Chapter 14: Entering the Palace

After a long while, Asahi said to Ruyi

"Don't worry, since you don't want to go in, I will definitely find a way to get you out." After that day, Asahi left, I don't know how to find a person to pretend to be a maid's dead body, and the guards were not surprised, so this matter was fooled.

"It is said that Kyoto has been visiting a lot of flower-picking avenues recently."

"You don't know yet, it's about to be the day to offer girls to the palace, and now they are all in the capital, they are all beauties, this is not the flower picker to come and see each other first."

"These people are too bold, even the emperor's people dare to do it?"

"You don't know, don't look at the current saint in his prime, but he doesn't like women, there are rumors that he is looking for a daughter-in-law for his sons, or he hasn't chosen it for so many years.".

。。 Slowly speaking, the voice became smaller and smaller, Ruyi couldn't hear anything, the inn was really a good place, and any news could come out of the mouths of these people who came from the south and the north.

These days, there is no maid around, Ruyi is more happy, occasionally go to the market to see, like the thin dried fruits there, as well as the street xiaolongbao, the best is Zui Yuxuan's drunken chicken and glutinous rice cakes, all the snacks in Kyoto are available, she has eaten very few things before, and now she is always looking for food everywhere while she has not entered the palace.

Wow, the taste can be so rich, there are spicy tears, the lips are swollen, and when you still want to eat, there is a sweet feeling that people can't get in, and when the sour rows of teeth are poured out, it is really rich.

In the daily tasting, these days pass quickly. Early in the morning, I ate some porridge, put on the mask on my face that was as thin as a cicada's wings, put on a veil, and sat in a sedan chair that drove into the palace.

The sedan chair only stopped at the west gate, and all the young ladies were led in by only one palace person, and the rest of the maids and guards did not let them approach.

Ruyi compared, looking at the huge palace gate, the color of vermilion, there are a lot of golden copper nails nailed to it, a thick wall, the people who want to come out of it are isolated, and the people who want to go in are isolated, the gate is so big, the visual inspection can be parallel to 3 carriages at the same time, and there is surplus, really royal style.

People arrived one after another, saying goodbye to their maids, and some may have known each other before they came, standing there chatting in twos and threes, as if she was alone, and even the guards were gone, only herself.

After a while, a small crack opened in the door, and 12 eunuchs came out, each leading a woman into the palace through the small crack.

Ruyi followed the eunuch in, heard the heavy sound of the door closing behind, boom, the last sound fell, indicating that she entered the cage, her eyes darkened, and then she returned to indifference, little by little, the eunuch in front of him, the head was too low, he couldn't see his face at all, just listened to the sharp and somewhat hoarse voice, it should be a eunuch, through the long doorway hole of about 10 meters, the front suddenly opened up, a very wide river, there is an arch bridge every other section of the river, under the sun, the river and the bridge shine, It's beautiful, maybe everyone was stunned, and Ruyi heard several eunuchs urging the woman to move forward.

Slowly walking across this bridge, there is an open space in front of it, and behind the open space, there is the imperial city gate, the yellow city gate that I thought just now was just a gate blocking the moat.

All the way to the door, the women were already tired and out of breath, and they sat down to rest in the place under the gate of the imperial city for the guards to rest.

The next ones to come out are the maids, each of whom leads a girl into a place where they may be staying for the rest of their lives.

The maid said to the ladies that since they did not enter through the main entrance, they were not far from their quarters.

But by the time they arrived, these people were so tired that their makeup was spent, and their feet were swollen. Along the way, carved beams and painted buildings, beautiful, as if the royal family is very fond of water, everywhere you go, there are rockeries and rivers, everywhere is full of spring.

Including the small courtyard where they live, there are 12 houses in it, each house is connected by a long corridor, but it becomes a scene alone, the inside is the main hall, the side hall and the bedroom, each two opposite courtyards have different scenery, some of the slanting wind and fine willows, some of the strange rocks are craggy, and some of the lotus pond is moonlight, it seems that it is not bad to live here, as expected.