When I woke up in the morning, it was overcast and dark clouds were piling up in the sky, and there must have been heavy rain today.

However, the heavy rain would not affect Shen Ning's pace, and after he told Sima Haiyun, he left the Southeast Palace.

When she came to Princess Changle's mansion, Princess Changle was ready to accompany Shen Ning into the palace.

Yesterday, the news reached Xu Chongzhi's ears, and after Xu Chongzhi told His Majesty, he allowed Shen Ning to report in person, which was a reward for Shen Ning's gift, after all, the face saint is also a great honor.

Shen Ning had long wanted to see what kind of dignity this cold-blooded uncle was.

Princess Changle sat in the carriage and told Shen Ning about the rules of the palace through the window, and listened quietly, keeping in mind to avoid mistakes after entering the palace.

Before coming to Wufeng Tower, Princess Changle got out of the carriage and entered the palace first.

Shen Ning waited in front of the building for a while, and then the internal official appeared and took Shen Ning into the palace.

Shen Ning in the previous life visited the Forbidden City, the palace of the Great Jin Dynasty in this life is magnificent, and the scale is not inferior to the scale of the palace in the previous life, after all, this palace was built for more than 20 years, and it took 50,000 people at most, and it was built by Emperor Wen of Jin. Emperor Wen of Jin had two hobbies, one was to like gorgeous things, and the other was to spend money like dirt, so how could the palace he supported build not be beautiful.

"Don't look around! Bow your head and go with us! The officer who led the way reminded.

Only then did Shen Ning put away his gaze and look around.

Walking through the majestic palaces, I saw that the security in the palace was beyond imagination.

These forbidden troops are Tianlong Guard, with 10,000 forbidden troops guarding the palace, and they are definitely five steps, one sentry, ten steps and one post, even if they are masters of the Grandmaster Realm, they dare not break in.

Shen Ning continued to go deeper with the internal officials, and came to a palace gate with the words: "Qiankun Gate".

After the Qiankun Gate, it is the harem, the bedroom of the emperor and the concubines, Shen Ning thought that he would face the saint in the palace in the vestibule, but he did not expect to enter the harem.

After thinking about it, Shen Ning also understood.

Sima Zhou is too lazy to go to the court, all government affairs are in charge of the three provinces, what is he doing in the Taiji Hall or the Taihe Palace, sitting and playing.

In front of the Qiankun Gate, the forbidden army checked his identity again, and at the same time searched Shen Ning's body, including hair, nails, and even any sharp or rope and other items, which were not allowed to be carried.

Pass through the Qiankun Gate and officially enter the harem.

Passing through a square, the dormitory that leads directly to it is Sima Zhou's dormitory, Jinyang Palace.

Shen Ning can only take the auxiliary road next to it, and the central imperial road can only be walked by the emperor, if he takes the wrong road, it is a great crime of disrespect.

At this time, Shen Ning also saw the Sanqing Temple built next to the Jinyang Palace.

The Great Jin Palace pays attention to sitting in the south and facing north, and the central axis is symmetrical, but the position of this Sanqing Temple is abrupt, destroying the overall symmetry. As for the reason, it is naturally because the Sanqing Temple was built later, Sima Zhou loved alchemy too much, and the Taoist temple specially built expressed the pursuit of immortality.

The direction in which the internal official led Shen Ning was in front of the Sanqing Guanguan.

Walking into the Sanqing Temple, the main hall is the statue of the Sanqing, through the main hall, to the courtyard at the back, and saw Xu Chongzhi.

"Humble to meet Grandpa Xu!" Shen Ning bowed his hand and bowed.

Xu Chongzhi smiled and said, "Your Majesty is meditating in the alchemy room, you can wait in front of the door and wait for Your Majesty's summons." Lord Shen, Your Majesty rarely summons foreign ministers here, this is Your Majesty's great importance to you. ”

"Humble duty understands." Shen Ning responded.

Subsequently, Shen Ning followed Xu Chongzhi to the door of the alchemy room, Shen Ning stood honestly and waited, while Xu Chong entered the alchemy room.

