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"My lord, the Youning Hutong is right in front of you. The person you are looking for is there." The person who spoke was a young man about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a worn-out long gown, who made a living by scouting for people.

"Thank you." After Yun Wan said that, she handed an ingot of gold to the young man, and said, "I will walk the rest of the way by myself, brother, let's go back first."

The young man stared at the gold in Yun Wan's hand with wide eyes, but he didn't dare to take it. He waved his hands repeatedly: "Young master just give me a little, it's too precious, I dare not accept it."

Yunwan chuckled, and forced the gold into the young man's hand, saying: "You deserve it, the person I want to find can't be found by ordinary people, if it weren't for you, I don't know how much effort it would take .”

The young man was taken aback by her smile, and when he came back to his senses, Yun Wan had already walked into the alley, and the ingot of gold was also in her hands.

Not long after Yunwan walked in the alley, she saw an old dilapidated house that the boy had mentioned.Pushing open the door full of mottled old marks, Yunwan felt a sense of desolation. She heard that only the person she was looking for lived in this courtyard. Fifty-five, an old lady lives here alone, so naturally it can't be lively.

The door of the inner hall was opened with a "squeak", and an old lady with silver hair and hobbled steps moved out of the room step by step, looked up for a long time before seeing Yunwan, she asked: "Come on." It's a young master, I don't know why you came to see me?"

"I'm here to ask you about someone." Yun Wan quickly took a few steps forward and reached out to support the old lady.

After entering the house, the old lady asked: "I don't know who the young master wants to inquire about. If the old man knows, he will know everything and talk about it."

Now that the old lady said so, Yunwan said directly: "To tell you the truth, the person I want to ask you about is from the palace. I heard that you were a female official in the palace before, so you must know about Princess Anxiang. Bar?"

The old lady's complexion changed, and she looked at Yunwan warily: "Who are you? Why did you suddenly inquire about Princess An Xiang?"

"The matter of Princess Anxiang is no longer a secret in the palace, but you used to serve Princess Anxiang personally and wanted to know some things that others don't know, so I came to ask you." Yunwan decided to say goodbye. A lie, "After so many years, the emperor has already forgiven Princess Anxiang, and now he wants to let the princess and the prince pay homage to Princess Anxiang, but the few His Highnesses don't know anything about Princess Anxiang. Appropriate, that's why I entrusted my servant to bother you."

"The emperor forgave Your Highness?" The old lady showed a very surprised look. After all, the relationship between the emperor and the eldest princess suddenly dropped to a freezing point, and countless palace people were involved because of this matter, and she was one of them. .After the initial surprise, she said again: "The emperor finally forgave Her Highness the Princess. In fact, the relationship between the Emperor and Her Highness was very good at the beginning. The emperor punished Her Highness. Maybe it was because Her Highness decided to follow the Shuntian Department's order." I am ordered to practice some Taoism and never marry for life..."

"What do you mean? Princess An Xiang planned to become a monk before she was alive?" Yunwan was taken aback. What she now knew was that the emperor pretended to punish Princess An Xiang, but in fact imprisoned her in the deep palace as his own prison. The princess really planned to become a monk long ago, wouldn't the emperor do this...

"It's not really a secret. Those of us who were kicked out of the palace knew about it." The old lady said as she recalled, so she spoke very slowly, "At that time, the eldest princess was still setting up a palace in the palace where she lived. I built a dojo, which is specially used for doing things..."

The old lady talked for a long time, and Yunwan also listened to it for a long time, getting to know Princess An Xiang better.At the beginning, it was shocking to hear that the emperor forced his righteous sister to have sex with him, but he did not expect that Princess Anxiang wanted to become a monk with all her heart.It is these four words, even though the emperor is the princess' biological father, Yunwan still uses these four words to describe the emperor, if his deeds are spread, it will definitely be despised by the world.

After hearing the old stories about Princess Anxiang, Yunwan tried to persuade the old lady to leave the dilapidated courtyard to no avail, and went to the street to buy a maid for her, leaving some money before leaving.The old lady didn't want to leave her former residence, but Yunwan couldn't just watch her alone and helpless at such an age, with a little girl by her side, even if she didn't serve her so attentively, she was still considerate.

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Back in the palace, Yun Wan told Chu Hui one by one what she had heard today.In fact, apart from the fact that Princess An Xiang had intended to practice Taoism with Master Mingchang, which was still useful, they already knew the rest of the news.Even the old lady didn't know as much as the two of them did.

"Since father intends to keep the matter of Princess An Xiang a secret, those who know the inside story have probably been dealt with. The group of palace people who were kicked out of the palace are probably the ones who don't know anything about it." Although this unannounced visit was not of much use, Chu Hui did not blame Yun Wan at all, instead she held her hand to comfort her, "You have worked hard."

"I don't have anything to do, it's just the princess. You said that since Princess An Xiang once practiced Taoism with Lord Mingchang, will Lord Mingchang know more about her?" Yun Wan shook her head lightly, just Going out of the palace to find an old nanny for questioning is really not hard work.

"Master Mingchang!" Yunwan thought for a while, but still didn't think it would work. "If you ask that old man directly, he will definitely say some useless things like fate. I like to say some mysterious things."

"If this is the case, then there is really no way to continue the investigation for the time being."

"It's not important anymore. You know I got good news today." Chu Hui suddenly changed the subject.

Yun Wan's attention was really attracted, and she hurriedly asked, "What good news?"

"Chu Sixian didn't know what kind of guts he had, and he joined forces with Ruan Peihan to sell officials and nobles." Although this was good news for them, Chu Hui's tone was still very disappointed.You must know that being an official is very important to the emperor, the country, and the people. It is not that there are no officials who sell officials in the past dynasties, but they are just some insignificant officials. But Chu Sixian, a prince, unexpectedly Some extremely important positions are marked with a price and sold to some uneducated people.

"What? Your Royal Highness is too bold!" Yun Wan was also shocked, "Princess will tell the emperor directly?"

"Of course not!" Chu Hui smiled and said, "Although the father's sons are not successful, he may not want me to take part in politics. Rather than attracting his attention prematurely, it is better to reveal this matter to others. people, let them fight each other."

This other person is undoubtedly Chu Siyuan, and now it is not her Chu Hui who regards Chu Sixian as a mortal enemy, but Chu Siyuan.The battle for the throne is always the cruelest.