Chapter 19: The Cold Palace in the Deep Alley
There are always unsatisfactory times in life, but today Mu Sheng seems to have touched the mold, he has just experienced a psychological war this morning, and he is about to usher in a war of words.
She and Tan'er had just walked to the Imperial Garden when they ran into Fang Lanzhi, who was facing him with an imposing attitude.
There is one point, Mu Sheng still admires Fang Lanzhi a lot, that is, no matter when and where, she always looks like she is on top, and her dressing and makeup are even more high-profile, for fear that others will disrespect her for three points, even if it ends in embarrassment, it will not affect her next appearance at all.
Mu Sheng walked over and greeted her politely, "The concubine has seen the concubine." ”
"Du Ruosheng, I'll see how long you can pretend! How does it feel to re-enter Huaqing, let me tell you, this time I will definitely let you have no return! Fang Lanzhi said fiercely in Mu Sheng's ear.
Mu Sheng chuckled and said, "The concubine will wait and see." "I didn't care about Fang Laneige's warning.
"I'll let you go for the time being, and next time you should be careful!"
Seeing this, Mu Sheng felt that Fang Lanzhi was abnormal, usually she was entangled, but today she looked in a hurry, as if she was in a hurry to go somewhere, Mu Sheng couldn't help but feel suspicious.
"Concubine Niangniang, forgive the concubine for saying too much, in this deep palace inner garden, it is better to listen more and talk less and do less." Mu Sheng reminded Fang Lanzhi's back that had not gone far.
Fang Lanzhi's figure paused slightly, did not respond, and sped up to leave.
Seeing Fang Lanzhi's reaction, Mu Sheng was even more convinced that there must be something important about her going, if her guess was correct, it must be about Yan Qinghan.
"Tan'er, keep up with her, remember to be careful not to expose yourself, if there is any abnormal movement, report back quickly." Mu Sheng commanded in a low voice.
"Yes."
After Tan'er left, Mu Sheng changed direction and headed in the direction of Weiyang Palace.
Before he arrived at Weiyang Palace, he ran into Qi Guang, who was also going.
"Niangniang, is this to find the emperor?" Qi Guang asked.
"I have something important to report to the emperor, and the emperor can be in the palace?" Mu Sheng stopped galloping and asked rhetorically.
"The emperor is discussing with the ministers in the Chongzheng Palace about the disaster relief of the southeastern subject country, and I am preparing to send a letter to the emperor from the subject country."
Hearing about the southeastern subject country, Mu Sheng was shocked, the southeast is located, will Dongchuan be among them.
"Southeastern subjects? Do you know where the disaster is affected? Mu Sheng asked with a heart.
"Jiangyin, Xiuzhou, and Panyu all have different degrees of disaster, as well as Dongchuan, but Dongchuan is no longer affiliated with the Wan Dynasty, so the emperor has not yet decided."
Hearing the word Dongchuan, Mu Sheng instantly felt that her heartbeat was speeding up, and the soles of her feet were weak, but fortunately, Qi Guang reached out to help her, "Niangniang, but the injury has recurred?" ”
"It's okay, the old wound hasn't healed, and I'm just dizzy for a while. In that case, Master Qi, go quickly, don't delay the business, I will pass it slowly. Mu Sheng fixed his body and said lightly.
"Then Niangniang is slow, just wait in the Xuanshu Hall at that time." Although Qi Guang was a little worried, he couldn't miss the hour, so he left after telling him.
Mu Sheng's heart was tightly pinched, Dongchuan suffered a disaster, when and whether it was serious, thinking of the anxiety of his father and queen mother at this time, and the hardship of the people of Dongchuan, Mu Sheng became more and more unable to feel at ease.
But thinking of Fang Lanzhi again, she could only make up her mind and rushed to Weiyang Palace first.
When she arrived, Yan Qinghan was already waiting for her in the Xuan Room Palace.
When he saw Mu Sheng, Yan Qinghan found that Mu Sheng's face was not very good, so he said with concern: "You have an injury on your body, why are you so anxious?" ”
After Mu Sheng stood firm, she realized that she was strange, and she couldn't let anyone here see the worry in her heart.
"I met Fang Lanzhi this morning, she was in a hurry as if she was going to do something, I had something wrong, so I asked Tan'er to go and investigate, and then we will meet here." Mu Sheng informed me about this morning.
"This Fang Lanzhi, there is no time to stop." Yan Qinghan frowned and reprimanded.
"If I'm not mistaken, what she's going to do must have something to do with his father and you." Mu Sheng said again.
"Without her father, King Gaoping, she doesn't have such great ability, everything will be known when Tan'er comes back, if it is really as you said, then she and her father are waiting to be questioned this time."
