Chapter 36: The Underground Palace
The prince put his hands around his chest, looking like he couldn't stand her, "I don't know!" It's just a secret door, there are many in the palace, and there are countless in the East Palace! ”
"Why so many secret doors? Could it be that there are treasures hidden inside? ”
Li Che sneered at her and said: "It's okay to be greedy, I'm still a money fan, there is no treasure, this secret door is kept for escape, the East Palace is close to those secret doors, in case someone kills him, this prince can temporarily avoid a catastrophe." ”
When Liu Yuyao heard this, the expression on her face fell, maybe this topic was too heavy, and she was really embarrassed.
The prince gnawed on the apple in his hand disapprovingly and said, "Did you come to Chang'an Hall just to steal sacrifices?" ”
"Of course not, it's still not that Mama Jiao forced me to send Dayu to you, and threatened me with the queen, saying that the queen let me send it, if I don't send it, it will be a big rebellion or something."
"Where's the big one?"
Li Che stretched out his hand at her, Liu Yuyao turned around and touched a burden and threw it to him, "It's all inside." ”
opened the package and shook out a white cloak inlaid with mink velvet, he shook it, and suddenly covered Liu Yuyao's body with his head and face.
The latter's eyes were dark, and he couldn't wait to struggle out, throwing Da Yu aside, glaring at him in a rage.
"You're annoying! I'll send you a big one, and you're still playing tricks on me! ”
"You're full, screaming so loudly!"
Liu Yuyao glanced at him fiercely, then picked up the pastries on the table and stuffed them into his mouth and said, "I haven't eaten enough!" I can scream even louder! ”
"When you're full, leave quickly, go back to your queen aunt and go back to your aunt, don't forget to tell her that this prince is here to form a party and run a private business." The man kicked her ass with his foot.
Liu Yuyao didn't leave, she lay down on the ground with her temperament, and while eating pastries, she whimpered and said, "Are you really stupid and dull as a pig when you are an aunt?" Got caught up in your words? If I really told the queen that, she wouldn't have laughed off her big teeth! ”
Hearing this, Li Che's smile became even more meaningless, and he even made up a scene in his mind where the queen laughed off her big teeth, and suddenly laughed, "Whether you go or not, you should leave this Chang'an Palace now, how far and as far as you can, don't disturb the prince facing the wall." ”
Liu Yuyao lay on the ground and ate the last bite of pastry, looked up at the dome of Chang'an Palace, and casually dragged the big pat on the side under her head, "I'm hungry and running all the way away, why don't you let me take a breath and rest." ”
Li Che was displeased: "Then when are you leaving?" ”
"I'll leave when I'm in a good mood."
Liu Yuyao is not stupid, now that she has eaten and drunk enough, will she go back to the East Palace to quarrel with Mama Jiao? Seeing her unstoppable face made me feel disgusted from the bottom of my heart.
Touching her belly, she couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's still delicious for my ancestors, I've been in the palace for so long, and it's the first time I've eaten such delicious dim sum......"
Seeing that no one answered, she yawned loudly, slowly opened her eyes, and a handsome enlarged face appeared in front of her eyes.
Liu Yuyao closed her mouth a little embarrassed, and coughed dryly: "You, why are you so close to me?" ”
The man looked at her condescendingly, his eyes were deep, like a dark pool, and if he looked at it more, he would fall into it and couldn't extricate himself.
He raised his hand, and his long knuckled fingers fell on the top of Liu Yuyao's hair, followed the contours of his cheeks, and gently touched and stroked all the way, "I didn't expect your feelings for this prince to be so deep that you can share blessings and difficulties." ”
"You, you!" Liu Yuyao's face suddenly turned red, and she felt that the place he had touched was hot as if it was burning.
"Prince Ben never talks nonsense!" As soon as the man's voice fell, he grabbed her chin and forced her to look up at him.
It was as if the person's face was lowered by an inch, and the mouths of the two could meet.
Liu Yuyao's body began to tremble uncontrollably, she raised her hand violently, and opened the man's wrist forcefully, but she received a look full of resentment from him.
Straight up from the ground, Liu Yuyao packed up the futon and the big futon.
The man took a moment to say: "If you leave early, there won't be so many things!" ”
"Who said I was leaving? This is not your home! I can go whenever I love it! ”
After Liu Yuyao finished speaking, she walked to the farthest corner of the Taimiao with the futon and the big man, curled up in a corner, and didn't know what she was thinking, looking a little sullen.
The man looked at her, and he didn't know why she liked to lie here, so he simply didn't care, sitting cross-legged on the futon, closing his eyes and recuperating.
It didn't take long, but listening to the grunt, the man opened his eyes, and as expected, after a day of tossing, the little woman was already tired, and now she went straight to sleep.
He got up and walked over, calling, "Liu Yuyao? The Crown Princess? ”
Nothing responded, and he kicked her lightly with his toes, who twisted his body and didn't wake up yet.
"Your Highness?"
Hearing someone call him, Li Che turned his head, but it was the old eunuch who came out of the secret door again.
He said, "Your Highness, is the crown princess gone?" ”
"I didn't leave, but I fell asleep."
