Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 36

Tong Wanrou returned to Shuiyun Palace thoughtfully, told all the things to the virtuous person, but sighed faintly, and said:

"It's expected that he didn't say anything. Even if he did, Shen Xingsi would not reveal it to the outside world."

Tong Wanrou thought about Tie Yulan's attitude, and after thinking for a while, she might indeed be hiding the truth, if not, why did she punish Sanquanzi before everything was settled.

Can't help but feel dissatisfied: "Then let things go like this? The people behind the scenes will not be punished accordingly, and they will definitely do evil. When the time comes, what shall we do?"

The virtuous man stroked his stomach and was silent for a while before saying to Tong Wanrou:

"Two months ago, there was still a solution. At that time, Aunt Shen Xingsi was called Jin Rong. She was fairly upright. If she was still alive, the matter would definitely not be in such a deadlock. But, it is impossible now. "

Tong Wanrou had never heard of this name before, so she couldn't help asking: "Why not, has Aunt Jinrong been transferred?"

The virtuous man shook his head, only to hear Nanny Gui say: "There is no transfer, and I am still in the Shenxing Department, but I am no longer the aunt in charge, and I am relegated to work under Tie Yulan, there will definitely be no good end."

Seeing that Tong Wanrou was still puzzled, Nanny Gui added: "That Tie Yurou is Concubine Qi's natal cousin. Aunt Jinrong offended someone because of a previous case of hiding a maid in the palace, and she was pushed out of her position. Tie Yurou Yulan took the opportunity to use her relationship to get into the position of Chief of Shen Xing, Concubine Qi and us nobles are not good at all, now that Tie Yulan is in power, how can she sincerely find evidence for our Shuiyun Palace."

It was only now that Tong Wanrou understood the twists and turns in the middle, no wonder Tie Yulan's attitude was so arrogant.

After walking out of the palace, Tong Wanrou lingered by the lake, feeling that things had reached this point, if she just gave up like this, then who would pay attention to the Shuiyun Palace in the future, who would be convinced by the virtuous?
After pacing like this, he walked out of the Jiuqu Water Corridor and walked to Shen Xingsi again.

After all, she was also an aunt of Yigong, so the guards of Shen Xingsi did not obstruct her too much, so they let her in.Tie Yulan didn't expect that she would turn back suddenly, so she didn't ask her subordinates not to let her in, but the cell was not allowed.

Tong Wanrou went to Shen Xingsi's class room, there were two guards who were sitting on the cold kang eating melon seeds, when they saw her coming, they jumped off the cold kang, looked at each other, one of them said to her:
"Auntie, what else?"

Tong Wanrou calmly took out a small box from her arms and said to them: "Oh, I forgot to give something to Aunt Yulan earlier, and now I specially bring it to her, um, isn't she here?"

The two looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "Auntie went out with you, this..."

Tong Wanrou smiled, took out two silver ingots from her bosom, handed them to the two guards respectively, and said, "I don't know where Aunt Yulan has gone, can you tell me about it?"

The two looked at the silver ingot in their hands, their eyes shone brightly, and then they exchanged glances and hid the ingot in their sleeves. Then another tall and strong woman also coughed lightly, and said to Tong Wanrou:

"My aunt's whereabouts are uncertain, and we don't know where she will go. However, I seem to hear the word 'Royal Garden' before she left. Maybe she went to the Royal Garden to meet some master."

"..."

The smile on Tong Wanrou's face was almost unbearable.Thinking that the jailers of Shen Xingsi must be used to eating money on weekdays, it seems that the hand she gave was not enough to make them tell the truth to her, but they did not refute her face to face, but used the phrase "Royal Garden" She sent, the huge imperial garden, where did she go to find Tie Yulan?

As a first-time palace official, she did not expect to encounter such a difficult problem. Meeting such a slippery servant, Tong Wanrou felt extremely frustrated, but these frustrations could not be explained to outsiders, so she had to swallow them down.

Just as she was about to leave, she saw a thin jailer carrying a bucket of hot water into the classroom. Tong Wanrou recognized her as the one who was whipped by Tie Yulan in public just now. The woman's eyes are very different, very firm, I can see that she is frowning, clenching her teeth, serious, skinny, and her eyes are so big that they seem to fall out of their sockets.

She put the hot water bucket on one side of the cold kang, and took two foot basins from the side, then poured hot water into the two basins, and said to the two guards:

"The water is ready, let's wash."

The muscular woman who told Tong Wanrou about the Royal Garden earlier sneered at her, and regardless of Tong Wanrou's presence, she sat on the kang, lifted one foot, put it beside the thin woman, and said:

"You wash it for me."

Although Tong Wanrou didn't understand why they had to wash their feet in broad daylight, it was still their private matter and had nothing to do with her, so she nodded to them and walked out of the classroom.

The thin woman gritted her teeth a few times, but she didn't erupt. After holding back for a while, she really squatted down, held the jailer's feet, removed her boots and socks, and put them in the water, but she hadn't started yet. After washing, the jailer suddenly lifted his feet from the water, splashing the man's body with water, and then slapped the man on the face:
"Such hot water, do you think it will burn pig's trotters?"

While talking, he winked at the jailer next to him, and saw that the other man bent down and picked up the basin of water, and poured it directly on the thin jailer's face.

Tong Wanrou watched this scene clearly from outside the classroom, she could almost see the fierce anger in the eyes of the embarrassed woman.

After walking out of the Shenxing Division, Tong Wanrou waited for a while outside by a relatively hidden tree, and then saw the drenched thin prison guard coming out of it, and Tong Wanrou stepped forward to stop her.

