In the small quiet room, there is only one case and one person, and nothing else.

In the upper left corner of the bookcase are two thick stacks of books, low on the left and high on the right, and the binding lines of the books have been blackened and darkened, and they look like they are some years old. On the right side of the bookcase is the four treasures of the study room lined up in turn, but it can be vaguely seen that these pen, ink, paper and inkstones are extremely rough, and they are by no means tribute, and I am afraid that even the big families of the people can't compare.

Overall, it is a humble room that is not even comparable to the meditation room of ordinary monks.

If it is not for the occasional pause to move the right wrist, the left hand often unconsciously brushes the waist and abdomen, it looks like a beautiful statue made of jade, giving people a feeling of calm as water.

However, the true mood of the jade carving beauty herself is far less calm than what she shows.

Three days ago, Zhiwei was pushed into this burrow by Yuxue with a black face, and the latter ordered her to copy the pile of palace rules on the case, and when to finish copying and when to go out.

As for the cause of punishment, it is very simple.

It's nothing more than that day when Zhiwei ran into that Yuan guard, and said something no more than ten words to the other party, she happened to be bumped into by Concubine Shu who came to Qiande Palace with her hugging her back. Concubine Shu didn't comment on anything, and Zhi Wei was squeezed into a shameless who had an affair with the guards with a few words from the palace maid named Er Qiao next to her!

Of course, Concubine Shu was not so bold as to order the punishment of the palace people of Qiande Palace, she just frowned, and let Er Qiao relay the matter to Yuxue, Yuxue was so angry that her eyebrows stood up, and she punished Zhiwei into the quiet room to copy the palace rules on the spot.

As for whether Concubine Shu was satisfied with this arrangement, whether Chief Manager Zhao and even the emperor knew about this matter, and how to curry favor with Yuxue to get the opportunity to enter the palace after this matter, Zhiwei couldn't care about it.

Because she is now hungry and hungry, and there is no master.

When she saw the pile of rough straw paper, she thought it was an oversteamed square nest; Smelling the smell of inferior ink, she thought it was three fresh soup overnight; Even, when she copied the relevant content of the concubines and concubines according to their grades in the palace rules, her eyes were even greener, and she looked at the black characters one by one as if they had changed into delicacies.

Copying the palace rules and not allowing them to eat, this is one of the means to punish the palace people in the palace rules of the Great Qi Dynasty, and the founder is also the empress of benevolence and filial piety who is sympathetic to the subordinates, advocating changing the "military punishment" to "literary punishment". Although the punishment of this article can only be limited to those palace people who can write, most of the palace people who are assigned to serve in front of the palace can read a few words, and this punishment retreat room for some years has become a common practice.

Zhi Wei is still very glad that Concubine Shu is not pampered and arrogant, commanding Yuxue to give herself another board or something, the calamitous February has finally passed, she doesn't want the first March to be like this again.

She pinched her fingers and counted the days, and a layer of sorrow hung between her eyebrows.

"If the palace rules are copied until tomorrow, it is estimated that it will be over, but tomorrow is the eighth day of the first lunar month, and there are only seven days left before the palace test. In such a short period of time, I am afraid it is very difficult to make Yuxue accept the overtures and let down her guard......"

Zhi Wei sighed faintly, got up and stretched, and cautiously moved to the only small window in the room, which was still sealed, and looked out through the small hole in the window paper.

The smile that had only become familiar with her a few days ago seemed to see her, and beckoned to her happily in the cool night breeze.

"Ah, are you done with the spurs? When will you come out to bathe and change my clothes? ”

The corners of Zhiwei's mouth twitched and whispered, "I should be able to go out tomorrow." She is now hungry and panicked, in order to make herself less painful, except for necessary movements, she is too lazy to make expressions to consume less and less energy in her body.

The location of this room is very remote, next to the storeroom, and it is at the very corner of the road, in the past three days, Zhiwei basically did not hear anyone walk in front of this locked door. However, in front of this narrow window, she occasionally saw people from the miscellaneous palace coming and going, but she had never seen people like Mr. Zhao, Wang Dexi, and Yuxue who had a face in front of the palace.

If it weren't for that, she wouldn't dare to "talk to herself" here from a distance of two feet.

But if she didn't say a few words to the only one who could talk, Zhi Wei estimated that she would be suffocated by this room and the long and endless copying work!

In the casual conversation with Hanxiao, Zhi Wei suddenly remembered the secret of the palace that Concubine Kang had mentioned back then.

It seems that the first emperor did not mourn in his own bedroom, but somehow walked to the front of this western side hall in a half-dream and half-awake, and sat under a row of tall maple trees without alarming any palace eunuchs and walked away with a smile.

Of course, this matter was not misinterpreted by the palace people as a mystery such as seeing ghosts, after all, everyone knew that the first emperor was not young at the time, and he was sick, and his brain may be a little confused.

It's just that Concubine Kang once sighed, saying that the first emperor was a rare infatuation of the emperor's family, and that the maple trees in the Qiande Palace were planted by the first emperor to coax Yuan Guifei to be happy, and after Yuan Guifei died in childbirth, the harem never had her favorite concubine, and so on.

Because of the slightly bizarre death of the first emperor here, the palace people in the Qiande Palace are also a little taboo about this place.

When Zhi Wei was transferred just a few days ago, she heard that this western side hall has been sealed since His Majesty ascended the throne, and everyone is not allowed to enter without an edict, and the row of maple trees has also been uprooted, which has changed to the current Hanxiao and Magnolia. Usually, only the miscellaneous palace people can walk around the yard, take care of the flowers and plants, sweep the fallen leaves or something, but most of the palace people don't like to go here, Zhi Wei was ordered by Yuxue to do these tasks at that time, and a few small palace people secretly gave her a sympathetic look.

