The day of Feng Xin and Ziche's discussion was Chinese New Year's Eve, and there would be a New Year's family banquet in the palace in the evening, and Shangguan Wan'er was an important courtier around Empress Wu, and naturally she was also a guest of honor at the banquet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The royal family celebrates the New Year is such a big event, and all the palace people in and outside the palace have been busy for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet since the morning. At night, Shangguan Wan'er naturally won't come back too early, it's a rare good time, and it's better to choose a day, so Feng Xin and Ziche decided to sneak into Shangguan Wan'er's private study that night.

During the Chinese New Year, the entire palace was immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year's Festival, the master did not add that the weather was cold, and the guards guarding the door were all lazy.

The silence in the study room is in sharp contrast to the sound of silk and bamboo singing and dancing in other palaces, and time here seems to be condensed.

This study is an orthodox rectangular pattern, although the land is not large, but the collection of books is massive, and there are many types, which is even more considerable than that of the imperial study. There are not only general line books and hanging scrolls on the shelves, but also many ancient bamboo slips that look like silk books, brocades that look like silk books, and some fragments of broken terracotta tiles in the cabinet.

Both of them agreed that it would be impossible to sift through and find clues in the few hours they had allowed. Shangguan Wan'er, a woman's power to assist the government, was not obtained for nothing. She is thoughtful and far-sighted, she must have carefully considered everything she can calculate, and the general mode of thinking is not applicable to this woman.

In the past, it is not uncommon for a task to be reversed, but at this juncture, I don't know where to start, because everything is possible and everything is impossible.

So in the end, the two decided not to make more associations, act intuitively, and the soldiers will block the water and flood the earth.

Thinking too much at this time is just pushing yourself into a dead end, and it is a waste of time, and sometimes things are not so complicated. The two have a tacit understanding to maintain a back-to-back pattern to ensure that the range of safety is maximized. They divided the search, Feng Xin was responsible for checking the scrolls to see if there were any hidden things, and Ziche was to explore the furnishings in the room for anything unusual or dark.

There is a very faint fragrance in the study, I can't say whether it is floral or fruity, or the paper fragrance of the scroll, but the women in the palace love to use incense, especially Shangguan Wan'er's identity is different, some rare spices are not a big deal, and they are not particularly concerned about Ziche.

And this is actually their biggest miscalculation, they expected that there may be mechanisms, hidden weapons, and even smeared with poison on the sides of various windows and door frames, someone lurking outside, etc., even if they didn't expect the aroma to be a part.

By the time he realized that it was too late, Feng Xin's body suddenly stiffened, and with a bang, he was paralyzed and lay on the edge of the bookshelf unable to move, and the books on the shocking shelves fell on him one after another, and he was unable to dodge. On the other hand, Ziche may not be too close to the bookcase, so the impact is not so drastic, he can still move without strength, but it is also supported by willpower, this study is not suitable to stay for a long time, if you don't go out quickly.

He wanted to leave with Feng Xin behind his back, but saw Feng Xin telling him to leave quickly.

Just after midnight, the first snow of the year began to fall outside the house...... When the snow gets heavier, it's not so easy to leave.

At this time, Ziche's vision became more and more blurred, he looked back at Feng Xin, his heart sank, and he turned out of the study.

After leaving the palace, the car staggered back to the ruined courtyard in the suburbs, and as soon as he entered the hall, he was defeated by the power of the medicine and fell to the ground and fainted. It wasn't until the scorching sun shone on his face the next day that he gradually regained consciousness. The dew of the cold night had soaked his whole body, and several pieces of skin had frozen red sores.

Ziche didn't care about the injuries on his body and chose to continue waiting, but Feng Xin's figure still didn't appear after nightfall......

...... So he had the worst plan in his heart, he went back to the city to listen to the news, the wonderful thing is that after a day and a night, there were no rumors about assassins or suspicious people breaking into the palace or the like, it was obvious that this matter was deliberately suppressed, maybe even the palace did not spread, Ziche couldn't help but feel that this matter was getting more and more strange.

He returned to the six doors and asked his cousin Zhang Rou to lie in Shangguan Wan'er's palace to do internal response, and asked Zhang Rou to take care of Xuanhua by the way, and also told her to pay more attention to the situation in that study.

Time passed day by day, and Feng Xin still did not show up. And less than two months after Feng Xin's disappearance, Xuanhua was quietly arranged to move to a simple embroidery building outside the city and placed under house arrest. Zhang Rou revealed with Ziche that Xuanhua was also imprisoned in Shangguan Wan'er Palace, and now she is just locked up in a different place. There are also many guards inside and outside the embroidery building, but there is no rigor from the palace, Ziche and Zhang Rou will visit Xuanhua in secret, Zhang Rou mostly goes to chat with Xuanhua in the name of sending living materials, and dispels her loneliness.

They secretly searched like this for a year, until Zhang Rou found out that there was a secret passage leading to the outside of the palace under the cabinet in the study, and the exit of the secret passage was suspected to be a dry well near the embroidery building where Xuanhua lived.

Ziche secretly observed carefully, there was indeed a secret door under the dry well, but the mechanism of the door had to be opened from the inside, and it could not be opened outside, so as not to alarm the other party, so he could only wait in ambush.

At night, some black-clothed people would transport some black things from the dry well from time to time and throw them in the bamboo forest pit next to them...... Although the faces of those dead corpses were shriveled, he could barely recognize a few familiar faces, and he knew the bottom of his heart, those seniors who did not come back from Lijingmen and Six Doors and Feng Xin were very likely to have become this virtue.

He told Zhang Rou about it, weighing whether to inform Xuanhua. Xuanhua has always insisted since she learned that Feng Xin had disappeared, she must see people in life and corpses in death. They finally decided to take Xuanhua to explore...... Ziche stayed behind in the embroidery building, and Zhang Rou took Xuanhua to ......

One year, when Ziche saw Feng Xin again, it was already a year after Feng Xin disappeared from the study, and Feng Xin's appearance had not changed much except that his complexion had faded quite pale.

Zhang Rou relayed some information to Ziche in advance, and Zi knew about Feng Xin's peeling, he was very shocked but not surprised, but he didn't mention anything.

Feng Xin borrowed some money from Ziche and said that he wanted to solve some things.

He didn't ask him what he was going to do, nor did he stop him, allowing the man in front of him to disappear into thin air again.

Just two days later, when Ziche went to the embroidery building, he found that the whole building had already been empty, and he could see that he was in a hurry, and even the tea was still on the table, he was in a hurry to contact Zhang Rou, but even Zhang Rou had no news.

It's like a broken thread, as if these three people never existed.