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Chapter 82: Infiltrating the Palace

Two days later, Bian Yao arrived at a busy town called "Linjun" outside the east gate of Huangzhou City, and found an inn in the town to stay. Linjun Town is located in the suburbs closest to the East Gate, and it only takes half an hour to enter the imperial city. After staying in the inn, Bian Yao first went to the clothing shop to buy some clothes and objects that ordinary people often wear, and then stayed in the guest room all day long to understand the "Section Method", and never left the guest room for many days.

As the "Spring Festival" approaches, the inner and outer cities of Huangzhou City become more and more lively, and more and more people come from far and near. Early in the morning of the 14th day of the first lunar month, Bian Yao wore a slightly worn ordinary cotton suit, carried two big bags, dressed himself like an ordinary person, then pushed open the bedroom, hurriedly left the inn, and headed towards the city gate.

On the southernmost side of the outer ring of the Imperial City, there is a very famous street, which is Wuyi Avenue. Almost everyone knows it. The origin of this name can be traced back to the beginning of the founding of Meng Kingdom. Not long after the founding of the country, all those who were responsible for patrol and guarding on this street were patrol guards in black clothes. In the laughter of the first emperor after drinking, this street was not officially named, so it was determined in the name of "Wuyi". Among the patrol guards in Meng Kingdom, the corresponding realm of the black clothes is the late stage of Meng Kuang, which is already the strongest patrol guard. However, on Wuyi Avenue, the guards responsible for patrol are no longer all black clothes, but have added two types of clothing, the purple patrol guard and the red patrol guard. The corresponding realm is the early stage Meng Kuang and the middle stage Meng Kuang.

Wuyi Avenue is about fifty feet wide and twelve miles long. The ground is covered with red bricks and stones, and it runs east-west. On the north side of the street is a river channel about three meters wide, with a row of fragrant dream trees planted on the bank; on the south side of the road are tall and luxurious mansions, and the whole street looks very elegant. This is the main place where the royal relatives of the Meng Kingdom and the powerful and important officials live, among which the Prince's Mansion and the Guojiu Mansion are the most noble.

Near noon, Bianyao came to the bustling Wuyi Avenue and walked from east to west with the tide of people. Guojiu Mansion is located at the easternmost end of the south side of Wuyi Avenue. The front door of the mansion is open to the north. At this moment, there are six long cases at the entrance of Guojiu Mansion, and many people are crowded at each long table. These people are all dream cultivators and are signing up for the Spring Festival celebrations. Dozens of guards and patrol guards in uniform clothing maintain order on the side. In fact, the so-called Spring Festival celebrations are actually a competition in the dream field. The winner will receive a generous reward from the event organizer. However, secretly, those winners or dream cultivators with certain special abilities are often recruited by the powerful people who hold the event in private.

Bian Yao had no interest in the Guojiu Mansion. His thoughts were all on the Wuyi Avenue, the west end of Wuyi Avenue. When he came to the vicinity of the palace, he suddenly realized a problem. This Wuyi Avenue, which is twelve miles long, is lined up with dozens of noble mansions. If you want to say that all the people living here are the high-powered Mengguo officials. However, they openly set up tables at the door of the mansion. The only ones receiving the dream cultivators were the Guojiu Mansion and the Prince's Mansion, and there was no third one.

Bian Yao felt a little surprised in his heart, but he also began to understand how powerful the uncle of the dynasty had. To talk about identity and power, the prince's mansion was the first in the mansion on the entire Wuyi Avenue. The "angry king" Du Xiaotian is the only younger brother of the current Emperor of Dream Kingdom. He is both Meng Zun and a dream-eating beast. He is the guardian beast of the royal family. In addition, the angry king also controls all the dream fighting fields in the imperial city! His power and strength are both high. As for the uncle Feng Yuehan, he is the "feng family" of the ancient clan.

The contemporary patriarch is also the brother of Concubine Nan, the second prince's uncle, and the famous "Wanshen Hall" was opened by the Feng family. In Huangzhou, almost every city has branches of the Wanshen Hall. The uncle of the country is the inspector, responsible for inspecting the states of the Dream Country and diplomatic matters with the country. It is said that his strength is still above the Angry King, and his cultivation is very terrifying! In the rumors outside, the uncle of the country can be on an equal footing with the Prince, but in terms of realm, he is firmly inferior to the Angry King, so he does not take him seriously at all.

There are three large golden plaques on the main entrance of the royal palace - "The Angry Palace". In front of the royal palace gate, there are also six tables, and many dream cultivators who come to sign up are coming to participate in the martial arts competition. As long as the dream cultivators have the realm of a dream walker, they can sign up for the competition. However, Bian Yao came not to participate in any event, but for another thing that only ordinary people usually care about.

From the information given to him by Ye Zizi, he learned that on the day before the Spring Festival every year, the Nur Prince's Mansion will recruit some mortals to the mansion to do things to supplement those servants who were fired after three years. The Prince's Mansion has a strict restriction on the recruitment of servants, and they must be ordinary people without cultivation qualifications!

Having no time to be distracted and thoughtful, Bian Yao walked around the crowd and walked straight to the side door of the royal palace. There were also two tables. There were a row of people standing in front of the case, one of which was full of men and the other one of them was full of women. Bian Yao pulled the bag behind him, then walked over without saying a word, and stood at the end of the line where all of them were men.

There were about forty men standing in Bian Yao's row, both of whom were old and young. Each of them needed to go through some inquiries. Those who failed the qualifications left, and those who passed quietly waited aside. Half an hour later, it was Bian Yao's turn.

"Report your name, age and place of birth." Behind the table, the middle-aged scholar with a goatee looked at Bian Yao and asked with a serious look on his face.

