There were two lanterns beside the woman, one hanging on the half-dead tree behind her, and the other standing in front of her, both of which were in tattered appearance, fluttering and whirling in the autumn wind. The lights were in one place, and under the lamp, a figure was pale, and he couldn't see the specific age of his face, but he could only see that this person seemed to be extremely cold, with thin clothes and bare feet.

Yin Suwen took a few steps closer and found that there was a dark river hidden in the dry grass and mud under his feet. The river bank was blurry, I couldn't see the clear stream, only heard the sound of intermittent water, and the rotten air of the grass was very strong, and it was difficult to cross directly for a while, but by the light of the light, I saw that many paper boats were swaying and drifting on the water surface separated by the withered grass.

The paper boats are of different sizes, and the texture of the paper used seems to be very different, but there are many of them, all of them are full and crowded in a backwater pool at Yin Suwen's feet, and they do not float out of the garden smoothly with the water.

Yin Suwen was a little curious and picked out a small paper boat near the place to look at it, and found that there was no short candle on it like the ordinary prayer lantern, but it was densely written with a lot of handwriting, and it was all the same when he picked a few more. The firelight was not enough to illuminate all the handwriting on the paper boat, and she only faintly saw a few scattered meanings of "red leaves give acacia".

The deep palace is cold, since ancient times, there are many lonely palace people, and when they see that Shaohua has passed away but there is no hope of escaping, they will also learn from those literati and scholars to do some affectionate actions. Choose a few red leaves to inscribe a few lines of poetry, or write "Acacia between the leaves" or write "Thankful red leaves", and then float out of the palace with a few leaves with the water, as if they can carry their own feelings and sorrows, and also cross the palace wall together. Get rid of the shackles and find your lover again. Perhaps every dying old palace person has had such a luxurious dream.

Now that the acacia on the paper boat can't be sent, and the figure under the lamp is crying desolately, Yin Suwen can't help but soften his heart a little. After shouting "girl" a few times in a row, the slender figure under the light finally slowly raised his head to look at her.

It was a bleak, thin and weak face, which was originally young and good-looking, but it was completely shrouded in a bloodless and lifeless aura, but gave birth to some dying and dead meaning.

"Don't be afraid, girl, I just didn't want to get lost and stumble here, I want to come and ask for directions."

The woman didn't seem to expect outsiders to break in, so she stopped crying and slowly got up, her movements a little sluggish. Only through the lights of the dark river, he looked at Yin Suwen, who was trying his best to explain.

She was wearing a plain dress, but she couldn't see her original color because of her age. The thin and thin body stood still, as if it was about to merge with the boundless night. If it weren't for the thin skirt corners that would flutter a few times with the night breeze, Yin Suwen would have almost doubted whether the person in front of him was really a living person.

"Girl?"

There was no response from the other side, so Yin Su asked and called softly, not wanting his words to fall this time. The thin figure was like a fawn that had been suddenly summoned, and without saying a word, it rushed towards him.

Don't care about the dark night, the autumn cold is biting. Even forgetting that he didn't wear his shoes. The woman lifted the corner of her skirt and ran directly into the dark river with her bare feet, stepped across the river in a few steps and ran directly in front of Yin Suwen, and hugged her tightly without saying anything.

"Brother Ming. You're finally back! I knew you wouldn't leave my ?????? like that."

The mutation happened in an instant, and I thought it was an ordinary palace person who was secretly sad, Yin Suwen originally didn't have the slightest defense against her, and the other party rushed to her, and she didn't have time to react for a while, so she was hugged solidly.

In addition to stirring up a chill in this sudden hug, Yin Suwen only reflected two questions in his mind at the same time: the water of this dark river is cold but not deep; This woman is really thin, but the strength in her arms is amazing, and even Yin Suwen's luck shock of subconscious self-defense failed to push people away.

The woman's body was almost warm, trembling all over, but she still hugged Yin Suwen and refused to let go, although her voice was hoarse, she still shouted "Brother Ming" again and again.

Yin Suwen calmed down for a moment before he roughly figured it out, Xu is dressed as a woman with a curled hair and a skirt in the thick of the night, so he will be mistaken for a brother, and the man who is called "Brother Ming" should be the person who wants to give poems from red leaves.

In the middle of the night, Yin Suwen quickly judged the current situation, and then still used some strength to pull away the woman who was wrapped around her body, but when she spoke again, there was no pitiful and sympathetic look in her eyes. She had already roughly judged the true identity of the other party.

"Niangniang thinks she recognized the wrong person, she is just an ordinary palace person passing by, not a 'Brother Ming'."

She was close, and when she spoke, she lay down in the woman's ear, and although her tone was polite, her voice was clear and beautiful, which also proved her identity as a woman. At the same time, the sentence "Niangniang" was called, and the woman next to her was as if she had been frozen in an instant, and her whole body was so stiff that she couldn't move, and it took a while to finally slowly raise her head to identify Yin Suwen's appearance.

The human figure was so thin that it looked like a pair of hollow eyes, and finally determined Yin Suwen's stranger identity, and the only bit of light in the woman's eyes was fleeting, leaving only Mu Ne's obscure cold glance and a confused word of shirk.

"Mother? No, it's not, I'm not a mother, and you're not my brother Ming! ”

The courtyard is desolate, but it can be seen that the building specifications were quite high, although the women's clothes are dirty, the shape and specifications are not the clothing level of ordinary palace maids, the collar and cuffs are all pressed with complicated patterns, and there is a string of bell bracelets inlaid with gems on the wrist that is as thin as chicken ribs.

The bracelet is smart, and it will make a few crisp sounds with the light sway of the figure, which is a leisurely and cheerful silver bell sound, but it is doubly desolate in this barren place. After thinking about it a little, Yin Suwen invented in his heart, this is not a cold palace, a Fanghua woman has lost her soul and occupies such a large garden, and her identity and circumstances are naturally not ordinary. She judged the identity of this person in the shortest possible time, and if there was no accident, she should be one of the harem concubines who had been abandoned for a long time like that Zhou Cairen.

The woman seemed to be extremely taboo about the word "Niangniang", and after finding out that it was a mistaken identity, she panicked and withdrew a few steps, whispered "sorry", and turned around like a frightened bird to escape. Yin Suwen had no intention of scaring her, and the word "sorry" made it clear that this person should be quite conscious and able to talk, so he simply turned around and blocked the other party's way.

"Niangniang, don't panic, I'm not a guard or a bad person, I'm just an ordinary palace person who strayed into this place and wanted to find a way out."

The woman thought that she hadn't seen anyone for a long time, and listened timidly to Yin Suwen's explanation, but she still refused to believe it, covering her ears with a pair of slender palms, refusing to listen to persuasion, only burying her head deeply and wanting to escape. Yin Su asked a few times to block left and right, but he didn't dare to exert too much force, but the woman was thin but collided violently everywhere, so that she could dodge for a while, not blocking it.

"Lord Qingmei, I'm really not here to harm you!"

A "Qingmei County Lord" was as effective as a manifest spell, and the rampaging woman finally suddenly fixed her figure. After a long time, she was finally willing to look up again into Yin Suwen's eyes, and there was a faint light in those eyes, half pleading and half sad.

"Who are you and how will you know my name?" (To be continued......)