There are many conjectures about begonias and reefs.

And these conjectures seem to be in line with some of Mrs. Gui's remarks.

They felt that their conjectures were not groundless.

In order to further corroborate the speculation of the two, they continued to pay attention to the movements of Mrs. Gui's mother and daughter. Haijiao tried to start with Zhou Yijun to find out more news about the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion in the capital, and at the same time recalled as much as possible the major and minor affairs of the court that he had experienced in his previous life, as well as all kinds of gossip he had heard; Haitang continued to correspond with Wu Qiong, guiding her to ask Mrs. Gui and her cousin Wu Ke about more about the past.

After another three days, the harvest on the reef side was not much, and Haitang knew a lot of information about the Wu family's residence in Cining Palace.

Wu Qiong recalled more scenes of life in the small courtyard of Catalpa when she was a child, most of them were trivial things, but now that she thinks about it, she still feels very warm and nostalgic.

She once tried to ask her cousin Wu Ke, do you remember what it was like when she was a child? But Wu Ke's mouth is very tight, even if he is no longer in the capital, but has come to Chang'an, the base camp of the Zhou family, surrounded by credible Zhou family, he still refuses to reveal any secrets.

He could discuss with his little cousin what he had eaten in the palace in the past, as well as the scriptures he memorized and the clothes he wore when he worshipped the Buddha, but he refused to talk about the people of the palace, the pomegranate flowers, and the classmates in the palace. At most, he mentioned it, saying that the person who taught himself to read in the palace was a seventy-year-old Ding Nushi, who was said to have grown up in the palace since she was a child, and once served in the library pavilion, not only familiar with poetry and books, but also a number of historical allusions, and won the trust of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and now she is following the Empress Dowager Zhou for the elderly.

Haitang saw the "Ding Nu History" mentioned in Wu Qiong's letter, and couldn't help but think of herself in her previous life. At that time, she was also surnamed Ding, and she was also a female official in charge of the library in the palace, but she was not a female history.

At that time, there was indeed a little girl with the same surname as Ding, who seemed to be the granddaughter of a criminal official and was enslaved in the inner court. When the new monarch Yongchang Emperor ascended the throne, he granted amnesty to the world, and her identity as a criminal dependent was gone, but there was no family outside the palace, so she continued to live in the palace. Haitang saw that she was smart, but she was helpless, and she was from the same surname, so she took care of her a little more, but soon after she was transferred out of the library and went to the Shanggong Bureau to work as a weaver, she didn't see this little girl much.

The "History of the Ding Girl" who taught Wu Ke, will it be the little girl in the library back then?

The age is right, and he grew up in the palace. I don't know how she has survived all these years, why has she never been out of the palace? Following the Empress Dowager Zhou to retire, it is safe and worry-free at the moment, but the Empress Dowager Zhou is about to die. After she died, where did the palace people around her go?

Haitang tried to ask his brother Haijiao, how happened to the palace people in Cining Palace in their previous life?

Where can Haijiao say clearly: "At that time, it was rumored that the Queen Mother died a little suddenly...... Anyway, a few of the palace people in Cining Palace were martyred, and the rest probably went to guard the tomb. Cining Palace is mostly empty, and there are a few concubines and concubines who think the palace is too deserted, and there have been rumors of haunting. Sun Guifei shouted that she wanted to elect a new palace maid among the people to supplement the manpower, and she was about to move the emperor. It took a lot of effort for Concubine Xu Xian to persuade the emperor to dispel his thoughts. Later, the matter of Concubine Xu Xian's second marriage was leaked, and some courtiers defended her and listed her virtues, and took this incident as an example, which made Concubine Sun Guifei very angry...... When Empress Dowager Xu entered Cining Palace, she released the old attendants in the palace out of the palace to pray for the new monarch to accumulate virtue, which was also a good deed praised by the people. ”

In other words, if that Ding Nushi had either died in the palace in the past few years, she had martyred the Empress Dowager Zhou, or she had gone to the mausoleum, or she might have returned to the people when Concubine Xu Xian became the empress dowager and let the palace people go out of the palace? She has been in the palace since she was a child and has lived in the palace for seventy or eighty years, but she may not be able to adapt to life outside the palace. If you can be in the old death palace before the death of the Empress Dowager Zhou, it will be a blessing.

