Eunuch Cui walked through the Wende Hall unhurriedly with his hands behind his back, and entered the Xuanyou Gate, which had already fallen into the Xuanyou Gate, opened a crack, and Eunuch Cui flashed in, and the heavy door was quietly closed again.

In the Xuanyou Gate, Cao Shan greeted him, "Master." ”

"Well, go in and talk." Eunuch Cui's footsteps were still unhurried, and Cao Shan went one after the other, and entered Eunuch Cui's small courtyard next to the emperor's bedroom, with only three upper rooms in the middle, and a small piece of open space covered with gold bricks in front and back.

Cao Shan casually covered the courtyard door and followed Eunuch Cui into the upper room.

The old servant Lao Zhangtou stomped and sent a pot of tea and two cups up, and sent a hot handkerchief, yawned, and went back to sleep.

"Nothing, right?" Cao Shan looked at Eunuch Cui's expression carefully and said with concern.

"Yes." Eunuch Cui had a word, and sighed for a long time behind him, "How can a night owl be okay when he enters the house?" Nothing to do but climb the Three Treasures Palace, alas! Eunuch Cui sighed again.

"Is it a big deal?" Cao Shan's brows furrowed.

"Ugh." Eunuch Cui motioned to Cao Shan to pour a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Ah Shan, have I told you about your master?" ”

"I said, Master often said, this sentence was said by the master, what should I do if the master is that thing, I often say it." Cao Shan poured tea and held it to Eunuch Cui.

"How did your master die, did I tell you?" Eunuch Cui took the tea, but didn't drink it, only sighed one bite after another.

Cao Shan was stunned, "I haven't heard this mentioned by Master." ”

"How did the first emperor die, did I tell you?" Eunuch Cui ignored the topic just now, and turned out to talk about the first emperor.

Cao Shan hesitated, "Died of illness, saying that the illness came very urgently." ”

"Alas, death from illness can be regarded as death from illness, it is urgent, it is really urgent, alas."

Eunuch Cui kept sighing, "The first emperor is a hard temper, after Jin Guifei left, the first emperor was extremely distressed, saying that his heart was dead, saying that his heart was like ashes, for more than ten years, it was true, I had never been close to women." ”

A trace of surprise flashed on Cao Shan's face, not because of his master's words, but because of the way his master looked at this moment, the person who went out to see him just now made his master's mind very turbulent.

"The first emperor's illness, the imperial doctor said that it was an immediate stroke." Eunuch Cui's words suddenly changed.

Cao Shan was stunned, but he didn't come over, he believed his ears, but he couldn't believe his first reaction, "Wind immediately?" ”

Did he hear him right? This horse is windy, is that horse wind? Or, did he hear it wrong? This one is a wind, it's definitely not that one!

"It's a wind, naked, it's in the queen's palace, on the queen's bed, the doctor says it's a wind, alas." Eunuch Cui's sigh meant a lot.

"No matter what others say, Master and his old man himself are clear, he failed to protect the first emperor, his term, he did a bad job, the inner guard, in the hands of your master, the first time, smashed the signboard...... Alas. ”

Eunuch Cui sighed one after another, "Master, his old man handed over the inner guards to me, and on the same day, he sat down, and I turned Master into ashes and sprinkled it under the peony flowers in Houhu." ”

Cao Shan's face turned blue.

Not because of the death of his master, but because of the death of the first emperor, the first emperor died in the queen's palace, the queen's bed, and immediately had a stroke. I can't think even a little bit about the hidden truth behind this.

That queen was the later Queen Mother, and seven months later, this Queen Mother gave birth to Prince Qin......

"I returned to the palace as an errand at the age of seventeen, and at that time, the queen mother had already married in, had already become the queen mother, and had just become the queen mother." Eunuch Cui's face was covered with vague nostalgia.

"When I was nineteen years old, I bowed to the master and began to follow the master and wait by the emperor's side. At that time, the queen mother was already deep in the palace and never went out. I followed Master, and the first time I saw my mother, I ......"

Eunuch Cui's words stopped abruptly, and he looked ahead without focus, and after a while, he continued: "Niangniang is like a crazy person, like a ghost." ”

Eunuch Cui let out a low sigh.

Cao Shan looked at him and sighed.

The tragedy in the palace a few decades ago, he knew very well, this matter, such a thing, from the moment he worshiped the master, the master began to talk to him little by little, about the old things in the palace, about the old people in the palace. This major incident cannot be bypassed in any way.

These are all things that he, the next commander of the internal guards, needs to know clearly and clearly.

