I heard my brother is a tyrant

Among the two female officials sent by Xie Dan, the older one was surnamed Ding, who was over 40 years old, and the younger one, surnamed Zhang, was under 20 years old.

Xie Dan chose the person himself. Since the person was delivered, he naturally hoped that it could be kept in front of Ye Chu all the time. The female officials next to the queen are naturally important, so the selection of this person is also more cautious.

It is actually not easy for the palace to choose two capable female officials for the future queen.It is conceivable that the female officials who were in charge of the palace before were almost all the empress dowagers. Now the palace is taking advantage of the opportunity to release the maids to vigorously investigate and clean up. The eunuchs and female officials have been eliminated and many of them have been condemned.

Suspects don’t need it. With the 22-year-old set by Xie Dan as the line, a large number of court ladies and female officials were released from the palace. Eunuchs with problems were naturally not allowed to stay, and some eunuchs with unclear backgrounds were transferred to the palace and unimportant positions. Now the entire imperial palace has lost nearly half of its population. Except for the two old imperial concubines who are supporting the palace, it can be said that there is not even a serious master, and it is deserted.

The only one who was not affected was Yuqian. Lady Ding was called by Xie Dan from Yuqian, and Lady Zhang was the newly elected female official this time. She was innocent and quite knowledgeable. She was selected and sent to Ye Chu's side. .

When the two female officials came to Ye Zhai, the first thing they did was to meet the new master, and then the first job the new master gave them was a large pile of posts, including invitations from various houses in the capital, and invitations to her. In Ye Chu's view, invitations to enjoy flowers, taste tea, and have banquets are all classified as "strangers who don't want to deal with".

Lady Ding has been in front of the imperial court for a long time, and Xie Dan personally explained it when she came. Naturally, she knew that His Majesty just pampered and pampered the future queen, and would not let her suppress her nature to be busy with socializing.The two female officials sorted out all the posts, picked and picked, and finally left only two posts, and said respectfully: "Girl, don't worry about the others. If you don’t go, the servants will help you find a reason to go back.”

Lady Ding explained to Ye Chu in detail, the two postings, the flower viewing party at the Princess Changping's mansion, the Princess Changping is considered as His Majesty's concubine aunt, she is keen on socializing, her flower viewing party is probably where the officials and noble daughters of the capital gather to socialize place.

The other one is Princess Min's birthday banquet.Concubine Min's birthday is not a whole birthday of Daqing, she suddenly has a big event this year, I am posting an invitation, I am afraid that it was originally aimed at Ye Chu.Prince Min's Mansion is a clan, and now the clansmen of Xie's royal family are full of curiosity about the future queen, so naturally they want to find an opportunity to make friends.

Ye Chu thought for a while and said: "The one at the Flower Appreciation Party can help me refuse it, and the one at Prince Min's Mansion don't refuse it yet, let's talk about it when you come to me. If I don't go, you can help me prepare a birthday gift for me."

If you refuse at this moment, it is a clear rejection. If you don't want to go to the front, you can find a proper reason to refuse, and prepare a gift to send, and it won't seem to refute others' face.

"Yes." Ms. Ding took the post and went out, and laughed privately with Ms. Zhang, "I heard that the girl was raised by His Majesty to be a little out of touch with the world because of her frail body since she was young. Now it seems that although the girl is not very proficient in Common affairs, but very clever."

"That's right." Officer Zhang also laughed, "Young lady is the future queen, and it's our good fortune to be able to serve by her side."

Both of them knew in their hearts that it was their master's flattery to be able to come to Ye's house. After all, the Fengyi female official in front of the queen was of fourth grade, and they didn't need to salute when they met many wives.

It was still early when Xie Dan came back from the palace that day, Ye Chu had just finished seeing Xu Yuanzhi and Li Zhongqing, two imperial physicians, when Xie Dan came in, everyone in the room hurriedly saluted, Xie Dan casually called Pingshen, walked straight to Ye Chu, next to him She sat down on the edge.

