Chapter 16 The Little Wall Climber

If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone?

Qing Qian was slightly distracted, Gu Qingyuan took her hand and shook it, "Sister thinks so too." ”

She...... What should she think, she has been keeping to herself in the past few days, unless someone provokes herself, she has always been able to retreat from people, and try her best to live, whether it is the matter of aloe vera or the matter of aloe vera paste this time, it is not herself who is the first to cause.

"Yes." Qing said softly.

The two of them arrived at the Qianqiu Pavilion as they spoke, the Qianqiu Pavilion was symmetrical along the Kunning Gate on the west side of the Imperial Garden and the Wanchun Pavilion on the east side, and the banquet had been set up here, and the people on both sides had already arrived, waiting for Xiao Guifei's banquet.

was a little bored for a while, but Gu Qingyuan knew a lot of girls from the house, and after a while, he separated from her, and he was consciously bored and had to support his ears to listen to the whispers of the lady beside him.

"Today's birthday of Concubine Xiao, will the emperor and queen come over?" I only heard the woman in the concubine-colored dress next to her whisper, and glanced at it slightly, but saw that the person's waist card was squarely engraved with the word "Sun", although she had not been here for a long time, but the surnames of many mansions were still remembered clearly, and the woman in front of her was probably Sun Qian, the main room of General Sun's mansion.

Another woman was standing behind Qing Qian and said: "Who knows, the emperor didn't come over in previous years, and in recent days, I heard that the emperor hasn't been to the harem for several days because of the queen's mother." ”

"The emperor hasn't accepted the harem for a long time, obviously he is just the age of not being confused, but there are only a few people in the harem, and there are only a handful of people who are favored every month, this Xiao Guifei is the only one who has an heir besides the queen." Sun Qian said in a low voice.

“……”

Qing Qian understands that the emperor's harem of this dynasty is short of people, don't look at the huge harem courtyard, but there are few people who really live there. The queen's status in the palace is the highest and the most favored, and secondly, there are not many people favored by the emperor, except for Xiao Guifei, there are only a few other women who come in from the important ministers' families, and the grades are also above the concubines, and among the concubines, there is only the prince born to Xiao Guifei.

It's no wonder that Concubine Xiao is so tired, in the entire harem, except for the queen, she is the only one who has children, and it is strange that the other people in the palace do not get along and deal with her! Even if there are not many people in the emperor's harem, there are at least a thousand people in total.

It's really strange to say, I heard that the emperor has been in power for more than 20 years, just started the harem only one queen, only the second lady of the Jiang family in the back of the town entered the palace, and many important ministers of the court have put their daughters into the harem, and the number of people is full all of a sudden, speaking of which, the emperor has only one public draft girl, which was originally presided over by the queen, but I heard that the queen's temperament is really strange, and the queen has fallen asleep on the chair for two or three days. The emperor himself had to come and carry her in to rest.

The queen doesn't seem to be worried about how many people are in the emperor's harem, except for a few days when the emperor is at the queen's place, she basically goes to the house of the concubines to spend the night as usual.

There were also ministers who said that the queen and the demon girl had mistaken the country, and when they went to the court the next day, they saw a big knife inserted in the emperor's dragon chair, and they were quite amiable and asked what happened yesterday, which frightened the minister and praised the queen for a whole morning.

Hearing this, Qing Qian was a little embarrassed, not because the queen was He and others, but because the emperor's favorite wife seemed to have no upper limit......

There was still an hour to leave the banquet, and the palace maid had already put warm sweet soup of osmanthus and lotus seeds on the long table in the palace, and brought a bowl to everyone who went to the banquet. It didn't take long for a little palace maid to carry a bowl of sweet soup to Qing Qian's hand, this little palace maid seemed to have just entered the palace, and she was in a hurry to do things, and she forgot to bring a spoon when the sweet soup was delivered to her.

"Miss Gu, I'm really embarrassed, the slave maid has also entered the palace in recent days, and the concubine Niangniang asked me to come here because of the lack of manpower." The little palace maid was a little anxious, rubbed her hands and said, "The slave maid will go over there and get it for you in a while." ”

Qingqian didn't blame her: "There are so many people here, how can you find me in a while?"

"This ......," the palace maid's face turned a little red, "There is still a long time to leave the banquet now, if the eldest lady is empty, it is better to go with me to get it." ”

Qingqian thought about it, but there was no problem, it was still early to leave the banquet, and the old lady and Gu Qinglian had not arrived, Gu Qingyuan was chatting with those young ladies from Beppu next to him.

"Okay." She nodded.

The little palace maid saluted again, and then took her away, and unconsciously walked out of the imperial garden through the west gate.

