Recently, the families of hundreds of officials have moved into Shendu Garden, and the arrangement of the courtyard is mainly responsible for the female officials in the ban.

In the side hall of the Dragon Scale Palace, Shangguan Wan'er sorted out the list of those who entered the garden, and then placed it on the desk of the Yuzheng Di clan.

"Shangguan should be in an orderly manner, and his penmanship is impressive, if it is not for the system to help, I am afraid that I will not be able to do anything before the holiday."

Di Di took the scroll handed by Shangguan Wan'er, and after reading it for a while, he smiled at Shangguan Wan'er.

The scale of female officials in the ban is getting bigger and bigger, and the division of labor is gradually becoming clearer. A considerable number of female officers are only coarse and can barely handle simple case affairs.

For example, Shangguan Wan'er, a leader with profound learning and rich talents, naturally gained more and more trust from His Majesty the Holy Emperor, and was able to participate in confidential information, and even publicize and issue edicts, of course, he would not be appointed as such a miscellaneous envoy. So this time, Shangguan Wan'er came to Shendu Yuan, and she took the initiative to ask for it, which helped a lot, which made the Yuzheng Di clan, who was in charge of this matter, feel very relaxed.

Shangguan Wan'er chatted with the Di family for a while in the banquet, and learned that there were no other cases for the time being, so she retired first.

Before His Majesty the Holy Emperor arrived, the female officials temporarily lived in the pavilion on the right side of the palace. After Shangguan Wan'er walked out of the side hall, she involuntarily went to the right, and when she noticed the increase in the number of armor soldiers outside the corridor, she found that she involuntarily came to the Zhemei Hall where the two generals were located.

Sensing the somewhat surprised eyes of the palace maid accompanying her, Shangguan Wan'er smiled slightly, and sighed in her mouth: "Wei Niangzi had an accident in the palace, so that the old friends in the palace were worried, and she didn't come for a long time, it's really curious." ”

While speaking, she stopped under the verandah of the palace to watch for a while, and did not notice the figure of His Royal Highness the Modern King, so she returned to her residence in the palace with some regret.

After returning to the house, Shangguan Wan'er asked the palace people to take high buns, hairpins and the like, and she also changed out of a simple skirt and a palace skirt with a red bottom and a colorful brocade table.

Seeing Shangguan Wan'er's unusual dress, some palace people couldn't help but wonder: "What kind of solemn guests should be welcomed?" ”

"It has nothing to do with solemnity, it's not a confidant to see, Luo Kun is better than words."

As she spoke, she stood up and asked people to watch and point out, and after the details of the ornaments, she walked slowly out of the house, taking five or six palace maids with her entourage, to the sixteenth courtyard where the families of hundreds of officials were placed.

Sixteen courtyards along the dragon scale canal and house, in front of the door of the living water, flowers and trees as a fence, in this hundred flowers in the twilight spring season, the scenery is beautiful. Shangguan Wan'er helped to settle the families of the hundred officials, and naturally silently wrote down the location of each family in her heart, without careful guidance, and soon found the place where the family of Zheng Gao, the servant of the heavenly official, lived.

Zheng Gao's official residence is among the best among the officials of Southern Province, and his family is a famous surname in Henan, so the courtyard allocated to this family is also quite spacious.

Shangguan Wan'er walked to the door and asked the palace maid to report first, and soon after there were more than a dozen women in the room, one of whom was Zheng Gao's wife. Mrs. Zheng was in her early forties and had a graceful posture, and when she saw Shangguan Wan'er standing outside the door in full costume, there was no lack of suspicion in her expression, so her family stepped forward and asked: "I don't know what Shangguan should ask about it?" ”

"The concubine was ordered by the emperor to take charge of the inner garden affairs of the Shangsi ceremony, please forgive me for visiting the needs and disturbing places."

Before Shangguan Wan'er entered, she first saluted, and then said again.

Hearing this, Mrs. Zheng asked the family to invite Shangguan Wan'er to the hospital and sit back in the hall.

Shangguan Wan'er sat in the hall and saw Zheng Gao's wife and several elderly women sitting in the seat, with maids shuttling between the banquets, furnishings to welcome guests, with a number of thoughtful etiquette and detailed rules, even more than in the palace. It is precisely because of the solemn rules of such a big family that Shangguan Wan'er made up carefully before visiting.

There were also several young women of the Zheng family in the banquet, and their sitting postures were also gentle and solemn, and there were many people who showed envy and concentration for Shangguan Wan'er's exquisite skirt, but they only glanced sideways. Although she has tried her best to hide it, how can the details of the emotions between her eyebrows be hidden from Shangguan Wan'er.

Because of the excessive emphasis on etiquette and the lack of common topics between each other's identities, the atmosphere in the hall is a little dull. After Shangguan Wan'er exchanged a few words of greeting, she said the true meaning of this visit: "My family is a good relative, and I am fortunate to be of the same ......clan as your mansion."

She came to see the Zheng family this time because of her mother's courteous advice. In the old years, her family suffered a catastrophe, and her mother, the Zheng family, was also implicated. After that, the mother and daughter did not enter the court, and lived tremblingly every day, and completely cut off contact with the outside world.

In recent years, she has become more and more favored by His Majesty the Holy Emperor in the ban, and her situation has become more and more calm, and her mother has also become older, and she misses her relatives more and more. But as a female official in the forbidden middle school, how could she have the opportunity to have frequent contact with the outer court, and she waited until the Shendu Garden held the Shangsi Festival celebration and the families of hundreds of officials entered the court, so that she had such an opportunity.

