When the plum red of the various mansions in the capital rushed to decorate the branches, the first year of Yuanhe came to an end.

On this day, two "uninvited guests" came to the palace of King Xian, with the same purpose, both of them were to invite Qin Ziruo, but the first one was closed, and Miss Qin should have been hidden in the dark.

At the beginning of the morning, Yijing came out of Rongxi Hall, and was leading the autumn frost to inspect everywhere, it was the end of the year, although the family affairs had already been put in order by Yijing, but at the end of the year, it was necessary to check and prepare for the festival, and the affairs of people came and went, and the princess still did not want to be careless - the reason why the assistant who followed was not Xia Ke, who was pinned on by Yijing, but Qiushuang, speaking of this, Yijing was really a little depressed.

At her insistence, Chun Du was persuaded in the end, took over the work at hand, and became the wife of the head of the family with peace of mind.

Xia Ke was also cultivated by Yijing early in the morning, and had no intention of letting her out of nationality for the time being, but intended to find a young and promising future for her in the family servant, one in the future, one to take care of the industry outside, and the other to take on the important position of internal steward, which was naturally what Xia Ke was originally willing to do.

Not long after returning to Beijing, one day her prince was hesitant and asked about Xia Ke's marriage in an ominous manner.

After asking, it was actually Gu Qiuyue, the cousin of her brother-in-law Yin Yong, who begged the prince to be a lobbyist and wanted to marry Xia Ke.

The princess was immediately caught off guard.

She also understood that since Yu Feng was willing to intercede for Gu Qiuyue, this person should be not bad, but the princess was worried about Gu Qiuyue's family.

Xia Ke was born as a slave in the end, although the Gu family is not an official eunuch, but it is also a well-known wealthy businessman in Jinyang Jing, Yi Jing is afraid that the Gu family's parents will not dare to be dissatisfied with the power of the palace on their faces, but they are selfish and picky about Xia Ke's background, once this person is unwilling, tolerance is only for a short time, and it is difficult to get along for a long time, Xia Ke will be aggrieved.

"San Lang repeatedly promised, his relatives will not underestimate Xia Ke, I also asked Chang'an, according to him, his uncle and aunt are by no means hypocrites, since they agreed to this marriage, they should not underestimate the harsh treatment, and although Xia Ke is a maidservant, she is the princess and your confidant, and in the future, she will become a good citizen, and she will still be taken care of by the palace, and her identity will not be lower than those businessmen's daughters." Yu Feng also really did his best for Gu Qiuyue and tried his best to match.

Although Yi Jing was reluctant to give up the internal steward she had painstakingly selected, of course, she also knew that if the Gu family was really willing, it would indeed be a good thing for Xia Ke, she didn't want to delay Xia Ke's life, so she found a suitable opportunity, so she asked Xia Ke if she was willing.

The girl was silent for a long time, and only one sentence: "The slave is just reluctant to give up the princess." ”

Yes, it seems that Xia Ke was moved early in the morning, but Yi Jing wondered, and asked again, only to know that when Xia Ke got out of Xiliang, Gu Qiuyue volunteered to sneak back to Xiliang to protect each other all the way.

However, Xia Ke was unwilling to marry early, and she had to wait until all the turmoil subsided and the princess was completely safe before she was willing to marry.

Yi Jing also thinks that he has no leisure to worry about Xia Ke's marriage for the time being, and after the calm is calm, he will have no worries, and then the Gu family will be able to accept Xia Ke with complete peace of mind.

But in this way, not only Xia Ke was divorced alone, but her widowed brother and sister-in-law's family had to be divorced, in the end, she married into a wealthy family, and there was no mother, brother and sister-in-law who were still servants, but Xia Ke was divorced alone.

Yijing's original four companion rooms, Chundu's family, Xia Ke's family, and Qiushuang's family have all left their homes, and only the remaining bell family.

Fortunately, Yijing's status in her husband's family is no better than that of an ordinary noblewoman, and she doesn't have to worry about being constrained by others and can't do without accompanying her, the only thing that worries her is the candidate for internal management in the future, because Qiushuang is not suitable, and she can only assist for three or two years at most, and sooner or later she will get married, and Yijing has no intention of letting her be a slave for a long time.

In the future, her arms still need to be carefully selected and examined when she has free time, and she bother to cultivate, but at the moment, she has no time to put her mind on internal affairs, so she has to let Qiushuang help her temporarily.

