first princess

Chapter 101: The Desire of the Palace (2)
Princess?There was a flash of astonishment in Princess Taj's eyes, and she began to look at Bingbing seriously. I have to say, this woman is really beautiful, her skin is as white as jade, her eyes are big, very shiny, and her eyelashes are long, slightly curly. Thick, with a small nose and small lips, it makes people want to rush up and take a bite.Princess Taj tilted her head and said, "An ugly woman like you can be a princess? Then I can be a queen?"

"You..." Bingbing took a breath in anger, it's so hateful!

The third princess's lungs were about to explode, and her sanity was gone. Thinking of the whip that Bingbing took for her, she felt that she couldn't let Bingbing be wronged anymore: "Aren't you a defeated country in Mobei? You have What right do you have to shout in the palace of Da Zhou? We can beat you once, and we can beat you a second time, and a third time! You barbarian from Mobei, I want to report to my royal father and cut off your head! "

Princess Taj's eyes sharpened: "How dare you?"

The third princess puffed up her chest: "Do you think I dare?"

Bingbing grabbed the third princess' arm and said in a low voice: "Third sister calm down, don't let the noise at your daughter's house involve the court and the national war, we just ignore her."

Bingbing pulled the aggrieved third princess and turned away.

Princess Taj looked at their backs and showed a sneering sneer. When they walked out of the imperial garden and arrived at the lakeside of Taiye Pool, Princess Taj took out a slingshot and two small stones from her purse and aimed at the two of them. Feet, pull hard, and the stone pops out!
"what--"

Pfft!
The noble concubine took Shui Linglong to the study. The noble concubine is a person who loves to read. Unlike other women who only use the study as a decoration, her study is really fragrant with poetry and painting.As soon as you enter the door, you can see the cursive script written by the emperor on the opposite wall. Below is a desk with two pocket inkstone viewing screens, which are respectively the rising sun going to sea and wild geese flying south.On the left side of the room is a one-person-high bookshelf. There are five rows in total. From top to bottom, there are political, historical, common sense and women's books. The last row is more miscellaneous.

Shui Linglong's eyes showed deep surprise: "Compared to those flashy studies, this place of the empress is unique."

"Hehe..." The imperial concubine laughed out loud, "In short, there is nothing I don't like to hear from you!"

The imperial concubine opened the drawer of the desk and took out a "Love Lotus Picture": "Look at it, Princess Concubine."

In fact, Shui Linglong doesn't know calligraphy and painting very well. In her view, this picture is nothing more than - the lotus leaves are green, the lotus flowers are pink, the sky is blue, the little birds are black, and the old fisherman beside him can't see clearly of.But Shui Linglong still pretended to be very appreciative: "It really is a good picture, I can even smell the lotus."

The imperial concubine was not annoyed by Shui Linglong's perfunctory, she just smiled and put down this picture, and took another one, Shui Linglong blinked, why did she feel that she was deliberately delaying time?

"Mother! It's not good! It's not good!" Eunuch Deng rushed in anxiously, sweating profusely, panting, "There's water in the front yard, I can't get out!"

Shui Linglong's first reaction was - the imperial concubine intends to burn her to death!
Yun Li was checking the seventh prince's homework in the inner hall, when he suddenly heard the conversation of the maids, saying that the Guiyi Palace was flooded, and the imperial concubine and Shui Linglong were trapped in the study room, so he immediately left the seventh prince and went to the Guiyi Palace .

"Crown Princess! Crown Princess, wake up!"

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, don't scare me! I'm the third sister, please answer me!"

Yue'e and the third princess knelt by the Taiye pool, screaming for Bing Bing, who was rescued by the palace maid but was unconscious. The third princess was stunned. Chang'e doesn't even know how to swim, and the palace servants who could swim were seriously injured by Princess Taj just now. They finally called the nearby maids to rescue Bingbing, but they drowned in the water for too long, and Bingbing passed out...

"Sister-in-law!" The third princess burst into tears with anxiety, "Go and call the imperial doctor! Call me big brother!"

Yue'e got the order, lifted her skirt and rushed towards Weiyang Palace like flying.

The place where Guiyi Palace was flooded was in the front yard of the side hall. A whole row of houses had been burnt beyond recognition. The fire continued. The sky was frighteningly gloomy, but there was not a single drop of rain falling.The court ladies and eunuchs rushed forward, carrying buckets and basins and pouring water forward.

