Nüshu, issued in the Lingling generation of Hunan, passed down from mother to daughter, intersected with sisters, delicate strokes, like willow leaves overlapping, swallow wings fluttering, men in the world often take it as a handkerchief ornament, fan decoration, never know that this is a text that belongs to women alone, conveying the secret that no one in this world is heard and seen.

Xu Wenqing didn't know how this kind of nüshu spread from Hunan to Yanjing, she got a book of "embroidery patterns" from her aunt's hands, which had seven or eight hundred delicate patterns, but in fact, seven or eight hundred nüshu characters.

There is a different wanton swagger in those articles, laughter and scolding that is different from that of men. They laugh, they laugh at the hypocrisy of men's superiority, at the self-righteous meanness of men; They write stories, they write women's stories, they write poems and essays, they write about how women print, weave and dye cloth to support their families; They recorded, documented the lives of women outside of men, and recorded how hard women in marriage worked to maintain a home without being seen.

Because the word is a woman's word, the poem is a woman's poem, and the article is also a woman's article.

Xu Wenqing was fascinated by it, and she didn't think about tea and dinner, so she went to ask her aunt where these things came from.

Her aunt told her that Nüshu had been circulating in Yanjing for some years, and at first it was only used for occasional contact between officials and wives from Hunan, but about ten years ago, someone suddenly compared the rhyme of Nüshu into the official dialect, and also made a comparative word spectrum, and the circulation of Nüshu became widespread.

On the fan, on the skirt, the handkerchief at hand, and the shirt on the body have all become objects for the women to exchange news.

More than three years ago, a new kind of "embroidery booklet" circulated in the inner house, the words were still those words, but the content was much richer, and a person named "Lizhenjun" published articles and stories on it, and new ones were published every month or two.

The ones that her aunt showed her were written by Li Zhenjun.

Driven by Lizhenjun, Shouyuejun, Changhengjun, Lianhua Xiushi, and Xiaoxiang masters have also raised their pens, compared to Lizhenjun's straightforward expression of the chest and determination, they all have their own style, and this hidden place in the "embroidery booklet" is called "Splendid Society".

"Uncle Niang wants you to know that even if you get married, you don't have to stay in the back house, as long as you have a heart, you can always have your own world."

Xu Wenqing looked at her aunt with the booklet in her hand, the trivial and lonely years had sharpened her aunt out of her old state, but when her aunt looked at the booklet, there was still light in her eyes.

At this moment, she gave this booklet to her mother-in-law, and all she wanted was to light up another pair of eyes.

Xu Wenqing copied the things on it into ordinary words according to the booklet, a few thin pieces of paper, and Liang Yuying read it all night.

The next day, the surroundings of her eyes were sunken, but their eyes were bright.

"Go and prepare for me, I'm going to enter the palace."

The people were a little puzzled, and a mother said carefully: "Madam, the Queen Mother is not as good as in our house now, you rashly invite to see, and the mother may not have leisure."

Her words are really euphemistic, the Queen Mother first pleaded for her brother but had a disagreement with His Majesty, lost the right to control the harem, and later because she wanted to punish Mrs. Baoping Hou was grounded by His Majesty, her family's Mrs. Hou first confessed for her husband, and used 400,000 taels of silver to redeem the deposed marquis's lord from the edict, and has always been friendly with Mrs. Baoping Hou, so naturally she has long been hated by the Queen Mother. ….

At the time of the winter solstice, the queen mother gave a reward, and the masters of the mansion all had it, but the lady and the second young lady did not, which was already a clear humiliation.

Now that their wives go to see the Queen Mother, they don't know how much they have to be wronged.

"I'm not going to Cining Palace and prepare a prayer post for me, I'm going to Duanji Palace."

Lowering his head and straightening his coat, and then putting on the Wuzhai bead crown that symbolizes a good life woman, Liang Yuying looked at herself in the mirror, and heard the maid whisper behind her:

"Madam, how do you write this post?"

"I wrote to meet Han Ruowei, a university scholar who co-organized Duanji Temple, and wrote a letter...... Liang Yuying, the wife of the Marquis of Shou Cheng."

The maid and the mother-in-law looked at each other in some horror.

After serving in the mansion for so many years, it was the first time they had heard the name of their wife.

As soon as she was ready, Liang Yuying was about to go out and met her two sons who came to greet her.

Seeing his mother's full set of edicts, Cao Yuanlang's brows furrowed first: "Mother, the Queen Mother is going to summon you to the palace again?"

