"Are we really going to the Ninghui Hall next to the imperial dining room?"

Walking all the way, Cheng Yuguan was very unfamiliar with everything around him, the partial palace was full of bluestone roads, towering palaces and city walls, Cheng Yuguan followed behind Li Mian, only feeling that he had been turning in circles, not knowing where to go.

Li Mian strode without looking back, and only replied with his mouth, "This prince said that he would go to Ninghui Palace, so he naturally went there." However, when you get to Ninghui Palace, you can go to the imperial dining room opposite to learn the scriptures, and I still have business, so I won't accompany you. ”

Hearing Li Mian say this, Cheng Yuguan nodded, although no one could see it.

Li Mian was several steps ahead of her, Li Mian was tall and long-legged, and he took three steps against Cheng Yuguan in one step, Cheng Yuguan's legs were tight and upside down, and he felt that he couldn't catch up with him. Moreover, it is forbidden to run in the palace, so she can only walk quickly to keep up with the figure in front.

"It's almost there, just ahead."

Li Mian said.

Cheng Yuguan looked up, only to see that the road had finally come to an end, and there was a corner in front of him, and he should have passed the corner to reach the Ninghui Palace.

Cheng Yuguan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Leaving without a purpose, or in the palace, people have no bottom in their hearts, and now it is about to come, and Cheng Yu's concern is steady.

"After passing this door, are you in front of the court? I always felt that after walking so far just now, I should have left the palace. ”

Cheng Yuguan followed behind Li Mian and thought about it.

When Li Mian heard Cheng Yuguan say this, he glanced back at Cheng Yuguan in some surprise, "You still know that the palace and the previous dynasty are separated, not bad." ”

Cheng Yuguan didn't care whether Li Mian was mocking her or not, and looked up proudly, "That's, what's not to know about this?" ”

Seeing Cheng Yuguan's praise, Li Mian also curled the corners of his mouth, "You are really easy to get carried away." Knowing these is not a big deal, since you know that after this side of the gate is the front dynasty, you should be cautious when you go to the Ninghui Hall later, otherwise it will not be fun to lose your manners and make people look at it. ”

"Got it!"

Cheng Yuguan simply agreed.

Li Mian turned his head and only felt funny.

He didn't have sisters, and he used to think that other sisters were very noisy and willful, but he didn't expect Cheng Yuguan to be quite well-behaved. He thought, with such a sister, no wonder she once said that several cousins of the patriarch's family were all good to her. If he had a well-behaved sister, he would be nice to her.

Seeing the side door, the two walked for a while before finally reaching the threshold of the side door.

Cheng Yuguan took two steps tightly, wanting to follow Li Mian closely, but he didn't expect Li Mian, who had been striding in front of him, to pause suddenly, and suddenly turned around and pulled Cheng Yuguan against the corner of the door side of the round arched side door.

Cheng Yuguan subconsciously took a light breath, only looked at Li Mian with his eyes, and didn't say a word.

Li Mian nodded with satisfaction, put his finger to his lips, and made a silent "shhh" signal.

Cheng Yuguan nodded, signaling that he knew.

Suddenly, at the corner of the side door, there was no human voice, only the breathing and heartbeat of two people.

"Don't be too anxious, Cheng Yuguan is acting recklessly in the Hou Mansion, and he is also playing tricks on your family, now that I enter the palace, I will definitely avenge you."

A man's voice came faintly, and Cheng Yuguan's eyes widened in surprise, almost thinking that he had misheard.

When she first arrived, she didn't know when she made enemies in the palace.

"Don't, Cheng Yuguan is very powerful, when she is at home, she has to be unforgiving, when she arrives in the palace, she has the queen mother as a backer, and I don't know how to behave, you and the four princes are not on good terms, don't offend the four princes again because of me, and the conflict will start again." Concubine Niangniang doesn't like me in the first place, if she knows that your brothers I picked are not harmonious, Concubine Niangniang should look at me even more unpleasantly. ”

The woman's soft voice came, and Cheng Yuguan instantly understood, this is the legend of the five princes who were favored by Cheng Hou's family in every possible way to make jade a good thing!

