Aggrieved Fish Sprite: 126|Zudeng Danchi
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The palace has always been a place where people look forward to seeing it.
The words in the book boast particularly about the palace, such as Qionglou Yuyu, double-eaves golden palace, everywhere you can see palace-dressed women wearing pearls and jade and draped in colorful silk, holding incense burner jade plates, and giving them to the world delicious.
In fact, the palace is not like that.
In the ochre red palace walls, the double-eaves palace is indeed majestic, but it is far from the heavenly fairyland. The house is a house without clouds and fog, nor is it built of emerald and white jade.
The beautiful women in high bun palace costumes are even less visible. The servants wear crow green and brown robes, and the palace ladies wear stone blue and indigo clothes. No color is conspicuous. They stand in the palace walls or corners of the palace, almost blending with the furnishings.
Right now, there is martial law everywhere in the palace, and even these people walking with their heads buried can’t be seen.
The Guards patrolled around, every palace gate was tightly closed, and there was no movement inside.
Mo Lei glanced a little.
He found out that Meng Qi was following those few servants who had dug pits and hidden things and dug up groundwater veins.
“What happened to these people?”
“It’s nothing, but they happen to be in the same direction as where we are going. I think they know how to take a trail to avoid the Imperial Guards, so they will take advantage of it.” Meng Qi did not agree with the internal structure of the imperial city. No stranger, despite the change of dynasties, the general orientation of the building has not changed much.
Meng Qi said as he walked: “The prince usually lives in a place close to the front, with the imperial garden as the boundary, and the concubine’s residence in the back.”
His footsteps suddenly stopped, his expression hesitant.
“Something is wrong.”
Mo Lei looked up and saw that a nearby palace was in disrepair for a long time, and it was a bit dilapidated. Although no weeds were seen, it did not seem to be inhabited.
Meng Qi frowned and said, “Further ahead is the East Palace. The neighborhood should be the residence of other princes. This Chunhua Palace is the largest, divided into seven halls. It was the place where the prince’s clan lived and studied during the Chu Dynasty. . Was it abandoned in the Qi Dynasty?”
He just said that he knew where the second prince lived, and soon he was slapped by the facts.
There are guards coming in and going out of this Chunhua Palace. Seeing that they have no scruples, let alone the appearance, it is obviously a vacant palace. The search for martial law is only to prevent rebellious hiding in it.
Mo Lei looked at the mottled ochre red palace wall outside the Chunhua Palace, and suddenly said: “Sixteen years ago, Lu Zhang led his army into the imperial city. Where is the place where the Chu clan was massacred?”
Meng Qi pursed his lips and woke up.
“You mean…”
Because too many people died in the Chunhua Palace, not long after the founding of the Qi dynasty, repairs were needed everywhere in the palace, and the repairs had to be done with money. Such an “unlucky” place like the Chunhua Palace was naturally abandoned. Up.
“In fact, people died everywhere in the palace, many people, not just the Chunhua Palace.”
Only taboo this one, it seems unreasonable, but this is the usual logic of people.
When the royal family was alive, they were distinguished, and even if they died, they were even more powerful than others.
As long as people feel that something is unlucky, they can always find out a thousand reasons.
“I didn’t expect this.” Meng Qi said unexpectedly, “I thought Lu Zhang wouldn’t care about this. Qi Chao said that the former king was innocent, so he replaced it. In fact, Lu Zhang was also scared in his heart. Is Chu Chao’s willingness still to come?”
“The palace is so big, where are you going to find the second prince?”
Moli found a concealed eaves, which was covered by a pear tree. He looked around and found that many of the guards were heading towards the palace garden where the water column had just spurted.
“If the second prince has been taken down, in addition to being imprisoned in the residence, he may also be sent to other places under house arrest.” Meng Qi muttered, “We will go wherever the defense is originally tight, and we will not meet the second prince. , You can also find Lu Zhang. But this kind of place may also be a trap… People who try to conspire or assassinate go, only to see an empty hall and numerous ambushes.”
This kind of ambush is good for the Qingwu ancestors to enjoy, they can’t get the lesson.
“Further ahead is the East Palace.”
“The Prince of the East Palace was dyingly ill, but let someone hide something in a deserted courtyard. Do you think this has anything to do with treason?” Mo Li thoughtfully.
“It’s hard to say, even if no one seeks rebellion, people in the palace always have something that they don’t want to be known by others.”
Meng Qi finally finished cutting his hair, changing from an adult to a child, and then from a child to an adult. In addition to clothes, hair is also very troublesome.
When he and Moli came out of the secret path, they both had disheveled hair. No, it affects appearance!
“It is not difficult for the doctor to know…Look, they stopped.”
The servants found that there were more imperial guards near the East Palace. Their clothes were stained with mud and water, and there was no way to get past them.
“How is this good!” The lead waiter was restless.
He was holding a box in his hand, and the servants looked around, seeming to want to find a place to hide things.
When Meng Qi and Moli came over, they saw them looking for a tree, climbed up and stuffed the box into the tree hole, covered it with branches and leaves, and then fled in all directions.
Meng Qi is very used to this kind of secret sent to the bottom of his eyes.
Gerbils can always hear all kinds of secrets, and it’s not surprising to encounter one more.
“The doctor might as well guess what will be inside?”
“It will be buried. It should not be a perishable object. It is impossible for a bank note or a paperwork account book… The box is not too big, but it is not too small. If it is a small object like a jade pendant and gold hairpin, you can use it. A veil is wrapped and stuffed in a gap. It is extremely concealed and there is no need to take risks. Since it is deliberately installed in the box and digging a hole to fill it, it means that the contents inside may be more expensive and cannot be damaged, or even disguised. Others can spot the problem at a glance.”
Mo Li analyzed one by one. When he finished speaking, Meng Qi suddenly thought of a possibility.
