Big Moon Ballad

Li Ji held down the vibrating hilt of his sword, turned over and sat up.

There was the sound of ticking rain outside, and Li Ji looked out through the abandoned window of the cold palace.Because of the rain, there was no moonlight in the sky, and Miyagi in the middle of the night was a bit gloomy, everything looked so decayed and decadent.

Just like the current Afang Palace.

Li Ji stayed here originally to investigate the purpose of Jun Yunzhong's visit to the former Qin Dynasty, and to find out the opponent's conspiracy as soon as possible.But now he found that it was himself who was trapped.

After that night visit to the queen's palace, Li Ji lost news of Yun Zhongjun.

This does not mean that Yun Zhongjun has left Efang Palace, Li Ji is sure that he is still here.It's just that for some reason, either Jun Yunzhong or the former Queen of Qin stopped any further movements and went into a complete dormancy.

The day after he heard the conversation between Lord Yunzhong and Queen Yelujing, Yelujing released the news that she was frightened by a wild cat on the way back to the palace and became unstable.The diagnosis given by the imperial doctor is that rest is necessary, otherwise the child is likely to be born prematurely.

Ying Hanri was so frightened that she immediately ordered Yelujing to stay in the palace to rest and never go out again. At the same time, she sent water-like supplements and treasures. Yelujing must be given a good rest, and the concubines in other palaces are also not required. Then go to say hello every day, and don't disturb Yelujing.

Yelujing was pregnant with Ying Hanri's "eldest son", the baby bump of the whole Daqin.As soon as this order came out, the concubines and palace people in other palaces wanted to walk around the queen's palace, for fear that the child in Yelujing's belly would be blamed on him.

Because the reason Yelujing said was that when she went out to watch the moon at night, she was frightened by a black shadow. No one knew what this black shadow was, maybe it was a cat, maybe it was something else.Ying Hanri then ordered to strengthen night patrols in Efang Palace, and the number of guards guarding Miyagi at night suddenly tripled.

This had a considerable impact on Li Ji's inspection of Afang Palace after nightfall.Coupled with the fact that the queen has not improved after several days of recuperation, Ying Hanri's temperament has become moody, and he frequently beats and scolds the palace people and even kills people every day.

In such an atmosphere, Li Ji could no longer go out every night, so he had to hide in this abandoned palace all day long.

The investigation in the palace has come to a standstill, and he has completely cut off news from the outside world and is trapped here.

Ying Hanri used to like to hold banquets in the palace. During the day, Li Ji could often hear the sound of silk and bamboo, and he could also get news by eavesdropping on the conversations of some ministers and princes and nobles who entered the palace to attend the banquet.

But since Yelujing closed the palace, Ying Hanri seemed to have lost interest in banquets, and shrank in his bedroom every day, not seeing ministers or beauties.Except for occasionally calling the newly named Hejian King Yingxun into the palace to chat, there are almost no outsiders.

The queen does not go out, the king does not go out, and the ministers of the previous court hardly see the monarch.

Li Ji looked at the spring rain outside the abandoned palace, it should be the season of vigorous vitality, but inside the Afang palace was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.

But this pool of stagnant water is not quiet water, but poisonous water that can kill people.

Although the gates of Ying Hanri's bedroom and the queen's palace are closed every day, there are corpses quietly carried out at the back door every day.

Li Ji looked at the Juque sword shaking beside him, his eyes were heavy, and he sighed.

"Are there any new souls?"

The buzzing of the saber should have been a strange thing, but Li Ji didn't find it strange in recent days.

During this period of time, the Juque Sword also beeped several times, and each time it was in the middle of the night.

Juque is a famous sword that can penetrate the gods. It has been cultivated for such a long time, just like the eyes of a child, it can see many things that living people cannot see.

The current Efang Palace is too cloudy. Every night, when the wind blows outside, ghosts cry and wolves howl, it is not uncommon for the Juque Sword to have an unusual reaction.

After all, it is hard to estimate how many ghosts will be floating in the Efang Palace at night.

Li Ji stroked the cold blade, his thoughts were in a mess.

Huge contradictions are suppressed under the current stagnation, and no one knows when the volcano will erupt.

Not to mention that Ying Hanri doesn't see the ministers now, even if he allows the ministers to enter the palace, few of them would dare to enter the palace to see him.

In the extremely oppressive atmosphere, Ying Hanri's tyranny has reached its peak.

Under such circumstances, the county king Ying Xun, who entered the palace every now and then, became a very eye-catching existence.

Ying Hanri was very afraid of this cousin, and sent people to assassinate him many times.But I don't know why not only accepted Ying Xun not long ago, but also made him the king of the county.

That's all for the king. Without seeing the ministers, the former king of Qin summoned Ying Xun many times, and he seemed to be very close to this brother, which made people think a little bit.

Rumors gradually began to spread in the palace, saying that Ying Hanri seemed to be seriously ill, and he intended to spread the news that he was the King of Hejian.

In Li Ji's view, this rumor is very outrageous, and it was probably fabricated on the spur of the moment by Gong Rentu, who was dissatisfied with Ying Hanri.

Queen Qin's fetal gas is unstable because she is not pregnant with Ying Hanri's child at all.But even if Yelujing couldn't give birth to this child, Ying Hanri was still young, so he wouldn't start thinking about passing on the clan.Even if he had no children or even passed away, Li Ji didn't think he would want to pass the throne to Ying Xun.

Ying Xun is the son of the deceased emperor's eldest son, Ying Su, and he is not of the same line as Ying Hanri at all.If Ying Xun succeeds to the throne of Qin, it means that Ying Hanri's lineage is not in the right position, and the ministers of Ying Hao's line will never agree.Ying Hanri is not virtuous enough to have the idea of ​​returning the throne to the eldest son of the emperor.

There is absolutely no possibility of succession, so what is the reason for Ying Han's frequent summoning of Ying Xun into the palace?
Could it be that he really wanted to chat with his brother?
"why……"

Li Ji sat on the bluestone and made a low voice.

"what why?"

A timid female voice came from the door.

Li Ji suddenly raised his head and looked outside the door.

Yes, and her.

These days, there is another person affected by the atmosphere in the palace.

Ms. Yao came once every three days instead of once a day. The time of her visit was not fixed, and the food she brought was limited.

But Li Ji had no complaints and was very grateful.

After all, the current Queen's bedroom is no different from hell. It takes a lot of courage and wisdom for Lady Yao to escape.

"Feel sorry."

Lady Yao didn't have a food box in her hand, so she walked up to Li Ji, carefully took out two hard steamed buns, with a guilty expression on her face.

"That's all I found."

"Enough, thank you."

Li Ji broke off half of it and put it in his mouth, and kept the rest for the next few days.

He said he found it, but he knew in his heart that it was Ms. Yao who saved it from her rations.

Queen Qin's kitchen is now under strict control, and there is no food at all.

"I told you, you don't have to take risks to come out again, it's important to protect yourself."