Zichen Palace.

Li Nan steadily delivered a cup of hot white tea to the emperor, raised his eyes and motioned for several beautiful ladies on both sides to withdraw. Since a serious illness a few months ago, the emperor's temperament has changed greatly, and now he no longer prefers red sleeves to add fragrance, especially in the Zichen Palace, he doesn't like the warbler and the swallow to surround on the side, but since he is the person personally arranged by the queen's mother, he has to give some thin noodles, and he will put it on the palace to make a show. Fortunately, the taste habit of drinking tea has not changed, and it is still the most desirable to cook it by himself, thinking of this, Li Nan felt a little relieved in his heart, and with a respectful smile, he pushed the stack of music next to him slightly in front of the emperor, and easily removed the rags that had just been presented.

The emperor didn't pay attention to his movements, he was looking at the music intently, and just took a sip of tea, when he suddenly heard a low "oops" next to him, it was Li Nan who fell on the steps and scattered pieces of cloth on the ground.

"The old slave should die, the old slave should die!" Li Nan pleaded guilty while busy cleaning up, and at the moment there was no one in the palace, so the emperor said gently, "Anan is old, let them do these things in a small way." ”

Maybe the emperor just didn't mean to, but the sentence "old" was deeply rooted in Li Nan's heart, as the most intimate inner supervisor around the emperor, although he also grew up with the king, but he was indeed a little old, plus he suffered a lot for the emperor in his early years, and now he is more and more unable to keep up, and sometimes he even urgently wants to know whether the emperor has the intention of disliking him, and whether he will promote the few little eunuchs he doesn't like very much. There were many such thoughts, and the emperor's temperament had changed greatly in the past few months, which made him extremely careful to figure out the holy will every day, and he couldn't help but add a lot of silver to his already gray hair.

"The old slave is old, and he always can't do these things well, and His Majesty should dislike it. Li Nan's voice was full of seven points of self-blame and three parts of grievance, and he knelt on the ground and sorted out the pile of things, but he didn't dare to get up.

The emperor's brows frowned slightly, and with a smile, he paced to Li Nan's side and kicked him, "Are you vinegar smoked in the harem?"

Li Nan was stunned, looked up at the emperor, and was speechless for a while, thinking that His Majesty didn't make such a joke with them before, but he couldn't take it. So I could only "knock knock" and kowtow three more times.

"Get up, the widow still wants to watch the recital, you dare to waste the widow's time here, and you want to ask for a board?"

Li Nan hurriedly got up, and smiled with a shy old face: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty Xie does not dislike the old slave." With that, he cautiously bowed his head and retreated.

The emperor was about to return to the dragon chair, when he suddenly felt that the soles of his feet were wrong, and he saw that a piece of sackcloth was stepped on underneath, presumably from the pile that Li Nan had collected just now, and was about to kick it away, when he caught a glimpse of a few lines of poetry written crookedly on the sackcloth -

Oh, life

Surely you have ruined countless pure dreams

There are also brave people, such as petrels flying in the storm

The evening coast is as calm as the night

......

At this moment, the Inner Chamberlain was still as usual, gloomy and silent in the corner of the palace, and occasionally one or two cries and ** sounds were quickly drowned in a thick darkness. And Li Nan, who rarely came here, was not familiar with the roads in the Inner Servant Province, so he had to start shouting from outside the door: "Spread Your Majesty's will, find Wei Yan quickly, find Wei Yan quickly, keep people!" So much so that when he rushed into the passage of the closed room, he suddenly failed to adapt to the darkness around him, and actually "poofed" Lying on the ground with a sound, the people who came up behind him saw that he looked like a dog eating shit with his buttocks backwards, and they didn't dare to laugh, so they hurriedly stepped forward to help him get up, and the people who came again saw that they couldn't intervene, so they all squeezed into the passage, including the two little eunuchs who came with Li Nan, as well as the guards of the Inner Servant Province, and more of a group of old eunuchs who stayed in the closed room all the year round and couldn't see any nobles and couldn't get a few rewards, all of them opened their throats and shouted for a while, "Wei guards, Wei Yan guards!

"Oh, these grandsons! I'm not looking for Wei Yan, I'm looking for that little palace maid, don't let her die!" There are many passages in the closed room, each of which is dark and narrow, Li Nan saw that these people were scrambling to be the first to be the first to run around, and he felt that something bad was going to happen, so he hurriedly grabbed a closed eunuch who had just run over, and asked, "Where is the little palace maid who came to see Wei Yan, the guard of Zichen Palace, locked up?"

Coincidentally, this person was one of the two old eunuchs who brought Wei Yan in before, because of his age, he heard the cry of a frying pan at the door for a while before he ran here, and he was out of breath before he could slow down, but was stopped by Li Nan.

"Go back, go back to Nan's father-in-law, the little palace maid is in the innermost room of that road, please follow the little one-"

"Whatever you want, my heart!" Li Nan pushed him away, and ran in the direction he pointed out, shouting as he ran, "Wei Yan, Your Majesty has a will, keep people, save her life!"

He ran a few steps, Wei Yan was already holding a soft body and rushed over, and said in a panic, "Nan Gonggong, she is out of gas, she is out of gas!"

Li Nan heard that his heels were straight and soft, and he shook his hand to probe the little palace maid's snort, it was indeed no breath, and he couldn't help but recall the emperor's loud drink just now, "I must bring it back alive", and his heart was even more anxious, and he said in a panic: "My heart, this imperial poison is hopeless, at this moment it is to ask for life from black and white impermanence, I'm afraid it has already passed the Huangquan Road, but how good!"

"Father-in-law Nan, she didn't take poison, she committed suicide by hanging from the beam!" Wei Yan reacted suddenly, and asked anxiously, "Can you let the pharmacy come to take a personal look, can Your Majesty allow you to invite the imperial doctor?"

Li Nan was stunned for a moment, then turned around and shouted, "Call the Imperial Doctor, call the Imperial Doctor!"

Wei Yan looked at the girl in his arms in fear, her face was pale and breathless, and there seemed to be no anger on her body, but he knew that the body he was holding was still warm, this girl's crying and laughter, sorrow and anger were still very vivid in his heart, but he could only watch blankly as the pharmacy person took her from his hand, the thin little body was helplessly placed on the ground, the medical women's faces were calm, the imperial doctor frowned a little, and they surrounded each other and quickly blocked Wei Yan's sight. And Li Nan, who regained his composure, quickly invited the emperor to have a new will, and arranged this little palace maid who did not know life and death in a room in the side hall of Zichen Hall to facilitate the treatment of the pharmacy.

The emperor's original words were: People, be sure to save the life, and there is no need to alarm others. Li Nan understood the words "save the life and save well" very well, and directly asked the people in the pharmacy to stay, and transferred a few palace maids and eunuchs from the Zichen Palace to serve in the side hall, and he also came over twice a day to take a look. It's just that the words "no need to alarm the harem" made him a little embarrassed, and in the face of the harem from all sides of the inquiry, he took a lot of effort to let everyone not get a trace of useful information and not be disappointed. Among them, the most difficult thing to get rid of is naturally the direct care from the queen's mother, saying that the palace maid is a person in the harem, and it should be the queen's responsibility, and His Majesty is busy with state affairs, so it is really not appropriate to disturb in the Zichen Palace. The person who came was the most delicate and sensible first-class female official around the queen, not only was the courtesy and thoughtful, but also very earnest, and then he had to take people away, Li Nan couldn't shirk it, so he could only move out of His Majesty's sentence "No need to alarm the harem", which can be regarded as quiet.