The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 321 Two more

The little eunuch went to the Shang Palace Bureau in a hurry, and brought Zhang Zhang to the office after a while.

Xiao Liulang was waiting for her outside Renshou Palace.

Zhang Zhangshi is the old lady in the palace. In the Zhao Kingdom Palace, there is a rule that the maid can leave the palace when she is twenty-five years old. If she doesn't go out, she can comb her hair and become an aunt.

Zhang Zhangshi is the latter.

From the palace maid to the aunt, to the grandma in charge, she has handed over most of her life to the palace.

The little eunuch who passed the message did not clarify the specific matters. Zhang Zhang thought that it was the queen mother who had summoned her. She came to the door of Renshou Palace. As soon as she saw Xiao Liulang, she was shocked for a while, and she took a few steps back in fright!

Because of his face, more than one person thought he had seen a ghost, and steward Zhang was getting older, so it was inevitable that he would be more afraid.

Xiao Liulang didn't take it to heart, he said, "My surname is Xiao, my name is Liulang, and it was written by Hanlin Xiu."

"Xiao, Xiao Liulang? It's not Xiao..." Zhang Zhangshi was about to pronounce that name, but suddenly remembered his humbleness, not worthy of pronouncing the name of Zhaodu's Little Marquis.

She calmed herself down, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, and said, "Sorry, the servant recognized the wrong person."

Xiao Liulang didn't care much, he took out the token that the old sacrificial wine gave him - a piece of inkstone that was missing on one side.

Zhang Zhangshi's face changed again when he saw that Fang Yantai: "You..." She hesitated, but after a while, she asked, "Did Huo Jijiu ask you to come to me?"

Xiao Liulang nodded and handed the inkstone to her.

Zhang Zhang took over the inkstone and seemed to recall something, and his eyes became complicated: "I didn't think he would come to me at this time, is he okay? I heard that he has returned to the capital again. , I'm back to the Imperial College's sacrificial wine..."

Xiao Liulang said to her: "He is all right, please rest assured about Zhang Zhang."

Zhang Zhangshi smiled bitterly: "What do I have to worry about? Even if he is exiled to the bitter cold land, he will not see him die in a foreign land. He will naturally take good care of himself..."

I always feel that the relationship between the two is not easy, but Xiao Liulang is not good at inquiring about people's privacy.

Zhang Zhangshi looked down at the inkstone in his hand, angrily and funny: "After so many years, he still keeps this broken thing, I thought he threw it away long ago. After all, it's not a valuable thing, why bother to keep it? Letting you come to me with this shows that I trust you very much. Tell me, what are you looking for? No, what are you looking for me? He will never look for me again in his life."

Xiao Liulang was sighed by this appearance, but he would not comfort anyone.

Tears flashed in Zhang Zhangshi's eyes, she smiled, and said casually, "I made you laugh, tell me, what's the matter?"

Xiao Liulang didn't go around the corner,

He said bluntly, "I'm here to ask Zhang Zhang about a person."

"Who?" Zhang Zhang asked.

Xiao Liulang said truthfully: "A person with a mole on his left wrist has been in the palace more than ten years ago. I don't know if it is a palace maid or a palace concubine." It will not be Empress Xiao, Empress Xiao is his aunt and will not harm him , Besides, Empress Xiao often hugs him, he knows what her wrist is like.

Zhang Zhang frowned and fell into deep thought: "I don't have any impression... But I can help you find her. As long as she hasn't been released from the palace these years, I can help you find her. But."

Xiao Liulang understands that, after all, it has been more than ten years in the past, and every year there are palace maids released in the palace, and if she is one of them, it will sink into the sea.

But soon, Xiao Liulang shook his head again: "No, she should not have been released from the palace."

Poisoning Xuanping Hou's direct son is a serious crime, and once found out, he will undoubtedly die. If it is a palace concubine, the palace concubine cannot leave the palace; if it is a palace maid, she must be ordered by someone.

Having done such an important thing for the master, how could the master let her out of the palace? Either kill the mouth, or stay by your side and continue to serve for yourself.

But after he was poisoned, he didn't hear about any palace maids who died in vain.

That man is still alive.

live in the palace.

Zhang Zhang asked, "Ten years ago?"

Xiao Liulang said, "Fourteen years ago."

"Ah..." Manager Zhang seemed to be thinking of something, took a deep look at Xiao Liulang, nodded and said, "That is to find the person who entered the palace fourteen years ago, okay, leave this to me."

Zhang Zhang took the inkstone and left.

