Chapter 180: Let Your Majesty feel more comfortable!
The chief steward of the Imperial Household Department was still looking at him eagerly.
Jian Yue looked up at the people standing in rows in front of him. The task assigned to him by the system was to select those with clean backgrounds and family assets and send them to the main hall. But now, all of them were carefully prepared and sent by various noble families. Their backgrounds were more complicated than each other. He didn't even need to select them because all the necessary elements were already present.
The manager even asked tentatively: "Are you satisfied with this batch?"
Jian Yue said: "I couldn't be more satisfied."
The butler was about to be happy: "So which ones do you like?"
Jian Yue said: "I don't like any of them."
The steward's smile froze on his face, and he looked at Jian Yue with a meaningful look, as if to say, "How can you be so intolerant of others?" Jian Yue was silent for a moment. Now, not only would the emperor's reputation be damaged, but his own reputation would be in jeopardy as well.
With this refusal, would the rumor spread in the palace that he is jealous and does not allow good-looking people to appear around His Majesty?
Forget it, choosing the right person is more important!
Jian Yue had a sense of calmness that allowed him to risk everything.
The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs said, "Then why don't you send another batch?"
Jian Yue said: "Okay, appearance is not important, what is important is the ability to do things. When you are by your Majesty's side, everything should be put first."
The man from the Ministry of Internal Affairs nodded and said, "This group of servants are actually..."
Jian Yue took a deep breath. He knew that if he didn't completely dispel their thoughts, there would definitely be no end to it. He took a deep breath and looked at the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "I don't need to look so good."
The housekeeper had an expression that said, "I knew you were jealous!"
Jian Yue said: "Do you understand?"
The chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs nodded quickly and said, "I understand!"
Jian Yue: “…”
It seems that he doesn't understand at all.
I guess I won't know how to deal with him anymore.
Jian Yue closed his eyes as he walked back, thinking that his sacrifice was too great. Could it be considered an industrial injury? He had paid too much to shield the emperor from these rumors!
When leaving the Imperial Household Department.
Jian Yue suddenly saw a group of people making a commotion not far away. He saw a young eunuch kneeling on the ground, being dragged and beaten with sticks by several other eunuchs.
He paused.
Jian Yue asked the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs beside him, "What's going on over there?"
The chief steward of the Imperial Household Department replied, "Oh, they are the servants cleaning the toilets in Xinzheku. They are just lowly eunuchs. They are probably being taught a lesson because they were disobedient again. Your Excellency should not look at them, lest they dirty your eyes."
Jian Yue looked at the beaten eunuch, who had been beaten to the point of having almost no energy left. He saw it all and slowly walked over. The beaten eunuch was still lying on the ground, and the eunuchs around him were cursing as they beat him:
"Dog slave!"
"Let you run, let you run!"
"I'm not going to kill you today!"
Jian Yue watched quietly. He said goodbye to the chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and walked over. As soon as he got closer, he saw that the young eunuch who had been beaten had a look of longing for life. He looked at Jian Yue, his mouth spitting blood, but he still tried hard to squeeze out a few words: "Save...save me..."
Although he asked for help, the young eunuch did not hold out hope.
For these people, the life of a disobedient slave like him is a waste. Of course, with his low status and no one to rely on, the life of such a person is not worth much money. No one will care, and no one will bother. The most important thing is to protect oneself.
Just when he was in despair.
Someone's voice fell: "Stop."
Several eunuchs who were beating people stopped. They turned around and saw Jian Yue. Since Jian Yue had not changed his clothes yet and his face was not familiar, they thought he was also a eunuch from one of the several departments. But soon, they saw the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs not far from Jian Yue, and they immediately guessed the identity of the man in front of them.
"Sir!" The eunuchs immediately said eagerly, "This slave boy doesn't work hard. We are teaching him a lesson."
Jian Yue said: "What did he do wrong?"
