There are nine palaces and eighteen palaces in the imperial palace, and there are many connections between the palaces, but the palaces are like independent individuals.

There is also a lot of attention to detail in this.

Jiufu refers to the department responsible for all kinds of miscellaneous affairs in the palace, from the emperor's food and clothing to the life and transportation of the servants and maids in the palace, the division of labor is clear and orderly.

The Eighteen Palaces are eighteen palaces of all sizes, including the palace where the emperor lived and the palace where the empress dowager lived.

Magnificent, resplendent gold, if it is a foggy weather at the intersection of autumn and winter every year, no one will doubt that it is a fairy palace in the sky.

Today's Ministry of Internal Affairs is very lively.

As the New Year is approaching, it is necessary to start preparations.

Ordinary people celebrate the New Year, nothing more than to prepare some wine and meat, go to relatives to visit the door, and then a little more comfortable at home, and may also buy some fireworks to bloom in the Chinese New Year's Eve, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

It can be the turn of the palace for the New Year, in addition to the above food, clothing, housing and transportation, the most important time for the alternation of the old and the new, must show the majesty of the Son of Heaven, in addition to the banquet to entertain the civil and military officials, but also need to sacrifice to the sky to show the peace of the world, and wait until all this is done, the ministers travel at night, and wait until the time comes, the fireworks in the imperial city are deafening, illuminating most of the capital.

All this requires countless financial, material and human resources.

Coupled with the upcoming winter hunting of the Son of Heaven, although the things that need to be prepared are not as varied as when the New Year arrives, they are not far behind.

In the hunting conference, hundreds of civil and military officials accompanied him, and there was no reason for the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty to pay out of their own pockets, and it was inevitable to harass the people wherever they went.

Although the Son of Heaven has ordered that the people should not be moved away on the way out of the palace and not disturbed the people on the way out of the palace, it really involves the safety of the Son of Heaven and the important ministers of the court.

The countermeasure is that all the houses on the way to the hunting meeting and all the people will be replaced by Jinyi Guards, so as to ensure the safety of the emperor to the greatest extent.

In the internal affairs office, dozens of eunuchs are busy shuttling between pavilions and pavilions, among which a small eunuch followed by two people in cloth clothes is the most eye-catching.

Two cloth clothes under the cloth like a cart of cattle pull two carts of heavy wine jars, the wine jar from the fine flower carving wine from the Juxiang Garden, even if the wine jar is sealed by the soil, can faintly smell the aroma of wine from the wine jar.

One of the two people pulling the cart was a guy brought by the little eunuch himself, and as for the other person, it was naturally Wang Chuyi, who was pretending to be a little maid.

"But you have to be careful, don't bump it, it's not that you feel sorry for these jars of Huadiao wine, the main thing is that if the things in the palace are damaged, you can't afford to pay for them. ”

"Also, don't look around, thieves, if others see you and think you are a thief sneaking into the palace, I won't be responsible for arresting you and putting you in prison when the time comes. ”

"Alas, what about you, you still see ......"

"Hmm......"

Wang Chuyi, who was looking around, wondering what the old eunuch looked like, immediately came back to his senses.

A look of grievance.

The little eunuch felt that taking people's money would naturally eliminate disasters for others, so he said lightly: "I know that you are worried about your sweetheart, but the palace is so big, if you don't make it clear which palace maid is in which palace and which palace, just looking for it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack." ”

Wang Chuyi said without thinking: "In the Internal Affairs Office." ”

As he spoke, he pretended not to know where the Ministry of Internal Affairs was.

The little eunuch was stunned for a moment, and then he was happy.

The Internal Affairs Office is where he is located, and most of the palace maids here know him.

And because of the relationship between the chief eunuch of the Internal Affairs Office and the one hand covering the sky, the life of the little eunuch here is extremely nourishing, and it is most common to have fun with the palace maids.

The eunuch is incomplete, but it is precisely because he cannot be called a man that many little eunuchs try their best to prove that they are a man, after all, they are often laughed at by those tender palace maids who can pinch out the water.

I don't know if it's because of the loneliness in the palace or something else, after you come and go, the palace maids are very close to the eunuchs, and they don't even hear about fighting together, and they usually laugh when they are seen by the palace officials, after all, what can a palace maid do with a eunuch?

The little eunuch said in his heart that since this kid's sweetheart is in the Internal Affairs Office, most of them have been ruined by the eunuchs.

So he quipped:

"Ministry of Internal Affairs, are you sure you're right?"

Wang Chuyi pretended to be solemn and said: "How can such an important thing be wrong, but the difficulty is that after I heard that the palace maid entered the palace, she couldn't use her original name, such as Tai ......."

Seeing that the little eunuch had a straight face, Wang Chu smiled.

"It's okay, it's okay. ”

"It's quite interesting, I know what to say and what not to say, I originally thought I could help you find it, because this is the Internal Affairs Office, but look at your appearance, I'm afraid you yourself may not know what your sweetheart will call after entering the palace. ”

"Yes, that's embarrassing, I haven't seen her for so long, she must be very unfamiliar with me, maybe she will deliberately hide and not see me when she sees me coming, or, I'll look around?" Wang Chuyi stretched his neck and smiled tentatively.

The little eunuch looked embarrassed.

Because of the relationship between leaving the palace every month, he didn't want to be the lord who was said to be unhappy behind his back, plus Wang Chuyi was a little brother along the way, and he felt quite comfortable listening to it.

