At this time, the Funing Palace was still brightly lit.

Empress Xiang sat dumbfounded, looking at the candle flame in the lampshade, without the slightest sleepiness. The huge pressure was on his shoulders, and the big tree, which had been able to protect himself and his children from the wind and rain, had weakened and fallen most of it, and I didn't know when it would completely wither.

What should I do......

In the eyes of the queen, only the dancing candle flame was reflected, and the transparency of the glass lamp was much higher than that of the gauze cover, and the light emitted by it could even give people a dazzling feeling. Xiang was described as haggard and stared blankly at the flames, and did not take his eyes off for a long time.

"Sage." A female official hurriedly walked to Empress Xiang's side, "There seems to be something wrong with the official family." ”

Empress Xiang was stunned for a moment before she reacted. She immediately got up, and when she turned around, her left foot even tripped on her right foot, but fortunately the female officer on her side helped her, otherwise she would have fallen strongly.

separated the several concubines who were gathered around the bed, and sat next to Zhao Ji to the queen.

Zhao Ji, who had just fallen asleep, woke up again after half an hour, blinking his eyes non-stop, and at first glance it looked like he was trying to convey something.

Seeing that Zhao Ji was not ill, the heart that mentioned his throat to the queen fell back. But what exactly the blink is for is confusing. She leaned over to look at her husband, her frowning brow furrowed even tighter.

"Official, is there something you want to order?" Xiang asked the queen softly.

I could only see Zhao Ji blinking vigorously.

"But you want water?"

Zhao Ji was still blinking, and he was gurgling in his throat.

"Are you worried about the affairs of the court?"

Still blinking.

asked the queen one question after another, but saw that Zhao Ji's eyelids were blinking more and more urgently, and the voice from his throat became more urgent, but just blinking and humming could not convey information at all.

The queen was so anxious that her head was sweating, and the concubines, chamberlains and palace maids were all anxious. How can we comprehend the mind of the Son of Heaven, there are more than thirty people in the dormitory, but no one can come up with a trick at the moment.

Helpless, Song Yongchen asked in a hesitant manner: "Sage, are you recruiting Master Han?" ”

Xiang Empress thought about it and shook her head. Han Gang had to have the ability to make the official family speak, or have a way to make people understand the intentions of the official family, so he did it. If he only had the means of conveying in the middle, with Han Gang's cleverness, he would not have done anything - not only could he not win the trust of others, but it also had no meaning.

As soon as the people were worried, the imperial doctors who stayed behind had already been recruited, but they were also helpless, and could only watch the emperor blink anxiously. Between the opening and closing of the eyelids, there is no rhythm, and it is difficult to figure out whether it is a transmission of heart or a sign of sudden onset.

Just when he couldn't think of an eyebrow, a sharp and thin voice near the door suddenly spoke, "Sage, it's better to use a rhyme book!" ”

A headless and brainless sentence, but it was like a thick fog in front of them being swept by a strong wind, making people's eyes suddenly bright. Song slapped his hand with his minister, and shouted as if he had been drunk: "By the way, it's time to use the rhyme book!" ”

Dozens of lines of sight in the dormitory also turned in the direction where the voice came out at the same time. But it is a delicate-faced, only eleven or twelve years old Xiao Huangmen, with a pair of eyes that are very flexible, and he looks smart and clever.

Empress Xiang had already figured out the role of the rhyme book, and after glancing at the little yellow door, she immediately ordered: "Quickly bring the rhyme book...... I went to the inner study of the official's house to look for it. ”

Song Yongchen immediately ordered the yellow door of a person who managed the inner study, and saw him trotting out to the study.

The person who went to get the rhyme book left, Zhao Ji's eyes were not blinking, and the voice in his throat was quiet, lying calmly on the bed, his chest rising and falling slightly with his breathing.

After feeling this change, for a while, everyone was ecstatic. The official family is really sober, but he can't speak.

Empress Xiang and several concubines immediately gathered around the couch, and when they looked at Zhao Ji, their eyes were full of tears. After a long time, he turned back to the queen and asked the little yellow door: "What is your name, and who are you doing now?" ”

Xiao Huangmen immediately knelt down and replied eloquently: "Back to the words of the saint, slave Yang Jian, now in the Imperial Medicine Courtyard to be dispatched." ”

"Yang Jian?" He read it to the queen, as if to remember the name. looked at the style of the robe on Yang Jian's body again, and asked again: "Is it still at the head of the palace of the Marquis?" ”

The robe on Yang Jian's body is not a high-grade internal servant's official uniform, and the head of the palace is the highest order of the inner servant's miscellaneous duties, that is, the small yellow door, and one level higher, it is the yellow door from the ninth grade.

"Back to the saint, the slave is now a provincial servant."

The inner servant is four or five orders lower than the head of the palace of the only waiter, although there are still a few inner servant official ranks below, but in the imperial medicine academy with a very high status, there is no lower one.

"Let's be promoted to the Yellow Gate, and I will serve in the Funing Hall in the future."

Yang Jian immediately knelt down and thanked him, and his face was ecstatic.

The Imperial Medicine Institute is nominally in charge of the Tibetan medicine and pharmacy in the palace, but the big mink who serves by the side of the Son of Heaven often has to serve as an errand known to the Imperial Medicine Academy, and it is one of the few places in the palace that can get close to the Son of Heaven. But for the ordinary little yellow gate, listening to errands in the Funing Hall and seeing nobles from time to time is the shortcut to climb up to the south. With a bold sentence today, he was promoted to the inner attendant from the ninth grade, and as long as he was careful in the future, it would not be difficult to go further.

