The imperial concubine bows down to me

After the afternoon meal, Shen Zhi changed into a fairly formal python robe and a prince's crown, and sent someone to prepare an eight-carrying sedan chair. It was not as low-key as before, but brought a lot of Wei Feng to arrange for her. The confidant and entourage went to the Prince Jin's mansion in a splendid manner.

Although Shen Zhi has always disliked unnecessary extravagance and extravagance, this is the first time she has gone to the Prince Jin's Mansion, and when the two parties are at odds with each other, if she loses her momentum, she will be overwhelmed by Shen Tai. Prestige, then the majesty she had managed to establish in front of the courtiers these days is likely to collapse a lot.

Furthermore, without enough momentum, how could she successfully complete the first step of her plan?

The East Palace is not far from Prince Jin's Mansion, and the sedan chair stopped at the main entrance of Prince Jin's Mansion not long after.Seeing such a big battle, the servants in the palace thought that something happened in the mansion, so they hurriedly ran towards the study to report the news to Shen Tai.

After getting out of the sedan chair, Shen Zhi had just stepped into the Prince Jin's mansion and hadn't taken a few steps when he saw the joyful Changsun Ying walking towards her quickly after hearing the news, and a beautiful woman with a graceful figure followed behind her .That person is Shen Tai's favorite, Jin Wangfei Li Mulan, who is also the daughter of Li Mi.

Shen Zhi has seen her several times at state banquets and family banquets. When she didn't know about Shen Tai's various behaviors, she still had a good impression of this sister-in-law; Feeling sorry for her, he didn't transfer his resentment towards the two of them to her.But it wasn't until during the discussion just now that Shen Zhi learned of Li Mulan's other identity from Wei Feng, his impression of her suddenly changed.

"Toffee, Concubine." Although Shen Zhi was the eldest, but after all they were elders, she still walked over to greet them.

Li Mulan also tactfully greeted Shen Zhifu, and said respectfully: "The concubine has seen His Highness the Crown Prince."

And Changsun Ying always regarded Shen Zhi as her own, so she didn't pay much attention to these etiquettes. Instead, she took her hand and patted it enthusiastically, as if she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

"Seeing that Zhi'er is recovering so well now, and seems to be more energetic than before, I am relieved. A few days ago, Zhi'er was unconscious for several days. I was afraid that I was so worried." Changsun Ying said with a smile As he said that, he really cared about the younger generation like the elders in ordinary people's families, bluntly said, "Your brother Wang is also, it was okay to say before, since the recent period, I have started to ask about your situation." I don't know, and I don't know what he is busy with all day. I also said that if I have time recently, I want to go to the East Palace to see you, but I didn't expect Zhi'er to come to the mansion today."

Knowing that she was enthusiastic, Shen Zhi walked with her and chatted about some household affairs, and walked around the front yard of the palace for a small half circle, and finally waited for Shen Tai who was a long time coming.In front of Chang Sun Ying, Shen Tai's attitude towards Shen Zhi is still the same as before, caring and loving, as if he was never the one who gave Shen Zhi a hard look before.

Looking at the spring-like smile of him that he hadn't seen for a long time in front of her, Shen Zhi suddenly realized that in his heart that had already accepted all this, he still couldn't help but feel a little bit of bitterness.If it was possible, how much she wished that all this had never happened before, and the two of them would not be enemies secretly facing each other.

Shen Tai saluted her with a smile, she also smiled and said: "When did Brother Jin become so polite? You are not an outsider, so there is no need to be so polite."

After getting up, Shen Tai still looked at Shen Zhi with a smile on his face, then sat down next to Li Mulan, and asked, "Your Highness is coming to the mansion, why didn't you tell me in advance? I didn't have any preparations for a while, so I neglected Your Highness." , I'm afraid I'm going to be laughed at by others."

It would be nothing if he said this in the past, but now, Shen Zhi hears it, and feels that he is extremely hypocritical.

"Everyone knows what kind of person Jin Wang is, so how can he laugh at Jin Wang?" Shen Zhi said with a pun, and then laughed dryly twice.Just now she only felt relaxed with Changsun Ying and Li Mulan, but now that Shen Tai came, she began to unconsciously think about ending the trip to Jin Palace as soon as possible.

Unwilling to say something hypocritically with Shen Tai here that both of them disdain, Shen Zhi changed the subject, intentionally but seemingly unintentionally mentioned the purpose of this trip: "Actually, I came here today, what I did was some I thought my private affairs were not particularly important, so I didn't tell Brother Jin first."

As soon as Shen Tai heard this, he turned his eyes suddenly, as if he was thinking about the meaning of Shen Zhi's words.He didn't answer for a while, but Chang Sun Ying, who was sitting opposite Shen Zhi, suddenly had a bright eye, leaned forward, and said with some curiosity, "Oh? My own private business? Could it be that Zhi'er fell in love with him?" Which girl from the palace, do you want to bring back to the palace to be a concubine?" Chang Sunying spoke in a tone as if if Shen Zhi really liked someone, she would definitely agree without hesitation.

