White Fence Dream

Chapter 163 Talk about her
"Big Brother, go meet her and tell her your identity. Let her know that everyone is the same."

Shen Qing stood in the dim light, watching the singing and dancing in the hall, seemingly concentrating on appreciating it, until he was interrupted by the eunuch's urgent low voice behind him.

Shen Qing's originally gloomy expression became even uglier: "What's the same? How can she be considered as the Queen's person! She is just asking for the Queen's grace, and the Queen's blessing for her a future. How can she be called the Queen's person!"

The eunuch was helpless: "I know you look down on her, but now is not the time to worry about this. Bai Ying has been desperate for her future. We must protect Miss Bai, otherwise our efforts will be in vain."

He said this while looking in the direction of the neighboring building.

"There's the Emperor Bell over there, which can break all illusions. We have no choice but to be honest with each other."

Shen Qing said coldly: "What a good Miss Bai. For her, Zhou Jingyun sacrificed his entire life, and I will sacrifice myself as well."

The eunuch urged: "This time, we are only going to save Miss Bai's life, not her as a person. We want what we want, and Bai Ying can get what she wants. Everyone gets what they want. It's a bit troublesome to expose your identity, but Mr. Shen, you will definitely find a way to get out of this."

Shen Qing let out a breath, picked up his zither, turned around, and walked through the crowds of people who were drinking, chatting, or watching the lanterns. Everyone seemed to be immersed in joy and ignored Shen Qing.

Compared to the bustle in the Linde Hall, the Jielin Building was quiet and silent at this time.

Wang Degui lowered his head like a wooden stake, existing only for Bai Ying to support him. The ten soldiers had blank expressions, as if they could not hear anything.

In this way, she admitted that she was a member of Chiang's party.

Easy, simple and without any hesitation.

Yes, for her, if she admits this, she will not die, but the people related to her will die.

What's more, the person who heard it was her prisoner, what could he do to her?
People are instinctively cautious and guarded in dreams, but in reality they are naked and honest because everything is under control.

Zhuang Li was silent for a moment, then asked, "Did it start with the letter accusing the Song family?"

Bai Ying looked at her: "Yes." He sighed softly, his eyes reminiscing, "Looking back now, it still seems a little unbelievable that someone so high up would actually hear my grievances."

Zhuang Li looked into Bai Ying's eyes and seemed to see her arm wrapped in wound cloth, sneaking to the bronze box in the busy city under the cover of night.

Although she is the mistress of the house, she is just a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.

It was the first time the girl did such a thing, and there seemed to be countless eyes watching her in the dark night, but fortunately no one came out to question her.

She couldn't remember which opening to throw it into, so she just stuffed it in randomly and stumbled away.

As day and night turned, the bronze box was opened, and the letters from this place flew to the capital together with letters from all directions and gathered in one place.

Inside the tall hall, in different rooms, letters were opened one by one, checked, and then recorded.

Bai Ying's letter was picked out.

"Lord, this is a complaint, but it was mistakenly submitted to the suggestion section."

"A little girl was hit by someone. Well, it is indeed a complaint of injustice. Let's re-register it."

After two sentences of conversation, the letter was about to be taken away, but then another female voice sounded.

"I'll see."

At the same time, a fair and soft hand reached out, the letter was handed over, the letter was opened, and the fair fingers painted with nail polish slid across the words and landed on the last line.

"…We are both human beings, why is he more respected than me? This is unfair. Please, Queen, enforce justice for me."

The female voice read the words in the letter and laughed.

"Asking me to enforce justice is also considered as offering advice and suggestions, and it's not a wrong vote."

"Go, show her that nobles can also be punished, and God has no relatives."

and after?
"Later, everyone saw that the bullying Song family was destroyed." Bai Ying said. Although a long time has passed, her eyes still sparkle when she thinks of that moment.

Such a prominent, large family, so many people, because of her words and a letter, became prisoners, exiled, and beheaded, just like a big tree collapsing and vanishing into nothingness.

It's really scary and exciting.

