Chapter 321

The little eunuch Ma liu'er went to Shanggong Bureau and soon came with Zhang Zhangshi.

Xiao LIULANG is waiting for her outside Renshou palace.

Headmaster Zhang is an old lady in the palace. There are maids in the palace of Zhao state who can release the rules of the palace when they are 25 years old. If they don't go out, they can comb their hair and become aunts.

Zhang is the latter.

From the palace maid to the aunt, and then to the head Mammy, she gave most of her life to the palace.

The little eunuch didn't explain the details. Zhang thought it was the Empress Dowager who summoned her. She came to the gate of Renshou palace. When she saw Xiao LIULANG, she was shocked for a while. In a moment, she was scared back several steps!

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

Xiao LIULANG didn't take it seriously. He said, "my family name is Xiao, and my name is LIULANG. I'm a scholar."

"Xiao, Xiao LIULANG? It's not Xiao... "Headmaster Zhang was about to pronounce the name, but he suddenly thought of his humble body. He was not worthy to pronounce the name of the little Marquis of zhaodu.

She calmed down, wiped a cold sweat on her forehead, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm wrong."

Xiao LIULANG didn't care much. He took out the keepsake that the old sacrificial wine gave him - an inkstone missing from one side.

Zhang Zhangshi's face changed when he saw the inkstone: "you..." she wanted to talk and stopped. In a moment, she asked, "is it Huo Jijiu who asked you to come to me?"

Xiao LIULANG nodded and handed the inkstone to her.

Zhang Zhangshi took the inkstone, it seems to recall what, Mou Guang become complex: "I never thought that he would come to me, how is he? I heard that he went back to the capital and served as a sacrificial wine for the Imperial Academy.... "

Xiao LIULANG said to her, "everything is well with him. Please rest assured, manager Zhang."

Zhang Zhangshi gave a bitter smile: "what do I have to worry about? Even if he was exiled to a cold place, he would not die in another country. Naturally, he would take good care of himself... "

I always feel that their relationship is not very simple, but Xiao LIULANG is not easy to inquire about people's privacy.

Headmaster Zhang looked down at the inkstone in his hand, angry and funny: "for so many years, he still has this broken thing, I thought he had thrown it away. After all, it's not a valuable thing. Why keep it? He can let you come to me with this, which shows that he trusts you very much. Come on, what can I do for you? No, it's you. What can I do for you? He will never come to me again in his life. "

Xiao LIULANG was so sorry for his appearance, but he couldn't comfort others.

Zhang Zhang's eyes flashed with tears. She laughed and said as if nothing had happened: "I'll make you laugh. Please tell me. What's the matter?"

Xiao LIULANG didn't beat around the Bush and said frankly, "I'm here to ask manager Zhang about someone."

"Who?" Zhang asked.

Xiao LIULANG said truthfully: "a man with a mole on his left wrist was in the palace more than ten years ago. I don't know whether he was a palace maid or a palace concubine." It can't be empress Xiao. Empress Xiao is his aunt and won't harm him. Besides, empress Xiao often hugs him. He knows what her wrist is like.

Zhang Zhangshi frowned and thought deeply: "I don't have much impression... But I can help you find it. As long as she hasn't been released in these years, I can help you find it. But, "he said

Xiao LIULANG understood that, after all, in the past ten years, there have been maids released from the palace every year. If she were one of them, it would be a disaster.

But soon, Xiao LIULANG shook his head again: "no, she should not be released."

It is a felony to poison Xuanping Marquis's son. Once found, he will die. If it is the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine cannot leave the palace; If she is a maid in waiting, she must be instructed.

After doing such an important thing for the master, how can the master let her out of the palace? Either kill them, or stay around and continue to work for them.

But he didn't hear of any dead maids after poisoning.

The man is still alive.

Live in the palace.

Mr. Zhang asked: "more than ten years ago?"

"Fourteen years ago," said Xiao LIULANG

"Ah..." steward Zhang seemed to think of something. He took a deep look at Xiao LIULANG and nodded, "that's to find someone who entered the palace 14 years ago. OK, give this to me."

