"In the future, if you want to get out of the palace, this palace will take you out, so why bother with that trouble."

Beigong Yu said lightly, there was a passing sugar gourd seller beside him, Beigong Yu glanced at it, and Wuxi stepped forward to buy a bunch and handed it to Xia Xiaoxiao, Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at it, took a bite and said vaguely, "With the token, the concubine can come out by herself, why bother Your Highness?" ”

"Not with me."

Today is the day of the market, there are always businessmen passing by from time to time, and Beigong Yu's self-proclaimed name has also changed, Xia Xiaoxiao was slightly flustered, but after a short while, Beigong Yu's steps quickly walked to the front again.

He just said that the token is not with him? If it's not with him, where will it be? Beigong Yumo wasn't fooling her?

Xia Xiaoxiao trotted to catch up with him with a sugar gourd in his hand, and said anxiously, "How could it be that I wasn't here with you, I was obviously taken away by you that day!" ”

"I've already given it to Beigong Pheasant," Beigong Yu turned his head to look at her, obviously asking him, he didn't forget to chew the sugar gourd in his mouth, and chuckled, "If you want, you can go and ask the imperial brother if he is willing to give it to you." ”

"What the hell is that token, didn't you let me give it to anyone! Then how can you give it back to others! ”

Listening to Beigong Yu's confident appearance, it was absolutely impossible for Beigong Pheasant to give her the token, Luo Zhi really wanted to get the token, but if the token was really a very important thing, how could Beigong Yu personally take that thing to Beigong Pheasant?

"Something that will make you quiet and be your crown princess." Beigong Yu stopped, his eyes crossed Xia Xiaoxiao and he didn't know where to look, Xia Xiaoxiao was still digesting what he just said, and he heard him ask her in a somewhat happy mood, "Little Xia'er, do you want to listen to a play?" ”

"What play?"

Xia Xiaoxiao's thoughts were easily forgotten what he was thinking before by Beigong Yu's words, and when he looked back, there was a theater not far away, because it was a market, there were many people in and out, and there were some people around the theater who didn't have money to enter the theater, so they could hear some when they stood outside the building, which made it seem that the place was very lively.

Beigong Yu's actions are always faster than her thinking, obviously asking her, but Xia Xiaoxiao went to the theater before Xia Xiaoxiao answered.

She said that Beigong Yu thought about leaving the palace today, and it turned out that she was also bored in the palace, so she actually brought her to listen to the play outside the palace!

The theater is not the largest one in the capital, but it is also famous, resident in some more famous theater troupes, play on stage, listen to the audience, ordinary people at this time some are sitting under the stage, knocking two plates of melon seeds on the plate, as soon as Beigong Yu goes, he goes directly to the elegant seat on the second floor.

The actors on the stage were babbling and singing, and Xiao Er served a pot of good tea, Beigong Yu took a sip, looked at the stage, and said softly, "I heard that this is the theater you used to come to." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao scolded secretly, in this theater, she does come here to listen to a little song when she occasionally goes out of the palace, but she didn't expect to be known by him like this, when did Beigong Yu start arranging people to follow her?

Thinking like this, he didn't dare to show it on his face, and looked at the stage, "When I was a child, this theater was the cheapest theater in Beijing. ”

She heard Beigong Yu laughing low on the side, as if she thought her previous behavior was very funny, the bead curtain above her head was blown by the wind and made a clanging sound, which made Beigong Yu's laughter more and more pleasant, he held up his chin lazily with one hand, and pointed to the performance on the stage with the other hand and asked her, "Then, Xiao Xia'er has heard of this play?" ”

Once Beigong Yu is lazy, the whole person is like the wind of the past, soft and soft, Xia Xiaoxiao listened to the person on the stage singing, waiting for the mountains and rivers in the world, sighing who will never live up. The sound of gongs and drums behind the curtain was handed over, they were at the right time, the gong sounded, and the play reopened, Xia Xiaoxiao was shocked that she had never heard of this play.

