Chapter 11 Fenghe Courtyard

Since the former Wei Dynasty, Jique Palace is not only the inner dynasty, but also the living place of the emperor. Its solemn and majestic palace is still difficult to hide at this time when the snow is flying.

However, the small courtyard where Mu Biwei was placed was only a small courtyard in the palace. Mu Biwei lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and looked outside the courtyard, but only caught a glimpse of a touch of green brick tiles, which was very different from the style of Yedu.

The sedan chair did not stop in front of the courtyard, but went straight into the courtyard door and stopped on the corridor. Only then did Gu Changfu ask Mu Biwei to get off the sedan chair.

Although after the stirring of the left and right prime ministers, Mu Biwei's identity directly changed from a palace concubine - even the lowest one in the scattered number, to a palace slave - even the highest second-class division among female officials is only a royal slave.

But Gu Changfu served Ji Shen for a long time and knew the king's temperament. He knew that Mu Biwei would become his new favorite and did not dare to neglect him. After seeing Mu Biwei get off the sedan chair, he looked around and looked surprised, so he smiled and said, "Is this is the first time Mu Qingyi seen such a yard? Now it's winter, and the pond over there is sealed with ice. I can't see it. If it's spring and summer, our family has heard your majesty praise and said that this wind lotus courtyard is responding to the sentence 'the dark fragrance breeze is startled, and several lotus flowers are blooming'!"

As he looked at the position he pointed, he saw that the atrium outside the railing was actually chiseled into a pool. From the courtyard door to the main hall, it was connected by a nine-curve bridge. There were several staggered rockeries in the pool, which would be full of snow. Except for the vastness above the corridor, Mu Bi looked at the pool and smiled. He said, "Isn't it made in imitation of the Southern Dynasty?"

"Qingyi has good eyesight." Gu Changfu nodded, "It was built by Emperor Gaozu himself!"

After the herdsman was also a relic of the former dynasty, Mu Biwei heard him mention Gaozu and couldn't help but think that the emperor of the Northern Liang Dynasty and the former Wei emperor's son-in-law Zuo Qiuye fought for the world. Both of them took defeating each other as their life. As a result, in the end, it was difficult to hold each other and had to draw the angry river as the boundary and split the Wei soil into the north and south - of course, at the end of the former Wei Dynasty The two states occupied by Rouran have not been recovered so far.

Emperor Gaozu's dream of unifying the world was shattered by the establishment of Southern Qi. Under depression, he personally supervised the construction of a courtyard with the style of the Southern Dynasty in the Jique Palace. I'm afraid that he has not only intended to inspire himself, but also talks about himself. Comfort.

However, of course, such an idea cannot be said, but now the snow is vast, and there is no place to praise the whiteness. Mu Biwei skipped this scene and tentatively said, "How dare I live, Emperor Qinjian of Gaozu?"

"Don't worry, Qingyi, not to mention that your majesty has given Tsing Yi to live here. Although Tsing Yi is a five-grade female official, your majesty said that you must treat the sages in Qingyi. The sages around your majesty also have a similar yard." Gu Changfu smiled and stretched out his hand to lead her into the house. "Qingyi grew up in Yedu. I'm afraid he hasn't seen the yard in the south? Our family has been here once before. If Qingyi doesn't dislike it, how about our family taking Qingyi to have a look?

"It's so hard for your father-in-law!" Mu Bi smiled and gave way to him who was in the first door - Liang Chengwei system. In addition to the concubine and ordinary maids, the women in the palace also set up a system of female officials.

Although the female official is still a royal slave strictly speaking, she is also of a grade, and extraordinary concubines can deal with it at will. The female officials in the Liang Palace are divided into four levels. The first class is that only the empress dowager and the maids around the emperor can serve. They are the second-class department. In terms of grade alone, they can be compared with the third lady. It is only because they are palace slaves, so they still need to salute when they see the third wife, but they only need to meet the nine concubines, which shows their high status.

Below the division is the three-grade sage who is close to Zhaoyi, which Ji Shen personally ordered to Mu Biwei. The sage only needs to meet the imperial concubine of the concubine, which cannot be dealt with except for more than nine concubines.

The next four grades are the middle envoys, but they are the servants around the third lady. When they see Rong Hua and He's family, they just need to be treated with courtesy.

The last five-grade female official is called Qingyi, but she is a close servant serving the nine concubines. From the bottom of the nine concubines, how and other concubines and close servants around them are not qualified to have grade.

In addition, there are also two kinds of female officials who are the same as the three grades as the sages, but they are not for nobles, but the elderly women with both talents and virtues worshipped in the palace. They are subordinate to the inner department, specializing in the etiquette and palace rules of some low-ranking palace concubines, and even when the emperors were young, they also had to guide them. Most of them were not outside the palace. A widowed woman with a virtuous name was hired into the palace.

Due to the persistence of the left and right prime minister, Mu Biwei is now the lowest female official in Qingyi, but only five grades. Although Gu Changfu is only a servant of the fifth grade, she respects Changfu's qualifications, while Gu Changfu knows the root of her position as a female official and avoids her favor. Naturally, the two naturally be polite and humbled to each other before they can move.

After entering the house, I saw that the interior furnishings were exquisite and unique, revealing an elegant meaning everywhere, which was not like the palace, as if Mu Biwei had read from the previous book of Jiangnan Shuxiang's home.

Gu Changfu led her to look at the main hall and the side of the side room, and then to the back bedroom. The bedroom used a small corridor to separate the courtyard from the main hall. The patio is now covered with heavy snow, but a small piece of bamboo in the corner showed a little green under the snow. In addition, the snow outside the corridor is uneven, which is obviously also A scenic place is blocked by snow.

The bedroom is also elegant, but as cold as today, it is a little sad. Gu Changfu also saw this and said with a smile, "I didn't expect that Qingyi would live here, so I couldn't ask someone to clean it in advance. If our family accompanied Mu Qingyi to sit outside and asked people to clean up first, at least Qingyi can live tonight."

Mu Biwei was nodding and thinking about it, but asked, "Qingyi is only five grades. Is it inappropriate to ask the maid of honor to serve?"

"Why should Mu Qingyi be worried?" Hearing this, Gu Changfu smiled meaningfully and said, "Our family just said that Qingyi is now according to the example of the sages. Although the sages also have to serve in front of the nobles, they return to their own residence, they are served by ordinary palace people. This is what your majesty means. Your Majesty is the son of heaven. With the protection of Holy Grace, Qingyi does not need to be too cautious.

"Thank you for your advice!" Mu Bi's heart was slightly awe-hearted. Gu Changfu was telling himself that he didn't want to despise Ji Shen's Jia En to avoid making you happy! It seems that this gentleman is lustful, but he may not be a good servant! She quickly thanked her, and Gu Changfu just waved his hand with a smile: "Just now, our family knew that the girl was smart, but our family talked too much."

Mu Biwei heard what he said, but her heart moved. She quietly took off the mutton fat jade bracelet on her wrist. She had not fully walked to the courtyard and handed it over from the bottom of her sleeve. Gu Changfu glanced at it. He knew something extraordinary and hurriedly refused, "I just got the blue coat. Now I have only walked a few steps, but Qingyi is too polite."