Shengshichun

"princess……"

The guard who had already crossed the threshold saw that Princess Rong had not moved, so he turned back to look at her.

Princess Rong stretched out her hand to stop them from talking, then forced herself to calm her beating heart and looked in front of her. This cabinet is a three-layered drawer embedded in the wall. The upper layer is covered with brocade embroidered with auspicious patterns such as pine cranes and longevity. The brocade should be symmetrical to the other side, but this is not necessarily the case for the cabinet, because the surface of the cabinet is above , was actually covered with a carved wooden board, but just now it was pressed down by Princess Rong in a panic, and it actually separated automatically!

And under this carved wall decoration is the cabinet with three layers of drawers revealed in front of you!

A place like the ancestral hall is only used for sacrifices and offerings, and does not need to store anything important. Why is there such a hidden cabinet here?

Princess Rong was so nervous that her heart beat like a drum. She swallowed her saliva and pulled the handle. But the drawer couldn't be opened. When I looked closer, I saw that it was locked.

She immediately thought of the copper key that King Rong put in his purse. Could it be that that key was used to open this cabinet?

Turning her head and looking behind her, she closed the separated wall decorations and smoothed the brocade covering them.

Then she swallowed twice quickly, turned around and walked out the door.

It was still quiet outside the door. After the three figures disappeared into the night, the two figures lying under the wall gradually stood up.

The two people looked at each other in silence, then jumped onto the verandah one after another, and then entered the ancestral hall.

They couldn't see what Princess Rong found here, but the place where Princess Rong and the three of them were standing just now fell into their eyes. The key was that she walked back halfway and took out the Night Pearl Photo Liang, this is equivalent to telling others where the specific location is.

The two looked at the brocade covering the wall, then stretched out their hands to lift it, and saw the carved wall decoration below. They stretched out their palms to press and explore the top. The mechanism was touched and immediately moved to both sides. , revealing the cabinets on the wall!

"That's it!"

Fu Zhen pulled off his scarf and took out a luminous pearl to take a closer look, "That's what Princess Rong saw just now!"

Pei Zhan, who was standing next to him, nodded, stretched out his hand to fumble for a while and said, "But it's locked. It has a mechanism and cannot be broken by force."

Fu Zhen agreed: "Princess Rong will definitely go back to find the key. It seems that we can only wait for her to get the key before we can find out what is going on in this cabinet."

Pei Zhan straightened up, looked around and along the four walls to make sure there was nothing fishy. Then he waved to Fu Zhen and led her out quietly.

……

Princess Rong returned to the room, her heart still beating fast.

But the tension now was no longer about the room full of memorial tablets in the quiet ancestral hall. All she could think about was the hidden cabinet!

If it was just a guess that Prince Rong and his son were hiding something from her earlier, then the appearance of this cabinet made his guess come true!

What are they doing?

Or what did you do?

Why even hide it from her?

What else is in that cabinet? That fan? Or something else?

"princess……"

The grandma who came in with the tea saw her fingers clinging to the back of the chair and her whole body tense. She quickly came over to help her: "What's wrong with you? But what's wrong with you?"

Princess Rong grabbed her hand and said, "Where is the prince?!"

Mammy paused, then glanced in the direction where Prince Rong lived: "At this time, Prince Rong has already returned to his room to rest."

Princess Rong walked out the door. She couldn't bear it anymore. She had to ask him face to face, what happened? What conspiracy is there between their father and son? !

Before she could step through the door, the nun behind her grabbed her: "Princess, calm down! If you go to find the prince like this, how can you say what you want to say?"

Princess Rong was speechless.

Mammy said again: "Women are not allowed to enter places like ancestral temples and ancestral halls without permission. Not only did the princess go, but she also went at night. This is against the rules!

"If the prince asks more questions, princess, how should you answer?"

Princess Rong immediately calmed down as if a basin of cold water had been poured on her head.

Yes, breaking into the ancestral temple at night was not an ordinary thing. If King Rong felt that his secret could be told to her, there was no way he could have kept it so tightly.

If he rushes in rashly, not only will he not be able to ask what he wants to ask, but he will probably be caught by him for breaking into the ancestral temple without permission. Isn’t that not worth the gain!

She fell down on the chair, looked at the deep night outside, and gritted her teeth again.

Instead of just rushing in and asking, why not find a way to get the key and open the cabinet and take a look!