"Yulou, don't be presumptuous. It's not that the concubine doesn't like you, it's just that there are too many rules in the palace, and she can't make the decision about my marriage, so she will shirk it in front of you. Don't worry, since your eldest sister Cheng Yuguan can't work here, I will ask my mother to find a way to blow the wind to my father and let my father marry you and me. ”

The man seemed to be patting his chest to assure that Cheng Yuguan could even feel the sound of the wall vibrating against him.

Could it be that these "little couples" are hiding on the other side of the door and talking?

Cheng Yuguan guessed.

Li Mian looked at Cheng Yuguan's face, nodded at her, and signaled that she had guessed correctly.

It turns out that this Ninghui Palace is in the northernmost part of the former dynasty, close to the harem, and not far from the imperial dining room and Donghua Gate, not far from the noisy trading of melons, fruits and vegetables in the imperial dining room on weekdays, and because it is an important place in the dining hall, so every day to the hotel, there will be heavy soldiers to come to guard, Ninghui Hall here, there are usually no officials of the previous dynasty to work and pass here, every day after noon, the palace no longer passes the meal, it is quiet here, and few people come.

When the fourth prince Li Mian was a child, he often liked to come to Ninghui Hall to read, and when he was tired of reading, he looked at the melon, fruit, and vegetable trading outside the palace on the second floor, and diluted his fatigue with the lively atmosphere of the market.

I didn't expect that the fifth prince loved pomp and circumstance when he was a child, and when he grew up, he also knew to come to this secluded place to fall in love.

Now the two brothers are colliding together, only separated by a wall, which is really embarrassing.

Listening to the words on the other side of the wall, becoming more and more petty and gentle, Cheng Yuguan peeked at Li Mian, how to get out of this?

Li Mian was also looking at Cheng Yuguan at this time, he was tall, and he was condescending at this time, seeing Cheng Yuguan's expression was embarrassed, a little funny.

The thieves are not embarrassed, they are embarrassed to bump into it.

Cheng Yuguan couldn't help but stare when he saw Li Mian smiling, and motioned him to hurry up and find a way, if there was really something behind the wall for a while, it would be even more embarrassing.

Li Mian saw Cheng Yuguan's eyes, raised his hand unhurriedly, and pulled down a pearl from the hairpin on Cheng Yuguan's sideburns.

Li Mian raised his hand and lightly threw the beads through the side door, and there was a "click" sound, and there was a sound in the corner of the side door.

"What sound?"

Cheng Yulou's somewhat frightened voice came.

"Who's pretending?"

Good things were disturbed, the fifth prince Li Ke shouted in a low voice.

He knew that there was an imperial dining room not far away, and there were people on duty in it, so he would not shout loudly without scruples.

"How's that okay?"

"It's okay, it should be the little yellow gate passing by, I'll send you out of the palace first, and I'll come back to cook later."

As the voice faded away, Cheng Yuguan breathed a sigh of relief, this eavesdropping was not pleasant.

"Are you still going?"

Li Mian looked at Cheng Yuguan and said.

Cheng Yuguan nodded, "Go!" ”

The harem is full of people, and there is a secluded place called Ninghui Palace, of course she is willing to go and see it.

After waiting for a while, Li Mian walked out of the side door with Cheng Yuguan, and on the road, the beads that were thrown out just now to startle the snake were gone, but they were not a unique treasure, and Cheng Yuguan didn't care about it.

"The first floor is a bookshelf, and the second floor has a place to rest, if you fancy this, I will ask someone to transfer a set of tables, chairs and soft couches from the Anthology Academy another day for you to rest."

Li Mian took Cheng Yuguan and pointed to the various places in the Ninghui Palace.

