Hibiscus Tent: The Prime Minister’s palm is reborn

It was getting dark.

Liang Qian swiftly climbed out of the window, looked around, and made sure that no one noticed before heading towards the Mirror Hall.

I didn't see anyone along the way.

It is extremely cold in winter and people usually stay at home unless necessary, and even fewer people are walking around at this time of year.

In order to avoid any further complications, Liang Qian carefully avoided the guards of the cold palace and hid in an inconspicuous small door. A eunuch poked his head out from behind the wall, saw who was coming, and trotted forward.

"Queen Mother."

Liang Qian glanced behind her, but seeing no one following her, she followed the eunuch to the corridor on the right.

The fire was burning brightly, and the palace was warm without much smoke. On the table were meals, cakes and soup bowls that had just been taken out of the basket.

The eunuch served her a bowl of ginseng chicken soup: "Warm yourself up first."

Liang Qian swallowed the date cake in her mouth, took the small bowl, and drank it mouthful after mouthful.

After finishing a bowl of hot ginseng chicken soup, I felt warm from the inside out.

In order to play the role of a terminally ill person, she did not dare to eat much during these days. In addition, she could not rest well at night as she had to perform a fixed drama. When it was daytime, she could just listen to the chanting and the sound of the wooden fish. She did not need to exert any effort at all, but she looked so sleepy that she looked like she was dying.

She had indeed lost weight, both from hunger and fatigue.

If she hadn't come to the cold palace to have a good meal every two days, she wouldn't have been able to hold out for so long.

Liang Qian put down the empty bowl, breathed a sigh of satisfaction, and asked, "Where is Gong Yangjing?"

Today was the day she and Gong Yangjing had an appointment.

That day they decided to appoint Gong Yang Jing, so they let Chun Yu Bei cause trouble for him whenever he wanted. Xia Hou Zhao had always been upright, and couldn't stand seeing Chun Yu Bei bullying others for no reason. She told her several times to restrain Chun Yu Bei, but she turned a deaf ear to him and indulged Chun Yu Bei all the time.

Xiahou Zhao had no choice but to transfer Gong Yangjing from Hualin East Gate to guard the Mirror Palace to avoid Chunyu Bei. Who would have thought that Gong Yangjing was flexible and did not slack off even in the cold palace. Unlike others who always thought that there was no future in the cold palace and would just get by for a day, Xiahou Zhao admired him very much and let him be responsible for guarding the entire cold palace.

It was not until the night of his promotion that Liang Qian brought Chun Yubei to tell him the truth. He then learned the secret of being harassed many times. He also realized that the palace maid he saw that day was actually the Queen Mother...

Now it has been nearly two months since he was transferred to the cold palace.

After Gao Hao learned about the feud between Gongyang Jing and Chunyu Bei, he did not replace him.

Just as expected, the cold palace is indeed a place where people can easily let down their guard.

"Empress Dowager, Lord Gongyang is here." The eunuch suddenly said.

But today, she didn't come just to eat and drink.

In addition to the secret report sent by Hulu Qiangguang from the front line, she also wanted to explain the matter of Wei Zhen'er to Gong Yangjing.

"Your Highness greets the Queen Mother."

Seeing the person bowing respectfully in front of her, Liang Qian was shocked and tears instantly fell. She didn't even bother to consider whether she had lost her composure. She got up and rushed forward.

She held his arms tightly with both hands, looking him up and down, confirming over and over again.

"Wang Tingyue...it's really you! You're not dead! That's great..."

Liang Qian choked up: "You don't know, I sent someone to look for you...but they told me that you were dead..."

Wang Tingyue's eyes were moist. "It is my incompetence that not only made the Queen Mother worry about me, but also failed the late Emperor's trust before his death... I let a jackal take over the government, causing the Queen Mother to be trapped in the harem, isolated and helpless..."

He lowered his head deeply, full of guilt and self-blame.

Liang Qian shook her head: "Wang Tingyue, don't say that. As long as you are okay, it's fine. Really, I just want you to live well and not be harmed. Don't end up like Lu Huai and Pei Yao, who died tragically. When I heard that you were in trouble that day, you don't know how guilty I felt. I just regretted not being able to go to Pingtang in person..."

She sniffed, crying and laughing: "Fortunately you are okay."

Wang Tingyue looked at her in silence, with a hint of pain in his eyes.

When he was a child, he always thought that as long as he grew up, he would be able to take care of her and protect her.

But when she really grew up, let alone taking care of and protecting her in daily life, even in her most difficult times, he was unable to appear by her side in time to accompany her and help her.

Instead, she did her best to save and protect him time and time again...

On his overly thin face, his eyes were slightly red, and he had thousands of words to say but they were stuck in his throat, not a single word coming out.

Liang Qian wiped away her tears and asked after a moment's pause, "What on earth is going on?"

Wang Tingyue pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time.

The eunuch handed over a clean linen towel, Liang Qian simply wiped her face, and her mood calmed down a lot.

To be on the safe side, Gong Yangjing personally stood guard outside the door.

Wang Tingyue and Liang Qian were sitting at a table separated from each other.

Wang Tingyue spoke briefly about what happened in Pingtang.

Pingtang is located on the river bank. For some unknown reason, there has been continuous rain since the beginning of winter this year, causing the river water to surge and a rare winter flood to occur, causing great harm to the people.

On the night of the flood, he had planned to take a rest, but suddenly he thought of a way to deal with the winter flood, so he rushed back to the government office overnight. When he finished his work and returned to his mansion, he found that a big fire was burning in the mansion.

He wanted to save people, but was stopped by the man in black who had not left yet.

The men in black attacked him repeatedly and it was obvious that they were targeting him, but he was outnumbered and could not free himself to save them. He suffered more and more injuries, until later when he was fighting with a man in black, they both fell into the river.

When he woke up again, he found himself on a small boat. It turned out that he was washed downstream by the river and then rescued by a local fisherman.

But his injuries were too severe and he couldn't get out of bed.

After his body recovered almost completely, he immediately went to the town to inquire, but he didn't expect that the two countries had been fighting for several days and even the new emperor had ascended the throne.

He didn't know what had happened, and thought that his body had not yet fully recovered, so it would be useless even if he traveled thousands of miles back to Jinye. So he went to Jinzhou to find Hulu Qiguang to find out the truth...

After saying that, he took out the secret letter from Hulu Qiangguang from his arms and handed it to Liang Qian.

Liang Qian clutched the secret letter, unable to utter any words of comfort.

"Before, I suspected that it was Gao Hao who did it, but later I found out that it wasn't him. I also asked Gao Yang, and he said it wasn't Lu Chen... I'm sorry, I still can't be sure who did it—"

"A'an, don't say sorry, this is not your fault, you have endured too much alone..." His eyes were instantly filled with moisture, Wang Tingyue lowered his head and did not say anything else.

He had heard too many rumors about the Queen Mother and the new Emperor.

He didn't know how Yuwen Jue felt after hearing those words, nor could he see any emotion on his face, but he seemed to understand why Lu Xiu, who became the Lord of Zhou, seemed to have become a completely different person.

When they met again in the military camp, he saw at a glance the determination in his eyes to destroy Da Qi.

Wang Tingyue looked up at Liang Qian several times, but finally swallowed his words and sighed secretly.

He promised him the day he left Pingcheng.