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Gong Zhengsi is the official office of the harem, which is in charge of orders, corrections, punishments, awards, and promotions of court ladies.

There is one Gongzheng in the Gongzhengsi, and there are left and right Sizheng Zuozhi under it, and there are four Dianzhengs, eight female historians, and a number of female orders to assist in the management of the affairs of the harem.

Xie Jin is the daughter of a criminal official. When she first entered the palace, she worked in the Ye Ting Bureau as a washing machine. Junior lady.

The palace change three years ago also caused a lot of turmoil in the harem. Xie Jin was not afraid of danger, and helped Liu Xifeng maintain the overall situation and protect the harem from the turmoil. He was deeply appreciated by him. After the new emperor ascended the throne, Xie Jin was promoted to Zuo Sizheng , became Liu Xifeng's right-hand man.

In the past three years, Xie Jin has also fulfilled his duty, and won Liu Xifeng's attention.

Gong Zhengsi had rumored for a long time that Xie Jin would be the next Gong Zheng when Liu Gongzheng was crowned.

For these rumors, Xie Jin never took it to heart, but she could vaguely feel Liu Xifeng's meaning, instead of feeling happy, she was a little distressed.

Today Liu Xifeng called her over and made it clear what he meant, but Xie Jin said: "Whether it is qualifications or ability, Yiren is more suitable for this position than me. Please think again, sir."

Xu Yiren is Liu Xifeng's apprentice, and now he is serving as the Right Secretary.

"Yi Ren has more than enough ability but not enough heart. You are a bit more calm than her. I absolutely have no partiality in this regard. I will explain to Yi Ren and will not let you sisters cause a rift."

Xie Jin and Xu Yiren have a good relationship, Liu Xifeng thought that was why she refused.

Xie Jin took a deep breath, and said truthfully: "My lord, I have been grateful to you for your kindness these past few years, which saved me from misery in the deep palace, but Gong Zheng forgives me for being powerless. bear.

Because entering the palace is not my original wish, I have been waiting for a chance to get out of the palace all these years. If that day really comes, I will never hesitate. "

Her words were extremely firm, and Liu Xifeng couldn't help sighing: "Jinniang, you have a special status, you are not an ordinary court lady, and only the Holy Majesty pardons you to leave the palace, and now the Holy Majesty doesn't even know of your existence, and you have no chance to get it." Jian Tianyan, the opportunity you want is not just in the foreseeable future?"

Ordinary court ladies can choose to leave the palace at the age of 25. Xie Jin has reached the age now, but she enters the palace with a guilt, and cannot leave the palace without the emperor's decree.

If luck is good, the emperor remembers such a person, or has made great achievements, can be summoned by the king, and may have the hope of leaving the palace.

But if he was unlucky and was completely forgotten by the emperor, or as Liu Xifeng said, the throne was replaced by another person, and if he couldn't wait for the oracle, he might die in the palace of old age.

How could Xie Jin not understand this truth, but she was still not reconciled.

When she entered the palace, her parents, brother-in-law and sister-in-law were sent to the frontier, and she has not been heard from since then, and she does not know whether she is alive or dead.

And she entered the palace for eight years, from the age of 17 to 25, wasting the best years of a woman. Even though her life is much easier than other court ladies, she still misses the old house forever, and wants to go home even in her dreams. Looking at the plum tree in the yard, I still want to see my parents again, and I will do my filial piety many years late.

"Whether you say I'm stubborn or delusional, I will never give up if there is a glimmer of hope."

Xie Jin knelt down in front of Liu Xifeng, kowtowed and saluted.

"My lord has treated me with great kindness, now that I have failed your high expectations, you should leave the position of Gongzheng to Yi Ren.

I promise my lord that as long as I stay in the palace for one day, I will do my best to assist her. "

Liu Xifeng stood where he was, looking down at Xie Jin's back.

She looked at it for a long time before leaning over to help him up, and sighed: "That's all. If that's the case, I respect your decision. If there is a chance to see Tianyan in the future, I will also mention your wish to the Holy Majesty."

"Thank you sir!"

