After exiting the small door, there was a narrow and dark alley. Dongxue made several cuckoo calls skillfully.
Three tones, one long and two short.
After a while, the watchman sang "In the dead of night, be careful of the candles...", he accidentally turned this way, and his figure hid in the shadow of the corner.
Dongxue met him. The watchman was just a man with an ordinary face. The soldiers who had followed Mr. Jiang to the battlefield were loyal and loyal. The Jiang family had helped these veterans over the years.
"Two words to the queen."
"It's quiet at night, be careful of candles..."
Even though Dongxue was talking, the watcher was still singing at his own frequency without anyone noticing.
After Dongxue finished speaking, she whispered: "Remember?"
The watchman continued to speak his own words, but nodded, immediately left the shadow, and walked towards the foot of the Imperial Palace City.
There would be informants from the palace there, so this was none of Dongxue's business. She quickly looked at the soles of her feet and the ground, and returned to Jiang's house through the back door without leaving any traces.
there.
Before the watchman had even reached the foot of the imperial city, he took out a branch that was burnt black from his sleeve, and quickly wrote those two sentences on his trouser legs, along with the person to whom it was given.
And he tore off a piece and stuffed it into his sleeve.
It didn't take long for me to meet the guards outside the imperial city gate.
He glanced at one of the soldiers, and the guard immediately came up to him with a fierce look, "What are you looking at! Can you see me!?"
He pretended to be beaten, but the watchman was so frightened that he begged for mercy again and again: "This... officer, officer, the little one deserves to die..."
"Okay, okay, forget it, let's go on patrol." The other guards gave the grumpy one a hand.
The guard snorted loudly, "I'm in a good mood today, let you go!" But something was already hidden under the armor.
"Yes, it's the official. You don't remember the faults of villains, and you won't dare to do it again..." The watchman lowered his head and ran away quickly, which caused a burst of laughter from the other guards.
"This is too cowardly..." But they didn't know that the watchman was too courageous to do this under their noses.
The grumpy guard just walked a few steps and then said, "Damn it, I drank too much at night and I need to pee. You go first, I'll find a place to soak him at the base of the city wall!"
"Hurry up!" The other guards were unaware and continued patrolling with smiles.
When the guards who left the team saw that they were far away, they actually looked for the root of the city wall. Three cuckoos sang and an eye opened in the crack.
The guard kneaded and kneaded a small piece of cloth that he had kept for him.
The person inside lowered his voice and asked: "Which direction?"
"middle."
The code word, "中" means the Queen of the Middle Palace.
What I picked up over there disappeared quickly.
The guards here really took a pee, humming songs from the past when they were fighting in Mobei, looked at the stars in the sky, and walked away slowly.
Old general, you died so heroically for them that day.
What they can do today is what they should do.
The lives of brothers were all bought by you...
In the palace, the news spread from Huanyiyuan and was later delivered to the Queen's confidants.
The queen had just finished undressing and lay down when she received this extraordinary message. She immediately sat up and read it by candlelight, "...where did it come from?"
The confidant maid whispered: "Jiang family."
The Queen felt relieved for the time being and murmured: "The Yan came out of the East for evil. Is the Emperor still well? Is Mr. Xie still considerate in his service?"
Swallow out of the East...Dongfang...Concubine Jing!
It’s for evil!
Concubine Jing is going to do something bad to her!
The second sentence, asking the emperor, also asking Eunuch Xie...
Madam Jiang suspected that the emperor or Eunuch Xie, or both, might be disadvantageous to her, but she was really unsure, so she asked this question.
The queen's heart sank, and she silently burned the small piece of paper with the candle flame, and soon not even ashes were left.
"Your Majesty..." The confidant maid looked at her with some worry, "I don't know what Concubine Jing is planning..."
The queen didn't speak, but kept arranging and combining these people in her mind.
Concubine Jing, Emperor, Eunuch Xie...
Thank you, father-in-law!
The queen suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Eunuch Xie had received the emperor's request and came to ask her what the wooden sign that fell out was. Eunuch Xie said that when she passed by that day, a servant picked up the wooden sign and she didn't have time to do so.
After giving it to the queen, she handed it over to Eunuch Xie. The emperor saw it and was curious.
How does the queen know what the wooden sign is? She is still confused.
But it seemed strange to deny a wooden sign. The queen saw that the wooden sign was ordinary and said that the maid beside her might have accidentally dropped it. Eunuch Xie did not say anything, only saying that he would go back and convey it to the emperor.
Later, when the emperor was ill, he felt nostalgic and asked her to have meals with her many times. Sometimes the eldest prince would also join him. The emperor's attitude did not change.
But the wooden sign...
Now that the queen thought about it, she felt that something was wrong... Someone in the palace had picked it up. Why not give it to her instead of giving it to the emperor? And according to Eunuch Xie, the day when the wooden sign was dropped happened to be
When the queen ran into Shi Jingshan, whom she hadn't seen for many years, on the palace road...
That’s right! Shijingshan!
Concubine Jing suddenly asked Shi Jingshan to enter the palace to teach Princess Chang'an! It was also because of this that the queen met him! And after the wooden sign incident, they met several times by chance!
Suddenly, all the suspicious points formed a big net in front of the queen, and everyone on this net gradually became clear...
Concubine Jing who summoned Shi Jingshan into the palace, Eunuch Xie who got the wooden sign and reported it to the emperor, the seemingly normal emperor...
The queen suddenly saw the thrilling thing inside. It turned out that... if Concubine Jing had attacked earlier, she and his prince might have died long ago without knowing it! If... this kind of crime was true, the queen was sure that she and her husband would be dead.
The eldest prince's fate will be worse than that of Concubine Hui! He will not even die!
The Queen has now truly felt the viciousness of Concubine Jing!
She tightened the brocade quilt bitterly, and her fingers turned white.
"Your Majesty..." The maid took a step forward worriedly.
"No need!"
The queen tried to calm down, "...come here."
The maid came closer and said, "Your Majesty..."
The queen said: "Take off your clothes and get on the bed."
The maid was shocked: "Mother, this..."
"Do it!"
The confidant immediately took off his coat, got into bed and covered himself up.
"Do as I say."
Immediately afterwards, the maid who was keeping watch outside heard the empress's confidant maid say: "The empress has gone to bed, I will just keep watch tonight."
"Yes." People outside left one after another.
The queen had already put on the maid's coat, and the maid on the bed said again: "Madam, please rest, I will blow the lamp for you..."