With outsiders around, the little girl was quite reserved, she moved her body to make room for him, and even handed him a cup of tea.

The two imperial physicians were left behind by Xie Dan for questioning.The seasons change, and it's autumn again. Several imperial physicians that Ye Chu often used were ordered to recuperate Ye Chu's body. They are very familiar with her physical condition. Every time this season comes, they usually use some ointment and medicinal food to strengthen the foundation and cultivate the essence. This time After discussing, I decided to use Yiqigu Biao Ointment and Xiatian Ointment.

As soon as the two imperial doctors left, Ye Chu's body, which had been sitting upright, tilted at will, leaning against Xie Dan, and lamented beside him complainingly: "I don't want to eat that Xiatian ointment, it's not very tasty, it's a stick It smells like medicine."

Xie Dan smiled and said, "If the medicine doesn't smell like medicine, you should drink sugar water."

Ye Chu said: "But the Gorgon fruit and eight treasures cake made by the imperial physician Xu is very delicious."

Xie Dan waved his hands and stepped back, embraced her in his arms, and the two of them spent a long time together, enjoying the warmth and comfort of this moment.

Ye Chu told him about the fact that she had received a bunch of posts at home today, and she said: "Why are so many people sending me posts, I rejected those invitations, invitations to enjoy flowers and tea I also refused, so no one will tell me?"

Xie Dan smiled and said: "Never mind, those people dare to invite you now, but they just want to make friends with you while you are young and we are not married yet. When you enter the central palace, they don't want to say hello to you." If you send a post, you may not even have the qualifications to visit you in the palace, you can go to these things if you like them, and if you don’t like them, you can just play casually when you go, and don’t worry about other things.”

Ye Chu asked: "Will I go to the birthday banquet in Prince Min's mansion? I'm not sure, I don't like these occasions very much, and I don't know much about etiquette and rules, but I heard that Prince Min's seniority belongs to his elder brother." Uncle Clan, a birthday banquet is nothing more than a flower viewing event, wouldn't it be a good idea not to go?"

Xie Tan smiled and pinched her nose and said: "Our An An is probably not a fool. Those clansmen are here to curry favor with you, and the clansmen will especially depend on you in the future. Who really dares to be your elder? As for Etiquette or something..."

He sat up and said to her seriously: "You just remember one thing, what are the rules? The preferences of the superiors are the rules, and every move of my An'an is the rules. You will be the queen in the future, and you are the only one who rules others. Dare to give you the rules?"

"Then I don't have to worry anymore?" Ye Chuyi clapped his hands and laughed, "Then I'm not afraid. I'm afraid that I'm young and I don't know what they do. Many of them pick and choose me behind their backs."

Xie Dan said with disgust: "Promise! Whoever dares to disrespect you, just show him face, and I will punish him later."

Whoever makes An An unhappy in his family will make his whole family unhappy!

It was still early, before dinner time, Xie Dan said to accompany her for a walk in the garden, he hugged her and wanted to get up, but Ye Chu stood on the bed and pulled him to turn around, climbed onto his back Tell him to carry it on his back.

The two female officials waited outside, watching the emperor carry the girl on his back, and the two went out laughing and joking all the way. The faces of the two female officials changed a little, and female official Ding said in a low voice, "This...how did this happen?"

Chun Jiang laughed softly: "You two female officials, it's not that slaves talk too much, you two are here for the first day, and you will get used to it afterward."

Nv Ding said: "We are not trying to find fault with the girl, but that is His Majesty after all, there are many rules in the palace..."

Chun Jiang said: "Miss, how the two masters get along is the business of the two masters. You see, your majesty didn't say anything, and the servant girl said something presumptuous. The girl should be polite, respectful and courteous to your majesty. I'm afraid your majesty will not." I'm in a hurry."

Lady Zhang said: "Your Majesty and the girl have gone far away, don't you follow me to serve?"

Chunbo chuckled: "Following is of course necessary, but the two masters are so close together, what are we doing so close to each other? Don't worry, we are all used to serving."

