The sky is already red in the east, and the sun slowly rises from the clouds that have not woken up to the ground, shining on the largest complex of buildings in Kyoto. The façade of the palace was significantly redder than the sky, and he watched calmly and terrifyingly at the crowd in the square in front of him. Fan Xian was also one of these people, he looked at the high palace wall, and the doorway under the wall, which was deeply unknown, and felt that this black hole was like the mouth of a monster, and he couldn't control a trace of nervousness.

Fan Xian, like everyone else in this world, still feels awe in the face of the solemn symbol of imperial power in front of him. But reverence does not mean obedience, nor does it mean not resisting, and this is what sets him apart from others. After the guards at the palace gate inspected everyone, they nodded with a little pride, and Fan Xian and his party walked in honestly.

Today is the festival rì, there is a decree in the palace, and the eight products of Xielu Lang enter the palace. The will arrived yesterday, and the Fan Mansion was busy all night before the number of people who entered the palace was formulated, and Fan Jian naturally would not go, and there were few female dependents in the Sinan Bo Mansion, so the distant relatives in several other mansions in the Fan clan in Kyoto all volunteered.

Where had Fan Xian seen such a bustle, Fan Jian coldly stopped everyone's thoughts. In the end, it was decided that those who entered the palace with Fan Xian were Liu and Fan Ruoruo, and two old grandmothers who accompanied them, these two old grandmothers were old men in the age of their grandmother in Shanzhou, and they were clear and ruthless to the rules in the palace. Liu's willingness to follow Fan Xian into the palace this time was a bit unexpected for Fan Xian, because he knew that although Liu's had not been corrected, in fact, he had been in contact with those nobles in the palace when he was a child, and his feelings were not ordinary with others.

The slight and noisy footsteps echoed in the quiet doorway, the doorway was extremely deep, and the rising sun could only shine on half of the place, and the other half was extremely dark, and a cold wind suddenly blew out from the palace wall, making everyone's eyes a little unable to open. The weather in this month suddenly had a bit of a cold taste of late autumn.

Fan Xian touched his belt imperceptibly, and touched the pills that were much smaller than soybeans, and felt a little relieved. Knowing that the inspection of entering the palace was extremely strict, so before leaving the house, he hid his crossbow and dagger in the house, but Uncle Wuzhu's lecture made him extremely impressed, so even in the safest palace in the world according to the theory, he still let himself prepare some more ways to save his life.

"Click, click, click. "Man is a very strange animal, and people are a very strange group, walking under the quiet palace walls, and the footsteps of a group of six people gradually became the same, landing at the same time, lifting at the same time, and with the little eunuch in the lead, as if at the same time playing the ukulele, the same monotonous syllable.

Fan Xian's heart swelled with a sense of discomfort, and he forcibly paused, letting his footsteps stagger from the others, and the pace under the palace wall was suddenly broken. He gently tugged at his sister's sleeve and whispered, "I'm a little nervous. ”

Fan Ruoruo smiled and wanted to give him some encouragement. The little eunuch in front of him didn't turn his head, and glanced at Fan Xian with a frown, as if he was a little dissatisfied. Liu frowned and said softly: "The palace is no more careless than other places. ”

The little eunuch was not pretty, and his face was sad, and when he heard Mrs. Sinanbo say this, he suddenly felt that he also had a brilliance, where is this? This is the palace. Fan Xian smiled bitterly, but he didn't expect Liu Shi to smile and say: "But don't be nervous, I pee in this palace, when Gonggong Hong was the head of the eunuchs, this moment, I didn't expect that all children were serving in the palace." ”

Hearing this, the little eunuch in front didn't dare to take the pie, so he hurriedly walked to the palace, thinking that he was taking a few dirt buns into the palace, but he knew that it was an acquaintance and a relative.

The palace is huge, and after the long city cave, there is a large square made of bluestone, which makes people suddenly feel enlightened. The early morning shines on the roof of the main hall of the Taiji Palace, the glazed tiles of the yellow sè are against the eye-catching sè, there is a large column between the royal highness, and the long stone steps in front of the hall are like a white jade road leading to the Tianhe, which looks very solemn.

Fan Xian squinted at the building in front of him, and a sense of absurdity swelled in his heart, and he really doubted that he had come to the Palace Museum. Perhaps it was this sense of absurdity that diluted the tension in his heart and a sense of estrangement from the strange court, but in the subsequent trip, Fan Xian finally returned to his natural demeanor, a little like when he first entered the Fan Mansion, smiling all over his face, looking around at the palace maids and eunuchs walking under the palace wall with their heads bowed, and occasionally looking up at the eaves that poked out in the distance - but he didn't know which palace it was, and I didn't know who lived in that palace.

His expression all fell in the eyes of his companions, the little eunuch shook his head, but the corners of Liu's lips floated a smile, she thought to herself, this eldest young master, is really a person who is not afraid of heaven and earth.