But this is the first time that Master has talked to him about such details and perceptions.

"Niangniang has been crazy for several years, at that time, I don't often go to her palace, one year, I went again, Niangniang is not crazy, but thin like a skeleton, two eyes are deep, hollow, hollow, but there seems to be a fire burning.

That time, I still went with Master, and Master said that Niangniang had demons in her heart. Alas. ”

Eunuch Cui took a sip of tea, put down the cup, replaced it with two fingers, and patted the table slowly for a long time before continuing: "Later, Niangniang is getting better day by day, I haven't seen it in person, but I just heard that she is getting better day by day."

Later, I saw Niangniang again, it was several years later, she looked good, that is, she was very old, compared with the emperor, she seemed to be the emperor's elders, it seemed to be about the same age as the Empress Dowager Xianzheng, at that time, no matter what she looked at, her eyes were cold, and the whole person was cold and cold. ”

Cao Shan sighed, unable to say anything in his heart.

In this reincarnation, Jin Niangniang doesn't know how many times she has gone crazy, how many times she has woken up, how many times she has collapsed, and how many times she has rebuilt.

"Then the Jin Niangniang, alas, at that time, you entered the palace, and later, you yourself saw that except for the elderly, she is no different from the ordinary old woman, she is kind and gentle, and at first glance she is the queen mother of the world.

Later, with Prince Qin, it seemed that everything had passed.

But I have been following the emperor, following the emperor closely, I can see the eyes that the mother does not often show, I can see the expression that the mother does not often show, or in other words, only when facing the emperor, the mother will occasionally have a look and look in her eyes once or twice.

In that gaze, there was the ice of the year, and there was also the fire of the year.

Ah Shan, I've always been scared, afraid of my mother, very scared. Alas. ”

Eunuch Cui sighed, "You also know that when your master was in the hands, Niangniang had Lu Yi by her side, and with the Lu family, the Lu family, you know, our inner guards and the Lu family are from the same source, and compared with the Lu family, the inner guards are nothing."

I once asked Lu Yi, and I couldn't understand that their Lu family, who should be loyal to Jiang Niangniang, how could it be Jin Niangniang, this is not right! ”

"What did Lu Yi say? Because of Lu Mingshui's death? ”

Lu Mingshui died of a cup of poison from Empress Dowager Zheng, this incident was the first old thing that the master talked to him about after he worshiped under the master.

Because of this incident, he felt awkward for a long time.

The saddest and most fearful thing for those of them who have been fighting in the shadows is to die from the knife stabbed in the back, from the hands of the lords who have always guarded them with their lives.

Master also has ideas, and he can hear it from Master's tone.

Lu Yi didn't answer my question, only said that their Lu family will never break the rules. That's it. ”

Eunuch Cui sighed with countless emotions and exclamations.

"The Lu family, it's really heartbreaking, there are extraordinary people from generation to generation, at that time, Lu Yi was only nineteen, only nineteen years old, Ah Shan, but that calm, that restrained, alas, I respect the Lu family very much, from the inner guards to today, our internal guards, no one does not respect the Lu family."

"Is this because of Lu Mingshui's death?" Cao Shan said softly.

"Maybe. Once, during the Chinese New Year, the emperor drank a few more glasses of wine and told jokes, saying that he would let Lu Yi pretend to be a beauty to show him. ”

Eunuch Cui looked at Cao Shan, "Did I tell you about this allusion to pretending to be a beauty?" ”

Cao Shan shook his head, looked at Eunuch Cui, and felt a little sad in his heart, Master is old, a few years ago, even a year or two ago, Master never forgot what he said, didn't say anything, in the past two years, Master is often like this, confused whether he said this sentence, did he order that thing......

Master is old.

"The ancestor of the Lu family, is the senior brother of the ancestor, the beauty is unparalleled, it is said that it is a few points better than Lu Yi, the first Empress Dowager Li was known for her beauty when she was young, but to Lu Ye, the first Empress Dowager Li sighed more than once, it is not as good as it."

"First of all, the Empress Dowager Li still sighed about this?" Cao Shan couldn't help but laugh in surprise.

"Empress Dowager Li is a very interesting person." Eunuch Cui also smiled, "When Lu Ye was young, he was also a fun-loving person, and he was often interested in dressing up as a woman, and it is said that he really turned sentient beings upside down." ”

"Lu Ye is so interesting." Cao Shan laughed.

