Chapter Twenty-Three: The Murderous Opportunity in the Ganli Palace!
"Ganli Palace is where Empress Dowager Ye lives alone, so the side hall has not been opened for many years." Ni Jin watched the little palace maid clean the gorgeous house with only a layer of floating dust, and said, "It's also this Wangxing Pavilion, because the county lord of Duanrou often comes to live in order to live in it." Please let the county lord go down tonight. β
Qiu Yulan asked suspiciously: "Don't go to see Empress Dowager Ye?" "Didn't you say that let Mrs. Ye dispose of her own later?
"Except for the queen mother and the county lord of Duanrou, the Empress Dowager Ye generally doesn't see outsiders." Ni Jin pursed her lips and smiled, and said meaningfully, "That's what Niangniang said...... The maid will find you a dress and a dress, you will stay for one night, and I will send someone to send you back - this time I will enter the palace. β
That's all! That Gu Yan was beaten so badly, even if I left the palace, would he let me go?
No, it should be said that when he leaves the palace, wouldn't he be able to take revenge on me with confidence?!
Qiu Yulan bit her lower lip: "This sister ......"
"It's been cleaned." Ni Jin suddenly interrupted her, glanced into the room, and asked, "The county lord, please come and have a look, but what is needed?" If not...... she looked apologetic, "the maid will have to go back to serve the mother." β
"Sister, let's get busy, I have Sister Lao today." Qiu Yulan stuffed a purse into her, and Nijin took it generously, and then said with a smile: "County Lord, please rest early, tomorrow Niangniang should take the time to summon you." β
If you can see the queen again, you will have a chance.
Qiu Yulan breathed a sigh of relief, sent a few steps of Ni Jin, and began to think about how to grab this umbrella when she saw the queen tomorrow?
As a result, she thought for a while and found that Su He was looking at herself in a daze.
"Frightened? Are you okay? Qiu Yulan hurriedly gathered her thoughts, reached out and touched her head, and asked with concern.
Who knew that Su He said: "County Lord, aren't you hungry?" β
"Hungry?" Qiu Yulan was stunned, and immediately felt a burst of hunger - in order to enter the palace, she and Su He have been fasting since the morning, Su He didn't mention that she didn't feel it yet, and when she mentioned it, she felt that the whole person was not good.
"Then why didn't you say what Nijin asked you about what you lacked just now?" Su He looked at her with an aggrieved and helpless gaze.
Qiu Yulan looked at the room that was gorgeously furnished, but there was no food around except for the tea on the table, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "I...... Forgot! β
The master and servant were silent for a moment, and Su He said quietly: "The maid went out and asked the little palace maid who cleaned just now, to see if she could order something to eat in Empress Dowager Ye's small kitchen?" β
ββ¦β¦ Good. Qiu Yulan has an urge to hit the wall: It's only been a few days since I was served by someone in clothes to stretch out my hand for food and open my mouth! Why are you so confused that you even forgot to mention such a big thing as eating!
After a while, Su He, who had a pale face, ran back, saying that he didn't see anyone nearby, Qiu Yulan suddenly thought of something and stood up: "Forget that you are afraid of the dark, I'm afraid that the two little palace maids have walked a few steps away, I'll look for it." β
Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is not surprising that the palace people are slack.
What's more, the current Qiu Yulan is not qualified to ask the people in the Queen Mother's palace to serve her respectfully - even this Queen Mother is not very good, as the current mother-in-law, even the county lord outside the palace has never heard of her existence......
But she had only taken two steps, and Su He, who was drinking hot tea to suppress her shock, grabbed her and said, "It's really no one!" β
At this time, the little maid had already drunk most of the hot tea, and her little face was still miserable, obviously frightened, "The maid is afraid that the county lord will be hungry, so she has the courage to find out the three courtyards!" I didn't see a single figure - how could this be like this in the palace where the Queen Mother lived?! Even if it's Chinese New Year's Eve, it can't be such a big place and no one is there! The talent of the queen is placed here, we are here? β
Qiu Yulan suddenly thought of the uneasiness in his heart when he left Ganquan Palace, grabbed Su He's hand and dragged it out: "Hurry up!" I'm afraid that the words "falling into the trap" under our ......" have not yet been spoken, and someone outside the door has said coldly: "Want to go?" Do you want to go to Huangquan Road? β
As soon as I heard this, I knew it was Deng Yi.
Deng Yi, who pushed the door in, had already freshened up urgently, and the red clothes that had fallen down several times before and were stained with mud and snow were replaced by a turmeric brocade robe.
Of course, turmeric is not as bright and eye-catching as crimson, but he looks like this, and everything he wears is like a flower and jade, and I feel pitiful. Even if there are still a few bruises on his face that have not been removed, it can't affect his beauty.
It's just that his expression is still cold: "Do this kind of unwise thing, and fall to the point where you are today, it is also your own fault, think about it on the Huangquan Road, and learn to be smart in the next life!" β
"Is that you?" Qiu Yulan took a deep breath and said, "You dare to poison the county lord in the palace?!" Knowing that he would definitely serve the orders of the Queen Mother, he would not be afraid of his own county lord's title, so he immediately said, "Aren't you afraid that the queen will investigate thoroughly?!" β
"The queen mother deliberately arranged for you to come to this Ganli Palace, but did not leave anyone to accompany you, you still don't understand what this means?" Deng Yi said lightly, so that Qiu Yulan's heart sank!
Could it be that the queen wants to use herself as bait - if that's all there is, it's a good thing now! Because what's even more terrifying is that the queen takes her as an outcast! In exchange for Empress Dowager Gu's nephew and grandson to murder the heroes, the handle of the prince with a different surname!