Zhang took the inkstone and left.

Xiao LIULANG looked at her back which gradually disappeared in the night, somehow, inexplicably felt that her back was a bit staggering and lonely.

It's getting late. The palace is closing.

Xiao Jingkong said goodbye to empress dowager Zhuang.

Xiaojingkong said, "aunt, you can steal sugar, you can't steal sugar water, you can't steal fried pastry. I'll tell Jiaojiao."

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked disgusted: "if you know, if you know, just talk a lot, don't you go quickly!"

Small clearance small hand back in the back, tilted head pick eyebrows: "then you don't think too much of me."

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "I miss you only when I'm fed up!"

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!

Xiao LIULANG came slowly, took xiaojingkong's hand and said goodbye to empress dowager Zhuang.

He and Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't have so much to say. They stared at each other and soon moved away.

Look, even a glance at him is superfluous.

"Take the things." Zhuang taihou said without expression.

"Oh, I almost forgot!" Xiaojingkong broke away the bad brother-in-law's hand and ran to him daddada. He picked up a brocade box on the table and came running, "let's go!"

Xiao LIULANG looked at the brocade box in his arms and looked at himself empty handed. He had ten thousand arrows in his heart!

He glanced at the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Zhuang lowered her eyes and turned her face.

He looked at the table where the brocade box had just been placed. There were a lot of blind boxes on it, but none of them was his own.

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

Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the back of the young and the big, and hummed.

On the way home, Xiao Jingkong falls asleep sitting in Xiao LIULANG's arms. His hand holding the brocade box is also released. Xiao LIULANG holds him in one hand while holding the brocade box.

There is an impulse to open the brocade box and have a look. I want to see what empress dowager Zhuang has given to the little guy.

Why does he have it and he doesn't?

"What am I thinking?"

Xiao LIULANG feels ashamed for his childishness. He shakes his head and presses the impulse to peep at the brocade box.

He forgot that he was only 18 years old and that he was a boy who didn't reach the top.

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

Back to Bishui Hutong, the night is already deep.

Yao Shi and Gu Yan both rest. Mammy Fang and Yu ya'er also go back to the next room to have a rest. Gu Jiao is in the hall to straighten out the black powder.

The proportion of powder is almost certain, but only powder is not enough. It has to be made into powerful weapons or concealed weapons.

Hearing the movement at the door, she put down her work, went out and said, "back?"

"Well." Xiao LIULANG nodded.

Gu Jiao went over and took the little clear space to Westinghouse's bed.

"What is this?" Xiao LIULANG looked at a pile of black little things on the table and asked.

Gu Jiao came out, thought about it and said, "I don't know what it is, eh... Black firecracker?"

Xiao LIULANG

What is it called?

Gu Jiao made the black powder into the size of a pellet and installed it in a modified bamboo tube. Phosphorus powder was added to the device of the bamboo tube. The ignition point of phosphorus was low, and it would spontaneously ignite after friction and heating, which ignited the black powder in the bamboo tube and formed a small explosion.

The power of blasting is not great, mainly deterrence.

But there is also a hidden danger, that is, the weather is too hot, in case there is no friction, phosphorus powder also spontaneous combustion how to do?

So it needs to be improved.

Gu Jiao said: "I've cooked the water. You go to wash and sleep first. I'll be fine for a while."

Xiao LIULANG thought she was making pills, and said nothing.

Gu Jiao continued to bury her head in the black powder. 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 went to the palace to give lectures for the prince. As soon as he went to his study, he heard that something had happened in the harem. One of the leaders of the Shanggong Bureau died in his own room. The emperor Longyan was very angry and rushed to the harem immediately after the early court.

"Who is in charge?" Xiao LIULANG asked an old Eunuch in his study.

The old eunuch whispered: "manager Zhang, your Majesty's clothes are all made by her. Your majesty talked about her a few days ago..."

Xiao LIULANG didn't know that headmaster Zhang was actually a female official who was respected by the emperor. He didn't say that the old sacrificial wine himself didn't know it. After all, it was a matter of the back palace. As a former minister, it's not surprising that he didn't know it.

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