Princess Yan left He Angelica for dinner, and left Duan Xiaolou, Peng Shi, Peng Yan, Li Xianqian and Niu Wenlan together, plus the second miss Zhu Liuran and the third miss Zhu Guqin of the palace, a group of young people gathered into a table lively, talking and laughing at the table, so lively.

Halfway through the meal, the people in the front yard of the palace came to report that the prince was back, so Peng Shi and Peng Yan, who came to the banquet at the invitation of King Yan, stopped and said goodbye to everyone, and went to the front yard to meet King Yan.

He Angelica checked Duan Xiaolou's injuries after the meal, and found that there was no major problem, and even the anesthetic effect of tea dew did not work. She was worried about the situation of Meng Xuan, who couldn't sleep in the secret room of the Meng Mansion, and went to say goodbye to Princess Yan, who turned into a creeper full of tentacles, and each tentacle was attached to He Angelica, so she had to stay in the palace overnight.

He Angelica could see that Princess Yan had put a lot of thought into the dishes for dinner. He Angelica also wanted to find out the reason why Princess Yan was good to her, so he agreed to stay.

The guest rooms of the palace have two compartments, east and west, and the east chamber is an elegant residence near the water, which is dedicated to female guests; The furnishings of the west wing are relatively simple, and the male guests are inhabited. There is a four-foot high wall between the two compartments, and the door is closed and locked after midnight.

After dinner, all the guests who stayed for dinner stayed overnight, He Angelica originally had two sentences to ask Duan Xiaolou, and also wanted to ask Peng Shi whether there was a result of the "Tiger Talisman for Golden Lock", the last time they met in Luofu, Peng Shi also promised that there was a way to get back the piece of crescent moon jade from Li Xianqian.

Who knows, as soon as it was night, the iron door between the east and west compartments was locked, and only a small door led to the bedroom of Princess Yan and other concubines. On the small door stood the grandmothers who had been working all night, and according to them, the small door would be locked after an hour, which was a special rule of the palace for the safety of the guests. As a result, He Angelica gave up the idea of contacting Peng in the palace.

After dinner, He Danggui also encountered a new thing, it turned out that the Meng Mansion sent a luggage maid to serve her, saying that she was afraid that she would not be used to the maids in the palace. But the maids sent by Mengfu were actually lotus root and Xiangzhi, two maids she had never been used to.

The lotus root went to the yard of the two aunts on her own initiative, and later heard that the welfare of the people in the bamboo garden was better, and she came back cheekily. He Angelica didn't have the same knowledge as her, and transferred her to the pantry to be a housekeeper, out of sight, out of mind.

As for Xiangzhi, according to the reliable testimony of several maids, she was the first batch of maids to serve Meng Xuan, and seven or eight people at that time walked and got sick, and in the end only this Xiangzhi remained, so she thought that her rank was higher than everyone else, and she was a little arrogant, and she had the ambition to be an aunt. But these are not the reasons why He Angelica doesn't like her, there are two aunts living in the plum garden, and He Angelica has never suppressed them.

This time, Qing'er stayed in Mengfu and quietly told her that Qi Xuanyu, the "Tianjizi" who was elegant and handsome on the surface, but was actually the ultimate black-bellied, sat in the teahouse opposite Mengfu every day, with deep eyes, as if he had seen through the time tunnel.

Qing'er bought the teahouse guy and got the news that there was a maid from Meng's mansion who went out of the house to find Qi Xuanyu almost every day at dusk. Sometimes the two of them broke up after drinking a cup of tea on the window seat, and sometimes, the maid went directly to Qi Xuanyu's long-term rented room to find him, and did not come out until the next morning. That maid is Xiangzhi.

He Angelica felt that when the maids were older, they should also think about their lives, so he asked Mint to ask Xiangzhi if she would like to ask for a grace to go out. The master is reasonable, and the reward is rich.

Who knew that Xiangzhi cried and made trouble, and resolutely refused to go out, saying that she was the son of the Meng Mansion, and there was still half a year to build according to her age, and she could only be thrown out in advance if she made a big mistake, otherwise she would die on the corner platform and not go out of the garden gate!

In fact, the last time, He Angelica pointed out the list of people and drove away a group of subordinates, Xiangzhi was not present, but afterwards Lotus Lotus secretly removed her name from the list of punished, both of them thought that why Angelica was the new master, and they couldn't recognize all the faces of the subordinates, one more and one less, and it was over to hide the past. They didn't know that He Angelica was born with a good memory, not an ordinary confused grandmother, and they were fooled.

He Angelica has been holding back on Xiangzhi's repeated private meetings with men, because he wants to see what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the new national teacher Qi Xuanyu. According to the confession of the little guy who put Xiangzhi out on the corner gate, a man gave him three hundred taels of silver and asked him to give Xiangzhi the convenience of unimpeded passage.

What a big deal! A Xiangzhi worth ten taels of silver, if you want to leave, let the housekeeper of the Qi Mansion communicate with the Meng Mansion and it's over, why bother?

"Grandma, the bedding has been smoked with agarwood, and the charcoal fire of the wind stove has also been covered with ashes," the lotus root said with a well-behaved face, very attentively, "The slave maid listened to Sister Mint say that grandma likes to cook tea by herself when she eats tea at night, and she doesn't like someone to keep vigil at the door, so the fire must always be on the stove." ”

He Angelica smiled lightly at the mirror, picked off the moon flowers on the sideburns, thanked the lotus root, and retired the lotus root and Xiangzhi.

