Chapter 139: The Shadow Hides
There are not many people in the lead palace plus the master, and Yan Liwu was lucky to share the entire west side hall to live, and at this time she hurriedly walked out of the bedroom, and was stunned to look at Wen Moqing who walked into the bright room in a daze.
"How are you?"
"Why can't it be me?" Wen Moqing raised her eyebrows slightly, and her disappointed expression was quite disdainful of Yan Li's worries, "You don't look at what time it is, how could Chu Ci let the second prince out?" ”
After Wen Moqing reminded Yan Liwu, he remembered that Wen Moshu was weak so he was used to going to bed early, and recently because of the fact that he had been poisoned, Chu Ci's sense of prevention has become stronger and stronger, and he refused to let Wen Moshu leave the Tianque Palace after nightfall, and even during the day, he had to send Spring and Autumn to follow closely behind, and Wen Moshu, who could not come out at this time, must have already slept.
Yan Liwu did not hide his frustrated expression, lowered his shoulders and hugged his arms: "In the middle of the night, what are you doing here?" You're not a prince, so you shouldn't be able to enter at will, could it be that you were ordered by the emperor to be disgusted? ”
"There is no place in the palace that I can't go, and even the prince is not as free as me." Wen Moqing ignored Yan Liwu's ridicule, turned around after closing the door, and casually threw something to Yan Liwu, "Anyway, he is also the so-called 'emperor's henchman', what kind of fame do you have if you don't have some privileges?" Don't talk about the inner palace, even if you get into the rat hole, I can get you out. ”
Yan Li sneered, his depressed mood was relieved slightly, and he looked down curiously at the things in his palm.
It is a jade-inlaid gold waist card, the front is a two-legged dragon cloud map, and the dark color of a little jade at the head of the dragon is just like the eye, lifelike; In the middle of the back is a square "Yu" character, and the two rows of variant small characters on the lower left side are not very clear; The top of the waist card is perforated with a delicately woven red rope, which is accompanied by jade and blue, and there is a faint meaning of willow green and red.
Seeing Yan Li's curious eyes, Wen Moqing withdrew his waist card and stuffed it into his belt: "With this waist card, I can enter and exit anywhere in the palace freely, and the nominal inner and outer palace walls can't stop me - it's easier to meet me than the second prince you have been thinking about for a long time." ”
Yan Li pouted: "The unfortunate thing is that I don't want to see you the most." ”
Walking into the living room with his hands in hand, Wen Moqing picked the corners of his lips and looked leisurely: "If you don't see me, who told the news of the second prince?" ”
In the end, he cared more about Wen Moshu, Yan Liwu hurriedly put away the provocative expression, and poured tea obediently and served: "Lord Wen Shaoxia has a lot of compassion for the sake of his heart, wide body, fat brain, and fat intestines, he will definitely not worry about me, drink a cup of tea to dissipate his anger, and then tell me everything that should be told to me." ”
"You taught your family to boast like that?"
"You just have to think about it, you don't have to worry about the wording."
Wen Moqing glanced at Yan Liwu lightly, wanting to say something, but she didn't know where to start. In fact, he was just a little puzzled, wondering why he hadn't realized that Yan Liwu was so good at carrying it before, did he underestimate her sharp teeth? You'll have to be harsher in the future.
Although the above thoughts kept circling in Wen Moqing's mind, under the eager gaze of Yan Li, Wen Moqing still lost the battle without a fight.
"After leaving the imperial study, I went to the Tianque Palace, and at that time you had already come here with Gonggong Zhao, so I came out without saying a few words to the second prince." Wen Moqing took a sip from the teacup, and immediately frowned. Looking at the dim tea in the teacup, Wen Moqing put down the teacup with a bitter mouth, and leaned back slightly against the door frame: "The second prince is fine, and it seems that there is not much contradiction between him and Chu Ci, but the emperor's side is quite troublesome, and it took a long time to find a way to explain your identity and the whereabouts of King Qinglian." ”
"My identity is easy to arrange, what does the whereabouts of King Qinglian say? Will the ministers easily believe it? ”
"There's no need to force everyone to believe it, just don't let people find faults. Someone saw you during the birthday banquet, and you also exposed your identity before, the emperor didn't plan to hide it anymore, so he simply disclosed your identity, saying that you were the eyeliner for secretly investigating the Qinglian King who was sent to the Qinglian Palace as a stand-in, so that it can reasonably explain the problem that you have the same appearance as the Qinglian King. In addition, the emperor is also preparing to release the news of the death of King Qinglian, and the cause and time of death are all on the head of the explosion of the birthday banquet, as for the bones, I have asked people to send the coffin in the center of the underground palace into the imperial capital, and it will be parked in a hut outside the palace. Both of these things will be announced tomorrow, and after that, you will no longer have to carry the charge of being unaware. ”
Can the heavy burden on my back finally be washed away? Listening to Wen Moqing's reliable news, Yan Liwu unexpectedly did not feel excited, only stunned for a moment, and then raised his eyebrows: "Have the people who assassinated me and His Highness in the town been tracked?" If the target is just me, if even His Highness is within the scope of their planned assassination, then this matter cannot be left as before. ”
"I didn't investigate, it's none of my business." Wen Moqing replied calmly and simply, so angry that he frequently shook his eyes but was helpless.
