Chapter 233: Exploring the Palace at Night
It was night, the cool breeze was blowing, the moon was like a chain, and the moonlight shone on the ground through the branches of the acacia tree, and the shadows were full of shadows, casting a mottled silhouette.
Hua Xiyan, who had slept for a day during the day, was full of energy, and he was energetic and wore night clothes and pulled Wang Jin towards the palace.
"When I went to see Wen Jinxiu yesterday, I didn't find any sachets on her, otherwise we wouldn't have to work so hard." Wang Jin said with a low sigh.
"The Wen family gave the outside world that Wen Jinxiu died of a hidden illness." Hua Xiyan said, a very disdainful smile on his lips, "Since you can find out that Wen Jinxiu is poisoned, the imperial doctor may not be able to find out." Now that he is so silent, he is naturally ordered by others. ”
Wang Jin also knew what Hua Xiyan meant, and couldn't help but pout: "Who is the one in the world who can make the imperial doctor keep his mouth shut?" It is said that tiger poison does not eat children, and now I have opened my eyes. ”
Hua Xiyan chuckled lightly, noncommittal.
The two could faintly feel the breath of the royal guards hidden in the shadows, so they dodged very carefully and tiptoed to Princess Roujia's palace.
The palace was brightly lit, no less than daytime, a few maids on duty at the entrance of the main hall guarded, and there were a few Ouchi guards below, if it was so blatantly entered, it seemed impossible.
Hua Xiyan and Wang Jin squatted under the fence under the main hall, looking up at the groups of Praetorian Guards walking by, listening carefully to the footsteps of the people.
"If it is really the pearl of Emperor Tianlong's palm, this guard strength is not ordinary." Wang Jin whispered to Hua Xiyan. If this had sounded like nothing before, now that I know about the spices, how can this sound ironic.
The two did not mask their faces, but were slightly modified under Hua Xiyan's superb makeup, and now Hua Xiyan is a handsome man, with a height similar to Wang Jin.
"There's a bird in the treetops, you knock it down." Hua Xiyan looked at the small black shadow on the top of the tree on the other side, which was far away from him, and commanded Wang Jin.
She knew very well about her weight, so she didn't make a move, so as not to be self-defeating.
"Okay." Wang Jin nodded, took out a stone from his arms that he had just picked up outside the palace, and threw it towards the treetops.
"There's movement over there, go check it out!" It just so happened that a pair of patrolling guards passed by and hurriedly ran towards the tree not far away.
Wang Jin immediately ran up the stone steps according to Hua Xiyan's instructions before, and rushed directly towards the main hall.
Several maids on duty reacted immediately, shouting loudly as they stepped forward to resist Wang Jin with their delicate strength.
The pair of guards who were patrolling just now immediately returned, and a group of people shot towards Wang Jin.
While Wang Jin was coping, he pulled the maids to dodge, and for a while, everyone was entangled in one place, and they were in full swing.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Hua Xiyan immediately turned over through the window and entered Princess Roujia's palace.
Wang Jin saw that Huaxiyan had succeeded, so he began to implement the second step of the plan - running.
When the Ouchi guards saw Wang Jin running, they all followed without hesitation, and the group of people gradually moved away.
As soon as Hua Xiyan entered the dormitory, he smelled the overwhelming aroma, and couldn't help but cover his nose immediately, thinking about what kind of training Princess Roujia had gone through to withstand such a strong aroma?
This smell is more than a hundred times heavier than the fragrance on Princess Roujia's body, Hua Xiyan quickly looked for the spices, thinking that it would be better for him not to be stunned here.
There were a few faint pearls in the room that emitted a dim light, not very bright, but enough to see the contents of the room clearly. Hua Xiyan saw a copper tripod smoking cigarettes and tiptoed over.
Behind the layers of veils, there is a shadow, hazy and unclear, but it adds to the beauty. Hua Xiyan is not in the mood to appreciate the beauty sleeping soundly now, but she just thinks that this Princess Roujia is also magical enough, and she has to burn this incense when she sleeps at night!
The copper tripod is placed on a desk, and there is a small and delicate box next to it, Hua Xiyan opened the box and found that it was not the usual spices one by one, but was divided into small grids, and each small grid was placed with different things, presumably when burning, it was to be perfumed according to the proportion.
Such an exquisite spice is indeed rare in the world, and it is given by the emperor himself, no wonder Princess Roujia is so proud.
Hua Xiyan squatted on the ground and sighed softly, picked up the paper on the table from the side, and wrapped the contents of each compartment separately.
Suddenly, Hua Xiyan's gaze paused on a letterhead.
Although it is unkind to say that it is unkind to peek at other people's letters, she can't control it so much. Because of the font on the envelope, she was familiar with it.
Hua Xiyan has discovered that everyone around her has their own unique brushwork and formed their own different styles. So there are some words that she can remember just by reading them once.
Slender fingers gently pulled the letter out of the envelope, and Hua Xiyan squatted behind the desk, quickly scanning.
I don't know if I don't read it, I was shocked when I saw it, the content of this letter really surprised her. Originally, I thought that I would put the letter back after reading it, but after knowing the content of the letter, Hua Xiyan kicked into his arms without hesitation.
I didn't expect that this time I came for spices, and there was such a big windfall.
