A wonderful Qionghua Banquet, a wonderful feast for the royal children to choose their sweethearts, ended in such a hurry. Www!QUaNbEn-xIAoShUO!cOM
At first, it was Sha Xinyue's peerless appearance that made all the women present, including the Queen Mother, jealous and confused all the royal children. This Qionghua Banquet was simply suppressed by Sha Xinyue's peerless appearance. Got to be dim.
Then there was a big fuss in Winning, which caused a lot of noise and caused the branches and leaves of Qionghualin to fall off. Everyone's interest suddenly weakened by 70% to 80%.
In the end, Ying Ye also came over to join in the fun. Originally, he had nothing to do with the Qionghua Banquet. He came over eagerly and asked Lin Qi to identify some weird things. He rewarded Lin Qi with an official position and a title without any reason, and then Leave without saying a word.
There were too many things tonight, too complicated, and too weird. Everyone, including the Queen Mother, lost the energy to have a banquet. The group of people sat casually under the viburnum tree, drank a few glasses of wine, listened to a few songs, and waited. At midnight, the Qionghua tree slowly opened its petals. Watching the crystal-clear Qionghua blooming like a crystal carving with charming beauty under the night sky, after tasting the fragrant fragrance of the Qionghua, The Qionghua Banquet ended like this.
Ying Qin was still pretending to be close to a group of royal brothers from behind, and the group was still bowing and kneeling to the Queen Mother. Lin Qi, Hu Xinzhu, and their group had slowly left the Qiong Palace and headed towards the exit of the imperial city under the leadership of the eunuch. OK.
Walking side by side with Lin Qi, Hu Xinzhu lowered her voice and muttered in confusion: "I thought the emperor would ask me a few words when he came to Qiong Palace, but I didn't expect that he really didn't understand these questions. Do you take God’s affairs seriously?”
Lin Qi looked at Hu Xinzhu in surprise: "What's wrong?"
Hu Xinzhu frowned and shook his head gently: "Over there in Longcheng, the slogans of rebellion have been shouted, and the flags of rebellion have been raised. They are desperately arming the abandoned people, but the emperor has no plans for Xidi Capital. I have absolutely no understanding of the matter of protecting the Mansion. In the past few days, the emperor has only issued an edict asking several nearby provinces to be on guard, but other than that, he has not taken any other actions!"
Lin Qi was dumbfounded. Is Ying Zhu's psychological quality so good? Dragon City has coerced millions of abandoned people into rebellion, and he hasn't made any movement at all
Then Hu Xinzhu muttered in a low voice: "Also, I handed over the cases of Milo Shen Cult, Ya Wuyuan and others, but there was still no response at all in the palace. The emperor did not take these things seriously at all. , it’s just an oral instruction asking me to investigate carefully, what does this count?”
Lin Qi spread his hands, he really didn't know what to say. It stands to reason that in the Blood Qin Empire, the cases related to the Miluo Cult were all shocking, not to mention that Yawuyuan also involved clergy from the Western Church and even had affairs with nobles in the palace. Eunuch Anshun was close to Concubine Xi. Which emperor would not be nervous and nervous about a case like this involving nobles within the palace
But Ying Zhu didn't react at all, and Concubine Xi didn't receive any treatment!
On the contrary, Ying Zhu was still in the mood to come to Qionghua Banquet and ask Lin Qi to identify those weird things. What does he want to do? Ying Zhu doesn't seem to care about government affairs now. What is he thinking about
If the Longcheng rebellion could not threaten the rule of the Blood Qin Empire, after all, the chips held by Longcheng were too small. However, the Miluo Cult colluded with clergy from other continents, colluded with noble children, and ambush dead assassins among nobles in the palace, and even eunuchs. If this kind of thing is not handled well, it will cause chaos in the court. Why doesn't Ying Zhu care at all
Shaking his head, Lin Qi couldn't guess what Ying Zhu was thinking. He could only sigh in a low voice: "It's so unpredictable!"
Hu Xinzhu laughed sarcastically, nodded, and then shook his head. He didn't think Ying Zhu was so unfathomable. Instead, he felt that Ying Zhu was out of his mind. His mind was broken and he did such incredible things. …,
The group of people followed the eunuch who led the way and walked quickly towards the south gate of the imperial city. Seeing the imperial city gate right in front of them, a man was wearing a black python robe, with a small dragon and sea cloud pattern tattooed on the cuffs with blood-colored silk thread. He was obviously of extremely high rank. The tall old eunuch walked over from the diagonal stab tremblingly. The old eunuch seemed to be walking very slowly, but in fact, he was like a breeze, and he was in front of Lin Qi and Hu Xinzhu in a blink of an eye.
Hu Xinzhu glanced at the old eunuch, then put on a smile, and bowed deeply to the old eunuch: "Eunuch Hai, why are you here in person? Is there anything else worth doing in this imperial city? Did you personally take action?"
Mr. Hai Xihai is currently the only first-class eunuch in the imperial city of the Blood Qin Empire, also commonly known as the chief steward of the imperial city. There are dozens of stewards, hundreds of eunuchs, and more than two thousand eunuchs in the entire imperial city. As well as tens of thousands of eunuch servants without grades, plus hundreds of thousands of palace maids, maids, servants, guards, etc., everyone is under his single hand.
