Not long after calculating the elapsed hours, the patrol guards of this capital came quickly!

I watched the black lineup on the street and was really shocked.

It stands to reason that the national teacher who passed by just now was in a carriage, if the other party had a flamboyant personality, how could it be that there was only a low-key sign on the carriage he was riding, and only the old man whose niece served in the yamen could recognize it.

The number of people who passed by the convoy at that time was not comparable to the current battle.

What's going on?

Or which big guy is coming?

The suspense didn't last long, and the well-trained team blocked off the street intersections, and the whole long street now looked empty, and you could see the direction of the city gate at a glance.

There was a sound of horses' hooves from the city gate, a golden armor with a snow-white horse under the crotch, the face of the horse like a crown and jade eyebrows like an ink painting galloping horses.

The whole body was filled with a dazzling brilliance that combined beauty and heroism, and before I could react, an order was shouted on the side of the long street, and everyone on the street knelt down.

Of course, I have already recognized the person who is immediately public, she has changed her clothes, she is dressed up, who else can there be if it is not the empress who should have been in the camp in the Northland thousands of miles away?

Ji Jiu, who was standing next to me, tugged on my arm hard, and I woke up and realized that I was still standing abruptly in the crowd, and quickly knelt down like the people around me.

But the empress's horse had disappeared to the other side of the long street.

Behind her, after a long while, a few other people rode by, listening to the people around them, all of whom they had seen before.

My legs were still on my knees. A heart is indescribably heavy, I seem to know something, and I'd rather I don't know.

The blockade of the streets was not removed until the group disappeared.

The streets were bustling again, and the crowds were noisier than they had been before the lockdown.

The topic of the streets and alleys is also accompanied by the sudden arrival of the empress. That's a lot of more.

Especially the war in the north is still stalemate, I heard that the team of Yubei to collect war horses has been hit hard, but the empress who came from this stall, where is there a trace of anxiety on her face, I will not be wrong to see the scene just now.

Follow Ji Jiu back to the house and go to the horse market to see the plan was stifled.

The long street lifted the blockade. The team is all going to the horse market, and the news will come slowly until about tomorrow morning.

At least at this time, no one knows what's going to happen over there.

I glanced in a trance, looking in the direction where the team had disappeared. All I know is that expression of joy that I am familiar with, and that I myself have ever had.

"Xiaolin," Ji Jiu suddenly said in a loud voice, "I'll go to the horse market another day, I'm tired of shopping today, at least I learned the news that you are worried about." ”

"What's that news," I said with a wry smile. "It's better not to know."

I looked back at him and said, "I've already explained it to you if I'm worried, but I always hope they'll be safe." ”

"The biggest possible right now. I don't think something happened, but you reminded me of the point. ”

I stared at him quietly for a moment before continuing: "The horse team needs someone to escort to the north, and it is likely that Sister Li's group and some of the herdsmen of Yubei Horse Farm were taken away by that princess's men. ”

My tone turned and I said with a heavy heart: "Ji Jiu, you didn't estimate the shape of the north, even if you don't die now." But he was on the wrong side, and the army was at the forefront when he was fighting. I think it's pretty much the same. ”

"It's better than someone who was killed on the prairie."

I shook my head and said, "These people are not the princess's cronies, they are about the same as captives. Once the war starts, it will only be these people who rush to the forefront and die. ”

Thinking of the scene just now, I couldn't help but blurt out: "Ji Jiu, what do you say they are doing in the national capital of Ma City?" ”

"Do you ask the empress, or do you ask the national teacher?" Ji Jiu glanced at me and replied with a subtle look in his eyes.

I avoided his gaze, lowered my head and said, "Is there a difference?" ”

"There's no difference, just ask," Ji Jiu said in a low voice, "In my opinion, it's probably just about choosing a horse." ”

"Maybe." I whispered back to him, "I always think that empress seems to be honest, you know you very well." "She looks like that, does she look like she is worried about something happening to Yubei's war horse?"

I looked at him with an inquiring eye. "Not really." "I think so," I whispered, "I'll go back first, I'll have to think about what to do next." "There are a lot of things you need to think about, didn't you come to the country in the first place just to be able to sneak into the palace?" "It's the same now." "I'll also change when you." "This thing will not change, and the rest, it is difficult to say."

I thought of Xiao An, the shipman and eunuch who lived with us on Uncle Liu's side, and I stopped and looked at Ji Jiu and asked, "You said that you can help me, do you need to use Xiao An?" "You're not too stupid," Ji Jiu walked up, stood in front of me and looked at me, "I left the national capital, but I didn't think about coming back, although here I admit that there are people I left, but I accidentally met that Xiao An, but it was a help sent to the door." "Wasn't he implicated in the palace change a few years ago?" I asked, looking at him in confusion. "That's right." "How else can that help?" "He has been in the palace for so many years in vain? Do you know who he was before the palace change? "Isn't it a eunuch?"

