The lieutenant officials in the palace said that it was the 24 Yamen, but there were all kinds of small functions such as the Drum Room and the Sweet Room, which were not in the 24 Yamen. Among them, the drum room is located at the easternmost end of the house under a corridor on the east side of the Xuanwu Gate, and is in charge of changing drums at night. This is the first class hard errand, every night five people take turns to go up to the Xuanwu Gate Tower to play the watch, from the first watch to three o'clock, to the fifth watch at three o'clock, each shift with rattan drumming, each point with a sandalwood hammer to hit the point, and a watch only one person is allowed to go upstairs, not allowed to bring a lamp, must be in the dark situation to do things.

It has always been the most thankless errand to change the drum room, so on this day, when the steward brand of Renshou Palace, Jia Shichun, was sent here, and Fan Dayong, the steward of the general manager, borrowed the sick number, and the remaining two cards and the Dingshui brand originally wanted to get rid of it, but after the Chengqian Palace came to inform it, even if there was a Dingshui brand, his mind became active, and he shouted to the Jingjun who came to ask for instructions on how to arrange tonight: "This Jia Shichun is the queen mother who personally sent it to the drum room to fill the pure army, and let him go to the Xuanwu Gate Tower tonight to play the watch, Well, it's worth three o'clock to three o'clock on the fourth watch, so it's ordered! ”

The third watch has already passed the time of three o'clock, and that is the time when people are most thirsty to sleep, not to mention that the weather is fine during the day, but it is extremely cold at night. When these words reached Jia Shichun's ears, he had never suffered such hardships since he entered the palace, and he trembled with anger, but the person who came just said a word of compassion, which made him calm down all of a sudden.

"Father-in-law Jia is no longer what it used to be, if you don't want to taste what it's like to be tortured in the stable, it's better to know the current affairs."

Thinking that the hero would not suffer the immediate loss, Jia Shichun had to swallow his anger and respond. He was kicked out of Renshou Palace this time, and he didn't have time to pack any clothes and luggage, etc., and the big red robe worn by the senior eunuch on his body had been stripped off, and he was only wearing a middle coat at this time. It's good to say, someone finally gave him a green sticker.

Even so, when the third watch went out of the drum room and went to the city tower, he was still so cold that he shivered again and again, and his feet trembled when he went up the city tower, for fear that he would accidentally fall down the stairs with one foot in the air. It was easy to reach the top, and the other Jingjun who was waiting for the shift was already impatient, and he stuffed the rattan and sandalwood hammer into him, and rushed downstairs in three steps and two steps, and as he went downstairs, there was an angry mutter.

"Finally, if you don't have to pay this change between the ugly time, it's just going to freeze to death!"

Jia Shichun pinched those two things, his hands and feet were cold with anger, and at this time, there was a sudden gust of wind, and in a panic, even the black gauze hat on his head was blown away by the wind, and he could only stand barehead in the wind for a while. Barely struggling to hit a point, his hands and feet were already stiff and numb, and he could only move his hands and feet while walking on the castle tower, and from time to time he jumped twice desperately, but he muttered to himself.

"Endure this night, endure this night, Gonggong Li will definitely try to save me, I have done so many things for him after all......"

In the darkness, he didn't notice that in the dark shadows, there were already people staring at him, just walking back and forth with his hands crossed, counting the hours and beating the drums. However, after all, he is a lot older, and he is used to being pampered, how can he persist in this errand that the pure army is used to, barely supporting four-fifths of the way, he is already shaking his lips and the whole person is shaking, and he doesn't even notice that there are two people behind him. It wasn't until someone put him on the arm that he suddenly came to his senses, and when he was about to shout, a hand had already covered his mouth.

Jia Shichun entered the palace at the age of six and immersed in silver in the palace for decades, whether it was the inner study hall to compete for favor or promise to fight in secret, or the great eunuchs to seize power with each other, he has seen everything. As soon as he woke up at this moment, his brain, which seemed to be frozen by the cold wind, suddenly sobered up.

Someone's going to do it to him!

However, after being exposed to the wind and freezing on the Xuanwu Gate Tower for so long, coupled with the strength of his body with old age and decay, he was almost put on the edge of the city wall without even the slightest strength to resist. Having foreseen what was going to happen in the next moment, he could only kick his legs in vain, but he didn't even touch a piece of the other person's clothes, and could only watch as he was pressed tightly against the edge of the arrow, and then someone pulled his legs up with force. In an instant, he tumbled down from the tower with his head down and his feet up, and the shouts that reached his lips were completely blocked by the whirring wind.

In the drum room next to the stairs of the city wall, the four pure soldiers who had completed their rotation and were waiting for their rotation were sitting in groups, drinking the boiling water in the sea bowl one by one, while talking about Jia Shichun one by one. Just from the fact that others dared to send this powerful eunuch overnight, these little people knew that Jia Shichun had lost power. Just as he was talking energetically, one of them suddenly heard the sound of something heavy falling outside, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows suspiciously.

"What fell?"

"Whatever, if something happens, it has nothing to do with us...... Don't look at it hasn't been the first day of October, but you have to freeze to death when you get out of this house, you have to go out, let's continue to warm up here. ”

"If you don't go, I won't go...... That old thing cherishes his life, otherwise he wouldn't have swallowed his anger and agreed, at most he would have dropped the hammer of the watchman......"

