Jiaohua

Chapter 357
Li He didn't know how he got out.

He stood outside the main hall door, looking up at the ice and snow, his heart was like a vast wilderness, and a large piece of dry ashes floated up.

The guards and maids around him stood silently, looking at his figure.They used to be numb and without any emotions, but now they are also worried.

After standing still for a long time, Li He stepped down the steps.

The servant behind him hurriedly stepped forward to hold an umbrella to protect him from the wind and snow.

On the majestic palace, the long wind howled, and the white snow rolled up and down, covering the entire imperial city.

When Li He left Wende Palace and was walking outside the palace, a thin figure passed him by a high wall, heading northwest of Wende Palace.

One sentry at three steps, one post at ten steps, patrolling guards who can be encountered every other cup of tea, greatly restricting Xia Zhaoyi's movements even on snowy nights.

After walking for more than half an hour, she climbed over a palace wall, landed lightly, and looked at the dim yellow in the palace ahead.

Jiaying Palace was cold and quiet, there were no guards here, only two servants and a maid, the servants had gone to rest, and the maid was still with Concubine Ning.

What happened outside the palace will not be known here. Concubine Ning is currently stitching a small peace talisman stitch by stitch by candlelight.

There is a Zhao character embroidered on the safety talisman, surrounded by embroidered patterns of blue cranes that imply auspiciousness and well-being, with complicated and exquisite patterns.

It's just that the snowy day was too cold, Ning Bi's hands were trembling all the time, and the silver needle pricked a lot of blood from her fingers.

Another needle pierced the fingertips, and the numb fingers didn't know the pain. It took a long time for the sharp pain to come. She was already sucking it in her lips. Looking at the stitches on the safety talisman, her whole body shivered slightly due to the cold. .

"Your Majesty, why don't you rest," said the palace maid Yu Lan, "It's almost dawn outside."

Concubine Ning shook her head, started sewing again, and said, "It's too late."

"Let's go to sleep," Yu Lan said, "You've been shivering all the time. If we freeze here, no one will come to see the doctor, and no one will deliver medicine."

Concubine Ning didn't speak, she was still sewing.

Yu Lan was helpless at the side, looked at the burning candle, turned around and went to the cabinet to get another one.

Beside Concubine Ning, there were three large wooden boxes with red lacquer and gold borders, inside were all peace talismans and death talismans, and there were already thousands of them.

Xi Lan came back and put the candle on the table, this one was not burnt out, she was reluctant to replace it.

There is a lack of everything in this palace, and every time the empress thinks of it, there is such a little reward, but it has been almost 43 days since the empress "remembered" last time.

It had never been so long, and there were only seven candles left in the cabinet.

"The batch made last year, my mother burned them all, will they burn them this year too?" Yu Lan asked.

"En." Ning Bin nodded.

"It's really boring to do this," Yu Lan curled her lips, "It's okay to do it to pass the time, but what time is it, ma'am, let's rest."

Most importantly, she was too sleepy to keep her eyes open.

"Don't sleep." Ning Bin insisted.

Yu Lan couldn't hold back, opened her mouth and yawned big, her eyes were full of tears.

At this time, the wind outside picked up, whistling, as if to blow the palace gate open.

Xi Lan rubbed her eyes, yawned again, and then paused, wondering if it was her illusion, she seemed to hear a knock on the door.

Is it too windy?

She turned to look.

There was another knock on the door.

Xi Lan blinked her eyes, her scalp was numb.

Not only her, but Ning Bin also heard it and looked up.

"Dong dong dong."

Yu Lan covered her mouth with her hand, and looked at Concubine Ning.

Sleepy to the extreme, neurasthenic, already prone to suspicion, and now that Concubine Ning is embroidering the peace talisman and the rebirth talisman burned to the dead, Yulan's hairs stand on end: "Your Majesty, did you hear that too?"

Concubine Ning nodded in a daze.

Xi Lan's eyes caught the word "Zhao" on the safety talisman in her hand, and she said in horror: "Could it be Miss Xia, right? You wouldn't have really recruited her, would you?"

Concubine Ning pursed her lips, said slowly, "Go and open the door."

"me?"

Concubine Ning frowned, put down the needle and thread in her hand, got up and went to open the door herself.

Even if it was a cold palace, it was still very spacious. The candles were limited and could not illuminate too far. She gradually stepped into the darkness, and opened the door when she reached the door.

Although she had done enough mental construction, she was still taken aback when she saw the little girl standing outside the door.

But the girl was not much better, she also stood at the door in a daze, raising her eyes and looking at her in confusion.

"You, who are you?" Ning Bin asked.

Xia Zhaoyi didn't speak, she rarely lost her composure like this, but looking at Concubine Ning now, she was full of puzzlement and shock.

"Who are you?" Ning Bin said again.

Such a girl in simple clothes appeared in the deep palace. If she hadn't been well-informed, any woman in the palace might be scared to death.

Xia Zhaoyi regained his composure, bent his lips, and said, "You, do you know Lin Youqing?"

Concubine Ning suspected that she had heard it wrong, and said happily, "Are you sent by Youqing?"

"You really know each other?" Xia Zhaoyi looked at her.

Concubine Ning paused, stopped talking, and also started to look at her.

Yu Lan leaned quietly beside the candle, but she couldn't see who Concubine Ning was talking to, and the feeling of hairiness in her heart became heavier and heavier.

After a while, Concubine Ning nodded: "Lin Youqing, she is my younger sister."

"Sister?" Xia Zhaoyi said.

"Yes."

Xia Zhaoyi frowned, thoughts surging in his head.

No wonder she felt familiar when she first saw Lin Youqing, as if she had seen him somewhere before, it turned out that it was Concubine Ning.

She and Concubine Ning only had a relationship on two sides. On the one hand, her second brother insisted on dragging her to the state banquet. She met her father and brother on the road when they entered the palace with her father and brother.

On the other hand, before the death of the empress dowager, she went to the palace to see a doctor for her, and met her in the empress dowager's bedroom.

This Concubine Ning is actually Lin Youqing's biological sister?
One is the emperor's concubine, and the other is the imprisoned woman she met in the bandit's den in Chongyi Mountain far away from the court.

These two people have such a deep bond.

It turns out that they are sisters...

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Ning Bin lost her patience and said in a cold voice.

Xia Zhaoyi collected his thoughts, and said, "I'm from Dingguo's mansion, and I'm here to ask you some questions."

Concubine Ning paused: "Are you from Dingguo's mansion?"

"You don't seem to be a noble concubine," Xia Zhaoyi said, "One of the crimes I committed to the government is disrespect to the noble concubine. After many inquiries, I found out that it was you."

"Yes..." Concubine Ning lowered her eyes and said, "I am not a noble concubine."

"Why don't you respect the Fa?" Xia Zhaoyi said, "How did he treat you?"

The strong wind poured in fiercely, and the girl's voice was as cold as a knife in the wind and snow.

Concubine Ning just stood facing the wind and snow, her whole body was freezing and aching.

"You," Ning Pin raised her eyes again, and said, "Why don't you tell me first, how did you know Lin Youqing?"

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(End of this chapter)