At the beginning of the morning the next day, Shen Muchi had already gotten up and dressed neatly, and the female official who was serving was about forty years old, and her demeanor and demeanor were comparable to Aunt Chun of Ziwei Palace, all of them were smiling and gentle but not angry and arrogant.

Cai Ling only glanced at the curtain in a hurry, Shen Muchi stretched out his arm, and another slightly younger female official tied the gold ribbon embellished with precious stones around his waist for him, he turned his head to look inside the curtain, and looked at each other, she quickly turned her face away. It's really inappropriate to peek at other people's clothes!

"I went to the early dynasty. I'll dine with you when I come back. As he was leaving, he opened the curtain and looked in, his voice low and gentle.

She turned her back and nodded, if only time stood still. After staying in Hanzhangyuan, will there be another good time worth remembering in the vertical arch hall? She couldn't tell.

And he who slept until three o'clock in the morning, and said that he would come back to have breakfast with him, took matters with the ministers in the front hall. The young female official introduced that her name was "Yi Nian", and she used to serve the emperor's daily life, and she was asked about everything in the vertical arch hall. Cai Ling nodded gratefully, and with Yi Nian's help, she got dressed and washed properly.

Outside the hall, the sunlight poured down on the ground, and the attendants came and went with the soil and flowers in the shadows of the trees. Cai Ling drank a bowl of bird's nest porridge: "Dare to ask my sister, are the palace people in the Vertical Arch Hall so busy every day?" ”

Yi Nian stood aside, and also glanced at the palace people who were busy like bees outside the window, prying flowers, planting grass, and filling the soil to perform their duties, "They are going to replace the impatiens in a place with spring orchids." The flowering period of this spring orchid is in March next year, and now there is only a green leaf, will the girl feel monotonous? ”

"It's a bit monotonous." Cai Ling glanced at the water-colored curtain and water-colored mattress in the screen again, and the two of them didn't need to say much, they looked at each other and smiled.

After the meal, Cai Ling went out for a walk, and saw a familiar figure in the crowd directing the waiter to clean up the remnants of the impatiens in a place. "Aunt Yunhe?" Cai Ling hurriedly made a regular salute, this person was the acting edict female official who came to serve His Majesty in the morning, at that time, her sleepy eyes were full of Shen Muchi, and she didn't see her seriously, and at this time she recognized that it was the person next to Xuan Niangniang in Cuiwei Palace.

"The girl's wounds have not healed, so she should go into the temple to rest." Yunhe hurriedly came, and saw her arms wrapped in white silk cloth, and he didn't know where to help her up for a while.

"How is Auntie?" The reunion of the deceased can't help but be overjoyed.

"The clouds and cranes are all good. Although the girl has suffered some sins, she will be considered to have suffered in the future, and she should recuperate with peace of mind. Yunhe continued to persuade.

"My aunt calls me 'Cai Ling'. Since then, I have been on duty in the Vertical Arch Palace, and I don't understand anything, and I hope that my aunt will give me advice. ”

"Girl......" Yunhe remembered very clearly, when Niangniang was dying, she prayed to the woman in front of her word by word: Chi'er of this palace will be handed over to you from now on.

"Auntie doesn't have to worry about it." Cai Ling said with a smile, "From the Huanyi Bureau to Bixiao Palace, now that she can serve Your Majesty in the Vertical Arch Palace, Cai Ling is already content." ”

"I've wronged you." Yunhe still couldn't help but say.

When Shen Muchi came back, Cai Ling was tidying up the hut in the side hall. Yunhe didn't agree to let her move to the side hall to live, but she said: Your Majesty is willful, and I can't help but persuade her. The palace maid slept on the dragon bed, and after it was passed out, how the ministers in the court looked at the king, how the people discussed the court, and how absurd the history books would be left. Yunhe bit her lip and arranged her in a hut a hundred steps away from the main hall. Although it is a hut, it is also red walls and green tiles, golden and brilliant, and it is much better than the courtyard of her former Prime Minister's Mansion.

