The speaker was a woman, who came in from an alley, wearing a thick and dirty padded jacket, but her hair was slickly combed, shining in the light of the oil lamp. She held melon seeds in one hand, and licked her mouth with the other, and walked in with her body squeezed.
Brother Shi Jiu showed disdain: "Aunt Wang, what brought you here?"
Aunt Wang smiled and said, "It was the wind in the palace that brought me here."
"Imperial Palace?" Brother Shi Jiu frowned, "Isn't it good that the wind from this imperial palace blows to you? Come to me?"
Brother Shi Jiu came out of the palace because he was tired, so when someone talked about the palace, he felt a little disgusted.
Seeing Eunuch Fan and Rong Changan, Aunt Wang smiled, "So Brother Nine has guests here!"
Brother Shi Jiu said impatiently, "Just tell me what Aunt Wang has to say, or I'll buy wine with my old friend."
Aunt Wang's face seemed to be smiling all the time, and she couldn't stop: "That's the thing, just now there is a dentist, come to me and tell me that some girls are going in to be maids in the palace, I think you are also from the palace. The people who come out know a lot of rules and know what kind of girl the master in the palace likes, why don't you help me find a few decent ones? I will thank you very much when I look back."
This Aunt Wang is a professional matchmaker. In addition to introducing orphans and widows, she also introduces wives and concubines to officials and gentry families. Everyone in the tooth shop knows her and loves to come to her when they have something to do. With her sharp teeth and sharp mouth, she can talk about the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the temple to make her happy.
Brother Shi Jiu didn't like Aunt Wang's all-round personality, so he snorted, "No, I don't know you! You can find someone else."
Aunt Wang ate the door shut, her face turned red: "Ninth brother, if you succeed, you can get ten taels of silver!"
Brother Shi Jiu waved his hand: "Go away, I don't know you, don't bother me to catch up with old friends."
"Really?" Aunt Wang was a little angry.
"No, no." Brother Shi Jiu had a very stubborn temper.
Aunt Wang twisted her mouth: "Huh, I see you are living a hard life, and I want to earn you a few taels of coffin money, you are really shameless. If that's the case, then forget it, and don't come to the coffin when you go back to the coffin." Find me!"
After cursing for a while, he left Brother Shi Jiu's house.
Brother Shi Jiu: "There are intrigues in the palace, and entering the empress is the sacrifice of the concubines. How can I do such things with no conscience!"
Eunuch Fan and Brother Shi Jiu sighed together. Brother Shi Jiu went to the market to buy some stomachs, lungs, liver and sausages, sold a bottle of wine, and came back to have a drink with Eunuch Fan.
Seeing that the two brothers were drinking vigorously, Rong Changan didn't want to disturb him, so he went to the street alone.
The night view of the imperial capital, even in the middle of winter, is still bustling, and there are many people doing business in the street market. Walking and walking, I came to the street behind the Jingyang Gate of the Imperial Palace. Because the emperor's concubines often come and go here, guards are set up on both sides of the street, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach.
"Stop, what are you doing?" a guard suddenly shouted at Rong Chang'an.
Rong Changan was startled, afraid that he would be recognized, and only later remembered that he was wearing a veil.
"I've been walking around, and I've come here."
The inner guard was very vicious: "This is the back street of the imperial palace, ordinary people are not allowed to approach, don't you know?"
Rong Changan: "I came here because I lost my mind for a while, brother, I'm sorry."
The inner guard waved impatiently: "If you want to die, go!"
Rong Changan raised his head, in the still night, on the octagonal glazed pavilion on the back mountain, there seemed to be a faint light.
"Who is on the pavilion at the back of the mountain?"
The inner guard was furious: "This is also a question! The emperor is above. Go, if you don't go, I will be polite to you!"
What did Yan Li do after leaving the mountain? Could it be that he missed her? Regret it? Are you facing the south and weeping in the wind? Hmph, how come! He already thinks that I am the one who killed his prince, so why would he be sad for me!
