Although the emperor was in Nanyuan, he would send people back to the palace every day to pay his respects to the empress dowager and the empress dowager.
It was Zhao Youzhong who took charge of the errand that day.
Fang invited An and left the Cining Palace.
He met Duan Concubine who came to greet the Empress Dowager.
Duan Concubine walked forward without squinting.
Instead, she supported Duan Concubine's confidant, Qi Xia, and winked at Zhao Youzhong.
Zhao Youzhong took the idea seriously, so he did not rush back to Nanyuan and went straight to Xianfu Palace.
He walked into the ear room and chatted with the eunuchs around the brazier for a long time before Duanbi returned to the palace.
Zhao Youzhong hurriedly went up to greet her and followed Duan Concubine into the Nuan Pavilion.
Duan Concubine sat down on the kang and said again: "Please take a seat with Zhao Shuda."
Zhao Youzhong said "I dare not" repeatedly.
Qixia had already brought up the small spoon.
Zhao Youzhong thanked her and just sat down on the small spoon.
Duan Concubine took the tea in her hand, held the bowl lid to hold the tea leaves, and asked slowly: "How are you, Long Live Lord?"
Zhao Youzhong quickly stood up and said: "Honor, Holy Gong."
Duan Concubine breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good."
Zhao Youzhong didn't wait for her to ask, and said softly: "I can't do anything about what Master Duan asked me to inquire about.
The people around Long Live Lord are all keeping their mouths shut.
It’s like there’s a seal on my mouth, I’m afraid that Long Live Lord will notice it again.
It’s said that even Li Dequan and Li Shuda fell into disgrace last time, and others are not sure how to stop it.”
Duan concubine said: "It's hard for you."
She winked at Qixia, and Qixia went to get a banknote.
Zhao Youzhong looked sideways and said, "I haven't completed the errand for Master Duan.
How can I accept the reward from Master?"
Duan Bin smiled and said, "You don't know me yet.
As long as you have a heart, you can do it for me."
It's done."
Zhao Youzhong had no choice but to take the banknote and tuck it into his sleeve, saying, "Don't worry, Master.
I'll think of something later."
It was getting late when he returned to Nanyuan.
He went to hand over his errands first, then went back to his room, opened the cabinet at the end of the kang, took out a small jar of shochu he had secretly hidden, wrapped it randomly with a piece of furoshiki, and put it under his arm.
Then he went to find Wang Zhifu, the eunuch at the internal affairs office.
In the bitter cold of winter, Wang Zhifu was roasting peanuts in a charcoal pot alone in the house.
When he saw him, he was particularly affectionate: "Brother, you have brought something good for me this time."
Zhao Youzhong smiled slightly and turned around to tie it up.
After entering the door, Fang took out the baggage from under his arm.
When Wang Zhifu saw him opening the bag, he couldn't help but get greedy when he saw the wine.
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and hurriedly fetched two stoneware bowls.
While pouring the wine, he shouted: "It smells so good." " Zhao Youzhong said with a smile: "Keep your voice down, don't let others hear.
This wine is not easy to come by.
If people know about it, I'm afraid we both have to go to the Shenxing Department."
Wang Zhifu smiled and put the charcoal basin The roasted peanuts were pulled out, and the two of them broke off the peanuts and drank wine.
Although they did not dare to raise their voices, they drank to relieve their slander.
The jar was mostly empty, the two of them were already blushing and talking a lot.
Wang Zhifu said with a loud tongue: "No merit will be rewarded.
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Whatever happens to me, if you think highly of your brother, just say it.
The favor I receive from you is not just a day or two."
Zhao Youzhong said: " You are a cheerful person, and I won’t beat around the bush.
Brother, you work in the Imperial Palace and see the Emperor every day.
I want to ask you to ask about something that I’m curious about.”
Wang Zhifu was getting drunk and said: "I just send the coupons in every day, and come out after handing them in.
Long Live Master doesn't even look at me.
I can see the emperor, but I can't talk to the emperor."
Zhao Youzhong laughed and said: "I don't ask you to go back to the Long Live Lord."
He whispered in Wang Zhifu's ear and gave some instructions in secret.
