In the midst of the disturbances, the spring flowers bloomed, and the palace soon fell silent again, returning to its former peace.

Our Yulian, no, Concubine Jing has only been quiet for a month, and she really can't be quiet.

In the past few days, she has carried a small self-made drawing board, with the stream, looking everywhere in the palace, whether there are any particularly amazing pavilions and pavilions, and she has to paint a few pictures every day.

Today, she still came to the library pavilion, still standing in the corner behind the pavilion, and carefully copied the position of the volley cornices that had not been painted last time.

At this time, it is also past the sting season, at the beginning of the spring peach, all things recover, and a few peach blossom branches are exposed in the corner of the pavilion, which reveals a strong bookish atmosphere against the backdrop of the library pavilion.

Yulian sniffed the taste of spring a few times, and then traced it intently.

Suddenly, the stream barked loudly, and Yulian turned back to look for it, and saw it frantically chasing a gray-brown shadow, barking wildly.

The stream chased farther and farther, Yulian felt that something was wrong, and while calling the stream, she packed up her sketchpad and stood up.

As soon as she got up, her feet went limp, and her feet were like nails to the ground, and she didn't dare to breathe at all.

In the grass opposite, there was a long black and white striped snake, spitting snake letters, staring at itself viciously, and was about to pounce on him.

Yulian even held her breath, what should she do, she ran away by the stream again, and when she saw it, it was about to pounce......

In a flash, her waist was tightly grabbed, and she jumped onto the eaves of the library pavilion, and at the same time, the snake also pounced in the direction where Yulian was just standing, and rushed out several meters in the air, so dangerous!

Between the lightning and flint, Yulian saw the shadow of the knife flash in front of her, and then, the snake's head also flew out.

Oh my God, it's dangerous, and the sword is too fast and accurate.

She just wanted to turn around and look at the person behind her, but then he was tightly wrapped around her waist and fell to the ground with a flutter.

Only then did he turn his head and see that it was Dongfang, "Dongfang, it's you!" You couldn't have come just in time! Yulian exclaimed in surprise.

I haven't seen him since the last time I said goodbye to Dongfang Mansion, and I was really surprised and happy to see him all of a sudden.

"You, you, fortunately, I'm going to come to the library to find books, otherwise you'll be eaten by these five-step snakes." Dongfang pointed at Yulian, who seemed to be still afraid.

"It's not going to be eaten, is it?" Yulian thought about the appearance of the snake just now, and she was also frightened.

"Possibly, do you know what kind of snake it is? Five-step snake, highly poisonous five-step snake! One bite of you, you won't live more than five steps. "Dongfang said word by word.

"This is the legendary five-step snake, I, my God, it's terrible, let's go!" Yulian was frightened and hid behind Dongfang.

Dongfang smiled proudly, and taught Yulian a lesson as he walked: "Concubine Jing, you are all in the concubine position, and you are still alone in and out, so it won't work, someone must follow you in the future before you can go out." ”

"Who said I was alone, and didn't I follow by the stream? Oh yes, by the stream! After Yulian finished grabbing the east, she remembered coming to the stream.

Just now, the stream ran back at this time, with a small gray-brown snake in its mouth, and was looking at the master proudly, waiting for the master's praise.

Seeing it like this, Dongfang couldn't help but say, "Is it a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?" First use a small snake to lure the stream away, and then release a huge poisonous one......"

Dongfang didn't dare to think about it, and Yulian didn't dare to think about it anymore, perhaps, everything was just a coincidence!

However, it was not the snake that was more coincidental, but Xuanyuan Xuanling, who was standing not far away.

He witnessed what had just happened.

He came from a distance, and was about to go to the place where Yulian often paints to find her, when he saw Dongfang wrapping his left hand around Lian'er's slender waist from a distance, and flew to the eaves.

But when the two of them reached the eaves, Dongfang's left hand was still wrapped around Yulian's waist and did not let go, and after the flying sword in his right hand slashed the snake's head, he took her to the ground again.

During the whole process, Dongfang's hand was always around her slender waist, and he looked at Lian'er's eyes affectionately.

And Lian'er, after finding out that it was Dongfang who saved her, her expression was so surprised.

The two talked intimately and naturally, and they didn't see Xuanyuan Xuanling standing not far away, with a gloomy face.

It was Yulian who saw him first, rushed over, patted her chest and said, "Your Majesty, you are late, you didn't see the five-step poisonous snake just now, it's terrible." ”

Xuanyuan Xuanling looked Yulian up and down, and saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so he put his mind at ease, but still with a dark face, he asked Dongfang: "Why are you here?" ”

"Didn't I come to the Library Pavilion often? What's so strange! Why did the emperor ask like that," Dongfang asked strangely.

Yes, Dongfang has always been like this in the palace, why are you so nervous? It's completely unnecessary!

He took Yulian's hand and said softly, "When you come out in the future, you will never be alone again." ”

Yulian nodded again and again: "Don't dare, don't dare anymore, I'm most afraid of snakes in my life, but how can there be such a terrible poisonous snake in the palace?" ”

"There have never been in the palace before, and there are just ordinary little snakes, the kind caught by the stream." Dongfang said leisurely behind them.

