Ruyi didn't expect the fire to suddenly burst into flames. At first, she was just like the women in the cold palace, standing under their own porches, watching the sky full of fireworks and the night sky. The wind of this night was blowing in the direction of the cold palace, bringing the originally distant and bright fireworks closer to them in the air. It's really the prosperity of the present world, although it shows more and more of their loneliness and coldness, but I still can't help but look at it and yearn for it.

Ruyi smiled self-deprecatingly, even if she was confined here for such a long time, but she was full of red dust and vanity, and she never let go of it from the bottom of her heart.

In the first year, her heart was like ashes, and in the second year, she was inspired by forbearance, but in the third year, she was a little relieved. Although the desire to get out of this cage was strong day after day, she knew that everything was in a hurry.

It's like the chilblains on your hands and feet in winter, and the prickly heat and mosquito packs on your back in summer, knowing that you have to get past this season to get better.

He walked over and said angrily: "Little master, Ling Yunche and Zhao Jiuxiao were originally on duty tonight, and the slave maid still wanted to ask them to watch fireworks together." Who knows those two lazy guys, they don't know where they went, and they don't even have a figure. ”

Ruyi smiled: "I miss my relatives every festival." It's hard for them to stay here year after year, so let them go. ”

The flames, which she had "snorted" when she had finished saying this, burned almost the entire roof without warning, and the fire was so fast that it burned almost everywhere it went. The cold palace was damp and mildew, but the fire was unhindered, burning with a smell of burnt mold. Frightened, he immediately protected Ruyi behind him, and shouted: "Someone! Come on! There was a fire! ”

The women in the palace were all panicked, and a few smart ones rushed to the courtyard first, and hurried to see if there was any water in the water tank. In order to prevent fire, but also in order to accumulate rain, always in the courtyard and under the corridor in front of the hall to place some copper jars, the women were frightened by the growing fire, hurriedly reached out and scooped up the scoop in the jar and splashed it out one by one, but the walls on the ground were already on fire, and it had not rained for a long time, and there was not much water in the tank. Ruyi rushed to the door, slapped the palace gate vigorously and said, "Save people!" Save people! Is anyone there? Anyone? ”

She shouted a few words, and choked on the billowing smoke. Ling Yunche stood far away outside the door of the house, and followed behind the leader Li Jinzhu with Zhao Jiuxiao, Zhang Baotie, and Bao Yuan hanging his hands.

Zhao Jiuxiao watched the fire get bigger and bigger, and hesitated: "Boss! This fire burns like this, don't we really want to save people? In case all the women were burned inside......"

Li Jinzhu looked solemn, pressed the long knife on his waist, and said: "When they were alive, they were the women who were disgusted by the emperor and today, eating food, spending clothes, and living decently, it is better to burn them to death, and they will be a hundred." Our brother is also quiet, and he doesn't have to suffer outside this cold palace. ”

Bao Yuan said: "The head means ......"

Li Jinzhu glanced at Bao Yuan and Zhang Baotie: "The cold palace is gone, what else do you want us guards of the cold palace to do?" Naturally, there is a better place to go. ”

Zhao Jiuxiao was still a little scared: "But if the boss blames it, the cold palace will be killed in a fire, which is also a big crime!" ”

Li Jinzhu looked up at the fire, and said with a calm face: "You have been on an errand in the palace for a long time, and you have a little bit of eyes and knowledge." Look at the way this fire rises, if someone hadn't prepared it first, would such a big fire be able to start in this place of the Cold Palace? If you think about it again, in this palace, how many people dare to burn the cold palace. is that kind of identity, we can't afford to offend, if we spoil other people's good deeds, this head is not on our neck. ”

Zhao Jiuxiao was a little timid, listening to the frightened wails in the cold palace becoming more and more poignant, and hurriedly blocked his ears with his sleeves, not daring to listen to it again. Ling Yunche clenched the handle of the knife tightly with both hands, and subconsciously took a step forward, because he clearly heard that someone was calling his name and calling him for help. He clutched the handle of the knife tightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hand bulged, was that the voice of the little master, or was it heart? He couldn't tell it for a while, he only knew that they must be terrified to call their names for help. He couldn't help but take another step forward, and Li Jinzhu glanced at him: "I was beaten like that last time, don't you remember the lesson?" Staying in this palace, more is better than less. What's more, it's the master you can't afford to mess with. ”

Ling Yunche gritted his teeth, knelt down and said, "Boss, think about it carefully. We can't help but save people. There are not many women in the cold palace, just a dozen or twenty, and no one looks down on them. But if we die, the first crime will fall on the five of us. Even if we can't afford to provoke the master you said, we can't afford to provoke any master in the palace if they blame it. When the time comes, the cold palace will be on fire, plus the heads of the five of our brothers, there will really be no proof of death. ”

Zhang Baotie looked at Ling Yunche, and then at Li Jinzhu, a little undecided: "Boss, what Xiao Ling said seems to have some truth. After all, this matter is not ordered from above, let us ignore it. That ......"

