For Lingxi and Lotus Ye, they are outsiders in the Cold Palace, and it is impossible to know everything about the Cold Palace. For Mama Liu, she is the overlord of the territory of the cold palace.

If you want to take the first step smoothly in the cold palace, the only way is to bribe Mama Liu.

So Lingxi took off the two jade earrings on his ears and stuffed them into Mama Liu's hands.

It is indeed impersonal for Mama Liu to live in the cold palace all the year round, but if any of the degraded sinners know each other and give more silver foil, she is also willing to do this favor.

So, after walking through a pillar of incense in the waist-high weeds, the spirit rhino and lotus leaves were taken to the main hall of the cold palace.

The main hall of the cold palace sits in the north and faces south, the east and west are equipped with the hall, the corridor of nine turns, and the kitchen palace room is complete. It's just that the dilapidated palace and the weeds all over the courtyard are all swearing to the desolation of the cold palace.

The doors and windows of the temple, which were supposed to be vermilion, have turned gray-pink due to the long sun and rain. There are also a few dark red places above the temple gate, and the cold eyes look like blood spilled on it, which is shocking to see.

The cloister in front of the main hall has been completely dilapidated, and the ruins and ruins that are barely holding on are in danger of collapsing at any time. The remnants of the paintings on the beams of the cloister show how prosperous the palace once was.

Lingxi raised his eyes lightly and saw a plaque that had decayed on the door of the main hall. From the two remaining words, it can be vaguely recognized that this palace was originally called the same hall.

Lingxi tried to recall that if he remembered correctly, the main hall of Zhaohua Palace was called Tongxin Palace, which meant that the ancestors and concubines would always be of the same heart.

Suddenly, an evil wind blew, rustling the weeds in the yard, like someone walking through the grass.

Lingxi was thinking about it, and was frightened by the rustling sound that suddenly remembered, and his back was cold.

Lotus Ye hurriedly walked to Lingxi's side, hugged Lingxi's body and said, "Niangniang, don't be afraid." ”

"I'm not afraid, I'm just ......"

It's just that I thought of Concubine Jing who slept and died in the Tongxin Hall a hundred years ago.

Mama Liu stood at the door of the main hall, pointed to the dilapidated door of the main hall and said to Lingxi, "The land of the cold palace is not small, but because it has not been repaired for many years, the pavilion has collapsed countless times. Now the land that can be used to shelter from the wind and rain is only this main hall and several side halls. Fortunately, the people who entered this cold palace did not live long, otherwise there would really not be enough place to live. ”

Lotus Ye wanted to go into the main hall to have a look, but as soon as she stepped on the steps of the corridor in front of the main hall, the wooden steps collapsed very shamelessly and turned into a pile of broken wood.

Lingxi looked at this palace, which was still cold in the daytime, and turned around and asked Mama Liu, "Mama, is there any other place to live?" ”

Mama Liu rubbed the jade bracelet she was newly wearing on her hand, piled up the horizontal flesh on her face to the spirit rhino, and squeezed out a sneer, "Honorable Niangniang, what kind of place are you in the cold palace, and you can still choose the palace?" If you have a place to stay, you will be content......"

Lingxi endured the anger in his heart, and said, "Mama, then let me ask one more question, is there anyone else in this cold palace?" ”

"Yes." Mama Liu raised her bracelet-wearing hand and casually pointed to the east, and said vaguely, "A few days ago, a beauty came in, but there was a little nerve problem, and I haven't seen a shadow for some days." Then he casually pointed to the south, "Jieyu, who came in when the first emperor was a talented person, has more than a dozen ......."

Seeing that Lingxi and Lotus Ye were staring at her fixedly, Mama Liu wanted to find out something, so she rolled her eyes and left.

Lotus Ye shouted from behind, "Mama, you haven't told us when the food will be delivered." ”

"Sent?" Mama Liu didn't stop, but just sneered back, "Do it yourself with hands and feet." ”

Lotus Ye stomped her feet angrily, "What are we going to do with nothing!" ”

The answer to the lotus leaf was a gust of autumn wind, coupled with a rustling sound of the cold.

"Alright, stop shouting." Lingxi looked at the ruined palace and felt a chill in his heart, "You can't change the ground left and right, let's see where we can live." ”

Lotus Ye nodded, put down the burden and helped Lingxi to walk through this concentric hall.

The exterior of the Tongxin Hall is very dilapidated, but the frame inside is good. The outer hall is connected with the inner hall, and the dormitory hall has an independent hall door, which is a separate room. It can be seen that the pattern of houses a hundred years ago has changed a lot from now. It's a pity that although the frame is good, the doors and windows are all broken, and they can't cover the wind or rain.

After reading it, Lingxi gave up the idea of living in the main hall, not to mention anything else, living in the main hall and keeping warm in winter is a big problem. Moreover, Lingxi found moldy bedding in the dormitory.

It is impossible to survive the bedding of a hundred years ago to the present, and the only explanation is that there was once a person living in the main hall, and that person is dead......

In the end, Lingxi decided to live in the east side of the hall.

The east side hall is sandwiched between the main hall and the east wing, the doors and windows are relatively intact, and there are some dilapidated places, and the east wall can also be removed from the main hall to make up the west wall. And there is an independent small earth dragon in the east side hall, if it can still be used, heating in winter will not be a problem. If it can't be used, the space in the east side hall is small, and a brazier should be able to cope with the winter.