"The concubine laughed at her. It's true, it's true, it's not." Hearing this, Shen Zhi nodded with a half-smile, paused to organize his words, and then explained, "A month and a half ago, Jin Brother Wang was worried about Gu's marriage, so he intentionally sent Gu to four Xiliang women. The princess should also know about this. The four girls are all beautiful, but only one of them, Xia Zi, attracted Gu. But She had only been in the East Palace for a day, and she said that her family had also arrived in the capital and temporarily lived in Prince Jin's Mansion, and wanted to find her for something. Gu liked her at that time, and since she would believe everything she said, she agreed and agreed. Please, Brother Jin, bring her to Prince Jin's mansion while passing by the East Palace. But now that it's been so long, I haven't seen her go back to the East Palace. As I'm free today, I want to see her and bring her back to the East Palace. .”

"Xia Zi, a woman from Xiliang?" Changsun Ying blinked after hearing Shen Zhi's words, and began to think carefully, "It seems that a girl from Xiliang was admitted to the Palace more than a month ago...but Didn't Tai'er say that the friend of Lan'er came to visit relatives in the capital, and coincidentally, relatives are not there, so he wants to stay in the palace for a while?"

It seems that Xia Zi is indeed still trapped in the palace by Shen Tai and not locked up in other places, and Changsun Ying also has an impression of her, so this matter will be much easier to handle.

Hearing this, Shen Tai took advantage of the fact that Sun Ying's attention was all on Shen Zhi, and Li Mulan secretly played tricks. Li Mulan understood, so she came to smooth things over for him: "It's such a mother, Miss Xia, she came here two years ago. When we went to the capital, we hit it off and became good friends. This time she came to Beijing again because she happened to meet His Royal Highness the last time she came, and she fell in love with His Royal Highness at first sight, and Mr. Tuo Fu did it. Lan Er was Because I don't know what His Highness the Crown Prince means, and I don't want to talk nonsense, so I told my mother a half-truth and half-fake panic, and I beg my mother not to blame Lan'er."

In this way, it makes sense.Changsun Ying nodded in disbelief, but still had some doubts: "Since she likes Zhi'er, why hasn't she returned to the East Palace for a month and a half?"

Li Mulan had nothing to say, she looked at Shen Tai, and Shen Tai immediately took over the conversation: "This is the kind of mother, Miss Xia, her father and elder brother came to the capital to do business, and the person she contacted happened to be a friend of the son, so the son Invited them to live in the mansion temporarily. They just left the capital this morning and returned to Xiliang. The boy originally said that he would send Miss Xia back in two days, but he didn't expect His Highness to come to ask for someone today, but the son thought about it a bit It's not a week, and we shouldn't delay His Royal Highness's reunion with Miss Xia."

Anyway, Shen Tai himself always liked to make friends, and there were quite a lot of diners of all kinds in the house. In this way, as long as Chang Sun Ying didn't bother to check, there wouldn't be any problems.Besides, Changsun Ying didn't participate in government affairs in the first place, and she wasn't interested in those things about Shen Tai, so as long as he answered Changsun Ying's momentary doubts, according to her temperament, she basically had no possibility or need to go any further. .

And now that Shen Tai knew that Xia Zi was probably a fake pregnancy, she was of no use to him, and he had originally said that if he couldn't find out the pregnancy pulse within two days, he would execute her.But although he was angry and even wanted to kill Xia Zi, but now that Shen Zhi has come to ask for someone, and Chang Sun Ying has also heard about it, there is no need for him to quarrel with Shen Zhi because of a woman at this important juncture. flipped.At present, it is most appropriate to return Xia Zi to Shen Zhi. Shen Zhi can't get anything other than a woman, and he actually has nothing to lose. At most, he needs to lose his temper at the side to vent his anger That's all.

"So that's the case. Since Miss Xia is at the mansion, Tai'er will call her, and send her and Zhi'er back together later." Chang Sunying nodded again, and ordered Shen Tai to wait for him to pass the message to the family on the other side. The servant looked at Shen Zhi with a gratified smile again, and said with emotion, "I heard them say that Zhi'er hadn't given much thought to getting married before, and I was still worried about you. Now that Zhi'er has her own People who like it can be regarded as enlightened, and with their own ideas, these things are not in a hurry."

As she said that, Chang Sun Ying's smile gradually faded: "But, Zhi'er, don't blame me for being a talkative little aunt. Although Miss Xia is good, Zhi'er likes it. At most, she can be a concubine for Zhi'er to enlighten her." That's all, but no matter what, she can't be a crown princess. The person who will be in charge of the six palaces and the mother's ceremonies in the future should be selected from among the princes and ministers who are good-looking and capable."

"I know this alone, thank you for your concern." Shen Zhi, who had never thought about it before, agreed with this in one mouthful.On the way here, she was still thinking that when the matter of Shen Tai and Li Mi was over, the family members of the four girls should have arrived in the capital or had already arrived in the capital for a long time.At that time, she will give each of them some property, let them change their names and surnames, and live happily with their families again. In the future, she will find a good husband, and she will be completely relieved.

Shen Zhi responded so obediently, Changsun Ying couldn't say anything more about it.Although she loves Shen Zhi, she is actually not very familiar with Shen Zhi, and the things that can be talked about have been talked about just now, and now she can only care about Shen Zhi's daily life, and ask her not to go too far tired.