Confused country poison concubine

Chapter 52: Beast Fighting (1)
All in all, it is still a place that people don't like and fear. To put it bluntly, it is a secret service agency, but it still has some real power.

Unexpectedly, she would still be a spy in this life, she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"The front is the main hall of the yamen. On weekdays, the governor of the palm seal occasionally comes here to do business, but most of the time he is still in the back hall of Shenwu." The little eunuch who led her introduced it all the way with a smile. Although it can be seen that many details of the inner mansion building of the Supervisor of Rituals are quite exquisite, but if you look closely, the carved beams and painted buildings are mottled and peeled off, and they already have the air of decay.

In some places, there are even engravings of dragon patterns. This kind of existence that is absolutely beyond the limit made her feel stunned, and she murmured to herself, besides the gloomy decline of this ceremonial supervisor, the glory of the year is really eye-catching.

Along the way, wherever the autumn leaves passed by, factory guards of different grades all looked sideways. Their eyes were different in light and dark, or suspicious, but also full of ridicule and even gloating.

She just pretended not to see it, and sneered in her heart, no matter what era, airborne elements are always not easy to win the hearts of the people, and they will have a big blow after a while.

The little eunuch led Qiu Yebai all the way into the back hall of Shenwu.

She looked at the back hall of Shenwu, with red lacquered pillars, western glazed windows, and eight all-in-one red sandalwood-wrapped gold-carved chairs for grand masters. The surrounding pendant carvings are some years old, but the luxury and exquisiteness of that year can be vaguely seen.

Qiu Yebai listened to the little eunuch saying that all the things in the Shenwu Houtang had not been touched for more than 200 years, and they were still arranged according to the time when the first Dugong was there. The Duke of Palm Printing, presumably he is a master with a very extravagant personality!

The little eunuch didn't see his masters in the back hall of Shenwu, but when he inquired that Lord Dugong was offering incense in the incense hall, he glanced at Qiu Yebai with some sympathy.

If you didn't go to the meeting ceremony in the Shenwu Hall, you didn't get the approval of the adults at all, and the road ahead would be difficult.

But he didn't dare to say more, he just led Qiu Yebai to the next Xiangtang.

There were already a few eunuchs dressed in the costumes of the first and second-class eunuchs in the palace standing at the entrance of the Xiangtang, and a few military officers dressed as Qian Zong in factory guard uniforms, but they all looked idle, not at all looking like they were waiting to meet with their new colleagues look like.

When they saw Qiu Yebai, they just paused their eyes on her face. After all, Qiu Yebai has a delicate and handsome appearance, wearing a black silver crown with black clouds on her head, and wearing a dark sapphire blue crouching tiger patch. It turns out that Qiu Yebai is a wonderful person disguised as a man. He only thinks that the boy is very handsome, but after a few more glances, they continued to chat as if they hadn't seen each other.

The little eunuch followed them around with a smile and bowed: "Eunuchs and lords, please let Xiao Yanzi lead you in to see Duke Du."

"What are you arguing about? Dugong is offering incense to the patriarch to pray for blessings. If you disturb Dugong, he will go to the execution room in a while!" A middle-aged eunuch in red with a long face glanced at Xiao Yanzi with cold eyes, Xiao Yanzi was so scared that she immediately shut up, but glanced at Qiu Yebai hesitantly: "Then..."

The eunuch in red sneered, and said in a shrill voice, "Wait!" Then he lifted the curtain and entered the incense room.

Xiao Yanzi didn't dare to speak anymore, she nodded to Qiu Yebai and followed into the curtain, she smiled lightly, without saying much, she stood outside the incense hall and waited.

She knew that this was just the beginning of her downfall.

This waited until it was already past lunch time, and the factory guards who were still watching the excitement outside the door also dispersed.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Xiao Yanzi poked her head out from the curtain, waving at her nervously, and then Qiu Yebai slightly moved her stiff legs and walked into the room.

This is already two full hours later.

As soon as he entered the room, Qiu Yebai immediately felt a strong and dark smell of sandalwood in the air, and the light dimmed, as if he had entered another dark, gloomy and boring space in an instant.

In the midst of the cigarette smoke, a figure wearing a dark gold embroidered unicorn patch first-rank official costume is inserting incense into the gold-plated censer, while the eunuch in red was waiting respectfully on the side.

Qiu Yebai knew in her heart that this was the great eunuch of the palm print, Zheng Jun, the supervisor of ceremonies. She got on one knee in accordance with the rules, and clasped her fists neither humble nor overbearing to pay her respects: "The next official, Qiu Yebai, sees the governor!"

After a while, a voice as hoarse as a stone mill slowly sounded: "Since you are here, kowtow three times and offer a stick of incense to the Patriarch."

Xiao Yanzi immediately handed her three sticks of incense.

Qiu Yebai took it over without hesitation, and kowtowed to the first tablet, and when she got up to insert incense, she was taken aback for a moment, looking in astonishment at a picture behind the cigarette-burning tablet.

It was a portrait of half a person's height, with fine brushstrokes and lifelike characters. The tall man on it was wearing a gorgeous purple official uniform embroidered with dragons, sitting lazily on a gorgeous long couch. The eyes were repaired and outlined in heavy purple, a face that was extremely beautiful and also extremely gloomy carried a deep and dark aura undisguisedly rushing towards her face, making one couldn't help lowering one's head subconsciously.

But what shocked her the most was not the dark beauties in the painting, but that the painting completely abandoned the style of traditional Chinese painting, it was completely Western realistic oil painting, and there was a fancy initials signature at the bottom - XLM.

What does this represent—

The strangeness of Qiu Yebai obviously aroused the attention of Zheng Jun and others, but in their eyes, there was another explanation.

A strange color flashed in Zheng Jun's drooping eyes, and he exchanged glances with the eunuch in red.

He stared at Qiu Yebai for a while, and then suddenly ordered: "Since it is the person pointed out by the empress dowager, you should go to the Fengbu first."

Qiu Yebai came back to her senses, happened to catch a glimpse of Xiao Yanzi's pitiful eyes, she lowered her eyes, and raised her hand respectfully: "Yes."

Without any etiquette of meeting and meeting, without any explanation from the superior, Qiu Yebai was sent away just like that.

Seeing her back disappearing outside the curtain, the eunuch in red suddenly said: "Duke, you said that this surname is Qiu, and he just saw the portrait of the patriarch. Could it be that he is really the Queen Mother Du's confidant, so Only then did I know that the patriarch is..."

"Whether he is or not, although our supervisor of ceremonies has lost the splendor of the patriarch, we can't tolerate all cats and dogs coming in to play wild. If you don't want to die, outsiders will stay for a long time after all." Zheng Jun folded his hands into his sleeves, looking Unpredictably cold.

After leaving the incense room, Xiao Yanzi glanced at Qiu Yebai and didn't speak, just walked forward in suspense.

Qiu Yebai noticed the other party's strange silence, so she put away the thoughts that were still lingering on Xiangfang's painting, looked at Xiao Yanzi, and then suddenly called him: "Little Yanzi, I'm new here, and I'm sorry for Si Li. The Ministry of Surveillance doesn’t know much about it, can you explain it to me?”

(End of this chapter)