Due to the recurrence of the emperor's serious illness, there was a mess in the palace. Concubine Li Guifei was busy in and out of the palace, and Concubine Ying's sacrifice was delayed until the third day after her death.

Ignoring everyone's dissuasion, I entered the palace and wanted to accompany Miyahata. However, before the person entered the Wangqi Palace, the palace maid dressed in filial piety clothes came out and bowed to me and said: "Lian girl, the Fifth Highness said that if you come, let the slave maid tell you to leave the palace." ”

"Miyahata... Fifth prince, doesn't he want to see me? I was stunned, "Just say that I want to pay my respects in front of the mother's spirit, can't I?" ”

"If the girl wants to hang, seven days later, when Concubine Ying's Niangzi Palace is sent to the imperial mausoleum, you can salute with the Hou Ye and the hundred officials. So coming... It doesn't make sense. ”

"Is this all what Miyahata means?"

The little palace maid looked embarrassed, and blessed her body again: "The Fifth Highness said that if the girl wants to help, please find a way to send Miss Zhuo Ying to the Huangqi Palace, and His Highness has something to discuss." ”

I was confused: "Zhuo Ying... Did Miyahata say it himself? ”

"The Fifth Highness said that the girl doesn't need to ask more, just bring the words to Miss Zhuo Ying when she goes back."

The mourning and melodious music in the Wangqi Palace sounded again, and the little palace maid finally bowed to me and turned back.

My already desolate state of mind became more and more suspicious - Gong Wan and Zhuo Ying are only one side, what will they discuss?

Because of the serious injury to my lower abdomen, I could not move around, so I sat on the chariot and was carried by my subordinates. However, even without the need for labor, the wound would still sting with each jolt of the chariot.

When passing by the Yeyao Palace, I thought about going into the palace, and it was not appropriate not to come to see the seriously ill emperor after all, so I asked my subordinates to go to the palace. Before entering the palace, she bumped into the angry Concubine Li, who still had tears on her face, washing out the originally delicate rouge one by one, revealing the skin with fine lines.

"The courtiers have seen the concubine."

Concubine Li didn't say anything, but glanced at me fiercely, grabbed the maid's arm, pushed away the subordinate who was carrying my sedan chair steadily, and went to the direction of the harem.

"Even the girl came unfortunately, and she was angry in vain."

When Gonggong He saw me outside the hospital, he hurriedly ran over and said with a wry smile: "The emperor is still thinking about Concubine Ying when he is sick, so he asked Li Guifei about the funeral. Who knew that Niangniang was dedicated to the dragon body, and today she hastily invited the master and the music class to go to the Wangqi Palace. The emperor was in a hurry, so he counted the mother down. ”

"Counting? If it's just a few falls, the mother's reaction like this will inevitably be a little too much. ”

"The emperor is sick and depressed, and his words are indeed heavier..."Gonggong He frowned and sighed again and again, "After all, Concubine Ying is also an old man who accompanies her early, and the emperor is naturally distressed when she ends up like this." ”

"Concubine Li Guifei has been above everyone in the harem for many years, and she has never been applied by the emperor, and today she can be regarded as wronged." I pursed my lips and groaned, "Since the emperor is depressed, I can't bother, so I ask my father-in-law to tell me that the courtiers have come." ”

Gonggong He bowed to see him off, and I asked my subordinates to carry him and continue to the palace gate. sighed in my heart, I was really drunk and knew that the wine was strong, and people knew how important it was, Concubine Ying's grace was very little during her lifetime, and she spent half her life alone in the quiet Wangqi Palace, and she didn't see how much the emperor loved it. Now that the Si people are gone, the emperor is willing to be angry for her and her favorite concubine, so it seems that he is really in love with a young couple?

After leaving the palace, I did not go back to the prince's mansion, but went to Taohua Street to Taopin Building. After conveying Gong Hao's words to Zhuo Ying, but seeing that she didn't have too much exaggerated expression, she squinted her eyes and exhaled softly, still sipping the Qingming tea soup in the tea cup.

After all, I couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you going to enter the palace?" ”

"What? Oh no, it's just a code word between us. ”

"Secret words... What the hell are you guys up toyer? ”

"The fifth prince has made up his mind to deal with the third prince and the fourth prince."

"What?"

"Gui Hotaru, I haven't told you that since the last time Gong Wan came to Taopinlou, the two of us have maintained correspondence."

"You exchange letters?" I didn't know what to do for a moment, "What do you two have to deal with?" ”

"Naturally, it's to bring down the palace curtain and the palace hoove." Zhuo Ying seemed a little impatient with my surprise, "It's not just us who have correspondence. In fact, these days, I have been letting Miss Wanqiu approach Gong Hao as a Ya Yan, and it has been almost a month, and I believe that Miss Wan Qiu has gained the trust of Gong Hao. ”

"I don't know if he trusts me, and it's the first time I've done anything like this." Wan Qiu stirred the belt in his hand a little nervously, "But I have always claimed to be a person who is not popular in the opposite side of the Fuyun Pavilion, so I can be sure that Gong Yu should not have any doubts about me." ”

