Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Winter came unexpectedly, and yesterday the sky was clear, but at night the temperature dropped sharply, and there were snowflakes in the night sky.

In the early morning, the whole Jingshi was already covered in snow, the snow was piled up on the house, the ice under the eaves was like a silver sword, and on the street, everyone swept the snow in front of their houses, and the snow melted into ice water, like a silver snake into the brick cracks.

In the Forbidden City, Huang Jin commanded the eunuchs to sweep the snow, he was wearing a cloak, and his voice was about to shout and smoke, this is the matter of the palace eunuch, and he has nothing to do with the palm print eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, but the preferences of the nobles in this palace are different, some nobles want to keep a little snow to be pleasing to the eye, some don't like the ice under the eaves, and some small nobles want to keep a little snow to pile up a few snowmen, how can the rough people of the palace eunuch be all-encompassing? Huang Jin had to come forward in person and instructed where the snow should be swept and the ice should be cleaned up.

Several of the great eunuchs of the Divine Palace Prison shrank their necks at the moment, curled up in their big robes, hooked their waists and followed Huang Jin with a smile, full of smiles, and followed Huang Jin to walk around the inner garden of the harem, don't look at them at this time, if you observe that Huang Jin's face is not good-looking, he will suddenly become a lion, and he will shout angrily towards the little eunuch who is sweeping the snow in the distance: "Little San'er, are you blind?" Ancestor Huang has long ordered that the snow here must be kept, what do you sweep, carefully your skin, and you will have to be cleaned up later. ”

Huang Jin put his hands behind his back, smiled coldly, his face was as frosty as the weather, and then scolded: "What is the ghost roaring, alarming the nobles inside, can you afford to be offended?" None of you have one to worry about. ”

"Yes, yes. Slaves and maids should be damned! The smile of the eunuch who had just yelled was always on his face, and he stretched out his hot hand from his sleeve, slapped it on his face lightly, and said: "If you don't have Huang Zuzong to take care of it, it's really thanks to Huang Zuzong personally appearing, otherwise I really don't know what to do." ”

Huang Jin snorted coldly and said, "Go to Cining Palace and have a look." ”

What he cares about the most is Cining Palace.

Because there are two Bodhisattvas living in Cining Palace, the one of the Zhang family has been in Beijing for a long time. I've long been tired of the snow scene, and the one from the Wang family is from Anlu, and it's not long before I see the snow, and I feel rare, and I said it a few months ago. Why doesn't it snow in Kyoto?

How to balance, neither can make the Empress Dowager Zhang upset, but also can't disturb the interest of the Queen Mother, the scale here even Huang Jin feels a headache.

You said that it is good to be decent, what are the two queen mothers doing living in the same palace, isn't this a toss? But you rejoice, down to these people. No one dares to offend, isn't that fatal?

Huang Jin's face was gloomy, he had pinched the time to go, and it was time for the emperor to go to Cining Palace to say hello. It's best to go at this time, even if the Queen Mother is displeased, the emperor wants to be able to understand his difficulties, if he says a good word or two to himself at this time. And that's over.

He lifted the skirt of his robe and quickened his pace. The first few eunuchs of the Divine Palace hurriedly trotted to catch up.

When he arrived at Cining Palace, Huang Jin saw the Son of Heaven waiting there from afar, and knew that His Majesty had arrived, so he put it down in one breath, and was about to send the eunuch who was about to send his head to do things, but at this time, he saw the eunuch Lao Anzi in the Queen Mother's palace running towards him.

The enemy is very red when he meets, Huang Jin is most afraid of this old Anzi in the palace, Lao Anzi provokes his authority three times and twice in the palace, but this person is a popular person in front of the queen mother, Huang Jin has no way to take him.

Lao Anzi came over with a smile, but he didn't say anything sarcastic today, just smiled and said: "Gonggong Huang is here, the Queen Mother is invited, come with me to see Feng Jia." ”

Hearing that the Queen Mother was invited, Huang Jin chuckled in his heart, he didn't know what the Queen Mother was suddenly invited for, could it be that the two palaces were going to break their wrists again? If so, then he Huang Jin is really unlucky, last time, Cining Palace because there is only one Buddhist hall, Empress Dowager Zhang often goes, but the Queen Mother is so old and doesn't like it, so she ordered people not to allow the nuns inside to sing the scriptures, but the Empress Dowager Zhang had to let people sing, but the two palaces did not tear their faces, but the eunuch in charge was sent to Fengyang.

He couldn't cry or laugh, feeling that this old Anzi was gloating at him, he straightened up, his face pretended to be flat, and said: "In this case, the matter on Wang Niangniang's side cannot be delayed, let's go." ”

The two of them didn't talk one after the other, and when they arrived at Nangong, Huang Jin cautiously went in, and saw that there were actually two women sitting on the phoenix couch, both of them were wearing phoenix robes with fox furs, and the beads on their heads were shining, and they were sitting in danger.

