Chapter 5 Seeking Fragrance - Night Exploration
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Chris returned to Baoci Palace, she took out the pastries and fruits she bought in the market, Xing Yun said that she loved plum candy, and Zhu'er picked amber honey.
At this time, Zhang Ruoshui walked in from outside.
When Pearl saw him, her eyes dodged around, like a bird trying to find a safe place to stay.
Zhang Ruoshui made a look, Xing Yun understood, and the two maids retreated and closed the door.
I only heard Zhang Ruoshui say, "Dai Ying, come out." ”
A dark shadow crept silently, and a scurrying figure appeared on the wall.
Suddenly, a person appeared in front of her eyes and knelt on the ground, "The villain greets the Queen Mother." ”
The man's appearance without warning startled Chris.
"His name is Xiong Daiying, and he is your personal guard, and he will be responsible for protecting you in the future. ”
Looking closely at the black-clad shadow guard, Chris found that his hair was not tied up like a normal man, but a short thick black hair like a modern man, about two inches long, his face was covered with a black veil that only exposed the upper part of his face, and his eyes were slender but attentive.
Xiong Daiying took two steps forward and handed over something.
Chris took it and saw that it was the purse she borrowed from Xing Yun before going out, she subconsciously touched her body, and found that the purse was gone without knowing when.
"The girl was a pickpocket, and I saw that she had taken the things from the Queen Mother, so I took them back. Xiong Daiying said calmly.
Chris's intuitive brain was buzzing, she didn't notice that the purse was stolen by the girl in yellow, not to mention that the person in front of her had been with her all day, and she was so shocked that she couldn't say a word.
After a moment of silence, Zhang Ruoshui spoke.
"Dai Ying, bring me the things you brought back from the 'Listening to the Rain Pavilion'!"
Next, listening to the book of heaven and listening to Zhang Ruoshui's booklet of "Heavenly Pavilion" and "Earth Pavilion", Chris's whole person was confused, and his heart was full of gloom. What is a personal guard? Is it true that when you sleep, someone is secretly staring at you, and now your personal freedom and personal privacy are all gone?
What she didn't expect was that someone was indeed staring at her secretly at this time.
A figure climbed over the palace wall and entered her dormitory. It just so happened that the room where she slept was backed by a big tree, and the branches covered the roof, and the person hiding in the tree was blocked by the leaves, and it was easy not to be discovered, this person was Liang Huaiji. He knew that Lan Yuanxiao was sent out to the palace on an errand today, and he guessed that Shi Quanbin would inevitably choose this time to do something outside the palace, but in the evening, Lan Yuanxiao was unharmed, and he swaggered to the Qingxin Palace, which made Liang Huaiji even more suspicious, and when Lan Yuanxiao left with his front foot, he followed him to Baoci Palace, wanting to find out.
And now, there are shadow guards who followed Lan Yuanxiao just now in the room, as well as Zhang Ruoshui. Liang Huaiji was still a little jealous of Zhang Ruoshui, so he didn't rush to the roof, but chose to hide in a tree, fortunately, he had deep internal strength, and the window was open in the wing, so he could hear it if he listened carefully.
"The master has been running to the Qingxin Hall these days, but he suspects that Liang Huaiji?"
Liang Huaiji's heart jumped when he heard Zhang Ruoshui mention his name.
"I wonder what he's doing?" was a woman's voice.
Zhang Ruoshui immediately revealed his doubts and thoughts about Liang Huaiji, a master of the Tongxuan Sect, who was hidden in the palace, and told Chris.
"The Tongxuan faction is the earth immortal gate with the son of Tongxuan Zhenwenzi as the master, and then there is the "Zhisheng" Guiguzi as the founder of the mountain, and the "Shangsheng" Tao Zhugong as the patriarch of the founding school. The Tongxuan faction emphasizes "small hidden in the forest, big hidden in the city", Tao Zhu Gong issued a ban on not allowing his disciples to "hide in the court", so the disciples of the Tongxuan faction in later generations have been doing business for generations, and they are all very rich. Judging from Liang Huaiji's martial arts, he is obviously a master of the Tongxuan faction, but he violated the ban and entered the palace as an attendant, I always feel that there is something strange behind this matter. ”
"Ban?" Chris thought for a moment and asked, "Maybe he has some unspeakable hardship that he has to enter the palace, or someone forced him to enter the palace?"
