This queen is not too curly

Chapter 76

By the pond in the dark night, the wind blows.

The moonlight shone on the wild grass, and the haystack taller than a person swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound.

Yan Yuan's body trembled uncontrollably.

It wasn't because she was afraid, it was just that she usually came here in the afternoon, and the Plum Garden at night was really too cold, so cold that every pore of her seemed to be soaked in ice water.

Yan Yuan held the lotus lantern in her hand closer to her body, her eyes searched back and forth by the pond, but in the silent plum garden there were only insects and birds singing, where was there a ghost?
That person... didn't come?
Still can't trust her?

Yan Yuan walked around holding the lotus lantern, and saw the food box she put on the stone pile three days ago, and the lotus cake in the food box was still there.

Could it be that there was an accident?

Yan Yuan raised the lotus lantern so that its light could shine farther.

"I'm here as promised, have you figured it out yet?"

Yan Yuan shouted towards the place where the weeds were most overgrown.

"I'm not malicious, I'm here alone, would you like to come out and meet?"

"Recently there have been rumors in the palace that the Empress Dowager will issue an order to clean the plum garden in a few days. This time it's me, next time it might be the Secretary of Internal Affairs..."

"I'll wait here for a quarter of an hour, and you think about it again."

Yan Yuan's breath was low, and after she brightened her voice, the last few words of every sentence were vain and fluffy.Such a voice resounded in the empty plum garden, but it seemed more like a ghost.

She squatted down after shouting, trying to avoid the cold wind.

The lotus lamp illuminated a small circle of light around her, covering the place where she piled fish and shrimp last time.

The fish and shrimps that were originally placed there have been cleaned up, not even a single extra scale.

It seems that not eating pastries is purely out of anger.

Yan Yuan laughed.

She found a place to sit beside the stone, and then took a piece of lotus cake from the food box.

The dried lotus cake was not tasty at all, but she was hungry right now and seemed to have no better choice, so she gently tore off a corner of the lotus cake and put it in her mouth to chew slowly.

She waited like this for another quarter of an hour, but there was still no movement in the grass pile.

Looks like there's no show tonight.

Yan Yuan stood up and said to the barren grass:
"Since that's the case, I don't force it."

"There are still some pastries left in the food box, and some are dry. You can re-steam them with some hot water."

"I have caused some troubles in the past two days, and I will come back in a few days. Save some food."

"After all, river fish are thorny, so we should try to feed them to children as little as possible."

Yan Yuan looked at the desolate garden, sighed, turned around and exited the pond.

At first she searched in Meiyuan, hoping to take the opportunity to detour to find clues to Kui Yu Ying, but later deduced that there was a baby here, and she just felt compassion.

It's a pity that it doesn't seem to be trusted.

Yan Yuan was a little dejected, and walked forward with her head sullen, when suddenly there was a slight rustling sound behind her.

She knew it was the sound of someone coming out of the grass.

She didn't look back and kept going.

The sound of the weeds followed her all the way, and when she reached the door, the sound of the weeds churning behind her turned into the sound of bare feet stepping on the green bricks.

clatter.clatter.clatter.

Yan Yuan stopped and still didn't turn her head, she just asked the air in front of her, "Do you want me to see you?"

The voice behind fell silent.

After a while, a hoarse female voice said, "Are you really the Empress?"

Yan Yuan said: "Yes."

The female voice asked: "If I follow you, will I be arrested?"

Yan Yuan said: "No."

The female voice asked: "Can you manage Mr. Tu Shan?"

Father-in-law Tu Shan?

Yan Yuan was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that she had never heard of this name before, and it took her a long time to remember that the eunuch she met at the gate of the palace when she returned to the palace that day, the chief supervisor of the Department of Internal Affairs, was called Eunuch Tu Shan.

Yan Yuan shook her head: "I can't control him, but he can't control me either."

The Department of Internal Affairs is in charge of the affairs of the harem, and the queen is the master of the harem, but strictly speaking, the two are not related to each other.

The female voice stopped talking.

She was probably confused.

It took a long time before her soft voice came: "Since you can't control her, we don't want to make it difficult for you. We can live here comfortably, but you..."

The man was silent for a while, then tremblingly said: "Can you take a baby?"

Yan Yuan asked softly, "Is there a child here?"

The man said: "There is one... but he has been ill for two days, and he is about to die..."

Her voice was already a little hoarse, but now it was choked with sobs, it sounded like Shan Mei crying at night: "They don't allow me to find you, but the baby is dying...she is dying..."

