Even in the daytime, the jungle in front of Yiluo Pavilion is not easy to walk, Pei Yuan took everyone around the jungle and walked the mountain path, the mountain road is rugged, and it is naturally inconvenient to ride a horse.

But Yuan Yang and Yuan Xu didn't complain, and they still looked like they were alive, and the others were embarrassed to ask for a break.

Pei Yuan saw that their footsteps were much slower than before, and he knew that he couldn't compare them with himself and Yuanyang Yuanxu, so he stopped when passing by an inn: "It's hard today, we have the right to rest here for one night, and get up early tomorrow morning to hurry." ”

And Shi Xiangjie returned the original way, and carefully checked the disaster relief situation in various states and counties along the way, and made sure that there were no omissions, so he was relieved.

And the evil parents and officials in various places were in awe of Shi Xiangjie after learning about Qi Zesheng's incident, and later learned that they did not spend a single soldier to solve the rebels, so they felt that Shi Xiangjie and them were amazing.

King Heng sent letters to parents and officials all over the country, and Shi Xiangjie was treated with hospitality along the way, but even if it was lively every day, when he was lying in bed at night, the thoughts in his heart were still like a tide.

He missed Shen Jiahui more and more, and the closer he got there, the more he couldn't stand the distance in front of the two, and he just wanted to go back quickly, and he didn't want to stay outside for a minute or a second.

And Pei Yuan continued to hurry with people before dawn on the second day, and on the way to meet Shi Xiangjie, they passed a palace where the emperor once lived.

The original glorious palace, because the nine have not been repaired, has already become a little dilapidated, a few soldiers guarding the door are sitting at the door playing dice, seeing Pei Yuan with people standing at the door to watch, one of them spit out the straw stick in his mouth, and came over to drive people away with a big grin: "What are you guys doing, this is a royal land, don't stay here, hurry up, hurry up!" ”

Yuan Yang sat on the horse and snorted coldly: "No matter how you look at it, this place doesn't look like a royal land, and the Praetorian Guards in the palace are not as good as you." ”

"Hey, how do you speak, how can Lao Tzu be an errand and take care of your business, and the steward is still in charge of Lao Tzu." The soldier's voice was raised, and he was about to come up and fight as soon as he rolled up his sleeves.

The other soldiers saw what was going on, and they also swarmed around, and Yuan Xu held the token of the Xianwang Mansion and scolded: "Who dares to make a mistake here!" ”

Those people were stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and muttered to themselves: "King Xian, why is there a prince here!" ”

Yuan Xu put the token down again: "Open your dog's eyes and take a good look at it, if you don't do it well and speak so disrespectfully, you really deserve to be punished!" ”

The person who spoke first took a closer look, and knelt down with a puff: "The little one has seen the Xianwang, and the small one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and has offended the Xianwang, and I ask the Xianwang not to remember that the villain has spared the small one." ”

Pei Yuan had no intention of embarrassing these gatekeepers, turned over and dismounted and stood in front of a few people and said, "Get up and speak, what's going on now?" ”

The man didn't dare to get up, but still knelt down and replied: "Since the first emperor left, this palace has been abandoned, and there are no palace people in it, and now the emperor doesn't come here, so he left a few of our brothers here to watch, and on weekdays, even a fly doesn't fly here, so we are careless." ”

Pei Yuan glanced at him: "Okay, this king doesn't blame you, get up." He took two steps forward and asked him, "Is it locked?" ”

"Alas, it's locked, so the little one will go get the key." In reply, the man got up from the ground and ran away, the key had not been used for a long time, and it took a long time to send it.

Pei Yuan left the people of the Yuan Pavilion in the pavilion outside, and he walked in with Yuan Yang and Yuan Xu, he stood in front of the entire hall and looked at the dusty place, he only felt like he was back when he was a child, but unfortunately no one would bring him here to play again.

Then he went to the study room used by the emperor, the emperor must not have come here to deal with government affairs, and the study room was only a place for writing poems and paintings, Pei Yuan casually touched an inkstone on the table, and the thick dust on his fingers dissipated into the air with a gentle blow.

Bypassing a purple bamboo screen is the cubicle of the study, and there is a portrait of the mother concubine hanging in front of the window, Pei Yuan stayed in front of the portrait, looking at the former voice and smile of the mother concubine, he only felt a lot of emotion.

He covered it with his fingers, gently wiping the dust on it, but the frame in the lower left corner was a little damaged, not serious, but it made people feel very uncomfortable to look at, the portrait left by his mother is really not much, this is a rare one.

Pei Yuan took down the portrait and handed it to Yuan Xu: "Put this away properly, if you find a place on the road, you can reframe it, and if not, take it all the way back to the capital." ”

Yuan Yang put the things away, Pei Yuan looked at the blank place where he took the painting, there were some black marks in the middle, it looked like it was made with hard things at random, Pei Yuan reached out and pressed it, and the place where his finger pressed instantly became a concave piece, and the stone next to it fell down, revealing a groove like a switch.

Yuan Yang was standing at the door, and when he heard the movement inside, he wanted to come in to see the situation, but he moved quickly and accidentally messed with the things on the desk, only to hear the sound of things falling to the ground.

Pei Yuan was still studying in front of the groove of the mechanism, and he really couldn't see how to open it, so he turned around and came out to check when he heard the movement, and wanted to blame Yuanyang for not being so reckless, but he saw that the place where the inkstone was originally placed was also a groove below, and there was a very delicate Luban lock in it.

Because of the shield of the inkstone, the Luban lock did not fall into dust, and it still looked brand new, Pei Yuan was suddenly pulled back to his childhood, when he could play this all day.

