Just when the people sent by He Jin went out of Beijing to Xiliang to unite Dong Zhuo, the palace couldn't help but be calm as usual.

At this time, in the side hall of the palace, the ten permanent attendants were sitting in a group discussing something.

"Master, [honorific title between eunuchs], what can we do now?" Bi Lan, who was sitting in the lower seat, said to Zhang Rang, his eyes full of pain.

"That's right, now that Your Majesty has passed away, we will have no backers in the future, what should we do?" Guo Sheng also sighed in agreement.

"Guo Sheng, you whisper to me, don't let others hear it, don't pull us in if you want to die." Zhao Zhong, who was sitting on the top seat, looked at Guo Sheng below and said with a gloomy face.

"Master, is what I said wrong, as long as the group of ministers outside know that His Majesty has passed away, I'm afraid they will kill us immediately and bury us with Your Majesty!" Guo Sheng said with some disdain, after all, this was already a certain death game for them.

As Guo Sheng's words were finished, the ten permanent attendants sitting there began to talk one after another, and the panic began to slowly grow in this small group.

"Okay, what's the system of the noisy and noisy, do you want this news to leak out?" Zhang Rang said with a gloomy face, "Now our top priority is to block the news of His Majesty's immortal death, so as to buy us a favorable time. ”

"Then what should we do behind the master?" Guo Sheng stood up again and said, even if he collided with Zhang Rang now, it didn't matter, he didn't want to die inexplicably, and everyone had to die together.

"It's very simple, find a backer!" Zhang Rang glanced at Guo Sheng and said lightly, a gleam flashed in his eyes from time to time.

"Backer?" Zhao Zhong muttered, "Now there are only two people in the palace who can be our backers, one is that the Empress Dowager Dong raised the Prince Association and has always been good friends with us, and the other is that Queen He has always been dissatisfied with the Prince Association born to His Majesty's love for Wang Meiren, and the general He Jin is a brother and sister who has a bad relationship with us, I don't know which side you want us to take refuge in, Master?" ”

"Do we have a choice now?" Zhang Rang glanced at everyone and said, "If you want to live, go with our family to Queen He!" ”

"Queen Ho? Master, we have always been at odds with Queen He! Xia Yun stood up and said puzzled, Guo Sheng stood aside and sneered, in his opinion, Zhang Rang was crazy and ready to drag everyone to die together.

"Hmph, what do you know!" Zhang Rang snorted coldly and said, "Now the general has military power in the capital, and our territory is only in the palace, and it is also controlled by Empress He and Empress Dowager Dong. ”

"What we can do is to hand over the control of this palace to one of them, Empress Dowager Dong has no military power outside, even if we hand over the rights in our hands, it is meaningless, on the contrary, Queen He and He Jin are brother and sister, once we serve Queen He, He Jin will also take care of Queen He's face." Zhang Rang said here, and a cunning expression appeared on his face.

"But master, as long as He Jin kills me and us, isn't the control of this palace in the hands of Queen He?" Zhao Zhong was still a little puzzled.

"Zhao Zhong, you have been with our family for so many years, why haven't you grown at all?" Zhang Ran looked at Zhao Zhong beside him and said.

"Now what Queen He is worried about is whether the prince can sit on the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, even if His Majesty loves the Prince's Association and even leaves an edict to ask Lu Zhi and others to support the Prince's Association to ascend to the throne, but it is not His Majesty's golden mouth, so what is the use of this small proposal?" Zhang Rang took out an imperial list from his arms and stroked it gently.

"This is also thanks to the fact that the master arranged his own people among His Majesty's cronies more than ten years ago, otherwise we would not have been able to get this imperial decree." Zhao Zhong looked at the imperial decree in Zhang Rang's hand and smiled slightly, "Isn't the master trying to use this imperial decree as our gold medal for avoiding death?" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately shifted their eyes to the imperial decree in Zhang Rang's hand, "This edict will be handed over to Queen He together, we can't catch such a hot thing." Zhang Rang's eyes couldn't help but show a gleam.

Just when everyone was about to say something, a knock suddenly sounded outside the hall, and the ten permanent attendants all stared at the outside of the hall with nervous faces.

After a short time, a small yellow gate walked in, saluted the ten permanent attendants, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, according to our spies on the city wall, the Yuan family has helped a messenger out of Luoyang City and in the direction of Xiliang. ”

"Well, we know, you go down first!" Zhao Zhong heard the little yellow door

After the words, his pupils shrank involuntarily, and he waved his hand to leave.

After Xiao Huangmen left, Zhang Rang trembled and stood up and said, "It seems that some people can't help it, everyone, we should also make a choice." ”

"This—" Suddenly, everyone else looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"In that case, then I won't force you, I hope you will cherish it in the future." Zhang Rang looked at the people who were still a little hesitant, smiled gloomily but didn't say anything, picked up the imperial decree in his hand and walked towards the outside of the hall.