There is no shortage of firewood, can the weeds in the yard still lack something to burn?

After deciding on a place to live, Lingxi and Lotus Leaf began to clean up. Because it has been idle for a long time, the hall is full of dust, and there are not many tables and chairs that can be used. After throwing out the miscellaneous things, only a low kang was left in the east side hall in the dormitory, a screen shelf with one leg missing, a dilapidated boxwood carved round table, and two ceramic round tables.

Lotus Ye had the courage to go around the yard and found a well. The water in the well is very muddy and mosquitoes breed, but it is no problem to scrub and scrub.

Lingxi didn't wait, and after finding a vessel that could hold water in the main hall, he began to do what he could. The lotus leaves took all the dirty and tired work.

The master and servant started from entering the Tongxin Palace, and worked until the sun was on the west mountain before they could clean up the east side of the hall.

Sitting in the open space in front of the East Side Hall, Lingxi rested while smiling bitterly and said to the lotus leaf who was also so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist, "I still want to live in the cold palace and start crying, but this is too tired, so tired that I can't cry." ”

Lotus Ye looked at the spirit rhino with mud on his face, and laughed out loud, "Niangniang, you are still making the slave laugh at this time." ”

"You have to cry and laugh, so why not laugh?" Lingxi took a deep breath and inhaled the dust in his nose. After getting up from the ground, she beckoned to the lotus leaves who had not yet rested, "Come, let's clean up the weeds in the yard." ”

The tall grass in this yard looks hairy, if you don't clean it up, where will you dare to sleep at night?

I don't know how many years the weeds in the Tongxin Hall have grown, and they are dense and thick, and there is no place to put their feet. Because there were no knives, Lingxi and Lotus Leaf had to pluck the waist-deep tall grass with their bare hands.

At the beginning, Lotus Leaf could still be scared and screamed by a mouse that occasionally ran out of the weeds, but later, Lotus Leaf had chased the mouse with a wooden stick to fight, and shouted to the mouse, "Dare to run out to scare your aunt and grandmother, it really has a bear's heart and leopard gall!" ”

Where is the gentle and honest look of the past?

When the sun set, Mama Liu led two young palace maids to send two thin quilts to Lingxi. I also gave a small iron pot, a few coarse porcelain rice bowls, and a small amount of brown rice.

Mama Liu looked at the results of the Lingxi and Lotus Leaf for a day, raised her eyebrows and said, "There is no master who has entered the cold palace who does not say that he will go out one day." It's really the first one like you to prepare for a long stay. ”

Lingxi smiled lightly and said nothing. Of course, she also wants to go out, but is it an overnight thing to get out? Before she went out, did she have any other choice but to live well?

After the two palace maids put down their things, Mama Liu's thick fingers pointed and pointed in the direction of the entrance of the cold palace and said to the lotus leaf, "There is a clean well there, and there is a wooden bucket next to the well. ”

After speaking, he patted his ass and led the two palace maids away again.

At the moment, on the dilapidated carved table in the dormitory, in the dim light, Lingxi and Lotus Leaf ate their first meal in the cold palace - sandwiched porridge.

Lingxi gritted his teeth while drinking the hot porridge, "Is it *** Who told me that the food in the cold palace was sent by others?" When I go out, I will beat that person to death with a stick, and mislead the concubines of the good family. ”

Because the situation has become so bad that it can't be worse, Lingxi is no longer as cautious as before, and there is a little more free and easy in his tone.

The lotus leaves use an empty bowl to cool the brown rice porridge and fill it into the bowl of the lingxi. He smiled and said, "Niangniang, I also heard that someone brought food, and I heard that it was some leftovers that were cold and difficult to swallow." Now it seems that it is not bad, at least it is hot. ”

Lingxi raised an eyebrow, "You're quite content." ”

"Of course." Lotus Ye picked up the coarse porcelain bowl and drank the porridge, and said with a smile, "This is what you said, Niangniang, you have to cry and laugh." We can't choose the quality of the environment, and we can't be in a good mood? ”

"That's it!" Lingxi nodded in agreement.

After drinking three bowls of porridge in a row, Lingxi habitually became nauseous again. Holding his chest, Lingxi said to the lotus leaf, "Sleep after eating, and clean up the rest tomorrow." ”

Lotus Ye nodded, and after eating, he spread the half-new thin futon on the bed, and put two layers of cotton clothes on the bed. After closing the dilapidated temple door as tightly as possible, he hugged Lingxi and fell asleep deeply.

The spirit rhino and lotus leaves worked at full speed, and it took five days to clean up the weeds all over the yard. This is still one day a palace maid came to deliver dry food to them, and the lotus leaf exchanged a beaded flower for a kitchen knife, otherwise God knows what day they were pulling it out with their hands.

After drying the weeds and piling them up in the west hall, Lingxi's face showed a satisfied smile. With this dry firewood, you don't have to worry about freezing in the winter.

On the seventh day, the rhino and the lotus leaf began to deal with the mosquito-breeding well in the yard.

The lotus leaf has seen that the well is groundwater, but it has been useless for many years. As long as the dirty water is removed, they don't have to go outside to fetch water. One more is presented ~ all ~