This is also the question that Xuanyuan Xuanling is thinking about, and it cannot be ruled out at all that someone deliberately released it, and the purpose is Lian'er.

It's dangerous, but fortunately it appeared in time in the East, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, I really can't blame Dongfang for his behavior just now, but I have to thank him for saving Lian'er.

Moreover, the palace has been unusually calm recently, but he has smelled a hint of danger, and he must check it carefully.

"Dongfang, you send someone to check it out, the people who have been to the library today, and anyone else who has brought items from outside the palace to check it out for me."

"Okay, let's go." Dongfang knew that it was dangerous just now, and if he arrived one step late, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he took the order and left.

The two of them also walked back to Nuanqing Pavilion quickly, and as soon as they got down, he immediately said to Yulian: "Lian'er, you should move to Chaohua Palace to live, Gufang Garden is too far away from me." ”

"It's good that I live in Gufangyuan, I don't want to move around, don't worry, the emperor, today's incident may just be a coincidence." Although Yulian comforted him, she still shuddered when she recalled the ferocious snake just now.

"I will send more guards to guard the Lonely Garden." Xuanyuan Xuanling would never force Yulian to do anything, as long as she was happy.

"Or, Your Majesty, let Yingzi enter the palace! She's a woman, and she can always be by my side! Yulian saw that the opportunity had come, and hurriedly begged the emperor.

"Lian'er, do you know, why doesn't the princess who came to the palace to bring her maid into the palace?"

"yes, why? I've always wondered, why are there such strange rules? Yulian was curious.

"In the Shengyuan year, it is the year when the princess Chaolan of your country returns to China, you should have heard your sister mention her, right?" He looked at Lian'er and said.

Of course Yulian knows, how could she forget Princess Chaolan? It was by emulating her gift of "crying in the face" that she escaped the fate of being buried alive.

Seeing that Yulian nodded, he continued: "That year, the ancestor of Shengyuan died, and a large number of concubines were martyred, including the moon beauty who was offered by the noble deciduous clan at that time. Yuemei was only twenty years old, so she went with her ancestors, but her personal maid Luoyeli stayed in the palace because of the blood of the three princes of the dynasty. ”

Seeing that he was silent, Yulian asked, "What happened later?" ”

Later, after the third prince Xuanyuan became the emperor, this deciduous glass ranked first among the concubines. It is said that she not only has a beautiful appearance, but also has an unfathomable scheming, in addition to being the only one who has been favored, she also ruthlessly and quietly killed the queen and the crown prince at the time, as well as the other two princes in the country, and secretly contacted the officials of the court, trying to let her son ascend the throne. When he said this, he sighed deeply, as if mourning for the innocent victimized princes.

"It's terrible, I actually killed all the heirs, in the palace, in front of power, is it really like a mustard?" Yulian also sighed.

"Later, it was my great-grandfather, the old prince Xuanyuanqi, who exposed her conspiracy, collected all the evidence, and informed his own brother Xuanyuan Yi, who was the Emperor Xuanyuan at that time. After the emperor learned the truth, he was furious and gave this Li Guifei and her son to death, and sent all the people of her foreign family, that is, the whole clan of the Fallen Leaves Clan, to the Kaohsiung grassland, where they raised horses for the royal family for generations and lived forever as slaves. ”

"Oh, I see, when the Emperor Yi died, it was passed on to the son of the old prince, that is, the emperor's grandfather, right."

"Exactly, before the death of the emperor, the ancestors left a will, if there is a princess or a nobleman to offer a beauty, he must enter the palace alone, and he is not allowed to bring half a maid. Because, he hated the concubine Li who was born as a maid. ”

"I see, there are so many hidden secrets, but what does this have to do with Yingzi?" After Yulian suddenly realized, she asked puzzledly.

Xuanyuan Xuanling glanced at her deeply, "Because, at that time, Concubine Li tried in vain to subvert the government, and raised many folk swordsmen in the palace, and did bad things for her." Therefore, since then, not only maids, but also folk swordsmen, are absolutely not allowed to enter the palace. ”

"But Yingzi is not a bad person, she has a rough and pitiful background, I like her very much, I just want to take her with me." Yulian said aggrievedly.

"Of course I know she's not a bad person!"

"Could it be that the emperor has also found someone to check her family background?"

"She came back with you from the empty mulberry country and had a close contact with you, for your safety, I don't check her carefully, can you rest assured? Little fools. ”

"Oh." Yulian was just frightened, and at this moment she knew that the emperor was guarding her warmly and affectionately, and her heart was relieved a lot, "Then since you know her details, you can rest assured that you can take her into the palace!" ”

"Alas, Lian'er wants her to enter the palace so much, just take her in, with her guarding you, I can rest assured." It was as if he had made a big decision.

Yushinomiya.

Concubine Chun sat quietly, with a strange smile on the corner of her mouth.

Although she is from the Xia Hou aristocracy, her true identity is: a descendant of the Fallen Leaves Clan, Fallen Leaves Chunhe.