Dengwen Drum Courtyard, Wang Gaoban stood in front of the door and stretched out for a long time, and then snorted a few times to let the little chamberlain below hurry up and clean, although they Dengwen Drum Courtyard has always been a clear water yamen, and few people usually dare to knock on Dengwen Knock, but because the Drum Courtyard is at the gate of the imperial city, it must be cleaned at ordinary times, otherwise if it is seen by the troubled officials, they may be sued.

Wang Gaoban is very satisfied with his current situation, although his position in this high class is not high, there are also high grades, palace heads, offerings, etc., and even higher Duzhi, Escort class, etc., it can be said that he is just an inconspicuous head of the palace in the palace, but Wang Gaoban has no ambitions, and he is already very satisfied with guarding such a Qingshui Yamen-like Dengwen Drum Courtyard, and there are usually any battles in the palace, and he is rarely involved.

Wang Gaoban is in his fifties this year, and other chamberlains are generally much older than their actual age because of physical reasons, for example, many chamberlains are already hunched over and have gray hair when they are fifty years old, but Wang Gaoban may have a wider heart, and he does not look too old in his fifties, and even looks younger than normal people, which is also what he is most proud of.

Under the urging of Wang Gaoban, the servants of the Dengwen Drum Courtyard have also accelerated the speed of cleaning, although there is no early dynasty today, but there are many officials who will still go to the imperial city to do business, the Dengwen Drum Courtyard is one of the façades of the imperial city, and the daily cleaning is also the most important and tiring thing.

After everyone finished cleaning, Wang Gaoban carried the teapot and walked around, and found that the cleaners were not lazy, so he put his mind at ease, and at this time, he saw that there were also many officials' carriages passing by outside the gate of the Drum Courtyard, but these officials were all above the top, and they had always been honest with Wang Gaoban and these eunuchs.

Wang Gaoban also knew that he couldn't climb these people, so he turned his head and went back to his official room, speaking of which, he slept a little late last night, and the older people were not good at all, and they couldn't sleep at night, so he planned to go back and take a nap for a while.

However, Wang Gaoban did not dare to go to sleep in the daytime, after all, there were people coming and going outside the drum courtyard, in case someone came in and found him sleeping, I am afraid that he would also do the head of this high class, so he could only stay by the stove and doze off, although it is already spring, but the morning is still quite cold, fortunately last year there was a kind of coal stove in the city, that is, warm and safe, but it made last year's winter much better.

"Knock knock~" Just when Wang Gaoban was dozing off, he was suddenly woken up by a dull drum sound, he was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, this is someone knocking on the Dengwen drum outside, which made him sleepy, jumped up and walked out, after all, he was in charge of the Dengwen Drum Academy, and if someone beat the drum, he had to deal with it personally.

The other people in the Dengwen Drum Courtyard also came out at this time, and they followed Wang Gaoban outward, but when they saw the people beating the drum outside, they were all stunned there, only to see that this person was wearing a phoenix crown on his head, wearing a wedding dress, and he turned out to be a married bride, which made Wang Gaoban also stunned, he had been in charge of this place for many years, and had seen all kinds of people who came to beat the drum, but it was the first time he saw the bride to beat the drum.

"Bold, who are you and why are you beating the drum?" Wang Gaoban immediately stepped forward and scolded.

Seeing Wang Gaoban and these people coming out, I saw that the woman in the wedding dress finally stopped, and then saw her bow slightly: "The little woman's surname is Liu, the daughter of the late Taishi and Shangshuling Liu Mei, there is something important to ask to see the Queen Mother, please pass it on!" ”

The person who beat the drum is Qingzhi, she made a bold decision last night, even if Li Zhang is under house arrest, she will marry according to the previous marriage contract, even if there is no official wedding, she doesn't care, so today she secretly asked people to prepare a carriage to come to the palace gate, but she is not like Li Zhang, who can enter and leave the palace at will, and finally can only come up with a way to beat the drum.

Hearing Qingzhi's self-report, Wang Gaoban was also startled, although Liu Mei died, but it was also the queen mother's brother, in other words, the woman in front of him was the niece of the queen mother, this is not something that he dared to offend as a small senior class, so he immediately put on a kind smile and said: "It turned out to be the daughter of Taishi Liu, please move to the drum courtyard to rest, I will go to the queen mother!" ”

"No, I'll just wait here!" Qingzhi shook her head at this time and said, if she wants to marry Li Zhang, she must get Liu E's consent, otherwise let alone Zongzheng Temple, she can't even enter the gate of the imperial city, so she wants to see Liu E.

Seeing that the other party was so insistent, Wang Gaoban didn't dare to say anything, and immediately sent a young chamberlain to the palace to report the news, and at this time, there were also many officials in and out of the imperial city, when they saw Qingzhi wearing wedding clothes outside the drum courtyard, they all showed curious looks, and some even stopped to look here.

