35. The cold palace is ruined
35 cold palace ruined hall
As soon as Xiao Yu's words came out, Tang Ai's eyes became able to kill.
Xiao Yu still had a wicked smile on his face, looking at her condescendingly, as if looking at a little ant: "What's the matter, don't accept it?" Unconvinced! β
"You-" Tang Ai was so angry that he wanted to kick this guy to the South Heavenly Gate.
"Alas, alas, take it easy, you have to remember who you are now. Damaged the new clothes of the girls, but you feel good! Xiao Yu skillfully hid in Tibet, and his sleeves flew.
Tang Ai snorted indignantly, too lazy to waste foaming with him again: "I came to the palace to do business!" It's you, the crime of trespassing into the palace is unforgivable, if you still want your little life, go to see the girl in your heart, just leave quickly! β
She said that she would lift her feet and go, and the clothes she was wearing were taller than a man. The pile of clothes trembled as if they were about to collapse at any moment, and her back was very funny.
Xiao Yu squinted and smiled at Tang Ai and looked away, and whispered softly: "I've already seen her, she looks pretty good, but her temper is a little bigger, and she still can't help but tease." β
After Tang Ai and Xiao Yu met, they were in a very bad mood. She forced herself not to think about him, twisted her eyebrows all the way, and finally got to the gate of Yufu Palace, and the little mouse ran up to help her.
Xin Ning was dining with Concubine Qian, there were palace maids waiting beside her, and the rest of the little eunuchs were free, so a few people pulled Tang Ai and the little mouse cat into the corner, secretly trying to bet on two dice.
The little mouse explained to Tang Ai that although gambling is strictly prohibited in the palace, the big guys live in the deep palace for a long time, and there are no entertainment activities, as long as there is no earth-shattering trouble, most of the concubines will turn a blind eye.
The little eunuchs gambled simply, and they could be happy for a long time if they pressed the size. The little mouse seems to be keen on this, but unfortunately he was not favored by God, and he was so lucky that he couldn't urinate, and he lost a poor and white loss. He saw that there were few copper plates left in his hand, so he asked Tang Ai to come over and help him transfer them.
Tang Ai fell into the eunuch's nest, and he was already ashamed, looking at the pitiful eyes of the little mouse, he had to go on the field and shake it twice. She had good fortune, and she began to win in a row as soon as she came up, first helping the little mouse to return to his capital, and then making him earn several times.
The little mouse's eyes were red, and they wiped their tears at Tang Ai, saying that they gambled for a reason, and only by winning money could they get some things.
Tang Ai saw that his snot and tears were flowing together, and he didn't know how else to comfort him, he wanted to ask the little mouse what he wanted to do, but in the end he didn't ask.
After a while, the masters had eaten and drunk well, and the little eunuchs' gambling game was consciously dispersed. Concubine Coriander was ready to bathe, the little mouse was sent to boil water, and Tang Ai was taken back to Zuiyunxuan by Xinning.
The room was filled with a table of sweets at some point, and Tang Ai must not have seen it when he came during the day.
Xin Ning took advantage of the two of them being alone, and came up and asked, "Little man, you have been in this harem for a day, but what clues have you found?" β
The title of the little man, how aggrieved Tang Ai listened, and he couldn't stand the commanding tone of Her Royal Highness the Princess. Besides, it's only been a few hours, and she hasn't even figured out the road in the palace yet, so how can she start an in-depth investigation so quickly!
Soon after Liu Zhaoyi's death, there was a rumor in the harem, and now Tang Ai felt suspicious, that is, Liu Zhaoyi's death.
"Princess, I don't know if I can ask, what is the matter with Liu Zhaoyi?"
Xin Ning stared at her for a long time before she spoke: "It's not a glorious thing, so the palace people are not happy to mention it." But if you ask about it for the purpose of investigating the case, it doesn't hurt to tell you. Liu Zhaoyi was fornicated/chaotic in the palace, fornicated with men outside the palace, was beaten into the cold palace by his father, became crazy, and died not long after. β
Lewdness/promiscuity, into the cold palace......
Tang Ai kind of understood.
In other words, Liu Zhaoyi cuckolded the saint! No wonder no one wants to say the word "Liu Zhaoyi".
From this point of view, Liu Zhaoyi deserves it.
Tang Ai was lowering his eyes and thinking, when he suddenly heard an extremely slight noise in the grass outside Zuiyun Xuan. But when she looked out the window, she didn't see anything unusual.
Xin Ning also quickly looked out the window, her big eyes rolled twice, and she coughed twice at Tang Ai: "Look, the palace has been weird recently, you can always hear some movements that you shouldn't hear, and you can always see things you shouldn't see." You continue to keep an eye on those little eunuchs and little palace maids, and even if you find something, report it to me. β
Tang Ai glanced outside again, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong with the outside, he said goodnight to Xinning and exited Zuiyunxuan.
Xin Ning looked out along the crack in the door, and saw that Tang Ai had turned back to the ear room where the little eunuchs lived, so she covered the door and quickly ran to the window, poked her head out of the window, and tentatively said in a mosquito-like voice: "Fourth brother, is it you?" βγ
The grass and trees in the flower garden under the window seem to have long legs moving back and forth, and a bunch of figures loom from among the plants and trees, and the clothes are fluttering, clear and smart.
This figure can only be Xiao Yu.
He had taken off his guard uniform, and was wearing his original outfit at the moment.
Xiao Yu climbed into the room through the window, without making a sound at all, and his face was full of smiles.
