"What do you think of the performance just now, Your Majesty?"
Xu Miaoyun turned sideways and asked Zhu Di, with a smile on her lips and a soft face.
She was an expert in this area and admired the performances of these two people from the bottom of her heart.
"Well, Lewufang is more attentive this time, Sanbao."
Zhu Di called the chief supervisor beside him.
"The slave is here."
Zheng He leaned over and leaned his ear lightly against it.
"Reward the dancer and musician just now!"
"I obey." Zheng He promised softly and retreated.
Outside Shou'an Palace, Xuezhen, who was ecstatic, danced and shouted while hugging Xiuying, attracting jealous looks from the dancers and musicians around her.
She didn't feel cold at all now, and her pretty face was filled with joy.
In contrast, Xiuying seemed worried and at a loss.
She knew that Xuezhen's mind was impure and ambitious, and she was very worried about it.
Not only for Xuezhen, but also for myself.
Fear of being implicated.
She didn't know whether she should be happy or cry about the performance in the main hall of Shou'an Palace today.
That night, Zheng He, the general manager of the palace, came to Lefang.
His tall body and spotless third-grade purple-red internal official court robe stood upright on the white snow, making him look particularly eye-catching.
Looking at Xiuying kneeling on the snow, Zheng He didn't say anything for a long time and asked her to get up.
In fact, there is no need for him to go there personally for a small matter like a silver reward.
But he still wanted to take a closer look with his own eyes to see what kind of witch this ordinary female family member in the sinner Tiexuan's house, a low-class palace servant, was?
Did he actually alert the prince of Wei State?
Zhu Di opened his palace at the age of sixteen, and the seven-year-old eunuch Ma (Zheng) He served at his side.
He is agile and intelligent, and is deeply loved by Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun, who regard him as their confidant.
From then on, Princess Yan taught him how to read and write, while King Yan asked him to practice martial arts and become a soldier.
During the years when Yan was in Peiping, he stayed with Xu Miaoyun and became the chief guard of Princess Yan.
During the defense of Peiping, he never left Princess Yan's side. He performed bravely during the defense of the city and blocked the princess's arrows twice.
After the defeat in the Battle of Dongchang, Zhu Di was depressed for a time.
Yao Guangxiao asked Zhu Di to lead his elite troops to bypass Jinan Prefecture and go straight to Nanjing.
Zheng He was entrusted by his master and followed Zhu Di every step of the way. He passed the message through Hongyan and became the only messenger between Yao Guangxiao and Zhu Di.
Zheng He's relationship with the Xu Mansion was also the closest among all the servants of Prince Yan's Mansion.
In the past few decades, he has always had a good relationship with the brothers Xu Yungong (Huizu) and Xu Zengshou.
He is also Xu Zengshou's intelligence liaison.
He was also very sad about Xu Huizu's side in the battle of Jingnan and the current dismal results.
Therefore, when Xu Qin asked him to do a favor and transfer Yunniang, the maid from the criminal minister Tiexuan's house, from the Huanyi Bureau to the Leifang, he agreed without blinking an eye.
But curiosity remained in my heart.
Unexpectedly, this Yun Niang was so young and beautiful, and could play such a wonderful piano sound.
No wonder Xu Qin, the eldest son of the Duke of Wei, looked at him differently.
Ever since he heard Princess Yan playing the strings, Zheng He had never heard such a beautiful sound in so many years.
How could a personal maid be so good?
Could it be that this 'Yunniang''s trump card before entering the palace was different?
Xiuying knelt on the snow at Zheng He's feet, shivering from the cold, and feeling very uneasy.
This chief eunuch, who controlled the entire palace and had thousands of eunuchs and palace girls dead, didn't let her get up for a long time?
Did you find out her identity?
Being too conspicuous and attracting attention is definitely not a good thing.
"Get up and let's go."
Zheng He sighed softly, led a group of eunuchs, and left behind.
Xiuying stood up with her hands on the cold ground, and then picked up the bag of reward money on the snow.
When I opened it, I was surprised to see that ten taels of silver were stacked neatly on top of each other, totaling ten ingots and one hundred taels.
God, she could get a hundred taels of silver from any reward given by the palace master.
A poor family has probably never seen so much money in their life.
Xiuying was not particularly excited.
To be honest, with so much money, she is really useless right now.
The family has long since been reduced to ashes. This is not like Guiyue, Yuxiang and the others. Most of the monthly money or silver reward they accumulated happily took home to subsidize the family.
I always feel happy when I can do something for my family.
But she couldn't, couldn't do it.
Back at Lefang dormitory, she was alone.
Guiyue will take a rest tomorrow. After her performance, she puts on the fur coat presented by Xiuying and happily leaves the palace and goes home.
She must have gone to meet her sweetheart.
It's snowing heavily outside, so a fur coat comes in handy.
…
After the Queen's birthday, there was gradually more gossip in the palace.
The most rumored one is the dancing girl Xuezhen, saying that she will soon become the concubine of the King of Han Dynasty.
In short, I want to fly up the branches and become a phoenix.
When the eunuchs and maids at the bottom heard this, they were all very attentive.
In order to curry favor with Xuezhen, the maids in court gave her jade jewelry, and the eunuchs gave her silver patterns.
Everyone hopes that when she becomes prosperous in the future, she will not forget to support him.
Xiuying, however, had no intention of currying favor.
She practiced various strings diligently every day, cultivating her body and mind, as if she were in her own boudoir.
"Yun Niang, please help me deliver something."
On this day, Nanny Lan Xin, who was in charge of the dance studio, came over to call her.
Xiuying agreed without saying a word.
But she never imagined that these things would be sent to the cold palace.
I heard from the palace maids in Ouchi that the Lenggong Palace was very evil. In the dead of night, there would be strange and terrifying screams.
It is said that anyone who offends an evil spirit will be killed.
Thinking of this, Xiuying got goosebumps all over her body and started to shiver.
It was getting dark soon, so there was no time to delay.
Xiuying wrapped the things in her arms and ran quickly towards Leng Gong.
"Stop... don't run!"
Suddenly, a thunderous roar sounded out of thin air.
Xiuying thought he was calling her, so she stopped in fright and stood there, shaking all over.
"Stop, you can't run away."
The noisy shouts came from a side door of the cold palace.
Before the voice fell, a barefooted woman was seen running out from the side door of the cold palace and running as hard as she could.
Her messy long hair was flying wildly in the wind, and her makeup was so messy that it was hard to tell the difference.
Behind her, five or six eunuchs rushed out from the side door of the cold palace.
They were holding wooden sticks marked with red paint in their hands, and they all chased the barefoot woman with ferocious faces.
Xiuying wanted to avoid it, but her legs seemed to be filled with lead and she couldn't move, and she froze in place in shock.
Suddenly my nose felt cold and I felt something falling.
When I reached out and touched it, it turned out to be a large snowflake.
The sky is already filled with heavy snow.
Big snowflakes fell in clumps, and the woman in ragged clothes was a little naked. Her legs that had just rolled over the mud could only run forward with all their strength.
A familiar figure in front of her made the woman's eyes shine with a glimmer of hope.
"Yun Niang...save me, come and save me, they are going to kill me!"
The woman's dirty arms held Xiuying tightly.