Cheng Yuguan nodded, "Thank you, Fourth Prince." ”

Li Mian heard Cheng Yuguan call himself the fourth prince, and unconsciously frowned, "Your cousin has three cousins in his family, and I will do four, so you can call me the fourth brother." Call the fourth prince again, let the queen mother hear, it's time to please me. ”

"Fourth brother!"

When Cheng Yuguan heard this, he called out "Fourth Brother" generously.

She grew up with the three older brothers of the patriarch's family, and naturally there is no difference between recognizing one more brother.

Li Mian listened to Cheng Yuguan's crisp voice, and the corners of his mouth were almost imperceptibly curled for a moment.

"Okay, the bookshelves on the east side are all lone miscellaneous books collected in the palace, you can go and see them if you want to see them. On the west side, there are copies of local chronicles from all over the country, as well as news and strange events from various places, and I still need to check some information here, so you can do it yourself. ”

As he spoke, Li Mian walked to the tall bookshelf and began to look for the information he needed, while Cheng Yuguan followed Li Mian's instructions to go to the east bookshelf and find a miscellaneous book, and came over to flip through it.

In the Ninghui Palace, it was relatively silent for a while.

After a while, Cheng Yuguan found a book, came to the bookcase at the door and sat down to read, Li Mian also found the Mindi local chronicle from the bookshelf, and came to the west window bookcase.

The two of them sat opposite each other, and they looked at each other for most of the hour.

Li Mian took the lead in raising his head, rubbed the bridge of his nose, closed the book, and saw that Cheng Yuguan was still reading carefully, and wanted to ask her to stop and go back to the harem, but stopped halfway.

Pacing behind Cheng Yuguan, sure enough, she saw where the ancient texts were serious, but found a local chronicle to read with relish. Seeing the geographical location, he was still comparing in his hand, as if he wanted to understand the distribution of customs among them.

"It's not honest to go to school."

Li Mian's voice sounded in his ears, and Cheng Yuguan suddenly came back to his senses and broke away from the world in the book.

"Huh? What's wrong? Are you leaving? I'll just go. ”

Cheng Yuguan closed the book, put the book back in place, and then walked back to Li Mian.

Li Mian looked at Cheng Yuguan's skillful movements, and knew that she should not have been an honest student when she was a child. He didn't pursue her, and walked out.

Returning to the Yongdao again, this is when the sun has set in the west, Li Mian has lost the urgency when he came, and he told Cheng Yuguan beside him while walking.

"The queen mother is busy every day, when you are bored, you can come to the Ninghui Palace to read books, and rarely go to the imperial garden. There are a lot of people there, and your temper is not happy to go. ”

Cheng Yuguan nodded, "Listen to the fourth brother." ”

Li Mian is a palace householder, and Cheng Yuguan naturally wants to listen to his experience.

And she doesn't like to deal with people, especially with the people in the harem.

In the final analysis, she is an outsider, she is very eye-catching in the harem, and she does not plan to live in the palace for a long time, she is a person who travels widely and is exquisite, and she is naturally happy to have a place to stay in peace.

"But you don't have to worry too much about others. You are in the mother's harem, and when you go out and meet someone, just show your momentum and put up a shelf, and others don't dare to provoke you easily. ”

"Well," Cheng Yuguan nodded, "Listen to the fourth brother." ”

Li Mian saw that Cheng Yuguan was sensible and obedient, so he continued, "Go to Ninghui Palace, it's best to pass through this road after noon." In addition to the guards, there is generally no one here, even if there is, it is also a small yellow door borrowed from the road, which is clean. ”

"Well, listen to the fourth brother."

…

"Agarwood, do you know what's wrong?"

In the Jingyuan Hall of Chenghou Mansion, the butter candles are shaking, and in the inner room of the side room, the old lady is sitting on a soft couch, and Mama Lai is standing aside, with a chill on her face, pointing to the agarwood that is kneeling on the ground and said sharply.

