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The empress was still walking calmly on the path in the palace as if she hadn't noticed.

She followed closely behind the female officer who had accompanied her to Penglai Pavilion to meet with the National Teacher.

Passing the winding path of the Imperial Garden, the Empress stopped at a gazebo.

She looked at the green bamboo forest in front of her, and her heart moved slightly.

Although it is early winter, standing and looking at the past, the eyes are quiet, green and upright under the cover of night, full of vitality.

The empress paused for a moment, her expression moved, and she turned her head and asked the people who followed behind her: "It's been so long, and the total number of people sent is no less than twenty, is there no news at all?" ”

The female officer was stunned for a moment, paused for a few seconds before realizing the object of her question, lowered her eyes and bowed her head, and said, "Your Majesty, the hidden guard has tracked the surrounding area for five hundred miles."

The empress frowned, interrupted her words, and asked bluntly, "Is there a gain?" ”

The female officer avoided her sharp eyes, instinctively a little afraid of the person in front of her.

She avoided the empress's gaze, lowered her head and said cautiously: "The people sent out by the hidden guards started to search from the residence, and searched the entire bamboo garden, but they didn't find anything. “

The female official glanced up slightly and caught a glimpse of the other party's staring eyes, and she could see that the empress was very concerned. "All the secret rooms in the bamboo garden have been rummaged, only musical instruments, nothing else, and the usual favorite items are also kept, and everyone in the interrogation courtyard who has been in contact with them has nothing abnormal until they disappear."

"I didn't take anything I gave me." The empress looked gloomy and said in a light tone. The Hidden Guard then expanded its scope. Along the way, there were indeed traces of it. ”

The Empress listened thoughtfully.

"It's a pity that I followed those traces, and the clues were all broken."

When she said this, the female officer smiled wryly. The palms of his hands are sweaty.

It is precisely because of the hidden guards sent out that such an elite team is difficult to search, which also shows the cleverness of the searched object from another angle, or in other words, it is an indisputable fact that people are completely unwilling to be found.

No matter what, what awaits him?!

The female officer pondered and whispered, "He did it on purpose. It should have deliberately left traces to confuse the hidden satellite TV line. ”

"That's what the minister thinks too." The female officer said with difficulty.

"He knew I would send someone to find him, but he didn't want to be found by me." He must have thought about it for a long time before leaving. You must use a foolproof method," the empress narrowed her eyes slightly, "not only so that I can have a search process, but also let me find it." I died because I got nothing. ”

The Empress sighed. His eyes fell on the green bamboo forest, he settled down, and reached out to touch his eyebrows with a hint of anger: "I don't obey his will!" "Tell the guards to keep tracking, don't stop."

The empress looked at the bamboo forest, her eyes were deep, and she said, "Since you can't find it within a radius of five hundred miles, let's expand the scope of searching." ”

"The people around him are still staying in the bamboo garden?"

"Your Majesty, there is something that the minister doesn't know whether to say or not." The female official paused, trying to figure out the empress's expression. continued, "Before the disappearance. There is a new attendant in the bamboo garden, I heard that he is quite favored, and he boils medicine and delivers food every day, and stays in the room for a long time. ”

"Squire?" The empress knew that there must be an inside story, and her face immediately sank and said, "What is the origin?" ”

"It seems that they were captured by human traffickers, and they arrested a few homeless people in a border town, and the attendant was one of them, about fifteen or sixteen years old." "First of all, I was sent to the west courtyard by carriage, and after the steward over there saw it, he felt that his appearance was very suitable for being sent to the east courtyard, so he tried to send it, and he accepted it." "The face is delicate, and everyone who has heard it has described it very carefully" When the hidden guard transmitted the news, he explained everything in detail, and the female officer tried her best to repeat the original words.

"The East Courtyard found more than a dozen people one after another, and none of them stayed, and it was the turn of the teenager, the only exception."

The female officer 1510 said all the information that the hidden guard had, especially about the appearance of the young man, and said it in such detail that she could sketch a picture in her mind with her words.

The empress listened to it, the knot between her eyebrows was deeper, and when she heard the words "outstanding appearance", her heart sank, and when she heard the sentence "quite similar", she finally couldn't help but show a sad expression.

"No wonder only that child has entered his eyes," the empress said with a sudden look on her face, "If it were someone else, how could he stay in his house for a long time, I am afraid that it is difficult to enter the bamboo garden." ”

"According to what you said, although the boy was captured by human traffickers, he seems to be very interested in him."

"That's right, Your Majesty," the female officer smiled slightly, "The people in the East Courtyard praise him for his dedication to service, and I heard that he also knows a little bit about the medical skills of a three-legged cat, and he can cook medicine and soup." ”

"The minister guessed that it was probably because of this that he took the young man with him when he left."

"You're right, after all, there must be someone by his side," the empress whispered.