A copy of "The Great Song Dynasty Rebuilds Guangyun" was quickly brought in, and Queen Xiang sat next to Zhao Ji with a book: "Official, concubine body uses rhyme books to search for words." If you want to say anything, just blink twice, if not, blink. ”

Zhao Ji blinked twice, as if to show that he understood.

"Guangyun" is 26,000 words, divided into four parts, and two hundred and six rhymes. What can be done with the rhyme book is to count the words in part of the rhyme to see what Zhao Ji wants to say.

As long as you can read books and compose poems, it must be clear which rhyme part the commonly used words belong to, Zhao Ji didn't have to worry before he became ill, but now he uses rhyme books to pass on words, and he can also determine whether the emperor's mind is clear.

"The concubine wants to ask the official family if they are unwell now?" Xiang turned the pages of the book to the queen: "But Shangping? ”

The Son of Heaven's eyes blinked.

"Xiaping?"

Or blink.

"Voice?"

Eyelids open and close twice.

Empress Xiang was shocked. There are twenty-nine rhymes in the upper voice, and the following should be counted here.

"But the rhyme department is in one to ten bribes?"

One time.

"Is it between eleven and twenty?"

Two clicks.

"Is it the 'good' in the Nineteenth Hao [Note 1]?" Concubine Zhu Xian hurriedly asked.

Zhao Ji's eyelids blinked twice.

The word 'good' came out twice, whether it was Queen Xiang or Concubine Zhu Xian, including concubines, female officials and chamberlains, everyone had a smile on their faces. Since Zhao Ji said that he felt okay, even if most of them were comforting, the situation would not be too bad. Such an exchange, although troublesome, is better than

Not being able to communicate is a hundred times stronger.

"Is there anything the official has anything to order?" Xiang Empress turned over the rhyme book again, "Shangping? ”

One time.

"Xiaping?"

One time.

"Voice?"

Two clicks.

"Yun Bu Yi Dong to ten bribes?"

Two clicks.

Xiang Queen's first Dong, two swollen, three lectures, and four pieces of paper were counted one by one, and they were all at once. After the last time, he finally counted the word 'Zai' in the ten bribes in Shangsheng, and Zhao Ji's eyes finally blinked twice.

Slaughtering has the meaning of slaughtering, but Zhao Ji definitely doesn't want people to kill a chicken and slaughter a sheep now.

"Is it to bring in the prime minister?" Asked the Queen.

Zhao Ji's eyes widened and he didn't blink. Neither 'yes' nor 'no', Xiang Queen can only turn the rhyme book again.

Then what I got was the 'same' in Shangping Yidong.

At this point, everyone understands that Empress Xiang is no exception. She asked: "The official family, most of the rulers have already left the palace, and now there are Wang Qi and Xue Xiang who are still in the palace, but do you want to recruit them first?" ”

Two more hits.

Empress Xiang was about to order someone to go, but after thinking about it, she came back and asked Zhao Ji, "...... Han Gang is also there, is it also recruited? ”

Two clicks.

Empress Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, at this time, Han Gang was determined to wait. If you leave him behind and only look for Wang Qi and Xue Xianglai, I don't know how he will react in his heart.

Raising his eyes, the clever little yellow door was in front of him, and he ordered him to the queen: "Yang Jian, go and invite Wang Xianggong, Deputy Xue Shu and Han Bachelor." ”

……………………

"Little Yang Jian, I have been ordered to invite the minister, the cardinal deputy and the bachelor."

Seeing a strange little yellow door running to spread the word, Wang Qi and Xue Xiang both lost their manners: "But something happened to the Son of Heaven?!" ”

Han Gang couldn't sit still either, and stood up suddenly.

Yang Jian hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the queen used the rhyme book, so she can talk to the Son of Heaven." Coming to invite the minister, the cardinal deputy and the bachelor is also the will of His Majesty. ”

Rhyme book?

Wang Qi and Xue Xiang turned their brains for a moment, and they all had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, as long as they could blink, they could indeed communicate with Yunshu. Looking back at Han Gang, he was a little admired.

Han Gang was very surprised, Zhao Ji was really awake, it seemed that his previous performance of delaying time was actually hit right.

Since the Son of Heaven can already indirectly make an order, where can Wang Qi and Xue Xiang sit still, they don't even look at this Yang Jian, and they hurriedly step out. Han Gang glanced at it a little more, just because of the name reported by the little yellow door in front of him.

Yang Jian.

Han Gang felt that this name was inexplicably familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, he remembered that the Erlang God in "Journey to the West" and "Fengshen List" seemed to be called this name.

But that is hundreds of years later, in this era, worship the Jiangkou Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun is very many, two years ago in the capital Wansheng Gate rebuilt the incense in the temple, now only slightly inferior to the Great Xiangguo Temple. The birthday of Gukou Erlang on June 24 is also only slightly lower than the birthday of the Son of Heaven and the birthday of the Buddha on the eighth day of April.

But the name Yang Jian can't be linked to Erlang God. The current Erlang God's surname is Li, and he is the second son of Li Bing, who built Dujiangyan, and was named Lingying Hou by Renzong.

Coincidentally, with the Erlang God of later generations, he deliberately mentioned his name in front of Wang Qi, Xue Xiang and him Han Gang, it seems that this little Huangmen is not a master who is willing to be plain, he must be the kind of person who wants to climb up desperately. Seize the opportunity when you have the opportunity, and create the opportunity when you don't.

Note 1: This is actually a flat water rhyme that came out at the end of the Song Dynasty, and the rhyme is different from the wide rhyme. However, what can be found for a while is the flat water rhyme, which can only be used once.