Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Night of Murder

The Forbidden City at night is mysterious. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info Xinlian walked out of Yonghe Palace with joy and walked in the direction of the Imperial Garden. "As long as you go to the imperial garden to do that thing for her, the pair of priceless jade bracelets are your own, and she is almost thirty-five years old, but now it seems that there is no hope for her to find a way to retire in this palace, if you don't go, then your life will be in vain here." Xinlian thought as she walked: "As the saying goes, a man has forty-one flowers and a woman has forty tofu, so it's better to finish this matter and go home." ”

As a palace maid, there are only two ways, one is to use her own appearance and wisdom to find a way to make the elder brother or the emperor in the palace take a fancy to her, and the other is to find a good master (queen mother, concubine, etc.) until she is old and sick, and slowly stay here until she dies. But Xinlian has not gone through these two now, but she herself has long passed the age of the palace maid to leave the palace, which does not mean that she can't leave the palace, but if the palace maid wants to go out of the palace and go home, she must first go through the chief eunuch, but the person in charge of this matter is the old eunuch who led someone to almost beat herself to death some time ago - Zhang Qilin.

Thinking of Zhang Qilin's dry old face and vicious eyes, Xinlian couldn't help but shudder, let alone muster up the courage to tell the old eunuch about it.

The Forbidden Palace under the cover of night is very silent, and occasionally there is a team of palace guards on night watch, just watching the lanterns, and passing by in a flash. Only the strong, powerful footsteps were left that faded away.

There are many more palace guards patrolling at night than during the day, one is to protect the safety of the emperor and the concubines, but to maintain the continuity of the palace, and some palace maids and eunuchs are not allowed to move around the palace at will. Xinlian walked on the road to the Imperial Garden, but she felt that she was always uncertain, as if something was going to happen, but what was it? She couldn't figure it out, but when she thought of the pair of priceless bracelets, her heart was sweet, and she touched the bracelet on her left hand, her heart was hot, and her steps were much bigger.

After walking for a while, I vaguely saw the courtyard gate in front of me, which was going to the Imperial Garden, but after entering, if you want to get to Wanchun Pavilion, you have to pass through a rockery, but this road, I have walked more than a thousand times, even if you close your eyes, you can touch and walk to Wanchun Pavilion.

Although she knew that she would go to Wanchun Pavilion to say a word to someone for Qingchuan, she didn't know whether that person was a man or a woman, and whether her identity was cheap or expensive, but when she thought of the pair of bracelets, she still had to ask about these? As the old saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy. Thinking of the pair of priceless bracelets, Xinlian smiled all the way into the door, not noticing the man in black behind the door on the left side of the disaster. I saw the man in black, when I saw the pair of bracelets on her left hand, her eyes narrowed slightly, and when she saw Xinlian bending down and walking into the rockery, she slowly followed.

Just turned a corner, Xinlian was walking, suddenly felt that her right foot seemed to have stepped on something, hurriedly stopped, bent down and touched, because there was no palace lamp in the middle of the rockery, except for the extremely faint starlight, it was by feeling that it could shuttle back and forth in the rockery, and it was absolutely impossible to see things. But for Xinlian, she only touched that thing, and then felt that it was a bracelet, but she could pick up something here, and it was also a bracelet, there are only two possibilities, one is that I don't know which one is off, it can't be a concubine, because there are very few concubines in the emperor today, and the queen Jin Zhi has long since died, so it can only be out of character, in addition to the princes who come to the palace to study, there are also the sons and daughters of the prince, this matter is specially approved by Yinzhen after he ascended the throne, Originally, I wanted to use Xian'an Palace as a place for princes and others to study, and I didn't want to abolish the prince Yinren and now live there.

If it wasn't for that Gege drop, it must have been dropped by a palace maid, but what did the palace maid do in this rockery? Don't... Thinking of this, Xinlian's face turned slightly red, and she put the bracelet back in her sleeve and walked towards a palace lamp in front.

Coming to the palace lamp, Xinlian looked left and right, and saw that the guards on the night patrol could not pass here for a while, so she hurriedly took out the bracelet, but by the dim light, the whole person seemed to have fallen into the ice cellar, and suddenly felt a chill in her heart, and couldn't help but shiver, looking at the bracelet she had just picked up with a shocked face, and slowly took off the jade bracelet on her left hand, and slowly went together, seeing that the two bracelets were exactly the same in size, color and even jade, she couldn't help but exclaim, "How is it a pair?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a black shadow, which suddenly flashed out from the corner of the wall next to her at lightning speed, and the dagger in her right hand stabbed directly into the back of her heart.

When Xinlian was wondering why there was a bracelet in this world, a chill suddenly hit her from behind, and then, a sharp pain came from behind, and before she could figure out what was going on, she suddenly saw a black-clothed masked man come to her eyes, and the surprise in her heart had already resisted the bursts of piercing pain on her body, "Who are you,,, you are?" But just as he was about to shout the second sentence, his throat was sweet, and then a bloody sword spurted out. The black man flashed ghostly, and then reached out to Xinlian's chest, and grabbed the pair of bracelets in his right hand.

