Xu Jian urged and urged, and also knew that it was not easy to check the bottom of a house.

It's really an ordinary house, who is the main family, whether it is self-occupied or rented, who lives there now, how many owners have changed in the past few decades, and how many homes have been changed, in fact, it is not difficult to check.

It's just a little more cumbersome, and if you are willing to spend a few days, you can have concrete results.

But if it is unusual, it has been covered up from beginning to end, and if you want to peel off the cocoon, it is not a simple flip through the paperwork.

Xu Jian himself checked the house in Chenmi Hutong, and he was very clear about the twists and turns, and he was also prepared that Master Shan would not make progress in a few days.

But I didn't expect that the east was not bright and the west was bright.

There was a stalemate everywhere in this room, but the other one that Lin Yunyan was staring at had a harvest.

At this point, she moved a pestle and sat down outside the kitchenette with a bowl of cheese in her hand.

This cheese was made by Mama He's own hands.

Lin Yunyan thought of something, so she asked her grandmother to come to the house.

Mama not only came happily, but also brought some food she liked, this bowl of cheese added a thick layer of honey, and sprinkled a lot of dried fruit, smelling fragrant.

Lin Yunyan ate three bites in a row.

He who eats rejoices, and he who makes food rejoices even more.

"It's still Mama's craftsmanship that is the most unforgettable," Lin Yunyan praised, pointing to the empty pestle beside her, "Mama also sits."

Since the county lord invited her to come, she had something to say, so Mama He didn't shirk and sat down according to her words.

She said, "I remembered that in the backyard of the peach kernel in the past, the county lord sat outside the kitchen like this."

Lin Yunyan smiled.

All she wanted to ask was some old things about old sesame seeds and rotten grains.

One person in the flower hall has a cup of tea, which is upright, but it is also really restrained.

It's still a three-acre of kitchen land, although it's not a kitchen that grandma is used to, but it can be regarded as a "counterpart", and then there are pestles to sit in rows, she is more relaxed.

"While eating, I listened to Mama talk about some old yellow calendars," Lin Yunyan smiled, "It's also fun for me."

Grandma He said, "What does the county lord want to ask?"

"It's still something related to King Jin." Lin Yunyan said.

The grandmother of the He family looked embarrassed: "I can remember, I told the county lord before."

Lin Yunyan smiled at her.

Since they suspected Li Du's head, they also knew a little about Li Du's affairs.

As the second son of the first emperor, Li Du's background was completely different from that of his eldest brother Li Cang.

Li Cang is a concubine of the Middle Palace, and Li Du's biological mother is a servant.

The waiter was inconspicuous in the palace, and the opportunity fell on his head, and he was pregnant with a dragon fetus overnight, but unfortunately his body was weak, and his son was born safely, but his body and bones were getting worse and worse, and he needed to recuperate.

Li Du, who was in infancy, was held and raised by Concubine Dong.

Concubine Dong's grandfather was the political envoy of the General Administration Department, and most of the elders in the family also served in local positions, and she herself was knowledgeable and patient, making her an excellent choice for raising children.

In fact, Concubine Dong treats Li Du very well, and it can be said that she "regards it as her own".

Lin Yunyan inquired privately with Mama Wang about this, and the old people in the palace all looked at it like this.

That's what Mama Wang said.

"The condition of the biological mother is not suitable for raising children, and in order to find a good adoptive mother, the Queen Mother also took a lot of effort back then."

"How early it was at that time, the first emperor was also young, and few concubines in the harem who could get a few eyes would sincerely raise sons for others."

"Some people don't want to mess with this thankless task, some people want to take advantage of the cheap son by their side and have more opportunities to face the saint, their stomachs are full of abacus, and Niangniang finally picked and picked Concubine Dong."

"Concubine Dong treats His Royal Highness really well, she cares about everything she eats and wears, and she has never detained Her Highness to see her biological mother, saying that it is a blessing to raise grace and give birth to kindness."

"Xu is seeing that His Royal Highness is growing up healthy and smooth, and the illness in the confinement of that biological mother seems to be gradually getting better."

"Only

It's a pity that she is blessed, almost when His Highness was four or five years old, she contracted a cold in winter, and she didn't get better at the beginning of spring, and she was sick all the time."

"Concubine Dong didn't let His Royal Highness go to visit the sick for a while, the child was weak, and she was afraid of getting sick, so she thought that she would be fine if it was summer and warmed up, but she didn't expect to die in the end."

"For this reason, Concubine Dong regretted it for a while, saying that if she knew the difference between life and death, she should have let His Royal Highness go a few more times."