The man sobbed softly.

Yan Yuan turned her head slowly, and saw a petite figure standing beside the wild grass in the distance.

The man was standing not far away, with his arms raised to cover his eyes, only the dirty lower half of his face was exposed.

The weak light of the lotus lamp illuminated the man's ragged clothes and messy hair.

Yan Yuan took two steps closer.

The little girl lowered her arms, revealing a pair of frightened eyes.

Yan Yuan hesitated: "Don't be afraid, I..."

Before Yan Yuan finished speaking, there was a sudden noise outside the plum garden, like the sound of countless people approaching in line.

In the middle of the night, the sound of footsteps was earth-shattering.

Yan Yuan was taken aback, suddenly her whole body was covered by uneasy emotions.

Oops.

……

The turmoil suddenly broke out, and there were waves of heat in the cold wind, and the light of torches flickered at the end of the night.

"The Empress Dowager is ordered! The Department of Internal Affairs is ordered to clean the plum garden!"

"The queen mother ordered you and other guards to assist!"

"Come on, get your torches ready!"

A frightened light flashed in the little girl's eyes, and she glared at Yan Yuan fiercely with sharp eyes: "They are right! You are a liar! You and Mr. Tu Shan belong together!"

After she finished speaking, she began to run back. As soon as she finished speaking, she had already got into the weeds.

Yan Yuan: ...

This fool!

Someone brought her to the haystack with a torch? !

Seeing that the torch was getting closer and closer, the little girl got into the weeds, Yan Yuan didn't care about anything else, she flew directly into the weeds, and grabbed the little girl by the shoulders.

"Ah—let, let me go—!"

The little girl screamed, and the sound pierced the silent night.

"Who is there?!"

The imperial guards in the distance noticed the strangeness of the plum garden, and the swords in their hands were unsheathed instantly, and they were about to completely surround the plum garden.

"Don't make noise! ​​I'm not with them!"

"If you speak again, you will be arrested together!"

Yan Yuan lowered her voice to threaten the little girl, not daring to relax her feet, she dragged the little girl and ran out of the gate of the plum garden decisively.

This is actually a very risky behavior. The guards are too close, and it is easy to bump into the muzzle of the gun.But if you don't run away at this time, you will be a turtle in a urn after a while, and there is absolutely no possibility of escape.

At this time, following your intuition and making a decisive decision is the best way to save your life.

"who?!"

"stop!"

Yan Yuan didn't stop at the gate of the courtyard, she directly took the little girl's hand into the shadow of the trees beside the road, and then ran along the winding path towards the secluded place.

It was dark on the road.

However, Yan Yuan already knew the terrain well. If there was only one place in the palace where people could hide, then there was only one possibility left - the Buddha Bone Pagoda.

Unexpectedly, there were people quietly guarding around the Buddha Bone Pagoda.

Yan Yuan's heart sank, she turned her head and asked the little girl, "Can you still run?"

The little girl's face remained unchanged: "You can run!"

Yan Yuan: "..."

But I can hardly run anymore.

Yan Yuan wailed in her heart, but her body didn't dare to stop.Since the Buddha Bone Pagoda has been guarded for no reason, we can only hide in a place with fewer people and more trees.

She took the little girl to detour to the imperial garden again.

But the imperial garden was not empty. They all moved too impatiently, and soon attracted the attention of the patrolling guards.

"Stop!" "Don't run!"

The little girl ran all the way and hurriedly asked: "Aren't you the empress? Why did you run away?"

She asked in an orderly manner, even her breathing was steady.

What a good question.

Panting, Yan Yuan gritted her teeth and thought.

"Because I shouldn't be here."

She should be at the Stupa at the moment, with thousands of bright lamps shining on her pious face, and she spread out the scriptures in front of the Buddha, and wrote every word of the forgiveness of the dead—rather than holding her head here and becoming a dog.

But now, she has no way out.

Yan Yuan gritted her teeth, and led the little girl all the way to the depths of the imperial garden. She didn't know how long she had walked. Suddenly, her eyes were pitch black and flat, and the palace lanterns were already at the end of the distant darkness.

It was by the lake.

There is a cool breeze on the lakeside, and a brand new big boat is slowly sailing away from the shore.

There is still a familiar calming fragrance in the air, this fragrance Yan Yuan has always disliked, but now she smells it like a relative.

Chen Ling Shen!
This dog emperor actually built a new ship!

The big boat had already left the shore slowly, Yan Yuan didn't care about thinking, so she pulled the little girl and jumped into the water.