"Thank you." Hua Xiyan spoke silently towards the back of Princess Roujia, her lips hooked a faint arc, she climbed out of the window she had just entered, bent over the wall, and reached the end of her tiptoe, and immediately climbed out of the courtyard of Princess Roujia's bedroom.
After Wang Jin was waiting outside the hospital, he immediately asked when he saw Hua Xiyan come out, "Did you succeed?" ”
"Hmm." Hua Xiyan nodded, "Let's go!" ”
The two of them left the palace along the route they had taken when they had arrived, and everything went surprisingly well.
After returning to the palace, Hua Xiyan couldn't help asking, "Why did you come back so quickly?" ”
Wang Jin coughed lightly twice, and suddenly an unnatural look flashed on his face.
"What's wrong?" Hua Xiyan was even more curious.
"The royal guards are naturally not so wasteful, and I really wasted some strength when I fled. When I fled to a rockery in the back garden, I happened to see two people ...... I asked them to help me lead away the guards. ”
"It's that simple? If you let people help you, they will help you? Hua Xiyan was a little suspicious.
Wang Jin spread his hands and said helplessly: "Who made them unfortunate to meet me?" ”
"Who are they?" Hua Xiyan sensitively smelled the gossip from Wang Jin's words.
"The man is the one who should be His Royal Highness the Prince." Wang Jin approached Huaxiyan and said awkwardly, "The woman is the emperor's new talent." ”
Hua Xiyan's light-colored lips opened involuntarily, thinking that this Prince Hongcheng was enough. Not only is he fighting in the field, but the other party is still his mother-in-law?
"Then I told them that if they did not distract the guard, I would immediately arrest them and send them to the emperor. So, you know the results. ”
Simple and crude threats are indeed the most effective way.
Hua Xiyan patted Wang Jin's shoulder like a reward, took out a few paper bags in his arms and handed them to Wang Jin: "These are the raw materials that Princess Roujia used to make fragrances, look at them." ”
Wang Jin sat on the chair on the side, opened the paper bag, looked at them one by one, smelled them, and some of them tasted a little on the tip of their tongues. Hua Xiyan stared at Wang Jin tightly, for fear that there would be something unusual in his expression.
For a long time, Wang Jin looked at all the more than ten paper bags and picked out one of the powdered paper bags.
Wang Jin brought the paper bag close to Huaxi Yan, and Hua Xiyan immediately smelled an extremely pungent smell, and couldn't help frowning: "What is this?" ”
"This kind of thing is called white root powder, which is produced in southern Xinjiang." Wang Jin rewrapped the paper bag, and continued, "This thing is a kind of medicinal material, especially when burned with the fragrance of flowers, it can make the fragrance of flowers several times heavier. However, because it is too expensive, no one generally uses it. So I don't know many people, and I met it once by chance. ”
"This is also poison?" Hua Xiyan looked at the white powder and thought that this thing was amazing.
"It's highly toxic, and it's a chronic poison. And I don't know the antidote. ”
Hua Xiyan nodded. Thinking that Princess Roujia has been burning this spice for a long time, otherwise there will be no poison in the blood. And she is already addicted, otherwise she would not even have to burn this incense when she sleeps at night.
"This white root powder itself has a strong smell. That's why more spices are burned to mask the flavor. That's why Princess Roujia's spices are so complicated. ”
Hua Xiyan sighed when he heard this: "I always thought that Emperor Tianlong was 10,000 at ease with the Li family, but I didn't expect that such a hand would come." ”
"Emperor Tianlong is extremely suspicious, and the Li family is now the dominant family above the court, so he naturally has to guard against it." Wang Jin wrapped up those paper bags one by one, and said slowly, "If he wants to sit on the throne for a few more years, he naturally has to guard against these children, otherwise he may be pushed down by someone one day." ”
Hua Xiyan felt that he really didn't know much about the Holy Heavenly Imperial Family, and couldn't help asking, "If it's a defense, won't he just guard against his sons?" Princess Roujia, what is there to watch out for as a woman? ”
Wang Jin smiled when he heard this, and explained: "Our Holy Heaven Founding Emperor is a female emperor. Therefore, there is no rule in the Holy Heaven that a woman cannot be an emperor. And Princess Roujia's talent is not bad, so the emperor naturally has to guard against it. ”
Saying that, Wang Jin paused for a moment, looked at the bright stars in the night outside through the wide open window, and a confused look suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Moreover, this matter is also related to a rumor." ”
Seeing that Hua Xiyan put on a posture of listening to his ears, Wang Jin continued: "The national teacher and Master Tongyi both observed the heavens twenty years ago, and soon there will be a phoenix star to come to the world, bless Tianze, and be used by all the people. ”
"So Princess Roujia is the phoenix star?" Hua Xiyan said the implied meaning of Wang Jin. So Emperor Tianlong was entertaining Princess Roujia while being on guard?
"The national teacher said that Princess Roujia is Fengxing, but Master Tongyi did not give a word. Master Tongyi has been silent about this matter for so many years, and there is no affirmation or denial of the assertion of the national teacher, so people think that Princess Roujia is Fengxing. ”
O phoenix! was held in such a high position, no wonder he developed such a proud and contemptuous temperament.
"However, our Wang family has never recognized this phoenix star." Wang Jin stared at Hua Xiyan for a long time, and then added.