"Your Majesty, no." Mu Sheng objected.
Yan Qinghan was puzzled and asked, "Why not?" ”
"King Gaoping is a prince anyway, how can he also gather some forces in his hands, otherwise he would not be so wolf-like, not to mention that he is still useful to us now, if you directly ask him to blame, if he jumps off the wall in a hurry, with the current situation, I am afraid that the emperor is also a wounded soldier with a thousand self-inflicted losses of eight hundred."
"Your Majesty, what Niangniang said is not unreasonable, although King Gaoping is a foreign prince, but there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his control, if it is hard at this time, it is really inappropriate." Qi Guang seconded on the side.
"I naturally know, but now that he is in Cao Ying, his heart is in Han, so he is not a big trouble."
How could Yan Qinghan not think of what they said, but such a hidden danger beside him really made him worried.
"The emperor doesn't have to worry, isn't there another Fang Lanzhi in the middle." Mu Sheng smiled faintly.
"I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for her to be so infatuated with the emperor, why don't you just use her infatuation and let her contribute to the emperor?" Mu Sheng proposed.
But Yan Qinghan was direct and refuted back, "Fang Lanzhi is Fang Lanzhi, this is a matter between me and King Gaoping, as long as she doesn't get involved, I won't involve her in this dispute." ”
Hearing Yan Qinghan say this, Mu Sheng secretly laughed in his heart, so that he would not get involved in disputes, but from the original Du Ruosheng to the current Mu Sheng, which one escaped this fate.
"Your Majesty, let's focus on the overall situation." Mu Sheng didn't say anything more, and at the end, he only reminded him of this.
After a few people were silent for a moment, Tan'er stumbled back from outside the hall.
As soon as he entered the hall, he fell to the ground weakly, and several people hurriedly greeted him, and Mu Sheng helped him up and leaned on his arms.
"Tan'er, what happened, how could you be so seriously injured?" Mu Sheng asked eagerly.
Tan'er's face was bloodless, and her breath was weak, "Yes... It is the person of King Gaoping. With that, he fainted.
Mu Sheng noticed Qi Guang's anxious expression and handed over the person in his arms to him, "Quickly carry Tan'er to the bed, and I'll go find the imperial doctor." ”
Qi Guang picked up Tan'er and looked at the emperor, the emperor nodded, and then walked to the side hall, while Mu Sheng left quickly and went to invite the imperial doctor.
After the doctor arrived, he treated and bandaged Tan'er, and soon after, Tan'er came to her senses.
When Tan'er woke up, several people were surrounding and looking at her, and most of her originally vague consciousness was instantly awakened.
With Qi Guang's support, Tan'er sat up slowly, and then told what happened one by one.
After getting Mu Sheng's order, Tan'er followed behind Fang Lanzhi all the way, and not far from the Imperial Garden, Fang Lanzhi turned into a secret alley, but here Tan'er had never been here before, and she didn't go far, Tan'er watched her enter a cold palace that had been abandoned for a long time.
Tan'er followed, and after entering, she found that Fang Lanzhi was gone, she looked around, it was cold and miserable, overgrown with wild grass, and the building furnishings were even more dilapidated.
There was a dormitory with a closed wooden door, and Tan'er broke into it directly.
From the inside, the cold wind continued, and the cobwebs on the window sill of the house beams were constant, and although the sky was shining outside, there was no light in this hall, and in a blink of an eye, it turned out that the windows were nailed to the wooden boards.
Just when Tan'er was about to go out, she vaguely heard the voice of a miserable woman, but she didn't know where it came from, so Tan'er groped her way to the hall, and the more she walked, the clearer the sound became.
But the farther away from the door, the darker the hall became, Tan'er had no sword and no fire, and he couldn't distinguish the direction and things at all, and he didn't know what his hand touched, and he fell directly under his feet.
When she came to her senses, she found herself in a dark prison, in which candlesticks were lit, one by one, Tan'er walked deeper, and not long after walking, she heard the voice of a middle-aged man and a young woman talking.
"When you came, no one found out, right?" The middle-aged man asked.
"Father rest assured, daughter is very careful." Hearing the woman's voice clearly, Tan'er was shocked, the woman was Fang Lanzhi.
Tan'er hid behind the wall, looked in slightly sideways, and saw King Gao Ping and Fang Lanzhi standing in front of a wounded and unkempt woman, as if they were interrogating something.
The woman's hands and feet were chained, unable to move, and her head hung down, not knowing whether she was dead or alive.
"! Do you hand it over or not, do you still think that you are the beautiful Concubine Li? Gao Ping Wang Fangzhi raised his hand and slapped the woman and scolded fiercely.