Xia Xiaoxiao's attention was attracted by the stage, looking at the three and three singing there, talking about a princess, since she was a child, she was sought after by everyone and led to a pampered and arrogant temperament, but she met the first general of the dynasty in a palace banquet, and the princess fell in love with the general at first sight, because the general was the first person in the court, and he was a generation of loyal ministers, the emperor gave his most beloved princess to the general, and soon after the two got married, the princess became pregnant with the general's first son, Since then, the general and the princess have lived happily ever after.

Seeing this, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the pair of beauties on the stage with some envy, she thought that this was the end of this play, but the gong did not sound.

The sandalwood board sounded continuously, the rapid music continued, and the scene on the stage suddenly changed, and the originally happy beauties in the courtyard were suddenly replaced by the Miyagi fire, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, and turned his head to look at Beigong Yu, he was still that lazy appearance, and he didn't care about what was being played on stage, as if he already knew what the ending was.

The people on the stage played with spears, and the city changed overnight, and the general led people to break into the imperial city, forcing the emperor into a forbidden land, usurping the throne in one fell swoop, the palace changed, the city changed, and the mountains and rivers changed. The princess stood on the edge of the moat, her hands on her slightly bulging belly, and watched as the general, whom she had loved so much, destroyed her parents, her country, and her own people in one fell swoop.

Maybe it's because the play is too into the play, her face is covered with tears, the music is clear and she sings in the light chant in her mouth, "The splendid gentleman in the courtyard is light and martial, Zeng Nuo is white-headed, but he is too into the play in his life, but he doesn't feel that he is not in the plan, and he can wait for the mountains and rivers in the world, sigh who will never live up to it!" ”

As the last cry of despair fell, the princess finally jumped into the moat, and her bones were gone.

In her womb, there was the unformed child.

The red curtain slowly hung down, and the play finally ended tragically, and everyone in the audience began to sigh, and some soft-hearted women left tears of sympathy for the poor princess.

Xia Xiaoxiao suppressed the shock in her heart, raised the teacup and wanted to take a sip, but found that the teacup trembled uncontrollably in her hand, and put it back on the table without a trace, and cautiously raised her eyes to look at Beigong Yu's expression.

To her surprise, Beigong Yu's expression did not change from before at this time, and just as she was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she heard Beigong Yu's voice softly, faintly, brushing the tips of her ears, but the words she said once again made Xia Xiaoxiao feel as piercing as the cold wind, "Xiao Xia'er told the palace, should this person who sings should be killed?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao glanced at the people in the audience who were still emotionally still in the play, most of them were scolding the general's words, affectionate, negative, and ambitious, she plucked up the courage to test it, "Even if you are guilty, the crime may not be so" The heavy words have not yet been spoken, Beigong Yu's eyes without any waves looked at her, and asked her with a smile, "Acting joys and sorrows, there is no previous generation in the contemporary era, do you know, who is played in the play in this mountain and river cloth?" Why? ”

Xia Xiaoxiao twisted her eyebrows, even if she didn't want to know, she could guess now, twenty years ago, the general Beigong Chengyan led the army to force the palace, and the death of Duan Jinyun, the princess of Duan Kingdom, no matter how mediocre Emperor Duan was back then, Beigong Chengyan was a usurper after all, and the means were indeed disgraceful, using women, and even women who were pregnant with his flesh and blood.

Mountains and rivers, all the promises made, the tenderness shown, after all, is just a game of chess for him to plan the country, a play, Duan Jinyun, finally found out this fact in the end, in the play, it was only said that this paragraph, but, for Beigong Chengyan, if Duan Jinyun is really just a chess piece for him, why did he find Xia Shulan to enter the palace and spoil her alone?

However, what was the purpose of Beigong Yu taking her to see this play?

"I remember that the first time you entered the palace was when you were six years old, you entered the palace with Mrs. Xu for a banquet."

