In the room of the side hall, Xu Buling's breathing was steady, and the whispers of several palace maids echoed in his ears:

"Sister Qiao'e, Xu Shizi is really handsome, much better looking than Second Young Master Xiao, in comparison, Second Young Master Xiao is like a monkey who has just come down from a tree......"

"Shh~ Don't be heard by the Queen Mother, otherwise you won't want to leave the palace in the next life......"

"Hee-hee...... The Queen Mother didn't say let's go to bed, right? ”

"Didn't say it...... Don't make a bad idea, you secretly climb into the bed of the prince tonight, if the prince is unhappy tomorrow, don't say go to Suzhou, don't even want to stay in Changle Palace......"

"Alas~ It's a pity...... If you ask, maybe the little prince wants you......"

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Xu Buling felt that someone had stretched out his hand, it should be the queen mother's personal maid Qiao'e, taking advantage of the gap between untying the robe, she came to her ear and sighed like a lan: "Little prince, do you want the maid to arrange a personal bed warm for you......"

Qiao'e can follow into the palace, which is used to serve the emperor when it is inconvenient for the master, and the family gate valve has been carefully selected and cultivated since childhood, and it is not bad from appearance to temperament. It is estimated that he also knew that he would accompany the Queen Mother to die alone in the future, and he met Xu Buling, so he was instigated by the palace maid to be a little careful.

Xu Buling is not a ruthless and desireless monk, and he was a little itchy by Qiao'e's seductive tone, but he had something important tonight, so he naturally didn't appreciate it, so he had to put on a look of 'I killed people in my dream', and snorted coldly and turned over drunkenly and faced inward.

Qiao'e was startled, she didn't dare to speak anymore, and glared back at a few palace maids who had bad ideas, before she retreated with a red face and closed the door.

The house fell silent, and the sound of footsteps faded away.

Xu Buling put the futon on his body, made a sleeping appearance, and patiently waited for the wine on his head to pass. In the meantime, a palace maid walked in and looked at it a few times, and then walked out, and the queen mother seemed to come once, held his wrist and signal, and then left.

About two hours passed, and the hour passed.

The sparsely populated Changle Palace was completely silent, leaving only the sound of the cold wind blowing through the palace pavilion.

Xu Buling's drunkenness also disappeared, opened his eyes, sat up from the bed silently, untied the belt around his waist, took off the white robe, revealing the night clothes that were as black as ink inside, and took out the black cloth and the 'human skin mask'.

The 'human skin mask' is a disguised thing on the rivers and lakes, but it has long been lost as a fake, and now it can be obtained as a piece of dough, which can be pasted on the face, and it looks like a yellow cloth has been pasted.

Pasted on the shoddy dough, Xu Buling covered his face with a black cloth again, took off his boots and wore only black cloth socks, tied the door to the door and dealt with the traces of the bedding, opened the window of the room, and jumped out silently.

Da Yue rejuvenates the country with martial arts, and all kinds of masters are like carp crossing the river, among which the best one can't be stopped by a palace wall, if there is no strong man sitting in the palace city, Ning Qing can enter the palace at night and kill the emperor and leave.

Xu Buling doesn't know how many masters are hidden in the imperial city, but the king of a country must be more appealing than Su Wangfu, and there are dozens of doormen under King Su's hands, and it is not uncommon for hundreds of masters to emerge in the imperial city, so he is quite careful.

Changle Palace is the residence of the Queen Mother, and the location is not important if it is sparsely populated, but the identity of the Queen Mother is here, if the flower thief does a big ticket, the Son of Heaven may have to apologize to the first emperor by himself, so there must be masters hiding in the dark.

If it were an ordinary Jianghu guest, he would definitely not dare to run around secretly like this, but Xu Buling obviously did not belong to ordinary people. At the age of sixteen, he shook the court with his military fame, but it was not just talking.