Cao Yuanrun was even more annoyed than his brother: "Mother, or let's go back to our hometown, my brother and I gave up this false position to ask for a guard to be stationed, even if the family has a hard time, it is better than watching you be angry with others in this Yanjing City."

Before he finished speaking, his brother directly covered his mouth.

"That's the Queen Mother, how can you talk like that?!"

Cao Yuanrun struggled a few times, but he still looked untamed.

Seeing that her two sons were unhappy with herself, Liang Yuying's heart warmed slightly, and a slight smile appeared on her face:

"Don't worry, I'm not going to see the Queen Mother, I'm going to see your second aunt in Xiyuan, there are some things I want to discuss with her."

The two brothers looked puzzled, and only watched their mother walk out, walked out of the beautiful but bleak courtyard of the Cao family, got into the car, and even went all the way out of the Shoucheng Marquis Mansion.

Duanji Hall is still busy, January is approaching, Taifu Temple's five-year account book cleaning has also begun to end, Liang Yuying walked into Duanji Hall only felt that he had entered a huge account room, there were many people but not chaos.

was led all the way to the ear room, Liang Yuying opened the door curtain, and saw Han Ruowei rubbing her forehead, she smiled first:

"Everyone thinks you've got a great job, how can we go to the court and stay in this room?"

Seeing her laughing, Han Ruowei also smiled: "That is, if you come, I can still see it, and I specially asked people to clear the room in this ear room, otherwise what you see is that I am buried in the account book."

When she spoke, Han Ruowei's tone was ordinary, but she still showed fatigue between her eyebrows.

Seeing her like this, Liang Yuying turned against the guest, picked up the pot from the side, and filled a cup of tea for her.

Han Ruowei took it up and drank it, and let out a sigh of relief: "With this cup of tea you poured for me, I was really renewed by Taishang Laojun."

has long been accustomed to her talking like this, Liang Yuying lowered her sleeves, sat down against her, and put her slightly cool fingertips on the warm teapot before she helped Han Ruowei's forehead.

Feeling that Liang Yuying was pressing her head, Han Ruowei closed her eyes comfortably.

"I haven't even been home for seven or eight days, and if it weren't for the beauties in front of me, I wouldn't be able to survive today." ….

Liang Yuying's fingers were not smeared with dancôme, they were neatly trimmed, and when pressed on the person's head, they only felt soft and powerful.

After closing her eyes for a while, Han Ruowei sighed softly: "You came to me at this time, but what happened at home? The Queen Mother wants to embarrass you again?"

"It's not." Liang Yuying lowered her eyes with a slight smile on her face, "I heard that Your Majesty is going to order you to assist the female officer, I came here to ask if there is any errand for me to do."

"Bang!" Han Ruowei sat up from Liang Yuying's lap suddenly, she almost fell to the ground because she got up too violently, she barely stood firm on the table, and looked at her concubine and friend for many years with a look of surprise.

After pretending to be deaf and dumb in Cao's house for so many years, she asked herself that she knew Liang Yuying better than that Cao Fengxi, but she still didn't expect that Liang Yuying would really take this step one day.

"Liang Yuying? You? Nowadays, there are a few people who are tempted by the decree of the DPRK, but they have not really stood up yet, and they are all waiting for a rafter to come out, you ......."

Liang Yuying helped her, still smiling, "Isn't that just right? I am deeply favored by the emperor, and His Majesty has taken the title of Cao Fengxi but kept my command, and I should also do something for Your Majesty and the imperial court."

These words are really high-sounding, Han Ruowei was surprised and delighted, and took her hand as if she was afraid that she would regret it and run away:

"The queen mother is sick and can't see anyone, so I'll take you to see Bachelor Zhao and Xu Gongling, and I can arrange a job for you today, and I won't let you leave empty-handed!"

Liang Yuying was dragged to the second floor of the main hall by Han Ruowei and met Zhao Mingyin, a scholar of Duanji Palace.

Hearing that Liang Yuying was willing to help, Zhao Mingyin was also very surprised:

"How are you at settling accounts?"

Han Ruowei suddenly said on the side, "Master Zhao, this matter has to be considered in the long run, Xu Gongling said to His Majesty before that he would let him help run the inner study and the women's school."

Zhao Mingyin looked at Han Ruowei.

Han Ruowei looked at Zhao Mingyin.

The inner study and the women's school are all in the hands of Xu Gongling, if Liang Yuying is allowed to do this, wouldn't they have pulled people in vain?