As the minutes ticked by, the dark clouds in the sky were getting deeper and deeper, and heavy rain was coming.

At this moment, a eunuch hurriedly ran in, stopped in front of the alchemy room, and said to the forbidden army guarding the door: "Please tell Gonggong Xu, the prime minister ordered the slave and maid to report the emergency." ”

After the forbidden army entered the alchemy room, Xu Chong walked straight out.

"What's going on?" Xu Chongzhi asked.

The eunuch took out the chapter, presented it to Xu Chongzhi, and said: "Please take a look, the prime minister has entered the palace and is waiting for the face saint in the Taiji Palace." ”

Xu Chongzhi opened the recital and looked at it, raised his eyebrows, and said randomly: "Our family knows!" ”

Subsequently, Xu Chongzhi entered the house again.

Shen Ning stood not far away and saw this scene, secretly curious, he could make Prime Minister Dong Ru hurriedly enter the palace to face the saint, and alarm His Majesty, it can be seen that something big has happened, I don't know what a big deal it will be?

Soon, the situation seemed to be very serious, and an old man in a dragon robe walked out, followed by Xu Chongzhi, and walked towards the outside of Sanqingguan.

Shen Ning bowed his hand in respect, but also raised his head slightly to look at Sima Zhou's appearance.

The appearance of a decent old man.

After the other party walked out, Shen Ning stood up straight.

It seems that something really happened that interrupted Sima Zhou's meditation and went to see Dong Ru. The first time he entered the palace, he was hung here, and Shen Ning could only continue to wait.

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A quarter of an hour later, a thunderclap sounded, and heavy rain began to pour down.

At this moment, the alchemist in the house ran out and used a silver basin to catch the rain from the sky, allowing the rain to wet his clothes.

The old eunuch who should be in charge on the side shouted to the forbidden army guarding on the side: "Don't be idle, hurry up and catch the rootless water in the sky!" This is the raw material for refining the elixir for His Majesty. The first heavy rain since the beginning of summer can't be wasted! ”

The forbidden soldiers around hurriedly took the silver basin and stood in the courtyard one after another to start receiving water.

Watching this group of people busy, Shen Ning felt that it was too interesting.

Summer rainstorms are like that, they come and go as fast as they come.

The alchemists had just stored the water they had received, and someone from outside the temple ran in: "Gonggong Zhao, Your Majesty should take the golden pill, hurry..."

The old eunuch who was in charge hurriedly entered the alchemy room, and then took the rest of the alchemists who were still dry, escorting the pills and hurriedly leaving.

And those alchemists with wet clothes went to change their clothes.

And the forbidden army could not do without, so they could only stand there in wet clothes.

It is not easy to be on duty in the palace, as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and there is no head if you can't do well.

So the sentence in my previous life was very true: I can't work part-time!

When Shen Ning continued to wait, a palace maid suddenly walked out, and looking at the few people outside, she said in surprise: "Where have all the alchemists gone?" Why is there no one left? ”

A forbidden soldier hurriedly replied: "In order to receive the rootless water, Danshi's clothes are soaked, and they have all gone to change their clothes!" ”

The palace maid saw that the forbidden army was also wet, and suddenly said anxiously: "Xuan Guiren is matching Danfang, why did he run away!" ”

At this time, she suddenly saw Shen Ning and hurriedly asked, "Who are you?" ”

Shen Ning didn't expect it to be on him, so he replied: "I was summoned by His Majesty to face the saint here." ”

The palace maid hurriedly said: "It's you, you come in with me and do me a favor." ”

"This is not appropriate, the alchemy room is a heavy place, without permission, I will enter at will, and I will be beheaded." Shen Ning replied.

The palace maid said: "I will truthfully explain to the noble people Xuan, with my master, no one will kill you." The alchemy room was already under the management of my master. Now I can only look for you, you look at other people, they are wet, how can this virtue go in? Hurry up, don't make Xuan Guiren wait for a long time. ”

After speaking, he took Shen Ning into the alchemy room.