The queen who seems to be full of aura and fierce - seems to be defending herself everywhere in the Taishi Palace, and took the initiative to propose to send herself to this Ganli Palace, and her palace maid accepted her own purse and mentioned that she was summoned tomorrow, is it all to completely use herself? !
At this moment, Qiu Yulan's heart suddenly broke out in a stormy wave!
Deng Yi looked at her expressionlessly, and said in a mocking tone: "If you were willing to endure one or two before Liuchun Pavilion, how could you fall to the current point?" β
I don't know why, his voice was a little strange, and his eyes were complicated.
"Patience? What is the method of patience? Qiu Yulan forced himself to hold back his turbulent thoughts, raised his head, and showed a sweet and innocent smile at him, "By default, Gu Yan is rude to me, and happily be your nominal wife and his plaything?" So reluctantly stealing a living?! β
She brushed her face and sneered disdainfully, "General Jiang is right, you are not a man at all!" No matter how much you hate me, nominally I'll always be your fiancΓ©e! You watched your cousin do things to me, bullying me, not only didn't stop him, but helped him in every way...... Are you sure you're still a human being now?! Or is Gu Yan treating you as a human being?! β
"Shut up!" Deng Yi's face was blue for a moment! He suddenly shouted, flicking his sleeves, "I thought that you would die tonight, and I wanted you to live a little longerβsince you can't wait to go down, then I will fulfill you!" β
Before he finished speaking, in the night behind him, two tall palace guards walked out, shook out two white silks without saying a word, and rushed towards the master and servant of Qiu Yulan!
Su He, who had long been stunned by this scene, only came to his senses at this moment, covered his ears and screamed: "Help!" β
It's just that since Deng Yi knew that Ganli Palace might be a trap for the queen, and dared to directly bring someone to poison him, of course he would not be afraid of Su He asking for help!
He stood outside the threshold, with his hands behind his back, looking at it so indifferently and calmly, as if he hadn't heard Su He's cry for help that had changed his tune!
But to his surprise, compared to Su He's horror, Qiu Yulan looked calm.
"Everyone's demeanor? I'm dying, and I'm still so particular! Deng Yi thought sarcastically in his heart. He was about to turn around, not because he couldn't bear it, but because he knew that no matter how beautiful he was in life, it would be very ugly after being hanged.
However, at the moment when he turned around, he heard the guard's dull snort - Deng Yi turned his head in surprise, and his pupils suddenly shrank!
Qiu Lulan, who seemed to have resigned himself to his fate lying on the couch a moment ago, suddenly moved like a rabbit!
First, as she had done with Gu Yan before, she kicked the guard who wanted to hang her in the crotch, causing the guard to fall to the ground and twist into a boiled prawn!
Then, at a ghostly speed, he flew to Su He, and with a wave of his hand, the pink dust of rouge fragrance rose one after another, and Su He and the guards who were hurrying to hang her closed their eyes instinctively at the same time!
At the moment when the guard closed his eyes, a sharp silver hairpin pierced his eye socket and penetrated the back of his head without hesitation! followed Qiu Yulan to pick up a candlestick in his hand, connected the candle that had not been burned on it, and stabbed it into the chest of the guard who was still rolling and howling on the ground!
This scene of the rabbit rises and falls, and it will not exceed ten breaths at most!
Outside the threshold, Deng Yi was stunned, his hands and feet were cold!
And Qiu Yulan calmly watched the struggle and shouting of the guards under the candlestick gradually weakened, until he was silent, he let go of his hand, glanced at the blood splashed on his body in disgust, and got up to help Su He: "You go to the couch and lie down." β
Su He was hanged to death just now, and she was still panting greedily, Qiu Lulan tore off the white silk for her, but saw that on Su He's delicate neck, a dark purple bruise was almost black!
"You lie down first, don't worry!" Qiu Lulan stretched out his finger and touched it, and when he saw Su He shrink suddenly, he hurriedly withdrew his hand and commanded lightly.
She turned around, and with a twist of her wrist, another silver hairpin was already in her fingers, and the tail of the hairpin was under the candle flame, exuding a cold edge!
"I can't get out of my family, but I can try to marry someone else so you can get out." Deng Yi looked at her calm face after killing two people in a row, there was no blood on his face, but his eyes were surprisingly hot, and he said slowly, almost word by word, "I can also help you cover up the two people you killed tonight, but I have one condition." β
Qiu Yulan looked down at the silver hairpin in his hand and smiled: "You are qualified to talk about conditions?" β
"I have!" Deng Yi also looked at the silver hairpin, "I just hinted to you that Empress Jiang knew that the Queen Mother was going to arrange you here tonight, but in fact, she said it casually - the conflict outside the Liuchun Pavilion happened suddenly, I am here now, even the Queen Mother is also a temporary plan, how does the Queen know?" β
Seeing Qiu Lulan looking up at herself, the silver hairpin between her fingers flickered, Deng Yi's pupils shrank, and he sped up his speech: "The Queen Mother doesn't like Empress Dowager Ye, but Empress Dowager Ye is kind to Empress Jiang, so Empress Jiang has always protected her - this time, the Empress Dowager first revealed her intention to question Princess Yongfu, and agreed to send you here, originally to use Princess Yongfu to distract the queen's attention, kill you here, and slander Empress Dowager Ye's cheating affair after being broken by you and kill people!" These two guards of the Ganli Palace are dead soldiers who are easy to buy by the Queen Mother, and if you kill you, you will leave a book to kill yourself - if I don't cover up for you and quietly deal with the adulterer...... Not only you, Empress Dowager Ye, but even Empress Jiang will be in big trouble! β
He looked up at Qiu Yulan's eyes, "How can you still take refuge in Empress Jiang like this?" If you don't take refuge in Queen Jiang, you will die if you can't wait to marry me! β
Qiu Yulan was silent for a moment: "Your conditions? β