Dense snowflakes poured down from the sky more and more urgently, like strings of silver-white snow curtains hanging in front of you. Li Shuci followed the female official in the deep alleys of the Taiji Palace, and finally went up the steps of the Bixiao Palace.

Concubine Hui sat in front of the mica screen carved with immortals ascending to the sky, and the blue sea and blue sky were shrouded in a deep shadow above the screen. On top of Concubine Hui's dignified and virtuous face, she still has just the right amount of majesty and a soft look. Such a woman is more suitable for the role of the mother of a country than the violent Queen Shen or the sickly and weak Queen Wang, however, this title has been waiting for her for a long time.

Li Shuci saluted softly: "Niangniang Da'an." ”

The female official retreated, leaving the two of them in the huge hall, with the incense mist rising from the incense burner in the middle, Li Shuci heard Concubine Hui's slightly low and slow voice: "I don't know how many secrets are hidden in this Da'an Palace...... There are some things that not everyone wants to know the truth. However, once a clue is brought out, the rest of the matter is not something that a little woman who thinks she is smart can control. ”

Li Shuci was startled, bowed slightly, and waited for her to continue to say the following words.

Concubine Hui walked close to her, then moved her steps to the human-tall nine-fold spring blue vase, stared at the pattern on it and said, "However, sometimes, people like you often become the key. You can't control it, but you can find out what others don't know. And now, Hongu, there happens to be one thing that needs you. Concubine Hui looked back at her for a long time, and then said slowly: "Now everyone in Shangjing is talking about the prince's madness. All the spearheads were pointed at the five princes, but the king threw this hot potato to the palace. ”

Li Shuci raised his head in surprise, facing Concubine Shanghui's gloomy eyes, and the color of chagrin slowly flowed in them. Before the prince's murder of the monarch subsided, news came that the prince had fainted and was unconscious. Concubine Hui and the five princes, who are on the same beam as the crown prince and are evenly matched, are naturally the biggest threat to the crown prince's position. Concubine Hui was supposed to avoid suspicion, but she was appointed by the king to investigate the matter. On the surface, it was meant to favor Concubine Hui, but in fact, it pushed their mother and son into the whirlpool where the storm was strongest. "Niangniang is too worried, Niangniang and the monarch know each other and have a deep relationship, and the monarch must trust Niangniang very much to hand over this matter to Niangniang."

Concubine Hui raised her lips and smiled, and instead of following her words, she asked, "Do you know that the prince is really crazy now?" ”

Li Shuci lowered his eyes and shook his head: "The courtiers don't know." Of course she wouldn't be unaware. If it weren't for the fact that King Confucian's manpower hinted that Prince Liu Fu was in a critical situation at this time, and asked Liu Fu to feed the prince the 'antidote' in advance, the prince probably wouldn't have gone crazy so early. Everything is to force the Shen family to be tired and buy more time for themselves.

"Since you don't know, then this palace will tell you." Concubine Hui's voice was flat but with a hint of coldness: "It's the palace that is too negligent and lets Concubine Yi take advantage of the loophole." The two bottles of medicine, after taking the green bottle of medicine, I couldn't move or speak, my mind was clear, and I could hear the sounds around me. The white bottle is said to be the antidote, in fact, it is just the opposite of the effect of the green bottle, after taking it, it can speak with kinetic energy, the brain is chaotic, it can't hear, and people are like crazy demons...... The crown prince is really crazy now. And the consequence is to put this palace into an even more embarrassing and inexculpable situation! ”

Since the Shen family instructed Concubine Yi to send medicine to the prince, they naturally had already made plans to frame Concubine Hui. It's just that the Shen family didn't expect that Concubine Yi did not win the prince's trust as originally planned, but sent the medicine to the prince through a transaction. It's just that no matter what, things are going the way they were supposed to go. Concubine Hui and the Shen family's forces have infiltrated each other for many years, and in this game, the Shen family won. "Why should Niangniang worry, the merits are right and wrong, the king has his own conclusion."

"You girl, your mouth is very hard." Concubine Hui paused for a moment and said, "Do you know who is manipulating behind the scenes that you have tried your best to find out?" Is there anything behind this? What you think, it's too simple. Concubine Hui said, turned around and walked behind the screen, Li Shuci hesitated, but still followed.

Out of the back door of Bixiao Palace, Concubine Hui did not walk out along the extended path in front, but turned to the right and walked along the corridor for a while. Shixiang waited in the middle of the corridor with an umbrella, greeted Concubine Hui and helped Concubine Hui down the stone steps to cover the fine snow above her head, and handed Li Shuci an oil-paper umbrella.

The three of them walked along the mottled high wall for a while, and there was only the sound of light creaking snow, and the occasional green moss on the wall that had not had time to recede, and the frozen relief. Straight to the end, Li Shuci thought he was going to turn around, but saw Concubine Hui stop. After picking up incense and shaking hands, he knocked a few times on the wall tiles horizontally and vertically, Li Shuci only felt dizzy for a moment, and the surrounding scenery changed, and then he calmed down and found that he was already standing in a stone room. She secretly said in her heart: Legend has it that the skill of the Six Monarchs Gate Qimen Dunjia is unmatched, and it is really good.

