The embroidery lady of Efu is selected from the embroidery room in the city every year, and there are more than a dozen embroidery girls who make clothes for their own families in the mansion, and they are responsible for the coarse clothes from the old lady to the coarse clothes of the slaves are from the hands of the embroidery lady in the house.

And the embroidery girl is required to be young, and she will generally arrange to leave the house after getting married and having children.

Mainly because on the one hand, the clothes of large families are complicated to make, and they cannot tolerate mistakes, and the eyes must be able to withstand a long day of use, after all, they have to stare at the embroidery work in their hands every day. If the woman in the embroidery room is going to get married and have children, then she will immediately be considered that her eyes are not good and she will not be able to do such a complicated and cumbersome craft.

So basically every year, there will be such a selection to select new embroidery girls to enter the house. To replace those embroidery girls who are a little older or married and have children, the second is that there are some morally corrupt and impure purposes who want to climb the high gate, and they must also be driven out of the house as soon as possible so as not to spoil the atmosphere in the house.

This year, Efu is going to replace two embroidery girls, both of whom are planning to be women.

In addition, the housekeeper of the embroidery room, the original Bi Niangzi because of the bright color of the child, for a long time was disliked by the lady, and last year the lady also found a way to marry the housekeeper of the house of the Hubei family with in-laws, and it can be regarded as a good death, to live an ordinary life.

Therefore, this year, not only to recruit two embroidery girls, but also to choose one from the original good embroidery girl to be the manager, to be in charge of all the entries in the embroidery room, and to deal with the old men and ladies in the house.

The old man of Efu, E Yaofu, was the first emperor's right-hand man when he founded the country, and was named one of the four great war gods of the founding of the country by the people, and was also given the hereditary replacement of the marquis by the first emperor, but after the founding of the country, he rarely went to the battlefield.

The current emperor ascended the throne at the age of 14, and at the beginning of the government, he was in the hands of Rong Yuanqin, the protector of the country. But the little emperor has always been very dissatisfied with the control of the government in the hands of others. At first, he was working against Rong Yuanqin, but later he found that it was useless to just do it, the power was not in his hands, and he was the one who suffered every time.

So in private, he united with the two gods of war who were still alive in the world: one was the old man of the Efu family, E Yaofu, and the other was the old man of the Chu family, Chu Wanhua, who was also the first military general family of the dynasty.

Finally, when the little emperor was almost an adult, he overthrew the protector Rong Yuanqin.

At that time, Rong Yuanqin was leading the troops to break through the Butcher tribe in the steppe, and when the first division of the thieves returned to the court, he fell off his horse and died.

But at that time, the heroic deeds of the protector who died on the battlefield had not yet been transmitted to the capital. All the officials and the two most powerful generals, the E family and the Chu family, jointly wrote a letter to reprimand the Duke of Protector for his despicable acts of arrogance, malaise, corruption and theft of the country in recent years.

The heroic horse leather shroud became the spurned by thousands of people, and the corpse did not even return to its homeland, and several old subordinates buried him hastily in the grassland to make a living. The children and daughters of the Protector of the Kingdom have a small wife, the adult man went to prison and was assigned to the frontier, and the wife and daughter were reduced to the Qinglou to make a living, and even the queen of the dynasty who was recommended to the palace by the Protector entered the palace within a few years.

Overnight, the political situation reversed, and the E family and the Chu family, who were supposed to take care of the face of Rong Yuanqin, the prince of the country, became the two most powerful families in the dynasty and were deeply trusted by the emperor.

But with the biggest founding military general dying on the battlefield in disgrace, the remaining two are not as good as they imagined.

First, although the political situation was still turbulent after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the forces in various places gradually succumbed to the central government, the whole country was relatively stable, there were few major wars, and the status of military generals was not as dependent on the emperor as before;

Second, in the whole process of overthrowing Rong Yuanqin, the officials made a lot of efforts, won the heart of the little emperor, and the long-term entry into the Central Plains made the royal family pay more and more attention to the importance of culture and the talents of the imperial examination, so that although the entire court situation is now the representative of the Hu family and the Chu family as military generals in the court and civil officials, but the power is more and more inadequate.

The old man of the E family quickly noticed this and passed the seat to his eldest son E Ruzhong, who is now the grandfather of the Efu family. Although E Ruzhong said that he was also a martial artist from elementary school, the two younger brothers below have also been stationed on the battlefield frontier to guard the country, but later under the guidance of the old man, he began to focus on the current situation and court politics, and on the day he became a lord, he married the daughter of Shoufu, the most prosperous talented woman in the capital at that time.

Since then, the teaching of the children and grandchildren below has also begun to be biased towards literature, and even opened a school in their own home, the Ejia family wants to seek the hereditary favor of the emperor, and is well aware of the changes in the current situation, and the power of the court will inevitably turn to the hands of civil officials.

On the other hand, the Chu family took another path, Chu Wanhua, the old man of the Chu family, still adheres to the idea of military generals, gives birth to more children and raises more, and gives birth to a large litter of boys at home, who are thrown into the barracks at birth, and who make a fortune as a military general to obtain hereditary favor, and are ready to die on the road of military generals.

But in the past two years, his influence in the court has indeed become less and less inferior to the E family.

