Another night passed, and this night there was some light snow.

Winter is like that. At dawn, the snow in the capital had not yet subsided. The guards who were patrolling the night returned to the Moon Dragon Pavilion to prepare for the change, and the guards on night duty were also changing shifts at this time. At this time, the palace was already preparing for the Spring Festival such as Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, and although it was still more than a month before the Spring Festival, the internal affairs departments of the palace were already preparing.

In the Yuelong Pavilion, several teams of guards are alternating shifts, Li Defei is explaining the matters on duty in the past few days, and said: "The palace has begun to prepare for the Spring Festival at this time, so all parts of the palace must be strictly guarded in the past few days, the original secret posts need to be changed, and the new password I have told Zhao Aiqin, Yu Chi Zonglong, Bai Xiaofeng, the three leaders, the secret whistle is arranged for the guards under the jurisdiction of the three leaders, and the rest of the team leaders are still patrolling the palace and guarding as before. ”

After the team leaders returned to the order, they led the team out of the Moon Dragon Pavilion, and divided several teams into teams with the responsibilities of patrolling the palace, guarding, and setting up dark posts.

Li Defei was a little sleepy, he was a little cold last night, and today he seems to have a cold. At this time, the door of the barracks opened, Guo Yu got up and went downstairs, and in the morning, he went downstairs in good spirits to see Li Defei and said, "Brother Li is in poor health this morning?"

"I think it's because of the cold and the wind chill, so it's not in the way. You have come to be on duty, I will go to the medicine building to get some medicine first, get a good night's sleep, and pray that there is nothing else in the palace today. Li Defei said as he walked upstairs.

Guo Yu said: "Brother Li, although he is resting, I am on duty here." ”

From time to time, there were internal officials and a group of eunuchs who came to spread the word, saying that the emperor had something to do, and Pu Mu entered the Qinzheng Palace to discuss. Guo Yu replied to the order and said, "Father-in-law, please wait a while, Commander Pu is resting in the barracks......"

As he spoke, Pu Mu went downstairs and said, "Father-in-law, lead the way." ”

The eunuchs replied to the order, and the group led the way to take Pu Mu out of the Moon Dragon Pavilion to the Qinzheng Palace. Guo Yu watched everyone leave, thinking if the emperor had any secrets to say to Pu Mu alone, yesterday the rest of the commanders heard that the queen mother edicted Pu Mu, and today it is the emperor's edict, could it be that something happened in the palace?

Guo Yu didn't think about it anymore, and went to the Zhishi Residence, wanting to check the files of the new Jianghu affairs and the corruption case of the Ministry of Rites in the past few days.

It was only said that at this time, the rest of the commanders went downstairs one after another, and Duan Gan said treacherously: "Why don't you see Brother Li, Brother Wang and Brother Long?"

Chen Renhai said: "Brother Wang didn't return yesterday, I think he spent the night in the General's Mansion." Brother Long has always been mysterious, what morning did you see him?"

As he spoke, Long Xiangtian entered the door and said, "When will Brother Chen talk about people behind his back?"

Chen Renhai smiled: "Hahaha...... Then please forgive Brother Long—"

"I went to the Hall of Ten Thousand Flowers this morning and rearranged the guards. I don't know why, the emperor attaches great importance to it. Today, when I went out to collect qi and practice, an internal attendant told me that I would re-assign more people to guard the Wanhua Palace. The concubine in the Wanhua Palace is not here today, I think the emperor has sent an edict. "Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

Guo Yu said: "I see, Brother Long practices the exercises every morning, and if you think that your skills will increase greatly in the near future, you can congratulate you." The Ten Thousand Flowers Hall is a place that the emperor attaches great importance to, and I will spend more time on it. Brother Long, please tell me about the layout of the Ten Thousand Flowers Palace, so that I can record it on this rotation chart when I am on duty today. ”

Long Xiangtian said: "Okay, Brother Guo, please here-" After that, Guo and Long walked to the side of the rotation chart, and marked it on the map during the discussion.