Wang Zhifu said with a smile: "It also depends on chance.
People in front of the emperor are very tight-lipped now, so it is not that easy.
But since I have spoken, brother, I will go to the mountains of swords and seas of fire, but I have to do my job for you."
Zhao Youzhong smiled and said, "Then I'll thank you here first."
The two of them finished the jar of wine before leaving happily.
Although Wang Zhifu agreed with great enthusiasm, he just didn't have the chance.
Coincidentally, he was on duty at the internal affairs office that day.
It was the middle of winter and the weather was cold, so he just sat by the charcoal brazier and dozed off.
It was already the fourth watch, and people from the Ministry of War in Beijing rushed to deliver an urgent package of six hundred miles from Fujian.
Fuwang Zhifu did not dare to delay, because there were certain rules for postal delivery.
The most urgent use was "six hundred miles expedited", that is, the daily delivery limit was six hundred miles.
In addition to notifying the governor of the vacancy, he only Used in wartime when a city is lost or recovered.
This six-hundred-mile express was issued by Wan Zhengse, the admiral of the Fujian Navy.
It was stamped with a purple seal and must have reported important military information to the Zheng family in Taiwan.
So Wang Zhifu left the direct room of the inner palace and went straight to the main hall of the South Palace.
The north wind was blowing hard, and Wang Zhifu's teeth chattered softly from the cold.
He held the lantern in one hand and the box in the other.
His hands were already frozen.
Feeling cold and numb, losing consciousness.
There were no stars or moon in the sky, just darkness.
From a distance, I could only see the dark palace of Nangong.
Only the dim light came from the window on the side of the sleeping hall.
Wang Zhifu called the eunuch on night duty to open the hanging flower door, and reported people in one by one.
Entering the inner chamber, Zhang Sande, the chief eunuch on duty, personally came out with a lamp.
Wang Zhixin said: "Zhang Xueda, the six hundred miles from Fujian are urgent.
I'm afraid I have to hand it in at this time."
Zhang Sande Oh, he blurted out: "Wait a minute, I'll ask the maid on guard to ask for a ride."
Wang Zhifu was startled when he heard this sentence, and then he realized something was strange.
As a rule, the chief eunuch on duty sleeps in the palace.
If a palace maid is keeping watch, there must be concubines sleeping there.
However, when the emperor came to Nanyuan, all the concubines of the six palaces stayed in the palace.
Zhang Sande also realized that he had said the wrong thing in his mouth.
He secretly regretted it and reached out to knock twice on the door of Nuan Pavilion.
As soon as the brocade curtain was lifted, the warm air blew onto people's faces, which was very warm.
The palace maid from the previous night came out on tiptoe, and Zhang Sande whispered: "I have an important memorial to return to the Long Live Lord."
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The palace maid then tiptoed into the inner chamber.
Wang Zhifu heard her call several times, and the emperor just woke up and gave the order to turn on the lamp.
At this moment, I heard a woman's soft voice whispering something deep in the palace, and the emperor's voice was very gentle: "It doesn't matter, there must be something important, so you don't need to get up."
Wang Zhifu is here.
I could hear it clearly outside, and my heart suddenly shuddered.
However, the emperor left the Nuan Pavilion wearing only a Jiang silk coat.
Although there was also a fire pit outside, it was much colder than inside the Nuan Pavilion.
The emperor suddenly shivered, Zhang Sande quickly took the sable cloak and put it on the emperor.
The palace maid moved the lamp, and the emperor read the book by the candlelight.
A smile appeared on his face, and Wang Zhifu kowtowed and resigned.
When the emperor returned to the Nuan Pavilion, his hands and feet were already slightly cold.
But the quilt was warm, and it only took a moment to warm up.
Linlang was awakened by this, but it was difficult to fall asleep, and it was inconvenient to toss and turn, so she just closed her eyes.
Since he was a child, the emperor has been familiar with Mammy waking up at Maochu to go to the study.
When he was enthroned, he would get up and look at the court every day at Maochu.
Now he couldn't fall asleep.
He listened to her breathing and asked: "You Are you asleep?"
She closed her eyes and replied, "Asleep."
