In a blink of an eye, it will be the fourteenth day of the first month, and tomorrow the Shangyuan Festival Gu Ci can not be spent at home, the queen mother said that the palace also invited a lot of little girls this time, and after receiving the banquet, you can go to the remote thinking platform to watch the lantern and guess the riddle, it is said that even the lantern boat of Quzhuan Pond can be seen. In order to prevent her from crowding Donghua Gate with others tomorrow, she was specially taken to Cining Palace one day in advance.

This time, Gu Ci still brought Mama Hu, Gan Tang and A Yue, and of course Bajie, she has to live in the palace for half a month, how can she live without Bajie!

When he arrived at the east side hall of Cining Palace, Bajie consciously shrank obediently on the couch, and the domineering prince never allowed it to go to bed!

Gu Ci sat on the footstool while comforting Bajie, and at the same time chattered briefly with Yuan Yi, who was washing, about what had happened in the past few days. She was brought in after dinner, and she would have to wash and sleep.

In fact, Mingxiu had already reported to Yuan Yi, and the recipe for the cream roll was also offered, but it was not as detailed as Gu Ci's nagging.

Yuan Yi deliberately listened to her broken thoughts slowly, and then hugged her and lay on the bed, "There will be a lot of little girls as big as you who will come tomorrow, they must be very busy, go to bed early." ”

The big demon king, who has always been jealous of her high sleep quality, is so good at talking today? Gu Ci was unexpected.

“…… Will something happen tomorrow? ”

"Anything could happen any day! You let Mingxiu follow. ”

Gu Ci slept in seconds.

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The next day, sure enough, a lot of children and young girls came, including their fifth sister Gu Yi, the Qiao family, and the Ren family sisters, Gu Ci also saw Mrs. Xiao Xiang of the Chi family come with a girl younger than her, it is estimated that it is Chi Ai. On the other side, in addition to the seven and eight princesses, the clan children and others at the family banquet, only Xiangyi and Sui Zhangzhu are known to her, and there are many sisters around Chongyi who she doesn't know. However, Gu Ci and them are not in the same place, and her position is still by the side of the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

The seats of the ladies are still in the front hall of Chongxi Palace, and the men are not many, and they are not afraid of the cold winter, so they move to the painting boat under the remote thinking stage to set up a seat. The twin brothers came, but the rest of the Gu family didn't come, but unfortunately Gu Ci didn't see it.

After everyone ate a tasteless palace banquet, the group followed the instructions of the palace maids and went to the remote platform to enjoy the lanterns and guess the riddles.

Originally, there was no scenery in winter, but tonight was different, those flowers and trees were tied with silk and silk paper, and all kinds of palace lamps were lit on the ground under the corridor, illuminating the remote thinking platform and the entire imperial garden like day. There are many small boats with colorful lanterns on the lake slowly floating, and the kabuki in colorful clothes stand on the boats and dance, with a graceful posture, and think of the pianists and singers in the audience holding musical instruments in their arms, first playing a song "Prosperous Peace", and then a "Ode to Spring". Although the Quzhuan Pond in the distance is not clear, it can be seen that the lights are bright, reflecting the colorful glow of the sky. Bunches of fireworks exploded all over the sky, and it was really a fire tree and silver flower that never sleeped.

Many colorful flags have already been erected on the remote thinking platform, and there are lantern riddles hanging one after another, and those who tear them down and guess can receive rewards.

Gu Ci carried the colorful and five-lucky pig yarn lantern specially given by Yuan Yi, and admired the lanterns carried by others, all of them were exquisite and interesting, and there were no duplicates. She was not in a hurry to go to Yaositai, Yuan Yi said that he would take her to the stargazing tower, and it was refreshing to see there!

The seventh princess wrapped a few pieces of mung bean mint cake from the table, and when she saw that Gu Ci at the table saw that she was not moving, she handed it to her, and then wrapped a few more pieces, said hello and went to the remote thinking platform first.

The eighth princess looked at her lamp timidly and said, "Sister Luan's lamp is so chic, can you show me?" ”

"I'm going to the clean room, it's inconvenient to have no lights, why don't you wait here for me to come back?"

