Youshi, Yongning Palace——

When Leng Qingtang came to say goodbye, the imperial concubine Wan Yuyao was enjoying dinner in the palace. Wearing a fiery red dress and a golden crown of nine phoenixes, she sat in front of a table full of delicacies, but it was an extremely magnificent picture. The palace man who accompanied her was the eunuch Minglan who had been to Dongchang in the morning.

"Lord Leng, how long has it been since you came to this palace to say hello?"

After Wan Yuyao finished speaking, she picked up a piece of tender bamboo shoots from the golden plate in front of her and put it in her mouth, pursed her lips and chewed it carefully, refusing to look at him.

"Wechen recently went out of the East Factory to investigate an important case, but he failed to rush back in time, and I hope that Niangniang will forgive him."

Leng Qingtang lowered his eyes and arched his hands, with a faint smile on his face, completely prepared.

"It's really busy, no wonder this palace has sent Minglan to pass you many times, but I can't see your figure. I heard that this palace brought back a handsome little apprentice from outside this time? ”

The news spread fast-

Leng Qingtang chuckled and said again:

"It does. Yun Guan'er was recognized by the minister a few years ago, although he was timid, he was extremely cautious and careful in his work, and he had been waiting at the end of the Gongyuan. At present, there are miscellaneous things in the East Factory, so I came to my side to help Weichen take care of affairs. ”

"Oh? So it's a little eunuch......"

Wan Yuyao muttered to herself, raised the jade dew cup, and drank the elixir inside.

Minglan picked up the jade mandarin duck wine jug at the right time and refilled the wine in the mother's cup. The bright eyes raised a height, peeked at Leng Qingtang who was standing across the table, and immediately met his sharp eyes.

As if he had been cut by a blade, and as if he had been bitten by a poisonous insect, Minglan only felt that he was stared at directly by that sharp, gloomy gaze, and his skin was tight and painful.

Leaning over in a panic, he held a pair of public jade chopsticks, chose a sugar braised sparrow tongue, and put it into Wan Yuyao's golden plate.

"Niangniang, this finch tongue is very cool today~ smooth and delicious, and the slave will give you a taste."

Wan Yuyao tasted it casually, picked up her mouthcloth and purified her lips, before she raised her eyes to look at Leng Qingtang, who was standing with her hands down, and said in a casual voice:

"The East Factory is not as good as other places, and the employment needs to be rigorous. However, since that little eunuch is your apprentice, there is nothing uneasy about this palace. The emperor will hand over the internal and external affairs of the government and the opposition to the palace to take care of you, that is the trust of us, the palace naturally does not want to make any mistakes, let the emperor be disappointed in the palace, and let those who are jealous of the palace gain power. ”

"Niangniang's meaning, the minister naturally understands."

"Why don't you come and have a drink with Hongu? This palace has important matters to discuss with you today. Have a seat! ”

Wan Yuyao shook her head slightly to the rose chair closest to Leng Qingtang, and the long spikes of the East Pearl hibiscus flower above her head made a small sound between swaying.

"Thank you, Niangniang, give me a seat."

Leng Qingtang understood in his heart, smiled with thin lips, and slowly walked to the table and sat down.

Minglan added him new dishes and silver chopsticks, and poured him a glass of wine.

"Overseer, please."

After doing this, Minglan retreated to Wan Yuyao's side with interest, and waited for the dispatch with his hands down.

"Qingtang, this palace doesn't want to hide it from you, recently this palace has heard some rumors, and there are those ministers who love to stir up trouble in the previous dynasty to make suggestions to the emperor, and they want to set up another West Investigation Factory. I think it is indeed for your Dongchang plan, you have to investigate the case and arrest people, and from time to time to guard the emperor against those traitorous and disloyal ministers, it is really tiring. This time, the emperor was really moved, and he wanted to share your worries for you in the West Factory......"

Share worries, or divide powers-

Leng Qingtang has always known the way of checks and balances in the means of the Dayi Emperor's unification. For now, he was silent, and only listened to Wan Yuyao continue.

"The palace thinks that the emperor is moved to form a new one, and it is better to use his own people for the post of the superintendent of the West Factory, so he is the most reassuring ......."

Wan Yuyao paused halfway through speaking, raised her glass and swallowed another glass of wine, and looked back at Leng Qingtang:

"In terms of candidates, can there be trustworthy people in Qingtang?"

"I wonder if Niangniang has a favorite candidate?"

Leng Qingtang and Wan Yuyao looked at each other and smiled, tacitly.

Wan Yuyao squinted at Minglan beside her, bent her delicate red lips, and smiled meaningfully:

"Minglan, you have seen it, I have been with this palace for many years, and I am the most compromised in doing things, and my mind is also meticulous. The palace pondered, if the commanders of the two factories are all from the palace, it will be more convenient for you to deal with things in the future, what do you think? ”

After pursing her lips, Wan Yuyao hooked her peach blossom eyes and looked directly at Leng Qingtang, her sparkling eyes were full of thousands of styles.

Sure enough, things turned out as Cheng Wanli said......

Leng Qingtang smiled and lowered his eyes:

"Since Niangniang has this intention, the minister has no objection, and I should obey the order."

Wan Yuyao turned her face quietly and gave Minglan a look.

He immediately understood, picked up the chopsticks and rowed a piece of white and delicate fish meat from the back of the vinegar-stuffed dragon boat fish and put it on Leng Qingtang's plate, and said with a sneer:

"Overseer, please! In the future, Minglan will rely on the prestige of Lord Leng in everything. In terms of seniority and seniority, Minglan is naturally inferior to you, Lord Leng......"

