The night is like ink, a beautiful girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a fishtail curly and elegant palace dress, is walking on the surrounding vermilion path full of roses. Even this corridor trail is also carved beams and painted buildings, between the corridor pillars and the bucket arches, there are many exquisite fairyland paintings. In each corner of the eaves of the Zhu Corridor, there is a very precious, jade glass as the material of the shadow lamp. Under the lighting of the large red candle in the lamp, through the glass lamp wall, various strange fairy figures are reflected around. The fairy posture that seems to come from the heavenly palace is also dotted around the vermilion corridor through reflection, and the lush sea of roses is also dotted.

In the sea of roses in the night, with the reflection of the shadow lamp, the reflection of the sea of flowers, the figures of the fairies in the heavenly palace at the same time, some flowers with golden light also flash in the sea of flowers from time to time. However, it is because there are many golden flowers that are carefully cast and polished by skilled craftsmen and scattered in this sea of flowers at will. The golden flowers shine with a faint golden light in the light of the night, but it also shows the sea of flowers at night, full of fairyland.

Qingli girls walked on the vermilion corridor, but they often met some beautiful palace maids wearing fishtail curls and red palace clothes. When these palace maids see her, they will consciously make their debut for the girl, and wait aside to let the girl cross the corridor first.

These girls sometimes meet beautiful palace maids on the verandah. They all had a long gilt rod in their hands. There is also a small arc hook at one end of the pole, but whenever they pass by a glass turning lamp at the corner of the eaves of the vermilion corridor, they will hold the small hook on the gilt rod in their hands and turn the lower turning lamp. So that the shadow reflected on the lamp wall will not always reflect the same shadow.

Although the palace maids who are doing all this, even if they meet in the Zhu Corridor by chance, they will not say a word to each other or communicate with others. It's as if this sea of flowers is full of infinite silence. But in this world of flowers full of floral fragrance and strange lights, even if all this is so silent, it still brings people a kind of silence in the excitement. The reflection on the thousands of roses around the vermilion corridor seems to be a fairy shadow that is alive in the sea of flowers under the rotation of the palace people from time to time with the turning of the shadow lamp, but it is also really lively.

After the girl passed through a section of vermilion, there was another garden full of fruits of all colors. Walk through this lush, vast orchard world. But you can also see it everywhere, and the fruit trees that are already ripening are dotted with all kinds of fruit trees around them. The wide white jade staircase, like a white vein, winds and turns to divide the greenery around the garden in two. Although the white jade steps are laid on the ground, they are spotless. If you don't look carefully in this night, you may not find that the white jade steps under your feet are lightly tattooed with exquisite relief drawings of different appearances. In the picture, all kinds of flowers are used, and the fairy of Tianque is the float.

Several simple but noble vermilion lacquered wooden pillar pavilions are distributed on the aisle of this white jade stone steps. On the four corners of the eaves of these pavilions, there is also a glass shadow lamp hanging respectively. Several palace maids who were standing or kneeling in the pavilion, and the spotless vermilion lacquered wooden planks on the ground were a little bored looking at the situation in the garden.

But when the girl passed by these several vermilion lacquered wooden pillar pavilions distributed next to the white jade stone steps, the beautiful palace maids who were standing or kneeling in the pavilion would also show respect to the girl. It wasn't until the Qingli girls left the pavilion where they were that they would return to what they should have, and the lazy state of the beauties in the pavilion.

The sound of the rushing stream faintly appeared in the girl's ears when the girl was about to cross this orchard jade road. Then came the strange stone enclosure, a section of the water pavilion road. These pavilions and pavilions standing on the water are all the same vermilion. Even the wooden railing bridge on the water where the girl walked was spotlessly vermilion.

When the girl walks in the pavilions on the water, she can often hear the sound of fish swimming in the water from under her feet. Even in this night, you can rely on the water pavilions and pavilions, and the glazed shadow lights hanging in the corners of the eaves, to see some movement in the water. But there are many big-tailed koi fish, swimming freely back and forth under the large-leaved lotus flowers covered in the water. With the swimming of the koi in the water, the dragon palace picture reflected on the water surface by the turning shadow lamp is also like the water feature here at night, which is the dragon palace in the sea at night. A strange stone and strange mountain that seems to be covered with natural moss and lush flowers and plants flows down the clear stream with "whoosh", splashing at the place where the water falls on the stone mountain.

At intervals on this water, there will be a vermilion lacquer pavilion, which is connected by a section of vermilion lacquer wooden bridges, connecting this lotus water color to each other. In the wide vermilion lacquer pavilion, there are white porcelain mackerel play pots around the pavilion. The pots are filled with colorful flowers to decorate the attic. The beautiful girl who walks through these water pavilions can still meet some beautiful palace maids holding gilded rods between the pavilions from time to time.

It wasn't until the girl passed through this water pavilion and passed through a section of the sea of flowers and vermilion that she came to a high wall guarded by a number of heroic female warriors wearing bright vermilion armor and holding swords with their heads and waists. This high wall of Zhumen is really big! It looks like a small county gate. On the tall vermilion wooden door, there is a dense layer of gilded copper rivets. A pair of huge lion head door buckles are reflected in the large gilt copper rivets.

