Kunning Palace is so big that even if there are more than ten people standing, it looks empty and lonely.

But the queen ordered: "Go and get the snack box from my palace, and the small quilt embroidered with nine raccoon slaves in the East Nuan Pavilion."

The female officials took small steps to the side hall, then carried more than ten red-lacquered food boxes, lined up on the long table, and opened the lid.

The queen walked past the food boxes with dark clouds in her arms and said in a gentle tone: "Look at what I want to eat?"

Dark cloud stretched out his neck and looked at a box of desserts, date paste cakes, lotus paste paste crisps, hawthorn pot, apricot cakes, green tea cakes, zhangyuan cakes, pea cakes... more than a hundred kinds of desserts, can they be eaten?

The queen put it on the table: "Go, eat whatever you want."

Aunt Yuan Jin hurriedly said, "Empress, don't tell it to slander things casually. If it gets dirty, it will be impossible to eat them all."

The queen looked calm: "It's not intrusive."

The dark clouds wandered back and forth in front of the food box, and finally picked up a piece of date paste cake.

The queen smiled: "So you like to eat this?"

The next moment, Wuyun came to her with the date pill cake in her hands, lowered her head and put the date pill cake in her hand.

The queen was stunned for a moment: "You want to give it to me first?"

Aunt Yuan Jin was anxious: "Don't eat it, the beast has touched it, it's dirty."

But the queen ignored it and actually ate the date paste cake.

She swallowed a mouthful of date cakes and joked: "Aunt Yuan Jin is careful. Your Majesty has raised more than ten raccoon slaves before, and after his death, he was buried in Wansui Mountain. He also pursued the posthumous title of "Zhongxiao Zhaolong Guangjiyousheng Zhenjun". He is a person who loves raccoon slaves very much."

Aunt Yuan Jin stopped talking immediately.

The queen held Dark Cloud in front of her and touched Dark Cloud's nose with her nose: "When your Majesty comes to Kunning Palace again, I will ask you for a general who catches rats, okay?"

The dark cloud suddenly pressed the idea of ​​escaping.

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Fuyou Street, Chenfu.

Chen Ji helped Zaozao remove his saddle and chew his head, allowing him to step on the clean blue bricks of Suzhou official kiln.

Xiaoman moved a small stool and sat in the yard, supporting his chin with his hands: "Young master, why don't you send Zaozao to the stable? There is a special groom there to take care of it, so you can eat well."

Chen Ji smiled: "Zaozao is also a member of our family. It always feels bad to let it stay under someone else's fence. Besides, it's so boring to be bound in the stable. It can be easy and easy after you get home after unloading your saddle."

Zaozao arched his old traces with his head.

"Home," Xiaoman looked at this scene and didn't know what he was thinking.

Chen Ji said curiously: "How much does it cost to spend a house in Dongcheng that can be built in two places?"

Xiaoman calculated: "If there are many merchants from Zhengyangmen to Gulou, there will be about 800 taels of silver per room; if it is Qipan Street, it will cost 1,200 taels; as for Fuyou Street and Xuanwumen Street, it is a symbol of status and is rarely sold."

Xiaoman was surprised and said, "Sister of Dragon Boat Festival."

Dragon Boat Festival pretended to be angry and said, "I finally returned to the capital, why don't I go to find me?"

Xiaoman hurriedly said, "It was already very late when the young master left the palace last night. I am afraid of disturbing you to rest."

Dragon Boat Festival pointed at her forehead with his finger: "Okay, okay, I know that your young master has entered the palace and faces the saint, so I don't have to show off in front of my sister."

Xiaoman was exposed to his thoughts and felt embarrassed to change the topic: "Which garden is Sister Dragon Boat Festival doing things now? Humble Administrator's Garden or Qinzheng Garden?"

Dragon Boat Festival said with a giggle: "I am still spending my life in the Humble Administrator's Garden. Maybe I will leave the house and get married in a while... There is a piece of silver here. Do you want to make a profit?"

Xiaoman said casually: "How much money is it?"

Dragon Boat Festival squeezed into the door and lowered his voice: "This time the money is too much, twenty taels. Just write down what your son saw and heard in Guyuan. The key point is who he has seen."

Xiaoman muttered in his heart, who was chasing the young master to buy his whereabouts? The young master had just returned to Chen's mansion in Luocheng before, and the other party had set his sights on him. Now he had just returned to the capital and sent someone over immediately.

She looked at the Dragon Boat Festival, wondering if she would tie the other party up and interrogate her?

no.

Xiaoman thought for a while and said, "Now the young master is the official who has entered the palace to meet the saint. I won't do it twenty taels. Sister Dragon Boat Festival should go back. I will go to the Humble Administrator's Garden in a few days to see you."

After saying that, she pushed the Dragon Boat Festival out.

Dragon Boat Festival hurriedly said, "If you think you are too little, you can still discuss it, thirty taels or fifty taels?"

Xiaoman was unmoved.

When the Dragon Boat Festival was about to be pushed out of the door, he gritted his teeth and said, "One hundred taels!"

Xiaoman was shocked: "The other party gave so much? Who wants to buy news about my son?"

The Dragon Boat Festival was so angry that it was all over the place: "It's not the first time you've done such a thing, why do you still ask questions? Maybe it's the Qi family, the Hu family, and the Xu family came to find out the news, but they can't say they are eunuchs or any prince. Anyway, no matter which one, we just need to be servants to get the money."

Xiaoman stretched out his little hand: "Silver."

Dragon Boat Festival took out a string of Buddhist Tongbao from her arms and patted it in her palm: "As soon as possible, don't have any omissions, otherwise you won't be able to make such extra money in the future."

Xiaoman said perfunctorily: "I know, I know."

After the Dragon Boat Festival left with a gust of fragrant wind, she returned to the east wing to grind the ink. After thinking for a long time, she wrote down everything about Guyuan, but did not write about Chen Ji's dealings with Master Hu San and the inn shopkeeper.

She folded the rice paper and left the yard, lowered her head all the way, and walked along the winding path through Qinzheng Garden.

The Chen Mansion consists of two gardens. To the north is the Humble Administrator's Garden where the Chen family's large house is located, to the south is the Qinzheng Garden where the Chen family's second house and the third house are located. Among them, there is a garden called "Xiao Yingzhou" connected by mountains and rivers, and both gardens can be entered.

There are many "Taihu stones" transported from Suzhou in Xiaoyingzhou. The most majestic one is called "Guanyun Peak". It is more than three meters tall, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources it takes to transport to the capital.

Xiaoman sneaked into Xiaoyingzhou, stuffed the paper into the third hole on the south side of Guanyun Peak, and then squatted in the flowers in the distance and stared silently, seeing who was coming to take the news.

She squatted here for two hours, and her legs were numb and no one could take the news.

Until the sun was over, Xiaoman couldn't help but go to the bathroom to change his clothes.

From leaving to returning, it only takes half a stick of incense.

But when she couldn't help but go to Guanyun Peak to check, she found that the piece of rice paper with the message was gone.
Chapter completed!