She couldn't help but smile, then she opened her eyes and saw the emperor stretching his arms with a smile and taking her into his arms tenderly.
She lay on the emperor's chest, only listening to his steady heartbeat.
Her long hair was like jet streamers, spreading in front of the emperor's lap.
However, the emperor held a bunch of hair and whispered: "I haven't combed my hair in the past, and my silk hair is hanging over my eyebrows.
There is nothing pitiful about the gentle man's lap."
She did not answer, but stroked a piece of her hair. , gently picked up the emperor's braid, tied the long hair with a trace of the emperor's hair, and carefully tied a concentric double knot.
There was a candle burning far away in the depths of the hall, and it filtered in dimly, but there was a dim yellow light rippling through it.
The emperor looked at her actions, and his heart was filled with joy.
Although it was the middle of winter, it seemed like a beautiful scene in spring, infinitely beautiful.
He just held her hand and put it against his heart, wishing that it would last forever and last forever.
He suddenly understood that the predecessors swore an oath to be allies, wishing to be like winged birds in heaven, and wishing to be like branches on earth.
It is said that they only envy mandarin ducks but not mandarin ducks.
Fairy, but it turns out this is really the case.
As the New Year approaches day by day, I have to go back.
The six yamen, hundreds of officials and ministers had nothing to do during the year, but the emperor had various Yuanchen ceremonies, offering sacrifices to ancestors and heaven, and elaborate ceremonies.
As has been the case over the years, the emperor personally wrote a letter with the word "福" as a reward to his ministers.
On this day, the emperor came back from offering sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple.
After spending a long time, he wrote dozens of the word "福".
Linlang came back from the imperial tea room and saw the eunuchs taking out the ink stains one by one to dry them.
She was looking at them with interest when she suddenly heard Zhang Sande stop her and said, "The Queen Mother sent someone to ask you to go by name."
She didn't know what was going on, but when the Empress Dowager summoned her, she naturally went there in a hurry.
Entering the Nuan Pavilion, I saw the Queen Mother wearing a home-made Haiqingtuan Shouning pattern robe and sitting on the Kang with a big welcome pillow.
A noble lady wearing a fragrant butterfly-colored satin robe sat at the bottom with her body slanted, accompanying her.
The Queen Mother played with dominoes.
Although Linlang didn't recognize her, he already guessed that she was Concubine Tong by looking at her clothes.
Then he bowed respectfully, knelt down and said, "I would like to pay my respects to the Queen Mother."
He kowtowed, and after a moment he said again, "I would like to pay my regards to the Queen Mother."
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Then he kowtowed again.
The Queen Mother glanced at her and asked, "What is your surname, Linlang?"
Instead of asking her to get up to answer, she knelt down and answered softly: "In reply to the Queen Mother, my surname is Wei."
The Queen Mother slowly moved the dominoes and said: " It must be the Han army."
Linlang felt slightly sad and replied: "The servant is the Han army."
The Queen Mother looked at her expressionlessly and said, "What does the emperor do in his free time these days?"
Linlang replied: "As for the Queen Mother, the servants are serving tea.
I only know that Long Live Lord sometimes writes and reads.
The other servants don't know."
But the Queen Mother sneered and said, "Didn't the Emperor go out to ride a horse?"
Linlang already knew that this was not good.
When he saw her asking him face to face, he had to say: "My lord, Long Live, sometimes rides out for a stroll."
The Queen Mother sneered again, turned around and only played the dominoes, but said no more.
The hall was originally quiet, except for the crisp "snap" sound of the dominoes accidentally touching each other.
She knelt there for a long time.
Although there were fire dragons on the ground, the gold brick floor was extremely hard.
By this time, her knees were already aching.
Concubine Tong became a little embarrassed.
She wiped the dominoes and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, I lost again.
I am really no match for you, the Queen Mother.
Today, I have to pay all my respect to you with these golden melon seeds.
I have no future." , please forgive me, Queen Mother, I will come back to accompany you after I practice a few rounds tomorrow."
The Queen Mother smiled and said: "That's pitiful, I don't want to have my hair cut, let's come again."
Concubine Tong looked at Linlang helplessly, but she saw her kneeling.
There, it was peaceful and calm
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