The palace burned the earth dragon, so it was hot, but it inevitably had the smell of charcoal, so he lit a strong sandalwood, and the carbon smell was covered, but the sandalwood fragrance was a little pungent, and Huang Jin felt a little unacceptable.

Sitting at the foot of the phoenix couch was Jiajing, who was smiling, talking to the queen mother of the two palaces.

Huang Jin said in his heart, today the sun is coming out in the west, and the queen mother of these two palaces will actually come to the door?

He glanced at Jiajing cautiously, and when he saw Jiajing's face as usual, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly bowed to the ground and said: "Two mothers Wan'an, long live Your Majesty." ”

He didn't dare to say Zhang Niangniang Wan'an, Wang Niangniang Wan'an, afraid that the Zhang family was in front, the Wang family was unhappy, the Wang family was in front, and the Zhang family hated him, so he simply put the two together, although there was a suspicion that it was not solemn enough, but at least it did not offend anyone.

Before the empress dowager of the two palaces spoke, Jiajing sympathized with him, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, this yellow companion got up before dawn today, and assigned the matter of clearing the snow, although there is no credit, there is hard work." ”

After saying a good word, he said to Huang Jin with a straight face: "Get up and talk back." ”

Huang Jin stood up cautiously, hooked his body and said a slave thanks, at this time, the queen mother finally couldn't bear it anymore, frowned and said, "What is the relationship between you and that Xu Qian?" I usually see you walking pretty close, don't you? ”

Such a sentence was clueless, but it made Huang Jin nervous all of a sudden.

The Queen Mother has always been a reciprocating character, but I don't know what she meant by suddenly asking such a sentence.

Huang Jin hurriedly said: "Niangniang, the slave and Xu Qian have a little friendship, but most of them are official contacts, this ...... This ......"

Bitter also...... Huang Jin couldn't control the queen mother's thoughts, I don't know if the queen mother's impression of Xu Qian is good or bad, and he said that it is almost, if the queen mother looks at Xu Qian unpleasantly, he doesn't want to be unlucky?

The corners of the Queen Mother's mouth slightly hooked up a sneer, and said: "No, why did you ask Your Majesty about it, but Your Majesty is different from what you said?" ”

This time, Huang Jin was really hard, and hurriedly said: "The slave is dead." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang smiled slightly: "Don't be afraid, what do you have to answer, you and Xu Qian are close, do you know what kind of business Xu Qian is doing?" ”

Huang Jin suddenly understood, there were rumors in the palace for a long time, this Xu Qian and the three uncles were doing business together, he suddenly woke up, it seems that this business is open today, what is it, but he doesn't know, as a eunuch with a pen, where does he have the kung fu to take care of this idle matter?

The matter should be on the three uncles, think about it, the uncle may not be very important to His Majesty, but the meaning to the queen mother of the two palaces is different, in this society where men are respected, as a woman, no matter how rich and noble, after all, she is still a vassal, which woman does not look forward to her brother having a chance and can shine on the lintel? No matter how high their status in the palace is, they naturally wish that their brothers could be decent outside.

It's just that this is the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has very strict management of foreign relatives, not only can national relatives not be officials, even if it is a reward, there are a few, if there are too many, the court may not know how to make trouble.

Now that you are the queen mother, if you don't step up to take care of your family, what will the family do when you go?

This is almost the most direct question in front of the women in the palace, the dynasty has been one hundred and fifty years, how many relatives have been born in these one hundred and fifty years, but how many are really rich? Most of them can be mixed with a little rich and that they are safe, and with a title, they are just better than ordinary squires, and many of them have encountered hard nails, and they are targeted by which official or bigwig, and they don't look good, maybe they will impeach you, and you don't know how you died.

Whether it is the Empress Dowager Zhang or the Queen Mother's thoughts, most of the time are on this, it is not easy for the brothers to do something, although it is not good to say that it is good to do business, but they do not expect their brothers to have a good reputation, this country has always been similar to the eunuchs, whether you are good or bad, this good reputation has nothing to do with you, they just hope that the first time that their brothers are willing to do it can be done neatly, can give the family some real money, and save their own family a hundred years later, their own people will be poor.

Huang Jin figured out this joint, and couldn't help admiring this Xu Qian, this guy directly tied up the three uncles, although the matter is not done well, he must be asked, but once the matter is done, it will be a great achievement, he turned his mind around, and said stubbornly: "The slaves and maids really don't know what they do, and there have been many things in the palace recently, so I didn't ask." ”

The Queen Mother looked a little displeased: "Then the mourning family asks you, how is Xu Qian, is he reliable?" It's not going to make any jokes, is it? Furthermore, will there be any criticism for the business they do? Since you have a close relationship with Xu Qian, you must be familiar with his personality, you answer honestly. ”

Huang Jin pondered for a moment and said, "The slave doesn't know!" ”

He had to answer like this, Xu Qian was very unreliable, at least in his opinion, if this guy took the three uncles to do something that made the public angry, and he carried a sedan chair for him here, isn't this looking for death?

Hearing his words, the faces of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother Zhang suddenly fell together.