A big gamble: the dandy princess

Chapter 276 Nine Turns Mandarin Duck (2)
Yun Qianyue walked to Ronghua Palace.Today's palace is adorned with festive decorations, and lanterns with the characters of longevity and blessing are hung everywhere.There are little eunuchs and women in the palace who have changed into new clothes. They are brightly dressed and shuttle back and forth from time to time with things in their hands. When they see Yun Qianyue, they all salute together.

Yun Qianyue had nothing to say all the way, and she didn't meet anyone except the maid Tai Jian, and came to Ronghua Palace.

Grandma Sun waited at the door. Seeing Yun Qianyue coming, she hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The empress is waiting for you inside."

Yun Qianyue nodded, walked in, pushed open the door of the palace, and saw the queen walking back and forth in the palace, when she saw her coming, she immediately stepped forward, "Why are you here so late?"

"There was a delay after entering the palace." Seeing the queen's tired face, as if she hadn't slept all night, Yun Qianyue frowned and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong with you? Haven't slept all night?"

The queen nodded, took Yun Qianyue to the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Yue'er, did you see Nanliang Guoshi yesterday?"

Yun Qianyue was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, "I didn't see it, he was riding in a jade chariot, which was tightly blocked by Huang Man."

The queen nodded, with an emotion on her face that Yun Qianyue had never seen before, and said in a low voice: "Your mother put something here before she left, saying that if there is something big that can't be solved, or if there is any disaster , let me give you this thing. You have been so peaceful all these years, so I didn’t take this thing out. Now that Nanliang Guoshi has come to the capital, I think it’s better to give you this thing. You might as well have an idea."

"What?" Yun Qianyue thought about what her mother still put in her aunt's place?She did not know.

"You'll know it when you see it!" The queen squatted down and lay under the bed, reaching out her hand to the bottom of the bed.

Yun Qianyue looked at her suspiciously, and saw that she touched the bottom of the bed for a while, and suddenly touched something like a mechanism, and only heard a "click", and a jade card fell into his hand, and she took the jade card He took a look in his hand and handed it to Yun Qianyue.

Yun Qianyue took the jade card, and there was nothing on the front of the jade card. She turned the other side, and saw a pattern of auspicious clouds, with the words "Nanliang Guoshi" engraved in the middle of the pattern.She froze and looked at the queen.

"Although secrets cannot be hidden in this Ronghua Palace, secrets can also be hidden. This mechanism was set up by your mother. Even the emperor has not noticed it all these years. This jade tablet has been preserved until today." The queen said in a low voice. .

Yun Qianyue frowned, "So my mother and Nanliang Guoshi knew each other?"

"It should be, otherwise I wouldn't tell you to take this jade card to find the person on the jade card when you are in danger." The queen nodded, "But your mother was born in Nanliang, and it is not impossible for her to know Nanliang Guoshi. Even if she was not born in Nanliang, I wouldn't be surprised to know Nanliang Guoshi. Your mother, as long as she can do anything in the world, I don't think there is anything she can't do. It's just a pity, a beauty is so unlucky."

"Auntie, do you think my mother is still alive?" Yun Qianyue weighed the jade token in her hand.

The queen was startled, "How is it possible? I watched your mother die, and you saw it at the time."

"Yes, but my mother's tomb on Yunwu Mountain is empty." Yun Qianyue said.

The queen was surprised again, "This is not surprising. The emperor sent countless royal guards all over the world to search for your mother's background, but they didn't find out why. After your mother died, I probably didn't want the emperor to find out about her birth and whereabouts." , was buried in Yunwu Mountain, probably your mother’s tomb was moved to Nanliang, or the Taoist priest who took your mother away was moved.”

Yun Qianyue no longer speaks.

