Golden branches and jade leaves

Chapter 86
Chapter 9: Getting away with it
Feeling Yeluxin's eyes falling on him like a poisonous snake, Xiao Luzi couldn't help but shivered, looking at the ground with both eyes, trying to stay calm.

The guard behind Yelvxin stepped forward, pushed Xiaoluzi roughly, and pushed him to kneel down in front of Yelvxin's desk.

"Since you are Concubine Lian's confidant, do you know the whereabouts of your master?" Yeluxin asked.

Xiao Luzi's face turned blue, but he forced himself to suppress his nervousness and shook his head.

"The people around Concubine Lian are very loyal, I'm afraid..." Shi Rou'er whispered in Yelvxin's ear.

"Yes," Yelvxin nodded, and was about to call the soldiers outside to drag Xiaoluzi down and torture him.Suddenly a voice came from behind, "Your Majesty, I know the whereabouts of Concubine Lian."

Everyone looked towards the source of the voice.But he saw a young eunuch standing beside Yelvxin serving wine, his face was ordinary, but there was a wound under his jaw, and there was half a piece of plaster on it.

"Do you really know where Concubine Lian is going?" Yelvxin asked.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, Su Mi quickly trotted down the high platform, knelt down beside Xiao Luzi, and said to Yeluxin and Shi Rouer, "Reporting to Your Majesty, a villain has a lot of courage. I don’t dare to lie to you, Your Majesty. The slaves used to serve near Caiwei Palace, so they know something about it.”

"Let's hear it. If there is really news, your reward will naturally be indispensable."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." With an ecstatic expression on Su Mi's face, she said with a flattering smile, "This servant was originally serving flowers and trees near the Caiwei Palace, so I saw Concubine Lian with the maid Mi Qingxiang who was close to me. I went in the direction of the gate tower of Shenwumen. It was about two hours before the king's soldiers and horses entered the palace."

Shi Rou'er asked in surprise: "How did she go to the tower? She is just an ordinary concubine."

"This..." Su Mi thought about the way to deal with it in her mind, and said: "This...Since the city was besieged, Concubine Lian went to the tower of Shenwu Gate every morning, it seems that she is quite concerned about the war."

"That's true." Xiao Luzi also came to his senses, and quickly agreed.

"She's quite courageous." Shi Rou'er said in a neutral tone, but a look of suspicion flashed across her face.Go down from the gate tower of Shenwumen and pass through the square in front of the palace gate. If the news was received when the Liao army first entered the city, there is indeed a glimmer of life.

Did she really have such good luck that she escaped before the Liao army entered the city?

Impossible, the Liao people came too fast, she is just a weak woman, how could she have such a decision, alone...

Yelvxin's eyes turned to a green-robed general in the seat, this person was his vanguard general, the first to lead the army into the palace.

"My lord, when our army entered the palace, there were indeed a few palace people who ran out, but they were all handymen in charge of cleaning the gate at the palace gate. It is impossible to have a concubine." The green-robed general saw With Yelvxin's gaze, he quickly argued.

Yelvxin snorted coldly, turned around and ordered the attendants around him to summon all the palace servants from Caiwei Palace and Shenwumen at that time.

Su Mi was secretly worried, what was the reason for Yelvxin to look for her so much.Is it just because of the psychology of lust and curiosity?
After a while, Liao army soldiers came in pushing a group of palace people.

With a wave of Yeluxin's hand, the singing and dancing above the hall stopped immediately, and the dancer and musician retreated to the side of the hall.The soldiers escorted seven or eight palace men forward.

Su Mi turned her head to look calmly.

There are three or four people in her palace, but most of them are eunuchs and servants and ordinary-looking maids, all of them look haggard.Mi Hong and the other beautiful court ladies don't know where they went.Su Mi's heart darkened, knowing that something unexpected happened.

When Yeluxin asked where Concubine Lian was going on the day the city was broken, everyone was trembling, how dare they not tell the truth?There was a lot of chatter, but the general context was explained clearly.

"So Concubine Lian has indeed gone to the gate tower of Shenwu Gate." Yeluxin pondered for a moment, then asked again: "What does she do every day at the gate tower?"

The people in Su Mi's palace are all dumbfounded, Su Mi has always been served by Mi Qing personally, and she is rarely close to the palace.So it is difficult for everyone to answer.

"This..." A little eunuch serving at Shenwumen hesitated for a while, and said, "Concubine Lian usually stands there and looks at the city wall for a while, as if checking the battle, and returns to the palace around noon. ...By the way, this servant remembered that before the city was broken, Concubine Lian went to find Prince Yu.

"You said she was with that Prince Yu before breaking the city?!" Yelvxin's expression became serious.This Prince Yu was the commander who stayed behind in the capital this time, causing the Liao Army to suffer a lot.Yelvxin originally wanted to take him down and kill him to protest after entering the city, but he didn't expect to search all over the palaces and palaces in the past few days. They confiscated a lot of the royal family and nobles of Daqi, but they couldn't find this powerful prince alone.At this time, the three words Prince Yu were considered a small thorn in his heart.He had issued a decree long ago and ordered the entire city to step up the search, but so far there has been no news.

"Why did she go to Prince Yu?" Shi Rou'er asked suspiciously.