When Yunli arrived at the Guiyi Palace, the Imperial Forest Army hadn't arrived yet, and he saw a group of palace people who were not very capable at all doing rescues that were not very effective.

When everyone found him, they all stopped and saluted him: "See His Royal Highness the Prince!"

The crown prince glanced coldly: "Where is the concubine?"

"In...in the study!" A bold palace official reported tremblingly.

Such a big fire!
Yun Li was so anxious that he snatched the wooden barrel from the nearest eunuch and poured it on his head, then threw the wooden barrel and rushed into the burning fire...

"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law, you have nothing to do! Sister-in-law..." The three princesses were crying while pressing Bingbing's chest, but she didn't have much strength, and she didn't need any methods, and she couldn't press out the accumulated water in Bingbing's body after many times...

Brother, where did you go?Do you know that sister-in-law is going to die?

The scorching heat, like a huge steam oven, made Yun Li ache all over, he held back his discomfort and rushed across the hallway.

"Linglong! Linglong——where are you? I heard you!" Every time Yun Li kicked open a door, there was a puff of smoke blowing towards his face. He let go of his voice and called Shui Linglong's name, but there was no sound. In response to him, an ominous premonition spread over his heart, he pressed his chest, did something happen to Linglong?
Beside the Taiye Pool, Bingbing's body was getting colder and her face was getting paler, the third princess buried her head in her chest, and suddenly burst into tears with an "ah!"

no heartbeat...

The imperial concubine's expression became solemn: "We can't go ahead, let's go through the back door!"

Eunuch Deng said with a mournful face, "Madam, the back door of our palace was blocked 800 years ago!"

The imperial concubine's pupils shrank, as if she had engaged in a battle between heaven and man, and when she looked at Shui Linglong, her eyes were full of complex expressions: "Take the secret path, can the imperial concubine promise me not to spread this secret to the outside world? Otherwise, I'll leave you alone in the fire!"

Shui Linglong said: "I will keep my mouth shut."

"Okay, follow me!" The imperial concubine pulled Shui Linglong's hand, the switch next to the bookcase, a narrow door appeared behind the desk, and the four walked into the secret passage.A gleam of joy flashed in the eyes of the imperial concubine, she walked in front, and did not let Shui Linglong see.

Shui Linglong followed behind the imperial concubine, constantly calculating in her mind. She thought that the imperial concubine was going to burn her to death, but her second reaction was that the imperial concubine won her trust and captured her gratitude at the cost of destroying the palace and exposing the secret passage. .But soon, Shui Linglong had a third guess in her heart, if that was the case, the imperial concubine's move would be too poisonous!

In Weiyang Palace, Bingbing was lying on a big soft bed, Yue'e and the palace maid had already changed her into dry clothes, but because of her weakness, she was still unconscious.

"Court Zhang, how is the situation of the Crown Princess?" It was the Queen who was asking the question, she never expected that Bing Bing would walk around the Imperial Garden with the Three Princesses and almost die.

Zhang Yuan handed over blessings: "If you go back to your mother, the third princess was rescued in time, and the crown princess is fine, and..."

"And what?" the queen said in a dignified manner without being angry.

Zhang Yuanpan thumped and knelt on the ground, the Queen's eyebrows twitched. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuanpan said happily: "Congratulations, empress, the princess is pregnant for one month!"

"Ah? Really? Did you make the right diagnosis?" The third princess had been crying beside her. After hearing what Zhang Yuanjue said, she was so happy that she stopped crying immediately, and stared at Zhang Yuanjuan with teary eyes, " Get another diagnosis!"

Zhang Yuanpan frowned, and made another diagnosis according to the order of the third princess: "Returning to the third princess, it is indeed a happy pulse, but today's falling into the water caused fetal gas, and it must be taken care of."

The worry in the queen's eyes finally dissipated, and she smiled kindly: "There is a labor court to sentence you."

Zhang Yuan judged to bless Fushenzi again: "I will go and make medicine for the princess, and I will send it with the prescription later."

The queen nodded with a smile, and Eunuch Zhang sent Zhang Yuanping to the Imperial Medical Office to grab the medicine.

As soon as the person left, the queen's smile narrowed, she looked at the third princess and said, "Do you know that you made a mistake?"

