The princess is soft!The sick villain is crazy

The dark passage is long, dark, and filled with stale smell.

If it hadn't been for accidentally triggering the mechanism, Shu Yao would never have thought that there was such a secret passage hidden under the palace, which could lead to the princess' mansion.

"Li Mingji, how did you find your way in the secret passage?"

Shu Yao became curious, and completely forgot about the previous embarrassment of the two of them.Or maybe Li Mingji's gaze was so calm that Shu Yao couldn't even think about asking questions.

"My subordinates have heard about the secret passage before. It is said that from the time when Emperor Ruizong broke ground until Emperor Ai was completed, it covered the entire imperial city." Li Mingji couldn't see his expression under his slightly drooping eyes, "and the imperial city is just right. , The imperial palace faces south, like the North Star hanging in the night sky. The princess mansion is to the east of the imperial palace and north of the imperial city, with the imperial palace as a guide, walk in one direction, and you will find it."

The imperial palace was built according to the direction of the North Star, Shu Yao had indeed heard this saying, so the imperial palace was also called Zichen.However, identifying the direction by the stars in the sky is a method only used in the wild.Shu Yao grew up so big, except for going to the south of the Yangtze River when he was young, he spent the rest of his time in the imperial city, let alone living in the wild.

What about Li Mingji?
Why does he seem to know everything?
Before the doubts in her heart could be answered, a slender hand suddenly reached up, covering Shu Yao's eyes.

The young man's cold breath came to his nostrils, and he was so domineering that he almost completely wrapped her in his arms.

Shu Yao's body froze, and an unspeakable softness came up again, and she whispered softly, "What, what's the matter?"

"It's too dark here, and my subordinates are worried that the princess will trip," Li Mingji said in a low voice, "I'll take you with me, okay?"

It was clearly a questioning tone, but the hand covering the eyes did not loosen half an inch.In the past, Shu Yao should have let him take it away ferociously, but she was a little greedy for this warm touch.With her heart beating like a torrential rain, she said vaguely, "That's fine."

Where she couldn't see, Li Mingji looked at the mound in front of him with dark eyes.

I didn't pay attention when I came here before, and there was no fire to illuminate it. It was just discarded waste when digging a dark tunnel.Now that I got closer, I realized that it was not a mound of dirt at all, but a pile of human bones.

During the previous dynasty, this secret passage was not activated.And when Xiao Sui fled from the East Palace with Prince Liang, few people knew who belonged to this pile of bones buried under the old Qin Yanghou's mansion?

Li Mingji thought back to this life when he first entered the Marquis of Qinyang's mansion, he heard the young servants discuss about Liluoyuan.

Speaking of this, people have died.

……

The East Palace is already in chaos.

The court lady Cai Die was killed on the spot, with so many eyes watching, Zhao Wenrui was still insane, like a male dog in love, biting everyone, screaming from the female relatives everywhere.

The empress with a livid face sent off the female relatives behind her on the spot and ordered people to seal off the place.She called the guards to arrest Zhao Wenrui, poured a bucket of ice water from head to toe, and the imperial doctor came to give Zhao Wenrui an injection, and he just woke up like a dream, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I was also murdered by others, it was that lowly maid who harmed me...she harmed me!"

The queen is not an idiot, Cai Die is a maid of the East Palace, Zhao Wenrui, an eldest son whose fief is far away from Beijing, how can he get involved with her?
It was nothing more than that his hands and feet were not clean, and he couldn't control himself at a banquet attended by so many people.

The queen said coldly: "Take it away."

Zhao Wenrui knew that he had already lost face at the banquet. Seeing the queen's majestic appearance, he gritted his teeth and simply smashed the jar: "Mother! Mother, not only the lowly maidservant, but also those who are beside Princess Huaxi. The guard...he killed the servant of the minister, poured medicine on the minister, and locked the minister and Cai Die here. The minister really didn't destroy the banquet on purpose!"

Speaking of which, can the queen not understand what's going on?
She and Zheng Yueyao did intend to match Zhao Wenrui and Princess Huaxi, who knew that Zhao Wenrui himself was even more impatient and made such a bad plan, which was why Shu Yao's guards made a fool of him.

The queen suddenly became less angry.

Changping Hou Shizi was selected at the beginning, just because he met the conditions.Looking at it now, wouldn't that little slut Shu Yao be a good match for this stupid son?

But the problem is, Zhao Wenrui is here, where did Shu Yao go, and why hasn't he appeared?
Zheng Yueyao was also thinking about this question.

If the uneasiness in her heart came from the accident caused by Zhao Wenrui, wouldn't it be a little troublesome?No matter how embarrassing Zhao Wenrui is, that is his own business, and has nothing to do with her Princess Donggong...

"My lady, my lady!"

The queen's personal maid hurried over and said anxiously, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Your Majesty is coming!"

His Majesty? !
The queen knew that Emperor Yong and the prince were discussing matters with the ministers in Chengqian Hall today.Especially when the new year was approaching, they were busy all day long, and Emperor Yong didn't care about things like the East Palace banquet.

All right, why did he come here?
The queen hurriedly asked the maid to tidy up her appearance, straightened the hairpin on her head, and ordered the palace people around her to take good care of Zhao Wenrui. She had already put on a dignified and generous expression, and said indifferently: "Follow the palace. Ah Wu, you go back first."

Zheng Yueyao said hello with a downcast face.

Emperor Yong really came to the East Palace.

In Zhuwaixuan, Emperor Yong sat in the main seat, and several confidantes stood beside him.

The queen hurried over and saluted Emperor Yong gracefully.

"Your Majesty," the queen smiled, "Why do you have time to come to the East Palace? It's just an ordinary banquet. The concubine held this banquet in her name because she saw that the child was married into the East Palace for the first time. She recognizes people."

"The meeting is early today. I saw that the sky was still bright, so I came over to have a look." Emperor Yong didn't turn his head, "I heard that child, A Yuan, came and said, Yaoyao disappeared?"

The smile on the queen's face froze.

Seeing Zhao Wenrui at that time, the queen was only thinking about how to deal with him, but ignored Princess Jiayi.Did she follow from the Wanghu Pavilion?Did you see what happened in the West Temple?None of this is known.

But Princess Jiayi, like Shu Yao, is an inefficient lamp, relying on Emperor Yong's favor to act recklessly, the queen has always disliked it.

"It's because I haven't seen anyone for a while," the queen said softly, "The little princess loves to play by nature, so I missed the time just now. I heard that she seems to be with Changping Hou Shizi. The little princess has also arrived Marriage age, could it be that seeing the crown prince marrying a concubine made me a little moved, and I met the right man at the banquet?"

Emperor Yong looked down at her, his dark eyes reflected disappointment.The queen's heart suddenly hung up.

"Yo Yao," he said slowly, "come out."

The bead curtain swayed, reflecting the slim figure of the girl.A slender hand opened the bead curtain, and the queen saw Shu Yao and the guards behind her.