"Hit me, don't hit my face, hit my back and legs, and I need to use a thin rattan to smoke, so as not to leave a scar and not be able to pick up customers in the future." The old bustard pinched his waist with both hands, leaned against the door frame of the Qinglou, instructed the turtle slave to beat the woman inside, and muttered to several other prostitutes next to him, "See, a long lesson, as long as you step into the door of the old lady, you have to pick me up!" Disobedience will end in being beaten! I'm here as an official teacher, and I'm staying up here, maybe one day I can show it to an official, and ask for a concubine to go back, and I've been ashamed since then, and I've left this teaching workshop. If you really provoke the old lady and sell you to that private alley, you can be ravaged by any old, dirty and smelly thing, and there will be no chance of a day in your life! ”

The old bustard scolded vigorously, and the girls next to him yawned and listened indifferently, and one of the older ones licked his face and persuaded, "Mom, do you still need to tell our sisters what you said?" We've been with you for so many years, wearing a pair of pants with you. Didn't these two girls just come for a long time, and they couldn't figure out their mother's temperament to make their mother angry. ”

The old bustard smiled, "What I said is that they will be from in two months, and there is no girl in my hands who can't be trained, don't think that you used to be an official woman, and now you are still pinching with me!" Your brother who is an official has been cut off by the emperor and fried his bones in oil, if it weren't for the emperor's kindness to the female dependents, you wouldn't know where to reincarnate now, can you still choke with me? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di's face sank, I took his hand, and he settled down, and said in a deep voice, "Li Xing, you go and ask who the woman who was beaten is." ”

Li Xing hurriedly agreed to walk to the Qinglou, and after a while, he replied in a low voice, "Your Majesty, those are Tiexian's two daughters." After the death of the previous iron string, he was filled into the official education workshop, and the old bustard said that the two women would rather die than obey, and did not want to receive customers, and they had just offended a few more benefactors, so they were pulled out and beaten. ”

Zhu Di snorted, frowned, turned to me and said, "Go back." ”

I knew he was out of interest, so I nodded in agreement. Back in the palace, Zhu Di told me that there were still affairs to deal with, so he went straight to the Heart Cultivation Palace, and when he left, I asked Li Xing, "What happened to the old bustard that the iron string was cut off and the bones were fried with oil?" ”

Li Xing's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly bent down and said, "Don't you dare to say it, the emperor ordered not to tell Niangniang, Niangniang don't embarrass the slave." ”

I smiled slightly, "You go and serve the emperor." ”

Li Xing seemed to have loosened his spell, and then hurriedly left. I walked slowly back to my palace, Bao'er got married, but she vowed to come back to serve me, because I didn't let Zhu Di add a new maid, at this time Zhu'er also drank wine in Sanbao's mansion and didn't come back, because there were only two old grandmothers in the palace who were rough outside the night, and when they saw me coming back, they hurriedly saluted and said with a smile, "Ouch, why did Niangniang come back at this time?" Miss Bao got married, Miss Zhu did not come back, there was no one to serve, if the mother is not too old and stupid, I will go inside to serve the mother for a while, lest the mother even reach out for a cup of tea. ”

I smiled at her and said, "You're Mama Li, you don't need to wait, it's just that it's very deserted inside, and I want to find two old people who are familiar with Tonggu to chat for a while." Just stay with me for a while. ”

Mama Li was flattered, and hurriedly went to the side to wash her hands and promised, "Hey, the old body washes his hands and then goes in to serve, he is not cleaner than the little girls when he is older, and it is a blessing for the old body not to dislike it." ”

I smiled and said, "Mama doesn't have to see her like this." ”

It is said that an old lady of Mama Li's age is generally very status, but she is an old maid of Jianwen, and now in the palace, the deacon female officials dare not carry it, because she can only be an old maid who works all night with me, so she is already very satisfied, for fear that Zhu Di will ask them about their crimes, everything is cautious, and when she is old, she is not as good as the young girls. But their insight and eyesight are something that the new little girls can't catch up with.

I went to the dresser and took a white jade hairpin with gold thread, put it in my sleeve, sat on a chair, and said with a smile, "Mama, you pour me a cup of tea, I drank two cups in the Zheng Mansion today, and I was a little thirsty." ”

Mama Li hurriedly poured the tea and handed it to me, I took a sip and said with a smile, "Mama, you also sit, it's okay here, let's chat." ”

Mama Li was a little frightened on her face, waved her hand and said, "Where you dare, I can stand." ”

I laughed and said, "There's no one now, so why be polite?" To tell you the truth, I am also a person with no background, and it is only because of my heartfelt protection of the Lord that I am respected by the emperor. So I'm not the one who talks about the courtesy, and I don't have to see me. ”

Mama Li's face turned pale, and she said with a smile, "The master gave me a seat, and Lao Shen didn't dare to refuse, so this was arrogance." With that, he pulled a shorter pestle and sat down. I asked her some rules and anecdotes about Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace, and deliberately avoided the things of the Jianwen period, and I could see that she was very grateful that I didn't embarrass her.

