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Chapter 147 Huangsang, I thank your whole family

How did stinky chess suddenly become the king of chess?It's not about borrowing strength.The two of them also felt that Ruan Yunting's chess moves were very similar to each other, but they never thought that she would come up with such a method, and on the complex chessboard, the chess moves are also recorded so accurately, after all, the criss-crossing points are very similar, She moves very quickly, as long as she makes a wrong move, everything will be destroyed.

Xiao Beishu sat down casually, smiling playfully, as if reminiscing.

Jun Lanzhou's slender fingers separated the black and white chess pieces, picked them up for a while, and suddenly burst out laughing, a deep and joyful laugh, Xiao Beishu glanced at him, and couldn't hold back the laugh.

"This little girl, she never imagined that she would be so nervous about her own affairs, and she could think of a way to tease us. We followed her way. It seems that the previous worries were unnecessary, and she didn't let go of the trial court at all. In my heart."

Jun Lanzhou shook his head and sat down on the other side of the pavilion: "It's just a matter of having fun, who doesn't want everything to go well? But things have happened, and there is no other way than trying to face them. Crying is a day, and laughing is also a day." Day, it is better to face it with a smile and let nature take its course.”

"You feel deeply about this."

"Yes, I am deeply touched. She is in a similar situation to me, so I thought that if I could help, I would do my best to help her." Jun Lanzhou lay back on the long wooden chair, looked at the blue sky outside the thatched pavilion, and let him Reminiscent of Ruan Yunting's bright eyes, they seemed to be filled with bright light.

Xiao Beishu stood up, straightened his mind, and said, "Don't worry, I will do what you asked me to do earlier, and I will go to the trial court later to inquire about it."

Jun Lanzhou sat up when he heard the words, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

"It's not just looking at you, why should I thank you." Xiao Beishu smiled casually, walked down the steps quickly, and walked down the path down the mountain.

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The horseshoes kicked, and the wooden wheels and bluestone floor tiles made loud noises.With a gentle breeze, the curtains of the car windows were raised, and Ruan Yunting could see the scenery outside.Along the way, they have gone from a bustling place to a sparsely populated place, and the women and maids who followed the car were panting, indicating that they had traveled a long distance.

Since turning into the Dinghua Gate, you have already entered the scope of the Trial Court, and the palace wall stretches continuously, seemingly without end.Yue Mo took another cup of tea time before the carriage stopped slowly.The rough envoy's wife stepped forward and raised the curtain for Ruan Yunting, and the little girl placed a red lacquered wooden bench underneath, and helped Ruan Yunting get off the car.

In front of it is an open red lacquer gate, with a bronze lion standing on each side of the gate. Looking up, the three gilt characters of "Shen Zuo Yuan" on the high lintel shine brightly in the sun.Looking left and right, it is a continuous palace wall with no end in sight.

A middle-aged eunuch in an iron-gray robe came up to him and held a dust whisk in his hand. He saluted and said, "Slave Bi Dekai, send my greetings to Miss Ruan."

"Greetings, Mr. Bi." Ruan Yunting saluted, "Eunuch Lao has been waiting for a long time. As soon as the academy ends, I will come right away."

"The emperor ordered, it's important for the girl to go to school, as long as you can ensure that the matter of the court will not be delayed, the girl please come with the servant."

"Trouble your father-in-law."

The two entered the vermilion lacquered gate, Ruan Yunting looked at the surrounding environment, facing the gate was a small courtyard with a hall in the middle, and after passing through the hall was the main hall of the Trial Court.Ruan Yunting wanted to go there, but Bi Dekai led her through the corner door on the side, and walked along the narrow alley about one foot wide close to the palace wall.

Bi Dekai introduced while walking: "The Trial Court is located in the outermost part of the palace, and it is located in a remote place. The front hall is where the adults do their daily work, so girls don't have to go there."

"Yes." Ruan Yunting replied in her mouth, but she also felt strange, didn't the imperial decree say "serve the pen and ink"?Since it's serving pen and ink, where else would I go if I didn't go to the front hall?

After walking about ten steps, Bi Dekai led Ruan Yunting to turn left, and after a while, he saw a long and narrow courtyard with the gate wide open without a threshold.A few young eunuchs were busy moving in and out of the piles of memorials to the porch and threw them casually. Hundreds of memorials almost piled up into a hill.

Ruan Yunting blinked curiously, and looked at Bi Dekai questioningly: "Eunuch Bi, isn't it the emperor's order that I should serve the pen and ink?"

Bi De flicked the whisk, smiled and said: "Yes, the girl not only has to serve the pen and ink, but also 'serves the memorial'."

"Please enlighten me, father-in-law."

"There are not [-] or [-] copies sent to Liangcheng from all over the country every day. The emperor can't read every copy in person, so the function of the review court is to help the emperor select the memorials, and the selected important memorials are presented to the emperor. Your Majesty, the rest of the useless ones are here." He pointed to the mountain of booklets under the porch.

"The girl's duty is to come over every day after school, and carefully check the bottom page of each memorial to see if there is a red cross with cinnabar on it." Pick up a random book, turn it over and show it to Ruan Yunting, Sure enough, there was a cross on the back cover.

"Those like this are useless. The girl can load these useless folders into a cart and send them to the incinerator to be burned together. But the slave has to remind the girl."

