"Did you hear that? The one in Hanyudian was unlucky, hey, he was in the limelight a few days ago, and he was immediately knocked down......"

"Wen Meiren is unlucky? How don't I know, isn't she the best, what's the matter? Upset the queen, or? ”

"Snort~ You don't know the queen's temperament? The most is a one-eyed and cherishing feathers, even if he is jealous, he will not use such a clumsy method. Hmph, it's not the most expensive one now, I don't take care of the baby in my own dormitory, I want to go to the imperial garden with my belly in my hand, and I also walked to Wen Meiren~"

"Oh? Could it be that Wen Meiren was pampered and arrogant, and had a verbal lawsuit with Concubine Shu, and was punished for kneeling and slapping her mouth? ”

"What's more, Wen Meiren was so angry that Concubine Shu fell, I heard that they were all red, almost half of the people who went to the Tai Hospital were guarding in Shangyang Palace, and even His Majesty went~"

“……”

After following Aunt Xi Yue to take over the more leisurely work of delivering clothes, Zhiwei's life was a little better, at least she could wash two large pots of clothes less every day, and her hands no longer had to be soaked to be white, wrinkled, red and swollen.

The destination of this day is a little far, in the East Sixth Palace, it is bound to pass through the Imperial Garden, but I didn't expect to hear the whispers of the two little concubines.

Aunt Xi Yue obviously heard it too, but she behaved very calmly, not even a single hair moved, and she still walked forward unconsciously.

Zhi Wei also lowered her head and pretended not to hear, and was even more secretly glad that there was a rockery between them and the two little concubines, and the other party should not have seen them. Even if you see it, it shouldn't be a big problem.

After all, the two of them look like the inferior palace people of the Huanyi Bureau, and the two little concubines don't seem to be the main positions in the palace, and they don't have such a long hand to reach over to the Huanyi Bureau to rectify their ability.

I didn't want to, but on the way back, I met the queen's Luanjia, who looked like he had just come out of Shangyang Palace after visiting Concubine Shu.

Zhiwei and the others hurriedly retreated to the side of the palace road, kneeling low, hoping that the queen would not recognize them.

However, what made her pinch a cold sweat was that when the queen's luan was about to come to her, she suddenly shouted to stop, and asked the palace people on the side who the two of them were.

Aunt Xi Yue glanced at Zhiwei very quickly, and immediately replied respectfully: "Queen Lao's mother inquired, the two slaves and maids are from the Huanyi Bureau, and they just sent something to Zhongcui Palace, and they are going back." ”

The queen didn't say anything more, paused for a few breaths and left.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, Zhi Wei always feels that the queen is looking at her, with a lofty attitude, maybe there is a deep disdain and disgust on her face......

"Have you offended the Queen?"

After stepping out of the high wall of the inner palace, Aunt Xi Yue asked slowly.

Zhi Wei smiled dryly.

Aunt Xi Yue said lukewarmly: "It seems that your bile and fat problem is not only in front of the old woman, so I am also relieved." ”

The corners of Zhiwei's eyes twitched, what is there to rest assured!

Then, Aunt Xi Yue suddenly mentioned to her about Sun Cainu and Xin'er, and after saying a few words, she patted her ass and left.

"The next time that little Kiko comes, you can tell him, so that he can stop bothering me in the future. And you, get out of here as soon as possible, and stay in the Huanyi Bureau to harm others. ”

Zhi Wei, who was disgusted, silently held her forehead: When did she harm anyone?

The only thing that can be counted should be the father-in-law Chen who was cowardly, unlucky, and didn't die but was made by Wang Dexi to sweep the floor of the Beisan Institute, right?

Hua Cai, who repeatedly opposed her at the beginning, seems to have been cowardly recently, and Steward Zhang didn't make any effort to find her a job, and she stayed a little like a fish in water in the Huanyi Bureau. Aside from the fact that the job of doing laundry hurts your hands, there's really nothing to complain about.

But why did Aunt Xi Yue drive her away?

Without the Huanyi Bureau, where else can she go?

"Miss Zhiwei, my master said, you have made a great contribution this time, and the master wants to reward you. What do you want? ”

Wang Dexi's eyes are very different from the past when he looks at Zhiwei, if he was still a little curious and pitiful at the beginning, he was also impressed by her excellent "intelligence ability" at this time, and he was more willing to show her goodwill.

He laughed and said: "Speaking of which, there are two people in our palace who are going out of the palace this year, Sister Yufang has already decided, and Yuxue has not reported her name yet...... Miss Zhiwei, if you want to survive in this palace and live a better life, you have to follow the right master, don't you say? ”

Zhi Wei didn't say yes, nor did she say no, and asked calmly: "This is what Gonggong Zhao taught you, right?" ”

Wang Dexi's eyes widened slightly, and he quickly lowered his eyelids to hide his gaffe.

