Jia Cong was wandering around the Imperial Garden, and suddenly there was a sound of the piano. Turning his head to look, there was a man in Tsing Yi sitting on the edge of the lotus pond at some point, stroking the qin, like a ghostly whisper. I sighed in my heart, the charm of art. When the man's song was over, Jia Cong had already walked quite close to the house, and gave a deep salute: "Mr. is a good piano." ”

This person is a lot old and has no beard, and it is obvious that he is a eunuch, and he wants to kneel down and kowtow when he puts down the piano. Jia Cong hurriedly shouted: "Don't! I'm not a nobleman. This gentleman's honorable name? ”

The man had already knelt down, and before he could kowtow, he had to say, "The old slave Wang Fu." ”

Hey? The sound is not high-pitched. Sure enough, not all eunuchs were sharp-throated. Oops, what a cheesy name. It can be seen that the name has nothing to do with the artistic level. Jia Congnai arched his hand and said: "Fu Bo, get up quickly, my heart is weak when you kneel in front of me at this age." Wang Fu stood up slowly. He asked, "Are you in charge of the music in the palace?" ”

Wang Fudao: "The old slave was originally from the Department of Education. Because of the Queen Mother's love, she was admitted to the palace, and she only played the piano for the Queen Mother. ”

Jia Cong frowned: "The one in Lu Guo?" ”

"Mother of Saints."

"Huh? Just kidding! The mother of the little saint? Jia Cong turned his head and asked Feng Ziying's subordinates, "Two big brothers, isn't the little saint extremely small?" His mother was not in power. Why do you just pick people in from outside the palace? ”

The two said, "Naturally, you want to be clean." "No matter how unpowerful she is, she is still the queen mother, and it is not a big deal to get a piano from the teaching department."

Jia Cong was cold. Although the people of the Workshop Division have been registered for generations, both men and women are in normal health. How many years has the little sage been on power? This old man is in his fifties. It's been a hundred years and it's castrated, don't say anything bullshit dignity, I'm afraid that my life will hang in the sky at any time. Nai shook his head: "This kind of power is terrifying. Does the old gentleman want to go out of the palace? It's a pity that you only play the piano in the deep palace. ”

Wang Fu smiled bitterly: "The old slave is over half a hundred years old, and he only thinks he is dead." ”

Jia Cong persuaded: "You can't say that. The old gentleman's piano skills are rare in the world. And you are innocent after such a great tribulation, but the sound of the piano is far away and clear. There was another extremely powerful violinist, who also had a very hard life, but he was ...... It wasn't without fault that she fell to that point. According to what Jia Yu depicted, Ding Wangji's mother piano skills are only above this old violinist. Although this one is a eunuch, he can spread positive energy. Jia Cong said, "However, her piano sound is violent and fierce, which makes people angry when they hear it." The old gentleman is many times stronger than the one I don't know. Talent is extremely rare in all walks of life, especially if you are in the arts. You look at Lin Yuantu, who is also a eunuch, hasn't he also achieved a generation's career? ”

Wang Fu still shook his head and said, "The old slave has received the uncle's kindness." The Queen Mother loves the Aegean. Now that the old slave is here, he can also serve for a while. If there is no old slave, she will have to find someone else to play the piano for her. ”

Jia Cong sneered: "The palace is poor, the empress dowager is infamous for selling lords for money to support these people, she doesn't care at all, and she is too ignorant to save and raise people." Wang Fu turned his head to look away. Jia Cong looked at him and said, "Mr. Wang, I promise that the Queen Mother will not be able to harm others again, do you want to go out?" ”

Wang Fu hesitated for a moment: "Naturally, I want to." ”

Jia Cong stretched out his hand and said "ok": "You go back and clean up the meeting, and you will leave the palace together later." Wang Fu was stunned, as if he didn't believe it. Jia Cong grinned at him and waved away.

