Chapter Fifty-Eight: Changning Palace
Qi Xuansu wanted to find the source of the leakage of dragon qi, and searched almost all the palace, because dragon qi is not peaceful money, not that it can be easily transported by manpower, and generally needs things such as altars and formations to guide it.
In this dragon qi leakage, the people behind the scenes did not choose the above two methods, but chose Yin and Yang as the container, so what Qi Xuansu wanted to investigate was the specific cause of death of these eunuchs.
Although the bodies of the seven eunuchs are no longer there, and there may not be any traces in the palace, Qi Xuansu can only continue to investigate.
Qi Xuansu asked: "Lord Chen, you have been in the palace for a long time, you should investigate, what abnormalities did these eunuchs have before they died violently?" Chen Jianqiu collected his mood and replied seriously: "When the first few eunuchs died violently, I didn't react, but when the next few eunuchs died violently, I took it seriously and found that they had all been to two places. As he spoke, Chen Jianqiu actually took out a floor plan of the palace and slowly unfolded it in front of Qi Xuansu.
Qi Xuansu took a look at it and felt familiar, because from the floor plan, the palace was completely modeled after the imperial palace of the imperial capital, although it was much smaller, but the structural layout was almost exactly the same, and it was also the central axis and the three major halls, and the palace gate was also called the noon gate, no wonder the Great Yu Kingdom called itself the Little Central Plains.
After entering the noon gate, there is Taiye Lake, there is a Zhongdao Bridge on Taiye Lake, then there is the Great Tide Temple, the Taisheng Temple, and then the Great Palace Gate.
Entering the gate of the big palace, it is the Qinzheng Palace, and the left and right of the Qinzheng Hall are the Civilization Hall and the Wuxian Palace. After the Qinzheng Hall is the Qiancheng Palace, which is also the largest palace in the entire palace, and the left and right are the Zhenming Hall and the Guangming Palace.
After the Qiancheng Hall is the Kuntai Palace, and the left and right are the Xuanhui Courtyard and the Yangxin Courtyard. These palaces are located on the central axis.
After the three halls, there is a harem in the traditional sense, including the emperor's bedroom, the six courtyards and the imperial garden. In addition to this, there are two roads, east and west.
This side of the east road is slightly empty, from south to north is the Taimiao, the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, and a large area of water
"Yingzhou". This Yingzhou is not the Yingzhou Island of Taiping Road, but an artificial island, under the pretense of the name of Yingzhou.
The temples on the west road are more dense. Or from south to north, in turn is the Xianlin Pavilion, the World Temple, and the Xing Temple, among which the Xianlin Pavilion is similar to the Wenyuan Pavilion of Daxuan, that is, where the cabinet is located.
After the Xing Temple, there is the Fengxian Palace, then the Shouzhi Palace, and finally the Changning Palace. Among them, Changning Palace is the residence of the Queen Mother.
Chen Jianqiu pointed to the map and said, "These eunuchs have all been to Changning Palace and Shouzhi Palace. Qi Xuansu asked, "Did you send someone to check?" A spiritual officer said: "Back to the second seat, Shouzhi Palace has been checked, and now it is not inhabited, but there are indeed some traces of formations in it, which are suspected to have been destroyed by people, and are basically unrecognizable." Qi Xuansu asked again: "What about Changning Palace?" The spirit officer hesitated for a moment and said, "Considering the impact, we didn't go over. Qi Xuansu didn't scold him, just nodded and said, "I'll go there myself." Chen Jianqiu asked, "Second seat, do you want to bring a spirit officer?" Qi Xuansu thought for a while and said: "Just lead me over to the lord of Chenjun, you don't have to follow, the battle is too big, it seems that I want to force the palace, and there are many female dependents there, and the impact is not good." Qi Xuansu explained again: "Yunzheng, you go to Shouzhi Palace again to see if there are any missing details." Chen Jian replied.
Today, Qi Xuansu didn't bring Ke Qingqing, Ke Qingqing stayed in the Water Palace to assist Xu Jiaorong in dealing with Sun Keyping's affairs.
The reason why he brought Chen Jianqiu was because Qi Xuansu believed in his reconnaissance ability, after all, being able to single-handedly find out Wu Luo's hiding place already showed his ability.
Chen Jianqiu and a group of spirit officials went to Shouzhi Palace again, and Qi Xuansu, under the leadership of Chen Jianqiu, went to Changning Palace, where the Queen Mother was located.
On the way, Chen Jianqiu also introduced the queen mother to Qi Xuansu, surnamed Yang, named Yang E, who was born in a powerful family of Dayu Kingdom, and is the biological mother of the current lord of the country, and the former queen.
Putting aside the people in the Daomen, it can be said that she is the most noble woman in the Dayu Kingdom, and she is the person in the Daomen, considering the influence, she must be polite.
Qi Xuansu still has to give the queen mother some face, it's not good to be too offended. Fortunately, it is only the queen mother, who is replaced by the queen mother of the Daxuan court, not to mention Qi Xuansu, the second deputy lord of the palace, how many levels higher, the real person in charge of the mansion and the real person in charge of the hall, it is not easy to offend.
Chen Jianqiu said: "The reason why my father converted to Buddhism is that the Queen Mother also has some influence. It's not that the Queen Mother is a disciple of Buddhism, but the Queen Mother believes in a lot of things, the Buddha also believes, the Tao also believes, and she still believes in the goddesses of the West over the years, and the local witchcraft of Nanyang, she is not left behind, and she has been given to death on the charge of witchcraft in the Central Plains. I think she and the people of the 'Heavenly Court' have a common language. ”
"By the way, I also heard that this queen mother is not very careful, it seems that she has a lover, who is more than half a year old, and I really don't know what to say." Back then, the queen mother strongly objected to the lord of Dayu marrying Chen Jianqiu's biological mother, so Chen Jianqiu's relationship with this grandmother was not good, and even a little bad, at this time she didn't mind saying a few words in front of Qi Xuansu.
