This is not the Datang I am familiar with

Since they couldn't swim in the lake, naturally the group went back soon. It was lunch time and they were all a little hungry.

Chen Fang hurriedly went to Shangshi Bureau to prepare some food, Wu Meiniang went to Daming Palace, today's meal is not very particular.

It's just that the few His Highnesses don't want to go back to Ganlu Palace, but insist on making do with Chen Fang's place, what's the matter.

Chen Fang was also helpless, these His Highnesses could not afford to offend.

In winter, there is no sun, and it will obviously take some time to dry the small fish.Chen Fang asked the cook to handle the little fish and dry it with charcoal fire.

Anyway, what Chen Fang wanted was dried fish, as for the method, it didn't matter.What Chen Fang wants is the result. As for the way to the result, he doesn't pick and choose.

After seeing off the highnesses, Chen Fang looked at his spare residence.At this time, the cold wind came in, and it was terribly cold.

That stove is completely useless at this time, and the house is too big.

Chen Fang could only sit by the stove, it was still warmer here.

"Should I discuss it with the eunuch in the palace, and add something here, after all, the little highness is listening to stories here, and it will be warmer!"

Chen Fang quickly made up his mind. Your highnesses came to listen to the story. Their hands and feet have been cold these few days. Although the clothes the highnesses wear are fox fur to keep them warm, what should they do if any of the little highnesses suffer from the cold? .

Chen Fang went to look for the eunuch in the palace, and happened to meet the old eunuch surnamed Chen.

"Master Chen is here today, what's the matter?"

"Chen Eunuch, I do have something to do today. Your highnesses often go to my place these few days, and they stay here for a long time. Eunuch also knows that this winter is getting colder and colder. If any highness is frozen, That's a big deal!"

The old eunuch Chen looked at Chen Fang, and there was a little light in his cloudy old eyes.Nima, you are purely enriching your own pockets.

You are talking about your highnesses because you want to make the place where you live warmer.

However, the reason Chen Fang said at this time is completely tenable, and it is for the consideration of all His Highnesses.

Moreover, these highnesses really like to go to Chen Fang's place these few days, and they don't want to handle this matter themselves. In case any highness is really cold, the empress knows, and Chen Fang shirks that he has found so-and-so, and he won't do it. The pot is his own.

Old eunuch Chen glanced at Chen Fang, this man is really...

"The construction of the palace will be under the supervision of the general. I will go to the general to make an order and deal with it as soon as possible!"

"Then I have to thank Eunuch Chen. Chen Fang still has some things to do, so I won't bother you. I will come to pay you sometime. Let me go!"

Chapter 60 Eccentricity

Seeing Chen Fang leave, the old eunuch Chen was depressed!

If you don't come, it's the best reward for me, but I can't say this to Chen Fang.

What is it all about, you, a doctor of imperial medicine, should have been in charge of the Taichang Temple Imperial Medical Office.But he is serving in the Shangshi Bureau, and he has to be supervised by himself in this temple.

But the problem is that the place where you, a doctor of imperial medicine, lives is cold, and you need me to find a general order to deal with it for you.

Taichang Temple, the prison in the temple, will be the prison...

Old eunuch Chen didn't know what to do, just couldn't figure out the twists and turns, and stomped his feet angrily.

It's freezing outside, and I have to go to prison to serve as a prisoner, it's nothing.

It's better to make a trip by yourself, and the old bastard will be hard to talk about.

The general prisoner is not in the imperial palace, but in the imperial city, the road is not close, old eunuch Chen is depressed!

On the same day, a master craftsman brought people to the place where Chen Fang lived, inspected the surroundings, confirmed that there was no damage, and then set up two dark furnaces in the hall.

It is obviously impossible to lay the ground veins here. Only the nobles can enjoy that thing. Besides, laying the ground veins is a big project, and it won't be completed in a short time.

At this time, in order to prevent fire, only a dark furnace could be set up.

Chen Fang took a look at the dark furnace, it looked a bit like a western fireplace, but simpler.What is burned is charcoal, not fruit wood.

The master led people to work overtime, and the dark furnace was set up that day, and the sky was already full of stars when he left.

When the charcoal was lit, Xiao Dingzi was naturally busy.The little eunuch has been idle most of the time since he followed Chen Fang, and now the dark furnace is left to him to take care of.

At night, the house was much warmer, the small stove seemed dispensable at this time, but Chen Fang still let it burn, which was brought by Dingyu for himself.

Looking at the small cluster of dark red flames warms my heart.

