When An Xiaowan was in the Zichen Hall and Emperor Yong'an were upside down, Lingxi sat in the inner hall of the Lingyan Palace, swallowing the slightly bitter refreshing tea one by one.

Lingxi is not a god, she can't know whether An Xiaowan is alive or dead at this time and where she is, except for waiting for news in her heart, she has no other way.

He sat in the inner hall until three o'clock, and Xiao Dezi came back from the outside in a cool air, followed by An Xiaowan, who was tightly wrapped in a cloak and her eyes were red and swollen.

After sending everyone out, Lingxi couldn't help but raise his right hand at An Xiaowan.

An Xiaowan looked at the angry Lingxi, raised her pretty face with tears in the corners of her eyes, trembled her lips and said, "I succeeded." ”

Seeing doubts flashing in Lingxi's eyes, An Xiaowan opened the cloak wrapped around her body, revealing the clothes that had been torn messily by Emperor Yong'an, "I've been ...... in Zichen Palace."

Lingxi lowered his right hand and turned to sit back on the low kang.

After being silent for a moment, she asked without a trace of emotion in her tone, "Since you succeeded, why did you come back?" Shouldn't you be warm up with him in the Zichen Hall until dawn, and then wait for the holy decree of the concubine to come down? ”

An Xiaowan covered her left cheek, smiled sadly, and said, "I didn't let him see my face, I asked him to turn off all the palace lights......"

Lingxi raised his head violently, looked at the heartbroken An Xiaowan, and was silent for a long time.

An Xiaowan sat on the other side of the dwarf kang, picked up the handkerchief of the spirit rhino to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a smile, "Concubine Yingniang, you once said that what you can't get and what you have lost is the best." I don't have a flower and a moon appearance, and the only thing I can fight for now is the place I occupy in his heart. If I just come back to him with a ruined face, I'm just laughing, and how many days can I laugh? ”

"So you want to capture the old ......" Lingxi understood what An Xiaowan meant, nodded and smiled, "One night, or ...... with his sweetheart"

An Xiaowan stood up and said to Lingxi, "When I leave, he will definitely go all over the Six Palaces to find me, and I will have to bother Concubine Ying to prepare for me." Xiaowan retired. ”

Under Lingxi's gaze, An Xiaowan turned around and walked out of the Lingyan Hall and returned to the Frost Pavilion.

Lingxi looked at An Xiaowan's back, only feeling a faint pain in her temples, and couldn't tell whether it was because she hadn't slept all night and was tired or shocked by what An Xiaowan had done.

Lotus Ye came in from outside and said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, you can take a nap." ”

"What time is it?"

Lotus Ye glanced at the incense bell burning on the side, and said, "The time is coming to an end." ”

Lingxi leaned on the dwarf kang and muttered to herself, "The Empress Dowager is old and will not follow the emperor to the court to accept the worship of hundreds of officials." There is no queen in the middle palace, and the harem concubines will definitely go to the Yongshou Palace early to greet the queen mother. Lingxi sighed and smiled at the lotus leaf, "That's it, don't sleep, tell me to go down, I want to bathe, and then go to Yongshou Palace to greet the Empress Dowager." ”

"Mother, why don't you sleep for half an hour." Lotus Ye felt sorry that Lingxi hadn't slept all night, and persuaded, "If your complexion is not good, the Queen Mother will also feel distressed when she sees it." ”

Lingxi rubbed his face and said, "It's okay, there's rouge gouache." ”

Lotus Ye couldn't persuade Lingxi, so he could only go down.

At three o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright. Lingxi was dressed up under the service of lotus leaves and Qiaozhu, and the most conspicuous place on the hair bun was not a grade hairpin, but the golden step shake given by the filial piety on Chinese New Year's Eve and the Empress Dowager.

When Lingxi arrived at Yongshou Palace, Xiao and the Empress Dowager had already gotten up, and were sitting on the low kang eating tea energetically. On the low table on the side, there are a lot of brocade bags of different colors, embroidered with various flowers, plants, fish and insects.

Seeing Lingxi come in, the wrinkles on the face of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager smiled at a chrysanthemum, and she said to Zhiyue who was standing aside, "Go and bring the lily lotus seed porridge, she came to the mourning house early in the morning to eat and drink!" ”

Zhiqiu laughed with a 'poof', and after looking at the Lingxi, he said to Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, "Concubine Yingniang must have smelled the fragrance of lily and lotus seed porridge in Yongle Palace." ”

Lingxi smiled at Zhiqiu and said, "Let you make fun of me, and I'll talk to you when I get the red envelope." ”

After speaking, he knelt down and kowtowed three times to the Empress Dowager of filial piety, and said with a smile, "The concubine gives the ancestor a New Year's greeting, and wishes the ancestor good health and all the best!" ”

Zhiqiu stepped forward to help Lingxi up, and the Empress Dowager Xiaohe picked up a brocade bag with a red embroidered lark from the low table and handed it to Lingxi, and said with a smile, "Come on, come on, give you a reward, otherwise you will say that you are stingy." ”

Lingxi took the brocade bag, pretended to take it in his hand and put it on the mat, and said with a smile, "Oh, the red envelope given by the ancestor is so light......

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe picked up the jade Ruyi on the table and pretended to hit the Lingxi, and said with a smile, "You are not satisfied!" ”

Lingxi talked and laughed with Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager in the inner hall for a while, and Concubine Rou and Concubine Ren and others came. The lively New Year's greetings, a group of people did not disperse until the end of the day.

