phoenix knot

Another year has passed, and Su Mingyue is counting the days for Liang Guanjing. Liang Guanjing is 34 years old, three and a half years in prison, one year in Yangde Palace, and less than six years away from her ambition to become emperor at the age of 40 .

It's like a joke to say it, now it's precarious, and you're still proclaiming emperor!Su Mingyue could not see hope, all she had was despair.

She couldn't see her, she couldn't even see Lianxiangxiyu, she only knew that she could still read in Yangde Palace, this was probably the only freedom that Han Chengjue didn't take away, so Su Mingyue had nothing to say about it.

Su Mingyue has been making trouble for so long, now she can get permission to meet others with the company of the eunuchs under her command, but it must be outside, in broad daylight.

She and Mrs. Rong Guo roasted a brazier under the gazebo in the sheltered place in the twelfth lunar month, which was considered a marvelous scene in the harem.

"Those puppies in the guard camp, as long as they become my servants, we can meet as we want."

Su Mingyue and the eunuchs under her looked at her in silence.

Mrs. Rong Guo snorted: "Pretend I didn't say anything."

Then she sent the eunuch to stay away. The two wives wanted to whisper, so they moved closer to Su Mingyue. She whispered in her ear, "If I knew it, I wouldn't have slept with the surname Zhao, and my mother would have bitten me in the boat on Mingyue Lake." Dozens of mosquito packs on the chest and back, itching to death.”

"It's winter, where do the mosquitoes come from?" Su Mingyue roasted the fire and drank hot wine.

Mrs. Rong Guo smiled and said, "I mean the first time, I slept with him for half a year."

Su Mingyue didn't seem to hear, just drank tea slowly.

Mrs. Rong Guo said, "I'm talking to you."

Su Mingyue said in a low voice, "I'm listening."

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "I think my method is the easiest."

Su Mingyue said: "Do you like Zhao Huaijin?"

Mrs. Rong Guo shook her head simply: "I don't like it."

Su Mingyue looked at her, and suddenly tears welled up in her eyes.

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "I don't like him, but I like to sleep with him."

Su Mingyue gave a "puchi" smile, tears streaming down her cheeks, "It doesn't matter who you are dating or not?"

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "My favorite men and women in this world don't love me, so it doesn't matter who I'm with."

"I envy you, but I can't." Su Mingyue lowered her head,

"What can be solved with sleep, why bother your brain?" Mrs. Rong Guo began to preach her way of being a courtesan and her philosophy of dealing with people.

"Then Zhao Huaijin agreed to take you into Yangde Palace?" Su Mingyue asked back.

Mrs. Rong Guo sighed, "He dare not let me in."

"Is it okay to bring a letter?"

Mrs. Rong Guo looked at her: "Every time he goes in alone, and he can't have physical contact with Ah Yuan, there are eyes in the room."

"Put the letter quietly in some corner, don't hand it in yourself."

Mrs. Rong Guo still shook her head, "It's not just the people who wait on you, they are full of eyeliner. If I want to, I'll bring a letter in and give it to her, and I'll tell you?"

"Yeah, so didn't you let him sleep in vain for the past six months?"

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "We can't go in, and she can't come out, but there is still a way to solve this problem."

Su Mingyue drank again, "Tell me."

"Fireworks will be set off in the palace on New Year's Eve. The emperor is having fun with the people. The palaces and courtyards are preparing for the New Year. The guards inside and outside Yangde Palace will inevitably be relaxed. I plan to take advantage of the fireworks, under the cover of the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, Ask the eunuch to make a hole at the bottom of the north wall. Although it is the size of a dog hole, you can always take a look and pass something, unless you don’t want to dig into the dog hole.”

Su Mingyue shook her head, "Ten steps and one post, even if you can divert people away for a while when you smash the hole, won't you still be seen by others?"

"Aren't there several large water tanks at the base of the north wall to prevent water leakage?" Mrs. Rong Guo reminded.

Su Mingyue also realized the feasibility of this matter, "The hole in the wall must not be too big. Even a water tank can't cover a dog hole that can fit in. If the water tank is close to the wall, only a water tank can block it. The size of two bricks, about... so high." She compared.

The two of them changed places and conducted on-the-spot surveys outside the north walls of other palaces. There were water tanks of the same size and specifications on the footpath here. , It can't be bigger, let alone people, even dogs can't get in.Neither is it close to the ground, nor is it very high, probably just enough to be at the same level as the hole when kneeling down.

"This size is fine." Su Mingyue raised her head, "Why didn't you say it earlier? You just remembered?"