"What happened next?" Zhuang Li continued to ask, looking at Bai Ying, "What letter did you write to her later?"

At that time, I wanted to read the letter in my dream, but was strongly resisted by Bai Ying.

Bai Ying smiled and said simply, "Of course it's a letter of thanks."

A thank you letter?

"The Queen punished evildoers for me, so of course I have to express my respect, admiration, and yearning for her—"

yearn for.

Zhuang Li was silent for a moment, then asked, "Later, you followed your father to Beijing. Did you go to see Empress Jiang?"

Bai Ying nodded again: "Yes." Although it was a long time ago, when she talked about this, she seemed to become the girl who had never traveled far away, nervous and uneasy but expectant. "Actually, I didn't expect to really meet her. I thanked her in the letter at that time and said I wanted to thank her in person. Unexpectedly, she really asked someone to take me to see her..."

When he said this, he looked at Zhuang Li and a smile broke out on his face.

"She doesn't even see her father. She only sees me."

Zhuang Li lowered her head. The ropes were crisscrossed around her body and tied tightly. She crossed her hands on her knees and wore a ruby ​​ring on her hand.

The ruby ​​shone like a mirror, faintly reflecting her face.

The bright lights around her shone blindingly, and she squinted.

"Jiang Mian'er," she said, "Her name is Jiang Mian'er."

Jiang Mian'er? Bai Ying looked at Zhuang Li and saw that she was lowering her head, as if she was lost in thought.

She clenched the Sanqing Bell again, looked around, and then looked at Zhuang Li.

The building was brightly lit, and there were ten soldiers, no more, no less. Zhuang Li was tied up and kneeling on the ground, his posture and expression remained the same.

Bai Ying looked relaxed and smiled: "Jiang Mian'er." She also called out this name, "You are not completely ignorant. You even know her name is Jiang Mian'er."

When she heard the name, she sighed.

No one has mentioned Jiang Mian'er for a long time, and she herself never mentioned it.

In fact, she had only seen her twice.

One was a private audience, and the other was when he followed Prince Changyang and the Princess into the palace to pay homage.

Both times she did not see Queen Jiang's appearance clearly.

When she was alone, she was filled with panic. Although he was very close to her, she dared not look at him for long.

During the worship, he was of low status, standing among the palace maids. The man was sitting on the high throne and could not be seen clearly.

But who can forget someone like Queen Jiang, even if she just walked by you, even if you only saw her from a distance?
"It's a pity you never met her."

"What kind of person is she?" Zhuang Li asked in a low voice, lowering his head.

Who wouldn't be curious? That's Empress Jiang.

Bai Ying was not surprised at Zhuang Li's question.

It has been a long time since it was mentioned, and no one has ever said it. Now that Zhuang Li brought up the topic, she couldn't help but want to say a few more words.

In the future, it will be even harder to have the opportunity to speak.

"She is very pretty, not the kind that makes people feel coquettish, but the kind that makes people like her at first sight."

"She is very majestic, not in a scary way. Rather, she has the kind of majesty that means everything is under her control and she is fearless." Zhuang Li looked at the ruby ​​ring. As Bai Ying spoke, his eyes became more and more unfocused. But what Bai Ying couldn't see was that the face in the ruby ​​ring was becoming clearer and clearer.

Clearly showing a pair of watery eyes, a high nose and a small cherry mouth.

It looks really good.

It is necessary to be good-looking, otherwise there will be no chance to enter this imperial city and be seen by the emperor.

But to live in this imperial city, it is not enough to just be good-looking.

It also needs to be remembered, liked and feared.

What happens after meeting?
She just took this young lady Bai as her own?
The voice of Bai Ying in my ears was sometimes far away and sometimes near.

"…I told the queen that I was willing to serve her."

Serve her?

How to serve?

"I am willing to be your pawn, to confuse the prince and monitor him for you."

Laughter rang in her ears. Bai Ying looked ahead in a daze and saw that it was Zhuang Li who was laughing with his head down.

