Chapter 360: First Visit to the Forbidden City

"This is my childhood playmate, you can just call him Ma Lao Liu." Zhang Yingfeng introduced a person next to him. He was tall and open-minded even in the September sky. His chest was pockmarked, which also showed his strength.

"Su Shaoying, Ma Xiuzhen, these are my junior brothers and sisters. This great hero Lu Xiaofeng is a famous figure in the world."

"Hello, hello. If you want to enter the Forbidden City, just follow me!" Ma Laoliu nodded and bowed with a smile.

Zhang Yingfeng led Su Shaoying and three others to find Ma Laoliu. The four of them followed him, saying hello to the guards at the base of the imperial city, and entered the palace in a swaggering manner.

"We just came in like this?" Ma Xiuzhen said in disbelief, "Is it so easy to enter the palace?"

"Although this is the palace, it is a corner that is least valued. Going in from here, there are actually several layers of guards." Ma Laoliu introduced.

"And not everyone can enter and leave the palace from here." Ma Laoliu said slightly reservedly, "It must be brought by an acquaintance, and the price cannot be low, and it cannot attract attention."

Generally speaking, eunuchs rarely leave the palace freely, even high-ranking eunuchs, because the younger eunuchs have no money, and the older eunuchs also have to pay attention to their status.

Therefore, some servants with low status, money on hand, and being among the eunuchs and guards were able to come and go freely and make profits inside and outside the palace.

Ma Laoliu is such a person.

"We definitely can't go to the palace gardens of the emperor and his concubines, or the offices of the ministers and elders, but I can take you to other places, such as the imperial dining room, the dressing room, the lantern storehouse, the Shangsi courtyard, etc. You go and have a look.”

Ma Laoliu said cheerfully, "If you are rich, you can bring some royal tributes out."

Ma Xiuzhen said in surprise, "Can you still bring tributes out?"

Ma Laoliu said with a smile, "One-third of the local tribute can be used for the emperor and his concubines. Even if it is too much, the people below have to live, right?"

Snakes have their own ways, rats have their own ways. The palace occupies a large area, and the places where the sun cannot shine are actually filled with darkness.

For example, if people enter the palace and have a long experience, the guards guarding the palace gates will make money. Or, for example, this place in front of you...

"This is the northwest corner of the palace. Many eunuchs will send their relatives here. People here can't enter most places in the palace, and they can't go out at will, so it forms a very strange place."

Ma Laoliu walked in this place that looked like a small town and introduced to a few people, "There are small restaurants, small teahouses, small grocery stores, and even a small gambling house here."

To be honest, if she hadn't read the original work, even Su Shaoying wouldn't have imagined that there was such a place in the palace.

"Brother Six!"

"Brother Six is ​​here!"

"Sixth brother, are you starting a gambling game?"

When Ma Laoliu led everyone to the northwest corner of the palace, a group of young eunuchs gathered around him like a hen seeing a big rooster when they saw Ma Laoliu. Their eyes revealed admiration, admiration, envy, and awe.

But when they saw Lu Xiaofeng, Su Shaoying and Zhang Yingfeng, their eyes turned into love, obsession, and excitement...

Even Su Shaoying gave Zhang Yingfeng a hard shake and asked, "Have you been here before?"

Zhang Yingfeng said blankly, "If I had been here before, I would never bring you here again."

Ma Xiuzhen faced the squinting eyes of several young eunuchs and felt that her whole body was not well, "I want to go out first."

Lu Xiaofeng felt goosebumps forming on her arms, "Ximen Chuixue will never hide here."

Su Shaoying asked, "Are you here to see Ximen Chuixue?"

Lu Xiaofeng nodded, "I think you are right. He has probably arrived in the capital, but at this time there are at least a thousand martial arts masters in the capital, but no one has found any trace of him."

Su Shaoying answered, "So he must be hiding in a place where ordinary people can never find him."

"I originally thought I would be here." Lu Xiaofeng said, "But now I am sure that if Ximen Chuixue can stay here for a quarter of an hour, he will definitely not be Ximen Chuixue."

Ma Xiuzhen nodded repeatedly, "Second Junior Sister will never stay here."

"Let's not have a gambling game today. I brought a few friends in and wanted to go shopping." Ma Laoliu waved to a few eunuchs who came over.

"He's from outside the palace."

"I see it."

"Where do they want to go? I can take them to the Shangyi Prison, and if they are lucky, I can even bring out a few pieces of material."

"Recently, the Southeast has supplied a batch of top-notch Dahongpao. If this beautiful young man is interested..."

A young eunuch quietly approached Lu Xiaofeng, staring at the two curls of beard on his mouth, and his hands were already ready to move.

Lu Xiaofeng resisted the urge to do something, took two steps away from him, pointed at Su Shaoying and said, "Don't you think he is more beautiful, much fairer and tenderer than me!"

"No, no, no, I'm still a young man. I'm not as attractive as your beard!" Su Shaoying kept being modest.

To be honest, there were not many eunuchs surrounding Su Shaoying. On the contrary, there were no one around the ordinary Zhang Yingfeng and the heroic Ma Xiuzhen.

"You are still young and handsome!" Lu Xiaofeng said.

"You are still mature and charming!" Su Shaoying said.

Ma Xiuzhen shook her head and said to Zhang Yingfeng, "This is the first time I have seen senior brother and Lu Xiaofeng actually being humble and praising each other."

Zhang Yingfeng couldn't help laughing, "Because they all want to throw each other into the fire pit to attract other people's attention."

Just then, several people came over to an old eunuch.

Although this old eunuch looked thin, he was very stylish and dressed elegantly and gorgeously. Obviously, he was of high status, but his walking posture was very strange, and he was holding a orchid finger in his hand, which was more pretentious than those young eunuchs.

"It's Wang Zongguan!"

Several young eunuchs hurriedly greeted him and greeted him. Lu Xiaofeng and Su Shaoying finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ma Laoliu said to the others, "This is Wang, the eunuch in the palace. He used to be the emperor's wet nurse and is now the personal attendant responsible for the emperor's food and daily life."

Lu Xiaofeng blinked and said to Su Shaoying, "Didn't Ouyang Qing say..."

Su Shaoying nodded and said, "There is only one eunuch in the palace."

Eunuch Wang and Ma Laoliu obviously knew each other. He came to Ma Laoliu, glanced at Lu Xiaofeng and the others, and was obviously dissatisfied. He said to Ma Laoliu, "Why do you bring all kinds of people to the palace?"

Ma Laoliu nodded and said, "Friends, this is my childhood... …”

“The palace has been under strict inspection these days, and no one can enter the palace at will!” Steward Wang glared at Ma Laoliu fiercely and winked at him, “Why don’t you take them all out?”

“Yes, yes, yes!” Ma Laoliu could only nod, then turned back to Zhang Yingfeng and said, “How about this, I’ll bring you in after September 15th?”

“I don’t care…”

Before Zhang Yingfeng finished speaking, Lu Xiaofeng’s eyes flashed. Although the decisive battle between Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuxue was not a secret, and even the location of the decisive battle had spread in some small circles, it was not something that someone like Ma Laoliu could know, right?

So Lu Xiaofeng thought about it and asked Ma Laoliu, “Have you seen a swordsman in white these days?”

The next moment, Steward Wang and Ma Laoliu’s faces changed suddenly!