"Concubine Lian often sees Prince Yu when she goes to the top of the city these days. The two often get together and don't know what they are talking about. We slaves don't dare to eavesdrop on what the master says." The little eunuch was originally The servant outside the gate of the main hall of the city tower recalled the situation that day, and said everything like beans poured out of a bamboo tube: "...it was the day when the city was broken. The empress had already gone down from the tower, but she ran back again. I was in a hurry, and then I ran into the palace to find Prince Yu. After that, I didn’t know what to discuss, and Prince Yu called the generals who were on standby outside, and I didn’t know what to deal with... Then, Your Majesty, your troops entered city."

"That's right, I have seen the two of them standing side by side on the top of the wall." Another palace servant from Shenwumen also said hastily.

The corner of Shi Rou'er's mouth curled into a mocking smile, "It turns out that Concubine Lian already has someone who cherishes and protects flowers. Your Majesty is destined to have nothing to do with it. I heard that although Prince Yu is a nobleman of the royal family, he is rare in the palace." It is not uncommon for a top-notch master at first sight to be able to escape the palace with a beautiful woman."

Yelvxin snorted coldly, and unconsciously clenched the document in his hand.

Su Mi bowed her head and knelt down in the palace, sighing secretly in her heart, she had discussed the war with Qi Hao several times before breaking the city, it was indeed against the palace rules, and she was gossiping.However, at such a moment when the country is ruined and the family is ruined, these court rules have long been devalued to be worthless, and at most they only have the value of making Shi Rouer angry.

But the matter involved Qi Hao again. As the prince of the country, Qi Hao was in charge of the government affairs and military strategy of Daqi's capital before he broke the city.

Sure enough, when they heard that Prince Yu Qi Hao was involved, all the generals turned serious, and asked a few more questions alternately. Seeing that there was no more valuable information to be asked, Yelvxin called his attendants again, Order them to go to torture the palace guards captured at the gate of the palace to find out the whereabouts of these two people.

Afterwards, the matter was put aside for the time being, and he waved his hand to order Su Mi and the other slaves to leave.

Both Su Mi and Xiao Luzi wiped sweat from their hearts together, barely escaping a catastrophe.

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In the winter morning, the sky was still gloomy, Su Mi and Xiao Luzi got up early, took the broom, and were responsible for clearing the snow in front of Fengyi Palace.

After sweeping to the side of the palace gate, Su Mi's movements slowed down.

Her body has been placed here for a long time, almost turned into a jade statue carved from ice and snow.Su Mi squatted down, and carefully cleared the snow around her with her hands. Her fingers brushed her face, and she felt a jade-like cold touch under her fingertips, which made Su Mi feel sad.

"Can't you bear to touch her body with these things?" Suddenly, a soft voice came from behind Su Mi, "It seems that in this palace, her prestige is quite good."

Su Mi turned around, it was Shi Rouer, she looked like she had just woken up, she was wearing a pink peony skirt embroidered with golden thread, her hair was disheveled, her expression was lazy, her skirt was loosened, half covering the white satin Wearing a tube top, a mink fur cloak was slanted on her body, revealing her pink and fair neck. She seemed not to feel the coldness of this deep winter weather at all, and her demeanor aroused infinite imagination.

At this time, she looked at Su Mi indifferently, and then turned her eyes to the empress's body below, her expression was half pity, half mocking.

Su Mi leaned down, "I have seen the jade concubine." Although these concubines have served the Liao people, their titles have not changed, and the Liao people don't care about these things. Maybe for them, listening to the servants around them calls Wearing the old title of the woman in his arms is another way to show off his achievements in conquest.

Shi Rou'er ignored Su Mi's salute, she went straight to the empress's corpse, stared at it for a while, and suddenly said: "At this moment, it looks really clean."

Su Mi couldn't figure out what she meant, so she remained silent.

As the cold wind blew, Shi Rou'er's cloak fluttered and encouraged her. After losing weight, she showed a flimsy and coquettish attitude.

"... When I first entered the palace, she once swore that she would help me and cultivate me, and then I believed it... I was so stupid at that time. Later... I was trampled under my feet, and I was It suddenly dawned on me. It turned out that no woman would be willing to help another woman get closer to her husband. If she really had to do this, then her resentment towards you may be even deeper..."

The gust of wind whizzed by, her voice was drowned in the wind, and her voice could not be heard intermittently.

Su Mi lowered her head silently behind her, listening to her talk about the past.

She is aware of the Wang family's plan to cultivate Shi Rou'er into the palace, and she also knows the reason why the Wang family did so, but...Su Mi's eyes are on the queen. To arrange the behavior of other favorite concubines, how can I bear it?
I'm afraid, in her heart, Shi Rou'er is a more painful and unbearable thorn than herself.

That's why she encouraged Shi Rou'er to use such a direct method to deal with herself, maybe she didn't have the idea of ​​killing three birds with one stone.

At that time, Shi Rou'er was young and energetic, and she still couldn't figure out the turbulent waves under the prosperity and beauty of this palace, and she didn't know that in this palace, it is impossible to have truly constant allies, and some are just entanglements of interests. Fighting endlessly.But after this short half a year, she really understood a lot.

only……

Su Mi looked up at the sky, and the morning light gradually appeared on the horizon, but it seemed that even the light was cold, shining on the snow and frost all over the ground, reflecting the indifferent silver color, and the chill between the sky and the earth became more and more intense.

The snow in this palace has never stopped...

The constant cold wind blew Su Mi's hair into a mess, and she raised her hand to smooth it out.

"Do you know?" Shi Rou'er suddenly turned her head to look at her, her eyes were deep and piercing: "The way you stroked your hair just now looks like a person."

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