Before Xiao Liangzi and Qiu Ping found out, Song Anhao left the side door.

However, she did not go back to the house immediately, but walked around the yard aimlessly, and after half an hour, a relatively complete plan slowly came to mind.

With a plan, Song Anhao turned around and walked towards the place where the palace maid lived, but instead of going back to the house where she lived, she went to the place where Xiaocao lived.

Xiaocao is an inferior palace maid, and she can only live in a three-person room according to the regulations, and when Song Anhao looked for it, Xiaocao was the only one in the house.

In the room, Xiaocao sat cross-legged on the bed, concentrating on the female red in her hand, and her clumsy appearance made Song An chuckle for a while.

Xiaocao, who heard the laughter, looked up and saw Song Anhao standing at the door, and was pleasantly surprised to immediately lose the female red and jumped off the bed, put on her shoes and walked over to pull Song Anhao in: "Anhao, why are you here?" Come in and sit! ”

Song An was pulled in by her with a smile, and the first time she entered the door, she closed the door with her backhand.

Xiaocao didn't know what she was happy about, so she first asked Song Anhao to sit down, and then hurriedly handed Song Anhao tea, and rummaged through the cabinets to find snacks.

"Don't be busy, come over and sit down!" Song Anhao was so amused by her hospitality that she couldn't laugh or cry, stepped forward and pulled her to sit beside her, and said with a smile: "If you are so exaggerated, I won't dare to come next time." ”

"Okay, okay, I don't treat you as a guest, you have time to come and have fun!" Xiaocao took her words seriously and was a little anxious.

Song An saw it, and he couldn't cry or laugh anymore, and handed over the teacup in his hand: "Seeing that you are in a hurry, you are stumbling again, hurry up and drink saliva to moisten it." ”

Xiaocao knew that she stuttered when she was nervous, so she smiled and honestly took the teacup and took a sip.

At this moment, she suddenly heard Song Anhao ask: "Xiaocao, do you know the jade beauty?" ”

"Poof!" With a bang, the tea that Xiaocao had just drunk in his mouth spurted out in one breath.

"Grass!" Fortunately, Song An's eyes flashed to the side quickly, otherwise this full mouthful of tea would have sprayed her face directly.

Xiaocao looked at her with a flushed face, her eyes widened, and she asked urgently, "Okay, how do you know about Jade Beauty?" ”

Song An was afraid that she would be suspicious, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pretended to tidy up his clothes, and replied casually: "I just asked casually, why are you so excited?" ”

"But when you entered the palace, the jade beauty was already ...... It's gone! ”

"Oh, I also overheard someone mention it, so I asked you curiously. If you don't want to say it, then I won't ask. Seeing Xiaocao's fierce reaction, Song Anhao hurriedly changed his words.

"Okay, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I can't say it!" Xiaocao was very embarrassed: "This jade beauty has been dead for almost seven years, and it has always been a taboo in the palace, so you can't mention it casually!" ”

"I didn't mention it in a casual article, didn't I just talk to you in private?" Song Anhao's tone was very casual: "Since it's a taboo, don't mention it!" Don't mention it! ”

Xiaocao saw that she was a little disappointed, and she couldn't bear it in her heart, so she looked in the direction of the door and made sure that the door was closed tightly, so she lowered her voice and said, "Okay, if you want to know anything, just ask!" However, when I entered the palace, the jade beauty was no longer there, and I don't necessarily know what you asked! ”

"Xiaocao, you're so nice!" Song An happily pulled Xiaocao's hand, and then lowered his voice and asked, "Actually, I'm purely curious, if you know and tell me, forget if you don't know!" How the hell did that jade beauty die? ”

"I heard that the emperor gave him his death."

"I heard?"

"Hmm. Chang Gonggong claimed to the public that the jade beauty died of depression, but in private, there were rumors flying, saying that the jade beauty annoyed the emperor and was killed by the emperor in anger! ”

"Alas, it's really like a tiger! By the way, Xiaocao, are we ...... with the jade beauty?"

"Shhhh The entire palace can't mention the name of the jade beauty, and in our Lanling Palace, we can't mention the name of the jade beauty! ”

"Why?" Song An looked curious.

"I don't know, I've heard about it anyway." Xiaocao was also ignorant, and said the rumors she heard: "I heard that Niangniang and Yumei entered the palace in the same year, and they competed for favor and tore each other's faces, so they have been old and dead. Until the jade beauty died, the mother still blocked a breath of resentment in her heart, so the palace maid and eunuch were not allowed to mention the name of the jade beauty in front of her. ”

"I see!" Song Anhao nodded suddenly, but he knew in his heart that what Xiaocao said was not the truth.

Maybe Xiaocao entered the palace late and didn't know the truth of the year, so he took hearsay as a fact.

Concubine Jing is demure and gentle, how can she tear her face with others in order to compete for favor?

The reason why she forbade the eunuchs and palace maids of Lanling Palace to mention Jade Beauty was not because she was angry when she heard the word Jade Beauty, but on the contrary, as long as she heard the name of Jade Beauty, she would be sad.

Because, before she left the cabinet, she and Yu Meiren were best friends. And the death of Yu Meiren is the biggest scar in her heart, which can never be removed.

However, these are all things that Song An has known for a long time, and she brought it up just to foreshadow.

