Chapter Twenty-Four: The Whereabouts of the New Year's Moon
Wei Qi extinguished the torch and placed it on the edge of the apricot blossom forest.
They went around to the diagonal back of the deserted courtyard and stuck to the wall. Jin Bei whispered to Lianyi: "Let's go up to the roof from here, then land, and then call Bai Manzhu out." ”
Lian Yi straightened her teeth, "Will the guards inside hear it?" How do I open the door? What about the people who are locked up in the same room with Manju? ”
Jin Bei didn't answer directly, his whole person seemed to have changed, extremely focused and confident, and ordered Wei Qi, "You go first." ”
Wei Qi disappeared with a "whoosh". Lianyi couldn't help but sigh, "Wearing such heavy armor, and being so light as a swallow, coming and going like flying?" ”
"So can you." Jin Bei said.
"Then I can't! Golden Guards! ”
"There's a minister."
The two of them were just next to each other in the corner, unable to tell whose breathing and the louder and loudest heartbeat was.
They look at the sky, look at the earth, look at each other. I don't know if I should laugh or not.
Even each other's hair was entangled, Lianyi and Jin Bei raised their hands to deal with it at the same time, and their hands touched again.
Let's put it down together and leave our hair alone.
Finally waited for Wei Qi to come back.
Wei Qi is also like another Jin Bei at the moment, focused, confident, serious, and his eyes are bright, "It's done, let's go in." ”
"Huh? Wait a minute? What do you mean? Lianyi was simply confused.
Jin Bei explained a few words: "The minister just asked him to go to the sentinel to investigate. As long as he's not discovered, we won't. ”
Wei Qi got up at this time, "Alas, pitiful, when you hit the cold palace, even the guards are so lax." ”
Before Lianyi could come back to the taste, she was carried by Jin Beiheng and rose into the air, climbed the wall, leaped over the roof, landed gently in the courtyard, and repeated the previous actions again. Wei Qi was in front, leading them to the front of the row of houses where Manzhu was locked yesterday, and he simply moved to the place against the wall in an instant, and first took a breath, and listened to the fact that there was no big movement around, except for two ghostly eunuchs with lanterns from far and near, and then walked away.
Before Lianyi could sigh, Wei Qi disappeared for another moment, and appeared outside the door a few feet away, the door opened and closed like lightning, and there seemed to be a commotion in the room, but then it was quiet.
When Lian Yi was dizzying, Wei Qi also appeared with Bai Manzhu in his arms, who was a little surprised.
When Manzhu saw Lianyi, she was shocked: "It turned out to be you." ”
She got down from Wei Qi's arms, calmed down her shyness slightly, and blessed Lianyi and Jin Bei.
Wei Qi is first-class, he can also pick locks and sneak, just now he quickly entered the room and brought out Manzhu, and the others who woke up just thought that a few big mice ran into the room.
Lianyi said to her, "You have suffered hardship", and then told her about finding the bronze mirror, the signature and the key.
Manzhu was extremely steady, listened carefully, and said eloquently, "The bronze mirror slave has seen it, and it was still put away by the slave, and the slave also remembered that it was the fifteenth day of the first month." But there is something in the bronze mirror, and the slave really doesn't know. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the slave accompanied the master out of the palace to learn the sacrifice, and then, the master went to the Huguo Temple, where the bronze mirror was obtained, and the slave did not know the details. ”
Wei Qi was anxious, so he asked first, "Who accompanied Concubine Xu?" ”
"Mother Xia."
Jin Bei remembered the nurse he saw at Xu's house, and then looked at Lianyi.
Lianyi explained: "Mother Xia was originally my sister's nurse, but after my sister became a female official, my aunt sent Mother Xia to teach me. Today, Xia's mother is still in our house. We know that Mother Xia often goes back to her aunt's house, and occasionally visits her eldest sister and works as an errand for her eldest sister. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xia's mother did ask for leave and left the house. ”
Jin Bei looked at Lianyi's eyes and asked, "Things seem to be getting more and more complicated, so I have to go out of the palace and ask Mother Xia." ”
Manzhu said again, "As for the key, Concubine Xu can try it first, is it used to open some cabinet in the room where our master Taixue is." ”
Lianyi pulled her hand, "I see, thank you." If you bear with me, I'll get you out when I get the chance. ”
Manzhu squatted again, knowing that this place was not a place for Lianyi and the others to stay, but it seemed that because she knew that she was going to be hugged by Wei Qi again, she lowered her head slightly, a little shy.
Under the moonlight, the three of them left the cold palace, first found the torch that Wei Qi had hidden, lit it again, and then walked through the apricot blossom forest and returned to the East Palace. Lianyi heard Jin Bei say, "Wei Qi, Ming'er, you go to find someone, find a way to check the records of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, first confirm that Manzhu is telling the truth, pay attention when checking, don't alarm people." ”
Wei Qi let out an "um".
Jin Bei is really meticulous, and there is a sense of indifference hidden in the depths of his soul. Even if what Manzhu said matches the details of Xia's mother's absence in the Xu family, she is still not sure that everything is true. The exit record can be at least partially corroborated.
Walking in the apricot blossom forest, he was afraid that Lianyi would guess the stones and stumbling on the grass, so he deliberately took his arms around a circle and took care of her around Lianyi's body.
Is this person warm or cold?
Walking out of the apricot blossom forest, Lianyi thought of one thing, "Fairy Wei, are you close to Concubine Wei?" Her old man entered the palace early, do you know what is going on in this apricot blossom forest? ”
Concubine Wei is the concubine of Emperor Chen Qu, and she has been in the palace for more than 50 years, indeed, even the things that the current Grand Eunuch Ouyang may not know, but there is some hope for asking her.
"Okay, okay, why do you care about this forest?"
"It looks abrupt." Lianyi said.
She didn't know how to build a house or a garden, but she read a lot of books and had an intuition about everything.
Walking around the East Palace, Lianyi gradually became sleepy, and when the East was bright, she unconsciously stood and fell asleep, leaning on Jin Bei's back and walking forward like a ghost, and the peach blossom nails were full of dew.
"There is still half an hour, you can bear with me."
Jin Bei's voice seemed to come from mid-air.
"I can't take it anymore, I'm going to die."
"The minister allows Wei Qi to tell you the minister's secret."
Lianyi woke up with a spirit, "Really? How did you know I asked him, though? ”
Jin Bei smiled helplessly, "The wall has ears, and your guard fairy is guarding the door, won't you pass the word to me?" ”
It's too dangerous, but luckily it's not a big deal.
However, if you ask others about him, is this a big deal?
Wei Qi also joined in, "Your Highness, really don't sleep, the story of your golden guard is very exciting, I will finish telling you, so I can go back and rest." ”
"Is it about women?"
"Yes and no." Wei Qi sells Guanzi.
"Let's talk about it!"
Jin Bei added, "Don't forget, one secretary for another, you can listen, but you must tell your ministers your secret." Who else did you see in the cold palace yesterday? ”
"Huh? I. ”
Jin Bei smiled, "You can think about it slowly." The minister will go to work on other things first, and let Wei Qi accompany you through the last few laps. The minister retired. ”
Jin Bei was gone, and the black armor shone wonderfully in the morning light.
Lianyi was completely sleepy, and finally made up her mind: after all, if you want to go to the appointment without violating the emperor's order, you must be able to leave the East Palace, and you must go through the hurdle of the concubine.
The emperor also has an order that no one else needs to know, and he can't control so much.
"Wei Fairy, you can talk about it, I have decided, after I listen, I will tell you about the other person I met in the cold palace."