Chapter 33: The Jade Ice Cellar
It's Beiyu Jinchen again, standing with his hands in his hands, with a smile on his lips.
"I should have asked the prince this sentence, right? Is it to enjoy the scenery when you have nothing to do? I withdrew my hand attached to the rockery, rubbed it on the skirt, and realized that I was wearing the Sulan hibiscus skirt, not the usual gray and black palace dress, and the black handprints were particularly conspicuous on the skirt.
He approached the rockery and put his palm on it: "The cold water palace is only half an hour away from here, and if you take the land route, it will take an hour." ”
Near the cold palace near the water, is a wide brother, the cold water palace is the palace of the first emperor, it is said that it was later rewarded to the prince, today he said that I knew that the cold water palace was given to the six princes Beiyu Jinchen.
No wonder Prince Xuan's mansion shivered so much that it couldn't compare to the back garden of Zuo Xiang's mansion, and it turned out that the highlight was in the Hanshui Palace.
He turned his palm over and printed the damp droplets of his hand, and his expression became solemn.
He crouched down on the ground again and tested the wetness of the soil, which was clearly dry.
The river is not seawater, it is impossible to splash huge waves like the sea, so that everything around is wet, the soil is dry and the rockery is wet, and there must be cats in it.
Seeing his thoughtful appearance, I leaned on the edge of the rockery and teased: "The prince's suspicion is committed again?" I won't go to the palace to accompany Princess Nata to come here to learn how to be a secret agent, so it's boring. ”
He knocked on the rockery wall again to test the emptiness of the rockery. "Isn't this what the Pavilion Master wants?"
He was alluding to me blocking Nata, and the matter was not in the open, and the person concerned knew about it again, and he only felt that his face was hot and embarrassed.
"The rockery is a trap." He looked up at the top of the rockery and said, "This field is empty underneath. ”
There are many withered and unknown wildflowers and weeds around the rockery, and some places have green moss, and some places are rusty. Now that it's autumn, the moss should turn yellow or wither, unless there's something underneath the rockery to support its operation.
The grass heard the sound of the rope, and we tacitly hid in the gap in the middle of the rockery.
In the middle of the rockery, many of these stones have irregular cracks, like ice cracked porcelain, covering the inside, and it always feels like as long as you poke it with your hand, the rockery will be shattered.
"Damn, why is Lao Tzu guarding the door every palace banquet?"
"Don't complain, who told us that we don't have a backer, it's good to have something to eat."
The guards at the gate passed by scoldingly, and after a while, the vicinity of the rockery was calm.
There are a lot of small broken stones between the cracks, which you can't see at all if you don't look carefully, and the arrangement seems to be regular, and the fingertips are gently caressed, and the biting coolness is like ice cubes that have melted for a long time.
Pressing lightly, all the stones were sunken in, and there was a slight tremor in the ground.
"Let's go!" Beiyu Jinchen realized that something was wrong, so he pulled me up and ran out.
It was dark in front of him, and the crack was blocked by a huge stone door that looked like a stone, and Beiyu Jinchen couldn't get out in time.
After two slaps, the door didn't move at all, and then I was really a little panicked.
The ground trembled more and more, and suddenly I felt that my feet were empty, and my body fell uncontrollably.
Pain, pain all over the body.
This is what it feels like to fall from a high place and fall on solid ground, and the palms and knees are rubbed against the skin, and the ground is cold, and the wound is even more uncomfortable to touch.
Beiyu Jinchen also fell hard, but he seemed to get used to it quickly, standing on the ground and looking around.
It was a room, almost sealed on all sides, except for a recessed piece in the middle floor, the rest of the walls were all translucent, and the floor was of the same material. Looking up, the place where I fell in before was also translucent, and there was no other clue.
The hand touched the wall, like jade, with a milky white luster, no patterns, natural, and like a cold jade, bursts of cold air are pressing, and after a while, it will be cold.
"Here...... There is no exit. When I said this, my teeth were already chattering, and I panicked for no reason.
"It's the Ice Jade Cellar." He's a lot calmer than I am.
"You know this place?" As long as he knows, we have a chance to get out, "So how do we get out?" ”
He looked at me and shook his head, and I noticed that his wrists were also covered in bruises.
"What do you mean, don't you know this place?" My heart instantly cooled.
He sat on the ground unhurriedly and replied, "There used to be a Taoist, called the Qing Sage, who had the technique of immortality secrets. In order to pursue the art of immortality, the father invited Qingsheng to enter the palace, but the Taoist had a request to build an underground ice cellar, and he needed to meditate in the ice cellar, but after the ice cellar was built, he drove to the west. He paused, and then said, "Once the Ice Jade Cold Cellar comes in, it will be an hour, and after an hour, the exit will automatically appear. I've also heard of these, but whether they're true or not is not certain. ”
An hour? What are you kidding, a quarter of an hour can freeze a person into ice.