On this day, as soon as the two of them came out of the inner library, they saw Xia Ke come forward and said that the porter had entered the house, and there was some Sun Ru who wanted to visit Miss Qin.

Yi Jing didn't react for a while: "But the people from the Qin Prime Minister's Mansion? She thought it was the daughter of a married person from the Qin family who wanted to visit her sisters.

"The person's surname is Li." Xia Ke said: "The slave maid asked the porter to ask carefully, only to find out that it was a female dependant of the seven-grade imperial history. ”

The husband's surname is Sun Ben's surname Li, and if he has an "old" friendship with Qin Ziru, Yi Jing suddenly remembered who is - it is said that Queen Qin treats this Sun Ruren with great trust, and often edicts into the court, that is, at the banquet of the large and small palaces, this district can also get a special edict to participate, this Li is not someone else, it is the "old man" Li Erniang of Xianghe, her husband Sun Meng has now become a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and he is close to the middle palace, not to mention that there are those Qin Xiang henchmen who flatter this Sun Ruren, even Mrs. Zhuo, the second-grade wife, is also very stammering with her.

By the way, it was this Sun Ruren who was disrespectful to Yichen at a palace banquet, which provoked Brother Shun, who was just four years old, to protect his mother.

I just don't know what urgency Sun Ruren has, Baba came to the door, please see the maid of the palace.

This seems to indicate that Sun Ruren and Qin Ziruo have long been "colluding"? As soon as the princess turned her mind, she remembered that Yu Feng had said that Xiao Yan was introduced to the saint by Sun Yushi, and she was very puzzled at the beginning, with the temperament of Empress Qin, where could a prostitute give birth to the "eldest son" for her, thinking about it, it should be Qin Ziruo who wasted a lot of hard persuasion.

It is said that Sun Yushi himself has no ability, and he was able to squeeze into the Qingwang Mansion as a staff member at the beginning, or because of his wife's wealth and silver paving the way, about now Sun Meng can become the "close minister" of the Son of Heaven, and the role of the Li family is indispensable, and it should be painstakingly planned and planned in the future, and finally let Sun Meng successfully curry favor with the Son of Heaven and the Qin family, and turned from a staff member to a regular position, and got an official position to supervise the imperial history.

If it was a different person, Yijing would open his eyes and close his eyes and let them meet, but this Sun Ruren, Yijing was very disgusted.

My sister has no grudge against her, just because the queen intends to make things difficult, Sun Ruren dares to humiliate the princess of the clan in front of her in order to please the queen.

Most of the families close to the prime minister are eunuchs, and even if the female relatives please the queen, they still have to take into account the etiquette, only the Li family is a businessman, and she is not familiar with the communication etiquette of the nobles.

Although Sun Ruren is a gun, since he is willing to be used as a gun, and he plays his role to the fullest, then he must have the consciousness of being counterattacked.

Yijing didn't intend to let her get her wish.

"Xia Ke, you go and tell Sun Ruren that the maids of the palace are not allowed to meet outsiders privately."

Xia Ke went as promised, and when she returned, Yijing had already returned to Guan Sui Yuan.

"When the slave and maid went out, the widow was waiting impatiently, frowning and losing his temper with the porter, and was stunned when he heard the words relayed by the slave and maid, and said that he wanted to visit the princess." Xia Ke said with a smile: "The slave replied to her and asked her to officially hand over the post to the door, if the princess is free, and then send someone to invite, the widow looked a little annoyed, glared at the slave and maid several times, and left helplessly." ”

Yi Jing was naturally very satisfied with Xia Ke's handling, and called the bell to instruct: "Find a way to spread the news of Li's eating the closed-door soup to Chanjuan's ears, remember, the process must be detailed." ”

So, if Qin Zi, who was supposed to be hiding in the dark, heard about her visitor being turned away by the princess before noon, Dantian was depressed and angry.

Of course, Miss Qin is not free enough to fight for the Li family, what makes her irritable is Yijing's sentence "The slaves and maids of the palace can't meet outsiders privately", this is also of course, don't look at Qin Ziruo to endure humiliation and swallow his voice, on the surface, he has the consciousness of being a slave and a servant, but how can he really be willing to be humble in his selfish heart? At the same time, she knew that Yijing was deliberately humiliating in front of outsiders, just to embarrass her, how could she bear to grit her teeth - Su Shi, a two-faced villain, is so virtuous in front of the prince and the old princess, saying that she wants to open the door of convenience, and will not hinder her from meeting with relatives and friends, hum, that is to say, it has to be good.

