Two days later, Bian Yao arrived at a bustling town called "Linjun" outside the east gate of Huangzhou City, and found an inn to live in the town. Linjun Town is located in the suburbs closest to the East City Gate, and it only takes half an hour to enter the Imperial City. After staying in the inn, Bian Yao first went to the clothing shop to buy some clothes and objects that ordinary people often wear, and then stayed in the guest room all day to understand the "secret of separation", and never left the guest room for many days.

With the approach of the "Spring Festival", the inside and outside of Huangzhou City have become more and more lively, and more and more people have rushed from far and near. Early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Bian Yao wore a slightly shabby ordinary cotton clothes, carried two big burdens, dressed himself like an ordinary person, and then pushed open the bedroom, hurriedly left the inn, and walked towards the city gate.

In the southernmost part of the outer ring of the Imperial City, there is a very famous street, that is Wuyi Avenue. Almost everyone knows about it. The origin of the name can be traced back to the founding of Dream Country, not long after the founding of the country, when all the patrols on this street were patrols and guards in black clothes. In the laughter of the first emperor after drinking, this street has not yet been officially named, and it was determined under the name of "Wuyi". Among the city patrol guards of Dream Country, the realm corresponding to the black suit is the late stage of Dream Mania, and he is already the strongest city patrol guard. However, on today's Wuyi Avenue, the guards in charge of patrolling are no longer all black, but have added two more colors, purple-clothed city guards and red-clothed city guards, and the corresponding realms are the early stage dream mania and the middle stage dream maniac respectively.

Wuyi Avenue is about 50 zhang wide, 12 miles long, and the ground is paved with red bricks and stones, in an east-west direction. On the north side of the street is a three-zhang wide river with a row of fragrant dream trees planted on the bank, and on the south side of the avenue are tall and luxurious mansions, and the whole street looks very beautiful. This is the main place where the royal relatives of the Dream Country, as well as the powerful and important ministers, are the most noble, among which the Prince's Mansion and the Uncle's Mansion are the most noble.

Near noon, Bian Yao came to the bustling Wuyi Avenue and walked from east to west with the flow of people. Uncle Guo's Mansion is located at the easternmost end of the south side of Wuyi Avenue, the main entrance of the mansion is open to the north, at this moment there are six long cases at the door of Uncle Guo's Mansion, and there are many people crowded in front of each long table, all of these people are dream cultivators, and they are signing up to participate in the activities of the Spring Festival, and dozens of guards and city guards wearing uniform clothes are maintaining order on the side. In fact, the so-called Spring Festival event is actually a competition in the Dream Arena, and the winner will be rewarded with a generous reward from the organizer of the event. Secretly, however, those who win or dream cultivators with certain special abilities are often privately recruited by the powerful who host the event.

Bian Yao didn't have any interest in Uncle Guo's Mansion, his mind was all about the Nuwang Mansion at the westernmost end of Wuyi Avenue. When he came to the vicinity of the palace, he suddenly noticed a problem. This twelve-mile-long Wuyi Avenue is lined with dozens of noble mansions and mansions, and it is said that all the people living in it are some high-ranking and powerful officials of the Dream Kingdom, but they openly set up a table at the door of the mansion, and only the Uncle Mansion and the Prince's Mansion are the Mansion of the Dream Cultivators, and there is no third one.

Bian Yao was secretly a little surprised in his heart, but he also began to understand what kind of strength Uncle Chao Guo had. If you want to talk about identity and power, among the mansions on the entire Wuyi Avenue, the prince's mansion is the first, and the "Angry King" Du Xiaotian is the only younger brother of the emperor of the dream country today, who is not only a dream honor, but also has a dream devouring beast, which is the guardian beast of the royal family's "Du" family. In addition, the King of Nu is also in charge of all the fighting arenas in the Imperial City! As for the national uncle Feng Yuehan, he is the contemporary patriarch of the ancient "Feng family", and he is also the brother of Nanfei Niangniang, the uncle of the second prince, and the famous "Wanling Hall" was opened by the Feng family. In Huangzhou, almost every city has a branch of Wansoultang. Uncle Guo's official position is that he is an inspector, responsible for inspecting the states of the Dream Country and diplomatic affairs with leaving the country, and it is said that his strength is still above that of King Nu, and his cultivation is very terrifying! In the rumors of the outside world, Uncle Guo can sit on an equal footing with the prince, but in terms of realm strength, he is firmly suppressed by King Nu, so he does not take him seriously at all.

The golden plaque at the main entrance of the palace has three big fiery red characters - "Nu Wangfu". In front of the gate of the palace, there were also six tables, and there were many dream cultivators who had come to sign up, who had come to participate in the martial arts competition held by the palace. As long as a dream cultivator has the realm of a dream walker, he can sign up to participate in martial arts activities, but Bian Yao did not come to participate in any activities, but for another thing that usually only ordinary people would care about.

From the information given to him by the night corpse, it is known that on the day before the Spring Festival every year, the Nu Wangfu will recruit some mortals to work in the palace to supplement those who have been dismissed after three years. The palace has a strict restriction on the subordinates recruited, they must be ordinary people without cultivation qualifications!

Without time to be distracted and think wildly, Bian Yao bypassed the crowd and walked straight to the side door of the palace, where there were also two tables, and in front of each stood a row of people, one of which was all men and the other was all women. Bian Yao pulled the burden behind him, and then walked over without saying a word, and stopped at the end of the column full of men.

There were about 40 men standing in the column, ranging in age and young, and each of them needed to go through some questioning, and those who did not pass left and those who passed waited quietly aside. Half an hour later, it was Bian Yao's turn.

"Include your name, age and place of birth. Behind the table, the middle-aged scribe with a goatee looked at Bian Yao and asked with a serious face.

