"What is this place?"

"Shh......h It should be the Yao Pond in the Imperial Palace. Peony pulled 6 waves and asked him to pay attention to the location in the center of the lake.

There is only one place in the palace where the water is so vast, and that is the Yao Pond located in the north of the palace, and at the same time, this is also the confluence of several springs that Liu Tao saw on the map before, and the continuous flow of spring water makes the Yao Pond in the palace and the Jinyang Lake outside the palace never cut off. Looking at it from afar, there is a lake mountain in the middle of the lake in the distance, the lower half is hidden in the mist and the night, faintly enough, the pavilions and pavilions are built along the mountain, I don't know how, in such a thick night, the lake center mountain is still brightly lit, faintly there is the sound of silk and bamboo, and there is a fairy palace in the distance.

At the position of the peony's finger, there was a sound of paddling, and I followed the sound, but I saw an orchid boat rippling in the small lake, and the lights of the mountain in the center of the lake loomed, and a string of palace lights on the bow of the boat swayed with the wind, like an elf wandering in the void in the dark night.

6 Tao and Peony hid in the dry lotus and did not move, and it didn't take long to see that the blue boat had rippled in front of them.

There were two people sitting on the boat, and sitting at the bow of the boat was a person wearing the clothes of a palace maid, his face looked a little pale, but the one who was rowing the boat was dressed as a concubine, and 6 Tao was a little curious? Isn't it that he was mistaken, it was the palace maid who was on the boat, but it was the concubine who rowed the boat? Who is the master and who is the slave, and the position is reversed.

The two of them sat on the boat, and they didn't seem to notice at all that 6 Tao and Peony, two people hiding in the lotus leaves, slowly rowed past the two of them, which were not far from the shore.

The palace maid sitting at the bow of the boat sighed softly, and the person dressed as a noble concubine who was rowing behind her stopped rocking the boat, picked up a pot of tea from the small table in the boat, poured a cup, and presented it to the palace maid at the bow with both hands, and said softly: "Sister, how do you feel?"

The palace maid took the cup of tea and took a sip, looking up at the starry night sky with a pair of beautiful eyes, as if she wanted to find her own one from it: "Sister, it's been two months since I entered the palace with you, but things still haven't made any progress, that thing...... Is it really here?"

The concubine said with some hesitation: "That person just said that there is a secret passage hidden in the palace, but this palace is so big, we don't know where to start?" Sister, you also know that during this time, we have searched for almost all the places we can find, but it is still less than one-tenth of the palace, and we can only do this with our ability...... Or should we go to that guy again?"

"Never!" the palace maid shook her head: "Last time, we paid enough price, but what we got was useless information, let us waste so much time in this palace! This time I don't know what kind of request he wants to make, sister, let's look again, maybe we will find the secret passage soon!"

"But ......" the concubine still seemed to be very shaken: "Sister, you have been injured because of this, and other places are also heavily defended, how can I be willing to ......"

"Sister, don't talk about me yet, let's talk about you...... Why don't you see the emperor come to Dongning Palace?" the palace maid interrupted the concubine's words and forcibly changed the subject.

A sentence seemed to ask the sad part of the concubine, she sighed faintly, lowered her head, half of the green silk was scattered with her movements, a pair of beautiful eyes looked at the water sadly, and pondered for a long time before saying: "The last time I saw him was at the canonization ceremony, since he inherited the throne of this Great Qin and became the top of the ten thousand, I came to this Dongning Palace, he has not come once, not even a greeting." ”

The palace maid asked, "Did he show something?"

The concubine shook her head and said, "Impossible." ”

Then, the two people on the boat fell silent, and the concubine who was sitting in the middle picked up the oars again, and the boat turned a corner, and rowed leisurely towards the mountain in the middle of the lake.

When the boat had gone far enough, Peony whispered to herself, "...... I knew that there was something wrong with Concubine Ling and her little palace maid! Father...... Tricked by them!"

"What?" 6 Tao turned to look at Peony, not quite understanding what she meant.

"It's nothing, let's go, let's go out first, and it's safe to get here." Peony shook her head, went up from the water to the shore, the waterproof diaphragm was still covering her body, Peony poked the diaphragm with her finger again, leaving the water diaphragm, and instantly broke open and disappeared without a trace.

"It's amazing...... What is your identity?" Peony looked over with a pair of big eyes, as if he wanted to see through 6 Tao's body and see through his essence.

However, immediately afterward, she spoke up again: "Forget it, I won't investigate who you are, I will just report you for your help yesterday and today......!" It's almost dawn, I'll send you out, you come with me. ”

After speaking, the dry peony walked forward, 6 Tao hesitated, but still followed behind her, with a wet and sticky clothes.

......

As Peony walked forward, a faint glow began to glow at the edge of the sky, illuminating the ground and the surrounding buildings.

Turn left and right, Peony with 6 waves, I don't know which one to turn to the Great Qin Palace, but although the palace walls are majestic, the style of all the buildings is simple and simple, simple and almost monotonous, gray tone, and the Yaochi Lake Island and other colors in the palace that I saw before are completely different, and those stark form a contrast that cannot be ignored. Gray walls, gray palaces, gray roads, all of which make people feel a heavy depression from the bottom of their hearts.

"What kind of place is this?" 6 Tao approached Peony a little closer, although it didn't look like there would be people nearby, 6 Tao still asked Peony in a low voice, afraid that if the voice was a little louder, it would cross these high gray walls.

"Here?" Peony paused: "This is the most unpopular place in the palace, and basically no one comes, so it is absolutely safe." ”

As he spoke, Peony quickened his pace, so that 6 Tao's remaining questions didn't have time to speak.

I don't know how many turns I turned, a red lacquered door appeared in front of 6 Tao, Peony stepped forward and pushed the door open, revealing a small yard behind, although the yard is not big, but there are a lot of flowers and plants, all kinds of flower pots are densely piled together, and there is an old man who is playing with those flowers and plants.

"Miss, you're back. ”

When the old man heard the door, he turned his head and bowed down, and looked at Liu Tao behind Peony: "This is ......"

"Limber, go find him a proper outfit, huh...... Just disguise yourself as a eunuch, I'll go and change my clothes, and you can bring him to see me after he has changed his clothes. ”

"Yes, miss. ”

The old man, who was called Lin Bo by Peony, didn't ask anything more, but nodded to 6 Tao and motioned for him to follow him.

6 Tao couldn't ignore the conversation between the two of them, no matter what kind of lady or eunuch, and Peony could have a place to live in the palace, suddenly 6 Tao was very suspicious of Peony's identity, who is she?!

Following behind Lin Bo, 6 Tao arrived at a small room, Lin Bo opened the cabinet and rummaged through it, and finally found a gray dress and handed it to 6 Tao: "Come on, see if it fits." ”

6 Tao nodded, turned his back to Lin Bo and changed his clothes, Lin Bo handed him a complete set of clothes, and 6 Tao tried to change all the soaked clothes on his body.

Stretching his hands and feet, 6 Tao saw that the clothes that Lin Bo found were just right to wear on his body.

Lin Bo also stood opposite, looked Liu Tao up and down, and then began to rummage through the cabinet behind him, and it didn't take long for him to turn out a hat and hand it to Liu Tao: "Come on, wear this hat, you can cover your short hair." ”

6 Tao touched his head and recalled the people he saw along the way, it seemed that in addition to those warriors, most of the civilians did stay for a long time, and I don't know if this place also has the habit of "body skin, parents who receive it".

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