Deep Palace past events

After the two turned a few turns in the cramped, maze-like alley, a crossroad suddenly appeared in front of them.Zhang Xiaomao said: "You run to the left, I will run to the right!"

At this moment, Yang Fan was like a frightened bird and a bereaved dog. He had no idea but to run away desperately. Hearing Zhang Xiaomao's words, he fled to the left side of the road.The two chasers saw that they were running away separately, so they also chased separately.

After turning two corners, Yang Fan could no longer hear the shouts of the pursuers behind him.But he didn't dare to stop, like a headless chicken, scurrying under the high walls of the deep palace with a panicked expression.The whole body was drenched by the heavy rain like a drowned rat, but he didn't care about it.

After running for a while, he was sure that the person behind him had given up chasing, and then slowed down.But he didn't dare to return, and continued to walk blindly and aimlessly in the rain while panting.

At this time, he had lost his way and didn't know where he was, but fortunately, there was heavy rain and thunder tonight, and everyone had already closed their doors and closed their doors, blowing out the lamps and going to sleep. The palace in Nuo Da was completely dark, like a land of ghosts and monsters, so he was not caught. people found out.

"Where am I in the palace now?" He was thinking while walking, and at this moment, a flash of lightning flashed across, illuminating the pitch-black world with snow.

Although the lightning was fleeting, he still used that ray of light to see the surrounding environment clearly, and found that he had walked through the maze-like alleys and arrived at a very empty large square.

This square is big enough to accommodate 3000 to [-] people, the ground is entirely paved with blue bricks, and three tanchi are placed in the center of the square like a Chinese character.

On the front and right side of the square are palace walls and gatehouse buildings, and there is only a forest on the left side.

He crossed the square, rushed into the forest, and hid under a big tree. While wiping the sweat and rain from his face with his hands, he thought uneasily: "I wonder if Zhang Xiaomao has been captured alive? If he is really captured Stay, will you recruit truthfully?"

He thought again: "Actually, so what if he doesn't confess? The two of them just need to go back to the place where we found us just now, and shine a light on the wall with a lantern, and everything will be clear. Until now, the person in the palace who knows my secret , besides Zhang Xiaomao and myself, there should be only Eunuch An and his two godsons. It must be Eunuch An and his two godsons who are harming me!

"Eunuch An must have an unresolvable hatred with Daojiazhuang. As for what kind of hatred, I am afraid that only he knows. Most Daojiazhuang don't know that Eunuch An is harmful to their hearts, otherwise they would not spend money to bribe them. Him, ask him to take care of the business.

"After it was revealed that I was a fake eunuch, Eunuch An would naturally be held accountable. Of course, he and his two godsons would not be so stupid as to sit and wait for death. That's why they framed me with this kind of graffiti. Before finishing those fatal words, I must have already thought of a way to escape, and I have probably escaped from the palace by now!"

He was in a rush of emotion when he suddenly saw a glazed lantern appearing under the palace wall opposite the square. He thought it was the person chasing him and was about to run away, but then he found two differences: one was that the person was carrying a glazed lantern. Lamps, not lanterns.Second, the color of the light is different.The color of the lanterns carried by the two chasers just now was red, but this glazed lantern was green.

He opened his eyes wide, staring at the small group of green light like will-o'-the-wisps for a moment, and saw the glazed lamp moving rapidly in the darkness and the pouring rain.Suddenly, the green light left the high wall and rushed towards the woods on the side of the square at an astonishing speed!

When Yang Fan saw the other party rushing towards the woods where he was hiding, his face turned pale with fright, he was hesitating whether to turn around and run away, the glazed lamp was already within ten feet away, if he ran away at this time, he would undoubtedly be noticed, Yang Fan remained silent, But dare not act rashly.

Fortunately, the glazed lamp did not continue to rush towards him, but quickly passed diagonally in front of him.

At this time, because they were relatively close, Yang Fan could vaguely see each other.I saw that person was wearing a purple palace uniform, and was a young palace lady.