Shangguan Wan'er was in swaddling clothes when she entered the palace, and she had no impression or affection for her old relatives, but she couldn't bear to see her mother crying and grieving all day long because she missed her relatives, so she came forward to inquire about the situation of her relatives abroad.

In fact, although her mother was also born in the Zheng family in Xingyang, she was the southern ancestral house of the Zheng family, and she was also much estranged from the northern ancestral cave forest house of Zheng Gao's family. But now there are not many people in the Xingyang Zheng family who are now in the court, and even Zheng Gao's family was unable to participate in the Shendu Garden last year.

Shangguan Wan'er didn't know much about the other friendships in the family, and the target she could inquire about was very limited, so she found Zheng Gao's family.

Hearing Shangguan Wan'er's intentions, Mrs. Zheng was also at a loss, she really didn't have any impression, and she just promised to help inquire later, but she didn't even talk about how to deliver the news afterwards, it was obviously just perfunctory.

Shangguan Wan'er was not accustomed to begging people, but in order for her mother to be comforted, she still implored Mrs. Zheng if there was any news, and let the female official's relatives enter the palace on the day of Wangshuo.

She was sensitive and didn't dare to make promises, but she just gave a gift that was not in violation of the rules, some palace-like jewelry, spices, etc., although the quantity was not much, but it was also carefully prepared.

Zheng's Qunshu is quite tempted by this gift, after all, the bright and moving Shangguan Wan'er in front of her is a living model, a young girl in the flower season, the age of beauty, not to mention that this time when she entered the palace, she had to be told by her relatives early, it has a deeper purpose.

Seeing this gift, Mrs. Zheng's complexion improved slightly, and she was about to deal with a few more words patiently, when suddenly a woman hurriedly entered the hall, which was contrary to the solemn atmosphere in the hall.

He whispered a few words to Mrs. Zheng, and the grace on Mrs. Zheng's face was indifferent, and she stood up directly from the seat, with a little eagerness on her face, and said to Shangguan Wan'er: "When the family enters the garden, they need to be courteous, and they can't treat the guests for a long time, please forgive Shangguan Nei." ”

After Shangguan Wan'er heard this, she also hurriedly got up and wanted to say a few words, but Mrs. Zheng had no time to take care of her, but ordered the girls in the banquet to hurry back to the house to make up and follow her out of the house to greet her.

The Zheng family was busy on their own, Shangguan Wan'er could only withdraw a little embarrassed, and before she could completely leave the Zheng family's house, she saw Mrs. Zheng leading several girls out in a hurry, without the graceful and slow posture before.

"The official should be systematic, it is the princess of Yongwang, the heir of Princess Yong, and the Tang Ruren who entered the palace on behalf of His Royal Highness the king."

After Shangguan Wan'er walked out of this courtyard, there were palace maids in front of her.

Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful eyes flashed when she heard this, and then she looked down at her dress, a trace of self-deprecation flashed on her face, and she muttered, "What kind of ......?"

When the two princes and daughters entered the garden, it soon spread all over the Shendu Garden, and it was not only Zheng Gao's family who rushed to greet them. The warbler swallow swallow and the colorful silk embroidered skirt actually converged into a brightly colored trickle along the dragon scale canal in the garden.

Shangguan Wan'er was in a bad mood at this time, and she didn't want to join in the excitement, so she turned her head to carefully identify the path, cut diagonally along the courtyard where the Zheng family lived, and prepared to walk through a flower garden to the palace road.

Behind the side of the Zheng family's courtyard, there is a stream bypassing, and the courtyard wall has collapsed under the alluvial all year round, but because of the remote location, it does not affect the overall beauty of the courtyard.

A stone pavilion sits within the courtyard wall, covered with moss on one side and entwined with rattan on the other. Although the palace people have taken care of the courtyard carefully, this remote place is still left, although there are also verdant and verdant, but it seems a little disorganized.

When Shangguan Wan'er walked here, suddenly a smooth piano sound flowed out from the Xuan Pavilion in the courtyard, and the sound of the piano was the new "Midnight Song" compiled by the envoy of Yun Shaofu, the old work of the king, and there was a soft and sad Wu song.

Shangguan Wan'er was in such a state of mind, hearing this lamentation in this deserted place, she unconsciously listened to it a little confused, and simply stepped over the gap in the low wall, walked into the pavilion, and listened silently, while faintly curious in her heart.

The acting king is rich and beautiful, and there are a lot of expanded lyrics, "Midnight Song" is not the best in it, and it belongs to the Qing Shang string music that is not in line with the aesthetics of the times, and even the number of performances in the forbidden Chinese opera is not much. However, the music sounds tactful and smooth, especially the details of the twists and turns are very varied, so that the main piece of music reaches a meaning that goes beyond the music book itself.

Shangguan Wan'er herself likes the restrained artistic conception of "Midnight Song" that is sad but not sad, emotional but not complaining, and even specially asked for a song book from Yunshao Mansion to play around. But she doesn't have the talent for strings, and she's busy with affairs, so she can't bear to finish the first piece, let alone sublimate the artistic conception.

At this time, when she heard that someone could repair the little regret in her heart, and did it better than she imagined, she felt a sense of joy and relief in her heart. Therefore, with a little change in mood, the music sounded more complete and light to her.

Just when Shangguan Wan'er was fascinated by what she heard, the sound of the piano suddenly stopped, and she suddenly came back to her senses, only to find that she was a little rude to enter without telling her, and was about to quietly exit the wall, when a voice came from the room outside the flower fence but made her stop, signaling the palace maid not to make a sound, just continue to listen.