The rest of the commanders began to practice at His Excellency Yuelong at this time. They still need to improve their martial arts, they have already seen that there are still many people's martial arts in the rivers and lakes above them, at least among the three gangs, Fan Yun's internal strength is stronger than them, and the martial arts of the shopkeeper seem to be not below them. If it weren't for the artifact red dragon in his hand, it would not be easy for Wang Yu to take down Fan Yun; if it weren't for the help of the snow dragon, it would be difficult for Long Xiangtian to catch Xiahou Xue in the battle that night, although Xiahou Xue's martial arts were not as good as Long Xiangtian, but those men who protected Xiahou Xue went crazy with swords and weapons, and he couldn't kill them all.

Long Xiangtian didn't continue to practice in the hall just after finishing his practice in the morning, and after explaining the arrangement of the guards of the Wanhua Hall with Guo Yu on the rotation chart, he went straight to the kitchen upstairs to find some food to fill his stomach. But there was no food in the kitchen, and the ingredients in the imperial dining room had not been delivered today, Long Xiangtian looked around and saw that there was no food available, so he left the Moon Dragon Pavilion and didn't know where he went.

After about an hour, everyone stopped practicing. Pu Mu happened to return to the Moon Dragon Pavilion, and Chen Renhai asked when he saw this: "Brother Pu, can the emperor see what is the matter?"

Pu Mu smiled: "It's not a big deal, just let me pay attention to the guards and patrols in the palace in the past few days." The Spring Festival is approaching, the palace is busy with the objects prepared for the Spring Festival, and the carriages and horses in and out of the palace will be more frequent than in the previous two months. ”

After Guo Yu heard this, he said: "I have changed all the secret posts in the palace, and the arrangements of the guards have also been changed. ”

Pu Mu said: "That's fine." I won't practice today, if there is an urgent matter in the palace, I will work for you. With that, he went upstairs to change into his regular clothes and walked out of the Moon Dragon Pavilion.

Duan Gan smiled slyly: "It seems that Brother Pu is going to meet the beautiful woman." ”

The rest of the people looked at each other and smiled, and Chen Renhai thought that the emperor's edict was somewhat similar to the empress dowager's edict yesterday. He already knew King Dingnan's opinion on this matter that day, and he probably informed the emperor and the queen mother of this matter.

The incense outside the City God Temple is not as prosperous as the rest of the temples in the capital, and it is not yet the time of the New Year's Festival, and there are not too many people here. Pu Mu walked for a long time in the capital to get here, there was no one outside the temple, and only a few people in the temple were offering incense.

Pu Mu's vision was naturally not bad, and when he looked into the temple, he saw a woman coming out of the temple, and that woman was naturally Yan Yu.

"Commander Pu ......," Yan Yu said.

Pu Mu just glanced at it and turned his back, and Yan Yu only saw Pu Mu's back after going out. "Miss Yan...... It's early......" Pu Mu said.

Yan Yu said: "I want to come here to offer incense and pray for blessings...... Ask for a good sign for the princess. ”

"Miss Yan came alone?" asked Pu Mu.

Yan Yu said with a smile: "Today, the queen invited the concubines and princesses to go to the royal garden on the outskirts of Beijing to enjoy the snow and chat, saying that the queen invited the royal family and daughters to gather before the cold season. The prince went to the palace to visit the Queen Mother, so I have free time today. ”

Pu Mu said: "I didn't expect the queen to have Yaxing to enjoy the snow, this day is cold, it is inconvenient to travel, and I even invited so many people to enjoy the snow in the garden on the outskirts of Beijing, I want to come there with a different scenery." ”

Yan Yu didn't know how to answer for a while, and she didn't know what Pu Mu meant by this. Pu Mu said: "This place is quiet in the capital, and Pu Mou read the letter written by Miss Yan...... I understand the girl's intentions...... The Queen Mother also informed Yu Pu. ”

"I know this is too hasty for the Commander...... And the woman expresses her heart first, there is indeed an ......abnormality," Yan Yu said softly.