Leng Qingtang lowered his eyes and hooked his lips, and his long eyelashes blocked the face of the handsome phoenix, making it impossible to see the look in his eyes. He always sat upright, his hands tucked into the wide cuffs, and he didn't look at the food on the table.

Minglan's expression was slightly sluggish, and then he smiled and said in a soft voice:

"At the end of the month, it should be the annual centralized drill of the Dongchang team, I don't know if the overseer appreciates his face, and invites Minglan to watch one or two, and the right to learn from the experience?"

"If Gonggong Ming is interested, he will go."

Ming Lan had already seen from Leng Qingtang's indifferent expression that he was enduring the irritability, and after thinking quickly, he was unwilling, and continued to ask:

"According to the opinion of the Governor, after the establishment of the West Factory, the Jinyi Guard ...... needed"

"According to the establishment of the military department, it will be allocated by Leng's East Factory!"

Leng Qingtang got up open-mindedly and bowed his hand to Wan Yuyao on the other side:

"It's not early, and it's time for the mother to settle. If there is no order, the minister will retire, and the East Factory still needs to deal with official affairs. ”

"There you go."

Wan Yuyao smiled at him lightly and watched him stride away.

After the clear and majestic back disappeared from the field of vision, Wan Yuyao held a knife-like sharp chin with one hand and pinched the golden chopsticks with the other, and her expression became bored.

Recalling that clear and handsome face, Wan Yuyao felt a sense of loss in her heart.

It's a pity that such an extraordinary man actually became a eunuch-

In him, Wan Yuyao saw a kind of restraint and calmness that Minglan's age just lacked, and it was this charm that made Wan Yuyao obsessed.

It's just that he treats her with a sometimes cold and sometimes hot temperament, but every time she summons him, her heart will be unbearable by a kind of gain and loss. And the more this happened, the more she became fascinated by him, and a strong desire to conquer and possess grew day by day.

Minglan had already restrained his flattering smile, and his eyes were cold at the wine and dishes on the table that Leng Qingtang had never touched his lips, and his voice was fierce:

"Niangniang, that Leng Qingtang doesn't take you seriously! He didn't even taste the wine and food you rewarded, this is a deliberate attempt not to give you face! The slave just saw it really, and he was not happy with the emperor's practice of setting up the West Factory! ”

Wan Yuyao listened to the sound, her eyebrows and eyes were slightly drunk, and she lazily threw the golden chopstick:

"He is in the high position of the master of ceremonies, and he has helped the palace to settle a lot of things before, and it is inevitable that he will be indifferent and arrogant. Fang Cai Bengong deliberately asked you to curry favor with him, just to make it easier for you to do things in Xichang in the future. After all, when there was no main palace in this palace, there was already Leng Qingtang, the overseer of his East Factory. Hongu is letting him score three points now, which is to buy time for you to plump your wings. No matter how clear this palace is, you are the real 'own person' of this palace! ”

Minglan was so excited that he bowed down with his whole body:

"The minion's heart for the mother can be learned. The mother's weight on the slave is the blessing of the slave III. The slave should do his best to repay the grace of the mother! ”

……

Leng Qingtang and Cheng Wanli, the commander of the thousand households, walked all the way in the palace, and he didn't want to miss such a good moonlit night. The palanquin and the attendant guards followed, keeping a distance from the overseer.

"Master, you have done so many things for that imperial concubine before, and she still refuses to believe you! What kind of bird west factory is set up, it is she who is not even, and she is blowing wind on the emperor's pillow! ”

After listening to Leng Qingtang's story of all kinds of things in Yongning Palace all the way, Cheng Wanli clenched his fists with hatred and gritted his teeth.

"Humph! Now Wan Yuyao's mind is our emperor's mind, they want to use the East Factory, but also prevent the East Factory......"

Leng Qingtang walked forward leisurely, speaking in a low voice, unhurried:

"Minglan is a scheming minion, and just with the help of Wan Yuyao's momentum, he mentioned to the governor that he would transfer Jinyi Wei from the East Factory to fill his West Factory. Ben Du knew that when he was given the Jinyi Guard, he would be worried about the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard! ”

"Minglan just climbed up from the inner guard, and he is not proficient in martial arts. Master, let's sit back and see how long his West Factory can stand—"

……

While speaking, the group walked to the place that was enough to bring out Leng Qingtang's memory, and he stopped subconsciously and looked sideways at a short distance.

Cheng Wanli was extremely familiar with the long-formed habit of the Overseer, and whenever he stopped here and watched by himself, he would always feel a burst of sourness in his heart.

Lying on the silkworm eyebrows, Cheng Wanli said quietly behind Leng Qingtang:

"It's okay for you to take Yun Yatou back, but it's a matter of concern. The girl's eyebrows and eyes are really the same as Pei Zhangshan back then. In the dark, the heavens have finally rewarded you......"

Leng Qingtang was silent, standing upright with his back hands, as if he hadn't taken the words of Lord Qianhu into his ears.

Cheng Wanli frowned, and his emotions suddenly surged:

"Master, for many years, your subordinates have always understood what is on your mind! Yun girl, she ......"

"This governor has always understood that Pei Zhangshan is Pei Zhangshan, Yunxi ...... It's Yunxi! ”

Leng Qingtang suddenly spoke, cutting off the second half of Cheng Wanli's sentence.

In the dark night, the plain and faint voice revealed a hint of mourning. The plain white and handsome face dripped, and in the cold white moonlight, it was even weaker and tired:

"Wanli, it's the governor who owes the Zheng family. Zheng Guogong's great kindness, even if the governor is overturned, he will not be able to repay it in this life! Now, Ben Du just wants to take good care of her, hold her in the palm of his hand, and quietly watch her grow up, this is Ben Duke...... The only way to repay the Zheng family. ”