Zhou Huaixuan opened his eyes suddenly, and subconsciously encircled Sheng Siyan in his arms with one arm, "What's wrong?" ”

His voice was cold and indifferent, calming Sheng Siyan's uneasy feelings.

Sheng Siyan took a deep breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in a low voice, "I had a dream." ”

Zhou Huaixuan breathed a sigh of relief, patted Sheng Siyan's back with his big hand, and asked her in a low voice, "Nightmare?" ”

"Hmm." Sheng Siyan was stunned, "Recently, I have often dreamed of the land of the fallen people, and I don't know what is going on. Saying that, he looked up at Zhou Huaixuan's delicate jaw, "Maybe it was because you said that something might have happened to the land of the fallen people before going to bed, so I dreamed of that situation." ”

"Tell me?" Zhou Huaixuan's hand paused.

Sheng Siyan thought about it and described her dream to him.

"I dreamed that the Great Elder and the Deacon were locked up in a small room, and the land of the fallen was covered with black aura, and there was a very tall and thin man standing on a big rock speaking to the countless depraved people in black cloaks in front of him, and next to him stood a shorter man, and it was the shorter man who scared me." Sheng Siyan said with palpitations, "The two people I saw in my dream are backs. But the shorter one suddenly turned around, and I saw the strange orange mask on his face, and I was so frightened that I woke up. ”

"Orange Mask?" Zhou Huaixuan subconsciously repeated, "You said orange masks? What does it look like? ”

Sheng Siyan opened her mouth and wanted to talk about Peking Opera masks, but when she thought that there was no such thing as "Peking Opera" here, she said what was the use of "Peking Opera masks"?

But she remembered the dream very well, and she could draw a little.

"I'll draw it for you." Sheng Siyan couldn't sleep, so he simply sat up and said.

Zhou Huaixuan looked at her. "Don't want to sleep?" He frowned as he spoke. ――Ah Yan seems to have been sleeping very unsteadily lately.

If he remembers well. Sheng Siyan in the last ten days. It's been four days since I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep again.

It seems that tomorrow I will invite Duchess Sheng Guo to take a look at Sheng Siyan.

Zhou Huaixuan followed and got out of bed, took the soft silk cloak next to the bed and put it on Sheng Siyan.

Sheng Siyan sat in front of the bookcase, looked at the ink in the inkstone, and some of it, then dipped it with a pen and drew it on the white paper in front of him intently.

Zhou Huaixuan stood behind her with a handrail and watched.

As Sheng Siyan's paintings became more and more complete, Zhou Huaixuan's face became more and more severe.

This mask. It's the mask of the Guardian he's ever seen!

But the mask he'd seen was red.

Yan said that the mask she saw in her dream was orange.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple, this person, is it orange two?

Although he knew that it was very unreliable, Zhou Huaixuan couldn't help but ask, "Have you seen that person's appearance?" ”

Sheng Siyan shook his head, "I really didn't see it." I thought about it in my dreams, but the man had his back to me, waiting for him to turn around. The orange mask was already on again, so I didn't see his true face. There was a pause. Sheng Siyan said again: "However, I don't think he is a degenerate. ”

"He's not going to be a degenerate." Zhou Huaixuan said lightly. How can a Guardian be a Fallen Citizen?

"How do you know?" Sheng Siyan asked curiously.

Zhou Huaixuan struggled inwardly for a long time, not knowing whether to tell her about the Guardian.

His gaze rested on her bulging belly, and he gently covered it with his hand, deciding to wait until the child was born.

"I've lived with the fallen people for so long and I've never seen the fallen people like to wear colored face coverings. They have always been big black robes and black masks. Zhou Huaixuan said lightly.

"Oh." Sheng Siyan nodded, she didn't know as much about the fallen people as Zhou Huaixuan, and she didn't doubt it, watching Zhou Huaixuan take away the mask she had drawn.

"This thing is interesting, give it to me." Zhou Huaixuan half-supported and half-embraced, and returned to bed with Sheng Siyan, "Sleep." You always have nightmares like this, or let your mother-in-law come and show you. ”

Sheng Siyan responded, she also felt that her sleep quality was too poor recently, and she really needed Wang to take a look at her.

When he woke up the next day, Zhou Huaixuan went to the outer courtyard, ordered someone to call Zhou Xianbai over, asked him back for the letter he gave him yesterday, and instructed him: "Leave today, be careful on the road." If you go to the land of the depraved, you don't need to send a letter. Just take a walk around there and come back when there's anything special. ”

Zhou Xianbai said in surprise: "Why is this? He complained again: "The eldest prince doesn't believe me?" Even if something happens to the Fallen Lands, I can handle it. ”

Zhou Huaixuan smiled and said, "Go and go back quickly." He sent Zhou Xianbai out.

After sitting in his outer study for a while, he heard a scholar at the door of the study report back: "Eldest son, uncle is invited." ”

Zhou Huaixuan raised his eyes and looked at him, "Where?" ”

If he was asked to go to Aunt Yue's yard, he wouldn't go.

The scholar hurriedly said, "In the uncle's outer study." ”

Fortunately, it's not in Aunt Yue's yard.

Zhou Huaixuan got up and went to Zhou Chengzong's outer study.

Zhou Chengzong stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, staring intently at the verdant bamboo in the courtyard.