……

On the cruise ship, Luo Ziqiu lit a soothing incense for Chen Lingchen.

Chen Ling sat lazily by the window of the cabin, staring aimlessly at the lakeside.

Kneeling at his feet was a young man in gray-green clothes, that was the leader of the gray cavalry.

He had just traveled all over the world, and rushed back to the imperial capital to report to the emperor and Luo Ziqiu: "After receiving the letter from the flying pigeon, my subordinates rushed to Anding City, and found the bone pit mentioned in the military newspaper."

"how?"

"There is indeed a big pit in Anding City. About [-] corpses are buried in it. Those bones look old and have already turned into white bones."

"How did you find out?"

The leader of the gray cavalry took out a cloth bag from his arms, which contained a khaki-colored object. He raised the object over his head and handed it to Chen Lingchen.

Chen Ling lowered his eyebrows and looked at the yellow thing: "What is this?"

The leader of the gray cavalry took a deep breath: "It's an unrefined gold mine."

This is why he rushed back to the imperial capital overnight.

The city of Anding is sparsely populated. A hunter went out before and accidentally picked up a gold ore outside the city. He stole it and sold it at the market in the next town.

From then on, the news spread like wildfire, and more and more people secretly rushed to Anding City to mine the so-called gold mines in private.Even if the government came forward, ordered to refute the rumors, and sent people to enclose the outskirts of Anding, it still couldn't stop the people from secretly digging in the dark.

This is how the Pit of Bones was discovered.

It was originally on the edge of the river bed, and there was a flood in the early years, so it was impossible to be dug out, but it was discovered.

Thousands of white bones, exposed under the moonlit night, I heard that thousands of miles of hyenas are screaming and howling every night.

"But Anding City has never discovered a gold mine."

The leader of the gray cavalry buried his head deeply, and his voice was heavy.

"The subordinates deduce that someone...intentionally led people to dig out the pit of bones, so as to disturb the situation."

This is not very difficult to infer.

Chen Lingchen took the gold ore from the leader of the gray cavalry, and slowly traced the texture with his fingertips, but asked an irrelevant question.

He asked, "How is Qin Jianyue doing?"

The gray rider was stunned, and reported back: "He has already gone to the border snowfield. When his subordinates separated from him, he had already drawn a map and prepared dry food. He should take people into the snowfield."

Ever since he knew that his mission was to find old friends, Qin Jianyue had completely settled down, and the journey to the frontier was very worry-free.

Chen Ling nodded heavily.

The leader of the gray cavalry was thinking about the city of Anding: "Your Majesty, there have been many rumors about the city of Anding in recent days, do you need more people from your subordinates..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a bustling sound from outside.

Immediately afterwards, the old eunuch from the Qianzheng Palace rushed into the cabin, his expression was flustered, and he hesitated to speak when he saw a stranger present: "My lord..."

Chen Ling raised his eyes.

The old eunuch's complexion was pale, hesitating again and again before opening his mouth with difficulty: "The empress... she came to visit suddenly..."

Chen Lingshen and the leader of the gray cavalry were both stunned.

If it was at the Qianzheng Palace at this moment, it would be understandable for the queen to visit suddenly, but right now it is on the lakeside, among the cruise ships.When the ship left the shore, it had already been checked inside and out, and it was impossible for anyone to get involved in it.How could she "suddenly visit"?
The old eunuch moved away with difficulty, revealing the people following behind him.

Under the candlelight, Yan Yuan stood at the door of the cabin and carefully walked two steps forward.

Her whole body was already drenched, with glistening drops of water hanging from her eyelashes, and she was holding a little girl who was almost as embarrassed as her by the hand.

Chen Ling looked at him deeply, with pure astonishment rarely flowing in his eyes.

Yan Yuan blinked, and saluted meekly: "The concubine has seen the Holy Majesty."

Her eyes turned around in the cabin and landed on the leader of the gray cavalry, and she immediately understood that Chen Lingchen was discussing some shady matter on the boat again.

This is awkward.

Yan Yuan's face was filled with apology: "The concubine didn't intend to disturb, please forgive me, the concubine didn't hear anything."

The key to this problem is not here!
The old eunuch couldn't bear to watch.

Chen Ling stared at the water droplets on Yan Yuan's eyelashes, his face turned gloomy.

His voice was cold: "Yan Yuan."

Are you angry again?
Yan Yuan felt a headache.

She put away her hypocritical soft tone, and sighed:

"I really didn't mean it this time."

"If I don't get on the boat, I will be shot to death by random arrows."

(End of this chapter)