Although there is no one in ten combat power that cannot be activated by Gu poison, it is obvious that stealth does not require much effort, and it is enough to rely on perception and vigilance.

Xu Buling's body was like a ghost, his toes stepped on the snow and barely made a sound, wandering in the shadows like the wind, gradually passing through the thousand-step corridor connected to the harem, and from time to time he glanced at the top of the Taiji Hall in the distance, where a Rui beast had been squatting for many years, and had a bird's-eye view of everything in the imperial city.

There are a lot of rumors about Jia's father-in-law, such as 'immortality, killing people like hemp, cultivating evil sects with babies', etc., which have extremely poor reviews, and are almost the standard template for evil villains in chivalrous stories.

However, according to Xu Buling's understanding, Gonggong Jia has never left the imperial city alone for half a step, where is the emperor and where is he, every day he roars at the court and then roars at the retreat, and stands on the roof at other times, and it is estimated that he has no time to deal with the people of the rivers and lakes. And how high Jia's martial arts are, there are different opinions, no one has seen Jia's father-in-law make a move, and those who have seen it have no chance to say.

As the saying goes, 'there is no vanity under the fame', according to Xu Buling's estimate, when Jia Gonggong was young, he was definitely the top wave of martial artists in Dayue, but now that he is older, it is difficult to say whether his martial arts are regressing or improving. After all, 'the fist is afraid of the young and the strong stick is afraid of the old wolf', and it is difficult to make a conclusion about a person's martial arts attainments based on age alone.

Xu Buling observed cautiously, and had already passed through the thousand-step corridor from the shadows and entered the harem. The palace complex of the harem is very large, living thousands of palace maids and the emperor's concubines, and there are not a few eunuchs.

The reputation of the Son of Heaven Song Ji is well known to all officials, and he usually stays in the imperial study, rarely comes to the harem, and should be in the imperial study tonight.

Xu Buling walked quickly between the palace and the courtyard, the speed was not fast, but the goal was clear. After Da Yue broke Chang'an, he directly settled in the former palace of Daqi, and did not rebuild it with great construction. Most of the buildings in the imperial city have existed for hundreds of years, and the location of each room is not a secret.

Since Jia Yi is taking care of the Lizheng Palace, he must live in it. The Lizheng Hall is the residence of the empress, located in the center of the harem, and it should be an important place for the emperor's residence. It's just that Empress Cui died of illness a few years ago, and Song Ji has been unwilling to re-establish the queen, so the Lizheng Palace is still the former residence of Empress Cui, and no other concubines dare to settle in without authorization.

Xu Buling came to the vicinity of the Lizheng Palace, listened carefully to the surrounding movements, and made sure that there was no one, before his figure flashed over the outer wall and entered it.

Compared with the palaces of other concubines, the Lizheng Palace is much more deserted, and there is even a bit of depression in the cold winter and the moon. There are no red lanterns, but strips of white silk hanging between the cornices and verandahs, and there is no figure, but it is not gloomy.

Xu Buling took a closer look, only to find that the corners and corners of the Lizheng Hall were spotless, and there was not even snow.

The garden is full of peach trees, and the bare peach branches are tied with white flowers, even in winter, it is like being in a peach forest.

The paper flowers tied to the peach branches are spotless and new, not eroded by the wind and snow, it seems that they have only been tied for a short time, and I am afraid they will be replaced every few days, and Empress Cui has been dead for four or five years.

Thinking of this, Xu Buling couldn't help but secretly admire the infatuation of today's son.

The two major regrets in the world are nothing more than 'watching the twilight of heroes and the white heads of beauties'.

And the saddest thing in the world is that 'ambition dies before the body is paid, and the old man has passed away'.

Compared with the former years of unforgiving sighs, the latter is often more unforgettable, the most admired and obsessed characters in the heart, in the most glorious moment of life abruptly stopped, leaving the regret and grief of the living, those who have not experienced it can not understand it at all.

