Jiaohua

The rain is getting heavier and splashing in from outside the pavilion.

Xia Zhaoyi stood motionless in the dry place, visible from the sky until night fell.

With such a heavy rain, there are still people coming and going.A lot of servants and maids passed by with umbrellas, stopped and asked who she was.

Xia Zhaoyi didn't respond, and because of the heavy rain, these people didn't have the extra effort and energy to argue with her.

This is a person who has no power and no power, who was born in the court and lived on the breath of others.

In addition to the sound of rain, there are still heavy bells in this world.

The empress collapsed, and according to the funeral rituals of Daqian, every temple in the capital, including the Taiyinhua bell in the palace, needs to ring a total of [-] pestles, day and night.

Tomorrow, the mourning and posthumous titles and posthumous titles written for Empress Nangong will be submitted to Li Ju, and then the posthumous titles will be engraved and sent to Zhongshu Introspection.

But Xia Zhaoyi confirmed that what Li Ju was busy and worried about now was no longer the death of Empress Nangong.

The letters on the corpses of those men in black are now placed in front of Li Ju's dragon case, together with the booklet that was transferred through Jilaifang and the key handed in by Zhu Ziyan, Li Ju should have no more information now. The slightest trust in Lu Mingfeng.

Tomorrow, when Xiu Neisi cleans up the library, the bunch of keys that she described as "the icing on the cake" will also be sent to Li Ju, and will be passed on through Xiu Nei Si.

Lu Mingfeng's death was imminent.

The rain finally gradually subsided, and under the bright palace lanterns of Yanguang Hall in the distance, an eunuch came out quickly and walked to the southeast.

The palace lanterns near the pavilion where Xia Zhaoyi was staying were lit up, and several maids and eunuchs holding the lanterns looked towards the pavilion, discussed in low voices, and three people came.

The pavilions are empty, the rain blows and the wind blows, and there is no one there.

A court lady was surprised: "I clearly saw her standing here just now."

A eunuch said: "Yes, people!"

Another eunuch said: "I have never seen her in the palace, she is so strange."

"Have you seen her this afternoon?"

"Yeah, I've been standing here..."

The three whispered to each other and went back to find their companions.

In the pavilion a hundred paces away from them, Xia Zhaoyi, who had stripped off his palace attire, came out in all black, thin and slim, hiding under the eaves of the pavilion, silently watching the eunuch who had just come out of the Yanguang Palace leave. southeast direction.

Not long after, a carriage drove up the waterlogged palace road.

Jin Wuwei Lang led Ling Wenyi and four people to ride first, followed by a group of about [-] Jinwu Guards behind the carriage.

But even they still need to be searched before entering Yanguang Hall.

Not long after, Li Ju, who was dressed in a black long gown, came out of Yanguang Hall.

Due to the great distance and the darkness of the night, Li Ju's outline became extremely blurred.

Xia Zhaoyi suddenly realized that even when she intercepted Yu Jia on the Da'an Long Road, she never caught a glimpse of Li Ju.

Before that, she and Li Ju hadn't seen each other a few times.

In my impression, Li Ju treated her extremely politely, treating her as a guest of honor.When she was young, her father took her into the palace several times, and she didn't want to kneel, so Li Ju "amnestened" her not to kneel.

In fact, these two words also made her feel deeply pierced.

She is an upright person, standing upright, and shouldn't kneel down. Why do you "amnesty" me and try to make me grateful.

After returning to Liling, she told her master about it.

Master said, this is the shameless face of the superior.

When she grew up, her father wanted to take her into the palace again, but she directly refused, not wanting to go.

Li Shi, who heard that she was returning to the capital, sent people to "beg" over and over again.

The attitude and words were indeed "begging", but she still didn't give face.

Then, Li Ju went out of the palace by himself to meet her.

Li Ju in front of her was always polite, and even said some embarrassing flattery all the time.

Of course, the emperor would never stand in the cold, after all, the eunuch next to him and the few princes and ministers who came with him were very smooth-tongued.

In addition, she didn't have thorns herself, so she wouldn't intentionally stab people, so many inexplicable and embarrassing remarks from Li Ju were easily overturned.

In the entire imperial palace, the only one Xia Zhaoyi liked and was willing to enter the palace for was Empress Nangong.

Empress Nangong loved to read books, she often asked her to borrow books, and even asked her father to send letters to Liling from time to time, asking her to recommend books.

As for the confusion and ignorance, when Empress Nangong mentioned it to her face to face, her attitude was modest and sincere.

There is no Li Ju's attitude of pretending to be friendly, but still superior in his bones.

It is said that women in the harem need to compete for favor, and 3000 people fight for the heart of an emperor, but in Xia Zhaoyi's opinion, Li Ju is not worthy of being the queen of Nangong.

Now, after Li Ju's blurry figure stepped down to the high rank, he was helped into the carriage, and the carriage headed due south.

Xia Zhaoyi looked at the direction where the carriage disappeared, his eyes became bright and deep, it should be out of the palace.

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The scale of Hejing's criminal prison is far from comparable to that of Yong'an.

Even the newly built official prison in Hengxiang is even more magnificent than here.

Moreover, Hejing is very humid and cold, and the heavy wind and heavy rain in the past few days has exacerbated this humidity.

Lu Mingfeng was locked in the outermost room of the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice alone.

Single room, with windows and wind, gray bricks on all sides, spacious and empty, and an inner room for toileting alone.

As the rain became lighter at night, Lu Mingfeng lay on the bed, staring at the half oil lamp on the table.

He only found out about the death of Empress Nangong half an hour ago.

Along with this news, it was also when Huo Zhengsheng led his men to fight Bao Chengle and Zhu Ziyan in Jilaifang.

Bao Chengle, Zhu Ziyan.

How these two people united together was something Lu Mingfeng couldn't figure out.

The people sent by Lou Chunping also said that after this fight, in just one day, many jobs of Tianrongwei were taken over by Jinwuwei and Habayashi Army.

Tianrongwei is Lu Mingfeng's confidence.

If Tianrongwei is cut off from power, then he...

Lu Mingfeng closed his eyes irritably.

There was a sudden movement outside the door, but Lu Mingfeng ignored it, thinking it was the sound of passing by and going to the prison inside.

It wasn't until the sound of the iron lock being opened suddenly, and the heavy stone door being pulled open, that Lu Mingfeng opened his eyes.

Those who came to him so late were basically Tian Rongwei.

However, Lou Chunping sent people to leave.

Lu Mingfeng opened his eyes and looked up, not wanting to pay attention to it, until suddenly a faint scent of ambergris wafted over.

Different from other ambergris, there are several special spices in this ambergris, which is unique in the whole world and only for one person.

Lu Mingfeng froze for a moment, got up from the bed in an instant, saw Li Shi standing inside the stone gate with his hands behind his back, Lu Mingfeng fell to his knees and said, "Your Majesty!"

In addition to Li Ju, Jin Wuwei headed by Ling Wenyi also came in together.

Li Ju didn't speak, just looked coldly at Lu Mingfeng who was kneeling on the ground.

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Thank you for your great reward today, thank you!