Gonggong Kang was directly greeted by Primrose to Zhiyin Xuan, Xiao Yunjiao was still drinking tea leisurely and reading the script, without the slightest "thought".

"Greetings to the eldest princess." Gonggong Kang saluted first, and couldn't help chattering, "Princess, although it is spring now, the courtyard is always a little shady, and you don't add a blanket." ”

He watched Xiao Yunjiao grow up, and it was inevitable that he would give birth to the kindness of some elders. Xiao Yunjiao responded with a smile.

Primrose moved a stool to Father-in-law Kang, "Even if the father-in-law is here, he can persuade the princess to say two words, and the princess will not listen to us every day." ”

"Look, you're here to support the Primrose Girls." Xiao Yunjiao said with a smile.

Gonggong Kang excused himself for a few words before he said what he meant, "Your Majesty misses the princess very much and wants to take the princess into the palace for a small gathering." ”

Xiao Yunjiao raised his eyebrows and said, "But I'm still grounded here." ”

"The princess made fun of it, who doesn't know that the matter of the proton in Northern Xinjiang is a reason, there is no way to start, so that our eldest princess of Dongsheng has been grounded for a month has already given them a lot of face. Now Your Majesty has asked the old slave to invite you, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty will dare to say a word. ”

Xiao Yunjiao smiled, "In this case, the tired father-in-law will go back and tell Your Majesty that I will enter the palace tomorrow and have lunch with Your Majesty." ”

Gonggong Kang left with a smile, and the princess's mansion was also very happy.

Although the one-month grounding is not long, it is also a little depressing.

Primrose and Izuku have been picking out clothes and jewelry for Xiao Yunjiao since they went to bed at night, ready to show off the good skills they haven't used for a month.

They want to dress up the princess with a radiant look, but they can't make people feel that the princess is haggard with this grounding.

When Xiao Yunjiao entered the palace, she wore a wide-sleeved shirt with purple luodian, embroidered with silver twig-patterned flowers on her shoulders and neckline, and lined with a solid white skirt, which was solemn and beautiful.

The primrose gave her a bun, a dragonfly trembling hairpin made of pearls, and the Yingluo on her chest was also made of fine southern pearls, which made her skin moist and white as jade.

The moment Xiao Xunguang saw her, his heart was in his stomach.

"Seeing that Sister Ah looks good, I am relieved."

Xiao Yunjiao smiled silently, how could she be the same as when she was running around for a month, that is, her younger brother was simple and didn't know the ingenuity of women's dress. But that's one of her goals, and she doesn't want him to worry about it.

"How's your homework lately? Can the homework assigned by Master Lu be thought through? ”

The corners of Xiao Xunguang's mouth immediately stepped down, "Sister is always so disappointed, let's finally meet, let's not talk about this." ”

"Guang'er, don't say that Sister doesn't understand you." Xiao Yunjiao was upright, "You are now the king of a country, so naturally you should follow our father as an example." His father reigned for fifteen years, and he was diligent and self-denying every day, so that he could have the peaceful scene of Dongsheng today. Although you are young, you are very smart, if you can use this wisdom in governing the country, within two or three years, Sister Ah believes that you will be able to govern yourself. ”

Xiao Xunguang listened patiently, but he was a little unhappy. Xiao Yunjiao couldn't bear it, and sighed lightly, "That's it, let's not talk about this today, our sister and brother have a good lunch." ”

Xiao Xunguang became happy at this time, and kept talking about the things of these days.

"By the way, Sister, something strange seems to have happened in the womb during the day you didn't enter the palace."

Xiao Yunjiao was puzzled, "What's the strange thing?" ”

"When I went to practice riding and archery, I heard a little palace maid say something in private on the way...... The yokai of the Imperial Garden. Xiao Xunguang has a young heart, hid and listened to it, and now he relayed it to Xiao Yunjiao.

"Half a month ago, a little palace maid who was on night duty in the imperial garden fell into the lotus pond and drowned. The patrolling forbidden army inspected it and confirmed that it was a slip and fell into the water and handed it over to the Inner Court Division for placement. I thought it was just an accident, but three days ago, two maids drowned in the Imperial Garden! ”

"Judging from the corpse, it is true that he was drowned, and now there are rumors in the palace that there is something unclean in the imperial garden, otherwise how could three people drown in the lake in a row."

Xiao Xunguang finished talking to his sister in disbelief, and leaned closer and asked in a low voice: "Sister, you said that there will really be monsters in this palace, right?" ”

Xiao Yunjiao looked at him helplessly, "How is it possible?" You and I grew up here, where haven't you been in the palace? Have you ever seen a yokai? ”

Xiao Xunguang turned his face away embarrassedly, "That's what I said." ”

"But Sister, those three palace maids who fell into the water are really strange, I heard that the palace people don't dare to go to the Imperial Garden now, and if they have to go, they have to bring two familiar partners together before they dare to go."

Xiao Yunjiao also felt very strange.

She didn't believe half of those strange words. If these three names are not due to coincidence, then they are for the sake of people. It's just that who would go to the trouble of killing three ordinary palace maids?

The two sisters and brothers have some deep-rooted blood in their bones, and after lunch, they decided to go for a walk in the imperial garden.

The eldest princess and Her Majesty were going to the Imperial Garden, naturally no one dared to stop them, even if the rumors in the palace had already caused panic, no one dared to say a word in front of them.

In the spring, the imperial garden is willow green and red, and the strange-shaped stones are dotted among the flowers and pavilions, which is abrupt and rugged, and the momentum is extraordinary.

"Sister, you see, when we were young, we liked to play hide and seek there." Xiao Xunguang pointed to a rockery and said.

