Wanshou Palace.

Wanshou Palace is the palace where the emperor lives, and its scale and luxury are naturally self-evident.

It is also the palace where the emperor stayed for the longest time except for the early dynasty.

In particular, the imperial study room inside is the most important place for the emperor, whether it is the serious matter of reviewing the chapters, or the relaxation of reading a wide range of books, and teaching the princes and princesses how to behave in the world.

Even some top-secret matters that are not suitable for public discussion in the court have chosen to be discussed in secret here.

Every minister who can be summoned here privately by the emperor is without exception an important minister of the court, and he is also the person the emperor relies on and trusts the most.

Every time, the emperor's side, the red man Hai, personally went to pass on the holy edict and invited it.

And Gonggong Hai is the chief eunuch, the most powerful one among the eunuchs in the palace, and the oldest person with the most qualifications.

In addition to serving the emperor closely, he is also in charge of the life and death of all eunuchs in the palace.

Although he is only an old eunuch, he is the one who has served the emperor for the longest time after all, and it can be said that he knows the emperor's joys, sorrows, and sorrows the most.

Therefore, whether it is a high-ranking concubine in the palace, or the princes and princesses, or even the ministers of the court, they will use all means to appease him, so as to understand the emperor's mind, so that he can more accurately figure out the holy will, so as to get the emperor's appreciation and reuse, and promote or promote the position.

If Gonggong Hai shows that he is particularly polite to someone, it often indicates that this person has won the sacred heart during this time, so Gonggong Hai will also greet him with a smile on his face.

But if Gonggong Hai treats someone coldly, it means that this person has offended the Holy One and is about to face a catastrophe.

Therefore, all those in the palace who know how to observe words and emotions will pay close attention to the every move of Gonggong Hai and the people he comes into contact with.

As long as it is a person that Gonggong Hai particularly respects, he must be the person that the emperor values the most, even if he can't make friends, don't offend.

As for how to distinguish the degree of respect for someone, it is very simple, just look at the way Hai Gonggong walks when he takes someone to meet the emperor.

If Gonggong Hai walks in front, raising his head and chest, striding meteors, and not looking back, it means that the person behind him is insignificant, but the emperor can see but not see the person.

If Gonggong Hai bows his waist slightly, and his stride is not large, and he walks without hurry or slowness, it means that the people behind him still have some respect for him, and he is also a person that the emperor values relatively much.

But if Gonggong Hai looks obviously hunched, walks slowly and steadily, and takes a few steps to look back, to ensure that he and the person behind him always maintain the most appropriate distance, it shows that this person is the person he respects the most, and he does not dare to slack off at all, and he is the person the emperor wants to see the most at this moment.

It's just that this kind of situation is almost rare in the palace, after all, the high-ranking emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Emperor usually has few people in his heart who makes him feel particularly cared about.

Once he saw Grandpa Hai coming from afar with someone who even he didn't dare to slack off, anyone in the palace who knew about Grandpa Hai would automatically avoid it, so as not to accidentally disturb the people brought by Grandpa Hai, then offend Grandpa Hai, and maybe a catastrophe will come soon.

And on the way that Gonggong Hai picked up Ah Xiyan in Weiyang Hall and carefully led Ah Xiyan to the imperial study of Wanshou Palace, many people quietly avoided the side, until Gonggong Hai and Ah Xiyan were far away, and these people dared to show up and continue to hurry.

Because this time, everyone found that Gonggong Hai was obviously hunched over, and he also glanced back at Ah Xiyan from time to time, and occasionally reminded Ah Xiyan to slow down according to the road conditions.

And always smiling along the way, there is a suspicion of flattery.

This is a situation that has not appeared in the palace for a long time, that is to say, the person who Gonggong Hai took to meet the emperor at this moment belongs to the person the emperor wants to see the most at this moment, which is enough to see how important this person's status is in the emperor's mind.

It's just that what shocked everyone was that this person had never seen or said that he was still such a young woman, and he was only wearing the clothes of a palace maid, which couldn't help but make people who saw it think that they were dazzled.

So, everyone carefully recorded Ah Xiyan's appearance, and never dared to ignore her just because she was just a palace maid, so as not to accidentally offend her in the future, maybe they didn't know how they died.

It's just that the party A Xiyan doesn't understand Grandpa Hai's way of treating people and things, and thinks that Grandpa Hai is so polite to everyone.

What I didn't expect was that she had gone from the Yang Palace to the Wanshou Palace, and she had become the most privately discussed celebrity in the palace.

She is also the first palace maid in the palace who has never been seen before!

And it belongs to the existence of no one before or since!

When Ah Xiyan followed Gonggong Hai into the Wanshou Palace, she was also shocked by the scale and luxury inside.

Before, she thought that Weiyang Palace was already the best palace she had ever seen, but she found that compared with the Wanshou Palace where the emperor lived, it was just a difference between cloud and mud.

Not long after entering the Wanshou Palace, I came to the door of the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, Miss A has arrived."

After Gonggong Hai motioned to Ah Xiyan at the door to wait for a while, he shouted loudly at the door.

