Give you a spring

After talking with Du Shubao, Ping Wei felt that there was no need to go to Concubine Ming in such a hurry, and he could wait until the investigation was almost completed before entering the palace, so as not to attract the attention of Emperor Chong.

To be honest, when he heard Du Shubao say that Gu Jing and Empress Jiang Yunzhi were both related to Emperor Chongdi, some bloody four-cornered love plots immediately appeared in his mind. This is also because he liked to go to the streets to listen to people when he was free As a storyteller, from time to time, that gentleman would make up some tragic love stories that he couldn't ask for, which attracted the attention of a lot of little girls, and Ping Wei was also deeply tortured, so he couldn't help thinking about his parents.

Really should not.

He first went to the original coffin shop, and asked the boss to help him check Gu Jing, and then went to the Yamen to find Qi Zheng to discuss what to do next.

After talking with the boss, I went to the Yamen, and the policeman came over and said that Mr. Qi had entered the palace. If you go half an hour ago, you may have to wait for a while.So Ping Wei thought about going to the street to eat something first, he didn't want a person dressed as a court lady to come over just after he came out of the yamen and invite him to the palace.

Asked who was her master.

It turned out to be the queen.

Yuxiu Palace.

Jiang Yuanzhi was making tea inside alone, and the maid who was close to him went out of the palace to look for Ping Wei an hour ago, counting the time, she should be back.

Lian Zheng just came here in the morning, because the Nanling was bombed and the Donghu people attacked the troops. There might be changes in the situation between the court and China, so he came here to discuss with the queen.Jiang Yuanzhi talked to him a few words, lowered his eyes after hearing him talking about You Buqing, and asked casually, "Did Pingwei come to the palace last night?"

Lian Zheng had an eyeliner in the palace, but he didn't believe that the empress didn't know about it. Although he was surprised, he still said frankly, "Yes, he and his father stayed in the Tongxin Hall for half an hour."

"Well," Jiang Yunzhi looked down at the hot tea in his hand, "Did you help him deal with cheating in the imperial examination last time?"

"Correct."

"What's your impression of him?"

"He is very smart and decisive in his actions. If he and I are on the opposite side, it should be difficult to deal with." Lian Zheng thought for a while before saying.

"Hmm..." Jiang Yuanzhi replied lightly, looked up at her adopted son, and suddenly changed the subject, "Zhenger, I seem to have taken you over from the cold palace when you were seven years old, right?"

"Yes," because his biological mother was abolished after giving birth to him. The queen saw that the unattended baby was pitiful, so she took him over and raised him as her own.Speaking of which, Lian Zheng hadn't seen his biological mother for many years. The fact that the other party was deposed had nothing to do with his character. Into the limbo.

"Have you been in touch with her all these years?"

Jiang Yuanzhi looked into his eyes.

Lian Zheng froze for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "You mean my birth mother?"

"Yes, haven't you been in touch?"

"No..." Xie Lianzheng's voice weakened.

Jiang Yunzhi looked outside and said softly, "I don't mean anything else, it doesn't matter if you don't go to see her, I just feel a little pity for her."

"pity?"

"If her family hadn't been deliberately used by others, it wouldn't have implicated her in being sidelined."

Jiang Yuanzhi spoke casually, but Lian Zheng felt that she was alluding to something, and said, "I know."

Jiang Yunzhi smiled slightly, "I'm tired, you can step back, by the way, I can get in touch with your imperial brother more if I have nothing to do."

"Ping Wei?" Lian Zheng had already stood up from the cushion, but raised his head after hearing her words.

"Yes," Jiang Yunzhi still had a smile on his face, "Isn't he the same father as you?"

In the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly, the palace door was wide open, and she was sitting in the middle with her head bowed and making tea.

Ping Wei stepped in under the leadership of the maid, saw Jiang Yunzhi in red, for a moment he thought of the concubine Ming who was in Huaqing Palace before, not referring to the appearance, the concubine Ming was more glamorous, but the queen was soft and beautiful.Although the two are not alike, they feel very similar to him.

There's a...deep numbness.

He saluted and said softly, "I've seen the queen."

"You're here." Hearing the voice, Jiang Yunzhi looked up at him, then glanced sideways at the cushion in front of him, "Sit."

Ping Wei sat down opposite her, and took the tea handed by her.

Jiang Yunzhi didn't speak, and he said, "The last time I saw you was the Lantern Festival."

"Yes, there were too many people that day, I didn't have time to go to find you."

Jiang Yunzhi stared at him without blinking, and said.

Hearing this tone, the other party seemed to want to get close to him, Ping Wei was a little surprised, smiled lightly, and said softly, "There will be a chance later."

Jiang Yuanzhi didn't answer, and he didn't know if he heard it. After a moment of silence, he said, "Did you go to Huaqing Palace the day you entered the palace for the first time?"

"went."

"Is she okay?"

Jiang Yuanzhi looked into his eyes.

"pretty good."

He replied in a gentle voice.On the way to this Yuxiu Palace, he deliberately noted down the location of this palace, it was very close to the Tongxin Palace, about a quarter of an hour's walk away.However, it was far away from Ming Concubine's Huaqing Palace. Ping Wei remembered that when he entered the palace for the first time, he went to the Tongxin Palace first, and then walked through more than half of the palace before arriving at Huaqing Palace.