The eunuch replied, "Being lazy, I want to escape."
Jian Yue looked at the person on the ground and said, "Is that so?"
The young eunuch on the ground had vomited blood and was talking. It was obvious that he was dying, but he still insisted on speaking: "I... I didn't, it's just because the servants didn't have money to bribe, so they beat and scolded me..."
Jian Yue squatted down: "Okay, stop talking, I already know."
Without any hesitation, he tore his clothes into strips and bandaged some of the lacerated wounds and legs to stop the bleeding. While doing this, his injuries were stained with a lot of blood, but he didn't care at all.
After quickly pressing a few large acupoints to stop the bleeding, Jian Yue sprinkled some medicine powder he brought with him on him, and then said, "Go find the imperial physician."
The eunuchs were all stunned.
Jian Yue glanced at them and said sternly, "Can't you hear it?"
"yes!"
Everyone hurriedly got busy. Jian Yue looked at the little eunuch lying on the ground, and then glanced at the poor children in tattered and shabby clothes in the yard behind him. In a place in the palace where no one could see them, these little eunuchs of even lower status were living a life worse than death.
Isn't this the person I'm looking for?
Without any arrangement by any forces, clean enough, and having experienced hardships, I can better appreciate the importance of getting a good job and will only do better than others.
The young eunuch lying on the ground covered in blood endured the pain and said: "Thank you, thank you..."
Jian Yue whispered, "You're welcome. Go to sleep. The doctor will come to save you."
When the sunlight poured down from the courtyard and fell on his shoulders, the young eunuch even felt for a moment that he had seen a god. He tried to force himself to say something, but then he fainted.
At the same time.
A system panel flashed in front of Jian Yue: "The limited-time mission has been completed, and the points reward has been credited. Please check the total points after the dungeon is over."
"Why can I check my points only after the instance is over?" Jian Yue was a little confused: "Isn't it possible to check my points in the instance? Isn't this unscientific?"
System: "No authority to answer at this time."
Jian Yue: "I think you feel a little guilty."
The system is playing dead.
The audience in the live broadcast room was delighted:
"Hahahaha system, you have come to this day."
"He doubted it!"
“This anchor is so sharp.”
"But it's hard to guess without memory, right?!"
Jian Yue did find it a bit strange. He felt that this system revealed a sense of weirdness in many aspects, as if it did not treat him the way a newcomer should be treated. However, he could not ask more questions now.
He returned to the courtyard of the Clothing Bureau.
Everyone in the house has also received the news.
As soon as Jian Yue entered the room, Gao Fei rushed over and asked excitedly, "Is it true?"
"What?"
Leo was right behind him and said, "You got a promotion?"
Jian Yue said: "Not really, it's just a probation period."
Little Li picked up the kettle on the table and poured a glass of water for Jian Yue. He said excitedly, "Then we will all be promoted to heaven. If you transfer us to the emperor's side, we brothers will all enjoy happiness!"
Jian Yue drank a sip, then said to them, "Many people died in the main hall. Chief Steward Zhao was killed on the spot, and some people related to him have been imprisoned today. I have inquired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the servants in the main hall are the ones who are replaced the fastest. Do you really want to go?"
Everyone else was stunned.
It's a high-risk job.
It is said that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. This sentence is actually very concrete.
Gao Fei said: "The emperor's mind is unpredictable. He might do something wrong or say something wrong and he will be killed."
Leo said: "Isn't there the Little Prince? He's here too."
They had unconsciously begun to trust Jian Yue.
Jian Yue actually wanted to say that the emperor was not as bloodthirsty as the rumors said, at least the Huangfu Chengyu he knew was not like that. However, he could only represent himself, not others, and he could not let others take the risk just because of his opinion.
Think about this.
Jian Yue said to him, "You think too highly of me. To be honest, my mind was on the line between life and death several times today. The lowest safety value was even below 5%."
Everyone else was scared.
