Shangshi female official

Chapter 2 Oil Cake 2
At the door, a nanny about forty years old got out of the sedan chair. Seeing five girls standing behind the guards, she apologized in a low voice: "Master, I am the nanny of the Neijiaofang, surnamed Zhou. I am really sorry for the negligence of the Inner Jiaofang about this matter, and for causing trouble to Lord Jun."

The guard glanced at Wang Yifu next to him, and said, "If this little girl hadn't had the guts, I'm afraid there would be even bigger troubles in your inner church. You should thank her very much."

"Master Jun said so." Nanny Zhou carefully examined the little girl. This girl was beautiful. Even though she was young, she could be seen to be a beauty. Her brows and eyes were full of heroic spirit. The forceful aura came out, but it made her, an elder, feel guilty.

She was dressed neatly in ai-green clothes, but was stained with loess, and the hands holding the bundle looked like they had been strangled by a belt, and there were bloodstains.

"What's your name?" Mother Zhou asked.

"My surname is Wang, and my name is Yifu. I thought Yi, Furong's Fu, was picked by the Jinling Mansion to be sent to the Shangshi Bureau."

Nanny Zhou nodded in satisfaction, and said, "You speak clearly, you are not afraid of strangers, and you have a good voice. It's hard work going to Shangshi Bureau, are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid of hard work, but I'm afraid that I'm going to learn too slowly, and I need to ask Mammy to worry about it."

While talking, four eunuchs came from the east carrying a large sedan chair. After the sedan chair was parked, the person who carried the front sedan chair raised the curtain, and the people inside started to move.

He walked down slowly, dressed in dark red clothes, with black flowers embroidered on his chest. When he came out, he straightened his waist, straightened his hat, smoothed the black belt on both sides of the hat, and walked forward in three steps to ask : "Beianmen, what happened to invite miscellaneous family?"

The guard cupped his hands with a plain knife and said: "I have seen the prince, tell the prince, today there is a eunuch who claims to be the internal affairs supervisor, and a person from the six bureaus and one palace is dragged into the imperial city. The bright ivory card is on the door. Pulling people to the east seems to have killed them."

The prince raised his brows and asked, "Oh? Killed someone's life? Where's the body?"

The guard was choked upright, and could only say: "Checking carefully." He pointed to the eunuch Yan next to him, and said: "This is the man, this matter is serious, I have to ask Wang Gonggong to come and identify him. "

Wang Gonggong turned around, squinted at the eunuch, squinted his eyes and said: "Internal affairs supervisor, it seems that there is no such person."

Eunuch Yan panicked, crawled up to Eunuch Wang, knelt down and begged, "Eunuch Wang, this is Eunuch Qiu personally ordering the young one to go..."

Eunuch Wang glared at Eunuch Yan, and said, "Don't talk nonsense without reason. The internal affairs supervisor of the miscellaneous family has never seen you. You said that Eunuch Qiu ordered you personally, then think about it carefully, how did he order you?" of?"

The eunuch Yan who was kneeling on the ground shook up, his eyes drooped, his spine seemed to be sucked out, and he sat down on his heels.

Wang Gonggong raised his head, and then said slowly: "Pretending to be an internal affairs supervisor to deliver an edict is a capital offense."

Suddenly, Eunuch Yan pulled out a dagger from his waist, held the handle with both hands, and pressed down hard on his heart. He fell to the ground with his eyes wide open, as if they were about to fall out.

The girls hiding behind the guards covered their eyes and screamed, only Wang Yifu looked coldly at the uncooled corpse on the ground, blood stained the dark blue clothes, and crawled out like a black flower .

"Drag the corpse out and throw it away. The few remaining people should be taken to the stables first. Let's all disperse."

The prince turned around and walked back into the sedan chair step by step. He walked very slowly. Death seemed to have no surprises for him.

The people gathered at the gate of Bei'an watched the corpse being removed, and the eunuch Sasa poured water on the ground, knelt to wipe the blood, and the floor tiles were cleaned after a short while. They were like wooden men, with expressionless faces, and left immediately after the incident.

"Let's go back to the Inner Teaching Workshop."

Nanny Zhou turned back to the sedan chair, and the girls followed the sedan chair and walked along Bei'anmen Street. Wang Yifu suddenly stopped, and ran back to the carriage, pulled the silver hairpin from the horse's buttocks and put it in the bag , Go after Zhou Nanny again.

"What an interesting girl." The city guard sighed.

The girls followed Nanny Zhou through a large hall, and they saw the red palace walls. The girls played tricks on each other, slightly reducing the unhappiness caused by the dead man just now.

They tacitly knew that the other side of the wall was the legendary "Gongli", and the six bureaus and one palace they were going to in the future was right there.

They bypassed the palace wall, walked across the bridge, and bypassed the double courtyard. Everyone was silent all the way, and finally came to a large courtyard.

They walked along the gray courtyard wall for a long time, thinking about some high-ranking family, but when they got to the door, they found that the courtyard door was very small, with a dark yellow plaque on the lintel, and the inscription "Neijiaofang" in black. Character.

Nanny Zhou, who was in the sedan chair, came out and said to the girls: "From today onwards, you will receive education here. The six bureaus have their own arrangements. In the future, only those who pass the examination will be able to enter the palace. Work hard."

"Mommy, that eunuch just now..."

Some of the little girls couldn't help it, and said something extra, Zhou Nanny turned her head back with a cold face, and taught: "The first rule when entering this imperial city is to inquire less about what shouldn't be asked, and if anything happens, it will be up to you." The internal officials will take care of it, so you don't need to worry about it."

Nanny Zhou took the girls to a small corner courtyard, facing east and west, with houses on three sides.

There are already people living in the north, and the girls were brought into the south room. Originally, seven people squeezed into one kang, but now there are only five people left, and the girls' mood became complicated again.

"Clean up your room and settle down. Starting tomorrow, I will take you to the practice field."

Nanny Zhou's indifference also made the girls see the inhumanity in the imperial city, and they were even more unwilling to speak.

After she left, a few girls fetched water to scrub the cabinets and other utensils in the house. After tidying up, they ate and took a bath, then nestled under the quilt and got ready to sleep.

The last girl who got into the quilt turned her back on the kang, and whispered in a low voice: "Just now, all the girls in that car have come back. They are all fine, but they were arrested by the internal affairs supervisor and asked a few words. Scared out of my wits."

When this matter was mentioned, the four girls became excited and crowded together around a small oil lamp. Only Wang Efu, who was lying on the far side, slept with her eyes closed and pretended not to hear.

"I heard that today, Empress Li of Yongshou Palace is going to embarrass the new Empress Empress, she deliberately finds fault."

"Why is Li Niangniang so powerful, dare to embarrass the empress?"

"You don't know that, Li Niangniang was a little maid who served our Emperor Daxing when she was young, and she grew up with the Holy Majesty's childhood sweetheart, and she was the most favored, if it wasn't for..."

Speaking of this, the gossiping little girl lowered her voice, "If the ministers outside the court did not put pressure on the Holy Majesty, I am afraid that the new empress would not be able to enter the palace."

(End of this chapter)