"Eunuch, please speak."

"Every year, those who screen the memorials in the trial court will always cut off one or two. Does the girl know why?"

Ruan Yunting felt chills down her spine, looking at Bi Dekai's pale and beardless face, she felt more and more eerie.

Bi Dekai didn't wait for Ruan Yunting's answer, and continued: "Some people, because they have wide eyes and low mouths, do everything they shouldn't see or say. Also, my lords have a lot of time to deal with, and sometimes they choose The important notebooks may be put on the wrong side because of being too tired and confused, or for various reasons, and accidentally put them in the discarded notebooks. Last year, a young eunuch who was in charge of screening the notebooks was lazy and didn’t read carefully. , burned the useful books, and delayed the important military situation. Tell me, can the emperor not be furious."

The emperor was furious, but he couldn't execute all the ministers in the trial court. After all, those ministers had too much workload, so they could only execute the eunuchs who were not carefully selected.

Ruan Yunting has completely understood at this moment.The so-called serving pen and ink is the work that was originally done by eunuchs.What came to the court to study was for outsiders to see, and to put gold on the Xu family's face. In essence, it was a form of corporal punishment in disguise, and it could catch her fault and chop off her head!
Ruan Yunting understood, and sighed secretly, with a sincere smile on her face: "Thank you, father-in-law, for your suggestion, so what should I do with the book I selected?"

Bi Dekai was waiting to see Ruan Yunting's "wonderful" expression so that he could report to Concubine Lu at the palace.Unexpectedly, I didn't see her depression, and I was a little surprised.

"This is easy. If it is an important memorial, if it is selected, it will be returned to the adults in the main hall. If it is a discarded memorial, it will be put in this car, pushed out of the courtyard, and headed south. Send it to the incinerator. The incinerator is over there .”

Bi Dekai first pointed to one or two large wooden carts, and then stretched out his hand to guide the direction. There was a place that was always billowing black smoke, and it seemed to be far away from the trial court.

"You don't have to turn around along the palace wall. You can see it all the way to the south. The dust from the incineration is heavy, so the place is remote."

Ruan Yunting nodded, already accepting her fate.Where is she serving pen and ink?She is a thankless and risk-taking "boiler worker" at all. Burning boilers is pushing coal, and she is pushing memorials.And it's the kind of person who may be caught and beheaded at any time.

Ruan Yunting walked to the pile of memorials under the porch, picked up a copy, and checked whether the back cover was crossed, then piled up the discarded papers and moved them to the front of the cart to load them into the cart.

The cart is somewhat similar to modern garbage trucks. It is in the shape of a square box. There is an axle in the chassis, two wooden wheels on the left and one right, and two handles on the back. There is a wheel in the middle, and the cart cannot stand.

It was okay at the beginning, Ruan Yunting read the memorials one by one, sorted them out, and then loaded them into the car.This type of work is not complicated.But before the cart was full, Bi Dekai had ordered the little eunuch who was in charge of carrying the notebooks to work elsewhere.In other words, from handling, to screening, to loading, Ruan Yunting did it all by herself.

Ruan Yunting had never pushed a cart, let alone a cart full of heavy bags, and had to lift the handle with her hands to prevent the wooden sticks from touching the ground in order to move forward smoothly.The first is that you can't push, and the second is that you can't grasp the direction.The third is inexperienced, too many booklets are placed, they always fall down, and the distance from the side courtyard to the incinerator is far away. Ruan Yunting used all her strength and spent three quarters of an hour to send the car to the incinerator furnace.

During the process of unloading the car, sweat had already drenched the obscene clothes, and the sideburns stood on the face, and hot sweat could not stop slipping from the forehead.The arm seemed to be no longer his own, numb from exhaustion.

But if you want to save your life, how can you calm down the Lu family without paying the price?Presumably, she went to the court to do "hard work", so she didn't need to say it herself, the Lu family would spread the word about her to blackmail her.

But no matter what, her safety is safe for the time being, as long as she doesn't look at what she shouldn't look at, doesn't say what she shouldn't say, work carefully, work hard, and endure this year, she'll be fine.

At least she has a good chance to "exercise".There is no chance to exercise in the mansion. Cleaning the house and sweeping the floor scares Han Bin's family almost to their knees. Here, she can contribute in an open and honest manner. Maybe she can become a strongman in a year.

Thinking of this, Ruan Yunting smiled again.

But her smile didn't last long, because when she pushed the empty cart back to the courtyard, she saw another hill piled up under the porch.

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At Xu time, it was already time for the keys to be released in all the courtyards, and the time for dinner had already passed.The old lady's Pine Age Hall is brightly lit.The eldest wife, the master, the third wife, the girls and the young men all gathered here. Before everyone had dinner, the food in the small kitchen was already ready, and they were waiting for the old lady's order.

In the old lady's room, it is natural to speak according to the old lady's wishes. If the old lady can wait for Ruan Yunting to return to the house before eating, it will hurt her granddaughter to the bottom of her heart.The eldest wife and the second mistress cooperated, and praised Ruan Yunting like nothing in the world.The third wife was very angry when she heard this, she dared not show it on her face.

At three o'clock in the morning, a little girl came outside to spread the word that Miss Ruan had returned.

(End of this chapter)