The woman looked at Tong Wanrou defensively, Tong Wanrou also showed a harmless smile, handed her her handkerchief, and asked:

"Why did they do that to you?"

The man looked at her silently, but when Tong Wanrou thought she would not speak, she suddenly spoke up:

"Are you the aunt in charge of the noble man's palace?"

Tong Wanrou looked at her in surprise, nodded calmly, and waited for her next words.After hesitating for a while, the man took out a valuable jade pendant from his bosom, handed it to Tong Wanrou, and said:

"I can't tell you too much. I picked up this jade pendant from the ground when Sanquanzi was arrested. It's impossible for him to buy such a valuable thing. You give this to the virtuous person and ask her Do you still remember Jin Rong?"

Tong Wanrou held the jade pendant and looked at it for a while, then the frail woman staggered and quickly walked past her.

Jin Rong?

Is she the former head of Shenxing Jin Rong who was squeezed out of the position of aunt in charge by Tie Yulan?No wonder Tie Yulan would humiliate her in every possible way, looking at the jade pendant in her hand, Tong Wanrou carefully put it in her arms and returned to Shuiyun Palace.

"I didn't expect her to become so miserable now. She can be regarded as an old man in the previous dynasty. When the late emperor was around, she was in charge of the Shenxing Department. She was the youngest aunt in charge. When I first entered the palace, I was also taken care of by her many times. Ugh."

Tong Wanrou looked at the virtuous man with a hesitant expression, but finally decided to speak out the true thoughts in her heart:
"Your Majesty, there are some things that should not be said by the slaves, but... the slaves feel that the nobleman is not helping himself by accommodating the other forces in the palace like this. It was all in the past, but now the nobleman has a dragon in his belly. They still dare to bully you like this. In order not to get involved in the palace fight, you would rather invite yourself to live in the middle of the lake and ignore world affairs, but they still refuse to forgive you. This shows that no matter how tolerant you are to them, Their ultimate goal is to get rid of you, even..."

Tong Wanrou didn't dare to say the next words, but her eyes inadvertently glanced at the abdomen that the nobleman often subconsciously covered.

The virtuous man looked at Tong Wanrou without saying a word for a long time. After a long time, he lowered his head to look at his still flat belly, thinking that in a month or two, he would gradually grow bigger...

Standing up from the soft couch, the virtuous man brushed shoulders with Tong Wanrou who was standing at the bottom, leaning against the door, watching a round of setting sun hanging on the shimmering lake surface, illuminating the lake water in orange.

Jin Rong was suddenly summoned to the Shuiyun Palace, and the virtuous person sat on top of her and looked at her. When the skinny Jin Rong saw the virtuous person, she willingly knelt down from the door and moved to the front of the virtuous person in a kneeling posture. , kowtow.

After the virtuous man raised his hand to her, he said, "Aunt Jin Rong, get up quickly."

"If you go back to the nobleman, the servant is no longer an aunt."

Hearing what Jin Rong said, the virtuous man glanced at Nanny Gui, and Nanny Gui hurried forward to help Jin Rong up.Only to hear the virtuous man say again:
"Wanrou has already come back and told me about you. You used to be good to me. Now that you are in trouble, I should have helped you. But in this palace, I am a soft-spoken person, and I have nowhere to do it if I want to." road."

Jin Rong heard that the virtuous man spoke so politely, Dang even knelt down moved, knelt and crawled to the virtuous man's feet, begging:

"The nobleman has a heart, and the slaves and servants will repay the nobleman as cattle and horses in the next life."

"Get up quickly."

He helped up the weeping Jin Rong again and again, and the virtuous man gave her a seat, and finally got to the point:
"It's better that you are in the Shenxing Department than we don't know anything. You must also know about Sanquanzi. Auntie Tie deliberately kept it a secret, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Jin Rong glanced around, when the virtuous man summoned her, he had already cleaned up the whole palace, so now there were only four of them in the hall, Jin Rong knew that Nanny Gui who was standing next to the virtuous man and who was standing beside the virtuous man Tong Wanrou beside her is the confidant of the virtuous person, took a deep breath, and said:
"Actually, when Sanquanzi was arrested and tortured in the Shenxing Division, I also heard a few words. Sanquanzi seemed to be protecting someone, and kept repeating the words 'I will not drag him down'. There must be someone behind the scenes."

The virtuous man caressed his lower abdomen, looked at Tong Wanrou, and asked again: "Did she ever mention who that person was? Or did she mention which palace it was from?"

Jin Rong shook her head: "No. Apart from repeating this sentence, he gritted his teeth and refused to answer Tie Yulan's other questions. Tie Yulan had a violent personality, so he ordered people to punish him that night. Dying in prison."

The virtuous man sighed quietly and said:

"It's really helpless. Unfortunately, I have been disturbed for many days. I just want to have a result, but I don't want it to be so difficult..."

Seeing the virtuous man with his eyes lowered, Jin Rong seemed to promise the expectation in his eyes. Jin Rong was also a sensible person, so she immediately stood up and said to the virtuous man:

"If the nobleman can trust Jin Rong, Jin Rong is willing to go to the tiger's den for the nobleman and find out the inside story."

The virtuous man turned to look at her with surprise in his eyes: "Oh? Is what Aunt Jinrong said true?"

"It's absolutely true. This servant is willing to be the pawn of the nobleman, to help the nobleman solve problems."

The virtuous man stood up from the seat himself, walked in front of Jin Rong, grabbed those rough hands that didn't look like a woman, and said:
"In that case, I will ask my aunt."

(End of this chapter)