Chapter Seventy-Two: Gu Chengcheng
As the saying goes, "Snow doesn't get cold." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" But at this point, I'm afraid I can rarely feel the meaning of this sentence. Because the diligent palace people have already cleaned the snow, they can't wait for it to melt slowly.
It's not that Gangnam doesn't snow, but it rarely snows. In the 12 years she has lived in Jiangnan, Xie Zhaolin has only been able to see the snow a handful of times.
Not only because it rarely snows, but also because her physical condition does not allow it. So every time it snowed, she would sit in the house with a hand warmer and watch the laughing sisters and little maids outside.
And also...... The white that floated all over the sky watched it fall on people's hair, black and white, and then slowly became transparent, and then melted.
Watch them fall into the dark soil, on the light-colored stone slabs, and the ablation from the beginning will not see the gradual accumulation of the latter. White, pure, crystalline, and cold.
She had imagined the touch of snow, how soft and gentle it would be? But then I learned that it was just a soft and fine coldness.
But people's psychology is always strange, and people or things that were attached to when they were children, even if they later found out that they were not as good as they imagined, they would generally continue to cling.
Xie Zhaolin is the same, even if she later discovers that the snow is not such a warm and soft thing, she will look forward to it when winter arrives every time.
And this complex lasted until after she entered the palace. No, Xie Zhaolin, who had long known that the palace people would clean up the snow, had already ridiculously secretly hidden a few handfuls in a seldom-frequented rockery a few days ago and prepared them for himself to play.
"This kind of weather, it can't have melted, right?" Xie Zhaolin muttered quietly and walked slowly towards the artificial cave.
But when she was still four or five steps from the entrance of the cave, she noticed that it seemed that someone had been here.
Because there is a piece of silk hanging on the branches of the dead trees that hide the entrance of the cave next to it!
Xie Zhaolin took it off and rubbed it carefully, and found that this was the precious cloth Liyun silk that was paid tribute from the Western Regions not long ago, and it was also stained with a trace of fragrance, and it should not be ordinary.
Liyun silk! She remembered that the emperor only rewarded the queen and the crown prince, and the queen somehow actually used it to embroider a sachet and sent it to Mingxia Palace, so she was fortunate to see this precious cloth.
Who has been here? In other words, Xie Zhaolin looked at the black hole. The man hasn't come out yet!
Let's go in and have a look! Xie Zhaolin's curiosity suddenly rose, and he didn't think about the consequences, so he went in alone.
After entering the rockery, it only took her time to get used to the dim light inside, and then her keen sense of smell began to work.
In the damp and cold earthy smell, there is a hint of aroma looming, and the fabric is a smell!
Wow, a fragrant wind struck, and at the same time there was the buzzing sound of a sharp weapon unsheathed! Xie Zhaolin turned around, deftly dodged the attack of the woman behind her, and knocked down the long sword in her hand and kicked it into the distance.
"You!" The woman was shocked, she just saw that Xie Zhaolin came in alone, and she was still shorter than her, so she felt that she had a good chance of winning.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, she was disarmed, and it seems that the other party seems to have practiced! Then you can't rush into another attack.
Seeing Xie Zhaolin standing there, although his eyes were on guard, he didn't seem to be ready to attack again in a short time. The woman secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, so she took a step back and observed Xie Zhaolin's clothes.
"Who are you? How did it end up here? After a short contact, Xie Zhaolin had already seen some indescribable traces on the woman's delicate face, torn clothes, and bare fair skin......
Could it be...... Cheating here? Xie Zhaolin looked left and right, and his heart couldn't help but hang.
If that's the case, then I'm afraid there's another person here! It's still a man! Then you are really in danger!
The enemy is in the dark, she is in the light, even if there are a few moves of fists and feet, it is not enough to see!
While Xie Zhaolin was looking at the woman, the woman had already finished looking at her. Looking at her good clothes, the woman was also depressed.
She had already judged Xie Zhaolin's identity, and after thinking about it, she still stepped forward and saluted: "Slave and maid see the princess." ”
Seeing that she recognized her identity, Xie Zhaolin was not too surprised, and after signaling that she didn't need to be polite, she asked, "Which palace are you in?" How did it end up here? ”
"This ......" the woman looked very uneasy, and pulled her torn and thin clothes with her hands, unable to speak.
"What are you ......" Xie Zhaolin wanted to ask again, but he didn't want to hear the call of Dangui outside.
Half an hour hasn't arrived, so why did Dangui come? Could it be that she had to come forward for something?
After glancing at the trembling woman again, Xie Zhaolin finally couldn't resist the shouts outside and agreed to go out.
Dangui was not surprised to see her suddenly appear, only said that the prince's East Palace sent guards to look for people, and I was afraid that the situation was going to search the palace.
It was then that Xie Zhaolin learned that the woman who had just hid in the rockery was named Gu Tingcheng and was the prince's favorite concubine.
Xie Zhaolin naturally refused to let that group of guards search the palace, otherwise where would she be a dignified princess? After sending the guards with both hard and soft measures, she took Dangui back to the rockery cave this time.
Gu Qingcheng was really still hiding there, thinking that it was because the prince was so aggressive that he couldn't escape, and his clothes were thin and broken, even if he ran, he couldn't run far.
After asking Dangui to hand her a thick fox fur coat, Xie Zhaolin began to ask: "Your name is Gu Qingcheng?" Why run out? ”
Although it was a question sentence, it used a declarative tone, Gu Tingcheng took the coat and put it on, and when he heard Xie Zhaolin ask like this, he knew that he couldn't hide it, so he said the reason one by one.
After Xie Zhaolin listened, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked Dangui: "What do you think, is what she said true?" ”
Dangui is a clear one, she glanced at Gu Qingcheng lightly with her afterglow, and replied in a deep voice: "The slave maid doesn't know, but the slave maid thinks that the prince would force a woman." ”
It means that there are so many women who want to be concubines for the prince, why doesn't she want to be one? If she doesn't want to be it, forget it, so why do you want to enter the palace to choose a concubine? Why did the prince still take a fancy to her?
I'm afraid it's because this woman has done something else, or maybe she wants to get away with it.
Xie Zhaolin nodded after listening to Dangui's thoughts, as if she agreed with her, which made Gu Qingcheng anxious, she rushed forward and grabbed Xie Zhaolin's sleeve regardless of her identity, crying so much that her liver and intestines were broken.
"Presumptuous, what kind of system are you like this?" Dangui shouted angrily and was about to come up and pull her away, but Xie Zhaolin stretched out his hand to stop her.
"In that case, let's find a way to get her out of the palace," she said calmly, as if it were an easy matter to hide from the prince.
"What? Princess, you mean...... "Dangui couldn't believe his ears. Shouldn't she be sent to see the prince?
"Yes, you heard her right, I said send her out of the palace." Xie Zhaolin said again, as if he didn't see the surprise of the two.