Weicheng snow

"Xiaoqian..." Yi Qingchen was awakened by the sense of happiness that surged into his heart, but when he woke up from the dream, the rest was just in a trance. He sat on the bed, looked around inexplicably, and then Looking suspiciously at the tightly closed window, the expression on his face changed, he raised his hand to cover his forehead, and fell into a deep loss.

It took a long time before I came back to my senses, put on my boots, went to the window to look at the sky, it was already light, and went to the main hall to look for Yu Feng, I couldn't sleep well anyway, so I went to wait for a while It's okay to wait.Walking halfway, he bumped into the old man who was in charge of delivering the message. As soon as the old man bumped into Yi Qingchen, he stopped him, "My lord, it happens that the master is looking for you, go and have a look!"

The old man was in a hurry, as if he had something important to tell, Yi Qingchen thumped in his heart, and hurried towards the main hall, before stepping into the threshold, he saw an extremely delicate pastry box on the square table, the box was full of It is painted with glass-like lacquer glaze, decorated with fine flower branches, and there are bees and butterflies dancing in it. The furoshiki of the box, if he is not dazzled, this is...

Hua Shenchi's jacket.

Because it is a unique style on Lingshan, Yi Qingchen will never admit it wrong. He recalled the scene in prison that he really showed him before, took a breath, and moved his eyes slowly.

The brocade box has already been opened, the box is divided into three layers, the first layer is very neatly placed about twenty dumplings, all in the shape of ingots, originally containing wealth and auspiciousness, but Yi Qingchen knows exactly what is inside .His fingers were visibly trembling, but he still resisted to remove the top layer, revealing the things on the next layer.

It was a palm severed from the wrist.

Yu Feng has been standing silently by the side, quietly observing Yi Qingchen's reaction, Yi Qingchen stared blankly at the palm for a long time, then subconsciously stretched out his hand and poked it, and removed the layer as if knowing something, Expose the ice cubes stored in the bottom layer.He was silent, and put the second layer back on.From the beginning to the end, his expression was very natural, except for a little dull eyes.

Yu Feng was thinking about how to speak, but Yi Qingchen spoke first, "Master, where did this thing come from?"

Yu Feng said, "The palace servants sent it this morning, and they didn't know what was inside. At first, the old man thought who bought the freezing point..." He looked at the severed palm, hesitant to speak. end.

Yi Qingchen nodded numbly, stretched out his hand to squeeze out a dumpling, peeled it off and examined it carefully.Yu Feng frowned slightly, and raised his hand to signal for the old man to call Murong Qian over.

Yi Qingchen didn't pay attention to other people's actions, but silently rummaged through the dumplings and ice cubes to find something.It was only after a cup of tea that the old man called Murong Qian over. As soon as Murong Qian entered the door, he saw Yi Qingchen's bloody hands, holding some minced meat of unknown origin, muttering in his mouth, " Why can't I find it..."

Murong Qian was so frightened that he rushed over immediately, snatched the meat paste from Yi Qingchen's hand, held his wrist, and forcibly restrained his movements, "Brother Xue, Brother Xue!"

Yi Qingchen was called back to his senses by Murong Qian, and the two looked at each other for a moment, Yi Qingchen suddenly bit his lower lip, turned his face away, and said in a trembling voice, "No, he will never eat wood like a big boy for nothing. Fortunately, he must be looking for something when he entered the palace, he will not let someone cut off his hand in vain, he should pass some news..."

Murong Qian turned his head to look at the brocade box in astonishment when he heard the words, hesitated for a while, then hurriedly said to comfort Yi Qingchen, "It's nothing, it's just a hand."

"All I know is that it's just a hand..." Yi Qingchen murmured, "Wood..." He was lost in thought in a daze, unable to hear what Murong Qian was saying at all, only Recalling that in the cage, when the national teacher threatened to chop Hua Chenchi's hands into meat and make dumplings, what did Hua Chenchi say?

At least leave a palm for Yi Qingchen to identify?

Yi Qingchen suddenly became clear, broke away from Murong Qian's restraint, and rushed to the table, picked up the severed palm full of scars, fumbled repeatedly, and took out a dagger to cut along various wounds, finally... ...found a folded, flat sheet of paper amidst the flesh.

