() "Are you sure you can draw it?" Gu Chen looked at her side face and asked.

Qin Niang raised her head and raised the few pieces of paper: "As long as the other party speaks clearly, there is nothing I can't draw." ”

Hearing her say this, Gu Chen immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, Song Huai is keeping an eye on it these days, you should leave quickly, maybe he will run over at night one day, and it will be bad if he bumps into him." Qin Niang was still a little worried after all, after all, Song Huai's palace was next to her, if he came over in the middle of the night on a whim, wouldn't he be bumped into by him?

After all, this is still other people's territory, and Song Huai has even started to do such a thing as pretending to be crazy with wine, who knows if he will touch her bedroom in the middle of the night next time.

However, fortunately, she brought Mama Jin into the palace, and she also had some self-defense medicine on weekdays, so she didn't worry about that.

She can be regarded as seeing the rash incident since the day she was beaten, Song Huai is a person who likes skin appearance, if she is devastated one day, he may be able to hide faster than anyone else.

"Then you should be careful in the palace, and I will come back in two days to see how you draw." After Gu Chen finished speaking, he quickly jumped out of the window and ran.

Qin Niang put the pieces of paper in the pillow, and then lay down.

At this point, the lights of the entire palace were turned off, and she couldn't make that special case to attract attention.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that she took out the pieces of paper again, ordered Qiu Tao to prepare pen and ink, and lay down on the table to draw.

It's just that she just drew two strokes when she heard that Concubine Hua sent someone to invite her.

"Miss, that Miaojiang woman must be uneasy and kind, otherwise she will always ask you to do something." Qiu Tao muttered while helping Qin Niang change her clothes, "The slave didn't see that she really wanted to make friends with the young lady." ”

Besides, how can an emperor's concubine be sincere when she befriends the daughter of a minister?

"No matter what she wants to do, she can't help but go." Qin Niang said lightly.

With her current status, she has no reason or qualification to refuse at all.

"Miss, you said you should play the piano again this time or something, right? That Miss Yan didn't come up with some meat tricks again. Qiu Tao tidied up her clothes, and then inserted a hairpin that matched her clothes, and praised, "Miss is so good-looking, and it looks very good to wear simple clothes and a spring sail." ”

Qin Niang angrily stretched out her fingertips and tapped her nose: "I know how to pat on the back." ”

Qiu Tao stuck out her tongue, followed behind Qin Niang, and walked out of Lanxi Palace.

The other side.

Gu Chen entered the palace early in the morning, just after greeting the emperor, and planned to arrange the defense line in the palace, but a little chamberlain sent him a letter, saying: "This is Miss Yang asked the slave maid to lead Gu." ”

After the little chamberlain finished delivering the letter, he ran away as fast as he could.

Although Gu Chen had been in the palace on an errand for a while, after all, the palace was too big, so he wasn't sure which palace the little chamberlain was just now.

When he opened the letter, he glanced at it, and his pupils tightened suddenly.

He didn't care about those defenses anymore, so he pulled out his legs and ran towards Lanxi Palace, and the big internal guards behind him were instantly dumbfounded, and they didn't even have time to ask where he was going, and the people had already disappeared.

Gu Chen ran all the way to Lanxi Palace, but was stopped by the palace people: "This lord, this is the queen."

Palace, I'm afraid it's not the place you should be. ”

Gu Chen glared: "I don't care if you have a harem or not, what about Yang Qinyan?" ”

The palace people originally wanted to move the rules out and intimidate him a few more words, but Gu Chen's eyes were too scary, and the palace people were afraid that they would be killed by him in the next moment, so they had to answer honestly: "Miss Yang is not in the palace, she went out early in the morning, as for where she went, the slaves and maids are not very clear." ”

Gu Chen twisted his eyebrows: "What about the two maids beside her?" ”

The palace people replied truthfully: "The slaves and maids that Miss Yang brought into the palace also followed, and the slaves and maids were only responsible for guarding the palace, and they didn't know where Miss Yang went. ”

When Gu Chen heard this, his whole heart fell to the bottom.

The line on the note came to mind again: If you want to save Yang Qinyan, you have to go to the valley fifteen miles outside the city.

Could it be that Qin Niang was really arrested?

She's in the palace, who will arrest her?

Gu Chen cared about the chaos, and he couldn't care about it a lot, he asked people to go to the palace of the fourth princess Song Ru, and asked Song Ru to look up and down the palace for him, he went to the emperor to take leave, saying that there was an urgent case to deal with, so he asked for a horse and galloped out of the city.

When he arrived at the location specified on the note, he did not see Qin Niang's shadow, on the contrary, he seemed to faintly hear the voices of many people.

"Hurry up, these highnesses will want them in a few days, you hurry up."

"Tap, tap, be careful to blow up."

