered and said, "It's a good slave!" ”

I don't know if I'm talking about Khitan or self-deprecation.

"Weichen thinks that there are still Khitan spies in the palace." Su Qingyu said bluntly.

"Naturally! Otherwise, how could those people receive the news so quickly and die cleanly? Xiao Yu said sarcastically.

Although Xiao Yu was angry, it was not surprising that in the Khitan Inner Court, didn't he also have his own spies?

After easing his mood, Xiao Yu ordered: "Qing Yu, if you continue to investigate this matter secretly, you will definitely find out the people behind the scenes!" I feel that there must be a big fish in the harem. ”

"Wechen obeys!" Su Qingyu commanded.

"By the way, I've heard, you've been to Concubine Shu?" Xiao Yu asked suddenly.