The main purpose of entering the palace today is very simple: the ladies in the palace want to see what Fan Dacaizi, who is about to marry Chen'er, looks like.

Although the purpose is simple, the process is particularly complicated, so everyone in the Fan Mansion got up early, washed and dressed up, and entered the palace when the palace door opened, and then waited in a corner room, waiting for the summons of which lady in the palace. Those who are summoned can wait, but the ladies in the palace are not happy to wait.

Because he got up too early, Fan Xian sat in the corner room, drinking the good tea in the palace, still a little sleepy, and the jīng god was not good. Liu Shi glanced at him, stood up with a smile, and said to the father-in-law who greeted them in the palace: "Father-in-law Hou, I haven't seen you for a long time. As soon as he said this, he stretched out his finger without any smoke and handed over the silver ticket. Fan Xian looked at it secretly, and the corners of his lips curled and almost laughed, his aunt's methods were really cultivated by her father, and she relied on silver tickets to open the way and beat people.

Who knew that the father-in-law Hou was embarrassed, and said respectfully: "Mrs. Fan, aren't you slapping the old slave in the face? You and several masters in the palace grew up all the way back then, how dare the old slave beg for food here." Hearing this, Liu couldn't help but laugh: "This is a reward for you, not to buy you anything, who are afraid of going to go?"

Father-in-law Hou smiled, the wrinkles on his face were squeezed into a bunch, and he said softly: "Knowing that you entered the palace today, those masters did not let you wait here for too long, don't worry, it's just that it's too early this day, I'm afraid that the palaces are still busy washing, just sit down for a while." ”

Fan Xian's ears moved, and he found that the old eunuch called Mrs. Fan for the Liu family, and it seemed that the palace had a tendency to correct the Liu family. Listening to the palaces still washing and sweeping the courtyard in the morning, he already felt that he got up too early and came too early, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Fortunately, Gonggong Hou was not wrong, Si Nanbo asked the Liu family to accompany him into the palace It was really wise, the early dynasty had not yet begun, the three members of the Fan family had already entered the harem, and the two old grandmothers were entertained outside, anyway, there was good tea and water, and he was also an old man who was used to entering the palace back then, so he would not be bored.

............ The first thing to go to was Yi Gui Concubine, this noble person is the biological mother of the three princes of this dynasty, and the mother is dependent on the son, so she was promoted from a talented person to a noble concubine. Fan Xian saluted in a proper manner, and then listened to a gentle voice: "Get up." ”

This Yigui concubine is pure, but there is only the word plain and pure, and there is no beauty in Fan Xian's imagination at all. To Fan Xian's surprise, Liu's eyes were slightly moist and looked at Yi Guifei, and after the two women were reserved, they didn't care about the etiquette, holding their hands, and looked at each other speechlessly. Fan Xian looked at his sister suspiciously, Ruoruo's face was calm, but he was not surprised at all.

After listening to the words for a while, Fan Xian realized that this Yigui concubine turned out to be the cousin of the Liu family!

Fan Xian's heart was extremely shocked, only then did he know that the Liu family had such a deep foundation, fortunately because of the appeasement policy he implemented after entering Beijing, and the Liu family treated himself gently, otherwise the two sides really had a conflict, and I really didn't know who died!

"You don't come to the palace to see me. Concubine Yi wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and complained: "It's been four years, and you can't bear to leave your sister alone in this palace. ”

A trace of gloom flashed on Liu's face, and he didn't speak for a long time, and then said softly: "Blame me, blame me." ”

She didn't look at Fan Xian, but Fan Xian looked at Liu's slightly thin shoulders, and a strange sè flashed in his eyes, he listened to what Yi Guifei said for four years, and thought of the assassination in Lanzhou very sensitively, according to his father, this assassination Liu was just a scapegoat, and the real mastermind behind the scenes were the two most "noble" women in the palace - Liu's four years of not entering the palace, is it because of this reason.

"In the future, I will often come to the palace to see you. Liu smiled gently and took Concubine Yi's hand, "Didn't you come today?"

Concubine Yi turned into a smile, and said softly: "If it weren't for the fact that the eldest young master of your Fan family wanted to marry the most precious girl in the palace, I wouldn't expect to see you." She turned to Fan Xian's side and asked gently, "You are Fan Xian?"

Fan Xian hurriedly stood up, the warmest smile appeared on his clean and dusty face, and bowed to the ground: "Nephew Fan Xian, meet Aunt Liu." ”

The palace maid and the eunuch were stunned, and the Liu family was also a little stunned, thinking that I am not your own mother. But Fan Xian brazenly climbed the relationship, obviously tired of the Yigui concubine's appetite for the rules in the palace, the noble lady looked at Fan Xian and smiled: "Sure enough, he is a good boy." ”