The imperial guards withdrew a path and let Ziyan in.
With her chin raised, her squinting eyes and her pretty shoulders, Zi Yan passed through two imperial guards and entered Fengzao Palace.
But I saw a gloomy cold wind sticking to the ground, along the skirt, climbing up the body, Zi Yan couldn't help shivering.
Zi Yan's heart skipped a beat: It's almost warm outside in April, why is it still like cold winter in Fengzao Palace!
She subconsciously wrapped the water-green trousers around her upper body, stepped on the water-polished bricks, and walked to the steps of the empress dowager's bedroom. Taking a closer look, moss is spreading green on the steps, the polished bricks in the yard are also greenish green, the armrests and commode chairs in the verandah are covered with thin dust, the green windows and vermilion doors are tightly closed, and Gray dust fell.
Why does it seem like you haven't lived for a long time? She's been in for so long, and she doesn't see any girls and maids coming out to sing
"Queen?" A trace of panic passed over Zi Yan's pink face, and she faintly felt that something was wrong.
Her delicate voice was trembling, echoing hollowly throughout the palace, shaking off the dust on the carved beams and painted buildings, and scared away the bats and mice in the corners.
"Grand Concubine, it seems that no one has lived here for a long time." The maid beside her was also afraid.
"Did the Queen Mother move to another palace? Didn't I know? Ordinarily, the emperor should tell me about such a big event."
A brass lock was hung on the door of the bedroom, which seemed to tell Zi Yan that the Queen Mother had moved out and was not in Fengzao Palace.
Zi Yan stood on tiptoe and looked inside, but didn't see anything in the hall. Going to the place where the Queen Mother is sleeping, the quilt on the bed is lifted up, it seems that someone is sleeping underneath, but it is covered.
Zi Yan stretched out a finger, soaked it with saliva, and poked a gap in the window paper, looking inside with her eyes.
Everything on the bed was covered with dust, and on a table next to the bed stood a blue and white porcelain sea bowl, in which a spider wove a web of silk.
Her eyes were focused on the bed, and the more she looked, the more she felt that there was someone lying under the quilt.
Is it the queen mother? how is this possible! She questioned herself, but immediately denied it.
"What happened to Fengzao Palace? The queen mother moved away and didn't tell me! Where did she live?"
The servant girl looked around with bone-shot eyes, and said in fear: "Concubine, could it be..." But he hesitated to speak.
Zi Yan suddenly turned her eyes, and looked sharply at the maidservant: "Could it be what?"
The servant girl swallowed her saliva: "Do you think it's because there were dirty things in the palace that the queen mother moved out..."
"Shut up!" Zi Yan sternly reprimanded the maidservant, but in her heart she somewhat agreed with the maidservant's words.
The current atmosphere of Fengzao Palace is too weird, cold and gloomy, it seems that there is an unpleasant smell all around.
"Concubine, let's go!" The servant girl had goosebumps all over her body, "I'm so scared!"
Suddenly, a black bird flew away from the eaves, screaming mournfully and mournfully in the air. This time, Zi Yan's master and servant became even more frightened.
"Concubine, let's go!" The maid begged while grabbing Zi Yan's cold sleeve.
Zi Yan flicked her sleeves angrily, and glared at each other: "Useless things!"
Just as he was about to leave, he heard voices coming from the small garden.
"Someone..." the servant girl said in horror.
Zi Yan was no less horrified than the maidservant, but she forced her spirits up, and the maidservant Chao Chao stared at her and told her not to speak.
"I'm not deaf, so I can hear it naturally." I muttered in my heart, who is it? It sounded like a man's voice, not the queen mother's. How could someone sneak into Fengzao Palace through the back door? This is a holy place, how can you enter and exit without authorization? Or, is there really something dirty
Zi Yan's face turned blue and white.
"Let's hide in the Buddhist hall and see who comes over!"
Zi Yan led the maidservant, quickly walked into the Buddhist hall, hid by the door, and observed the situation outside through the gap in the door.
The voices of the two men spoke more and more clearly, one voice was hoarse and slightly sharp, like the voice of a jackal, and the other voice was high-pitched and thin, with a feminine softness in the words.
Zi Yan's heart thumped again, and her almond eyes narrowed: Could it be the two of them
"Why don't we go by the front door, but come by the back door?" asked the shrill voice.
The hoarse and shrill voice replied: "I don't want others to see me coming to Fengzao Palace."
"why?"
"You don't need to ask anything, I just don't want to, there is no reason!"
The maid covered her mouth: "It's the emperor and Eunuch Liu!"
"Shut up!" Zi Yan glared at the maidservant again, "If you talk again, be careful that I will cut your tongue off!"
No one lives here anymore, what are Li Hai and Eunuch Liu doing here? She also wanted to ask in her heart, why didn't Li Hai come in through the main entrance
Li Hai was the first to pass through the Moon Gate. He was wearing an apricot-yellow beige, no hat, and only a hood. With an old waist and bowing his knees.
Li Hai stood around the moon gate and looked around, sniffing his nose, a suspicious light flashed in his dark eyes.
"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" Eunuch Liu asked.
Li Hai said: "I smell a familiar fragrance, could it be that someone came in just now?"
Eunuch Liu is old, and his nose is not very flexible. His nose shrugged: "Your Majesty, the servant didn't smell any fragrance. Could it be that the Emperor is a little nervous, so he has this feeling?"
Li Hai folded his hands behind his back, and pondered vigilantly: "I hope! Except for Rong Chang'an, I don't want any third party to know about this matter!"
Eunuch Liu said: "Even if people in the world know about it now, it won't be a big problem. What should be reversed is also reversed!"
Li Hai sighed deeply, and said worriedly: "It can't be made public yet! If the whole world knows, how will people treat me? They will call me an unfilial son, a bastard who is not as good as a pig and a dog! I will keep the body Up to now, I am afraid that one day, my relatives will break through the capital, so that I can have an explanation with them."
"Your majesty is wise, but the slaves never would have thought of this step!" Eunuch Liu said.
Zi Yan was full of doubts, but she couldn't understand what Eunuch Liu and Li Hai were talking about. Gathering his mind, he only listened to Li Hai instructing Eunuch Liu: "Eunuch, open the door!"
"Follow the order!"
Then Suo Lang's voice was heard, and Mr. Liu opened the door of the bedroom with the key.
Eunuch Liu stood at the door, and seemed to smell a rancid smell, so he slapped his nose with his palm.
"Your Majesty, there is some stink!"
Li Hai said: "It doesn't matter!"
Li Hai was in front, and Eunuch Liu was behind. The two walked into the bedroom, and Eunuch Liu closed the door again.