Back in the Empress Dowager's palace, Feng Ziying and Dai Quan had not yet returned, so Jia Cong sat outside and waited. I saw several women in the palace probing their brains, somewhat pretentious, and said, "I'm still ...... Yan Fu is not shallow. ”

Feng Ziying's people smiled: "Just now our adults said, if there is anything you like, take it away." I'm afraid someone will hear it. ”

Jia Cong shook his head and said, "What's the use of taking one or two away." There are so many men who can't marry a daughter-in-law, and there are still so many women in the palace who waste their youth. Then he sat down on the porch in a daze and said no more.

For a while, Feng Dai and the others came back, and their faces were not very good-looking. Jia Cong looked up and asked, "How?" Are all those treasures still there? ”

Feng Ziying said in a deep voice: "It's so tight, these fathers-in-law who died last night, that thing is gone." ”

Jia Cong shrugged: "People took it themselves." "I secretly wondered in my heart. He knew that Shi Li had entered the palace through the tunnel, but he didn't know where he had found the list of these guards. Feng Ziying sighed lightly.

Jia Cong Nai said: "By the way, I just wandered around the Imperial Garden for a while, and met an old luthier, who is over fifty years old, and his real skills are rare. He was originally a teacher of the workshop, but because he was looked down upon by the Queen Mother, he cleaned himself and rushed into the palace. I wanted to take him out, but he refused, saying that he was afraid that he would leave the Queen Mother and harm others. Brother Feng, is there a way to prevent the Queen Mother from harming others again? This old gentleman is really very good at the piano. ”

Feng Ziying frowned when she heard this, and glanced at Dai Quan. Dai Quan sighed: "But Gao Mengsheng is not? Pitiful, he entered the palace at a great age, and his old life was hung up. ”

"He said his name was Wang Fu."

"The Queen Mother changed his name for him."

Jia Cong frowned and said, "Why have you even changed people's surnames." ”

"The queen mother's surname is Wang."

Jia Cong shook his head again and again: "The Empress Dowager is here." The queen mother, who doesn't treat people as people, if she is allowed to take charge of the harem, I am afraid that the sky in the Forbidden City will be dark. The little saint still doesn't want her to teach. ”

Feng Ziying glanced at him with a smile: "Speaking of which, the Teaching Workshop Division should also investigate thoroughly." ”

"Not really." Jia Cong said, "There is Zhaoxue who has an unjust case, there is no amount of unjust case, that, hehe......" He suddenly closed his mouth and smirked. Who doesn't know that there is no shortage of court spies in the Teaching Workshop Division? Thanks to Feng Dai, he is an understanding person. Feng Ziying glared at him, and ordered someone to go to the Empress Dowager's palace to bring out the one named Wang Fu.

Not long after, Wang Fu tearfully kowtowed to Jia Cong and Feng Ziying. Jia Cong took him back, temporarily placed him in Lixiangyuan, and asked him if he wanted to go home. The old man shook his head repeatedly. Asked again if he wanted to change his original name back, he said, "I don't have a face to see my ancestors." Jia Cong knew that he had a deep knot in his heart, so he gave up for the time being.

In the evening, Shi Li came over and asked him how he was in the palace. Jia Cong said it again and said, "Do you still want to keep the Empress Dowager?" ”

Shi Li glanced at him and said, "Don't worry about her life, okay?" Isn't Lord Su fine? How good it would be to keep that old woman suffocated in the palace. I can tell you that those concubines of the Emperor Taishang were in a hurry when they left home, and they didn't bring anything, and most of the small treasury was full. Now that we have a tunnel, it's much easier to move. ”

Jia Cong pursed his lips. He also knew that the Empress Dowager was still alive now, and hummed: "That's it, I sent her a dog head temporarily." Then he asked, "How did you pick out those guards who were too guards?" ”

Shi Li blinked and said, "I didn't leave last night, and I hid in the Forbidden City." This morning, the Empress Dowager herself told Feng Ziying the list one by one, and I heard it all. ”

"I mean, where do you have that much ability? By the way, who almost robbed Princess Jian'an last time? Has General Ganlei returned? ”

"Nope." Shi Li owed, turned the teacup to play, and said, "There have been days when I haven't trained seriously, and General Gan led people to catch cats and mice, and wanted to catch prisoners." ”

Jia Cong said lazily: "Oh. Have fun. ”

