little fool's child bride

Unexpectedly, the princess was not surprised to see Xiao Xiao at all.Seeing that Xiao Xiao hadn't spoken for a long time, she put down the small hammer in her hand to knock on the wooden fish, and then asked lightly, "What's the matter with the benefactor?"

Xiao Xiao pursed her lips, and then sincerely asked the princess: "Do you still remember what happened in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year? Can you describe to me the situation at that time in detail."

The princess was silent for a moment, because Xiao Xiao touched the memory she least wanted to recall.But she sighed suddenly, and then handed a jade pendant to Xiao Xiao: "I was so sleepy that day that I couldn't keep my eyes open, so I washed and rested, and didn't realize that there was another person beside me until I woke up in the morning. But Aunt Qingqiu once said that she saw a figure, presumably it was the one you were looking for..."

Xiao Xiao gratefully accepted the jade pendant, and then asked the princess to resign.But the princess shook her head and told Xiao Xiao to wait a while, then she brought an envelope from somewhere and handed it to Xiao Xiao.

"Master Dezhi asked me to hand it over to you," the princess said with a relieved expression, "He said that you should disassemble it when you encounter a crisis."

"Master Virtue has come?" Xiao Xiao asked in surprise.

It turned out that Master Virtue had traveled here as early as a month ago, and knowing that Xiao Xiao was destined to die, he wrote the method of cracking it in a letter, and then handed it to the princess.

He knew Xiao Xiao would come.

Xiao Xiao was a little shocked, because he never believed in gods and gods.The hand holding the envelope cautiously put it close to her body, Xiao Xiao bowed to the princess again, then turned and left.As for the catastrophe and where Master Virtue went, he didn't ask at all, because Xiao Xiao knew it was unnecessary.The soldiers came to cover up the water and the soil, and since Master Virtue had written a good plan for him, then he would be able to save the day by then.

Of course Xiao Xiao didn't expect the danger to come so quickly.

Since Xiao Xiao got the token of the princess, she planned to go to Xisan Institute to find the maid named Qingqiu.Just as it was getting late, Liu Ziming invited him to have dinner in the palace, and then went to Xisan Institute with him.

The Xisan Institute at night looked more gloomy and colder than during the day. The princesses moved back after the palace was repaired, so there was almost no candlelight in the palace here.After all, this is a cold palace with legends of female ghosts. How many court ladies are brave enough to keep watch here?Therefore, only the guards in the palace will pass by here on patrol, and then they will leave in a hurry without finding anything unusual after patrolling around.

It's not that the guards are negligent in their duties, but that the female ghost will appear for a few days every month, and today happened to be it.Therefore, Xiao Xiao and Liu Ziming, who came to look for someone, happened to bump into the guards. The guards hurriedly saluted and looked at each other, wondering how His Royal Highness came to this harem.

"His Royal Highness is here to find someone," Liu Ziming asked them to lay down without courtesy, "Do you know where a court lady named Qingqiu lives?"

Qingqiu has served the princesses since the time of the first emperor, so the guards naturally knew about it.But they were embarrassed, because this court lady was more famous for her strange character - now she was the only one watching the cold palace that no one dared to guard.This court lady is more courageous than most men. After all, even if there is no ghost story, it is very scary to guard this dark palace at night.

But Xiao Xiao couldn't wait for tomorrow, and still insisted that she wanted to find Qingqiu.The guards were afraid that something would happen to Liu Ziming, so a group of people followed behind the two of them, thinking that if there were a female ghost, so many of them would be able to embolden each other.But obviously today the female ghost was also intimidated by His Highness the Prince's prestige, unexpectedly nothing strange happened, they found Qingqiu smoothly.

Qingqiu is burning paper money, I don't know who it is for.Xiao Xiao and the others felt a little strange looking at the embers rising straight up with the wind, but Liu Ziming was the prince after all, and his royal style was fully displayed at this time, completely different from those mortals who respected gods and feared ghosts.Seeing that Qingqiu was over, he took a step forward and asked directly about Xiao Xiao being captured by a traitor and appearing in the princess' bedroom.

"The servant did indeed see the black shadow, but the sky was too dark, the servant only knew that she was wearing the clothes of an ordinary court lady, and didn't know anything else."

Qingqiu spoke out everything she knew without being humble, but it didn't help Xiao Xiao at all, and this afternoon was a waste of work.But at this time, Qingqiu told Xiao Xiao another thing, that is, the palace maid once disappeared and reappeared suddenly in the rockery. She always suspected that there might be a secret way in the rockery, but she never found it.

"Besides, when the imperial concubine lived here, she often walked around the rockery. Once, the servants watched her disappear from there."

