The newly elected palace concubine Xia was stabbed to death on a rainy night in the Han Ice Hall of Daming Palace, and it is strange to say that the rain in May has been unusually rare since the night when Xia was stabbed for three days. And just as the rain was about to stop on the evening of the third day, a thunderbolt hit the Qingning Palace where Empress Zhang lived impartially, burning the main hall of the Qingning Palace almost into a piece of rubble.

The strangeness of the celestial phenomena has aroused a lot of discussion among people inside and outside the Daming Palace. All of a sudden, people inside and outside the palace were rumored that Zhang's ghost was not gone, causing chaos in the inner palace and hurting the innocent, so it caused God's curse.

After the emperor got the news, he immediately ordered Si Tiantai to make a detailed calculation, and came to the conclusion that there was a murderous star invading the Ziwei Emperor Throne, which was a thrilling sign.

Despite this, in order to comply with the mandate of heaven and the hearts of the people, the emperor still held a grand funeral for the Xia family and posthumously crowned him as a virtuous Zhaoyi. At the funeral, in front of all the officials above the fifth grade in Beijing, the emperor counted the various crimes of the empress Zhang of the first dynasty, and officially announced that the Zhang family would be abolished as a concubine, and its bones were not allowed to be thrown into the mausoleum of the first emperor, but moved from the east Jiacheng Longshou Canal to the ordinary palace cemetery known as "Wild Fox Fall".

With the mysterious burning of Qingning Palace and the relocation of Zhang's bones to Chang'an City, the once-prominent Zhang family began to fade out of people's attention. In the streets and alleys of Chang'an, most of the topics that people are talking about are the news that the imperial court is about to make peace with Tibet.

On the night that Lai Xing'er returned to Yanying Hall from Yuxiu Palace, in view of his position in the privy council, Wu Bi and Xie Liangchen personally interrogated him.

Although Lai Xing'er's answer was not enough to convince Wu and Xie, even Wu Bi was the same as Jing Xuan. There were doubts about whether there was still a relationship between Lai Xing'er and the remnants of the Zhang clan led by Furong, but after all, the two had no evidence that Lai Xing'er and Furong colluded with each other and intended to cover for the assassins. Now that the emperor has entrusted the important task of Jinggong to Li Jinzhong to preside, the two of them have not embarrassed Xing'er too much.

In the next few days, Lai Xing'er repeatedly couldn't suppress the impulse in her heart, and wanted to run to the Shangfu Bureau and ask the masked woman named Guo'er in person: She had kindly warned her beforehand, why did she still take herself hostage? And why did you make yourself full of alcohol and throw it away by the Taiye Pool?

Meantime. He also really cares about Guo'er's safety in his heart, and wants to know as soon as possible if she is as safe and sound as he is now.

However, whenever he wanted to make a move, he was about to step out of the courtyard gate of Yeonying Palace. He always felt like there was a pair of eyes hiding somewhere behind him, secretly watching him. Thinking that he would bring danger to himself and her by rushing to the Shangfu Bureau to find fruit at this time, Lai Xing'er involuntarily turned back.

I heard Pang Ming, the little eunuch on duty in Yanying Palace, say that his uncle Wu Xiaozhong will soon be transferred to Daming Palace to serve as a permanent attendant. This news made Lai Xinger very happy.

He was highly used by the emperor. Entered the Daming Palace on an errand, but because of this, he missed the funeral for his master Su Fuzhong, and often had a strong sense of guilt in his heart, feeling that he was ungrateful, and he couldn't live with the master who treated him like a parent and son before his death.

In the future, if you can see your uncle day and night, you can not only ask him about the location of Master's grave, but also have the opportunity to pay homage to Master's grave often in the future to make up for the shortcomings in your heart. What's more, there is an uncle by his side. He added a sense of stability and steadfastness.

Although this sense of security can be obtained from Jing Xuan, she is a master, after all, she is different from her own identity, and she should not be too close. Wu Xiaozhong is different, there is almost nothing to talk about between the two of them, and if they have something difficult in the future, they don't have to hold it in their hearts, no one has to complain or talk about.

But what Lai Xing'er didn't expect was that Wu Xiaozhong had not officially entered the Daming Palace as an errand boy, and he was about to leave.

As soon as he returned to his mansion from Xia's funeral, Li Jinzhong sent someone to call Xing'er from Yanying Palace.

When he got up early this morning, a piece of news that had just come back from the front line in the river prompted Li Jinzhong to suddenly have a new idea: he wanted to install his own eyeliner in King Mu's peace mission, and Lai Xing'er was the first person in his mind.

According to the military report sent back by Fu Yi on the Hezhong front: After hearing the news that the Chang'an Imperial Court was about to send envoys to Tibet, the rebel leader had sent many people and horses, on the one hand, he was urgently rushing to Luoqi City to contact Tubo, intending to use a large area of land between Helong and Longjian as an exchange condition to induce Tubo to send troops, forming a two-sided attack on the Chang'an Imperial Court; On the other hand, the danger was not complete, and the people secretly gathered a group of dead soldiers, preparing to intercept and kill King Mu halfway to stop the peace plan of the Chang'an court.

What made Li Jinzhong particularly angry was that after the emperor received this urgent military report, his first reaction was to use all the 500 Yulin troops who had just been transferred to his command as the guards of King Mu.

All kinds of signs show that King Mu's trip to Tibet is of extraordinary significance to the emperor and the imperial court, and even exceeds the emperor's concern for the safety of the palace ban. Perhaps when King Mu returns to Beijing from Luoqi City, the East Palace, which has been vacant for a long time, will usher in its new owner, thinking of this layer of possibility, Li Jinzhong can't help but make arrangements in advance:

Since the current emperor is scheming, he often makes him feel at ease and at ease, he can only put more effort into the future emperor as soon as possible to seek his own retreat.

As the saying goes, if people have no foresight, they must have near-term worries. Li Jinzhong has been up and down in the sea for nearly 30 years, and he has a deep understanding of this: the emperor's grandfather single-handedly promoted himself from a rough eunuch in the idle stable to the Zichen Palace as an errand, but if he did not rely on the recommendation of Mama Xia, he would have climbed to the former emperor who had just died in time, and would never have today's prominent identity and status; And two years ago, in the face of Empress Zhang's various co-optation and temptation, if he hadn't taken precautions and used the opportunity to preside over the inspection of the East Palace, he would have served and shown favor to the prince of the year and the emperor of the present, how could he be the current Gao Jue Houlu?

At the same time, Li Jinzhong also has his own calculations for choosing to come to Xing'er to make him close to the future prince:

Lai Xing'er was born in a stable courtyard, and he has the same friendship with himself, his cleverness and boldness have been seen by himself two years ago, and the most important thing is that he is the same age as King Mu, with a similar personality, and is more likely to be appreciated by King Mu. At present, the emperor has entrusted the important task of Jinggong to himself, and the role that Lai Xing'er can play in the Yanying Palace is extremely limited. Instead of letting him stay by the emperor's side all day and doing nothing, it is better to turn him into a bait for himself to cast a long line to catch a big fish, and in time, he may be able to bring unexpected surprises to himself. (To be continued.) )

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