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The imperial palace has always been a place where people are eager to see.

In the storybook, the imperial palace is particularly boasted. What about Qionglouyuyu, double-eaved golden palaces, everywhere you can see women in palace costumes wearing pearls and jade and colorful silks, holding incense burners and jade plates, and presenting delicious delicacies in the world.

In fact, the palace is not like this.

Inside the ocher-red palace walls, the palace with double eaves is indeed majestic, but it is far from the Heavenly Palace and Wonderland. A house is a house without clouds and fog, and it is not built of emerald and white jade.

There are even more beautiful women in high-knot palace attire. The servants wear crow blue and brown robes, and the court ladies wear azure and indigo clothes. None of the colors is conspicuous.They stand on the palace wall or in the corner of the palace, almost blending with the furnishings.

Now that there is martial law everywhere in the palace, even these people walking with their heads buried can't be seen.

The imperial guards patrolled everywhere, every palace gate was tightly closed, and there was no movement inside.

The ink carp took a few glances.

He found that Meng Qi and himself were following the servants who dug holes to hide things and dug out underground water veins.

"What happened to these people?"

"It's nothing, it's just that they happen to be in the same direction as where we are going. I think they know how to take a small path to avoid the Imperial Guards, so they follow suit." Meng Qi is no stranger to the layout of the imperial city, Although several dynasties have been changed, the general orientation of the building has not changed.

Meng Qi said as he walked, "Princes generally live nearer to the previous dynasty, with the royal garden as the boundary, and the concubine's residence at the back."

His footsteps suddenly stopped, his expression hesitant.

"Something's wrong."

Mo Li looked up and saw that a nearby palace had been in disrepair for a long time and looked a little dilapidated. Although there were no weeds, it didn't look like it was inhabited.

Meng Qi frowned and said: "Further ahead is the East Palace, and the vicinity should be the residence of other princes. This Chunhua Palace is the largest, with seven halls in total. During the Chu Dynasty, it was the place where the princes and clan lived and studied. Could it be that The Qi Dynasty was abandoned?"

He said just now that he knew where the second prince lived, but was soon slapped by the fact.

There were imperial guards coming and going in and out of this Chunhua Palace. Seeing that they had no scruples, let alone caring about it, it was obvious that it was really a vacant palace, and the martial law was searched only to prevent rebels from hiding in it.

Mo Li looked at the mottled ocher red palace wall outside the Chunhua Palace, and suddenly asked, "16 years ago, Lu Zhang led his army into the imperial city, where was the place where the clan of the Chu Dynasty was massacred?"

Meng Qi pursed his lips and came to his senses.

"You mean..."

Because too many people died in the Chunhua Palace, not long after the founding of the Qi Dynasty, everything in the palace needed to be repaired, and repairs required money. Such an "unlucky" place like the Chunhua Palace was naturally abandoned.

"Actually, people died in every palace, many people, not just Chunhua Palace."

It seems unreasonable to only taboo this one, but this is the consistent logic of people.

The royal clan was prominent when they were alive, and even if they were dead, they seemed to be more powerful than others.

As long as people feel that something is unlucky, they can always find thousands of reasons.

"I didn't expect this." Meng Qi said in surprise, "I thought Lu Zhang wouldn't care about this. The Qi Dynasty said that the previous king had no way, so he replaced him. In fact, Lu Zhang was also afraid of the will of the Chu Dynasty. Unfinished?"

"The palace is so big, where can I find the second prince?"

Mo Li found a hidden eave, which was covered by a pear tree. He looked around, and found that many imperial guards were heading towards the palace garden where the water jet was sprayed just now.

"If the second prince has been taken down, in addition to being imprisoned in the residence, he may be sent to other places for house arrest." Meng Qi pondered, "Where the defense is tight, we will go there. If we don't meet the second prince, we can go Find Lu Zhang. However, this kind of place may be a trap... Those who tried to conspire or assassinate went, only to see an empty palace and many ambushes."

