"Miss Zhinan, let's go this way." Gonggong Li led Zhinan, guarding the alleys in the palace all the way like Yongbao Pavilion, and the little fathers-in-law behind him carried the boxes, so tired that they had been panting.

Gonggong Li squinted at them, waved his hand and said, "That's it, you useless people, rest here for a while." ”

After speaking, he turned to look at Zhinan and said to her, "Miss Zhinan, the old slave has seen you twice and thinks that you are much different from ordinary maids. ”

Zhinan glanced at Gonggong Li curiously, and hurriedly asked, "What's the difference?" Everyone is a person who serves his master, and he is grateful for the rough work on weekdays, but to put it bluntly, he is just a rough person. ”

Gonggong Li shook his head with a smile and said to Zhinan, "Look at the good looks you gave birth, if you are a girl from a rich and noble family, you will definitely be sent to the palace early, and it will be someone else's share in serving you." After saying that, he covered his mouth and smiled.

Zhinan has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, after listening to Gonggong Li's words, she knew that Gonggong Li was ridiculing and testing herself, she hurriedly knelt down in the direction of the harem, and said to Gonggong Li, "Zhinan has never thought about such a thing, I was just a little beggar who made a living, and I was very satisfied to have the honor to serve in a big family like Xuanwangfu, and now I can make some clothes for these ladies in the palace with my own hands, which is beyond my own imagination." ”

Gonggong Li helped Zhinan, who was kneeling on the ground, to her side with deep meaning, and said to her in her ear, "Little beggar? Isn't it, Miss Xiwen? ”

Since Zhinan entered the Xuanwang Mansion incognito, she hasn't heard anyone call her by her name for a long time. Hearing the word Xiwen, Zhinan couldn't help but be stunned. What followed was a burst of panic from the inside out, she didn't know how Gonggong Li knew that she was the top brand Xiwen at that time, and she didn't know that Gonggong Li deliberately lured Fengqi away and took herself alone, and now she still says this name for.

She tried her best to restrain her almost trembling body, smiled and said to Gonggong Li, "Gonggong Li, what are you talking about?" ”

Gonggong Li laughed a few times, patted Zhinan's shoulder, and said to her, "Don't worry, this matter, it's just that the last time you entered the palace, I saw the sign of your birth, in the past, it was the maid named Chunyu who followed your Xuanwang Mansion wife into the palace, I was a little curious, so I found someone to go around to find out, Zhinan girl, there is no leaky window in this world, and there is no secret that can be completely hidden." ”

In this conversation, Gonggong Li only used the voice that the two of them could hear, and said it in Zhinan's ear.

Zhinan was at a loss for a while, but she still maintained the last of her sanity, and asked Gonggong Li with a smile, "Gonggong Li, Xiwen was already a dead person when she left Ningxin Pavilion. Zhinan doesn't know who Xiwen is now, and now there is only Zhinan in the world. ”

Gonggong Li smiled, took Zhinan's hand, gently put it in his palm, and said to her, "Miss Zhinan, you don't have to be careful, the old slave has served almost three generations of kings in this life, and has performed castration and purified service since he was a child, and has no other heart for the girl." ”

"I just look at you, a kid, who has experienced such flashy and stormy days before, and now he can calm down and serve others. As you said, the hands that lit the lamp and boiled oil for others day and night embroidered clothes, these hands, which should have been the hands that played a good song, were now reduced to hands that worked for others. Gonggong Li stroked Zhinan's increasingly cold hands and said, "I'm just unwilling for you, the old slave thinks that you are like an old man who served the old slave back then, so I pay more attention to you." ”

"The deceased?" Zhinan said curiously.

Gonggong Li looked at the blue sky above his head with deep eyes, then looked back at the direction of the west in the palace, and sighed heavily, "Yes, old man." ”

"Miss Zhinan, I don't know if you still have the spirit of galloping the rivers and lakes back then, if the girl still has, you can just tell the old slave, the old slave arranged you into the palace."

Zhinan heard that Gonggong Li mentioned to herself today for the second time that she would let herself enter the palace, she couldn't help but be a little curious, this first time she thought that Gonggong Li was testing herself, but this second time, Gonggong Li revealed the mystery of his life experience, and did not use it as a bargaining chip to threaten himself, it seems that he really has some reasons to let himself enter the palace.

She asked curiously, "Gonggong Li, if you don't mind, you might as well tell Zhinan why you insist on letting Zhinan enter the palace like this?" ”

Gonggong Li looked at Zhinan with a serious look, and after seeing the ups and downs of Gonggong Li for several lifetimes, he naturally knew that the current Zhinan had the intention of entering the palace, since he knew Zhinan's secret, this story had nothing to do with her, people in the rivers and lakes, or those who lived in the rivers and lakes, knew the most etiquette.

He took Zhinan to the shady place of the palace wall and said to her, "A long time ago, there was a woman in the palace, and that woman was the concubine of the second king I served. ”

He looked at the dust in his hand, and then said, "When I served the second king, I was about to reach adulthood, and I was assigned to a lady in the harem. ”

"I, with this mother, have seen many springs, summers, autumns and winters all the way through the wind, frost, snow and rain. watched the mother step by step from a small promise, to the concubine, and finally to the queen's seat. ”

Zhinan couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, could it be that what Gonggong Li served back then was the rumor that the former queen who died tragically?

Gonggong Li looked at Zhinan's expression, and thought that she had guessed a few points, so he continued, "I know that the death of the first queen and the other superior have been spread all the time outside. I can stay by the emperor's side first, because when the first queen is the emperor, the emperor is magnanimous, and always cares about our subordinates, in fact, when the person did it, the mother has already noticed it, and she sent us to various palaces early, so as not to suffer with her. ”

"I said that I was not old at the time, but I was not small, and the first queen mother was like a sister to me in my own family, and maybe the mother really regarded me as her family, so she arranged me by the side of the first emperor."