Chapter 28: Escape from the Palace
Outside Earl Edward's study, a beautiful woman dressed as a maid took out a small mirror from her pocket and looked at it carefully, smiled with satisfaction, she put away the mirror and adjusted it to an extremely charming smile and knocked on the door of the study, and soon there was a sound of footsteps in the study, click, the door of the study opened a gap that was not big or small enough for a person to enter, and a man's big hand grabbed the smiling woman,
Bang!
The door was shut, and the Countess's words echoed in the Countess's ears that morning: 'Charlotte has slept with the Count, and you don't believe I can take you to his bedroom now.' Li Stin felt a surge of anger in his heart, and finally he punched the wall impatiently.
On the day of His Majesty's assassination, the palace was in chaos, Charlotte took advantage of the guards to leave and secretly escaped from the secret room, she did not leave the palace immediately, but looked for Lydia everywhere, things were too sudden The palace people were in chaos, many remote places were unguarded, Charlotte paid more attention, walked very easily in the palace, passing by a pine forest, Charlotte wondered that there was such a big pine forest in the palace, and a low exquisite palace was faintly visible inside, Charlotte had a hunch that there should be someone she was looking for here, It took a short time to walk through the pine forest, and Charlotte couldn't help but marvel at how isolated it was to live here, and under normal circumstances, no one would come to disturb it, because it would take half a day just to walk in, and Charlotte was more curious about who lived here.
Walking out of the pine forest, the beautiful scenery in front of her made her eyes brighten, but after a while{one + book{read} novel ybduer, Charlotte was worried, it turned out that to reach the palace, you must first cross the lake in front of you, the lake is wide, you have to row a boat to pass, and Charlotte not only can't row, but also because of the last banshee's thing about the water has a sense of fear, at this time she wants to give up here, just turned around and wanted to go back, as if someone was talking in her ears, Charlotte stopped and listened,
"Charlotte, I'm Xiaobai, your mother is in the White Dew Palace, now is a good time, you hurry in and rescue Lydia and escape from Princess Eero's Manna Palace, there is a secret passage under her bed."
Xiaobai! Charlotte looked left and right to make sure that there was no one else around but herself, Charlotte shouted anxiously,
"Xiaobai! Where are you, Xiaobai? ”
Xiaobai's voice came from the air again, but this time there was no eagerness and it looked much weaker,
"Charlotte, I'm fine, don't look for me, hurry up and get out of the palace, as soon as the king dies, Princess Erot will be more difficult to deal with, you have to be careful yourself."
After speaking, there was no sound, although Charlotte was worried about Xiaobai, but now she didn't even know where Xiaobai was, and listening to his tone, Lydia seemed to be in a bad situation, and did not delay any longer, Charlotte gritted her teeth and propped up the boat on the shore and rowed towards the opposite shore.
Pushing open the heavy golden gate, Charlotte imagined the desolation of the White Dew Palace many times, but she didn't expect it to be like this, the flowers and trees in front of the palace were neatly built, and the white granite paved a straight road to the palace gate, the road surface was clean and refreshing, and it could be seen that people often came here to clean and repair.
Everyone who came in to the ingenious palace applauded, but Charlotte came here for a special purpose, she did not have the leisure to appreciate the most beautiful palace in the legend, Charlotte pushed open one door after another, looked over and over again, and after making sure that there was no one downstairs, Charlotte walked up the stairs nervously, she stepped on the wooden stairs barefoot and made no sound, and the silence in the palace made people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.
Click,
The slight sound of the door closing upstairs made Charlotte's blood flow backwards for a moment, and the foot that stepped lightly fell, Charlotte tried her best to hide her sense of existence, staring nervously at the corridor, the slight footsteps made Charlotte sigh for a long time, it's good to be human! Listening to the voice, she was a petite woman and was walking towards her, Charlotte quietly retreated to the bottom of the stairs, only her head was staring at the corridor, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, a tired old maid walked to the staircase, she turned her head to look inside, and sighed The old maid came down the stairs, Charlotte's eyes widened in surprise, isn't this Emily!
Coming out of the stairs, Charlotte walked up the stairs quickly and blocked in front of Emily,
"Emily! How did you end up here? ”
Emily had a hellish expression, her mouth was open, her screams were covered with her hands before she could come out, Charlotte was very strange, how could Emily behave like this when she saw herself, shouldn't she hug and kiss herself passionately,
Emily's trembling mouth,
"Are you a human or a ghost~"
Charlotte's scalp was tingling from her gloomy words, and she shivered and shook off her goosebumps, Charlotte took two steps forward, Emily quickly took a few steps back, Charlotte looked down at the smooth handrails, which reflected her pale face, blue lips, and blood-red eyes,
"Emily, I'm Charlotte, you probably don't recognize me, I'm really Charlotte."
Emily looked at her with a shocked expression that was even more shocked than when she saw the ghost just now, although she still didn't dare to approach Charlotte, but her tone was very powerful,
"What have you done to Miss Charlotte! Give her back to me! ”
Charlotte pouted, not wanting to discuss the boring topic of Charlotte with Emily anymore,
"Emily, you just went to take care of my mother, she should be upstairs, I guessed right?"
