Every day, from the emperor to the Zichen Palace, until dinner time back to the harem, this section is Yao Jin on duty, there is no single or double off, and you can't ask for leave. Every time she stood until her legs were sore and she was so sleepy that she couldn't hold her eyelids, she comforted herself: no matter ancient or modern, she has to make a living and work, but she has worked from production and operation to the secretary of the chairman, and the leader is still the leader, and the thing is not just these requests for instructions, reporting, checking and conveying, the same, the same.

I think so, but being the secretary of the chairman also requires some advanced skills. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the various ceremonies, New Year's banquets, rewards and rituals in the palace, but everything that needs to be seen and decided by the emperor in person, and Zichen Palace's participation, are all within her and Li Nan's share. There are so many matters, the complexity of palace affairs, and all kinds of palace rules, etiquette, and precautions, which really make Yao Jin, who is difficult to read in Chinese, numb. However, the emperor has an excellent degree of trust in her, and he is not stingy in explaining things, and there are always one or two tasks to explain every day, Yao Jin can only show the work spirit of coming to SKS at the beginning of that year, and read the rules and regulations of the palace every night, digest and digest the classical Chinese by the way, and practice her ghost-like calligraphy;

Fortunately, Li Nan is a little bit of a stammer, but whenever Yao Jin opens his mouth, everything is answered, from which concubine His Majesty likes the most to wear what color of clothes, to how the fifteenth queen is carefully dressed up every month but is ignored by His Majesty, and which unfavored concubine suddenly rose to a higher level because of the relationship with the previous dynasty but is still alone in the empty room, and which faction of the court forces has the most relationship in the harem, all of which are described in great detail. Yao Jin, who has watched a lot of palace fighting dramas, believes that this information is very important, and every time he holds his breath and up his ears, he just hates that he can't write it down word for word on paper and make a cheat sheet. And Li Nan's gossip heart sometimes can't help but imagine herself, how can this little girl, who is only thirteen or fourteen, listen to these harem things so seriously and without shyness, is it really that His Majesty has accepted her, and for what reason can't she give her a name?

Yao Jin didn't guess what Li Nan meant, but she was really too busy to explain, and she felt that this misunderstanding would be helpful to her work. The days have blink of an eye to the twenty-sixth day of the New Year, and all the court affairs have been slowed down because the New Year is coming, but the emperor still gave most of the time to the Zichen Palace, often never returning to the harem before dinner, and sometimes even spending the night directly in the Zichen Palace. On such a day, Yao Jin and the people in Zichen Hall naturally complained bitterly. Listening to the palace maids below, His Majesty used to rarely be in the Zichen Hall after the afternoon, and there may not be a day and night in a month that is still here, but since the last lingering illness for a while, the emperor's dragon body Kangtai is like a change of personality, and the affairs of the harem have gradually faded, but I like to spend a lot of time in this Zichen Palace.

In the afternoon of this day, the emperor raised his head from the pile of pieces and said lightly, "Xiao Yao, the annual gift list drawn up last time will be checked again, and it will be added or decreased according to the widow's will, and it will be presented tomorrow." ”

This sentence "according to the meaning of the widow" always makes Li Nan cast an eager and envious gaze, you must know that although it is not allowed to speculate on the holy will, but since the emperor wants you to speculate, then you have to seize the opportunity to speculate, after all, it is not easy to please the current emperor.

Although Li Nan was envious, Yao Jin only had two words in his heart, bitter. She has now finally figured out the emperor's preferences, dislikes, and affinities with the brains inside and outside the palace, but for all kinds of rewards in this ancient world, what jewels, jade, and silk cloths, in her eyes are all priceless antiques, where can she distinguish the high and low? But since the emperor ordered, she had to come down first, thinking that it seemed that Wei Yan was on duty tonight, and he had always been accurate about these things, so he could ask for help again.

"Xiao Yao, tomorrow's dinner will be arranged in Zichen Palace, and I have something to discuss with the prince. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

"Li Nan, go to the queen and say goodbye, tomorrow will not pass. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Speaking of this, Li Nan and Yao Jin couldn't help but secretly glance at each other, on the fifteenth day of every month, the emperor usually has to stay in the queen's palace, and usually go to drink tea and have a meal from time to time, which is also natural, but our emperor has not been to the queen's palace for more than a month, and finally remembered this yesterday, and sent Li Nan to pass on the message, saying that the prince has devoted himself to the Hongwen Pavilion to revise the Hongshan Chronicles, and he will have dinner in the queen's palace when he returns to the palace tomorrow, and it is estimated that the queen has now prepared three or five sets of menus, but now the emperor himself has reversed, which is simply unprecedented。 Li Nan secretly complained in his heart, thinking that he would go to the queen tomorrow to spread the word, but the queen would have to ask a lot of questions, and he would not be embarrassed.

The emperor is still staying in the Zichen Hall today, Yao Jin waits for the emperor to the door of the dormitory, and then goes to the small kitchen to ask a few things that need to be prepared in advance for tomorrow's dinner, and this is already the time of the day. The nightlife of the ancients was really boring, and most of them washed and slept, but this point is the beginning of the lights of modern people, and the colorful nightlife has just begun. So Yao Jin, who was still in good spirits, turned around and went to the vicinity of the dormitory, and began to check the work status of the maid on duty at night, whether she couldn't raise her eyelids and yawned, or she had a night snack in her arms and a snack in her mouth, of course, if there was an unlucky guy who happened to be not in the position where she should be, Yao Jin was too lazy to talk nonsense with them, and returned directly to the secretary's province, let you cry and call your mother, and still let you get out with a cold face.

In the matter of managing people, from now to ancient times, she has always been ruthless, and because His Majesty has always called her Xiaoyao, the palace maids and eunuchs of Zichen Hall gave her an alias behind her back, Leng Xiaoyao.

Leng Xiaoyao is very satisfied with the results of today's spot check, everyone abides by their duties in their posts, and there is no cheating and trickery trying to be lazy. Although it was already cold at this hour, even if there was no wind, and it was freezing cold to walk a few steps towards the open area, she tightened her cloak and walked briskly to the front of the main hall. At this moment, there is only Wei Yan on duty in front of the palace, the other is far away near the palace gate, and the others are distributed on both sides, and a team of guards patrolling has just passed here, and it will be a long time before they will come back. Wei Yan seemed to have known that she was coming, and was looking at her from a distance with a smile on her face.

"The girl has worked hard again to this hour. ”

"There is no one else, the girl is long and the girl is short. Yao Jin smiled.

Wei Yan was a little embarrassed, paused, and said: "Now that Yao is a female official, Wei Yan is just a guard, and the title should be clear." ”

Hearing the word female official, Yao Jin sneered silently in his heart, and his voice slowed down, "So everything at the moment is just because I am a female official, not because I am Yao Jin." ”

"How can you think so, Yao Jin-" Wei Yan looked at her eyes, bright, but cold, the corners of her mouth were shallowly curved, but there was no smile, obviously she was a teenage girl, but at the moment she was disgusted and cold. He wanted to open his mouth to comfort him, but his mind came to mind the closed room full of blood, a desolate and cruel death in the darkness. Wei Yan couldn't speak, but Yao Jin took the lead in cheering up, patted him and said, "Okay, don't say these frustrating words, you can help me take a look at this ...... now."

The white moonlight is lonely and cold, the residual snow on the ground has not yet disappeared, the young man's posture is upright, the girl's shadow is moving, under the towering palace and the long palace wall, it is so small, but Yao Jin's silver-gray cloak is slightly shining under the moonlight, as if there is a hazy light, gently enveloping the two.