The eighth princess suddenly wanted to cry, as if she had been greatly wronged, and left with her head down, as if she had been bullied.

Gu Ci pouted helplessly, poured blood mold, and met the eighth princess on a good day to put the white lotus move. But didn't the eighth princess see that in addition to Gan Tang, Ah Yue and Mingxiu behind her, she also followed Yao Huang and Wen Qing, another small chamberlain under the head of Mu given by the Queen Mother?

Gu Ci walked slowly in the opposite direction of the flow of people, wanting to wait for Yuan Yi at the screen door of the stargazing tower connecting to the Buddha-shaped patio of Chongxi Palace.

After walking a few steps, a familiar little palace maid came over to talk to Yao Huang, and Yao Huang said to Gu Ci: "Wei Zi sent someone to say that the eldest princess sent Mama Zeng to replace Mama Hu in the car, and now she is waiting outside the front hall of Chongxi Palace, please let the county lord show her if you want her to come and serve?" ”

Gu Ci and Gan Tang were stunned, "Why is Mama Zeng?" ”

Mother Hu suddenly had severe diarrhea at noon today, and the Queen Mother asked Wei Zi to send her home, but she didn't expect Yuyi to ask Mama Zeng to accompany her.

Gu Ci hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't bother, tell Sister Wei Zi to send Mama Zeng to Cining Palace directly." ”

Yao Huang asked, "But arrange for her to live in Hu's mother's house?" ”

This time, Mama Hu and others lived directly with her in the East Side Palace, and Mama Zeng was not a very close person, so it was not suitable to live in.

"Arrange it elsewhere."

Yao Huang thought for a while, "Then I'll go back and do this thing, the little girl is afraid that she can't say it clearly." ”

"Okay, hard work Sister Yao Huang."

Yao Huang handed over the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Glass Lantern in his hand to Gan Tang and left with the little palace maid.

After waiting for a while and not seeing Yuan Yi send someone to come, Gu Ci couldn't help but walk out of the screen door, looked at the open Buddhist patio, and studied how to see that it was a 'Buddha' character.

The patio is not so brightly lit, but there are a lot of palace lamps on the ground under the corridor, and the lights and fires reflect the rockery and strange stones, beating with the wind, which is very dazzling and fantastical.

Gu Ci secretly thought that if it weren't for hanging so many lights, maybe it would be very suitable for making horror movies.

Wen Qing was afraid that she would stand for a long time, so she persuaded her to go back to the front hall and wait.

When they passed the corner of the corridor, a passing little eunuch knelt down and saluted and accidentally poured spare lamp oil on the corners of Wen Qing's robe and leather boots.

Gu Ci and the remaining three returned to the front hall, and the palace maids had just cleaned up the banquet, and only a few people were checking the lamps, oil, candles, and other things.

What surprised Gu Ci and the others was that there was Mama Zeng standing in the corner.

When Mama Zeng saw them, she came over to say goodbye, but before she squatted down, Gu Ci asked urgently, "Why is Mama here?" No one took you to Cining Palace? ”

Mama Zeng said blankly, "Wei Zi, who was next to the Queen Mother, took the token and brought the slave maid from the mansion, and let the old slave wait here." Except for the palace maids who came and went, no one spoke to the old slave. ”

Gu Ci immediately instructed Gan Tang: "You take Mama Zeng to the house where Mother Hu lives in the Xibei Palace, and talk to the Queen Mother and Yao Huang." Ah Yue and I will still wait for you at the remote thinking platform. He also secretly pinched her arm.

Gan Tang was ordered to leave with Mama Zeng.

Mingxiu immediately tensed up and whispered to Gu Ci for instructions: "County Lord, I'll send you to Yaositai." ”

"No, you are familiar with the palace, you go to Brother Yuan, and we will go by ourselves."

Mingxiu hesitated, Gu Ci glared at him angrily, asked him to go quickly, and pulled Ah Yue to go back, before he turned around and swept out.