Thinking of this, she said: "Go to the kitchen tomorrow morning to cook some of the prince's favorite meals, and I will deliver them to you personally."

After hearing what she said, grandma felt relieved and said, "Yes. I will go down and make arrangements right now."

Princess Rong waited for her to leave and raised her forehead with a long breath.

Prince Rong did not hold any important duties in the court, and lived a very regular life. He would get up at five o'clock every day, exercise his muscles and bones, and then return to his room to have meals.

Princess Rong entered his yard when he usually returned to his room, and happened to meet Prince Rong coming back from the yard wiping his sweat.

"Why are you here?" King Rong stopped and stood under the verandah.

Princess Rong smiled and stepped forward: "I got up early today. Thinking that I haven't made soup for the prince in person for a long time, I took Aunt Gao to the kitchen to prepare some meals."

After hearing this, King Rong walked into the room with a smile: "I'm determined. Let them do this kind of thing, so why do you have to do it yourself?"

"Isn't this just the time when the prince is returning with a purse? I just caught up with him." Princess Rong took the breakfast from Aunt Gao and put it on the table. Then she came up and personally served King Rong to change his clothes and cleanse his face.

After finishing everything, the couple returned to the table. When King Rong saw the dishes, he immediately nodded: "It's full of color, flavor and flavor. It's the craftsmanship of your master and servant that can make it taste like back then!"

Princess Rong added a bowl of soup to him, took out the new purse, and then said: "Take out all your belongings, and I will help you put them in and hang them on your body."

Prince Rong untied his existing purse from his waist and took out the private seals and copper keys he picked out that day: "You also sit down and eat."

"Hang it for you and eat." As Princess Rong said, she put the private seal into the new purse. While looking at him who was drinking soup, she quietly put the copper key into the purse, and then Tighten the purse and bend down to hang it on his body.

King Rong weighed the bag and twirled the contents with his fingers. It seemed that everything was correct. Then he wiped his hands, rolled up a pancake and handed it over: "I can eat this pancake made by Grandma Gao." Don’t get tired of it. You should try it too!”

Princess Rong took out her hands from her sleeves, took a bite of the cake, and nodded.

Covered by the gorgeous skirt, no one could see her legs that were trying their best to restrain their trembling.

"Drink some soup, why are you just eating dry food?" King Rong looked at her, scooped another bowl of soup for her, and his eyes fell on her face.

Princess Rong almost couldn't hold herself any longer, but fortunately, someone came outside the door at this moment:

"Your Majesty, Lord Song has sent a message saying that the lotus pond in the courtyard of the Song Mansion is in full bloom, and he is specially invited to go to the countryside to enjoy the lotus."

King Rong turned his head and took the post in his hand.

Princess Rong said: "Speaking of which, the prince really hasn't been out for quite some time." Prince Rong grunted and handed back the post he had read: "Reply to Mr. Song. It's hot and I'm too lazy to go out."

Princess Rong said: "Song Yi was recommended by the prince at first, and he can be regarded as half of our family's retainers. You don't have to go to other families. If you don't even attend the Song family's entertainment, I'm afraid it will lead to outsiders wondering whether our family is What a big deal has happened."

If you don't leave the front door and don't take another step, wouldn't it be like being banned for a long time?

When King Rong heard this, his expression began to waver.

Princess Rong sighed again: "Outsiders only think that we, relatives of the emperor, have taken advantage of us. How could we know that it is not easy to be a nobleman? We must be careful and think twice. How can ordinary people be so carefree?"

King Rong was disturbed by his identity recently. Hearing this, he turned to his servant and said, "Let Master Song wait outside the city gate."

"Yes."

Upon seeing this, Princess Rong loosened her tightly clenched hands in her sleeves.

……

After serving Prince Rong again, she changed the robes he had worn when he went out, and sent him out of the house. Princess Rong immediately returned to her room.

After closing the door, she reached out and took out a copper key from her sleeve, her hands trembling again.

King Rong did not expect that just when she was changing her purse, she replaced the real key with another copper key. In this way, she was able to hide his secret and only went to the ancestral hall to unlock it.

But since she was there to get the keys, she naturally had to make arrangements for the follow-up. So Song Yi was invited to cooperate by her trick. Since King Rong left the city, he would naturally be trapped and unable to come back tonight.

"Tell the guards to come in and see me!"

She opened the door and gave a command, while putting the key back into her sleeve.

She only had one chance tonight, so she had to prepare early and succeed in one fell swoop. When King Rong comes back tomorrow, the key will have to be sent back quietly.

