Gonggong Li returned to his residence, although he knew the general direction, but the southwest corner was still too large after all, and if he wanted to find the exact location, he could only wait until Manager Cui left, and then he would inquire in person.

"Father-in-law, do you really want to help Mrs. Wei save people? If Manager Cui knows, he won't be able to spare you, it's too dangerous. Xiao Li's father-in-law was worried about the safety of his stepfather, and wanted to persuade his stepfather not to take this risk, "Otherwise, we will inform Mrs. Wei of what we have discovered, and let them figure out their own way to save people, the people who are in charge of Cui's detention must be allowed by the emperor, and if we take the liberty to save them, we will definitely be discovered." ”

"You have no conscience when you say that." Gonggong Li slapped little Gonggong Li in the head and said: "When you were in Cuixuan Farewell, Mrs. Wei was very kind to you, and when Cui Xiang led people to besiege Cuixuan Farewell, who saved you?" I owe so much favor, what's wrong with helping Mrs. Wei save someone? What's more, Mrs. Wei and I always have great kindness, this Enmo said that he helped her save people, even if he wants me to die, your stepfather will not blink. ”

"Besides, what's wrong with Mr. Cui, he is a celebrity in front of the emperor, and he is also a newcomer, your father-in-law and I have been in the palace for decades, I want to save someone, will he know? You also underestimate your stepfather and me. ”

In fact, Gonggong Li had already figured out how to find a way out for himself in his heart, how could his decades of palace career be in vain, and he couldn't get out of it if he saved anyone, so why did he promise Mrs. Wei? If you can't do it, won't it affect Mrs. Wei and them?

"It's okay, my father-in-law will be fine, you can do your own thing." Seeing that Yizi was still worried about his safety, Gonggong Li patted his head and comforted him.

"Then father, you must be careful." Xiao Li's father-in-law saw that his father-in-law insisted on helping Mrs. Wei save people, and no matter how much he persuaded him, his father-in-law would not listen to him.

All he could do was cooperate with his father-in-law to help rescue people.

Gonggong Li moved two jars of good wine from his private collection back to the inner courtyard, and invited the inner servants who had just returned from night to drink.

Life in the palace is short, and the chamberlains often get together to drink a little wine, chat for a while, and pass the bitter days of the Quartet.

A father-in-law who worked in the imperial kitchen got a few side dishes from the kitchen to drink, and Father-in-law Li sat around with them and began to chat: "What are your interesting stories today?" ”

Life in the palace is nothing more than sitting together and chatting about things in the palace, and everyone is used to it.

Gonggong, who had just returned from an errand in the Yanyang Palace, said: "Do you know? The emperor arrested Concubine Zhao's personal palace maid, and she was in the inner hall at this time. ”

"You're talking about Miss Xiaozi?" Someone asked.

"yes."

"Miss Xiaozi, I know that the emperor seems to have liked her for a long time, but this girl is unwilling to betray her master, and she is very tough."

"What's the use of being tough? Now that Cui Xiang has fallen, Concubine Zhao has also been imprisoned, she is a little maid, the emperor has taken a fancy to her, can she still be the same as before? ”

"People have been caught in the inner sanctum, and never obeying is not an end." Someone shook his head and said.

As long as you have been a waiter in the palace for a year, everyone knows that it is common for the emperor to favor the palace maids, and now this palace can be said to be full of masters, but there are dozens of them who are thrown aside after being favored by the emperor, and they are not as good as them.

Miss Xiaozi didn't follow the emperor before, what she was afraid of was that she would be forgotten after being favored by the emperor like those palace maids, and her master hated herself, if so, it was better not to be favored by the emperor, and follow the master wholeheartedly, at least she was still in charge of the palace.

But now that the master has fallen, Xiao Zi has no support, even if the emperor favors her this time, the emperor leaves her in the palace, I am afraid that there will be no future, after all, she is a member of the Cui family.

Xiao Zi, this girl is ruined for the rest of her life.

Several chamberlains are familiar with Xiao Zi and feel sorry for her encounter.

Gonggong Li was not in the mood to listen to them chatting about this, so he interrupted the topic and asked, "Hey, have any of you noticed what the new Chief Manager Cui has been busy with lately?" ”

"Him?" An attendant frowned and said: "This person is chattering, a person who is alone and never talks to us people, if he talks, he will let whoever and whoever does do something, he is very cold, people who don't know still think that he is a person with a lot of status, it's not good, isn't he just a house slave of the Cui family?" The seller was honored, valued by the emperor, and won the position of chief chamberlain. ”

"It's like, who knows what he's up to? He was busy and didn't tell us anything, how could people say anything to us now that they were holding a shelf? Some people can't get used to Cui Mao's villain's appearance, and his face is full of disdain.

Gonggong Li saw that so many people looked down on Mr. Cui, so he smiled and said, "When I passed by the Cold Palace today, I saw him go to the southwest corner of the Cold Palace, and I don't know what he was busy with?" It's weird. ”

"Southwest corner?" A waiter who had not spoken all this time picked up the wine and was about to drink it when he heard Gonggong Li's words, so he said: "There is a woman and a child locked up there, I heard that it is the emperor's prisoner, the emperor really trusts that Chief Cui Steward, and even let the chief Cui check the prisoner he detained?" ”

"Have you seen those two prisoners?" Gonggong Li didn't expect that someone would really know about inviting the attendants to drink.

