Before I could react, someone deftly opened my window and scurried in like a tanuki, landing silently.

I secretly rolled my eyes helplessly, and I didn't need to make a sound, just looking at this series of skillful window flipping actions, I knew who was coming.

He approached and reached out to open my bed net, and called in a low voice, "Qingwu? ”

"Why are you here?" I asked softly in surprise, "Is something wrong?" ”

Liang Ci nodded: "Lan Ying'er is crazy, and Prime Minister Lan was also given death by the Queen Mother." ”

"Well, I know, the second brother brought in the news." I asked in a low voice of concern, "The Queen Mother didn't make any trouble for you, did she?" ”

"Not for the time being, she doesn't care about curing me now." Liang Ci stepped forward and took my hand: "I came to you to ask you to go to the cold palace with me." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned: "What are you doing in the cold palace?" ”

"After Lan Ying'er went crazy, she was a little hysterical, she bit people when she saw them, and the Queen Mother ordered someone to lock her up in the cold palace, and there were people around her who were strictly guarded, and outsiders were strictly forbidden to visit, I wanted to go and see her."

"Humph!" I pretended to be displeased and snorted coldly and pouted: "I can't bear to see her suffering, isn't it?" ”

Liang Ci shook his head helplessly and chuckled: "Do you remember that I once told you that on the day of the killing of the Bodhi Sect, Lan Ying'er grabbed me at the gate of the palace and said that she wanted to tell me a shocking secret?" ”

I secretly slandered myself, if it weren't for this incident, I wouldn't have had such a big misunderstanding with you and provoked today's incident. So he nodded angrily: "Naturally remember." ”

"Last night's incident, I thought about it over and over again, and I felt that Lan Ying'er must have controlled some secret of my mother because of that time, so she caused the disaster of annihilation.

I remembered that Lan Ying'er was waiting for me at the gate of the palace that day, and once solemnly said to me: 'This matter has a lot to do with you, you must listen'. So I think that this secret that the queen mother is afraid of is very likely to have something to do with me, I want to take you with me to the cold palace, avoid the guards at the door, go in to diagnose, and see if Lan Ying'er's madness can be cured? ”

I groaned a little, connecting everything, and felt that Liang Ci's guess was right, very likely! At the moment, he didn't dare to delay at all, got off the bed and put on his shoes, and said with a sad face: "There are so many guards outside the courtyard, how can you get out with such a burden as me?" ”

Liang Ci smiled helplessly: "I usually let you practice more, but I am always lazy, but now I know that I am a burden, right?" ”

I stuck out my tongue and laughed embarrassedly.

"Don't worry, I'm familiar with the defense in the palace."

After speaking, he took out a stone from the Fushou bonsai on the desk in the room, opened the window a gap, and with a flick of his finger, there was a light sound of "dong" on the trees outside the yard, and the two night-perched birds were frightened and rushed out with their wings.

The sleepy guards outside the courtyard were suddenly vigilant and scolded in a deep voice, "Who? Hula poured over.

Liang Ci grabbed my waist, took the opportunity to climb out of the window, carefully avoided the palace guards, and under the cover of night, flew the eaves and walked towards the cold palace.

The cold palace is located in the most remote northwest corner of the palace, adjacent to the Huanyi Bureau on the left, and the most humble palace maid on the right. A half-dead white palace lamp at the head of the door looked particularly desolate in the dead silence.

Incompatible with the desolation and loneliness of this scene, there were no less than a dozen Imperial Forest Army guards outside the courtyard of the Cold Palace, hiding in the shadows and sheltering from the wind, holding silver guns, and dozing with their heads.

Two people were also arranged in the courtyard to guard in front of the main gate, shivering from the cold and complaining.

“...... If it is really impermanent, yesterday it was still infinitely beautiful, under one person, above 10,000 people, today it has become like this, and the family is ruined. ”

"Yes, a good person, if you say crazy, you will be crazy, you will bite whoever you catch, you will even gnaw your own arm, and you don't feel any pain at all, you are torn bloody, no one is a ghost, no ghost is not a ghost."

"Hey, this is called life is better than death, and the end is miserable enough. Prime Minister Lan Cheng's Mansion is completely finished, the trees are falling and scattered, what do you say are still guarding her on a cold day with so many of us? Could it be that someone will come to save her? ”

"Well, I haven't broken my snot."

......

Liang Ci's hand around my waist groped into my waist, wandering from side to side, and I was about to protest, but he had already waved one hand, and a few silver lights flashed, and the two guards in the courtyard sat down softly along the wall without saying a word.

I didn't have any quenching on my silver needle, so I guess it was a straight shot at my sleeping hole.

Liang Ci took me, quietly slid down against the corner of the wall, took the silver needles from the necks of the two guards, and then pushed open the door, tiptoed in with me, and carefully covered the door with his backhand.

The lights in the house are like beans, and the swaying lights and shadows make the whole room extremely cold and gloomy.

