Shengshichun

"That's right," Fu Zhen nodded without hesitation. "The family ancestor suffered an accident and contracted an illness after falling into the water, which led to his death."

"What accident happened to him?"

"One night at the Huzhou dock, after checking the cargo ship, he was accidentally injured and fell into the water by two gangs who suddenly started fighting."

The queen nodded and asked later: "Do you know who the two parties are fighting?"

Fu Zhen shook his head: "Neither my wife nor my mother knew about it, and our ancestors never spoke about it."

The queen pursed her lips slightly and stopped talking.

She slowly held her folded hands, and this scene fell into Fu Zhen's eyes again.

The Queen would ask Fu Zhen about Mr. Ning, which was expected by Fu Zhen.

And this was the main reason why she was looking forward to entering the palace these days.

On that day, Pei Zhan and Liang Chen placed the evidence obtained from Prince Rong's Mansion in front of the emperor and empress. After the prince and Prince Rong and his son told the story of the murder of the eldest son of the emperor in Baiyu Hutong, the emperor and empress, who had been looking forward to their missing son for so many years, were bound to There will be an emotional breakdown, but they will definitely calm down afterwards.

The emperor's eldest son was only ten years old at the time, and he had already followed the emperor to participate in temporary discussions. When the enemy raided, he was able to bravely stay to protect the queen, which showed that he was very intelligent and had some emergency experience.

Yang Zhan was beaten repeatedly by Pei Zhan and Fuzhen in Prince Rong's Mansion, and his abilities were already revealed.

Even if he had a large number of men at the time and used weapons to attack the eldest prince in desperation, it was unreasonable that the eldest prince would let him succeed without alarming the people living on both sides of the river.

So far, evidence from all parties has revealed that only the Ning family has had close contact with the eldest son of the emperor. At this time, Fu Zhen, who has become Pei Zhan's wife, will inevitably be questioned.

"Mr. Ning was a business wizard. His passing is really sad."

The Queen said this after a while.

At this time, a gentle smile appeared on her face again, as if the distraction at that moment did not exist.

There was a coughing sound from the couch at the other end of the curtain.

The queen stood up and said, "It's your first time entering the palace. I'll see you off."

Fu Zhen is so virtuous and capable that he dares to be sent off by the Queen in person?
But the queen had already walked up to the threshold, so she stopped talking and turned around to follow her towards the palace gate.

The moment she turned around, she glanced towards the curtain and saw the emperor lying on the brocade couch, holding a memorial in his hand, only his vague figure was revealed, and his face could not be seen clearly.

After leaving the palace gate, the Queen slowed down her steps and chatted gently on the road. She asked about Mrs. Ning and the current business of the Ning family.

When she was about to reach Dazhou Gate, she stopped and turned around to look at Fuzhen:

"I won't send you off. I'll send you to the palace to talk to you another day."

Fu Zhen took two steps back and saluted: "Kowtow to thank the empress for the gift."

The queen raised her lips, then glanced at the soft sedan parked beside her: "Go back."

Fu Zhen thanked him again before getting on the sedan chair.

The Queen stayed where she was and watched her go away, until she could no longer see the figure, and then walked back along the way she came.

But her steps back seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, making her steps heavy and slow.

Fu Zhen in the sedan did not look back until he could no longer see the figure.

After leaving the palace gate and changing into her sedan chair, she frowned more and more. On the way, he asked Guo Song where Pei Zhan was. I sent someone to invite him back, but as soon as I arrived at the door of my house, Pei Zhan was already there.

It turned out that he heard from the palace that Fu Zhen had come in, and after explaining what happened in the camp, he hurried back.

"What did the empress say to you?"

Pei Zhan asked the first sentence.

Fu Zhen was not in a hurry now: "I'll go back to my room and change my clothes first before I tell you."

Pei Zhan followed her into the house: "Then tell me first how you feel about entering the palace? Your Majesty doesn't treat you as an outsider, right?"

Fu Zhen stopped at the threshold when he heard this: "What are you worried about?"

Pei Zhan was stunned and refused to admit it: "Why should I be worried? I just asked casually."

Fu Zhen tugged on his sweaty collar: "Don't worry, then why are you running so fast?"

Pei Zhan glanced sideways at her and pulled back the collar: "The horse was so full last night that its hooves are strong."

After speaking, he turned around and went to his own room without waiting for Fu Zhen's reply.

Fu Zhen looked down at the long sword in his hand, raised his brows, and walked briskly into the threshold.