Liang Huaiji, who was on the tree outside the window, heard this, closed his eyes, and almost reflexively recited the scriptures of the Tongxuan School in his heart: out of the dust, born in the world, born at home, and separated from the world. Since he was sensible, whenever he encountered something unhappy, he would recite it three times in a row to calm down the depression in his heart, and now he actually relies on it to support himself. Although he was reluctant, he had to admit that the woman hit his sore spot in a single sentence.
"Persecution? I don't see it, and besides, with his current strength, who can persecute him? I just don't understand, what exactly does he want to do?" Zhang Ruoshui said, "For so many years, the disciples of the Tongxuan Sect have been hidden and hidden, but only a Taoist priest named Zitongxuan at the end of the Tang Dynasty is known to the world. In the fifth generation, Zitongxuan rescued the people in distress in Chengtianguan and saved countless people. Taizong and Zhenzong both summoned him to Beijing, and even rewarded him with a flat seat, and he had two disciples named Zhang Shouyuan and Li Shouyi. ”
Liang Huaiji clenched the fist in his hand, he tried to calm himself down, and recited the scripture in his mind several more times.
"Actually, I just went to the Qingxin Hall to see the princess. Chris gave a cheerful answer, "As for the reason why that ice cube face stays in the palace, I don't have any interest in it, what does he do?"
Although his voice became sharp, the arrogant tone was not something that others could easily learn - Lan Yuanxiao was the queen mother, this fact seemed too appalling, and Liang Huaiji couldn't believe his ears.
Somehow, Zhang Ruoshui suddenly pushed open the window and looked outside.
For just a moment, Liang Huaiji felt that the situation was not good, thinking that he was too surprised just now and his breath was unstable. He secretly praised Zhang Ruoshui's vigilance, held his breath at the moment, and did not dare to take it lightly.
Chris thought for a moment and said seriously, "Your guess is not wrong. It seemed to me that there was something buried in that man's heart. ”
Zhang Ruoshui's attention was drawn back, and he turned his head and asked, "Something?"
"Well, something unusually heavy, I felt it the first time we met. Chris said this as he thought, in fact, I also have this kind of thing in me, a heavy secret buried in the bottom of my heart, so I can see it.
Zhang Ruoshui was a little confused, he always felt that his master had changed, but he couldn't say it.
After the two said something again, Zhang Ruoshui retired, and took the shadow guard to the study to the west with two big boxes.
The conversation ended, and silence fell in this room, but Liang Huaiji outside the house set off a monstrous wave in his heart. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, he persuaded himself to confirm with his own eyes, at this time Zhang Ruoshui was not in front of him, he jumped off the tree, boldly approached the window, and looked inside through the gap.
At this time, Xing Yun brought in the basin and toiletries.
Chris walked over to the pineapple dresser and sat down, and she lifted the film on her face with Ethan Hunt's trademark head-shaking motion. Standing behind her, Xing Yun took the mask and put it in a wooden box on the dresser. Immediately afterwards, Xing Yun spread his hair for Chris, Chris looked at the blurred figure in the bronze mirror, sighed, and said in his heart: I'm really not used to looking at other people's faces.
All this was reflected in Liang Huaiji's eyes, but he couldn't believe that there was a girl-like face under the mask. A pair of beautiful big eyes, which are unforgettable at first sight. The small face with a big palm, but with all the confidence and elegance of the eyes, the eyebrows and eyes bloom with a noble temperament, scorching and impressive, and the edge is peerless.