"If she is allowed to stay in the palace, she will have to fight with Xu Gongling. We have to guard against robbing people, and now that the queen mother is gone, we may not be able to rob the Xu Palace Order."

The duck can't let it fly!

Zhao Mingyin turned his head and looked at Liang Yuying: "Mrs. Liang, are you interested in the matter of the lawsuit?"

"Lawsuit?"

"Yes, now that we have a female official in Duanji Palace, we still have to investigate the case involving women in Yanjing City, but we can't spare manpower so far, if you want, you might as well do it. Mrs. Liang rest assured, as long as you agree, I will immediately go to ask Your Majesty for an order, so that you can do the affairs of the palace and the courtyard, and you will be in the sixth grade."

Liang Yuying thought that she was just helping Han Ruowei do some settling accounts first, but she didn't expect that the work given to her was related to lawsuits.

After thinking about it, she said, "I have only been in the deep house for many years, and I don't know much about the lawsuit."

"It's okay." Zhao Mingyin waved his hand again and again, turned his head to the outside and said, "Go and invite Master Sheng."

"There are people who do practical things to investigate the lawsuits, and some people do the momentum, you are Your Majesty's aunt, and you have a holy family, and this article alone is ten million times stronger than ordinary female officials in the lawsuits. I'll let Sheng Aya'er assist you again, you think she can't be used at a young age, and her family has been doing errands for criminal investigation for generations. Her aunt is the female official Ye next to me, Sheng Aya'er's engaged husband went a few years ago, and the family was domineering, forcing her to watch the widow, and even the archway had to be directly at the door of Sheng's house. I came forward to let her into my house as a maid, and now she also came in handy because of fate." ….

As he spoke, a thin woman in a red horse-faced dress opened the curtain and walked in.

Zhao Mingyin said to Liang Yuying:

"You two just go and ask about the case in the whole of Yanjing."

As she spoke, she also placed a scroll of holy decrees in the palm of Liang Yuying's hand.

Completely ignored, Liang Yuying didn't agree to her at all.

Sheng Aya'er came prepared, and took Liang Yuying to another side hall of Duanji Palace, which was quieter than the main hall, and they were all female officials in red dresses who were sorting out the case files.

After taking a few case files, Sheng Aya'er directly sent them all to Liang Yuying's eyes.

"Liang Dushi, there are a few cases here, and we, as the female officials of the Duanji Palace, should be asked."

That's it, at this point, why do you have to do things?

Liang Yuying took the case files and opened the first one, her brows suddenly furrowed.

"Xie Men Shen killed people with a short knife in the court?"

She flipped to the next page, where the origin of the "Shen family" was written in detail.

The daughter of Shen Shao, a former co-organizer of the university, and the wife of Xie Feng'an, the second young master of Ning'an Hou Xie Mansion.

It's really that Shen family girl.

She actually killed?

Let's look at the next case, it is "the idle man Hu will kill the secret prostitute Qi family".

Liang Yuying frowned, and turned back to the previous page, making sure that she was not mistaken.

The person killed by Shen was the murderer in the second case.

Seeing that Liang Yuying was looking at these two related cases repeatedly, Sheng Aya'er sighed:

"This is just reported today, this case is also implicated in a homicide case in the prison of the Xicheng Procuratorate, which is very involved, and all parties will be interrogated in the afternoon today, and the presiding judge is to inspect the Xicheng Imperial History Stone Question, Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and Jinyiwei will also send people over, and the lower officials originally planned to go and see."

"Go." Liang Yuying hurriedly said, "This case, we must go

Take a look."

Liang Yuying wanted to go home and change out of her makeup, but was stopped by Han Ruowei, and directly found someone to put together a set of female official costumes for her, as if she was afraid that she would not come out again when she returned home.

Wearing this green robe and red dress, Liang Yuying, Sheng Aya'er and Sheng Aya'er rushed to the Patrol West City Procuratorate together with a group of candidate female officials.

Above the court, a woman stood in the middle, with iron shackles on her hands and feet.

"Prisoner Shen, you killed people in court, you are contempt of the court, can you admit it?"

"I don't recognize it."

The slender woman with sorrowful eyebrows could see pity in people's hearts, but her words were loud.

"I killed someone in front of the court, and then I was arrested, obviously turning myself in."

After a few days in prison, Zhao Surui didn't expect Shen Sanru to save him.

He had to save himself.

Otherwise, he will starve to death.

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