Xiu'er is still young, and her hair is quite soft, Hong Bingying took a wooden comb and gave the little girl a double bun hairstyle. Then let the little girl turn around, and she was carved in pink and jade, like an elf who had fallen into the world.

"Sister Hong, let me help you comb your hair!"

The little girl combed her hair and looked at Hong Bingying with a hopeful expression: "Sister Juan'er's and Miss's hair are all combed by me, and I can also wear braids!"

Miss Hong Bingying touched Xiu'er's head: "You don't need braids, you can help me comb my hair." ”

"Hmm!" Xiu'er nodded, her eyes wide and narrowed with a smile.

Turning behind Hong Bingying, Xiu'er held a comb in her hand, carefully combed Hong Bingying's hair, and asked, "Sister Hong, are we going to find Sister Juan'er and Miss Juan'er today?"

Hong Bingying nodded: "Let's go around today and see if we can find your sister and Miss Juan'er." By the way, Xiu'er, do you know where there are usually the most people?"

Xiu'er tilted her head: "Ah! Sister Hong! I remember! In the palace in the middle of Yaochi, no matter when I pass by, there are singing voices coming from inside, and there are people in red clothes coming in and out from the power supply door, their clothes are so beautiful." Unfortunately, the bridge leading to the middle was guarded, and I didn't go inside. ”

Listening to Xiu'er's words, Hong Bingying thought to herself, maybe Xiu'er misheard her question, and heard "usually the most people" as "usually the most people", but it just made Hong Bingying's heart move, there is such a mysterious place in the palace, it is really worth exploring, even if you can't find your mother, you may be able to hear some news about your mother from the people there.

Thinking of this, Hong Bingying asked Xiu'er behind her, "Xiu'er, can you take me to the palace in the middle of Yaochi?"

"Yes!" The natural voice came from behind Hong Bingying: "But...... Can you find Sister Juan'er and Miss there? Miss and Sister Juan'er have never been to that kind of place. ”

"I don't know, but even if we can't find it, we can ask anyone there if they've seen your sister and miss. As long as we find out where your sister and young lady have gone, we will definitely find them. Hong Bingying silently apologized in her heart, she knew that Xiu'er's sister and young lady Juan'er should most likely not be in that palace.

"I see! I listen to Sister Hong!"

Xiu'er's voice was full of excitement, and Miss Hong Bingying felt even more sorry in her heart, and she couldn't wait to find a hole in the ground to bury herself.

......

When the sun in the sky slipped past a quarter of the height, Hong Bingying and Xiu'er set off from here in Zhongyi and went to the palace in the center of Yaochi Lake.

The palace seemed to be quieter than it was yesterday. Under the leadership of Xiu'er, Hong Bingying walked through the palaces in all directions, and finally saw a blue shadow in the distance. After turning a corner, the scenery of Yao Chi completely appeared in front of Miss Hong Bingying.

On the quiet surface of the lake, there is a wind from the southeast, blowing the blue sparkling. From time to time, red or blue carp jump up from the lake, splashing in circles and ripples, slowly spreading with the wind, and finally disappearing into the reflection of the blue sky and white clouds.

The island in the middle of the lake is a stone island, and above the level of Yao Pond, those craggy black rocks reflect the golden buildings on the island even more brilliantly. Miss Hong Bingying didn't hear the song that Xiu'er said earlier, but she saw with sharp eyes that in those buildings, there were figures passing by. Those slender shadows, at the very least, should not be the fierce cavalry I saw yesterday.

In this way, Hong Bingying can be sure that she can ask something from those people's mouths while ensuring her own safety.

"Sister Hong! Look, the guards on the bridge are gone! Let's go to the island!" Xiu'er showed a somewhat excited expression and stretched out her hand to point in the direction of the west side of the island in the middle of the lake. There, there was a long bridge of white marble, there was no one on the bridge deck, faintly, you could see red and green lotus flowers on the side of the bridge, they grew wantonly, covering a large part of the water.

Hong Bingying nodded, took Xiu'er's little hand, and walked cautiously in the direction of the bridge. It's still not safe enough here, most of the surrounding area of Yaochi is covered by thick bushes and woods, and I don't know if there are a few pairs of eyes hidden inside, if it is discovered by those fierce cavalry yesterday, Hong Bingying doesn't know if she can escape with Xiu'er. Those cavalrymen, who don't look like good people, may be the ones who are responsible for turning the palace into such a thing.