My name is Ye Xiaomei, I am sixteen years old this year, and my hometown is in Yejiazhuang, eighty miles away from the northern suburbs of the imperial city. Bian Yao bent down and lowered his head, and replied seriously, while deliberately showing a nervous look on his face.

"Don't call me sir, I'm just a steward of the palace. The middle-aged scribe looked through a stack of paper scrolls on the table with a blank face, looked up and continued: "Let me ask you, who else is in your family?"

Bian Yao smiled and opened his mouth to say: "Back to the steward!" Xiaomin has been alone since he was a child, and it is all by luck that he can survive to this day. ”

"Why do you want to go into the palace to do things?"

"Because...... Because I heard people say that this Wuyi Road is the largest in the prince's mansion, and doing errands in the prince's mansion not only eats well, but also receives more money. After Bian Yao finished speaking, he reached out and scratched his head, showing a little embarrassed.

The middle-aged scribe let out a "hmm", the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he wrote a few words on the paper scroll with a bamboo pen, and said, "You stand over there first." ”

Bian Yao's face was overjoyed, and he trotted into the crowd that had passed earlier, waiting for the next instructions. Being able to stand here is considered a preliminary pass, as long as you pass the next level smoothly, and let the people in the palace determine and confirm your identity as an ordinary person.

After more than half an hour, the middle-aged scribe stood up from behind the table, walked to the group of people in Bian Yao, and said, "Don't speak, follow me." ”

Bian Yao burrowed through the crowd, followed the middle-aged scribe into the palace through the side gate, passed through a small garden, and turned right, and a group of people stepped on the cobblestone paved road to a square courtyard. There are two entrances and exits in the courtyard, both guarded by two royal guards.

From the moment he stepped into the courtyard, Bian Yao had been peeking around. The space in the courtyard is empty and spacious, and the ground is paved with many bluestone blocks of various sizes, which can be roughly seen to be laid out in a certain way. In the center of the courtyard there was a black stone platform about five feet in diameter, on which an old man in green was meditating with his eyes closed.

The middle-aged scribe stepped forward, whispered a few words in the old man's ear with a respectful face, and then turned around and instructed everyone to disperse around the old man in green. The men and women recruited into the palace this time added up to about 100 people, and they were still divided into two groups, men and women, standing quietly.

The courtyard was quiet, and no one dared to move, let alone whisper. Time passed little by little, and Bian Yao felt as if time had stood still. Although the Night Corpse had already promised himself, he couldn't help but be a little nervous, after all, there was an ulterior secret in his heart.

After less than half a moment, the old man in green who was sitting on the stone platform in the center of the courtyard opened his eyes and said lightly, "No problem." ”

"It's hard to get old!" the middle-aged scribe nodded hurriedly, smiling all over his face, and then waved his hand and shouted at the newly recruited subordinates: "Come with me, and I will assign you a place to go below." ”

Bian Yao exhaled softly, put his mind at ease, and mixed in with the middle-aged scribe to leave the courtyard and go to the next courtyard to accept the assignment.

I have to say that there are really many types of errands in the palace, including dining rooms, tea and wine rooms, horse rooms, flower rooms, washing rooms, cleaning rooms, miscellaneous rooms, etc. In just a quarter of an hour, more than 100 people were all distributed. Next, the middle-aged steward announced some palace rules that needed to be strictly followed, and it took almost a cup of tea to explain and admonish, and finally let the leaders of each room take the newcomer away.

Bian Yao and the other two were divided into the chores room, led by a middle-aged man named Zhang Fu, including him, and there were twelve people in the chores room. All they do is some scattered, like handymen, there is no fixed errand, and they go wherever they need to be worked.

Simply went to the people's special canteen for lunch, and that afternoon, Bian Yao and two other new recruits began to get busy under the leadership of Zhang Fu.

Nu Wangfu covers an area of about 200 acres, in addition to the main hall and houses and other buildings, rockeries, pools, pavilions can be seen everywhere, there are also towering ancient trees, craggy strange stones are distributed among them, the whole palace is in the palace, the layout is exquisite, everywhere is hidden mystery.

The royal palace is mainly divided into the front palace and the back palace, and the area occupied is roughly equal. The former mansion is mainly used to entertain visitors and daily life activities, all the royal guards and ordinary subordinates live in the former mansion, and some special characters also live in the special courtyard of the former mansion;

Because the Spring Festival is coming, the palace is very busy, and there are many things to do. Bian Yao's subordinates were called and drunk, busy and busy, and finally waited until it was dark. After dinner, Bian Yao and the others in the miscellaneous room returned to a small courtyard for them to sleep.

Although the bedroom is small, it is one per person, which makes Bian Yao very satisfied. Once in the room, he lit a candle, placed it on the table, and lay down on the wooden bed, folding his arms in contemplation. So far, everything has gone smoothly and nothing has gone wrong. Now that we have come this far, we must continue to walk more seriously on the road ahead.

As the night deepened, the candles in each room in the courtyard were extinguished one after another, and there was silence inside and outside the bedroom. In the afternoon, they were busy for several hours, and the other subordinates were already so tired that they fell asleep.

Bian Yao didn't feel the slightest tiredness, and those simple physical tasks couldn't make him feel tired at all. He pondered on the bed for more than half an hour, recalling all the things he had seen and heard in the palace during the day, recalling all the things he had seen and heard in the palace several times, keeping in mind the roads and environments he had encountered, and finally sitting up on the bed with his clothes.

(PS: I always feel that there are a lot of things that need to be modified, and I am not satisfied, but my mind is a little messy, and I don't have the heart to think about it.) Maybe it's been a long pause, and it will take some time to get the feeling back, so be it for this chapter. ）