Huaiyu is slightly cool

Not far outside the Taiji Palace, the eldest princess looked at the gate of the palace worriedly, waiting for news from Zhou Huai.

At a distance of seven or eight steps behind her, stood Zhang Ji and Wei Xuan.Apart from the three of them, there wasn't even a palace maid or eunuch in sight.

During the national funeral, Zhang Jie finally changed out of the red pomegranate dress she used to wear, and changed into a plain dress. She pulled Wei Xuan and whispered: "Why did the eldest princess ask Zhou Huai for help?"

"I'm favored." Wei Xuan curled her lips disdainfully after finishing speaking, but saw that something was wrong in Zhang Yu's expression, as if she was worried and frightened, so she asked a little puzzled: "What's wrong with you? Do you have something to say?" Just say it directly, don't hide it from me."

Zhang Jie was a little hesitant, but he said it anyway: "Did you find out that the families who designed Zhou Huai last time were all implicated in this incident?"

Wei Xuan frowned and thought, subconsciously nodded in agreement with Zhang Jie's words.But she knew Zhang Jie's temperament, Zhang Jie, who was carefree and straightforward, would not have discovered such details if no one reminded him.Thinking of this, Wei Xuan asked with a serious expression, "Do you know something?"

Zhang Ji dodged his eyes: "It's nothing."

Wei Xuan straightened her face and said seriously: "Quickly tell me, do I have to interrogate you? Or do you want me to tell His Highness that you have something to hide from her? Don't ask me to save you then."

"Don't, don't, sister Xuan, I said, but you have to keep it a secret for me, don't tell it."

"It's so long-winded, tell me quickly, what's going on?"

Zhang Jie hesitated and said, "Last time, I slipped the tongue and told Zhou Huai that the Fourth Prince planned to harm her."

Wei Xuan was taken aback, and asked, "When did you say that? How did she react?"

"His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess said it the day she was injured. Zhou Huai looked suddenly enlightened, and said to himself: No wonder the Eldest Princess came by such a coincidence."

Wei Xuan asked: "Did she say anything else?"

Zhang Jie thought for a moment, and then said cautiously: "She didn't say anything, it was Ming Sheng who secretly told me that the Zhang family was not on the list, so this time my Zhang family only has the assistant teacher Zhang from the Imperial College and a few people who have not been in contact with each other. A lot of officials were relegated and released, but it didn't hurt the root."

Wei Xuan's complexion changed suddenly, and his heart felt cold.Although no children of the Wei family were directly arrested and imprisoned this time, except for her direct lineage, others were not so lucky. Among them were important members of the Wei family and many high-level officials with close contacts, so in During this 'changing sky', the Wei family lost nearly half of their important positions in the court.

And one more thing, after Zhang Ye reminded, Wei Xuan remembered the identities of the new batch of "rising stars" officials in the court, most of them were young people who came from poor backgrounds and had no deep ties to the major families. Many are radical young people who espouse ideas against the privileges of the aristocratic families.The other part came from Yunzhou household registration or worked in Yunzhou, and was promoted to Beijing this year. Because the official ranks were relatively low, they were not noticed by the major families, but the number of those who counted carefully exceeded The number of people entering Beijing in Yunzhou is several times that of previous years.If these people have formed an alliance, even if the aristocratic family still squeezes out half of them as in previous years, it will not be able to keep up with their growth rate. Coupled with the emperor's backing support, within ten years, Yunzhou officials will be in the court. Occupying one side, plus the fact that the Zhou family has been in power for three generations in Yunzhou, the Zhou family may be the most powerful family under the Wu family by then.

But why does the emperor trust the Zhou family so much?The Wei family has been loyal and dedicated to the Wu family for so many years, yet they were suppressed by the emperor's suspicion. This result is really chilling.And the main force of the Zhou family has moved to Yunzhou, how can there be a well-connected Wei family who has lived in the capital for a long time?In terms of closeness, Empress Wei is the daughter of the Wei family, the eldest princess and the prince are nephews of the Wei family, and they are all close to the Wei family. At this point, Zhou Huai was the only girl born in the two generations of the Zhou family. It is even more incomparable.Wei Xuan didn't believe that the emperor would look at the Zhou family with admiration because of Zhou Huai's strange birth, so why would the emperor do this now?Unless... Wei Xuan suddenly remembered the favored concubine Xian, and the fourth prince Wuliangcheng who was about the same age as Zhou Huai, and was startled.

