Li Zicheng saw a few imitation books from the Fei Palace people on the imperial case, and ordered Wang Ruifen to bring them to him. He looked at the imitation book carefully and couldn't help but smile and nod.

From the juanxiu font on the imitation book, he thought of Wu Ruyi's praise of Fei Zhen'e's beauty, which made him think of summoning Fei Zhen'e. However, he didn't want to be called a good beauty, and the ministers would talk about his eagerness to choose a beautiful woman when he first entered Beijing, so he simply suppressed the idea of summoning Fei Zhen'e.

He didn't understand why, sitting in the dormitory of the Renzhi Hall tonight, the affairs of men and women could not leave his heart, and even Wang Ruifen in front of him could not help but make his heart shake. Wang Ruifen is the personal palace maid and housekeeper of the Imperial Concubine Miyatian, and she has no name as a beauty, but she has good facial features, phoenix eyes and eyebrows, white and tender skin, and gentle speech and demeanor, which has made him fall in love.

If it was Zhang Xianzhong or Luo Rucai, he would ask Wang Ruifen to sleep with him tonight, and he couldn't help but suddenly take her into his arms, but he Li Zicheng was different after all. He is usually very strict with himself, does not drink, does not gamble, and is not greedy for beautiful women. In order to pass the time now, he picked up a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on a few books, and flipped to the part of the burning warship that he liked to watch the most, but strangely, he couldn't even read a page. Always thinking about the affairs of men and women, I can hardly suppress the flames that rarely appear on weekdays.

He stared at Wang Ruifen for a moment, which made Wang Ruifen's face crimson, his heart pounding, and he lowered his head, thinking that the favor of the new emperor was about to descend on her. But when this grace was about to come, she was not only very shy, but also frightened, and uneasy, not knowing whether it was better to kneel or stand, and said to herself, "My God, I shouldn't have lit that incense." ”

It turns out that there is a secret spice that has been passed down from generation to generation in the palace, that is, Qiao medicine is added to the precious spice, called Mengxian incense, which is sprinkled into the incense burner when needed, and slowly burned together with other incense. Men and women smell this aroma, which will stimulate the desire to have sex, and women are also easy to conceive. This incense, which is secretly made by the Imperial Pharmacy, stimulates men and women to secrete more hormones.

When Chongzhen was welcomed into the palace by King Xin's mansion that night and was ready to inherit the throne the next day, Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka had not yet been punished, and they conspired to make the new emperor, who was not yet seventeen years old, covet beautiful women as soon as he ascended the throne, and ordered the palace maid to light this incense in the palace where he was resting. When he smelled the incense, he understood the bad intentions of the Hakka clan and Wei Zhongxian, and immediately ordered the eunuch to take away the incense burner, and ordered that he would never light this incense in his dormitory in the future.

In the palaces of Queen Hetian and Concubine Yuan Yu, there are this kind of secret dream fairy incense. When Emperor Chongzhen went to Chenggan Palace and Yikun Palace to stay at night, the two concubines' personal palace maids lit this incense in the dormitory, but the dignified Empress Zhou, with her own natural beauty, and also with her shared hardships with Chongzhen in the Xinwang Mansion, was not allowed to light this incense, thinking that it would damage her status as a queen.

Tonight, Wang Ruifen deliberately sprinkled the incense she brought from Chenggan Palace in the Boshan furnace, and sure enough, she saw that this fragrance made the new emperor's mood very excited, and she herself was a little confused, as if she was a little drunk. In this moment, she suddenly thought that she might be blessed by the new emperor tonight, and she would ascend to heaven one step from now on......

Li Zicheng suddenly asked, "There is a Fei Zhen'e in Shouning Palace, have you seen it?"

Wang Ruifen was startled, woke up like a dream, raised her head and replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave has seen it." ”

"Is she beautiful?"

"She was waiting for Emperor Chongzhen in the Ganqing Palace, and she was a top beauty in the Ganqing and Kunning palaces. ”

Li Zicheng stopped talking. Since leaving Xi'an, he has not been close to a woman for nearly three months. On the road to the East, because Beijing had not yet been conquered and the Ming Dynasty had not yet fallen, he took running the world as an urgent task every day, so that he did not have the heart to think more about men and women. Now that he has entered Beijing and won the throne of Jinluan, Chongzhen's body has been found, the crown prince and the two kings of Yong and Ding have been found, and all that remains is to hold the enthronement ceremony and pacify Jiangnan.

Tonight is the most relaxed and happy and the most complacent moment in the more than ten years of his uprising, he is in the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period, once he lives surrounded by flowery palace maids, living in the ethereal fragrance, he suddenly reverses the usual situation, and has a hungry need for women. He saw Wang Ruifen standing a few steps away in front of him, bowing his head and waiting for his command, and seemed to hear her very unnatural breathing and heartbeat.

He shouted softly, "Wang Ruifen!"