Because the maid's face was not facing Yang Fan's side, and she was walking quickly with her head bowed, Yang Fan couldn't see more clearly. Seeing the other party's sneaky and suspicious appearance, he couldn't help but think to himself: "What did this palace lady just do?" An unspeakable bad thing!"

The court lady didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes watching her in the darkness, she continued to walk quickly across the square, and after entering a path in the woods ahead, she slowed down a little.

After a while, the sound of footsteps was swallowed by the heavy rain, and the small group of strange green light was also lost in the boundless dark world.

Yang Fan looked at the direction where the palace lady disappeared, and was in a daze for a long time before he came back to his senses and said to himself: "It's not a way to escape like this, it's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, I have to go back and see how Zhang Xiaomao is doing .”

Although I was very scared, but because I was worried and didn't want to hurt Zhang Xiaomao, I still decided to take the risk and go back to investigate.

But just now he passed through countless forks along the way. At that time, he just wanted to escape, he was in a panic, and he didn't pay attention to the environment along the way. Now let alone the dark lights, even in broad daylight, he may not be able to find the way back.

Fortunately, when passing through a doorway on the road, he bumped into a little eunuch who came out for convenience. He pretended that he was an eunuch from another place, and he had to go to the cleaning place in a hurry, and asked him how to get to the cleaning place. After getting the little eunuch's guidance , he didn't lose his way at several major forks.

As he was walking, he suddenly heard footsteps in front of him. It seemed that several people were coming towards him. Yang Fan couldn't dodge it in time, so he had to bravely continue walking forward.

After a while, the two met each other, and there were five people in total, the head of which was a short and fat old eunuch, while the other four seemed to be Ouchi guards with knives.All five of them wore a wide-brimmed bamboo hat.

The eunuch stopped, raised the lantern in his hand to shine a light on his face, and asked, "Where are you from? It's raining so hard, where are you going without a lamp or an umbrella?"

"I'm today... a eunuch who was newly assigned to the cleaning office. Just now... I went to visit a partner who entered the palace together. He was assigned to the imperial dining room. I didn't expect it to rain heavily when I went. I didn't borrow an umbrella or a lantern, so..."

The five people looked him up and down suspiciously, one of the guards with a knife smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

"I...my name is Yang Fan." Because he couldn't make up a fake name in a hurry, he had to give his real name, but the word "Yang Fan" was pronounced very low and vague.

The guard with the knife saw his tongue trembling when he spoke, and asked again: "What's the name of your partner assigned to the imperial dining room?"

"His name is Gao Zhaohui."

The guard with the knife was still waiting to ask, but the short and fat old eunuch said: "Okay, let's not mind our own business, go to Huagai Palace quickly, and don't let that fake eunuch escape from the palace!"

Another guard with a knife also said: "Yes, as long as the old ghost is not in the palace, it means that what is written on the wall is true!"

The five ignored Yang Fan and left quickly.

Yang Fan heard what they said seemed to be his own business. Although he was terrified, he was even more suspicious: "I am not an 'old ghost', why do they say I am an old ghost? And why do they say they are going to Huagai Palace to see if someone is there? Could it be... ...they are talking about another fake eunuch? What is going on, is there another fake eunuch in the palace besides me?"

I walked a few steps in wonder, and suddenly my heart moved: "Ah, could it be that Zhang Xiaomao helped me? After he threw away the pursuers, he ran back and wiped off my face because he was afraid that others would find out the secret on the wall. name, and rewritten into another name?"

But then he realized that something was wrong: Even if Zhang Xiaomao could think of this clever trick and remembered the name of Huagaidian, but he couldn't write, it would be really difficult for Li to replace Taojiang.

While wondering, he had already reached the gate of the cleaning office.He hesitated for a moment, but boldly stepped forward to grab the door knocker, and patted it lightly twice.

"Is it Yang Fan?" A pleasantly surprised voice asked in a low voice, it was Zhang Xiaomao's voice.

Yang Fan felt relieved when he heard his voice.From the sound of his voice, he didn't encounter too much trouble just now.

"Yes, I'm Yang Fan." His voice was also a little excited.