At the same time, Liu E is also in the vertical arch hall to review the folds, although there is no early dynasty today, but there are still a lot of folds sent, she has long been used to it, every morning after breakfast, she has to send the morning folds to review again, and then handed over to several prime ministers in the political hall to discuss and implement.

But at this time, the chamberlain of the Dengwen Drum Courtyard also came to report, when she heard Liu Mei's woman wearing a phoenix crown and beating the Dengwen drum, she was also stunned at the moment, and then suddenly remembered that today should have been the day when Li Zhang and Qingweaving became married, and this marriage was also promoted by her efforts, but now that Li Zhang is locked up in Zongzheng Temple, the marriage naturally has no way to be done.

"Coming in a wedding dress, her courage is really not small!" Liu E quickly guessed Qingzhi's intentions, which made her a little impressed with her niece, and even had some appreciation, but praise is appreciation, she will not let Li Zhang go so easily to let him get married.

"Spread the will of the mourning family, let her go home, and she is not allowed to mess around!" Liu E immediately opened her mouth and ordered, she didn't want to let Li Zhang go, and she didn't want to see Qingzhi's niece.

The person who reported the report agreed, and then left the vertical arch hall again quickly, and then came to the Dengwen Drum Courtyard as quickly as possible, at this time there were many people gathered around, not only officials who entered and exited the imperial city, but also some people, but this is the gate of the imperial city, the people did not dare to get too close, they could only watch from afar.

"Spread the will of the Queen Mother, the women of the Liu family should go home quickly, and they are not allowed to mess around!" This chamberlain came to Qingzhi and immediately conveyed Liu E's will.

Qingzhi couldn't help but turn pale when she heard this will, but she didn't accept the order, but gritted her silver teeth and took a few steps forward, and finally knelt in front of the gate of the imperial city and said loudly: "If the queen mother doesn't see me, the little woman will kneel and die in front of the city gate!" ”

Seeing that this little woman dared to disobey Liu E's will, the onlookers were also in an uproar, especially those officials showed a look of surprise, at this time, many people already knew Qingori's identity, and even asked the reason why she came to see Liu E, which also made more people show admiration for Qingo.

Wang Gaoban saw that Qingzhi refused to leave, which made him very embarrassed, if he was someone else, he could have thrown the other party out by force, but the other party was the niece of the Queen Mother, and he didn't dare to do so, so he had no choice but to send someone again to report the situation here to Liu E.

Liu E is a person who eats soft and does not eat hard, originally she still had a good impression of Qingzhi, but when she heard that the other party dared to disobey her will, it also annoyed her all of a sudden, so instead of summoning Qingweaving, she directly ordered that Qingweaving kneel as long as she likes, and also made people disperse the crowd of onlookers.

Qingzhi is also a soft and rigid personality, and if she doesn't sound good, she is a little stubborn, so after hearing Liu E's instructions, she has been kneeling in front of the city gate and refusing to stand up, in fact, she has been fully psychologically prepared before she came, even if she kneels to death here, she has to see Li Zhang.

Because of Liu E's order, no one dared to watch in front of the imperial city gate, but the news that Qingzhi was kneeling here had spread, and soon the Liu family came, and it was Qingzhi's eldest brother Liu De who came in person, when he saw Qingzhi kneeling in front of the city gate, he was also very annoyed, and immediately stepped forward to let Qingzhi go home with him, but Qingzhi was extremely stubborn, no matter what Liu De said, it was useless.

Seeing this situation, Liu De was even more annoyed, and immediately wanted to use force, and directly pulled Qingzhi back to the carriage, but he didn't expect Qingzhi to pull off the hairpin on his head and put it against his neck at this time, and said loudly: "If the eldest brother wants me to die here, then just do it!" ”

Liu De was also taken aback by Qingzhi's actions, he knew that his sister had a strong personality, if she really forced her, maybe she would really cut herself here, which made him dare not move anymore, and the people around him also pointed at him, which made Liu De yell angrily: "I'm so angry, how do you like it, I don't care!" ”

Liu De couldn't stand the eyes of the people around him, turned around and got into the carriage and went back, after watching the eldest brother leave, Qingzhi gently put down the hairpin in his hand, and then straightened up and knelt there quietly, but others only saw her calm on the surface, but no one found that the hands in her sleeves were tightly clenched together, and the joints were a little white because she was too hard.

The news of Qingzhi kneeling in front of the city gate not only spread outside the imperial city, but also people everywhere in the imperial city were discussing this matter, and Zhao Zhen in the Gyeongbok Palace also quickly got the news, which made him also anxious, and finally gritted his teeth and went to Liu E again, since this cousin Liu was so affectionate and righteous, Zhao Zhen couldn't watch her suffer.

It's just that what Zhao Zhen didn't expect was that when he arrived at the Vertical Arch Palace, Liu E refused to see him, because Liu E had already guessed that he was coming, so he directly turned him away, which made Zhao Zhen angry and anxious, but there was no way, but Liu E and Zhao Zhen didn't expect that at this time, another person was alarmed by the news.