The next day, Jia Congte went to see Situ Pan. He said: "Yesterday, I followed Brother Feng into the palace, and I saw that the flowers and trees in the imperial garden were very well trimmed, and I remembered something. Is there still a variety of top craftsmen gathered in the palace? What to raise flowers, comb hair, cook, it's too wasteful. There are also many young women. How many singles in the army can't marry a daughter-in-law, what a waste. ”

Situ Pan glanced at him: "What do you want to say?" ”

Jia Cong shrugged his shoulders and said, "There is no work in the Hengzhi Palace. The eunuchs heard that there were several thousand, and it was enough to sweep the courtyard and serve the master. Those skilled corners, such as those who can cook, can go out to open a restaurant, those who can tailor clothes, and those who can trim flowers and trees go to the Ministry of Industry to help out. Women, if you are willing to go out of the palace to marry, it is better to let them marry. Yesterday, Brother Feng joked with me in the palace, saying that if there is a woman he likes, he can take it away. And guess what? Many women in the Empress Dowager's palace gathered around me scratching their heads and posing. I'm so fat, and I'm not a beautiful man, they don't know who I am, but they're willing to go with me, so you can see how much they want to get married. ”

Situ Pan smiled dumbly: "Even if they don't know who you are, they always know who Feng Ziying is." ”

Jia Cong shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just feel like a waste." ”

Situ Pan said: "There are not many women left in the palace now. In the first two years, in order to save expenses, they were all sent out, and there were only two or three hundred inside and out. You have to save some face, don't you? ”

Jia Cong raised his eyebrows: "Who knows this number?" If you don't believe it, just go to the street and ask ordinary people, Zhun Bao thinks that there are still beauties everywhere in the palace. And all the women in the palace are well-educated. They are widows, which is more pity than mediocre women. Lord, population. Two or three hundred well-educated women, after twenty years, if they can't keep it, they will be five or six hundred usable talents, and we can earn a loyal and good talent here. Even if they are all mediocre talents, agriculture and industry have their own usefulness, and it is better than leaving it for nothing. ”

Situ Pan pondered for a moment: "I'll think about it again." Nai asked again, "Do you guess who the Empress Dowager's fleeing guards let go?" ”

Jia Cong thought for a while: "It's hard to say. I thought it should be the kings of Jin, the kings of Chen, the kings of E, and the kings of Chu. ”

"Why?"

"King Jin is a compassionate person, not a good person, afraid of being plotted, so he wants to seek protection. Concubine Hui and the king of Chu in the vanguard all died in assassination, and the king of E, who was in the forefront, died strangely, so the other three were more afraid of assassins than the prince next to them, so they thought of prying some capable guards. ”

Situ Pan nodded: "There is also a point. "I secretly have some calculations in my heart.

After Jia Cong returned to the house, he saw that Lin Luan had taken Jia Jue to play again, and remembered that the Empress Dowager's forces outside the palace had been disabled by Shi Li, so she could send their two aunts out of the house. The surname Liu often shows off his beauty, I'm afraid Chen Ruijin will not like it. So he consulted with Lin Luan. Lin Luan lowered his head and said, "Listen to the third master." Out of the corner of his eye, he peeked into the room. Jia Cong knew that Liu Yunxi was hiding, so he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he got up and ordered someone to call the steward to come over.

After two days, everything was arranged, and the two beauties moved out. Around the second watch, he suddenly heard a sound on the other side of Rongxi Hall, and Chen Ruijin immediately rushed over. Jia Cong didn't sleep either, he was a little upset, so he slipped into the courtyard with his hands to look around, and then returned to the hall. Sit down for a while and reach for tea.

Wang Fu was also alarmed at this time, and silently followed him inside and out twice. Seeing that he was going to eat tea, he suddenly shouted: "Third master, wait!" ”

Jia Cong froze: "Huh? ”

Wang Fu hesitated for a moment and said: "This tea has been brewed four times, and fresh tea leaves should be brewed again." ”

Jia Cong smiled: "Where is there so much exquisiteness." It's too hot, it's too dry. Then he sifted the tea.

