Imperial City

There were 30 eunuchs serving in front of the imperial court, and ten court ladies.

Among them, there were 12 eunuchs and four court ladies who served personally.A personal eunuch is a type of imperial eunuch, closer to the emperor.

When Wei Qisheng became a personal eunuch, he didn't just spend most of his time serving tea in the inner study or the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but he had to obey Anxi's dispatch, wait for the emperor to bathe and change clothes, preach edicts, etc., and had to take turns to watch at night.

But he had just been promoted, and with such an embarrassing status, An Xi only sent him to learn after Wang Fugui and do some simple work.

A few people were talking, the servants waiting outside entered the room, and the eunuch on duty in the main hall delivered a message that the Holy Majesty had risen.

Anxi nodded, the few people stopped talking, and the whole eunuch withdrew, and he had to take the remaining eighteen imperial eunuchs to pay his respects to the Holy Majesty.

Wei Qi went out of the house with Anxi, Wang Fugui had already led the ladies and eunuchs who were close to him to wait outside the door with a copper basin of hot water.

He walked to the end and joined the queue, and Anxi led a group of people towards the main hall.

Several eunuchs on duty in the Xinuang Pavilion next to the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation were kneeling in front of the pedals and waiting for the Holy Majesty to put on his boots.

Anxi led eight servants and two maids in two rows to a distance of two feet (about seven meters) in front of the dragon's collapse.

"Slaves, please be safe and blessed, and be safe and blessed." Everyone knelt down and saluted, and the emperor called out.

Wei Qi knelt at the end, and the man's low voice rang directly to his ears in the silent Nuan Pavilion.

His heart skipped a beat, or because he just woke up, his voice was particularly hoarse, which made people panic.

The servants responded, holding rosewood red lacquered trays in their hands, and walked slowly to the pedals and knelt down.

The person who previously served the Holy Majesty to put on the boots will put on the good boots for him, get up and leave.

The two leading servants took two steps and took his place.

One servant knelt in front of the Holy Majesty's right leg, holding the teacup with the lid off to his forehead with both hands, while the other servant knelt in front of his left leg with a spittoon in his hand.

The emperor took it, took a sip of the tea, and then spit out the tea from the hand of the slave on his left.

Taking advantage of this gap, the second servant on the right handed the soft ivory brush dipped in green salt to the one in front, and took the teacup in his hand.

The servant headed on the right still raised his hands to his forehead, serving the emperor to clean his mouth.

The servants offered everything to the emperor to clean his face and shave his face. After some actions, he was orderly and silent.

Grandpa An told me to learn more.

Wei Qi was curious, and couldn't help raising his eyes to watch quietly.

The sage, dressed in bright yellow obscene clothes, was served by the crowd with a sullen face. From the beginning to the end, he sat on the side of the slump, without moving a bit.

Even though he was at the end, Wei Qi still felt flustered. At this time, the Holy One was very different from the people close to him. He was as cold as a statue of gold and jade. He had to admit that this was probably the temperament of the Son of Heaven.

The Holy Majesty had the worst temper when he got up in the morning, so everyone was extra cautious at this moment. In Nuo Da's warm pavilion, there was only a slight sound of water dripping on the copper basin.

After a cup of tea (about 15 minutes), after cleansing the face, he got up and stood before the collapse, his indifferent eyes swept down, Wei Qi bowed his head.

The eunuchs stepped back, replaced by two court ladies who stepped forward to help the Holy Majesty change his clothes.

The emperor's clothes include court clothes, auspicious clothes, ordinary clothes, and travel clothes. The court clothes and crowns are divided into two types: winter and summer.Bright yellow is the most precious color, blue is used when offering sacrifices to the sky, red is used when the sun is rising, and white is used when the moon is setting.