Agarwood didn't dare to raise her head at all, she was selected by Mama Lai, and she entered the house from a Zhuang son to be a big girl, so she naturally had to thank Mama Lai for her kindness.

Although Mama Lai asked her to watch the eldest lady, she was also willing.

Unexpectedly, the eldest lady who seemed to have a straight temper pretended to be confused, and played in the house for a while, Reagan was stunned, and she was stunned to hide everyone in the house, and her personal maid was no exception.

"Mama, the eldest lady has a plan to go out from the ancestral land of Chengjia Village, otherwise, she would not have been so well prepared, and even let the young master bring the succession documents. The eldest lady plans to be careful for many days, hiding from everyone in the house, and the slave is also an ordinary maid, where can I see through the eldest lady's heart! ”

Agarwood cried for herself. The eldest lady has been in the house for so many days, only before entering the palace today, she made such an abnormality and distributed beads to the maid who served her.

But at that time, all the masters in the mansion were going to enter the palace, and it was impossible for her to hide from the eldest lady and report to Mama Lai. Therefore, the matter of dividing the beads was concealed by agarwood.

I think it must be that the eldest lady has made up her mind that she will never come back once she leaves the house, so she gives them the things.

Thinking of the first day of entering the house, the eldest lady had a seizure, which made people think that she was a simple-minded straight temper, and then she didn't let anyone, and she lived in a shallow way, and only took out the dowry of the first lady to talk about things.

If this person has weaknesses, it will be reassuring.

The masters in the mansion were not only angry about losing face for the first lady's dowry, but also relieved that the eldest lady had something to care about.

Where did I think that it was deliberately done by the eldest lady, just to let everyone in the palace relax their vigilance, thinking that there was a quid pro quo, so they would rest assured that they would take her into the palace to match the second lady and the fifth prince.

Now that the eldest lady has successfully stayed in the palace, the dowry, and even the shop, have stayed in the mansion, and none of them have been taken, which has made everyone in the mansion lose their vigilance.

If she knew that the eldest lady's plan was to succeed, no matter what, she would not have taken Cheng Yuguan into the palace so easily, so that she would have a backer.

"If I knew today, I should have let Master Hou teach the eldest lady a lesson, which can be regarded as the tone of the eldest lady who has been stirring up trouble in the mansion for many days."

Mama Lai said hatefully.

The old lady was still twisting the string of diamond beads, but at this time she opened her eyes and looked at Mama Lai, "You go to Xuewu Lane, find a way to get Cheng Lang's succession paperwork, be careful, don't make him suspicious." Cheng Yu was locked in the palace, don't leak it out first. ”

"Yes, old lady."

Mama Lai should be, and then took the agarwood and walked out.

…

"Mother, the eldest sister just stayed in the palace?"

In the Hou Mansion, in the Lingxi Courtyard, Cheng Yulou took his mother's hand and said angrily in disbelief.

You must know that the queen was born in a high family and is known as a virtuous name, so the nobles in Beijing are proud to be able to live in the palace and be taught by the queen.

So far, in the capital, there are only a few royal princes and county lords and Miss Guogong who have entered the palace and have been able to enjoy this honor, but I didn't expect that Cheng Yuguan also stayed in the queen's Fengyi Palace.

Cheng Yulou was naturally unwilling and a little envious.

Yang hugged her daughter distressedly and comforted, "Don't worry, the eldest lady wants to succeed, she won't succeed so easily, let her be proud in the palace for two days first." ”

When it came to the succession, Cheng Yulou hesitated, "Isn't it good for the eldest sister to succeed?" ”

In this way, she is the only concubine in the house.

Yang patted her daughter's hand and said softly, "It's in her interest to succeed us, but this is what she wants, so she has to pay the price." How can a man achieve his wish without paying a price? ”

…