The woman slowly raised her head, and Tan'er knew that the woman was still alive, looking at the woman's appearance, her age was similar to that of the current Queen Mother, but her face was bruised and purple, and she couldn't see what her appearance was.
"Phew, I won't tell you about the and human power!" The woman spat on her.
Listening to their conversation, it was like King Gaoping was forcing her to hand over something again.
"Well, do you think you don't say it, how long can your high-ranking son last? I'll reunite you mother and son soon! King Gao Ping smiled sinisterly.
"You dare! If you dare to hurt him in the slightest, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost! The woman said hysterically.
King Gaoping approached the woman and said provocatively: "You see if I dare!" ”
The woman spat back into his face, so angry that he scolded, "You slut! He kicked the woman a few times, and she passed out.
"Father, you promised me that you wouldn't hurt him!"
"My good daughter, my father is just to scare and scare him, and when my father gets the things, he is yours, isn't it good to be a cow and a horse man and listen to you?" King Gao Ping patted Fang Lanzhi's arm and comforted him.
Tan'er didn't know who they were talking about, and when she wanted to get closer, she accidentally made a noise.
"Who!?" King Gao Ping was alert, and his eyes gestured to the man in black beside him.
Tan'er turned around and ran towards the exit, flying out of the dark prison, but he didn't think that the man in black was extremely fast, and the two fought in the cold palace.
After listening to what Tan'er said, several people's faces became solemn, the cold palace in the secret alley, the woman in the secret prison, what does it matter to King Gaoping in all this, more and more secrets seem to be about to surface, making people more and more unable to find the direction.
"Your Majesty, according to your subordinates, let's go to that cold palace and have a look, I'm afraid that King Gaoping will be unfavorable to that woman." Tan'er said as she tried to get up from the bed.
"What Tan'er said is extremely true, we must not sit still here." Mu Sheng agreed.
"But your wounds?" Qi Guang was obviously relieved.
"Qi Guang, you are carrying Tan'er on your back, we need Tan'er to show the way, Tan'er hold on." Mu Sheng admonished.
Several people made a decision, and looked at Yan Qinghan again.
"Let's go. Naturally, I'm going to go with you. ”
Subsequently, several people set off towards the cold palace.
According to Tan'er's guidance, several people quickly found this cold palace hidden in the deep alleys of the palace.
Yan Qinghan looked at the cold palace in front of him, but he didn't have the slightest impression that he had lived in this palace for 23 years, and he never knew that there was such a palace in the palace.
Because Tan'er was injured, Mu Sheng asked Qi Guang to wait for them outside the hall, she and Yan Qinghan found the secret prison according to what Tan'er said, and when the two went down to the dark prison, it was no longer the scene that Tan'er said before, the prison was dark, and it seemed that King Gaoping had been transferred.
Just as the two of them were about to give up, a weak woman's voice came from behind them, "You... Who are you? ”
Mu Sheng turned to look and vaguely saw a woman slumped on the stone floor, dying.
"Yan Gongzi, that woman is still there." Afraid that his identity would be exposed, Mu Sheng changed his name to Yan Qinghan.
Yan Qinghan approached, squatted down, approached the woman, and said, "Madam, who are you and why are you trapped here?" Who are you holding you imprison? ”
"Who are you, who are you? I'm the first emperor... The first emperor's concubine. ”
Yan Qinghan and Mu Sheng were both a little surprised at this time.
"I am the son of Lu Lan, the concubine of the First Dynasty, the prince of the Ten Thousand Dynasty, Yan Qinghan."
"Your Majesty..."Seeing that Yan Qinghan had clarified his identity, Mu Sheng called out worriedly.
"Nothing."
As soon as the woman heard Yan Qinghan's name, she suddenly held his hand tightly, and said in a somewhat excited tone: "You are, it's Akan!?" ”
"Exactly."
"Okay, okay, then I'll die without regrets." The woman's mood eased and she added.
"I'm about to die, Akan, you have to remember that if one day there is an inevitable war, go to the Qingfang Temple in Wuqi Mountain to find a person named Jingkong Shitai, she will help you survive the catastrophe." The woman gave an account with the last of her strength.
"Remember... Remember...", and he ran out of breath.
After the woman's death, the two of them were full of doubts in their hearts, and what made Yan Qing even more puzzled was that she always felt a little familiar when she saw this woman for some reason, and now that she died in her arms, she felt a little sad.
After the two came out of the dark prison, Yan Qing coldly ordered Qi Guang to bury the woman properly, and then left alone.
And because Tan'er was injured, the matter of Dongchuan, which Mu Sheng had been worried about, could also be resolved, and only by avoiding Tan'er for the time being could she go to Xiaoyi to discuss the matter.