Chapter 7: Secrets of the Deep Palace

The sun has sunk in the west, the wind in the valley is whispering, and occasionally a few birds are called, making the dormitory exceptionally quiet. The corridors of the dormitory and the palace were lit up, bright and clearly visible, and the two maids lowered the curtain of the bathroom to cover the spring light in the room.

There was only one window in the bathroom, which had been locked when Feng Yan left, to ensure that Liu Ye would not be disturbed and take a bath in peace. Liu Ye had been on the road for a day, and her body and bones seemed to be falling apart, which reminded her of the scene when she traveled a long distance to Wusun. Compared to then, she is much more comfortable now.

Contented, Liu Ye leaned on the pebbles behind him, lay his head on the sweat towel by the bath, closed his eyes and planned to take a nap. Outside the window, the shadows of the trees are graceful, and the light blends with the curling mist through the curtain, outlining the hazy figure of the beautiful woman.

"Poof......

Liu Ye heard a slight movement, she subconsciously looked at the window, the mist blocked her vision, and she couldn't see what was happening clearly. Suddenly, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist from behind and lifted her out of the bath, and then the sound of metal hitting the pool was heard.

Liu Ye didn't react to what was going on, she looked at the person in the shadows in a daze, with a straight nose, a handsome chin, and a playful smile on the corner of her mouth. She could hear his heart beating steadily, his eyes locked on the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

Perhaps he was aware of the danger, and the source of this danger was not him, Liu Ye did not rush to break free from his embrace, followed his line of sight, and vaguely saw a broken corner of the previously intact window, revealing a faint moonlight.

Tu Qitang put her on the ground and held his index finger to his lips, signaling her to keep quiet. Liu Ye nodded obediently, watching him step into the pool with one foot, groping around where she was lying just now, as if looking for something important.

"Whew, it turned out to be this thing...... Tu Qitang breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the edge of the bath and looked at the things in his hand, and whistled at Liu Ye, "Come and see, you should be more familiar with it." ”

Liu Ye saw that he was holding the round thing, it was indeed very familiar, she took it from his hand and put it in the palm of her hand to study it carefully. It turned out that this was a three-baht coin from the Western Han Dynasty, with a diameter of about two centimeters, which was one circle larger than the one-yuan coins used in modern times. Strangely, the edges of the coin have been deliberately polished to be as sharp as the blade, and can be used as a murderous weapon.

"Is the person who attacked you Han Chinese?" Tu Qitang faced her and asked softly.

Liu Ye glanced at him: "Didn't you send someone to attack me?" ”

"Me?" Tu Qitang pointed at himself in amazement, "Hey, I saved you just now, even if you are not grateful, you actually accused me of plotting against you?" ”

"Heh, then you appeared in a timely manner, I thought you discussed it with the murderer, he threw a hidden weapon outside the window, you played a hero to save the beauty, you cooperated so smoothly, people can't doubt it!"

"Ahem...... Tu Qitang scratched the tip of his nose in embarrassment and smirked twice, "Okay, I'll admit that I slipped in a long time ago, just stay up there!" ”

Tu Qitang pointed to the beam above his head, and said confidently: "You woman doesn't have the slightest sense of crisis, you think this is the palace of the Han Dynasty, you actually take a bath alone, and you don't even have a reliable guard by your side." If it weren't for me, would you have escaped this, and by the time they found you, you would have ascended to heaven. ”

Tu Qitang glanced at the backs of the two maids outside the tent curtain, and muttered unhappily: "It's better to find two wooden stakes and stick them at the door, it's purely an ornament." ”

"The person I should be most wary of is you, you pervert who likes to peek at women taking showers." Liu Ye threw him a roll of his eyes, looking at the copper coin in his hand, he still had palpitations.

"Do you think it was made by the Han Chinese?" Tu Qitang sat on the edge of the bath, his feet soaked in the water, turned sideways to face Liu Ye, and lowered his head to approach Liu Ye.

Liu Ye thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I don't think so, first of all, the three-baht coin has been circulating in the Western Regions for a long time, and secondly, if it is really a Han person, he will not fail to pay attention to this detail, making everyone doubt his identity." Conversely, if the other person is deliberately distracting from others in order to hide their true identity, they are likely to do so. Besides, why did the Han people kill me? No motive, no reason, impossible. ”

"Tsk, you deserve to be a princess, you have a level of speaking, and you have no motives, yes, you Han people are erudite and talented, and it's not surprising that I haven't heard of it. According to what you say, the other party is afraid of being found out, so he uses this trick, then his identity is not difficult to guess, it should be someone in this palace. ”

"People in the palace?" Liu Ye also thought of this possibility, but she couldn't figure out how someone would take her life on the first day she came to Dawan? And he had already infiltrated the palace and planned this murder?

"Maybe ......," Tu Qitang paused and said, "It's not you who he's going to kill, but Princess Jiewei!" ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Ye panicked, Tu Qitang couldn't have known that she had crossed over, could it be that he was a clairvoyant eye!

