The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 331 Seeing Through (Two Updates)

At night, Gu Jiao recorded the power and disadvantages of various hidden weapons made of black powder in the room, and the night was getting late before she knew it.

Knock knock knock.

Suddenly there was a light knock on the door, Gu Jiao rubbed her sore neck, turned her head to look at the half-covered door: "The door is open, come in."

Xiao Liulang pushed open the door and walked in with a bowl of mung bean soup.

He came to her and put mung bean soup on the table in front of her.

Gu Jiao looked at the bowl of mung bean soup chilled with well water, and tilted her head in astonishment.

In the past, she was the one who gave him things, but today the sun really came out from the west, so he gave them to her instead.

Well, that's not true either.

When she had abdominal pain in sunflower water, he had boiled brown sugar water for her.

But today she has neither abdominal pain nor sunflower water, but she doesn't understand why he cares about her so much.

Xiao Liulang sat down across from her, and said calmly, "Just now, Jingkong was arguing for mung bean soup. I boiled it a little longer, and left a bowl for you."

"Brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

"Make mung bean soup."

"I don't drink."

"Jiaojiao wants to drink."

"Well, great, then I'll have a bowl too."

The image of Xiao Jingkong and Xiao Jingkong flashed through his mind, and Xiao Liulang coughed lightly.

Gu Jiao didn't notice the slight strangeness in someone's expression. She happened to be thirsty, so she brought mung bean soup over, scooped a spoonful and fed it into her mouth: "Well, it's so sweet."

Xiao Liulang can't eat anything, but the mung bean soup is not bad, but the way she eats it is still beyond my imagination.

Xiao Liulang couldn't help asking: "Is it that delicious?"

"En!" Gu Jiao took a spoonful and naturally fed it to his mouth.

Xiao Liulang was taken aback for a moment, her eyes were open and innocent, as if she had no other meaning, but her own thoughts added a lot of meaning that didn't exist.

Xiao Liulang's throat slipped, he nodded slowly, gently held the spoon in his mouth, and drank the mung bean soup.

"Is it sweet?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Sweet." He looked at her, not knowing whether he was talking about Tang Tian or her sweetness.

"I think so too." Gu Jiao took the spoon he had drunk and continued to eat mung bean soup.

Watching her put the spoon in her mouth,

Xiao Liulang's eyes darkened.

"Do you still want to eat?" Gu Jiao looked at his burning eyes and pushed the mung bean soup in front of him.

"I want to eat more..." Halfway through the words, Xiao Liulang suddenly came back to his senses, he must be dazed! I almost said something just now!

Fortunately, it was accepted.

He was startled in a cold sweat.

Gu Jiao tilted her head and looked at him: "Do you want to eat me more?"

"Ahem!" Xiao Liulang choked!

His face was flushed red, and he didn't know whether it was from embarrassment or embarrassment.

By the way, is it really okay for a lady to be so direct?

"Hmm." Gu Jiao brought back the bowl and took a spoonful of mung bean soup, "It's not impossible."

Xiao Liulang's eyes trembled!

"But this body is still too small, you have to wait for me to grow up." She spoke seriously, and after she finished speaking, as if afraid that he would lose patience with waiting, she added, "I am delicious!"

Xiao Liulang's brain exploded with a bang, like fiery trees and silver flowers blooming suddenly in the night sky, his heart jumped up thumping, and he couldn't even breathe.

This is too terrible...

Does this girl know what she is talking about?

Of course Gu Jiao knows, but you don't need to pay to be seductive, right?

A certain person went to eat mung bean soup heartlessly after flirting.

Xiao Liulang: "..."

Gu Jiao sucked and sucked, and suddenly raised her head halfway through eating: "My herbal medicine..."

"Take it." Xiao Liulang took a deep breath, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and decided that he would never talk nonsense with this girl again.

It's okay to always finish teasing, she is fine, but he feels uncomfortable.

"Oh." Gu Jiao continued to eat, "The empty swing..."

"Fixed." Xiao Liulang said again.

Gu Jiao: "Empty box."

Xiao Liulang: "Clean up."

Gu Jiao: "A basket from Aunt Liu's house."

Xiao Liulang: "It's over."

Gu Jiao: "Uncle Zhao wants salted duck eggs."

Xiao Liulang nodded: "Send it."

She forgot to explain these things to Yu Ya'er and Mother Fang, but she didn't expect him to be so careful, keeping an eye on them, and taking care of them all without making a sound.

Gu Jiao looked at him with her chin up, her eyes were shining like thousands of stars: "Sir, you are so kind."

You are good too.

Xiao Liulang said silently in his heart.

Gu Jiao continued to eat mung bean soup.

