Chapter Sixty-Eight: Prepare for the Battle
After a deathly silence, Xiao Gui slowly sat down on the edge of the couch, "Princess! The reason why the master chose to let you start at the emperor's birthday banquet is only afraid that what you want is a sensational effect, if this thing is successful, the princess, you will become the target of public criticism, a sinner through the ages, I am afraid that you will not escape death. Aren't you afraid? ”
Ji Yuluo's fingers were cocked, and she picked up the embroidered cloth and needles in the embroidery basket, and her silent face flowed with strong faith, "The master said that he would not let me die!" ”
The flying needle walked the line, and she always believed in her heart: even if it was dangerous, the moonlit night would appear in a way she couldn't imagine to save her.
"For today's plan, I have to think of letting the emperor set up a birthday banquet. Mrs. Xiahou's mourning period will be completed the day after tomorrow......"
The day after tomorrow is the eleventh, which is the day measured by the heavenly tower. Ji Yuluo suddenly remembered when she said this.
He said that eleven was the night of her life and death!
She suddenly chuckled, and when she looked up, her eyes were a little fiercer, "I want to see if it's my night of life and death!" It wasn't my night of life and death that I slaughtered him! ”
"What do you mean, princess?" Xiao Gui asked confusedly.
Ji Yuluo smiled and muttered to herself, "I'll let my father postpone his birthday for two days." ”
Having made up her mind, she said to Xiao Gui seriously: "Xiao Gui! You immediately upload the book master, and report the situation here clearly. said that I would find a way to let Ji Ming celebrate his birthday at eleven. ”
After she finished speaking, she sat down in front of the dressing table, "Now I have to go to the Heart Cultivation Palace." ”
Xiao Gui got up, his movements light, "Since you are not afraid of death." I'll pass on the book to the master right away. ”
The Cher got a hint from her master and flew northeast outside the palace.
The sky tower outside the Yunluo Palace watched the snow-white dove spread its wings and fly away with a purpose, and its distant eyes were full of unspeakable pain.
Ji Ming didn't hold a birthday banquet for his birthday today, this is Ji Yuluo telling Xiao Gui to report to his master. Next, is it the mystery man who is not at ease to come in person, or is he still using a pigeon to send a message?
He lowered his head and took a few steps forward, and the horse behind him whispered, "Your Highness!" Last night, at your orders, I stayed outside the Meditation Pavilion for one night, but no one came to visit the princess. ”
When I visited Ji Yuluo, someone went quietly. Waiting there is only a slim hope. Tianlou was not surprised......
At sunset, Ji Yuluo took Xiao Zhao and others back to the dormitory.
"Princess! It's past dinnertime. Slave, I'll bring you something to eat. Xiao Zhao waited for Ji Yuluo to sit down on the couch, beckoned to Bauhinia and they went out of the palace.
Xiao Guiti pulled her skirt and walked in, she poured tea for Ji Yuluo, and seeing that there was no one in the hall, she lowered her voice and said, "Princess!" The master replied. He said that you don't have to worry, the emperor will definitely hold a birthday banquet on the night of the end of the funeral of Empress Chaoxian. ”
North Garden.
The content of Ji Yuluo's last conversation with Xiao Gui was soon learned by Tianlou. He got up, walked back and forth in the house a few times, and waved his hand to let the horse go down like the wind. But he suddenly called Ma Rufeng, "You pick some skilled guards to ambush around the Yunluo Palace at night, pay attention, that person's martial arts are above me." It must be atmospheric and cannot come out. ”
Ma Rufeng immediately understood the meaning of Tianlou, "Your Highness thinks this reply is a smoke bomb?" ”
"The other party is a man of scheming. I have to guard against it! Tianlou sat down on the chair and took the congratulatory watch from the Yunluo Palace.
Above, Zhang's name was circled by him in ink. Indicates that her handwriting is similar to the words on the slip of the Dian Dial Yunzi text.
But the Zhang family has been in the palace for 30 years, and he has always kept to himself, but after Ji Yuluo returned to the palace, he was slightly active. But it can also be understood as being happy to see Ji Yuluo again in another life. This made Tianlou puzzled for a while. But for the sake of tonight's action, Zhang can't move for the time being.
Two hours later, Ma Rufeng came to report. Not only did Ji Yuluo go to the Yangxin Palace to persuade Ji Ming to hold a birthday banquet on the 11th, but even Xiahou Fu and Xiahou Liu both brought heavy gifts into the palace to ask to see Ji Ming, and persuaded Ji Ming to have a big birthday. And he advocated that the feast would be the day after tomorrow.
It is rare that Xiahou Liu is among the people who advocate holding a birthday banquet, Ji Ming happily agreed, and said that the family of the third prince can enter the banquet as long as it is a man, regardless of his position.
Unclear of Ji Yuluo's purpose of entering the palace, Tianlou's heart has always been uneasy, so he had to persuade Mrs. Xiahou to give up his life before the mourning period expired.
He guessed that Ji Yuluo would go to persuade Ji Ming, but when he learned the news, he still couldn't hold back a burst of sadness. But why did the Xiahou family also advocate holding a birthday banquet the day after tomorrow?
In the evening, it was drizzling under the already overcast sky. The wind is quiet, the flowers are fragrant and silent, and the drizzle of the earth's gentle hand caressing the earth like a spring girl's hand makes the lush new green seem to be dripping green, a new one.
On the opposite side of the tree-lined path, Tianlou sat quietly on the fork of a century-old tree, and his cold eyes flashed around the Yunluo Palace.
At the end of the day, a lantern finally moved slowly from the palace road on the right. The lantern-bearer walked slowly, tremblingly, like an old man.
Through the sporadic light of the stone lamp, Tianlou looked intently and found that the person who came was actually Manager Qin.
What is Chief Qin doing here at this time?
Closer, Tianlou saw clearly that Manager Qin's idle hand was still carrying a bag of things that looked like snacks. Combined with the sudden fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the air, he concluded that the thing wrapped in paper in the hands of Chief Manager Qin was osmanthus cake.
He knew Ji Yuluo's love for osmanthus cakes, and it was not ruled out that Ji Ming asked people to make osmanthus cakes and send them to Mr. Qin.
He didn't alarm Manager Qin, he just hoped that Manager Qin would send the osmanthus cake and leave early......
After dinner, Ji Yuluo went to the soft bed early. But he had no intention of sleeping, and kept staring at the top of the tent with a pair of big eyes.
The plain light gauze tent is decorated with sparse plums. The pink plum blossoms in the pale gray sky are all in various shapes, lifelike, as if they have come to life.
She didn't want to think about anything else, her thoughts were frozen, and her eyes were only the largest and most delicate plum blossom above her eyelids.
The door was gently pushed open, and she jumped up from the quilt in her white bedgown, landing on the side of the bed, and a pair of vigilant eyes looked at the door through the light gauze curtains that suddenly flew up.
There stood an elderly man dressed in the robes of a chief eunuch.
It's Mr. Qin!
Ji Yuluo was just about to exhale a breath, but her heart suddenly tightened again.
Manager Qin wouldn't come like this, and he didn't know martial arts, so he couldn't hide it from her ears.
The visitor did not guard against her, straightened his waist, put the lantern away, and reached out to his face. In Ji Yuluo's surprised gaze, the skin peeled off, revealing a jade face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
His gaze quickly locked on her position, and the thing in his hand flashed towards her, "I brought you your favorite osmanthus cake!" ”
"Master!"
Ji Yuluo exclaimed, walked quickly, and when she came to a place two meters away from the man, she was about to give a salute. But he hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him.