717. Chapter 717: Night Detective
When Ah Feng and Jiang Ming snuggled under the corridor, Xiao Youfu was leaning on the pillar not far away.
Of course, he wasn't eavesdropping, let alone peeping. As one of the best eunuchs, he was one of the people who knew the rules best. So, he could swear that he was definitely not eavesdropping, nor was he peeking, he was just waiting for a possible summons: what if Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess needed him?
So he listened to the qiē coming from the wind very calmly, and when he heard Ah Feng say "I do", the old eunuch laughed silently, and the smile showed a few teeth.
Then his ears moved, and he heard some movement outside An Fengke, some of which were not special beads, but there should never be movement at this time.
Xiao Youfu glanced at Ah Feng and Jiang Ming, and just collided with Jiang Ming's gaze, he nodded slightly to Jiang Ming: With Jiang Ming here, of course Ah Feng will not be in danger, so he wants to go out and have a look.
Jiang Ming also heard it, but in the palace, Xiao Youfu was obviously more suitable than him to go out and take a look, so he didn't move and still hugged Ah Feng: he had too much to say to Ah Feng.
Although it's not a big deal, well, it's not even a thing, maybe other people will say it's nonsense when they hear it, but he and Ah Feng won't think like that; Therefore, he didn't want to move even more, so he handed over a qiē to Xiao Youfu.
Xiao Youfu's body rose lightly from the ground, like a fallen leaf blown by the wind, and disappeared between the gloomy palace walls of An Feng Pavilion without making the slightest sound.
There is a road outside Anfeng Pavilion. The road surface is very clean, except in autumn when it is paved with fallen leaves, the rule in the palace is that except for a few specific roads, the other roads are not swept with fallen leaves in autumn; The road outside An Feng Pavilion has always been very clean.
It is so clean that in addition to the palace people and eunuchs who clean, only a few people will leave every year: the people who deliver food, the eunuchs who deliver food to the people in the cold palace, will walk on this road.
But not every day someone will go to deliver food, because it is a cold palace, and no one will blame it if you forget it once or twice. However, this situation has changed since soon after Ah Feng was born, and the people in the imperial dining room have never sent anything less to the cold palace.
Because the head of the cold palace has changed.
Now, the female history in the cold palace has changed again, so the people in the imperial dining room have started fishing for three days and drying nets for two days: because there are not many female histories who are very powerful and can give the imperial dining room a headache, and so far there is only one person.
It is so clean, few people will walk, and most of the people in the palace don't know the road, but there is an exception tonight: someone actually walked over from outside An Feng Pavilion.
It's strange that no one plays the lantern, even if there is moonlight in the sky, but when it comes out at night in the palace, the lantern is not just for lighting, it is also something that shows identity: people from afar know who the person is at a glance, whether they should avoid or walk head-on, everyone will have a number in their hearts.
However, none of the people who walked outside An Feng Pavilion were carrying lanterns. Their steps were not heavy, and their numbers were not large: there were only three or four of them, and they were in a hurry.
Xiao Youfu glanced at it, and it floated like a fallen leaf again, rising and falling in the shadows between the trees and the palace wall, and it didn't take long for him to be in front of a few people: he wanted to know who would rush to the cold palace at such a late hour.
The cold palace is an ominous place, a taboo place for the concubines in the palace, not to mention that it is big night or daylight, and no one will want to go to that place.
The silver light of the moon on the ground did not sweep over the bodies and faces of a few hurried men: two women and a man.
It's not that there are no men in the palace, but there can only be one man who will walk around the palace at night, and that is the emperor; The prince could not have wandered around the palace at night: he could not shake out the courtyard where he lived.
It is impossible for the emperor to go to the cold palace at night, so take a closer look at the man's clothes, even if he is wearing the long shirt that ordinary men wear, but the way he walks still makes Xiao Youfu conclude that this person is a father-in-law.
The woman walked in a hurry with her head down, Xiao Youfu also used her eyesight, coupled with the cooperation of the moon, he recognized who that person was: the virtuous concubine and her personal female officer.
Xiao Youfu raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips: The virtuous concubine at night doesn't sleep, what is she doing in the cold palace? There are acquaintances of the virtuous concubine in the cold palace, and she has been a sister for more than ten years, the former concubine Degui, and the current sinner Han.
But Xiao Youfu didn't think that the virtuous concubine would come to visit the Han family because of her sisterhood, according to the rules of the palace, but anyone in the cold palace could not visit without a holy decree.
didn't even hit the lantern, and after the time of the child, Xiao Youfu thought that there would definitely be no holy decree on the virtuous concubine; However, he didn't show up to stop it, he wanted to know if Concubine Xian could enter the cold palace: if she could, wouldn't it be the first time she had come?
Concubine Xian Guifei soon arrived at the door of the cold palace, and the father-in-law, who was dressed in ordinary men's clothes, stepped forward to call the door, patted the door three times, stopped and slapped twice, and then stopped and continued to shoot three times; After patting the door, he retreated behind the virtuous concubine and stood back, as if he was sure that the door would open.
The door is really open. At night, when there is only the sound of the slight wind blowing the leaves, the "squeak" sound when the door of the cold palace is opened, the sound makes people startled.
The person in the door didn't come out, because he was in the dark, and Xiao Youfu couldn't even see whether the person was a man or a woman. Concubine Xian and the others walked in, and the palace door sounded again and closed tightly.
Xiao Youfu didn't need to walk in from the door, when he climbed over the wall and entered, Concubine Xian and the others had already entered a side hall; He quietly followed.
The windows of the side hall here are tattered, and Xiao Youfu can see a qiē in the hall without Xiao Youfu's hands and feet: there is a lamp lit in the hall, a cotton thread lit in a broken small bowl, the light is not lit and there is oil smoke rising from time to time.
The lights are really not bright, but it is enough for Xiao Youfu to see the people in the palace clearly, in addition to the virtuous concubine and her party, there are two people in the hall, one is the former Degui Concubine and the current sinner Han, and the other is wearing the costume of the female history of the palace, which should be the female history of the cold palace now.
Concubine Xian really came to visit the Han family.
"What are you going to do?" Han's face was not good-looking, and his voice was even colder: "If you came to see what I look like now, then you also saw it, then it's better to leave." "She is the one who has been in charge of the Six Palaces, and even if she is down, she will not reveal anything in front of the virtuous concubine.
Because this is the only bit of decency and dignity she has left.
Concubine Xian smiled: "My sister didn't see me the first two times, but my kind sister should have received it." The days of this cold palace are difficult, and my sister still has to cherish her body. Otherwise, if you have a problem that you have to come out of the day but fall, wouldn't it make the enemy too happy? ”