Chapter 1 The Wedges Rising
Chang'an, Daming Palace.
It was already dark, and the magnificent palaces in the daytime had faded their glory. Occasionally, palace maids and eunuchs walked through them with lanterns, looking like a few grains of sand and dust in the surging river.
Darkness is the main color of the Daming Palace at this time. Under such a tone, the brightly lit northeast corner of the palace city seemed particularly eye-catching. It was an ordinary three-story building with no even a plaque at the door. But at this time, thousands of soldiers with bright armored soldiers were standing downstairs holding torches, surrounding the building with all sides of the building to be airtightly.
"Crown Prince! It's time for you to go! The two princes, King E, are afraid they are waiting urgently now! Why don't I help you?" The voice drifted out from the third floor with the lights on. Gao Lishi, a big eunuch in purple, said, squinted his eyes and smiled at the man sitting at the table with a little scattered bun.
The man raised his head, and his two phoenix eyes were nailed to Gao Lishi's face like a sharp arrow. "Eunuch Gao, what else should I worry about now? Besides, I'm dead, the one who is proud of is Empress Hui. You may not have any benefits to get, but you will lose some useful value, right?" Gao Lishi's smile froze. Under the gaze of the phoenix eyes on the opposite side, he slowly opened his helpless eyes: "I can't help myself, please don't hold a grudge! Please rest assured, Your Majesty has issued an order, and you will be entrusted to King Qing to raise you. Old Nu will serve you with all your heart, so that your Highness will definitely be safe and safe."
"Ha--I'm afraid I can only be safe and safe? I was originally disgusted with the matter between King Qing and Concubine Hui, but now I think about it. Thanks to him, I will not be able to win the last place! Ha! Living under someone else's roof! Is living like this considered luck?" As he said that, the man smiled self-deprecatingly, reached out to hold the wine pot in front of him, slowly poured the wine into Baiyu's wine glass, then put the wine pot down and brought the wine to his mouth.
"Do away! Let me go! Let me see the prince! Let me see the prince! The prince! It's me! I'm Xiao Zhenzi!" At this time, a sharp shout came from the downstairs, mixed with panic on the verge of despair.
Hearing this, the man put down his wine glass, and Gu Jing Wubo's eyes suddenly flashed with a ray of longing light. He looked up at Gao Lishi and smiled and said, "Eunuch Gao, can you make an exception? Let me say a few words to him? This is my last wish before my death. I hope you can fulfill it."
Gao Lishi frowned and thought for a while. No matter what he thought, it was irrelevant to meet someone in the current situation. Even if Empress Hui knew about it, there was nothing to blame. So he smiled and waved his hand, signaling the eunuch behind him to go downstairs and ask the soldiers around him to put the visitor in.
Not long after the eunuch went out, a thin figure fell into the door like a stone thrown out. He got up from the threshold without saying a word, first glanced at the man sitting in the shadow, then stood up, wiped the soil on his body, saluted Gao Lishi, and said in a regular manner: "I have met Eunuch Gao." Gao Lishi looked up at him, and saw that the person who came was fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a coarse cloth clothes, looked pretty, but he lacked the heroic spirit that a man should have. With his voice, the vicious eyes could easily identify the identity of his eunuch.
"What's your name? Why haven't I seen you before?" Gao Lishi searched in his mind for a long time, and found that he had no impression of this little eunuch, so he had to ask. The little eunu bowed and replied clearly, "Go back to Eunuch Gao, Xiao Nu's surname is Cheng, and his name is Xiao Zhenzi. Xiao Nu has been working in the prince's mansion. There are few people walking around normally, so you naturally have never seen it." Gao Lishi nodded, looked at him a few more times, and said with emotion: "Little Zhenzi! It's really hard for you to think about your master now. There are not many loyal people like you! If you have anything to say, let's say it, our family is waiting for you." As he said that, Gao Lishi retreated to the door, indicating that he would not eavesdrop.
Xiao Zhenzi saluted Gao Lishi with gratitude, trotted to the prince, and said with tears in his eyes: "Master, Xiao Zhenzi is back late!" The prince shook his head: "It's not too late, isn't I drinking this wine yet? How about it? How did you do what you did?"
When he heard this, Xiao Zhenzi put away his tears and looked around subconsciously. Although Gao Lishi was five feet away from them at this time, he still stretched his head to the prince's ear, said a few words as thin as a mosquito, and then took a step back and stood up straight again.
After hearing his words, the prince sat there motionlessly, and after a long time he showed a smile. At the same time, a line of tears slid from his cheeks and hit the ground. "Thank you." The prince said softly, his eyes falling on Xiao Zhenzi, but it seemed that he was not looking at him.
Afterwards, he turned his gaze to Gao Lishi at the door: "Eunuch Gao, do a good person to the end. I wonder if you can do more. Please help me take care of Xiao Zhenzi in the future. This child is also smart and will be of some use to you."
Gao Lishi nodded: "The prince's orders, the old slave will do his best. Besides, I also like a loyal child like him."
"That's good!" The prince smiled relievedly. He picked up the wine glass in his hand and greeted Gao Lishi from afar: "Eunuch Gao, I still have some things to tell you."
"Please speak with your highness." Gorian stood tall, with a polite and distant look.
"Eunuch Gao, thank you so much for your hard work over the years. Actually, I know that if it weren't for you, I would have been poisoned to death by poisons from somewhere more than 20 years ago when my mother passed away. It's because I'm ignorant. I should have called you Aweng like other brothers. Aweng, thank you for these years!"
Gao Lishi was stunned. He suddenly remembered the days when he had just joined the day under his command. On that day, he followed his master into the gate of the Prince's Mansion. As soon as he entered the door, a ball of meat in purple clothes smashed into his arms and then rebounded to the ground.
His heart immediately rose to his throat. Even if the child in the prince's mansion is not the prince's child, he must have a close relationship with the prince. If the child is damaged, he may not be enough to cut his head if he has ten heads!
But before he could find a way to save the situation, the purple ball of meat had already stood up on his own, patted the soil on his body, raised his head and smiled at him, his eyes like a pair of black gems, clearly reflecting his appearance.
Chapter completed!