The world is heavy and late

Chapter 2 The Secretary of Rites

Inside the ceremony
"Liu San, clean up this pile of things."

A small eunuch put a pile of miscellaneous things in his arms, turned around and went to the place where the eunuchs ate.

"Liu San, the Hui ink that was paid just now was sent to His Highness the Crown Prince. Don't delay the time. If you don't have food, it's a small matter. It's not enough to delay His Highness the Crown Prince."

The servant who was standing while talking also hit him on the head with the object in his hand with a little contempt.

The little servant named Liu San didn't look up, and didn't say anything else about these things, and went to work.

The arrogant servant just looked at Liu San's busy back and shook his head. There was no way, the palace was such a place where the high and the low were pushed down. Who made Liu San offend anyone?

Liu San held Hui Mo in his hand and walked bowed on the long palace road. He was used to such oppression, but Liu San still pursed his lips tightly and looked at the ground with fixed eyes. The guards, or the servants who received the task, but Liu San decided not to look around, and just continued to move forward.

In the fifth year of entering the palace, Liu San has gradually learned how to survive in the palace.He thought that he had survived so many things in the past, but now he was just squeezed out by others. He was not afraid, and he wanted to live.

It took a lot of time to come and go, and when he returned to the Supervisor of Rituals, the meal time had passed. In the palace, if you miss the meal time, you can’t eat anymore. Of course, this is only for the maids in the palace. The rules do not include the nobles in the palace.

Liu San went back to the place where Si Lisi's nephew lived, drank two sips of cold water hastily, and was about to fall asleep. Ning's nephew on the bed next to him glanced at him and said:
"Why don't you kowtow to Mr. Hui to accompany your crime, he is a rank eight, two levels higher than us, otherwise I think they will do all the work for you tomorrow."

Liu San replied, "It's useless, even if I kowtow, he won't let me go."

Waiter Ning stood up and said curiously.

"Then how did you offend your lord?"

Liu San turned his head and glanced at Ning's servant, and saw that his eyes were full of gossip, and there was a little gloating in his eyes. Obviously, he didn't really want to help him, but just wanted to watch the fun. The slightly excited eyes of the person.

Liu San turned around and lay down, "It's nothing, just a carelessness."

Ning's servant closed his eyes when he saw Liu San finished speaking, closed his mouth resentfully and lay down.

But I rolled my eyes in my heart, what is so lofty, didn't I just study for two more years and write a good handwriting, and I have already entered the palace as a eunuch, so why are you still working hard, no wonder Mr. Hui hates him.

Ning Neishi let out a sound in his heart, thinking that he would have to push the dirty work to him tomorrow. Anyway, the adults were happy to see the result, so after thinking about it, he quickly lay down and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Liu San didn't fall asleep in the dark, thinking about the way of being a gentleman taught by his teacher when he was a child; thinking about how his father taught him to be sensitive in deeds and slow in words; thinking of his mother's crying and shouting before she died, "Sanlang, We must live on." Liu San tightly closed his eyes and clenched his teeth, but the fire in his heart was getting hotter and hotter.

Outside the Hall of Qinzheng, Xu Ji looked at the sky, and then at the emperor who was still writing memorials on the desk inside the door, and ordered the little servant at the door to bring another cup of tea.

"Your Majesty, it's almost midnight."

The emperor looked up and saw Xu Ji was gently replacing the cold tea on the table, and bowed to him.

The emperor threw away the booklet in his hand, sighed deeply, closed his eyes, and asked:

"How is the harem recently?"

Xu Ji slightly raised his head to look at the emperor's face, thought for a while and said:

"Since the establishment of the Sixth Division female officer, it seems that there are more rules than before, but Cui Jieyu..." Xu Ji paused and did not dare to continue.

The emperor opened his eyes and glanced at Xu Ji, then hummed softly.
"Say it"

Xu Ji bowed, and then said, "I just heard that two days ago, a blind female officer offended Cui Jieyu, and she was dragged down and held for [-] years. She went there that day."

The emperor squinted his eyes, stretched out his hand and flipped through the papers from the previous two days, and found a paper on admonishment. It would be unfair for the emperor to demote people out of the capital just because Qian Yushi came to advise the emperor that he should set up the middle palace early, so that the harem would not be scattered and unmanaged.

The emperor glanced at Zhezi's last name, Cui Ling.

The emperor closed the notebook and asked with an unclear expression.

"Is this because Mrs. Cui thinks that my Sixth Division female officer can no longer serve?"

Xu Ji's back felt cold, fine sweat leaked from his head, he swallowed and said
"Perhaps it's because the female officer is acting rashly and offending Empress Jieyu."

The emperor looked at the candles on the table with an inexplicable expression, and told Xu Ji:
"Go to Zhen's private treasury tomorrow to pick up two porcelain vases and send them to Mrs. Wang." Finally, he raised his eyes to Xu Ji and said, "Go and deliver them yourself."

"Here."

The emperor stood up and was about to go back to his bedroom to rest. Xu Ji saw that he hurriedly followed behind the emperor. The emperor had just stepped out of the gate of Qinzheng Hall. After looking at the night, he thought of something and said:

"How about the prince."

Xu Ji replied, "Teacher Qin even praised His Highness's handwriting today, and Master Wu also said that the crown prince looks smarter this year."

But the emperor snorted: "That brat Jing Xing dared to ask Master Wu to ride a horse when he was three years old. In the past two years, the sky will be turned upside down."

Xu Ji said, "This is as heroic as His Majesty."

The emperor has heard of it, and Yingwu, he still has something to learn.He turned around and said: "Keep an eye on the people around him, don't let all monsters and monsters come to his side, he is the prince." After a pause, he said:

"Let's hurry up with the affairs of the female servants of the Sixth Division. This is the third year, otherwise my harem will be the table tea of ​​the aristocratic family."

Xu Ji quickly responded, "Here."

He and the emperor strode towards the night, and the maids with lanterns on both sides hurriedly followed.

Xu Ji thought in the back, the aristocratic family and the emperor really have a bad debt, but... the emperor is so afraid, I am afraid that someone...

(End of this chapter)