It's the beginning of another day, the internal texts have been organized properly, this day needs to play the queen mother's documents and admonitions are not much, but the two female officials are a little uneasy, pushing and refusing to take the responsibility of presenting face-to-face, eleven Niang knows that in the past few days, the queen mother's mood has become more and more impetuous, and the palace people may be reprimanded for a little negligence, even Xie Ying does not dare to go to the queen mother often to please, very obediently avoid it, no wonder the two female officials who are not familiar with the queen mother's likes and dislikes tremble and conscientious, and Eleven Niang took the initiative to take responsibility. Ask the female officer to send the approved recital to the archive, and go to the interview to present the recital.

Although it is the last day, the sunny light is already a little warm, the green leaves in front of the Penglai Palace, looking at the vigorous and pleasant in the eyes, but the palace eunuchs are not relaxed and happy, their expressions are very cautious and careful, and even the pace is a little lighter than usual when walking, which naturally adds a lot of solemn atmosphere to the office.

Eleven Niang didn't go directly to the meeting, she stopped outside the door, first invited the palace people to pass the ceremony, and soon saw Ah Lu walking out quickly, and reminded in a low voice: "The Queen Mother just lost her temper earlier, and several palace maids who served and dressed were punished to go to the court. ”

Although these recitals need to be approved by the Queen Mother, they are indeed not urgent, if it were normal, Eleven Niang would naturally listen to Ah Lu's advice, but she came prepared today, and it was difficult to avoid provoking the Empress Dowager's anger, and there was no need to retreat, so I asked Ah Lu: "I have something important to know the Empress Dowager, it is useless to delay, and I hope that Ah Eunuch will say it." ”

Ah Lu no longer stopped him: "That is the case, the little lady is invited in, and the queen mother has not received the ministers at the moment." ”

Eleven Niang had already judged from Ah Lu's intentionally leaked words that the Queen Mother had an evil fire because her dressing did not suit her wishes, but when she entered to take a look, she saw that the Queen Mother had a vertebral bun on the back of her head, a peony flower, a pair of sideburns on each side as an ornament, and a bright yellow open-necked large-sleeved brocade robe.

When the Queen Mother saw Eleven Niang entering, her tightly locked brows eased slightly, but she still slammed the pulp drink in her hand on the case, and blamed the palace people kneeling beside her with a straight face: "It's too sweet, I really don't do anything well." ”

The poor palace man immediately turned pale with a flower and moon appearance, and was about to prostrate his sin, but was stopped by a look from Ah Lu, quickly put the sweet drink on the tray, and quietly withdrew.

However, the Queen Mother didn't seem to be interested in national politics today, and asked Shi Niang if there was any urgent matter, so she took Ah Lu's arm and slowly got up: "The Inner Government Bureau doesn't know how to be on an errand, and the painted screen embroidered curtains are upset and upset, or they are too plain, is it possible that the inner library can't find the elegant and exquisite screen curtains?" Send someone to invite our Lan Jieyu to come over, I have to ask her carefully how she is in charge of palace affairs, whether she can be good at knowing people, Yiyi is also with me, good students take the examination of the internal government bureau management, if you don't know what aesthetics are, don't be responsible for furnishings. ”

Yes, even Lan Jieyu was angry at this moment.

Eleven Niang sat quietly aside, and after hearing this, she knelt down and bowed down.

Ah Lu couldn't help but be secretly nervous, worried that Eleven Niang would anger the Queen Mother because of Lan Jieyu's intercession, but she had no other choice but to maintain the posture of supporting the Queen Mother, lowering her eyes and playing a transparent person.

Listen to Eleven Niang's calm and usual voice: "Eleven has a lot of hesitation these days, hesitating whether to tell the Queen Mother of the doubts in his heart, seeing that the Queen Mother is becoming more and more anxious, Eleven is ashamed, and he should not be too scrupulous, but should share the worries of the Queen Mother earlier." ”

Although the queen mother was impetuous, and many harsh palace people for a few days, she was not angry with Eleven Niang, at this time, when she heard these words, she was not angry at first, so she stopped her pace and returned to her seat, first gave Ah Lu a signal, let her abandon the idle people, etc., and then said slowly: "Yi Yi has always acted steadily, and I want to come to today's words, which have been carefully considered, you might as well come and listen, how do you want to share my worries?" ”

Eleven Niang is still kneeling, but straightened her waist, she lowered her eyelids slightly, two rows of fine eyelashes covered the emotions under her eyes, her demeanor was still as calm and humble as usual, and she did not speculate about the Queen Mother's joy and anger, such behavior would not cause the Queen Mother to be dissatisfied, and she listened calmly, but when she heard Eleven Niang mention the word "high attendant", the Queen Mother's eyebrows suddenly frowned, and the two lines of sight were as sharp as cold electricity, and they stabbed down.

