Chapter Eighty-Six: Where Is the Thief?
After greeting each other, Cui Heng politely asked the queen for the task of being thrifty. Of course, the queen agreed. Cui Heng said: "And women's makeup needs, it is difficult and difficult to limit the ban one by one, and the effect is not good, please start with the queen first, then the concubines and princesses can also experience the emperor's painstaking efforts, and the makeup and skirt are simple, then the foreign women will also follow, and this wind will be promoted to the people, and the spring breeze and rain will be restored." β
The queen was unexpected, stammered, and couldn't answer for a while. The Queen Mother rescued the scene and said: "It should start from the old body." β
When he said it, he laughed.
Cui Heng bowed: "The emperor only asks the queen mother to take care of Sheng'an." Even if the emperor himself has no food or clothing, he can't damage his mother at all. β
The Queen Mother said: "Let's go! If the emperor has no food or clothing, he can come to serve me with filial piety. It's time for me to take care of the emperor. β
Later historians recounted this passage, and someone commented in a footnote: "Great ominous. The voice of the dead country can also be known. β
But at the time, no one foresaw it.
There are countless signs of the collapse of some dynasties, and I don't know how many people with bright eyes have made many predictions and rescue strategies, but these rescue strategies cannot be effective for various reasons, and the dynasty collapses with a bang; The collapse of some dynasties is sudden, and there is no too fatal problem, but because of some unpredictable external force, it is bad to say that it is bad, and it can only be said that it is a bad fate.
At this time, from the palace to the imperial court, no one in Daling thinks that the fate of this dynasty will be bad...... Hush! Except for Yun Shi!
Did Xie Xiaoheng say anything to Yun Shi? Caixia and they can testify: they shouldn't have said anything!
Many people will forget about Yun Shi, even though she is in the court. But she was always so silent. Like a chess piece that resigned itself to its fate. Some concubines couldn't even remember how she spoke.
Yun Shi felt that the dynasty outside the palace was collapsing, like a crisp mountain, slowly dissolving in the change of seasons. This dissolution starts from the periphery. The court sits like a navel in a vortex of dissolution, still asleep according to its own dreams. But the maelstrom was finally going to engulf everyone.
Probably out of such a premonition, Yun Shi had a strange dream.
She dreamed that it was still her, it was still this court, but things were no longer the same. Time back to the time when Yun Jian had just won the decisive battle against the Tang family, there was a concubine who had something to do with the Tang family. Quietly given to death. He still enjoyed mourning on his face, and he stopped behind the palace, in that Taoist temple, Xie Xiaoheng personally came to help the royal family. Yun Shi also kept a vigil for her.
Cui Heng originally wanted to sleep with a beauty that day. There is a concubine who is jealous. Find a way to let Cui Heng watch Yun Shi.
Lan Concubine's cronies and maids were worried, and admonished: "Zhaohua! This cheap Xie Guiren went, if Xie Guiren climbed up. counter-suppressed Zhaohua ......"
Lan Concubine snorted: "It's been so long, and you climbed up today?" β
The maid blushed: "What Zhaohua said is ...... It's just that the name of General Heavenly Wolf is too loud, will the emperor lift up Xie Guiren? β
"It's for the Heavenly Wolf General's reputation," Lan Concubine gently tapped her snow-white chin with the handle of her fan, "This favor must be given to Xie Guiren." There was a gloom in her eyes that did not match her light and pretty appearance, "If someone really wants to go up to make up for the gap, it is better to let others make up for it, at least she still knows the general situation, not better than those frivolous and greedy hooves." He unfolded the fan and smiled with his mouth covered, "But the emperor may not be willing to promote her to this point for the sake of his ministers!" If you look at the life history of everyone in the palace, did the emperor look at his mother's family? If you really want to fight for your mother's family, it won't be her turn. β
So the maid who was close to her also smiled.
The emperor arrived, and Yun Shi really - ah! In her dream, she really became another herself, acting a full set, not a little elated, triumphant, taking advantage of the east wind to climb up the pole, but behaved very frightened, too frightened, thinking that the emperor was here to blame her, and knelt down first to plead guilty.
"What crime?" The emperor was curious.
"It's because the concubine didn't take good care of the offerings, and she lost them repeatedly, and she actually alarmed the emperor......" Yun Shi seemed to be so frightened that she was about to cry.
"What offerings are missing?" The emperor came interested.
Wine and meat.
For those who are offered on the side of the Taoist temple, there are wine syrup and three animals. The wine is divided into Baiyi wine, double-headed wine, and pear flavor wine. Baiyi bitter, double-headed, pear fragrant and mellow. Each time what is lost is pear wine. In fact, the three wine bottles are exactly the same, plug the stopper, paste the seal, and then put it on the offering table, every time the empty is the pear fragrance, the seal is not moved, the stopper is not broken, but the wine inside is empty, I really don't know how to do it. The flesh is even better, except for the one that is offered to the whole animal's belly and goes into the water, and there is no breach in the outside. Of course, the whole pig should be roasted to open the stomach and clean up the dirt inside, leaving the knife edge, but after cleaning up, the internal organs are stuffed back and the knife edge is sewn again, and then it is cooked. The stolen pig went into the water, and the knife was not opened. Absolutely nothing. Speaking of thieves, it is even more difficult to explore, obviously there are night patrols outside, but I don't know where they came in. Could it be a miracle, a ghost? It's hard not to help but be afraid. Fortunately, although this Taoist temple and temple are used for the harem, after all, it is a place outside the square, and a deep courtyard is built outside the walls of the three palaces and six courtyards, which does not belong to the harem, otherwise the matter is even greater, and it must be reported to the inner hall as soon as possible, and the mothers of each courtyard must be frightened.
