From the persuasion of the fifty-year-old woman, I probably understood their identity, the white-haired old lady was the concubine of Emperor Taizu, the biological mother of the former emperor, and Xuanyuan Yi's grandmother.

If she hadn't been beaten into the Crazy Man's Garden, she would have been the Queen Mother.

And the identity of the fifty-year-old woman is actually the queen of the previous emperor, that is, the queen mother of the current dynasty, although she is not Xuanyuanyi's biological mother, but she is also Xuanyuanyi's mother-in-law.

The cold palace in the front yard is inhabited by the concubine Wu of the previous dynasty, and the queens of the two dynasties are locked up in the madman garden, and the water in this good palace is really deep enough, and several generations of queens have been beaten into the cold palace, and even the queen Fu Jinyue of this dynasty is also in the cold palace.

Since ancient times, how many concubines have been imprisoned in the battle of the harem, but it is really rare to have three generations of queens locked up like Lianggong.

This can only show that the emperors of the good country will suppress the power of the harem, and they do not allow their relatives to grow, that is, the emperor's weighing technique to prevent the emperor from changing his name and surname.

From the next two generations of empresses, I seem to hear that the princess's consciousness is no longer normal, she keeps begging for mercy, and shouting hoarsely that she is wronged, but the emperor in her mouth should be calling Emperor Taizu.

The imperial concubine had already gone crazy, but he didn't know that Liangguo had changed emperors of two dynasties, and Emperor Taizu had died more than 30 years ago.

The queen mother's consciousness was sober, she hugged the princess desperately, and tried hard to persuade her, probably afraid that she would do something stupid.

Suddenly, the Empress Dowager broke free from the Empress Dowager's confinement and rushed headlong to a wall.

My eyes lit up, I opened the window and jumped in, dodged in front of the Empress Dowager, was hit headfirst by her, took a few steps back, and leaned against the wall behind me.

The sword in my hand clattered to the ground, cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and I clutched my stomach in pain.

On the other hand, the imperial concubine, although she did not hit the wall, was also bounced to the ground by me, confused, but stretched out her hand and shouted: "The concubine is wronged, the concubine is wronged......"

Her voice grew weaker, and in a few breaths, she passed out.

The Queen Mother hugged the Empress Dowager and burst into tears, and glanced at me sideways, but there was no response.

After that, she silently picked up the Empress Dowager and walked towards the bed.

I didn't lift my sword, and I don't know where the kindness came from, so I actually stepped forward and helped the Queen Mother put the Empress Dowager on the bed.

The Queen Mother is a kind woman, without gorgeous dress, and her hair is a few pinched silver.

She should have been in the cold palace for many years, but even if she doesn't have luxurious clothes, she still has the momentum of a mother's world, her every move is generous and decent, and every look is dignified and elegant.

She seemed to know how to heal, and she diagnosed the pulse of the imperial concubine before she breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the imperial concubine's face with a dull gaze, not caring about my existence at all, and fell into deep contemplation.

Feeling a hint of embarrassment, I turned around and picked up my sword, intending to leave.

"Girl, in the backyard of this deep palace, kindness is to use a double-sided sharp blade, while slaughtering relatives and friends, and killing good people."

I stopped and looked sideways at the Queen Mother, who did not look back at me, still staring at the face of the Queen Mother.

But she must be talking to me, otherwise this 'girl' would not be able to find a second person with this term.

"Thank you Queen Mother for reminding me." I bowed slightly, turned around and left Yixiang Pavilion again.

I've never been kind-hearted, but just now I remembered my grandmother.

My grandmother had doted on me in every way, and by the time I was over eighty, I was delirious, and I will never forget that day on the guillotine, my grandmother was so frightened that she cried like a child and begged me for help, but I ......

Back at the Appreciation Courtyard, Xiaohuan had returned, standing in front of my room, staring at the three throwing knives on the door.

She turned her eyes to me with a sword in my hand and ran up to me to ask me what had happened.

I perfunctorily said that I couldn't sleep at night, that I had just practiced in the yard, and now I had just come back from a spin outside.

After asking her if she had given the note to Xiao Hangzi, I pulled out the throwing knife and sent Xiao Huan away.

The sky was gradually turning white, and I couldn't sleep all night, and my heart was in chaos.

Watching the sun rise outside the window, it went from being so red that it was impossible to look at it directly.

I got up again to dress myself, and after a while I heard a knock on the door.

Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk!

The people outside the door symbolically knocked on the door a few times and walked in without my consent.

I frowned and saw three figures, one of which was Fu Jinyue, who stood up and greeted him.

"Sister so early?"

I looked at the two girls beside Fu Jinyue, and saw them greeting me, but staring at their faces tightly.

"Shui Yuan, this is your future master, from now on, you will be Concubine Jiang's person." Fu Jinyue said to the palace maid on her left.

I saw that the palace maid walked to my side and bowed to me slightly: "Slave maid Shui Yuan, please say hello to Concubine Jiang." ”

I looked at Fu Jinyue for some reason, in fact, I had already found out that the two palace maids she brought today looked exactly the same, but I had never seen them, and I didn't know why Fu Jinyue suddenly gave me a maid.

