The Manlu Palace is always like spring all year round. According to Meng Xinghe's understanding, it is as if two air conditioners are installed inside to adjust the temperature. No matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, the temperature here seems to be filled with moisture. It is no wonder that there are also plants in the palace. Those precious flowers and plants are plants that are grown in the south. The temperature in the northwest is certainly not suitable for planting, but the temperature in the Manna Hall is not necessarily the same. In this season, those plants in the south grow better. Some are already in bud.
Although Meng Xinghe is the minister, he still needs to notify when entering and exiting the Ganlu Palace. He said to a certain palace maid in pink dress in front of the palace, "Excuse me. Meng Xinghe needs to see Empress Xiao. Please pass on the message." The palace maid was quite smart. He went in with a smile to report, and after a while he came out in a hurry, saying that the empress was taking a lunch break, and asked Lord Meng to wait in the palace. While talking, he also welcomed Meng Xinghe in, and then the other two maids brought snacks and tea to serve him.
It was not surprising that Meng Xinghe had a bad temper towards his mother-in-law. While drinking tea, he looked around to see if there was any trace of his Ningxian wife and a pair of children, but what he saw now was only the main hall of Ganlu Palace. , Princess Ningxian was always in the back hall, and Meng Xinghe could not see her at all.
Seeing that a cup of tea was finished, Meng Xinghe drank the tea very slowly. Logically speaking, it would take two sticks of incense, but his mother-in-law seemed to have no intention of coming out to see him. Meng Xinghe, who couldn't wait any longer, could only look forward to it. The palace maid in front of him could urge him and said: "Why don't you come out from your lunch break?"
The two maids didn't know how to answer. As slaves, how could they disturb their master's rest? Usually the empress slept for a long time during her lunch break. The two maids showed a little apologetic smiles on their faces and said, "I guess that's it." Your Majesty will wake up at this moment, so there is no need for you to be anxious."
After listening to the words of the palace maid, Meng Xinghe smiled awkwardly. Chang'an City was almost turning into purgatory. How could he not be anxious? But that's right, it was almost the Lantern Festival, and the people in Chang'an City were still in a festive atmosphere. Ordinary people There is no hint of threat at all. How can you know the uneasiness in Meng Xinghe's heart at this moment? Although the one who has won the world has little to do with Meng Xinghe, the prosperity of the people is suffering and the death of the people is suffering. There are at least one million people in Chang'an City. , if everyone is involved in this political struggle, how many people will become victims.
That's all, Chang'an now is like a poem Meng Xinghe once learned. Outside the mountains are green mountains and towers outside. When is the break for singing and dancing in the West Lake? The warm wind makes tourists drunk, and they call Hangzhou Bianzhou. In today's Chang'an City, most people They are all obsessed with life and death, and regard this place as a paradise on earth. How many people are thinking about danger in times of peace.
He didn't ask about Empress Xiao's affairs, and regarded himself as a person who didn't know about the big event that was about to happen. These maids were all from the Ganlu Palace. I wonder if they have seen my wife Ning Xian. He rolled his eyes. Meng Xinghe asked jokingly: "The three sisters have been in this Manna Palace and have never been out."
Hearing Master Shangshu call you "Sister", those maids couldn't bear it, and immediately said in panic: "Yes, the three slaves have been serving the queen in the palace and have never left."
Meng Xinghe's eyes lit up and he said, "Have you ever heard that there is Princess Ningxian in the Manna Palace? She is Empress Xiao's biological daughter."
"Ah," the three maids immediately paled after hearing this, "Slave, slave, slave, slave, etc. don't know about this." They immediately dispersed, for fear of being asked by the Lord Shangshu in front of them, and they were still alive. .
Meng Xinghe vaguely guessed from the tone of several people's answers that no one in the Manna Palace dared to speak out about his wife. He also knew that it would be difficult to find out anything from these palace maids. At this time, everyone had finished running, and he was about to say give him some tea. Suddenly, Master Meng, who had a very sensitive nose, smelled a faint floral fragrance in the air. This floral fragrance is very special. Meng Xinghe, who has been to Lingnan, knows This is the fragrance of Lingnan camellia. It is not bright, not pungent, and not rich. It is lightly refreshing. Meng Xinghe has also smelled a fragrance like this on his Ningxian wife.
