The moss on the stone steps soaked up the moisture of the morning mist, and it was very slippery, and the road was so desolate that no one had visited it for a long time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Shaobai and Mu Ningzhi walked for a long time, and finally came to a dilapidated palace pavilion.

Although this palace pavilion is exquisite and exquisite, there is ash under the cornices, and the cobwebs are slanted, and the top is full of old flying flotsam, trembling with the autumn wind. On the bucket arch, there are many swallow's nests as far as the eye can see, but now the autumn is cool and heavy, and the swallows have been gone for a long time, leaving only the empty swallow's nest, and the empty palace, together to watch the sun sink westward, watch the waning moon rise in the east, day after day, year after year.

Looking at the wild grass growing on the eaves tiles and moving with the wind, Mu Ning's heart was sad, but he didn't know why.

The two of them walked up the steps, stepping on a thick layer of withered yellow leaves and dried bat dung, and slowly walked to the gate where the vermilion paint was peeling.

I saw that there were still some traces of the seal on this door, and after forty years of wind and rain, the seal of that year had long disappeared.

Mu Ningzhi stretched out his hand to push the gate, but the gate did not move, and only then did he find that there was a huge copper lock hanging on the beast head ring on both sides, although the copper green was all over it, it was still immovable.

Mu Ningzhi frowned slightly, and was worried, when suddenly the sword light in Zhou Shaobai's hand flashed, and the copper lock opened in response.

"This ......" Mu Ning was stunned, but Zhou Shaobai said: "We have the imperial gold medal in hand, and this bronze lock actually doesn't let us in, it's a big crime to deceive the king, so we cut it off." ”

He stepped forward and pushed, and the door "squeaked" open, and there was immediately a stale smell of corruption from inside.

"Please. ”

Mu Ningzhi's feet finally stepped on the golden bricks of the Splendid Palace.

Her heart was pounding, even though she had never been here.

But somehow, this long empty palace room made her feel strange and inexplicable, as if every brick and tile, grass and tree here were inextricably linked with her.

At a glance, the black hole in the palace is not clear.

Zhou Shaobai frowned, in addition to the stale atmosphere in the hall, there was actually a trace of strange fragrance coming from it.

He looked around, approached a pillar, gently brushed away the dust on it, leaned in and sniffed it, and said: "This wood, at first glance, is not ordinary, it seems to be a golden agarwood, born with a strange fragrance." "The Book of Medicine" says that the golden silk agarwood is only produced in the Tiannan area, which is very rare, and it takes at least two or three hundred years for a tree to grow. This palace is actually all made of golden agarwood as pillars, and even Guangming Palace has never seen such luxury. The owner who lived here back then must have won the emperor's favor. ”

Mu Ningzhi sighed faintly: "So what? Now it's not just a mess left. ”

"What does the owner of this Splendid Palace have to do with your jade pendant?" Zhou Shaobai asked.

Mu Ningzhi had secretly made up her mind not to tell others anymore, but after Zhou Shaobai appeared, she changed her mind again, otherwise she would not have brought him here. So he informed him of the clues he found.

Hearing what Mu Ningzhi said, Zhou Shaobai was also taken aback: "What? That jade pendant is a pair? The other piece is in the hands of the current emperor? Then you are the emperor's sister, really-princess?"

Mu Ningzhi hurriedly said, "How is it possible? That was nearly forty years ago!"

Zhou Shaobai understood: "Ah, yes! So, could it be that the baby girl didn't die young, but survived? Later, when she became an adult, she gave birth to you?"

Mu Ning was stunned, shook her head and said, "But last night, the emperor said very firmly that the baby girl did die." ”

Zhou Shaobai thought for a while and said: "But the emperor was just a baby back then, and what he knew was what others said, and he didn't know the actual situation. Otherwise, what else do you want to check?"

Mu Ningzhi said: "But ......"

As soon as the words came out, she immediately stopped, and Zhou Shaobai also frowned.

For they both heard strange noises.

Although the sound was very faint, in this silent palace, how could it hide from the ears of the two?

"Who's there!" Zhou Shaobai and Mu Ningzhi jumped up at the same time, and rushed to the place where the sound came from in an instant, only to see a person's whole body constricted, burying his head in the crook of his arm, hiding in the dark shadow in the corner and trembling like chaff.

"I'm hiding here, no wonder I didn't notice it just now. Zhou Shaobai frowned and said, "Who are you?

However, Mu Ningzhi had already recognized the person: "It's you!"

The man looked up in panic and said tremblingly, "Please, don't make a noise......"

It turned out that after he escaped last night, he thought that there was no one in the Splendid Palace, so he hid here, and he didn't want someone to come here.

Seeing that it was indeed Gonggong Xu, Mu Ningzhi pulled out the ice jade sword and shouted, "It's actually hiding here!"

Zhou Shaobai said: "Wait, why doesn't he have any aura at all? When he fought last night, his aura was terrifying, but now he is no different from ordinary people, and he can hardly feel it." ”

How did he know that Gong Xu used the pill to forcibly stimulate the power of the inner pill, and after the medicinal power disappeared, the inner pill was naturally damaged, and now it was no different from ordinary people, not to mention that his wrist was hit by Zhou Shaobai's sword, and he lost a lot of blood, and he was already weak at this time, and he could die at any time.

Last night, when he saw the soldiers of the Huwei Battalion besieging him, he wanted to kill, but suddenly found that the medicinal power began to dissipate, and he was immediately frightened.

"Please, don't hand over our family, or our family will die!" That Gonggong Xu completely lost his former majesty, he suddenly knelt down, kowtowed to the two of them, snorted and cried, and cried very sadly.

Seeing that Gonggong Xu, who was like a demon god last night, was like a lost dog at this time, Zhou Shaobai sighed and said: "Gonggong Xu, you have done all the bad things, and you have the end now, the sky has eyes, and the retribution is not happy." But we're still going to hand you over to the emperor. ”

Mu Ningzhi also nodded silently, and when Gonggong Xu saw that the two of them had such an attitude, his soul was scattered, and he cried: "Wait! What you just said, our family has heard it, and our family will tell you everything we can know about the events of the year, I just ask you to be kind and let our family live!"

Mu Ning was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "What happened back then, do you mean the matter of Concubine Wan of the Splendid Palace and the baby girl?"

Gonggong Xu hurriedly said: "Exactly, if you are willing to let our family go, our family will tell you everything we know!"

"This ......" Mu Ningzhi hesitated and looked at Zhou Shaobai.

Zhou Shaobai agreed very heartily: "Okay! The people of Xiyunmen said yes, we promised to let you live, but you must honestly say it all, and you are not allowed to hide it at all!" (To be continued.) )