Baozhu was still chattering, and Qin Zhao suddenly had an idea: "Go and call Nianyun back. I have something to show Nianyun."
She remembered one thing. Xiangyuan, the palace maid who was once on duty at Xiao Yu's side, left a relic, and that relic was a wooden hairpin.
Could it be that the wooden hairpin was something Nianyun left to his sister?
If you ask Qin Zhao what is her greatest strength, it is her photographic memory. Although she moved into Kunning Palace this time, she knows exactly where everything is placed.
She didn't even need to bother looking for it, she took out the wooden hairpin accurately.
This seemingly ordinary wooden hairpin was taken away by her after Xiangyuan's death. Originally, things had changed and it had been a long time since Luo Baolin and Xiangyuan's death, so she had almost forgotten about it.
Maybe today we can determine Xiangyuan's identity with the wooden hairpin.
Nianyun ran back with Baozhu in a hurry. Because he was too excited and ran too fast, Nianyun was panting.
When she saw the wooden hairpin in Qin Zhao's hand, she was surprised and happy: "This, this is the wooden hairpin that slave left for my sister. It is an object left by slave Aniang..."
As Nianyun spoke, tears streamed down his face.
But if it was her sister’s wooden hairpin, how could it be in the Queen’s hands?
"Your Majesty..." Nianyun looked at Qin Zhao: "Where did your Majesty get the hairpin?"
Qin Zhao handed the wooden hairpin to Nianyun and told him about Xiangyuan: "It has been so long, maybe you have no impression, but at that time, Luo Baolin and Xiangyuan were killed at the same time. As a close attendant of the Queen Mother, you should also listen
As I said, this wooden hairpin is a relic left behind by Xiangyuan."
The color on Nianyun's face quickly disappeared. She thought she had found her sister, but unexpectedly it was just her sister's relic.
She looked at the wooden hairpin in her hand as if she had lost her soul.
Qin Zhao looked at Nianyun quietly for a while before saying: "Xiangyuan may not be your sister. I remember that Xiangyuan is two years younger than your sister. If Xiangyuan's age is not false, then Xiangyuan is not what you are looking for.
people."
Nianyun's eyes lit up: "Really?!"
"There is no need for me to fool you with this matter. As early as the year when Xiangyuan's accident happened, I checked Xiangyuan's past and found that her age does not match up." Qin Zhao opened his lips calmly.
If Xiangyuan is not Nianyun's sister, then where did Xiangyuan get Nianyun's sister's things? And she still cherishes them so much that she keeps them hidden and never takes them out to wear?
This can only show that Xiangyuan cherishes the wooden hairpin and values the owner of the wooden hairpin.
She also investigated what happened when Xiangyuan entered the palace. Xiangyuan suffered a lot of crimes in the palace, and it seemed that she was able to escape with help later.
So who is the person who helps Xiangyuan? At the very least, she may be a female official, or she may have connections in the palace, or she may be someone with status in the palace, such as a concubine...
Qin Zhao didn't tell Nianyun about these twists and turns in her heart, just because she couldn't trust Nianyun.
She even felt that people like Nian Yun were quite scheming and would do anything to achieve their goals, so as Nian Yun's sister, she must not be someone easy to treat.
She suspected that the person who helped Xiangyuan overcome the difficulties was Nian Yun's sister, and this person's identity was not simple.
"Thank you, Queen." Nianyun knelt down in front of Qin Zhao again, his tone full of gratitude...
"You don't need to thank me, just get up." Qin Zhao opened his lips calmly.
One day she really wanted to find out Nianyun's sister. If that person had done anything, she wouldn't be able to let him go, so there was no need for Nianyun to thank her. She even felt that Nianyun might hate her because of that sister in the future.
It's just that she sat in the position of queen, how could she be afraid of Nianyun?
This time Nianyun truly left Kunning Palace.
If I were to say the biggest advantage of moving into Kunning Palace, it would be that I no longer need to listen to Anya chattering all day long, so it is quiet.
The biggest worry for her as a queen was that she had too many social activities. Every day, there were women who came to the palace with signs and wanted to see her and make friends with her.
Another worry is that the concubines in the harem have to come to greet her every day.
This prevented her from sleeping in.
She was so busy the past few days that she was dizzy, and today she finally had some free time. She immediately wrote down a timetable, and all the concubines would come to her on the first, eleventh, and twenty-first days of the lunar month to pay their respects to her, so that she did not have to get up early every day.
Bao Zhu watched clearly from the side, covered her lips and said with a smile: "My queen is always lazy."
"What else? I get up so early every day, and I have to see so many resentful faces." Qin Zhao said and yawned: "Since I became the queen, I have gotten up early for five days in a row."
Except for the wedding night when she was sleeping in bed, and the national mourning, Xiao Ce didn't spend the night in Kunning Palace for a long time. But this way, she was even more tired than when she was sleeping in bed.
"Your Majesty, please speak softly. How sad will it be if the Emperor hears this?" Bao Zhu advised.
After all, the empress is complaining that being a queen is not good, but how many concubines in this harem want to be the queen? The empress even dislikes it after she gets it.
"What's so good about being a queen? Your Majesty hasn't come to Kunning Palace to see me for several days." Qin Zhao's face was full of resentment.
As soon as Baozhu heard this, he understood that his master wanted to be the emperor.
"Because the emperor knew that the empress was busy recently, he didn't come to see the empress. If the empress misses the emperor, she can go to the Yangxin Hall to find the emperor." Bao Zhu indicated that his master could take the initiative.
"That's right, I haven't looked for him since I sat in the palace." Qin Zhao suddenly became interested.
She asked Baoyu to stew the tonic soup, and then happily went to the Yangxin Hall.
It was only when Qin Zhao went to the Nuan Pavilion that he heard several cabinet ministers finished talking about government affairs and then mentioned Xiao Ce's harem affairs.
Liang Shoufu's granddaughter was originally one of the candidates for the queen, but now that the queen was occupied by Qin Zhao, he had no choice but to take a step back, hoping to stuff his granddaughter into the harem.
So he came up with the idea of persuading Xiao Ce to expand the harem.
Several cabinet members are here today, including Zhao Yu.
Liang Shoufu had just finished his suggestion. Another Lord Zhang also wanted to send a daughter of the Zhang family into the harem, so he agreed with Liang Shoufu.
Zhao Yucai entered the cabinet not long ago, and his position was also at the very end, but he was the best at figuring out Xiao Ce's thoughts. In addition, his heart was also towards Qin Zhao, so he naturally did not agree with the opinions of Liang Shoufu and Master Zhang.
"Your Majesty, I thought that there was only a draft last year, so there is no rush to expand the harem. Furthermore, this is the Emperor's private matter, and I should not comment on it." Zhao Yu took up the topic without being humble or arrogant.
Liang Shoufu and Mr. Zhang both looked at Zhao Yu with vicious eyes.
Zhao Yu looked back calmly, not afraid of being hated by Liang Shoufu and Mr. Zhang.
"Is this what Zhao Qing said, or do you want to overstep your bounds and even take care of my own affairs in my backyard?" Xiao Ce's eyes swept over Liang Shoufu and Mr. Zhang.