Xiao Liulang looked at her back gradually disappearing into the night. For some reason, she felt that her back was a little staggered and lonely.

It was getting late, and the palace was about to close.

Xiao Jingkong bids Queen Mother Zhuang goodbye.

Xiao Jingkong said with a straight face, "Auntie, you can steal sugar, you can't steal sugar water, and you can't steal fried shortbread. I'll tell Jiaojiao."

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked disgusted: "I know, I know, you talk too much, so hurry up!"

Xiao Jingkong put her hands behind her back, tilted her head and raised her eyebrows: "Then don't miss me too much."

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "The Aijia will miss you only after eating!"

Beep, beep, it's so noisy!

Xiao Liulang walked over unhurriedly, took Xiaojingkong's hand, and said goodbye to Empress Dowager Zhuang.

He and Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't have much to say. The two of them stared at each other and quickly looked away.

Look at him, even a glance at him is superfluous.

"Take the things." Mrs. Zhuang said expressionlessly behind.

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Xiao Jingkong broke away the bad brother-in-law's hand, ran over, picked up a brocade box on the table, and ran over again, "Let's go!"

Xiao Liulang looked at the brocade box in his arms, and then looked at himself empty-handed, with ten thousand arrows in his heart!

He glanced at Empress Zhuang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang lowered her eyes and turned her face away.

He looked at the table where the brocade box was just now, and saw a lot of blind boxes on it, but none of them belonged to him.

He took a deep breath, pressed his hair-clogged chest, and went out with a black face.

Empress Dowager Zhuang snorted as she looked at the backs of one big and one leaving.

On the way home, Xiao Jingkong fell asleep in Xiao Liulang's arms. His hand holding the brocade box was also released. Xiao Liulang held him in one hand while holding the brocade box.

There is an urge to open the brocade box and take a look, wanting to see what the Queen Mother Zhuang gave the little guy.

Why is he the only one who doesn't have it?

"What am I thinking?"

Xiao Liulang was ashamed of his naivety, he shook his head and pressed the urge to look at the brocade box.

He forgot that he was only eighteen years old, and he was an underachiever.

He doesn't have to be young and mature, and he doesn't have to be so calm.

Back at Bishui Hutong, it was already late at night.

Yao Shi and Gu Yan both took a rest, Fang Fang and Yu Ya'er also went back to the next door to rest, and Gu Jiao ordered black gunpowder in the main room.

The ratio of the powder is almost determined, but only the powder is not enough, and it has to be made into a powerful weapon or hidden weapon.

Hearing the movement at the door, she put down her work and walked out: "Are you back?"

"Yeah." Xiao Liulang nodded.

Gu Jiao walked over, took the sleeping Xiao Qingkong and put it on the bed in the Westinghouse.

"What is this?" Xiao Liulang asked, looking at the pile of dark little things on the table.

Gu Jiao came out, thought about it, and said, "I don't know what it is, um... black firecrackers?"

Xiao Liulang: "..."

What is this called?

Gu Jiao made the black powder into the size of a projectile and packed it with a modified small bamboo tube. Phosphorus powder was added to the device of the small bamboo tube. Phosphorus has a low ignition point. After being heated by friction, it will spontaneously ignite. A small blast.

The power of blasting is not too great, and deterrence is the main thing.

It's just that there is a hidden danger, that is, the weather is too hot, what if the phosphorus powder spontaneously ignites without friction?

So it has to be improved.

Gu Jiao said: "I've boiled the water, you go wash and sleep first, I'll be fine in a while."

Xiao Liulang thought she was making pills and said nothing.

Gu Jiao continued to bury her head in the black gunpowder. Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, she asked, "Is there anything else?"

Xiao Liulang opened his mouth: "...No."

Forget it, let's find out the people first.

The next day was the day when Xiao Liulang entered the palace to give lectures to the prince. As soon as he entered the study room, he heard that there was a major incident in the harem - a head of the Shang Palace Bureau had died in his room. Immediately rushed to the harem.

"Who is in charge?" Xiao Liulang asked an old eunuch in the study.

The old eunuch whispered: "Zhang Zhang, she made your Majesty's clothes, and His Majesty was talking about her a few days ago..."

Xiao Liulang didn't know that Zhang Zhangshi was actually a female official who was highly valued by the emperor. Lao Jijiu didn't say it. Of course, it may be that Laojijiu didn't know about it. After all, it was a matter of the harem. .

But I only found her last night, and today she has an accident, which is very strange.