Ji Jiu sneered: "There are also eunuchs who are three, six, nine and so on. "His master, but the head of the eunuchs in the palace, disappeared when the palace changed."

The road back to the alley house became long, and I listened to Ji Jiu's narration, and for a while it seemed that I could see the scene from a few years ago, and I didn't know what to say, except for listening to him quietly.

I frowned and said, "According to what you say, since he has something to rely on in his hands, why does he need to be a boatman outside Xunyang City?" "He doesn't have something to rely on, he knows a lot of things. Because he has been with his master for a long time. "Keep him, it will be useful."

There are five or six hot dishes on the wooden table, and Uncle Liu's good craftsmanship makes me sigh every time.

If I hadn't eaten at the noodle shop, I would have eaten more.

Staying here, I'm afraid I'll gain weight if I don't enter the palace

I spent a few days in peace in the courtyard. In the past few days, not a single person in the entire courtyard has gone out.

Of course, there is no news from the streets that will reach our small closed compound.

It doesn't matter if it's good news or bad news

I looked at the pile of dishes on the table, and I was about to drool, and I couldn't help muttering, "Uncle Liu, are you celebrating the New Year or the festival?" “

Hear the words. Uncle Liu said with a smile: "I heard what Gongzi Ji said, Xiaolin, you are going to enter the palace, there is nothing wrong with being fat, don't you know the criteria for selecting palace maids in Xilan Palace?" “

"You can't be this size."

I haven't even asked when Ji Jiu revealed my identity. After learning the truth, I saw that Uncle Liu's expression was like a big stone falling to the ground, and I remembered the way he looked at me at that time.

Could it be that they would think that Ji Jiu was going to send another stand-in of himself into the palace to be the empress's new favorite?

Or send a new favorite you have cultivated yourself to revenge?

Well, he once had that thought, a long time ago, in the East Courtyard Bamboo Garden.

However, change is about catching up with the times.

I sat down. Before I moved the chopsticks, Ji Jiu flew over with a cold look, and I quickly sat upright. Begin to eat slowly.

I've been working hard these days, he's training me with the rules of the palace, and I've heard that the selection of palace maids after the autumn of Sealand has been affected by the war in the north, and it's been delayed for a long time.

Now that the empress has returned, according to the original plan, it is the turn of the officials in charge of selection this year to order Zhang Bang to be in various places in the national capital.

In previous years, there were precedents for sending palace maids to Beijing from other places. This year, only the national capital city was exempted from the conscription order. Therefore, the matter of the palace maid is only in the national capital.

I've heard the same about other countries as I did when I was in Snow Country. The palace will go to buy and choose, like one is the buyer and the other is the object, but when it comes to Sealand, it is much more enlightened.

Post a notice, it is a school-age woman who has the right to sign up, Ji Jiu helped me to implement an identity locally, and I don't know what kind of path he took to complete it after going out with Xiao An for one day.

A small wooden plaque is an identification tag with my name on it.

It is said that each of the girls who signed up in the national capital has a piece, which is also a reference voucher to be held in the hand when entering the palace primary, so Ji Jiu asked me to familiarize myself with my current name.

I strung my ID card and put it on my wrist, and the other three people in the small courtyard would call me coldly at any time every day.

In the morning, I woke up sleepy-eyed and confused, and in the afternoon, I was reading a book and was absorbed in another shout.

But I've never missed a hundred questions!

God help me, the family that Ji Jiu found is not surnamed anything else, just "Lan"!

When Ji Jiu took the name, he hesitated to tell me that the word Lin was too masculine, so he wrote the word "ling" on the paper with a wave of the pen, and he said that it was better to use this word, and looked at me with the eyes of solicitation.

At that moment, I was very sad, I looked at him and had the feeling of looking at my father!

I don't know if he thought the same way as Ji Jiu when he named me when he first named me.

Lan is a homonym for blue, and I have never answered so smoothly.

Don't you need to ask, who will forget their real name!

I was in front of my desk, spreading out the map of the national capital, and I could clearly see the streets drawn on it.

This picture was found by Uncle Liu from a large number of books left by Ji Jiu in the past, and I heard that it was written by people in the palace.

When he handed it over to me, he deliberately hid it from Ji Jiu.

The structure of the Sealand Palace on the map occupies a large part of the center of the map.

Uncle Liu said with gloomy eyes: "Ji Gongzi suffered a lot in the palace a few years ago, and he definitely doesn't want to see the above things again, Xiaoling, you are different, a girl wants to enter the palace, take a look, and you can have an impression first." (To be continued)