Pu Mu said: "In the pre-Qin period, both men and women could express their hearts, and there is no shortage of such allusions in the Book of Songs. You and I are both sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, and some stereotypes are not all to be followed. ”

The two of them were walking along the temple, and unconsciously came to a pavilion behind the temple, when it was snowing in the sky again. Pu Mu said: "I'll wait to sit in this pavilion for a while, and I can also take a look at this snow." ”

After that, the two went to the pavilion side by side, Pu Mu sat down on the pavilion, and Yan Yu sat not far from him. Yan Yu said: "Commander Pu, I know that I once ...... I used to be a fireworks girl......"

Pu Mu said: "Miss Yan doesn't need to say this, this marriage is all the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker." You and I used to be involved in the rivers and lakes, of course, I know that you and I are not very suitable for these worldly routines. But now, you have become the righteous daughter of Shangshu, and I have become the commander of the Great Interior, and the rivers and lakes seem to be separated from you and me. In the rivers and lakes, there are many affectionate couples, and in this court and the opposition, how many such fairy couples are there?"

Yan Yu understood Pu Mu's thoughts and said, "Commander Pu is unwilling to accept the words of the matchmaker. ”

Pu Mu smiled: "If it wasn't for the girl who took a fancy to me, or if I didn't show up at all, but the girl was already in the palace, then if any son fell in love with the girl, would the girl agree?"

Yan Yu knew what Pu Mu meant, and said, "I know what Pu Mu means...... Commander Pu may still miss the rivers and lakes, but this rivers and lakes are a dye vat, some people love the colors he dyes, but some people only because he is dyed into a tiresome thing. Commander Pu envied the fairy couples in the rivers and lakes, but I really didn't dare to think about the affairs of the rivers and lakes anymore, and when I was recognized by the princess as my sister, I no longer thought about any of the things in the rivers and lakes. Except for you, Commander Pu. ”

Pu Mu said: "Actually, the emperor also told me about this, and the emperor said that I have not yet reached the weak crown, so he said to the prince that I hope to make plans when I am weak in half a year." ”

"I understand the heart of Commander Pu...... Within half a year...... I'll know with Commander Pu......" Yan Yu said.

Pu Mu smiled: "It's a little late, will the princess go back home today?"

"The queen said that she would spend the night in the garden, so she would not return to her house today. Yan Yu said.

Pu Mu got up and said, "Then today I will invite the girl to dinner, and the girl will choose from the restaurant in the capital." ”

Yan Yu smiled: "It's up to the commander to decide this matter—"

The winter days are short, the full moon has passed, and the phases of the moon change again.

In the Moon Dragon Pavilion, the guards were still alternating shifts as usual. Long Xiangtian was on duty tonight, and he was very hungry in the winter nights—he had never eaten much for dinner, but when it was cold, he was hungry quickly. This was true when he was young, but his mother rarely came back in the winter nights, so he learned some kitchen skills early on, and would cook something for himself.

I don't know if it's the letter, but after he reads it, he will have some of these thoughts from time to time. Chen Renhai entered the door and said, "It's so windy and snowy outside, why hasn't Brother Pu returned yet?"

Long Xiangtian said: "I heard that I went to see that woman, I was accompanied by a beautiful woman, how could I return early?"

Chen Renhai smiled: "Brother Long can actually laugh?"

"It's good that Brother Chen is here, you are here first, and I still need to go out. "Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

Chen Renhai said: "If Brother Long wants to go outside the palace to buy some supper, Chen still advises Brother Long to be more restrained——"

"Brother Chen, what do you mean by this?" Long Xiang said.

Chen Renhai got up and went to the door and said, "Brother Long, do you know that a eunuch has told the emperor that you often go outside the palace at night to buy supper, which is against the general situation in the palace. ”

"Can the Imperial Dining Room make a supper with me? How do the people there treat me every time I ask for ingredients from the Imperial Dining Room? Akari agreed happily, but when didn't I wait for a few times to deliver the food, if there was no imperial gift from the emperor, how would they have diligently delivered food for us? This imperial dining room, after all, is cooking for the masters of the harem, and I will wait...... Since others have no intention of doing this, it is better to find something to eat yourself-" Long Xiang Tiandao, after saying that, he walked straight out of the Moon Dragon Pavilion.