"You want to live here?" The bright yellow dragon robe is still on his body, and his majesty is unparalleled, but he is a little aggrieved when he asks, which is ridiculous.

She raised her stiff arm and motioned for him to sit on the futon by the window, and she also knelt down, "Looking out from here, I can just see the candlelight of the inner hall, which is much closer than when we were in the Qin Palace, don't be dissatisfied." ”

He looked closely into her eyes, the sun was in full bloom at noon, the bamboo shadow outside the hut was mottled, and the breeze passed through, sending the fragrance of bamboo leaves, she smiled and said, "You said you want to come back and have breakfast together?" ”

"Did I say it's breakfast?" He asked.

It turned out that when he came back for dinner, it was lunch or dinner, she held her forehead and smiled, it was not easy to be an emperor, she had to get up at dawn, and hurriedly used breakfast to be the time of the early dynasty, and the end of the early dynasty had to discuss state affairs with the ministers of the interior. In the past, I felt that the emperor was serious and old-fashioned, and he never thought about the suffering of life from his point of view. Suddenly, I felt a little distressed about Shen Muchi.

"Don't go yet." Shen Muchi got up after speaking.

"Where?" Cai Ling was puzzled.

"Have lunch."

"The slave has thought about it, the errand of serving His Majesty's meal is indeed good, but unfortunately there is an injury to the arm, I am afraid that I will not be able to do such a job in half a month." Cai Ling stood still.

"Let's dine together." He took her by the waist and led her out of the house. The sun was shining outside, and she quickly squinted her eyes and refused, "How is this good?" ”

"Don't refuse me again. From now on, if you don't eat with me, I won't eat. "The Ninety-Five Supreme, who has a long body and a jade body, looks like he is very cute.

"The slave is genuinely afraid. Your Majesty is not stunned? She said helplessly.

"That's what I used to be, but you never knew it." A warm smile suddenly appeared on his handsome face, and his eyes were full of smiles.

A whole half a month of daily recuperation, two meals a day was fed, and the person who fed it was still the supreme emperor, fortunately, this is the secret of the forbidden palace, and even Ziwei Palace can't get the slightest rumor, let alone a courtier, without accusation, he became more and more arrogant, and he actually felt that the dishes he personally fried were a little salty, and he also commented two sentences. Although he only said that he would pay attention next time, she was like a slap in the face, and she recognized what day it was.

Since then, he has untied the strip of cloth on his arm and rolled up his sleeves, revealing two long scars on the left and right: "The scab has been removed, and eating and working are not in the way at all." ”

He frowned and looked at her wound carefully, his fingertips touched the purple scab, trembled slightly, and his slender fingers hung in the air: "Why can you bear to cut a knife on your arm?" Carefully sliding her sleeves down.

"It's understandable that it's too sad." She didn't explain, he really thought that everything was "self-harm", but she didn't want to see the little eunuch die for her again, that child didn't care how old Yuan'er was, if she couldn't bear it in the corpse wilderness, if she asked He Yue to collect the corpse, the kid would inevitably have to complain a few more words, "Alas......" Thinking about this, she sighed.

"I'm very touched that you're jealous of me like this." He did not hide his affection, hugged her into his arms, and his thin lips were lightly opened, and he was about to attach them to her lips.

Hurriedly pushed it away, "Your Majesty, a misunderstanding." ”

"Misunderstanding?" His eyes sank, "What's the misunderstanding?" Let's hear it. ”

I almost showed my stuffing, and I was jealous when I was jealous, although it was a shame, but it would not kill me. "The slave and maid are just talking for a while, how can there be any misunderstanding? This time is a little too extreme, and I will never do it again in the future. ”

"Hmm." The Emperor nodded with satisfaction, "If I commit it again, I will let Manyun be trapped in the court for the rest of his life." ”

"What's wrong with the slave?" She held her head high and was extremely annoyed.

"Slave and maid knock to your majesty." The familiar gentle female voice reverberated in the inner sanctum. Cai Ling hurriedly turned her head, already with tears in her eyes, "Manyun ......"