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "Isn't it taking time to get acquainted with Zhao Huaijin? Otherwise, when we knock on the wall, who will distract the guards? If this is done from the beginning, the Yangde Palace is heavily guarded and it is too easy to be discovered. Now One year has passed without incident, the guards have long since relaxed, and now is a good time to strike."

Su Mingyue said: "Can't you give him some other benefits? Threats and lures, beautiful women with money, this beautiful woman must be yourself?"

"I've said it all, my wife likes to sleep with him."

Su Mingyue laughed so hard that she wanted to shake her head, "If you are with Ah Yuan, are you still like this?"

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "It's because she can't be with me anymore, so she broke the jar."

Su Mingyue said: "Don't do this."

Mrs. Rong Guo said: "Zi is not a fish."

Su Mingyue said: "If the emperor finds out, it will be a death penalty."

Mrs. Rong Guo smiled: "So Zhao Huaijin must help me, otherwise I will go and sue the emperor, saying that he raped me."

Su Mingyue shook her head.

The two split up to prepare the big hammer for knocking on the wall, and then selected a strong eunuch to test it on the north wall of Jianzhang Palace. The problem immediately became apparent. The outer wall of the palace wall was too thick. Knocking out a hole that runs through both sides is simply too difficult.If it wasn't covered by the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, and the sound of knocking on the wall was too loud, it would definitely alarm the guards.Therefore, it must be completed in such a short time at that time.

Mrs. Rong Guo saw that the eunuchs were exhausted and couldn't knock out much damage, so she turned her head and said angrily: "It is said that the empress supervised the work here?"

Su Mingyue supported her forehead and nodded, she was really in a cocoon.After thinking about it, she suddenly came up with a plan. After spending some effort, she asked someone to find the blueprints of the palace when it was built, and observe the structure and topography of the Yangde Palace.

"Did you see this place? There is a narrow passage here, for the big water tank to be placed in it, but the courtyard is so big, this section of the palace wall is only a barrier, and it is built very thinly, so let's start from here .” Su Mingyue pointed it out to her.

"Then here comes the problem. There is also a water tank on the other side, and you can't ventilate the people in it. How did she know that you knocked a hole in such a hidden place? And you don't know what's going on inside. If someone in the yard See, it's not her person, but the guard sent by the emperor, isn't all previous work in vain? And the matter has been exposed."

Su Mingyue said: "Then I need your Mr. Zhao to do a little favor."

"How to help?"

Su Mingyue said: "Let him bring a few words in, so that he can speak in full view."

"it's OK?"

Su Mingyue said: "We can only gamble."

Zhao Huaijin finished her daily inspections, bowed her hands to Liang Guanjing, and said, "Tonight, on New Year's Eve, there will be fireworks in the palace, and the empress will walk around so as not to get caught."

Liang Guanjing crossed Erlang's legs and replied without raising his head: "Thank you, Lord Zhao, for reminding me."

Zhao Huaijin said again: "Especially the water tank in the backyard, it won't be useful if you put it there, so just move it."

Liang Guanjing raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and said "um".

"Farewell!" Zhao Huaijin turned around and left with the guards, waiting outside the palace gate.He wasn't on duty tonight, but he told a few of his subordinates that they should go home early tonight on New Year's Eve, and he will patrol here.

The guards also have families and mouths, who is willing to come out to take turns on New Year's Eve?Naturally, he happily bid farewell to Mr. Zhao.

"Don't forget to invite me to drink later." Zhao Huaijin reminded.

Yangde Palace has not had any accidents for more than a year, even if cats and dogs do not come to disturb, plus there are many people and nothing to do, the guards are already very lax, and occasionally doze off and whistle, Zhao Huaijin sees it ,leave it alone.

Originally, he was not such a person. The emperor's favorite concubine let him sleep. Before this kind of thing, he would not have dared even ten times, but the one in Jianzhang Palace is really poisonous.There were rumors in the palace that she used to be an oiran lady in Yangzhou, and with the disturbance at the banquet before, he believed it a little bit.When the two met outside the palace to have an affair, when he was in a state of confusion, once he asked her if this happened, she was so frightened and angry that she was about to cry, saying that because she had an affair with him, did she just look down on her like this?Zhao Huaijin was so scared that she no longer suspected him.

The emperor's health has not been as good as before in the past few years, and the five stone powder has become more and more severe. She said that in order to be with him, she had already poisoned the emperor at all costs, and she gave her life here, all for him.Just wait, within three to five years, the two of them will be able to make a good couple.

When Zhao Huaijin heard this, she was almost frightened.

