As soon as the two of them combined, they took advantage of Qi Jingyun's distress for Qiao Mingyue's legs, and did not return to the capital together for the time being.

The emperor only thought that Qi Jingyun was still angry about Tuoba Gong putting him in prison, and he didn't want to really punish Tuoba Gong, so he had to let Qi Jingyun mess around, like a disguised appeasement.

Fortunately, Qi Jingyun's temperament is like this on weekdays, but it doesn't make people feel that such a strange behavior.

The emperor's carriage and horses returned to the capital, and the palace was a lot colder, and there were many fewer palace maids, and many palace gates were closed, only two guards guarded in front of the door.

Qiao Mingyue walked with Qi Jingyun in the palace when he was fine, the emperor left, Qi Jingyun was the biggest in this palace, and the palace maids didn't dare to stop him when they saw him, but the two of them were unimpeded.

This night, Qi Jingyun and Qiao Mingyue slipped to the palace where Tuoba Gong lived before, this palace is on the right side of the prince's palace, although it is not too remote, but it is also far away from the emperor's palace, which shows that the emperor did not care about Tuoba Gong at that time.

Later, Tuoba Gong saved the emperor's life, and the emperor began to protect Tuoba Gong and took Tuoba Gong to live in the side hall of his own dormitory, which has been empty since Tuoba Gong moved to the emperor's bedroom.

Only a few little palace maids brought by Tuoba Gong stayed here to help clean the palace, and now that the emperor's army left the palace, those little palace maids naturally returned to Kyoto with them, and this huge palace was only dark.

Fortunately, there are lanterns lit in the corridors outside, so that they can't reach out and lose their fingers, Qi Jingyun winked at Qiao Mingyue and asked her if she wanted to go in and take a look, maybe she could find any evidence about Tuoba Gong from this!

Hearing him say this, Qiao Mingyue knew that he was curious, Tuoba Gong was not a fool, how could he leave his incriminating evidence here after leaving, for fear that others would not find out?

Although he knew in his heart that even if he went in and turned it over, he would not find anything useful, but looking at Qi Jingyun's smiling eyes, Qiao Mingyue still decided to accompany him to mess around.

"Sacrificing her life to accompany the gentleman, the concubine naturally doesn't dare to spoil the prince's good interest in being a thief over the wall!" While joking about Qi Jingyun, Qiao Mingyue stretched out her hand to wrap her arms around Qi Jingyun's waist, and she suddenly threw herself into her arms, making Qi Jingyun can't help but squint her eyes.

"Warm fragrant nephrite is in his arms, and this king is afraid that this thief will not be able to do it." He wrapped his arms around Qiao Mingyue's waist with one hand, and lifted a strand of her hair with the other, a faint fragrance lingered, Qi Jingyun let her hug herself tightly, and with a slight touch of her feet, she carried Qiao Mingyue and flew up to the palace wall.

Falling lightly in the courtyard, the huge courtyard was dark, Qi Jingyun took Qiao Mingyue's hand, and the two entered the dormitory where Tuoba Gong lived before, groping for the oil lamp, and by the light of the oil lamp, Qiao Mingyue saw this dormitory clearly.

There is no majesty and majesty of the emperor's bedroom, and there is no luxury and delicacy like the prince's bedroom, the most books in Tuoba Gong's dormitory are books, and a row of bookshelves is full of neatly classified and arranged books.

If she hadn't known that this was Tuoba Gong's bedroom, Qiao Mingyue would even wonder if she had broken into some scholar's study.

Looking at those books, Qiao Mingyue couldn't help but sigh, "You have to have some skills to be a bad guy these days, look at how hard Tuoba Gong is, the prince should learn more or less." ”

picked up a book casually and looked at it, Qiao Mingyue didn't forget to joke about Qi Jingyun.

Qi Jingyun stepped forward, stretched out his hand to grab Qiao Mingyue's book, and threw it on the table next to him, "If these books were useful, Tuoba Gong would not be a prince by now." ”

The book touched a pen holder on the desk, and the pen holder made a clicking sound, Qiao Mingyue was stunned, Qi Jingyun instinctively pulled her into his arms, and looked around vigilantly.

The bookshelf made a sound one after another, and then began to move, Qiao Mingyue suddenly understood, lowered her voice and said, "It's a mechanism!" ”

She really didn't expect that the slap in the face would come so quickly, she was still slandering in her heart just now, Tuoba Gong is not a fool, how could he put his black material here, who knows that after a while, he found this mechanism crookedly.

After the bookshelf was moved, Qi Jingyun picked up the oil lamp and stepped forward, the light illuminated everything in front of him, it was a dark dark passage, this dark passage was very deep, and he didn't know where it would lead.

Qi Jingyun took her hand and said that no matter where it leads, just go in and take a look, before Qiao Mingyue could refute, she was pulled by Qi Jingyun into the dark passage.

The oil lamp flickered in the narrow dark passage, Qiao Mingyue admitted that she was a little scared, so she consciously clenched Qi Jingyun's hand, and the whole person followed him closely.

The two walked forward one after the other, and they didn't know how far they went, but they saw torches on the wall of the dark passage, Qi Jingyun took down two torches and lit them, the light of the torches was much stronger than that of the oil lamp, and it instantly illuminated the place of about ten meters before and after.

There is no need to be a foot deep and shallow in the dark, and the fear of darkness in Qiao Mingyue's heart is also dispelled by the light of the torch.

"Lady, you can't be afraid of the dark, right?" Qi Jingyun's voice came from in front of him, Qiao Mingyue glared at him, and said sullenly: "What's wrong with being afraid of the dark?" People are women, and it's normal to have something to be afraid of, okay! ”

Seeing her pretending to twist, Qi Jingyun couldn't help laughing, and just wanted to tease him twice, but he heard footsteps in the distance, he grabbed Qiao Mingyue, reached out to cover her mouth, and then inserted the torch into a pile of dirt next to him.

The torch was buried in the mound and extinguished instantly, and the dark passage instantly darkened, in the dark, people's sense of touch and hearing was extremely sensitive, Qiao Mingyue could clearly feel the temperature in Qi Jingyun's hand, as well as the snort of his breathing.

Moving her somewhat stiff body slightly, Qiao Mingyue pricked up her ears to listen to the sound in the distance, and the conversation in the distance gradually approached, and one person wondered: "I just seemed to see a light here!" ”

When the other person heard this, he sneered at him and said that he couldn't see his five fingers in this secret passage, and where did the light come from, and he was afraid that he hadn't climbed up to see the sun for a long time, so he hallucinated.

Hearing the man say this, the previous person only thought that he was really hallucinating, and the two of them walked into the distance while talking, there should be more than one secret passage, and there should be a fork in the road ahead.

After the two of them walked away, Qi Jingyun said coldly: "Now that I understand, no wonder some strange sneaky figures appeared in this palace, and then disappeared, I think they were arranged here." ”