The rockery is a landscape in a garden in the center of the West Three Institutes.Even though Liu Ziming took Xiao Xiao and the others to the rockery, he smelled an indescribable stench before he got close, causing everyone to cover their mouths and noses.Only Qingqiu seemed to be used to it, and she explained to the embarrassing Liu Ziming: "This stench comes from the rockery, and it's also one of the reasons why this slave has always suspected that there is something wrong with the rockery."

Xiao Xiao suddenly thought of a certain possibility, and then looked at Liu Ziming.However, Liu Ziming already asked the guards with a solemn expression to find out if there was any mechanism or the like, because now he was almost sure that the rockery should be the exit of a secret passage under the palace.

The palace has always had quite a lot of secret passages. Liu Ziming's bedroom alone has two entrances and exits, which can reach most of the palace.But it is impossible and should not have this kind of entrance and exit in the harem. After all, the emperor does not want his concubine to have an affair with the prince. Who can wear such a green hat!So Liu Ziming never expected that there would be a secret passage in this cold palace, and he didn't even know about it, and someone had already entered it, and maybe even killed someone to hide in it.

"If you can't find it, then tomorrow the Ministry of Industry will send someone to smash the rockery into pieces."

How could Liu Ziming allow the possibility he imagined to happen?Even if he leveled the rockery, he had to fill in the secret passage dug out by someone, and then catch this person with impure motives.However, what Liu Ziming didn't expect was that as soon as his words fell, Xiao Xiao over there touched the mechanism somehow, and before he even had time to yell, he stepped on the air and fell into the gap that suddenly appeared.And the gap was quickly closed, Liu Ziming could only watch helplessly as Xiao Xiao looked back blankly, not knowing that there was a highly decomposed corpse not far behind him.

"Hurry up and save people!" Liu Ziming's heart tightened all of a sudden, his eyes widened, but he was full of remorse and bewilderment.This is the third time he put Xiao Xiao in danger because of himself, and the third time he can only look at Xiao Xiao like this helplessly.

A large number of guards came, and almost all of them held torches, so Xisan Institute was as bright as day in an instant.The minister of the Ministry of Industry also hurried over, took the original design drawing of the rockery, and reported to Liu Ziming where he thought there might be institutions.There is a specialization in surgery, and the mechanism that four or five guards could not find before was immediately found by the minister of the Ministry of Industry. However, once the mechanism is activated, it can only be opened from the inside, so they have to contact Xiao Xiao first. just work.

But if the sound insulation effect of this secret passage is so poor, then the person hiding here may have been discovered by the palace maids and guards coming and going.So Xiao Xiao inside the rockery not only did not hear Liu Ziming's anxious shout outside, but also groped a little bit in the direction of the corpse, because it was too dark inside.Fortunately, Xiao Xiao, who couldn't hear or see anything, stopped after groping for a while without finding anything, but because his mind was already uncontrollably recalling all kinds of monsters that would pop out of the darkness, so he bit Gritting his teeth, he took out the envelope given by Master Dezhi.

Xiao Xiao actually thought very simple. Since Master Virtue had some prophecy skills, the things he gave should be more or less effective, so in fact Xiao Xiao wanted to use them as amulets to strengthen his courage; but he held the envelope, why? Everyone felt that something inside felt like a scythe for lighting a fire, so he tore open the envelope without much thought, and poured out all the contents.

Sure enough, there was a scythe inside, as well as tinder and a few pieces of paper.Xiao Xiao found some rags by the light of the scythe lighting the tinder, and then lit up the fire, looking at what Master Dezhi had written by the light of the fire.However, the few lines on this paper made Xiao Xiao's scientific outlook shaky, because Master Virtue knew that Xiao Xiao would be locked in a secret room, and he would not be able to get out for a while.That's why he prepared the scythe for Xiao Xiao, because he even knew who the person who died here was, and he was afraid that Xiao Xiao would be tricked.

That's right, this is not a secret passage at all, but a small secret room, and I don't know who made it.Xiao Xiao had already guessed by the light of the fire that the invisible thing not far from him was a corpse, but he didn't have the courage to take another look at it, so he even moved the fire away from there.However, according to Master Dezhi, there is no way to stop the poisonous gas emitted by the corpse, because the person who is almost decomposed is the Taoist bag.

Bu Dai Taoist is ruthless to others, so he is also ruthless to himself. Before meeting Yu Yi, he used his own body to test medicines, but at the beginning, he was not good at skills. Naturally, many toxins were not detoxified at all, but remained in the body. inside him.So when he died, the smell and poisonous gas emitted by the rotting corpse was like a thunderclap on the ground, which almost killed Xiao Xiao.Thanks to Master Dezhi for telling him in the letter, otherwise, if Xiao Xiao continued to grope, his rotten hands would surely kill Xiao Xiao unknowingly.However, there is no way to go on like this, Xiao Xiao can only stand up, and then research whether there is a switch to go out.