After changing her clothes and coming out, Pei Zhan had also changed and was waiting for her in the yard.

In order to avoid suspicion, this guy now refuses to even enter Fu Zhen's room.

Fu Zhen walked towards the penthouse where he lived: "Go to your room and talk."

Pei Zhan followed and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't have time because Fu Zhen's legs and feet were very fast and he had already entered his house in the blink of an eye.

Not only that, she sat down on the chair next to the table with ease, lifted the teapot on the table with one hand, and opened the cup on the table with the other hand. After making a cup of tea, she drank half of the cup by herself. , then put it down, looked at him and said:
"My queen sent me to the palace to reward me."

As she spoke, she brought the rewards one by one.

Pei Zhan naturally knows these things. But when she heard that the queen rewarded her with a sword, she obviously paused.

Fu Zhen continued: "Later, the queen asked me about my grandfather."

"What did she ask?"

"Grandfather's death. The accident he encountered before his death was also mentioned by the empress."

Fu Zhen said solemnly, "It seems that the empress has indeed noticed the doubts about the eldest son of the emperor that we mentioned earlier. But for some reason, I always feel that she still has a lot to say."

"Where do you start talking about this?"

"After she asked me a few questions, she offered to send me out. I thought she wanted to say something to me, but she didn't say anything along the way. She only said that I would be sent to the palace in the future. say."

As a queen, even if she wanted to express her favor, it was already a great honor to get up and see her off at most as far as the Qianqing Palace. But not only did she see off the Qianqing Palace, she also walked a long way - she didn't just sit around every day with nothing to do. The concubine, she has always shared the political affairs for the emperor. No matter how favored the Pei family is, why should she be favored to this extent?

Based on Fu Zhen's understanding of the queen, her behavior was like she hesitated to speak. "This is also strange. Why do you have to go out of Qianqing Palace to say something?" Pei Zhan wondered, "Since you have been sent to the palace, what else can't be said directly?"

"Who says it's not?" Fu Zhen looked deep, "So I just recalled what Yang Zhan told you in the prison. He said that the palace sent two groups of people to look for the emperor's eldest son, and one group came from the emperor. , the other group came from the Queen, and the people sent by the Emperor did not know that the Queen also sent people out.

"If Yang Zhan is indeed not talking nonsense, it can only mean that the queen seems to have some thoughts about the emperor that are unknown to outsiders."

On the way back from the palace, Fu Zhen had already gone through this several times, so she just opened her mouth and said it.

Because she was so direct, Pei Zhan couldn't help but straighten his waist - the thing that the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were least likely to believe was that perhaps there were selfish intentions between the emperor and the empress. Fu Zhen's words were so straightforward that it was a little bit... Sharp.

Pei Zhan thought for a while, but couldn't refute: "In this case, an explanation is indeed needed."

The eldest son of the emperor, Yang Yi, is the biological son of the emperor and the empress. Originally, after the murderer of the prince was revealed, everything should have been concluded.

If the person who died in Baiyu Hutong was really Yang Yi, then he should not have been unable to fight back at the hands of Yang Zhan; if the person who died was not Yang Yi, then it had been so long since the crime occurred, and Yang Yi should have come out no matter what.

And most importantly, why hasn't Yang Yi appeared for so many years?

The emperor and the empress, who obviously share weal and woe along the way, and whose love is as strong as gold, cooperate impeccably in all matters big and small in the court and harem, but on the contrary, something unusual happened when it came to the emperor's eldest son?

"So we have to do the same as before, find ways to find out the explanation for all the things that cannot be explained." Fu Zhen was not vague at all, "I can't contribute to this task now, so I can only leave it to you."

Pei Zhan did not show weakness in his attitude. He directly picked up the teapot on the table and took a few sips: "The Ministry of War has recently received several military reports. If nothing goes wrong, the emperor will notify me to enter the palace in the next two days. By then, I play by ear.”

Fu Zhen glanced down at his hand holding the teapot and said, "Zi Yan, bring over my pair of misty, rainy, green, and green teapots."

Zi Yan smiled and said, "Yes."

Pei Zhan looked at them: "What are you doing?"

Fu Zhen pressed the teapot in his hand: "Since we still have to be tied together by a marriage certificate, why should Zhan'er be rigid? In order to find out all the doubts as soon as possible, I may have to come into your house every day. , you didn’t even prepare a cup for me, that’s not the way to treat guests.”

Pei Zhan's face tensed up: "There are many places to talk, why do you have to come to my room?"