What does only 5% mean? It’s a matter of life or death!
Little Li's face seemed to turn pale, and he said fearfully: "If you think about it this way, it seems that there is no good in going to the main palace. If you stay in the Clothing Bureau, you can usually run back and forth between the palaces, and you can actually collect a lot of information, and you have more freedom."
Gao Fei also nodded. He looked at Jian Yue and said, "Even if you are alone in the main hall, there will be no one to help you."
Jian Yue said: "It's not so bad. If something really happens, even if someone comes to rescue me, if the emperor wants to kill me, I won't be able to escape for long even if I do."
That's true.
If it were in other copies, if you offended someone, you might just avoid it, but this copy is different. This is the place where imperial power is concentrated, and if the emperor wants his subjects to die, they must die. The danger level of the ghosts in this copy is not high enough to be a threat, but the mental oppression of the environment is very high.
Gao Fei nodded and said, "That's true, and you are now in the spotlight. I guess there are many people here who want to kill you. By the way, we have dug a passage in the underground palace, but it is not yet through. We can't keep digging every night during the day, so we plan to take turns digging."
Jian Yue said: "I'll go and help."
Little Leo refused and said, "No, you are tired enough during the day, just rest more at night."
Jian Yue said: "Okay, then I will go and learn Chinese characters from someone else."
Little Li was puzzled: "You have a teacher in the palace?"
Jian Yue said: "I guess so."
Gao Fei: "Who is it? You have been hiding this from us. Let us see him and teach us."
Jian Yue said directly: "I didn't hide it. You have seen it."
When these words came out, everyone was stunned.
Gao Fei asked: "Who is it?"
Jian Yue said, "The guy from the book pavilion on the fifteenth floor, who sells books to you every day."
Everyone: “…”
Not buddy!
You let the ghosts be your teachers! !
The audience in the live broadcast room were also amused to see their reaction:
"Ahahahaha, he's finally known to everyone."
“I just said that even the players would be shocked, hahaha.”
"Most people don't dare to use the dungeon strategy that Butler Wang gave."
Jian Yue even asked: "Do you want to go to class with me?"
The others shook their heads like rattles.
Jian Yue sighed: "What a pity. If you regret it one day, you can tell me. Actually, she teaches quite well. Although she sometimes wants to pinch me, it can be regarded as interaction between teacher and student."
Everyone: “…”
Which teacher and students interact like this?
After Jian Yue finished talking to everyone, he returned to the library.
The main reason he came back here today was to pack up his things. He might have to move to the side hall of the main hall tomorrow because the emperor must be taken care of by someone, so he had to finish learning the contents of this book tonight.
The female ghost had been waiting for a long time.
Jian Yue climbed in through the window and said to her, "I'm here."
The female ghost sat on the table. She was wearing white clothes and looked at Jian Yue with a pale face and dull eyes. Jian Yue said, "Let's continue with what we learned a few days ago."
I have only learned half of this medical book.
Jian Yue walked to her side and continued to open the book and learn from her. The female ghost's teaching speed was not actually very fast, but it also made it convenient for Jian Yue to take notes. Basically, the medical books in the front recorded some medicinal materials and treatment methods of diseases.
Until today when I turned to the back.
There was a page of records on it that attracted Jian Yue's attention.
[There is a strange plant in Beixuan called Canglan, which can be used as medicine. The juice has a hallucinogenic effect and can invade people's minds for a long time. The praying flower can remove some of the toxicity.]
That's it!
Jian Yue was a little excited holding the book. This was a bit like the poison in the emperor's body, and it could invade people's minds. He thought of the paintings hanging in the palaces every day. Every time those paintings were displayed, they would easily suffer from hallucinations when sleeping. Could this be related to Canglan?
"Is there anything else?" Jian Yue asked the female ghost, "Is there anything else in this book?"
The female ghost slowly shook her head.