Xie Jin bowed deeply to Liu Xifeng, Liu Xifeng shook his head helplessly, and let her go back.

Since he was promoted to Sizheng, everything has improved a lot.

When I first entered the palace, in the Ye Ting Bureau, many maids slept in one common bunk. After coming to Gong Zhengsi, a group of people lived in one courtyard, and several people shared a room. Now Xie Jin has his own room, and he is also married to Xu Jin. The two of them had a small yard.

Xie Jin didn't see Xu Yiren when he went back, but saw Jiang Zhao who had been waiting for a long time at the door.

She was a little surprised, and went over to hold her hand and asked, "Why are you here?"

In the past, Jiang Zhao would only come to see her every ten days and a half months, and sometimes it would take a month or two. Like this, he only met her last night, and it was the first time he came here again today.

Jiang Zhao was led into the courtyard by Xie Jin, and said intentionally: "Sister, do you not want to see me by asking like this?"

The yard is small, and it took a few steps to reach the door of the room. Xie Jin stopped, tapped Jiang Zhao's eyebrows with his finger, and cursed with a smile: "Little fool, you can speak stupid things."

Jiang Zhao was not angry when he heard the words, on the contrary, he was very happy.

After entering the room, Xie Jin asked Jiang Zhao to sit by himself, and took a teapot to boil hot water.

Jiang Zhao sat on a chair and looked at Xie Jin's room. This space was not as big as her bathroom, but although the sparrow was small and well-equipped, an old screen was used to separate the inner and outer rooms, with a bed and dressing table inside and a table outside. There is a chair and a desk, and behind the desk is a small bookshelf with a few books on it.

The room was filled with Xie Jin's breath, Jiang Zhao took a deep breath, his face was slightly red.

She got up and walked to the desk, and saw an open book on the desk, picked it up and flipped through a few pages, and found that it was a collection of poems, and there were some poems copied by Xie Jin on the rice paper next to it.

Jiang Zhao knew that Xie Jin was from a scholarly family, and also knew why she entered the palace.

She suddenly felt how despicable she was. Xie Jin had told her everything, but she kept everything from Xie Jin.

The son did not overturn his father's case. Jiang Zhao ordered people to investigate the Xie family's case when he came to the throne. Although the case was not overturned because of the late emperor's bones, he had people resettle Xie's family at the border so that they would not have to work hard.

But Jiang Zhao didn't dare to tell Xie Jin about this matter.

Xie Jin wrote the standard hairpin lowercase script, and the handwriting was very beautiful. She saw that there was a thick stack of papers that had copied poems beside her, so she secretly took out one, folded it and stuffed it into her sleeve.

In fact, she didn't have to act like this, even if she asked for it directly, Xie Jin would never refuse.But Jiang Zhao didn't know what was going on with him, and acted like he was sneaking around.

When Xie Jin came back, he saw Jiang Zhao sitting on the chair with his back straight and his hands on his knees, like a well-behaved child in a school.She couldn't help laughing, and joked, "What's wrong with being so good today?"

Jiang Zhao pursed his lips, took the hot tea from Xie Jin, and held it in his palm.

She didn't speak, just stared at Xie Jin.Xie Jin also held a cup of hot tea. Her fingertips were thin and white, and she put the hot tea on the white porcelain cup for a while, and then it became pink and bloody.

Xie Jin took two sips of tea before asking: "You have been here frequently these two days, so you are not afraid of being discovered, suing you for dereliction of duty, and asking His Majesty to punish you?"

Jiang Zhao said: "Your Majesty has no time to take care of me."

Following Xie Jin's example, she lowered her head and drank two sips of hot tea, only to feel a warm feeling from her throat to her stomach, and her whole body felt comfortable.

Xie Jin bypassed the screen and went inside, and came out with a sewing basket and an embroidery frame.

She was sitting next to Jiang Zhao as a female celebrity. Jiang Zhao looked over curiously. Xie Jin had just started embroidering, but she couldn't tell what she was going to embroider. Jiang Zhao couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Xie Jin said: "Didn't you give me a jade pendant? Embroider a lotus and wrap it up."