Xinning was even more happy, closed the window tightly, pulled Xiao Yu to sit at the table, and pushed the candy on the table into Xiao Yu's arms.
Xiao Yu picked one casually and threw it into his mouth, and whispered happily: "How is Tang Ai?" Did you do something for you? β
Xin Ning raised her little brain: "I changed her name, and he is now called Xiao Xiaoxiao!" β
"Little dwarf? Hahaha, this name is too good for her. Xiao Yu laughed and fell down.
Xin Ning was triumphant, but suddenly pursed her lips and said sullenly: "Fourth brother, I saw you this time, and I don't know how many months I will have to wait for you next time......
Xiao Yu touched her head: "How could it be, the old man thought that I hadn't been back to the palace for more than ten years, but I actually came to see you every once in a while, which even he didn't know." β
Xin Ning didn't care about it: "But if you stay for a short time every time, can't you stay for two more days this time?" β
"You want me to stay here? I'm such a big living person, and my physical defects are still so obvious, it's too difficult to avoid being discovered. β
When Xin Ning heard this, her little face immediately drooped, and she said miserably: "Fourth brother, I also know that I can't expose your identity, but in this palace, I can hear ghosts screaming every night, and I can't sleep, if you don't accompany me, I will finish sooner or later!" β
"Is it really so strict?"
"Uh-huh!" Xin Ning nodded her head.
Xiao Yu turned his head sideways, and Qing Ning's eyes slowly flickered: "In this way, you can also find me the clothes of a little eunuch, I am as ashamed as Tang Ai, maybe I can mix up for a while." β
To be honest, Tang Ai doesn't have to pretend at all.
She huddled on the bunk where the little eunuchs slept, sniffing her armpits secretly, and almost fainted by herself. She is now the same as this group of embarrassed little eunuchs, and she can smell it from afar.
In the middle of the night, the big guys were all on fire, but Tang Ai was still open.
If there are ghosts and ghosts, now is the time for them to come out and infiltrate.
Tang Ai condensed his breath and listened to the six directions, waiting to hear an unusual sound.
As a result, the sound really came suddenly.
It's just that the place where the sound originated is a little closer to herβat the end of the Chase shop, a small body straightened up, tiptoed down the ground, and didn't forget to glance around when he went out.
Tang Ai looked over quietly and found that this person was a little mouse. The little eunuchs have more or less problems with urinating because they lack little babies, which is why they always have a smell of shame.
Tang Ai originally thought that the little mouse was just going to get up at night, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the little mouse was behaving strangely, so he quietly got up from the bunk and secretly followed the little mouse out of the door.
The little mouse really didn't go to get up at night, but took advantage of the dark moon and high wind to sneak out of the palace gate of Yufu Palace. Tang Ai's light skills are exquisite, and the little mouse naturally can't find that there is a person behind him.
His small steps are also fast, and he has gone from the East Sixth Palace to the West Sixth Palace in a blink of an eye.
Tang Ai heard Gonggong Cai say yesterday that the East and West Sixth Palaces are the residences of the concubines, but the West Sixth Palace is obviously sparsely populated, and most of the people who live in them are low-grade or unfavored concubines, which is the so-called cold palace, and there is also a palace that is said to have been abandoned for many years, and there was a fire a few days ago.
The errand of the little mouse waiting in the Yufu Palace is actually quite good, he doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, but he has to come to the deserted West Sixth Palace, which really makes Tang Ai suspicious.
The little mouse stopped at the gate of Yihe Palace, the outermost edge of the West Sixth Palace, and after half a moment, a eunuch who was so old that he was a scumbag poked his head out of the palace gate, muttered a few words to the little mouse in a low voice, and stuffed a package to the little mouse.
Tang Ai didn't hear what the old eunuch said, but he heard the little mouse thank the old eunuch for gratitude, and muttered "Thank you, Master, thank you, Master", and gave the old eunuch all the money that Tang Ai helped to win, and then walked to the depths of the West Sixth Palace with the package.
The little mouse went further and reached the deepest part of the West Sixth Palace. The deserted palace stood silently in the long night, invisibly giving people a sense of breathless oppression. A gust of wind pierced people's backbones, and the dead trees in the palace gate began to show their teeth and claws, and people's hairs stood on end.
Tang Ai looked at the palace in front of him from a distance and saw that these were two palaces built opposite each other, the plaque on one door was written Yongchun Palace, and the other side was written Zhaoyang Palace.
When the little mouse arrived between the two palaces, he gradually slowed down his pace, unwrapped the package by the moonlight, and took out the things inside tremblingly, trembling all over. Tang Ai looked at his appearance, and he was obviously so scared that he wanted to pee.
It's good that she didn't look at it, but when she saw it, she was taken aback again - the things that the little mouse took out of this package were actually a bunch of ingots, candles, and paper clothes!
The little mouse trembled and bowed to the Yongchun Palace three times, squatted down/lit the brazier, and chanted words while burning paper.
Tang Ai was far away, and he really couldn't listen to what the little mouse said, so he simply flew up to the palace wall of Yongchun Palace and moved to the palace gate little by little.
This time, she was finally able to listen to the little mouse's words.
The little mouse trembled, and the words he spit out sounded like a wandering spirit.
He said: "Liu Zhaoyi, the little mouse is back. You treated the little mouse very well before you died, and the little mouse will come to burn paper money and clothes for you. Whoever kills you, you can go to whomever you want, but don't torture us minions anymore! β