Li Siye said with a smile on his face as usual: "I don't care, the key is that Mei'er is satisfied." He said this, but he still sneered, and hesitantly invited them into the courtyard.

If your appearance is too ugly, it will affect the mood of the owner, although these two people bid cheaply, but Li Siye is not short of this money now.

He himself was embarrassed to refute the face of the, so he had to let Mei'er open this mouth, and the child's words were unscrupulous.

The two women came to Li Siye and Li Mei'er, bowed and saluted: "Ah Lang, little lady."

Li Siye was looking forward to it, pointed to the two old women and asked Mei'er: "Brother has hired two people to take care of your diet and daily life, Mei'er, take a look, are you still satisfied with them?"

Li Mei'er just lowered her head to study the slingshot made by her brother, raised her head and shook it, continued to lower her head and ponder, and said, "Yes, it's okay."

"You don't even look at it, you take a closer look."

Li Mei'er raised her head again, looked at it for three seconds, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Li Siye was a little disappointed, waved his hand and said, "Since Mei'er is very satisfied with you, then you can stay." ”

A smile appeared on the face of the, she seemed even more nervous than Li Siye just now, for fear that he would not want these two maids.

"You haven't thanked Li Langjun yet."

"Thank you, Li Lang." The posture of the two of them squatting is quite standard, as if they have been trained in a large family, but unfortunately they are old and decrepit, which is a hard injury.

Xu Niangzi couldn't stay in Li's house for long, so she had a brief conversation with Li Siye, and then reluctantly returned to her home.

Li Siye took Mei'er's slingshot and continued to make it, Mei'er raised her head again and looked at the two maidservants standing on the ground and said, "They are really old and ugly." ”

He seriously criticized Li Mei'er: "Mei'er, don't be open-mouthed. ”

He glared at Li Mei'er and gave Li Mei'er a look, which means that although you are telling the truth, why didn't you say it just now, and now you suddenly say this, should I drive them away, if you lose your temper, I can drive them away.

The two old maids looked at Li Mei'er aggrievedly, and there were a few crystals in their eyes, which made Li Siye feel sorry for him.

Li Mei'er continued: "I don't mean that, I mean, I think they are like our grandma and aunt in the village of Gaoling, very good and kind." “

The old maid thanked her again and again, and said that she was grateful to Ah Lang for taking her in, the family was poor, and if they could have an income, the life of the family would be somewhat better.

The two older women began to look at Li Siye's mansion, and said in their mouths: "The house is quite big, but there is no one to clean it up, you can see what it has become dilapidated." Ah Lang, don't worry, we'll clean it up now. ”

The two maidservants quickly got into the role, carrying buckets of water and cleaning doors and windows. When Li Siye moved in, he barely cleaned up the main hall, firstly, the place was too big, and secondly, he was lazy by nature, and he could completely entertain guests in the east wing, so many houses in the entire courtyard were dusty and uncleaned.

As soon as Li Siye lifted the bucket, the two maids hurriedly dissuaded: "Ah Lang, stop quickly, this is not your noble job, I heard that you will go to the prince as a guard immediately, this is a great official." ”

He fetched a bucket of water and put it on the edge of the well, and said to the two maidservants, "Except for tidying up the room, you are serving me full-time, and you don't have to worry about me." ”

It didn't take long for the whole house to be cleaned inside and out by the maids, and it no longer looked like a broken house, and finally had the appearance of living at home.

Li Siye looked at the busy figures of the two old maids, and couldn't help but sigh: "If you lose, you must gain." ”

Just in case, he still went into the east wing room and put the money in the jug on the beam, leaving only a few hundred dollars for Mei'er to buy daily necessities at home.

The people from the East Palace still came to pick him up, and early the next morning, the bell for lifting the curfew had just struck three hundred times, and Li Siye had just finished practicing his fists and kicks on the mulberry wood in the courtyard, and there was a slight knock on the door outside.

