Chapter 32: Night Walk to the Palace
In the small courtyard there are a few low trees with small white flowers, and although the flowers are white and beautiful, they do not have any fragrance. The early summer breeze blew the flowers down to the ground, spreading a thin white layer on the ground.
A Miaoman woman in a snow-white dress was squatting under a small tree, her slender fingers twisting the petals on the ground and placing them in the palm of her hand to observe carefully.
"Wei ...... Master Wei?" Qiao Er happened to walk into the courtyard with a pot of tea, and saw this familiar figure.
Wei Xiwan turned his head, showed a sweet smile to Qiao Er in the blink, and asked, "This tea was brought to me, right?"
"Yes, Master Wei walked around in the courtyard today, but he is feeling better?" Qiao Er replied very quickly, the tea in her hand was brought into Wei Xi's room every day to hide people's eyes.
Wei Xiwan was very satisfied with the answer, stood up with a smile, clapped his hands and skirt and said, "Come with me into the room." ”
"My lord, you can be counted as back, if Lord Su comes again, the slaves and maids will not be able to hide it anymore. As soon as she entered the room, Qiao Er pouted and said excitedly, seemingly complaining, but her words couldn't hide her worry and joy at seeing Wei Xi come back late.
"Won't I come back now!" Wei Xiwan sat down with a smile, took the teacup handed by Qiao Er, took a sip and praised: "Even if I'm not there, you won't be sloppy in brewing this tea." ”
"Of course, slaves and maids have always been serious about what they do. It was naturally happy to be praised by the master, but Qiao Er did not forget that she also praised herself by the way.
"Don't call yourself a slave in front of me in the future, I've reminded you many times. Wei Xiwan heard her praise herself like this, and couldn't help but grin again, how could she think that this girl was very similar to herself.
"Yes, I know. Joel nodded mischievously.
She likes this master from the bottom of her heart, although she acts boldly, but she always has an inexplicable sense of intimacy, although she is the master, but in terms of attitude or other aspects, she is more like her former sister.
The palace at night is as calm as water, and the stars hang sparsely in the sky.
When he secretly left the palace half a month ago, it happened to be such a night, Wei Xi was practicing swords in the courtyard for a while, sitting at the stone table in the courtyard and looking up at the sky with his cheeks propped up.
It's late at night, and I don't know what the palace is like sleeping in the middle of the night...... With such thoughts, Wei Xi had no intention of practicing swords, and quickly turned back to the room to change into night clothes, preparing to go to the highest place in the palace to see the night scene.
"My lord, where are you going?" As soon as he left the door, Wei Xiwan was stopped by Qiao Er at the door.
"Go shopping. Wei Xiwan saw the worry in Qiao Er's eyes, and gently patted her shoulder as if comforting, "Don't worry, come back soon, it's okay." ”
After saying that, he walked out of the door, jumped onto the roof, and disappeared from Qiao'er's sight in an instant.
I can't stop it, "Alas......" Qiao Er sighed, she is really a master who is not worry-free, it seems that she has to keep vigil here and wait for her to come back.
Wei Xi's light swordsmanship practiced in the evening made her light skills better than ordinary people who practiced light skills, and she walked on the eaves of the palace as quickly as a swallow, and no one noticed it.
After a while, he arrived at the highest emperor hall in the palace, which was the place where the emperor and his ministers went to court, but the vision from standing on this highest place was not as good as Wei Xiwan thought.
At some point, the sky was covered with a layer of dark clouds, almost obscuring the moonlight, and the lights of the palace rooms had been turned off, and it was pitch black, except for the general outline of the building, it seemed hopeless to see the entire palace under the moonlight.
Coming in good spirits, returning in defeat, Wei Xi saw that the dark clouds in the sky not only did not have the tendency to disperse, but gathered more and more, it seems that I am afraid that it will rain tonight.
"Where is this?" Wei Xi thought to himself, and at the same time landed lightly on the eaves of the room where the lights were still on. She was not yet familiar with every part of the palace, and on the way back she saw a room with lights on, so she went here without thinking about it.
Nancheng Kingdom is different from other countries, the confidential ministers and princes above the second rank of the Nancheng Imperial Court all live in the palace, and have their own mansions.
When ordinary people had already fallen asleep, the main house here was still lit with candles, and Wei Xi lay on the eaves silently, listening to the movements in the house with bated breath.
Although eavesdropping is not a gentleman's behavior, Wei Xiwan can't resist the temptation of curiosity, and besides, the light is so late at night, it is indeed worth exploring the reason. If she hadn't been in a high place, who would have been able to see the lights here? persuaded her own Wei Xiwan to calm down, and there was indeed a sound inside.
“...... The people in the military department have already ......" The people in the room seemed to deliberately lower their voices, and Wei Xiwan didn't hear them very clearly, but he could still know that it was two men talking.
“...... Prince...... When the time came...... "Since she couldn't hear clearly, Wei Xiwan, who wanted to stop there, just wanted to get up, but when she heard the word "prince", she immediately cheered up and continued to listen, but it seemed that the next conversation was even quieter, and she almost couldn't hear a word.
The heavy rain was coming, the cool breeze was blowing, and the guards on the eaves were thinly dressed at night and had begun to tremble, but even though they had not heard the people in the house clearly, they still did not leave. Anything related to Wang Chengchen, she seems to have an inexplicable stubbornness.
I don't know how long it took, but the sound in the room finally stopped, and a person opened the door and walked out.
Wei Xiwan, who had found nothing, was about to get up and leave, but she didn't expect that because she had been in this position for too long, coupled with the cool breeze blowing, her hands and feet had already stiffened a little.
I tried hard to stand up, but in the next second, I fell heavily on the eaves again. This movement is particularly clear in the silent night.
"There are assassins!" a voice shouted, immediately alarming the surrounding guards.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Wei Xiwan immediately got up again and left here very quickly under the cover of night. And at this moment, the dense raindrops had fallen, and the guards searched and chased aimlessly, and they couldn't catch up with the footsteps of the guards at all.
The sound of "bang" opening the door startled Wei Xiwan's dozing off the table in his room, and Qiao Er, who woke up, saw Wei Xiwan's serious expression, and the clothes on his body were almost soaked.
I saw Wei Xiwan quickly blow out the candles in the room, and before Qiao Er could ask what was going on, she stepped forward and covered her mouth: "Shhhh