It was warm in the house, and the next day all the highnesses felt it. Chen Fang brought melon seeds and preserved peanuts, and the little highnesses ate them, listening to Chen Fang's talk about making a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace.

Seeing that the young highnesses no longer need to be timid, Chen Fang felt relieved.

During lunch at noon, Chen Fang saw that the crown prince was there. These days, Wu Meiniang's children were all here except the crown prince. Today, the crown prince came, so it was really all together.

Thinking about it, the two of them went to visit His Majesty together yesterday, and they should have let go of any unhappiness before.

After all, mother and son are dear, and Chen Fang can feel that Wu Meiniang really loves her son, and the prince also wants to share the mother's worries.

The crown prince was sitting on the left side of Wu Meiniang and gave Taiping a piece of white and tender fish, the belly of the fish, without thorns.

"eccentric!"

"An Ding, I'll grab a piece for you too!"

"eccentric!"

The prince was dumbfounded, and the three younger brothers behind him spoke together.

Chen Fang looked at these highnesses, but it was fun, and Li Hong was not easy to be a big brother!

"Chen Fang!"

"What's your order?"

"Yesterday, the crown prince and I went to Daming Palace to visit His Majesty. Your Majesty's complexion has finally improved in the past few days. I heard from the imperial physician that it was all thanks to the Shangshi Bureau. I asked Shangshi, and she said it was your order."

The palace knew about Dingyu's apprenticeship, so Wu Meiniang also knew about Dingyu listening to her.In fact, this palace can't help the matter of apprenticeship, after all, even an emperor has an emperor's teacher.

Apprenticeship to study with a teacher is the same in all walks of life. As the saying goes, respecting the teacher and respecting the way, how can it be banned in the palace.

This is what this era advocates, and the royal family is naturally setting an example.

"I just mentioned that the recovery of your majesty's dragon body is really an achievement! Thanks to her careful care!"

"You don't need to be humble anymore. Shangshi already gave you a reward yesterday, so naturally you can't miss it here!"

Wu Meiniang waved her hand, and naturally a palace maid would bring her a reward. In fact, after being with Wu Meiniang for a long time, Chen Fang also discovered that when this empress wanted to reward someone, she had already prepared the reward.

The rewards were still mainly practical, but Chen Fang found that there was an extra gadget, a small jade bi, in the reward this time.

Jade is definitely a good thing in this era. Ordinary people definitely don't have it, and rich people cherish a piece or two.

Generally, it is not a wealthy family, a piece of jade is enough to be a family heirloom.

Princes and nobles often wear jade to show their status. Gentlemen are like jade, and beauties are like jade. In this era, jade is more of a symbol of status and quality.

At this time, the empress and all the highnesses were there, and Chen Fang didn't want to take a closer look, but just took a rough look.

When the lunch was over, Chen Fang left the Ganlu Hall, holding a jade bi in his hand, it was pure white and flawless, the jade bi was rectangular in shape, half the size of a palm, and the hand was warm and moist, obviously it was the top grade of jade.

The quality of the things bestowed by the royal family is naturally inferior, it should be Hetian jade!Chen Fang didn't know much about it.

If you look closely, there are engravings on the jade bi, and next to a pair of simple repaired bamboos, there are two characters of Yuci engraved.

This jade bi was bestowed by His Majesty.

The engraving of the thing bestowed by His Majesty is also really simple and clear. The word "Yuci" is enough to increase the value of this piece of jade dozens of times.

However, Chen Fang was also depressed. He thought that the jade bestowed by His Majesty should be engraved with words like a gentleman like jade, but who knew it would simply be the word 御奖.

In the Palace of Ganlu, the princes and princesses had already returned to their residences accompanied by maids of honor. They came here only to have a meal with the queen mother, not to live here.

Wu Meiniang retreated from the court ladies and eunuchs who were serving, and only Prince Li Hong stood beside Wu Meiniang at this time.

"Queen, what orders does Liu Erchen have here?"

Wu Meiniang pulled up the stool, let Li Hong sit down, and looked at her son, unknowingly his son had grown so big.

Wu Meiniang took Li Hong's hand, and gently touched the back of her son's well-defined palm.

"Hong'er, how is the investigation on the poisoning?"

If Chen Fang were here at this time, he would be very surprised at this scene. Wu Meiniang and Li Hong talked completely like a mother and child, with warmth and concern all showing sincerity.

"My child has been investigated these days. Although the mastermind has not been found out yet, the concubine Shu is definitely not the mastermind!"

Wu Meiniang looked at Li Hong, but didn't say anything, apparently waiting for Li Hong to continue.

