We walked step by step, and it was the side door!

Corner of the side door......

I crouched down and cleared the weeds, and sure enough, several large rocks were in the corner.

"Zhiqing, come on, it must be here!"

Zhiqing followed me to remove the stones, and then a hole about a foot high appeared in front of us.

If you go out from here, you will be outside the palace.

I leaned down and looked out of the cave, and it was pitch black outside.

No matter how much it is, let's go out first!

"Zhiqing, come here."

Zhiqing heard me calling for her, and also leaned down and crawled over.

"Where is this?"

Zhiqing looked around and said, "This should be in the tube at the entrance of the vegetable market." ”

As she spoke, Zhiqing led me towards the light in the distance.

"Girl, look, this is the entrance of the vegetable market, and the entrance of the vegetable market rushes to the market every day at the end of the day. It's almost time now, and the people here must have dispersed. ”

"No wonder it's dark ...... here"

"Girl, let's go to the market, the slave misses the bustling scene there." Zhiqing jumped up with joy, like a child.

"What? Who was scared just now? ”

"Girl, don't make fun of the slave."

"We're out of the palace, you have to change your words, you can't call me girl anymore."

I suppressed my voice and asked, "In your Xia Kingdom, what should I call a son like me?" ”

Zhiqing thought for a while, touched her head and said, "Hmm...... The slave and maid call you son? Luckily? ”

"Okay!"

The two of us walked towards the market in a beaming manner, and out of the darkness came the light.

The whole market is brightly lit, like a scene of prosperity in the world.

Heaven and hell are separated by a wall.

"Childe, look, lanterns! There are lanterns today! We were in luck! ”

"What lantern?"

I looked in the direction she was pointing, and colored lights slowly rose in the sky, red, yellow, green......

Zhiqing said: "This lantern is not something that can be seen every day. It is said that it is the monks in the Xishan Temple who pray for blessings in front of the moon elder day and day, and the moon elder gives instructions so that the monks can light the lanterns at night. A woman who can see the lantern will definitely find a good family in the future and marry a good husband. Some women stay at the foot of the West Mountain every day, and they don't see a lantern once in a few years, but we saw it as soon as we came out today, Childe, do you think we are lucky? ”

Zhiqing jumped up happily, clapped her hands and cheered, making the surroundings even more lively.

Looking at her happy appearance, my mood also relaxed.

"Let's go over there and see."

"Yes!"

Zhiqing followed me and walked down the street. Let's look east and west, and the streets are extraordinary. Compared to the desertion in the palace, this place is like heaven.

"It's nice to be here."

Zhiqing smiled proudly and said, "Childe, believe it now, we also have a lot of fun and beautiful things in Xia Kingdom!" ”

The street vendors are shouting, attracting the attention of the passing crowd. At this time, a red purse came into my eyes.

I stepped forward, picked it up and looked at it, and scratched the needle and thread with my fingertips, which was a different pattern.

"What is this?" I asked, pointing to the pattern.

Zhiqing looked at it and said, "This is called the owl, it is the mascot of the Xia Kingdom, and it can turn evil into good fortune." Princes and ministers often like to show such totems on their clothes in order to seek peace. ”

"Owl ......"

This pattern is like a bird, but it looks much more ferocious than a bird, and its eyes seem to be able to emit light.

"Peddler, how much does this purse cost?" I asked.

"Five taels of silver."

I touched my waist pocket, oops, no money.

"Zhiqing ......"

"Childe, the small one is only five taels ......"

"Oh, I'll give it back to you when I get back."

Zhiqing fumbled for her waist bag and took out five taels of silver and gave it to the vendor.

I took my purse, looked at the owl on it, and put it in my sleeve.

We continued to walk and watch along the street.

Zhiqing said that her family lives in Chengdongqiao, and she has not seen her mother for a long time, and she wants to go to the house to have a look. But at this time, my mother should have already slept, and I was afraid that I would be delayed and go back late.

I comforted and said, "There is still a long time to come out, and there will always be a chance to see your mother." ”

"Really? Will it come out later? ”

"Of course! Later, when we want to come out, we come out. Anyway, no one in this palace dared to approach the abandoned palace except the two of us. ”

We laughed.

Although it was late at night, the streets were still bustling with people.

"Childe, it's not too early, we should go back."

I looked at the sky and sighed, "I really don't want to go back." ”

Zhiqing said smartly: "Didn't Childe say that we will come out if we want to come out in the future?" ”

"Yes! We can come out when we want to, and no one can stop us! Hahahaha! ”

With that, we walked back.

At the entrance of the vegetable market, it was dark again, groping forward by the moonlight, and the noise of the street market was getting farther and farther away from us.

Climb through the hole, build up the stones, walk through the grass, close the palace door, close the locks, and everything is back in place.

No one knew we had been out.

Since leaving the palace that day, Zhiqing and I will sneak out almost every night, and going out to play seems to have become our daily routine, and the next day we will sleep until three o'clock in the sun before getting up.

When someone visited, they told the public that my illness was not yet cured and that I needed to recuperate, and outsiders were not suspicious.

Xia Ning would go to court every day, but I didn't go to the pavilion to wait for him. Because I know that everything has passed, everything has started again, after all, I am the one who bears him first, as long as he doesn't hate me, I can let go.

Yesterday, Zhiqing and I found a tavern outside the palace, and the proprietress was from Huaqiao Kingdom, named Wu Qi, who was quite heroic. Three years ago, they married in Xia Guo, and the couple opened a tavern here, and business was booming.

At first, Zhiqing and I just looked at the style of this tavern a little chic, so we went in and sat down, but we couldn't resist the warm hospitality of the proprietress, and drank a few cans of wine, only to find that there was no silver tael on us when we were leaving. When the proprietress saw that I was a fellow villager with her, she agreed to give her a silver tael on credit and give it to her next time.

Ay! What a shame!

However, her family's wine is really delicious and varied. Fruit wine and medicinal wine are complete.

I drank wine yesterday, but I thought it was delicious, so I drank more, and when I went back, I got drunk while walking. The body was swaying, fluttering, as if it was about to fly, and I almost couldn't find the entrance to go back.

After a few laps in a trance, I found the hole and drilled it through. I don't remember whether the palace gate was closed or not, and the next day I slept all day, and no one came to open the door to greet him.

Zhiqing kept saying in the house that I was resting, afraid that I would be too sick and inconvenient to see people, for fear of being known that we had sneaked out to drink last night.