Lowering her body along the bushes, Hong Bingying took Xiu'er to carefully bypass the arc on the side of Yaochidi, until the bridge connecting the island in the middle of the lake, Hong Bingying didn't find anyone, she breathed a sigh of relief, took Xiu'er's little hand, and walked onto the long bridge.

Halfway through, Hong Bingying suddenly heard a roar behind her, and those shocks from the earth extended all the way along the bridge deck, making Hong Bingying feel palpitations inexplicably.

Looking back, a team of black-clad masked horsemen were in hot pursuit, led by the same man she had seen yesterday. Hong Bingying was horrified in her heart, but she didn't expect that these people still chased after her. Holding Xiu'er's little hand, Hong Bingying began to run lifelessly, unless she could fly to the rocks and walk the wall, no one could ask for benefits in front of the cavalry, Miss Hong felt that her father might be able to give it a try, but she couldn't put it on herself.

At the end of the long bridge in front of her, a person suddenly flashed out, she was wearing a red dress, and she also had a double bun tied on her head, and beckoned to Hong Bingying and Xiu'er in a little hurry: "Run faster! Run faster! Otherwise, it will be too late!"

Hong Bingying hugged Xiu'er behind her, and the sense of crisis in her heart made her burst out with twelve points of strength. At this moment, as if she was about to fly, she rushed across the bridge with an arrow step and landed on the island in the middle of the lake in the middle of the face Yao Pond.

Then, before Hong Bingying could ask anything, there was a loud bang behind her, Hong Bingying turned around in surprise, only to see that the entire long bridge was disconnected from the middle and disappeared by one-third of its length.

In the midst of the harmonies, the horses and people swam towards the island in the middle of the lake in the middle of the Yao Pond, and Hong Bingying could even see the naked resentment in the eyes of the leading samurai.

"You people are going to die!" Hong Bingying faintly heard the voice of the samurai leading the team, and she came back to her senses from the accident just now, and at the same time, a hand stretched out behind her to pull her up.

"Let's go in first, the scene may be a little bloody later, so you better not watch it. ”

The person who spoke was also a woman, and it could be seen from her clothes that this was a woman with a high status in the palace, and standing beside her was the red-clothed palace maid who had just asked Hong Bingying and Xiu'er to run a little faster.

"Oh......" Hong Bingying nodded a little blankly, but heard a scream from behind. Looking back, the leading samurai, who had just been clamoring to kill everyone here, seemed to have suddenly been grabbed by something, and could only struggle among the lotus bushes at the water's edge, and the miserable cry did not seem to come from the mouth.

"That'...... What's that?!"

Hong Bingying was most afraid of ghosts when she was a child, and when she grew up, she was most afraid of ghosts, looking at the appearance of the samurai who led the team, it was as if there was a pair of invisible ghost hands underwater, dragging her into the bottomless abyss.

"Don't be afraid, it's a piranha we raised, in order to prevent anyone from sneaking into the vicinity of the island in the middle of the lake, there are many such fish around, whether it is a human or an elephant, as long as it falls into this water, there is no chance of survival, let alone these cavalry. Alright, let's go. ”

It seemed that the woman with a high status pulled Hong Bingying backwards, and let the screams behind her almost overturn the sky.

From a distance, you can't see it, only when you walk on this island, you can find that this island is actually very big, the woman turns left and right with the red barracks, and the road is full of busy red-clothed palace maids, every red-clothed palace maid sees a woman, she will respectfully bow her head and say hello, call a miss, and then take care of herself and get busy with the work at hand, in good order, completely without any wavering because of the screams faintly coming from afar.

After passing through several rooms where people were busy entering and leaving, the woman took Hong Bingying to the last hall, and then turned to a side hall next to it in vain.

The side hall is not big, only a few chairs are placed in it, at most, the calligraphy and painting on the wall can make people pay attention to the past, but there are no inscriptions and seals, and it doesn't seem to be a valuable thing.

The woman sat down on the main seat, motioned for Hong Bingying and Xiu'er, who was held by her, to sit down, and opened her mouth to ask: "You are also the palace maids who escaped in the palace?

Saying this, the screen behind the woman faintly revealed the shadows of high and low, Hong Bingying now understood, although the woman has always been very kind, but there are also necessary precautions. Before, Hong Bingying was held by her, and the other party's fingers were on her wrist intentionally or unintentionally.

Gritting her teeth, Hong Bingying planned to share her thoughts and thoughts, as long as she had a legitimate reason, she would not kill herself if she thought of it.