How do you lose something? In the end, it is necessary to find out. The emperor was interested, the overall situation of the anti-ministers was calmed, and he was still brave and good, just to have fun in this small theft case.
It is the night breeze and the moon, and the shadows of flowers and trees are painted on the wall. The small hall where the offerings were placed did not seem to be particularly heavily guarded, but in fact the emperor had already hid from watching it himself. Beside him, the twelve most capable guards hid without revealing a trace of their voices, but if there was an abnormality, they had killed more than forty-two first-class masters in the rivers and lakes with a flick of their fingers.
The Emperor did not worry about his own safety at all, but was interested in seeing where the thief would come from and how he would steal it.
The thief didn't come from outside at all.
The moon shadow swayed, and the dragon girl sitting cross-legged on the little lotus seat stretched out her waist delicately, languidly and tired.
Yun Shi almost screamed: This is sent in by Xie Xiaoheng!
If there was no Lin Dai, in another possible option, he would have sent in such a little girl and met the emperor in this way. And this little girl will be so cooperative and so capable of acting!
The Emperor almost screamed, too.
The twelve "shadow guards" waited intently for the emperor's order. At the slightest command, they could rush forward and chop up the guy on the rosette, whether she was a dragon girl, a snake spirit, or a monster!
The Emperor shook his head slightly.
How can you be willing to chop it? It's just a stretch, a simple action, a charm that words can't say. He didn't bother her at all. Even if it's a youkai, he's going to watch it again.
The dragon girl stood up, lifted the corners of her skirt, jumped off the lotus platform, and spun to the offering table, a series of movements flowing, like silent music and flowing flowers. At the offering table, she lifted the veil, closed her eyes, and leaned her face forward, intending to sniff the offering bottle, and the moonlight happened to be on her face.
Crystal delicate, not like everything in the world.
It must be a little goblin, the sense of smell is so smart, through the stopper, she chose the wine she loves, holds the bottle in one hand, twists her waist slightly, tilts her head back, forms a beautiful arc, and takes off the hairpin with one hand.
The translucent ice-colored mantle was originally fixed by a hairpin from behind the ear upwards, and it fell, and it fell very tactfully, like a cloud of ice beads. And her green silk poured down unbridled after the clouds, like a clear waterfall.
The Emperor could smell the incense escaping from his hair.
The most charming daughter incense.
The little goblin didn't care how she disturbed the emperor's mood at all, and concentrated on sticking the tip of the hairpin into the side of the cork. The cork was originally a cork, although it was tightly stuffed, it was elastic, and the thin copper hairpin was inserted as soon as it was inserted. She took out a wooden bottle in her arms, poured the bottle, and the emperor had an epiphany: the hairpin must be hollow, and the wine can leak out.
But the wine did not leak.
The little goblin was anxious, tilted his head, pouted, and slurped. It turned out that the hairpin was too thin, and the liquid couldn't come out for a while, but after she took a sip, it was passed, and the elixir liquid bubbled into the wooden bottle.
She took a sip ...... Not good...... What did the emperor do to react......
If those shadow guards hadn't been trained rigorously, it would have been hard not to react at this moment.
The goblin turned his head to deal with the pigs.
Pry open the pig's teeth, slowly leaned into the hand, I don't know what I did, it seemed to touch a few handfuls, retract my hand, knead, knead, knead on the skin of the pig, knead, squeeze, squeeze......
The essence of this action can only be understood by those with a certain amount of experience.
The experience that the emperor has is quite certain.
So the emperor's life was quite wanted.
The little goblin stopped at this time, still not knowing what effect he had caused to the emperor, and was very satisfied to pry open the pig's teeth again, take out something, wrap it in the curtain just now, stuff it into his sleeve, and leave.
The Emperor knew that the pig was gone.
The goblin didn't even bother to dismantle the knife. Only from the pig's mouth into the hand, let the pig's tongue to the side, the throat open, the probe hand to carry the internal organs first, and then on the skin and rub it, the internal organs are cut out and cleaned and then stuffed back into the abdomen, and the skin and flesh are no longer connected, all to the throat, and they are gently and skillfully carried away.
She walked outside and shouted, "Thief shadow, see thief shadow!" β
The people in the temple rushed to come: "Dress! Where is the thief? β
Na Er pointed: "The shadow flickered, and went over there." β
Isn't it another theft that doesn't go untraced?
It seems that it is not a ghost, but a little girl pretending to be a ghost, relying on her light body and beauty, wearing a veil and pretending to be a dragon girl, hiding behind the statues of the gods, people do not recognize it, and steal wine and meat.
The shadow guard asked the emperor for instructions: Do you want to capture this thief?
The Emperor replied: No.
He also wanted to see where the wine and meat were being eatenβnot all of them were dead, after all. If she takes it back to her room to eat, will she be discovered? Where did you get that? (To be continued......)