"Ganli Palace is where Empress Dowager Ye lives alone, so the side halls have not been opened for several years." Ni Jin said while watching the little palace maid cleaning the gorgeous house with only a layer of dust left, "This is the only one. Wangxing Pavilion, because Princess Duanrou often comes to stay for a while, please stay here tonight."
Qiu Yilan asked doubtfully: "Don't you want to see Queen Mother Ye?" Didn't you say that Queen Mother Ye would deal with her
"Except for the Empress Dowager and Princess Duanrou, Empress Dowager Ye usually doesn't see anyone else." Ni Jin pursed her lips and smiled, and said meaningfully, "That's what the Empress said... I will find some clothes for you. You can stay here." One night and tomorrow, I will send someone to take you back - that’s all for entering the palace this time.”
What's this? Nagu Yan was beaten so badly, even if I leave the palace, will he let me go
No, it should be said that after leaving the palace, wouldn't he be able to retaliate against me with peace of mind? !
Qiu Yilan bit her lower lip: "This sister..."
"It's been cleaned." Ni Jin suddenly interrupted her, glanced at the room, and asked, "Princess, please come over and take a look. Is there anything you need? If not..." She looked apologetic, "My maid. I have to go back and serve my queen.”
"Sister, go and do your work. I have a lot of work for you today." Qiu Yilan stuffed a purse to her, and Ni Jin accepted it generously, and then said with a smile: "Princess, please go to bed early, the empress should find time to summon her tomorrow." you."
There is a chance to see the queen again.
Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief, sent a few steps of the brocade, and began to think about how to hold on to this protective umbrella when she saw the queen tomorrow
As a result, she thought for a while and found Su He staring at her blankly.
"Are you scared? Are you okay?" Qiu Yilan quickly collected her thoughts, reached out and touched her head, and asked with concern.
Unexpectedly, Su He said: "Princess, aren't you hungry?"
"Hungry?" Qiu Yilan was startled, and immediately felt hungry. In order to enter the palace, she and Su He had fasted from morning until now. Su He didn't mention it, but she didn't feel it. When he mentioned it, she felt that her whole body was full of hunger. It's all bad.
"Then when Nijin asked you what you were missing, why didn't you tell her?" Su He looked at her with aggrieved and helpless eyes.
Qiu Yilan looked at the gorgeously furnished room, but except for the tea on the table, there was nothing edible around it. The corner of her mouth twitched: "I... forgot!"
The master and servant were silent for a moment, and Su He said quietly: "My maid went out to ask the little palace maid who was cleaning just now, if she can order something to eat in Queen Mother Ye's kitchen?"
"...Okay." Qiu Yilan had the urge to hit a wall: It's only been a few days since I was served with clothes, food, and mouth! Why are you so confused that you even forget to mention something as important as eating
After a while, Su He, who was pale-faced, ran back and said that he saw no one around. Qiu Yilan suddenly thought of something and stood up: "I forgot that you are afraid of the dark. I'm afraid those two little palace ladies will leave." It's a few steps away, let me go look for it."
Tonight is New Year's Eve, so it's not surprising that the palace people are slacking off.
What's more, Qiu Yilan is not qualified to ask the people in the Queen Mother's Palace to serve her respectfully - even the Queen Mother is not doing well. As the eldest mother-in-law, she doesn't even listen to the princess outside the palace. Said she existed...
But she had only taken two steps when Su He, who was drinking hot tea to calm down his shock, grabbed her and said sternly: "There's really no one!"
At this time, the little maid had finished drinking most of the cup of hot tea. Her little face was still pale, and she was obviously very frightened. "My maid was afraid of starving the princess, so she had the courage to find out the three courtyards! There was no one there." See - why is it like this in the palace where the Queen Mother lives? Even on New Year’s Eve, it’s impossible for the Queen’s people to be here!”
Qiu Yilan suddenly thought of the uneasiness in her heart when she left Ganquan Palace. She grabbed Su He's hand and pulled him out: "Quickly! I'm afraid we..." Before she could say the words "fall into a trap" below, someone was already outside the door. He said coldly: "Want to leave? Walk to Huangquan Road?"
As soon as I heard this, I knew it was Deng Yi.
Deng Yi, who pushed the door open and walked in, had already washed himself up and tidied up urgently. The red clothes stained with mud, snow and water after falling down several times before were replaced by a turmeric brocade robe.
Of course, turmeric is not as bright and eye-catching as crimson, but with his looks, I feel pity for him when he looks like flowers no matter what he wears. Even if there are still a few bruises on his face that have not been eliminated, it cannot affect his impression of beauty.
But his expression remained as cold as ever: "It's your own fault for doing such unwise things and ending up where you are today. Think about it carefully on your way to hell and learn to be smarter in your next life!"
"Is it you?" Qiu Yilan took a deep breath and said, "How dare you kill the princess in the palace?!" Knowing that he must have come under the order of the Queen Mother, he would not be afraid of his title as princess. So he then added, "Aren't you afraid that the Queen will investigate thoroughly?!"
"The Queen deliberately arranged for you to come to this Ganli Palace, but left no one to accompany you. You still don't understand what this means?" Deng Yi said lightly, making Qiu Yilan's heart sink!
Could it be that the queen wants to use herself as bait—if that's all, it would be a good thing now! Because what's even more terrifying is that the queen considers her an abandoned son! In order to exchange for the handle of Princess Wang with a different surname after Queen Mother Gu instigated her nephew to murder the hero!
The queen who seemed to be full of aura, fierce and fierce - seemed to protect herself in every possible way in the Taishi Palace. She took the initiative to propose that she be sent to the Ganli Palace. Is the summoning all for the purpose of making full use of myself? !
