Chapter 19: Seo Geun-suk's Eunuch Diary (1)
Early the next morning...
After Uncle Xu cleaned and rinsed, an old eunuch came to knock on the door and spread the word, saying that Manager Huang was summoned in the study.
He packed up his clothes and followed the old eunuch out of the door, it was late when he came yesterday, and he didn't have time to take a closer look, and then he realized how gorgeous Cining Palace was.
Guidian Lan Palace, Jade Tower Golden Pavilion...
There is a high platform Yongdao and the main hall communicates, the east and west sides of the courtyard are corridors, and the south is connected with the Cining Gate.
On the main hall, there are two pairs of horizontal plaques of 'Bao Gong Juxi' and 'Qinglong Zun', and the couplets on both sides are: 'Landian Chunhui condensed color battle; Settle the court and connect the Pengshan'.
There are mountain stones stacked in the courtyard garden, which plays the role of "opening the door to the mountain"; In the south of the garden there is a rectangular pond that is narrow from east to west, and across the white jade bridge, on which a pavilion is built...
Tut-tut, magnificent......
Xu Boqing was secretly speechless, and he didn't have time to see more before he arrived at the study that the old eunuch said.
The door was wide open, and the old eunuch bowed down and retreated after bringing the person in, and Xu Boqing saw that Manager Huang was practicing calligraphy in the study, but he didn't make a sound, just stood quietly at the door.
Soon, Mr. Huang took a sigh of relief and put down the brush in his hand, glanced at him, and said, "Come in." ”
"Yes."
Xu Boqing answered, and moved from the door to the desk.
Seeing that he was a little restrained, Manager Huang smiled and said: "There are many rules in the palace, and before you are incapable, it is not a bad thing to have this restraint, at least you can live longer." ”
"Thank you, Mr. Huang, for your advice."
"If you are literate, you can save me a lot of trouble."
Manager Huang pointed to the stack of books stacked on the desk, and said: "These are the rules of the Imperial City and the Deep Palace, and there are also some simple place names, official names, and the introduction of Cining Palace, you can take them back and study and recite them carefully."
There are many nobles in the deep palace of the imperial city, and you must learn to see clothes and know how to do it, if you accidentally bump into someone, or call the wrong title...
If you meet a good-tempered person, you may not care, but if you meet a bad-tempered person, maybe your little life will be gone. ”
He sat down at the desk and took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and said, "Do you understand what I mean?" ”
"Understood."
"Okay, let's take it back and study."
Mr. Huang put down the teacup in his hand, and Zhengse added: "Usually stay in the room, don't walk blindly, don't think about being lazy and slack, you need to memorize one of the volumes every day, come to the study in the evening to find me, I want to take the test." ”
"Yes!"
"Let's go..."
"The villain quits."
Xu Boqing walked out of the study with a stack of books, and on the way back to his room, he also met a few old eunuchs, but everyone was not familiar with each other, so they didn't say hello.
Bolt the door.
He placed the stack of books he had brought back on his desk and examined them carefully, and although they did not have many chapters and pages, there were only a few chapters, but there were as many as sixteen volumes.
It takes half a month to memorize one book a day.
There is still a ...... to test Hiss......
Didn't I cross over? Why do you feel like when I was in school in my previous life, I saw 'memorizing the whole text', and the teacher asked me not to finish the text and not be allowed to leave class!?
Xu Boqing secretly had a toothache, but he didn't think much about it...
Then he began to look through the books to find the available information in them, trying to deduce what kind of environment he was in.
Suddenly, his eyes froze, and he found the identity of the owner of this room in the book introducing Cining Palace, not the concubine he thought, nor the princess who had not left the pavilion...
But the queen canonized by Emperor Sheng Yuan!!
And now it is the Yonghe Emperor who is in power, that is, ......
Empress dowager!!
“……”
Xu Boqing's breath stagnated, and a layer of fine cold sweat broke out on his back, and after he reacted, his eyes lit up with excitement again!!
I'm a able-bodied person, in the Imperial Harem!!
When he tried to find more useful information, he found that all that was left was the rules of the deep palace compound, as well as some introductions to some 'nobles' and the architecture of Cining Palace.
Xu Boqing didn't know what he thought, and the excitement in his eyes gradually subsided, but no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.
Find a book and begin to study.
In the evening, he had memorized one of the volumes in his chest, went to the study to find Mr. Huang for examination, and after confirming that it was correct, he returned to his room again.
'Homework' had been done, he lay on the bed idlely, but he couldn't fall asleep again and again, and when he got up, he saw that the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk in his room were ......
Bed... Grind... Pen... Write Kanji!!
'In the sixteenth year of the Yonghe calendar, on the eighteenth day of the seventh month, it was sunny. ’
'My name is Xu Boqing, the word root is Shuo, the number is pure Yangzi, this is my first day in Cining Palace, homesick, write some essays, chat to entertain myself...'
After learning that Cining Palace was the residence of the Empress Dowager during the day, I had some guesses in my heart, but I was not sure, and I couldn't sleep over and over, after all, I was a person with five limbs in the harem of the imperial city, and I was somewhat panicked and nervous. ’
'Mr. Huang saved me, probably because he valued my name of 'Genshuo', and this Cining Palace is the residence of the Queen Mother, which is of far-reaching significance and intriguing......
'Thinking about the lace anecdotes of the martial arts in my previous life, words such as 'three thousand faces' and 'male pets are not counted' naturally come to my mind, and I am a little panicked..."
'The empress dowager of Cining Palace, nominally speaking, is now the mother of Emperor Yonghe, his son Emperor Sheng Yuan died at the age of 43, and now more than ten years have passed..."
'Then how old is this Queen Mother?' Is it the kind of old lady with goosebumps and wrinkled face? ’
'This... This... This... Eagles eat chicks? ’
'To be honest, I'm a little panicked right now...'
After Xu Boqing finished writing, he took a long breath of relief from the depression in his chest, and after his thoughts were cleared, he threw the diary with his little secret back to the bookshelf and went back to bed to rest...
There are some discrepancies between the Chinese characters and the local characters of Daliang, so he writes in Chinese characters with a password lock function, so he doesn't have to worry about being stolen into the secret.
Even if others see it......
It's just a bunch of ghost symbols.
The next day.
Xu Boqing first went to Mr. Huang's to say goodbye, and then returned to his room, continued to study the pamphlets, and waited for the evening, and then went to the study to take the test.
Stay until the evening...
Grind... Pen!
'In the sixteenth year of the Yonghe calendar, on the nineteenth day of the seventh month, it was cloudy. ’
'My name is Xu Genshuo, this is my second day in Cining Palace, I am homesick, and the weather today is the same as my mood. ’
"In the morning, in the name of asking for peace, I ran to Mr. Huang's for an extra trip, he thought I was very polite, but in fact I just wanted to take the opportunity to see what the Queen Mother looked like..."
"Cining Palace is very big, but the only places I can go to are my own room and Mr. Huang's study, so naturally I didn't see what the Queen Mother looked like..."
However, after careful observation, I found that most of the eunuchs in Cining Palace were old eunuchs, and I had only seen a young eunuch with a good appearance and good shape in the past two days, which made me even more uneasy. ’
"Maybe the Queen Mother is really a perverted old lady with goosebumps, wrinkled face, and likes eagles to eat chickens..."
'What should I do?' ’
'I'm so panicked...'