Chapter 364 The Queen asked: Do you want to join us?
Su Changan immediately said, "I figured it out from the poems!"
Xia Fengxiang rolled his eyes at Su Changan, but didn't say anything, so why was he so excited?
Lian Wei continued, "We have already found out that it was written by a palace maid named Qu Hongye."
Xia Fengxiang handed the maple leaf in his hand to Su Changan, and then said, "You handle your business."
Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang had a clear division of responsibilities, and since Su Changan took over the harem and some matters that the queen was in charge of, Xia Fengxiang had completely stopped caring about those things.
The main reason is that it’s too troublesome, and I don’t have enough energy to keep up. Finally, I don’t want Su Changan to be so idle every day, otherwise it will make me angry when I see him!
Su Changan took the maple leaf and smiled helplessly, but he didn't say anything more. He looked at Lian Wei and asked, "Where is the person?"
Lian Wei replied: "Empress Sun and Steward Hongshu are questioning us."
Hearing this, Su Changan looked down at the poem on the maple leaf and said, "Bring it first."
Lian Wei clasped his fists, turned around and left.
And Su Changan continued to look at the maple leaf in his hand.
The poem itself is just good, not worth being passed down.
The poem can be translated as 'I sit by the stream, bored as always, feeling lonely and homesick, envious of the maple leaves floating in the stream like boats.'
Therefore, Su Changan, who immediately understood the meaning of the poem, said "This girl is very lonely".
But if you look closely, it is a poem about loneliness.
It's like telling others that the way I am now is like...
chat?
While Su Changan was thinking this, Su Wan'er and Su Zhaoxin looked at Hongye curiously.
Su Changan smiled and put the maple leaf on the table. Su Wan'er immediately understood and walked over to start looking at it. Su Zhaoxin naturally did the same.
But Su Zhaoxin was confused.
However, Su Wan'er seemed to understand everything at once and looked thoughtful.
Not long.
Sun Shanggong, Hongshu and others all came.
Of course, Qu Hongye also came with them.
After paying respects, Hongshu looked at Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang and said respectfully, "I failed to discipline you properly, Your Majesty and Your Majesty, please punish me."
Xia Fengxiang said nothing.
Su Changan smiled and said, "Aunt, please don't be polite. I have read the content of the poem and it seems nothing special. But what is the matter?"
Hongshu was a little frightened when he heard the name, but before he could say anything, Xia Fengxiang said directly: "It doesn't matter what you call me, let's talk about the matter first."
Upon hearing this, Hongshu immediately bowed, then glanced at Qu Hongye who was looking down at him with a sad face, sighed, and then told Su Changan what he had just learned.
I discovered this film because of the incident involving a female ghost that has been making a lot of noise today.
No matter what the truth is.
Yan Ruyu, who heard about this, naturally did not dare to take it lightly, after all, the emperor and the empress were there.
As a result, someone can appear silently at night. No matter whether it is a human or a real female ghost, it must be investigated carefully.
Yan Ruyu even stood up her mother Yan Yunxiao just in case.
After all, the only thing that could happen so silently that she was unaware, and even the Huanglong Guards were unaware, was the existence of the end.
And naturally, it also includes checking Qingquan Mountain and going to Qingquan Town below.
There were no clues at first, only the things that the palace maids said they saw a female ghost.
However, in the densely-branched area of the creek, a member of the Chixia Army picked up the leaf and handed it to Yan Ruyu.
Although Yan Ruyu did not understand the content of the poem, Lian Wei and the others also figured it out. However, the Emperor and the Empress were here, and something like this appeared. There might be some secret code or something, plus there was the incident of the female ghost last night.
After the previous assassination attempt, we have to be cautious.
So, I checked it out.
Then I found Qu Hongye.
Qu Hongye also said it directly without hiding anything, saying that this was hers, and she started writing it half a year ago. Because she had nothing to do in the palace, she wrote the poems and then put them in the stream, letting them drift with the flow.
But a few months ago, she saw a maple leaf in the stream, which had floated from upstream outside the palace. There was also a poem written on it, and it was a response to her previous poem.
So Hongye wrote another poem and sent it to her.
Unexpectedly, after some days, I received another response.
As time went by, the story of the red leaves passing on poetry came into being.
