Chengqian Palace is on the west side of Yonghe Palace. Qingchuan has passed by its door several times, but every time the palace door is closed, no human voice can be heard inside, so I always thought it was an uninhabited palace. , I never thought that my birth mother would live here.
She raised the lantern, stepped forward carefully, took a picture of the somewhat dilapidated palace gate, pondered for a moment, and still shouted respectfully: "The servant Qingchuan asked to see the concubine Liangmao." There was still no sound inside, and Qingchuan stopped. Stopped, and shouted again: "Slavery Qingchuan begged to see the concubine Liang."
The hospital still did not respond. Qingchuan hesitated for a moment, and pushed the palace gate with his hands. Although it felt heavy, it didn't look like it was locked. She gritted her teeth and pushed the palace door forcefully with her hand, and saw a group of dark figures rushing from the doorway. Qingchuan was so scared that she stepped back a few steps and dodged around, almost screaming and panicking. Among them, the lantern in his hand fell to the ground and burned.
The group of dark shadows flew up into the night sky and scattered. bat! There are so many bats here! How could this place be so desolate
Qingchuan paused and walked toward the courtyard bitterly. Under the moonlight, I saw a shabby color everywhere in the courtyard. Several tables and chairs were randomly placed on the open space in front of the main hall. On the left, there were a few bamboo poles for drying clothes, and some curtains, curtains and the like were hanging. A small vegetable plot came out on the left side of the yard.
This is not like a palace in the imperial palace at all, but more like an ordinary farmhouse.
Qingchuan resisted the surprise in his heart and asked carefully in the hall: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone in the house?"
After a while, a sigh of resentment came to mind in the room. Qingchuan was so frightened that she suddenly got goose bumps. There was a candle light from the room. A woman in Tsing Yi came out holding a candle and asked her. : "Why do you ask to see the concubine Liang?"
Seeing the woman in her thirties, Qingchuan was tall, with clear brows, and very plain clothes, so she guessed it was the auntie who was beside Concubine Liang, and squatted down to salute her, just about to speak. The woman stretched out her hand and said, "Wait a minute, you help me clean the grass here."
Qingchuan asked her, but didn't dare to refuse, so he took the hoe and went to the small vegetable plot on the right, and hoeed the weeds carefully by the moonlight. Then he got up and said, "Auntie, the hoe is ready."
The woman had been sitting in the courtyard waiting, and she said again after hearing the words: "I'll help to fertilize it again."
Qingchuan turned back to fertilize again, and heard the woman praise her: "There are not many people willing to help people like you are like you this year. Let's talk, what do you want?"
Qingchuan hurriedly said, "The emperor wants to kill the eighth elder brother, and the servant and maid specially came to see the concubine, and ask the aunt to introduce her."
The woman was taken aback, silent for a moment, and asked softly: "Does the emperor want to kill him?"
Qingchuan couldn't hide the anxiety in his heart, got up and walked to the woman, begging: "Please aunt for help, it's too late."
Unexpectedly, the woman smiled suddenly, and said relaxedly: "My eighth brother has been naughty since he was a child, and I have not suffered his sin less. He was beheaded just to avenge me, why should I save him?"
Qingchuan couldn't think she would say such a thing. He couldn't help but was stunned, and then carefully apologized: "At the beginning, he was young and ignorant, so you should not remember the villain. After the big deal, I will come for him Repay you. I beg you, please, okay?"
The woman looked at Qingchuan with a smile, and suddenly asked, "Do you like him?"
After being asked, Qingchuan hurriedly defended: "I don't have one."
The woman smiled and asked: "Still speaking?"
Qingchuan couldn't help being a little bit shy, and complained that the aunt in charge was still joking with herself at this time, but didn't dare to lose her temper at her, so she explained weakly: "I really don't have one, I just want to help him. "
The woman smiled and said happily: "Well, if you don’t have it, there will be no. Young people always like to have a hard mouth. You will understand what cherishes are when you lose it. I think you don’t need to see the concubine, you let the emperor. Come around here, I promise Ba Ge will be fine."
Qingchuan felt anxious when she heard this, and asked secretly that you should treat me as the queen mother? I ask the emperor to come here, he will listen to me and come here? But in this case, she only dared to have fun in her stomach, and she would never say it, so she said embarrassedly: "How can the emperor come here?"
However, the woman recklessly said, "It's your business, not mine. It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Go back soon." After speaking, she put the candle in Qingchuan's hand and turned back to the house. .
"Aunt! Aunt..." Qingchuan stomped his feet in a hurry, but couldn't help but turned around and went out.
When she was able to leave the palace, Qingchuan was very depressed. He asked to see Concubine Liang but did not see him, but saw such a weird aunt in charge, and asked her to bring Kangxi to this neighborhood. How could she bring Kangxi to this place? Coming here, Kangxi is not a three-year-old kid, so that candy can be fooled away!
After taking a few steps, Qingchuan became more and more depressed, and simply paused on the side of the corridor, holding his knees in a daze, racking his brains to figure out how to trick Kangxi into this neighborhood. The candle was randomly placed on the ground by Qingchuan, illuminating a small piece of the ground. Someone passed by here during the day, and a small amount of scum was dropped, which attracted many ants, and surrounded the scum. The direction of the ant colony dragged.