The third princess bit her lips unwillingly, but did not dare to look at the gentle but sharp eyes of the queen: "What did I do wrong?"

The queen straightened the phoenix totem on the wide sleeve of her left arm with her right hand, and said slowly: "Curse what you scolded Princess Taj in front of me again."

The third princess's heart skipped a beat, and her head lowered even lower.

When she was seven years old, she broke her father's inkstone. She lied and said that it was Li Chang who made it. The father believed it, and the queen mother seemed to believe it. Afterwards, she rewarded her for reporting Li Chang's meritorious service and gave her a Westerner. The Persian cat who entered the palace, God knows she is most afraid of furry things...

When she was ten years old, she dressed up as a little eunuch and sneaked out of the palace. When her elder brother pinched her back, she lied to her father that she had slipped out of the palace to buy him a birthday present, but her father did not punish her, nor did her mother, she just said Her filial piety can be learned from the sun and the moon, and Hui Ci Temple is short of such a filial person to pray for the father and Da Zhou, so the father happily sent her to live in a nunnery where chickens do not lay eggs and birds do not shit. moon…

"She hit me first, I just said a few harsh words when I was angry."

The queen laughed: "It turns out that 'Southern Manzi' and 'Head Cutting' are just 'just', Yunyao, you really impress me."

The three princesses felt a drumbeat in their hearts: "She spoke rudely first..."

The queen nodded, her smile unchanged: "Since she did something wrong, you can't get back with her, and your father and I are elders, so it's not easy to bully a junior, so let Guo Yan go find it." She reasoned, to seek justice for you."

The third princess shook her head: "No, Queen Mother! Guo Yan is Mobei's enemy, and Princess Taj will take this opportunity to make things difficult for her!"

The queen waved her hand: "Okay, that's the deal, you can kneel down."

The third princess suddenly knelt on the ground: "I...I'll go and apologize to Princess Taj! You...don't make things difficult for Guo Yan..."

After the third princess left, the queen pressed her temple: "Where is the prince? Didn't he stay in the inner hall to check the homework of the seventh prince? Where did he go?" If Yue'e hadn't come to find someone, she still didn't know when the prince Never the central palace disappeared.

Zhang Gonggong leaned forward, sighed secretly in his heart, and said: "Guiyi Palace is flooded, the crown prince... went to put out the fire."

"Ridiculous." The queen leaned back on the chair, she didn't know what to think, her eyes turned cold, "Who else is in Guiyi Palace?"

Eunuch Zhang knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply said: "The concubine of the Zhenbei Palace."

The queen's smile froze at the corner of her lips!

The dark environment makes people uneasy, and they will feel that time passes slowly. Shui Linglong feels her pulse and estimates the walking time. It has been about a quarter of an hour so far. The walls are not polished smooth, and the ground is also dusty. It seems that the imperial concubine does not use this channel very often.Shui Linglong touched the soil and stones on the wall, and preliminarily estimated that this tunnel was at least three to fifty years old, which means that it was not dug by this imperial concubine.

As if sensing Shui Linglong's doubts, the noble concubine said softly: "Guiyi Palace was originally called Chaoyang Palace, and it was the residence of Empress Zhuang Min. After the death of Empress Zhuang Min, Chaoyang Palace was vacant for many years. It was not until I became a noble concubine that Long Live God changed it. Chaoyang Palace is Guiyi Palace, I accidentally bumped the switch of the study room, and discovered this secret passage just now."

After walking for another quarter of an hour, Eunuch Deng suddenly raised his hand to touch something. Before Shui Linglong could see clearly, she heard the sound of a stone rubbing against the ground. Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light hit her directly, and she squinted instinctively. He squinted his eyes, and when he came back to his senses, the sound of small bridges and flowing water rang in his ears.

"It's finally come out." The imperial concubine stepped out of the secret passage, showing a knowing smile.

Shui Linglong also walked out of the secret passage, the stone door closed automatically, it looked like a rockery from the outside, no wonder no one noticed it.

"Young lady! Slow down!"

The imperial concubine's eyes froze, who is it?Who speaks from a distance?

Xiao Anzi supported the concubine De who was striding forward, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, for fear that he would accidentally run into someone he shouldn't have on the way!

"How can I be slow? I just think these legs can't walk fast!" Concubine De said with a frown.