After all, it was a lonely man and a widow in the same room, and after there was nothing to talk about, he gradually felt a little embarrassed, holding a teacup to warm his hands, and pretending to say casually: "It's late, are you going to sleep in the palace tonight?" ”
"Haven't I been sleeping in the palace lately? Do you want to sleep on the road outside the palace? If you want to drive me away, you don't have to beat around the bush. Wen Moqing's vicious eyes had already seen the cramped and uneasy Yanli worry, and when she was forced to be speechless, she finally felt a little satisfied in her heart, and got up and walked outside the bright room. Yan Liwu sent him to the door, and was hesitating whether to say politely, when the sudden black shadow startled her, and when she looked at it, she realized that it was Wen Moqing, who suddenly turned around, held on to the door frame, lowered her head and looked directly at her: "Have you already made up your mind, you want to be with him no matter what?" ”
Yan Li sighed worriedly: "How many times do you have to ask it again and again?" How could I have gotten this far without determination? Although there are still some differences in what happened after that, I will never regret it, and only Mo Shu will pay so much sacrifice for me, how can I bear him? ”
"He is not the only one who is willing to pay for you, it is you who are blindfolded and refuse to look - I mean Junbai, his heart for you is no less than that of the second prince, and if you live up to the second prince, you will lose him." Wen Moqing's tone was a little strange, and before he had time to think about it, the figure had already receded, still calm and capable, waving his hand chicly, "Stay here with peace of mind, if you behave well, you will be rewarded after a while." ”
What kind of reward does the iron rooster talk about, it's not bad if you don't take advantage of the fire to rob, and I don't know how Bi Sheng could fall in love with such a miser. Yan Liwu returned to the bedroom with a belly full of slander, and after sitting quietly for a while, he felt sleepy, but when he put out the candlelight, took off his shirt and touched his pillow, the sleepiness was scattered again, so he had to open his eyes and stare into the boundless darkness.
After leaving Qinglian Palace, this situation was not once or twice.
Whenever I lie alone in the bed in the dead of night, I always think of the experience in the underground palace uncontrollably, those thrilling, the joy of the rest of my life, as if it happened yesterday. She remembered clearly that Wen Moqing was not at all like the young master of the Junzilou she knew at that time, he protected her through countless traps, took off his indifference and snuggled up to her, and left a surprise kiss on her lips.
All kinds of clear memories are incomparable, but they all tacitly choose to avoid them, and never mention those things that are expected and unexpected.
She was surprised, confused, and didn't want to be known that her first kiss didn't belong to Wen Moshu, so what about Wen Moqing? Why didn't he keep his mouth shut? With his character, he should be very happy to grasp the question of the first kiss to hit her in the sore spot, but he never took the initiative to talk about what happened under the underground palace that day, as if the desperate danger of running away had never happened, he never treated her as gentle as water, never confided in his heart for her to listen, and never said with three points of smugness, in fact, he had kissed her a long time ago.
"What's there to be proud of...... whispered in the dark, Yan Liwu wasn't sure if his cheeks were red, but he really felt hot.
Yan Li didn't know what kind of mood she was in - for Wen Moqing's behavior, she was only annoyed that she was too slow to react at that time and couldn't dodge, but she didn't have the slightest resentment against Wen Moqing, as if she knew that he had dyed Qinglian Palace red with blood, and that he had chased her like a demon and tried to kill her, but she still couldn't identify Wen Moqing as an enemy.
This one...... Could it be the so-called...... Very foolish? Lust makes you dizzy? Masochism?
After thinking about it for a long time, none of the words were good, which made Yan Liwu a little flustered - she thought that she should care more about it, after all, the first kiss in her life was taken away by an irrelevant person, and it was so serious that she should learn to communicate with tears and pain like the weak and sad women in the story, but she didn't feel anything, and what was enough to teach her to be upset was the strange relationship between herself and Wen Moqing that was difficult to discern.
Who is he to her, and what is she to him? The almost philosophical questions made her toss and turn, and she lay on the bed tossing and turning in the dark night, so that a very small noise outside the room reached her ears clearly after the silence.
It was like the sound of metal colliding, small but crisp.
All the chaotic thoughts came to an abrupt end, and he almost subconsciously bounced up from the bed, jumped to the ground with a thud, quickly put on his coat in the dark, and tiptoed to the window to listen.
The sound was no stranger to her, it was made by the striking of thin, flexible iron objects, swords, knives, or daggers. Yan Liwu didn't know who else lived in the Leadhua Palace except for Concubine Silk and Jin Guiren, but she knew very well that the sound of sword handover should definitely not sound here, because a few hours ago, Jin Guiren also said that anyone walking back and forth in the inner palace was not allowed to carry sharp knives.
Could it be the assassin who pursued her? It must not be easy for this person to bypass the palace guards and quietly break into the harem.
Yan Liwu held his breath and leaned against the wall, trying to find clues from the silence, but there was no sound outside the room after that slight sound, and Yan Liwu waited for half an hour without seeing any movement. Just when Yan Liwu hesitated to go out and have a look, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.
She was very sure of her hearing, the sound just now was definitely caused by the collision of weapons, assuming that there was really someone lurking outside, then what did that small sound represent? Was it sent by an unknown Hidden Insider with two weapons accidentally colliding, or was it ......
In this lonely and deserted Leade Palace, there is more than one shadow lurking in the dark?