Chen Renhai watched Long Xiangtian walk away and sighed. He saw that the people around him were full of everything in this palace—when there was nothing to do, they all lived like this, arranging guards to patrol the palace, guarding them, practicing by themselves, and checking the dossiers and classics......

At this time, Pu Mu returned to the Moon Dragon Pavilion and said, "The wind and snow outside are so big, why is Brother Long still going outside the palace?"

Chen Renhai said: "I think I went to buy some food outside the palace for supper." Is Brother Pu going to meet the beauty today?"

Pu Mu shook his head with a smile and said, "Brother Chen is also looking for me to be happy?" I naturally know what Miss Yan means, but I don't have feelings for her yet, how can I talk about marriage? ”

Chen Renhai said: "Brother Pu, this marriage, I want to have a home for the relationship between the two parties, and secondly, to inherit the family lineage." ”

"After Brother Chen is a famous family, I am a scattered person. But I never thought about it......" Pu Mu said with a smile.

"No matter what kind of people you and I were before, we are now the leaders of Ouchi. I understand the principles that Brother Pu abides by, and you came back so late today, you want to come and talk to Miss Yan about a lot of things, right?" Chen Renhai said.

Pu Mu said: "I explained my heart to Miss Yan, it is difficult for me to make decisions about marriage, but I still need some love to marry her...... Miss Yan is indeed born with good looks, and has abandoned the dark and turned to the light, but I don't mind those who used to speak, and she was also a person in the rivers and lakes, if she really married, she would be easier to get along with than those ladies. ”

Chen Renhai smiled and said, "Brother Pu doesn't have to be on duty today, go back to the barracks to rest first, and it's good to have me tonight." ”

After hearing this, Pu Mu thanked Chen Renhai and went upstairs, Chen Renhai looked around for a while, and then returned to the bookcase under the rotation chart and sat down.

Today, the wind and snow stopped on the second watch, Long Xiangtian has not returned, Chen Renhai is writing a letter to his family on the bookcase, and suddenly he heard the door open, and it turned out that a group of eunuchs came here in a hurry. I saw that the inner attendant was running panting, and his robe was still stained with some snow and a little dirty, thinking that he had fallen on the way here.

"What's the urgency of my father-in-law, it's not too late to catch your breath—" Chen Renhai got up and greeted him.

The chamberlain said, "Concubine Rong...... Empress...... Miscarriage - the emperor issued an order, all the commanders are to transfer their guards to guard the entrance of the Ten Thousand Flowers Palace, and no one is allowed to enter, and the eight commanders need to come - the emperor has arrived at the Ten Thousand Flowers Hall and is waiting for you-"

Chen Renhai replied to the order and said, "Father-in-law, please rest for a while, and wait for me to order them to come." After a few gongs, the guards in the barracks had already assembled, and the commanders in the middle section of Gan Weifeng, Pu Mu, Bai Yang, Li Defei, and Guo Yu were all wearing official uniforms, taking weapons and gathering in the hall.

"What about the other two commanders?" asked the chamberlain.

"The king went to the general's palace and has not returned. Guo Yu said.

"The dragon commander went to buy supper outside the palace. Chen Renhai said.

The chamberlain stomped his feet, sighed, and said, "As the commander of the Great Interior, how can you leave the palace at will......?" The emperor is still waiting for you, and the old slave can't be consumed here, everyone go first-" Then, the attendant said to the two little eunuchs accompanying him: "After the dragon commander returns, let him go to the Ten Thousand Flowers Hall quickly-"

"Can you send orders to the king?" asked the chamberlain hurriedly, though it was winter, but the beads of sweat on his forehead were already soaking the brim of his hat.

Pu Mu said: "Brother Duan, send the carrier pigeon to General Huben's Mansion-"

Duan Gan immediately went to the medicine building to get the carrier pigeon, quickly wrote a note, collected the letter paper into a roll and put it on the carrier pigeon, and then released the carrier pigeon in the general's mansion.

"In this case, the commanders, please come with the old slave quickly—" The inner officer's words were a little unclear due to the urgency of the words at this time.