The two female officials looked at each other, okay, this is Ye's house, and Ye's house has the rules of Ye's house.

***

Ye Chu decided to go to Princess Min's birthday banquet. Firstly, it was boring, and secondly, she also wanted to see with her own eyes what the high-class social occasions in the prince's mansion were like.

Concubine Min sent a message to Ye Chu, originally she didn't dare to expect her to come, and the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, so her birthday banquet was not too public, so she only invited some wives who were close relatives and ministers On such occasions, the wives of each family will bring one or two daughters as usual.

The autumn scenery is pleasant and the weather is not too cold. The birthday banquet was held in a hall in the back garden of the palace. There was also a stage set up in the water pavilion facing the hall. A group of ladies and noble daughters sat down and asked each other quietly. I heard that the future Queen Ye's daughter accepted the post, so I don't know if she will come today.

Anyone with good news asked Mrs. Xuan Ping Hou about it. Mrs. Xuan Ping Hou looked at Ye Yu beside her, but she just smiled and said: "I don't know how well I know Miss Ye, I don't know if she will meet you today." will come."

Concubine Min was greeting the guests, when someone came to report that Miss Ye's carriage had arrived at the door, Concubine Min was overjoyed, this was the first time a daughter of the Ye family appeared in such a social occasion, and no one else invited her to move, Concubine Min Feeling bright on his face, he hurriedly took the family members out to meet him.

It is not easy for the wives of each family to follow the master to go out to welcome the guests, and they all waited eagerly. After waiting for a while, they saw a slender and beautiful girl surrounded by a group of people. She was wearing a light bamboo green plain skirt , with a sapphire ring pendant and a sachet hanging from the corner of the skirt, a delicate cherry-colored Yuehua brocade beige on the outside, combing the hanging maid of the unmarried daughter's house, and the hair accessories are also very simple, only on the sides of the hanging maid. Wearing two begonia flower hairpins inlaid with gold and pink south beads.

However, all of you here are knowledgeable after all, among other things, the two pearl hairpins on her head, the radiant gold-pink south beads are each as big as a finger, and they are worth the jewels of others .And beside her were two decent female officials, two female guards and two big servant girls.

Strictly speaking, Ye Chu doesn't have any grades on her right now, she is still a commoner girl even though she is not married yet, but no one in the room dared to push her too hard, they all stood up and saluted.

The girl had a calm expression, smiled and returned the blessing, and was graciously invited by Princess Min to take the seat, when she passed by Mrs. Xuan Pinghou and Ye Yu, Ye Chu stopped, slightly bent her knees and said: "Old lady, third lady install."

"Girl Ye." Mrs. Xuan Pinghou hurriedly returned the salute.

Ye Yu hadn't seen Ye Chu for a few months. The last time we met was at Chu Xia's palace. When we met again, she was already a future empress who was officially betrothed. He quickly covered it up with a smile and said, "Miss Ye, Ann."

Ye Chu smiled and said: "I haven't seen Madam for a few days, I'm planning to call Shu'er to play these few days."

Ye Yu hurriedly said: "Miss doesn't mind that naughty monkey, I'll ask her to bother you someday."

Concubine Min was over fifty years old, and she was worrying about how to entertain a young daughter. Seeing the situation, she asked someone to move the seats of Mrs. Xuan Pinghou and Ye Yu to the front so that they could accompany Ye Chu. sit together.

After all, Ye Chu got acquainted with Madam Xuan Pinghou and Ye Yu, chatted for a few words, during which people kept coming to talk, Ye Chu just smiled at him, since he didn't know each other anyway, he didn't talk much.

When the servant girl came to report that it was time to start the banquet, the servants filed in and served the dishes. There were small tables in the hall to eat. There was a small table in front of each person, and there were eight kinds of delicate dishes. When the dishes were ready, Princess Min came over to toast. .Ye Chu couldn't drink white wine, so he just took two sips of the fruit wine and said a few birthday wishes.

