The little eunuch known as Xiao Zhang's father-in-law was obviously very useful to the sycophants of this middle-aged eunuch with the same surname as himself, and couldn't help but laugh happily.

Lu Jiude, who was recording the people who signed up under the bulletin board, was feeling unhappy that no one had come to sign up, and heard the laughter of the low-level eunuchs who were watching here. Suddenly a little angry, he stood up and scolded at the corner of the crowd: "Who dares to make a coax in front of His Majesty's recruitment announcement, is this a contempt for His Majesty's majesty?" ”

Lu Jiude's scolding suddenly quieted down the crowd of onlookers. The low-level eunuchs on the periphery of the crowd began to slip away quietly, which made Lu Jiude even more depressed.

The clever and mean little eunuch Zhang didn't have the courage to be charged with contempt for His Majesty, so he quickly made a look with his accomplices, and pushed the middle-aged eunuch who hadn't figured out the situation out of the crowd.

"It's the palm print of this direct palace eunuch who wants to sign up, and I don't want to despise Your Majesty." Zhang Zhangyin stumbled a few steps, and as soon as he stood in the field, he heard the voice of Eunuch Zhang behind him.

"No, I'm not..."Zhang Zhangji's face suddenly turned pale and waved his hands, trying to explain.

"What's not, do you want to sign up? Or is it not contempt for His Majesty? Lu Jiude unceremoniously interrupted Zhang Zhang's words.

Looking at Lu Jiude's menacing question, Zhang Zhangyin suddenly changed his words and said, "I want to sign up, I want to sign up." ”

"Sign up? Well, it's a good thing to sign up. Come, tell me your name, place of origin, time you entered the palace, and what work you have done in the palace. Lu Jiude immediately put on a smiling face like a spring breeze, beckoned Zhang Zhangyin to sit on the edge of the registration table, and filled out the registration form, for fear of scaring away the first customer.

Seeing that Lu Jiude asked some strange questions, he didn't say anything about Zhang Zhang's palm print, and the crowd that had originally dispersed began to gather again.

Zhang answered a bunch of questions in a confused voice, and then took a number slip with his name written on it, and was told that his registration was over.

Lu Jiude specially advised: "Three days later, in the morning, at the end of the hour, at the beginning of the hour, the examination will be held in the Metropolitan Governor's Prison. If you are two quarters of an hour late or less, you will automatically give up. And if you don't bring this number slip, you will be deducted 10 points. Do you remember? ”

Zhang Xingsheng suddenly came to his senses and asked hesitantly: "What does this deduction of 10 points mean?" ”

Lu Jiude was speechless for a while, Zhu Youzhen just said this casually, and he didn't dare to let Zhu Youzhen explain it to him, so he memorized it by rote, and now when Zhang Xingsheng asked, he asked him down.

"Why do you ask so much? You'll know when the time comes, and you will walk away quickly after registering, and you won't see anyone waiting for you to give up your place in the back? Lu Jiude immediately prevaricated.

Although Lu Jiude didn't know what the herd effect was, since Zhang Xingsheng gave him a start, some people in the crowd of onlookers cowered and wanted to get close to sign up.

The two little chamberlains brought by Lu Jiude immediately shouted at these people to line up to prevent them from crowding together. Seeing that some people began to line up, the internal officials, who were still hesitant to wait and see, began to compete for the first place.

Under the push of the officials in the queue behind, Zhang Xingsheng was once again involuntarily squeezed out of the crowd. He carefully guarded the number paper in his hand, for fear of being squeezed out by the crowd. At this time, the little eunuch Zhang who pushed him out quietly walked to his side and asked in a low voice, "What did that father-in-law tell you to do?" What does this Jindu governor do with exam writing and arithmetic? ”

Zhang Xingsheng quietly stuffed the number paper in his hand into his sleeve, and then said with a smile: "I don't know, I was just pushed out, I didn't dare to think about anything, and I didn't even remember what this father-in-law said to me." Why don't you line up and listen to what that father-in-law said, and then let me hear it. ”

"Cut, you piece of shit. Didn't he just push you, as for being scared like this, no wonder the godfather didn't want to see you. If I knew how to read, I would have gone to the inner school a long time ago, do I still need to ask you? Eunuch Xiao Zhang couldn't see that he couldn't ask anything, so he scolded and left.

Zhang Xingsheng looked at the crowd in the distance a little speechlessly, and then looked up at the blue sky above his head, "It's cloudless, today's weather is really hot enough." Zhang Xingsheng looked up at the sky, he had been lying bent all the time, but when he stood up straight, he had an indescribable temperament.

Don't look at today's Zhang Xingsheng is just an obscure palm print of the direct palace eunuch, but he was the righteous son of Wang An, the hot eunuch in the palace, such as Wang Tiqian, Li Yongzhen and other big eunuchs were his classmates in the inner school.

After Wei Zhongxian came to power, the henchmen of the Wang An faction who had lost power took refuge in Wei Zhongxian, but Zhang Xingsheng was unwilling to attach himself to the past. He thinks that Wei Zhongxian, who has never gone to the inner school, is too radical in his work, and he does not distinguish between good and bad, even if he is in power for a while, it is just a flash in the pan.

And after getting used to seeing the brutal struggle of the eunuchs in the palace, Zhang Xingsheng thought that with his own ability, he would not be able to reverse the bad atmosphere in the palace, which 'only asks about factions, not about right and wrong'.

Since you can't change anything, it's better to be out of sight, stay away from the power struggle, and protect yourself.

But I didn't expect that today I was pushed in front of everyone by a little eunuch. Although Zhang Xingsheng did not know why the new emperor wanted to recruit new members of the capital governor in this form. But he was old enough to be involved in accidents, and he had already sniffed out that the eunuch would no longer be a cold yamen who swept the floor for the emperor in the past.

And in the area where the palace maids lived, Lin Xiang'er was ordering the names of a row of palace maids, and then said: "Several of you can read and write, let me sign up for the Governor's Prison, don't dodge, say your Wang Suniang, what are you hiding?" ”

A girl with a graceful figure, hiding behind the girls, said unconvinced: "Lin Xiang'er, you have only been in the Xinwang Mansion for a few days, what qualifications do you have to command us when you come back." Besides, who doesn't know that the eunuch is a yamen who sweeps the floor, so I don't want to get up early every day to sweep the floor, so Your Majesty won't care who is the palace maid who clears the road for him? ”

Wang Suniang's statement aroused the echo of many palace maids, and at this time, a slightly older girl among the palace maids stopped the protests of the palace maids behind her, and said to the angry Lin Xiang'er: "Sister Xiang'er, even if you want everyone to sign up, at least tell us what we can do when we go to the prison, right?" And what's going on with this exam, right? ”

This girl with a delicate voice was obviously very prestigious among this group of palace maids, and as soon as she spoke, the original noisy voice suddenly disappeared.

Zhu Youzhen himself didn't expect that his small decision had already set off a backwater court turmoil.