It seemed that Madam Xiao, who was taking her lunch break, was finally willing to meet her son-in-law.
Meng Xinghe sighed lightly and looked at the extremely luxuriously dressed woman in front of him. Because she was born in the royal family and had been well maintained for many years, she didn't look too old. Her skin was as white as a girl's. Under her brows, that Zhang can definitely turn the appearance of all living beings upside down, and he is so young that countless young girls would be jealous.
She sat at the top of the Manna Hall, looking at Meng Xinghe below, and a delicate voice came out of her mouth word by word: "You all should step back." After everyone on the left and right had withdrawn, she said: "Sit so far away. Are you still afraid that I will eat you?"
"Your Majesty, Meng Xinghe, would like to pay my respects to the Queen." At this time, Meng Xinghe dared to sit down and respectfully followed the courteous etiquette.
Empress Xiao coughed slightly and her eyes indicated that he could sit down without being formal, so Master Meng dared to sit down properly in front of his mother-in-law.
His butt had just landed on the ground, and the voice of Madam Xiao above her was already shouting and scolding, "I have been back to Chang'an for so long, and now I think of coming to Ganlu Palace. It seems that some people don't know where to kiss and where to go."
I heard the meaning of Xiao Niangniang's words, and it was right. Meng Xinghe had been in Chang'an for a few days, but he had never been to the Manna Palace. There was his wife and children here, but he had dual identities as a husband and father. I forgot that someone really deserves to be punished here.
In order to break the awkward situation at this moment, Meng Xinghe tried his best to smile and said, "Are they all okay? Can I see them?"
"Not at the moment," Madam Xiao replied simply, as if she had something to hide.
Meng Xinghe wanted to ask why, but suddenly a possibility flashed in his mind, could it be...
He didn't want to imagine any more. If this was really the case, then Meng Xinghe felt that he should hit his head against the wall and die.
A chess piece is just another chess piece. Could it be that I, a member of the Meng family, was born to be treated as a chess piece?
He was shouting hysterically in his heart, if this was not the palace, but the residence of Lord Meng, then he would go crazy and throw everything he could touch around to the ground, and then say, "Fuck you," but here After all, it's not the place to get angry.
"Tell me what to do," trying to calm down, Meng Xinghe knew that he was riding a tiger now.
Seeing Meng Xinghe being so tolerant, Empress Xiao felt a little relieved in her heart.
"There is something you want to know in this letter, please take it," while speaking, Empress Xiao personally walked to Meng Xinghe's side, and Rulan's breath reached Meng Xinghe's ears through her cherry red mouth.
"Tell me, do you have any news about Xiao Yi?"
Meng Xinghe nodded: "Yes, but we can't save him."
Empress Xiao's eyes were filled with sadness, as if she had heard the bad news that she least wanted to hear in her life, and she said, "Can I trouble you with one thing?"
Meng Xinghe did not refuse: "What's the matter?"
"Find me someone,"
Meng Xinghe listened quietly. She knew that it might be difficult to find the person Xiao Xiao was looking for, but he would not refuse the mother-in-law's request.
Empress Xiao paused, and there was a sadness in her voice that was hard to hear, and she said, "She has a nickname called Xi'er."
"Xi'er," Meng Xinghe recited it twice, and that was all. Obviously, it was difficult to find someone based on a nickname, and Empress Xiao would not have known it.
However, Empress Xiao knew that it would be difficult for Meng Xinghe to find someone, but she still did not give any reliable clues. Instead, she said quietly: "If you find Xi'er, tell her to take back everything that originally belonged to her father. "
Meng Xinghe was even more confused, Xi'er didn't know who his father was.
He wanted to ask for more information, but before he could say another word, Empress Xiao had already issued an ejection order: "I am tired, please leave. The letter contains everything you want to know. Remember it and help me." Found my joy,"