"Are you doing this for the queen?" she said, "or for yourself? Do you really want to marry Prince Changyang?"

Although many years have passed, when Bai Ying heard these words again, her face turned red instantly, and she felt hot and ashamed.

The queen said the same thing at that time.

Why do you want to marry King Changyang? Is it because you want to repay the hero's life-saving grace?
"No, I just want to be someone like the empress." She murmured.

Zhuang Li's voice came again: "What kind of person am I?"

This question seemed to have been asked before. Bai Ying was a little dazed and did not notice that Zhuang Li's tone had changed.

People like Queen Chiang are naturally feared by everyone.

Is everyone afraid of her?

A smile slowly appeared on the face reflected in the jewel ring.

"Everyone is not afraid of me." She raised her head and looked at Bai Ying, "They are afraid of power."

Bai Ying was stunned again.

This is what Queen Chiang said at the time, but she didn’t say it out loud yet.

Why did Zhuang Li say it first?
She couldn't help but look at Zhuang Li in front of her.

The face in front of me was still pale, but the moment he raised his head, it seemed to suddenly shed a layer of skin, revealing a different appearance.

Her eyes were rolling and the corners of her mouth were raised.

The facial features went from familiar to unfamiliar.

Strange, yet familiar.

Her vision was hazy for a moment, as if she was standing in that spacious palace again, looking at the woman sitting lazily on the gorgeous dragon throne, like a blooming peony.

"Little girl," she said with a smile, "you don't have to think about becoming like me, you have to think about gaining power."

Bai Ying pressed her chest, and the face in her memory merged with Zhuang Li in front of her at this moment.

Her ears were buzzing, her breathing was rapid, and she was in disbelief.

Zhuang Li in front of her no longer looked at her. Instead, he looked at Wang Degui and the guards, then looked around, as if trying to figure out where he was.

"Jie Lin Lou." She said, nodded, and returned her gaze to Bai Ying, "It seems that you have gained power now."

As he spoke, the ropes that bound him fell off, and his shoulders and back relaxed, like a flower slowly blooming.

Bai Ying let out a scream and raised the Sanqing Bell in her hand forward.

……

……

With a humming sound, Shen Qing suddenly stopped and lowered his head to look at the guqin in his hand.

The strings are trembling.

The eunuch who appeared out of nowhere bumped into him unexpectedly from behind.

"What's wrong?" he asked. "Go."

In front is the Jielin Building.

Shen Qing ignored him and just looked at the piano in his hand.

As he watched, the strings were plucked again.

Not an illusion.

And not just one string, but all the strings were moving, as if a person was stretching his arms, as if trying to break free from the body of the guitar.

He blurted out: "The queen is awake!"

The eunuch was stunned: "How did the queen wake up?" He asked again, "Did you bring the queen in?"

Shen Qing shook his head. He didn't have it. Why would he bring the queen here when there is the Emperor Bell here?

He had already experienced danger once before.

He would not let the queen take any risks again until she woke up completely.

"Then what happened? You didn't wake the queen, so how could she wake up?" asked the eunuch, his eyes also falling on Shen Qing's guqin.

Under the bright lights, the strings of the zither were dancing on their own without anyone playing them, which was eerie and terrifying.

He didn't call, and Butterfly wasn't there, but the Empress woke up. There could only be one reason.

Shen Qing looked at the brightly lit Jielin Building in front of him.

There is another person in this world who is tied to the Empress.

"She woke up the queen!"

How dare she wake up the Empress?

Of course, his ultimate goal is to wake the Empress up, but at present Miss Bai's consciousness still dominates, and she will inevitably reject and be wary of the other consciousness.

Only when he led her away every time would the empress have a chance to wake up.

Why would she take the initiative to wake up the Empress?

Could it be that she was frightened by Bai Ying and became stupid? Did she lose her mind and disappear?

Shen Qing's face turned ashen.

This was the result he wanted to see, but not now.

Now, it’s bad!
He raised his head and looked towards Jie Lin Building. The originally bright lanterns seemed to begin to shake and his vision became blurred.