The patterns are mainly dragon patterns and twelve chapter patterns, with one dragon on the front, back and arms; five dragons embroidered on the waist and nine dragons on the front and back; two dragons on the clothes and four dragons on the clothes. ; Two dragons are embroidered on the shawl; one dragon is embroidered on the end of the sleeve.The twelve chapter patterns are the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the dragons, the Chinese insects, the Fu, and the eight chapters on the clothes; the other four kinds of algae, fire, Zongyi, and rice noodles are on the clothes, and they are equipped with five-color cloud patterns.

Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, according to the rules, the Holy Majesty needs to meet the courtiers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony to discuss state affairs, so the servant in charge of the clothes is holding the court uniform.

After the two maids stood and knelt and put on the court clothes, belts, leg belts, court beads, jade pendants and other things for the Holy Majesty, the Majesty sat down on the old wooden spring stool to the west of the tower, closed his eyes and meditated.

The maid close to him untied and combed his long black hair, tied it into a bun and fixed it with a jade hairpin.

Then install the twelve-colored crowns, which are made of twelve multi-colored reels, each with 12 yuan of five-colored jade, in the order of Zhu, Bai, Cang, Huang, and Xuan, and the distance between each piece of jade is one inch. The handle is twelve inches long, and the twelve handles are made of white jade beads.

Beads cover his cold and stern face, but his aura is even stronger.

At the same time, An Xili stood at the foot of the Longta steps and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you ordered Wei Qizhi, who served tea in front of the emperor, to serve you, and this servant has brought him here."

The emperor opened his eyes, showing a little surprise, as if he had never expected Anxi to move so fast.

"Um."

"Wei Qi, don't you hurry up and thank the Holy One?"

Wei Qi bowed his waist and put his chin on his chest, and walked out on his knees.

Three kowtows: "Slave Wei Qi thanks the sage for his grace, long live the sage." Since the last time Anxi mentioned something, he dared not say anything about being wise and powerful, knowing people and making good use of them.

In short, long live this sentence is not wrong.

"En." The emperor responded in a low voice, looked around the slave, and changed his outfit.

"Get up."

Wei Qi paused, "Hey." Standing up.

His move was a little tricky, because the servants on both sides were kneeling, in the Nuan Pavilion, except for An Xi and a maid standing, only Wei Qi was left standing together.

He stood in the middle, almost facing the Holy One, and there were kneeling servants all around him, with nothing to cover him.

Wei Qi was a little flustered, with cold sweat on his hands.

The emperor roughly looked him around, thinking that a Taoist relies on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, which is really the opposite.

Standing up, the string of beads in front of the crown swayed slightly, and the beads and jade jingled.

The dragon walks like a tiger, and the emperor is playing with the agate string in his left hand, and with his right hand behind his back, he steps down the stairs before the dragon collapses.

Wei Qi backed down and returned to the ranks.

The emperor came out of the Xinuang Pavilion, and everyone got up, bowed their heads, and filed out after him.

Walking to Dongnuan Pavilion, the Holy One sits on the Arhat bed.

Anxi ordered people to pass on the meal, and the eunuchs in the corridor of the Hall of Mental Cultivation shouted to pass on the meal one after another, and the sound spread from the Hall of Mental Cultivation all the way to the imperial dining room.

Several dining room eunuchs have already made preparations.

Enter the three dining tables arranged in a north-south direction, and set up a few tables beside the dining table, in case the emperor rewards the harem concubines or servants around them.

A dozen eunuchs from the dining room carried red lacquer food boxes and entered through the south gate in the middle.

The meals are served in gold, silver and jade wares. There are gold spoons, gold inlaid chopsticks and silver hot pots with lids, silver peaches with lids, silver ladles, and half-sided black lacquered gourds.

The daily breakfast dishes include [-]-inch dish with purple cover, [-]-inch dish with crispy fire, [-]-inch dish with sauced meat, [-]-inch dish with vegetarian fried cabbage, and a can of cowpea porridge.