The emperors of the Blood Qin Empire practiced the Iron-Blooded Emperor Technique. This overbearing and powerful technique destined many emperors to die early. However, Hai Xihai's old father-in-law was privately called the 'Ten Thousand Years Immortal Old Turtle' by the courtiers. ’, he has served twelve emperors of the Blood Qin Empire. He is the most trusted by the royal family in the entire Blood Qin Empire and has supreme authority in the inner court.
Not to mention the power of the old eunuch himself, only the descendants of his tribe, five distant nephews, were granted the title of hereditary marquis because of his relationship. This shows the power and prestige of Mr. Hai Lao in the imperial city.
On weekdays, this old eunuch always sits in the center of the imperial city and rarely appears in front of others. Hu Xinzhu couldn't help but be startled when she saw him suddenly appearing in front of her today. Could it be that Ying Zhu died suddenly and the old eunuch came out to announce his death
Unless Ying Zhu died, Hu Xinzhu couldn't think of anything that required the old eunuch to take action personally.
The short Mr. Hailao narrowed his eyes, walked in front of Lin Qi and Hu Xinzhu, and muttered in a low voice: "Your Majesty has a decree, Mr. Hu and Mr. Lin, come with us, and wait aside. After a while, Your Majesty has something to do with you."
A high-ranking eunuch on the side cautiously came over. He respectfully reported to Mr. Hai: "Old Ancestor, today the Queen Mother has arranged a Qionghua Banquet. The imperial city gate has been delayed in closing. Wait. Your lords have left the palace, and this city gate must be closed quickly, if..."
Eunuch Hai slapped the eunuch's face gently, with an old face smiling like a chrysanthemum: "Little bastard, the emperor is worried that you little bastards don't know how to adapt, so he asked me to come out and say something."
Shivering, he took out a token made of purple jade, and Eunuch Hailao said calmly: "Let the gate of the imperial city leave a side door so that the two adults can go out later. Tsk, this is impossible to say. , maybe your Majesty has something to do, and the two adults don’t know how long they will stay here later. Is this the side door... Let’s keep it, let the city gate commander take the token, and report it to the Inner Inspection Supervisor and the Inner Editorial Supervisor , leave this side door open until dawn when all the officials go to court!"
The two eunuchs walked out quietly, took the token respectfully, took three steps back, and then ran towards the imperial city gate.
The imperial city of the Blood Qin Empire has strict laws and regulations, and there is an extremely complicated set of supervision procedures for when the city gates are opened and closed every day. Ying Zhu suddenly asked Hu Xinzhu and Lin Qi to stay in the palace, which required leaving a side door so that they could leave after finishing their work.
This left a small side door, which would have alerted at least seven or eight yamen inside and outside the imperial city to report it. Without Mr. Hai Lao personally coming forward, the other eunuchs would not have been able to handle this matter. Even for Mr. Hai, he had to rely on Ying Chen's improvised command card to leave a doorway to go out. …,
As for letting Lin Qi and Hu Xinzhu spend the night in the imperial city, that was impossible.
The rules in the Blood Qin Empire's palace were extremely strict. Even the emperor's most beloved ministers could not stay in the palace overnight. Even the emperor could not violate this rule, otherwise the emperor would be impeached by the royal family's elders, and that minister could only Can take the blame and commit suicide.
Therefore, no matter what Ying Zhu has to do with Lin Qi and Hu Xinzhu, even if it is past midnight and there are only a few hours before dawn, the two of them will probably stay in the palace until dawn, but the side door must be left open - This is a gesture, a gesture that makes no sense.
Seeing that Eunuch Hai came forward in person to promulgate the decree and left the two of them behind, Sha Xinyue frowned slightly.
She exchanged glances with Hu Xinzhu, then nodded to Lin Qi, made a careful gesture, and then walked out of the imperial city slowly with an innocent and kind smile. Naturally, the guards brought by Hu Xinzhu surrounded Sha Xinyue and boarded the car, all the way back to the mansion.
More than a dozen eunuchs rushed back and forth for a while, and finally completed the procedures related to the side door and reported them to various yamen. Only then did Mr. Hai lead Lin Qi and Hu Xinzhu towards the dark palace in the north. past.
The branch road in the northeast that Lin Qi and others took when entering the imperial city leads to the Qiong Palace where the Queen Mother lives. The road due north now leads directly to the core of the imperial city. Hu Xinzhu is still very familiar with this path. After all, he is often ordered to enter the palace to deal with Ying Zhu.
But for Lin Qi, this was an extremely novel experience.
The black jade avenue carved with dragons and phoenixes shines under the starlight, revealing a solemn, mysterious and suffocating pressure. Countless palaces and pavilions towered into the clouds on both sides, but there were no lights at all, like countless monsters squatting in the rich night.
When passing some palaces, you can see groups of eunuchs holding blood-colored lanterns walking quietly like ghosts. These night watch eunuchs are all experts with strong cultivation. There are ten eunuchs in each team of one hundred, and the other ninety people are all based on their status.
Lin Qi thought of the royal palace of the Gallic Empire. There were only four heavenly ministers in that palace!
Compared with the royal palace of the Blood Qin Empire, what a pitiful and miserable scene it was.