"Yes," the female officer replied softly, raising her eyes to see the empress's melancholy expression, and wanted to find a word of comfort for a while, but she couldn't think of it.

In fact, she also knew that at such times, any words of comfort sounded pale and weak.

So she looked at the empress with a word, so she had to remain silent and continue to stand.

After a while, she saw that the empress's expression eased, and then she said softly: "Your Majesty, you don't have to take it to heart when the national teacher of Penglai Pavilion was sick just now. ”

The empress turned her head, looked at her helplessly, and said with a smile: "I am not angry, even if I am angry about his affairs for a while, this temperament is not long, who called him"

At this point, she paused, but the painful look on her face betrayed her heart.

The female officer looked at the sky once again illuminated by lightning, pursed her lips with some worry, and cautiously approached the empress and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to go back, this day, it's unreliable." “

The empress shook her head and clasped the bamboo pole with her hand and said, "I want to sit here for a while, I haven't been here for a long time." “

"I remember that when I first planted these bamboos, Chaohua watched the people below them," a reminiscing expression appeared on the empress's face, and her voice was as low as a whisper, "He told me about the four friends of the cold at that time, and only Zhu regarded it as a favorite." ”

Time is like sand between your fingers, and it slowly flows away before you know it.

The empress stretched out her hand to stroke the bamboo leaves swaying in the wind and said, "Shake, it's been a few years." ”

I was bored all day, and at this moment, looking at the verdant bamboo forest in front of me, thinking back to the old days, the empress was in a mood and refused to leave.

She walked into the pavilion and sat on a stone bench, looking out at the faint buildings in the distance.

After sitting for half an hour, the empress suddenly glanced in the direction of the Lin De Palace, remembering that encounter, the slender figure appeared in her mind, dreamed back at midnight, and thought of the previous scene several times.

After thinking about it, she said to the female official: "What have you been busy with in the past few days?" "In the past, he came to me very often, even if he was injured, he asked his subordinates to come to me to ask for news, what happened recently?"

The female official's expression was relieved, and she hurriedly said to the empress: "The emperor may be unhappy about Su Guijun's affairs. “

As soon as the words came out, she seemed to realize the gaffe, how could she say such a thing!

She gritted her teeth and hurriedly added, "The minister has overstepped!" “

The empress's tense face finally relaxed at this moment, and said with a smile: "There is no one else, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"Yes, last time, I heard that Su Guijun arrived in the Cold Palace, and His Majesty went to visit one after another, and I heard the attendants of the Lin De Hall say that the Emperor Guijun also sent a fire."

If it is not a female official gossip, she can follow the empress, and finding out the news is one of her duties, so she almost knows what is happening in the harem.

"Yan Zhi has always been like this, but I love him to be petty occasionally," the empress paused and said in a slower tone, "Those people in the palace are deeply hidden, and I want to have a simpler person by my side, with joy, anger, sorrow and happiness on my face." ”

The empress said nonchalantly: "When Yanzhi first entered the palace, his temperament was still fierce, and his heart has gradually matured in recent years, and it has also smoothed out a lot. ”

"If it weren't for that, how could His Majesty hand over the harem to him?" The female official said half with emotion and half abruptly, "Life in the palace can't accommodate people with too much personality, so it's best to be stable and uneventful." ”

The empress was touched by her words, and was silent for a while, and then said again: "Su Xun has been moving there for several days, why hasn't Yanzhi come to me?" ”

"Could it be that these days, he is still playing calligraphy and painting?" The empress heard a little about it last time, and when she heard the news of Lin De Palace, He Yanzhi began to study Danqing, which was quite ridiculous.

"Your Majesty," the female official lowered her eyes, weighed it secretly in her heart, raised her head and smiled, "I heard that the drawings sent to the repair office last time were from the hands of the emperor and nobleman, and even the craftsmen and masters were full of praise after reading it. ”

"When did Yan Zhi have such a talent?" The empress sat in the pavilion, her fingers slowly swiped across the stone platform in front of her, and she looked at her expressionlessly.

The empress was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise, "I remember that he never liked to fiddle with this, and once I couldn't look at it and urged him, he only barely practiced for a few days, and then he became desolate. ”

"There is no way to compare with Chaohua, even Su Hyun, he is a big step behind," the empress snorted and said, "Has he really changed sex recently?" ”

"I don't think so," the empress looked at her and smiled, "It's probably because the people in the construction department deliberately flattered her, so they praised it." ”

The female official met the empress's gaze, and finally couldn't help it, and continued: "The master of the construction office is not in front of the ministers, nor in front of the people of the Linde Palace, but there are words that circulate secretly. “

The female officer tilted her head and thought about it, and explained: "Therefore, the minister thinks that it is still very credible!" ”

"Perhaps, Xingxu Emperor Guijun does have some talent in this way, but he just didn't show it before." (To be continued......)