Qingchuan watched for a moment in a daze, his mind suddenly brightened, and suddenly he thought about it. For a while, he didn't even care about the candles, and got up and ran to the Palace of Qianqing. Just two days ago, there was Xingong's Hundred Flower Honey. Li Dequan asked everyone to put it in the cupboard, and it was just fine to use! Qingchuan ran back and forth, and when everything was done, it was almost time for the palace gate to be locked. She didn't dare to delay any more, and hurried back to her residence.
In the early morning of the second day, when Kangxi came down and was reviewing the memorial in the Nuan Pavilion, Li Dequan came in from the outside with joy and shouted: "The emperor, the emperor, the heaven is auspicious."
Kangxi raised his eyes to Li Dequan and asked, "What's the matter?"
Li Dequan happily replied: "If you return to the emperor, someone just reported that thousands of ants lined up in the shape of a dragon on the wall of Chengqian Palace, which is very spectacular. Qin Tianjian said that this is a rare experience in a century. The spectacle at first sight is auspicious, and the emperor is invited to move to pay respect."
Qingchuan was standing by the Kangxi imperial case, and when he heard the words, he gently curled his lips. Kangxi gave a light slap, disdainfully said: "It's just a few tricks, it's not worth seeing."
Qingchuan took so much effort to produce such an effect, but seeing that Kangxi didn't dare to be interested, he was too busy to persuade him not to go, "The emperor, the shape of the ants lined up into a dragon must be foreshadowed. We mortals don't see the clues, and guessing will only make people panic, but the emperor is the emperor of the true dragon, and he will definitely be able to understand the mystery of it. Please also ask the emperor to transfer to Qiangong for the people in the Sixth Palace."
"Cheng Qiangong?" Kangxi looked in a trance for a moment. After a moment of silence, he stood up from behind the case and said lightly: "Let's go and take a look."
Qingchuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly went to Chengqian Palace with Li Dequan after Kangxi. In the corridor outside Chengqian Palace, many court ladies and eunuchs were already gathered, watching something around a palace wall. Li Dequan cleared his throat and shouted, "The emperor is here—"
The crowd was startled and hurriedly scattered to the sides, kneeling all on the ground and shouting: "The emperor is auspicious."
Kangxi ignored these crowds and stepped forward to look at the dragon-shaped pattern on the palace wall densely lined with ants. He chuckled softly and said, "What kind of auspiciousness is descended from the sky? It is clearly the magic trick of the warlock of the rivers and lakes."
Li Dequan was confused, and asked carefully: "This... the slave is foolish..."
Kangxi told him: "Go up and see, what's under the ant?"
Li Dequan stepped forward suspiciously, took a close look at the ants, and then reached out and wiped it off the wall, reached the tip of his nose and smelled it, and said in surprise: "Honey?"
Kangxi said in a deep voice: "Whether it's a prank or a deceitful remark? Seek someone to clean it up immediately, and don't talk about it anymore." After speaking, he turned to leave, but suddenly saw a light blow from the side of the palace wall. When the rice paper came over, Kangxi looked at the rice paper blankly for a moment, hesitated, and stepped forward and pushed open the palace gate of Chengqian Palace.
Qingchuan was overjoyed when he saw it, and he raised his foot to keep up, but was caught by Li Dequan. Qingchuan looked at him strangely, very puzzled: "Li Jingda..."
Li Dequan shook his head gently. The emperor didn't know whether he was happy or angry when he met the one who lived inside. If they followed in like this, it would be troublesome.
There were a lot of rice paper hanging in the courtyard of Qianqing Palace. Kangxi walked through the paper room quickly until he was blocked by a coffee table. Only then did he see the figure reflected behind the white paper. This figure has not been seen for a long time, but it often disturbs his dreams.
"The emperor, please use tea."
The person's voice remained the same, although it was soft, it always carried a stubbornness that would never compromise. Kangxi was silent, sat down slowly by the coffee table, and asked softly: "It was the method you used to attract me..." The person hadn't answered yet, but he already denied it by himself: "No, No, you have vowed that you won't be able to take one step out of Cheng Qiangong..."
Concubine Liang smiled and ignored Kangxi's words, but asked softly: "How does the emperor feel about my new rice paper?"
Kangxi raised his eyes and looked at the rice paper drying around, smiled bitterly, and replied: "I said earlier that you do the best with the rice paper you have used in your life."
Concubine Liang sighed faintly, "Unfortunately, no matter how good the rice paper is, no one can use it now."
Kangxi felt soft when he heard it, and couldn't help saying: "You made all of this yourself. Why should you have known it today? If you were willing to..."
Concubine Liang suddenly interrupted him, and said firmly: "The concubine is not willing!"
Kangxi paused and laughed suddenly, but his heartache was revealed in the laughter, and he smiled: "It seems that I am self-sufficient." He smiled, got up and left, but was called by the concubine Liang again. Living.
"The emperor, are you going to execute Eighth Brother?"