Chapter 016: Eavesdropping
Outside the deserted palace, overgrown with weeds, everywhere was gray.
Most of the lake paper on the door pages are pitted, and some of the door pages are leaning on the side of the door railing, and they are covered with spider silk.
In the past, the old people in the palace often chattered, saying that most of the souls in the abandoned palace were wronged, and once they set foot on them, they would be entangled by ghosts, and they would be bedridden at least and killed by hooked souls.
Therefore, many people are taboo to come here.
When she came for the first time, Du Wanruo was also in a hurry, the palace was so big, she got lost while playing, otherwise she wouldn't have come here.
Speaking of which, King Qi hadn't looked for her for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that it was late at night, she would probably go to his palace to sit down, and she would not have a good feeling when she remembered the way the kid poured wine at the moon viewing banquet.
Well, when it's dawn, let's go straight to him.
As soon as she thought about it, she heard a human voice not far away, and thought, it can't be so coincidental, is he here too?
In this place, I usually see King Qi coming with her, but I haven't seen anyone else.
Probably the news of her stay spread throughout the palace, and it was not surprising that King Qi also smelled the wind.
She walked over to take a look, although there was still some distance and the view at night was not very good, but there was no doubt that she was wearing a prince's costume.
"Mu ......" just wanted to call him, but suddenly remembered that the guards would be summoned, and couldn't help but walk in a lot, and it was not too late to shout when it got closer.
But when she got closer, she realized that the man was not the prince at all.
Afraid of being discovered, she hurriedly hid behind a low wall.
ββ¦β¦ It's so late, what are you looking for me? It wasn't the fake prince who spoke, but the person standing across from him, and his voice sounded familiar.
Because the position where the man was standing happened to be blocked by the tree, if he hadn't spoken, he wouldn't have thought that there was a person standing there.
"A queen sent someone to me today...... Hehe, it's strange, and there's something even more strange," the fake prince said after selling it, "She took the medicine from me." β
After waiting for a while, seeing that the other party didn't ask for a long time, the fake prince seemed a little dissatisfied, "Don't you want to know, she asked me what kind of medicine I wanted?" After a while, "Huh~~Don't go~~~ I'll sue sΓΉ you still can't do it?" β
The sound grew farther and farther away, and there were footsteps.
Du Wanruo squatted at the base of the wall and listened for a long time, but she didn't hear a reason, and said in her heart: What is this?
But they mentioned the queen mother, saying that the queen mother asked the fake prince for what medicine, and the specific medicine was not clear.
In other words, what kind of medicine can make a big fuss so that you don't sleep in the middle of the night and come over to report? Hiss~~ It must be a life-threatening poison.
Du Wanruo's goosebumps all over her body rose, and she suddenly felt that there was a lot of gloom around her, she rubbed her arms together, and immediately had the idea of going home.
But as soon as she turned around, she saw a pair of feet on the ground, she didn't dare to raise her head, and wailed miserably in her heart: It's over, it's been discovered.
"Is that you?" Apparently the other party recognized her, and already knew her, and it was said by the person with a familiar voice.
She also heard it instantly, isn't this voice the prince's? No wonder it sounds so familiar.
Why is he here?
What does he have to do with that fake prince?
What is the relationship between the fake prince and the queen?
Was that poison intended to kill someone?
A series of questions crossed her mind in an instant, and she still kept her head down, pretending to be deaf to his words.
She didn't know how she was in a hurry, but she did something she couldn't even imagine.
She first took her index finger and wrote a few words on the ground that she couldn't type, then she got up and came not far away, picked up a stone and smashed it against the wall, and when she was done, she walked out of the ruined hall the way she came.
The fake prince obviously didn't want people to see him, and he didn't show up until he saw her unusual appearance.
Li Muchen's face looked very ugly, and he stared straight at Du Wanruo after doing a series of incomprehensible things, and then walked away.
The fake prince came to his side and said as if relieved, "Startle me, it turns out that he is sleepwalking," he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Acquaintance?" β
Li Muchen still looked at the direction in which Du Wanruo left, and asked instead of answering, "What kind of medicine is it?" β
The fake prince smiled, laughing like a treacherous plan, afraid that someone else would listen to it, so after looking left and right, he answered him with his ear.
When Du Wanruo went back, Cai Ling was still sleeping profusely, it was rare that she had slept out of her essence, and her sleeping appearance was much better than before.
Normally, Du Wanruo might still be in the mood to tease her, but now she thinks it's better to go to sleep quickly.
In case someone comes over to check the room later, she can also take precautions.
Hung the clothes back on the shelf untouched, and got into the bed.
The person is already lying in bed and still moving, and his heart is still pounding.
That situation just now was too dangerous, and she had to admire herself afterwards, how could she come up with the trick of sleepwalking?
I don't know if I hid it, I probably believed it, otherwise I wouldn't have let her come back without saying anything.
Gradually, I fell asleep when I felt sleepy.
When I woke up the next day, I saw Cai Ling busy and refreshed.
"Miss, did you sleep well?" Cai Ling collected the account for her while taking the basin to wash her.
When asked about sleeping, Du Wanruo wanted to tell her: No! You! Good!
But she was more concerned about another question, and said, "What time is it?" β
"It's just past the hour."
"What?" Du Wanruo was shocked and fell to the ground.
As if knowing that she would have this reaction, Cai Ling smiled and said, "Miss don't worry, the Queen Mother has already sent someone here, saying that it is not too late to wait for Miss to wake up and then go, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been here, but when you see that you have not woken up, tell the slave and maid not to disturb you, and say when you wake up, and then ask someone to go to his palace to inform him." β
After listening to Cai Ling's explanation, Du Wanruo was a little relieved.
Cai Ling pulled her to the dressing table and made her kneel on the felt ball, combing her hair while smiling.
Du Wanruo looked at Cai Ling in the bronze mirror and wondered, "What are you laughing at?" β
Cai Ling's hands kept working, and she said with a happy face, "The slave is happy for Miss, the Queen Mother and the Prince are really good to you." Especially His Royal Highness the Prince, haven't you seen that just after the court this morning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came over, and his eyes were full of love and envy for others. β
Du Wanruo tugged at the corners of her mouth with a slight emptiness, "Yes...... Is it? "Are you sure you're not here to find out what is true and what is true?
"But no, Miss, you are a fan of the authorities, you must not be as clear as us onlookers, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really likes you, or if you send other women's portraits all day long to anger him, he doesn't care, and he can't stand it as an ordinary man."
Du Wanruo wanted to say that she did it on purpose.
"I wish he were an ordinary man." Yes, many things are much simpler.
I couldn't help but say what I was thinking.
"His Royal Highness the Prince." But there was the sound of Cai Ling's salute in his ears.