Yang Tongjiao saw that all the beautiful women were staring at him awe-inspiringly, and with some satisfaction, he continued to announce the precepts of the Heavenly King's Mansion:

"Third, to serve the King of Heaven, there are some rules that need to be remembered. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info First, it is forbidden to speak loudly, cry or laugh loudly in the palace of the king; Second, it is necessary to pay attention to the spittoon when serving tea, it is difficult to raise the tea if it is not right, and it is difficult to spare it if it is not saliva properly; Third, it is not allowed not to rinse the mouth or brush the teeth, you must know: the face is suddenly stinky, the mouth is hungry and smelly, and the sulfur is burned; Fourth, when you look at the king with your eyes, you must abide by the rules: look at the Lord's shoulders and see the best reason to look at the chest. ”

"Fourth, it is ten 'should be beaten'. If you are not pious in service, you should be beaten, if you don't listen to the teaching, you should be beaten second, if you look at the husband, you should beat the husband, if you ask the king, if you are not pious, you should fight, if you are not pure, you should fight, if you speak loudly, you should beat six, if you have a mouth, you should not fight, if you are not happy, you should fight, if you look left and right, you should fight, and if you don't speak leisurely, you should fight! ”

“………”

Yang Tongjiao read out more than a dozen precepts and rules in the Heavenly King's Mansion, and Shen Donglian was completely blinded. There are so many rules, she can't remember them at all, and she doesn't have the heart to remember them at all, she just feels that she has come to a strict cell, which is not allowed, and she is not allowed to be punished with a cane or whipped, and if it is serious, it is even more to burn her back with an iron, kneel on the fire chain, gouge out her eyes, beheading, etc., thinking about it makes her shudder.

Subsequently, Yang Tongjiao divided the new entry into the palace into more than 60 groups of Niangniang, and let more than 20 female officials be responsible for the training and daily life of the bride.

Shen Donglian and the other two girls were all selected from the women's hall near the West Gate of the Han Dynasty in Tianjing City, so they were divided together, and the three of them chatted carefully, and they turned out to be in the same place where they lived when they were children, and they were still neighbors, so they quickly became acquainted.

One of them is called Xiaoyu and the other is called Xiaotao.

The female official told the three of them that if they forgot their names and remembered their numbers, they would not be able to survive without their numbers in the Heavenly King's Mansion in the future.

Because, everyone in the palace has their own number, including their female officials. Everyone's food, clothes, utensils, and medicine when they are sick must be numbered in order to receive them.

Shen Donglian suddenly realized, so it was! However, she wondered why the previous Yang Tongjiao had his own surname?

According to the female official's explanation, there are too many Heavenly Kings, so there are different levels according to the order of following the Heavenly King.

The highest level is the Moon Palace, and there are several in the Moon Palace, the Zhengyue Palace of the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, the second wife of the Heavenly King's hometown, Lai Niangniang, but the Zhengyue Palace, and two "Deputy Moon Palaces" from Bauhinia Mountain in Guangxi and four "Vice-Moon Palaces" from Jintian Village.

Under the Moon Palace, there are "Tongjiao", "Tijiao", "Tongyu", "Zhengguan", and "Deputy Looking".

Among them, 16 "Tongjiao" and 32 "Tijiao" have higher status, but among the female officials, they can be called by their surnames in private to show respect, but in front of the Heavenly King, they definitely dare not be called so, and they must be called by number together with those below the rank of "Tijiao".

Shen Donglian's number is "Tianzi No. 68 Vice-Look", while Xiaoyu and Xiaotao are respectively "Tianzi No. 69 Vice-Look" and "Tianzi No. 70 Vice-Look".

The female official is equivalent to the same as in the Taiping Army, with an official position instead of a number, and the female official in charge of Shen Donglian is a female official in the Tianwang Mansion.

Every morning and afternoon, the female official brought food, and Shen Donglian and the others settled down. Every day, he followed the female official to recite the precepts of the Heavenly King's Mansion and the poems of the Heavenly Father, and the days passed like this for nearly half a month.

During this period, Shen Donglian and the others also went out twice, but they were just not far from the room when they were called back to the room by the female officials on duty. Because of this, Shen Donglian did not see the specific appearance of the Heavenly King's Mansion clearly. I just know that this Tianwang Mansion is very large, it is estimated that there are several miles in a radius, and there are many palaces, and I can't see the end at a glance.

And the place where Shen Donglian and they live is also in a side hall within a palace, with exquisite decoration and brilliant gold inside, but Shen Donglian doesn't have much heart to appreciate these at all. She was thinking about how to leave the Heavenly Palace.

On this day, the female official led Shen Donglian and the other three to the hall where they entered the Heavenly King's Mansion a few days ago, but all the new brides and daughters were inside.

One of them, surrounded by a large number of female officials, came to the temple, but he was blessed.

He cleared his throat and announced, "Today, this commander brings you good news. But the king of heaven still lacks dozens of close-fitting positive girls, and he needs to be selected from all the brides. This is still an opportunity for the king to take pity on everyone and give him, and I hope that all the mothers will take advantage of it. ”

Immediately, Meng Deen arranged for the female officials, let everyone line up in a long line, out of the palace gate, all the way to the green trees and red flowers, occasionally there are pools, dozens of zhang wide, and two stone boats are placed in the pool. Outside the pool is a garden, with a platform, a pavilion, a bridge, and a pool. Crossing the bridge is a stone mountain, the mountain has a hole, the middle knot hut, and the snake walks forward.

Everyone followed the grace of the two miles, came to a magnificent palace, in front of the hall is a plaque on the book "Golden Dragon Palace".

