Author: Ong Ah Hong

When they arrived at the door, a grandma about forty years old got out of the sedan. Seeing five girls standing behind the guards, she apologized in a low voice: "This military master, I am the correctional grandma of the Neijiaofang. My surname is Zhou. Today

Neijiaofang has been negligent about the matter and has caused trouble to the military master. I’m really sorry.”

The guard glanced at Wang Yifu next to him and said, "If this little girl hadn't been so courageous, I'm afraid your inner training workshop would have been in even greater trouble. You have to thank her properly."

"That's what the military master said." Aunt Zhou looked at the little girl carefully. She was beautiful. Although she was young, she could still be seen as a beauty. Her features were full of heroism, and her cold eyes gave her a sense of beauty.

The overwhelming aura emitted made her, an elder, frightened.

Her moxa-green clothes were neatly dressed, but they were stained with some loess. The hands holding the bundle seemed to have been strangled by a belt, and there were bloodstains.

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

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

Aunt Zhou nodded with satisfaction and said, "You speak clearly, you are not afraid of strangers, and your voice is not bad. Going to Shangshi Bureau is quite hard, are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm just afraid that I'll learn too slowly, so I'll have to ask my grandma to put more effort into it."

While they were talking, four eunuchs came from the east carrying a large sedan chair. After the sedan chair was parked, the person carrying the front sedan chair lifted the curtain, and only then did the people inside move.

He walked down slowly, wearing dark red clothes with black flowers embroidered on his chest. When he came out, he straightened his waist, held up his hat, smoothed the black belt on both sides of the hat, and then walked forward in three steps and asked

: "Bei'anmen, what happened to invite the Za family?"

The guard cupped his hand with a simple knife and said: "I have seen the prince and told him that today there was a eunuch who claimed to be the internal affairs supervisor. He took people from the six bureaus and one palace into the imperial city. The sign was an ivory sign, but when he entered the door, he

Pulling people to the east seems to have killed them."

Eunuch Wang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh? He killed someone? Where is the body?"

The guard was choked and could only say: "We are investigating carefully." He pointed to Eunuch Yan next to him and said: "This is the person. The matter is serious and I have to ask the prince to come and identify him.

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The prince turned around, glanced sideways at the eunuch, squinted and said, "It seems like there is no such person as the internal affairs eunuch."

Eunuch Yan panicked, crawled to Eunuch Wang, knelt down and begged: "Eunuch Wang, this is Eunuch Qiu who personally ordered me to go..."

Eunuch Wang glared at Eunuch Yan and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I have never seen you as the Internal Affairs Supervisor of the Za family. If you say that Eunuch Qiu personally ordered you, then think carefully about what he ordered you."

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Eunuch Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, shook his head, his eyes drooped, his spine seemed to have been sucked out of the air, and he sat down on his heels.

The prince raised his head and said slowly: "Impersonating the 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 it hard on his heart. He fell to the ground, and his eyes were so wide open that they looked like they were about to fall out.

The girls hiding behind the guards covered their eyes and screamed. Only Wang Yifu looked coldly at the body on the ground that was not yet cold. The dark blue clothes were stained with blood, and a black flower crawled out.

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"Drag the body out and throw it away. The remaining few people will be captured and taken to the stable. They should all be dispersed."

The prince turned around and walked back to the sedan step by step. He walked very slowly. Death seemed to be no surprise to him.

The people gathered at the gate of Bei'an watched the body being moved away. The eunuchs poured water on the ground and knelt to wipe the blood. It didn't take long for the floor tiles to be clean. They were like wooden figures with expressionless faces and left as soon as they were done.

"Let's go back to the inner classroom."

Mother Zhou turned around and returned to the sedan. The girls followed the sedan and walked forward along Bei'anmen Street. Wang Yifu suddenly stopped, turned back and ran to the carriage, pulled out the silver hairpin from the horse's butt and put it into her baggage.

, and then chase after Grandma Zhou.

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

The girls followed Aunt Zhou through a large hall, and saw the red palace walls. The girls played tricks on each other, which slightly alleviated the unpleasantness caused by the death.

They tacitly understood that on the other side of the wall was the legendary "Palace", and the Sixth Bureau and One Palace they were going to in the future was right over there.

After bypassing the palace wall, walking across the bridge, and then bypassing two courtyards, everyone was speechless until they finally arrived in front of a large courtyard.

They walked along the gray courtyard wall for a long time, thinking it was some kind of high-end family. When they reached the door, they found that the courtyard door was very small. There was a dark yellow plaque hanging on the lintel, with the three words "Inner Jiao Fang" written in black.

Character.

Aunt Zhou in the sedan came out and said to the girls: "From today on, you will receive education here. Each of the six bureaus has its own arrangements. In the future, only those who pass the examination can enter the palace, so work hard."

"Mommy, that eunuch just now..."

One of the little girls couldn't help but said something more. Aunt Zhou turned back with a cold face and lectured: "The first rule when entering this imperial city is, don't ask around when you shouldn't. If anything happens, you'll be responsible for it."

The internal officials will take care of it, so you don't have to worry about it."

Aunt Zhou took the girls to a small corner courtyard with a three-sided room facing west and east.

Someone was already living in the room on the north side, and the girls were taken into the room on the south side. Originally, there were seven people sharing a kang, but now there were only five people left. The girls' mood became complicated again.

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

Aunt Zhou's indifference also made the girls see the unkindness in the imperial city, and they became even more reluctant to speak.

After she left, several girls fetched water and scrubbed the cabinets and other appliances in the house. After tidying up, they ate, took a bath, and then nestled in the quilt and prepared to sleep.

The last girl who got into the quilt turned her back and lay on the kang, whispering in a low voice: "Just now, all the girls in the car came back. They are all right. They were just arrested by the Internal Affairs Supervisor and asked a few words. Everyone is gone."

I was petrified."

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

"I heard that Empress Li of the Yongshou Palace wants to embarrass the new Empress who has entered the palace today and is deliberately looking for trouble."

"Why is Empress Li so powerful and dares to embarrass the Empress?"

"You don't know this, right? When Li was a child, she was the little palace maid who served our Daxing Emperor. She grew up with the emperor's childhood sweetheart, and she was the most favored. If not..."

At this point, the gossiping little girl lowered her voice even lower, "If it hadn't been for the pressure put on the Holy One by the court ministers, I'm afraid the new queen would not have been able to enter the palace."
Chapter completed!