There was a dowry in the luggage sent by the Meng Mansion, and when the mezzanine of the mirror box was opened, there was a secret letter that Qing'er put in, and there was a special straw hat mark on the surface that the two of them had agreed on. He Angelica opened it happily and saw that it was written with the eyebrow pencil of a thrush——

"Meng Xuan in the secret room slept like a dead pig, Meng Ying said that he was resting in the turtle, and the turtle's skill would improve once at a time, so you don't have to worry about him. Your mother-in-law will be filial to you, serve soup and medicine every day, and you will have no problem staying in the palace for a few more days. I have sent the two most annoying maids in the bamboo garden, lotus root and fragrant mushroom, to take care of you. They think the eaves of the bamboo garden are low, and they want to pick high branches to fly, why don't you fulfill them? There must be a lot of men in the palace, right? Up to the prince, down to the little county king, housekeepers, and guards, they are all men, and you make a match, and you will be alone when you come back! In addition, there is deer whip powder in the powder box to replenish their bodies. ”

He Angelica smiled, lit the letter with a candle flame, and watched it slowly burn to ashes.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Princess Yan still forced He Angelica to live in the house, and her posture was really like He Angelica's mother-in-law, and she couldn't keep her soft words, so she shook her face and lost her temper.

As soon as he saw He Angelica continuing to stay overnight, Duan Xiaolou didn't have to say anything, but he also had to bother for two more days, and even Peng Shi and Peng gradually extended the stay. Among the young ladies in the East Chamber, Niu Wenlan originally planned to leave, but as soon as she heard that Peng Shi and Peng gradually wanted to continue to live, Niu Wenlan did not leave.

Princess Yan's eldest maid Pucao is still serving by He Angelica's side, answering her questions at any time.

It turned out that Peng gradually was Niu Wenlan's brother-in-law and married Niu Wenlan's sister Niu Wenbao. And Miss Niu Wenlan now likes one of the two brothers of the Peng family, because Peng Shi and Peng gradually are inseparable on various occasions, and Niu Wenlan's attitude is not clear, so no one knows who she likes. The elders of the two families have been not in harmony since they saw that Peng gradually and Niu Wenbao got married, and they intended to let Niu Wenlan also marry into the Peng family and make Peng gradually smaller, it is said that the two families have a tacit understanding.

This bit of gossip made He Angelica's afternoon tea a little more appetizing. At dinner time, I went to the hall, and when the food was ready, I didn't see Princess Yan come out. When I asked Pucao, I knew that the old man in the palace was not good, and the phlegm blocked his heart, and if he couldn't dredge it, I was afraid that it would be in the past few days. So King Yan and Princess Yan, as well as many princes and grandsons, as long as they were in the capital, they all entered the palace at this moment, even Duan Xiaolou was no exception.

During the meal, Peng Shi gave He Angelica two obvious looks, so after the meal, He Angelica asked the maids to go to the kitchen to cook a bowl of lotus leaf lotus soup, she was alone, Shi Shiran walked to the garden to see the flowers.

After reading the two bushes of purple grass, there was one more person watching the flowers.

Peng Shi, who was dressed in a purple robe, had a purple jade crown on his head, a green belt on his forehead, and a thumb-sized pearl on his forehead, which appeared behind the flowers. If you can ignore the sharp chill around him, this young man with the tough outline of a man is really as handsome as a crescent moon in the sky.

"Third sister," Peng Shi stood a few feet away with his hands on his chest, "I have been useful for the past few days, can you pay it back to me first, and I will use something else as a mortgage." ”

He Angelica raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically: "If I say that my golden lock also has a purpose, can I bet it on you for something else?" ”

A few months ago, they met in Luofu, and Peng Shi also brought Zhu Yunwen, the eldest grandson of the emperor who was privately visited by Weifu, to Luofu, when he coerced and lured him to borrow He Angelica's golden lock, saying that when it was returned, he could send her left in the eldest princess's mansion with the fetal jade.

He Angelica didn't want to give it to him, but when he thought of Peng Shi's personality of never giving up until he reached his goal, and then contacted Zhu Yunwen, who had an uncertain temperament, especially at that time, it happened that her internal strength disappeared for a while, even if Peng Shi grabbed it, she could only stare dryly. She offered to exchange three thousand East Palace Praetorian Guard Tiger Talismans for her golden lock, and Peng Shi even agreed.

The Praetorian Guard Tiger Talisman is an amber flower with five petals, one petal in Zhu Yunwen's hand, one petal in the commander of the Praetorian Guard, and the other three petals are in Peng Shi's hands, which shows Zhu Yunwen's favor to him, and it is the trust he gained for Zhu Yunwen's two years of hard work. But in order to take away He Angelica's golden lock, he was willing to use such a precious tiger talisman as collateral!

According to Peng Shi, according to the number of amber petals, the number and method of mobilizing the Praetorian Guard are very different, and the three-petal flower can transfer troops with full power, and only one petal flower can also transfer some troops. In other words, the tiger talisman in He Angelica's hand can be directly used to transfer troops. Peng Shi told her that this involved the safety of the East Palace, the Imperial Palace, and even the entire capital, and even the life of the Peng family was closely related to this.

Although there are some alarmist words, He Angelica is also deeply aware of the stakes involved, and several lives are involved at every turn. At the same time, she was even more curious about why Peng Shi desperately wanted her golden lock. At that time, the agreed exchange period was half a year, and in this half year, what did Peng Shi want to do with the golden lock?

"The golden lock can't be paid back to you, but I have new collateral." Peng Shi said coldly.

"What collateral?" He Angelica smiled.

"It's the best collateral," Peng Shi said slowly and in a dangerous and tense tone, "Third sister, you will definitely be satisfied." ”