Both Yu Feng and Murong Qian were shocked, Yi Qingchen took out the piece of paper, opened it and took a closer look, "This is... the layout of the courtyard where His Majesty is..." The water finely and briefly marked the position of some organs and eyeliner, and left a message on the back of the paper: no problem, don't read.

Yi Qingchen stared blankly for a moment, then looked at the blood on the table, smiled feebly, took out the disciple's clothes wrapped in the brocade box, and said with Yu Feng, "Please ask the master to take the blood and blood away." Refrigerate for a few days, then give Qingchen a set of black robes and a bamboo hat for shading, and bring them into the palace..."

When Yi Qingchen said these words, his tone had returned to his usual casualness. Only Murong Qian noticed that something was wrong with Yi Qingchen, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he called him worriedly. Yi Qingchen turned his head and smiled with Murong Qian, "Brother is fine, Xiaoqian can rest assured."

Yu Feng immediately ordered someone to sort out a package according to Yi Qingchen's instructions, but the bamboo hat was not easy to fit in, so Yi Qingchen put it on first, and the two changed into a black attire according to Yu Feng's plan, and put the bag in the bag. Put it in the medicine box you carry with you.Yi Qingchen and Murong Qian confirmed the content of the plan again, and just now they resigned from Yufeng, and followed the old man who sent the message to the direction of the imperial city.

In fact, according to Yu Feng's original plan, the identities of Yi Qingchen and others should be hermit doctors who failed to catch up with the time to enter the palace because the horses lost their strength halfway, but this identity was based on the fact that the national teacher did not know that Yi Qing Chen and others hid in the prime minister's mansion under the premise.

Since the national teacher knew that the severed hand was sent to the prime minister's mansion, it means that the national teacher probably already knew the whereabouts of Yi Qingchen and others, so the plan had to be changed.For example, after entering the palace, you can't go directly to the sphere of influence of the national teacher, but turn to look for the eldest princess and Zhao Yu, and then think about ways to save people under their protection.

The road from entering the palace to the princess's courtyard is not difficult. After all, it will take time for the eyeliner ambushing at the city gate to convey the message to the national teacher, and the guards in the outer city are all neutral, and they did not deliberately make things difficult Yi Qingchen and others, the old man who sent the message led the two to the gate of the courtyard where the eldest princess was, and when a group of guards in armor stopped the three of them, the old man took out the pass order from the prime minister's mansion from his sleeve, and the guards After receiving it, I confirmed it several times, and then began to question Yi Qingchen and others about their origins.

It wasn't until Zhao Yu's voice sounded in the courtyard that the guards lined up in two ways to make way. Zhao Yu walked down the stone steps and said to the guards, "I asked my grandfather to find these two to treat the princess. Yes." Walking up to Yi Qingchen, he looked suspiciously at Murong Qian beside him, and said lightly, "Come with me."

The eldest princess's bedroom is very big, bigger than Yi Qingchen's memory. When she walks here again, she feels nostalgic for revisiting her old place. She followed Zhaoyu to the bedroom, raised her hand and kowtowed. Knock on the door and say to the people inside, "Princess, we are here."

An extremely soft voice came from inside, "Bring them in."

The moment Zhao Yu pushed the bedroom door open, the girl in a long blue dress and a beautiful jade crown sitting upright behind a group of screens raised her right hand, folded her wide sleeves, covered her mouth and Yi Qingchen smiled and said, "Young Master Xue, long time no see."

Yi Qingchen knelt down and bowed to him, Murong Qian watched Yi Qingchen's movements, and followed suit, the eldest princess smiled vainly, and said to Chaoyu, "Xiao Zhao, go help him The two of you can move a stool over here, I don't have any place to sit here, so please don't be offended by Mr. Xue and Mr. Qian."

As soon as Murong Qianfang sat down, his eyes were attracted by a painting hanging in the corner of the hall, and he just stared at it intently. Seeing Murong Qian's reaction, the eldest princess smiled weakly again, "That painting is the picture of Qianfang. It’s just that Young Master Qian was still young at that time, so I don’t know if you still remember it?”

Murong Qian lowered his head and smiled thoughtfully, "Of course I remember it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to draw it many times over the years..."

Since Yi Qingchen sat down, he has been thinking about how to get close to the courtyard where the national teacher is and rescue Hua Chenchi in his mind.Zhao Yu passed by him, noticed that something was wrong with Yi Qingchen's complexion, and subconsciously asked, "Why is your face uglier than before?"

