"Oh? Is there such a thing? Ji Xie's tone was obviously full of concern: "Don't they go to the Shangshan Room to get food?" ”

"Never. Maybe I have concerns. ”

Ji Xie's heart suddenly understood, sighed lightly, waved his hand and said, "You go down first." ”

"No!"

Seeing that she had gone away, Ji Xie instructed the chamberlain Jia: "You go find ten egg-laying hens and give them to Mama." Tell her that if you need anything in the future, you can come directly to you. ”

The chamberlain Jia Yingsheng was about to leave, but Ji Xie stopped him again: "Don't say it's my will, understand?" ”

"Minions understand." The corner of Jia's lips twitched, and he happily agreed.

The night is as dark as ink, the crescent moon is like a hook, and the lonely palace is quiet. The sound of silk bamboo bells and drums has been no longer heard in the middle hall for many days, but the whole hall is still lit with candles, shining on the slightly lonely face of Zhou Yi Wang Ji Xie's lamp. His cold brows were raised high, his eye sockets were deeply immersed in the shadow of the candle flame, and his eyes were gloomy, but with a faint understanding, as if he was helpless.

One lord after another drank alone, and the chamberlain Jia finally couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded: "King, be careful of your own body." If the king is bored, but he wants to summon a few beauties to sing and dance? ”

"Beauty?" The corners of Ji Xie's lips were slightly sarcastic: "It's all brainless skins, and I don't want to see any of them." ”

"Then ------ night is late, which lady is the king going to summon to bed?" The chamberlain Jia asked cautiously.

"What you want is close at hand, like the end of the world, and what you don't want is turning under your nose." Ji Xie smiled bitterly.

The chamberlain Jia rolled his eyes, and immediately understood the voice of King Zhou's words, but he couldn't make the words clear, so he turned around and persuaded: "This is the queen's harem, from the queen to the washerwoman, all of them are the king's women." Whoever the king wants, just summon her, why is it difficult? ”

Ji Xie squinted his eyes and looked up at the roof of the carved railing, as if thinking about something. At the end, he slapped his palm on the desk and stood up suddenly: "Go, I want to go out to breathe!" ”

The night wind in winter and November was as cold as a knife, and Ji Xie walked east along the stone road, passing through a small forest, which was the row house where the maids in the middle palace stayed before. The chamberlain Jia held the palace lamp in front of him to illuminate the road, and he knew the direction of progress, so he did not hesitate to cause the way.

"King, over there is the small courtyard of the Middle Palace Order." The inner attendant Jia stopped and pointed to a small courtyard at the far outside.

The courtyard is only surrounded by walls on both sides, and the gate is surrounded by wooden fences, so you can see the inside of the courtyard at a glance. The two tiled houses were dark, and the lights were obviously out. But there was an open fire burning in the courtyard, and the firelight illuminated two familiar faces, one belonged to the middle palace Lingqi Yangxi, and the other was ------

Ji Xie tightened the bark of an old tree beside him with one hand, it was the queen Fanji! Her waterfall-like black hair was loosely tied with a cloth headband at the back of her head, and a coarse cloth square was wrapped around her forehead, and she looked like an ordinary mulberry picker in the suburbs. The beautiful face is still white and moist, and the whole person looks like a narcissus blooming in the winter room, with a noble temperament and no dust.

They seemed to be fighting the flames. The sheep lay on the brazier and kept blowing the flame with his mouth, and when his mouth stopped, he persuaded him: "Niangniang, go into the house, I will come!" ”

Fan Ji kept fanning the fire with the fan in his hand: "No! The charcoal hadn't burned through at all, it was almost like a twig. If we don't burn it out inside, it's so cold this night, how can we sleep? ”

"That slut with a black heart, even if the mother is imprisoned, the king has never been abolished! It's just that he doesn't deserve to give silver silk charcoal, and he actually sends the inferior charcoal to Niangniang, you know, such a poor charcoal is not even used by the inferior palace people. It's really black-hearted! Rotten belly! The goat chattered angrily.

Fan Ji didn't care, and persuaded softly: "Okay, nurse!" Who in the world does not worship the high and step on the low? Let them go! ”

Ji Xie couldn't stand it anymore, he turned around vigorously, and the speed was so fast that the inner servant Jia didn't have time to react. He trotted for a while before he chased after him, and before he could catch his breath, he heard King Zhou Yi say: "You go back to the palace quickly, take a few catties of silver silk charcoal and send them to the queen." ”

"Huh? Silver Charcoal? The chamberlain Jia didn't seem to react.

"Yes, Silver Charcoal. You can't let her sleep at night! Ji Xie shouted.

Yi Ji happily dressed up and came to the nave, but he didn't see the attendants who came to greet him, but he only heard a broken shout: "Kneel!" ”

She was so frightened that her whole body trembled, but when she looked up, she saw King Zhou Yi sitting behind the desk angrily, his eyes like torches, staring at her. Yiji hurriedly knelt down obediently, and said in a trembling voice: "The king, I don't know what the concubine is rude, please advise the king, and the concubine can correct it." ”

Ji Xie glanced at her in disgust, and really didn't want to talk to her more: "Do you still need a reason to punish you?" What kind of thing are you, and you dare to ask Gu for a reason? Now is the time of the child, so you can kneel here until sunrise tomorrow morning, and then you can leave. ”

"No!" Although Yiji was unconvinced, he could only grit his teeth and agree.