"Miss Zhiwei is a smart person, and I won't talk nonsense with you. Sun Cainu's matter is very important, and the master has no time to deal with it at this time. However, you, the key witness, can't just be put in the Huanyi Bureau, not to mention the master, even the people under us who run errands can't feel at ease. In this palace, where else could there be safer than in front of the palace? ”

Zhi Wei was silent for a moment and nodded.

Wang Dexi grinned: "In this case, the girl will go and pack her things and go with me." ”

This time, the speed of cleaning up was faster than when she was in the Siyuan Bureau before, and there was no person like Lianzhu who was reluctant to cling to her. Aunt Xi Yue was nowhere to be seen, and she didn't know where she had gone.

Zhi Wei thought a little melancholy, it seemed that the words of that day were Aunt Xi Yue's farewell to her. She had already guessed that Sun Cainu's matter would not be revealed, and she had even guessed His Majesty's thoughts.

Aunt Xi Yue is a person who can't see it clearly, but she stayed in the Huanyi Bureau for a friendship of the past and a promise of companionship. And she, a little passerby, is just a little more special "ear power" than such a seven-pronged exquisite heart.

Returning to the inner palace again, can she really live peacefully until the day she leaves the palace?

Qiande Palace.

Zhao Jiufu watched the little apprentice come with a girl who looked like shallots, and looked at it, couldn't it be Zhiwei who had been away for more than half a month!

Different from the embarrassed photos at the beginning of the month, Zhiwei at this time did not have a swollen bag on her forehead, nor did she have a sickly flush or unusual paleness with a high fever, and the whole person was in good spirits, and she even looked a little plump.

Zhao Jiufu said secretly, ordinary palace people were punished to do hard labor in the Huanyi Bureau, and it was good to be sick without fatigue, how could this girl seem to be happy?

He didn't talk to Zhiwei about Sun Cainu or anything else, just thought that she was the palace person that Wang Dexi had brought back from the Shanggong Bureau to make up for Yufang's shortage, and nodded and asked Yufang to take people down to settle down.

And then for three days, Zhiwei followed the palace maid Yufang to learn the rules. In addition to the small things such as serving tea and water, changing clothes and taking off shoes, etc., it is more important to do other things.

The rules in the palace are naturally the same, but the rules in front of the palace are stricter.

First, the master of service is the most noble in the whole palace and even in the whole world, and the standard of service will naturally be improved;

Second, there are countless twists and turns that come and go every day in the Qinzheng Hall of Qiande Palace, and there are many princes and nobles, and old and important ministers come and go from time to time, these are the major national events of the outer court, and their slaves and maids have to treat themselves as blind and deaf even if they hear and see something;

Third, and the most important one......

"It is a blessing that we have cultivated in our previous life to walk in front of the emperor and serve Your Majesty, but it is not a ladder for entering the house in this life. There are no rules, and the most important thing to do in the Qiande Palace is loyalty. Do you understand? ”

In the end, Yufang's expression became two points more serious.

Zhi Wei understood that Yufang was reminding her not to have the idea of climbing the dragon bed, so as to save the rules.

Speaking of which, the draft rules set by Emperor Taizu and Empress Renxiao in this dynasty are largely to maintain the dignity of the family, and also eliminate the possibility of such low-born commoner women who do not distinguish between right and wrong to become the lord of the harem by the emperor's favor.

According to the ancestral system, the concubines are all from the official eunuchs and powerful families, and the palace people are selected from the commoner women, and the possibility of the latter being named a concubine by virtue of her beauty is very small, even if she gives birth to the prince and the princess, at most she will stop at the position of two grades and nine concubines, and it is absolutely wishful thinking to want the mother to be made the queen by virtue of her son, not to mention that the palace concubines who are not from low backgrounds do not agree, even the ministers of the foreign dynasty can also pinch the word ancestral system and the emperor to the end.

As for being the queen mother, this possibility is not high. Unless the emperor's sons are all dead, and her son is left alive, then there is still a noble virgin queen mother who fights against her, the biological queen mother, and it will not become a big climate.

At least, since the founding of this dynasty, except for Yuan Guifei when the first emperor was born, there has never been a palace girl who was born as a commoner to be awarded a high position by virtue of favor, especially Yuan Guifei has not left a son and a half daughter, which is just a short-lived outlier, and there is no example.

Although there is no strict prohibition on palace maids climbing the bed in the palace rules, this kind of behavior is still shameful, even if you can get ahead in this way, who can guarantee that she will be the next Yuan Guifei, instead of being forgotten by the emperor after being favored, and being targeted by the women of the harem in every way?