Xiao Liulang's eyes fell on a large brocade bag wrapped in gold thread on the table, and asked, "What is this?"

Gu Jiao said: "The petals were picked by the imperial garden and made into flower cakes. I will bring some left over to make dried flowers."

Xiao Liulang had seen her make dried flowers, so he almost knew the process, and said, "I'll get a sieve."

"Yeah." Gu Jiao nodded.

Xiao Liulang got up and went out. Gu Jiao was used to being alone, but it didn't feel bad to have someone around her doing things with her occasionally.

Xiao Liulang came over with a sieve, opened the embroidery bag, and poured out the petals inside, but suddenly heard a click, and something obviously heavy fell out of it.

Xiao Liulang looked at the jade pendant suddenly protruding from a pile of petals, and asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

He was about to ask if it was the jade pendant that his aunt gave you, but when he reached his lips, he realized that the jade pendant was incomplete. My aunt would not give such a thing to Gu Jiao, even if it was a thousand-year-old cold jade that was priceless.

Gu Jiao didn't know the Millennium Cold Jade, so she thought that this jade pendant was very delicate, but it was a pity that a corner was missing.

She shook her head: "Auntie didn't say she gave me something, and I don't know where it came from. Maybe it was accidentally put in this kit."

careless?

A piece of thousand-year-old cold jade was accidentally packed in an embroidered bag like this?

This is not impossible, after all, Renshou Palace is rich and powerful——

Xiao Liulang paused: "Did you put these petals in yourself?"

"No." Gu Jiao shook her head and said, "It's Jade."

"Who is Jade?" Xiao Liulang asked. After all, he hadn't been to Renshou Palace many times, so he wasn't familiar with it.

Gu Jiao groaned, and said: "It's a little maid from Renshou Palace. She is quick in doing things and smart. She takes care of her daily life by her aunt, and is mainly responsible for taking care of the jewelry and clothes of Empress Dowager Zhuang. I don't know if she accidentally took my aunt's clothes. The things are put into the embroidery bag, I will take them back to her next time."

"No, I'll go." Xiao Liulang groped for the thousand-year-old cold jade and said calmly, "Tomorrow I happen to be going to the palace to give lectures to the prince."

Gu Jiao hummed: "Alright."

The next day, Xiao Liulang entered the palace to teach arithmetic to the prince.

He didn't embarrass the prince today, and let the prince get out of school when the time came.

The prince was puzzled, why is this guy so kind? Don't stay with him anymore?

"What kind of medicine do you sell in your gourd?" The prince asked coldly.

Xiao Liulang took out a stack of papers from the handout and handed it to the prince: "If your highness thinks that the minister is too kind to the prince, you might as well finish these questions, and I will check next time."

The prince looked at the dozens of pages of questions that suddenly appeared, and the corner of his mouth had a stroke.

Why did he ask this question? !

Xiao Liulang went to Renshou Palace.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang was reading the booklet, and Eunuch Qin invited Xiao Liulang in and asked, "Do you want the younger one to pass it on?"

"No need, I'm just bringing something to eat for the Queen Mother." Xiao Liulang said, and handed the food box he had prepared to Eunuch Qin, "I must bring the jujubes picked by Jing Kong to my aunt no matter what."

At this time, Xiao Jingkong, who was studying in the Imperial College, didn't know that he was being treated as a tool again.

Eunuch Qin took the food box with a smile: "Qing Kong has a heart."

Xiao Liulang asked in a natural tone: "By the way, Eunuch Qin, is there a thousand-year-old cold jade in Renshou Palace? I wonder if you can lend me a look."

"What's so difficult about this? Xiao Xiuzhuan is not an outsider, so this slave will let someone get it." Eunuch Qin invited Xiao Liulang to sit down in the pavilion, and ordered someone to go to the Empress Dowager Zhuang's bedroom to fetch the jade pendant.

"Please read Xiao Xiu's writing." Eunuch Qin personally presented the jade pendant to Xiao Liulang.

Xiao Liulang took the jade pendant and stroked the lines and texture of the jade pendant: "As expected of a high-quality beautiful jade, it feels cold to the touch in the scorching summer. I don't know where this jade comes from? Who gave it to you?"

Eunuch Qin replied with a smile: "It was the son-in-law who gave it to Princess Ning'an, a whole piece of jade, and Princess Ning'an asked someone to carve the jade into three pieces of jade pendants, one for the Queen Mother, one for Your Majesty, and finally One piece was given to Concubine Jing."

Xiao Liulang pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there no fourth dollar?"