Dayue Jianghu still remembers the previous generation's 'Xuanhe Bakui', not that there are really no beauties in the world, but the sad endings of the red faces fall in the eyes, just like the red mansion, which makes people feel sad every time they think of it.

Xu Buling listened to Lao Xiao talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes back then, Cui Xiaowan, the young lady of the Cui family in Youzhou, in the mouth of the storyteller, is a scholarly beauty who is 'weak and sick, sick and sentimental', without the deeds of the chivalrous women in the rivers and lakes, and the talent of the official ladies and gentlemen. Since he was 14 years old, he has been staying in Cui's peach garden, three points shy and seven points delicate, and never goes out.

Originally, the rivers and lakes didn't know that the Cui family hid such a beauty, until one day Xu Danqing, who likes to play games in the rivers and lakes, recklessly broke into the peach blossom forest to enjoy the scenery.

It is rumored that countless Cui family guests arrived with knives at that time, but what they saw was Xu Danqing holding rice paper in one hand and a brush in the other, chasing Miss Cui in the peach forest, and kept shouting 'Wait until I finish painting and then kill my ......'.

The head of the Cui family heard that it was Xu Danqing who cherished his talent, but after all, he was not willing to kill, so he drove Xu Danqing away from the peach blossom forest after finishing the painting, and the painting was also taken away.

Xu Danqing is a prodigal son of the rivers and lakes, with a quirky personality and almost harsh requirements for paintings, not only does he not have a long memory after escaping, but he feels that painting too hastily in the peach blossom forest is a failure, and at the risk of being chased and killed by Cui's family, he secretly painted two more paintings, but unfortunately it is not as good as the one in the peach forest, and finally sighed 'It is better to die in the peach blossom forest'.

It was because of Xu Danqing's words that Cui Xiaowan's name spread all over the world overnight, to the point that everyone knew about it. Countless Jianghu rangers and literary talents ran to Cui's house to propose, almost squeezing through the archway building of Cui's family in Youzhou, and this craze did not fade until the appearance of Miss Tang's sentence 'It is difficult for the beauty of the world to enter the painting'.

The daughter of the gate valve is impossible to marry a poor family, and most of them are married to each other.

Later, the first emperor died, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and he needed a queen who was the mother of the world. The courtiers were looking for the concubines of the gate lords, and they originally took a fancy to the Tang family, who was praised as the 'national color of a thousand autumns'.

The Tang family was originally a family with a long heritage, but after saddleing Dayue for many years, it gradually evolved into a family of Jiangmen, and its status in Dayue should not be underestimated, and this move can also officially make the Tang family among the top gatekeepers.

It's a pity that the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and after the welcoming team arrived at the Tang family, they found that the young lady of the Tang family had escaped from marriage and disappeared.

Escaping the marriage of the Son of Heaven, the consequences can be imagined, the head of the Tang family was angry, while making amends to the court, he expelled the unfilial girl from the house, and sent someone to chase and kill, until the Tang family lady hid and ran to Wudang Mountain to become a Taoist aunt, and was sheltered by Wudang Mountain and escaped.

The new emperor has ascended the throne, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are waiting to get married, and the greeting envoy can not carry the empty sedan chair back. Seeing this, the nearby Cui family sent Cui Xiaowan to a sedan chair and became the queen of Dayue.

After that, there were few rumors on the rivers and lakes, and when I heard Cui Xiaowan's news again, it was the edict of the imperial court.

And the son of Dayue Tianzi has been in the government all day long since then, rarely going to the harem, and he has not established a queen.

Xu Buling saw this garden full of peach blossoms, except for a sigh and sigh, but he didn't know what to say.

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When Xu Buling was thinking about it, a faint footstep suddenly appeared, and he couldn't help but be startled in his heart, and hurriedly hid in the dark.

When he looked up, he saw a eunuch in a big red robe, carrying a white lantern, slowly walking through the corridor of the palace......