The man strode in the direction of the secret door, "I'm sorry for you, Chang Ah Gong." ”
"Your Highness also called the old slave Grandpa, don't say such kind words, this is all within the old slave's business, Your Highness, please."
"Hmm." With a slight nod, the current crown prince Li Che flashed into the dark room of the Chang'an Palace.
As the prince said, there are dark rooms in many places in the palace, and the dark rooms in the Chang'an Palace have been abandoned long after the fall of the previous dynasty.
After the death of Empress Zhenyuan, Chang Xi, the chief supervisor of the queen's side, invited himself to be on duty in the Chang'an Palace, a corner of peace, not about the rights and wrongs of the harem, and in a few years, the dark room of the Chang'an Palace has been cleaned out.
The dark room was built at the beginning of the palace, with traces of time on the wall, a hard couch, a desk, and pen, ink, paper, inkstone, candles, lamp oil and other things.
However, after Chang Gonggong pulled the mechanism and opened another secret door behind the bookshelf, it was a newly built corridor, one person high and narrow, and there were still fresh traces of axes and chisels on the wall.
A master and a servant, one after the other, walked into the corridor, walked not far away, the road turned, and the eyes suddenly opened up, and a small underground field could already be seen.
"His Royal Highness actually asked the crown princess to go to the queen mother to tell the truth, but the old slave was scared into a cold sweat."
The eunuch Chang Xi followed behind the prince, holding a torch that was extinguished.
The prince smiled slightly: "The more you let her go to the informant, the more she won't believe that this is a secret, on the contrary, the more you stop her, the more she wants to find out, this is the root of human inferiority." ”
Chang Xi said again: "Your Highness is still completely thoughtful, but the old slave doesn't look at this princess and concubine like she is not easy to get along with, why, Your Highness doesn't like this family business?" ”
"Like it or not, she is a chess piece, no matter what the outcome of Prince Ben will be in the future, she can't escape a dead word......"
The firelight was refracted in Li Che's eyes, and Chang Xi couldn't see through his expression when he walked beside him, so he couldn't help but sigh and said: "A thousand mistakes, she shouldn't have entered this emperor's house......"
Li Che turned his head to look at him, and said with a slightly sad expression: "Ah Gong thinks of the queen mother again?" ”
The eunuch Chang Xi smiled bitterly, and the tall and thin figure was projected on the wall, a little rickety, "I don't want to, it's in vain to think about it, if it weren't for His Highness's unrecognized back then, the old slave would have followed." However, after His Royal Highness became an adult, the old slave really couldn't rest assured that His Royal Highness was in this deceitful palace, and when His Royal Highness succeeded in his great cause, the old slave would go to serve the queen. ”
Li Che didn't answer, but walked for a while before he said slowly: "Ah Gong once had the grace of life for me, and it was the lucky star that the queen mother said, if there is really a future, Ah Gong will continue to be my lucky star, and be my child's lucky star." ”
Chang Xi opened his mouth, choked slightly, a pair of eyes were shining and moist in the firelight, walking behind the prince, he silently raised his sleeve and wiped his eyelids, only nodded frequently, but he couldn't say a word.
After walking for a while, a stone door opened in front of the two of them, and suddenly the eyes suddenly opened up and became clear.
"Your Highness!" The guards dressed in black feather brocade clothes quickly stepped forward, took the torches from Li Che and Chang Xi's hands and extinguished them, and led him in.
This is a huge underground complex, which is mottled with years like the Chang'an Palace, but because it has been buried underground for many years, it has not been damaged by wind and rain.
As far as the eye can see, there are many houses, the square is wide, the walls are corniced, and the buildings are bridged.
A person came from a distance, he was dressed in black armor, with a sword in his hand, thick eyebrows and a square face, and a strong body, he clasped his fists and saluted the prince, "Kamikaze Camp Xia Zhong see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
"Commander Xia is exempt." The prince looked at it as he walked: "Just now, the prince inspected the secret passage from the Chang'an Palace, and the excavation in some places is still too narrow, and the body is slightly stronger than the prince, I'm afraid it will be ugly." ”
"Yes, the subordinates will order people to improve it again!"
Xia Zhong took two quick steps and opened a door, the room was not wide, but the sparrows were small and had all the organs.
When a table had a topographical map of the entire palace on it, Li Che glanced over and looked up at the roof.
Above, the sun was shining, and it was the palace where he grew up, and he was so familiar with each of them that he could figure it out when he closed his eyes.
However, in this dark underworld, there is another world for him, where he is still a king, a king who belongs to the darkness.
"What does Commander Xia think of here?" The prince sat behind the table, his hands facing each other with his fingers, and asked the person in front of him neatly.
Xia Zhong smiled deeply and said: "It's also thanks to Your Highness, that you can find such a secret place, now no one would have imagined that the kamikaze camp they racked their brains to force out would actually be under the palace!" ”
"Then you go back and take care of it, and move all the kamikaze camp guards here, in addition, I also want to thank Chang Grandpa Chang, it was he who discovered this place in his early years."
Xia Zhong hugged his fists and thanked Chang Xi, Chang Xi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”