This kind of ambush is good for Patriarch Qingwu to enjoy, they don't need to learn it.

"Further ahead is the East Palace."

"The crown prince of the East Palace is dying, but he made someone hide something in a remote courtyard. Do you think this has something to do with treason?" Mo Li was thoughtful.

"It's hard to say, even if no one is planning to rebel, people in the palace always have things that they don't want others to know."

Meng Qi finally finished his haircut. From an adult to a child, and from a child to an adult, besides the clothes, the hair is also very troublesome.

When he and Mo Li came out of the secret passage, their hair was disheveled.No, it will affect the appearance!

"It's not hard for the doctor to know... Look, they stopped."

The group of servants found that there were more imperial guards near the East Palace. Their clothes were stained with mud and water, and there was no way to fool them around.

"What should I do!" The leading servant was restless.

He was still holding a box in his hand, and all the servants looked around, as if they wanted to find a place to hide the things.

When Meng Qi and Mo Li came over, they saw that they found a tree, climbed up and stuffed the box into the tree hole, covered it with branches and leaves, and then fled in all directions.

Meng Qi was very used to this kind of secrets that were kept under his nose.

Gerbils can always hear all kinds of secrets, and it is not surprising to encounter one more.

"Doctor may wish to guess, what will be inside?"

"It will be buried. It should not be a perishable item. Bank notes and paperwork and account books are impossible... The box is not too big, but it is not too small. If it is a small item like a jade pendant or gold hairpin, you can use a handkerchief Wrapped and stuffed in a gap somewhere, it is extremely concealed and there is no need to take risks. Since it is deliberately packed in a box and has to be dug and buried, it means that the things inside may be more valuable and cannot be damaged, or even camouflaged, so that others can see it problems can be found.”

Mo Li analyzed each item one by one, and when he finished speaking, Meng Qi suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Could it be Chuan Guo Yuxi?"

"what?"

Mo Li was very surprised. Qi Chao had been looking for the Chuanguo Yuxi for a long time but could not find it, but it was in the hands of the Qi Chao Prince. This seemed like a big joke.

Judging from the words of the servants, they were ordered to hide things, and if the things were not hidden well, they would disappoint the prince if they were discovered.

"Whether it's Yuxi or not, you'll know if you look at it."

Others hid things for a long time, but Meng Qi took them as soon as he raised his hand.

Meng Qi touched all sides of the box and shook it again to make sure there were no traps inside.

"This is a seven-eye seven-hand lock. This lock alone is worth a hundred gold." Meng Qi fiddled with the lock hanging on the box.

Then he stretched out his hand and twisted the lock abruptly.

The box was opened, revealing a square thing wrapped in red silk.

Meng Qi was sure just by looking at the appearance, he nodded to Mo Li.

When the red silk was untied, what appeared in front of my eyes was indeed the jade seal engraved with "Ordered by heaven, long life and eternal prosperity".

The jade is shiny and shiny, warm and cool to the touch, without any blemishes.There are wavy lines on the lower part of the jade seal, and a squatting chilong on the upper part, which is carved lifelike, with torch-like eyes, as if it could roar at any time.

"During the Emperor Qin's era, there were such miraculous craftsmen?" Mo Li almost said that the jade seal was a fake.

The jade carving style of 500 years ago is not like this.

"I don't know if this is the piece of He's Bi that Emperor Qin obtained. But it is indeed the piece I have seen before, and it is also the piece of jade seal that I fished from the bottom of the Qingjiang River and handed it to Emperor Chu Yuan."

Mo Li nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Then this is indeed the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom, and things are getting more and more strange."

Let's sort out what happened these days and the rumors I heard: the prince is seriously ill and is about to die, someone in the palace colluded with Qingwu Patriarch to plan a rebellion, but the emperor Lu Zhang found out in advance.The city gate of Taijing was blocked, and the imperial guards searched everywhere. Lu Zhang thought he had controlled the situation and began to eliminate the rebellion. At this time, the prince sent his cronies to secretly bury the jade seal...