Liang Huaiji would never show his feelings on his face, but now he was stunned, and his thin lips were tightly pursed into a line. How could this be, how could the Queen Mother be like this? Liang Huaiji had also seen Gao several times before, and he tried to recall the appearance of the Queen Mother in his mind, and he had the impression that she always seemed to be painted with heavy palace clothes and thick white powder, which was obviously not like this...... Somehow, Gao's appearance became more and more blurred, which made Liang Huaiji unable to coincide with the face he just saw.
"Master, I'll close the window. It's been a little cold at night lately, and you're just right, but you can't get cold anymore. ”
When Liang Huaiji wanted to look at it again, the window was closed.
Under the bright lights, I saw the silhouette in the house.
After serving the Queen Mother to wash, Xing Yun was about to retire, but was stopped. In her hand was a lotus-patterned jade hairpin and handed it over. Xing Yun saw that the hairpin head was inlaid with her favorite lotus flower, a blooming lotus flower with a pink and lovely color, a green lotus leaf background, and a few drops of white jade beads embedded in the leaf surface.
"This one for you!"
Seeing Xing Yun holding his hands, Chris directly inserted the jade hairpin into Xing Yun's hair.
Chris pointed to the table again and said, "By the way, I also bought one for Zhu'er and put it there, you let her get it." ”
Xing Yun looked at it, it was a red gold silk begonia hairpin, why was it a hairpin for Zhu'er and a hairpin for himself?
Xing Yun's cheeks were crimson, and Chris hadn't reacted yet, just when the little girl was shy, how did she know that in ancient times, hairpins were a token of love between a man and a woman.
Waiting for Xing Yun to leave, Chris lay down on the bed, Xu was tired from being outside all day, and she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.
Liang Huaiji didn't leave, he was still hesitating whether he should go back. However, a person tiptoed to the door of the Queen Mother's bedroom, and with a "squeak", the figure got in.
Liang Huaiji jumped up and landed on the roof, gently removed the two tiles, and saw the scene inside.
There was a dim gauze lamp burning in the room, and a palace maid in a red palace dress could be vaguely seen, he couldn't see the other party's face condescendingly, but his posture was by no means the person who went out just now, and he muttered in his heart: When this is near, the master has not been summoned, how can the maid break into the inner room at will?
The woman touched the table, picked up something, and walked to the bed again. She lifted the blue curtains, her hand was raised violently, and the golden light in the room flashed, and the woman took the golden hairpin in her hand and stabbed at the person lying on the bed.
On the roof, Liang Huaiji secretly screamed that it was not good, his eyes flashed, he flicked his fingers, and a force went straight to the back of the woman's shoulder.
With a muffled snort, the woman was stunned and lay on the edge of the bed.
Liang Huaiji quickly uncovered more tiles, directly opened a hole, and jumped in.
Who knew that the woman suddenly turned over from the bed, raised the hand holding the golden hairpin and continued to attack the person on the bed.
This surprised Liang Huaiji, his finger flicking magic skills are not trivial, don't say that a small palace maid, even a master of martial arts has been hit, and it is impossible to move again in such a short time. He flicked his fingers again, and although the woman's body was certain and her movements were affected, she was still struggling forward.
Liang Huaiji's face was a little ugly, and he immediately jumped up and ran out, grabbed the woman's wrist, and forcibly stopped her movements.
At the same time, the screen lamp in front of the window crackled and burst a spark, reflecting the light and shadow in the room. Liang Huaiji saw the woman's appearance clearly.
The woman's face in the light suddenly made Liang Huaiji fall into a nightmare, and his eyes suddenly widened, and he was so similar to the Queen Mother he had just seen. The only difference is that the woman's quiet eyes clearly flashed with fear and hesitation, pain and hatred, unwillingness and anger.
Liang Huaiji looked at the bed tent again, and the other face slept peacefully, wearing light clothes on his body, only covered with a thin quilt embroidered with a large peony, and his chest line was exposed, half covered and half hidden, charming. He quickly avoided his gaze, and looked down at the woman he was holding again, although she was agile, she had no internal strength, how could she still move. He probed again with his tentacles and found that the woman's veins were actually different from ordinary people, slightly off. The woman seemed to sense something, struggled hard, and immediately grabbed the other party's pulse.