Tu Qitang smiled slightly: "What I mean is that no matter who it is, as long as it is a member of the Han royal family, it is the target of his assassination." He did this to take revenge on the Han, so he didn't pick anyone, you are the princess of the Han, and dying in Dawan will definitely cause an uproar, then, his goal has been achieved. It's not hard to explain why he's from the palace, he's been waiting for this opportunity, so you can't wait to create chaos on the first day you enter the palace. ”

Tu Qitang's thoughts are very similar to Liu Ye's, if it's just Liu Ye who thinks so, maybe she is not sure, but even if he thinks so, he is fifty percent sure.

"But if you sabotage his plans, will he give up?" Liu Ye began to plan what to do next, there was such a terrible person in the palace, the safety of Ziqing and the young husband was threatened, and he had to be found as much as possible.

"No, of course not!" Tu Qitang narrowed his gray eyes, and kept that position still.

"If he knew that I wasn't dead, he wouldn't dare to do it again in the short term!" The more Liu Ye thought about it, the more anxious he became.

"That's not necessarily, he doesn't dare to do it, wouldn't it be good if you forced him to do it!" Tu Qitang's head became lower and lower, and his tone began to be ambiguous, "If you do what I say, he will definitely take the bait......"

Tu Qitang's slightly hot breath brushed Liu Ye's shoulders and neck, she lowered her head, and saw her half-open chest, and the soaked tulle stuck to her body, as if she was not wearing clothes.

Liu Ye raised his eyes angrily to look at him, facing his unfinished gray eyes, and he didn't know where he had so much strength to kick him into the pool. Tuqitang was caught off guard, took a few sips of the water in the pool, and raised his head in intoxication, his appearance extremely flat.

"Ah, it's so fragrant, is the water that a woman has soaked so fragrant? Or is it only the princess who is fragrant? Tu Qitang wiped the water from his face, stretched out his arms, and slapped the water happily like a naughty child.

Liu Ye bent down and picked up a clog and threw it at him: "Obscene uncle, what kind of innocence are you pretending, you are really hypocritical and disgusting." ”

"Why, you don't believe me!" Tuccitang waded over to her, looked at her seriously, and said, "I said, I haven't seen any other woman take a bath except you, although they can't ask for it, but I only have you in my eyes." ”

Black leggings tightly wrapped his long legs, and walked towards Liu Ye step by step, Liu Ye picked up a sweat towel to cover his chest, involuntarily stepped back, and warned him: "Enough, if you don't want to be discovered, leave if you don't want to be discovered, for the sake of you saving me, if you peek at the secret of my bath, I won't publicize it." ”

Tu Qitang spread his hands and smiled rogues: "Why? If you go to publicity, it's best for everyone to know, I wish everyone in the world knew that your body belongs only to me. ”

"Who, whose body belongs to you? Shameless! Liu Ye saw that he had a fearless appearance, and began to stutter in a panic, and his voice also raised a few octaves, "I'm going to go to the dinner party, it's not good for anyone if you leave, it's not good for anyone to be bumped into, you should at least think about the face of the royal family!" ”

The two maids waiting outside the curtain finally heard the movement, and they asked cautiously, "Princess, are you awake?" Do you want to dress up? Half an hour before the feast, princess, princess ......"

Tu Qitang was close to her body as if no one was around, clasping the back of her head with one hand, rubbing her cheek with the other, his index finger running over the corners of her eyebrows, the tip of her nose, and her full red lips.

Liu Ye's heart beat nervously, and he lowered his voice and said, "They're about to come in, aren't you leaving?" ”

"Come on, I'm not afraid of what you're afraid of." Tu Qitang leaned over to her ear and whispered, "If you find it inconvenient now, will I come back in the evening?" ”

Liu Ye snorted angrily: "Give you some sunshine and you will be brilliant, right, if I don't pursue your rudeness, you will become even worse." Okay, don't leave if you have the guts, wait for Dawan's messenger to come, let everyone know your true colors, the noble and elegant Prince of Rest turned out to be a despicable and obscene pervert. ”

"Perverts?" Tu Qitang was stunned, flicked Liu Ye's lips lightly, and smiled with satisfaction, "I like you to call me like this, ah, your little head is cranky all day long, and there are a lot of new things that you come up with, and you will definitely not be bored with you." A pervert, with lust and a heart comparable to a hungry wolf, can't wait to swallow its prey in one bite. This metaphor is so appropriate, what to do, you know me like this way, I like you more and more. ”

Liu Ye looked at the sky speechlessly, someone was actually happy to be called a pervert, this guy is not an ordinary pervert.

"Princess, are you awake?" The maids were anxious, for fear that Liu Ye would faint or something, "Princess, what's wrong with you, we're in......"

Tu Qitang touched her slippery, tender neck, and smiled evilly: "Dress up well, see you at the dinner, I'll help you find the murderer when the time comes, and think about how to repay me!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Tu Qitang flew up and jumped on the roof beam, Liu Ye saw him squatting on it and grimacing at her, and his mood was not complicated to describe.

The maids didn't wait for the answer, they lifted the curtain and broke in, the pond was rippling all over the place, they were trembling with fear when they saw the mess in the room, and hurriedly ran over to support Liu Ye: "Princess, what's wrong with you?" Are there assassins? ”

Liu Ye retracted his gaze, shook his head slowly, and said calmly and calmly: "It's okay, the water was too hot just now, and I fainted." Let's go, groom me. ”