After half a month like this, the autumn rain continued and the chill gradually deepened.
Cao Xiwan finished bathing in the hot spring in the Lumo Pavilion in the palace garden. He opened the window and saw the waning moon and autumn clouds on Xuanwu Lake, with a drizzle and a slight chill.
She feels that her health is slightly better.
"I can kill three tigers with one punch." She put her hands on her hips.
"..." Lou Xiliu could tell that she was feeling very depressed in the palace.
"Normally when you are in the Marquis Mansion, I don't see you going out every day." She helped fold clothes.
"Everyone in the Hou Mansion is an acquaintance. None of the people in the palace I grew up with." She thought for a while, "I can't drink and fight here. I can beat whoever I want in the Hou Mansion.
No, I can hit whoever I want in the capital. In the palace, I have to think about it."
"..." Would you still think about it? Lou Xiliu thought in shock, hadn't she killed several people in the palace?
"By the way, I quit drinking." Cao Xiwan thought to herself, "It's just not convenient to fight in the palace." She cupped her hands and saluted solemnly in the direction of the imperial study, "I am a loyal old man. After all,
There is no need for me to go into the palace to hunt down and kill people to silence them, lest the emperor finds out. If you make me anxious, what should I do if I accidentally hurt your majesty? This is absolutely impossible."
"..." When you say this, you sound too much like a rebel, okay?
"Okay, I'm going out." She told Xiliu, "Li Funing is deliberately attracting attention now, don't be fooled. When I come back after finishing my work, we will beat her up together."
"...Didn't you say that you want me to defeat her and become the palace master?"
"Don't worry, as long as you don't lose particularly badly, I can help you become the invincible young palace mistress of the Demon Palace. If she doesn't deserve her reputation, she won't be able to become the mistress of the palace if I don't kill you. Then——
She showed a proud expression of wisdom and said, "She is anxious. If we plot against her, we will have a better chance of winning. Isn't the position of palace master just in your pocket?"
Hearing her say this, I didn't feel comforted at all, but instead felt even more uneasy. Lou Xiliu thought anxiously.
Before Cao Xiwan went out, he changed his clothes in the room and disguised himself carefully.
"It's been very cold these days, I need to take care of myself."
"..." Xiliu stopped persuading her a long time ago. It was impossible for her to stop wandering around the palace.
The summer and autumn maternity clothes were not warm enough, so she coughed weakly while fiddling with her winter clothes.
Xiliu rolled her eyes and found the gray satin duck feather cloak that the empress gave to Cao Xiwan in the dowry box for her: "Eh? You changed it?"
"Yes." Cao Xiwan paid an old palace man who was good at needlework to change her into a warm medium-sized duck feather back, put it on and wrapped herself tightly, covering it with a half-old green cloth jacket that Su Jintian didn't wear:
"Although it's broken, it's made of good material!"
"Huh? Good stuff? Aren't you pretending to be a poor pregnant woman?"
"How can a poor family have the money to take a boat to Shangyuan County? I have to let Mrs. Qu have some good luck." She sighed. It is not easy to pretend to be a false identity that is not afraid of being checked. Thanks to Mrs. Qu's
She has used this identity for many years.
"...Were you pregnant before? Are you pregnant now?" Xiliu was puzzled. She asked Xiliu to help wrap a big bag around her belly and pretended to be Mrs. Qu, a pregnant woman.
"Yes. I am now a remarried woman. After my second marriage, my husband died and the child was given away. I can't afford to raise it. Now I am pregnant with my new husband's child. Although I am poor, I am still poor." She looked in the mirror and touched her hand.
Touching his face, he sighed, "It's impossible for me to find a good man like this."
"..." Lou Xiliu couldn't laugh or cry.
She conveyed her experience as a yamen errand with sincerity and sincerity: "It is not easy to be a spy. I climbed up step by step from below. Even though I am a slave of the Marquis, I am also a serious person."
She disguised herself, felt warm, jumped into the night, and slipped out of the East Palace during the night.
This time, Cao Xiwan no longer went to the pier outside the city. The pier was too dilapidated and too small. Only poor people took the boats. The passenger ships were also dilapidated and could only do short-distance business outside the capital city. It was impossible to sail for dozens of miles.
Lishui Road to Shangyuan County Pier.
And she was still thinking about the recent military intelligence reports that had forced her to lurk in search of spies. The military intelligence had shocked the DPRK.
[The city of Yanjing was not captured, but Li Guogong was defeated by the reinforcements of King Zhao. He fled back to Jinling.]
Cao Xiwan thought that she could only rely on her now.
She is a good person who has never changed her loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor after receiving her salary.
She searched for a suitable boat dock in the capital, and also sneaked into Li Guogong's mansion to give guidance on the practice of jade poetry.
Yu Ci secretly inquired about a lot of information. She also promised Yu Ci a heavy reward and asked her to keep an eye on Mr. Wang, the altar leader of Shangyuan County who was taught by Wu Sheng Old Mother. It can be said that she is loyal and diligent.
She often sighs that she is much more diligent than the working fans.