But she said: This is not a crime of deceiving the emperor. She told the emperor long ago that the five stone powder should not be eaten too much, because the emperor did not listen to advice.

Fireworks exploded overhead. At this time, the emperor and his concubines were admiring the splendor and colorfulness of the Forbidden City on the high platform.

Mrs. Rong Guo occasionally felt cold and refused to go on leave. Mrs. Han was very straightforward, but she didn't like to join in the fun.

The emperor has always known that the two of them are always arrogant and self-willed, there is no way, who makes them beautiful.

This year is going to pass away peacefully again, and I hope the next year will be the same, Zhao Huaijin is looking forward to it.

Liang Guanjing put down the book at this time, she walked into the courtyard, and said to Lianxiang Xiyu: "You two, come here."

Lianxiangxiyu stepped forward as promised.

"Zhao Huaijin talked too much just now, it's very strange." Liang Guanjing looked around, "You two are guarding here, I'll go to the backyard to see, don't let anyone come over, find a way to hold it back."

Lianxiang Xiyu nodded quickly.

Liang Guanjing pretended to watch the fireworks, and walked to the backyard as she walked. Amidst the roar of firecrackers, she saw the wall next to the water tank in the corner shaking with the sound of the fireworks.

Startled, she slowly leaned over, blocking the wall with her body.

After a while, a stick-like thing carefully protruded from a brick wall. Liang Guanjing squatted down to look at it. Suddenly, in the fireworks exploding all over the sky, she saw the face that she had been thinking about day and night. Although it was only half of the face, the wall The hole was too small, but she recognized her even when it turned into ashes.

After Li Wanwan said, "It's done!" Su Mingyue couldn't wait to squat down and look inside, almost caught off guard, she saw Liang Guanjing at a glance, and she was also looking here.

In order to prevent her from screaming, Su Mingyue quickly made a silent movement with her fingers.

Under the reflection of the fireworks all over the sky, the sky and the earth are on and off, and she and her face are also on and off.

Relatively speechless, only a thousand lines of tears.

Liang Guanjing uncontrollably knelt down towards the wall, Su Mingyue also knelt down facing her, there was only such a small hole in the wall.

At a glance.

ten thousand years.

The two people reached out at the same time, the rough bricks scratched the skin, but it was nothing, in the narrow gap, she finally held her hand, Zhao Prison for three and a half years, Yangde Palace for one year, that day from the North When she returned to Yongming Palace from the suburban horse farm, she didn't say much to her, and she didn't expect that it would be such a long time after that.I didn't even have time to say goodbye, it was just a long parting.

Su Mingyue stretched out her hand desperately, Liang Guanjing pushed it back, fearing that the bricks would scratch more skin.Then she felt wet, warm lips covering the palms and backs of her hands, she kissed her hands greedily, and rubbed her face against the palms of her hands.

A voice said: "Let me see it too, let me see it too."

Su Mingyue was pushed away, it was Wang Wanyan who looked into the hole in the wall, "Take a few steps back, I'll take a look at the whole body."

Liang Guanjing took a few steps back as she said, she was afraid that if she stretched out her hand, it would be embarrassing if Wang Wanyan would also grab her and kiss her.

Wang Wanyan saw the fireworks explode behind Liang Guanjing, illuminating her dazzlingly, she had never seen a person so beautiful.

Su Mingyue squeezed over again, and she stuffed the rolled letter through the hole in the wall.The little eunuch next to him said vigilantly: "Madam, the fireworks are almost over, we have to go."

Su Mingyue said to Liang Guanjing at the other end of the hole in the wall: "I'll come and see you tomorrow."

"Okay!" Liang Guanjing heard herself say, with an uncontrollable excitement in her voice.She knelt down again, only wishing to be closer to her, closer.

"Also, take care!"

"it is good!"

"take care of yourself!"

"it is good!"

"I miss you."

"I know."

Wang Wanyan leaned forward, "There's me, there's me, I miss you too."

Liang Guanjing laughed through tears and nodded, "Thank you."

The little eunuchs cleaned the bricks and stones on the ground, repaired the irregularities a little, and re-embedded the prepared painted wall bricks, keeping them loose so that they can be removed next time.After finishing these, the two little eunuchs worked together to move the water tank back to its original position, covering up the hole.

Liang Guanjing's hand was still half in the hole in the wall, but she actually wanted to shake her again, the bricks were filled back, and Su Mingyue's face was hidden behind the wall again.

But it didn't matter, holding the letter in her hand, she knew she had hope.

The worst years are over, and it will only get better in the future, she firmly believes.