"Sir! My name is Ye Xiaomao. I am sixteen years old this year. My hometown is Yejiazhuang, 80 miles away from the north suburbs of the imperial city." Bian Yao bent down and lowered his head, answered seriously, while a look of nervousness appeared on his face.

"Don't call me lord, I'm just a manager in the royal palace." The middle-aged scholar flipped through a stack of paper rolls on the table with expressionless expression, and looked up and continued, "Let me ask you, who else is there in your family?"

Bian Yao smiled embarrassedly and said, "Report to the matter! Xiaomin has been alone since childhood, and it is all due to luck to live to this day."

"Why do you want to go into the palace to do things?"

"Because... because I heard that the prince's mansion is the largest on this Wuyi Road. It is not only good to eat, but also more money." After Bian Yao finished speaking, he reached out and scratched his head, showing a bit of embarrassment.

The middle-aged scholar said "um" and his mouth slightly raised. He wrote a few words on the scroll with a bamboo pen, saying, "You can stand there first."

Bian Yao looked happy and trotted into the crowd that had passed before, waiting for the next instructions. Even if you can stand here, you will pass the next level successfully, so that the people in the royal palace can determine that they are an ordinary person.

More than half an hour passed, the middle-aged scholar who had just stood up from behind the table, walked to Bian Yao and the group of people, and said seriously: "Don't talk, come with me."

Bian Yaozhong was in the middle of the crowd, followed the middle-aged scholars into the royal palace through the side gate, passed through a small garden and turned to the right. A group of people walked on the road paved with soft stones to come to a square courtyard. There were two entrances and exits in the courtyard, and two royal palace guards were guarding them.

From the moment I entered the courtyard, Bian Yao kept watching. The space in the courtyard seemed empty and spacious, with many bluestones of varying sizes on the ground, which could be roughly seen to be laid in a certain way. In the middle of the courtyard, there was a black stone platform about five feet in diameter, and an old man in green was sitting on it closed his eyes and meditating.

The middle-aged scholar walked up and whispered a few respectfully in the old man's ear, then turned around and instructed everyone to scatter around the old man in green. The men and women recruited into the palace this time were about one hundred people, and they were still divided into two groups of men and women, standing quietly.

The courtyard was quiet, no one dared to move around, let alone whispering. Time passed by little by little, and Bian Yao felt that time had stagnated. Although Ye Zizi had already made a promise to him, he was still a little nervous, after all, there was an ulterior motive in his heart.

Less than half a moment later, the old man in green who was sitting on the center stone platform of the courtyard opened his eyes and said lightly, "No problem."

"Thank you for your hard work, Liu is old!" The middle-aged scholar hurriedly nodded, smiled, then waved his hand and shouted to the newly recruited servants: "All follow me, let's allocate your place to you."

Bian Yao let out a sigh of relief, relieved himself, and mixed among the crowd and followed the middle-aged scholar to leave the courtyard, go to the next courtyard, and accept the assignment.

It has to be said that there are quite a few types of errands in the royal palace, including kitchens, tea and wine rooms, horse houses, flower houses, washing and washing rooms, cleaning and chore rooms. In just one quarter of an hour, more than a hundred people were allocated. Next, the middle-aged manager announced some rules of the royal palace that need to be strictly followed, and almost took a cup of tea to explain and give lectures, and finally asked the leaders of each room to take the newcomer away.

Bian Yao and the other two were divided into chores rooms. The leader was a middle-aged man named Zhang Fu. Even if he was included, there were twelve servants in the chores room. All they did were a dispersed person, just like chores. There were no fixed chores, so they would go wherever they needed to work.

I simply went to the canteen dedicated to people for lunch. In the afternoon of the same day, Bian Yao and two other new employees started to work hard under the leadership of Zhang Fu.

The Nu Wang Mansion covers an area of ​​about 200 acres. Apart from the main halls, houses and other buildings, rockery, pools, and pavilions, there are also towering ancient trees and rugged rocks distributed among them. The entire royal mansion has a wonderful layout and mysterious hidden everywhere.

The royal palace is mainly divided into the front palace and the rear palace, and the area occupied is roughly equal. The front palace is mainly used to entertain visitors and daily life activities. All the royal palace guards and ordinary people live in the front palace, and some special identities also live in the special courtyard of the front palace; the back palace is relatively complicated. The angry king's cultivation or reception of distinguished guests is carried out in the back palace, and all the female family members also live deep in the back palace. Except for the prince's license, no one else is allowed to enter the back palace without permission.

Because the Spring Festival is coming, the palace seems very busy and there are many things to do. Bian Yao and his servants were called to drink and kept busy, and finally waited until dark. After dinner, Bian Yao and the others in the chore room returned to a small courtyard, which was a place for them to rest.

Although the bedroom was small, it was one for each person, which made Bian Yao very satisfied. After entering the room, he lit a candle, placed it on the table, then lay on the wooden bed, and hugged his arms to ponder. So far, everything has been going smoothly and there is no mistake. Since he has reached this point, the road ahead must be more serious.

The night gradually became deeper, and the candles in each room in the Sihe Courtyard were extinguished one after another, and the bedroom was silent. After a few hours of busyness in the afternoon, the other servants were already tired and fell asleep.

Bian Yao was not tired at all, and those simple physical activities could not make him feel tired at all. He thought about it on the bed for more than half an hour, and recalled all the things he saw and heard in the palace during the day in his mind several times, remembering the road and environment he encountered in his heart, and finally sat up with his clothes on the bed.

(ps: I always feel that there are many things that need to be modified, and I am not satisfied with it, but my mind is a little confused and I don’t have the time to think about it. Maybe after a long pause, it will take some time to retrieve the feeling. This chapter is just like this.)


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