The sound of footsteps behind him, the exclamations seemed to be heavier, obviously alarming the imperial guards. Although Fu Heng said that he didn't look back, his calm eyebrows had already expressed his uneasy mood.

"Don't let her run away, you hurry up and find it, don't alarm the emperor." As Li Yu spoke, he caught up with Fu Heng's footsteps: "My lord, the slave should die, it is not good to do things, let a criminal who committed murder in the palace escape." At this time, I am afraid that I will not be able to accompany the adults to visit the garden, you see there is a pavilion called the Yujing Pavilion at the height, if the adults are not too rough, although they go to rest. ”

Fu Heng said: "Father-in-law, don't worry, I will wait there for the emperor's summons." ”

"Thank you for your understanding." Li Yu's face was full of guilt, and he had no choice but to make such a simple arrangement.

Fu Heng, who was originally leaving, had to go in the direction of Li Yu's finger, the pavilion. Along the way, Fu Heng watched a team of guards searching with knives and shuttling through the imperial garden, and his heart sank even lower. The quiet, wonderful scenery is gone. Instead, there was a sense of urgency and suffocation, and even the smell of blood and tension filled the air.

This is what the Forbidden City is all about!

The Yujing Pavilion is built on the Duxiu Mountain, with a gilded treasure top, covered with emerald glazed tiles, and a spire, which can be seen from afar. The pavilion is surrounded by partition doors, and the interior is a brick dome-type Panlong caisson, surrounded by a stone fence of white marble, elegant and extravagant. Because of the higher terrain, standing on the pavilion, you can overlook the palace and see the surrounding scenery, which is indeed a good place for the imperial view.

Fu Heng has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, climbing mountains and rocks like walking on a flat bottom, and he climbed the pavilion very easily.

"Who?" Only then did he push open the door on one side, and Fu Heng saw a person cowering and squatting in a corner of the pavilion.

The man raised his head and saw that it was Fu Henglai, as if he had seen a savior, and rushed up desperately: "Fu Hengren, slave Zhilan, please, save the slave, please." ”

When Fu Heng saw that it was Zhilan, his face changed greatly, and he was about to jump out in shock: "Zhilan, aren't you the palace maid who serves by the queen's mother's side, why are you here, what happened?" After a closer look, Zhilan's face was covered with blood spots, and a pair of jade hands supporting her body on the ground were also blood-red.

"The murderer the guards are hunting down...... It's you? Fu Heng couldn't dare to think about it anymore. The maid beside the eldest sister has made such a big mess, will it affect the eldest sister, the queen of the main palace? "What the hell is going on, if you dare to conceal it, or deliberately deceive it, I will hand you over immediately."

Zhilan burst into tears, panicked, and shook her head again and again: "Fu Heng is a man of Mingjian, the slave and maid have never killed anyone, and the slave and maid were stunned when they came out of the Qianqing Palace. When I woke up, there was already a little father-in-law lying beside me. It's a false accusation, it's a frame, and someone can't tolerate slaves and maids. Although she was flustered, Zhilan was not completely without the slightest thought.

If you want Fu Heng to help, you must have something to rely on, and the queen mother is the best reason.

"My lord, slaves and maids are cheap, and it is not a pity to die. I'm afraid that someone will deliberately attack the slave maid, but it is the queen who will target the finger. As soon as these words came out, Zhilan immediately saw the solemn melancholy in Fu Heng's eyes, and his heart was slightly relaxed. She expected that Fu Heng would only enter the palace, and she must not know about her sleeping last night. So his expression was even more sad, and his voice was difficult: "The slave maid thinks that there must be someone who can't tolerate the queen's grace, so she has to borrow the slave maid to make the maid suffer." ”

Concerned about chaos, Fu Heng nodded thoughtfully: "Your words are not unreasonable. It's up to you, and it's impossible not to implicate the queen. After a slight change of thought, Fu Heng felt that it might not be so simple: "You shouldn't have deceived me, right?" You know, when life is at stake, you can't miss a word. ”

Zhilan thought hard with tears in her eyes, and finally shook her head. "There is nothing that the slave or maid dares to deceive the adult, please save the slave and the maid, save the queen."

Fu Heng weighed it again and again, but still felt that Ying Dao had discussed it with the eldest sister before deciding. Then he took a deep breath and thought: "This is not a proper place to stay, so it is better to hide in the rockery cave under the pavilion." ”

There was a faint light in her eyes, and Zhilan bit her lip and nodded.

"I'll go and see, and if there's no one, you can hide with me. Later in the evening, when the time is ripe, it will not be too late for me to come back to save you. After Fu Heng said these words concisely and decisively, he suddenly had a bold and evil idea. Zhilan is alive, it will inevitably endanger the queen, if ...... If she directly ended her life and died without proof, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble, so why save her again?

This thought made Fu Heng a little messy, and he couldn't figure out why he could have such a vicious thought. Could it be that the Forbidden City is filled with bloody air for a long time, and people become brutal unconsciously? Obviously, he was not satisfied with such an absurd excuse, and when he looked sideways at Zhilan, Fu Heng's heart softened.