“Will it be Chuan Guoyu Seal?”
“What?”
Mo Li was very surprised, Qi Chao looked for the Chuan Guo Yu Xi, which he couldn’t find for a long time, but it was in the hands of Prince Qi Chao, which seemed like a big joke.
From the words of those servants, they were ordered to hide things, and if the things were not hidden, they would fail the prince if they were discovered.
“Is it a Yuxi, just look at it.”
Someone hid things for a long time, and Meng Qi took them as soon as he raised his hand.
Meng Qi touched all sides of the box and shook it again to confirm that there was no mechanism inside.
“This is a nine-eye Qiqiao lock. This lock alone is worth a hundred gold.” Meng Qi fiddled with the lock on the box.
Then stretched out and twisted the lock abruptly.
The box opened, revealing something squarely wrapped in red silk.
Meng Qi only looked at the shape to make sure, he nodded to Moli.
When the red silk was untied, the jade seal engraved with “Destined to the sky, longevity” appeared in front of you.
The quality of the jade is radiant and radiant, and the tentacles are warm and flawless. There are wavy lines under the jade seal, and a squatting chilong on the upper part. The sculptures are lifelike, with torch-like eyes, as if they could roar at any time.
“There was such a wonderful craftsman in the Qin Dynasty?” Mo Li just said that the jade seal was fake.
The style of jade carvings 1,500 years ago was not the case.
“Isn’t this the piece of Heshibi that Emperor Qin got, I don’t know. But this is indeed the piece I’ve seen before, and it’s the piece of jade seal I picked up from the bottom of the Qingjiang River and handed over to Emperor Chu Yuan. “
Moli nodded, and said in a deep voice: “Then this is indeed the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, and things are getting more and more weird.”
To sort out what happened these days and the rumors heard: The prince was seriously ill and was about to die. Someone in the palace had colluded with the Qingwu ancestor to prepare for rebellion, but was discovered in advance by Emperor Lu Zhang. The gate of the capital was blocked, and the Guards searched everywhere. Lu Zhang thought he had controlled the situation and began to eliminate the rebellion. At this time, the prince sent his cronies to secretly bury Yu Xi…
“The person who conspired to rebel is indeed the second prince, not the prince?”
Mo Lei thinks that the prince is more suspicious.
From Lu Zhang sent Jin Yiwei to track down Meng Qi’s whereabouts, it is true that Qi Chao did not pass on the jade seal of the country. How did the prince get it? How did you hide it from the emperor? The prince is about to die, why did you bury Yuxi? Who is he going to leave Yuxi for?
The imperial guards served the emperor. If the Chuanguo Yuxi was found, they would not dare to hide it privately, and would still offer it to the emperor.
So the Prince’s defense is Lu Zhang.
“The prince and the emperor are very wrong.” Meng Qi said to himself.
Although there is no good prince in all dynasties, the relationship between the prince and the emperor is always delicate. But it is very rare that the relationship is so subtle.
This is not as simple as hiding the jade seal. The actions of the servants and the unfinished meaning in the words clearly prove that they are loyal to the prince and are hostile to the emperor.
A prince who is about to die, how can he let these servants not be prosperous and wealthy, and hide the Jade Seal of the Kingdom at his own life instead of handing it over?
“If you don’t understand, you can ask me.” Meng Qi hinted.
“Go to the prince? Where’s Lu Zhang, don’t care?”
Meng Qi didn’t answer, but waved his hand casually. He didn’t know whether he meant “too late” or “impossible to die”.
The East Palace is close at hand, and the Guards are tightly guarded. Compared to the second prince who doesn’t know where he is locked up, and the emperor Lu Zhang who doesn’t know where he hides, the prince is indeed easier to find.
“Who?”
One of the guards vaguely saw a dark shadow flashing, and immediately shouted.
His companions looked over, but there was no one there.
“Could it be a mistake?”
“No, the commander said that there may be a rebellious martial artist who sneaked into the palace and searched!”
The Guards gathered immediately, and Meng Qi and Moli had already turned over the palace wall, leaned slightly, climbed up the eaves lightly, and passed the two temples at a very fast speed. Arrived near the pavilion and bedroom where the prince was studying.
The glazed tiles used in the imperial palace are so slippery that they can easily be stepped on.
But in front of the top masters, this is not a problem. After all, in addition to tiles, there are solid wood and bricks as the main structure of the palace, and there are squatting beasts on the eaves to take advantage of.
If it were not during the day, but at night, Meng Qi’s speed would have been even faster.
Now I can only try to get as close as possible to the dougong at the bottom of the eaves to keep my body from being exposed.
However, the accident happened.
Under the eaves of Shuge, there was a tawny civet cat squatting silently. It happened to be stopped on the only way. Meng Qi didn’t notice it at first, until he got close, almost startled.
“Meow.”
The civet cat slowly wiped his face with his paw.
Meng Qi: “…”
Moli: “…”
Staring at Meng Qi and Moli for a while, I could see that these two people weren’t here to grab the site. The civet cat jumped casually, jumped to the other side of Dougong, and gave way.
“…”
The mood of the two is more complicated.
“Meow?” The civet cat looked at them suspiciously, won’t you leave?
At this time, a servant in the yard yelled anxiously, “Who has seen your highness’s cat? Why did you run out of sight in a blink of an eye? When is this, can you please have a snack! Yes! Now, how about the imperial doctor, hasn’t come yet?”
“Return to Chief Chen, the imperial doctor was blocked outside.”
“What? What do those imperial guards mean? His Royal Highness will always be the Crown Prince if he lives for one day. They turned out to be…really hateful!”
At this time, there was a noise from the direction of the palace.
A court lady ran over in a panic, crying: “His Royal Highness coughed up blood again!”