Seeing Zhou Huaixuan coming in, Zhou Chengzong turned around and pointed to a chair under the window and said, "Sit down." ”

Zhou Huaixuan didn't sit down, but said, "Is there something?" ”

Zhou Chengzong didn't force him to sit, just turned his head, was silent for a long time, and asked, "I heard that you came to me yesterday?" ”

Zhou Huaixuan really wanted to ask Zhou Chengzong yesterday, but then he heard that he was in Aunt Yue's house, so he didn't look for him again.

Now listening to Zhou Chengzong's question, Zhou Huaixuan frowned and said lightly: "What do you want to do?" ”

It's really inexplicable to make trouble for them again and again, but they are tied up.

Zhou Chengzong knew that he was asking about the dwarf yesterday.

He lowered his head, took a deep breath, and said, "That's my grandson too." After a pause, he said in a very low voice, "You are my only son." ”

Zhou Huaixuan raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.

"I had no choice but to do it." Zhou Chengzong sighed deeply, "The Lu of the Eater." Loyal to the king. That's what I have to do. ”

Zhou Huaixuan's face was cold. "Really?" The voice is flat. Without a little affection.

"It's not me, it's someone else. Instead of letting someone else do it, why don't I come personally, what do you say? Zhou Chengzong was silent for a long time, and suddenly said such a clueless sentence.

Zhou Huaixuan's brows slowly twisted.

It seems that the guardians are really eyeing Ah Yan......

"Sue me for who the others are." Zhou Huaixuan asked lightly.

"I don't know." Zhou Chengzong turned his head away and looked away.

"I really don't know?" Zhou Huaixuan slowly took out the orange mask that Sheng Siyan had just drawn from his arms. Handed it to Zhou Chengzong, "Who is he?" ”

Zhou Chengzong glanced at it casually, his eyes suddenly widened, and his voice trembled: "Where did you get this?!" ”

"You know? So who is he? ”

Zhou Chengzong touched the piece of paper with his hand and said in a low voice, "He is...... Orange Er, I guess, he should be the head of the palace. ”

Zhou Huaixuan rolled his palm, put away the painting, turned around and left, and walked to the door. But he stopped, and said without looking back: "Ah Yan is my only wife." He said. Strode out of Zhou Chengzong's study.

After Zhou Huaixuan left, Zhou Chengzong suddenly collapsed on the seat, clenched his fists in his hands, and pounded the table in front of him fiercely.

There's no way, wait for the child to be born!

Now the only way to drag Orange Er is to let him wait until the child is born.

……

Zhou Huaixuan left the Divine General's Mansion and went straight to the palace to see Emperor Xia Zhao.

Emperor Xia Zhao misses Sheng Siyan very much these days, knowing that she is about to give birth, and he is also very worried about her body, but he can't go to the Shenjiang Mansion to see her, and he is anxious.

Hearing Zhou Huaixuan's request to see, Emperor Xia Zhao hurriedly said: "Hurry up!" ”

Zhou Huaixuan strode in, bowed to Emperor Xia Zhao, and then asked, "Holy Lord, have you sent any of the palace attendants out of the palace on an errand recently?" ”

Emperor Xia Zhao didn't expect Zhou Huaixuan to ask this, and said suspiciously: "There are often chamberlains who go out of the palace on errands, which one do you refer to?" ”

"Did you send them to a farther place? It's not a day or two to get back, but a month or two to get back? Zhou Huaixuan thought about it and asked again.

The chamberlains are different from others, they cannot leave Beijing at will.

If you leave Beijing, you must have a holy hand.

Otherwise, if they are caught by officials elsewhere, they can be punished as fugitive slaves.

If that orange er is really an inner servant, and he really went to the land of the fallen people, then there must be an edict from Emperor Xia Zhao.

Emperor Xia Zhao thought for a while and said, "Last month, there were four teams of internal servants, who followed the officials of the Ministry of Industry to the southeast, northwest, and four directions. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Help the officials of the Ministry of Industry to survey the boundaries and make a map." Emperor Xia Zhao smiled and said, "The old rule of the Great Xia Dynasty is to measure the boundary once every fifty years and draw a map. ”

"How many chamberlains are there?"

"Four per team, sixteen in total." Emperor Xia Zhao was even more curious, "What are you asking for?" ”

Zhou Huaixuan said quietly: "Our god reported the spies of the mansion in the northwest, as if we saw an inner servant haunting the land of the fallen people. Of course, he didn't mention Sheng Siyan's dream, but only said that he was a spy from the Divine General's Mansion.

"Huh?!" Emperor Xia Zhao was taken aback, "Are you serious? I didn't send them to the land of the Fallen People! ”

"I don't know if it's true or not, so I'll come to the palace to ask for clarification." Zhou Huaixuan looked at Emperor Xia Zhao, "Why don't you give the portraits of the sixteen chamberlains to the ministers, and the ministers go to pair up with the spies and let them recognize people?" ”

Emperor Xia Zhao smiled bitterly and said: "It's just an inner servant, who will paint them a portrait?" ”

Even if you find someone to draw it now, it is not clear from memory.

"That's it, when they come back, the saint will let them recognize the ministers, okay?" Zhou Huaixuan plans to wait for the rabbit.

Anyway, the chamberlain will definitely come back.

When the time comes, find an opportunity for Ah Yan to recognize her back and see if it matches the back in her dream.

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Today's three more 12,000, ask for a guaranteed pink ticket!! …… (To be continued......)