Chapter 100: Portrait

The Allure Palace has not opened the gate for many years, since Concubine Liu was executed, the Allure Palace has been closed, not repaired, not cleaned, as if it does not exist, so it has become more and more gloomy after the rumors of haunting gradually spread, no one dares to approach, even if it is a blue sky and white day, the people who must pass in front of the Allure Palace are as far as possible to accompany each other.

If it weren't for the fire caused by the thunder and lightning this time, Allure Palace would have been gloomy and silent.

Rain cats and dogs.

The three sedan chairs came to the Allure Palace, which was half burned to ruins and half intact but even more gloomy than the ruins.

The eunuchs and palace maids who had to come to clean up the wreckage braved the rain, bent over their waists, and drilled around in the charred wood, and the lightning light of Lan Sensen was even more terrifying on their faces whose muscles stiffened due to fear in their hearts.

The sedan chair stopped in front of the main hall that was half burned down by the dormitory that caught fire first, and Yan Ying and Shen Run got off the sedan chair first.

The gloomy atmosphere was washed by the rain, Yan Ying was very accustomed to this atmosphere, calm and relaxed, and did not feel uncomfortable.

Shen Run was disgusted.

Rumors of the haunting of Allure Palace have lasted for many years, and it has been circulated among princes when they were young, and it is very evil, and children love to talk about ghosts, but the timid will inevitably fall into the shadow in the discussion.

Shen Run is a little shadowy, not only when he was a child, but also after listening to strange stories, he was maliciously imprisoned in Allure Palace by the prince for a day and a night, and later it was discovered, and his father was furious and punished him severely. The fear when he was in Allure Palace was covered up by his father's anger like thunder, and because of his father's terrifying anger, he couldn't recover for several years. Even when he grew up, he knew that ghosts and gods did not exist, but because of that shadow, he was very disgusted with ghosts and gods.

He stood in front of the decaying and dilapidated palace, feeling unwell.

Chenguang got down from the sedan chair, walked up to the corridor on tiptoe, stood a little back between Shen Run and Yan Ying, looked up, looked at the charred ruins, and said with a smile:

"It's burning so badly!"

She didn't become serious and uneasy at all because of the gloom of the fire, but there was a sense of happiness in her tone, and this hidden happiness skipped a beat in people's hearts, and Shen Run and Yan Ying couldn't help but look back at her.

The morning light passed between the two of them, crossed the threshold, and entered the main hall.

The pale dress trembled in the wind and rain, and it was strange that in the vision, her dress did not contrast with the night, but seemed to melt into the cold night.

Shen Run's heart tightened inexplicably, and he followed her in first.

No one has cleaned the palace for more than ten years, the dust and insect nets have piled up, and after the fire, there is heavy rain pouring down from the burning place, which is even more messy.

Morning Light walks on the dirty ground with Fire Dance's hand.

The palace in disrepair, although no one has cleaned up, all kinds of furnishings are still there, from the luxurious furnishings, exquisite decoration, you can vaguely see the prosperity and glory of the Allure Palace.

Most of the palaces in the palace have been to the morning light, and the decoration of the Allure Palace is undoubtedly the most luxurious one among the palaces, even if it is the former Xia Guifei, who was in the middle of the holy family, Chengxi Palace and this Allure Palace are completely two grades.

"What a gorgeous palace!" Chenguang exclaimed, "It's more beautiful than Chengxi Palace!" ”

"I heard that Concubine Liu favored the harem during her lifetime, and His Majesty was ready to make her a concubine, but unexpectedly, Concubine Liu killed the king, and the concubine did not succeed, but ended up being Ling Chi." Yan Ying looked at Chenguang's innocent side face, spoke, smiled, and glanced at Shen Run, "Sure enough, it is the most poisonous woman's heart, and the woman who is harmless on the outside and vicious on the inside is the most terrifying." ”

Shen Run looked at him and felt that he was inexplicable.

Morning light didn't speak, they bypassed a screen in front and back, went out through the back door, and finally came to the adjacent dormitory.

The dormitory was almost burned down, only the skeleton of the support remained, and the fragments of rotten wood were piled up on the ground, and the palace people climbed up and down in the ruins to clean up, but because most of them had been burned, there was nothing that could really be cleaned up, they were all busy, just waiting for the order from above, and then they pulled this pile of things away as waste.

Chenguang stood in front of the scorched wood, looking at a charred horizontal wood in the high place, still stubbornly holding on, pointing to the sky, the rain fell on it, and then dripped from the sharp tip of the wood, one drop, two drops, the flow rate was very slow, Chenguang was a little stunned.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation around, and the morning light saw that the crumbling crossbar shook sharply twice after being blown by the wind, and suddenly fell, and when it fell, something was thrown off the crossbar and flew straight towards the morning light.

Shen Run was startled, hooked Chenguang's waist and took half a step back, and a long iron box fell in front of his feet, making a loud noise.

The eunuchs and palace maids were so frightened that they couldn't care about the rain on the ground, so they knelt down together and begged for forgiveness for their dereliction of duty.

Yan Ying stared at Shen Run's arm hooked on Chenguang's waist, there was no emotion in his eyes, he had no expression, but Shen Run felt unhappy for a while because of his gaze.

Yan Ying's waiter ran forward quickly, picked up the iron box on the ground, wiped it clean, and handed it to Yan Ying.

The box is made of pieces of iron, which is not heavy, and it is old and covered with rust.

Yan Ying stared at the box for a while, didn't see Mingtang, opened the box, and inside was a scroll carefully wrapped in silk, remove the silk, and take out the scroll, which is probably a painting.

When they saw the scroll, they were guessing that the scroll was probably a beautiful woman, maybe it was a portrait of the owner of the palace.

Yan Ying and Shen Run both thought so, and Chenguang also thought so, but when the two waiters unfolded the scroll, the big fat doll that greeted them made everyone stunned, which was not expected at all.

It was a portrait of a baby, a chubby little baby, dressed in a red flower hood, lying on a soft quilt, with a small flower on his forehead dotted with rouge. This is a little girl like a pink ball, with snow-white little arms and legs like lotus roots, and her eyes are big, even if it is just a piece of drawing paper, you can feel that the little doll's eyes are black and bright, and she is very bright, she grins and smiles happily at people, and she smiles very beautifully.

Chenguang's mind went blank when she saw the baby in the painting, and with a loud and violent humming sound, she felt herself trembling, trembling violently. Because her mood swings were too intense, her legs were weak, and she couldn't stand anymore.

She gritted her teeth, her hands clenched into fists in her sleeves, and forced herself to compose.

She had never had such intense emotional ups and downs, and the sudden onset of intensity made her hard to believe, but she was not restrained.

"Huh?" Yan Ying, who carefully examined the scroll, suddenly let out a low exclamation, which was very rare, no matter how bizarre and surprising it was, he would not show the reaction in his heart, but this time he was very surprised and showed it on his face.

His eyes were fixed on the jade bat wearing a red rope around the neck of the baby in the painting, and then he stared at the morning light in astonishment.

When Chenguang saw Yan Ying's eyes looking at her, she suddenly calmed down, and then began to cry out in her heart.