Perhaps it shouldn't be said that Huaqing Palace and Yuxiu Palace are far apart, but Ming Concubine's Huaqing Palace was intentionally placed in the corner of the palace, away from everyone.

Before he came, he didn't want to mention his mother and concubine, but now that Jiang Yunzhi mentioned it himself, Ping Wei also followed the clues and asked, "Have you and my mother and concubine ever had a good relationship?"

"Once upon a time," Jiang Yunzhi smiled lightly upon hearing his words, "Well, at least I liked her quite a bit."

Ping raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Why, do you think that since we are in the same harem, it is impossible to have friendship?" Seeing his surprise, Jiang Yunzhi added another sentence.

"Isn't it written like this in all the scriptures?" Ping smiled.

"That's the script," the two became a little more familiar during the chat, and the atmosphere was not as stiff as it was at the beginning. Jiang Yuanzhi looked at Pingwei's face that resembled Concubine Ming, and said softly, "I used to call her Qingru sister."

Ping Wei nodded, and simply asked, "Why did you call me here today?"

"Zheng'er told me about your stay in Fengdu, that You Buqing wanted to do something to you, didn't he?"

"Not to me, his target is the people around me."

"Can you tell me more about that You Buqing?"

"it is good."

So Pingwei told the other party what Feng Duli could say, and he paid attention to Jiang Yuanzhi's reaction while talking. From the short conversation just now, he felt that Emperor Chong, Concubine Ming, Gu Jing and this man had something to do with him more than [-] years ago. Relatedly, Chongdi and Concubine Ming had conflicts, but he was still not sure which side Jiang Yunzhi was on. Although the other party said just now that he was very close to Concubine Ming, it seemed that he was on Concubine Ming's side, but relying on Words are not enough.

"You still haven't explained why You Buqing hates you so much?" Jiang Yunzhi said after listening.

Ping Wei was stunned for a moment, his voice lowered subconsciously, "Because I killed his elder brother, and made his mother die in a panic."

"Tell me in detail?" Jiang Yunzhi looked at him and paused, "I have no ill intentions towards you, so don't be on guard against me."

"Why do you want to know?"

"Because you had a secret conversation with the emperor for half an hour last night?"

Ping Wei was silent for a while, then suddenly changed the subject, "Do you know Du Shubao?"

"I don't know, why?"

"Twenty years ago, he was a eunuch in the palace for a while," Ping Wei said, "It is said that he was favored by Gu Jing."

Hearing this name, Jiang Yuanzhi showed melancholy without any surprise on his face, "Gu Jing..."

"You know him?"

"I know him, but we don't know him very well. Have you found out about him?"

"Yes," Ping Wei said frankly.

Jiang Yunzhi said "Hmm" and nodded.

The two sat together quietly and drank a few cups of tea, and Ping Wei raised his head to look at her, "You asked me to come here today, but you actually want to see me?"

He didn't get any important information from Jiang Yunzhi's mouth. Instead, he told the other party a lot about himself, including the black market deals with He Zhou.

"Indeed," Jiang Yunzhi put down the teacup in his hand, and said with a slight smile, "I haven't found a chance to ask you to come over, and I can't leave the palace, so I called you to come and talk."

"Are you afraid that there will be no chance in the future?" Ping Wei also asked tentatively with a faint smile on his face.

Jiang Yunzhi frowned, and then denied it, "No, I'm just curious about your state at this moment. But you don't look panicked?"

"It just seems," Ping Wei smiled wryly, who wouldn't be nervous about life and death.

Jiang Yuanzhi lowered his eyes and changed the subject, "I heard from Zheng'er that you often have a guard by your side?"

"Yes," when talking about He Zhou, some genuine smiles appeared in Ping Wei's eyes.

"He is very important to you?" Jiang Yunzhi noticed.

"Yes," Ping Wei admitted.

"In this way," Jiang Yuanzhi didn't know what to think of, and after a while, he said pointedly, "It will last for a long time."

"It will last forever," Ping said with a smile, "He also cares about me."

"Is he in Linjing now?"

"Not here, I went to Nanling."

Jiang Yunzhi's eyelids twitched, "I heard that something happened at Nanling."

"Well, I'll let him go and have a look."

"So now in the city, you don't have anyone you can trust?"

"I can handle a lot of things myself," Ping Wei didn't reveal to Qi Zheng.

"You can go to Zheng'er if you need it," Jiang Yunzhi said, "I'm not talking about the scene."

"Okay," Ping Wei responded, and the two chatted for a while, when it was about five o'clock, he got up and walked out of Yuxiu Palace.

Jiang Yunzhi kept looking at his back, and someone came quietly beside him, it was the maid who had come out of the palace and asked Ping Wei to come over.

"Your Majesty, you have been chatting with him for too long today, I'm afraid it will attract... His Majesty's attention."

"I know," after Ping Wei left, the warmth on Jiang Yunzhi's face disappeared little by little, and she returned to the expressionless queen, "It's rare to have such a close contact with him."

"but...."

"it does not matter."

Jiang Yunzhi interrupted her, stood up from the cushion and walked out of the palace gate, looked up to the southeast - that was the direction of Huaqing Palace.