The winter of November was very cold and dry, but fortunately, all the food and clothing in the palace were very good, and the best charcoal fire was burned, and most of the cold was thrown away, and only dryness remained.

Shu Ning looked at his somewhat chapped hands, and now that they were so skinned, he couldn't see that this was a pair of hands that a pampered princess should have, and it was faintly itchy, just like his heart.

"Don't you know how to make creams? Why don't you get some of your hands when they're cracked and peeling? Lin asked with interest.

"I forgot, besides, Your Highness burns so many charcoal pots here, which is much more dry than in my house." Shu Ning was not convinced.

"Want to go back to sleep in your own temple?"

"yes." Shu Ning nodded firmly: "Your Highness, the concubine recognizes the bed, in your house, I can't sleep." ”

"Really?" Lin Ji actually laughed, and immediately bounced up from the bed: "That's okay, go back to your palace." After that, he was about to make a gesture and get out of bed himself.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do? How do you ......"

"Bengong said that you can go back to your own palace, but Bengong didn't say that Bengong won't follow you!"

Well, I don't know when, the smile of the man in front of him became a little cheap, which made people want to hit him.

"What's the difference between that and here?" Shu Ning muttered quietly.

"What do you say?"

"No, nothing."

"Let's go to sleep."

Shu Ning: "??? ”

Ten thousand alpacas roared through my heart.

Fang has just accepted so much information, how can he still sleep now? Something big is destined to happen tonight, and I don't want to die in my sleep.

"Your Highness, can you sleep?" Shu Ning was very curious.

"Naturally, I can't." Lin Ji said calmly.

Shu Ning: "......"

"Your Highness...... Do you like jokes so much? ”

Lin Jian stretched out his hand, looking very innocent: "Is there one?" ”

"Didn't you?"

"Okay." Lin Ji smacked his lips, "That's it, but you really don't sleep?" After a while, things get up, and you can't sleep even if you want to. ”

Shu Ning was very devastated, and almost wanted to blacken his face, "If I sleep now, I will be woken up for a while, and it will be even more uncomfortable." ”

God, why has this prince of facial paralysis and ice cubes now become a chatterbox? It's crazy.

"That's fine." Lin Ji pouted, picked up the small mirror on the side and looked at it, and said, "Then ...... you say?"

Shu Ning: "What's the matter??? ”

……

It was night, at the end of the night, Shu Ning and Lin Jiao, who were in a daze, suddenly heard a faint sound outside, and naturally immediately dispelled the sleepiness, and they all got up from the bed, only to see the faint color of fire in the distance.

Shu Ning was about to scream, but was covered by Lin Ji, "Don't make a sound, let this fire ...... for a while."

She nodded uneasily, and then made a "woo woo" sound, with a look in her eyes, wanting Lin Ji to let go of the hand covering her mouth.

Lin Ji realized at this time, and immediately withdrew his hand like a spring retracting.

Seeing that something was going on, Shu Ning calmed down a lot, closed the doors and windows, and slowly walked back to the bed and sat down, as if nothing happened.

At this hour, the palace was already locked, and the slaves and maids went to bed early. Even those who keep vigil are estimated to have slept with meat and eight vegetables, and if the fire breaks out at this hour, it will not be discovered for a while, and even if it is discovered, it is probably late.

Now that you know the result, you don't have to worry about it.

Even Shu Ning could vaguely guess what Lin Ji meant.

"Your Highness, come back and sit down, just look outside, it's not good to blow the wind and cool it again." Shu Ning yawned, but removed the teapot from the bedside and poured himself a cup of tea.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a noisy and chaotic sound outside the door, and the firelight was dazzling, so naturally there was no need to sleep in this situation.

"It's water, it's water." Someone shouted for help.

Lin Zhu and Shu Ning smiled, Lin Ji put a thick quilt on Shu Ning, and he went around to the back door of the dormitory, took a bottle of osmanthus head oil for combing hair and sprinkled it under the back porch, connected all the way, and then pushed the candle curtain to, and in an instant, the flames were everywhere, forming half an acre of fire, wrapping the back door of the entire dormitory.

In winter, the wind was strong, and the northwest wind blew the flames even more to the sky, engulfing half of the dormitory, and suddenly rising black smoke, scorching and choking.

Lin Ji hurriedly took the wet handkerchief and handed it to Shu Ning, personally hugged Shu Ning to the door, smeared some black ash on each of them, and took a candle to burn his own forearm. He shouted for help at the door: "Someone! Someone! ”

It's not about stopping the fire, it's about adding a fire.

