The lanterns gave off a soft glow quietly, and the play on the stage had been sung. Xue Chongxun came out of the Chengxiang Hall and was just about to take the car back, when he heard a sharp voice next to him whispering: "Your Majesty, today Mrs. Cheng met with Cheng Xianggong, the secretary of the military department, in the greenhouse hall. ”

Xue Chongxun turned his head and followed the voice to look at the person who spoke, it was a eunuch, although he buried his head, but Xue Chongxun had already seen that he was a strange eunuch, because the big eunuchs who usually walked around Xue Chongxun were more familiar, not to mention seeing the front, he could also recognize it when he saw the back.

"Who told you to say that?" Xue Chongxun didn't think much about it and subconsciously asked this sentence.

The eunuch said: "No one is called a slave maid, the slave and maid happened to be on an errand over there in the afternoon, and I saw it." ”

Xue Chongxun said in his heart, if no one instructed him, a eunuch came to me and said what to do about this, what good is it? But he thought about it for a while, and didn't intend to break the sand pot to ask to the end, and then said lightly: "Concubine Shu (Cheng Ting)'s father is gone, Cheng Qianli is like her father, what is there to make a fuss about when she meets her relatives?" ”

"Yes, it's all to blame the slave and maid for being too talkative, and the slave and maid deserve death." The eunuch hurriedly fell to his knees. Xue Chongxun waved his sleeves, got in the car and left.

There are street lamps on both sides of the road, but the candles inside are still faint in the night. Originally, Xue Chongxun preferred the cool breeze in the night, but at this time, he faintly felt that there was an invisible pressure in the night sky.

There was a group of eunuchs and palace maids around the palace, and the one in charge was the eunuch Zhang Xiao, who was originally a person under Yu Liben, but he had defected to Xue Chongxun a long time ago. Zhang Xiao saw the opportunity and asked, "Where is His Majesty's Imperial Rim going?" ”

It's late, and now it's time to go back, of course, it's time to sleep, Xue Chongxun also understood that this sentence was to ask which concubine to be lucky. He originally wanted to go to Cheng Ting's place to be quiet, because Cheng Ting gave him the feeling that his temperament was relatively indifferent. But maybe it was the words of the strange eunuch just now that affected his feelings, and then he thought about it and temporarily changed his mind: "Go to Mrs. Yuwen, Concubine De." ”

"Yes, go to Concubine De's Palace." Zhang Xiao raised his voice in response. Another eunuch was about to leave the team to report the news, but Xue Chongxun stopped him before giving up.

After Xue Chongxun ascended the throne, he made all his famous wives and concubines concubines, among which Li Yan'er was named the queen, and the others were Mrs. Zhengyipin: Concubine Cheng Ting, Concubine Yu Wenji, and Concubine Du Xinmei. Murong Yan, who is still in Fu Qi City, and Ashina Zhuo, the Turkic princess, are among the nine concubines of the second rank because they are not Han Chinese.

The place where Yuwen Ji and the others lived was also next to the Penglai Hall in the south of Taiye Pond, which was convenient for the attendants, but Xue Chongxun also didn't go for a while. As soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he suddenly heard the eunuch guarding the door shouting: "The emperor has arrived!" Xue Chongxun suddenly felt strange, and said in his heart: It turns out that the people in the palace would really shout like this.

Walking into the courtyard, he smelled a strange fragrance, and saw that the yard was full of flowers and plants, and Xue Chongxun knew that it must be some medicinal herbs without asking. Yuwen Ji's father and daughter are also somewhat similar in this regard, one loves to grow vegetables and the other loves to grow medicine. After a while, I saw Yuwen Ji and several palace maids coming together, she was wearing a dark gray lapel robe, and her dress was really not as gorgeous as the palace ladies, and she was still a man's dress.

Yuwen Ji bowed and said: "I didn't know that His Majesty would come, so I hurriedly didn't have time to tidy up my clothes and ask Your Majesty to surrender." ”

Xue Chongxun smiled: "Forget it, there is a singing opera in the Chengxiang Hall tonight, why didn't you go?" He looked at her as he spoke. Although the Yuwen family claims to be a descendant of Yan and Huang, this surname may have the blood of the Xianbei people: Yuwen Ji's complexion is very white compared with the palace maid next to her, and she does not have the light yellow luster of ordinary women; She is also tall, maybe taller than the tall Yao Wan, and she likes to wear a men's lapel robe with a tight waist, which itself is a style of clothing that absorbs the Hu people in the Central Plains, and looks slender and slender when worn on Yuwen Ji. There is also a charm on her face, which is different from the virtuous and ladylike temperaments advocated by the Han people, and her lips are thick but the color is very sexy.

"I'm in a hurry to ask the people below to grab the medicine, and I'm going to send it to the Taiji Palace tomorrow, and it doesn't make much sense to watch a play or something, so I didn't go." Yuwen Ji said, "Your Majesty, you should be kind to those old palace maids who leave the palace, there is a shortage of Langzhong over there, and those who are sick don't even have medicine and can only wait for death, which is even more miserable than the old women in the market!" ”

Xue Chongxun suddenly remembered the past, and Yuwen Ji often went to the City God Temple to check the pulse of those beggars...... Because Yuwen Xiao was too ruthless, Xue Chongxun felt that Yuwen Ji's kindness was overflowing, and his intuition was very contradictory. Obviously, she has now moved to the palace, and she has found an outlet for the overflow of sympathy, that is, those abandoned and forgotten old palace maids and concubines and female officials of the previous dynasty.

