Chapter Ninety-Eight
Ning Er walked out of Weiyang Palace and returned to the Imperial Garden from the same way. The palace is indeed magnificent, and when I went to see the Forbidden City in Beijing in my previous life, it was the same feeling as now, at that time, although the Forbidden City Palace was full of tourists, Ning'er felt that it was cold and there was no temperature. Now here, even if there are so many people living here, it is not as lively as the slightest bit of Wenxi in Taifu Mansion.
Sometimes Ning Er thinks back to what the situation would be now if it hadn't been for that accident at the beginning, and what would have been the outcome if Shen Yanling hadn't left more than 20 years ago? Looking at the palace maids walking by with flower branches, Ning Er didn't know if they were willing to stay in this deep palace. Ning Er remembered that when the Phoenix Kingdom promised her to marry the Golden Dragon, although her parents took her to learn various etiquette every day, they were worried and reluctant to carry her behind her back, and they were reluctant to let her into that gorgeous cage.
Two palace beauties came from a distance, Ning Er looked at their outfits, presumably the concubines in the palace, who had just walked for a while, and it was too late to avoid them at this time. Ning Er simply led the lotus seed forward, and made a simple salute, she is the prince's concubine, except for the queen of the middle palace, no one in the harem has received her big gift.
The two people who came here are the two beauties who only entered the palace last year, they are still young, and they are arrogant, the emperor has always not favored anyone in the harem, even if they are young and beautiful, they can't get more favor from the emperor. Before meeting Ning Er, the two were arguing over who the emperor preferred, and when they saw Ning Er, their attention was diverted by Ning Er, and they looked around Ning Er with the same hatred, and then said to Ning Er arrogantly: "You are a new person to the palace! Look at this fox face, you look like you are tall at a young age, who do you think you are? I don't know the rules, don't you know that when we see us, we should bow seriously and call our sister?"
Without waiting for Ning Er to speak, another beauty took over and said: "What my sister said is that you are young and don't know the rules of the palace, so you are good at studying, but today's banquet is extraordinary, if your sister does something wrong, she will lose the face of the Golden Dragon Kingdom, and when the time comes, even if the emperor likes her sister again, she will not be able to keep her sister." He said that he also looked like he was all for your good.
Ning Er raised her eyebrows, she regarded her as a concubine competing with them for favor, and she also had a sister's, I don't know, I really thought they cared about her! Ning Er stopped Lianzi from telling her identity, she had been in a depressed mood for the past two days, and there was no one to relieve her boredom, and now that there were two big toys sent to the door, how could she let it go. smiled lightly: "Then, according to the two sisters, what should the younger sister do?"
The two of them didn't notice Ning Er's thoughts, showed a haughty smile, and said: "In this palace, where is it enough to get the emperor's favor, and you have to rely on the power of the mother's family, you look at the queen mother, no matter what the emperor thinks in his heart, people have the powerful Phoenix Kingdom as the backing, in this harem, who dares to disobey her?
Ning Er looked at the two of them arrogantly, and on the other hand, they deliberately made a look of being close to themselves and thinking about themselves, and almost burst out laughing directly, I have to say that there are two beauties who perform a miniature version of Gong Dou for themselves, and it is really very interesting, and the gloom of the past few days has also been swept away. Thinking that after watching the play, it was time to go back to the Imperial Garden, so he was about to say goodbye to the two beauties and leave, but he heard Ouyang Lingchen's voice behind him: "Why don't the fifth brothers and sisters enjoy the flowers in the Imperial Garden?" Why, these two beauties are rude to their younger siblings?"
Ning Er turned around and saw Ouyang Lingchen coming from behind him, shaking a folding fan in his hand, but he had the appearance of a merry man. It's just that although Ouyang Lingchen is also Shen Yanling's brother, Ning Er has never had a good impression of this person, not only is he bent on being enemies of Shen Yanling and Ouyang Lingqi, but Ning Er doesn't want to get close to him when she sees him for the first time. Turning around, Ning Er bowed and saluted: "I've seen the three royal brothers, why are the three royal brothers here?"
"This king went to Cining Palace to greet the imperial grandmother, and was about to go to the front, do the five brothers and sisters also want to pass?
Not to mention that men and women should avoid suspicion, based on Ning'er's impression of him, Ning'er would not go with him, so he thanked him politely: "Thank you Brother Sanwang for your kindness, I had a good conversation with the two beauties, and I want to talk to the two beauties, Brother Sanwang should please first!"
Ning Er said this, Ouyang Lingchen was naturally not reluctant, so he left first. Ning Er turned her head to look at the two beauties, and sure enough, they all showed surprised expressions, the fifth brother and sister of King Jing are naturally the concubines of Prince An, the Golden Dragon Kingdom, especially the royal family, attaches great importance to the relationship between concubines and concubines, and the status of the prince's concubines is far higher than that of ordinary concubines in the palace, not to mention that they are just little beauties, and they hurriedly knelt down to ask for guilt.