Gu Ci grabbed Ah Yue's hand and walked out of the front hall, but found that the lanterns hanging on the eaves of the corridor had gone out a lot, especially on the side of the stargazing tower, the palace lights on the ground had been extinguished a lot, and the scenery suddenly became gloomy.

Gu Ci and the two immediately threw the lantern in their hands and stepped on it.

"Where might you notice someone?"

"There are signs of a fight in the direction of the stargazing tower, and there is a lantern that seems to have been extinguished by an arrow."

"Why didn't you hear a sound!"

"I don't know. County Lord, back to the remote thinking platform? ”

"If there are villains outside, are you sure to take me with you?"

"Try it."

Gu Ci swallowed his saliva fiercely, turned the red fox fur cloak on his body over, the dark purple lining was facing outward, wrapped himself even with his head and feet, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the apse." ”

“…… This trail is to the apse. ”

"It's okay! If you get close and hear the sound, you hide me in some rockery, and I have peppermint oil with me, which Bajie can find. Go and see if the people in the front hall are still there? If you don't have it, go to the third brother and them. ”

Ah Yue silently recited his words and touched the apse along the shadow of the rockery.

Gu Ci only felt that her heart was beating like a drum, as if even her eardrums were vibrating, and she didn't know if she was too stupid to take such a risk. However, when she thought that Yuan Yi had promised her that she could go to the tablet of Taizong to worship after appreciating the lanterns, she felt unwilling not to go.

She kept clenching her fists and taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself down so that she could listen carefully for any movement nearby.

Strangely, they all touched the rockery closest to the staircase on the left side of the apse, and they didn't hear a sound that they shouldn't have heard.

The apse is a two-storey building, similar to the Liufang Temple, each floor is divided into many bedrooms, not to mention there are twenty or thirty rooms, each dormitory was once the tablet of the emperor of the previous dynasty.

Now the doors and windows on the first floor are closed, but a few rooms on the second floor are open.

Ah Yue gently pushed aside the vines outside the recess of a half-person height in the rockery, put Gu Ci in, and then made a gesture, signaling that there might be someone on the second floor, and she went to check.

Gu Ci stopped her, pointed in the direction of Yaositai, and asked her to go directly for help.

Ah Yue covered up Gu and dismissed him, and went straight to Yaositai.

Gu Ci bit his lip and closed his eyes to listen to the movement outside, feeling that no one approached after a long time, everything was quiet, only occasionally there was the sound of the wind whimpering and the lantern swinging.

Through the gap in the rockery, she saw that the broken palace lamp that originally illuminated the left ladder was blown out by the wind, and the corner where she was suddenly darkened.

Fortunately, this problem is not very serious, and Gu Ci is extremely glad that his night vision ability is not affected by eye diseases.

Suddenly, Gu Ci vaguely heard someone talking near the East Ping Gate in the direction of the Stargazing Tower, although the content was not clear, it should be two men. Then there was a grinding sound, followed by a dull 'thud', like the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Then the two men walked to the far right end of the first floor of the apse, and there seemed to be a creaking of the doorway spinning.

Gu Ci's heart suddenly mentioned, they were looking for someone?!

When the two of them entered the house, she jumped off the rockery and lay directly on the ground, fortunately dressed a lot, and there was not much movement.

Her knees hurt so much that she couldn't take care of them, so she could only endure the pain and climb up the stairs while the two of them entered the house.

When she went upstairs and saw the first room, she struggled for a long time, gritted her teeth and pushed the door open. To my surprise, there was no sound when the door on the second floor opened.

Gu Ci breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the door shaft on the second floor is oiled well......

So he took out the speed of an 800-meter sprint and climbed forward, pushing the doors open one by one, until he was close to the seven or eight doors that had been opened, and then stopped, and listened attentively.

Nothing was heard except the sound of the door opening downstairs and the faint sound of footsteps.

She lay down and crawled forward, glanced at the nearest open threshold, and saw a fallen screen, incense sticks and candles burned in the deepest part of the room, and the first word on the tablet was faintly recognizable, it seemed to be the word 'high'.

When she entered the door, she felt different, although the screen curtain did not move in this room, but, there were people.