It is too immoral to ask him to be a dignified seven-foot man and brutally kill a weak woman who is powerless. He couldn't get past himself. Especially the smart light in Zhilan's eyes, it is so sad and pitiful, it is really distressing.

After weighing it again, Fu Heng still decided to hide Zhilan first. So he motioned for her to hide first, pushed open a door and took a closer look, and then said slowly: "It just so happens that there is no one at this time, you come with me." ”

Zhilan's heart trembled, and after thinking about it a few times, she still had the courage to follow behind Fu Heng and quietly walked out of the Yujing Pavilion. Tossing and turning down the mountain, Zhilan suddenly saw Li Yu's figure, walking from behind her, and her face changed from time to time.

I want to hide, but I think this may be the cutting machine that she survived. After all, the emperor doesn't know about this yet, and only if the emperor knows, can he save her, right? Horizontal heart, Zhilan was about to let Li Yu see herself, but just when she opened her mouth to call for help, Fu Heng suddenly walked over and suddenly raised his hand and slashed, stunning her.

said that it was too late, Fu Heng stopped his waist and held up Zhilan who had fainted, jumped into a gap in the mountain and rock, and threw the person into the cave. Then I heard Li Yu raise his voice and call: "Fu Hengren, where are you?" The emperor announced that you would go to the south study to meet you, and when you heard the slave calling you, you would say yes? ”

"I've wronged you." Fu Heng gently apologized to the unconscious Zhilan, and put the person down before slowly standing up. From the other end of the gap, the swift return path leads to the Imperial Pavilion. At this time, Li Yu called again. Fu Hengcai agreed: "Father-in-law, be slow, wait for me to go down the mountain with you." ”

Li Yu let out a "snort", and waited for Fu Heng to come down the mountain on the side of the detour.

When the praying mantis catches the cicada, the yellow finch is always behind.

Xiao Feng quietly saw all this, and after the people left, he found Zhilan according to the route taken by Fu Heng. Seeing that the beauty did not move at all, Xiao Feng really didn't feel good in his heart. He used to like this woman so much that he even secretly thought about asking the emperor for marriage. Unexpectedly, she was already the emperor's person.

What happened in the south study last night, Xiao Feng was clear. So early this morning, he waited outside the side gate of Chengqian Palace, wanting to ask her in person if she had been planning for a long time, just for such a day. Is it bitter and sweet, wearing colorful phoenix feathers, is her long-standing wish.

Who expected that the yin and yang made him follow the person who framed her......

Squatting down gently, Xiao Feng's cold hand gently brushed the white skin on Zhilan's cheeks. "If it were you, I would have fought for it. It's a pity that you are no longer my bond now. Zhilan, don't blame me, and I won't blame you. "The infatuation and mispayment of the past, the ignorance and sadness of the past, are just the conjectures of the young and frivolous.

Xiao Feng is no longer the Xiao Feng of the past. He was not as merciful as Fu Heng, and he was not prepared to place Zhilan in a safe place. Instead, he had to take her to Cining Palace. The Queen Mother's mind is so obvious, what can he do? You can't let the emperor and queen take risks for the sake of just a palace maid, right?

Between the thought of life and death, Xiao Feng found that his heart was no longer there. My heart is gone, what do I do with my worries?

Like Fu Heng, Xiao Feng held Zhilan in his arms, and every inch of skin on his face was stiff. It can be described as calm as a cold corpse. In other words, he turned all his grudges into thick armor, blinded his heart, and did not want to think about anything else.

"Deputy Chief, did you find the murderer?" The sharp-eyed guards immediately greeted him.

Xiao Feng didn't make a sound, and took Zhilan into the place where the most guards were guarded in the Imperial Garden. Many of the guards who had been searching in a hurry saw it and gathered together.

"The person has been found, so there is no need to search for it. Do your job and disperse. Xiao Feng's eyes were gloomy and a little straight, and he didn't look at anyone when he spoke: "I will take her to Cining Palace and beg the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother to leave." ”

Everyone had no doubts and retreated.

Xiao Feng held Zhilan like this, and walked towards Cining Palace with heavy steps. Every step is like stepping on your own heart, painful but helpless.

Gao Xiang held the boxwood moire tray with a solemn face and walked up slowly.

The Queen Mother was talking to the palace concubines, and when she saw him come in, she couldn't help but be a little puzzled: "What are you holding in your hand?" ”

The palace concubine in the vicinity had sharp eyes, and it seemed to be a silver hairpin. Before he could say anything back to the Queen Mother, he saw that Gao Xiang had already bowed down and walked closer.

"Back to the Queen Mother, it's a silver hairpin." Gao Xiang's words were concise and powerful: "There is a servant in the imperial garden who stabbed to death the father-in-law of the imperial dining room, and this hairpin is the murder weapon. ”

Lan Xin's eyebrows jumped, and he suddenly became sensitive.

"Oh?" The Queen Mother's face instantly became gloomy: "Will there be such a thing?" ”