"This is the maid my father gave me when he was still alive, my sister can rest assured, she is definitely her own."

Fu Jinyue pulled me to sit at the square table, pointed to the palace maid standing beside her, and said, "This is the water duck, I often call her the little mandarin duck, and your water duck is the elder sister, so you can call her the big mandarin duck." ”

Seeing that I was still full of suspicion, Fu Jinyue laughed again: "Sister, don't blame, my sister is for your safety, don't look at their weak writing, they are martial arts masters." ”

Maybe it was the hot spring incident yesterday that made Fu Jinyue feel palpitations, so she got a girl who knows martial arts for me.

"My sister bothered, but my sister still knows some kung fu, and it should be better for big and small mandarin ducks to stay with my sister."

"Don't be polite to your sister, you are Concubine Jiang, or the demon concubine of Jiang Kingdom, your reputation is too great, if you enter the harem in the future, there will definitely be a lot of people who calculate you, so my sister thinks that you still have to have a capable girl by your side, and it is good to block the knife when necessary."

Blocking knives?

It sounds harsh, but it's true.

I deliberately glanced at the pair of mandarin duck sisters, and saw that their faces did not change, and they did not seem to be afraid at all.

"They look exactly the same, one of us, and it's a bit flamboyant."

If you don't know, you still think that Fu Jinyue and I use the same palace maid, even if you know that they are twin sisters, you can see that the relationship between me and Fu Jinyue is not ordinary.

In the cold palace, it's okay for us to get close, at least the people here don't dare to judge Fu Jinyue.

But in the future, when you enter the harem, you still need to be low-key when you should be low-key.

Fu Jinyue's narrow phoenix eyebrows raised towards the water mandarin.

I saw the water mandarin jump sideways, jumped out of the door at once, and disappeared directly in the blink of an eye.

"Good kung fu!"

I was amazed that the light skills of the big mandarin duck were so good, thinking that I was also a famous family, and my kung fu was not bad, she could disappear under my nose, and it was not an exaggeration to respect her as a martial arts master.

"Among the two of them, only the water mandarin duck has a palace card, so when one appears, the other must disappear."

Fu Jinyue stood beside me and continued: "In the future, the big mandarin ducks will hide in the dark, not too far away from you, as long as you need it, just call out." ”

"They're all dead?" I asked.

"Yes!"

I watched Fu Jinyue smile softly at me, and in addition to the accident, I was only grateful.

After all, she can give me the little mandarin duck, the big mandarin duck has an identity in the palace, and it will be better than the little mandarin duck.

Moreover, she told me the truth about the big and small mandarin ducks in such a grand manner, which was her extreme trust in me.

"It's ......"

Fu Jinyue turned her eyes to the saber next to my pillow, she had come to my room many times, and she already knew the layout of my room well.

She walked over to my bedside, picked up my sword, looked at the wall where I should have hung it, and looked at me again with questions in her eyes.

"A man in black appeared in the courtyard last night, but he didn't do anything to me, just led me to the madman's house." I'm telling the truth, and I haven't hidden anything.

"Madman's Garden?"

Fu Jinyue looked surprised, staring at me tightly, as if there was something unspeakable.

I handed her the flying knife I pulled out last night, and after she looked at it carefully, she waved her hand and let the little mandarin duck guard the door.

"Did the man in black say anything to you last night?" She asked.

"No, I didn't even see him, but when I played with him, I felt like he was a man."

"It's the King of Force!" Fu Jinyue said with certainty.

"King Li?"

I was stunned, for this power king, I also knew it from Fu Jinyue's mouth before.

King Li is the five princes of Liangguo, because of his docile temperament, elegant manners, and generosity, he is called the Five Sage Kings by the people of Liangguo.

Once during the coup d'état in Liangguo, King Xuanyuan Yuze had the opportunity to ascend the throne of the King of God, but he gave up on his own.

For this reason, he also killed Fu Jinyue's father and uncle.

I looked at Fu Jinyue's eyebrows and frowned, and my intuition told me that the arrival of King Li was not a coincidence.

"Did you see Empress Dowager Xiao and the Empress Dowager?" Fu Jinyue asked again.

"Well, but I just saw them."

"Empress Dowager Xiao is the biological mother of King Li, she once suppressed the harem, and she was deeply favored by the emperor, and the Empress Dowager is also a member of the Xiao family, and she is the aunt of the Empress Dowager Xiao."

Fu Jinyue walked back and forth in my room, and every time she was like this, she was thinking about things.

I once heard that the Xiao family was the overlord of a dynasty 30 years ago, and that was still the dynasty of Emperor Taizu.

It is said that the Xiao family was the prime minister back then, but they were already in power, and even Emperor Taizu was at his mercy.

However, before the first emperor ascended the throne, Xiao Fu plotted to assassinate Emperor Taizu, and after the defeat, he was beheaded.

From this point of view, the imperial concubine should have been in the cold palace at that time.

But in this way, how did the Empress Dowager Xiao, as the daughter of a criminal minister, keep the crown princess and later ascend to the queen?