This is not a fabrication, it is an objective fact. Qi Xuansu did not comment, he has his own judgment and will not believe what others say.
Under the leadership of Chen Jianqiu, Qi Xuansu came to Changning Palace. The Ningshou Palace of the Daxuan Imperial Palace is also copied here.
The first stone pavilion into the mountain, constituting a natural courtyard, the winding water flows, quite elegant. The second through the hanging flower door, only a few pieces of lake stone for the scene, the environment is elegant and chic.
The third is to enjoy the pavilion with the whole mountain, and use the corridor to contact the pavilion and the pavilion, forming different scenery and interest.
Empress Dowager Yang was in the Cui Appreciation Pavilion. According to Chen Jianqiu's meaning, the queen mother should be allowed to greet her, but Qi Xuansu didn't want to be so domineering, so he let the eunuch pass it on and said that Qi Xuansu was visiting.
After the eunuchs passed the ceremony, they hurriedly invited Qi Xuansu in. In the pavilion to bamboo weaving for the ground, wisteria carved plum, dyed jade for plum blossoms, bamboo leaves, symbolizing the three friends of the cold year, hanging eaves with bamboo silk weaving, inlaid with jade pieces, around the group of plates carved a hundred deer figures, the heart of the partition fan with double-sided embroidery, everywhere Seiko carving, breathtaking.
Qi Xuansu also met this Empress Dowager Yang. The Taoist gate does not allow female Taoist priests to rejuvenate excessively, but they don't care about outsiders, so this Empress Dowager Yang can be said to be skilled, she looks only about thirty years old, dressed in plain clothes, her eyebrows are like Yuandai, her eyes are like autumn water, and she is awe-inspiring and a little charming, not like an old woman, but like a charming young woman.
Compared with the withered and inhuman-shaped lord of Dayu, the two stood together, let alone a mother and son, just said that husband and wife would not be believed, but more like father and daughter.
This made Qi Xuansu believe Chen Jianqiu's words a little, this queen mother is not simple. Some flowerbed Taoist priests may want to say that such groundless speculation about others is disrespectful to others, which shows that these flowergarden Taoist priests do not know the sinister way of the world, blindly occupy the moral high ground, and do not consider the actual situation.
To put it mildly, I always think of people as good, and I want to say thank you if I am easily sold to the New World for mining.
Qi Xuansu opened his mouth and said: "Empress Dowager Yang, we should meet for the first time, I am Qi Xuansu, the new deputy head of the Borneo Provincial Government, and I am now authorized by the Provincial Government to investigate and deal with the leakage of dragon qi. Empress Dowager Yang stood up and bowed slightly: "Qi Cixi's name, although this palace is a woman in the deep palace, she has also heard of it, which can be described as thunder. Qi Xuansu smiled: "Since the Empress Dowager Yang knows me, then I won't talk nonsense, straight to the point, I came to see the Empress Dowager this time, just for one thing, recently seven eunuchs in the palace have been killed one after another, as far as I know, these seven eunuchs have all come to Changning Palace before they died, can the Empress Dowager give me a reasonable explanation?" Yang E looked surprised: "Is there such a thing?" Qi Xuansu said: "The Queen Mother can't remember, it doesn't matter, we can go back to the earth, whether they have been here or not, we can know at a glance." Yang E fell silent.
Qi Xuansu didn't urge either. After a moment, Yang E suddenly chuckled. I don't know when, a faint mist gradually filled the Cuixiang Pavilion, this smell is very familiar, and it is often smelled on Lin Yuanmiao's body.
Qi Xuansu's face changed slightly: "It's 'Soul Rejuvenation Incense'." Yang E said: "As far as I know, celestials and pseudo-immortals are not immune to the effect of 'Soul Rejuvenation Incense', and they will lose their realm cultivation in a short period of time. Qi Xuansu quickly regained his composure and said slowly: "That's right, even if it is a pseudo-immortal, it can't completely ignore the effect of the 'Soul Returning Incense', as long as the amount of 'Soul Returning Incense' is enough, it is not impossible for the immortal person to cultivate in a short period of time." However, to find so many 'rejuvenating incense', only the Daomen can do it. Yang E smiled: "I had long expected that Qi Cixi would come to the door, so I had to make this decision, and I hope Qi Cixi will forgive me." Qi Xuansu didn't speak.
Yang E said with a smile: "Qi Cixi probably thinks that these quantities of 'Soul Rejuvenation Incense' are just a loss for your cultivation, far from being a loss of cultivation, and it is easy to take my life now." Qi Xuansu did not refute, and the right to acquiesce.
Yang E continued: "Qi Cixi's realm is superb, I am just a weak woman, I can only do things by pretending to be the hands of others, I have no surprising ability, only by putting more effort than others can I win." So in addition to the 'Soul Rejuvenation Incense', there are other back-ups. The words fell, and a group of Qingluan guards slowly walked into the Cui Appreciation Pavilion, and they did not inhale
The "Soul Rejuvenation Incense" is naturally cultivated without damage, and the first thing they do when they come in is that it is burning
The "Soul Rejuvenation Incense" is extinguished. Chen Jianqiu was both shocked and angry: "Yang E, do you want to rebel?" ”