Gu Ci couldn't help but relax a little, climbed behind the screen, and saw Taizong's god seat, incense burner, Quartet Zunding and other sacrificial vessels, placed on a huge offering table, covered with a tablecloth with a 10,000-character pattern of bright yellow tribute satin and a four-time square dark green dark pattern table flag, a plate of apples on the table flag, and a number of low offering plates on the left and right were placed on the crown, auspicious crown, twelve jade algae, court boots, horse whips and other messy daily clothing and ornaments.

Gu Ci looked at the surrounding environment, struggled to straighten up and extinguish the incense, took down the apple and the fruit plate, rolled the apple to the door, threw the fruit plate in front of the table, picked off a beaded flower on the head and threw it under the window lattice, and then pushed the two windows open, dragged the boots and made a footprint on the window sill, and then threw it out, and finally lifted the corner of the tablecloth, pulled the table flag and drilled under the table, and sure enough, I saw Yuan Yi curled up in the corner, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

She listened carefully to the movement outside, made sure that no one had come up yet, dug out a large homemade first-aid purse from her breast pocket, took out a mirror, and adjusted the angle so that she could see the window cast into the faint starlight.

After doing this, she covered his body with the tabletop, making sure that the corner of the tablecloth should not be able to see his position, and carefully leaned on his lap, reaching down his leg and reaching up.

The legs should be fine, the belt is gone, the chest is wet, and it may be injured and bleeding. There was no abnormality in the right arm in front of him, but there should have been an injury to the place where the left arm was covered. The pulse in my neck was beating badly, and I wondered if it was too much blood loss. The lips are a little dry and a little cold, maybe the weather is freezing. But his cheeks were hot and his forehead was covered with sweat. It can't be poisoning. Touching his injured left hand again, the palm was cold, and her heart was also cold, it seemed that she might really be poisoned.

Gu Ci resisted the urge to cry, and was about to let go of his palm, when his fingertips touched a slightly raised thing in the corner of the wall, broke it slightly, and dropped a very light flat long box, not wood or gold, I don't know what material, and stuffed it into his pocket.

She pulled Yuan Yi's right hand, took out a bandage made of gauze, tied it tightly above the wound on his left arm to stop the bleeding, took out an antidote pill, and tried to feed one in. wiped his sweat with a handkerchief again, and as soon as he smelled the mint jasmine on the handkerchief, Gu Ci immediately scolded himself for being a 'fool' and hurriedly took it back.

Just as she was anxious about whether she should feed a few more, she heard footsteps going upstairs.

As soon as her feet were weak, she almost fell to the ground, but in an instant, she straightened up and leaned back against Yuan Yi, hiding in her cloak, looking out through the gap.

The footsteps sped up and aggravated a lot when they reached the upper floor, and Gu Ci was like a prisoner preparing to go to the execution ground, closing his eyes deadly, stiff and nervously waiting for the verdict.

The sound of footsteps lingered in the next room for a while, and there was a slight sound of turning things, Gu Ci opened his eyes suddenly, picked up a knife in his purse, it was the one that Uncle Qing gave her for 'self-defense', hesitated, and stuffed the knife into Yuan Yi's hand from under the table. He touched the sleeve crossbow given by Ren Saiyuan from his sleeve and secretly loaded the arrow.

Then he covered his mouth and nose and began to take a deep breath, waiting for the two to come in.

The door was pushed open at once, but the two men came in after a while, not carrying a lantern, only a glowing pearl of the night.

Whose handiwork is this, so willing to spend the money! Gu Ci was very relieved that he still had the mood to complain.

The first person to come in was tall and slightly chubby, and kicked an apple in the doorway.

There was silence in the room.

Gu Ci felt that his breathing was paused, and he didn't know how long he held his breath before a figure bypassed the screen.

She could only see the corner of the shadow of the tall fat man on the ground, but she didn't see another person, her mind turned and listened carefully, only to find that the other person's breathing sound was very low, and only then did she reach the fat man's waist, thinking that she was crouching behind the fat man, so she couldn't see his shadow at all.