As soon as he blurted out the words, the smile on Murong Qian's face froze.

Seeing the reaction of the two of them, Zhao Yu looked at the eldest princess suspiciously. The eldest princess sensed something and said softly, "If there is anything I can help, please feel free to ask."

Yi Qingchen narrated what happened during this period of time, and when she heard the severed hand and the dumpling, the eldest princess actually coughed, and she didn't know whether she was frightened or her throat was really uncomfortable.Zhao Yu listened, clenched his fists, and said viciously, "This bastard Sun Ming..."

The eldest princess coughed for a while, and after recovering her breath, she said lightly in the same clothes, "That dude should not be in the sky prison. The sky prison is still neutral at present. If such an important person, he will probably be imprisoned by the national teacher in his prison." In my own courtyard." Then he asked Zhao Yu, "Xiao Zhao, is there still no news from the Fengyue family?"

Zhao Yu shook his head, and replied helplessly, "No, this stinky old man Sun Ming knows too many evil methods, and there are all organ formations around the courtyard. No matter how powerful the two families are, it is difficult to break through. It is too difficult to do it without causing a commotion..."

Just when everyone was a little frustrated, Zhao Yu suddenly remembered something, "By the way, this is the news from this morning, I almost forgot. There seems to be some progress at Yue's house last night." Looking at Yi Qingchen, "Yueying, that's the killer of the Yue family who accompanied you all the way to the capital. He tried to break into the formation of the national teacher last night. Although he suffered some injuries, he found some clues... ...."

After speaking, he ran to the next room and brought back a boxy box about the size of a palm. When he opened it, there seemed to be a small piece of skin inside.Wearing gloves, Zhao Yu picked it up and explained to everyone, "This is Yueying cut from the bodyguard of the national teacher. The Xue family analyzed it roughly, and it is very consistent with my idea, it is human skin. "

The Eldest Princess weakly raised her right hand, put it on her lips, and said with a teasing smile, "What else can the skin cut off from a person be? Xiao Zhao, don't be fooled."

Zhao Yu also laughed twice, this was the first time Yi Qingchen had seen Zhao Yu laughing so heartfeltly, he couldn't help being a little stunned, but Zhao Yu only laughed twice, then corrected his expression and turned his head Continue to explain to the two, "But the wounded bodyguard did not bleed. Judging from the experience during this period, if it is a corpse, black blood should flow from the body after being cut, so the bodyguards Identity is highly debatable."

"Although their names are recorded in the roster of the guards, and there are traces of their origins, but this is really abnormal. In fact, they will still be loyal to the national teacher until now. I think it is probably the national teacher who treats them. A very evil method was cast, otherwise they would have been kicked in the head by a donkey..."

"But..." Yi Qingchen recalled the prison scene he saw in his dream, some guards were foaming at the mouth from Hua Shenchi's poisonous smoke and fell to the ground, indicating that there were still some ordinary people among them. , but Yi Qingchen didn't know how to convey these words to everyone, so he could only swallow them back, and then said, "Mu Mu bought us some information with one hand..."

Then he handed the note with the layout of the National Teacher's courtyard to Chaoyu, and after Zhaoyu took it, he looked at it roughly, with a look of surprise on his face, "These...I'll take them to the Yue family... ..."

"Wait!" But Yi Qingchen called Zhao Yu, and asked hesitantly, "What will the four families in your mouth do if they get this news?" Zhao Yu realized Yi Qingchen's purpose, and replied hesitantly , "I will... directly break into..." After finishing speaking, everyone in the hall fell into deep thought.

The purpose of the existence of the four families is to maintain the country, choose a wise emperor, and eliminate the unstable factors that affect the rule. As for who the emperor is, it doesn't matter whether it will affect the lives of other people. In other words, if Zhao Yu handed over the map to them now, they would most likely rush into the courtyard immediately.

It is not impossible for the national teacher to make a desperate move in desperation.

At this time, Murong Qian also thoughtfully suggested, "Moreover, the authenticity of this map is also open to question, not to mention whether the State Teacher will change the layout of the organs in a few days, just whether this map is from that wooden map. The handwriting is very doubtful, could it be that the old fox deliberately put it in to lure the enemy into it?"

Yi Qingchen thought about the scene he had seen in the dream before, in the shadow like ink, he could vaguely see it, Hua Mumu gritted his teeth and used his nails to tear open the scabbed wound on his hand, shaking the paper The tablet was stuffed in, and then some powder was applied on it...

