Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Man Who Sleeps in Twenty-Seven Beds
At night, it snowed, and the snowflakes became bigger and bigger.
Soon, the streets and alleys of Beijing, the roofs and eaves, and the carriage that was quietly parked at the back gate of the Shuntian Mansion were all dyed white.
Ni Tuiguan came out dejected, heard the sound of the pack horse, sighed gloomily, and got into the carriage.
The coachman whipped his horse, and the carriage drove out slowly.
In the carriage, the chief manager of Chai turned pale, and he didn't know whether he was frozen, or he was angry after listening to Ni Dahong's story.
"That's the way it is." Ni Tuiguan put his hands in his sleeves, leaned against the wall of the car, and said with a bad look:
"You guessed wrong from the start, that thing wasn't on the lifters at all. Originally, so many pairs of eyes staring, how could the kid of the Lu family hide from the world? ”
"Not on the lifters?" Chief Chai showed a puzzled expression and said, "Could it be that he still has accomplices?" ”
He also saw the reaction of the lifters today, and he really didn't dare to poke this hornet's nest again. He turned his attention elsewhere.
"That's your own business, and it's not a matter of killing me......" Ni Tuiguan sighed faintly: "I'm tired, I'm going to take a sick leave to go back to my hometown to recuperate for a while......"
"You're going to be a deserter?" Chief Chai looked cold when he heard this.
"You can say that......" Ni Tuiguan glanced at him and said:
"I advise you to leave Beijing City as soon as possible, there is such a big mess today, it must have attracted the fans of Dongchang."
"What am I afraid of...... Chief Chai looked nervous and swallowed the cruel words that were not nutritious. After a while, he said:
"That can't be done like this, go back empty-handed, do I still have a way to live?"
"You're the Solid Eye." Ni Tuiguan laughed dryly and said:
"I've been looking for so long and I haven't found it, and I can't find it. Anyway, it didn't fall into the hands of the emperor, and the ledger was burned and flooded, and it wasn't your word? ”
"Well, it's really not going to be like this...... "Chief Chai couldn't help but nod slowly, and suddenly said deflated: "But what about the Pure Sea King Seal?" ”
"As long as the news is not leaked, you can get through anything. Can a living person suffocate urine? Ni Dahong is worthy of being a pusher who deals with criminals all day long, and has rich criminal experience, so he nodded to him:
"The Franco-Rang and the Japanese don't know that the seal is lost, and you forged one side, and you still use it?"
"You don't understand, there is a doorway on that side, and the forgery can't hide the red-haired ghost and the Japanese ghost." Mr. Chai sighed again, curled up in pain and said, "Sensei said that I went back for the New Year, and I don't dare to go back in this life......"
Ni Dahong sighed helplessly, and the carriage went down when he got home.
When he had entered the house, the carriage had gone far away. A figure wrapped in a white sheet flashed out from the shadow of the base of the wall, tiptoeing along the ruts of the carriage in the snow.
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The snow fell overnight and did not stop until dawn.
The blue brick floor and golden glazed tiles of the Forbidden City are all covered in white, and the vermilion palace wall is particularly eye-catching. It reduces the majesty of the palace and gives people a sense of elegant beauty like a danqing picture.
Today, Emperor Longqing, who loves to sleep lazily, has not yet gotten up, and it is quiet inside and outside the Qianqing Palace, only the sound of snow sweeping by the small inner eunuchs.
Suddenly, a sound of footsteps sounded from the direction of Qianqing Gate, and the little inner eunuchs followed the prestige, and saw a big man wearing a white mink winter warm hat, wearing a big red python coat, and a white velvet red cloak, surrounded by a group of Dongchang stewards wearing round hats, soap boots, and brown shirts, and entered the Qianqing Palace with a blank face.
The little inner prisoners immediately prostrate on the ground, not daring to look up.
