I slept very unsteadily in the palace, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, finally falling asleep, and being plagued by nightmares, probably because I was instinctively afraid of this place.

Fear this magnificent and majestic imperial city.

While it was still light, I got up, dressed myself, made sure there was nothing wrong, and went out.

As soon as I opened the door, the cold and biting wind rushed in my face, and I couldn't help but gather my clothes and step out.

The palace in the early morning is quiet, the palace is still surrounded by a thick fog, hazy, like a veiled girl, there is a pretty and vague beauty, there are a few birds parked on the tree trunk in the distance, chirping, this is the sound I can hear.

The sky was also gray and gray, only from a far, far away, through a ray of golden light, a faint floating cloud drifted by, as if looking forward to the moment when the sun shrouded the earth, the hour was still very early, I estimated it, about a little after the hour, at this time, there was a palace maid hurrying by the path next to me.

She hurried away with her head down, only wearing a slightly simple plain pink brocade robe, without any patterns on her clothes, draped in a robe, and without any decoration in her hair, just inserted with a dark wooden hairpin, nothing was engraved on the wooden hairpin, looking at this dress, it should be an inferior palace maid.

It's really not easy and hard to get up so early to get busy.

I walked a few steps along the path, and I didn't dare to go too far, I was not familiar with the palace environment, I was afraid that I would not be able to go back if I walked too far, I stretched my waist, twisted my neck, and got up in the morning to move my muscles and bones, and I felt very comfortable.

I didn't sleep much at night, but I'm not sleepy at all.

The road in the palace is very complicated, and I don't want to bump into people on the main road, so I will drill into some small paths, and I will remember some landmark and strong things on the way to prevent getting lost.

I have to praise the environment in the palace, the scenery is beautiful and beautiful, the carved beams and paintings, magnificent and magnificent, I admire while marveling, and only this is the time, I can relax a little comfortably, and I don't have to keep my nerves broken, afraid that I will go wrong somewhere.

That's really tiring, and you have to pay attention to your words and deeds all the time.

I heard that the previous palace maids could still talk on the road, maybe because of their broken mouths, or because they provoked our new emperor, he actually ordered all the palace maids to go out of the house, except for work, the rest could not speak.

There was a big palace maid who didn't care, and met an acquaintance on the road when chatting was bumped into by the emperor, and dragged it directly to cut off his tongue, killing chickens and monkeys, and from then on, everyone in the palace maids was in danger, and they all hurried away with their heads down, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads.

Of course, there are many things he has done in the year he ascended the throne, and I have heard of several more things, for example, when the minister knelt slowly in the court, he broke his legs on the grounds of disrespect and was directly dismissed.

Including the fact that his previous two concubines were buried alive, and there was a palace maid who looked at him more, and there was a version that said that he wanted to seduce him, anyway, in the end, he gouged out the eyes of the palace maid and exiled him from the palace, and there were countless things.

But our emperor Luan Ling, in fact, is not useless, in the year he came to power, many places carried out reforms, adjusted the official price of salt, reduced taxes in border areas and remote and poor places, and also reorganized the military system, and adjusted the power structure of military power.

These are also what I knew bit by bit on the way from Rindu, I deliberately collected information about Xia Zihuang, and found that he was also very interesting as an emperor, when he was still a prince, he had an excellent temperament and did not have a tyrannical tendency.

The eldest prince once commented on him, saying that he was magnificent, radiant, jade trees in the wind, and sharp teeth, no one could say that he was the most handsome and smartest of all the princes.

But now, the words that evaluate him are all tyrannical, dark and bloodthirsty, arbitrary, and unreasonable, if the eldest prince is still alive, I don't know what he will think when he sees the current Xia Zihuang.

None of us know what happened to the succession a year ago, everything is a mystery, and the mystery is only understood by the parties involved.

I turned around here twice, I didn't meet a person, it seems that the place I walked is really partial, not even a palace maid to see, I see that the sun has been slowly rising, as if the veil has been lifted, gradually revealing the original appearance of the entire palace city, the golden roof of the palace reflects the dazzling light, the vermilion palace wall stands, cutting off my view from afar.

Another crisp birdsong, the snow-white bird fluttered and flew away, I looked, the time was almost up, I should go back and wait for news.

Just before I left, I heard a super small voice.

"Meow~"

I hurriedly searched around, but I didn't see anything, I thought it was a hallucination, how could there be a cat in the imperial city?

It's ridiculous.

I smiled and shook my head, and as I was about to leave, I heard this meow again, this time clearer, as if it was closer to me.

I became interested all of a sudden, and I don't know who was so bold as to dare to raise a cat in the palace, I meowed, only to hear the cat reply to me.

"Meow~"

Wow, I marvel in my heart, it's really a cat!

I whispered, "Meow meow, where are you?" Meow~"

A small head came out of the eaves, it was a white cat, the whole body was snow-white, its head was round, its pointed little ears trembled, and its two eyes looked at me brightly, and then it: "Meow~"

In an instant, my heart melted.

It squinted its eyes and lay down lazily, its body clinging to the eaves, its tail still wagging in the air.

"Kitten, how did you get there? You're amazing! I can't even go up, do you want to come down? If you jump down, I'll catch you! "I tease it.

I saw that it ignored me completely, licking its own hair, and I was quite stupid down there, dancing and teasing it alone, and it didn't even react.

I pretended to be serious and said, "If you don't come down, I'll ignore you."

It stood up suddenly, and I looked at it in shock, and it shook its head, bent slightly, and jumped off the eaves, and its target was me, and it stepped on my head, and then stepped on my shoulder, and jumped off me.

Dare to love me as a foothold, just now I still wanted to go, now I don't want to at all, I squatted down, picked up this naughty cat, it didn't struggle, it's very well-behaved, let me ravage it.

It was so cute, I looked at it carefully, and I realized that her eyes were different colors, one was green like emerald, and the other was pale yellow, crystal clear, and bright.

I happily held it in my arms, holding it with one hand and running the other hand along its fur.

I felt a fierce momentum coming from behind me.

I can still hear a calm and serious voice saying, "Let go of the mung bean!" ”

"Huh?" I turned my head in confusion.

I saw a man standing on the steps, looking down at me, his handsome face greeted the morning light, with a noble temperament that seemed to be innate, his long black hair was scattered very casually, with a faint luster, those eyes were obviously peach blossom eyes, but with a feeling of cold arrogance and loneliness, his skin was fair, the bridge of his nose was straight, and his eyebrows were just right, setting off his eyes.

He was dressed very simply, just wearing a thin layer of white underwear, I admired him a little, it was amazing to dare to wear so little in such a cold weather.

I pointed to the cat in my arms and asked, "Mung Bean?" Is it it? ”