In addition, there are also various fruit snacks, such as Tangdabian, Tangtaozhan, Peanutzhan, Big Watermelon Seeds, Golden Cake, Golden Dates, Preserved Shaguo, Preserved Apricot, Sesame Milk Roll, Honey Cake Milk Roll, Pea Cake, Mung bean cake, mandarin orange, wide pear, apple, duck pear, ruyi apple, narcissus pear flower, amaranth, Wen Pu, candied crabapple, candied orange, bergamot green plum, candied mandarin and lime haw jelly.

Everything is exquisite, the portion is not much, and the table is full.

Surrounded by several dining eunuchs, the emperor took his seat. Wei Qi stood at the western corner of the dining table and watched secretly.

Although he used to be an imperial servant, he only waited outside. He had never seen the scene of the Holy Majesty having a meal. Looking at it today, it is really extravagant.

This is the ostentation after the Holy Majesty reduced the cost of the imperial dining room, which shows how extravagant it is.

The eunuch serving food placed the poison-testing cards one by one in the gold and jade bowls and dishes. The poison-testing cards were small silver cards, half an inch wide and three inches long. .

The serving grandpa took a bit of the dishes one by one into the bowl in front of the Holy One.It is a rule in the palace that each dish should not exceed three spoons, and the emperor's preference should not be known.

The first emperor made this mistake once, and the dish was never seen again for ten days and a half.

His Majesty's heart was colder than his father's. He never said that this product was good, and he only tasted one or two mouthfuls of everything without showing any expression on his face. Over the years, only the Empress Dowager and the old man in the palace knew that he was fond of sweets when he was young. But which child does not like sweets?

Wei Qi glanced at the sour orange and hawthorn cake at the end, and salivated from his mouth.

He hadn't eaten sour for a long time, now thinking of the taste, he couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, but he didn't dare to look at it all the time.

The emperor sat upright, but only turned his eyes to Wei Qi twice, but he saw the servant staring at the dining table eagerly, his eyes were straight and longing.

He followed the man's gaze, and he was looking at a plate of pastries that were yellowish and crystal clear.

The emperor looked at it for a long time, and the father-in-law thought he was going to use the plate of pastries.

Although I felt strange in my heart, I still used another jade plate to hold a spoon and offered it up.

The emperor didn't say anything either, just scooped a small piece into his mouth and tasted it.

It's not sour, it really is something that children like.

At least he didn't spit it out, with a calm face, he swallowed the food a few times, and calmly took a sip of the tea in hand.

Wei Qi peeked again, his throat wriggling.

The emperor took a few more mouthfuls of pickled vegetables and put down his chopsticks.

"Let's give you the rest of the plates of dim sum," he said.

Everyone knelt down and thanked: "Thank you for the reward, my sage, long live my sage, long live my sage."

That night, Wei Qi ate the sour orange and hawthorn cake he had been thinking about so much, even though he only had two yuan, he was happy for several days.

Inside Kunning Palace.

The queen sits upright and concubine collapses to admire the red plums in the courtyard through the red lacquered window coffin, and Sun Nanny presents a wooden box, "Master, there is news from the inspector of ceremonies."

The former turned around.

"The servant inside is illiterate, so he can only hand out a wooden box while no one is paying attention. The Tao has something to do with the newcomers of the Qianqing Palace."

The queen stretched out her slender snow-white catkins, and the red impatiens bloomed on her fingers.

She took the long and narrow ebony carved peony wooden box and opened it, with a look of surprise on her face.

"So that's the case." A cold snort.

Grandma Sun was curious but didn't dare to ask more questions.

The queen handed the things back: "It's burned, make it clean."

"Hey." Grandma Sun responded, and looked down, a peacock feather was lying quietly in the box with a slight green light.

"It's actually a eunuch." The queen whispered, picked up the teacup and looked closely at the green glaze decoration of peacocks on the top, it was strange that after guarding for so many days, no one was found, and she thought about it from beginning to end.