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After being busy with an extremely unaccustomed brush for most of the day, and didn't even bother to eat for lunch, Zuo Ying finally drew dozens of strange-shaped drawings of all sizes, each of which was marked with a size, and the material requirements of steel or iron or copper or alloy were inscribed. By the time she had dried the drawings and divided them into seven or eight parts and put them in different bags, the ladies had long since lost interest in speculating on her intentions and began to snooze out of boredom.

Zuo Ying called all the seven or eight close palace maids on duty to him, "I'll go out of the palace with Yu'er." You stay here, and anyone who comes to see me will say that I am not feeling well, and that I am not a guest. If the news of my departure from the palace leaks out of the slightest, you will jump off the top of the Biyun Pagoda for me one by one. ”

The girl standing in front of everyone was weak and immature, and her gorgeous clothes and headdress set off her as cute as a dressing doll dressed up skillfully. All the palace ladies thought in their hearts was that this master was arrogant, but he hadn't done anything that could put people to death; Letting them jump from the highest Biyun Pagoda in this palace is also mostly a scare element. But on the surface, there will naturally be no disobedience, and they all kowtow and promise.

Zuo Ying smiled, she pointed to one of the palace maids who was about the same size as her, "Take off your dress and change it with me." Before I came back, you were here pretending to be me, and you couldn't leave an inch. If you step out of the door an inch, cut off an inch from your toes; If you step out of a leg, you cut off a leg. Do you understand? ”

"The slave understands, the slave understands." The palace maid hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Zuo Ying proudly swapped the clothes on her body with the palace maid who took off, let the scarlet feather carry the blueprint bag and silver on her back, and then carried the token to enter and exit the forbidden palace, and left the Yongning Palace.

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At this time, in the Xingxin Pavilion in the central garden of the Taishi Mansion, there were three people around a tea party to discuss and discuss.

"Taishi," the middle-aged man facing east had brown skin, thick eyebrows and square mouth, a beard with a collar, deep furrows and shallow ravines on his face, and a weather-beaten look, "Yuan thought that Li Xin and Feng Hu in prison knew the whole story, and they couldn't stay for a long time. It should be cut off as soon as possible to prevent future problems. ”

"Lord Xiahou," one of the people facing the west was a little older, thin and thin, with gray sideburns, he calmly lifted the teapot in front of him, filled the teacups of the two people in front of him, and said with a smile: "Feng Hu is a close friend of the former emperor since childhood, and he is the eldest son of Feng Yi, the general of the Zhu State; Li Xin is the uncle of the former emperor, and although his ancestor Li Kaizong has retired, he still plays an important role in the court. When the time comes, in the chaos of the party, the Taishi left these two people alone, precisely because of this. Now that the former emperor has died less than ten days ago, the lord has persuaded the Taishi to add a blade to the former emperor's favored ministers and the queen's brother, isn't it a move to attract people's voices? ”

Xiahou Yuan hurriedly and humbly took the teapot in the elder's hand, and also filled his cup, "Then I don't know what Master Zhang thinks?" ”

Zhang Fengshi twisted his long beard, and his smiling gaze fell on the face of the man in the south, "I thought that in just two days, the world of the Zhou family would be the world of the Taishi, and the ridiculous and incompetent princess would be no different from a three-year-old child." Why should we rush and mess up the overall situation? ”

The man facing south had a handsome face and a calm expression, looking younger than the two guests, but judging from the humility of the two to him, his status was far above the two. This person is none other than Taishi Helan Chu. He picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip, and said calmly: "Lord Zhang, Lord Xiahou, both of them are reasonable. However, the opportunity to cut through the chaos has passed, and it is better to be still than to be still at this time. It is better to wait and see what happens. ”

"What the master said is very true." Zhang Fengshi nodded in response.

"Hey!" Xiahou Yuan frowned and sighed, picked up the teacup and treated the half cup of tea as wine, raised his head and drank it all before complaining: "I heard that the princess fell into the Baijing Lake in Xiyuan two days ago and almost drowned. I really don't know what God has done with people like her. ”

While he was talking, an attendant hurriedly walked in the distance, knelt down in front of the three of them, and said to Helan Chu: "Tell the Taishi, the villain has something important to tell you." ”

"The two adults are not outsiders, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Helan Chu slowly put down the teacup in his hand.

"Yes, Master." The attendant announced: "There is a letter from Yongning Palace, saying that the princess has left the palace without permission. ”

"Didn't say why?" Before Helan Chu could speak, Xiahou Yuan hurriedly asked.

"I just said that the princess got up early in the morning and scribbled some things that I don't know if they were drawn or brought with me, and the specific reason was not revealed." The squire replied.

Helan Chu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "Got it, you step down." ”

The attendant was the only one who left.

"This unruly gentleman, Daxiao actually did such a greedy thing in his body!" Xiahou Yuan's face has a gloomy road.

Zhang Fengshi sneered, "How can the family, the country, and the society fall into the hands of such a person?" ”

"Taishi!" Xiahou Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up as if he thought of something, "This is a godsend. Since she went out of this palace gate by herself, then don't let her come back again. In this way, things are more secure! ”

Zhang Fengshi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he nodded slightly, "The princess and the emperor have always had a deep brotherhood, and the death of the emperor hit the princess very hard. The princess went out of the palace privately in order to pay her respects to her childhood home. Unfortunately, he met a robber on the road, and he didn't know the identity of the princess, so he killed people and robbed money. Such natural and man-made disasters, how can we admonish them? ”

"This matter is all up to Lord Xiahou to deal with the arrangement." Helan Chu pondered for a moment and said lightly

Xiahou Yuan's face was a little more bright, and he hugged his fists and said: "Taishi, without further ado, Yuan will do it!" With that, he immediately got up and left the table, and left the Awakening Heart Pavilion with a square breeze.

Zhang Fengshi picked up the teapot and said leisurely while pouring tea: "Xiahou Zhuguo is really fast-talking, thunder-ling, and popular. It's just that...... For example, if the matter of Xiyuan is concerned, things will inevitably happen. If this doesn't work out, how should we deal with it? ”

Helan Chu picked up the teacup in front of him, his eyes seemed to fall on the branches and leaves of a nine-mile incense plant outside the pavilion, and he didn't seem to look at anything in his eyes, "Master Zhang, do you remember who is in that prison?" ”

Zhang Fengshi put down the teacup that he had once raised, and after a moment of deep groaning, he suddenly stretched his eyebrows and said, "I see." The foresight of the master is admired by the time. ”

Outside the pavilion, a newly formed cobweb was opening on the branches and leaves of the nine-mile incense plant, sometimes transparent, sometimes looming in the sunlight. A grayish pink butterfly could only flutter on the nearby foliage, seemingly fascinated by the fragrance of the blooming bougainvillea behind the cobwebs, and oblivious to the cobwebs stretching out in front of its eyes. The moment the little pink butterfly's wings touched the cobweb, the graceful flapping suddenly turned into a frantic struggle, but until its wings were almost broken, it could not break free from the cobweb, but was stuck tighter and tighter......

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