"Since then, Concubine Dong has been treating His Royal Highness more and more carefully, enlightened studying, literary and martial arts classes, and treating His Highness as her mother treats her son."

"His Royal Highness and Concubine Dong are also in harmony, and the first emperor praised Concubine Dong for raising children."

"After the death of the first emperor, Concubine Dong was overly sad, and she followed after being ill for three months, His Royal Highness guarded the spirit, supported the spirit, and the filial piety rules were all done, and the Ministry of Rites did not dare to stop it."

Everyone in the palace regretted that King Jin's biological mother left early, and they all talked about Concubine Dong's son not in vain.

Mama Wang said this, when Lin Yunyan asked Mama He last time, she got a similar explanation.

Mama Wang is in the middle palace, and she sees the wind and grass in the harem, and she can string together the things she knows.

The grandmother of the He family is working in the imperial dining room, don't look at the relationship with the harem, but there are many people, and when the palace maids and eunuchs can't control their mouths, they can say a lot of secrets.

That's a very different perspective from Mama Wang.

Even from the perspective of those gossips, no one has said that Li Du and Concubine Dong's adoptive mother and son relationship is not harmonious.

As for the part related to Li Du and what Lin Yunyan and Xu Jian are more concerned about, Mama He can't say.

At first, she admitted that she had told Lin Yunyan when she was born in the imperial dining room that she left the palace too early, and even Li Cang was still a child at that time, let alone others.

At that age, the enlightened enlightened, the lactating breastfeeding, and those who didn't have time to be born at all are far from the later battle for succession.

Lin Yunyan took another bite of cheese and said with a smile, "I won't ask King Jin himself today, but ask about the father-in-law around him. Has Mama seen them?"

"The father-in-law still knows some of the things in the palace," not asking the prince and grandson, only saying that they are the same people who serve, the He family's grandmother became more and more relaxed, recalling, "There are many people in and out of the imperial dining room, and those who buy in front and do things in it will be encountered every day.

As for the father-in-law around the nobles, they are generally the little maids who run errands, and the little palace maids come a lot to get meals, or explain what the masters want to eat.

Occasionally, the stewards came, and the masters had a small kitchen, trying to make a recipe and order fresh vegetables and meat.

At that time, the king of Jin was still young, and the people around him would not come, but Concubine Dong's people would come and order a few dishes......

Because the county lord once explained, no matter how big or small, no matter how small it is, the He family's grandmother will not distinguish what is useful and what is useless.

Lin Yunyan didn't interrupt her, and listened carefully.

When Mama He stopped and racked her brains to reminisce, Lin Yunyan asked again: "What Mama said is all about Concubine Dong's mother, what about the waiter?" Does Mama recognize the people around her?"

"Not everyone can order food in the imperial dining room, and low-ranking concubines who are not favored are ......" The He family's grandmother paused when she said this, her brows furrowed, "It seems that there is such a time."

"Yes, I have an impression of the chamberlain who served her at that time."

"Almost a few days before she died, the little chamberlain came to the imperial dining room."

"He looks skinny, as if he is seven or eight years old, and he wants to talk to our steward, but the steward ignores him, and he happens to meet me."

"He told me that the waiter suddenly had some appetite and wanted to eat a few dishes at noon, and that the situation was not like it was getting better, but it was coming back to light."

"I said I didn't care about it, so I can't add anything else."

"He said that he didn't dare to go to Concubine Dong, in case His Royal Highness saw him and made a fuss to see his biological mother, Concubine Dong would be embarrassed, and if His Highness was sick, he would die even more. I want to go over to see the emperor

Later, that is, the current queen mother, but in those days, her mother was sick, how dare she kowtow for a few dishes."

"I heard that he was pitiful, so I answered him to choose a simpler way to do it before the fire was stopped in the evening, and he came and took it away, and thanked him a thousand times."

"After another three or five days, the bad news came, and he really told him to be accurate, that is, to return to the light."

Lin Yunyan asked, "What's that father-in-law's surname?"

"What's your last name...... "Grandma He muttered, "It seems that they all call him a mouse, a little mouse?" I don't know if it's a surname Hao or a nickname."

Lin Yunyan asked casually: "I forgot to ask, what is the surname of the waiter?"

"If I'm not mistaken, her surname is Zhang," Mama He sighed, "It's also pitiful, at the end of her life, even if she gave birth to a prince, she still chose to serve her, and she didn't posthumously seal after her death." Then again, when people die, the lights go out, and it doesn't matter if they are sealed or not."

Speaking of death, Lin Yunyan thought of the father-in-law Tong who had died a long time ago.

died at the age of fifty-three, and Taixing was eleven years old.