Eunuch Qin shook his head with a smile: "No, this palace must be gone. The slaves outside dare not say it, but it should be rare. Thousand-year cold jade is a rare treasure, and the son-in-law has gone through untold hardships. I just got it, and if it wasn’t so precious, I wouldn’t have dedicated it to Princess Ning’an. Why is Xiao Xiuzhuan suddenly so curious about the thousand-year-old cold jade?”

"Oh, I saw it in a book by chance, and I became a little curious." Xiao Liulang returned the aunt's jade pendant to Eunuch Qin, "Since it was a gift from Princess Ning'an, please keep it safe."

Eunuch Qin brought the jade pendant over, wrapped it in a silk handkerchief, and put it back into the brocade box: "It's natural, such a precious thing, the Queen Mother is reluctant to wear it on weekdays, and let the servants store it in a secret compartment. You have to take it out and wipe it off."

In fact, if it was not a gift from Princess Ning An, the Empress Dowager would definitely give this piece of cold jade to Xiao Xiuzhuan without hesitation.

What Eunuch Qin didn't know was that Xiao Liulang once had a piece of thousand-year-old cold jade, which was given to him by his mother, Princess Xinyang.

But he is no longer Xiao Heng, and the piece of cold jade is no longer in his hands.

So far, it is certain that this incomplete jade pendant is not a property of Renshou Palace, but how it got into Gu Jiao's brocade bag, I'm afraid I have to ask the maid named Jade.

When Xiao Liulang was thinking about how to call Fei Cui over without being abrupt or suspicious, he heard Qin Gonggong say: "Fei Cui, come here and put the jade pendant back."

"Yes."

A little maid in pink stepped forward, holding the brocade box that Eunuch Qin handed over with both hands.

"You... pour a pot of tea." Xiao Liulang said to Fei Cui.

Emerald froze for a moment.

Eunuch Qin only thought that Xiao Liulang was ordering a little maid at will, and didn't suspect anything: "Go if you are told."

"Yes!" Emerald answered, turned around and left.

Xiao Liulang said: "Eunuch Qin, go and get busy, I will sit by myself."

Qin Gonggong said: "Okay, then the slave will go to clean up the housework."

Not long after Eunuch Qin left, Fei Cui brought a pot of tea over: "Master Xiao, please use tea."

Xiao Liulang looked at her, and took out the jade pendant in his hand: "Do you recognize this?"

"Uh... I recognize it, I recognize it!" Fei Cui looked at it carefully and said, "It's Miss Gu's jade pendant!"

"Her jade pendant?" Xiao Liulang frowned.

Jade nodded: "Yes, yesterday I filled Miss Gu with unused petals, and this jade pendant was lying in her basket."

Xiao Liulang looked at her for a moment, making sure she wasn't lying.

This jade pendant was not put in by someone in Renshou Palace, but was put into Gu Jiao's basket by someone before entering Renshou Palace.

Where will it be placed?

Is Gu Jiao going to the Imperial Garden to pick flowers?

Xiao Liulang went to the Imperial Garden, but didn't find too many clues, so he turned around and went to Huaqing Palace.

"Lord Xiao, are you here to see His Majesty?" the little eunuch at the door asked.

"No, I'm here to find Eunuch Wei." Xiao Liulang said.

"Lord Xiao, wait a moment." The little eunuch went in and reported to Eunuch Wei.

Eunuch Wei came out persistently, and said with a smile on his face: "Hey, what wind brought Xiao Xiuzhuan here?" His smile froze, and he whispered, "It's the prince who doesn't study hard anymore?"

Xiao Liulang said politely: "No, the prince has improved his homework, and there is no doubt that he is not serious in class."

Eunuch Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good. Presumably His Majesty will feel more at ease with His Royal Highness after hearing this. Uh... Then I don't know what Xiao Xiuzhuan is talking about?"

"I just passed by the Imperial Garden and picked up a jade pendant." Xiao Liulang handed the incomplete jade pendant to Eunuch Wei.

When Eunuch Wei saw the jade pendant, his eyes lit up: "Oh! I found it! Let me just say it! There is no way Miss Gu picked it up!"

"Why is father-in-law like this?" Xiao Liulang asked.

Eunuch Wei sighed: "I'm afraid Xiao Xiuzhuan didn't know something. This is the jade pendant that Princess Ning'an gave to Concubine Jing. The concubine has returned to the palace and now lives in Huaqing Palace. Yesterday the concubine's The jade pendant was lost in the Imperial Garden, and it happened that Miss Gu had been to the Imperial Garden at that time. His Majesty believed in Miss Gu, and did not ask anyone to question her, but took out his jade pendant and gave it to the empress dowager."

He said with a smile, "Your Majesty's jade pendant was also a gift from Princess Ning'an, and it's a precious treasure on weekdays. Now, I've found the jade pendant of the concubine, and the servant can go and get back your majesty's jade pendant." gone."