After chatting for a long time, I took out the white jade hairpin and said with a smile, "The Internal Affairs Office is really a bully, Mama is so old, she has served her master for several generations, and she is dressed so plainly, I will go to them in person when I go back." Come, this jade hairpin is quite plain, and it is just right for Mama to wear a hairpin. ”

Mama Li hurriedly excused herself, "Today, the old man has made great luck, thanks to the mother's wrong love and such kindness, where can I dare to ask for the mother's reward." ”

"Mama doesn't have to deceive me, you have been in the palace for so many years, can you get less rewards? Do you turn down when every master rewards you? Take it quickly, or you will think my stuff is not good. ”

Mama Li had no choice but to take the jade hairpin, stood aside and laughed, and didn't know how to thank me. I smiled and said, "Mama don't need to panic, I am the first person in the world who has clear rewards and punishments, as long as you are loyal to my palace, rewards will be indispensable." ”

Mama Li hurriedly said, "This truth is well understood. Since he was assigned to Niangniang, he is blessed with his old body, and he has to protect Niangniang even if he fights for his life. ”

I smiled at her gently, "Mama, this is a joke, the emperor treats me well, probably not to ask your old man to sacrifice his life to protect him." ”

Mama Li regretted her speech, slapped her face, and said with a smile, "This is the anger of the old man and the little family." ”

"Mama has been in the palace for so long, she should be able to cherish the ministers of the previous dynasty, right?" I picked up my teacup, took another sip, and asked nonchalantly.

Mama Li said with a smile, "I can't talk about a few family treasures, but the ministers who have made a little achievements still know something." ”

"Our emperor has a lot of loyal ministers around him."

"That is, how else can you succeed in appeasement, the extremely benevolent monarch?" Mama Li said with a smile.

I smiled and glanced at her, and she immediately realized that she had spoken correctly, and with a panic on her face, she stood up again, "The old man said the wrong thing. ”

I laughed again, "It's just small talk, something wrong." Not only does our emperor have loyal ministers around him, that is, Emperor Jianwen, but there are also some loyal ministers around him, such as Qitai Huang Zicheng, etc., and an iron string, all of whom are iron-clad figures, but I think the person they really serve is not Emperor Jianwen, but Taizu. ”

Mama Li nodded again and again, "Niangniang is the one who understands." These people are vain men, and they don't understand at all, Taizu has been dead for so many years, and he should assist the correct emperor, although Emperor Jianwen is benevolent, he is not a good material to be an emperor after all, what is the use of being loyal to him? ”

I reached out and grabbed Mama Li's hand and smiled, "Mama can say such things, but you can know that she is different from many people in this palace." Those who know the times are Junjie, you look at that Fang Xiaoru, what a learned generation of famous Confucians, just because of reading the book of death and admitting the truth of death, he constantly angered the emperor, and finally ended up with a Zhulian Ten Clans, what a pity! And that iron string, cut the nose ......"

Speaking of this, I suddenly paused and looked at Mama Li, who answered the phone and said in a low voice, "Ouch, my mother, you know all these things!" ”

"What is the emperor hiding from me?" I smirked.

Mama Li clutched her chest, her face turned slightly pale, she looked outside, and said in a low voice, "Don't say it, I heard the deacon and eunuch say that the emperor doesn't want people to talk about this, especially Lord Tie...... No, no, especially Iron String's anti-thief thing. ”

"Why, you also saw the Iron String with your own eyes?"

"Where do I have the guts to look at that bloody picture? I also accidentally heard the deacon and eunuch on the emperor's side say at night, saying that the emperor treated him politely when Tie Xian met the emperor, but he was disrespectful, and always challenged the emperor's patience, and finally angered the emperor, the emperor ordered someone to cut off his nose and cook it and feed it to his mouth, let him eat it, he ate his own nose, and said, what is not delicious about the nose of loyal ministers and righteous people? The emperor asked him why he didn't surrender to himself since he was a loyal minister, and he said that you are not the emperor, Emperor Jianwen is, and I am his courtier, only loyal to him. The emperor was furious and ordered him to be executed, but his mouth was still not clean and angrily scolded the emperor for not being the true son of heaven, and finally the emperor ordered to set up an oil pot outside the hall to blow him up alive, and said, if you don't want to bow down to me alive, then you will kneel to death. At that time, the father-in-law outside the hall hurriedly hooked his bones with an iron hook and asked him to turn around and worship the emperor, but he didn't expect the oil pot to suddenly burst, and the boiling oil splashed everywhere, burning several fathers-in-law. The emperor was even more angry and asked people to hang his body at the noon gate for ten days and not be allowed to take it down. ”

The more Mama Li spoke, the colder my body became, and gradually even my hands lost their temperature. <