Without waiting for Eleven Niang to finish speaking, the Queen Mother interrupted: "You shouldn't interfere in this matter." ”

The Queen Mother's tone was so solemn, and her attitude was so absolute, but it didn't make Eleven Niang give up halfway, she prostrated her head again, gritted her teeth and insisted on finishing her words: "If the senior eunuch really violates the palace rules and leaks the forbidden secret, the natural crime is unforgivable, but according to Eleven, the senior attendant has always acted cautiously and prudently, and he is loyal to the queen mother, and he will definitely not knowingly commit it. ”

These words just touched the anger in the heart of the Queen Mother, and the dark clouds covered her face for a while, but in the end, she did not scold Eleven Niang, but coldly watched the girl maintain a posture of prostrate plea, and was silent.

It turned out that Concubine Yuan Xian invited to see that day, and the report was that the eunuchs in her palace found out, and she heard that Tu Dahai and Gao Yuxiang "father and son" were two, in order to please the Queen Mother, Zhou Ji disguised herself as a eunuch, and "reduced loneliness" for the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother originally thought that Zhou Ji's matter was impenetrable, and she was naturally very angry when she heard the words, but she thought that Gao Yuxiang would leak the secret, and she would execute Tu Dahai and the two insiders without asking about it, and then asked her henchman Dou Fu'an to interrogate Gao Yuxiang, just to find out if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.

But no matter how hard Dou Fu'an tortured and asked, Gao Yuxiang cried out endlessly, refused to admit his guilt, and naturally would not tell anyone else to know, which inevitably made the Queen Mother irritable, and she was used to Gao Yuxiang's service.

However, at this time, she was reminded by Eleven Niang, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but have a little suspicion, with Gao Yuxiang being so cautious, it is indeed unlikely that such secrets will be publicized, maybe someone really secretly found out about this matter, and tried to use it to blame Gao Yuxiang, such as Concubine Yuan Xian, who has such motives, thinking that once Tu Dahai and Gao Yuxiang are convicted, Lan Jieyu will inevitably be implicated, and the heavy responsibility of managing palace affairs will not be won by the Yuan family?

Although the Queen Mother didn't care too much about the life and death of Gao Yuxiang and the eunuchs, she had to find out who else knew about her privacy, which was the key reason why she did not immediately execute Gao Yuxiang.

After just half a moment of silence, the Queen Mother had made up her mind in her heart, her eyebrows gradually relaxed, and her complexion became slightly colder, but her tone did not sound kind, and even had an obvious gloom: "Yiyi doesn't seem to be close to Gao Yuxiang, but I didn't expect to cry out for him." ”

"The Queen Mother has not been able to take advantage of her wishes for many days because she has no senior attendants to serve her left and right, and she has the courage to question the Queen Mother's decision, if the senior eunuchs do not violate the law, they can continue to serve the Queen Mother in the future and relieve the Queen Mother's hard work." Eleven Niang knew that the Queen Mother was suspicious of her private collusion with Gao Yuxiang, so she was ashamed to express her intentions, attributing her words and deeds to Geng Geng's loyalty.

"So Yi Yi is wondering who might blame Gao Yuxiang?" The Queen Mother asked faintly.

"I don't dare to hide it from the Queen Mother, Eleven guessed that the high attendant was convicted this time, and it should be reported by the virtuous concubine, but the virtuous concubine has been coveting the palace affairs for a long time, and she has always been at odds with the Tu Nei servant and the high attendant, and she does have the motive to blame the trouble."

On the same day, Concubine Xian came to the Penglai Palace, and the Queen Mother immediately became furious, and it was reasonable for Eleven Niang to make this inference, and she did not have to worry about the Queen Mother suspecting that she was aware of the secret and ugly, so she told her frankly, and such an attitude dispelled the Queen Mother's doubts.

The corners of his lips finally tugged at a smile.

Concubine Yuanxian once instigated Xie Shi to harm Eleven Niang, this girl was so frightened that she almost hurt her face, and it was inevitable that she had a grudge in her heart.

As soon as the suspicion disappeared, the Queen Mother let Shi Niang get up: "That's it, I know how to theorize about this matter, you don't have to make a noise, let's go and see Lan Jieyu, help her palm her eyes, and save yourself from picking some gaudy things." ”