He just raised the tea cup to be delivered to his mouth, and Wang Fu said again: "It's the second watch, and it's not good to sleep well when drinking tea." ”

Jia Cong glanced at him and said, "Mr. Wang, why do I think you're going around the bend?" Wang Fu's face stiffened. If you have something to say, I don't understand. Wang Fusui glanced out.

Jia Cong was suspicious that someone in the tea had made someone inappropriate, and hurriedly said: "That's it, it's inconvenient to say, don't say it." I don't eat this tea. Wang Fu breathed a sigh of relief. Jia Cong became more and more convinced that the tea was wrong.

After waiting for a long time, Chen Ruijin came back and said, "It's okay." The two concubines of the second lord Xinna stumbled on each other, making a lot of trouble and collapsing a big flower shelf in the courtyard to the east. ”

Jia Cong let out an "oh". Wang Fu saw Chen Ruijin coming back, and hurriedly found an excuse to slip away. Jia Cong felt strange, and hurriedly took the teapot and said what happened to Fang Cai. "Look, what's wrong with this tea?"

Chen Ruijin frowned slightly, took the teapot and smelled it, ordered Jia Cong to hold the candlestick and take a closer look at it for a while, then looked at the tea poured out, and ordered with a smile: "Go, any cat or dog, get one." Jia Cong looked at her strangely, asked curiously twice, and she didn't say anything, so she had to honestly order someone to go out to get cats and dogs first. But I heard Chen Ruijin shouting in the house, "You go and get it yourself." ”

"Yes! Lady. Jia Cong led the two little guys to play lanterns in the middle of the night to make small animals.

When he walked away, Chen Ruijin got up and slowly paced to the wing room where Lin Liu's second daughter lived, stood at the door, tilted his head, and hugged his arms.

The two of them were both sitting on the kang at this time, and Lin Luan hurriedly stood up when she saw her: "Sister Chen, please take a seat." ”

Chen Ruijin said indifferently: "Presumably Aunt Liu did it?" ”

Liu Yunxi was at a loss: "What did Miss Chen say?" ”

Chen Ruijin said: "I also grew up in the palace. I don't use these methods because I don't look down on them, not because I don't know them. Aunt Liu really thought that she had sprinkled some spring into Jia Cong's teapot. He will take you for the medicine? ”

Liu Yunxi was shocked and embarrassed, and his face was so red that he was hot: "Miss Chen, don't want to spew blood!" ”

"Oh, isn't that you?" She leaned on the door and said lazily, "I heard that Aunt Liu saved Aunt Lin's life in the palace, but is it true?" ”

Liu Yunxi was stunned for a moment and looked at Lin Luan: "When did I save your life?" ”

Lin Luan stood dignified and solemn: "My sister has saved me more than once." Far from it...... In the old year, if it weren't for my sister, I would have let the Queen Mother beat me to death. ”

Liu Yunxi thought for a moment and said, "What is that idea?" If you really count it, my sister didn't save me. ”

Chen Ruijin smiled slightly: "I see." Sisters like you can live well in the harem where the dead are killed, and you can really think out a lot of ways to save each other's lives. Aunt Lin, I really didn't see it. Aren't you from the third master? When did you start to focus on Jia Cong? ”

Lin Luan was stunned, and immediately shook his head: "Whether Miss Chen believes it or not, although I have learned some medicine, I really haven't done anything...... What the...... Spring. Medicine. She was so ashamed that she hid her face with her sleeve.

Chen Ruijin chuckled and said: "If you avoid the serious, you can just coax others to pay it back." There were only three women in this courtyard, and I couldn't have done it. This Aunt Liu ......" she looked sideways at Liu Yunxi, "It's not your opponent at all." She has a good appearance, so you brought her out of the palace under the guise of it. Even if it was her medicine, if the two of them could succeed, it would be Aunt Lin. ”

Lin Luan looked at her fixedly: "I have no intention of Third Master Cong." ”

Chen Ruijin glanced at the two of them, turned around and went out: "Whatever." Nai Li smiled softly at the door, "This kind of thing, Jia Cong can be regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime encounter." He in the province is a man every day, and what he says is never a woman's way. ”