Beigong Yu said slowly, there was an extra codex handed over by Wuxi in his hand, Beigong Yu threw it in front of her, Xia Xiaoxiao took it and opened it with an inexplicable face, and after reading the contents, he was shocked at first, and then felt inexplicable, what was written in the codex was actually written by the emperor himself to arrest the remnants of the previous dynasty!

"What is Your Highness doing with this for my concubine?" Xia Xiaoxiao was puzzled, even if there were people in the previous dynasty who fled to the palace to kill, but after all, this was their internal affair, and Xia Xiaoxiao had always been deaf to these things.

Beigong Yu didn't answer her, but just turned his head to Wuxi and instructed, "Find out the person who wrote this play to Bengong." ”

Wuxi walked to the back of the stage according to the order, the opera is just circulating, how can the arranger be so easy to find?

"I have been in the palace for three years, but I only placed you next to this palace, according to this palace, the queen is too merciful to you." The corner of Beigong Yu's eyes swept over Xia Xiaoxiao's face, he got up and straightened his robe, and continued, "But the more benevolent things on the face, they often always give people a fatal blow. ”

"Xia Xiaoxiao, if one day you are useless to the palace, your life will no longer be your life."

Beigong Yu waved his sleeves lightly and walked out of the theater, and a new play started on stage, but Xia Xiaoxiao was still thinking about what Beigong Yu said to her.

Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly understood, in this palace, everyone has a secret hidden in their hearts, Beigong Yu, Beigong Pheasant, the emperor, the old fox, a secret that all of them tacitly know, she felt that even so, it had nothing to do with her, the nominal princess who had been in the palace for three years but didn't listen to anything outside the window, but, if there was a relationship, would she Xia Xiaoxiao still be alive and well?

Beigong Yu said this, isn't it warning her something?

Even Beigong Yu said that she still doesn't know the reason why the old fox gave her marriage, what does Beigong Pheasant want to get from her, and why did Beigong Yu tell her about the remnants of the previous dynasty? What was he using her again?

But how could she figure it out if she wanted to? Beigong Yu left first, and left her alone outside the palace, thinking of what Beigong Yu said, and her heart was even more uneasy, and the mood of going out of the palace to relax was gone.

Back in the palace, hearing that Beigong Yu had not yet returned, Xia Xiaoxiao felt that she seemed to have found the wrong direction from the beginning, and everything that was shown in front of her was about twenty years ago, but it was no secret that Beigong Chengyan forced the palace twenty years ago, could it be that there was something behind this forced palace?

Xia Xiaoxiao was lying on the bed, recalling that before Beigong Yu gave her the codex, she clearly said a sentence that she entered the palace with her mother six years ago, when she was six years old, Beigong Yu was not the prince at that time, and she and her mother entered the palace with her father to participate in the banquet, but at that time she clearly remembered that she had never seen Beigong Yu, how could Beigong Yu say that he remembered?

And it was also when she was six years old that her mother died in the fire in the house, thinking of this, Xia Xiaoxiao sat up from the bed violently, she remembered correctly, not long ago the queen also mentioned her mother's death day! Coupled with Beigong Yu's words, could it be that his mother-in-law has something to do with what happened twenty years ago?

The mother has been gone for so many years, could it be that the reason why the queen let her enter the palace is also because of the mother?

Twenty years ago, Duan Jinyun cherished the Cloud Palace

Early in the morning of the second day, Xia Xiaoxiao went to the Forgotten Dust House.

Xia Xiaoxiao thought about it all night and flipped through the history books, but it only skipped Duan Jinyun's matter, and did not even mention that Duan Jinyun was the wife of Beigong Chengyan, and even in the end, she only narrated as a princess and left a sentence without bones.

Duan Jinyun jumped off the moat in a rage, as Xia Xiaoxiao saw, even if the emperor was hard-hearted back then, it was not even Duan Jinyun's bones that were salvaged, but he didn't find any bones, the moat was not a sea, and there was no such thing as being eaten by big fish, so where did the corpse go? Is it really floating away with the downstream?