Zhi Wei looked through the gap in the small window and glanced at the sparse scenery in the courtyard a few more times, but she didn't think it was so eerie and terrifying. However, she can't feel Concubine Kang's emotion, where will there be any real infatuation in the emperor's family?

Everyone said that the first emperor had a deep love for that Empress Yijia, so she did not have a successor after her death, but within a few years, there was a favorite harem Yuan Guifei. As everyone knows, the decision not to succeed may also be a rational choice of the first emperor to balance the forces of the previous dynasty and not want to add bargaining chips to any family?

As for Yuan Guifei's lack of favored concubines after that, and the first emperor even began to be obsessed with cultivating and becoming an immortal, who can guarantee that the first emperor wanted to become an immortal in order to renew his relationship with his concubine, not just to live forever?

The women in the palace are too lonely, and they always like to put a romantic halo on some ordinary things, so that they can be reborn and become a legendary story that leads to tears, I am afraid that they just want to add some spiritual sustenance to themselves, right?

For Zhi Wei, it is now that the Empress Dowager He, who lives in a simple house in Cining Palace, is more realistic. She strongly suspected that the person who ordered the uprooting of the maple tree was not His Majesty, she was definitely pressed under the halo of Yuan Guifei and had not been valued by the emperor for many years!

Thinking of Empress Dowager He, it was natural to think of the punishment kneeling on the bluestone slab, Zhi Wei couldn't help but touch her knees, yawned and said out of the window: "Xiaoxiao, I'm going to sleep, let's talk about it tomorrow." ”

After that, she lay down with her clothes, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she fell into a dark sleep.

I don't know if it's because the trees aren't as weak as the flowers, but this one is not very sleepy, and spends at least half of the day talking to himself, or trying to fight against the magnolia next door. It's just that the magnolia is taciturn and doesn't like to take care of it much, so it can only persistently harass Zhiwei.

"Okay, then you can come to the house early tomorrow to see me!"

Smiling and shaking the leaves, he was about to bathe in the soft moonlight and fall asleep with his new companion, but was startled away by a male voice.

"Who were you talking to?"

Xiaoxiao tilted her head curiously and looked at the man under the tree: "He shouldn't be talking to me, right?" This man looks very raw, is he a eunuch......"

Of course, in the eyes of people, these movements are just a few rustling sounds of leaves shaking.

It didn't squeak, and the man fell silent, reaching out and ripping off one of its leaves.

After a snort, Xiaoxiao was shocked to find that this man was actually laughing! Still smug smile!

Laughing and angry, if it could flexibly command every branch and leaf of its trees, it would definitely flick these "arms" of different thicknesses and smack this bastard human!

"Ah, you wicked, hateful, pig-dog-like, ungrateful, bastard, how dare you offend Benshu like this!"

The man laughed even harder, but he still controlled himself from laughing, but the expression on his face became more distorted.

"Ahem, who taught you these nonsense words? Do you know who I am? If you talk nonsense, I'll drag you out tomorrow, oh no, I'll let people come in and cut you down! ”

Before Hanxiao could react, the magnolia next to her said sullenly.

"Stupid, this human is the Emperor! I don't know why he speaks our language, but you'd better not mess with him and save me from trouble. ”

This is the longest sentence Yulan has said to Hanxiao since she became a neighbor.

Stammered with a smile: "Huh? Are you sure? He, is he really the emperor? I thought it was a little eunuch......"

The older magnolia had been in the Imperial Garden for a long time before it was transplanted, so he naturally recognized Huo Yanzhi, and when he saw this, he even despised the newborn strain, and continued to sleep and ignore it.

Huo Yanzhi was angered by this uninteresting smile.

What do you mean by thinking you're a little eunuch?

He is full of the noble bearing of a dragon son and a phoenix grandson, and he is also wearing the regular clothes carefully made by dozens of embroidery girls, how can he be despised by these eyeless little palace people, flowers and trees one after another?

Even the pot of Wan Nian Qing in his house calls him the Dog Emperor from time to time, which really makes him feel stuffy!

Huo Yanzhi snorted and made up his mind, if he didn't subdue this bad tree that didn't grow long eyes tonight, he would call someone to come over and pull it out tomorrow!

"Still not honest? Who are you talking about when you entered the room just now? ”

He shook with a smile, obviously afraid that he would really be cut down.

You know, it's been years of hard work to grow so leafy! If it is really cut down, even if the roots are left, it will take several years to grow into its current appearance, and for most of the time, it will remain bare stump, which is really ugly!

It was about to explain the truth, but at this moment, a question suddenly came to mind in its small tree brain.

The emperor who threatened to cut it down as soon as he opened his mouth didn't seem to be a good person, if he confessed Zhiwei, would he be angry and cut her down?

Xiaoxiao is a little reluctant to meet the newly recognized human partner, after all, Zhiwei Xiang is soft and soft, and the voice is very good, and now this human looks not very in line with its aesthetics, and it doesn't like it very much.

So, he hesitated, "Ah, I'm just talking to the guy next door......"

Huo Yanzhi narrowed his eyes: "Really? ”

The smiling canopy shook up and down twice, as if nodding: "Yes, yes, you are the emperor, how could I lie to you?" You don't want people to cut me, okay? I'm a good tree who is rich and knowledgeable, and it's rare to get ......."