After the banquet, Concubine Min invited everyone to play and listen to a play in the garden. Ye Chu was also a little tired, and felt that such an occasion was really boring. Everyone was so polite and careful, obviously she was young, The ladies who came to talk to her were all wives, those young noble ladies would just peek at her, and they couldn't tell how sour their eyes were, it was quite boring.Ye Chu declined and left because there was still something to do, and Princess Min took her family members all the way out the gate and sent her into the carriage.

As soon as she left, the wives and noble daughters of various families couldn't hold back their chatterbox. Originally, they heard that the future empress was born as a civilian girl, but she hadn't shown her face much. , Ye's daughter-in-law is unparalleled in color, dignified and estranged, this whole body style may not be supported by the princely mansion present here.

Some said that they had heard that Ye's daughter was the only one to be favored, and that His Majesty came to ask for her in person. After meeting her today, she realized that the rumors were true. Someone recognized the lady in front of her. She was originally a lady from the Palace of Zichen. His Majesty gave her the female officer in front of him as soon as he got engaged.Some people also pay attention to the Yuehua brocade on her body. This kind of brocade is also a treasure in Shu brocade. It is said that there may not be one or two horses in a year. No one has seen it in the past two years. It seems that His Majesty is all Send it to Ye Zhai.

Almost everyone here saw Ye Chu for the first time, and they were particularly surprised. This woman did look somewhat similar to Jiayi County Magistrate, and it was also heard that she even had the same horoscope, which made this thing even more weird.

"It's a bit similar, but it's more delicate and noble than the princess of Jiayi County." A lady on the seat said, "It turns out that His Majesty likes such a delicate and soft woman."

Some people with active minds secretly remembered that the emperor liked this kind of delicate and weak woman who looked pure and demure.

Someone asked Ye Yu, "I heard that Miss Ye is a relative of Mrs. Han San's natal family?"

Ye Yu didn't want to say much, but just said with a vague smile: "It's our relatives that we're talking about."

When she said that it was not good for others to ask questions, she became even more puzzled in her heart. Ordinarily, the princess of Jiayi County is Ye Yuzheng's niece, but since Ye Yu returned to Beijing, she hasn't seen much movement, but she looks like this girl Ye. The relationship is much closer, especially when I heard that the young daughter of the Xuanping Hou Mansion is very popular with Miss Ye.

Thinking about it this way, some people suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Han Ziyun was taken seriously after returning to Beijing. The Chu family in the palace rebelled. It was heard that Han Ziyun had made great achievements and had just been promoted from the fifth rank to Ranger General a few days ago.How long has it been since they returned to Beijing, and they were promoted in half a year.Thinking about it this way, everyone felt that this matter became more and more confusing.

Guo Yu also heard about Han Ziyun's promotion to Ranger General, so he used an excuse to congratulate him, and posted a post to invite Han Ziyun to come over to the mansion.Where would Han Ziyun dare to go, let alone he is not stupid, if he is, he is afraid that his wife at home will turn his face and get angry.

So Han Ziyun found an excuse to push it back. He usually works in the capital camp, and officials of the fourth rank and above go to court every day, and he doesn't have to go to court. Guo Yu really couldn't see him for a while.

Guo Yu knew that Ye Yu didn't want to see him, and it was not easy for him to enter the Xuanpinghou's residence. With the news of the birthday banquet at the Prince Min's residence, and various speculations and speculations in Beijing, Guo Yu was restless. Han Ziyun returned to the mansion from Xiumu in Daying, Gyeonggi, and specially sent people to block him at the gate of Xuanpinghou's mansion.

Han Ziyun rode back to the mansion with only one entourage. As soon as he arrived at the alley of Xuanpinghou's mansion, he was stopped by the servants of Prince Zhong's mansion, who led him to meet Guo Yu in a nearby restaurant.

Han Ziyun knew it well, bowed his head and saluted and said, "See the lord for humble positions."

Guo Yu said: "You and my brother-in-law, why should you be so polite. I heard that you have been promoted to Ranger General, so I specially gathered with you to congratulate you."