The four of them rested there for a long time, and when it was the turn of the last person to go up to pick up Jia Shichun's class, the curtain outside was suddenly opened, and a gust of cold wind suddenly came in. Huo Ran, a pure soldier with his back to the door, stood up and turned his head, and was about to scold, but he found that the two people who came in were wearing green robes, and their chests were all lions, and they were obviously high-ranking eunuchs with tooth cards, and they were silent for a while. When he saw a middle-aged eunuch wearing a forked hat and a big red silk unicorn complement clothes coming in, he knelt down silently.

Gu Da glanced at everyone coldly, and then shouted: "Do you know that a person has just fallen down from the Xuanwu Gate Tower outside?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately realized what the sound of the heavy object was just now, and their faces were pale at this moment, and they immediately kowtowed countless heads with the fate of Zhiji, and they insisted that they had just dozed off and heard nothing. One person got up, and the others also swore that they would never know, and Gu Da was on fire with his heart, and turned around and went out of the drum room.

"Father-in-law, do you want someone to summon the three signs of the drum room?"

"Rumors of what they are doing, they must not know what they do, but it makes people even more angry!" Gu Da slammed his fist on the wall beside him with hatred, but his hand was painful for a while due to the anti-shock, so Suo put down his hand and said viciously, "I just thought about taking something out of Jia Shichun's mouth at night, and he fell to his death by coincidence, where is there such a coincidence in the world!" ”

"Then I'm going to check ......."

"What to check, this city tower has always been dark at night, and no lights are allowed, and the red shop defenders are all outside the palace, he is alone on this floor, and there is no clue!" Gu Dayong refuted it angrily, and then suddenly said thoughtfully, "Wait, I just asked the emperor to show me and bring people to the stables for torture, but this Jia Shichun was unreasonable and was sent to the city tower to beat the ...... Where does it mean to send a message and ask? ”

Early the next morning, Xu Xun got up and got the news from the palace that Jia Shichun had fallen to his death. Although the person who came to deliver the message did not say whether it was suicide or he killed or just misstepped, but for him, the death of a person means that the clue is temporarily cut off - after all, a disadvantaged Jia Shichun can be tortured and tortured to ask for the news, but now he is still in the position of the celebrant The few big masters are difficult for him to move, so when he heard Gu Dayong say that the person who asked Jia Shichun to go to the Xuanwu Gate Tower to fight was Liu Jin, the purpose was to give him a bad breath, he only felt that he couldn't cry or laugh.

However, Xu Xun couldn't cry or laugh, but the news of Jia Shichun's death caused a lot of shock elsewhere. Although Rong Shangyi strictly ordered not to stab this matter in front of Empress Dowager Zhang, after all, Jia Shichun has been the steward of Kunning Palace for so many years, and there are always a few people under him, and it is inevitable that someone will say more in front of Empress Dowager Zhang. Knowing that the person was dead, even if the Empress Dowager Zhang hated this old guy for embarrassing herself, she always felt very uncomfortable, but fortunately Rong Shangyi reported that she was about to come back, but she intentionally or unintentionally accused Jia Shichun of committing suicide in shame, and indignantly said that this was to ignore the Empress Dowager Zhang, and finally diverted her attention and gently and skillfully exposed the matter.

And when the news reached the cabinet, the three pavilion elders who were not familiar with Jia Shichun and didn't have any incense all frowned, and Xie Qian, who had always had a fierce surname, sneered: "First Min Chaoying Zhishi, followed by Wang Yue was sent to Tailing, and then Jia Shichun died inexplicably, looking at this momentum, it seems that the older generation is being squeezed out inside and outside the palace, and I don't know when it will be our turn." ”

Li Dongyang was thinking about the murder case of Huguo Temple that his wife mentioned to him, so Liu Jian casually took a fold and threw it in front of the two: "This is the excerpt of Yang Ziqi, the head of the Ministry of Officials' Examination and Merit, impeaching the Tailing supervisor and eunuch Li Xing for concealing the Jinjing flooding incident, and the celebrant just turned around this morning." This Li Xing is the henchman of Liu Jin, the eunuch of the internal official, and now if he doesn't kill them, he doesn't know what kind of thing they are going to do! ”

"How can there be such timely rain?"

Li Dongyang heard Xie Qian say and hurriedly took it, so he reminded: "This is not a timely rain, the first emperor Tailing has spent countless efforts and money from site selection to construction, and the golden well has been completed, so it is impossible to dig it up again for inspection because of this......"

"What we want is not to inspect, not to tear down and rebuild, but to use this incident to teach those villains a lesson, at least to knock down their arrogance, and it is best to drive Qiu Ju out of the East Factory! Wang Yue happened to be in Tailing, and he wanted to come with a belly of fire, which is the best witness. Liu Jian interrupted Li Dongyang's words, and then said lightly, "There is also Xu Xun's fiancée who suddenly appeared, the celebrant has urgently sent someone to Jinling to investigate, and there should be definite news soon." ”

Xie Qian frowned and said, "Then it's better to ask the Jinyi Guards about Ye Guang, Xu Xun and the Shen family, he knows best." ”

"The old man over there Ye Guang has already asked, and he is all good to say to Xu Xiaozi...... This old thing is now obviously a wise man to protect himself, and he can't be counted on! ”

Li Dongyang wanted to speak, but in the end, he stopped talking. Thinking that the three of them proposed to let Xu Xun take charge of Jinyiwei and throw Ye Guang out to fight with others, and now they still expect Ye Guang to obey their words as always, which is too much to take for granted!

(To be continued)