Raising Dogs as Eunuchs [Rebirth]

"His Royal Highness Duke Huai, the Empress Dowager has an order to invite you to Shoukang Palace for lunch."

Zhao Minsheng was originally in the study, staring at the lonely little clay figurine and the little sachet, and suddenly heard such a notification from outside, he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Although he has always followed the rules and went to pay respects to the queen mother at regular intervals, and never dared to give up one day, but in his memory, the queen mother has always been indifferent to him, never despising him, but she can't even say she likes him. Not to mention inviting him over for dinner, what happened today?

Although he was dazed and didn't know what happened, Zhao Minsheng went out in a well-behaved manner. The cold wind blew through the dead leaves on the ground. A young eunuch who looked calm was standing respectfully. outside his door.

In this imperial city where the wind changes the rudder, there are very few people who are so respectful to Zhao Minsheng.

"It's cold in winter, and my father-in-law came here to pass on a message. It's been a hard journey."

The eunuch listened to what Zhao Minsheng said, so he raised his head, lowered his eyes and said, "Don't dare."

Earlier this man had kept his head down, Zhao Minsheng couldn't see his face clearly, the eunuchs in the palace, except Xie Yuan who had an official position, all wore the same color clothes, so he didn't pay much attention. I just thought it was by the queen mother's side, just any little eunuch.

Now that this person suddenly raised his head to answer, Zhao Minsheng saw this person's facial features, which seemed to be a bit familiar, and he couldn't think of the reason just now, but now he understands it in his heart.

He had clearly seen this eunuch before. When he went to Li's residence for dinner that day, Xie Yuan happened to be called over by an eunuch. Although he looked familiar at that time, he couldn't remember which palace he belonged to. Now Look again, isn't it the person in front of him now?

From this point of view, Xie Yuan was summoned by the Queen Mother that day.

Thinking of this, Zhao Minsheng rolled his small eyes twice, and quickly figured out the matter in his heart.

Before becoming an official, Xie Yuan was originally a member of the Empress Dowager's palace. Because of her superb piano skills, she has always been appreciated by her elders. Now it's Xie Yuan's birthday, but her elders suddenly called him over. I think it's impossible. It was because of his humble grandson.

The Queen Mother is for Xie Yuan, the eunuch who is quite favored by her.

As for why Zhao Minsheng, a prince, was no match for an eunuch in the Queen Mother's mind, it was actually not difficult to understand.

When Zhao Min was a child, he was born and raised by Concubine Shu Gui. At that time, the Li family was very powerful, and the emperor liked their mother and son very much. For a while, Concubine Shu's family became the dominant family in the harem. , Even the queen will be crushed.

Although her mother and concubine are sensible, know how to do things, and never take pride in being favored, the dominance of the harem is not what the queen mother expected to see after all. Besides, the emperor was still young at the time, and the Li family had a large army. If the situation is not right, then her son's country will be in jeopardy.

Therefore, our queen mother has always been indifferent to Zhao Minsheng since she was a child. Later, her mother and concubine passed away, and he was sent to the palace for foster care. You can't even see a person's face, so there is no need to talk about feelings.

Zhao Minsheng thought about the solemn and solemn face of her old man every time he greeted others, and he couldn't help feeling a little nervous in his heart.

At this juncture, if one step is wrong, there is a possibility of eternal doom.

Zhao Minsheng now has no one behind him, and urgently needs a big tree to support him. Xie Yuan knows this very well, so he will do his best to keep the Li family's position in the court.

And at this time, if the Queen Mother could stand by his side, that would undoubtedly be a beautiful thing.

But if someone didn't mean it, but invited him because of Xie Yuan...then today's lunch is like thunder, if he can't handle it well, he will be smashed to pieces.

Some time ago, Xie Yuan had just arrived at Tao Yun Courtyard, and the two of them were Lixue drunk and scalded to teach medicine, so it can be said that they caused quite a lot of disturbance in this palace.

One day after that, the Empress Dowager ordered someone to pass on Xie Yuan's past, and Zhao Minsheng had no way of knowing what he said, but he knew one thing, that is, there must be someone's eyeliner in this Taoyun courtyard.

So this time the Queen Mother suddenly passed on her past, and what was the reason?Did Xie Yuan intentionally draw the Queen Mother to him, or did he not check for a while, so that the mouse would know what it was...

In just a few seconds, countless possibilities emerged in Zhao Minsheng's mind. He lowered his head and frowned, stroked the tiger's mouth of his left hand, pondered for two seconds, and then raised his head, then Another smiling face greets people.

At this time, the person in front of him is his only clue, but he is the empress dowager, and he is followed by the supreme master in the palace. A man's mouth, let him abandon the gold and silver, and use it for himself.

Since money is useless, if you want to get something useful from him, you can only rely on side effects.

What Zhao Minsheng needs to know now is nothing more than the queen mother's attitude towards him. To put it simply, it is the reason why she suddenly asked him to go there today. important node.

If it's Xie Yuan, then Zhao Minsheng's heart can fall safely, but if the Queen Mother mentions it, he has to be more careful.

Looking at the fallen leaves scattered everywhere on the ground, Zhao Minsheng smiled lightly, and asked a question as if nothing had happened.

"I have one more thing, I need to ask my father-in-law a little bit more. It's Dugong Xie's idea to let me go to have dinner? After all, today is the teacher's birthday."

The young lady listened to Zhao Minsheng's words, and without hesitation, she replied respectfully.

"How can it be? The empress dowager mentioned it by accident, and it seems that the cause is because of a maid in the courtyard of His Highness."

Maid?Hearing the eunuch's words, Wang Qi immediately raised his head, his eyes were almost bigger than a cow's. He turned around in this small courtyard, scanned around carefully, and finally looked at the eyes. Put it on the dead leaves in the yard.

It's bad, it's already this hour now, and the fallen leaves in the courtyard have not been cleaned, so this girl must have caused trouble.

Although Zhao Minsheng has always been unpopular in the palace, Wang Qi is a real old man in the palace. Under his command, although the palace people are not in harmony, no one dares to do this necessary work. It's too late, now the yard is almost noon and no one has cleaned it, so something must have happened to the palace people.

Today is Xie Yuan's birthday, Wang Qi was busy making arrangements early in the morning, and if he didn't pay attention, he would ignore this subtlety.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling guilty, gave Zhao Minsheng a sad look, and secretly pointed to the small kitchen in the courtyard.

The girl who was in charge of cleaning the courtyard today was just transferred to the courtyard a few days ago, and she had been cooking and washing vegetables in the small kitchen. Zhao Minsheng looked for someone's guidance and knew the girl well.

Xie Yuan had a high fever that day. When he went to the small kitchen to fetch ginger soup for others, he had paid attention to that girl. Stupid dogs are also stupid.

On that day, he knew that this person could not stay under him for a long time, but he never expected that before he could free up his hands to deal with her, this person would have already made her feel like a moth, and even brought the matter to the Queen Mother. .

Zhao Minsheng pursed his lips, tidied up a bit, and followed others to Shoukang Palace.

At the gate of the palace, after being notified by the little eunuch, Zhao Minsheng was finally able to enter the door. When he entered the house, the first thing he saw was the man kneeling on the ground. The small kitchen of Yunyuan is a kind of work.

The empress dowager sat on the front seat, Xie Yuan took the guest seat below, there was a vase of wintersweet in front of the old lady, she had been arranging with flowers and plants just now, and now when she saw someone coming in, she asked the people next to her to put the vase aside , I sat upright and said something coldly to the person.

"His Royal Highness Duke Huai, have you seen it? Is the person kneeling down here a palace servant from your courtyard?"