The two chatted for a while, and Guo Yu asked about the background of the future queen Ye's daughter.

Han Ziyun said, "Why does the lord ask this?"

Guo Yudao: "I heard that it came from the side of the Ye family. After all, it is also a relative of my wife's natal family. Just ask out of curiosity."

Han Ziyun didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he said: "Who told the lord that Miss Ye is the daughter of a branch of the Ye family? Not at all, she was raised by His Majesty since she was a child, and only His Majesty knows her identity. Who would dare to ask His Majesty?" .”

Guo Yu was skeptical and asked, "But I heard that Ye's daughter has been acquainted with your family for a long time, and they have some friendship?"

"That's my daughter and she met by chance. Besides, the prince understands the rules, His Majesty's people, --------------/Yiyiy? Hua/How dare I speak nonsense." Han Ziyun turned to ask, "My lord, I have some doubts. Miss Ye and the county magistrate have the same appearance and the same horoscope. Is there some chance in this? How did you... find the county magistrate?"

Guo Yudao: "What do you mean by that? Back then, the king offered a huge reward to find their mother and daughter. First, someone reported a clue. My adopted son Guo Heng went to Bingzhou in person. After several verifications, he brought him back, and passed by my wife's old servant. Identify, she has a little golden lock that my wife drew and ordered herself, everything matches, there can be no mistakes."

Han Ziyun said: "That's what I'm asking. If the prince wants to ask Miss Ye's identity, I don't know, unless you ask His Majesty."

Where did Guo Yu dare to ask His Majesty, and returned to the mansion full of doubts, but heard a report from a servant, saying that the commander of the Iron Armored Guards made Wei Chen beg to see him.

"Wei Chen?" Guo Yu asked, "Why did he come to see me?"

The servant bowed his head and said: "It is said that the case is handled according to the order, and if there is anything to ask."

"Let him in."

Soon after, Wei Chen led four iron-clad guards to rush in, and Guo Yu sat in the chair and snorted, "Lord Wei is such a powerful official, I begged to see my king and brought my subordinates, you are my loyal king!" Where is the palace?"

"Forgive me, my lord." Wei Chen cupped his hands and said, "One is private, and the other two are public. I handle the case according to the order, so naturally it is not good to come here alone."

Guo Yu sneered and said, "Don't talk to me like that, what kind of crime did I commit?"

"The armored guards have no intention of offending the lord. I would like to ask if there is a servant named Ma Liu in the lord's mansion. This person is involved in an important case. The Holy Majesty personally intervened. Please hand over this person to us."

Guo Yudao: "Lord Wei, you should know that apart from the 200 government soldiers regulated by the imperial court, there are one or two hundred servants in this prince's mansion. How can I know a servant when I am busy? Since I am handling the case according to the order, I also It’s not difficult for you, just ask the housekeeper to check it for you.”

Guo Yu ordered the housekeeper to investigate, and asked Wei Chen to sit down with a cold face. Wei Chen was not polite, and went to sit and drink tea on his own.

Not long after, the housekeeper reported back, saying that there was indeed Ma Liu in the mansion, who was an errand-buying steward in the outer courtyard. The housekeeper said, "It's just that this man was drinking with others on the street two months ago and got drunk. Liquor, slipped into the river and drowned, the body was found after soaking for two or three days, it stinks, and the mansion returned ten taels of compensation silver."

Wei Chen's face changed, and he said leisurely: "This is really a coincidence, such an important criminal, we found him and died."

"Your Majesty Wei, you don't need to be eccentric, this king really doesn't know." Guo Yu asked, "What did he do?"

"This person, together with a criminal, Jia Mazi, bought murderers and ordered people to sneak into the other courtyard of the Xuanping Hou Mansion late at night on the night of the fire in the palace, intending to kidnap the Holy Majesty's fiancée, Miss Ye. The Holy Majesty was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. Now Jia Mazi is gone. They were caught by us, but they were all recruited, saying it was..."

Wei Chen paused for a while, and said with a smile, "It is said that he was instructed by the prince."