The royal palace is divided into the inner palace and the outer palace, the dormitories of the royal family members are in the inner palace, and the outer palace is the place where the royal ministers work. The inner palace is divided into the east palace and the west palace, and the west palace is also known as the harem, which is the dormitory of the ladies of the royal family, including princesses and princesses, and the prince may also live in the harem until he reaches adulthood.

The Baoyue Hall is located on the east side of the harem and is the first room of the harem. Outside the hall, there are small forests composed of cypress, metasequoia, and red pine, as well as all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, and you can smell the refreshing fragrance of thousands of miles from afar. When Long Xingtian was in his twenties, he liked to come to the Baoyue Hall the most, he liked the verdant here, and the flowers were more fragrant. Qinglian was born here.

Jin Yu stayed in the harem for sixteen years. Her father, Pei Kai, served as a national craftsman in the Long Shaode era and was very respected. Her elder brother Pei Yong, who is now serving as a reviewer at Qiu De, is widely regarded as a potential candidate for the next national craftsman. She was born with a strange body fragrance, she was a famous beauty when she was a child, she was recognized by Long Shaode as her future daughter-in-law at the age of eight, and married into the royal family at the age of sixteen, becoming Long Xingtian's fourth wife. In the first few years, Long Xingtian frequently frequented the Moon Holding Palace, and his body fragrance surprised him. That time was also her most glorious time in the harem. Soon after Qinglian was born, Long Xingtian gradually became indifferent to the owner of the Moon Holding Palace, and he rarely came here. She once thought it was because she gave birth to a daughter, and it was a six-finger deformity that was born unlucky. Even though Long Xingtian never commented on her fertility, it was hard for her not to think so.

However, several years later, she learned the truth of the matter: after Long Xingtian learned that she was the beloved woman of his second brother Long Chengtian, he no longer blessed her. She thought he had been in some kind of guilt for a long time. He has always loved his younger siblings.

But she didn't really care about that. Long Xingtian's stay away from the Moon Holding Hall was a good thing for her. She had a lot of opportunities to have private meetings with the men she really loved. Before getting married, although she knew her fate, she still handed over her virgin body to Long Chengtian. Later, a friend of Long Chengtian, a priest from the Eta Federation, helped her survive the first night of her journey with Long without showing her feet. Without special permission, Long Chengtian couldn't enter the harem, but it wasn't too difficult for her. She learned some special skills from her father, one of which was transfiguration, which was also a unique skill of her family and was never passed on. She took advantage of the disguise and took risks for many years.

To her great pleasure, such an adventure would soon come to an end, and Long Chengtian would soon ascend the throne as the new master of the harem, and of course she would continue to stay in the Baoyue Palace, rightfully becoming Long Chengtian's wife. She had been looking forward to and preparing for this day for a long time, and in order to make sure that nothing went wrong, she made a perfect plan.

Her lonely years in the Moon Hold Hall were not wasted, and she made many masks for emergencies, including Yingshu's. Originally, in accordance with the family tradition, she wanted to pass on this skill to Qinglian. But she suspected that her daughter's deformed fingers could not be grasped well, so she procrastinated until her daughter quarreled with her, and then reluctantly agreed. She soon discovers that her daughter is not as crippled and incompetent as she thought she would be—she has two more fingers than the other person and not the other way around, and she is surprised that her deformed daughter has no trouble learning to make masks. Qinglian is not only very interested in this, but also learns quickly.

At this moment, she was standing in the courtyard outside the hall, admiring the strange flowers and plants. The hard-to-grow andrographis has produced red and green fruits, adjacent to the white mandala flowers, but the most striking thing here is the fragrant thyme, which can be smelled from afar, and the blooming white petals dotted with yellow-green stamens, have always been her favorite, and her style of hair is from which she derives her bun style.

Seeing the weak stamens of the thyme, she thought of her deformed daughter, and the smile on her face disappeared in an instant, and her happy mood ended. She turned around and walked towards the hall, entering the side hall of the Moon Holding Palace, and Xiao Ju, who was standing far away and waiting, followed her.