"What are you going to do with this jade tablet now?" The Queen lowered her voice and said, "You know what happened to the Phoenix Pass 15 years ago, right? At that time, the emperor used the excuse of wanting to take back Nanliang. If Nanliang was captured, the emperor would rise up again For some small countries such as Xiyan, the emperor had been preparing for several years at that time, but he did not expect that the Nanliang National Division guarded the pass alone, defeating 15 soldiers and horses of the Heavenly Saint, and the emperor's grand plan Weilue was stillborn. He was seriously ill and vomited blood, but there was nothing he could do. Later, he gave up the idea of ​​conscription and reconciled with Nanliang as before. If anyone in this world is the person the emperor hates the most, it is Nanliang Guoshi. Nanliang Guoshi is here now After losing Tiansheng, the emperor will definitely take advantage of this birthday banquet to seize the opportunity, so that the national teacher will come and go. Even if the emperor has no effort to regain Nanliang, he can only watch Nanliang become stronger and stronger, but he will fight for it. Killing the teacher of the country to the saint of heaven is a shameful act."

"Nanliang Guoshi's martial arts is very strong. If he can kill, he can't kill or not." Yun Qianyue thought about where to put the nine-turn mandarin duck pot. It would be great if she could get it in advance.

"That's hard to say. Although Nanliang Guoshi's martial arts skills are high, this place is a holy place, and it's the emperor's territory." The queen said.

Yun Qianyue smiled, and fiddled with the jade card in her hand, "Auntie, since this person has something to do with mother, and now my brother is the prince of Nanliang, and he seems to have a good relationship with that national teacher, I won't let you The emperor killed him."

The queen nodded and said: "You have to be careful! Don't let the emperor know about your brother, let alone let the emperor know that you have a connection with Nanliang Guoshi because of your mother."

"I know!" Yun Qianyue heard footsteps coming in the distance, and put the jade card into her arms, "Auntie, someone is coming!"

The queen stopped talking, came to the window, looked through the curtain, and saw Concubine Ming leading a group of concubines to the Ronghua Palace. Concubine Ming was dressed in plain clothes with lotus flowers embroidered on the skirt. She wore red hairpins and Bu Yao on her head, which added a lot of color to her whole body. She was already beautiful, but now she still stands out among all the concubines.

"Concubine Ming is an interesting person!" Yun Qianyue suddenly laughed.

"Well! She is just a poor woman." The queen sighed.

"Auntie, what is a poor person?" Yun Qianyue turned her head and asked the queen. Seeing her startled, she smiled and said, "Which woman in this palace is not a poor person? The truly poor people are those who are not favored. All the women in this palace, including you, aunt, can Concubine Ming be regarded as happy? At least she has been prosperous since entering the palace. Why? Does she have no scheming? Does she have no means? This palace can accommodate A person who has no means?"

The queen's face suddenly darkened.

"Poor person, there must always be something to hate!" Yun Qianyue laughed, "Auntie, Concubine Ming is not as simple as she looks! Look, if it weren't for you, wouldn't she look like a queen at this time? "

The queen looked at Concubine Ming, and saw that all the concubines were lined up behind her, faintly looking like the head of the palace. Her face suddenly sank, and Yun Qianyue said again: "In front of interests, in a man's harem, There will be no two people who are not related by blood will be like a family. After being suppressed by you for a long time, does she have no ideas? Or in other words, she has more ideas than that. "

The queen's eyes were tinged with a sternness.

Yun Qianyue no longer speaks.

At the gate of Ronghua Palace, Concubine Ming stopped in her tracks and said to Nanny Sun: "The sisters in the palace are all ready. Now that the emperor is in the imperial garden, I will bring a group of sisters to visit the queen sister and see if it is us Go to the imperial garden to congratulate the emperor first?"

"Your Majesty slept late yesterday, and just woke up today, this old slave is going to report to the Empress Empress!" Sun Nanny bowed to Concubine Ming and the others, seeing Concubine Ming nodded, she walked towards the door.

"I see!" The queen interrupted Nanny Sun and said to Yun Qianyue, "Let's go, let's go to the Royal Garden."