Wang Ruifen raised her head and replied in a coquettish voice: "The slave maid is waiting for the emperor's orders." ”

Li Zicheng tapped his chin lightly and ordered Wang Ruifen to take a step closer. Wang Ruifen followed the order and moved forward, only two steps away from the emperor, I don't know whether it is better to kneel or stand. Because the emperor didn't speak again, she had to stand still.

Li Zicheng asked softly, "Wang Ruifen, how old are you this year?"

"The slave is twenty years old. Wang Ruifen replied timidly, hiding two years old for herself for no reason.

"Ah, it looks like eighteen or nineteen. Li Zicheng looked at her and nodded and smiled, and had nothing to say.

Wang Ruifen is 22 years old this year and is already very mature. Although she lives deep in the palace, she has never had the opportunity to meet adult men, but her physical maturity makes her eager to get the love of men, she is the personal palace of Concubine Tian, before Concubine Tian fell ill, Chongzhen often went to Chenggan Palace to stay, and she carefully served the young emperor and the imperial concubine on the royal couch, and gently lowered the curtain for them, and then gently exited the warm pavilion of the dormitory, sitting outside waiting for the call.

Whenever she quietly listened to the faint sound on the couch and imagined the love of a young couple on the couch, she couldn't help but be ashamed and very emotional, so she had to quietly leave the outer room of the palace of Emperor Tian's concubine and staggered back to her room. It's a memory of the past.

At this moment, she saw that the new emperor was a very handsome middle-aged man, and it was obvious that he had taken a fancy to her, and the unusual look in his eyes made her even more shy. Thinking that she might be pampered, her breathing became more difficult, her heart panicked, and her black and white eyes suddenly became rosy and cloudy. The other palace maids were not around, and she could hear the sound of her own heartbeat.

With a young woman's sensitive sense of a man, she knew that the reason why the new emperor did not speak and kept looking at her was because he had already moved his feelings for her. Thinking that she was favored by the new emperor had come to her eyes, thinking that she and her family were about to ascend to the sky in one step, she felt even more helpless in the nervousness of shyness and fear, just waiting for the emperor's words, a look, and an action. She waited nervously in her heart, and if the new emperor stretched out his hand and gently pulled her, she knelt down at the emperor's feet and threw her body into the emperor's arms......

Li Zicheng praised Wang Ruifen in his heart: "I heard that Concubine Tian is a beauty, don't you blame Concubine Tian for being Concubine Tian's personal palace maid?"

He couldn't help but look at her again. She bowed her head shyly, avoiding his eyes, and this shyness added to her tenderness and charm, and also made him more emotional, almost unable to control himself. But Li Zicheng is Li Zicheng after all, and his personality is very different from Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. Just when he almost couldn't help but pull one of her white and tender little hands hanging beside him and pull her into his arms, he suddenly changed his mind, as if Li Zicheng in the past shouted to him: "You can't be an emperor who indulges beautiful women." ”

He suddenly woke up, and the emotions that were surging suddenly ebbed and flowed, and the right hand that was about to be stretched out was no longer extended. After a moment of silence, he asked her, "Tian Niangniang has been dead for almost two years, why haven't you released the palace maids from the palace?"

Wang Ruifen's mood also suddenly calmed down, and he bowed down and replied: "If Emperor Chongzhen doesn't make an order, who dares to mention a word? Although according to the rules of the ancestors, palace maids should be released once every few years, and the parents will choose a good marriage, but hundreds of palace maids are in the deep palace and will never see each other again with their families. If you are sick, you will be sent to Anle Hall, and if you are sick, you will be sent to the palace people. If the slave and maid do not encounter the change of dynasty and the new dynasty of the Holy Son of Heaven come to the palace, the slave and maid can only survive until the old age and illness die and be sent to the palace people obliquely. Speaking of this, she couldn't help but choke up and burst into tears.

Li Zicheng was moved in his heart, thinking that he had decided to reward the palace maids with meritorious generals, and said: "All the palace maids who have become adults, I will release them all." Don't tell anyone about this matter, so as not to cause the palace maids to float and wait to leave the palace. ”

Wang Ruifen immediately knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "The emperor is a wise saint, rare in the ages. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!" She kowtowed three times in a row, whimpering unconsciously.

Li Zicheng said: "You get up, I won't tell you palace maids to be in the palace for the rest of your life." ”

"Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!" Wang Ruifen kowtowed three more times, got up from the ground, and wiped her tears with her red sleeves.

Li Zicheng thought that Wu Ruyi praised Fei Zhen'e's outstanding talent, and said that Fei Zhen'e had something to say to Chen in person, so he said to Wang Ruifen: "You sent a palace maid to call Fei Zhen'e, she refused to say anything to General Wu, and wanted to show me in person." ”

Wang Ruifen was stunned suddenly, and then said respectfully: "Slave and maid receive the order!"