The guards came soon, the same two from last night. She ordered: "Give me the order, tonight I will go to the Buddhist hall to chant sutras, and I will ask a few more guards to come to the Buddhist hall to guard me."

The Buddhist temple is not far from the ancestral temple. For this reason, go to the Buddhist temple to take care of things first. It will be more convenient when traveling at night.

The behavior of the guards going to the Buddhist hall was normal in the palace.

However, he heard the news in the evening and told Xu Yin who was walking in the garden.

"You mean, the prince, who has not been out for many days, was invited away by Song Yi today, and he even sent someone back before dark to say he would not return home.

"And at this time, the princess who was supposed to be watching him to find the whereabouts of the fan suddenly went to the Buddhist hall to chant sutras while he was away?"

When Xu Yin said this, he raised his hands and stared at the blossoming trees under the dusk. "What kind of sutra is she suddenly chanting? She is not a compassionate person. When did she become a believer?"

"It's precisely because this move was so abnormal that I didn't dare to be careless and came to report it." Lianyuan followed in his footsteps.

Others don't know what kind of person Princess Rong is, how can they still not know her?

Has she ever believed in Buddhism sincerely in her life?

Every time she went to Baihe Temple to offer incense, it was said that she was going to worship the Bodhisattva, but every time she went to meet the occasion, she never took the initiative to go there according to her heart.

Xu Yin stopped in front of the flower tree, knocked down a flower from the branch, thought for a moment and said, "First let me follow you to the Buddhist hall and take a look."

"Yes."

After Lianyun stepped back, Xu Yin stood with a deep frown for a while before decisively throwing away the crushed flower between his fingertips.

There are many servants in Prince Rong's Mansion, some are loyal and some are greedy. Xu Yin has been walking around in Prince Rong's Mansion for many years, so it is not surprising that he bribed one or two informants.

Xu Yin had just finished his dinner when Liancheng came in again.

"News came from the palace that the princess had entered the Buddhist hall early, and she only took her grandma with her, and the rest were only guards. Chu Yu asked to see the princess in the afternoon, and wanted to go with her to the Buddhist hall to burn incense for her late father who was about to have a memorial day. Prayers were also rejected.”

After hearing this, Xu Yin remained silent for a long time. After another half day, he suddenly stood up and said, "Go and prepare the sedan chair. Let's go into the palace to visit."

He asked repeatedly: "How many people will we bring?"

Xu Yin looked at him deeply: "Just ask Feng Sheng and the four of them to go. There shouldn't be too many people to avoid disturbing the situation."

He nodded repeatedly.

On a moonless night, after the night completely sinks, the sky becomes completely dark.

Princess Rong sat on the futon and knocked on the wooden fish absently for a while. When Aunt Gao came in with tea, she couldn't bear her temper and put down her rosary beads and stood up.

"Is everything peaceful?"

"Peace." Grandma Gao nodded, "There is no sound at all. The two servants on night duty are far away, and tonight they are also assigned to replace the stone lamp in front of the temple. They will not be there for at least half an hour. Go to the back hall."

Princess Rong nodded and glanced at the missing mark on the table, "Then pass on the message. In two quarters of an hour, Haizheng time will pass."

Tianhuang nobleman is indeed not a free man. Not only is he intimidated by people everywhere, but he also has ears through walls.

Although she has not gotten the handle so far, she also knows that just like she has placed spies around Zhang, Prince Rong, and the concubines, her own side is not so clean either.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, which is nothing on ordinary days, but at critical moments, you have to be careful.

After chanting a few more pages of sutras at random, the appointed time arrived.

She asked Grandma Gao to open the door, avoided the light coverage, and walked out of the verandah from the side door.

The guards were here. The master and the servants glanced at each other and walked towards the ancestral hall in a familiar way.

Not long after, she arrived at the door of the dark ancestral hall again, leaving a few guards outside to watch. She only brought two people inside.

I lit up the luminous pearl, took out the copper key, and tried several times with trembling hands before inserting it into the keyhole.

But after this insertion, the key and the keyhole fit perfectly!

The blood in Princess Rong's heart rushed to her throat. She swallowed with all her strength, stabilized her hands and twisted the copper key. There was a snapping sound, and the copper locks that locked the three drawers at the same time opened in response!

Without thinking, she opened the first drawer at the top, and several items stored in it instantly appeared under the pearly light.

(End of this chapter)