"Auntie, go first. My brother came to sleep at my place in the middle of the night yesterday. I am sleepy now, so I will sleep in your palace. Send someone to call me when the banquet is held." Yun Qianyue yawned , but he was paying attention in his heart.

"Alright!" Seeing that Yun Qianyue looked really sleepy, the queen nodded, adjusted her clothes and hair accessories, and walked out.

Yun Qianyue watched the empress, concubine Ming and other concubines leave. She tapped her toes and flew out of Ronghua Palace.The nine-turn mandarin duck pot should not be placed on the old emperor. From now until the opening of the banquet, the old emperor will be accompanied by ministers of civil and military affairs. The scene table case is too deliberate.Therefore, there must be a special person guarding it. As long as she finds that special person, she will be able to see the nine-turn mandarin duck pot first, and decipher the secret in it.

After leaving the Ronghua Palace, the first place she thought of was the Imperial Study Room.The Imperial Study Room is the place where the old emperor works. It contains all the affairs and military secrets of the entire Tiansheng Dynasty. It has always been guarded by heavy soldiers, and there are countless royal guards secretly.She and Rongjing came here last time, so it can be said that they are familiar with each other.In addition, with her current martial arts, it is still easy to enter the imperial study.After making up her mind, she avoided the soldiers guarding the imperial study room and the hidden imperial guards, and entered smoothly.

The imperial study room is still the same as when she and Rong Jing came last time, everything remains the same.She turned around, and except for the secret passage that she and Ye Tianyi discovered five years ago, she didn't find the Nine Turns Mandarin Duck Pot.She hesitated for a moment, opened the secret passage, and walked along the secret passage to the old emperor's bedroom.

This secret path was explored by her five years ago, and she arrived at the old emperor's bedroom smoothly all the way.Hearing that there was no movement in the hall, she opened the secret door and entered the inner hall.

The old emperor's dormitory is like his imperial study, where the eyes are all bright yellow.She turned around in the inner room, found a secret door, opened it slowly, and saw a huge pool inside, this pool was different from the hot spring pool in Rongjing's mansion, but surrounded by murals of jade girls , the ground is like a mirror, and the pictures of jade girls on the four walls are vividly illuminated.

She curled her lips and was about to leave when she suddenly felt that something was wrong. She fixed her eyes on the murals on the wall and found that the woman on the wall was all a woman, but she was just posing naked in various poses.But she was vaguely familiar with that woman's eyebrows, as if she had seen it somewhere before, she frowned and thought about it, and after a while, she finally realized that this woman was Queen Zhenjing.

Because of the relationship between Queen Zhenjing, the ancestral hall of Prince Yun's Mansion will enshrine the portraits of the daughters of every generation since Queen Zhenjing.Because she is a prostitute, on the day of the full moon in the year of her birth, her grandfather opened the ancestral hall of King Yun's Mansion, and her mother took her in. At that time, she saw the portraits of Queen Zhenjing and every generation of queens.

Every year, the sons of Prince Yun's mansion will have the opportunity to enter the ancestral hall of Prince Yun's mansion to worship the ancestors of Prince Yun's mansion.But the prostitutes of Prince Yun's Mansion only have three chances in their lives, namely, to be born, to grow up, and to marry.Therefore, she is still half a year away from Jiji, and she has not entered the ancestral hall for the second time. It has been nearly 15 years, and her memory is a little far away, so she didn't recognize the woman's portrait at first glance, but now she only remembers it when she looks at it The person in the painting is Queen Zhenjing.

This should be left by the first emperor, and the successive emperors of Tiansheng never destroyed it.I don't know if the King Rong of Rongwang Mansion knew that there was such a place?Knowing that the woman he loved was humiliatingly profaned beside another man?Maybe know, so what?Empress Zhenjing is the ancestor's queen, not the concubine of King Rong.

(End of this chapter)