Because the person who came was the chief of the ceremonial eunuch Bingbi and the eunuch Feng Bao of the East Factory. Although he is only the number two person among the eunuchs, he is cold and resolute and unsmiling on weekdays, so the inner eunuchs are afraid of him, even more than the eunuch Yin Teng.
Feng Baomu didn't squint at Danqi, and the eunuch guarding the door hurriedly pushed open the door of the palace silently.
He crossed the threshold and entered the hall, and a group of stewards of the East Factory stood solemnly outside the hall.
Two little chamberlains greeted him and helped Gonggong Feng take off his cloak, take off his warm hat, take off the python coat on his body, and remove the deerskin warm boots.
Then he changed into a navy blue straight jacket, put on a black gauze steel fork hat, and put on soft-soled cloth shoes.
This is a habit that has been passed down in the palace for many years, no matter how beautiful the eunuch is outside, as long as he appears in front of the emperor, he must dress and serve like the most ordinary chamberlain.
After changing this body, Feng Bao asked in a low voice, "Where did the master rest last night?" ”
"East." The little chamberlain reported softly.
The so-called east side is the East Warm Pavilion. There is a side hall on the left and right of the Qianqing Palace, called the East Warm Pavilion and the West Warm Pavilion, which are the places where the emperor sleeps.
During the night, the Emperor slept on the side at random, which made it more difficult for the Assassins to carry out the assassination.
But just like that, there was still a change in Renyin Palace. Frightened, Jiajing moved to Xiyuan, but refused to come back until he died.
After Longqing ascended the throne, although under the persuasion of hundreds of officials, he reluctantly moved back to the Forbidden City and lived in the Qianqing Palace. But he still had lingering feelings about what happened to his father, until Bingbi, the second seat of the celebrant and the eunuch Chen Hong, who was also the imperial eunuch, thought of a good way for him......
Chen Hong proposed to transform the East and West Warm Pavilion into two floors, and then divide it into twenty-seven rooms, with beds in each room, and the emperor slept in any room at random.
In this way, even if an assassin had worked hard to find the Qianqing Palace, he would not be faced with a choice of two, but one of twenty-seven.
If you can guess it right, how much does the emperor have to memorize?
As soon as Long Qing heard Long Yan Dayue, he hurriedly ordered him to transform according to the drawings.
The project was completed in late autumn, and the emperor lived in it for a winter......
Sure enough, I slept soundly every night, and I no longer had to worry about repeating my father's mistakes.
The only trouble is that it is not easy for his own people to find him.
For example, at this moment, Feng Bao had to ask Emperor Qing whether he lived in the east or west.
After the little chamberlain told him, he had to go to the Dongnuan Pavilion again to find Chen Hong, who was on night duty, and learned from him that His Majesty slept in the fourth room on the left of the overpass.
The so-called sky bridge is the staircase.
After Chen Hong was on duty, Feng Bao quietly stared at the golden bell hanging on the caisson.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, finally wait for the bell to ring.
At this point, it's almost three poles in the day.
He led the two little chamberlains to the second floor silently along the overpass, came to the left four doors that Chen Hong said, and called softly.
"Master."
"Come in." A gentle voice came from within.
Feng Bao gently pushed the door in, and saw the emperor leaning on a bright yellow pillow, reading a book in the bed.
"Did you sleep well last night?" Feng Bao asked softly.
"It's okay, but I woke up in the second half of the night." When Emperor Longqing first arrived, his face was white, and his mustache was neatly trimmed, but when he just got up, he was inevitably sleepy-eyed, and his hair was casually draped behind his head.
"Lao Chen's method is good, but there is no dragon on the second floor, and it is inevitable that the master will freeze." Feng Bao glanced at the warm cage that had long been extinguished, and hurriedly asked the little eunuch to open the bronze shroud and replace it with a charcoal basin that was burning vigorously.
Because the emperor's whereabouts could not be revealed, there was no charcoal in the middle of the night, so often when it was almost dawn, there was no warmth in the bedroom.
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