I have a book to play

In July in Dachu, it was so hot that people could not speak.

It is rare that there is a wind blowing, and it is as cool as water. There is a lotus pond in Qingning Palace. It used to be empty, and there were no flowers, birds, fish or insects.Now as far as the eye can see, there are red lotuses and green leaves, layer upon layer, and there are various colored koi in the pond.

It's completely like a fish playing between lotus leaves.

The lotus koi in this pond were created by Sun Pengtuo.Empress Yuan loved lotus flowers, but after giving birth to the third prince, her body became weaker, and she gradually lost the desire to appreciate flowers. This Qingning Palace is a cold palace that no one cares about, and many ponds of flowers, plants and fish are naturally deserted. .

Sun Peng wanted to help Xie Chen, who couldn't enter the palace often, and couldn't see his biological mother, to take care of the Empress Yuan, so he took advantage of Xiumu's time to go to the street to buy some novelty and fun things and came back, gradually bringing the people in the palace with him. Flowers, birds, fish and insects also made him toss a lot of tricks.

He was in the cold palace, serving as a bodyguard beside the Empress Yuan, staying for several months.In the past, when he left the East Palace, most people who saw him would care about his status as a Crane Guard and would praise him a lot.Now that he was transferred to the cold palace, some people didn't care about the Sun family's concubine even though he was on top of him.

Sun Peng didn't care about these things.

For him, the work in Qingning Palace is easier than that in Donggong Palace, and it gives him more free time to find ways to take revenge on Xie Zhang.

Sun Peng was not originally a scheming person, and occasionally he was distracted when he was on errand, or subconsciously frowned when Yuan Lin mentioned Xie Zhang's name when he heard Yuan Lin talking with Empress Yuan, and it didn't take long for Empress Yuan to discover his thoughts.

On this day, Empress Yuan was leaning on the vermilion fence next to the lotus pond to admire the flowers, and called Qilang, but no one responded for a long time. Looking back, she realized that Sun Peng was standing upright, just like the other guards, serious and serious Looking into the distance, Shensi has obviously flown away.

"Qilang." Empress Yuan yelled again, and when Sun Peng came back to her senses, she said again, "You're thinking about Erlang again."

Partition walls have ears, it is really inconvenient for her to casually talk about Xie Zhang in the cold palace, so she had to use Erlang instead.

Sun Peng shook his head.

Empress Yuan has always been kind-hearted, there are some things that he doesn't want her to know, so he just takes care of himself.

Seeing that Sun Peng was unwilling to speak, the Empress Yuan did not force her, but carefully told him not to think too much.

Sun Peng agreed with a smile, thinking in his heart that after a few days of rest, he went to Jingming Temple to ask Xie Chen for this scripture, so as to add something to the Empress Yuan.

It's just that the day before Xiumu, he bumped into something by accident.

July [-]th, Hungry Ghost Festival.

As early as before the festival, there were more hawker stalls selling ghost objects, boots and shoes, golden rhinoceros fake belts and various clothes in the market.The closer the Ghost Festival is, the more lively places in the capital will be.The Hungry Ghost Festival is a day for people to worship their ancestors. Rich or poor, everyone will prepare food and drinks and pay homage to the dead on this day.

The Sun family is no exception.

Coincidentally, Sun Peng rested on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.Therefore, on the night of the fourteenth day, he was still working in Qingning Palace.

Qingning Palace was quite quiet at night.Perhaps because of the approaching of the Hungry Ghost Festival, the cries of the concubines who were treated coldly by the late emperor came from other palaces in the cold palace more frequently than in the past.

The sound was similar to the night owl heard in Jingming Temple.

Except for the Eastern Palace, most of the guards in the palace wore silver-white guard uniforms, which were convenient for movement, neat and beautiful, and also had a protective effect.It's just that this color makes people's hearts tremble when walking in the lonely palace, especially at night.

Taking advantage of his rotation, Sun Peng walked to a house in the corner of Qingning Palace according to his usual memory.

In this cold palace, there are not many other things, most of them are the cats that the masters raised and discarded casually, some of them have been mixed with wild cats and gave birth to kittens over the years.There are quite a few vacant rooms in Qingning Palace, and the Empress Yuan was always benevolent, so a cat made a nest in that room.

Sun Peng thought of a limping cat he saw occasionally passing by during the day, with some leftover fish in his arms, and walked towards that house.

Qingning Palace is much smaller than Fengyi Palace, but due to the limited population, the whole palace looks empty.In addition, it was already late at night, and Sun Peng walked for a while, but even though it was July, he still couldn't help but raised his hands and rubbed his arms.

A gust of wind came from nowhere, it was so gloomy that it made goose bumps involuntarily appear on people's bodies.

Sun Peng stood still, rubbed his face, and was about to continue with his legs, but along with the wind, there was a smell of sparks wafting from a distance.

Sun Peng was stunned for a moment, his expression changed suddenly, and he immediately stepped forward, taking three steps at a time, and followed the smell.

After walking for a while, I could vaguely see a little bit of fire beside the abandoned pool in the corner of Qingning Palace.Something, like fireflies on a summer night, fluttered and twinkled and danced along the wind.

He took a step forward and finally saw the source of the smell of sparks in the wind.

There are tongues of fire going up along the wind, constantly wrapping and licking the scriptures that can be found everywhere in the streets.Those "fireflies" are clearly the ashes of the whole package of scriptures after being swallowed by fire.

And the person squatting next to this bag of scriptures, with his waist bent, his clothes that should touch the ground were carefully put away on his lap, and his old face was full of sadness.

