Wind and Rain Empire

At night, Hong Wan and Zi Linglong groped into the dark Defang Palace with their bundles

Zi Linglong led Hong Wan to the hemp rope in the yard, and said to her

"Hong Wan, you can't tell anyone what you see now, do you understand?"

Hong Wan nodded

Zi Linglong pulled the hemp rope, the hidden compartment on the floor opened, and the light came out from the ground

Hong Wan was a little surprised

"This, what is this? Is it authentic?"

Zi Linglong signaled Hong Wan to keep her voice low, and the two of them went down the stairs with their bundles

Hong Wan followed Zi Linglong down the stairs carefully, looking at the spacious tunnel, she couldn't help sighing

"Wow, ma'am, this place is so big, what is it used for?"

Zi Linglong carried the burden on her shoulders

"Put the ground fire in your hand on the zenith and walls here, right at the entrance"

Hong Wan is looking around the tunnel

"What are you doing with the ground fire?"

She responded right after asking

"...Is it possible that you are going to blow up here?"

Zi Linglong didn't even blink her eyes, she replied

"That's right, go quickly, after the installation is complete, set up a mechanism that will explode when you step on it outside the tunnel"

Zi Linglong walked towards the depths of the tunnel, but was grabbed by Hong Wan

Hong Wan took Zi Linglong's hand

"Mother, where are you going? Where does this tunnel lead to?"

Zi Linglong lowered her eyes and shook her head

"I don't know, I just know there is an exit ahead"

Hong Wan suddenly understood what Zi Linglong meant, tears filled her eyes instantly

"You don't know? You don't know that you are leaving? Are you going to leave me and leave?"

Zi Linglong looked at Hong Wan

"I've waited too long for this day, do you know how much preparation I have made for this day?"

"Is it true that one of the preparations you have made is to train me to be the second you to serve the officials, so that the officials won't be too sad after losing you?"

Zi Linglong stubbornly and seriously replied

"Yes, you are"

Hong Wan slapped Zi Linglong across the face

"How can you be so selfish, sacrificing other people's lives for your own freedom? And Concubine De and Concubine Shu, are the children they conceived to make up for your inability to have children for the official family? What do you think of others? You chess piece?"

Hong Wan cried while scolding

Zi Linglong looked at Hong Wan, holding back her tears

"Yes, I am such a person. Every day I stay in the palace is a torment. I can't see the bustling crowds, the bustling streets, the relatives and the strangers. The cherished person, as long as I stay in the palace for a day, I will never be able to see it again... Hong Wan, my parents are still alive and well, they are still alive! And since I was 13 years old, I have I haven't seen them for nine years. They thought I was dead. They thought I was already graying. The best years of my life were not being with my parents and then marrying a good man. If I If I continue to stay in the palace, I may never be able to reunite with them, so I can't stay in the palace and waste my life like this, you know?"

After Zi Linglong said that, tears burst from her eyes

Hong Wan hugged Zi Linglong and burst into tears

"But, but (choked up) Niang, you are my only family member. Do you want me to lose you like this? Is it okay for me to waste my life here like this? Don't leave, okay? This is your home , I, the official family and all the sisters are your family members, Hong Wan begs you not to leave, please don't go..."

Hong Wan knelt on the ground, grabbed Zi Linglong's skirt and burst into tears

Zi Linglong made up her mind and wiped away her tears

"I have been preparing for this day for a long time. I will not let anyone stop me from going home. No one can stop me from going back to my parents!"

She kicked the red star away

"You bitch, hurry up and set up the ground fire, and blow up here after the installation, you are useless, I am your relative? Don't dream, okay, I have never regarded you as a relative, you Just a lowly maid, do you understand lowly maid? Can you compare with my family?"

Hong Wan let go of her hand, raised her head and asked with tears in her eyes

"You, is what you said true? Have you never regarded me as a family member?"

With tears in her eyes, Zi Linglong said resolutely

"No, never"

"You lie! You have always regarded me as your sister. I am too familiar with that feeling. You can't lie to me!"

Zi Linglong was so angry that she slapped Hong Wan across the face.

"Didn't you say you want to listen to me? Get out of here and pretend!"

Hong Wan was so annoyed by the beating, she covered her face with her bag and started pretending to be angry. After a while, Hong Wan turned her head and looked at Zi Linglong

"It's ready, right? Go up and detonate it. I'll watch it here. If it's not blocked, I'll call you. If you don't hear the sound, you can go."

Zi Linglong spoke to Hongwan indifferently, watching Hongwan crying as she went up the stairs

Zi Linglong hiding inside the tunnel, her inner monologue

"Hong Wan, you are right. I treat you like my sister. It is a pity that you and I met at the wrong place and time. If there is an afterlife, I hope you and I can become a family and sisters." ,together forever"

Zi Linglong's tears kept streaming down, she had to keep wiping them

With the sound of "dong", the soil clods fell from the top, the ground collapsed, and the exit of the stairs was blocked

Zi Linglong let out a long breath, and walked towards the tunnel ahead

Hong Wan cried as she walked, and all the scenes of getting along with Zi Linglong appeared in front of her eyes

In the Winter Palace, it was the first time that Zi Linglong stretched out her hand to Hong Wan, and Hong Wan held it tightly;

With the rejuvenating cream she got from Zi Linglong's dormitory, Hong Wan watched in amazement as the scars on her face disappeared;

Zi Linglong taught Hong Wan to play the piano, and the two sang together under the moon, Zi Linglong smiled at herself at that time;

The two chatted at the door of the imperial dining room;

In the side hall of Ziyun Pavilion, Hong Wan wakes up from the couch and sees Zi Linglong

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Hong Wan stood alone outside Defang Palace with tears in her eyes. At this moment, there was a drizzle of rain falling from the sky, which wetted her whole body in a short while.