"My boy said this because of several things. One is the source of this poison. There is a poisonous weed in this poison that is extremely difficult to find in Chang'an. Concubine Shu has lived in the palace for a long time, and rarely sends people out of the palace."

"Boy, I have checked the records of the guards leaving the palace. Concubine Shu has only sent people out of the palace three times in the past two years, and none of the people who have left the palace these three times has ever left Chang'an City."

"The Imperial Medical Office and Linqing'an Pavilion, which have this medicine, have no record of selling this medicine. This medicine can only be brought into Chang'an from outside Chang'an.".

"Hong'er, Concubine Shu may have ordered this medicine from another place! It sneaked into the palace through other channels."

"What the queen mother said is very true. When I asked the prison guard to check the records of the palace maids in Concubine Shu's palace, the last record of leaving the palace happened to be this court lady Yan'er two months ago."

Chapter 61 See Your Majesty's Will

"Yan'er went to three places in total when she left the palace this time, but something happened to one of them."

"What happened?"

"When Li Shouliang, the treasurer of Weihefang, Qian Zhong and Li Shouliang took people there, all six members of Qian Zhong's family were killed! They were all cut throats and stabbed with short knives. Li Shouliang found out that Qian Zhong had just gone to through the South."

"Qian Zhong's family was killed, and it was when Li Shouliang brought people there. Combined with the fact that he had just returned to Chang'an from the south, it was obvious that there was something wrong with Qian Zhong. At this time, Concubine Shu and the two princesses were under custody at Dali Temple. , I really don’t have the ability to kill Qian Zhong’s family!”

"Where is King Xu?"

"Queen, since the accident happened, the emperor's brother has not left Prince Xu's mansion. Besides, there are people from Dali Temple and Zongzheng Temple by his side. If he really wants to send someone to kill him, I'm afraid there has been news from these two temples."

Wu Meiniang looked at Li Hong, but she didn't expect the prince to find out that King Xu was under house arrest.And the prince didn't expose it, he just said that there were people from two temples around King Xu.

Dali Temple was in charge of the criminal law, and Zongzheng Temple was in charge of the clan of the emperor, which was later known as the Zongren Mansion.

Wu Meiniang was very pleased that her son was becoming more and more effective in doing things.

Seeing that Li Hong's appearance and facial features were quite similar to His Majesty's, Wu Meiniang lightly stroked Li Hong's cheek.

"Maybe Concubine Shu arranged it in advance!"

Wu Meiniang spoke lightly, as if the mother and son were casually chatting.

"It's also possible, but Hong'er also asked people to go to the hometown of the court lady Yan'er in Jizhou, and found something."

"That Yan'er's father was a gambler. Three months ago, he owed a large amount of gambling debts. His mother was sold to a brothel, and his father was almost chopped off. Afterwards, someone paid off his gambling debts and redeemed him. She gave away her mother and gave her a lot of property. However, when Honger sent people to go there, they were one step too late, and after only finding these, Yan'er's family was also killed!"

"If these were arranged by Concubine Shu in advance, then Concubine Shu could be regarded as exhaustive, but the person who poisoned her was her maid, I'm afraid..."

When Li Hong said this, he looked at Wu Meiniang, but at this time Wu Meiniang's complexion did not change, she just looked at Li Hong.

Wu Meiniang patted the back of Li Hong's hand lightly!

"Who taught these?"

"No one has ever taught it, the child thought of it!"

Thinking of the agreement with Chen Fang, Li Hong remembered Chen Fang's instructions.

"What do you think should be done next?"

"Concubine Shu is innocent, so Dali Temple should release her immediately and restore Concubine Shu's status!"

"You're tired too. You've been busy with Concubine Shu's affairs these days. You should take a good rest. Don't worry about this matter from now on. Go down!"

"Mother!"

But Wu Meiniang just waved her hand. Li Hong looked at his mother, who had too much to say at this moment, but saw that her mother closed her eyes slightly, and had no choice but to withdraw from the Ganlu Hall.

After Li Hong left there, an old court lady appeared in Ganlu Hall.

"You came!"

"The old slave has seen the empress!"

"How did you check?"

"The old servant is just like the prince. The person who poisoned him is really cunning, and all the clues that can be found are broken."

It turned out that the old maid was always there, but she never showed up when Li Hong was there.

"Forget it, since this bureaucrat dared to poison the palace, he obviously had a countermeasure already prepared. But Hong'er has grown up! I am quite relieved that things are not messed up and handled in an orderly manner."

"I don't know if the old slave should say something or not?"