Xia Xiaoxiao was thinking about it, not far away, he saw Lu Wuxian walking towards this side, walking in a hurry, looking like he had just rushed back from outside the palace, Xia Xiaoxiao stopped and was about to say hello, but he didn't seem to see her at all, and rushed straight to the direction of the Han Palace.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked back at Lu Wuxian's dusty back, and suddenly remembered that she overheard the conversation between Beigong Yu and Lu Wuxian that time, at that time, Lu Wuxian had clearly said that Duan Jinyun didn't seem to have taken things out of the palace, and now it seemed that they were trying to find something from Duan Jinyun

Not only Beigong Yu, but also Beigong Pheasant!

The things that Beigong Pheasant Li was looking for in Xiyun Hall should be the same as what Beigong Yu said, but Duan Jinyun is a princess of a dead country, and she has been dead for so many years, what can be that can make Beigong Yu, the prince, covet it?

The more Xia Xiaoxiao thought about it, the more she felt that her head hurt, and her thoughts were not clear, but she was getting more and more chaotic, and before she knew it, she had arrived at the Forgotten Dust House.

At that time, Xia Shulan was letting people clean up the two teacups on the table, and when she saw Xia Xiaoxiao's arrival, she was a little surprised at first, and then her whole face was happy, and she hurriedly took her hand and sat down, "Look at what kind of wind is blowing today, it's not enough to come, and the princess is also here!" ”

"Auntie, Fang Cai, who has been here again?"

Xia Xiaoxiao hadn't come to this Forgotten Dust House for a long time, and she was naturally happy to see her aunt, and looked at the remaining tea that was served down by the maids, and there was still a slight heat in it.

"No, I just said what kind of wind is blowing, Xi'er just left on the front foot, and your sister came on the back foot, obviously they are all from Chenxiao Palace, why don't you come together?"

The maidservants below came up with new tea, Xia Shulan's hand was holding Xia Xiaoxiao's tightly, and there were already some tail lines on her smiling face.

"Auntie, has the emperor been here often in recent days?" Xia Xiaoxiao stared at her, but what she remembered was the woman who had broken her family and died.

"Although it doesn't come every day, it always comes every three or five days." Xia Shulan smiled, "Why, I heard someone say a few days ago that you have a better relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, haven't you started to make trouble again recently?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao stared at Xia Shulan, a trace of sympathy rose in her heart, and she covered the trace of emotion in her eyes and said softly, "No, I just think that my aunt has been very favored by the emperor since she entered the palace, presumably, the emperor must love her aunt very much." ”

When Xia Shulan heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief, her eyes fell on the tea in the teacup, and she said softly, "The women in this palace, how dare you say that you can get the emperor's love, the emperor, it is a person who wants to have the world in mind, he has the country, political affairs, and the people in his heart, and the three thousand beauties in the harem only hope that in his heart, it is enough for him to occupy a small position of himself." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't expect Xia Shulan to put her position so correctly like this, but she couldn't help but feel distressed, paused, and said tentatively, "Auntie, you have been in the palace for so many years, do you know what a pity cloud palace?" ”

As soon as Xia Xiaoxiao's voice fell, she obviously saw the unnaturalness that flashed in Xia Shulan's eyes, and it returned to normal in a blink of an eye, and Xia Xiaoxiao even suspected that she was wrong.

"I haven't heard of it."

I saw Xia Shulan lower her eyes slightly, and the smile on her face unconsciously subtracted a little, let go of her hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then raised her head and looked at her again, "Xiao'er, what are you asking for?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao twisted her eyebrows, didn't answer her, and continued to ask, "Does that aunt know that aunt looks very similar to a person?" ”

"There are so many people in the world, there will always be one or two people who will look a little similar, and there is nothing strange about it, isn't there still a person in the palace who is exactly the same as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the King Li?"