She was not familiar with the huge palace, and the golden tiles and red walls in front of her were all the same, although Qing Qian kept looking around, but the surrounding environment was basically the same.

Moreover, I couldn't even see a palace maid all the way.

She didn't care about the spoon anymore, squinted her eyes and stopped.

"Where does my aunt want to take me?" She paused and whispered.

But the palace maid who had been walking in front turned a deaf ear and walked forward without saying a word.

With a light snort, Qing Qian turned around to leave, but heard the man: "If Miss Gu wants to leave now, it's too late, do you know where this is?" ”

Whence? How did she know, but she could clearly feel that this palace maid was deliberately taking her on a detour, just so that she couldn't find it.

Qing Qian took two steps back and said, "Auntie, you might as well tell me who asked you to bring me here." ”

The palace maid turned around and smiled: "How can you know who my master is, Miss Gu, listen to me, since you have arrived here, it is better to go with me to the end, now even if you go back, you can't find the way, but there was an ignorant little maid who didn't want to enter here, and when she was discovered, there were only white bones left." “

"So, you mean I can only go with you?" Clear eyes look around.

"Yes, it's just that whether you go now or follow me, you won't survive," the palace maid was quite frank, "but if you want to die more comfortably, you might as well come with me." ”

"Auntie's words are that Miss Ben can only follow you to death no matter what? Or can I see your mother? ”

The aunt sneered: "Miss Gu thinks too much, so our mother won't show her face so easily." ”

Empress? She just said casually, I didn't expect the little palace maid to say more smoothly than her, she has always been a certain lady in the palace, if you can call it a mother, it should be a person above the concubine.

Qingqian didn't hesitate to throw the bowl of sweet soup out of her hand and run away, uncle, she followed her because her brain was kicked by a donkey! Even if it's dead no matter where she is, it's better to slip away early, no matter which master she is, who is she provoking and who is provoking? It's the first time I've entered the palace here, and I don't even know anyone in the palace.

The palace maid was stunned, but she didn't expect this Miss Gu to turn around and run, and she was still running fast in a Luo skirt, and suddenly there was no shadow. However, this is a cold palace, no one has lived in it for decades, and it is so empty that no one can hear it even if you see through your throat.

She pursed her lips, although she didn't bring Miss Gu over, but it's almost the same to throw people here, sooner or later she will starve to death here.

Qing Qian didn't know how far he had run, panting and leaning against the side of the palace wall, it was really as big as the palace maid said, and there was no one at all, all the way over those palace doors were hung with huge locks, those locks had been glued with cobwebs, and the keyholes had already rusted into shape.

There is such a place in the palace.

She looked around, she seemed to be at the door of a courtyard, and looked up to see the large gilded letters on the plaque above.

Cold Palace.

The palace maid actually brought her to this kind of place, and took a shallow breath, the sun is now above her head, and it is almost noon now, I am afraid that there will be a banquet in a short time, and when the Gu family loses an eldest lady, then this matter will be over. She gritted her teeth, fortunately, she was dressed simply today, if she wore a set of heads and faces on her head like Gu Qinglian, she would be tired enough.

took a deep breath, at that time she heard the words of those fateful ladies, the emperor's harem was originally small, and there were not many fights, half of the things happened secretly, so the emperor has not sent people into the cold palace for so many years, so I am really afraid that she is the only one here.

She made up her mind, even so, it was not impossible, before she followed the palace maid for a stick of incense, the speed of the two was not fast and spared, and she ran back, so this place is not particularly far from the imperial garden.

She hesitated for a while, not daring to walk away easily, although she was not far from the Imperial Garden, but she didn't know the direction of the road, and she was afraid that she would go farther and farther.

After looking around for a while, Qing Qian picked up Luo's skirt and tied it around her waist, climbed the willow tree next to the palace wall, stepped on the willow tree and then went up to the wall, and she didn't know that the people who built the cold palace were afraid that the wall would be too thin and smashed through, so this palace wall was particularly thick and allowed her to sit on it.

In this way, the scenery in front of you is unobstructed.

Fortunately, the palace near here is not high, and Qing Qian can clearly see the distance when he sits on it, and soon he sees the spire of the Qianqiu Pavilion, and the imperial garden is in that direction.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but heard a familiar voice from behind: "Where did the wild girl come from to be so bold to climb the palace wall?" ”

Qingqian's face turned white, this was the person who appeared, and she was so frightened that her hands were weak, and she almost fell down again.

Sure enough, this ancient wall is not so easy to climb, and you have to fall to the ground twice to climb the wall!

When I looked back, I saw one, no, two familiar faces.