There is a basement under the side nave, which was originally used for storage, and the entrance is sealed with thick wooden boards. When the guard saw her coming, he hurriedly opened the entrance, and a stone staircase with a corner was revealed, and at the corner was an iron door, Jin Yu hurriedly walked in, and Xiao Ju stood at the iron door.

The basement was not used as a wine cellar or for other food, but was converted into a secret apartment. Originally, there were various special-purpose utensils used here for the Pei family's secret techniques such as mixing potions and making human face models, but now they have all been removed. The four walls were covered with thick soft leather, and the floor was also covered with soft blankets, in addition to a small round table covered in soft pear wood and a few identical chairs, and a rosewood bed also wrapped in soft leather, designed to be able to lie and sit, Qinglian and her maid Lan Yi sat side by side on the wooden bed. Seeing her come in, Lan Yi hurriedly stood up, curtsied, and then retreated to the side of the bed.

The deformed daughter has never forgotten what etiquette and pomp to talk about in front of her subordinates.

"This is a prison cell, what is the respectable princess deigning to do here, not afraid of soiling her beautiful coat and skirt?" Qinglian had obvious mockery at the corner of her eyes.

"Daughter, mom just missed you, come and see you. She moved slowly, cautiously approaching.

"Is this your lie today?" Qinglian stared at the soft leather wall, as if it was more attractive than her beautiful mother.

"It's a last resort, just a few days, it's gone, it's fine. She stopped.

"You put a princess in a cell and tell her to smile because everything is good? Qinglian chuckled, her voice harsh and unpleasant. "The princess's dear father is dead, and so is her dear brother, and she herself has been caught by the wicked and locked up in an underground cell, looking forward to a better life ahead. And a noble princess deigned to see her. What a touching scene. ”

The daughter said to her maid, "What did the noble princess say to you that day?"

Lan Yi looked at her master, her voice trembling: "The princess asked the slave maid to go to pick Longsha. ”

"You went alone?"

"Master, no, the slave maid also called Yingshu. ”

"Who wants you to call Yingshu?" Qinglian glanced at her from the corner of her eye, and said softly: "Lan Yi, just say, don't be afraid, the noble princess won't do anything to you." ”

"Master, it was the princess who asked the slave to call Yingshu. Lan Yi bent her knees as she spoke, kneeling down towards Jinyu.

"Then the noble princess stopped Yingshu when you each returned to the palace, saying that you forgot to tell her something, didn't you?"

"Yes, master......" Lan Yi's voice was obviously trembling.

A weird smile appeared on her daughter's ugly face. "Lan Yi, let's do a guessing game, it's fun. Listen, the noble princess tricked a stupid maid out, and then arrested a stupid princess, where is the other stupid princess?"

Lan Yi was so frightened that she trembled, and she didn't dare to come out when she knelt on the ground.

"Can't you guess? I can't guess either. Our noble princess must know the answer. Will she tell these two fools? ”

"The moment you get out of here, I'll tell you. She continued to walk towards her daughter.

"Don't come here!" Long Qinglian's face suddenly changed, her voice sharp and angry. "I want you to tell me now!"

"I'll tell you, daughter, but not now. She stopped again.

"No, you'll tell me, right away. Qinglian's hands had been on her knees, but she suddenly turned over a hand, and with a flash of cold light, a sharp small dagger appeared in her six-fingered palm.

She asked in horror, "Daughter, what are you doing here?"

"Wait for you to tell me, where is Yingshu, where is the other stupid princess. The daughter looked at her coldly and pressed the dagger to her chest. "I'm going to know now. ”

She turned her head sharply and yelled at Xiao Ju, who was standing at the door, "Where did the dagger come from?"

Xiao Ju immediately knelt down: "Master, the slave did carefully inspect the slave when the little master came in......"

Qinglian interrupted her: "Don't blame Xiaoju. The dagger was hidden by me, she couldn't find it, don't forget that I have the blood of the Pei family on my body. ”

"You...... Why are you carrying a dagger?"

The daughter's asymmetrical eyes glared at her coldly: "Because no place here is safe, I carry it with me, I just don't want to die at the hands of something else." ”

"Daughter, what stupid thing are you talking about, how can your mother let you die!" she stepped forward to grab the dagger. This crazy kid can do anything!