However, Qin Ziruo was angry, but also anxious - his mother was inconvenient to come and go frequently because of her identity, and Ziruo really didn't want her mother to be humiliated by the princess, but seeing that it was already Layue, why was there no news about the Chen family's preparations? The matter is critical, if you want to successfully force Concubine Su to be deposed, the first step is to make the Empress Dowager disgusted with the Su family, and her mother didn't care, could it be that the Chen family hasn't acted yet?

Compared with others, Miss Ziruo is of course more concerned about this matter.

Yes, she didn't know that the Chen family had been defeated, so she only heard that the Queen Mother had given marriage, and the marriage of the Su and Chen families was imminent, and she thought that she had taken a successful step, so she naturally looked forward to Su and Yan more and more.

The Weiguo Mansion is at the opposite door, although the marriage cannot be concealed, there is the line of Zheng's mother and daughter, of course Qin Ziruo can hear about it, but Zheng's mother and daughter's ability is limited, because of the timely response to the Wu case, the Son of Heaven hastily closed the case, and did not make a big uproar in the streets, Zheng's mother and daughter are servants, and there is no way to listen to the important news of the court, even if they hear that a Wu family is dead, they will not think of the things that follow, because Qin Ziruo knows nothing about this matter.

She inevitably guessed, could it be that this was the reason for Li's intention?

So I couldn't hold it back, so I wrote a letter, asking Chanjuan to find a way to transfer it to Sun's mansion and get back Li's reply.

But just after noon, Qin Ziruo knew that she had done something more, because Mrs. Qin came to the door again.

The princess said first, the concierge directly let people in, and Mrs. Qin arrived at Rongxi Hall unimpeded, but was directly led to the next room by Mama Zhu - the weather was cold, the old princess was old, and she was a little sleepy in the afternoon, and she didn't wake up from a nap at this time, so she couldn't entertain Mrs.

Mrs. Qin had no choice but to accompany the smiling face, and once again swallowed her anger, this time she didn't even plan to go to the princess to bring humiliation on herself.

Hearing that the Chen family had failed, Qin Ziruo was greatly disappointed, and he fell again and again, complaining that the Chen family was not acting well, and it was really useless.

Mrs. Qin also had a sad face: "What happened in November, I wanted to come and inform you at that time, but your grandfather said that it would be too revealing to come at that time, and it is difficult to guarantee that Concubine Su will not instigate us to interfere in front of the prince, so I waited until this time." ”

"What did the saint say, couldn't he just let Concubine Su go if he couldn't do it?" Of course, Qin Ziruo is still concerned about this matter.

"The saint is also very angry, and your grandfather and father are vigilant, and they will never let Concubine Su go, but because the turmoil has not passed, you can't rush for a while, don't worry, grandfather is already secretly planning...... Also, although the saint did not mention the matter of Concubine Su for the time being, he was already thinking about leaving the king of Chu in Jinyang and not letting him go to Chuzhou again. ”

"I can save this." Qin Ziruo secretly calculated - at this time, the prince's mind was on the Su family, if she took the initiative to approach, she would also be suspected of having bad intentions, and it was easy to be slandered by the Su family, this matter can only be transferred through the Su family, in order to "persuade to leave" that must be taken as a last resort in the future, at the moment it is resolute not to let the Su family defend herself, and she has to do her duty, and try her best to make her believe that she has died and no longer has "non-shared".

However, as long as Su Shi conveyed this to the prince, he couldn't hide that she took the initiative to remind him, and the prince would remember this favor.

Sending Mrs. Qin away, coincidentally, Qin Ziruo saw Chanjuan's steps hurriedly going to Rongxi Hall, and hurriedly called out to her, the two of them held hands and went to a place to avoid people, Chanjuan sneakily took out a letter and handed it over, Qin Ziruo thanked herself, so she shook a piece of silver ingot of ten taels that Mrs. Qin had just given her a "turnover" and rewarded Chanjuan.

She didn't know that when she walked on her front feet, Chanjuan covered her chest and leaned against the pillar, her face was so pale that she looked like a ghost, and she didn't have the joy of "a windfall".