She didn't know how to face such a fact, so she sighed, lowered her eyes, and stood there blankly.

a meadow in the suburbs

Zi Linglong lifted the wooden cover from the exit stairs and walked out. Seeing a piece of barren grass in front of her, she let out a sigh of relief and thought to herself

"Finally escaped"

Before she could rest enough, she heard a voice

"Miss Zhaorong, you have worked hard all the way."

Zi Linglong turned her head and saw that Shi Miyuan happened to be standing behind the exit with a team of guards

Zi Linglong secretly thought something was wrong, but she had a smile on her face

"Master Shi, why is it you? The one who came out was not Empress Yang, did you disappoint?"

Shi Miyuan directly denied

"No, the officer is waiting for you"

Zi Linglong looked at Shi Miyuan suspiciously

"Wait for me? Why?"

"Because Empress Yang knew that once you win the Defang Palace, you will flee that night, so she specially sent an official to wait here and take you back to the palace."

Zi Linglong paced

"Master Shi, I don't want to go back to the palace"

Shi Miyuan approached Zi Linglong and lifted Zi Linglong's chin

"What a pretty face, I don't want you to go back to the palace, but... hmph, no way"

Shi Miyuan let go of Zi Linglong, and turned to the guards

"Take her back to the palace and hand her over to the officials"

The guard cupped his hands and responded

"Yes, my lord"

Zi Linglong struggled with the guards who came to detain her, and the guards knocked Zi Linglong unconscious.

In Ziyun Pavilion, Hong Wan was sitting on the couch, looking at the clothes that Zi Linglong had placed on the bed before

The maid ran into the house in a panic and knelt on the ground

"Beautiful lady, something is wrong, Mrs. Zhao Rong has been arrested!"

Hong Wan stood up in shock

"What? Got arrested? Where is Lady Zhaorong now?"

"It is said that he was imprisoned by the officials in the prison of Dali Temple"

Hong Wan frowned

"Arrested? How did she get arrested? Does anyone else know the authenticity? (Thinking) Defang Palace...it must be Queen Yang's fault!"

Hong Wan went to the terrace, grabbed the pigeons, wrote a letter with a pen and paper, stuffed it into the mailbox, and let it fly quickly, then she put on her coat and walked out of Ziyun Pavilion

Outside the gate of the Hall of Renming

Hong Wan trotted to the door of Renming Hall, and found that Concubine De, Concubine Shu and Cao Jieyu were already standing at the door, she was very surprised

"Why are the sisters here at night?"

Cao Jieyu wrapped her clothes

"As soon as we heard that Zi Zhaorong was arrested, we came to find the empress. She is changing clothes now and will come out soon."

Defei looked incomprehensible

"This Zi Zhaorong is so courageous, she even dared to escape from the palace. What's wrong with the palace, why bother?"

Concubine Shu is feeling

"Oh, actually, I want to run away too, but I can't."

Concubine De glanced at Concubine Shu

"It's just you? What can you do when you run out? It's better to stay in the palace and stay honest."

Empress Yang, dressed in court clothes, walked out of the palace gate and said to the concubines

"Sisters, let's go to the official family right now. I hope all the sisters remain calm and let the Ai family speak for everything so as not to anger the official family."

Everyone should

"Yes, empress"

Funing Palace

The emperor sat on a chair, looked at the kneeling queen and a row of concubines, and asked in a very dissatisfied tone

"What are you planning to do, force the palace?"

Empress Yang single-handedly

"The officials, the concubine and all the sisters came here just to ask you to spare Zi Zhaorong's life."

"The relationship between your sisters is so good, I am very pleased, but she is going to escape from the palace! This is the No. 1 in history, right? If the historian recorded it and passed it down through the ages, wouldn't it make future generations laugh out loud? "

Empress Yang followed the words

"Officials, if the official historian records it, then it's useless for you to kill her, it will still be recorded in the record. Why don't you let her go to show the official's magnanimity, and she will be immortalized forever?"

The emperor suddenly remembered

"By the way, I haven't figured it out yet, how did this Shi Miyuan meet Zi Zhaorong?"

Empress Yang didn't answer questions at all

"Reporting to the official family, in fact, before the concubine moved into the Renming Palace, when cleaning up the rooms in the Defang Palace, I found a secret passage leading directly to the outside of the palace, but the concubine was too timid to investigate."

At this time Hong Wan's inner monologue

"It's full of nonsense. No matter how you look at it, the secret passage has been cleaned up for a long time. You clearly used it in it, and you said you only discovered it."

The emperor is still confused

"In the Queen's opinion, it was Zi Zhaorong who ran into Shi Miyuan after running out of the palace?"

"The concubine also guessed like this."

The emperor to the kneeling concubines

"It's late, you all go back first, it's useless for you to worry about this matter, I will tell Zhaorong your thoughts."

The concubines could only answer in a low voice

"Yes, the official..."

Then one by one got up and exited the palace gate one after another.

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