The little eunuch made up his mind and advised: "If you want to find it yourself, you can find it yourself, the Internal Affairs Office says that it is not big or small, I am afraid that it will take a lot of time, but you must leave the Internal Affairs Office before dark, otherwise you will be arrested by the forbidden army patrolling the night, and you will not be able to go to many places in the Internal Affairs Office, especially the courtyard of our chief manager, don't say that I didn't remind you, if you annoy the chief administrator and displeasure, the end will be much more miserable than falling into the hands of the forbidden army." ”

Wang Chu nodded again and again.

It wasn't until the two carts of Huadiao wine were transported away and the little eunuch left that Wang Chuyi began to search around.

Because of the talk to the little eunuch on the way, I already knew that the Internal Affairs Office had a special place responsible for cleaning up the palace objects, and nominally the Internal Affairs Office was the chief eunuch who controlled the big and small affairs, but in fact, the big eunuch was too lazy to take care of it, and usually assigned these miscellaneous things, and he was only responsible for living his happy life.

Wang Chuyi easily found a small courtyard house where few people came.

This courtyard is full of debris.

In charge of guarding and counting was a gray-haired, somewhat sloppy old eunuch.

There was a pot of warm wood in the simple room, a simple table, and the window, although not airy on all sides, was not much better, and the cold wind blew in through the cracks in the window, and the books on the table were randomly placed left and right.

Compared to the desertion here, the bustle over there is very different.

The old eunuch was sitting on the ground and squatting in front of the fire roasting fragrant sweet potatoes, for Wang Chuyi's arrival, the old eunuch just raised his head and glanced at him lightly, and said in the eunuch's unique tone: "What did you send today?"

There are a lot of sundries piled up in the yard, because it has only snowed, so that many sundries are covered with a layer of ice and snow, and when Wang Chuyi stepped into the door, he saw that these four courtyards were also piled up with miscellaneous goods, from tables, chairs, benches to plaques and cloths, everything, some even have a seventy or eighty percent new, whether it is workmanship or appearance, they are all superior, these things can be sold at a good price if they are thrown outside the palace casually.

I think that the box sent from the Jinluan Hall must have been sent here.

It's just that Wang Chuyi made a difficulty, so many things, how easy is it to find a box?

Fortunately, at the moment, the old eunuch regarded himself as a subordinate who delivered groceries to the Internal Affairs Office, and he did not suspect it.

Wang Chuyi borrowed the donkey from the slope and said, "Father-in-law, I'm not here to deliver something today, but I'm here from the palace to ask for something." ”

"Oh?"

The old eunuch, who was peeling a piece of sweet potato skin, was a little surprised.

"Father-in-law?"

Wang Chu was shocked.

Could it be that I said it wrong?

But right now, this old man is not growing a single hair on his mouth, and he has a feminine aura, so how can he explain it if he is not a eunuch?

"What's the problem?" asked Wang Chuyi tentatively.

The old eunuch's action of peeling the sweet potato only paused for a moment, and then he said with relief: "It's nothing, I just think it's strange, only to send old things to the Internal Affairs Office, and I haven't heard that anyone has come to ask for things." ”

Wang Chu was ready to say something early in the morning, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the end of the year, plus Your Majesty is going to hold a winter suburban hunting conference, and the resources in the palace are tight, so come over and take a look, hmm...... It's best to use more chests, after all, since it's hunting, you can't catch the prey, and you always need something to hold it. ”

"Yes, I can't even get some boxes out of the palace now!" said the old eunuch in a sharp tone.

Wang Chuyi acted as a reason: "This is not something that the small one can worry about, and the small one is just doing things according to orders, father-in-law, you don't have to embarrass the small one." ”

The old eunuch sneered and said, "What am I doing when I am embarrassed by a little handyman of yours? I am good if you people don't come to embarrass me, isn't it just the boxes, all the boxes are in the next room, you can pick out which ones you think you can use, and when the time comes, just make a note of it with me." ”

There was no need to meet with the chief eunuch to trace the whereabouts of the box, and subconsciously, Wang Chuyi felt that things seemed to be going too smoothly.

There were indeed a lot of boxes piled up in the next room, the latest one seemed to have just been put up, and some of the boxes below had been covered with dust for a long time.

Wang Chuyi locked the boxes that were about the same size as the floor mechanism of the Jinluan Palace, but unfortunately these boxes did not clearly write when they were delivered, so they could only be checked one by one in the most stupid way.

"Isn't it just a box for stuff? Pick and choose, why do you have to look around, you kid seems to be a little wrong. ”

The old eunuch, who spoke softly and even walked quietly, suddenly appeared, which made Wang Chuyi startled.

Wang Chuyi said in a hurry: "The little one got Prime Minister Li Cheng's order to find a black box for him, and the box was sent over less than a month ago. ”

"Prime Minister Li Cheng?"

"Exactly. ”

"I didn't expect you to be able to get the Prime Minister's order as a little handyman. ”

The old eunuch didn't suspect him, I don't know if it was because he was worried about the hot roasted sweet potatoes, and said impatiently to Wang Chuyi: "If you look for things from a month ago, when do you have to find them?" I have an account book over there, if you want to take it easy, go and look at it, maybe there is a record." ”

Wang Chu was overjoyed, and his face was silent.

That's what I'm waiting for.