Later, when she taught Jian Yue to recognize other words and pharmacology, they were all other diseases. Some of these diseases might be colds and fevers, some might be relatively rare remedies, but none of them were related to this disease.
Jian Yue sighed a little, but at least he knew a name.
"You have finished reading the book." The ghost girl's voice was eerie. She said, "You have finished learning."
Jian Yue was thinking about something. He said, "So fast."
The female ghost said, "Now that you have finished reading it, it is time to fulfill our deal."
Jian Yue was puzzled: "What kind of exchange...F*ck!"
He dodged the suddenly opened bloody mouth with a quick move. The ghost girl's teeth were rows of small thorns at the corners of her mouth. Her face was a little distorted, and it even seemed that blood was still dripping from her teeth. She looked at Jian Yue as if she was looking at her prey that could not escape.
Jian Yue said: "If you have something to say, please talk it over nicely. Don't start to make a move. It's not proper for a man and a woman like us to be so close to each other..."
Seeing that he was avoiding her from eating, the female ghost said with some resentment: "You didn't keep your promise."
Jian Yue reasoned with her: "Why didn't I obey?"
The ghost pointed at the book and said, "I'll help you find the book, and you give me your life."
Jian Yue: "...When did I agree to such an outrageous deal?"
The female ghost ignored her. This was the rule she set for herself. Jian Yue hurriedly dodged for a moment. Although he could actually jump out of the window and escape, he still said, "Change your request, and I will definitely try my best to agree to it!"
However, the female ghost, who just wanted to eat, did not agree.
Another attack came towards him. When Jian Yue subconsciously tried to dodge, his waist was hit by the wood behind him and something fell out of his arms.
"Clang"
It is a crisp sound.
Under the sparse moonlight, the shape of the object gradually became clear. It was a stone from the black gold mine, taken from Manager Zhao's house!
Before Jian Yue could feel sorry for his stone, the ghost girl who rushed over seemed to have seen something scary. With a sharp cry, she suddenly hid far away! The figure that was chasing him closely also shrank back.
?
Jian Yue was a little confused.
The stone on the ground was a very small piece, but the female ghost looked terrified, her eyes were full of scarlet, and her body was shaking uncontrollably.
Jian Yue could see that this was real fear. She was very afraid of this stone. Jian Yue slowly bent down to pick it up. He asked, "Are you afraid of it?"
The female ghost was speechless, but when she looked at the stone with her scarlet eyes, she seemed to be in a state of madness. She kept repeating, "Don't come over, don't come over, I was wrong, I know I was wrong..."
Jian Yue frowned.
The female ghost seemed to be trapped in an illusion, which scared her very much.
Jian Yue took the ore in, then walked to the window and opened it. The wind from outside came in and blew away the smell of the ore. The female ghost leaning against the bookcase seemed to slowly put away her fear.
"Do you know this stone?" Jian Yue asked her, "What is this?"
The female ghost seemed to be afraid of Jian Yue as well. To be more precise, she became abnormal after coming into close contact with the stone. Even her hair was messed up. She crawled on the ground and hid behind him: "Hide, hide quickly, don't be seen, mother, brother... don't be angry..."
Jian Yue looked at her, hesitated, and finally did not chase after her.
The library suddenly became very quiet.
The ore in his hand suddenly became extremely thorny. Jian Yue stood there for a while, and finally started to look through the books in the library. He wanted to find information about the toxin and plant Canglan.
The dark night is thick.
When the people responsible for digging the tunnel came out, they saw Jian Yue sleeping among a pile of books.
Gao Fei pushed him and said, "It's time to go back."
Jian Yue woke up from a pile of books, saw a few dusty people and asked, "How is the tunnel?"
Little Li said: "It will be accessible the day after tomorrow, and we can go inside the underground palace and take a look."
Jian Yue nodded and said, "Okay."
He went down from the library and washed up first, then returned to the main hall early in the thick night. The emperor had to get up at three o'clock in the morning, so he had to go back early to serve him.
