Yun Shang chuckled. This meant that she knew she was probing, and deliberately expressed that she was willing to hand over the management authority in the library to her people
"Okay, this matter will be carefully considered by the Palace."
Yun Shang deserved to be incomparably careless: "You must also know about Wang Guanshi."
"Yes, when Steward Wang was taken away, he was taken away in the library, and the servant... was there at that time."
"Oh?" Yun Shang raised her eyebrows: "Wang Guanshi did such a rebellious thing as poisoning the queen mother, do you know what she is doing? She is in the library on weekdays, is there anything unusual? You You and her are doing things here, so you shouldn't be completely unaware, right?"
Zhou Guanshi heard the words, and gave a wry smile: "Returning to the empress, the empress may not believe it, but the servant really doesn't know about it. There is a reason for this..."
"What reason?"
Guanshi Zhou lowered his eyes, as if he was a little embarrassed to say: "The slave is an eunuch, so naturally he doesn't dare to expect to get married or anything. It's just the servants and maids in the palace... Sometimes they meet each other in private, and it can be regarded as a kind of nominal couple."
"The slave is in this library, and there are many palace people who come to the library to fetch books for the masters. Occasionally, they will hear the palace people quietly mentioning that they come and go, so they have such thoughts. Wanting to find a palace lady to go with them is also regarded as Just as a companion. It’s just that the slaves are in the library all day, and the people who come into contact with them on weekdays are the palace people in this library.”
"Wang Guanshi's appearance is really outstanding in this library. Therefore, the servant was moved. Later, I couldn't hold back anymore, so I quietly mentioned it to Wang Guanshi."
The smile on Guanshi Zhou's face became even more bitter: "Just because of this mention, something bad happened. The slave doesn't know that Guanshi Wang is very disliked by this kind of thing... It shouldn't be considered disliked, but very disliked." Disgusted."
"That day, the servant was severely scolded by the steward Wang. Later, whenever the steward Wang saw the servant, he would avoid him, as if the servant was some kind of beast."
"Not only that, because of this, Guanshi Wang also attracted some people in this library, and formed a faction with the slaves. Since then, there has been a clear distinction. Although they are in the same library, they are on duty every day on weekdays. There is really not much time. Therefore, what is the situation of the king in charge, the servant... I really don't know."
Yun Chang's eyes fixed on Manager Zhou's face, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, but he didn't know whether what Manager Zhou said was true or not.
It's just that the eyes were a little dark, she couldn't help but think that Zhou Guanshi would find some excuses to insist that she didn't know in order to clean herself up.
But he didn't expect that he would use such an excuse to pluck himself clean.
Whether it's true or not, in order to get rid of himself, Zhou Guanshi actually brought out this kind of dirty private affairs of palace people and told her to her, it's really a bit... amazing.
Obviously, between confronting the court lady and protecting the king's affairs, the crime of the former is much less.
Steward Zhou bit his lips, and his face turned pale: "The servant knows that this kind of thing should not be used to pollute the ears of the empress, but the truth of the matter is like this, and the servant dare not tell lies in front of the empress. The servant also understands, This kind of thing should not have happened, and was severely slapped in the face by Wang Guanshi, and after seeing Wang Guanshi's reaction so strongly, the servant never mentioned this matter to anyone again."
"The slave is guilty, and I ask the empress to punish him."
Yun Chang glanced at him deeply: "I will think carefully about how to deal with you in this matter."
After a pause, he asked again: "You said, after that incident, Guanshi Wang recruited some palace people and formed a faction privately, which is clearly different from you. Then you can talk to this palace, and those who follow Guanshi Wang will all agree with you." Who are they?"
Manager Zhou agreed without hesitation, and nodded hurriedly: "Your servant can write the list to your empress."
"Actually, after the incident with Steward Wang, the slaves were also worried that there would be problems with the palace servants who usually followed Steward Wang, so they only dared to let them do some chores such as cleaning and pruning in the yard, and did not dare to let them get close to the books in the library. .Even the books in the library, the slaves have been cleaning them up one by one these days, to see if there are any clues."
Yun Shang laughed, feeling more and more that this manager Zhou is really interesting.
This ability to know current affairs can be said to be extremely strong.
"Oh?" Yunshang raised the corner of her mouth: "Guan Zhou is a meticulous person. All right, you can write the list of those palace people to Ben Gong now, and Ben Gong will come down and find someone to interrogate carefully."
Qian Zhuo handed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone up, and the steward Zhou knelt on the ground, spread the paper on the ground, picked up the pen and began to write.
Yun Chang stood aside and watched, he wrote very quickly, as if he didn't need to think at all, and soon, a few names fell on the paper.
"Your Majesty, this is the list of all the palace servants who are with Steward Wang. The slaves are arranged according to the degree of intimacy with Steward Wang that the servants usually know. The two or three people in the front are the closest to Steward Wang. You should know a lot of things."
Yun Shang nodded, motioned the palace servants to put the paper away, and then looked at the steward Zhou again: "I hope everything you said today is true, if not..."
"This palace has thousands of ways to deal with you, which will definitely make you unable to survive or die."
Steward Zhou kowtowed again and again: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the servant will never dare to tell a lie. The Majesty can ask questions at will. If there is a lie, the servant will let the Empress deal with it."
Yun Chang nodded and walked out of the room.
That week, the steward kept pressing his forehead to the ground for a long time before raising his head.
Seeing the empty yard outside, he seemed to be suddenly drained of all his strength, and collapsed to the ground.
After another half hour, he raised his hand to wipe the sweat beads that oozed out from his forehead at an unknown time, and then stood up.
Not long after, a servant hurriedly turned around from the front yard, stepped into the room quickly, raised his eyes to see Guanshi Zhou's pale face, and then asked cautiously: "Guanshi, the empress is..."
Steward Zhou waved his hand: "It's nothing, the empress just wanted a few books, but the palace servants sent couldn't find them in the library. She happened to be walking here, so she came here to ask. I happened to be sorting out As for the bibliography, I told her that those few books were orphaned and badly damaged, and now they have been put away and carefully preserved, and I dare not put them outside for others to look through."
Steward Zhou raised his eyes to look at the servant: "No matter who asks why the empress came, you should answer like this."