Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

Baoqin is living really well in Rongguo Mansion now.

Today Yuanchun was going home to visit her relatives, Madam Wang naturally had a lot of things to prepare, she was extremely busy, she still took time to tell her a few words, and asked Tanchun to take care of her.

Baoqin has never seen Yuanchun before, but now she only knows that the eldest girl of Jia's family is a noble concubine. Even when Tanchun was with her, she said many words of comfort to her, and with Baoyu beside her, she also said How good Yuanchun is, Baoqin still can't help feeling a little uneasy.

What she was afraid of was not Yuan Chun.She also participated in the Jia family's sacrifice to the ancestral hall on New Year's Eve.No matter how respected Yuan Chun's status is, she is still a girl who left Jia's house.

Bao Qin was afraid that she would accidentally do something wrong in front of the nobles who came from the palace, and cause trouble for nothing.

Those eunuchs and maids who went out of the palace with Yuan Chun would watch their every move.

Since the eighth day of the lunar new year, there have been eunuchs coming out of the palace, looking in the direction of each other, and instructing the members of Jia's family how to salute on the day of visiting relatives in Yuanchun... The etiquette is extremely complicated.

Baoqin lives with Jiamu, watching how Jiamu is wearing heavy makeup according to her rank today at five drums, and waiting for Yuanchun to come out of the palace with other nobles.If the eunuch hadn't said it, Yuan Chun would probably have to wait for Xu Chu to come out of the palace. I'm afraid Jiamu and the others would really have to stand for a whole day.

Taking advantage of Jia's powerful position, during this period of time, Mei Hanlin often ordered people to come to Rong Mansion to contact her.Naturally, Baoqin would not forget that after her father passed away, even if their family took the initiative to send someone to Mei Hanlin's house, the family's attitude had gradually become cold.Now it's just that she lives in Rongfu and is loved by Mother Jia, so she has become the active supporter of the Mei family.

The reason is really easy to guess, but it just makes Bao Qin unhappy.

The prosperity and wealth enjoyed in Jia's mansion is not bad, but Baoqin somewhat misses the life of traveling with her elder brother in the past.

In the end, I still don't have many chances to get along with Tanchun. Even when Tanchun comes back from the Lin Mansion, he always stays with her more because of Mrs. Wang's instructions. In Chun Xin's heart, there is also a longing for something other than the deep house.

But what about yearning?

She's just a goddaughter and will be stuck.

Baoqin didn't even dare to express joy beyond expectation at this time.Some eunuchs who came out of the palace didn't know when they would notice her, and wondered if they would be suspicious because of her expression.

A cautious life is very boring.

With Jiamu beside her, she can talk and laugh to her heart's content.If she was beside Mrs. Wang, even if others said Mrs. Wang was kind, but Mrs. Wang was not a joking person in the first place, she loved to chant Buddha in the small Buddhist hall, how could she really dare to play around at will?

Dinner has been eaten, and at this moment they are all waiting for the news from the palace that the nobles in the palace will return home.

At this time, in Prince Zhongshun's mansion, Lin Ruhai was reading a stack of letters carefully.

During the day, the Chief Historian of Prince Zhongshun invited him to the palace. At first, nothing happened, even Prince Zhongshun himself entered the palace, and he was alone in the palace.

However, before Prince Zhongshun ordered the Chief Historian to come to the Lin Mansion to invite him, he told the Chief Historian that he could be brought to the study, and he also gave him the letter sent by the Wei family two days ago in the name of delivering the Lantern Festival. look.

The content of the letter is nothing new, it is nothing more than a list of some local officials who came to the capital to give gifts during this year's festival, and then there are those local officials who sent people to Beijing to give gifts, and which families more often went to.

It is very common for those who intend to increase their ranks to take advantage of the opportunity of the New Year to give gifts.The families where this kind of people are going to be active are naturally mostly those noble families.