"Hurry up, Miss A, please come in! After that, no one is allowed to approach the study without my permission! ”

Soon the emperor's eager voice and unquestionable orders came from the imperial study.

"The old slave obeys!"

Father-in-law Hai hurriedly agreed.

took the initiative to open the curtain of the imperial study, and respectfully motioned for A Xiyan to enter.

"There is Lao Hai's father-in-law."

Ah Xiyan bowed and thanked her.

After finishing speaking, he walked into the imperial study generously.

After entering the imperial study, Ah Xiyan saw that in addition to the emperor sitting behind the desk, there were two older people standing in front of the desk with sad faces, as if they had encountered an extremely difficult problem.

One of them seems to be quite Confucian, and at first glance he is an old scholar who has read poetry and books.

The other is diametrically opposed, and at first glance he is a battle-hardened general.

It's just that the first impression of this military general on A Xiyan is that he is a little familiar, and there seems to be an indescribable sense of intimacy between his eyebrows.

And these two were also quite surprised when they saw Ah Xiyan come in, as if they didn't expect that the emperor would ask Gonggong Hai to bring a palace maid to the imperial study to discuss important matters.

The sharp-minded A Xiyan naturally guessed that these two elders should be important ministers in the court, and she also saw through their thoughts, that is, she felt that she was so young that she was still a palace maid, and she was also qualified to come to the imperial study to discuss with them.

In this regard, Ah Xiyan also didn't understand the emperor's purpose for summoning her, but she, who has always been ice and snow smart, quickly guessed one point, that is, the emperor summoned her, which is nothing more than two possibilities.

One is that her background is clear, and let her come over to confirm, but this possibility is very small.

As soon as she begged the emperor to help her find out her life experience, it should not be so soon.

Second, she also asked the emperor to secretly investigate the truth that she was abandoned by her family back then, since it was a secret investigation, she would not be allowed to recognize her family in person in the imperial study, at least she would summon A Xiyan alone, inform A Xiyan of the results of the investigation, and arrange for her to recognize her family after soliciting her opinion.

So this possibility was quickly denied by Ah Xiyan.

Another possibility should be related to her current position as chief physician.

In other words, it is very likely that something related to the disease has happened somewhere, and it cannot be ruled out that it is some kind of intractable plague related to poison, which will summon her so urgently to discuss it.

After all, the emperor knew that Ah Xiyan was most proficient in the art of detoxification.

It is not even ruled out that the place where the plague occurred is related to the military or the military situation at the border pass, otherwise there would not be a military general here.

Ah Xiyan thinks about it, and only this is the most likely.

Of course, all of this is the result of Ah Xiyan's quick mental analysis according to what she saw when she walked into the imperial study, but she still maintained a calm look on her face.

"Ah Xiyan see the emperor."

When she came to the emperor, Ah Xiyan knelt down and saluted.

It's just that what she didn't know was that the moment she said her name, the face of one of the two older people behind her, the general, suddenly changed, and after looking at her in extreme surprise, he quickly regained his composure.

It was all so fast that no one found out.

"Well, excuse me. Miss Ah. Come, I will introduce you to the two ministers behind you. The one on the left is Prime Minister Dou Cheng, the prime minister of a country, and the one on the right is General A who has made great military achievements, and he happens to have the same surname as you, which can be regarded as fate. Hehe. ”

Emperor Chu Junwei nodded with a smile and said, and then pointed to the two ministers behind A Xiyan and introduced.

"A Xiyan has seen Prime Minister Dou and General A."

After listening to the emperor's brief introduction to the identities of the two older people in front of her, Ah Xiyan hurriedly bowed and saluted.

It's just that she also chuckled in her heart, that is, the general in front of her who looked a little familiar was actually surnamed Ah!

At that moment, she instantly thought of the possibility that she would be familiar with someone she was meeting for the first time.

And this reason is very likely that the other party does not rule out that it is related to her biological parents, and even her biological father is not impossible.

Ah Xiyan felt that only a big family like the General's Mansion had the ability to order the kind of peace charm jade pendant that hung around her neck and was worth a lot of money at a glance.

Thinking back to the eldest lady of the General's Mansion whom she had met twice before, she also felt very cordial when she met for the first time, and when the eldest lady held her hand and called her child the second time she met, her eyes were completely like looking at her own daughter.

Combined with the first meeting of the eldest princess, she also said that she would introduce her to other masters as a palace maid, and when they met for the second time, they had changed their words to be sisters.

And the eldest princess's mother, Concubine Shufei Niangniang, is the eldest lady's own sister, so isn't the eldest princess her cousin?

This is probably the reason why the eldest princess, who has always paid attention to the nobility of her status, surrendered her identity and commensurate with her sisters, it turns out that they were originally cousins!

Thinking of this, Ah Xiyan suddenly reacted, that is, before she met the eldest princess and the eldest lady for the second time, her identity had been confirmed by the eldest lady, but she didn't know what the other party was worried about, so she didn't recognize each other on the spot in Weiyang Palace.

In other words, the background she thought would take a long time to investigate was actually clear!

That is, General A in front of her is her biological father, and the eldest lady is her mother.

As for her true identity, she turned out to be the eldest lady of the General's Mansion......