Chapter 4: The Burning of the Meditation Garden

In just a few breaths, the fire spread all over the courtyard, and as far as the eye could see, it was already tightly blocked, only the three wings in the middle had not yet ignited, Xiao Yixuan, who had no choice, ran towards the inner courtyard, and pulled Gu Er, who seemed to be scared for a while, and roared angrily: "What's the matter!?" ”

"I—I don't know! I do not know! ”

The sudden fire has already washed away the indifferent and indifferent temperament of Gu'er Besu before, and her current performance is no different from that of an ordinary girl, after all, she is only a woman who has just reached the age of eighteen, not to mention that she has not seen the light of day for five years, nested in this small courtyard, where will there be any ability to be chaotic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing her like this, Xiao Yixuan sighed with hatred, in fact, he probably knew that Gu'er Besu was just an abandoned concubine who was beaten into the cold palace, and even from the actual point of view, she was not even a 'concubine', and where did the enemy come from, this fire was coming towards him nine times out of ten.

If you can't fall off the horse, you attack with fire again, and someone will not die with a thief's heart!

scolded secretly in his heart, Xiao Yixuan had no choice but to pull the frightened Gu'er to run to the side of the room, found the water tank he usually used for cooking, tore off a sleeve and divided it into two sections, and covered his mouth and nose after being wet, and the moisture entered his nose, which made him feel a little better.

Looking at the increasingly strong fire outside, Xiao Yixuan hurriedly said, "Is there a place to avoid the fire?" Cellars, wells, are there any wells!? ”

"In the cold palace, where did you get these!"

In order to prevent the concubine from committing suicide by throwing herself into the well, Xiao Tianjing ordered all the wells in the Jingxin Garden to be filled three years ago, and the concubines here are very poor, and they don't need anything like a cellar at all, so they haven't built it at the beginning.

In fact, these things are all in Xiao Yixuan's memory, just now I was just dizzy before I opened my mouth to ask, but under this question, Xiao Yixuan found that although Gu'er Beisu said it conclusively, her eyes dodged between the words, as if she was a little hesitant, and she concluded in her heart that she must have something to hide, so he grabbed her shoulder and shouted: "Gu'er Don't be fast!" Now that your life is at stake, you must no longer hide anything from me! Otherwise, when the fire burns into the house, you and I will only be reduced to a mess of scorched earth! ”

While speaking, there were a few strange noises of 'tuk tuk', but secretly the man put several rockets on the eaves, one of which broke through the window, drilled in front of the two of them very accurately, and plunged directly into the floor behind them, and the arrow ignited the fire, which ignited the wooden floor in a long time, and shocked the two of them into a cold sweat!

"Okay!"

After being stunned for three seconds, Gu'er Besu barely calmed down, stared at Xiao Yixuan's eyes and said, "I know a place to avoid fire, but you have to promise me that what you saw today must not be mentioned to anyone after you go out, otherwise, otherwise... ”

"Otherwise, I'll give you a horse to ride for the rest of your life! That's it! When is this all gone! ”

Without waiting for Gu Er to finish speaking, Xiao Yixuan interrupted it loudly, hearing this, Gu Er's face turned red and her beautiful eyes widened, as if she was extremely dissatisfied with Xiao Yixuan's oath, but in the end she didn't say anything, she broke free of Xiao Yixuan's hands, quickly took a few steps to the innermost part of the room, and then picked up the firewood and rice bags that were piled up on the floor, reached out and touched the floor full of dust and dirt, and finally touched a small hook, and then pulled hard, and a narrow and dark secret passage was revealed!

"Get in!"

At this point, Xiao Yixuan naturally wouldn't ask her how this secret passage came from, so he hurriedly urged him to get into it one after the other, and in just such a short time, the fire was already all over the room, and before Xiao Yixuan's body completely entered the secret passage, he listened. A squeak sounded, and the beam of the house was burned alive and slammed on the opening of the secret passage, under this smash, Xiao Yixuan bore the brunt of the blow, his back was injured, and he was smashed down directly, this secret passage went straight down, and even Gu Er Besu was hit by Xiao Yixuan, and the two fell down in a ball.

Xiao Yixuan only felt a sharp pain in his back, then his eyes, and then the continuous pain around his body, and it took him a while to completely wake up.

"Hmm。。。"

The next moment, he heard Gu'er's voice coming to his ears, Xiao Yixuan subconsciously touched to the side, and felt that his fingertips touched a cold and slippery place, and then he heard 'pop', but he inadvertently touched Gu'er Besu's cheek, and was slapped by the other party.

At the moment of crisis, Xiao Yixuan naturally didn't care too much about these, and only asked with concern: "How are you?" ”

"Can't die!"

Hearing Xiao Yixuan's question, Gu'er replied angrily, and then after a burst of Suosuo's voice, a flame appeared in her hand, but it was she who brought the fire fold on her body.