Through the dim light, you can barely see the furnishings in the house. The mottled benches, the broken chairs, the wind-soothing windows, the black ragged bed, the dusty cobwebs in the corners, and the smell of decay and sourness everywhere made people almost sick.

The floor was a mess, as if it had been baptized by robbers, and it was densely covered with scraps of cloth, broken porcelain, and paste-covered meals. When the rats saw the people coming in, they were not afraid, staring at us with a pair of small mung bean eyes, and looked at us with hostility.

Liang Ci frowned slightly, tugged at my sleeve with discomfort on his face, and then pointed to the figure faintly curled up in the bed tent.

I cautiously stepped over the mess on the ground, walked to the bed tent, and was about to stretch out my hand, but Liang Ci had already grabbed me behind me, vigilantly protected me behind me, drew a long sword from my waist, and picked open the bed tent, but I was obviously stunned and full of astonishment.

I couldn't help but poke my head out and be surprised when I saw the person on the bed.

The person curled up on the bed was covered in dirt, unkempt, and his head and face were covered with blood that had congealed, and he couldn't see his eyebrows clearly. She was bound in arms and curled up tightly, not knowing whether she was asleep or unconscious.

This, this is Lan Yinger?

I took a closer look, although my face was dirty and unrecognizable, I could barely make out from my figure, who was Lan Ying'er?

She seemed to be sleeping soundly, unaware of our presence.

With a single pick of the tip of the Liang Ci sword, the thin rope of the fingers tied to Lan Ying'er's body suddenly broke in two.

I waited for her blood to clear a little before I put my fingertips on the pulse, and the cool words behind me frowned and asked, "What's wrong with her?" ”

I made sure again and again, and then I sighed and said, "She must have been drugged to make people delirious, but she is not like ......."

"Do you think there's a cure?" Liang Ci was silent for a moment before asking.

"It's not that there is no cure, it's just that this disease needs to be slowly regulated, and it is not overnight, and it can be cured to get rid of the disease. Now that she is imprisoned here by the Queen Mother, outsiders are forbidden to visit, and she cannot be cured at all, not to mention, the Queen Mother will not allow it. ”

"Although Prime Minister Lan Cheng's protégés are everywhere, but people go to tea and cool, in this world, where is there anyone who cares about her life or death? My queen mother is trying to cover it up. Liang sighed.

I also sighed deeply: "Maybe madness is a blessing or a curse for her, at least, she can save her life for the time being." ”

After speaking, he stood up, looked down at her frozen curled up body, and was a little unbearable, so he casually pulled the tattered cotton wool on the side and put it on her body.

Lan Ying'er in the darkness suddenly opened her eyes coldly, staring at me like that, with a cold light, I almost shouted in panic, staggered back two steps, and leaned on Liang Ci's arms.

"What's wrong?" Liang Ci asked me in surprise, then turned to look at the bed.

Lan Ying'er had already sat up, looking at us with eyes like a cold rattlesnake! Where's a little bit of madness?

"You've come to see me?" Lan Ying'er sneered coldly.

"You're not crazy? Are you pretending? I asked in surprise.

"Why, you seem disappointed?" With clear words and quick thinking, it was obvious that Lan Ying'er was very conscious.

I shook my head: "You have nothing to do with me, it's not about disappointment or not. However, you leaked your secret so easily, aren't you afraid that I will go to the Queen Mother to complain? ”

Lan Ying'er pulled the hair scattered in front of her behind her and sneered: "When you finish listening to what I said, I'm afraid you won't do this." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned by Liang Ci, what does this mean?

"Gu Liangci, do you know why the Queen Mother had to kill me and my father to death?"

Liang Ci stood behind me, his arms still wrapped around my waist, not daring to stay away from me, lest Lan Ying'er suddenly go crazy again, which would be unfavorable to me. But his eyes didn't look at her, and he looked arrogant and disdainful.

"You are bold, in order to deal with Qingwu, you dare to offend the Queen Mother, such a big crime of disobedience will naturally not save your life." Cool words pretend not to know.

"Haha, a great sin of disobedience? My father was also a veteran of the two dynasties and an important minister of the imperial court. Without going through the interrogation of Dali Temple, he was directly charged with a crime by the Queen Mother, and he took his life. I don't believe it, you Qi Wang Ye don't doubt it at all. Lan Ying'er said sharply.

Liang Ci and I were silent for a while, what Lan Ying'er said was indeed true, and we were irrefutable. She snorted coldly, and said to herself, "You should remember that I once told you that I have a shocking secret to tell you. ”

Liang Ci nodded nonchalantly.

"This secret is about your true origins!"

"Huh?!" Liang Ci and I couldn't help but exclaim, looked at each other in dismay, and then turned our eyes to Lan Ying'er.

Lan Ying'er smiled proudly: "When I gave the Queen Mother a decoction, before she fell asleep, I learned a shocking secret from her mouth. That is, you Gu Liangci are not her biological flesh and blood, that is to say, you Gu Liangci is actually not a member of the royal family! ”