It had been so long since she had even put a toe in his house, but now she came whenever she asked and was so domineering. What was wrong with her?
"If you don't want to be here, you can go to my room." Fu Zhen smiled, "But you have to be there when I call."

Her posture was slouched and her smile was even more languid. It was really evil.

Since Pei Zhan made up his mind to divorce, he was ready to end his relationship. In the past two days, she had been uncharacteristically flirting with her, and she was like a demon on his spiritual path.

He put on a serious face and wanted to ask her to "respect herself" in a serious manner. He remembered that he had done this before and suffered a loss at her hands. He felt that his momentum had lost a bit if he did this again, so he looked over and said, "Miss Fu, this is What are you hinting at?"

Who would have expected that the Tao is one foot high and the devil is one foot high? Fu Zhen said: "Then you understood my hint?"

Pei Zhan's face turned darker.

If he admitted that he was a majestic seven-foot-tall man, wouldn't he become someone she could call and leave at a moment's notice?

"Here comes the cup."

Zi Yan is back.

Fu Zhen asked her to put the set of two cups on the table, and then stood up: "Brother Mu will arrive in Beijing tomorrow. I will go to the kitchen to prepare a reception banquet for him first. As an elder brother, don't be absent. Make time for dinner tomorrow.”

Pei Zhan couldn't hide his surprise and looked at her as she walked to the door, only to realize that he saw a stranger.

In the past few months, although she was also in charge of the central government of the house, she almost only looked at the accounts and issued tokens.

The managers in the house were all pretty smart and capable, but there weren't many things that required her to do it herself.

Even if she didn't take things like welcoming Pei Mu back from a long business trip, the people in the house would make arrangements for it, so it wouldn't be considered a dereliction of duty on her part.

But now she actually has to go to the kitchen to prepare for the reception banquet——

why?
She is not Pei Muzhen’s sister-in-law!

"By the way," Fu Zhen, who was about to walk out of the door, turned back at this time, "The sword that the empress gave me is the biggest gain from my trip to the palace. Thank you for letting me know that in this world, there are still people using other weapons. A way to care about me.”

Pei Zhan was startled again. In a daze, he didn't realize that she had gone far away.

Fu Zhen's steps were lighter than when he stood up.

When receiving the order in the palace, there was no time to think too much, but behind the heavy sword, how could people ignore the queen's words.

In the past, she was wrong and always treated Pei Zhan casually as the child he used to be. In fact, a child's heart is the most sincere.

……

After persuading Fuzhen and Pei Zhan to reconcile, no one came to disturb them for the rest of the time, including Liang Xuan, who was always clamoring to come back to Pei's house, and was pushed back into the house by his mother.

It wasn't until they secretly observed for a day and a night and heard the report from the ear that the two of them were living their lives as usual and even sat together to discuss things, that everyone put their hearts back in their stomachs.

So early the next morning, Su Xing'er gave Liang Xuan'er some advice and sent him to Pei's house.

Fu Zhen had just returned from practicing his legs and feet in the garden, and met him at the gate of the courtyard, carrying a baggage and humming as he climbed the threshold.

"Why are you here again?!" Fu Zhen really couldn't do anything with this brown candy.

Liang Xuan said confidently: "My uncle Mu is going home today, and I came here specially to pick him up and wash him away."

Fu Zhen glanced at his baggage: "You are here to pick up the wind and wash away the dust, but you are just here to have a meal. What are you doing with a baggage?"

"Then I'll stay for a few days! I was going to stay last time, but I didn't finish it. I have to make up for it this time!"

Fu Zhen rolled his eyes. How can she have time to take care of her children at this moment? She waved to Guo Song and said, "Send him back!"

How could Liang Xuan be willing?
Carrying the baggage, he ran towards the yard. Halfway through, he bumped into Pei Zhan who was coming out. He jumped up quickly, hugged Pei Zhan's arm, and said urgently in a low voice: "Uncle Wu, I They were sent by Zongzi Guanyin! Please take down my fifth aunt and let me live here!"

Pei Zhan stretched out his hand to pull him away, but Fu Zhen happened to be there. His tongue refused to obey him, so he said, "Let him live if he wants to."

After speaking, he pushed Liang Xuan into the house: "Find a place by yourself!"

Then he looked at Fuzhen without changing his expression and without a beating heart: "The decree from the palace has come. The emperor asked me to enter the palace. I will leave first."

Then he stepped smoothly over the threshold.

(End of this chapter)