He went out to open the door, but saw a palace man in a dark yellow robe standing outside the door, with eye feces still in the corners of his eyes, and asked sleepily: "You are Li Siye, Zhan Shifu asked me to call you to the East Palace to guard." ”

Li Siye hurriedly waved his hand and invited the eunuch to sit in the house.

Unexpectedly, this eunuch didn't appreciate it, poked his hands outside and said, "You hurry up and prepare, we'll wait for you here." ”

Li Siye had nothing to prepare, but he still went back and told his sister a few words, the two maids in the west wing were snoring like thunder, and he didn't want to alarm them, so he turned around and went out, and followed the eunuch out on the road.

The eunuch was silent and did not say anything along the way. Li Siye is as curious as every job seeker who is about to take on a new position, and he can only see with his own eyes what it is like to serve as a guard for the prince.

Before entering the imperial city, the eunuch gave him a waist card, and said with a smile: "It will be more convenient to wear this thing in and out of the imperial city in the future." ”

Entering the imperial city from the Vermilion Bird Gate, the palace on both sides of the straight road are the political institutions of the Tang Dynasty, and then go further is the Chengtian Gate of the Taiji Palace, they do not enter from the Chengtian Gate, but go east, and come to the Jiafu Gate on the front, which is the entire prince's team.

The guard of the door is the prince of the ten rates of the prince left and right prison rate, the eunuch shows the waist card, the guards guarding the door let two people in, there are three doors on this road, Jiafu Gate, Chongming Gate, Jiade Gate, and then the prince's office location, Jiade Palace, but at this moment the prince is not in the palace, has gone to the early court.

Staying in the Jiade Hall was Zhan Shi of the Prince Zhan Shifu, who was sitting in the side hall copying something, and looked up to see the eunuch leading Li Siye in, and said, "Take him directly to the Younei Mansion." ”

From the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the layout of the palace was all symmetrical design of the central axis, and if there was a building on the left side of the straight road of the central axis, there must be the same building on the right, just like a pair of wings possessed by a butterfly.

The prince's right inner mansion is on the right side of the Jiade Palace, very close to Fenghua Gate, and adjacent to him is the prince's right spring fang.

The eunuch led him to the door of the Nei Shuo Mansion, and then flicked his sleeves to leave, but Li Siye hurriedly grabbed him: "Alas, don't leave yet, you have to take me in." ”

The eunuch glanced at him again: "What am I taking you in for, are you an unweaned child?" Come in, your boss is waiting for you inside. ”

The eunuch left in a hurry, as if to play some important game.

Li Siye stood outside the hall and glanced left and right, and sighed that the prince's east palace was really big, with vertical and horizontal palace walls and many palaces. And the team around the prince is also huge. Before entering the East Palace, Li Siye specially found someone to visit, the prince not only has the prince, the prince, the Taifu, the Taibao, but also four guests, around the prince's service institutions have Zhan Shifu, the left and right Chunfang, Chongwen Pavilion, the Department of Economic Affairs, the Food Bureau, the Medicine Bureau, what the prince's family Ling Temple, the inner square, etc., there are more than 10 large and small institutions.

This does not include the Prince's armed guards - the Prince's Ten Rates Mansion, the Prince's Left and Right Guard Rate, the Left and Right Siyu Mansions, the Left and Right Clearing Rates, the Left and Right Prison Gate Rates, and the Left and Right Internal Rates. Among these ten rates, only four led the troops, that is, the prince's left and right gate supervisor rate and the prince's inner rate. The rest of them each led the soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion outside the capital.

The government military system has collapsed, and there are no soldiers in the whole country, and now stationed in the Beijing division is the army recruited by Zhang Shuo and the emperor himself from the government soldiers and the people, forming the left and right imperial forest guards and the left and right dragon martial forces. Therefore, the rest of the prince's guard rate is just in name.

But the team behind the prince was also quite terrifying, together with officials at all levels, palace dependents, palace maids, and a total of more than three or four thousand people in the guard and the prison gate.