It’s just that the reply to the poem letter sometimes takes a few days, sometimes ten days, so up to now there are only a few maple leaves.
Upon hearing this, Xia Fengxiang, who had originally seemed to be ignoring the matter, put down the memorial in his hand and looked at Qu Hongye, obviously finding it interesting.
Su Changan was naturally also surprised.
After all, this is like a pen pal.
And the way these two chat, with maple leaves and streams, is really interesting.
While Hongshu was talking about this, Sun Shanggong on the side took the maple leaves and presented them to Su Changan.
There are five maple leaves in total, one of which is yellow and cracked, but you can tell at a glance that it has been kept with great care.
When Sun Shang Gong handed it to Su Changan, she was also very cautious.
During this process, Qu Hongye, who had been keeping his head down, raised his eyes for the only time, and was obviously afraid that the maple leaves would be damaged.
Su Changan carefully placed the maple leaf on the table, while Xia Fengxiang came over to take a look.
Five maple leaves.
On one leaf there is a poem: "Even the orioles in the deep palace are sad, and the palace maids in the clear spring are heartbroken. The imperial city cannot stop the water from flowing eastward, who do I want to send this poem to on the leaf?"
I knew at a glance that this should be the initial response.
However, except for this one with poetry, the other maple leaves are covered with small characters.
The content is not flowery and pretentious words, but some small things, such as what happened in the town, or what Matchmaker Wang did today, all of which are trivial matters in life.
But the writer used the shortest words to write many stories on the small maple leaf.
Moreover, some things that Su Changan did were written on the two maple leaves, including the content of the poem "Do You Know? It Should Be Green, Fat, Red, Thin".
The story on the maple leaf is humorous. It seems to be telling the palace maids what happened outside, so as to help them relieve their boredom.
And there is also a sentence like "When you are in darkness, you see the light, and your heart will be like the bright sky at daytime", which is obviously to comfort the palace maids not to continue to be so resentful, but to be more cheerful and lively.
While Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang were looking at the content, Hongshu glanced at Qu Hongye and sighed in his heart.
She knew that Hongye would write poems on maple leaves and then put them into the stream.
But such things did not break the rules. It was just that the palace ladies were isolated from the outside world in the Qingquan Palace, and they inevitably felt lonely and empty, so they wrote some poems and sent them to the stream to express their feelings.
So sweet potato has never been paid any attention to it.
Because such resentful and helpless emotions are not only felt by Qu Hongye.
Especially in this deserted Qingquan Palace, Hongshu, who has been there for more than ten years, almost twenty years, knows very well where the palace maids' worries lie. Although in the eyes of outsiders, living in this palace, even a small palace maid is a high-ranking existence with no worries about food and clothing.
Can.
Only those within the walls of Qingquan Palace know that their life of having no worries about food and clothing only results in the sight of high walls, flowing water, flowers and plants in the palace.
Such a lonely and helpless woman, with her beauty fading away and filled with sorrow and worry. She looks at the birds flying in the sky and laments that she cannot be free.
Especially in the past few years, because Li Nishang was in power, although there had never been such incidents as palace maids being tortured to death in Qingquan Palace like in the harem, after all, many people were brought here because they offended Li Nishang's subordinates, so there were still some cases of being mistreated to some extent.
Especially, the previous manager of Qingquan Palace was not only Hongshu, there was another person as well. However, after Li Nishang got into trouble, that person was also liquidated.
And Qu Hongye was demoted from her position as a female official who had a great chance of wearing a red robe to an ordinary lower-ranking maid in Qingquan Palace because she had offended Li Nishang's subordinates before.
Because of this, Qu Hongye became cautious and never talked much about anything, only chatting about unimportant little things around him.
But Hongshu was well aware of Qu Hongye's talents, so when he heard about the exam, he immediately planned to recommend Qu Hongye.
But unexpectedly, Qu Hongye refused and said that it was fine to stay where she was.
Hongshu knew that Qu Hongye was unwilling to go to the palace where she had to be on guard against others everywhere. She also knew that once she went to the palace, a palace maid like Qu Hongye would just go to a higher part of the palace wall, so she didn't say much.
But unexpectedly, something like this happened today.
Writing poems on maple leaves, or receiving poems sent by others, may mean something is going on in the palace.