"How do you know?"
Reacting to leak her mouth, Emily quickly covered her mouth, Charlotte laughed in her heart, this old woman is always dumbfounded. Charlotte was about to go upstairs, and although Emily was afraid of her, she still insisted on blocking in front of Charlotte and not letting her go.
"Emily, do you have to let me say it?"
Emily was puzzled and looked at Charlotte suspiciously, wondering what she was going to say,
"That sapphire necklace, remember? Actually, it was given to you by Uncle Lauren, Natalie picked it up and gave it to her mother, and you saw it but were embarrassed to say that it was yours, so Uncle Lauren thought you rejected him. I'm right, Emily. ”
Emily was determined that she was Miss Charlotte after hearing half of it, and after Charlotte finished speaking, Emily burst into tears with excitement, not caring if Charlotte was as ugly as a ghost, Emily hugged her cold and stiff arm tightly, pulled Charlotte upstairs, and skipped the king's forcing of Lydia, Emily told Charlotte what happened to them in the palace, but these were enough for Charlotte to be sad, if she knew the truth about Lydia's injury, Emily was afraid that she would go crazy.
Charlotte clearly knew that after her father was exiled, their family would be completely ruined, and her mother and Katie would suffer a lot if they were sent to the palace as criminals, but when she heard it with her own ears and confirmed it with her own eyes, she finally understood what it means to have blood thicker than water, and Lydia was just lying on the bed weakly, Charlotte couldn't see the blood-stained scissors, but she could still feel the sharp pain of cutting her heart.
"Where's Katie?"
Charlotte didn't see Katie along the way, so she asked Emily,
"Miss Katie is fine, she may be back in a moment."
Emily replied so quickly that Charlotte couldn't help but be a little suspicious,
"Emily, you have to tell me the truth, I'm going to get you out of here today."
"Miss, can you leave!? That's great! ”
Emily didn't question Charlotte's words at all, and her face was beaming with happiness when she heard that she could leave her.
"Emily, first of all, you have to tell me where Katie has gone before we can go."
Emily's expression became nervous, she was worried that Charlotte would be angry, she wrung her fingers and didn't dare to speak, Charlotte didn't urge her, only looked at the top of Emily's hair lightly,
"I'm sorry Miss, Miss Katie, she's planning to assassinate the King! No matter how much I pleaded, Miss Katie was indifferent, sorry I failed to protect her. ”
Emily blamed herself and kept apologizing, things were troublesome enough, Katie had to make trouble for herself, Charlotte was almost mad at her, the king was so easy to kill?! Don't be killed when the time comes, thank God!
What to do? Charlotte thought very quickly in her heart, Katie may have done it at this time, no wonder the palace is so chaotic, Xiaobai reminded herself to take her mother and escape quickly, I was afraid that Princess Eero would come to find trouble for herself if she calmed down, and calculated the possibility of going to the assassination scene to rescue Katie, Charlotte decided to take her mother to leave first,
"Don't say it, it's her decision, it's none of your business, you go with my mother first."
Emily carried Lydia on her back, Charlotte took the boat and the two left the White Dew Palace and took a small path to go around to the Manna Palace, today the Manna Palace is exceptionally quiet, there seems to be no one inside, tell Emily to hide outside the door now, Charlotte quietly slipped in to see, the people who used to laugh and laugh here disappeared cleanly, and the high-spirited palace people also hid, Charlotte was slightly relieved to see this situation, called Emily together, and they sneaked into the most central palace of the Manna Palace.
The difference between Ganlu Palace and Bailu Palace is very different, Bailu Palace advocates nature, there are bluegrass dew drops in every corner, Ganlu Palace yearns for luxury, gold bricks pave feet, stretches for ten miles without hearing the sound of water.
"This must be where Princess Eero rests, right? Emily, you've been in the palace for a long time, don't you say it's here? ”
Charlotte was a little unsure, the palace they were in was indeed extravagant, but there was no breath of life at all, how could a princess's bedroom be so rigid.
"Miss, I am not qualified to enter the Ganlu Palace, the attendants here are all by His Majesty's side. I don't think it's like this, let's go to another palace. ”
Charlotte also agreed with Emily's suggestion and walked out of the palace with Lydia on her back, Charlotte was entangled, which way to go? There's not much time for them, and Princess Ero may come back when,
Not knowing which path to take, Charlotte simply resigned herself to fate and chose a sunset direction, whether it was to perdition or rebirth, this path was what she decided.
At the end of the road, there was no dazzling as imagined, and I was surprised to see a lot of palace people.
"There are so many people here, and none of them left with Princess Ero?"
"Miss, we can't get in, and besides, it's easy for them to find out. It's sad. ”
Emily whispered in her ears, frustration filled her heart, Charlotte was annoyed with her unlucky attributes, and nothing went well!
"When I go out, I must go to bad luck."
Charlotte muttered quietly, Emily didn't hear it, she still craned her neck and looked at the palace not far ahead, her mouth kept talking. After being distressed for a while, Charlotte touched her cheek and said with a wicked smile,
"Emily, your lady has come up with a good idea."