172, secret passage
The first thing Xu Shu did when she woke up was to touch her sleeve, and it was empty, and she couldn't help but feel annoyed, in the end, she was careless! Turning over and sitting up, he touched the injury on his knee and bared his teeth in pain.
"You're looking for this, aren't you?" Zhou Jin checked the things in his hand, looking a little meaningful.
Xu Shu didn't answer, but asked, "I'm in Taichang Palace?" ”
"Guess?" Zhou Jin's answer was very poor.
Xu Shu stretched out her hand helplessly, "Give me back the things!" ”
Zhou Jin put the things away and shook his head, "Give you back?" Is it yours? ”
"I picked it up!" Xu Shu gritted her teeth, but she seemed to lack confidence.
Zhou Jin smiled, "I also picked it up, so it's mine now!" ”
Xu Shu took a deep breath and tried her best to stay calm, "What do you want?" ”
"I don't want to do anything!" Zhou Jin looked at the flying fire bomb in his hand, full of inquiry, "You want this thing, I want this thing too, what do you say you should do?" ”
Xu Shu's heart sank, knowing that he was going to come back, he suddenly felt very sorry for Zhuang Li, but he had no intention of entangling with Zhou Jin anymore, so he stood up and was about to leave, but he was not convinced in his heart, so he said coldly, "Zhou Gongzi can come and go freely in the palace in broad daylight, there should be a secret passage in this palace, right?" Maybe it's also connected to Prime Minister Fu's family! ”
Zhou Jin's eyes flashed, obviously being said by Xu Shu, but he concealed a smile, "I thought you would threaten me with medicine!" ”
"I am a person who keeps my promises, since Gongzi has fulfilled his promise to help the Song family, I will also abide by the agreement between us, and I will definitely abide by the agreement on medicine!"
After speaking, Xu Shu was about to leave, but she couldn't touch the door, and she wanted to pull the string of Buddhist beads on her wrist, so Zhou Jin pointed to her left front, "To the left!" ”
Xu Shu thought about it for a while, but walked over according to Zhou Jin's instructions, and sure enough, she touched the door, and at the moment when she was about to open the door, Zhou Jin said again, "You said that you are going out from here now, what will she think when the Empress Dowager sees it?" ”
Xu Shu's hand pressed on the door frame and paused, it is true that Zhou Jin said that she was most worried about the point, the Empress Dowager had already been suspicious of her before, and after a long talk today, regardless of the Empress Dowager's purpose, it was obvious that she still had the value of use for the Empress Dowager, so the Empress Dowager's suspicion of her was temporarily put aside, and it was not wise to arouse suspicion again at this time, and finally her hand hung down, and she stood at the door with her hands in her sleeve and "stared" at Zhou Jin without saying a word.
Zhou Jin was a little hairy, if Xu Shu was a person with normal eyesight, it would be fine, but Xu Shu couldn't see it, but he could capture him so accurately, and the pair of ancient eyes stared at him motionlessly, as if he could see through his whole person, this feeling made Zhou Jin feel extremely insecure.
"I'll take you through the secret passage!" Zhou Jin couldn't resist surrendering in the end.
Following Zhou Jin into the secret passage, a chill hit him, Xu Shu subconsciously hugged his arms, Zhou Jin saw this and said, "Bear with me, it's not far!" ”
Xu Shu nodded, his fingers touched the wall slightly, and then leaned to the tip of his nose to sniff lightly, a smell of years of dampness mixed with oil smoke penetrated into his heart and lungs, Xu Shu knew that this secret passage had been built for many years, and the smell of lamp oil used for lighting had soaked into the wall, but didn't the emperor know that such a secret passage that had existed for many years? Xu Shu was curious.
"This secret passage was originally built just in case, and only the emperors of the past knew about it!" Zhou Jin seemed to know what Xu Shu was thinking, "Uncle Huang, he didn't succeed to the throne by order, so of course he didn't know!" ”
The first emperor died suddenly, the empress dowager in the palace and covered the sky with one hand, the first emperor died what kind of people do not know, as for whether there is an edict is no one knows, the people only know that not long after the death of the first emperor, his younger brother succeeded as the emperor, changed the title of the first prince to the king of Pingning, out of the customs as a hostage.
At that time, Zhou Jin was still young, how did he know about the existence of the secret passage?
"The Queen Mother told me! The queen mother was the most trusted person in his father's lifetime! Zhou Jin's eyes showed a trace of warmth, I don't know if it was because of the first emperor or because of the queen mother.
The Queen Mother told Zhou Jin all this, obviously she had unreserved trust in Zhou Jin, but Xu Shu remembered that Zhou Jin was the son of the first emperor's concubine, not the Queen Mother's own child......
It turns out that even if you are not related by blood, you can be close to Rusi, but even if some people are related, they are not as good as strangers......
"Bang dang!" Xu Shu, who was deep in thought, hit his head on the wall in the corner, his eyes flashed with stars, and he retreated again and again, almost unable to stand.
Zhou Jin stretched out his hand to support Xu Shu, looking surprised, "Could it be that your ear power won't drop when you go underground?" Just arrived at the corner, Zhou Jin didn't remind Xu Shu because he saw that Xu Shu was walking very smoothly on the ground before, but he didn't expect to bump into the ground.
Xu Shu touched her forehead, which was already slightly swollen, and sighed secretly, she shouldn't be distracted, the collision just now affected the injury on her knee, and she was pinched up and down, and she was weak in pain, "I just thought about something, I was distracted!" ”
Letting go of his forehead, Xu Shu touched his knee again, and suddenly felt something strange, and touched it carefully, as if there were traces of dressing, and then looked at Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin was rarely embarrassed once, "Hmm..... Belch...... What, seeing that you are bleeding from your leg again, I helped you deal with the wound, and I didn't mean to take advantage of you! ”
Xu Shu also blushed, hurriedly stood up straight, and forced her composure.
Zhou Ji was still explaining to himself, "I also caused you to fall and hurt yourself, so you should make up for it!" As soon as he turned around, Xu Shu had already left, and he hurriedly followed.
After walking for a while, Zhou Jin went out to explore the situation first, and when he saw that there was no abnormality, he pulled Xu Shu out, "This is Jiang Xuexuan, next to the queen's Kunning Palace, you go out and go directly to Kunning Palace, your maid is probably waiting for you in Kunning Palace!" ”
"You've always been there?" Xu Shu suddenly asked thoughtlessly.
Zhou Jin understood what she was asking, "Almost, I was already there when you came, so you didn't find me!" ”
Xu Shu suddenly seemed to think of something, "Those two guards were tripped by you?" ”
Zhou Jin nodded, "I hit one of the numb tendons on the leg!" ”
Xu Shu felt a little embarrassed, the courage to ask Zhou Jin for something just now was completely gone, she thought it was her luck and picked up a missing flying fire bomb without much effort, but she didn't expect that all this was actually calculated by Zhou Jin, it was she who picked up something that belonged to someone else, Xu Shu was no longer embarrassed to look at Zhou Jin, and hurriedly pushed the door out.
Zhou Jin reminded behind Xu Shu, "Go out and go right to the side gate of Kunning Palace!" ”