When I entered the room, I suddenly had a cave.

This alchemy room is very large, and there are tools for alchemy in the room, such as Dan furnace, Danding, water sea, pomegranate jar, sweet snail, mercury extractor, Hua Chi, grinder, silk sieve, horsetail, etc., and there are many things that Shen Ning does not know.

There are also rows of cabinets against the wall, which seem to be the place where the materials are stored.

Deep in the alchemy room, there are several inner rooms.

Shen Ning followed the palace maid to the door of an inner room, and the palace maid asked Shen Ning to wait for a while, while she went in to say goodbye.

I saw that in the inner room, Zhao Qingxuan was preparing Danfang on a table, she was holding a small gold scale, weighing the weight of a black powder, and then carefully placed it on the table.

"Returning to the master, the alchemist got drenched in the rain in order to catch the rootless water, and then went to change his clothes. The rest of the alchemists went with Gonggong Cao to deliver the pills to His Majesty. The slave and maid couldn't find a suitable person for a while, so they asked a man waiting outside the door to come in to help. The palace maid replied.

When Zhao Qingxuan heard this, she immediately frowned and asked, "Who is this person?" What about the Forbidden Army? ”

The palace maid said: "The forbidden army is also wet, this person is a young military master, who was ordered to enter the palace to face the saint, the slave maid was in a hurry, and forgot to ask his name." ”

Zhao Qingxuan looked at the prepared pill on the table, she was in a hurry to prepare it, so she said: "Let him come in, you quickly go back to the dormitory and get some actinolite, today I have a whim, maybe I can prepare an elixir with excellent effect." In addition, look at where everyone else has gone, it has taken so long to go to the hospital to get medicine! ”

"Slave understands!" The palace maid answered and hurriedly walked out.

After the palace maid came out, she instructed Shen Ning: "The person in the house is Xuan Guiren, who is preparing an important pill, after you go in, follow the instructions of the mother, you need to help for half an hour." ”

With that, the palace maid hurried out to get the actinolite.

Shen Ning had no choice but to walk into the inner room.

"Humble Shen Ning, meet Niangniang!" At the same time that Shen Ning bowed his hand to greet her, he also raised his head and peeked at the noble person Xuan who was sitting there, only to see that she had a graceful posture and a green silk fluttering at will. Looking at the white neck, you know that this noble man is not very old.

I heard that Sima Zhou's four favorite concubines are all beauties around twenty years old, and Sima Zhou is sixty years old.

Despise him, despise him fiercely.

Zhao Qingxuan was weighing other materials, so he said: "You take out all these weighed materials and pour them into the grinder for grinding." ”

"Yes!"

Shen Ning replied and then walked over.

Today is also a coincidence.

Because they all stayed in the alchemy room, there were eunuchs and alchemists here, so Zhao Qingxuan only brought three palace maids to serve. Just after His Majesty left, she suddenly had an idea, thought of a new Dan prescription, and thought it was very interesting, so she asked the two palace maids to go to the Tai Hospital to get the materials.

Who knew that next, when the rainstorm came, everyone was busy receiving the rootless water, and went to send the pill to His Majesty, and went to change clothes, everyone was busy, but they didn't expect everyone to leave, the house was empty, and only the forbidden army guarding outside the house remained.

Zhao Qingxuan only had one palace maid left by her side, and she had to be asked to get actinolite, so in desperation, she called Shen Ning outside the door to come in and temporarily do a small favor. Otherwise, Shen Ning would not have been able to enter the alchemy room.

Shen Ning walked over, and only needed to put the weighed material into the grinder for grinding.

It's a small favor.

It's just that when he approached Xuan Guiren, and Xuan Guiren also subconsciously glanced at him sideways, the two of them were stunned at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, the faces of the two changed at the same time!

I saw Zhao Qingxuan's eyes widen, his face was shocked, and he stood up suddenly.

Shen Ning didn't expect that the Guan nobleman in front of him turned out to be the female apprentice of Xuanjizi! It's the woman who was shot by herself!