With the light of the fire fold, Xiao Yixuan finally saw the appearance of this place, except for the entrance that had just been vertically down two or three meters deep, from here on, there was a small space almost close to ten meters away, on the ground of this cave, scattered with spoons, chopsticks, and water scoops, most of which had been deformed by force and could not be used, and some of them looked like they were some years old.

Almost instantly, Xiao Yixuan understood how this secret passage came about, this girl actually secretly dug a tunnel under the Meditation Garden alone!

"You swore that you wouldn't tell outsiders!"

As if noticing Xiao Yixuan's gaze, Gu'er said a little nervously, and at the same time, her idle right hand secretly touched to the side, Xiao Yixuan saw that under the layer, there was a sharp dagger half-hidden.

"If you kill me, I'm afraid your secret will be difficult to keep."

I saw Xiao Yixuan smile softly, and then wanted to open his mouth to say something, but the next moment he couldn't stop the discomfort in his chest, and bent down and spit out a mouthful of blood, but when he was hit on the back by the beam before, he suffered internal injuries.

Seeing this, Gu'er hurriedly threw away his hand, came up to hold Xiao Yixuan's shoulder, and said with concern: "You, are you okay?" ”

Xiao Yixuan: "I was smashed by your beam, but fortunately, when that thing fell, it was probably blocked by something, otherwise my life, hehe... ”

Seeing that he was still laughing, Gu'er didn't quickly relax slightly, but then as if he remembered something, he hurriedly straightened his face and asked, "It's okay if you're not dead!" You just said that if I kill you, I won't be able to keep the secret, why is that? ”

“。。。 You're not stupid. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yixuan put on an expression of looking at a fool, wiped the blood from his mouth, leaned his back against the wall, raised his head and said slowly: "If I die here, don't you think that someone will dig three feet into the ground here and come to find my body?" And this group of people is obviously coming at me, I'm dead, they also need to find a substitute for the dead ghost to be this pot, you are a good candidate, although it is reasonable to say something, but since those people dare to do it here, they must be prepared accordingly, maybe some of your 'criminal evidence', which 'witness' is nesting somewhere in the palace... Ahem, speaking of which, I still want to ask you, why are people peeing in your yard, and you still don't notice it? ”

Gu'er Besu naturally understood what Xiao Yixuan meant by 'pouring urine', but seeing his seriously injured appearance, he couldn't bear to talk back for a while, and hesitated twice before muttering: "I... There is no one here, and I sleep dead at night... And that fire oil must have been specially blended and smelled, otherwise I should have smelled it anyway! ”

Saying that, Gu'er raised his head again and said hatefully: "Besides, even you know that these people are coming at you, but I have suffered from your unjustified disaster, if it weren't for you, how could I be so miserable?" ”

"That's right."

Hearing this, Xiao Yixuan chuckled lightly and continued: "It's better like this, if you and I can survive this catastrophe, I will promise you, when the time comes, find a reason to let you out, when you want to go back to the grassland, I will send someone to escort you back, if you want to live in the Central Plains, I will reward you with houses and fields, what do you think?" Save yourself from digging this Laoshzi secret passage here, even if you dig for a lifetime, you won't be able to get past the corner of the Forbidden City. ”

Listening to Xiao Yixuan's words, Gu'er Bei quickly opened his eyes in shock, and was stunned for a few seconds before he could react, and said, "You... You really don't say it, but you're willing ... Will you let me go? ”

When the words fell, she seemed to think of something, and hurriedly added: "No, what ability do you have, let me go if you say let me go?" This is the Imperial Palace! ”

Xiao Yixuan rolled her eyes when she heard this: "I'm the prince!" Are you stupid? ”

"Oh!"

Gu'er didn't hear it quickly, and then it was reflected, yes, this guy is the crown prince, the next emperor! As an emperor, how can there be anything that can't be done, although I don't know how many years Xiao Tianjing's old guy will have to ascend to heaven and give this guy a chance to ascend the throne, but this process is at least much faster than digging the secret passage himself.

Thinking like this, a trace of unreality suddenly rose in Gu'er Besu's heart, and when he thought about it, he unconsciously shed tears, and the fire fold in his hand almost fell to the ground without holding it.

Xiao Yixuan, who noticed her abnormality, hurriedly reached out and took the fire fold in her hand, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Didn't I say I couldn't survive this catastrophe? ”

When the words fell, I saw that Gu'er couldn't hide the fragility in his heart anymore, and said in a trembling voice while shrugging his shoulders: "I... Since I was fourteen years old, I started digging this secret passage, digging for five years, five years... The soil under this palace is smelly and hard, and it has only been dug less than ten meters away in the past five years... I can't help it, so I'm going to dig and dig like this... Maybe when I'm seventy or eighty, the secret passage will be dug through, or maybe one day, I will die in this palace, die in this secret passage... ”