"The person who rebelled is indeed the Second Prince, not the Crown Prince?"

No matter how he thought about it, Mo Li felt that the prince was more suspicious.

Judging from the fact that Lu Zhang sent Jin Yiwei to track down Meng Qi's whereabouts, it is true that the Qi Dynasty did not pass on the jade seal of the country. How did the crown prince get it?How did you hide it from the emperor?The prince is about to die, so what is the purpose of burying the jade seal?Who is he going to leave Yuxi to?

The imperial guards serve the emperor, and if they found the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, they would probably not dare to keep it privately, and would still dedicate it to the emperor.

So the prince is defending against Lu Zhang.

"This prince is very wrong with the emperor." Meng Qi said to himself.

Although there is no good prince in the past dynasties, the relationship between the prince and the emperor is always delicate, called father and son, and it is not uncommon for them to turn against each other and conspire against each other.But it is very rare for the relationship to be so subtle.

This is not as simple as hiding the jade seal. The actions of those servants and the unfinished meaning in their words clearly prove that they are loyal to the prince and hostile to the emperor.

A dying prince, how can he let these servants not be rich and rich, and hide the Jade Seal of Chuanguo at the expense of their own lives instead of handing over the Jade Seal of Chuanguo?

"If you don't understand, you can ask yourself." Meng Qi hinted.

"Look for the prince? What about Lu Zhang, don't you care?"

Meng Qi didn't answer, just waved his hands casually, not knowing whether he meant "it's too late" or "I can't die".

The East Palace is close at hand, and the imperial guards are closely guarded. Compared with the second prince who doesn't know where he is locked up and the emperor Lu Zhang who doesn't know where he is hiding, the prince is indeed easier to find.

"Who?"

One of the imperial guards vaguely saw a shadow flashing, and immediately shouted loudly.

His companions looked over, but there was no one there.

"Could it be a mistake?"

"No, the commander said that there might be rebels with high martial arts skills sneaking into the palace, search!"

The imperial guards immediately gathered around, and Meng Qi and Mo Li had already climbed over the palace wall, lowered their figures slightly, climbed up to the eaves lightly, and passed the two palaces at a very fast speed, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at the palace where the prince was studying. Near the pavilion and bedroom.

The glazed tiles used in the palace are slippery and easily broken.

But in front of the top experts, this is not a problem. After all, in addition to tiles, there are also solid wood and bricks as the main structure of the palace, and there are crouching beasts on the eaves that can be used for strength.

If it was night instead of daytime, Meng Qi's speed could be even faster.

Now I can only get as close as possible to the bucket arch at the bottom of the eaves, so as not to expose my figure.

However, the accident still happened.

Under the eaves of the Book Pavilion, a civet cat with tawny fur squatted silently, just blocking the path that must be passed. Meng Qi didn't notice it at first, but when he got close, he was almost startled.

"Meow."

The civet cat slowly wiped its face with its paw.

Meng Qi: "..."

Ink Carp: "..."

Staring at Meng Qi and Mo Li for a while, he probably saw that these two people were not here to grab the territory, the civet cat jumped casually, jumped to the other side of the bucket arch, and made way for it.

"..."

The mood of the two became more complicated.

"Meow?" The civet cat looked at them suspiciously, won't you leave?

At this time, a servant in the yard shouted anxiously and in a low voice: "Who saw His Highness's cat? Why did it disappear in a blink of an eye? What time is it? Can you do your best! By the way, the imperial doctor What about people, haven’t come yet?”

"Reporting to Mr. Chen, the imperial physician has been stopped outside."

"What? What do those Imperial Guards mean? If His Highness lives for a day, he will always be His Highness the Crown Prince. They actually... are really hateful!"

At this time, there was noise from the direction of the bedroom.

A palace lady ran over in a panic, her voice was crying: "Your Highness is coughing up blood again!"