This is a ridiculous thing.
After "sneaking" into the palace was discovered, the other party even invited him to meet in a remote palace.
Hearing that the other party is going to enter the palace overnight, he is very polite to you.
Then from the beginning to the end, the real owner of the palace, King Ning, did not know about it.
- Say it, I'm afraid everyone in the world will laugh.
The joke happened so real that none of the people present were amused.
The palace lanterns swayed, and Cheng Jingchuan's people carried the lanterns to clear the way in front of them, and they walked in places with few people.
In accordance with the rules of Taijing, the palace is not allowed to have too tall trees, but it is located in the south of the Yangtze River. Unlike the Taijing Palace, where there is almost no soil except the imperial garden, most of the palaces here are more like gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. The small buildings, pavilions and waterside pavilions are scattered in an orderly manner. The rockery and flower walls in the cloister block the sight. Only the lights can be seen from a distance, but it is impossible for people to tell which road they are on.
The palace servants are not allowed to walk around casually unless they have an order.
The only people who can walk freely at night are the patrolling guards, but they can't approach the pavilion and palace where the concubines live.
However, this is in the middle of Cheng Jingchuan and others.
Cheng Jingchuan led the way calmly, walking on various trails and corridors. The group had no intention of concealing their whereabouts at all, and then they did not encounter anyone along the way. Obviously, they were extremely familiar with everything in the palace.
This kind of quietly conveyed, their control over the Ning Palace, made Mo Li a little scared.
Whether it was Ningtai City or the arrogant and domineering commander of the Imperial Guard, it was like a layer of decay.
Someone has maintained this appearance, what does the inside look like under this decay? Someone like Yuan Ting who has some ability but limited vision, or a talented person like Cheng Jingchuan who can be calm and independent
Ningtai City seems to have become a huge mystery.
Bao Guanyong hadn't entered Ningtai City for more than ten years, and the information he had had was out of date, and the Ningtai City he knew was not the same.
That Mr. Qiu is probably more difficult than originally expected.
Mo Li didn't feel annoyed, it might be a good thing to see the hands behind the scenes trying to stir up the world in advance.
He is even less afraid to meet an ambitious person in an unfamiliar place.
In addition to possessing martial arts, Mo Li also has a hole card: the gerbil ran out to explore the way.
Ningtai Palace is more in line with the gerbil’s preference than Taijing Palace. The regulations of the building are imitations, and there are gardens and landscapes. There are many flowers and trees. There is one for each palace garden in Taihu Rockery alone. Go to the bottom and build a cave path, and you can also build a viewing pavilion above.
The disadvantage is that the height of the trees is too low, and there is a lack of precious wood species and exotic flowers and plants.
Gerbils don't care about that.
Small springs stacked in landscaping, neat grains of sand beside the pond…
Although it is far worse than Flying Heshan, it is still clean, and there are no snakes, rats and beasts.
The gerbil ran in a circle, it saw more and farther than the ink carp, and had found two secret passages, one suspected to be the entrance of the secret passage.
The agency ambush and the like did not find it.
In the night, the shadows of the trees are intertwined, and you can't see anything after a few steps, and the range that the palace lanterns can illuminate is limited. Jiangnan Garden is separated by three or five different barriers in a small area. You can see many scenes in one scene, twisting and turning—in other words, there are many wrong roads, and there is no shortcut to arrive in a straight line.
The gerbil squatted in the mountain-shaped depression above the column and looked around solemnly.
On the lower road on the left, there are Cheng Jingchuan and his party.
As if he had a consonance in his heart, the ink carp glanced over here without a trace.
"… "
The doctor is so nice.
No matter what it looks like, Meng Qi's demeanor and eyes will make Meng Qi unable to move his eyes.
The gerbil scratched instinctively, adding a few claw marks to Fangliang's painting.
The gerbil looked at his claws with disgust, and shook his hair, suspecting that the craftsmen on King Ning's side were lazy, and that the painting was not well maintained, and they lost their fans!
At the end of the gentle slope on the right side of the corridor is a strange octagonal pavilion with walls on three sides and a bead curtain hanging on the side facing the water in the corridor. This pavilion stands at a high place, and people outside cannot see the movement inside, but sitting inside can have a sweeping view of this palace.
What made Meng Qi concerned was that there was someone in the octagonal pavilion at the moment.
In the darkness, a team of guards with weapons on their waists stood on the pedal road, about every five stone steps, one person stood, extending to the octagonal pavilion on the top of the slope.
This battle is undoubtedly the "host" of tonight's hospitality.
The gerbil jumped up on the treetops, looked carefully at the terrain, and found that the pavilion was empty.
The bottom of the hillside is not a solid stone cave, it has been hollowed out, there are roads to enter, and there are flues.
Before Meng Qi could see clearly, Cheng Jingchuan had already led Mo Li around.
"Doctor Mo, please."
The gerbil stood upright and shook his head vigorously at the ink carp behind the stone.
The ink carp took a step.
Cheng Jingchuan turned his head sharply, tonight he always had a strange feeling of being watched.
Rao is that no matter how shrewd he is, he can't think of Meng Guoshi's real body.
Cheng Jingchuan habitually glanced around in a few easy-to-hide places, and when he noticed the rocks near the ground, the gerbil was long gone.
Looking back to see Mo Li looking at the octagonal pavilion, Cheng Jingchuan smiled and said: "Doctor Mo has good eyesight, this pavilion is all made of copper, and there is a fire room below. In winter, the hot water from the furnace can flow along the copper pipes, and people can Watching the snow in the pavilion is also as warm as spring.”
Now the furnace is sealed and the fire is out.