He turned his head and walked back. Suddenly the light was bright in front, and a Taoist official was holding a flag and walking in front, with a sedan chair in the middle, on which must be some concubine who came out to play.
When the guard saw the team approaching, he slapped Chang An to the side of the road: "Don't get out of the way, Concubine Ziyan is back! She is a ruthless character!"
Ziyan's eyes were stingy, even if Rong Changan covered his entire face, she could still tell it was Rong Changan from the smell. Rong Changan hid behind a locust tree by the roadside.
The sedan chair didn't enter the Jingyang Gate immediately, but stopped suddenly. A man wearing a bamboo hat emerged from the side of the road, leaning against the sedan chair and talking to Zi Yan. Due to the distance, Rong Changan did not hear what the other party said. I saw the two talking for a while, Zi Yan took out a package from the sedan chair and handed it to the other party, and the other party stepped out of the way, took a stride, and left.
who's that person? What's in the baggage? What exactly is Ziyan going to do
After Ziyan's team passed by, Rong Changan caught up two steps and chased after the man wearing the bamboo hat.
The man walked as far as he could into a secluded alley, beating around corners, and finally came to a high wall. The man stood still, turned his face to the side and inspected. Seeing that no one was following him, he tiptoed, rose into the air, and landed on the top of the wall. , squatting down, looked and looked at the wall, and then walked quickly, soundlessly, like a cat catching a mouse.
Rong Changan also jumped onto the wall and followed behind him. It turns out that there is a big mansion on the side of the high wall, and I don't know what that man is doing in the mansion.
The man wearing the bamboo hat came to a courtyard with dark lights inside. In order not to let the other party see, Rong Changan hid under the corner of the roof.
The man jumped down from the courtyard, pushed open a door with a creak, and didn't know what to do in the room. Suddenly, a voice sounded outside the yard:
"The noble concubine Ziyan came over just now, what's the matter?"
A deep voice responded, "I don't know what she came for, so I just said a few words and then left. There was no point in it. It really puzzled me."
Rong Changan was taken aback: Isn't this the emperor Yan Shijie who spoke? It turns out that this is his house!
With that said, the two walked into the yard. The man had already come out of the room, jumped onto the roof, climbed over the other side of the wall, and fled. Following Yan Shijie was Zhou Chao.
Zhou Chao held the lantern in his hand: "Everyone is bustling and bustling, it's all for profit, and it's all for profit. I guess she came to see the master to curry favor with him."
Yan Shijie nodded: "Maybe you guessed right, she just wanted to have a good relationship with me. Alas, now that Empress Rong is dead outside Beijing, the harem is her Ziyan's world. We don't want to follow people like this. Don't offend her if she gets too close. This is the best way to protect yourself wisely."
However, in this world, if you don't provoke bad people, bad people will still come to provoke you. Why does Rong Chang'an want to make Zi Yan an enemy!
Zhou Chao lit candles in the house. When the man went in just now, he was carrying a bag, but when he came out, the bag was gone. Rong Changan observed the room by the light of the candle, but he did not see the burden.
"Could it be that I misunderstood that the man actually went out with a burden?"
If the burden was in Yan Shijie's room, what was in the burden? Why did Ziyan give the burden to Yan Shijie
Rong Changan stayed in Yuanjiao for a while with doubts. Yan Shijie took out the book to read at night by the lamp, but nothing else happened.
"What is the burden, we will only find out later!" Seeing that it was getting late, Rong Changan left Yan Shijie's house and returned to Brother Shi Jiu's home.
Brother Shi Jiu cleaned a room and spread the best quilts on the bed. Eunuch Fan waited anxiously in the room, and when he saw Rong Changan, he said happily, "Queen, where have you been? I'm really afraid that something will happen to you!"
Eunuch Fan stayed up so late because he wanted to wait for Chang'an.
Just after returning from the outside, Rong Changan's hands and feet were cold, but after listening to Eunuch Fan's words, her heart melted.
"Just go out for a walk, what can happen!"