"Eunuch Yin, who are you paying homage to?"

Sun Peng walked out from the shade of the flowers and trees, glanced at the scriptures that had been burned to the point where they could not see the content, and then caught fire, and his eyes fell on the person who burned the scriptures.

"Guard Sun!"

The burner stood up abruptly, because he got up in a hurry, the hem of his clothes suddenly fell down, almost licking the flames.

Sun Peng stretched out his hand to help him kindly, but the arm under his palm was trembling all the time, whether it was because of the wind in Xia Ye, or because of fear.

He raised his eyes, and looked at the person carefully under the moonlight that was not clear.

The servant surnamed Yin was considered very old in the palace, and his face was old.At such an age, it is time to leave the palace to take care of his life, but Sun Peng remembered that he had met this Eunuch Yin many times when he was on a job.

He was old and couldn't do the job of working in front of Empress Yuan, so he stayed in the tea room of Qingning Palace most of the time, boiling water and making tea for Empress Yuan.

"There are rules in the palace. These things are not allowed to be burned anywhere in the palace. Who is Eunuch Yin paying homage to at this time?"

Sun Peng stared at Yin Neishi without blinking.This fact is a bit strange, for a servant who has worked in the palace for many years, such a mistake would never be made, so he even has reason to suspect that what the servant Yin does may be detrimental to the Empress Yuan or others.

"Sun Shiwei, this servant also knows the rules in this palace, but... just seeing that tomorrow is the Hungry Ghost Festival, and the palace is strictly inspected, this servant is thinking of giving... to these two pitiful daughters of this servant tonight." Son, burn something."

Yin Neishi said, his eyes were reddened, and his back seemed to be more arched.

Which of the servants in the palace won't accept those one or two godsons and apprentices when they get older.There are palace rules in the palace, and the elderly servants are destined not to have a son or a daughter, so the masters just turn a blind eye and let them take in their sons.

Therefore, Sun Peng didn't find it strange that Yin's servant said that he had a daughter and a son, but...

Sun Peng lowered his head, glanced at the nearly burned scriptures, frowned and asked, "Are they... gone?"

Yin Neishi sighed: "It's gone. This palace cannibalizes people, and the two children are gone. Sun Weiwei, can you listen to the slave for a while, the slave is very bored."

Yin Neishi was not originally named Yin.Of all the servants in this palace, almost none of them entered the palace with their own lives.After entering the palace and going out of power, even the ancestors may feel ashamed, so there is no need to use the original surname.

Yin's servant was sold into the palace at the age of three. His surname was his master. His master was originally the chief servant of the late emperor. When the late emperor died, he was buried with him. At the age of 20, Yin's servant was transferred to the side of Emperor Xihe, who was still only the prince at that time, and then became the servant of the Empress Yuan. That year he was awarded the famous jade.

But this name, except for Yuanhou, no one would call him, especially after arriving in Lenggong, everyone only called him Yin Neishi.

Staying by Yuanhou's side lasted for decades.The prince of the year became the emperor, and the princess of the year became the princess.Yin's servant has also reached the age when he should think about his own affairs.

He recognized a pair of sons and daughters.One is Chunying and the other is Xiaogouzi.

Chunying was sold into the palace by her parents. Like many poor families, she sold her own daughter in order to raise money for her son to marry a wife.Xiaogouzi's family was too poor, so he sold himself into the palace.

The two children are only about ten years old, they are well-behaved, and they are both good seedlings.Yin's servant wanted to raise the two children well, and left by himself in the future, so that they would not be bullied in the palace.

More than ten years ago, the Empress Yuan was abolished, and he followed the Empress Yuan into the cold palace. The two children were placed in the imperial dining room as errands, and their lives were not bad.

Yin Neishi received more than once the things his two children saved their salaries to buy for him, and he felt more and more that the two children were raised properly.

How do you know that in Baoying for three years, two children disappeared one after another.It is said that if you are born, you must see a person and if you die, you must see a corpse. Yin's housekeeper risked being punished and entrusted many people, but failed to find the two children.

"This palace eats people, and people die every day. I know that most of Chunying and Xiaogouzi are already dead, but there is always a place to die. I have been out of the palace, I have been to mass graves, and I searched everywhere in the palace, but I just couldn't find the bodies of the two children."

Yin Neishi's eyes were red.He is already old, and he doesn't know how long he can live, but he can't even find the bodies of his sons and daughters, even if he goes to the underworld, he has no face to recognize them.

"It's Hungry Ghost Festival. I dreamed that Chun Ying cried out for cold, and the little dog cried out for pain. As a godfather, I feel so much pain in my heart. Sun Shiwei, it's not that I don't know the rules in the palace, but I love children , I feel sorry that they can't rest in the ground until now, I feel bad..."

Yin Neishi started to shed tears while talking, and he didn't even care about calling himself a "slave", his heart and eyes were full of love for the two sons and daughters.

Sun Peng felt sad.

This palace is indeed, as he said, a place to eat people.How many people will remember the death of the maid in the palace, and even burn some scriptures to pay homage to the Qingming Zhongyuan next year.

It's just a mayfly that accidentally disappeared among all living beings.

"Guard Sun."

Yin Neishi suddenly grabbed Sun Peng's hand: "Will Sun Guard take a rest tomorrow?"

Hearing this, Sun Peng hesitated for a while, then nodded slowly.

The waiter Yin was overjoyed: "Can I ask Sun Guard to go to the temple for me tomorrow and light two lamps for the two children?"