The princes in the palace were bored, only Pei Yuan liked to hold this thing to study, and once again he was fascinated by unlocking a new Luban lock, and even forgot to use it for lunch, so the mother reprimanded him and the palace people who were waiting in the entire palace, and later his father gave him a siege.

He sat on the door frame casually, bowed his head and fiddled with the things in his hand, when he recalled the things when he was a child, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, Yuan Yang and Yuan Xu smacked their tongues, and whispered in the back: "I didn't expect the prince to like this thing." ”

"Maybe it's going to be of some use, it looks like it was put here on purpose."

When the sun rose to its highest, the Luban lock in Pei Yuan's hand snapped open, he got up and patted the dust on his clothes, looked back at the two people with a surprised face and smiled: "It's not difficult, you can try it another day." ”

Holding the unlocked lock in his hand, Pei Yuan knew what it was for, he walked back to the compartment with the lock, put the things in the groove found before, the two were tightly fitted, Pei Yuan gently turned the Luban lock, and after the clattering sound, a whole wall of the study opened.

There is still a study room in the back, which is almost exactly the same as the outside, and there is a coffee table in the direction of Pei Yuan, and there is an unfinished game of chess on it.

Pei Yuan stepped forward to check, and was surprised to find that this game of chess was exactly the same as the chess game he found.

"Look around and see if there's anything special." Pei Yuan commanded, and then he was also looking around.

Such a secret room is not built out of boredom, and it will never be just a game of chess here, there must be something important hidden here to prevent someone else from taking it.

The three of them searched for a long time, but they didn't see anything special, and finally there was a whole column of bookshelves left, on which there were a lot of calligraphy and painting scrolls, Pei Yuan flipped through them one by one, and found that there was a roll of paper that felt a little different.

Pulled the scroll out of it, opened it and opened it with a key wrapped inside, just when Pei Yuan didn't know what to mean, Yuan Xu held a sandalwood box and said to him: "Lord Wang, my subordinates found this under the bed." ”

There was a small brass lock on it, Pei Yuan tried it with a key, and it was really a set, and when he opened it, it turned out to be the edict written by the emperor back then.

Judging from the above date, it is earlier than the one taken out by the emperor back then, so it seems that the emperor's share is very intriguing, plus what he found out from Yiluo Pavilion, the emperor can already be convicted of the evil deeds done by peeking at the throne.

Yuan Xu Yuanyang looked like he had discovered the shocking secret, but when he turned his eyes to look at Pei Yuan, he saw that his expression was still indifferent, and after a while, Pei Yuan put the edict in his arms, and then ordered: "Clean up this place, this king will go out first." ”

He walked blankly on the path outside the study, the scenery on both sides was still the same as in his childhood memory, in front of him was the face of the mother concubine, the face of the four emperor brothers, and the face of the first emperor after a while.

Walking all the way to the back garden, standing on the rockery in the back garden, I can still hear my laughter when I was a child, it was the fourth emperor brother who took himself and the palace people to hide and seek here, at that time he rarely didn't have to go to study, and he was crazy for an afternoon, but he was happy.

But a moment later, the face of the current emperor appeared, when he passed by here with a gloomy face, he felt a little scared in his heart, but the fourth emperor brother said that there was no need to be afraid, he would always protect him.

The memory came to an abrupt end here, Pei Yuan touched his eyes, they were dry, and there was no liquid to moisturize, he sighed and walked down.

Coming out of the palace, Pei Yuan only explained a few words to the gatekeeper and then left with the people, and when he was resting and eating at the post station halfway, he took the time to write a letter of peace to Shen Jiahe, informing him of his current whereabouts, so that she didn't have to worry about herself.

Shen Jiahe hasn't been out much recently, except for dealing with the big and small affairs in the palace, the rest of the things seem to be making up for sleep, she is always very sleepy, Bai Ying was a little uneasy and asked her: "Are you staying up late at night to read the script, you can't do this, you can't go to bed late tonight." ”

"I haven't read the script, I've been sleeping pretty early lately, but it's always easy to get up at night, and it's a little more frequent during the day, and I don't know if I'm drinking too much water?" Shen Jiahe yawned again, "And I dream more often, that's why I'm so sleepy during the day." ”

When it was time for lunch, Bai Yingqiang pulled Shen Jiahe to get up: "You have lunch and then sleep, it's not okay to skip meals like this." ”

Shen Jiahe had no choice but to get up to eat, but Bai Ying found that none of the things that Shen Jiahe liked in the past had moved now, but she used a lot of medicinal food to clear her heat and remove fire.

I felt strange in my heart, and I was afraid that Shen Jiahe was sick, and when she went to take a nap, Bai Ying went to Gonggong Fu and mentioned it to him: "The slave and maid can't say that the princess's appetite has been going on recently, it's not bad, it's just that she has changed a lot, and she always looks like she's not in good spirits, so my father-in-law can help ask a royal doctor to come back and show the princess." ”

Shen Jiahe felt that Bai Ying was making a fuss, but the imperial doctor had already arrived, so he obediently asked him to see a doctor: "I just feel sleepy, I don't have much energy, everything else is fine." ”

The imperial doctor nodded, put two fingers on her veins and began to diagnose the pulse, after half a cup of tea passed, in order to confirm his diagnosis, the imperial doctor asked Shen Jiahe to be patient: "The old man will take a look again, the princess will wait a moment." ”

This made Shen Jiahe nervous, could it be that he really had something wrong with him, so that the imperial doctor was a little uncertain?

She stared at the imperial doctor with her eyes, and after a while, the imperial doctor took the pulse pillow, and said to Shen Jiahe with a smile: "Congratulations to the princess, you are happy!" ”