The map is indeed made of wood.

Murong Qian didn't know what happened in the dream, so he was worried, stopped Yi Qingchen and said, "Brother Xue, Xiaoqian knows that you want to save the wood, but don't be rash...at least, let me go first." How about going to find the way?" Yi Qingchen immediately said, "Then I will go too." Zhao Yu looked at the two in shock, and said in disbelief, "Aren't you joking?"

The eldest princess coughed twice, "One is the former bandit leader and the other is the current bandit leader. I don't think there is anyone more suitable than them." Zhao Yu wanted to make some more excuses. But the princess said dejectedly, "Could it be that Xiao Zhao has other ideas?" Zhao Yu was silenced for a long time before giving up and saying, "No..."

After a long silence, Zhao Yu finally sighed helplessly, walked into the room, took out a roll of maps, and spread them out on the ground.The layout of the entire imperial city was drawn on the map, and Zhao Yu pointed to a courtyard above it, "This is the princess's bedroom where we are currently." Moving his finger down, he pointed to another courtyard far away, "This is the courtyard occupied by the power of the National Teacher. It turned out to be the Imperial Hospital..."

He circled the houses around the Imperial Hospital with his finger, "there are two families of Fengyue ambushing in these places, and there are occasional conflicts nearby, but they are all behind the scenes. After all, His Majesty is still in the hands of the National Teacher. If they want to We can't forcefully resist anything, but it's okay to kill one or two of their guards."

Then he took out a bamboo tube from the bag at his waist, unscrewed a section of the bamboo tube, poured out a pen from the inside, and started to write from the princess's bedchamber. Picking up a pen near the Imperial Hospital, he finished it in one go, then threw the pen back into the bamboo tube, and explained with Yi Qingchen, "If you want to enter secretly, you can only go this way."

"There are eyesliners of the national teacher on other routes. In order to ensure that you can arrive smoothly, I will go with you tonight, and then you follow the method on the map, and I will guard nearby. I haven't come out yet... I can only continue according to my grandfather's original plan..."

Turning to look at the eldest princess, "Can you?"

The eldest princess covered her mouth, sighed helplessly, and said weakly, "This is the only plan for now, I can only hope that this map is real, and that Mr. Xue and Mr. Qian can rescue all the hostages... .”

After finishing speaking, he coughed a few more times, and some blood spilled from the corner of his lips.

Yi Qingchen suddenly realized something, and asked the eldest princess for proof, "Whether it was a proposal to ask for shark beads or to cure a stubborn disease, it was all manipulated by the national teacher, right? The princess' so-called fate of the end of the world also came from him. He is also doing the follow-up in the future... right?"

The eldest princess nodded, "I remember that he would come to the bedroom every three to five times, and let me sleep in a formation for the sake of healing... Later, my body seemed to be getting weaker and weaker... ...Suddenly one day, he suggested to his father that he could use shark beads to cure the disease, and his father would not hesitate to cut off thousands of miles of land, and made this deal with the kingdom of the East Sea..."

Zhao Yu understood the meaning behind the words of the two, "So it is very likely that the eldest princess was just an ordinary person, but because she has been used and abused by the national teacher, she gradually became the weak body she is now?"

Hearing this, the eldest princess lay down on the couch and smiled helplessly, "Maybe, if I explain it this way, I might be relieved." Zhao Yu clenched her fists tightly, with veins popping out, "I've long thought that the stinky old man He had no good intentions, it was a self-stealing. Even though I had been protecting the princess all the time, I still let him succeed...I really hate..."

The sky outside the window lighted up suddenly, then darkened again in a flash, a thunderbolt suddenly exploded, shaking the whole bedroom, Yi Qingchen walked to the window when he heard the sound, set it up, and when he opened it, he heard the sound The sound of the pattering rain and the wet wind with the smell of earth spread out the whole world.

Yi Qingchen pondered for a long time in his heart, and said to Murong Qian who walked behind, "I'm a little troublesome."

The eldest princess couldn't understand, "Such heavy rain should make it easier to hide your whereabouts?" Zhao Yu explained, holding his chin, "That's not the case. When the enemy loses your footsteps, you also lose the enemy's footsteps." , this disadvantage is relative..."

Murong Qian looked at the sky, and said calmly, "It should not stop tonight."