Cao Xiwan knew that Prince Zhou's Mansion was full of hidden dangers from the Jinyi Yamen, and she could avoid them all. But she was too lazy to spend the effort, and she couldn't openly step in and out of her colleagues' faces. So she kept talking about how difficult it was to be a good person.
He asked Liu Ruhai to take him into the palace.
He is now the chief historian of the palace, so he naturally has his own courtyard. The banquet is placed under the old locust tree in the courtyard on a white stone table.
A big brass pot was burning with deep red charcoal, and there were forty kinds of dishes. Eunuch He and the two young eunuchs were busy going in and out.
The new moon is rising.
Silver leaves cover the ground, and the spring breeze at night is warm.
Cao Xiwan looked at Eunuch He carefully. He must be a secret spy or a master. He had changed his appearance to hide his face. And the two young eunuchs, who walked silently, must also be Liu Ruhai's own people.
"In the evening, let's go to the imperial mausoleum and take a look at the place." Cao Xiwan discussed with Xiliu while scalding the dishes. Xiliu was a little uneasy and looked at Liu Changshi and the eunuchs. Cao Xiwan
He quickly gave Liu Ruhai a piece of food and comforted him: "It's okay. Prince Zhou's Mansion is close to the Donghua Gate of the palace city. There are hidden stakes of the Jin Yiwei inside and outside. It's my territory."
"..." What kind of territory is yours? Liu Ruhai sat aside, eating slowly with chopsticks calmly, looking at them sideways, "Going to the imperial mausoleum?"
She also looked at Liu Ruhai, and asked if she wanted to find out if her father's relatives were not hiding in the Zhou Palace. They must have been silenced by Eunuch Liu, who had thrown his troops away and Bao Shuai had killed them, right?
Cao Xiwan thought it would be better not to inquire. Once we arrived, we and the enemy would be clear.
Secondly, if she were Liu Ruhai, she would not take action now.
"Yes, I took Xiliu to the imperial mausoleum - no, we were going to the palace near the imperial mausoleum. She has never been there." She said modestly. She never said to others that she would stay with Shi Mingniang at Taizu Xingwu's palace.
When asked to fight in the imperial mausoleum, she only said that the palace was outside the city, and there was no one in the palace now. Who cares?
Cao Xiwan deliberately took out the anti-epidemic powder she had stolen last time: "I have medicine, don't worry."
"..." It was obviously his medicine. Liu Ruhai remembered that she had stolen half a bottle of pills. She guessed that she had instigated Chen Ming to copy them.
Cao Xiwan did indeed do this. She knew that going to the imperial mausoleum was dangerous, not only because of the disease, but also maybe the trap arranged by Feng Junqing was waiting for her, so she had already thought about how to deal with Shi Mingniang.
She and Shi Mingniang are both honest people, how could they allow such a cunning villain like Feng Junqing to scheme against her? Although Shi Mingniang would definitely not agree with her way of looking at people.
"By the way, call Xiao Zhao. I agreed to let him meet the senior master. Shi Mingniang also uses a sword, and Xiao Zhao also uses a sword. He needs to learn how to do it."
Eunuch He finally couldn't hold it back. When pouring the wine, he said euphemistically: "There are guardians of the mausoleum." I heard that the selection of the mausoleum guardians was unusual, and there might be hidden dragons and tigers. Did she think she was going shopping on the street?
"Yes. I picked it." She recalled, "At that time, the Marquis asked me to pick twenty households of royal guards to guard the mausoleum. In addition, the Ministry of Rites also selected five households to grow vegetables and land. Because it is the mausoleum of Taizu,
Everyone wanted to grab the first-class vacancies. There was a lot of money. I received a lot of gifts. I made the decision together with Xing Taizhu from the Etiquette Department."
"..." Eunuch He shut up.
Liu Ruhai asked: "Are you threatening Xing Taizhu?"
"...How could it be? He was so happy to receive the gift from me." She looked at him in surprise, "In addition to selling test questions during the imperial examination, does their etiquette department have the advantage of being so easy to collect?"
"...Selling test questions?"
"That's right." She was shocked, "Don't you know? Your secret spies in Prince Zhao's Mansion only have to eat and not work?"
