Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Cold Palace
After running all afternoon, he was really hungry, Qin Leling feasted on the table full of food. Qin Muqing ate unhurriedly beside him, and said, "I haven't seen you all afternoon, Ling'er, where have you been?" ”
"I'm in a good place." Qin Leling thought back to that secluded place, he was really unsatisfied, and he would take his senior brother there tomorrow. "I also met Concubine Shu and the abolished queen in a private meeting."
Qin Muqing stopped his chopsticks, and Qin Leling hurriedly said, "Don't worry, they didn't find me." ”
Qin Muqing said: "I met Chu Han this afternoon, and he said that he would arrange for us to leave tomorrow. ”
Qin Muqing was not interested in their private meeting at all, and the words turned unprepared, Qin Leling took a bite of rice in his mouth, and said slowly: "Oh." ”
"Ling'er, aren't you happy?"
Qin Leling smiled: "No, it's just a little sudden." ”
It's finally time to leave this nasty place, but she has a faint sense of unhappiness. Is there anything reluctant, Qin Leling didn't know what was wrong with him, but that cold face appeared in his mind, such a lonely figure.
After a long time, Qin Leling said, "I'm going to a place tonight." ”
"Where?"
"Cold Palace."
Qin Leling continued: "I want to go there to find Concubine Zhao...... Figure something out. ”
This afternoon, she couldn't pretend she hadn't heard those things when she heard them. Even she didn't know if she wanted to figure something out or help him.
In fact, as soon as she looked up, she could see that the senior brother's eyes suddenly became sad and full of pity, and the man's expression flickered at the moment when the senior sister raised her head, and then smiled and said: "Ling'er wants to go on one condition - let me go with you." ”
Qin Leling never expected that the senior brother would agree so lightly, and he couldn't hide his excitement: "Okay, I already knew that the senior brother was the best." ”
Qin Muqing was suspicious: "I already knew that I was the best?" I think you've thought of a thousand reasons to convince me to let you go. ”
"No, at most...... Ten. ”
At night, when everything was quiet, the two of them evaded the guards who were patrolling and came to the cold palace. The cold palace and Penglai Pavilion are located at both ends of the palace, and they are also abandoned by the palace, but they are very different from Penglai Pavilion.
There were weeds all around, and the high palace walls were built up to keep the people inside firmly closed. Before I could go in, a gust of wind blew, and the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howls was faintly heard inside, like the entrance to hell.
There are two guard handles at the door, which are actually not handles, and they squatted at the door and slept soundly against the door.
Climbing in from the side wall, as soon as Qin Leling gained a firm foothold, she was startled by a white figure and took a step back, but fortunately, Qin Muqing supported her from behind.
If you look closely, it is a woman in white squatting at the base of the wall, her hands busily muttering to herself, and she can't hear what she is saying.
Qin Leling stabilized her mind, slowly walked over and patted the woman's back, the woman's busy hands stopped and slowly turned around.
The woman was dirty, her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, and she was as scary as a female ghost. Her hands were bent and covered with dirt, and it turned out that she was digging a hole under the base of the wall.
There was already a big hole beside her, but it didn't dig through it, and the woman dug it again in another place. Qin Leling wanted to remind her that she couldn't dig through it halfway.
"Huh? It's a new person again. The woman looked at Qin Leling's stupid smile, and suddenly became excited, "Come, come together, let's dig a pit and escape......"
The woman's thinking was confused and her speech was slurred, and it seemed that she was suffering from a serious illness. Qin Leling asked tentatively: "What's your name, can you still remember it?" ”
The woman's eyes were innocent and stupid, as if she was trying to remember. The face covered with dirt showed a beautiful silhouette, and a golden hairpin was stuck in its messy hair. The golden hairpin was very bright, shining yellow in the moonlight.
Sensing Qin Leling's gaze, the woman pulled out the golden hairpin and hid it in her arms, her face frightened: "This is given by the emperor himself, so I'm jealous." I knew you all wanted to come and rob me of my golden hairpin......"
The woman suddenly became cruel as she spoke: "You people have framed me, I will kill you!" ”
After speaking, he pounced on Qin Leling, Qin Muqing pulled his junior sister back a few feet, and the woman didn't get close to them. His eyes turned to Qin Muqing, and he suddenly knelt down.
The woman was surprised with panic, "Your Majesty, you are here, you have come to see the concubine." Do you believe that the concubine is the queen, it was the queen who instructed the concubine to cause the concubine to have a miscarriage, and the concubine was forced to have no choice but to ......"
The woman burst into tears, and quickly knelt down and crawled towards Qin Muqing, for fear that the emperor in front of her would disappear out of thin air.
Qin Leling has come into contact with such a patient, this woman can no longer recognize people, and when she sees a man, she will be regarded as the emperor who thinks about it in her heart.
Senior brother and sister Qin Muqing glanced at each other, and disappeared after a few light strokes.
The woman searched back and forth several times but didn't find it, Mu Ran said: "Your Majesty, you are gone, you still don't believe in the concubines......"
"No, I want to run out, I want to see the emperor, I want to go out......" The woman stumbled and ran towards the wall, digging up again.
The two of them fell from the tree, looked at the woman who was busy digging at the base of the wall with pity, and was speechless for a moment, and turned and walked inside.
Walking past the rooms, some of them were silent, presumably deep sleep. Some of them came from ghostly singing, full of resentment. There were also screams of fright coming from the room, as if they were having terrible nightmares.
Only one room was lit, and there was no sound inside, and the owner of this room still knew how to light the lamp, which was quite normal.
Looking through the torn window paper, a man was hanging from the beams. Hurriedly slammed the door open, Qin Leling swung out a dagger and cut Bai Aya, Qin Muqing flew to catch the person who fell, and said, "It's Concubine Zhao." ”
Qin Leling hurriedly probed her snort, fortunately she had just been hanged, and she was still saved.
After a few stitches, Concubine Zhao woke up. looked at the two of them in surprise and said, "Why are you?" ”
Qin Leling said: "Concubine Zhao, is someone harming you, or"
"No one harmed me, I myself will die." Concubine Zhao interrupted her.
"You ......"
"What kind of place is this, it's better to die than to survive here." Concubine Zhao's eyes were resolute and ruthless, and if she could save her today, she couldn't save her for a while.
"It's Concubine Shu, isn't it? You're for Chu Han. Qin Leling said.
Hearing Chu Han's words, Concubine Zhao was quite surprised, and said, "What are you doing here, what are your intentions, what are your intentions...... Whose people are they? ”
Qin Leling smiled: "We were just invited by Chu Han to treat Concubine Shugui, not anyone's people." I know that Concubine Shu's poison was not caused by you," Concubine Zhao's face changed, and Qin Leling continued: "It was Concubine Shugui herself, and you joined forces to frame the queen." ”
Concubine Zhao clasped her hands, tried to stabilize herself, and said, "You are the queen's people?" Concubine Zhao asked, but felt that it was impossible, if this was the case, the queen would have overturned the case a long time ago.
"We are really just Langzhong outside the palace, and we have nothing to do with anyone. It's just that I'm a curious person who wants to figure out something. ”