In the palace in late autumn, it is bleak and deserted, and the leaves are flying.

Compared with the deserted atmosphere in the palace, Zhu Houzhao's leopard room is much more lively. The singing and dancing in the leopard room is leveled, the carved beams are painted, and the brocade curtain is beaded.

Zhu Hou took care of Mei Ji dancing on the dance floor, eating the grapes fed by the beauties around him, smiling all over his face, happy and forgetting his worries.

Qian Ning, who was watching him from the side, had a humble expression on his face, although he looked submissive, there was an imperceptible chill in his eyes.

His long pointed fingernails are a little blood-red, and the color of his pupils is also brown, giving people a strange feeling.

This Qian Ning, as a famous minister in the Ming Dynasty, accompanied Zhu Houzhao all the way, this leopard house that cost the people and money, he personally supervised and began to build, which can be described as a disaster for the country and the people, but also with this shamelessness, he won the trust of the emperor.

Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao suddenly pulled over a dancing girl, the dancing girl fell into his arms, and Zhu Houzhao fed the grapes in his mouth to her mouth.

The dancing girl made an astonishing move, only to see her push Zhu Houzhao away slightly, struggling to get up from his arms.

If the concubines in the harem saw this scene, they would inevitably be so angry that they would smoke.

In order to gain the favor of His Majesty the Emperor, they can be described as painstaking and do everything. But the emperor ignored it, and some unlucky concubines entered the palace for three years, and the emperor never stepped into their bedroom.

The unfavored concubines, although their identities are relatively noble, are as lonely as the maids in the palace, and they are getting older year by year in waiting. It's like Yuan Weizhi's poem: "The white-headed palace maid is here, sitting idle and talking about Xuanzong." "With the helplessness of vicissitudes of life, endless resentment.

And the dancing girl who dared to refuse Emperor Zhu Houzhao turned out to be the wife of a baron, who was traveling with her husband for a friend in Tianxianglou, and was favored by Qian Ning's minions, reported to Qian Ning, and then was arrested in the leopard room.

She also thought about committing suicide, but Qian Ning threatened that if she didn't want her husband and her family to be buried with her, it was best not to do stupid things, and those who knew the times were Junjie.

Hanxiang, who became a dancing queen, had to force a smile, she had been in the leopard room for nearly a month, and she had seen too many ridiculous things, but she never said anything, and carefully served the son of heaven.

Zhu Houzhao had done something to her several times, but she avoided it, and Qian Ning subconsciously wanted to teach her a lesson for such an unexpected move, but Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand to stop her and said, "Let her be." ”

It's too easy to get a woman, His Majesty the Emperor has already experienced too much, just ask the women in the world, which one is not recruited and gone?

And this woman who is not afraid of death made his heart move, and in an instant, this woman became more bright and moving, standing out from the crowd. Because she is a challenge, even if she is a son of heaven, she hopes to get true love.

Zhu Houzhao hopes that she can accept herself from the bottom of her heart, but unlike folk men, he doesn't know how to win the hearts of women, and it has always been those women who have fallen into the fish and geese and taken the initiative to please him.

Hanxiang, who returned to the dance floor, cooperated with the steps of other women, with long sleeves and good dancing, fluttering like a god.

The other women all cast jealous and resentful glances at her intentionally or unintentionally, and they are not yellow flower girls, what kind of chaste martyrs are they pretending to be? You must know that the glory of being able to be blessed by the emperor is no longer the smoke of the ancestral tomb, it is simply the fire of the ancestral tomb.

If you are pregnant with the dragon seed again, then you will really fly on the branch and become a phoenix, if you are lucky enough to give birth to a prince and be canonized as the crown prince, then it is not a mother with a son, and the mother is the world?

Although they resented this woman for being too eye-catching, no one dared to attack her, and Qian Ning's minions could secretly monitor them at any time.

There was once a woman who wanted to cover Hanxiang to death in order to compete for favor, but as soon as she acted, she was taken away by two walking corpse-like eunuchs, and under Qian Ning's arrangement, three women were called to watch the woman's fate.

The three of them saw that the woman was thrown into the cage where the tiger was imprisoned and torn apart alive by the tiger, and the three of them were shocked, and one of them was frightened and died violently on the spot.

One was frightened, delirious, and insane.

The only one left, who endured such a nightmare, was so scared that she couldn't eat for three days, just drank water, and when others asked, she just muttered to herself: "Swallowed alive by the tiger, swallowed alive ......"

When the other women received such an answer, they no longer dared to act rashly. Qian Ning was very satisfied with this, he looked at the bowed eyes of these weak female streamers, and his heart became more and more proud.

Zhu Houzhao was drinking fine wine, and at this time, a dragon guard ghost flashed in and knelt in front of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Putting down the wine glass, Zhu Hou looked at the guard who was shrouded in black robes and couldn't see his face clearly, and asked out loud, "What's the matter?"

The man didn't say a word, and he didn't see how he moved, but there was already an extra letter scroll in his hand, stamped with a fire clay seal.

Zhu Houzhao took it, opened the scroll, and looked at it carefully, the originally smiling face suddenly became cold, and he frowned slightly.

Qian Ning on the side looked at it, his pupils contracted slightly, and it was fleeting.

"I know, you go down. ”

After Emperor Zhu Houzhao said this, the dragon guard with extraordinary martial arts was already seven zhang away, Zhu Houzhao just blinked his eyes, and his figure disappeared completely.

Holding the secret report in his hand, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand to Qian Ning and said, "Today's interest is gone, go back to the palace." ”

Qian Ning followed the emperor's order, arranged for his subordinates to escort him, and watched His Majesty the Emperor sit in the imperial luan, and the suspicion in his heart became more and more thick.

In his capacity, he naturally could not ask the emperor what was written in that secret report, he rode on a horse, beckoned to his cronies, and asked what was going on in the palace?

His cronies had already received the report, but Lord Qian had been by His Majesty's side, and he couldn't report it, so he finally got the opportunity and said in Qian Ning's ear: "In the palace, many corpses were suddenly found. ”

"Oh, what corpse?"

"It was a eunuch who had just been castrated and entered the palace, and after verification, they were all people who practiced martial arts. ”

Hearing what his cronies said, Qian Ning's face changed drastically, and his heartbeat accelerated.

Withdrawing his cronies, he muttered with emotion: "I'm so confused, it's not time yet." ”

As soon as he thought of this, his heart became more and more uneasy, if the matter was revealed, he would definitely be executed, after all, colluding with the vassal king and plotting a rebellion was a great crime for the nine clans.

The scene of Liu Jin being executed by Ling Chi still echoes in his mind, and it seems that this is his end.

However, if he wants to consolidate his position, he must definitely seize a big tree.

And he believed that the lord would never let him down, compared to the current playful emperor, that prince was wise and powerful, and eloquent.