When he got there, it was time for the emperor to get up.
When Jian Yue walked over, Huangfu Chengyu was just about to stand up, so Jian Yue took the initiative to go over and help him get dressed. Huangfu Chengyu was not wearing the emperor's crown, which reduced his usual sharpness. He was tall but a little thin, so Jian Yue put his coat on him.
Huangfu Chengyu finished speaking and said, "I heard that you saved a servant from Xinzheku."
Jian Yue paused, nodded and said, "Yes."
Huangfu Chengyu asked: "Why?"
Jian Yue didn't expect that the emperor, who was so busy with all kinds of affairs, would have time to deal with such things, but he still answered honestly: "Because I don't think his crime deserves the death penalty."
Huangfu Chengyu said, "There are many people in and outside the palace who are guilty of crimes that do not deserve death every day."
You can't save it.
You can't manage it.
Jian Yue lowered his head and stopped moving. Huangfu Chengyu looked at him, thinking that he would not refute this statement, but he did not expect that the man in front of him would say after a pause: "But I saw him."
"He's asking me for help." Jian Yue said, "I saw it, and there's nothing I can do but ignore it."
Huangfu Chengyu reminded him: "The servants in each palace are under different affiliations."
What this sentence means is that the forces behind the scenes may be different. The person you save may be the one that others want to kill. If you save him, you may have to die for him. The rules of survival in the palace are much more cruel than you can imagine.
really.
Jian Yue's face turned pale.
Huangfu Chengyu curled his lips and wanted to smile. He liked to see people as white as paper slowly being dyed different colors by this cannibalistic place. He liked to observe the final fate of these people and get different answers.
Jian Yue looked up at him and smiled: "They have a backer, and so do I. I am His Majesty's chief steward, and His Majesty is protecting me."
Huangfu Chengyu raised his eyebrows and asked, "When did I say you had already taken office?"
Jian Yue said positively: "I will definitely perform well!"
He tied the belt for the emperor, but it was never good enough. The emperor waved his hand and said, "I'll do it myself."
Jian Yue has already vowed to work hard. He said, "Your Majesty, please give me another chance. I will definitely be able to wear it well!"
Huangfu Chengyu said: "No need..."
He refused.
Jian Yue took a step forward and chased after him.
Outside the palace, Concubine Yin came with chicken soup. Concubine Yin came early in the morning. She didn't know whether the emperor suspected her or not because of what happened to Manager Zhao yesterday. She planned to come and give him some calming soup and enhance their relationship.
Yin Guiren's maid whispered, "Guiren, there are rumors circulating in the palace now, saying that His Majesty doesn't like women. In fact, it's because he likes eunuchs, likes Wang Zongguan!"
"How is that possible?" Concubine Yin adjusted her hair and said, "Don't listen to the rumors outside. His Majesty is a very picky person. How could he really like that eunuch? They have only known each other for a few days..."
The two people walked outside the hall while talking.
Finally I haven’t entered yet.
Then I heard a loud "bang" coming from inside!
Then there was a soft gasp from Jian Yue, accompanied by a low groan of pain. Jian Yue said, "Your Majesty, will this make you feel more comfortable?"
The emperor said, "I will do it myself."
Jian Yue said: "Your Majesty, please let me do it. I have practiced and I am very experienced now. Your Majesty will have to take care of state affairs soon, so you should save some energy. Let me do this kind of small thing, so that you can feel more comfortable!"
The emperor seemed to groan as well, and said through gritted teeth: "You are too slow."
Jian Yue's voice was more breathless and anxious: "Alright, alright, Your Majesty, wait a minute. How about this..."
Outside the palace.
Concubine Yin and her maid's expressions changed.
She slowly exchanged a glance with the maid, both of them had some fear in their eyes, damn!!! There were so many women in the harem fighting for it every day, but Wang Zongguan got it first!!!
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