Ning Er shook her head and said, "I just came to meet the queen mother, you don't have to take it to heart." That's it, lotus seed, let's go!" and then led the lotus seed away.
After walking a short distance, Ning Er quietly slowed down and whispered to Lianzi: "There is an ambush, be careful!"
Lianzi nodded, pulled out a sharp dagger, and swooped down on the enemy's ambush with great speed. Lianzi moved extremely fast, and in an instant, she solved the killers who were ambushed in four places, but at the same time, the location was also the farthest away from Ning'er. At the same time, a dark shadow pounced on Ning Er, and a long sword glowing with cold light stabbed at Ning Er's heart. The corner of Ning Er's lips provoked a playful smile, and as soon as she raised her hand, three silver needles shot at the other party's several major acupoints. The man didn't expect Ning'er to be able to do martial arts, he thought that he would be able to catch Ning'er by luring away the guards around Ning'er, but now it seems that Ning'er deliberately let the girl be lured away and led himself to make a move. Hurriedly put away his sword and returned to defense, but Ning'er didn't give him a chance to withdraw, after the three silver needles, the five silver needles that came faster were already unavoidable, and besides, under the sun, the five silver needles were dark, obviously quenched poison, this person didn't want him to have a chance to escape at all.
The silver needle shot into the Assassin's body, and the Assassin immediately collapsed, and the man felt a tingling sensation on his body, and he fell to the ground and could no longer move.
Lianzi dealt with the last assassin, walked up to the assassin who fell to the ground in a hurry, squatted down, and ripped off the assassin's veil, which turned out to be the guard next to Ouyang Lingchen. Ning Er raised her eyebrows and smiled, and asked, "Why did your master want to kill me?
The man turned his head away from Ning Er's eyes, sighed, and said, "If you want to kill, kill, I won't say anything!"
Ning Er smiled and said, "If you don't say it, I also know that your master wants to blackmail my husband with me, right? Originally, I thought, it's not easy for you to be a subordinate, if you say it obediently, I'll give you a good time, but it's a pity that you don't cherish it, why don't you hand you over to your master to deal with!
The man listened to Ning Er's soft words, but there was a chill in his heart, he naturally knew the master's means, no matter who it was, the master wanted to control it in his hands, and he couldn't tolerate anyone to betray him, and at the same time, he couldn't tolerate anyone to fail, so people who failed the mission would usually rather be killed by the enemy or commit suicide, but now, he knew that Ning Er would not kill him, let alone let him commit suicide.
Ning'er knew that this person wouldn't say anything, and didn't expect him to say anything, so she just ordered the secret guard to take him away, and left with the lotus seeds. The corner of his eye glanced at a hidden corner, a smile on the corner of his lips, and he walked forward gracefully, but he seemed to inadvertently drop a jade pendant.
After Ning'er and Lianzi left, a man walked out of a dark corner, it was Ouyang Lingchen, although his face was like a crown of jade, and he was dressed in brocade clothes, he had a gloomy aura on his body. He walked slowly to the place where Ning Er had just walked, and bent down to pick up the jade pendant that he didn't know if he had accidentally left or deliberately dropped it. Look carefully, the jade pendant is carved with fine mutton fat white jade, the front is the Phoenix country totem Phoenix Yu Xiang, and the back is the word Xining.
Ouyang Lingchen frowned, he had already heard that the royal family of the Phoenix Kingdom had a jade pendant as a token, Xining was the title of the Phoenix princess who was married, could it be that Princess Xining was not dead back then, it was his younger brother and sister in front of him? He once asked people to investigate Shen Yanling and Ning'er and his wife, but he didn't get much news, especially Ning'er, he only knew that she was Shen Yanling's wife, and even her parents and family had no clues, but if Ning'er was the princess married by Phoenix, then everything made sense. A hint of murderous light flashed in her eyes, and now she has reached the last step, whether she is Shangguan Shui or not, she has to die.
When Ning'er returned to the Imperial Garden with the lotus seeds, groups of ladies and ladies were enjoying the flowers in the garden, not realizing what would happen tonight. Ning'er walked around, only feeling a little tired, so she found a corner with few people and sat down to rest. The children are surrounded by someone to protect, Ning'er doesn't have to worry, thinking that there are many things to do tonight, Ning'er plans to close her eyes for a while.
The place was hidden among the flowers, Ning'er supported her chin with her hands, closed her eyes, and told Lianzi to look around, and wake her up if there was any abnormality. It's just that Ning'er has always slept lightly, let alone such a lively place, but she just wants to nourish her spirit. What made Ning'er relieved was that during the time when Ning'er was resting, there was really no one to disturb her, and when Ning'er almost raised her head after resting, the scene in front of her was not the same as before she went to bed. Rubbing her temples, Ning Er felt much better, and changed her hand to support her chin, her eyes wandering through the crowd, as if she wanted to find some fun in this almost boring party.
Seeing that the master was awake, Lianzi was worried that Ning'er was thirsty, so she poured tea for Ning'er to drink, and asked the palace maid who passed by to fetch fruit to sober Ning'er.