It was also about the time when Mama He went out of the palace, in other words, Mama He may have heard something about the father-in-law.

Lin Yunyan thought so, so she asked: "There was a father-in-law surnamed Tong next to the first emperor Ruan Guiren, who was in his fifties at the time, has Mama heard of it?"

"I don't have any impression," said Grandma He, "but I have seen Ruan Guiren and his father-in-law surnamed He a few times."

Lin Yunyan asked again, "Does that grandmother think that little mouse, or other father-in-law who has served Zhang Xuan's servant and King Jin, can recognize that father-in-law Tong?"

I thought this was another question that required Mama He to rack her brains, but I didn't expect Mama's reaction to be direct and bright.

"Surely he who recognizes!" She said, "Zhang Xuan lives in Bihua Palace, the main seat is Wei Jieyu of the first emperor, Ruan Guiren originally lived elsewhere, it seems that he offended the lord there and hurt the peace, Wei Jieyu mediated, and let Ruan Guiren also move to Bihua Palace.

After that, Zhang Xuanzhi and Ruan Guiren were all in the same palace, as long as the Tong father-in-law was doing things at Ruan Guiren's place, he would go in and out of the palace, and he would not see anyone who looked up and looked down, and the little mouse was not a stunned young man, how could he not have seen it?"

Lin Yunyan's eyes brightened when she heard this: "After Zhang Xuanzhi passed away, where did the little mouse go?"

"I don't know." He Jia's grandmother said.

Lin Yunyan has a bottom in her heart.

Previously, the father-in-law Tong they found had nothing to do with the father-in-law of Chenmi Hutong, or the king of Jin, Li Du, but now, a line was faintly revealed.

What is the name of the little mouse, and where did he go after that, these things that are not clear to the He family's grandmother, there must be answers in the palace.

I was looking for a needle in a haystack before, but now I have a target.

After Lin Yunyan thanked the He family's grandmother, she hurriedly prepared to enter the palace.

Back in the house, Bang Yue changed Lin Yunyan again, and Mama Ma went to arrange the carriage and horses.

Before leaving, Lin Yunyan had a flash of inspiration and called Mama Ma: "Mama will come with me."

The carriage was unimpeded all the way.

In the car, Lin Yunyan explained softly: "I will ask Niangniang for an edict, Mama will go to the imperial pharmacy, openly to ask for some medicinal materials, secretly, I want to know what the symptoms of the first emperor's Zhang Xuanzhi and Concubine Dong Niangniang were when they were sick, and what medicines were used."

Mama Ma's mind was lively, and she quickly understood what Lin Yunyan meant: "Do you suspect that their condition is not simple?"

"I was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of the well rope for ten years," Lin Yunyan sighed, "If I hadn't found out the inside story of King Ding's poisoning, I wouldn't have heard anyone who was sick for a while and then lost his heart."

Mama Ma said, "Be cautious, it's not a bad thing."

Lin Yunyan nodded.

Not long after, Lin Yunyan arrived at Cining Palace.

Less than her father-in-law led her in.

greeted the Queen Mother, and Lin Yunyan said what she meant.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin in Yongji Palace, I heard that Zhang Xuanzhi and Concubine Dong Niangniang both died of illness.

I wondered if it would be the poison recipe too." Lin Yunyan said.

"A mother who gave birth to him, an adoptive mother who treated him speechless, what did he do? What's more, when his own mother left, he was four or five years old." As she spoke, the Queen Mother's brows slowly furrowed, as if she had thought of something, and turned her head to look at Mama Wang.

Mama Wang knows the Queen Mother the most, and she is also a sigh in her heart when she sees this.

After thinking for a moment, she said, "Zhang Xuanzhi was too early at that time, and the slave maid couldn't remember it for a while, but the three months when Concubine Dong was ill, hey, it seemed to be a little similar to the situation of His Royal Highness King Ding."

The queen mother's face was gloomy, and Lin Yunyan mentioned it again, so she should ask Mama Ma to go to the imperial pharmacy to find clues.

Lin Yunyan asked again, "Where did the waiter named Little Mouse next to Zhang Xuan's side go? The deceased father-in-law Tong found by Gonggong Cao is on an errand with the little mouse in Bihua Palace, will there be some connection?"

This matter is too detailed, and the Queen Mother must not know.

Even, as I get older, some things are not so clear.

"Ruan Guiren has lived in Bihua Palace?" She asked Mama Wang, "Hasn't she always lived with Concubine Zhong?"

"It seems that I have lived for a few months, and I am going to look through the old files," Mama Wang couldn't say for a while, and said, "The little mouse that the county lord asked, where did he go after him, and he had to go through the booklet, as for the contact or something......