Begonia sighed secretly and put the matter down.

Wu Qiong has recently been aroused by Haitang to recall her childhood, but when she lived in Cining Palace, she was too young, and Mrs. Gui and Wu Ke refused to cooperate with her to recall more details, and within a few days, she began to recall the experience after moving into the Chengenhou Mansion.

In this regard, she can win more listeners. Zhou Xuejun was very interested in the life of the Chengenhou Mansion. When she goes to Beijing to reunite with her parents, she will probably live like that, right? Inquiring about the customs of the capital in advance seems to be more helpful for her to adapt to the new life after entering the capital in the future.

With Zhou Xuejun as the chat partner, Wu Qiong no longer only talks with Haitang. The two of them chatted quite happily, and the letters received by Haitang from Zhou Xuejun and Wu Qiong were a little less than before, and there were no longer letters every day, but every three or two days, someone would always write to her, and it would not make her feel lonely.

Haitang didn't care, she found more clues from Wu Qiong's letter, and she was already very satisfied.

Mrs. Gui's illness has been pretending to be for so many days, and it is time to come to an end. Probably finding that the people in the Zhenguo Mansion didn't care about her, she observed the situation in the outside world, then settled down and began to "recover".

Mrs. Tuesday and Mrs. Wednesday packed their bags one after another, and embarked on the road back to the border city with their son's entourage to reunite with their husbands.

The Tang family was also busy bidding farewell to their children, and Mrs. Tang took her two daughters to the surrounding Buddhist temples to worship the Buddha and relax, and no one talked about the matter. The previous encirclement and pursuit of the Sun family's minions in the whole city has been outdated, and the city began to discuss the results of this year's children's exam, because Jin Shan was injured and absent, and some people mentioned him at the beginning, but now his limelight has long been overshadowed by new talents.

Mrs. Gui thought that the outside world was calm, and she could rest assured that she could reappear in the rivers and lakes. However, the New Year has passed, and she has committed a taboo again, which has aroused the anger of the public, although the big families in the city did not sneer at her in the face of the old aunt and wife of the Zhou family, but they no longer welcomed her as a guest. No matter who holds a happy event and celebrates her birthday, they will no longer post to her, and the daughters of each family will gather and play, and they will not invite Wu Qiong. On Wu Ke's side, from time to time, there are literati and scholars who will invite him to attend literary meetings and poetry meetings. He didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he begged Xie Wenzai to come forward and take him to several more reliable gatherings.

Mrs. Gui noticed the snubbing of the outside world and felt very uncomfortable.

If you change to a normal person, you should reflect on yourself at this time, and then lower your schedule, and wait for the rumors to pass before you plan for the future.

But is Mrs. Gui a normal person?

She didn't feel that she was at fault, she only hated the Sun family's minions for tying her up, which made her ugly, and blamed the chickens in Chang'an, and complained that the Zhenguo Mansion refused to help her.

She gritted her teeth at her daughter in private: "When the new monarch succeeds to the throne, our Wu family will make a comeback, and I will definitely repay the humiliation suffered today a hundredfold!" He complained about Concubine Xu Xian, why did she give birth to the eighth prince, "It's too much of a hindrance!" If she is faithful, she should be faithful to the end! If she hadn't caused trouble for no reason and gave birth to such a troublesome thing, our Wu family would have turned over a long time ago, how could I be so idle?! ”

When Wu Qiong heard her words, she felt both inexplicable and secretly afraid. She didn't dare to tell anyone else, but dared to say to Haitang, who had already heard her complain: "Mother is getting more and more crazy, I really want to invite a doctor for her to take a look, and I'm afraid that the Duchess of Zhenguo will think too much......"

Begonia breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

She didn't guess wrong, Mrs. Gui really knew that Empress Wu had left a little prince, so she felt that the eighth prince was in the way and prevented the little prince from becoming a prince.

Mrs. Kegui is so confident in this prince, why can't she see the situation clearly?

At present, it is clear that the succession of the eighth prince is the general trend, and the holy will is clear, only the Sun family and the prince of Ji are struggling to the death, who cares about the prince?

(End of chapter)