Speaking of why Fan Xixi, a palace maid, knows so much about the court situation, mainly because Fan Xixi is very gossipy. However, Fan Xixi was not born gossip, and he slowly learned it with Wang Bingli in the harem.

In the harem, gossip is information, and if you have the information, you will master the undercurrents in the harem.

Don't think that men don't gossip, in the palace, the most well-informed eunuchs are the first, then the Praetorian Guards, and finally the palace maids and concubines of the palaces.

Eunuchs are because they have an advantage in the palace first, and eunuchs are all over every corner of the palace, such as the palaces and even all over the country, and there are many things that other people can't touch, such as the cold palace, the emperor's bedroom, and even the food, clothing, housing and transportation in the palace, where there are people, there will be eunuchs.

The information network woven by the eunuchs is incomparable to anything else, because the eunuchs are extremely trusting of each other, and the information communication channels built up are long-term and stable.

The advantage of the Praetorian Guard is that the Praetorian Guard is basically composed of the children of various powerful soldiers, so the sources of information of the Praetorian Guard are mainly private families.

At most, the palace maids can contribute more to the secrecy of the palace concubines, but since they are still women after all, their impact on the government is still relatively small, and it is not as useful as the news they get from the eunuchs and the Praetorian Guard.

When Fan Xixi was in the embroidery workshop, at the beginning, she and Brother Li knew each other, mainly to relieve boredom.

After all, there are many things in the palace that you have not seen when you see them, and you have not heard them when you hear them.

But after a long time, she will be very panicked, at that time the only thing she trusted was to set up her brother, sometimes when they met or ate together, the two of them would talk purely to relieve boredom and solve the secrets in their hearts that had not been expressed for a long time.

At that time, it was just in time for Wang Bingli to find an opportunity to become a formal Praetorian Guard, and the candidate of the Praetorian Guard had to wear black clothes all day, because the main job was a bit similar to that of the Jinyi Guard, mainly responsible for monitoring the dynamics in the palace in the dark night. And he often disguised himself as a eunuch in each palace or went to the imperial dining room to deal with the ingredients, went undercover for a period of time, and helped the emperor find out the news and secrets of the palaces.

Only when he became a regular soldier of the Praetorian Guard did he have the opportunity to change out of black clothes and put on red or white Praetorian Guard clothes to gain a foothold in the palace.

So at that time, the accuracy and breadth of the information was important to him.

Just in time for that time, the embroidery workshop mainly supplied clothes for the queen's palace.

On that day, not long after the emperor and empress got married, when Fan Xixi walked out of the queen's palace after delivering clothes, Wang Bingli suddenly covered his mouth and took him to an inaccessible aisle. "Xixi, how is the queen's palace recently, the emperor recently ordered to strictly monitor the queen's palace, have you found anything abnormal?"

If you think about it now, around that time, the emperor has always been wary of the queen's palace.

Fan Xixi told the truth about what she saw Rong Yuanqin in the queen's palace, and heard that similar grasslands have been rampant in recent years, Rong Yuanqin was really worried in his heart, as a courtier specially appointed by the first emperor to assist the new emperor, he may have to make some adequate preparations, and there is a plan to attack the grassland in recent years.

Because it was a conversation between the minister and the queen, of course, she had to be behind the protector of the dynasty to meet the queen. So during the whole process, Fan Xixi was in the queen's courtyard with the gate open, and she Fan Xixi naturally heard it clearly.

Brother Li stared at Fan Xixi with his narrow eyes for a while, afraid that she was telling a lie.

Because the aisle is inaccessible, secluded and a little cold, Brother Li exudes a compelling momentum all over his body, like a wolf with green light in the dark night, Fan Xixi is a bit like a kitten being stared at, and pushed Brother Li, "What are you doing?" If you don't believe it, why are you staring at me like this? ”

Then he stomped his foot angrily, "There are people in the queen's palace, and I'm not the only one who heard it, if you don't believe it, ask them, can I lie to you?" ”

Then Wang Bingli's momentum was unloaded, and he touched the top of Fan Xixi's hair, as if comforting, "Are you scared?" I'm used to the dark night lately, and I often listen to news at night, and I'm slowly becoming a little alert, you can't be afraid of me, Xixi, the news we have at hand is far from enough, you want to leave the embroidery workshop, I want to become a Praetorian Guard and need more news, will you help me? ”

Fan Xixi looked at Brother Li, and was actually a little irritable. Because she felt that Brother Li was always pushing her up, she knew that this was a good thing, but she sometimes felt that the embroidery workshop was also very good, and if she could take it to the palace safely and securely in the embroidery workshop, it seemed that she would be satisfied.

But Brother Li didn't even ask her and said that she wanted to leave the embroidery workshop, and she was a little angry.

But I was a little helpless, I felt at that time, forget it, I didn't understand anything, I was still young, if it wasn't for Brother Li's brother who kept pushing her up, she probably wouldn't have worked as a third-class maid in the purchasing palace to basically become the leading embroidery lady in the embroidery workshop now.

So, Fan Xixi just nodded helplessly, "Okay, I'll start thinking of a way"

Before she came back to her senses, Brother Li's black clothes had disappeared into the lonely aisle, leaving her alone and still blowing the cold wind in the aisle.