Gather incense, put away the umbrella, and light the torches on the wall. Li Shuci followed behind Concubine Hui and walked in the long and dim corridor, Li Shuci was shocked, he didn't expect that there was such a large underground palace under Bixiao Palace: "Niangniang? Could it be that the underground palace of the previous dynasty is really under the Da'an Palace? ”

Concubine Hui didn't look at Li Shuci, Gu Zi walked forward, until she saw the end in front of her, and then said: "That's right, this is the underground palace of the former dynasty, there are people who are proficient in Qimen in the Six Monarchs' Gate, and after many years of exploration, they found a secret door in Bixiao Palace to enter here." It's a pity that it stops there. ”

Li Shuci glanced at Shixiang, I'm afraid that Concubine Hui is talking about her? Shixiang took a step forward, turned his fist into a palm, and touched a few places on the smooth and flat stone wall, but did not see how to move, only heard the sound of 'boom' in the center of the stone wall, and a stone door slid out of a gap from the stone wall like a knife cut.

Concubine Hui stood still and didn't move, Shixiang made a gesture to Li Shuci, and then led her to the place where she slid out of the stone gate, and said, "The county lord of Anning must not step over the stone gate, otherwise you will not be able to come back." Li Shuci was startled, quickly retracted his steps, learned to collect incense, stood between the stone gate and the stone wall, and stretched out his head to look in.

Behind the stone gate, there is a larger stone chamber, but the stone chamber is not flat, like a cave naturally formed in the belly of the mountain, and there are countless holes in the huge cave, like a giant beast with countless eyes crawling here to guard the mountain gate. Li Shuci's eyes moved down from the mountain wall, and the ground was pitch black and blurry, looking like a black quagmire, and a few bones could be seen sporadically.

"This cave, over the years, this palace has ordered many people to enter and explore, and after thinking of countless ways, they couldn't get through, and all of them died unexpectedly, and none of them were spared." Concubine Hui's voice sounded faintly behind Li Shuci, and she sighed regretfully. "Those legends are not groundless, there are countless secrets in the dungeon in the previous dynasty, but our dynasty has not taken anything from the dungeon. Because no matter what method was used, countless manpower was still lost and could not enter, and in the end, Emperor Taizu sealed all the royal bloodlines of the previous dynasty into the underground palace and left them to fend for themselves. ”

Li Shuci was shocked when he heard this, as if those who were captured were right in front of him, and he was pushed into hell in horror, and he could never turn over. "Did they all die here?"

Concubine Hui shook her head: "What you see in front of you is just one of the entrances. There are countless entrances, or exits, underneath this Da'an Palace, but none of them can enter it. ”

"That'...... If someone masters the underground palace...... "Isn't the imperial power of Chongnan at the mercy of others?"

"This is the heart disease of several generations of emperors in Chongnan." Concubine Hui asked Li Shuci to retreat, asked Shixiang to restore this place to its original state, and said, "So ......"

Therefore, Concubine Hui, who is the descendant of the Six Monarchs, will come to Emperor Xuwen's side. Therefore, as a princess of the previous dynasty, Gurya became Queen Shen. It turns out that everything is under the imperial power, and everything is in the hands of Emperor Xuwen, so what about the sympathy between Emperor Xuwen and Concubine De? So...... What about the Confucian prince? Li Shuci was stunned for a moment, and Concubine Hui glanced at her with a smile. Said: "Whoever plays, who is the chess ......"

When he returned home, Li Shuci only felt very tired. She was called by Concubine Hui to speak alone, and Qingge couldn't follow closely, waiting outside almost in a hurry, for fear that Concubine Hui would not be good for her, coupled with her worries about Mu Yun, her mouth was full of bubbles when she returned home. Li Shuci also felt that he was going to be blown to pieces by the bloody wind at any time, and he had no energy. Tell the green pigeon to rest by himself, and move himself into the house step by step. Lan Xin whispered in Li Shuci's ear: "Girl, Sister Meibai said that the one who is in the alley has begged several times and said that he wants to see you." ”

Li Shuci paused, "Did she say anything?" ”

"She said she figured it out."

Li Shuci entered the room in silence, took off his cloak, slowly leaned back on the back of the chair, and raised the pen to unconsciously scratch around on the rice paper. Then write the words "Prince and Concubine Hui". The art of the emperor is nothing more than the word balance, if the balance is broken, it will be like a flood overturning. Concubine Hui is so eager to get out of the quagmire, which means that the king no longer trusts or needs Concubine Hui. But if Concubine Hui and the crown prince are all folded, then the new balance is the Shen family and ...... King of Confucianism?

"Ah Ci." The voice of the Confucian King sounded low.

Li Shuci suddenly turned around and found that the familiar figure was standing at the door, she was in a trance for a moment, and hurriedly got up to open the door. "Why is the prince here?"

"Concubine Hui summoned you today, I was a little worried, so I came to see you. Look at your expression, is there anything going on? ”

The Confucian King stood opposite her against the light, but she could hardly read his expression. The word 'dungeon' swirled on the tip of her tongue and became: "Concubine Hui wants to warn me not to be smart and nosy." It seems that she already knows that the prince's affairs are related to me. ”