At this moment, Wang Ruifen's heart was empty. She returned to the wing room where the palace maids lived, and immediately sent four palace maids to Shouning Palace to summon Fei Zhen'e to meet the new emperor. She is a careful person, knowing that the palace maids are afraid of ghosts on weekdays, and today's death of the country, the palace changed tragically last night, many people died, and it is far away to go out of Wuyingmen to Shouning Palace, and it is necessary to pass through two long alleys with dimly lit lights, and also pass through the eerie and terrible Ganqing Palace and Kunning Palace that died last night, so she did not send one or two palace maids, but sent four palace maids, with two red gauze palace lamps and two white sheep's horn palace lights.

When the four palace maids left, she quickly washed her face with warm water, washed away her tears, applied grease powder to the bronze mirror, and took the two palace maids to the new emperor's bedroom to wait. Thinking that the new emperor would definitely take a fancy to Fei Zhen'e, the wish of a quarter of an hour ago turned illusory, and she lamented in her heart: "Alas, the heavens do not complain and the earth do not complain, and they complain about my blessings." ”

After half a day of rest, Fei Zhen'e ate and drank ginseng soup, and by dusk her spirits were completely recovered. Hearing that Emperor Chongzhen's body had been found at the foot of Wansui Mountain, and Wang Chengen was hanged with him, she secretly shed tears.

When the four palace maids in the dormitory of the Renzhi Palace came with palace lamps, passed the holy decree, and summoned Fei Zhen'e to go immediately, the palace maids and eunuchs of Shouning Palace panicked, not knowing whether it was good or bad. According to the rules, Fei Zhen'e should kneel down to listen to the order, but she didn't kneel, and after coming out and standing under the porch to listen to the order, she said to the palace maids who came to deliver the order: "I'll follow my sisters." ”

She was about to leave, but was suddenly pulled by Liu Xianglan, the steward of Shouning Palace, who was older than her, and returned to the house. Liu Xianglan whispered: "Tip, you didn't kneel down to listen to the order just now, it's already disrespectful, how dare you stop dressing up and go to the front of the new emperor? Don't be willful, don't rely on talent and appearance, whether it's a disaster or a blessing depends on this meeting." You are blessed, and your sisters are also blessed. Come, quickly open the makeup and apply some fat powder thinly. Take out the most colorful palace like raw flowers, and I will insert two for you. ”

Fei Zhen'e said with tears in her eyes: "Forget it, Sister Liu, the country is dead, the emperor and queen are martyred, the princess has escaped and is unpredictable, and the sisters of the Ganqing Palace and Kunning Palace have committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river, what do I want to dress up? I don't want to flatter my own appearance......"

She originally wanted to say the words "Li Thief", but she was afraid of being heard outside the window, so she suddenly stopped, stubbornly walked out, and said to the four palace maids who came to deliver the message: "Let's go!"

Although Fei Zhen'e was determined to die and was ready to be killed at any time, when she walked up to the Dan Majesty of the Renzhi Hall and saw Wang Ruifen standing on the Dan Qi waiting for her, she knew that she was in front of Li Zicheng immediately, and she couldn't help but beat wildly. In order to calm herself, she secretly bit her lower lip hard. Wang Ruifen stepped forward to greet her, leaned close to her ear and whispered: "The new emperor is very kind, don't be afraid." You're going to be a nobleman. ”

Fei Zhen'e was brought to Li Zicheng's face, although she had hatred in her chest, she couldn't help but kneel down on her knees, kowtowed, bowed her head and said: "Fei Zhen'e, the slave maid of Shouning Palace, knocks to see the new master!"

When Fei Zhen'e was led into the warm pavilion by Wang Ruifen, because she was lowering her head, Li Zicheng didn't see her face clearly, but her moderate figure and generous demeanor had secretly satisfied him. Now listening to her makes him feel fresh and interesting. In the past six months or so, many of the civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to him, and they all called him the saint, the emperor, and the majesty as usual, but this palace maid called him the new lord, which was different.

He asked with a smile, "It makes sense for you to call me the new master." I asked you, do you know that your old master is dead, and the body has been found, and are you grieving?"

"The slave has heard that the body of Emperor Chongzhen has been found at the foot of the coal mountain. The emperor and the queen were martyred, and Zhen'e, as a maid of the old court, is not a plant or tree, how can there be reason not to grieve?"

Li Zicheng nodded in his heart, secretly praised, and then said: "Fei Gong people, you raise your head!"

Fei Zhen'e boldly raised her head so that Li Zicheng could see her appearance clearly, and she also took the opportunity to look at Li Zicheng. She saw that this traitor who broke the capital and forced the emperor to death was not the vicious face she imagined, let alone green face and red hair, but with good facial features, a pair of thick eyebrows, blazing eyes, and a heroic spirit, except for a scar under the left eye, there was nothing wrong. Frightened of his gaze, she lowered her head again.

Li Zicheng was surprised and even surprised by Fei Zhenmo's beauty. Wang Ruifen's appearance just now had already shaken his heart, and he could hardly control himself, but at this moment he saw that Fei Zhen'e was not only more beautiful, but also intelligent, and had a strong aura that is rare for ordinary beautiful women.