The more Wei Xuan thought about it, the more afraid she became, but she didn't say it out. She looked at the eldest princess standing quietly in front of her, and comforted Zhang Ye or herself: "Maybe it's just a coincidence, don't think too much about it." many."

While they were talking in a low voice, Zhou Huai had already come out of the Tai Chi Palace, walked up to them, smiled and handed the edict to the eldest princess who was waiting outside: "How, did you not disappoint?"

"En." The eldest princess responded lightly, took the imperial decree, turned around and left without saying a word to Zhou Huaido.

Zhou Huai looked at her back, smiled, and then deliberately put his hands to his mouth and shouted: "I will cook at noon, remember to come back."

The eldest princess didn't know if she heard it, but she just left without looking back.

Wei Xuan, Zhang Ji and the others saw that the eldest princess was gone, but they still didn't react.Wei Xuan saw the imperial decree in the eldest princess's hand, then glanced at Zhou Huai, ignored her, and turned her head to follow the eldest princess arrogantly.

Zhang Jie didn't hold any grudges. After greeting Zhou Huai with a heartless smile, he turned around and chased after the eldest princess and the others.

Zhou Huai stood alone on the spot, watching them walk away before turning back.

She cooked a table of dishes at noon, and after waiting for nearly an hour, the eldest princess did not show up, even until she moved to Fengyiyuan, the eldest princess did not show up.

Zhou Huai still chose to work hard, just like Supreme Treasure finally chose to wear the magic spell.In fact, there seem to be tens of millions of roads in this world, but there is only one for you, and there is another name for that road with no choice, it is called fate.

Zhou Huai lives alone in the Fengyi Courtyard, although there are many court ladies and eunuchs and guards standing all over the courtyard, guarding the courtyard like iron buckets.But Zhou Huai likes to be quiet, so even the sound of footsteps walking in the whole yard is deliberately slowed down to be inaudible.No one here dared to disturb her, so even though she was in the palace, her life was isolated from the world.

And Zhou Huai, apart from going to the library to read books and attend classes every day, spends his time studying in Fengyiyuan. Wu Mingtai collects the technical drawings of outstanding craftsmen from all over the country and records the handbags, which also include the blueprints for building the energy array and the original energy stones.Occasionally, Wu Mingtai would take the time to visit her and explain to her the technology of his hometown and their calculation formulas.

This time Zhou Huai finally learned seriously, and his attitude towards Wu Mingtai has improved a lot, and he will take the initiative to ask when he doesn't understand.

Wu Mingtai is also very satisfied with Zhou Huai's hard work and enterprising performance.Seeing that Yunling, the servant girl next to Zhou Huai, was still young, he was afraid that he would not be able to take good care of Zhou Huai, so he transferred two of his confidant maids who had served by his side for several years to take care of Zhou Huai's daily life, and ordered Zhou Huai to take care of Zhou Huai's daily life. Report to him directly if you want to move and eat, and he will send another person to handle it.Such carefulness and appropriateness also allowed Zhou Huai to concentrate more on his studies.

Zhou Huai did not return to Yongle Palace to look for the eldest princess.Although she likes the eldest princess, she will not abuse herself to pester her.She studies hard, persists in struggle, and moves toward her goal lonely.

Zhou Huai was in Fengyiyuan and the library, and he didn't know how to learn. It wasn't until Wu Mingsheng tried his best to pass the news that Fang Shuying had found Gongxi Millennium to her, and asked her to leave the palace as soon as possible. Zhou Huai suddenly woke up. .

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Huai took a smaller energy stone and the jade fish ornament that the eldest princess had discovered, and took a few people with him and left the palace.

When Wu Mingtai heard the news, he knew that all the hidden guards around Zhou Huai had followed up and would send the news all the way back. He was busy discussing with the ministers how to deal with the foreign envoys, so he didn't pay any more attention to this matter.

When the sun went down, the news from the hidden guards was interrupted suddenly, and when Wu Mingtai sent the guards to follow the news to find someone, something had happened to Zhou Huai.