Shen Donglian saw that the beams in the hall were painted with red gold, and the text was painted with dragons and phoenixes, shining brightly. Four murals of dragons, tigers, lions, elephants, birds, flowers and plants, and extremely colored work.

The door at the back of the hall opened, and dozens of Heavenly King Imperial Forest Guards holding glittering swords walked into the hall surrounded by a middle-aged man wearing a dragon yellow robe.

Shen Donglian looked up, and saw that the middle-aged man in the yellow robe had deep bags under his eyes, and he obviously looked weak and tired, so he guessed who this person was, and then wanted to take a closer look, but saw that the other party seemed to have a sense, glanced over here, hurriedly lowered his head, his chest kept jumping, and he was very nervous.

Fortunately, Meng Deen stood up and said to the middle-aged man in yellow robes: "Heavenly King, the newly selected sixty-eight deputy guards have been brought to the main hall, and the Heavenly King is invited to select. ”

This person is indeed Hong Xiuquan, the king of the long-haired thief! Shen Donglian, who lowered her head, thought secretly, and was even more nervous in her heart, afraid that she would be chosen.

At this time, the Heavenly King spoke: "Raise your heads, and slowly walk in front of me and go around in a circle, so that I can see more clearly." ”

So, Meng Deen and a cadre of female officials arranged for all the new brides to be selected and walked around him around the king's will.

"You, and you, and this!" As the King pointed out, the three women were taken aside by the female officer.

Immediately afterwards, twelve more women were singled out.

When it was Shen Donglian's turn to walk out, her originally nervous heart calmed down. She tried to make the expression on her face look stiff, to make herself frown, and she was almost limping to walk, but unfortunately, she was still picked.

"You, and you." The Heavenly King pointed to Shen Donglian and Xiao Yu behind her.

On the same day, Shen Donglian and Xiaoyu were officially promoted to Zhengkan Niangniang, wearing yellow satin with a two-tailed phoenix pattern, and each enjoyed the service of three of the most ordinary female soldiers, but they were the servants of the Heavenly King.

After three days of short training, Shen Donglian and Xiaoyu were officially in place and were ranked to serve the Heavenly King. Because Shen Donglian knew how to read, she was arranged to be one of the poetry and book maids of the Heavenly King, while Xiaoyu was illiterate and became one of the tea maids of the Heavenly King.

It was not dawn this day, Shen Donglian and Xiaoyu came to the Golden Dragon Hall where the king lived early in the morning, Shen Donglian cleaned up the paper and pen and ink on the desk, and Xiaoyu made a cup of tea and put it on the table. There were more than 20 young and beautiful women, and Shen Donglian quietly asked and found out that they were all mothers who served the Heavenly King, and there were more than 20 of them, but they were only arranged in the Golden Dragon Palace.

An hour later, the Heavenly King, accompanied by the eight Sect Commanders, came to the desk, sat down, raised his hand, and looked at Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu didn't know what to mean, she couldn't help lowering her head, a little scared, and her heart panicked.

The one behind her was a unified sect mother who was training Shen Donglian and Xiao Yu and other brides, and she kept glancing at Xiao Yu.

But Xiaoyu didn't understand what it meant, and became more and more flustered and at a loss.

The king of heaven snapped, slapped on the table, and said to the row of teaching mothers standing behind him: "Who taught these brides and mothers, who didn't know how to serve me at all?" ”

The mother surnamed Yang was so frightened that she hurriedly came out of the ranks, knelt on the spot, and said: "Heavenly King, it is the wife of a minister, and the seventh commander of Tianzi." ”

The Heavenly King glanced at the Yang Sect, stood up, walked up to her and squatted down, reached out and touched her face, and slowly kneaded it. When Shen Donglian saw it, a trace of blush suddenly appeared on her face with shame.

Suddenly, the king of heaven withdrew his kneaded hands, stood up, and spit two mouthfuls of saliva on the top of the head of the Yang surnamed Tongjiao, one of which hit the forehead, and the Yang surnamed Tongjiao did not dare to wipe it, let the saliva flow down, blindfolded, and just knelt on the ground and bowed and begged for mercy: "The king of heaven is angry, it is the minister's wife who is wrong." ”

"Since it is wrong, it must be punished." The Heavenly King was quite satisfied with the attitude of the Yang surname to unify the teaching, and said: "I will go to the outside of the hall to receive twenty lashes and reduce it to a teaching." ”

After the Heavenly King finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Yu: "As for this bride, give fifty lashes, return to the deputy to the mother, and retrain." If you still don't know how to serve, snow in the clouds! ”

After that, he returned to his desk and sat down, picked up a brush, and wanted to write.

Another woman next to her, who was also wearing yellow satin with a two-tailed phoenix pattern, hurriedly handed over the inkstone with polished ink, and the king dipped it in ink and wrote the words of the Heavenly Father.

Shen Donglian hurriedly stepped forward and sharpened the ink. His face was pale, and he looked at Xiao Yu who was dragged out by several female officials worriedly, and his heart was full of resentment and sorrow.

In the first month or two, Shen Donglian was still worried that the Heavenly King would forcibly force men and women to her, but as a few months passed, her errand was just grinding ink, and the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan had never made any other moves towards her.

She began to realize that for the Heavenly King, the numerous "Niangniang" did not seem to satisfy the physical desires of men, but more as an "ornament" to show off the majesty of the Heavenly King.

In the Heavenly King's Mansion, except for a few men who were close to the Heavenly King such as Meng Deen and the guards of the Heavenly King of the Imperial Forest Army, the others were all women, and there were no eunuchs or others to serve them.

Therefore, in the Heavenly King's Mansion, the main subordinates are female officials and their ladies. In the final analysis, these mothers are actually just palace maids with a different name.

In this way, Shen Donglian survived in the Heavenly King's Mansion. (To be continued.) )