"Fortunately, I left such a backhand, otherwise that Bai Xiaohan had been hiding in Taopinlou for a long time, and it is estimated that Gong Hao would have been handcuffed and tortured to extract a confession as soon as he heard that Wanqiu was a person from Taopinlou." Zhuo Ying glanced at Wanqiu, who was slightly shrunken, and said with a comforting smile, "It's still Miss Sarong's idea to arrange such a person for Miss Wanqiu, who was jealous and depressed by the red people of the Fuyun Pavilion. Otherwise, Gong Hao is not a fool, and he definitely won't believe that Miss Wanqiu will take the initiative to find him. ”

"Even if Wanqiu catches the palace... But so what? I still wondered, "Do you want to say anything from the mouth of the palace guard?" ”

"Gui Hotaru, I said it. What Miyahata wants is to bring down the palace curtains and palace curtains. He wanted to get rid of them, not to frame them. ”

"It's easy for you to say, they haven't been in power for a year or two, how difficult have I fought with them since I entered the Prince's Mansion? Did Miyahata think that Wanqiu alone could easily bring them down? ”

"Of course we have a plan, and Miss Wanqiu is not the core of the plan." Zhuo Ying smiled steadily, "Seeing that you have been fighting with them for so long, I have also found my way." The crux of the problem lies with the emperor. ”

After Sarong greeted the guests, she asked the little maid to carry Duan Ming into the house together, and Zhuo Ying told everyone her plan. It was not until dinner time that she finished speaking, and when Aunt Hua asked someone to pass the meal, everyone was silent.

I really didn't know what to say, and after a long time, I slowly looked at Zhuo Ying and asked in a trembling voice: "These... Is it all your plan? ”

"It's the Fifth Prince." Zhuo Ying didn't understand my thoughts, and said bluntly, "It was his idea to tell Wanqiu to approach Gong Hao from the beginning. Now it seems that he was already planning at that time. ”

"Oh."

This meal was not very appetizing.

After dinner, Aunt Hua and Wanqiu still had something to do, and the guests in front urged Sarong to get out. I was depressed, so I asked Zhuo Ying to go back to the room first, and I went downstairs to relax.

"I'll accompany you."

I didn't mean that Duan Ming would say this, and a warmth swelled up in his heart, and he nodded with a smile.

After a few days of round-the-clock exercise and recuperation, our wounds have basically healed. The reason why the body can recover quickly after the injury of mutual integration lies in the luck of the body and the way of nourishment. The person who nourishes himself has nothing to say, but he pities the person who has exercised his luck, because of the other person's replenishment, even if he is tired and tired, he will not damage his body, so he only has hard work day and night.

I saw Duan Ming's hard work, and I also proposed that the two of them alternate exercises, but as expected, he refused. I've been in bed these days, and now that I'm finally able to get out of bed and walk around, I'm glad to talk to him for a while.

After telling the little maid to leave, the two of us helped each other downstairs. It took a stick of incense to walk into the courtyard, and carefully sat on the stool under the old peach tree, the two of them were already sweating profusely.

"It's amazing... I've never been so tired. I gasped with pain on one wall and one wall of my lower abdomen, "The two of us are also well-known figures in the rivers and lakes, and we were even calculated like this by that Bai Xiaohan." ”

"It's all me who is careless, the next time I see him, see if I don't pay it back tenfold." Duan Ming gritted his teeth, looking at my panting appearance, he couldn't help but laugh after all, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sat down next to me.

"Good night, what do you do with that rotten man." I looked up at the bright starry sky, "Duan Ming, do you still remember, last year, we were in the courtyard like this, and you taught me the Nine Styles of Lingxi with one move?" ”

"Of course I do."

Duan Ming also raised his head and smiled peacefully at the night sky. Since Concubine Ying claimed to be an ominous person and died, Bai Xiaohan never used Longtan beads to rain frost and snow in Kazhou. Now in the spring season, the moonlight is bright, and the stars are reflected in Duan Ming's smiling eyes, reflecting his clear eyes.

At that time, Sarong had not revealed his identity yet, and Wanqiu and Zhuo Ying were not there. It's only you in the peach sales building, and I... And Ganlai. Duan Ming said, his eyes darkened like splashing ink, "Gan Lai... It's a pity that we haven't enjoyed the peach blossoms in this yard together......"

"What's a pity, he is now in Yiyang with his mother, and it is the same time as the spring flowers. Yiyang didn't have Bai Xiaohan to make this scene, maybe it was better than the scenery of Kazhou. I looked at Duan Ming's side face with a smile on his face again, and said softly, "We still have to cherish the moment, don't we?" ”

"Return to Hotaru?"

"Hmm."

"If there really is such a day, will you leave with Zhuo Ying?"

I was a little at a loss to see that Duan Ming looked at me with such sincere sorrow. In a trance, I remembered for no reason the look in his eyes when I first met, I didn't recognize him.

"Duan Ming, you must know that if we want to go back, it is very difficult and difficult."

"Will you?"

"I—" seemed to be captured by the sparkle in his eyes, and I distinctly felt that my emotions were gradually being assimilated by him.

"I won't."

"-Really?" Duan Ming didn't seem to expect me to say this, and a smile as safe as the moon instantly bloomed on his face, "Why, is it because you haven't found Miss Shuiqing yet?" ”

"Of course, Shui Qing wants to find it, but the top priority is the safety of Miyahata. Duan Ming, now that success or failure is here, if I can't protect the palace flags, it will leave an irreparable regret in this world, do you understand? ”

"Oh..."

I just stared at the starry sky, and it was rare to see such a beautiful starry sky in the brightly lit city of Kashu East. I didn't notice the slight sigh of Duan Ming beside me.

"I understand."