"Sister ......" how much friendship is turned into a continuous lovesickness.

Manyun was transferred into the vertical arch hall, and from then on Weiyang was the palace of the king of Qin.

Recently, Yunhe has a tricky thing, that is, the palace maid Taohong who serves tea in the front hall of the arch is always sick, and the hospital sent someone to take a look, saying that it is a stomach disease, this disease needs to be raised for a long time, and the most important thing for the job of serving tea is the instrument, a station in the hall is several hours, Taohong is afraid that it is not competent, although there are alternative people, there will be twelve courtiers in the inner hall tomorrow, and one more must be sent.

Cai Ling learned about this from Yi Nian's mouth, and hurriedly begged Yunhe, shook her hand and said, "Good aunt, I have been raising in the vertical arch hall for half a month, and I have gained a lot of weight, and I am afraid that I will suffocate to death if I don't work again." Look at this cup of tea that I fried, is it bright and fragrant? The master who taught me sencha in the past was someone close to Emperor Taizu. Emperor Taizu knows tea best and is full of praise for her. ”

"Serving tea is about manners." Yunhe glanced at her.

"Of course, I have the same manners. The shopkeepers in Dongxi Building were all taught by me, and no one has said that they are not good enough. Cai Ling hurriedly made a gentle appearance.

Comparing the courtiers with the guest officials of the wine shop, Yunhe couldn't help but smile and looked at her again. Afraid that she had said something wrong, Cai Ling hurriedly added: "Why don't you let me try it tomorrow, if you really can't do it, can you find someone to replace it?" ”

Seeing her sincerity, Yunhe reluctantly nodded.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yunhe took her to the front hall of the vertical arch, explained the layout and furnishings in the hall one by one, and there was a skilled tea palace maid to teach her etiquette, until the sun was slanting in the west, and the tea lady nodded her head in satisfaction. During dinner, Shen Muchi asked her where she had gone in the afternoon and how she looked tired. She smiled slyly: "Your Majesty will know tomorrow." He replied, "Eccentric," and the smile in his eyes was about to overflow.

In the early morning of the next day, I put on a water-colored gown and a red skirt, combed a double snail bun, and took a look at the bronze mirror, with a bit of the demeanor of serving the saint all the year round, and turned around and went out with satisfaction, and mixed into the ranks of the tea palace maids.

Because of the joint performance of the six ministries of the three provinces, there are quite a lot of ministers sitting in the palace today, so the number of palace maids in the tea has also increased from the original four to eight. The palace maids stood on both sides separately, and Cai Ling stood at the end, close to the palace gate, and couldn't help but look up at the empty hall. He'er, the lady who served the tea, was making tea on the small table on the side of the dragon chair, and tapped the table twice with her hand as a reminder, and she hurriedly lowered her head.

After a while, the brocade clothes and black gauze hats stepped into the hall one after another, found their places and sat down, and there was a lot of discussion in the hall for a while. Cai Ling quietly raised half of his head, and saw that it was Yang Taotao sitting in front of him, and he was overjoyed, and was about to say something in code, Yude sang: "The emperor has arrived in ......"

The courtiers bowed their hands one after another, and the emperor strode to the main seat in the hall, and after he sat down, the ministers sat down neatly. At this time, the work of the maid of the tea palace began. Cai Ling carried the tray prepared in advance, and her two "guest officers" were Tao Tao and the Ministry of Works. In the years when she was in Chang'an and made a fuss about marrying Shen Muchi, she had long been famous, and all the officials present knew her except for those who had just been promoted from the state capital.

She only lowered her head and put a cup of tea on the case of the Ministry of Works, he glanced at her unintentionally, and was immediately so frightened that she almost knocked over the teacup, she hurriedly reached out to help, forgetting that there was another cup of tea on the wooden plate held in the other hand, an imbalance, the tea spilled, and fell on the sleeve. She wrinkled her eyebrows, and was about to bow her head and retreat to the door of the hall, when she heard Tao Taoxi at the next table couldn't help but say a code: "Chirp...... Chirp tweet! These few sounds successfully attracted everyone's attention, and she couldn't wait to clasp a teacup on top of his head.