The smile on Xia Shulan's face finally disappeared, but her tone was still so plain, and she didn't ask who the person was, as if she didn't care much about all this.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at her aunt distressedly, and wanted to continue, but was interrupted by Xia Shulan's sudden opening, "Xiao'er, my aunt is a little uncomfortable today, so you can go back first." ”

As soon as Xia Shulan waved her hand, a maid came over, "Crown princess, please." ”

Xia Xiaoxiao had no choice but to walk out of the Dusk Pavilion, it seems that her aunt knows, but she knows it, why did she refuse to go with her at the beginning?

My aunt entered the palace ten years ago, and I thought that maybe my aunt would know some things about Duan Jinyun, but it seems that my aunt didn't even want to talk about Duan Jinyun, and Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't even ask anything when she saw this, but in this way, where should she know about Duan Jinyun? She has also been to the Cloud Palace many times, but she can't find any useful clues at all, Xia Xiaoxiao hesitated, or should she go directly to ask Luozhi?

As soon as this thought popped up, Xia Xiaoxiao was startled by herself, and shook her head again and again to throw this idea out of her mind, she really dared to think that Beigong Pheasant was obviously not a good product! She even wanted to go to him!

Staying, if these things are really related to her or her mother, she has to find out these things no matter what, when she thinks of this, she raised her feet and wanted to walk in the direction of Yuexia Palace, but when she arrived at Yuexia Palace, she didn't see anyone.

What does it mean that I haven't seen anyone, that is, I don't even have a servant maid! The entire Moonlight Palace was empty!

Since the old fox almost accepted her token last time, she hadn't been to the Yuexia Palace these days, but she hadn't even seen the Yuexia Palace empty like this when she came here before, as if she had deliberately sent everyone here away!

Walking all the way through the bluestone slab long road, the entire Yuexia Palace was terrifyingly quiet, until he walked into the hall, he faintly heard a slight conversation in the inner room across a wall, one of them, Xia Xiaoxiao heard the queen's voice at once, and the other person listened to the voice of a man, but he was not familiar with it, it should be someone she didn't know.

The voice was heard, but the content of the conversation inside was not very clear because of the wall, Xia Xiaoxiao felt strange as soon as he came in and saw that there was no one in the entire palace, but he didn't expect the old fox to be in the palace, and it was Yuexia Palace that raised a man!

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't hold back his curiosity, and leaned towards the wall without obeying the call, but before this person started to leave, he heard the sound of the conversation between the two inside getting louder and louder, Xia Xiaoxiao immediately paused, and listened again, it was really getting bigger and bigger! Eighty percent of them are coming out!

Xia Xiaoxiao hurriedly looked around, becoming more and more anxious, seeing that the people inside immediately came out of the inner room, this damn Yuexia Palace didn't have a place to hide!

It's over, it's over! If she found out about her adultery with the old fox, the old fox would not have to kill her!

"Hmm!" At the moment when the queen stepped out in front of her, Xia Xiaoxiao was suddenly covered by someone, and she flew out of the hall with her, hiding behind a tree outside the courtyard.

That's right, she was dragged and flown over, you don't need to look at it to know that the only person who can have this kind of light skill in this palace is Beigong Pheasant.

"Why are you again?" Xia Xiaoxiao opened his hand covering her mouth, turned her head and stared at him unhappily, why did he always bring her together to hide like this whenever he encountered this kind of thing?

"It's not me, do you want to stay inside and wait to be discovered?" Beigong Pheasant's hand reached out to her head, Xia Xiaoxiao habitually stepped back, but he grabbed his hand, Beigong Pheasant Li glanced at her lightly, and took it from her head and accidentally jumped off the tree with a withered yellow sycamore leaf.

Xia Xiaoxiao saw that he just wanted to help her take down the leaves, and immediately turned his face in embarrassment, just when he saw a man dressed as a guard walking out of the palace of Yuexia Palace, the queen stood inside, the guard saluted her, Beigong Pheasant Li hurriedly pulled her behind the tree, and the two of them did not dare to move carefully.

Xia Xiaoxiao jumped with a careful liver, looking at the guard's attitude towards the old fox, not like the old fox's lover.