The only thing that is abnormal is the comparison listed in one of the letters.This year, there are suddenly many more people who want to give gifts to Nan'an County Prince's Mansion than in previous years.

As Chongyu said to him, even Jia Yucun, who is now more and more trying to curry favor and seek promotion, will think of giving gifts to the King of Nan'an.

Other officials found that the King of Nan'an was more able to speak in the court, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with intending to please the King of Nan'an.

The only strange thing, perhaps, is that the Nan'an County Prince's Mansion, which has always been low-key, suddenly has close contacts with so many local officials.

The king of Nan'an County, who has always held the military power tightly, often participates in government affairs.However, it happened that such a powerful person was not as good as the young Beijing Jing Wang Shuirong in many cases, and had more frequent contacts with other honorable families.

Even the old concubine of the Prince's Mansion of Nan'an County didn't have much contact with the wives of other honorable families, and only a few families who had good friends for generations invited them to go out.At other times, it is more common to go to the temple to worship...

Thinking of this, Lin Ruhai suddenly remembered that Baoyu had a godmother named Ma Daopo.There are several concubines in this Ma Daopo temple that enshrine Bodhisattvas. The concubine of Nan'an County's palace often goes to this temple. Presumably she also offers sesame oil and lights sea lanterns in this temple.

Lin Ruhai himself didn't care about such things, even though he was distressed by Daiyu's illness, he only went to the Temple of Medicine that Chongyu had mentioned, and then ordered people to repair the small Temple of Medicine.

As for the other Taoist temples in central Beijing, he didn't pay much attention to them. Only the Taoist temple where Jia Jing was located, he went twice to visit Jia Jing.

Ru Hai didn't know much about the situation of the temple Ma Daopo was in.

It's just that now he has doubts, even if it's not convenient for him to go to the temple to ask, he must ask Daiyu to ask.

There is no direct evidence for offerings such as sesame oil, but it is completely possible to use this evidence to judge what the Nan'an County King's family is thinking after other speculations have been made.

It was nearly three o'clock, and Lin Ruhai finally waited until Prince Zhongshun came back from the palace.

The letter handed to him by the Chief Historian had already been read by him by heart.

Seeing him, the tired Prince Zhongshun forced a smile and asked, "Have you read all those letters?"

Lin Ruhai watched him sit down, and talked about his suspicion of Nan'an County King.

After hearing this, Li Longning, King of Zhongshun, was silent for a long time, Fang Chang sighed: "Today's Lantern Festival, there is a banquet in the palace. I only found out when I went to the banquet that there seems to be a conflict between the crown prince and the queen."

Lin Ruhai was stunned, he jumped into Li Longning's study room, it was a very safe place, he still had to look left and right to make sure that no one else was around, so he dared to say: "The conflict between Your Highness and the Empress is so big. ?”

Even if the palace is only setting up a royal family banquet today, as long as the people who can attend the banquet do not have extremely fierce disputes with each other, how can it be possible for others to see the reason for their discord?Even an ordinary noble family would not make such a joke, let alone the royal family, and he is the second most respected person in the royal family.

If there is no reason, it is impossible for Li Longning to mention this matter to him abruptly.

Lin Ruhai frowned: "Could it be related to Nan'an County King?"

Li Longning's expression became more and more complicated.

He shook his head and sighed again: "The conflict between the queen and the prince is not that obvious, but I went earlier today, and I was going to pay my respects to my father, the prince, and happened to meet the prince inside, but the queen was not very happy. It was only then that I guessed that there was a conflict between her mother and her son. As for the suspicion of Nan'an County King... If my father hadn't mentioned him to me, and I hadn't read these letters, I probably wouldn't have thought that it might have something to do with him .”

The emperor Li Longning said was the Supreme Emperor.Empress Shuihan was originally married to the emperor by the emperor. Over the years, the empress has served the emperor and the queen mother, and they are very happy. Therefore, there is little possibility that the emperor and the queen mother have wronged the queen.

This matter is indeed a bit strange.