At this moment, Qiu Yilan's heart suddenly surged with turmoil!
Deng Yi watched her expression change expressionlessly, and said in a mocking tone: "If you were willing to endure a moment or two in front of Liuchun Pavilion, how could you end up in this situation?"
I don’t know why, but his voice sounded strange when he said this, and his eyes were complicated and difficult to understand.
"Patience? How to endure it?" Qiu Yilan suppressed her turbulent emotions, raised her head, and showed him a sweet and innocent smile, "I acquiesce that Gu Yan is being rude to me, and happily do what you have in name." Wife, his plaything? Living in such a miserable state!"
She grimaced and sneered disdainfully, "General Jiang is right, you are not a man at all! No matter how much you hate me, I will always be your fiancée in name! You watch your cousin touching me , bully him indiscriminately, not only do you not stop him, but you also help him in every possible way... Are you sure you are still a human being? Or does Gu Yan treat you as a human being?"
"Shut up!" Deng Yi's face turned livid for a moment! He suddenly shouted loudly and flicked his sleeves, "I thought you would die tonight, and I wanted to let you live a little longer. Since you can't wait to go down, I will let you live!"
Before he finished speaking, two tall palace guards walked out of the night behind him. Without saying a word, they shook out two white silk ribbons and rushed towards Qiu Yilan's master and servant!
Su He, who had been stunned by this scene for a long time, only woke up at this moment, covered his ears and screamed: "Help!"
But since Deng Yi knew that Ganli Palace might be a trap for the queen and dared to directly bring people to kill him, of course he would not be afraid of Su He asking for help!
He stood outside the threshold, hands behind his back, looking indifferently and calmly, as if he didn't even hear Su He's changed cry for help!
But to his surprise, Qiu Yilan looked calm compared to Su He's panic.
"Are you all good-looking? You're going to die, but you're still so particular!" Deng Yi thought with a hint of sarcasm in his heart. He was about to turn around, not because he couldn't bear it, but because he knew that no matter how beautiful he was in life, it would be very ugly to be hanged after death.
However, the moment he turned around, he heard the dull hum of the guard - Deng Yi turned his head back in surprise, his pupils suddenly shrank!
Qiu Yilan, who seemed to have resigned herself to her fate a moment ago, suddenly moved like a rabbit!
First, just like she had done with Gu Yan before, she kicked the guard who wanted to hang her, causing him to fall to the ground and twist into a cooked prawn!
Then, with a ghostly speed, she flew towards Su He, raised her hand, and rouge-scented pink dust flew into the air. Su He and the guards who were grabbing her to hang her closed their eyes instinctively at the same time!
The moment the guard closed his eyes, a sharp silver hairpin pierced his eyes and the back of his head without any hesitation! Qiu Yilan then picked up a candlestick at hand, with the unburnt candle on it, and stabbed it into the chest of the guard who was still rolling and howling on the ground!
In this scene, the rabbit rises and the falcon falls, and the sequence cannot exceed ten breaths at most!
Outside the threshold, Deng Yi was stunned, his hands and feet were cold!
Qiu Yilan watched with a calm expression as the guards' struggling and shouting under the candlestick gradually became weaker and weaker until there was no more sound. Then she let go of her hand, glanced at the blood spattered on her body with disgust, and stood up to help Su He: "You're here. Lie down on the couch."
Su He was almost hanged just now and was still panting greedily. Qiu Yilan pulled off the white silk for her, but she saw a deep purple bruise on Su He's delicate neck that turned almost black!
"Lie down first, don't worry!" Qiu Yilan touched it with her fingers. When she saw Su He suddenly shrinking, she quickly retracted her hand and ordered quietly.
She turned around and turned her wrist. Another silver hairpin was already in her fingers. The tail of the hairpin exuded a cold edge under the candlelight!
"I can't break off the engagement, but I can try to marry someone else so that you can get away." Deng Yi looked at her still calm face after killing two people in a row. There was no blood on her face, but her eyes were surprisingly strange. He said slowly, almost word by word, "I can help you cover up the two people you killed tonight, but I have a condition."
Qiu Yilan looked down at the silver hairpin in her hand and smiled: "Are you qualified to negotiate terms?"
"I have it!" Deng Yi also looked at the silver hairpin, "I just hinted to you that Empress Jiang knew that the Queen Mother planned to arrange you here tonight. In fact, it was just casually that the conflict outside Liuchun Pavilion happened suddenly. Even the Queen Mother is making temporary arrangements for me to come here now. How does the Queen know? "
Seeing Qiu Yilan looking up at him, the silver hairpin between her fingers flickering with cold light, Deng Yi's pupils shrank and he spoke faster: "The Queen Mother does not like Queen Mother Ye, but Queen Mother Ye is kind to Queen Jiang, so Queen Mother Jiang always protects her. Looking at her - this time the Queen Mother first revealed her intention to question Princess Yongfu, and then agreed to send you here. The original purpose was to use Princess Yongfu to distract the Queen's attention, kill you here, and slander Queen Mother Ye after her affair was discovered by you. Kill and silence! These two guards of Ganli Palace are the dead men whom the Queen Mother bought easily. If I kill you, I will leave a note and kill myself. If I don’t cover up for you and quietly deal with the adulterer... not only you, Queen Mother Ye, even Queen Jiang will be in big trouble!"
He raised his head and looked into Qiu Yilan's eyes, "How can you take refuge in Queen Jiang like this? If you don't take refuge in Queen Jiang, you will die before you can marry me!"
Qiu Yilan was silent for a moment: "What are your conditions?"