But this is nothing in Qingquan Palace.
But unfortunately, His Majesty and the Queen are here, and there was an incident with a female ghost last night!
Although Hongshu also knew that if there was no such thing as a female ghost, no one would care about the maple leaf poem, but.
The Emperor and the Empress came here secretly. You sent out the maple leaf, and then the female ghost appeared.
It would be strange if I wasn't suspected!
Why!
Thinking of this, Hongshu, who knew Qu Hongye very well, sighed and glanced at Qu Hongye who was standing there with his head down, not knowing what would happen next.
In addition to Hongshu, several other Qingquan Palace ladies also frowned and looked at Qu Hongye. After all, they all knew what kind of person Qu Hongye was, and they were really worried about what would happen to her in the future.
After a moment of silence, Hongshu looked at Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang, bowed, and then started talking about Qu Hongye.
That is to say, after passing the imperial examination five years ago, she entered the palace and wanted to pursue a career as a female official. After she finally got the position of Director of the Shangyi Bureau, she offended Li Nishang's subordinates and so on.
It seemed to be explaining Qu Hongye's affairs, but in fact, it was Hongshu who was pleading for Qu Hongye.
but
Hongshu wanted to say more, but Sun Shanggong patted her gently, then smiled and shook her head slightly.
Hongshu understood that Sun Shanggong told her not to say more, but she was still a little confused.
Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang naturally understood what Hongshu meant.
but
The two also knew that the reason Yan Ruyu found out about Qu Hongye was because of the incident last night when Su Changan was mistaken for a female ghost.
So he must know that Qu Hongye did not collude with assassins or anything like that.
On the contrary, the two found the story of the red leaves and the creek as the medium of poetry quite interesting.
so.
Su Changan looked at Qu Hongye and asked, "Male or female?"
When Su Changan asked this question, everyone present was stunned.
Including Xia Fengxiang, who had no intention of interfering in the matter and just wanted to watch.
Why do you care about this? It doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl!
Xia Fengxiang felt helpless.
Qu Hongye looked at Su Changan in surprise, not understanding what the Queen meant.
Su Changan saw Qu Hongye's expression and asked with a smile: "I mean, the one who wrote poetry with you was a man or a woman?"
Qu Hongye was still surprised when she heard this, because she still didn't understand what the queen meant by asking this, but she still bowed respectfully and replied, "I don't know."
Su Changan nodded and looked at Fengye thoughtfully: "That's right, you haven't even gone out to meet her, but from what I saw in the letter she wrote to you, it seems to be about a man, and you may have fallen in love with him."
When Su Changan spoke, his face was full of curiosity and gossip.
As soon as these words came out.
Everyone present was surprised again, especially the female officials including Hongshu in Qingquan Palace.
After all, wasn’t Hongye originally here to be questioned?
Why is the Empress saying such things, and she looks so expectant.
Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan helplessly, but didn't say much. She just looked at Qu Hongye. She was also quite curious.
Qu Hongye saw that both the Empress and the Emperor were looking at her. Although she had seen the previous emperor and had seen some of the world, she was...
I still didn't know how to respond to the Queen's words.
So she couldn't figure out what the queen was talking about, so she knelt down in front of Su Changan and said, "I know my crime, please forgive me, queen."
Seeing Qu Hongye kneeling down, Su Changan glanced at Yan Ruyu.
Yan Ruyu immediately helped Qu Hongye stand up and said, "The Queen doesn't like people kneeling to her."
Qu Hongye heard this and looked at Su Changan.
Su Changan smiled and said, "You have committed no crime. This is nothing. Besides, the ghost girl thing was a misunderstanding. She was not an assassin or something like that. His Majesty just asked my maid to tell you, but it seems that she didn't meet you. So your Maple Leaf Poetry is not considered collusion with the assassin."
"I asked you if you like him. Actually, I read your poems and what he wrote to you, so I guessed and asked out of curiosity. However, if you really like him, I can make the decision to help you. But you have to see what kind of person he is first. After all, words are just words, not real people. Words can deceive people. And the other party knows that you are a palace maid, and he may covet something. Although you are not my personal maid, you are a palace person, so you are mine. I didn't know about this, but now that I know, I will definitely help you check it out."