However, Shu Ning couldn't help but be frightened, just now she saw Lin Zhang's almost self-harming behavior, the whole person was stupid, just stood in place, and forgot to stop Lin Zhang, and now she saw Lin Zhang's arm exhaling a piece of blood, only to feel shocked, the burnt and bleeding skin and flesh emitted a bloody and unpleasant smell, as if even the eyes could smell it.

Everyone was busy because of the fire behind them, but they didn't want the fire to have run into the Tihua Palace, but the master of the Qingning Palace was in the Tihua Palace, if the master of the Qingning Palace had something, no one in the Qingning Palace would be able to live.

But fortunately, these two highnesses were not worried about their lives, and everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but they didn't want anyone with sharp eyes to catch a glimpse of Lin Ji's left forearm with blurred flesh and blood, and his skin was scorched, so he couldn't help but cry out.

"Are they all fools? Didn't you see His Highness injured? Call the Imperial Doctor! Hurry up and put out the fire, call the water dragon! ”

"Yes." There were palace maids who hurriedly ran away to find the imperial doctor on duty at night, some people took water to put out the fire, and some people went to the Shanggong Bureau to find water dragons, and they were all in a panic and rushed into a pot of porridge.

"Where's Ajan?" Lin Ji pretended to be weak and leaned on Xue Ning and asked.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Ping Ningbo said that he saw the arsonist and was chasing after him at the moment."

……

The hustle and bustle of this night was naturally enough to make the six palaces unable to sleep peacefully, and both the emperor and the concubines were woken up.

Naturally, it was not a trivial matter for the prince's palace to catch fire, so the emperor and his concubines put on their clothes and rushed to visit the prince Lin Jiao after they fell asleep in a daze.

When the emperor saw the panicked Qingning Palace and the pale prince Lin Jiao, whose left arm was burned with bloody flesh and blood, he was naturally furious and reacted greatly: "This, what is going on?" ”

At this moment, the fire was almost extinguished, and most of the people were guarding the courtyard, and when they saw that the emperor was angry, they all knelt down in unison, "Your Majesty is angry." ”

The queen glanced around, and saw that most of the glorious Qingning Palace was now in danger, and it was about to fall in the cold wind, so she stepped forward to help the emperor, "Your Majesty, this fire has just been extinguished, and the wind is strong in winter, maybe what will happen." It's really dangerous here, so let's go to a nearby place and rest for a while. Besides, it's not good to tell Zhu'er to stay in the cold wind and catch a cold. ”

The emperor nodded, and the empress continued: "It's late at night, so it's not good to disturb the queen mother. Then only Guo Guiren's Changyang Palace is the closest to here. After that, the queen looked at Ying Jia and said gently: "Guo Guiren, I don't know if you are convenient?" ”

Ying Jia was already concerned about Shu Ning, so she agreed without thinking about it, "If Your Highness is in need, the concubine is naturally willing." ”

"Then let's go to Changyang Palace first." The queen commanded, and everyone present looked around but said, "Where is the imperial concubine?" ”

The queen's tone was very displeased: "Such a big thing, the imperial concubine actually slept peacefully?" Tate is a little distracted. ”

Even though the emperor doted on the imperial concubine in his heart, he also cared about his own son, and nodded and said, "Yes, why didn't the imperial concubine come?" With such a big commotion, can you still sleep? Besides, Zhaodeok Palace is also close........."

"Set up Zhaode Palace, Zhaode Palace is so spacious, so many people, it's just right to go." The emperor changed his tune.

In addition to the emperor and the crown princess sat in a sedan chair and walked slowly, everyone walked with them, when the mighty long dragon marched to the front of the Zhaode Palace, but saw the gate outside the Zhaode Palace opened, and the courtyard inside was lit with bright lights, as bright as day.

The queen said: "It seems that the imperial concubine still knows about this, Your Majesty, isn't the imperial concubine preparing to go out?" ”

After saying that the emperor was dismissed, the four of them got off the sedan chair and entered the Zhaode Gate.

When I entered the door, I saw that the imperial concubine was sitting in the middle of the courtyard wrapped in a fox fur cloak, and there were several braziers burning on the ground, even if it was warm as spring outside.

The imperial concubine was glaring angrily, and on the ground stood the burned Ping Ningbo Zhou Jian, and there were two palace maids kneeling on the ground, crying sadly.

The imperial concubine angrily reprimanded Zhou Jian: "Ping Ningbo, you actually trespassed into the residence of the palace? Is this a capital offense? ”