The noble concubine breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be the concubine De, seeing how anxious and focused she was, she probably didn't notice them coming out of the secret passage, she said to the concubine De, "Sister De concubine is in such a hurry, where are you going?" Ah? The empress's bedroom is not in this direction!"

Concubine De and Xiao Anzi were startled when they heard the words, and looked towards the concubine, their eyes widened when they saw Shui Linglong standing next to the concubine intact!
The stone in Concubine De's heart fell to the ground, she walked up to Shui Linglong in three steps and two at a time, the breeze blew gently, and an elegant fragrance of lily of the valley wafted into her nostrils, Concubine De's eyes lit up, she held back her joy, and said as usual : "I heard that Guiyi Palace is flooded, as long as you are safe."

"Oh, I just escaped over the wall." The noble concubine stroked the golden hairpin on her head, her smile contained a hint of arrogance, "Sister Defei hasn't said where you are going yet?" Quickly change the subject!
Concubine De's smile faded away, her voice became a bit colder: "Where am I going, the concubine doesn't seem to have the right to ask!"

The noble concubine had a half-smile but not a smile: "Sister Concubine De concubine told the Empress that she was on leave this morning. I thought my sister had some serious illness. Seeing how vigorously you were just now, if you didn't know, you might have deliberately pretended to be sick and didn't want to see you." Where is our newly married princess!"

Xiao Anzi sighed secretly, look, meeting someone who shouldn't be, is really risky!

Concubine De touched the corners of her lips: "Drinking the imperial doctor's medicine in the morning has already made you feel better, and it happens that the Eleventh Prince wants to eat flat peaches, so I will go to the peach garden ahead to pick some for him, and after picking some, I plan to pay my respects to the empress. On the contrary, the noble concubine escaped from the sea of ​​flames by jumping over the wall, and even after walking so far, she didn’t know that the palace people would make a sound, and the palace people turned their backs, and if they didn’t know, maybe you deliberately messed up the palace and made things difficult for the empress!”

The imperial concubine's smile was not natural: "Guiyi Palace leaked water for no reason, I am responsible for negligence, and I am planning to personally apologize to the empress!"

Concubine De saw the stitches and said: "Since it is an apology, sister Guifei, hurry up!"

Then she looked at Shui Linglong and said, "Before I failed to give the concubine the concubine a meeting gift, I felt uneasy. In this way, the concubine will go to the Pantao Garden with me, pick the peaches, and then return to Chengde Palace with me to pick a piece for myself." The meeting ceremony is my heart."

The imperial concubine is not someone who is Shui Linglong, so naturally she can't be Shui Linglong's master, besides, she doesn't need to pester Shui Linglong anymore, because...

The imperial concubine smiled: "Okay, I'll go first, see you later."

Concubine De took Shui Linglong to Pantao Garden, once inside, Concubine De held Shui Linglong's hand: "Where is the jade pendant?"

Shui Linglong became vigilant: "What jade pendant?"

Seeing her vigilant look, Concubine De couldn't help being a little dazed: "There are two half-moon-shaped jade pendants in total, and they together form a full moon! Xiao Anzi saw you fall out just now!" Along the way, she thought about it carefully. Again, maybe Shui Linglong just picked up the jade pendant by accident, which doesn't explain anything, but what about the lily of the valley fragrance that only that person knows how to make?

Shui Linglong looked at Concubine De, then at Xiao Anzi, and suddenly remembered that the second jade pendant was picked up by the third princess in the north room of Guanju Hall, and Concubine De and Xiao Anzi had indeed entered that room at that time, Could it be... This jade pendant belongs to both of them?
In that case, the concubine of Mobei who secretly colludes with King Zhenbei is—Concubine De?

Shui Linglong took out the jade pendant from her purse after doing some calculations in her heart, and handed it to Concubine De, pointing to the piece that Huayi gave her, she said: "This is given to me by a maid of our Shangshufu. As a favor to her, she gave me this jade pendant and told me that her hometown is not in the capital, but unfortunately she passed away before she could tell me where her hometown is." When she said this, she kept paying attention to De Concubine De's expression, sure enough, when De Concubine heard the word "hometown", a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and she became more and more sure of her guess that Concubine De was a member of the Mobei royal family who had contacts with King Zhenbei .

Xiao Anzi's heart thumped, he died... his sister died...

(End of this chapter)