After a few words of emotion with Xiaocao, she finally asked the question she really wanted to ask: "Xiaocao, I heard that the death day of Yumei is coming, will the palace give her a memorial?" ”

"Death day?" Xiaocao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly thought of something, and then said in surprise: "Yes, I don't remember if you don't say it, the death day of the jade beauty is really coming!" Well, you're so careful, you can even find this. ”

Song Anhao smiled faintly and didn't say anything.

Xiaocao said again: "However, it is impossible to pay tribute, there is no precedent in the palace!" Besides, the jade beauty was given death by the emperor, except for the emperor himself, who would dare to pay tribute to her? ”

Song Anhao asked seriously: "Seven years of death, this is a big taboo, doesn't she have any close friends, and pay tribute in private?" ”

"It's against the rules of the palace to pay tribute in private! At the lightest, it will be confined and demoted, and at worst, it will be directly entered into the cold palace, which concubine dares to take such a big risk? Xiaocao looked at Song Anhao with a ghostly expression: "Anhao, what's wrong with you today?" Asking such a confusing question! ”

"I didn't think of it for a while." Song Anhao's face was sad: "I just feel that the jade beauty died just in Fanghua, which is really pitiful." ”

"Well, you're so kind." Xiaocao thought that she was sincerely sympathetic to Yu Meiren, and couldn't help but feel a little sad: "That's it, tomorrow is her death day, let's start eating vegetarian tomorrow, and eating for seven days in a row can be regarded as a gesture of heart." What do you think? ”

"Tomorrow? Are you sure? Song An was taken aback.

"Hmm!" Xiaocao nodded: "I remember, the day she died was the same day as the day I entered the palace, but it was a different year and a different month." At first, I was a little creepy because of this! ”

"Tomorrow is the anniversary of your entry into the palace?"

"Well, tomorrow I will be in the palace for three years."

"I can't imagine it......," Song Anhao couldn't help but sigh.

Originally, she only wanted to know what day Yu Meiren's death day was, so that she could implement her plan, but she didn't expect that Yu Meiren's death was the same day as Xiaocao's entry into the palace.

Life is full of accidents and coincidences all the time.

At this moment, in the corridor outside the house, there was a sudden sound of footsteps.

Song Anhao knew that he had locked the door, but as soon as he heard the voice, he immediately turned around and stared at the door vigilantly.

Xiaocao said weakly: "It's Aunt Ruolan who is back, and her house is next door to me." ”

"Ruolan?"

Song Anhao, who was originally alert, heard this, and immediately stood up and walked to the door lightly.

Outside the door, the footsteps continued, from far to near, and the sound would soon be next door.

Song An thought for a while, and suddenly reached out and opened the door, but instead of pushing it open, he half-hidden, allowing the light in the room to penetrate into the corridor.

"Okay, what are you doing?" Xiaocao didn't understand why she suddenly opened the door, and couldn't help but ask.

Song Anhao turned his head sharply, raised his voice and said, "By the way, Xiaocao, I want to tell you a secret, but you have to promise me first, you can't tell anyone!" ”

Xiaocao was a little confused by her actions, but she still nodded obediently: "Okay, you say." ”

Song Anhao stood behind the door, listened to the movement of the corridor, and found that the footsteps stopped at the door of the next room, but when she didn't enter the house, the corners of her lips couldn't help but swing, and she still said in a low or low voice: "I found Xiao Liangzi sneaky in the yard yesterday, as if he had done something bad!" ”

"Little Ryoko? Impossible! When Xiaocao heard this, he stood up excitedly: "The other person is very good, and he is honest, how can he do something bad." Okay, you can't be mistaken, right? ”

"Really? Then I might be mistaken. Song Anhao thought about it carefully, and said: "But when I saw him yesterday, he was indeed very mysterious, and he looked very worried about being discovered!" ”

"And what the hell did he do?" Xiaocao asked.

"Hey, I didn't do anything specific, I just mysteriously went to meet a person and got a bunch of things from that person." Song Anhao replied.

"What's that?"

"It's wrapped in black cloth, and I don't know what's in it! I don't have clairvoyance! ”

"If you don't see anything, it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. Isn't that okay? "Xiaocao seems to have an excellent relationship with Xiaoliangzi, and he is maintaining Xiaoliangzi everywhere.

Song Anhao saw her looking at her with a pleading gaze, and couldn't help but change her words: "You're right, maybe I'm too careful." Ryoko didn't buy any prohibited items! ”

I don't know if it's intentional or deliberate, the word "forbidden", she bit a little hard.

"Well, it must be so!" Xiaocao didn't think too much, but heard her say this, breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded heavily.

Song Anhao didn't speak again, but pricked up the tips of his ears and listened to the sound outside the door.

The footsteps outside the door have stopped at some point, and it sounds like no one is there, but if you listen attentively, you can hear that someone is breathing rapidly.

After a while, the footsteps that had disappeared reappeared, and the door of the next room opened, and the footsteps disappeared next door.

Listening to the movement outside, Song Anhao smiled slightly.

It seems that Ruolan has heard everything she should have heard. In the next step, she will definitely go to investigate Ryoko.

Then, of course, it was Shun Teng who found out that the contraband that Xiao Liangzi bought privately was actually instructed by Concubine Jing.