"Master, I, Zhao Zhong, have been with you for so many years, so I naturally look forward to my master." Just as Zhang Rang had not walked far, Zhao Zhong's voice came from behind Zhang Rang.

The rest of the ten permanent attendants saw that the two eldest brothers who took the lead had made a choice, so they had no choice but to follow the two towards Queen He's bedroom.

After a while, Empress He sat on the wind chair and looked at the ten permanent servants and others below, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but pull up a sneer.

"Why, what kind of wind blew you to this palace today?" Empress He said lightly, but there was endless banter in her tone.

"The queen mother has tormented the old minister, and the old minister and others have always looked forward to the queen's mother, and they can be said to be loyal to the queen." Zhang Rang replied without changing his face when he heard Queen He's mocking words.

"Oh? How can this palace remember a few of you old slaves, but you often do things right for this palace? Empress He said with a little coldness.

"The queen mother has wronged the old minister, in fact, the old minister and others have never dared to go against the queen mother, but the queen mother Dong always takes His Majesty's will to let us go against the queen mother, and the old slave and others have to obey!" Zhang Rang suddenly said with a crying voice, and kept wiping his nose with his sleeve robe, and everyone began to learn from each other, and the huge Ganquan Palace was filled with a burst of crying.

"Enough! Don't cry! "Queen He thought it was funny at first, but soon put aside the thoughts in her heart, the crying of ten people was too noisy.

"Since you said that you are looking forward to the head of the horse in this palace, then this palace asks your majesty that your majesty has passed away!" Empress He said with a gleam in her eyes.

"This...."The ten permanent servants behind Zhang Rang suddenly stopped crying and looked at each other, and his body couldn't help but start trembling, and his head was buried on the ground and he didn't dare to lift it.

"Her Majesty the Queen Mother has indeed passed away." Zhang Rang replied with a bowed head without changing his face, knowing that every question he answered from now on was related to the life and death of himself and others tomorrow.

"Do you know that your secrecy is the greatest insult to the royal family?" When Empress He heard the news of Emperor Han Ling's death, her face was not shocked at all, but revealed a smile of excitement.

"Queen Mother, it was His Majesty who ordered the slaves to do it, saying that they wanted the old slave and others to keep it secret for seven days." After Zhang Rang heard Queen He's question, a look of surprise flashed in his heart, others say that a husband and wife are a hundred days, but it is obviously not appropriate to use it in the palace.

"Secret, don't report, is it ....." Queen He didn't find Zhang Rang's thoughts, but kept thinking about something.

"Yes, yes! I can't imagine that you will be paving the way for that slut's son until you die! Empress He said with a murderous face, "Since you have come to join me, you must have a way to put my emperor on the throne!" ”

"Back to the queen mother, I also felt that His Majesty's order was suspicious, so I carefully observed that when I was yesterday, I found that His Majesty's henchman Jian Shuo was preparing to escape from the palace with a holy decree!" Zhang Rang said, taking out the imperial decree in his sleeve robe and holding it above his head.

After Zhang Rang finished speaking, Queen He did not immediately express her attitude and actions, everything seemed to have fallen into a strange situation, and the temperature in the Ganquan Palace, which was still warm, seemed to have dropped a lot, so that the ten permanent servants except Zhang Rang couldn't help but have a chill, and they didn't know whether they were cold or frightened.

"Well, tell me your terms! Since you have all given this palace such a big gift. After a long time, Queen He still spoke, and immediately broke this strange atmosphere.

"The old slave and the others are all for the queen's mother, all this is what the old slave should do, and he doesn't dare to seek a reward!" After Zhang Rang heard Queen He's words, instead of relaxing, his heart became more vigilant.

"You can be a man, you really deserve to be an old man!" Empress He said with a wave of her hand, and then a maid walked up to Zhang Rang, took the imperial decree in her hand and handed it to Empress He.

"Since you don't want anything, please give me a lot of advice in this palace in the future." Empress He kept playing with the holy decree in her hand, and said a little playfully.

"The old slave doesn't dare, the queen told me to go east, and the old slave definitely doesn't go west!" Zhang Rang's forehead couldn't help oozing a cold sweat, and he couldn't help but be a little worried in his heart, now he was betting that Queen He needed their old dogs.

"Whatever you want, this palace is a little tired now, you...."Empress He suddenly put away the playfulness on her face and said.

"The old slave and the others took their leave first." Zhang Rang finally put his mind at ease at this moment, and after bowing, he led everyone out of Ganquan Palace...

Outside the hall, Song Dian asked a little worriedly, "Master, has the queen accepted us?" ”

"Don't worry, it's okay, the queen still needs our old dogs to guard the door for her, do whatever you want to do when you go back, but the premise is not to do it against the queen mother." Zhang Rang said with some self-deprecation, leading the crowd to go farther and farther in the dark....