Directly above the Zhu Gate, there is a castle tower with three gilt characters of "Rose Palace". The city tower with vermilion lacquered wooden pillars is also really majestic and majestic. A number of female warriors armed with red-tasseled spears were patrolling back and forth between the towers. With a faint aura of slaughtering heroes, but it is really not inferior to the sons and daughters who are soldiers.

The girl who came to this place in front of the Zhu Gate in small steps, in her dark eyes, looked at these heroic female warriors, but she couldn't help but feel a little envious. A slightly older, beautiful warrior in her thirties, when she saw the Qingli girl walking closer, she also smiled at the girl, and smiled in her very nice voice: "Isn't this a good girl? Coming here so late? ”

The girl bowed slightly to the beautiful warrior who was smiling at her, and said with a faint smile on her beautiful face: "General Zhumen, Bao'er has won the life of my mother, and I want to go to the door and ask the cook in the dining room to cook some meals for Your Majesty." ”

was called "General Zhumen" by the girl, and the beautiful female warrior giggled and said: "You little girl, what Zhumen, that door~ It's just Your Majesty's fun, just gave me such a name." Since you are a concubine, let you go to the door and ask the cook in the dining room to cook some meals for Your Majesty, then you can go quickly. Don't let the concubine and His Majesty wait. Peach, you take a few sisters and lead Bao'er over there. ”

As General Zhumen spoke, he instructed a beautiful warrior who was no more than seventeen or eighteen years old not far from him. Immediately stepped forward a few steps, stretched out his hand and pinched it, and the white and tender little face of the beautiful girl said: "Next time, you little girl, if you dare to call General Zhumen or Zhumen, see if I can't treat you well!" ~”

When General Zhumen pinched his white and tender little face, Bao'er whispered a little unhappily: "Sister Pang... I, don't I have to abide by the rules of the palace? Don't be embarrassed, you, General Zhumen, were personally awarded by His Majesty. After looking around as she spoke, she whispered to General Zhumen: "Moreover, I also heard... Sister Pang, you, General Zhumen, still have a dynasty rank! You said Sister Pang, are you the general of Zhumen real? ”

General Zhumen listened to Bao'er's whispered words, but he immediately giggled again, but then pinched Bao'er's little face and said, "Okay! All right! My sister can't say you can't! You better hurry up and follow your sister Peach, go to the dining room at the door, and cook some food for Your Majesty. ”

After Bao'er got the words of Sister Pang, the general of Zhumen who always likes to joke with her as soon as they meet. Then he followed the samurai sister named Momoko who was led to the door by the Zhumen general Sister Pang and a few female warriors who followed her, and just went to the side of the door through a small gate next to the huge Zhumen.

When Bao'er passed through the small door, she turned her head to look at her again, and still looked at her with a smile on her sister, the general of Zhumen. Then I followed the samurai sister named Momoko and went to the side of the small gate. For this Sister Pang, Bao'er has known her since she was not, and now when she is General Zhumen, she has known each other for a long time. At the beginning, Sister Pang was just an ordinary warrior guarding the inner city of this Rose Palace.

Sister Pang's ancestor is from the warrior family. She was supposed to be a young lady of the Shi clan, but because of her family's downfall, the family that lost power gradually became an ordinary commoner. As a result, she later became a samurai in the Rose Palace, guarding the inner city of the palace.

Later, as Sister Pang got older and older, she gradually arrived in the inner city of this palace, and the rule that women were only thirty. This woman who lives in the inner city of the Rose Palace and waits for His Majesty. As long as you are over the age of thirty, no matter how beautiful you are, you still can't escape the fate of being sent out of the inner city. The good ones will continue to stay in this Rose Palace, but they can only live in the outer city of the palace. If it is bad, it is to give a sum of money directly and let it leave the court.

Seeing that Sister Pang is getting older and older, Bao'er is also worried about this warrior sister who is in the inner city of the palace and has friends with her. Fortunately, when His Majesty returned to the palace once, he happened to meet Sister Pang, who was late for duty. But it happened to let Sister Pang meet His Majesty who returned to the palace... On that day, His Majesty pampered Sister Pang, who happened to meet by chance, and Sister Pang also got a "captain" errand from His Majesty. After becoming His Majesty's woman, Sister Pang will not be sent out of the inner city of the palace because of her age.

Then when His Majesty was pampering Sister Pang, Sister Pang's errand as a lieutenant was also promoted to "General Zhumen" by His Majesty not long ago. After being named a general, Sister Pang was immediately sent to this place, connecting the inner city and the outer city of the palace, and became the general guarding the Zhu Gate. And in this where there is only one man for His Majesty, and the rest are women, there are men at the other end of the inner city of the palace.

When Bao'er followed Momoko and the few female warriors who followed behind her, she walked through the somewhat dark city roads to the outer city. On either side of the small gate of the outer city are two male warriors armed with red tasseled spears, guarding the two sides. Looking at these two male warriors, Bao'er's heart also seemed to have a feeling of being in another world, and this was the outer city of the palace where men existed. Ever since she was very young, she was fortunate enough to enter the inner city of this palace, and she has been isolated from the world ever since. I only stay in the inner city all the year round, and when I go out of the inner city and come to the outer city, it is really like a world away.