Xing Tianze immediately said: "Someone! Pull Master Sima out and beat me with a rod of seventy! ”

The guard immediately said, "No! ”

After saying that, he pulled Sima Chen out, "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister is really guilty!" ”

Xing Tianze's face was very ugly.

It's really a headache about the swamp five hundred meters away from the capital, and even Xing Tianze doesn't go there much, just because as early as ten years ago, Xing Tianze had already heard about it, when he and the second emperor went hunting together, and they happened to pass by that swamp, and the two of them almost walked in, but were stopped by a guard.

"The second prince, the fifth prince, you can't go in again."

Xing Tianze said: "Why? ”

"Further on there is a swamp, and many people have lost their lives for no reason."

I heard that it was okay at first, this road seems to be no different from other roads, but, the more you go inside, the more you feel that something is not right, to the back, sinking little by little, and no matter how you climb up, it is useless, now this place, has buried a lot of people, Xing Tianze is ordering people to improve the ground here, but it is still extremely nerve-wracking, because, you can't be sure at all, where is the swamp, where is not.

So far, there has been no solution in that place.

Master Sima finished his seventy boards, Sima Chen couldn't walk now, and when he came to the top of the main hall, he knelt down as soon as his body became weak, "Your Majesty, the minister really knows that he is wrong." ”

"If you lie the truth like this again, in the future, it will not be as simple as beating seventy with a cane." Then he made a gesture to back down.

"Yes, minister, minister knows."

Sima Chen got up and retreated, but when he retreated, he was still escorted by the guards, and after Sima Chen left, Xing Tianze sat down on the dragon chair with his whole person, and then held his forehead with his hand.

"Your Majesty, you are having a headache for that swampy land."

"I've heard for a long time that place, twenty years ago, turned into a swamp for no reason, and I can't find out why."

Gonggong Chen thought for a while before he said: "Your Majesty, there is a person among the slaves, who is very familiar with various geographical conditions. ”

Xing Tianze then looked at Chen Gonggong and said, "Who is it?" ”

"It's close in front of you, right in front of you."

Xing Tianze frowned and said, "You mean, Empress?" ”

"Exactly."

Xing Tianze immediately shook his finger and said, "No, no one can invite her to go." ”

It's one thing to know the geography or not, but if she accidentally falls into the quagmire, how can he save her? Therefore, Xing Tianze couldn't let her go no matter what, this was Xing Tianze's weakness.

Gonggong Chen originally wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he shut up.

Tao Mingxi, who was in the dormitory, was eating the pastries sent from the imperial dining room, the pastries made by the palace maid in the imperial dining room were naturally excellent cooking, Tao Mingxi's favorite thing was to eat this kind of mung bean cake, and he liked this taste very much.

"Niangniang, how does this mung bean cake taste?"

"Well, it's pretty good, by the way, can the Queen Mother send it over?"

Mingzhu said: "Well, it has been sent over, but the Queen Mother is not like Niangniang, she thinks this pastry is not delicious at all." ”

Tao Mingxi sighed deeply and said: "This person is big, and there are many problems, I heard that the Queen Mother doesn't seem to be in the mood to eat." ”

"Yes, the most mentioned every day is the emperor, he occasionally goes out for a walk on weekdays, but now, he only stays in the palace, and he is too lazy to go out."

Tao Mingxi pursed his lips and said, "Well, I'm going to see her in this palace." ”

Tao Mingxi said that he walked to the queen mother's bedroom, but saw that the queen mother was still meditating there, Tao Mingxi came here, but found that today's sleeping palace that looks like a Buddhist hall, but there are two more candles, is it that today will be the emperor's sacrifice day? Tao Mingxi suddenly thought of something.

It had been so far that she had almost forgotten about it, and the Queen Mother felt that someone was coming, so she stopped, "Xi'er, you are here." ”

The corners of Tao Mingxi's mouth rose: "Yes, Queen Mother, I heard that you are not in the mood to eat recently, and your daughter-in-law has also come to see you." ”

The Queen Mother just lifted her lips and smiled: "Heh! Don't have anything to eat? Yes, do you know what day it is? ”

Tao Mingxi thought for a while and said, "Could it be that today is the emperor's sacrifice day?" ”

"Exactly, you can not remember, but the mourning family remembers very much, these days when I think of it, the emperor's favor for the mourning family, the mourning family has not enjoyed enough, the first emperor ...... Hi! ”

Tao Mingxi walked over slowly, "People can't be resurrected after death, Queen Mother, please mourn." ”

Tao Mingxi has already said so much, and he doesn't want to say too much, just because the current queen mother is completely immersed in her own world, and it is useless to persuade others.

The Empress Dowager looked at Tao Mingxi: "Xi'er, in fact, the mourning family is not just because of the emperor's affairs now. ”

Tao Mingxi sat down for a while, and then he was very puzzled: "The queen mother is ......?"

"Maybe you don't know, five hundred meters away from the capital, there is a one-thousand-meter swamp."

"A thousand meters?"

Tao Mingxi's eyes were full of surprise, such a big swamp? Where did this come from? Just when Tao Mingxi thought so, the queen mother asked: "This matter was already twenty years ago, and it spread throughout the capital, as early as twenty years ago, there were people living in the mountains there, and people often passed by, and it was very lively, but suddenly one day it rained heavily."

The apprentice over there suddenly became soft, and no one cared at first, until, after a few more rains in a row, the ground was not suitable for people to pass by, and the house was also deep in a swamp, and people would definitely be submerged in this swamp as long as they passed, a thousand meters! Seeing this situation, almost all the people there ran out, and when they fled, they didn't dare to take too many things, because they were afraid that it would be too heavy, and in the end, it became deserted, and no one went there.

Ze'er also knew about this, and he never told you at that time. ”

Tao Mingxi just shook his head and said, "No." ”

They can be regarded as reassuring now, but Xing Tianze still has some things to hide from her, once, he felt that Tao Mingxi's life or death was not important, but this time, Xing Tianze felt that if he really told her these things, he was afraid that there would be danger, so he would not tell her.