At this time, Liang Huaiji understood, the woman didn't know what evil martial arts she had practiced, and she could stagger the meridians and deviate the acupoints, and even Liang Huaiji couldn't tell the origin of this martial arts. The veins were restrained, the woman's little face was wrinkled, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on her smooth forehead, she seemed to close her eyes and no longer struggle, her eyelashes trembled silently, telling the master's panic at the moment.
At that moment, a low chuckle came from the darkness behind him.
Liang Huaiji seemed to have fallen into the ice cellar all of a sudden, and his hair stood up, and at some point, there was still a person in the house, a man. He had always boasted of his excellent martial arts skills and was very vigilant, but he didn't notice when this person had come in......
He looked back, his eyes fixed on the depths of the darkness, and sure enough, a dark figure took two steps forward, but he still couldn't see the other person's face clearly.
I thought that I would continue to confront each other in silence, but the man opened his mouth.
"The Queen Mother's bedroom is really lively, there are both fake palace maids and fake eunuchs, it's really interesting!"
Liang Huaiji was surprised in his heart, how did he know that I was not a eunuch?
Just a flash of effort, Liang Huaiji's movements in his hands were sudden, and the woman in his hand actually broke free and took two steps back.
The woman's previous scared appearance was all pretended! In an instant, Liang Huaiji immediately recognized that it was the real Queen Mother lying on the bed.
The man sneered again and said, "Someone is coming, aren't you leaving?"
As his words fell, the woman flashed away.
Liang Huaiji also knew that he had been discovered, but he needed to probe the man's reality no matter what, he swept towards the man with all his might, and this blow was unexpectedly empty, Liang Huaiji felt incredible, there was such a master in the world? He even had an illusion, he didn't know if he was seeing a person.
Seeing that he was flustered, the man chuckled under his breath again.
Zhang Ruoshui's voice was already heard outside: "What person!"
Liang Huaiji couldn't wait any longer, he flew up and left along the hole he jumped into.
The moment Zhang Ruoshui and Xiong Daiying entered the house...... The laughter stopped abruptly.
Zhang Ruoshui came to the bedside to take a look, and said loudly: "Guard the master!"
When he looked up, he saw a hole in the roof, and he quickly chased after it.
flashed the corner of the room, circled a few times, Zhang Ruoshui chased after him for a while, and finally disappeared. He frowned slightly, there were not many people who could escape from him, but they were really escaped.
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(1) Imperial Corridor: Since the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, citizens have been allowed to do business in the Imperial Corridor until the reign of Emperor Hui of the Song Dynasty. The long row of porch houses is not only convenient for storing goods coming and going, but also the front eaves can provide shelter from the wind and rain for pedestrians, and the purchase and sale activities can be carried out conveniently.
(2) CUHK people: The honorific title of eunuchs from the outside world.
(3) Chicken Su water: borneol mint soaked in water is a kind of Song Dynasty medicinal health care drink, borneol mint is also known as "southern mint".
(4) Ambergris: It is said that such a story is recorded in the "Tiewei Mountain Cong Talk", in the fourth year of Zhenghe, Song Huizong began to take power by himself, and found ambergris when he was in the Fengchen Treasury in the inspection university, because the ambergris was not in good shape, huge and ancient, he gave the incense to the ministers and close servants. After taking a large amount of beans and burning them, it exudes a strange flower atmosphere, and it is full of fragrance and lushness, and it does not stop all day long. Song Huizong was greatly surprised, and ordered the recipient, no matter how much or less, to reclaim the storage forbidden, because of the name "ancient dragon saliva". Song Huizong didn't know the goods, and he didn't say anything, and the things he gave him had to come back.
(5) Lemon: Lemon was brought to Europe by the Arabs, and there is no record in the documents of ancient Greece and Rome, and it was only in Genoa, Italy, that it began to be cultivated in the 15th century.