In the harem, in order to fix their favors, it is common for the concubines and ladies to launch a well-adjusted/trained beauty palace person when it is inconvenient for them, but if the people in the palace have this kind of thought, the Qiande Palace will be messed up. But if there is a concubine in the palace in front of the palace, the palace maids will only succeed each other, and there are many ways to compete for favor, so that the emperor still has to concentrate on handling government affairs?

Not to mention, the status of Qiande Palace is special, although the palace people are also under the jurisdiction of the queen and the Shanggong Bureau, but their master is still only the emperor. Naturally, the queen could not allow her supreme authority in the harem to be challenged by a few small palace people who were outside her sphere of influence.

So, under such logical considerations, all the palace people assigned to the Qiande Palace were selected according to one standard.

Honest and responsible, with good facial features, but not too good-looking......

Yufang Yuxue and several others are all middle-aged people, so they meet this standard very well. Compared with them, Zhiwei, an outsider, is a little too outstanding.

Although she was strictly guarded for a few days, this defensive posture allowed Zhiwei to adapt to her new identity more quickly.

"It seems that it's safe to be a member of the Imperial Palace?"

But she didn't expect that on the first day of formal employment, she ran into trouble.

Yufang is going to leave the palace in early March, and there is not much time left, and she has to teach Zhiwei and another new palace person, and it is impossible to stare at them in every way, so she can only mention her face over and over again, and then push them out to do some light work, in order to adapt as soon as possible in these few days.

On this day, Zhiwei was entrusted with a simple task to serve tea to His Majesty.

Tea is the latest batch of Longjing in front of the Ming Dynasty to make the quick horse tribute from the south of the Yangtze River, a bud and a leaf, the color is tender and green, the shape is like a bird's tongue, the aroma is tangy, the fragrance is pleasant.

The process of making tea is no problem, and the temperature of the tea is just right when it is served, it will not be too hot to eat, and it will not lose the temperature so that the aroma and taste of the tea will be greatly reduced.

The problem was that at the moment when the tea cup fell off the table, Zhi Wei happened to catch a glimpse of a familiar name.

In black and white, a series of names were written on the fold......

This year is the triennial spring season......

She was so shocked and delighted that she had forgotten most of the rules that Yufang had taught her, and when she came back to her senses, she found that she had been locked in by a pair of displeased eyes.

Zhi Wei secretly said badly, could it be that the small action of peeking at the fold on the table was discovered by His Majesty?

She pretended to be calm, stood with her hands down, and made an honest and obedient appearance that she didn't know what was going on.

Huo Yanzhi looked at her twice, and after the fox was suspicious, he suddenly realized that his eyes were a little complicated when he looked at her again.

It turned out to be the little palace maid last time!

Sun Cainu's matter was investigated and investigated, and in the end, the key testimony was dug up by this little palace maid, I have to say that this woman must be quite scheming. This time she served in front of the palace, but she couldn't be allowed to regenerate those messy thoughts.

Yesterday, Huo Yanzhi just received a secret letter, saying that King Xin and his party were assassinated on the way down to the south of the Yangtze River, and after getting out by luck, they had just arrived in the affected provinces. He was so angry about this that he didn't eat all day yesterday, and he hated the governor of Jiangnan deeply.

Huo Yanzhi concluded that the matter concealed by the governor of Jiangnan was not only an invasion of the Haikou as mentioned in Guo Shoufu's letter. After all, if it was just an ordinary pirate attack, he didn't have to hide the truth at all, and he could use this excuse to ask the imperial court for disaster relief, especially the expenditure allocation of ordnance and military salaries.

The fact that the governor of Jiangnan did not do this can only show that he wants to cover up something bigger than Haikou. Although I don't know what it is, it is obvious that this will not make Huo Yanzhi feel very happy.

He had just sent King Xin out on the front foot, openly for disaster relief and secretly investigating the matter, but he didn't expect to be assassinated before he arrived in Jiangnan.

What does this mean?

It shows that the governor of Jiangnan is not afraid of death, and this guy is likely to rebel!

After being deceived by the old ministers of the cabinet to deceive the major military information, Huo Yanzhi's mind was full of conspiracy theories, and he felt that the throne was very unstable every day, and his mood was even worse.

So, at this moment, seeing Zhi Wei's strange behavior in front of him, he only had deep annoyance in addition to disdain.

A blessing to the heart, Huo Yanzhi suddenly curled the corners of his mouth, and opened a big, kind smile at the new Imperial Palace man Zhi Wei.

"I remember you. Isn't the last bell still punishable? You don't joke, since you are here on duty, it will be more convenient. Let's start mentioning it tonight, and finish mentioning the rest. ”

Zhiwei: ...... Heaven is going to kill me!