Xiao Yunjiao also remembered an interesting incident from his childhood, and said with a smile: "Yes, I haven't been here for a long time, let's go and have a look." ”

The two of them held hands and shuttled through the rockery like when they were children, and no one followed—they could walk out of the road here with their eyes closed.

"Look at this hole." Xiao Yunjiao pointed to a deep hole in the middle of a rockery and smiled: "You hid here when you were a child, and you thought you were hiding well when your butt was exposed." ”

"Sister!" Xiao Xun's face was hot, and he didn't want to be embarrassed here.

"It's all your fault and Brother Yuzhou, you always don't take me to play, if I play a few more times, I won't be so stupid."

Xiao Xunguang turned his head not to look at his sister, and Yu Guang suddenly saw something-

"Sister, look."

Xiao Yunjiao looked in the direction of his finger, and there was a trace of emerald green clothing hanging on the protrusion at the bottom of a rockery, if you looked at it casually, I was afraid that it would be a weed growing in the cracks.

She walked over in two or three steps, squatted down to pick up the piece of clothing, looked at it carefully, and said, "It's silk." ”

"It's not a special fabric, it's just plain satin, there is no dark flower floating brocade, and there is no embroidery pattern, which is the material often worn by the maids in the palace." Xiao Yunjiao's wardrobe has all kinds of expensive clothes, and she can distinguish the fabrics used in the market by looking at them.

"According to the palace system, the most ordinary sprinkle sweeping maids, and the rough dry groceries make the eunuchs wear gray and blue. Those who can enter the noble palace to serve or seek errands in various divisions can wear azure, emerald green, if they are personal maids, they can do it according to their own preferences, but they can't wear expensive colors. This emerald green corner should be the maid of which division. ”

She glanced at Xiao Xunguang, "Maybe someone has seen the monsters in this imperial garden." ”

"What do you mean by ......?" Xiao Xunguang felt that his sister had something to do.

Sure enough, Xiao Yunjiao stared at him for a while, and suddenly said, "Give me the jade pendant on your body." ”

Xiao Xunguang directly untied the double-ring jade pendant on his waist and gave it to her without saying a word, "What does Sister want this for?" ”

This was presented by the interior division after he ascended the throne, it was precious but nothing special, Xiao Xunguang didn't know what she was going to do.

"Sister will use it to catch monsters for you." Xiao Yunjiao smiled even brighter.

Xiao Yunjiao did not leave the palace that night, and stayed in the Yifeng Palace where he once lived.

The next morning, there was a sudden sound of broken cups in His Majesty's bedroom—

"The things I carry with me every day, how can I say that they are gone!" Xiao Xunguang's face was pale, "You haven't found it somewhere, go and find it." ”

So throughout the early dynasty, the palace people of Zichen Hall bowed their heads and looked for something in various places in the palace as if they had lost their souls.

By the time Xiao Xun left the court, the news of the loss of his personal jade pendant had spread throughout the palace.

Just when the subordinates were worried, the eldest princess appeared in His Majesty's bedroom like a savior.

"Okay, what are you going to do for the people under you? Xu fell off when we went for a walk in the rockery yesterday, and Sister accompanied you to find it. ”

Naturally, the jade pendant could not be found, but His Majesty found a piece of emerald green clothing, and immediately determined which maid saw it and took it without telling him, and immediately asked the Inner Court Division to search all the palace maids wearing emerald green palace clothes.

"Sister Ah Rong, what should I do? The corners of your clothes were torn by flower branches before, will the father-in-law of the Inner Court Division think that you took His Majesty's jade pendant! ”

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl said worriedly.

The woman she called Ah Rong shook her head, "It's okay, my clothes...... Anyway, I definitely didn't take His Majesty's jade pendant, don't worry. ”

This Ah Rong is not as good as her name, her appearance is mediocre, even if you stare at her for a long time, you can forget her appearance when you turn around. If she is ugly, she is not ugly, but her face is really ordinary, and six or seven out of ten people are somewhat similar to her.

The little maid was still worried, "Otherwise...... I'll help Sister Ah Rong mend your clothes, maybe your father-in-law won't embarrass you if you can't see it. ”

She added cautiously, "My mother is an embroidery girl in Jiangnan, and she has taught me female workers since I was a child, and I should be able to mend my clothes." ”

Ah Rong thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then thank you Yan'er." ”

She took off her skirt, took the cigarette in her hand and looked at it, and saw that the place that was hooked was at the bottom of the skirt, so she simply cut the skirt more than an inch, and then turned the skirt up and closed the edge, and the whole skirt was almost the same as new.

Ah Rong's eyes lit up, "I really can't see it at all, thank you Yan'er!" ”

Yan'er lowered her head and smiled shyly, "Sister Ah Rong, don't thank you, I will also do some needlework." Put it on and don't let them see it. ”

Afraid of what comes. There were two other palace maids in the same room, and they were just on duty at this moment, and they just heard Yan'er's last sentence.

"What can't we see?" A tall woman in the womb looked at the room and understood, "Oh...... You mended Ah Rong's skirt. ”

"Your Majesty just lost the jade pendant, you mended the skirt here, could it be that Your Majesty's jade pendant was picked up by you?" Another fat palace maid also chimed in.

Yan'er's face turned even redder in a hurry, and she waved her hand in a panic and explained: "No, Sister Ah Rong's skirt was torn by a flower branch half a month ago, and Your Majesty's jade pendant was only lost yesterday, so it must not be Sister Ah Rong." ”

"Since it's not, why don't you dare to let the father-in-law of the Inner Court Division come to investigate?" The tall uterine woman is aggressive, "I see, it's just a weak heart!" ”

The palace maids are several people in a room, and there are many cases where they don't deal with each other, and the tall uterine maid and the fat palace maid saw that they didn't deal with Ah Rong Yan'er, so they turned their heads and went to sue.