Ling Yunche pleaded: "Boss, it's okay for others." The one who came in recently is the niece of Empress Xiaojingxian, although she has fallen out of favor and the emperor doesn't want her anymore, but in the end, she is a relative of the emperor, and we can't afford it if something happens. ”

Li Jinzhu was obviously moved, but hesitated and refused to speak again. Ling Yunche listened to the screams inside getting more and more miserable, and couldn't hold back any longer, got up and rushed out with a bucket of water. Zhao Jiuxiao hesitated for a moment, and then broke out.

Zhang Baotie was startled and opened his mouth: "Boss...... They ......"

Li Jinzhu shook his head and said, "If he doesn't listen to persuasion, he can't help it." It's just that the two of them are on duty tonight, and if something really happens, they'll bear the brunt, so let's go. That's fine, if we offend either side, we won't die. ”

Ling Yunche easily opened the door of the cold palace, and was almost startled when he broke in. Because of the haystacks under the porch, the doors and windows rotted again, and burned the hardest. In the thick smoke, he tripped over several people, the corners of his clothes and hair were on fire, he was half frightened, and quickly sprinkled the bucket of water on them, coughing and choking on the smoke, while searching for traces of Ruyi and Xinxin. He searched for a long time, only to see that the house where Ruyi and Xinxin lived burned the most, most of them had been burned down, and there was not a single figure. He panicked in his heart, could it be that he was really burned to death inside. He was a little unwilling, and couldn't help but call: "Little master! Heartbreaking! Little Lord! ”

There was a faint groan coming from nearby, Ling Yunche heard the familiar voice, and before he knew it, he went straight to it, that was the palace where Concubine Su Riji lived, and since her death, it had been deserted. At the moment, it seems that there is the smallest fire. Ling Yunche rushed in with the last glimmer of hope, only to see two drenched people cowering and hiding in the corner behind the temple gate, choking on smoke and almost unconscious.

Ling Yunche saw clearly that it was the two of them, and his heart was overjoyed, and when he saw Zhao Jiuxiao looking for him, he hurriedly beckoned him over, and carried them out one by one. Only then did he turn his back to the door of the cold palace, only to see that the lights were bright in front of him, and the two teams of guards hurriedly came over with water hoses, and set up water hoses to spray up the fire in the cold palace. Ling Yunche was exhausted, but he couldn't help but smile and breathe a sigh of relief.

Ruyi smelled the clean and sober air, woke up slightly in her mind, and saw Yun Che's anxious face, her heart was slightly relieved, as if the whole person was in place, and she couldn't help but say: "Ruyi...... Thanked. ”

Ling Yunche took a handkerchief and wrenched her face blackened by the smoke, and said in a low voice: "I thought your name was the little master, it turns out that your name is Ruyi, is everything going well?" ”

Ruyi shook her head with difficulty: "Jia Yan Yi Xing is a beautiful meaning." ”

Ling Yunche sneered, "It's already beautiful to be able to rescue both of you with all your beards and tails. ”

Ruyi looked at the drowsy heart, stretched out her hand to hold her in her arms, and cried: "Thank you for coming to save us." She looked at the spurting water dragon and hesitated: "It's just that this fire is too strange, you rashly come to save us, will it affect you?" ”

Ling Yunche watched the busy guards in the distance move out the women of the cold palace one by one, and his eyebrows relaxed slightly: "I also sweated, I don't know if I should save you." But when I saw the royal water dragon coming, I knew that I didn't save you. He looked around and whispered, "Jiuxiao and I are going to help, you guys have a good rest." ”

Ruyi nodded, watched him leave, and took a deep breath on her back. This was the first time she had walked out of the cold palace in three years, even if she knew that she would have to return to the trapped place in a moment, but how rare it was, the starlight outside looked different from the inside. She took a deep breath and held her hand tightly.

As the fire subsided, she leaned against the wall, watching the bright yellow Kowloon honor guard gradually approaching, and her heart couldn't help but jump suddenly, almost jumping out of her cavity. Tears blinded her eyes, she recognized it, the familiar Nine Dragons Minghuang Honor Guard, it was him, he came.

Not only the emperor, but also the empress, they stood far away, watching the flames being pressed down by the water dragon, and only then did they breathe a sigh of relief, but it was Li Yu beside the emperor who also noticed her, and said softly: "Your Majesty, the one leaning against the wall seems to be ......."

He obediently didn't say any more, but it was enough to get the emperor's attention. The Emperor pondered for a moment, but walked towards her. At that moment, Ruyi couldn't say whether she was happy or sad, as if all the love, hatred and resentment had faded away one by one, he was still the young man of the year, and he walked slowly towards her.

The moment her eyes blurred with tears, she hugged her heart, curled up tightly, leaning against the foot of the wall where the mud was shaking off, trying to shrink herself as much as possible into an invisible mass of things, even if it was the moss that did not see the light of day under the wall. Yes, she is ashamed of herself, and by his side is the queen of the world who is in her prime and has a fan, but she is so embarrassed and pitiful.

She desperately lowered her head, and finally, at a distance of one step, clearly saw the pattern of the sea pattern embroidered on the lower end of his bright yellow robe, which was the so-called "thousands of miles of rivers and mountains", which she hadn't seen for a long time.