Lingxi returned to the Lingyan Hall and just stabilized, Qiaozhu said to Lingxi with a solemn face, "Niangniang, the emperor ordered the palace to be searched not long after you left, saying that a treasure was lost in the Zichen Palace. ”

Lingxi raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "The speed is quite fast, what about Wan Concubine?" ”

"When the slave heard the news, she hid the concubine......," Qiaozhu replied quietly.

Lingxi nodded, covered his mouth and yawned, and said, "Just hide it, let them toss, I'm going to sleep......"

At the same time, Emperor Yong'an, who had returned from the early dynasty, was standing in the Zichen Palace, and Long Yan was furious, and he loudly reprimanded the minions in the Zichen Hall for being incompetent.

A living person disappeared in the Zichen Hall for no reason, not to mention, and it took a morning to find it.

Faced with the anger of Emperor Yong'an, Gonggong Feng risked his life and said, "Your Majesty, you drank a lot of wine last night, didn't you see it wrong?" Actually, that's not a concubine......"

When Emperor Yong'an brought the person back the night before, he didn't see the woman's appearance at all, only saw that the woman seemed to be wearing blue clothes, and he couldn't tell whether it was the master's or the palace maid's.

"Nonsense!" Emperor Yong'an reprimanded, "Don't I even know who the person I brought back is? ”

Gonggong Feng lowered his head and stopped talking.

"Search! Keep searching! Emperor Yong'an said angrily, "No matter how big this harem is, how big can it be?" If you can't find it once, search it twice, and if you can't search it twice, search it three times! I don't believe she can fly! ”

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When Xiao Jingzi led people into the gate of the Lingyan Hall for the third time in two days, Lingxi asked tentatively, "Xiao Jingzi, what kind of treasure did the emperor lose that made him so painstakingly searching?" ”

Xiao Jingzi took two steps closer to Lingxi and whispered, "Concubine Yingniang, the treasure lost by the emperor is the ...... on the tip of my heart."

Lingxi let out a long sigh and said with a smile, "That's really important, you quickly take someone to take a closer look at the Lingyan Palace, don't have a dead end......

Xiao Jingzi smiled bitterly and said to Lingxi, "Concubine Ying, the slave has offended ......."

As he spoke, he let the two palace maids who came with him walk into the Lingyan Hall and looked at all the places in the Lingyan Hall where people could be hidden.

After Xiao Jingzi took people away, Xiao Dezi said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, the slave thinks you are too generous." Xiao Jingzi took the palace people to search the palace in Hehuan Palace, and was slapped back by the big palace maid next to Concubine Rou. Later, I reluctantly let the search go, but it was only a hasty matter. Concubine Ling didn't give Xiao Jingzi a good look, and some Jieyu beauties said that Xiao Jingzi was not doing well, saying that they were all masters, how could they take the things around the emperor......"

Lingxi said indifferently on his face, "This entire Dashun belongs to the emperor, what's wrong with the emperor's order to search?" Their glory is not given by the emperor, is it interesting to do this? ”

"The slave means, Niangniang is too easy to talk......" Xiao Dezi said meaningfully.

Lingxi raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, "You think we are conspicuous because Concubine Wan is really here." Aren't the benevolent concubines, the noble concubines, the concubines, and the concubines also unobstructed? I just do my best and follow my usual temperament. ”

Xiao Dezi lowered his head and thought that this was the case, and he was relieved.

On the third day of the first month of the ninth year of Yong'an, rumors spread in the harem. On Chinese New Year's Eve, Emperor Yong'an brought back to the Zichen Hall the ghost of Wan Concubine, and what Emperor Yong'an ordered to search the palace to find in the past few days was also a ghost.

Because she is a ghost, she will ask Emperor Yongan to extinguish all the palace lights. Because she is a ghost, Emperor Yong'an can't see her after the sun rises in the early morning. Because it was a ghost, the three-day search of the palace had no results.

All of this is because Emperor Yong'an hit a ghost.

Emperor Yong'an sat on the low kang of the Zichen Palace, sighed and threw a brocade with a lotus root in his hand on the table.

When Emperor Yong'an woke up that day, the dimly lit Zichen Hall had no trace of An Xiaowan. If it weren't for Pinhua discovering this brocade when he was cleaning up the bed, Emperor Yong'an would have thought that his one-night lingering with An Xiaowan was just a dream for him.

At this time, the appearance of Yongan Emperor Jue'an Xiaowan is not as good as a dream. If it was a dream, he wouldn't have gone crazy to find it.

An Xiaowan gave him hope, but made him even more disappointed after looking for it.

Gonggong Feng looked at the brocade handkerchief that Emperor Yong'an had held in his hand for a few days on the table, and smiled at Emperor Yong'an, "Your Majesty, this handkerchief left by Concubine Wan doesn't look like the color of previous years......

Emperor Yong'an picked up the handkerchief on the table again, raised his eyebrows, and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Gonggong Feng replied, "Your Majesty, the servant has inquired, and the material of this Jinpa is a high-grade color forging. This kind of colored satin weaving and dyeing is particularly troublesome, and a good embroiderer can weave two horses a year. And there are very few who can be sent to the palace as tribute......"

"Needless to say...... Emperor Yong'an grabbed the Jinpa in his hand and said, "Go to the palace bureau to check, which palace ...... this kind of color forging has been distributed to?"