The emperor held the tea handed by the lady serving the tea, and followed her closely wherever he looked, and there was no joy or anger in his eyes as black as a deep pool.

I didn't expect to mess up with a cup of tea, it's really frustrating. She turned her head and looked at His Majesty with an aggrieved face, but His Majesty slowly showed a smile and shook his head helplessly.

When serving tea to Tao Tao, she couldn't help but stare at him fiercely, and said in her heart: You caused this girl to make a fool of herself in public. Tao Tao whispered in her ear: "Wait for Ben Shao on the porch during the break." ”

Because she wanted to secretly cross Chen Cang with this unserious Yang Duwei, her heart was beating fast, and she didn't notice what the three provinces and six departments were playing, and only heard His Majesty reply with a sentence of "Let's discuss it later", and the ministers begged: Your Majesty think twice!

Think twice about what? Cai Ling looked up, and Shen Muchi looked at the courtiers coldly, "I have made up my mind, so I don't need to urge." ”

Urging what? Cai Ling only hated herself for listening to the second half. During the break, Cai Ling waited under the porch as promised, just waiting for Yang Taotao, who came out to breathe, to find her.

"Jiang Shao? Suddenly, someone pulled her water-colored gauze dress, and when she turned her eyes, the son in the vermilion court dress was looking at her condescendingly, "Wearing this palace costume has a bit of a seven-grade female official." ”

"What was the discussion in the temple just now?" Cai Ling hurriedly grabbed Tao Tao's shirt and asked.

"Men and women are not clear." At this time, he paid attention to these, "Aren't you also in the temple?" ”

"I didn't hear clearly when I was distracted." Cai Ling was very annoyed.

"It's not something I've been thinking about a lot lately. The country cannot be without a king, and the king cannot be without an heir, I ask Your Majesty to canonize the queen as soon as possible and accept the harem. If it is peaceful today, tell me, in addition to this, what else is worth the joint performance of the three provinces and six ministries. Tao Tao was impatient.

"And what are you going to do?" Cai Ling looked him up and down.

"Ben Shao is naturally ...... when he comes" couldn't help her sharp eyes, Tao Tao said dejectedly, "Ben Shao also co-signed." ”

"You also support Your Majesty's Queen?" Cai Ling asked.

Tao Tao patted her shoulder and said seriously: "You will climb up wholeheartedly now, and it is best to be a female official of the third grade." Don't think too much about anything else. ”

"What do you mean?" Cai Ling's anger came from it.

"Look, aren't you a maid of the tea palace now? It won't be long before you will climb up one level at a time, and it is better to call for wind and rain in Weiyang than to buy wine in Chang'an City. Tao Tao tried to change the subject.

"Fuck the wind and the rain. I'm going to leave after five years. She really followed his words and chatted, "What I saw today, this tea palace maid is not a good job, and if I don't get it right, I will be laughed at by the courtiers, it seems that I have to sum it up again, and find a more easy job to fool me in the past few years." ”

"That's not true." Tao Tao hurriedly persuaded, "This tea palace maid is the job you should most do to break your head and squeeze in." ”

"How?" Cai Ling feels that Yang Taotao is particularly clever today.

"What is the discussion between the DPRK and China?" Without waiting for her to answer, "A national event!" The direction of the next step of construction, the policies of various industrial, commercial, agricultural, academic and military personnel, you say that if you serve tea every day, listen attentively every day, and do not take the development of our dynasty to heart, waiting for the opportunity to move, are you afraid that you will not be able to earn money? ”

"You really are!" Cai Ling's eyes straightened, and she immediately laughed, patting Tao Tao's shoulder again and again.

"Lord Duwei......" Yude came from the hall and said respectfully in the dust.

"Ah...... "Suddenly something is wrong."

"Your Majesty will pass you on." A bit of schadenfreude.