The boss saw that the material of Liu'er's clothes was not the best, but it was definitely a servant of a wealthy official family. If the boss didn't cheat these people, who else would he cheat!
The boss waved his hands: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive! Look at how exquisite my clay figurine is. If you go around the houses, can you do it better than me? Five taels of silver, not a penny less. "
Liu Er likes it very much, but it is too expensive, and she wants to buy it but is reluctant to spend money.
While hesitating, a loud voice said: "Hey, isn't this Liu Er next to Concubine Ziyan? Why are you also out shopping?"
Liu'er saw that it was Chuntao from Fengming Palace, her face showed displeasure, her nostrils were upturned, she didn't take Chuntao seriously at all. Ziyan was at odds with Rong Changan, and Liu Er was naturally at odds with the maids around Rong Changan.
"I'm out shopping, it's none of your business! Go away!"
Chuntao was angry, but she held back and said with a smile, "Are you going to buy Huang Pang'er? The Huang Pang'er in this family is so cute!"
Liu Er said: "Cute is cute, but it's too expensive! Could it be that you have money to buy it?"
Chuntao asked the boss: "How much is this Huang Fatty?"
The boss is not a lot of money: "Five taels of silver in total."
Chuntao said: "Five taels of silver is expensive, but the workmanship is good and the people are cute. If you miss this village, there will be no such shop."
Chuntao said to Liu'er again, "Liu'er, actually I've wanted to be friends with you for a long time, why don't I buy this set of Huang Pang'er and give it to you?"
"You...you send me?" Liu'er looked at Chuntao incredulously, "Do you have any money?"
Chuntao took out the silver and weighed it in her hand: "Isn't this silver!"
Liu'er squinted her eyes and observed Chuntao: "You are a girl from Fengming Palace, and I am a girl from Fengwu Palace. We are rivals. Can you give me something?"
Chuntao sighed: "I know that our two palaces are not in harmony, but we are girls, why do we have to fight? In the palace, there are gossip and traps everywhere. One more enemy is worse than one more friend. You Say it?"
Liu'er felt that what Chuntao said was reasonable. The people who hang out the most in the palace are the kind of people who are all-round and slick, who greet everyone with a smile.
"Are you really going to give me this set of things?" Liu'er relaxed her guard against Chuntao together with her greed.
Chuntao stopped talking, bought the six clay figurines, put them in a wooden box, wrapped them up and gave them to Liu'er.
"The words come out of my mouth, can it be true?"
After receiving the gift, Liu'er was even more elated: "Thank you sister!"
Chuntao saw that Liu'er had already taken the trap, so she said again: "If you are not in a hurry to go back to the palace, let's go to the tea shop to have a cup of tea and chat for a while, what do you think?"
Liu'er thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Concubine Ziyan just asked me to send a letter to Shang Shuling Master Du, nothing else. I'll just go have a cup of tea with you and talk, it doesn't matter."
Chuntao remembered what Liu'er said in her heart, and smiled with the corners of her mouth. She took Liu'er's hand and walked into a tea shop.
…
Rong Changan was waiting for Chuntao's good news in Fengming Palace, and Lin Hai came in to report on the investigation last night. Seeing Lin Hai drooping the corners of his mouth, he knew he hadn't caught the target person.
"Queen, I ordered the Imperial Forest Army to strictly check the gates of the palace. After a whole night of investigation, there was no suspicious person. I wonder if the assassin is still in the palace?"
"Impossible!" Rong Changan denied Lin Hai's guess, "If you were an assassin, would you still stay in the palace after assassinating someone in the middle of the night? Night is the best time to escape, the longer he stays in the palace , the more dangerous it is, the lower the chance of escape. Therefore, he must not be in the palace, he must have escaped."
Lin Hai still couldn't accept the assassin's escape: "Impossible, could he turn into a fly and slip away from my nose?"
Rong Chang'an thought about it and said, "I don't know exactly how I got there. But if I were an assassin, I would make up a eunuch who looks similar to him, lie about something going on, hide it from the world, and go out blatantly."
"Disguised as an eunuch?" Lin Hai thought about it, but still felt that it was impossible, "All the eunuchs in the palace have names and surnames, who can he disguise as?"
"I can't answer this for you now, there will always be times when the truth will come to light."
The two were talking, and Chuntao ran into the room while shouting outside.
"Queen, queen!"
Chuntao's voice was excited and brisk, which was enough to show that she must have heard good news.
Rong Changan couldn't help but smile on his tense face.
Chuntao's little feet were higher than the back of her head, she ran in and almost hit the table, panting with joy on her face. "Queen, I... I..."
Seeing that Chuntao was in such a hurry, Lin Hai scolded, "Chuntao, do you usually see the queen like this?"
Rong Changan didn't feel that Chuntao was being rude at all, so he poured a cup of tea for Chuntao and handed it to her.
"Chun Tao is not in a hurry, you drink the tea first to quench your thirst."
Gudong, Chuntao drank up the glass of water in one gulp, put her hand across her mouth, and wiped it.
"Queen, I have two important news for you..."
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized that Lin Hai was by his side, so he swallowed the words again.
Lin Hai hurriedly said: "The queen has something to do, so I will take my leave first."
"You don't need to go out." Rong Changan stopped Lin Hai and said with a smile. "I treat you all as my own, so there's no need to avoid them. Chuntao, if you have any good news, tell Commander Lin clearly."
"Your servant knows." Chuntao calmed down, and then said, "Today I bought Liu Er, the girl next to Ziyan, with five taels of silver. She mentioned two very important things to me. One is that Ziyan asked Liu My son sent a letter to Shang Shuling Du Keming. You said, Ziyan has no reason, why did she send a letter to Shang Shuling? Could it be that there is some shady business between them?"
Rong Changan and Lin Hai looked at each other, and felt that what Chuntao said was really important.
This further verified Rong Chang'an's guess. In the past, Du Keming was Li Hai's confidant minister. Now that Li Hai is dead, Ziyan must have maintained contact with Du Keming, and this connection is very unusual.
"Did Liu Er say why Ziyan sent Du Keming a letter?" Rong Changan asked.
Chuntao said, "Liu'er didn't say anything."
Ziyan is so smooth, she will definitely not let Liu'er know the very secret things.
"Although Liu'er didn't know what was written in the letter, Liu'er said that in the past few days, Ziyan and Du Keming have exchanged letters very frequently. Moreover, Liu'er also said that Ziyan not only has correspondence with Du Keming, Same with other ministers in the court."
What exactly did Zi Yan contact them with? Rong Changan is unknown now.
Rong Changan said with a smile: "Chuntao, you really made a great contribution today. The news you mentioned is priceless!" Then he asked, "What is the second important news you mentioned?"
Chun Tao said: "Liu'er said that one night, Zi Yan took her to the attic and asked her to let the wind outside the attic courtyard.
Zi Yan messed around in the yard for a while, but she didn't know what she was doing. Liu'er felt that Ziyan was mysterious, could she be meeting someone? "
"Could it be that she met an assassin?" Lin Hai said.
Rong Changan pondered for a while, his eyes still deep: "It's too early to say anything. If we want to know what's in the courtyard of the attic, the only way is to search."
Rong Changan remembered that his stomach hurts for no reason, his heart stabbed for no reason, it was too weird, could it be related to Zi Yan's mysterious behavior in the attic courtyard