Hearing Su Changan's words.
The female officials of Qingquan Palace and Qu Hongye who were present all looked at Su Changan with surprise as he had a gentle smile on his face.
Queen
What are you talking about?
Besides, can the Queen be so close to others?
Instead of blaming Qu Hongye for such behavior, he supported her? He even said that he would help Qu Hongye to check it out.
Hongshu looked at Su Changan and couldn't help but look at Sun Shanggong.
There was a smile on Sun Shanggong's face.
In fact, Sun Shang Gong was also worried about the female ghost last night. After all, the previous assassination attempt was really frightening!
But after arriving, seeing the curious looks on His Majesty and the Queen's faces when they heard about Qu Hongye, Sun Shang Gong immediately knew that it seemed that these two knew the inside story about the female ghost.
I think so for no other reason.
It was because Sun Shang Gong knew very well that if a dangerous existence suddenly appeared, His Majesty would definitely worry about the Queen, and the Queen would definitely worry about His Majesty, and the two of them would definitely not be so leisurely and do nothing.
But the way she acted just now clearly showed that she knew the inside story, so Sun Shanggong immediately realized that Qu Hongye was not some collusion with the assassin, but just a lonely and empty palace maid with a little sentimental heart.
Seeing Sun Shanggong’s smile, Hongshu looked at Su Changan again.
The late queen suddenly came to my mind.
The late queen was also so gentle and kind to others, but she was somewhat inferior to this queen in talent and ability. One could tell this just by listening to the names of the maids around her.
But Hongshu was also relieved in his heart. As long as nothing happened, Hongye was just a poor man after all.
Su Changan didn't care about the looks of those people, but looked at Qu Hongye and asked with a smile: "So."
But just when Su Changan opened his mouth.
I saw a Chixia soldier running towards me in a hurry.
After arriving outside the pavilion, he clasped his fists towards Su Changan and Xia Fengxiang and said, "Your Majesty, Madam, the Second Miss and Miss Cui had a conflict with the Second Miss of the Zuo Family, the Second Young Master of the Qi Family, and some foreigners. We found that the people who were in contact with Qu Hongye were among them."
Hearing this
Xia Fengxiang looked at the Chixia Army: "Zuo family, Qi family?"
Chixia Jun immediately clasped his fists and said, "Yes, the person who contacted Qu Hongye was the accountant of Cai Le Ju. The second young lady of the Zuo family and the second young master of the Qi family brought some young men and women from the south, as well as some foreign merchants, to Qingquan Town for fun. They had some conflicts in Cai Le Ju and had a conflict with that person. The second young lady and Miss Cui happened to pass by at the time and stood up for justice."
Su Changan frowned: "Are they okay?"
The Chixia Army soldier said: "Well, although there is a conflict, it is safe with Captain Zhou by our side."
Hearing this, Su Changan was relieved, but he smiled helplessly. They were talking about Qu Hongye here, and she came already?
But think about it, it's not a coincidence. After all, the Chixia Army must have checked who was the one who passed the poem to Qu Hongye.
Instead, Xia Fengxiang looked at Su Changan and said, "Every time I go out with you, I always run into this kind of thing, and you can still help me."
After saying this, Xia Fengxiang stood up and looked at Su Changan: "Since it involves the Zuo family and the Qi family, then we need to go and take a look. Besides, isn't the person who contacted Qu Hongye here? It's a good opportunity to see what kind of person he is."
Su Changan felt even more helpless. He didn't know why he encountered this problem every time he went out.
But after hearing Xia Fengxiang's words, he nodded.
After all, Linhan is a kind-hearted person. Although Yuer is strong-willed, she still has to go and take a look, lest these two girls suffer and get bullied.
Moreover, it is indeed a good opportunity to see what kind of person is the one who can write so many things to encourage people to be cheerful.
so.
Su Changan stood up and looked at Qu Hongye.
Qu Hongye had a look of shock and worry on her face, mainly because she heard the identity of the person who wrote to her, but she also heard that the person had actually had a conflict with high-ranking officials!
However, Qu Hongye also saw the Queen looking at her, so she hurriedly lowered her head, pursed her lips, not knowing what to do.
Su Changan smiled and asked, "Do you want to join us?"
(End of this chapter)
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