Eunuch He was angry, but he endured it. He really didn't know the inside story, so he could only listen with open ears.
"Which time?" Liu Ruhai asked unhurriedly.
"Next time. Our yamen discovered it in advance a few times before." She sighed and toasted him with tea instead of wine. After all, she had to be polite in other people's homes. "There was one time during the severe cold weather. Su Jintian and I
The Marquis sent me to the examination room to keep an eye on me, and I froze to death on the roof. I also caught the examiner handing me a note. I turned around and reported it to the Marquis. The Marquis reported it to Taizu, who skinned the man.
"
"..."
It sounded a bit cruel. Eunuch He's face changed slightly.
She also felt the same way and nodded deeply: "Taizu was very cruel. He said that to govern the world, you need to use heavy codes. He is ruthless when he kills officials and he kills common people." She tilted her head and thought for a moment, "He is also ruthless towards little wives. On behalf of
The king's mother-in-law, the mother-in-law of King Gu, and the mother-in-law of King Xiang were all killed for unknown reasons. Their bodies were put into a basket and buried outside the palace gate."
Lou Xiliu felt horrified when he heard this.
The two young eunuchs, serving food and wine nearby, couldn't help but listen.
Liu Ruhai did not say anything. What she said was indeed true, although she was deliberately intimidating the people around him and reminding them of the consequences of rebellion. The three empresses seemed to be related to the rebellion of distinguished officials during the reign of Taizu. Cao Xiwan
Can you not know?
She held the tea, looked at the moon and sighed: "Now that I think about it, someone can pretend to be the king."
"...Because you don't have to go to the palace to see your mother and concubine." Eunuch He blurted out with a flash of inspiration.
Liu Ruhai looked at him angrily. Did he actually listen to these strange things that Cao Xiwan said? No brainer! He began to doubt his picky eyes.
"Yes. Taizu has many sons, so he has no time to care about him. The mother and concubine are gone, and no one cares about them. Scared, Dai Wangfei must have helped Dai Wang secretly find the mother and concubine's body, so Dai Wangye trusts Dai Wangfei very much. Xiliu, what do you think?
Yes or no?"
Lou Xiliu nodded quickly. If he didn't trust him, a vassal king would also have a long history, close associates, eunuchs, bodyguards, and two or three hundred Jin Yiwei sent by the capital to keep an eye on him. It was impossible for him to be caught and imprisoned for impersonation.
of.
Liu Ruhai nodded slowly on this matter: "Princess Dai was in charge of the secret spies in Prince Dai's palace, so she took charge of the affairs. I heard that the spies invited by the palace were all strangers. In order to
Digging underground tunnels to find corpses. I heard that one year the tunnels were dug to the front of the palace gate."
"Yes. It was discovered by Taizu. Our Lord Marquis was the Qianhu of Chengtianmen at that time. He reported it. Taizu called his three sons into the palace and scolded them. King Gu and King Xiang cried and wanted the body to be buried properly. Taizu
So they returned the body. It was quite miserable. The three empresses couldn't separate each other, so they put them together in a coffin and buried them."
When the little eunuchs heard the last sentence and thought about it, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale. Lou Xiliu sandwiched the pieces of meat and felt like he was going to vomit it out.
Cao Xiwan was still thinking: "You said that King Xiang is dead. Queen Jue and King Gu are still here. Do you want to check if he is a fake?"
You really have a lot to do, Liu Ruhai thought.
"It would be better if you think less and worry less."
"You're right." She nodded quickly, immersed herself in eating and drinking, and muttered, "I don't use my brain, I just like to tell interesting gossip."
Jinyifanzi all have this bad habit, Liu Ruhai thought.
She finished eating, wiped her mouth, and returned to the palace. Lou Xiliu bowed respectfully to Liu Ruhai as usual, and slipped back to prepare quickly.
The two girls made an appointment to go to the palace tomorrow and take Xiao Zhao with them.
The courtyard was empty, except for the copper pot of white soup, with scarlet sparks flying in the air. Liu Ruhai was still sitting under the shadow of the night wind tree, looking at the pale waning moon, and slowly sipping the remaining wine in the cup.
Eunuch He thought about it and asked quietly: "Chief manager, what does she mean... doesn't she know that there are puppets ambushing you in the imperial mausoleum?"