The unbeliever patted the wall vigorously, and although it was a translucent texture, he could see nothing but the shadow reflected on it.
The air is getting colder and colder, as if it is early into winter, the finger joints are more painful, and the back of the hand turns from red to purple.
"Hey, get up and move." I was running around in the ice cellar, trying to warm it up. Beiyu Jinchen just sat quietly, it seemed that he was meditating on luck, this is what people with profound skills have done since he was a child, a half-person like me will only be opportunistic, and he will not be lucky at all.
Time passed very slowly, and I didn't have the strength to move anymore, and if I did, cold air would get into my sleeves.
Only curled up on the ground is still a little better, the breath exhaled turned white and disappeared into the room, the bruise on the back of the hand is becoming more and more obvious, not only will you not feel the heat when you rub it, it seems that all sensations are gone, numb, and you can't even feel the pain.
Before the great cause of restoration is completed, he is going to die here? Do I have to go through another freeze to be worthy of my fate? When I think of this, I can't help but feel ridiculous about my own idea.
For everyone, I am a dispensable person, the restored Emperor Dexin is dead, and there will be someone else to replace him, just a chess piece.
"When I was a child, I didn't have winter clothes to wear, and that's how I felt, with chilblains on my hands and feet, and cracked and cracked in the spring, year after year, until the pain became irrelevant." I rested my head on my knees, and I could only keep myself conscious by talking, but he still sat quietly, without saying a word, and without opening his eyes. "Actually, it's not that there are no winter clothes, it's just that they don't want to give it to me, my pity is the funny thing they laugh at, I'm afraid of the cold, I'm very afraid, when it comes to autumn, what I want most is a warm stove, I didn't expect, in the end, it was ruined on a stove, it's ridiculous."
Beiyu Jinchen opened his eyes, but I couldn't see his expression clearly, sleepiness hit, my eyelids couldn't stop fighting, and I couldn't even feel the cold anymore.
"Come here." He said coldly.
"Huh?" I felt like my consciousness was starting to blur.
He got up and walked up to me and began to undo his coat, which was fading off layer by layer, and I finally came to my senses and gathered my clothes. "You, what are you doing?"
"If you don't want to die, take off your coat." His voice was as unwavering as ever, as if he were saying something extremely ordinary.
I patted my head and saw him in front of me clearly, his black hair was lightly curled, his eyes were deep, his upper body was not wearing a strand, and his eyes stayed on his strong chest......
"You, you put your clothes on!" I unconsciously turned around.
"Sometimes I think you're smart, and sometimes you're stupid." His voice became cold again, and his wrist was grabbed by him, and he was pulled to his side at once.
Crashed into his arms, his head was dizzy, and he couldn't recover for a while. He draped his clothes over his back, pulled them over and wrapped them tightly around us, and the warmth deepened.
He's lucky, so when you get close to him, you feel warm, my stiff body softens, his arms around my waist, his eyes slightly closed, and his hair nests into my sockets, slightly itchy.
"Aren't you good at martial arts, why don't you even know luck?"
"I'm a half-ass, and I only know some simple hidden weapons."
After answering his question, I felt very sleepy and didn't know where the sleepiness came from. "Are you sleepy?"
He frowned, "Don't sleep." ”
"But it's sleepy," ...... head rested on his shoulder, and his eyelids became heavy again.
"What would you have done if that fire hadn't happened?" He tried to use the conversation to help me stay conscious.
"I don't know, maybe I'll enter the palace, maybe I'll become a part of the harem intrigue, maybe I'll be obedient forever in Liufu."
"If I wasn't a prince, I would like to plant a piece of land, build a house in the mountains and forests, and live like that." He said slowly, a smile on his lips.
I raised my head and said with a smile: "The prince of brocade clothes and jade food actually has such a dream, then, are you living alone in the mountains and forests?" Why don't you have a wife? Don't have children? ”
His gaze looked into the distance, and there was emotion in his eyes that I couldn't read.
"Because, I don't deserve it."
A strange feeling rose in my heart, like throwing a small pebble into the calm water of a lake, the ripples were small, but I could feel them. When I was a child, there was a fortune teller, who said that I was destined to be a lone star, and my parents and friends, at that time I only thought he was talking nonsense, and to this day, it has indeed been proved that most of it, in fact, I am the one who does not deserve to have.
"I won't see the palace banquet tonight, I heard that there is a fireworks show tonight." The topic shifted bluntly, he smiled slightly, and replied: "You like fireworks? It's just a fleeting thing. ”
"Because it's fleeting, so I will cherish it, and use my best efforts just for a moment, so that this life is not in vain."
Beiyu Jinchen was stunned, and only after a while did he say, "It's just an hour, I can catch up." You sleep, go out, I'll tell you. ”
"Okay."