Ji Xie slowly stood up, helped the chamberlain Jia to walk inside, and the voice gradually came: "Lone entrusted you with the affairs of the middle palace, I thought that you would serve Lone for a long time, and you should be more suitable than others, but I didn't expect you to be so unbearable?" From tomorrow, Eyao will be in charge of the affairs of the Middle Palace, you should reflect and reflect! ”

Yiji was ashamed and angry, trembling and kneeling and not daring to get up. The doors and windows of the nave were wide open, the cold wind was biting, and the two little chamberlains who were watching the hour on the side kept looking at her curiously, although they didn't dare to discuss, but the inquiring eyes also made Yi Ji ashamed and angry. She didn't dare to complain about King Zhou Yi, she only hated her own miserable life, she had been living under people since she was born, when would this day end?

As the saying goes, "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles", and the news of Yiji's punishment spread throughout the palace as soon as dawn.

"Why did the king suddenly punish him? Still so fond of Eyao? In the Qiu Yu Palace, as soon as Ji Jiang heard the news, he impatiently sent a capable Ji Diao to inquire about the reason.

But the mouths of the people around King Zhou Yi were tight, and Zhu Diao only found some news from a few beauties who had been friends with him for a long time, such as Yiji and Hu Ji. I only know that it seems that because Yi Ji has failed to manage the affairs of the middle palace, it may cause some gossip and complaints, so it has caused the dissatisfaction of King Zhou. But what is it? No one can say what is accurate.

Ji Jiang frowned and thought for a while, then asked again and again: "What are you busy with in the middle palace recently?" ”

"Nothing special. It's nothing more than that winter is coming, and all the ladies and beauties have to buy winter clothes and shoes, which is nothing special, there are regulations, and they will be sent down. Oh, by the way------" Zhu Diao added: "There is also silver silk charcoal for winter, each beauty only gets one pound a month, and many people complain that the amount is insufficient, or that it is not enough, and they complain from time to time." Could it be ------? He hesitated.

"By the way, there must be no doubt about it!" Ji Jiang put down the tea bowl in his hand heavily, and said thoughtfully: "If you don't suffer from widowhood, you will suffer from unevenness." It seems that this silver silk charcoal has caused a lot of turmoil over there! Isn't it possible to make some articles? ”

"What do you mean?" Ji Diao asked inquiringly.

"Isn't there only black charcoal in the queen's place? You go and talk to Yiji, so ------ so" Ji Jiang said something to Ji Diao, who nodded frequently and praised: "That's right, so she can't speak clearly, go to the old dog first." ”

Although the Zhou royal family has a vast control area in the east, it is not easy to go from the Central Plains to Fenghao and Liangjing, where the royal family is located. The traffic between the two is very inconvenient, and it usually takes at least a month and a half to walk when the weather is fine, let alone rain or snow.

Therefore, there must be another sub-administrative center on the eastern plain to realize Zhou Tianzi's control over the eastern region, which is Luoyi. There is the palace of the king of Zhou in this city, and each of them is deployed for the eastern princes to and from the resting post house in the Wangji area. Of course, almost all the fields around here were sealed by the princes.

Outside the city of Luoyi, the eight camps of the Eighth Division of Chengzhou are connected one after another, stretching for several miles, and the sound of drills is continuous, which is very spectacular.

Outside the gate of a large camp in the far east, a group of people were kneeling there to greet the arrival of the king's envoy to summon the tiger. They were all naked, with their hair draped and stomping on their feet, and they looked like they were guilty of pleading. When the head person was in his thirties, a blue gem was inlaid in the middle of the forehead on his head, the sword in his hand hung high above his head, and his jade face was sparse, and his appearance was good. He is Ji Yu, the son of the Wei Dynasty, the military commander of the Eighth Division of Cheng Zhou who defeated Qi Realm.

After starting from Shangqiu, the capital of Song, it took nearly ten days to come to the land of Luoyi Pingchuan, and as soon as the curtain was lifted, it was this battle, and Zhao Bohu was also shocked in his heart.

Wei Shiziyu shouted loudly: "The ministers and guards are insulting the king's order and the army is defeated by the Qi division, please ask the king to punish the crime and set an example." ”

Summoned Bohu to get out of the car, and inadvertently swept his eyes over Kui Duoyou behind the car. He was a little curious, what kind of feelings did Tayou have for his biological father (or at least he thought so)? Strangely, there was less concern in Tayou's gaze, more disdain, and there seemed to be a hint of sympathy.

He shook his head, hurriedly helped Wei Yu, and comforted: "This time, the Song Kingdom suddenly rebelled, not only did not help Wang Shi fight, but cut off the grain route, so that the whole army was defeated, which is really not the fault of the prince. The king has understood the reason for this, and will not condemn His Highness. ”

Wei Yu's face was already full of tears, and he choked up: "The king can be so magnanimous, it really makes Yu embarrassed!" He suddenly saw Kui Duoyou standing behind Zhao Bohu, and he was also stunned, and immediately wiped his tears, and diligently welcomed the royal envoy and his party into the big tent.