There is no smell of saltpeter sulfur, not a trap.
The gerbil hurriedly emerged from the side of the flue, his hair turning grey.
The ink carp glimpsed, with a subtle expression.
Cheng Jingchuan felt the strangeness of being out of place again, just like Mo Li could see ghosts but he couldn't, and the ghosts kept talking and told Mo Li many things. Otherwise, why did he not understand Mo Li's expression along the way, and there was still hair behind him
With a smile on his face, Cheng Jingchuan asked Doctor Mo to go to the copper pavilion by pedaling the road, and he gave his subordinate a wink as soon as he turned his head.
Search!
An inch search! Something must be following!
But the gerbil was already walking uphill in small steps.
Mo Li did not continue to pretend to be old and weak, and reached the top of the slope with ease, and immediately a guard lifted the curtain.
The person sitting in the pavilion was a thin and clean old scholar with bright eyes.
He was wearing a square scarf and an old gray-brown robe, and he could vaguely see the handsome and handsome silhouette of his youth.
Seeing Mo Li coming in, he slowly stood up and slowly cupped his hands: "Yuzhou Qiu Si, I have heard the name of Doctor Mo for a long time."
"Yuzhou?"
The ink carp repeated it.
The scholar in front of him has a very subtle feeling, this is not a literate scholar, nor is he an arrogant madman. He was extremely thin, to the point of being a little unusual, and his expression was like a fiery pool of red flames beating.
- This flame can burn everything, including himself, to ashes.
Mo Li had never seen such a person before, and he instinctively felt danger and an urge to leave.
Not because of fear, but because doctors who save the world are not willing to deal with lunatics.
This kind of madness cannot be cured, and their madness is often manifested in dragging everyone into the abyss.
Mo Li closed his eyes, concealed his displeasure, put the rattan box on the ground, and sat directly on the stone bench, posing as a proud old man.
Qiu Si didn't care, and he sat down and said, "It's Yuzhou. Didn't Doctor Mo already meet the younger generation of my family there? Thanks to the doctor and Meng Guoshi to take care of the child, he also gave him a protective armor."
He didn't mention the change in Mo Li's appearance, let alone where Meng Qi was.
This made the prepared response of the ink carp in vain.
"I heard..."
Qiusi paused, then Cheng Jingchuan came in and said a few words.
Mo Li heard it very clearly, it was he who talked about the death of King Ning's concubine just now.
When Cheng Jingchuan recounted it word for word, it was obvious that the person who provided the information was in the room at the time. So is it Venerable Master Ming Discrimination, Xu Shaojian, or those two imperial physicians? The ink carp thought secretly.
"So it is." Qiu Si was surprised at first, then heaved a long sigh, turned to Mo Li and said with emotion, "The doctor is really a genius doctor, if it is not for the doctor to discern the cause, I am afraid that in a few years, no one will know about the palace. Why did the concubines die violently?"
"A few more years?"
Mo Li subconsciously sneered, he originally wanted to say that King Ning was weak, and if he continued to indulge in alcoholism, he was afraid that he would die within two years.
As a result, Qiu Si nodded and said: "King Ning is useless, it is time for the king of the small county to follow the ambition of Chu. Go, I will send King Ning on the road tonight."
"Yes!"
A person outside the pavilion led the way neatly.
Mo Li was taken aback. He originally wanted to teach King Ning a lesson, so that this guy would no longer be close to women, and even the remaining two years of life could only lie in bed and linger, but the opponent was even more aggressive than him. Ruthless, it makes people wonder if the concubine in the palace is a daughter from the Qiu family.
The answer is of course no. The daughter of Qiu's family went to sell information in Jianghu. She seems to be Qiu Si's only daughter.
Facing Mo Li's surprised eyes, Qiu Si stroked his beard and said lightly, "The doctor doesn't know anything, except for a small number of women from noble families, the rest of the beauties are selected by the people to fill the courtyard. Ning. Wang is addicted to women's sex, and he likes the new and hates the old. Every once in a while, there will be a noble person in the palace who is very fond of. He killed the beauties he had not yet rejected, those who had long been forgotten, he didn't care how many died."
Qiu Si picked up the plain white porcelain pot and slowly tilted the mouth of the pot, and continued slowly, "Then will he restrain his actions? No, he will ask the imperial physician how likely it is to get sick like this, and then re-select a woman to be brought into the palace, and the special favor will be given to him. A woman's time is shortened a little bit, and she will be replaced every ten days and a half, and he will no longer look at the former concubines, so that there will be no more deaths in the palace."
Ink carp: "… "
Qiu Si smiled strangely: "Why, the doctor thinks I pity those women?"
As he spoke, his smile faded, and his tone was cold and stern, "When we raise an army soon, how can we allow him to cause chaos? Would it be possible to recruit and join the army while taking away a wife and daughter? There is only one choice between the two, so let King Ning die! "
Mo Li looked at Qiu Si holding a cup of tea, and said casually, "The doctor is shocked, I heard from the Imperial Physician's Office that if King Ning speaks tonight, if Zhu Meiren can't be cured, he will be sent from outside the palace. The doctor was buried with his favorite concubine. But Zhu Meiren was rescued by Doctor Mo, but Concubine Chen died again, hey... Concubine Chen is beautiful and exquisite, she is a lotus-picker in the south of the Yangtze River, and she doesn't know Doctor Mo. If you want her to choose, she will not be close to you, it is better to let her spend her whole life to please His Royal Highness Ning Wang, she will be happy if she wants to come."
The gerbil in the grass opened its eyes.
Mo Li thought that this is indeed a lunatic.