"What for? Grinding and chirping! ”

Gu Chen tightened his brows, subconsciously hid behind a stone and looked inside, and saw a wide open space in the valley, the open space was full of soldiers, and a team of men and horses transported a cart of wooden boxes to the valley, some of which could not be covered, and some were faintly exposed, Gu Chen recognized them at a glance, those were iron ore.

The mines he once overheard Song Huai talking about when he had a secret meeting with his subordinates, aren't these iron mines?

Look at the people who transported the iron ore, all of them were yellow and thin, and there were faint scars on their bodies, and they looked like they had been abused inhumanely, and there were a few stewards behind them, holding whips in their hands, and pulling their voices with a commanding appearance.

Gu Chen's eyebrows jumped, and a thought suddenly popped up in him, and then he was frightened into a cold sweat by this thought.

At this time, he had already vaguely guessed that Qin Niang might not have been caught, and the other party brought him here, but he just wanted him to see this place, but he was too nervous and didn't think so much.

Looking back now, the little chamberlain who handed him the letter just now was indeed a little stranger, and Donglin's words were a little stiff.

If this place is really Song Huaiyang's private soldier, and it is so large-scale, it is indeed necessary for him to go back to the palace to report to the emperor, so as not to cause any trouble in the future.

Thinking of this, Gu Chen couldn't stay too long, and quickly turned back towards the road he came from.

As soon as he walked on his front foot, a familiar figure flashed out on his back foot.

"Your Highness, the person surnamed Gu will definitely go back to the palace to report this matter to His Majesty, what should I do?" Another man beside him asked.

"It's okay, I'm afraid he won't sue me for the black state." The man's warm and handsome eyebrows flashed with a calculating light, and he turned around and ordered, "You let people keep an eye on it, retreat to the place I just told you, and leave some people down." ”

The subordinate didn't know what he wanted to do, but he didn't dare to ask more, but responded respectfully: "Yes." ”

After Gu Chen returned to the palace, the sun was about to set, and Song Ru's people were already waiting for him at the palace gate, and as soon as they saw him come back, they immediately greeted him: "Commander Gu, the slave maid came to review the commander's words on the order of the fourth palace duke." ”

As soon as Gu Chen heard that it was Song Ru's person, in order to avoid too many people, he gave the horse to the guards guarding the door, and then came to a secluded shade of a tree. ”

When Gu Chen heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you for me, your master, Gu will definitely repay you if you have the opportunity." Gu Chen nodded at the little palace maid, and said earnestly.

The little palace maid smiled and said: "Commander Gu doesn't have to be polite, my princess said, if Commander Gu has any inconvenience in the future, even if she comes to our princess, as long as she can do it, she will do her best." ”

Gu Chen nodded, hugged his fists and said, "Gu still has official business, so it's inconvenient to say more, and say goodbye." ”

After speaking, he unfolded his body and ran quickly towards the direction of the palace, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Gu Chen went directly to the imperial study, but unfortunately, I heard that the queen mother had a sudden illness, and the emperor went to the queen mother's side, but he never came back, and the imperial doctors in the palace called over, and until now he has not diagnosed a famous hall, so the emperor is very worried.

Thinking about this time to tell the emperor that there were private soldiers in the valley, the emperor would not care, first, he was not sure who raised the private soldiers, and secondly, he had not yet figured out the situation in the valley, and he was not sure if he could really see those private soldiers if he told the emperor and went back with people and horses.

Therefore, he decided to confirm it first, or think of a good set of rhetoric, and let the emperor send someone over there to investigate, so as not to let Song Huai take advantage of the loophole.

Thinking like this, he pressed his heart and waited for dark.

……

When Qin Niang returned to Lanxi Hall from Biluo Palace, the sunset happened to shine on the large peach blossoms in the courtyard, and on a whim, she ordered the autumn peach to pick some and come back to brew peach nectar.

"Miss, that Concubine Hua suddenly asked you to go to her for a long time, and she didn't see what she wanted to do, the old slave always felt that this Miao person didn't hold back any good fart, saying that she wanted to communicate with Miss about piano skills, but what she asked was something unrelated to Fengyue, but it seemed that she was purely dragging Miss." Mama Jin has lived for such a long time, and many things can be seen through at a glance.

What's more, she is also an old man in the palace, where can these individuals escape her eyes?

"I also think this Concubine Hua is very strange, as if she was simply delaying time and leaving me with her, I have obviously yawned several times, but she pretended not to see, and still had nothing to say, I just couldn't find an excuse to leave." Qin Niang entered the house, and immediately someone from the palace offered her tea and snacks.

When there were only a few of her trusted servants left in the room, Qin Niang took out the few pieces of paper that Gu Chen gave her again, sat on the edge of the bookcase, and drew with a pen.

Qiu Xue consciously studied ink for her on the side, and Mama Jin instructed someone to prepare dinner.

In the blink of an eye, it was dark.

Qin Niang put away the drawings she had drawn, and just as she was about to get up, a black shadow flashed in.