On the way, Pu Mu was a little puzzled, why the queen had invited all the palace concubines to go to the garden to enjoy the snow, and the emperor was still in the palace? Could it be that the emperor smelled that Concubine Rong had a small birth and quickly returned to the palace?

The moon had set in the west again, and a sleepless night was coming to an end. When the palace heard that there were concubines and concubines, it was natural that there would be a lot of concubines here, and the queen and other concubines naturally returned to the palace from the outskirts of Beijing, but everyone was blocked out of the palace by eight people. All the people in the Tai Hospital need to enter with the officials of the Elixir Division, and they all need to be searched—speaking of the concubines in the palace, there are not a few concubines, but such a formation has never been seen.

This night was not easy for anyone. It was almost dawn, and the four commanders were rushing to the Moon Dragon Pavilion, and the four were Long Xiangtian, Pu Mu, Chen Renhai, and Wang Yu - the emperor saw that Long Xiangtian and Wang Yu, who were belated, had an almost iron-blue face, and he was angry enough to let the two of them wait. It wasn't until the imperial physician prescribed medicine for Concubine Rong that the emperor called the eight commanders to the side hall of the Wanhua Palace, and angrily reprimanded the guards arranged by the eight commanders for dereliction of duty and did not spread the news as soon as possible. After that, the emperor asked the eight commanders to punish their own guards, and punished Long Xiangtian and Wang Yu to let them each take turns to come to the Wanhua Hall to guard for a month, and fined the two for another three months.

After the emperor, he left four commanders and asked Long Xiangtian and others to go to the imperial dining room to investigate the matter thoroughly. It was only said that the four of them arrived in the Moon Dragon Pavilion, and Chen Renhai said: "Brother Long, now that you have suffered a great disaster, I am afraid that you will not be able to buy supper for the next month." ”

Long Xiangtian said: "What a hell, I pack it in the store and go back to the palace to eat it on weekdays, but today I heard Brother Chen say that someone in the palace said to the emperor that I went to buy supper outside the palace, so I thought about going back after eating, who would have thought that I would encounter such a thing." Brother Wang, in the future, you and I may be 'in the same boat through thick and thin'. ”

"Hey...... My stepfather didn't plan for me to marry...... I want to see Liu Shilang of the Ministry of War. My father-in-law was drunk at the wine table, so he was sent back to his room to rest, and as soon as the pigeon arrived, I knew that there was another urgent matter tonight. Isn't it the rotation of the Ten Thousand Flowers Hall for January, I will do it. After that, Wang Yu went to Zhi Shiju to take a full-time record book and handed out a copy by hand.

The group walked out of the Moon Dragon Pavilion and went straight to the imperial dining room.

The four commanders outside the Ten Thousand Flowers Hall were tightly guarded, and the four commanders in the imperial dining room were also doing their best to thoroughly check any meals and snacks delivered that day.

When they are busy, they are more like commanders than when they are free, and in their leisure time, in addition to those step-by-step things on weekdays, what they do is more like the Jianghu sect - they talk about literature and martial arts all day long, practice and compete, which is incompatible with them now.

The group returned to the Yuelong Pavilion from the imperial dining room, and Long Xiangtian said: "These meals are all fetal ingredients, how can they cause miscarriage? And the recipes of Concubine Rong in the past few days have been personally used by the emperor, I have checked it again, and I really found nothing." ”

Chen Renhai said: "These meals are eaten when the fetus is raised, and it really cannot cause miscarriage. Isn't it contradictory that the doctor said that it was diet that caused miscarriage after diagnosis and treatment?"

"The hospital has not seen a recipe, only that it is caused by taking meals. I think the recipe should be sent to the hospital to see what the doctors say. Wang Yu said.

Chen Renhai sent the guards to send the recipe to the Tai Hospital first, and said, "Although the recipe is like this, the food may not be like this. ”

"But when the people in the imperial dining room heard the news, they all panicked as if they had lost their souls, how can we find out who did it?

Pu Mu seemed to have thought of something, and immediately ran to the outside of the Moon Dragon Pavilion, and said, "I'll go outside the palace to check first, and you wait to interrogate the people in the imperial dining room——"