"I've seen it, the woman is very beautiful, but the child in her arms is stupid and stupid, I went to deliver a meal, to think that these two people are not criminals at all, I think that eighty percent of the children born by this beauty are stupid, and the emperor dislikes them and puts them in the cold palace." The man spoke.

This kind of thing is not strange in the palace anyway. Let's read a book

"Where is it in the southwest corner? Sounds pathetic. Gonggong Li asked with a curious look.

The man didn't suspect anything, and said directly: "It's in a small room by the pond in the southwest corner, but it's quite strange, since they have entered the cold palace, why did the emperor send two guards to watch them?" ”

"Maybe I'm afraid that the woman will run out and shout and say something, right? No matter what the woman said, she was also the one who helped the emperor give birth to the prince, that is, the prince was stupid, but she was also the emperor's son, but there were so many princes in the emperor, and one more fool was a little lost the dignity of the royal family, so she naturally had to send someone to watch it. Another chamberlain said.

Everyone thinks it is reasonable, how desperate the emperor is, people outside the palace don't know, they are very clear about it, the emperor can even give up a pair of children born to Concubine Zhao, let them be executed in secret, let alone a fool? Sending them into the cold palace, just sending two guards to guard them, and giving them a bite to eat, showed the emperor's mercy.

got the specific place where Mrs. Wei's sisters were held, and Gonggong Li already knew how to save people.

In less than half an hour, the two jars of wine were drunk, these waiters were tired for a day, and drank again, and it was the third watch in the middle of the night, when they didn't speak, the sleepiness soon came up, and after the wine was drunk, everyone went back to their own rooms to sleep.

Father-in-law Li asked Yizi to stay in the house, and he carried a can of fire oil and was about to go out.

Xiao Li's father-in-law was still worried, so he pulled his father-in-law and said, "Father-in-law, you are alone, can you do it?" ”

Li Gonggong said: "I'm going to save people, is it better that there are more people?" Don't worry, it's going to be fine, you stay in the house, and if something happens, you just help your father-in-law block it. ”

"But ......" Xiao Li's father-in-law knew that he couldn't persuade his father-in-law, so he had to say: "Then you must be careful." ”

"Don't worry, my father-in-law and you, a child, are reluctant to leave you alone." Father-in-law Li is in a good mood, he has seen his little sister for the first time in decades, if he has the opportunity, he can leave the palace, and he also wants to meet other family members.

Xiaomei said that she gave birth to four children, the eldest is sixteen, the youngest is eight years old, and his younger brother has also married a wife and had children.

Gonggong Li held the oil in his arms, pretending to drink too much in the early morning, and staggered all the way towards the cold palace.

There are no people on the road at all, especially the road leading to the direction of the cold palace, which is even more deserted, and occasionally there are a few crows calling, ghostly.

No one is better, Grandpa Li can't wait to meet someone, so he sped up his pace.

Although he was the head of the Inner Court, he rarely came to the cold palace, and although he found out the exact location, he still wandered around the southwest corner for a long time before he found the small house by the pond that the man said, which was really remote.

The two guards at the door of the house didn't know where to hide to be lazy, too, in such a remote place, the guards had no oil and water to fish, who would be so dedicated? Of course, if you can be lazy, you will be lazy.

Father-in-law Li poured the oil into a flammable place, and in order not to wake up the two guards who were guarding, Father-in-law Li went around to the back of the house, knocked on the window and shouted, "Chen Ziyuan, Chen Ziyuan." ”

Chen Ziyuan was asleep, but when she heard someone calling her name, she woke up, and asked in the same low voice, "Who are you?" How do you know my name is Chen Ziyuan? ”

Li Gonggong said: "I am Mrs. Wei, Lin Wan'er asked me to find you, do you know Mrs. Wei?" ”

"Mrs. Wei?" Chen Ziyuan thought of this person, nodded and said, "She is the wife of my husband's righteous brother, have you seen her?" ”

"See, I'm here to save you, you and the child put on these clothes, and when the time comes, you run out, and I'll take you out of the palace." Gonggong Li stuffed the two clothes he had prepared into the house.

Chen Ziyuan saw that one was a palace maid's clothes and one was a little eunuch's.

"Thank you! But I don't know you, how can I find you? Chen Ziyuan asked while changing clothes.

"It's simple, if you hear the always cry "Oh, oh, oh, the person is me, just come to me." Gonggong Li said the code and went to prepare.

Chen Ziyuan didn't have time to say thank you, and the man left.

Soon, a fire suddenly ignited in the southwest corner of the cold palace, although the southwest corner is a cold palace, but there are many concubines who live here who have been beaten into the cold palace, naturally someone quickly discovered the fire and shouted: "Come on, it's not good, it's on fire." ”

"Hurry up and put out the fire! Hurry up and put out the fire! The people in the cold palace soon spontaneously formed a firefighting brigade, and they all came out with buckets and basins to help fight the fire.

Many of them were palace maids and eunuchs.

Father-in-law Li slapped his thigh and shouted, "Oops, oops, why is it on fire?" ”

The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the two guards were afraid that the fire would burn here, so they hurried to put out the fire, Chen Ziyuan took the opportunity to sneak out of the house with the child, and immediately found the father-in-law Li who had been screaming oops.