"Don't come here!" the tip of the dagger seemed to be about to plunge into the chest.

"No, no, my child!" she pleaded, crying.

The stupid princess was still waiting for the answer she had been waiting for for a long time. Will the noble princess say that? Who knows. The tip of the dagger cut horizontally through the clothes on his chest, and a trace of blood flowed down the blade.

"Master, don't be like this!" Lan Yi couldn't help crying loudly, but she didn't dare to step forward and grab the dagger, the stubbornness of the six-fingered princess could no longer be clear.

"Stop, my good daughter, I'm telling you, she's locked up, and so is Yingshu. Jinyu was in tears and helpless.

The dagger stopped, and the six-fingered princess laughed mockingly: "Why are you locked up, the eldest princess is the heir of the Dragon Monarch, who has so much courage." ”

Because she and Yu Jian were pregnant by fornication. ”

"Lie!" Qinglian shouted, "I know best what kind of people the eldest sister and teacher are, they would never do such a thing!"

"Don't forget that your eldest sister hasn't been pregnant for three years since she got married, but after Yu Jian went to Jinju to see her once, she became pregnant with a child. To say that they did not have fornication, even if I believed it, the cabinet would not believe it. "Indeed, a lot of people find it unbelievable. But her daughter doesn't think so.

Qinglian's small eyes narrowed. "So, you deceived Yingshu and forced her to testify! You helped those bad people in the cabinet, harmed the good people, and then didn't even let me go, isn't it, my noble princess!"

The deformity has always beshadowed her cleverness. She was just as smart as a normal child, maybe even more. "My good daughter, you think too much, your mother will never let people hurt you, let alone let herself do things that hurt you. Put down the dagger!"

The daughter sneered: "You won't hurt my sister, you hurt my teacher, you secretly locked Lan Yi and me here, and then you tell me that you will never hurt me." It's the worst joke I've ever heard since the day I was born. ”

"It's all for your own good, my daughter, my mother is doing this, just because I'm afraid that you will do something stupid, and if something happens to you, teach my mother how to live. She said as she leaned over to her daughter.

"Don't come here!" Qinglian saw through her intentions and hissed, "Without me, don't you still have a man?"

Qinglian said the words "there is a man" very seriously. How did her daughter know? It's her secret, and there are only five people in the world who know about it. She never expected that this secret would be discovered by her daughter, who usually does not go out of the door and has a withdrawn personality. She tried to calm the waves in her heart, and then said: "Daughter, I have only loved one man, and that is your father, and no one else. ”

That's right, daughter, I'm not lying, I've only loved one man.

"Don't think I don't know about you, as if it's secret!" Princess Six-Fingered continued to taunt her.

"Anyway, my good daughter, you won't be unaware of how much you mean to your mother. Give the dagger to Mom. She held out her hand. The dagger's cut didn't look deep, and there wasn't much blood, but she knew very well that her daughter would do crazy things at any time as long as she stimulated her.

"All I know is that if the eldest sister is imprisoned for betraying her husband, then you should also suffer such a fate!" the daughter ignored it, her eyes and tone full of resentment. "I also know what the bad guys in the cabinet are doing this for, but I don't know why you are helping them! You keep saying that I am so important to you, why do you want to help others to harm me? Do you know that everything you are doing now is hurting me!"

She tried her best to suppress her emotions and carefully controlled her tone: "Daughter, as long as these few days pass, your mother will tell you everything, and you will understand your mother's hard work when the time comes." ”

"Say it now! I don't have to wait a few days! My dearest people have left one by one, and now it is the turn of the eldest sister and the teacher, if I see them all dead, what difference does it make between me living and a walking corpse? Then I would rather die!" the daughter suddenly laughed again, and her strange smile seemed to be very hideous, and the dagger in her hand continued to slash horizontally across her chest.

Jinyu groaned in despair, her beautiful face contorted with horror. "I promise you, your eldest sister will not die! Daughter, you have to believe your mother, if you die, your mother can't live alone!"