As soon as the words were finished, there were quick footsteps in the yard, and then the door creaked open, and Zhang Xiaomao appeared inside the door with the dead wind lamp.

Yang Fan breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "I was worried about you just now..."

Zhang Xiaomao put his right index finger on his mouth, hissed, and whispered, "I've been waiting for you to come back! Come on, I'll show you something."

Without waiting for Yang Fan to ask questions, he stepped out of the threshold, gently closed the courtyard door, and walked towards the clean room.

Surprised and suspicious, Yang Fan thought to himself: "What did he take me to see?"

After the two entered the clean room, Zhang Xiaomao held up the lamp to shine on the wall. As Yang Fan expected, Yang Fan's name on the wall was rewritten!

——An Datong is a fake eunuch!

Although Yang Fan was mentally prepared, he was still very surprised when he saw the writing on the wall, and asked, "Who rewrote this?"

Zhang Xiaomao said: "I was just about to ask you!"

Yang Fan said, "It's not me."

Zhang Xiaomao said: "It's not you, that's strange."

Yang Fan asked: "When did you find out that your name has been changed?"

"Just now. After we ran away separately, just after turning a corner, I slipped and was chased by that man. He asked where we were from, what bad things we were doing just now, and why we ran away when we saw them. I lied Said: We are eunuchs who have just entered the palace. Because we can't sleep, we want to go to the cooked fire place and the imperial dining room to visit a few partners who entered the palace with us. We haven't done anything bad.

"The man was a little skeptical when he heard this, and said: We clearly saw that you two were shining around with lanterns just now, what exactly were you looking at? I had an idea and said that I lost a copper coin, so I used the lamp to shine on the ground.

"He asked why we ran away, and I said: We had just entered the palace and we were visiting friends, so we didn't tell the eunuch, the chief of our cleaning department, so when we heard their shouts, we turned around and ran away in fright.

"The eunuch was dubious about listening. At this moment, another eunuch who was chasing you also came. After hearing the lie I told, he asked me to go with them to check the place where we were found just now.

"Originally, I hoped that the heavy rain had already soaked the words on the wall so that they could not read clearly, or that they could not find the place where they found us just now. Unexpectedly, these two people have such good memories and found us very quickly. That place just now. But after they saw the words on the wall, I found that your name had been changed!

"I was wondering if you rewrote it, but I heard one of them say: 'No way, how could Mr. An be a fake eunuch?' The other said: 'Is there someone who hates him and writes it deliberately, trying to create something for him? A little trouble?"

"I heard them talking about Eunuch An, and I was wondering, but I heard them ask me: Did you two brats write it randomly? I said: We definitely didn't write it, we didn't even see the words on it just now.

"I asked them again: Is Eunuch An the one who inspected us that day? They didn't answer, and after standing there thinking for a while, one of them said: 'Maybe some new eunuch was annoyed during the inspection. Father-in-law is angry, so come up with this method to relieve it?"

"The other said: "It's very possible, but since we ran into this matter, we have to check it out, otherwise something really happened, and everyone can't get rid of it." The two said to me: Don't smear these words Go, they will investigate and deal with it. After they left, I hurried to the clean room to check, only to find that this place has also been altered!"

Hearing what Zhang Xiaomao said, Yang Fan seemed to be in a cloud, and thought: "In this way, people who know the secret that I am a fake eunuch, except me, Zhang Xiaomao, Eunuch An, and his two sons In addition to five people, another one has been added. Who is this person? Why do you want to help me?"

Seeing his shocked expression, Zhang Xiaomao asked, "What should we do now?"

Yang Fan said: "I'll go to that place to have a look again."

They found the wall where the graffiti was found just now, and they saw that Yang Fan's name on it had been changed to "An Datong", but it was a bit blurred because of the rain that was flying diagonally.

Although the two were afraid that there would be terrible "graffiti" elsewhere, firstly they were not familiar with the route in the palace, and secondly they were afraid of arousing the suspicion of the eunuchs in the cleaning department, so they didn't dare to delay any longer, so they went back to sleep.