Xiliu understood that Mrs. Qing had been having nightmares recently. In her dreams, she kept saying, "It's not good, it's not good." If His Majesty loses his job, Song Chengming will be finished, and she may also lose her job and not be able to get her retirement pay.
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"You saved so much money from gambling!" Lou Xiliu really didn't understand what she was thinking.
"Scare, if something happens to Your Majesty, the situation may be in turmoil for seven or eight years. Maybe a golden bean can't even buy a pound of rice."
"..." Lou Xiliu was startled. It seems to be true. This was an old story in the troubled times before Taizu Xingwu established the world.
The autumn river is slightly cold.
She rode a donkey to the Nanshuimen Pier in the city and booked a space on a passenger ship at the boat shop.
Listen to the autumn wind and rain by the window, and leave with the current.
She had already said hello to the ship owner whom she knew. She would not come to take the ship in a few days because a distant aunt from her parents' family had found her. Seeing that she was pitiful and pregnant, she was asked to quit her job and stay at her aunt's house to wait for the birth.
I usually take a boat and go back to my husband's house every few days to give him some rice and noodles.
"Hey, listen, your aunt has money?"
"Yes. She was also a working slave. She had no children, so she saved some pension money. My aunt let me drink chicken soup." She wiped her tears excitedly, "and she also lent me a donkey to ride on."
"It sure works!" The fruit seller and the owner of the boat were both happy for her and a little jealous. Fortunately, Sister-in-law Qu was an honest person. Speaking of how rich she was, half a piece of chicken could make soup three times.
.It sounds like this is not a rich family, but a hard-working and frugal person. He is much better than her husband. Everyone is thinking that they should go to the Tutu Temple to offer incense.
"When you pass by my house, come and sit at my house." She took the fruit seller's hand, and she was given a few fruits at least.
The village woman smiled, but in her heart she would never go. With a lazy, fierce man who only beats his wife at home, who would want to go? Don't get kicked out. But her aunt's house seemed to be in the capital, even if
He is an old slave of a rich family, and they also want to meet him.
Cao Xiwan arranged the housework of her sister-in-law Qu, but she expected that she would be discovered by the enemy's spies in a while and lead them in circles. She was very careful, going back and forth between the Po Pier outside the city and the Nanshuimen Pier inside the city.
I took a few boat rides.
Another half month has passed.
She finally got on the boat to Shangyuan County Pier.
When the drizzle stops for a while, the heavy clouds disperse, and you can see the night sky.
The Xinghan Milky Way hangs horizontally across the vast plains.
The moonlight and the river current rushed over, and the sound of the waves beat against the ship's side window frame at her hand.
She coveted the night view, admiring the moon and stars in the boat, and bought a seat for two people and never gave up her seat.
When someone talked to her, she pretended to be a pregnant woman and looked like she was indifferent to others. When nothing happened, she hugged her belly and ate melon seeds.
Nankang Hou Mansion.
Song Chengming returned to his inner house after nightfall to accompany his wife and children.
The child was fussy and crying all day, and was finally taken to bed by the wet nurse. The couple were both tired and worried about the child.
Song Chengming was reading under the lamp and saw the old events of the previous dynasty Song Renzong. It is said that Song Renzong had a difficult generation and he loved his eldest daughter Princess Fukang very much. He once named Princess Fukang as the crown prince, but because he had no children, he had no successors
As the crown prince, Renzong was worried that his biological mother, Concubine Li, secretly resented his unfilial piety. After all, for many years, Renzong did not know that Concubine Li was his biological mother and that Empress Liu was just his aunt.
Renzong's princes died repeatedly, and he felt that his unfilial piety had brought about karmic debt. In order to seek a son, he wanted to make up for the Li family of his mother's family, so he married Princess Fukang to the Li family's son. The Li family was not of high origin.
The son-in-law or the concubine gave birth to a son. After the death of Empress Liu, Renzong came to power, and the Li family became prominent.
As a result, the couple will inevitably be at odds.
Fukang was originally very favored by Renzong, but his marriage was so bad that he eventually died of depression in middle age. However, Renzong ended up having no children, so he could only succeed to the throne with his adopted son.
What Song Chengming read was the unofficial history notes of the Song Dynasty. The secrets in the palace recorded in them may not be true. Who can say accurately what the emperor was thinking? Is it possible that the author is just a bug in the emperor's belly?
He felt pity for the princess. When Lou Shuluan heard her husband talking about this story from the old dynasty notes, she forced a smile.
"Come here." She called the girl and presented her husband with a cup of bird's nest soup with both hands.
He ate it slowly.
The couple arrived and rested together on the bed. Lou Shuluan blew out the bedside lamp and looked at her husband's sleeping face in the moonlight.
There was a hint of blackness between Song Chengming's brows, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye. If she hadn't known that there was poison in the bird's nest, she wouldn't have been able to tell.
Lou Shuluan was in tears and wanted to give up several times. But she finally got up quietly, took the jade belt he carried with him from the hanger, opened the mechanism, and replaced the Tongtian Bizhu hidden in the mechanism with a fake bead.