At this time, Xinlian couldn't hold on anymore, and fell to the ground weakly, but her eyes blinked beautifully from beginning to end, but only stared at the black man in front of her, only to see that the person took the bracelet and was about to leave, suddenly stunned, and turned around and squatted down in front of Xinlian, with a force of both hands, Xinlian's two sleeves turned into pieces in a blink of an eye, the man looked at it, and when he saw that there was nothing else on the two snow-white arms, he frowned, and touched her again, as if he was looking for something.

At this time, Xinlian gradually understood, and also felt that the man in black seemed to be looking for another bracelet, at this moment, only to hear the man in black ask in a cold voice: "Where is the other bracelet?" The tone seemed to be anxious.

But at this time, Xinlian could no longer speak. The man in black glanced at her, suddenly snorted coldly, got up and said, "Even if you say it, after dawn, I will know." "Let's go to the rockery.

A cold wind blew, blowing the surrounding branches swaying back and forth, standing under the Wanchun Pavilion Yinzhen, raised his head and quietly looked up at the night sky, looking at the endless starry sky, as if looking for something.

Suddenly, an exclamation came from the direction of the rockery not far away. Hearing the shout, Yinzhen's heart suddenly tightened, and as soon as he got down the stone steps, he heard another voice not far away, "There are assassins, hurry." Protect the Emperor! ”

"It's not good, the emperor is in front of Wanchun Pavilion!"

Immediately afterwards, a group of guards rushed over with torches. Yin Zhen hurriedly asked, "What happened?" What assassin? ”

"Your Majesty." I saw a leader kneeling on one knee and reported: "When I just passed the rockery in front, I found that a palace maid was hit by an assassin and fell to the ground in her waistcoat!" ”

"Palace maid?" Yin Zhen's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Quick, take me to have a look." ”

The guard commander hesitated, got up and clenched his fists, and said, "Huh! ”

After Xinlian left, Qingchuan lay on the kang and wanted to squint for a while, and when Xinlian came, she woke herself up, because she knew that as long as Xinlian found out that it was the emperor who let her bring a message to that person, she would definitely have a fight with herself when she came back, but as long as she gave her another bracelet, I believe that it could soothe the dissatisfaction in her heart.

I don't want to, lying on the kang, no matter how many little sheep or singing little donkeys, I just can't sleep. I don't know how long it was, but suddenly there was a commotion outside. Qingchuan sat up suddenly, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and glanced at the Western clock on the table, which was already more than two o'clock in the morning, and suddenly remembered that he had to boil medicine for Concubine De, but every time he boiled it, it took two hours, that is, four hours, and Concubine De would get up at six o'clock in the morning every day, although it was winter at this time, and he got up at 7 o'clock, and he could make a fire, not to mention that it would take about twenty minutes and half an hour. Thinking of this, Qingchuan complained: This Dead Heart Lotus, why don't you call me that?

"Xinlian, Xinlian?" If you want to boil medicine, you also need to make a fire, how can Qingchuan be busy alone. But I shouted several times, but I didn't hear Xinlian's response.

"Where did you go?" Qingchuan said and got off the kang, but at this moment, the noise outside was getting louder and louder, and he was about to go out to see what was going on, when suddenly the curtain was lifted, and Qingchuan thought it was Xinlian who came in, and just opened his mouth to shout out the word "you", and found that it was Jade who hurriedly changed his words: "What happened outside?" "Xinlianna?"

"Qingchuan,,, you ,,, go out and have a look!"

It's a bit dark in the house, though. But by the dim candlelight, Qingchuan could still see that Jade's face looked like she had just cried, and thought to herself, she must have been punished by Concubine De, so she didn't think about anything else, and walked outside.

Outside, the sky was still dark, and the second half of the winter night was icy cold. Qingchuan folded his collar slightly, and as soon as the cold wind blew, the person was much more sober, and when he saw the noise in the courtyard outside, he hurriedly walked out.

When I came outside, I saw that Concubine De Niangniang was also there, and was about to walk over and say hello loudly, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of Yinzhen (the fourth elder brother) was also there, and there were many guards and some eunuchs and palace maids around with lanterns in their hands, shining like day.

What happened? Just when Qingchuan was hesitating whether to step forward to see the excitement, he suddenly saw Concubine De turn her head and shout lightly: "Qingchuan, come here." ”

"Oh!"

When she saw that the person lying on it was Xinlian, she was shocked at first, tears suddenly flowed out of her eyes, and she stumbled up, shouting in pain: "Xinlian,,,! ”

People who know Qingchuan, who knows that she is a strong and unyielding daughter, no matter how difficult it is, she will face it with a smile, but this time the people in Changcao, seeing that she is so out of control, immediately woke up, the palace maid who was assassinated by the assassin tonight must have an ordinary relationship with her.

"Harukawa!"

Seeing that Xinlian opened her eyes slightly, Qingchuan choked with tears in her eyes and hurriedly asked, "Xinlian, what's wrong with you?" Woooooo ”

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