The squatting man first found the fruit bowl and the wide open window, pulled the corner of the fat man's robe and quickly got up, walked to the window to investigate carefully, it was a short and thin man. The fat man followed with the night pearl and found the faint light of the pearl flowers on the ground. The two hurriedly looked out the window, probably not finding anything, and glanced at each other. Then the thin man saw the indistinct shoe print on the windowsill, and hurriedly turned around and rushed out. The fat man looked around the room again, and took a special look under the table before following away.

Gu Ci listened to their double footsteps gradually moving away from the heavy and light, and then carefully identified it, and made sure that no one was there, so he breathed a sigh of relief, gently pulled down the corner of the tablecloth, and then probed Yuan Yi's situation.

The carotid artery didn't beat so much, Gu Ci made persistent efforts to stuff him with a few licorice and kudzu root antidote pills, touched the things in the purse, and found that the mung bean mint cake given by the seventh princess was also in it, think about mung beans, can't mung beans also detoxify, anyway, this thing is the size of a thumb cover, and it melts in the mouth, and it doesn't choke, so I fed him happily.

After a while, I felt that Yuan Yi's snort was heavier, although Gu Ci was very worried that his breathing was too heavy just now, but he had been silent like a dead man, which made her heart go up and down. This will be considered to be a real half-hearted release.

She still didn't dare to take out a fragrant handkerchief to wipe his sweat, so she had to use her sleeve, feeling his body move, she stretched out her fingers to write on his thigh, and wrote the poisonous words several times, and Yuan Yi's right hand holding the knife touched her weakly.

Gu Ci continued to write a 'eat' - touch it; 'Hurt' - touch again; 'Chest' - a stroke. Does this mean that he was poisoned by two kinds of poison, both food and wounds, but his chest was fine?

After settling down, Gu Ci took back the knife, first tried to cut the clothes on his left arm, touched the shape of the wound through the sleeve, it seemed to be a poke wound such as an arrow cluster, stabilized his hand, and drew a 'ten' character with difficulty than the wound - no way, the knife is weak and blunt, Ah Yue has popularized science with her, this knife is only as sharp as splitting wood with gongfu when cutting dim sum and cooked meat.

Next, squeeze the poisonous blood, anyway, it has been pierced near the heart, and it is impossible to cut the artery so deep, so it should not lose too much blood. She pulled down one of the sleeves on her padded jacket, covered the wound, and squeezed him in the dark for a long time, feeling almost soaked, before she took out the golden medicine and rubbed it thickly and bandaged it.

Yuan Yi didn't react during the whole process, and he didn't even have normal physiological limb twitches, and Gu Ci couldn't help but wonder if he was drugged.

After tying the bandage, Gu Ci helped him to lie on his stomach facing the wall, and then wrote him the word 'spit', put the knife back on his right hand and motioned him to hold it, pulled out a clean underwear, wiped his right paw carefully, and then rubbed his left hand under his Adam's apple, and his index and middle fingers tried to reach into the base of his throat and tongue to move, and suddenly felt a heat in his hand, and he spit out a lot of things. Do this twice until you feel like he has nothing to vomit and then stop.

Yuan Yi's body was finally no longer stiff, and his breath was much smoother, and he endured coughing and tried to sit upright.

Gu Ci was really relieved now, his body was weak, and he fell directly into his arms, and the two snuggled together and gasped.

Suddenly, Gu Ci seemed to sense something, and became nervous again, squeezing Yuan Yi's hand to hint at him.

But no matter how carefully she listened, she still didn't detect any movement, but the strange feeling lingered.

She could only hold her sleeve crossbow, and her body trembled in front of Yuan Yi.

In the flash of light, she heard an arrow coming through the air, Yuan Yi seemed to find out, and wanted to turn over to protect her, she pressed her back against him, and was hit in the chest by the arrow piercing the tablecloth, but at the same time her sleeve crossbow was also shot out.

There was a dull pain in his chest, and he exhaled in pain, and he vaguely heard the people outside 'huh', and then he also snorted.

Fortunately, she didn't feel the blood splattering, and she only had time to think, 'Fortunately, the welfare of the crossing party is good, and you can use it as a heart protection armor prop if you pick up a tattered one', and she fainted happily.