That thing is precious, and she is always afraid that it will break if she throws it somewhere.

There is a clothing bureau in the palace, and there are the best embroiderers in it. The emperor's imperial things are not exquisitely crafted, but Jiang Zhao just fell in love with the things Xie Jin just started to embroider, and stared at them for a while , tentatively said: "When your majesty is in a good mood, he will reward you with something. I still have a jade pendant."

Xie Jin looked up at her with a faint smile.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Zhao said truthfully, "I also want the purse embroidered by sister."

She looked over eagerly, Xie Jin really couldn't resist, and asked, "What trick do you like?"

Knowing that she agreed, Jiang Zhao immediately smiled, and held his chin to think for a while. The things she carried with her were either drawing dragons and phoenixes, or delicately torturing people. She was really reluctant to let Xie Jin do it.

"I like everything my sister does."

Xie Jin thought for a while, and sketched a few patterns in his mind.

"How about Bing Tilian?"

"it is good."

Jiang Zhao looked at the Xie Jinxiu flowers for a while, and then belatedly remembered his reason for coming.

Her expression darkened, and she felt a little irritable when she thought about what happened in the court hall. She frowned and said: "Your Majesty was unhappy in the court hall today, and he will be in a bad mood when he comes back."

Xie Jin heard the words, looked up at her, and asked curiously: "Is there anyone else who dares to make His Majesty unhappy?"

"It's the prime minister on the left." Jiang Zhao was more or less complaining, "He said that His Majesty is old enough to choose a harem and give birth to a crown prince as soon as possible. But His Majesty has no one he likes, so he is not very willing."

"So it is."

Xie Jindao: "As an emperor, most of them belong to the Sangong and Six Courtyards, and they put the succession of children first, and they don't pursue mutual love.

It's probably because our Majesty is a daughter's family, and still has some yearning for a good husband, so he is reluctant. "

She stopped, thought for a while, and smiled again: "Your Majesty must choose the most unparalleled son in choosing a husband. Maybe you can choose the one you like?"

Jiang Zhao didn't want to hear her say these words, so what's the difference between that and Zhao Xiang?

She was a little unhappy, but she couldn't tell Xie Jin directly, so she said in a muffled voice: "So what if you are unparalleled in the world? I have never met, and I have never gotten along with each other. The purpose of being together is to give birth to an imperial heir. The child born like this , not for myself, but for Dameng Jiangshan."

Jiang Zhaoxin said that the former emperor didn't care because they didn't need them to give birth to the child, but even if she chose the emperor's husband, she still had to give birth to the child herself, and she was not very willing.

After all, the matter of giving birth to a child, it takes ten months to conceive, and life and death are on the line, it's not a joke.

Xie Jin saw that she was aggrieved, so he reached out and touched her head, and said with a smile: "Azhao is right. But people always want to get married when they grow up. Your Majesty shoulders the future of the country, so you must not be willful. This matter needs her I figured it out myself."

In life, there is always some involuntary control, even the emperor who is rich in the world.

Although Jiang Zhao was a little annoyed, he was not unreasonable.

As a king, sitting in the country and enjoying the worship of the people, he must naturally fulfill his responsibilities as a king.

She sighed inwardly, and when she raised her eyes to see Xie Jin's side face earnestly embroidering, her heart suddenly moved.

Although Xie Jin is beautiful, she does not have a particularly bright appearance. She has a pair of round almond eyes, slender willow-leaf eyebrows, appropriate shades, a high straight nose bridge and a small cherry mouth. Because she was born in a scholarly family, she has a poetic spirit in her stomach. She is a typical master Lady.

"Does sister have a sweetheart?"

Jiang Zhao asked a question. She thought she would get a negative answer. After all, based on her understanding of Xie Jin, she really didn't know which guard she had gotten close to.

Xie Jin paused his hands, and looked up at her a little dodgingly.

That's probably all there is to it.

Jiang Zhao thought, this is normal, after all, she doesn't have many opportunities to meet Xie Jin, and Xie Jin doesn't always report to her whoever spends a long time with him or has a good relationship with him.

But I still feel stuffy in my heart, even a little dull pain.