"Okay...... I'm not bad for them, I can't take care of everything, and tomorrow I will definitely ask the people from the Inner Servant Province to take care of the people from the Taiji Palace. Xue Chongxun said casually, with a serious look on his face. In this world, whether it is a troubled era or a prosperous era, there are always some people who have a bad life and suffer, he feels that he is not Guanyin, can he not eat well and sleep well when he sees someone suffering?

He asked in a casual tone again, "By the way, didn't you often go back to your mother's house to live in the past, have you recently gone back to see your father?" Yuwen Ji said: "When I go back, my father wants to scold me, and besides, I've been very busy lately, and I haven't seen him for a while." ”

Xue Chongxun said: "It's better to take the time to ask for warmth." Yuwen Ji said: "How did you remember today, doesn't my father often meet you?" Xue Chongxun took the opportunity to find a reasonable excuse for himself: "Tomorrow I will summon him and say a few greetings on your behalf." ”

Because of the use of troops in the Northeast, Xue Chongxun has been pondering these days, but in fact, it is the people around him who have been thinking about it the most. He sometimes wondered what kind of people these powerful ministers were, and what they were doing down there, which could only be judged by the time they met and the songs, but Li Guinian could also play a vivid woman as a man, and sometimes what he saw with his eyes was not reliable.

But he also reflected on whether he was suspicious, the Tang Dynasty had no secret service for a hundred years, and it was still running, wasn't it?

The "inner factory" set up by the Jin Wangfu before to spy on intelligence inside and outside the capital should be expanded and made into a spy agency? The factory and health system of the Ming Dynasty has been criticized in history, and it is synonymous with reaction, darkness, and brutality. But the history books and reviews were all written by people from Shilin, whether it was good or not, Xue Chongxun couldn't just recall its reputation, but also had to judge for himself.

The impact of the inner factory prison is not great, it was just a tool for Xue Chongxun to ignore the law and run amok in Chang'an, and he did not pay much attention to it after he ascended the throne. Now Yu Wenxiao's office has set up an inconspicuous study on the east side of the Zichen Hall complex, and there are no officials; The only thing that has been preserved is the prison in the prince of Jin's mansion, and some of the official scribes in it have been merged into the inner factory, and the main thing is to monitor the princes of the Li family who live in the garden.

The Li family lost the country, and it is reasonable to be monitored and controlled, and no one says what is good; But what would happen if the inner factory intervened to spy on the minister?

"What is Lang Jun thinking?" Yuwen Ji reminded him. Xue Chongxun suddenly showed a wicked smile, took two steps forward, and came closer and whispered: "I'm thinking, what method should I use to make you want to ...... for a while?"

Yuwen Ji's face turned red for a moment, and she glared at him: "There are many rules in the palace, I have to be serious." ”

"Hasn't Mrs. Yuwen always been dignified and virtuous?" Xue Chongxun said with a smile. Yuwen Ji felt that she was laughing at her when she heard this, and she was a little angry: "If you think of it, you can come here, you usually can't even see the figure, what's the difference between me and the widow!" Don't mess with me! ”

When we first met, her etiquette was quite thoughtful and respectful, and her temper came up without saying a word, and only Xue Chongxun's "old people" dared to be so willful, but he didn't care about still smiling and talking to her with good words.

Xue Chongxun came here at night, naturally to sleep here for the night, and the two walked from the corridor to the dormitory while talking. Entering the bedroom, Xue Chongxun saw several wooden boxes on the table, with words on them, so he walked over curiously to take a look, only to see that one of the boxes read: Princess Taiping. He asked, "My mother is unwell and needs medication?" ”

Yuwen Ji said with a smile: "This is not a medicine to cure diseases, it is to nourish the skin." Xue Chongxun said: "I see, no wonder your skin is so good, and you are also using this kind of beauty thing?" ”

"I don't dare use it." Yuwen Ji showed a mysterious look on her face, and whispered, "This medicine strengthens the vitality and nourishes the uterus, but there will be side effects after taking it." Oh, you want such a simple medical theory...... You don't come often, won't I feel bad if I take it? ”

She said that a blush appeared on her face: "You wait first, I'll come when I go to bathe...... Serve you. ”

Xue Chongxun suddenly realized, he had already understood eight points, and there was no man in the Heart Dao Chengxiang Palace, but the Taoist priest in Yuqing would be a little tragic. I can't help but laugh at it.

Yuwen Ji left the bedroom to take a bath, Xue Chongxun sat and waited, and after a while, the palace maid brought two servings of sweet soup and said, "It's time to rest, Your Majesty will use the sweet soup as tea." ”

Xue Chongxun nodded, and at this time he felt a little bored, so he opened the wooden box and took a look, only to see some black balls inside. He picked one up and took it to his nose to smell, there was a very light fragrance. This thing is taken by a woman, and it must not be eaten as an aphrodisiac, and he was about to put it back when he suddenly thought of an idea, so he put the ball in his hand into Yuwen Ji's bowl of sweet soup, and after thinking about it, he picked up one and threw it into the bowl. He couldn't help but smile when he finished doing the bad thing, so he picked up the spoon and stirred it in the bowl for a while, allowing the pills to melt inside, and the color of the soup gradually darkened. G