Chapter 2 An Audience with Your Majesty

In the middle of the night, the entire Tianxi City fell into a deep sleep, and even the palace Da Nei, which looked like the mythical Qiong Palace Immortal Que from a distance, was a lot quieter, only the guards patrolling and keeping vigil came and went around the perimeter of the palace.

Most of the palace's candles have been extinguished, only the palace lamps that guide the way are flickering dimly, and tonight the moonlight is like water, shining softly on the palace's glazed tile roof, reflecting a mesmerizing dreamlike brilliance.

One of the palace roofs on the yellow glazed tiles on a layer of dense light particularly attractive to the eye, the roof from east to west has a long ridge called the ridge, the two ends of the ridge each have a glazed kissing beast, swallowing the big ridge steadily and powerfully, the kissing beast is beautiful and chic; There are two oblique vertical ridges before and after the main ridge, and there are ten auspicious beasts on the four corners, vivid and vivid, lifelike,

The palace is built on an 8-meter-high I-shaped abutment made of white marble, the abutment is overlapped on three layers, and the upper edge of each platform is decorated with white marble carved railings, pillars and dragon heads.

The first thing that catches people's eyes in front of the hall is two big red doors, the top of the gate hangs a black gold silk nanmu plaque, surrounded by gold edges, and engraved with two eye-catching gold characters "Zichen".

The Zichen Hall is the place where the emperor handles government affairs, and no one is allowed to enter without permission. I saw that the cloud top sandalwood in the hall was made of beams, and there was a huge bright moon pearl hanging on the top of the treasure in the hall, and the smoke was shining, like the bright moon; There are 36 wooden pillars in the hall, and in the middle is the symbol of imperial power - the dragon throne carved with gold lacquer.

At this time, there was a man about forty years old wearing the robe of the Yellow Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sitting on the throne, I saw that his body was dignified, his appearance was dignified, his eyes shot cold stars, his two curved eyebrows were like paint, his high nose was straight like an axe, and his thin lips were pursed tightly, and he had a momentum that was not angry and mighty, this is the current saint Chu Yuan of Shuiyun Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, the night is coming, you see ......" came in to spread the word is the chief eunuch Zhang Bai, who is also the first master of the Great Interior, he looks ordinary, but the ladies of the palace dare not underestimate him, he is a celebrity around the emperor.

"Biography!" Chu Yuan looked at the manager in front of him who he had personally appointed, and softened the chill in his eyes, Zhang Bai grew up with him since he was a child, and he was also the person he trusted and close to the most, and all kinds of trivial things in life would be taken care of for himself.

You must know that the face is like frost is not Chu Yuan's willing, since ascending to the throne of the Ninety-Five, the parties in the court have competed, the harem has intrigued, and the sons have fought for power and profit, fortunately, the emperor has a wise eye like a torch to choose the prince for him, otherwise he would have been anxious and at a loss now.

After thinking about it, Zhang Bai had already led a young man in a black tights, Chu Yuan raised his eyes and frowned, and then relaxed, only to see that this young man was thin and small, and he had a feeling of weak willow supporting the wind from a distance, with slender fingers and a face like a crown of jade, but Chu Yuan did not underestimate him because of this, when he was young, he rode horses and rivers and lakes, and he had seen a lot of strange things.

"I've seen Your Majesty on the night!" The young man claimed to be dead, and when he saw that His Majesty did not kneel three times and bow nine times, he just bowed his head and bent over his hands, but for this omission of etiquette, Chu Yuan and Zhang Bai did not show displeasure, and Zhang Bai would have reprimanded loudly in his thin voice.

"I heard that you've completed the first two levels, so I'm here today to find out what the last level is about." Chu Yuan looked at the night and recalled the words of the master of the gate to evaluate the night, "It is the luck of Shui Yun to be so versatile in civil and military affairs!"

"Your Majesty, please!" Dead Night straightened his waist and bowed his head slightly, only one step away from the goal.

"Find out all the details of the two parties within seven days, and you will have passed this level." Chu Yuan pondered for a moment and said, he has been constrained by the two parties for more than ten years since he ascended the throne, and he is not completely sure of the secret investigation.

"Yes! Leave the night!" The night of death did not say a word, and the face that was not embarrassed or relaxed looked stable and abnormal.

Chu Yuan waved his hand and picked up the folds on the table and continued to look at it, until the figure of the dead night disappeared into the night, and Zhang Bai stood silently aside from time to time to add tea to Chu Yuan's ink.

After a long time, the candle slid down a string of bright red candle tears, making the candlelight also beat, Chu Yuan marked a vermilion "quasi" on the last fold, put down the cinnabar pen in his hand and moved his sore wrist.

"Zhang Bai, how is the martial arts of the night?" Chu Yuan looked at Zhang Bai, who was holding the candle, and asked, there was a fault in his hand, and he was loyal to the emperor, and he had only seen him on the night he ascended the throne; And the night that is growing up has not yet been determined, but at first glance, the age is the same as the prince, but fortunately, there is still a Zhang Bai by his side.

"On par with me." Zhang Bai did not stick to the courtesy of the monarch and the minister at this moment, and answered Chu Yuan's question directly and steadily.

"Then do you think she'll do something out of her control?" Chu Yuan couldn't be sure after thinking about it, it wasn't that he was suspicious, it was really easy to fight the country.

"The emperor doesn't have to worry, don't forget the identity of the night." Zhang Bai said meaningfully, although the change of appearance of the night has changed, Chu Yuan is also well aware of the true identity of the night.

"That's a lot of worry." Chu Yuan understood Zhang Bai's hint and couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the emperor a little more, stood up and walked towards the dormitory at the back, relieved his worries, and his steps were much lighter.

Zhang Bai stayed to continue to sort out the dragon case, and changed his clothes and went to bed with his own full-time eunuch to serve him, only to see that the last copy of Chu Yuan Zhu Pi was still spread on the case, and the book "The minister Mu Hibiscus is old and frail, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to serve the emperor again, so I implore the minister to resign...... The job, to live at home for a long time, wish to ......", on the left is Chu Yuan's reply.

Zhang Bai quickly put away the fold, sorted out the dragon case, and walked away, leaving only one sentence: "This old horseman!" Faintly scattered in the thick of the night, I don't know who he is scolding.

In the front yard of the mansion not far from the palace, two of the four dark red doors were slightly open, and the candlelight inside flickered and flickered.

"Have you arrived?" An old voice said softly, but there was no one in the room but himself, and no sound came from it.

"Let's do it on the fifteenth of next month." The white-haired old man did not wait for an answer, only the silence that filled the room, and he continued with a long gasp.

The door closed perfectly with a soft "crunch", indicating that the object of the old man's speech had left, and from beginning to end, except for this soft sound, "he" seemed to not exist.