"Not really." Eunuch Cui's face showed a strong sense of yearning, "Our inner guard was brought out by Lu Ye from nothing, little by little." The emperor's joke is inappropriate,"

Eunuch Cui sighed lowly, "Jin Niangniang dropped the cup on the spot, saying that the emperor had too much wine and was dizzy, and Niangniang also said that the Lu family has a temper, and the Lu family can have a temper."

I also think this is very true, you see, Lu Yi chose Jin Niangniang, not Jiang Niangniang, this is the temper of the Lu family. ”

Cao Shan was stunned for a moment and sighed.

"I went to ask Lu Yi that time, and this question was actually extremely inappropriate, but, Ah Shan, Master is afraid. Over the years, the master has always carried a heart, lest he will follow in the footsteps of your master, if he loses his hand again, then our inner guards will become a puddle of mud, I don't dare. ”

Eunuch Cui stopped sighing, fell silent, and looked out of the dark window with unfocused eyes.

"Master, Niangniang is gone." Cao Shan looked at the silent Eunuch Cui, couldn't say why, and his heart rose up little by little.

"After the mother left, I was even more scared." After a while, Eunuch Cui said in a low voice: "I still have to tell you about this." ”

Eunuch Cui was silent again for a moment before continuing: "I should have told you a long time ago, but I ...... Alas, Niangniang died very suddenly, you know, Niangniang's corpse, the bones are broken like powder, and the skin and flesh are shriveled. ”

Cao Shan was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened, and he looked at Eunuch Cui in disbelief.

"Today, Jiang Yanshi said that he saw a glimmer of heaven in King Qin, and I thought of Niangniang's death at that time." Eunuch Cui's voice was extremely low, revealing a faint fear.

"Is this sorcery?" Cao Shan's voice tightened slightly.

"What is hexism? What is supernatural powers? Who knows? The Taizu of this dynasty can win the world, which is said to have originated from the Empress Dowager Li.

In the Gospel Temple that year, there lived a high monk, it was the Empress Dowager Li who invited the monk, the previous dynasty lost its support, Taizu was able to win the world, they all said, the prince, the younger brother of the emperor, was to follow the monk's apprentice to leave, maybe not an apprentice, maybe that monk.

Ahsan, in this world, there are too many miraculous things and miraculous people. ”

Cao Shan's back felt cold one after another, "Master, you mean, this...... Master, this is terrible. ”

"Yes, the master has been afraid for many years, before the mother left, I was afraid of the mother, after the mother left, I was even more afraid, alas, Ah Shan, as the saying goes, only a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, we, are thieves, I am afraid that a wrong eye will not be able to prevent it, causing a big mistake, our internal guards, can not be wrong again."

Eunuch Cui said these words extremely heavy, in fact, in the past half a year, he often dreamed that the emperor died in front of him, and dreamed that the blood on his hands was all the blood of the emperor......

"Master, is there any way we can not be so passive? Although we can't talk about any political affairs, we can't talk to the emperor about things that have nothing to do with the emperor's safety, even a word, but this matter can't be regarded as irrelevant to the emperor's safety, right? ”

Cao Shan thought about it a little more, and then he had a layer of cold sweat on his back, and he was eager in a few words.

"Say what? How so? Which sentence is not about political affairs, and which thing is not about royal secrets? Which sentence can be said? I've taught you all these years, and you're saying things like that! ”

Eunuch Cui was obviously a little angry, "Go back and read that booklet carefully, and see clearly, what the one, two, and three say!"

The inner guards are never allowed to say anything or do anything to the emperor on the grounds of hidden dangers!

What you think is a hidden danger, what I think is a hidden danger, whether it is a hidden danger or not, who can judge?

What do you think is a hidden danger, is it a mistake in your judgment, or is it a hidden danger that you want? Or is it a hidden danger that you have pushed out with one hand and created with one hand? ”

Eunuch Cui approached Cao Shan with his upper body, and his voice was violent.

Cao Shan knelt on the ground with a plop, "The apprentice is wrong, I am in a hurry, I know that I am wrong, please punish the master." ”

"Get up, I just remind you a few words, you are in a hurry, I am also in a hurry, otherwise, I would not have gone to see Jiang Yanshi today."

Eunuch Cui was tired all of a sudden, and after Niangniang left, he was worried day and night, and he couldn't hold it anymore.

"Jiang Yanshi asked me to give him a chance." Eunuch Cui leaned back in his chair.

Cao Shan's eyes widened again, "Master, this ......"

"I'm going to think again, think about it." Eunuch Cui waved his hand tiredly, "You go and take a look, be careful, I'm too tired, I have to take a good rest and think about it." ”

"Yes." Cao Shan agreed, tiptoed out of the house, and went around.