The news that the new emperor wants to release the old palace people and select new people to enter the palace is like a strong wind at the turn of spring and summer, and it spreads inside and outside the Daming Palace in an instant.

All of a sudden, whether it was the entire Imperial City or the various squares east of Suzaku Street, most people's faces were filled with joy and anticipation. For the palace people who have been on duty in the Daming Palace for many years, this is a sudden surprise, and they can get out of the captivity, reunite with their families, and live a normal life, without having to be lonely in the old palace; For the eunuchs living in various squares in the east of the city, this is an excellent opportunity to install internal aid to the harem, especially those who have daughters of the right age to be married, and even send people to wait in front of the Jin State Mansion in the morning and evening, and check all kinds of people in Li Jinzhong's mansion from the housekeeper to the gatehouse, so as to get the latest news of the draft from their mouths as soon as possible.

Only ten moons have passed since the bloody palace strife, and people have forgotten their fears and worries of the past, and have devoted themselves to the calculation and longing for the future.

However, Lai Xing'er, who is in the Daming Palace, is in the important place of the Yanying Palace, and what he feels these days is a different atmosphere.

Once the location of the emperor's internal court deliberations was transferred from the Zichen Hall to the Yanying Palace, the surroundings of the Yanying Hall immediately became heavily guarded. Wu Bi, the emperor's own uncle and the new general of Yulinwei, personally led a hundred forbidden troops to set up tents in Zuozangku, not far from the Yanying Palace, and set up a military camp, surrounding the Yanying Hall with three steps and one post and five steps and one sentry every day. Xie Liangchen changed his gentle and amiable style in the past, and solemnly warned the eight eunuchs of Yanying Palace, including Lai Xing'er, that in the future, anyone who leaked the news of Yanying's deliberations would be regarded as a conspiracy and punished by the three clans......

The main errand of Lai Xing'er is to write an abridged content of each meeting between the emperor and the ministers, send it to the Zhongshu Province for archiving, and wait for the Zhongshu order or the Zhongshu Shilang to sign and approve it, and then take back the copy and file it in the secret room of the palace for future reference. Since the Yanying deliberations involved important military and political affairs of the imperial court, out of prudence, the emperor personally selected a scholar named Wei Chang from the Hanlin Academy to draft a draft plan for the deliberations in the Yanying Palace, so Lai Xing'er only needed to run back and forth between the Yanying Hall and Zhongshu Province every day to complete the errand.

Liu Yi and the old emperor are friends of the general horn, and he can be called the emperor's predecessor if he is seriously calculated, he insists on resigning from the position of prime minister, and only wants to let the scattered officials live in the capital for the emperor's advisers. The emperor reluctantly rejected him, so he had to give him the title of Yinqing Guanglu Doctor, and temporarily settled in the nearby Hanlin Courtyard to live. He and Wei Chang had several night talks, and praised his conversations, opinions, poems, and articles, and the two became friends. On weekdays, Liu Yi has nothing to do, often goes to the Yanying Hall to find Wei Chang to talk about the past and the present, comes to Xing'er to stand aside, listens to a lot of high-minded talk between the two, and afterwards secretly compares it with the facts discussed by the emperor and the ministers.

The days passed, and although the cleaning of palace affairs outside the small courtyard of Yanying Hall was in full swing, Lai Xing'er was unaware of it.

On the day he first entered the Daming Palace, Li Jinzhong showed him a diary written by his mother, which made Lai Xing'er's desire to reunite with his mother as soon as possible became stronger and stronger. Every once in a while, he always had to find an excuse to leave the palace, rushed to the Jin State Mansion to ask to see Li Jinzhong, and asked about his mother's news, but Li Jinzhong became vague, always saying that the palace affairs were busy, and he didn't care about sending someone to take her back to Beijing to meet her son. Every time Xing'er came back, he came with hope and returned with disappointment.

In addition, there was only one thing that made him feel uneasy and anxious, and that was about the burial place of Empress Zhang, and he did not know where to find out where to fulfill the promise he had made to Furong.

On this day, Liu Yi and Wei Chang sat opposite each other in the Yanying Hall and talked, and before they knew it, they had fallen into the West Mountain, and the twilight was heavy, and the two saw that the emperor had nothing to summon today, and the conversation was in the ascendant, so they made an appointment to go back to the Hanlin Academy to continue to talk about wine and night. Lai Xing'er sent the two to the left silver platform door, turned around and prepared to go back to his own accommodation in the west ear room of the Yanying Palace, suddenly felt a rush coming up, and hurriedly took three steps and made two steps to run to the nearby Zuozang warehouse for the soldiers to squat down, after a good drench, Lai Xing'er lifted his pants and walked out while tying his trouser belt, but suddenly heard the conversation between the two sergeants outside the wall of the latrine.

"It's really ****** bad luck today, Lao Tzu just wanted to see what the emperor's newly elected palace people looked like, so he called the general to bump into it and punish me to clean the thatched house for a day. I think that Lao Tzu was under the command of Master Li of the prison army, how could he have suffered such grievances! An urn-clad voice complained.

"Lao Huang, you can dissipate your anger for the time being." A hoarse voice whispered, "I heard that a few days ago, in front of the emperor in the Yanying Palace, General Wu and the Jin Kingdom almost didn't fight, and you, who was born in the prison army, are now on an errand under General Wu, so you don't need to be a little more careful." Fortunately, the first shift is approaching, and if there is nothing to do after the general's patrol overnight, we can go back to the camp to rest. ”

Lai Xing'er secretly laughed in his heart that the old yellow daring dared to sneak into the harem without permission to peep at the emperor's newly elected palace people. He was about to go out to leave, and heard the old Huang say angrily: "Isn't it because it is the emperor's own uncle who has become this great general, in terms of merit, he is only afraid that he is inferior to my old Huang." Say what I want to mess with the harem, the first emperor's middle palace lady died in my hands, I have even seen the mother, who rarely looks at those yellow-haired girls! ”

Lai Xing'er couldn't help but stop, pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"Come on, Lao Huang, you've fallen to the point of sweeping the thatched house, what are you bragging? It is rumored in the palace that Empress Zhang was given to death by a cup of poisoned wine before the first emperor died, how could she die in your hands? The man said, letting out a series of strange laughs.

"What do you know about pickled old man! According to the nature of the first emperor, how could he be willing to give the queen to death? If you don't believe me, if you dare to follow me later, I'll convince you. "Lao Huang is obviously a competitive master, and he can't stand being teased by others.

"Okay, good, good, I still can't believe it?" The man held back a smile and said, "It's almost dark, could it be that you didn't watch it during the day, and you want to take me with you to see those new beauties who have entered the palace at night?" ”

"Phew." Lao Huang snorted and scolded, "If Lao Tzu didn't have such a little habit, how could he fall into a situation where he was going to be ridiculed by you?" I'm afraid that when you see Lao Tzu now, you have to hold your fart in your belly. ”