A hint of meaning flashed across Xiao Liulang's eyes: "Your father-in-law said that this jade pendant belonged to Concubine Jing?"

"Yes." Eunuch Wei nodded.

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived.

Concubine Jing went out for a walk with the support of Nanny Cai. She was still wearing her teacher's clothes and hat.

She saw Eunuch Wei and Xiao Liulang at the door.

And Xiao Liulang also looked at her.

The four eyes met, and the surroundings seemed to be quiet for a while.

Xiao Liulang's eyes were deep and calm, like a bottomless pool under a moonlit night.

Concubine Jing had moved to the nunnery before Xiao Liulang was born, and this was the first time he saw Concubine Jing.

The reason why he was able to confirm the identity of the other party was because there was no second person in the whole palace dressed like her.

Xiao Liulang arched his hands lightly, turned and left Huaqing Palace.

Eunuch Wei walked over with the jade pendant and smiled: "Ms. Taifei, I found your jade pendant. It was picked up by Xiao Xiuzhuan in the imperial garden."

Concubine Jing looked at Xiao Liulang's back: "Xiao, Xiu, Zhuan?"

After Xiao Liulang left the palace, he first went to the Hanlin Academy for half a day on duty. After finishing his duty, he didn't go back to Bishui Hutong immediately, but went to the Minghui Hall of the Imperial Academy.

"Okay, you can step back." The old Jijiu pardoned Zheng Siye's penalty stand for today.

Zheng Siye is on the verge of an amnesty, how much he disliked Xiao Liulang in the past, and now he looks forward to Xiao Liulang so much. After all, only when Xiao Liulang comes, the old Jijiu has no time to punish him.

Xiao Liulang entered the house, and his guards brought the gate of Minghui Hall behind him.

"Sit down." The old Jijiu said.

Xiao Liulang sat down on the opposite side of the old Jijiu. There was a short table between the two of them, on which were piled up some excellent articles written by the students of the Imperial College.

Old Jijiu put down the half-corrected article, looked at Xiao Liulang and said, "What happened?"

He has always been in the Three Treasures Hall for nothing.

Xiao Liulang told about the jade pendant, and the old Jijiu's face became serious: "Do you suspect that Concubine Jing has a problem?"

As expected of being a master and apprentice, there was an unspeakable tacit understanding between each other. In fact, Xiao Liulang didn't mention his doubts about Concubine Jing at all. He just told the whole story in detail.

But who is the old Jijiu?

Wannian green tea and white lotus, don't pretend to be innocent in front of your disciples.

Xiao Liulang asked: "In the teacher's eyes, what kind of person is Concubine Jing?"

"Naturally he is a good person." The old Jijiu said without thinking, but his previous cognition may not be accurate, just like he once believed that Zhuang Jinse was a wicked person, but in the end he found that Zhuang Jinse was not that evil, maybe he thought that Concubine Jing was a good person, But Princess Jing is actually not that kind.

——I will never admit that I am partial to Zhuang Jinse!

"Know people, know face, but not heart." After experiencing Zhuang Jinse's incident, Lao Jijiu had a deep understanding of this sentence.

"How is her relationship with the Queen Mother?" Xiao Liulang asked.

The old Jijiu smiled faintly: "The two were very close in the past. She was Zhuang Jinse's only friend in the palace, and the person Zhuang Jinse trusted the most was her. I still remember one time in order to bring down Zhuang Jinse, let her who was still Concubine Jing Zhuang Jinse almost killed me for a little blame! The time I put Zhuang Jinse into the cold palace, Zhuang Jinse was not so angry. Zhuang Jinse has no children, and treats her two children as her own...that is, Princess Ning'an and Your Majesty, Concubine Jing's mother clan was also supported by Zhuang Jinse."

Speaking of this, the old Jijiu sighed sadly, "After the late Emperor passed away, His Majesty ascended the throne, and Concubine Jing went to the nunnery to become a nun, and there was less communication between the two of them."

Xiao Liulang asked suspiciously: "Why did she go to the nunnery? Did she really invite her to go?"

The old Jijiu shook his head: "No, it's Zhuang Jinse's order."

Xiao Liulang pondered: "Your Majesty definitely disagrees—"

The old Jijiu nodded: "You guessed right, His Majesty does not agree, but Zhuang Jinse only covers the sky with one hand, and His Majesty has worked so hard for so many years to be able to draw with Zhuang Jinse. The fledgling Majesty who has just ascended the throne is not Zhuang Jinse at all. His opponent. The relationship between His Majesty and Zhuang Jinse was broken because of this incident. "

The new month is here, monthly tickets and recommendation tickets are all smashed, the author is working hard to save the manuscript!