Ch.9

"What did the queen say?" The voice was low and hoarse, unable to hear emotions.

The guard knelt down on one knee and explained the question of Mei Xueyi just now.

"I only asked the concubine? Didn't you find out the route out of the palace?" He narrowed his eyes slightly, his pale face without a trace of blood, like a jade statue in the moonlight.

The guard felt a chill, and hurriedly lowered his head and said, "No."

His eyes fell under the black robe and found that Wei Jinzhao was barefoot.

"Your Majesty! It's freezing cold, you..."

He raised his hand to silence the guards, then passed them and walked forward.

A faint voice swayed in the cold wind—"Aren't you escaping..."

Soft and creepy tone.

Mei Xueyi walked along the palace road.

The back palaces on the left and right sides were not locked. Seeing the deserted and yin, she pushed open the door and went in for a walk.

These palaces are completely different from the Chaomu Palace where she lives.

There is no Yushu, no pearl, and no shark tent.

As someone else, he would not dare to walk around in this dark palace in the middle of the night, but this delicate and weak figure pushed open the doors of the dusty palace one by one, as if in a garden. Like a walk, step into those dark and cold places without caring. The moonlight shone on her back, and she was alone and sadly lonely.

What's more poignant is that she is very comfortable with this loneliness.

A black shadow silently appeared behind her, as sharp as Mei Xueyi, and was completely unaware of his existence.

"Squeak-yah-"

She pushed open the two carved wooden doors again.

This palace doesn't look like a woman has lived in it. It's a study room. The faded curtains were originally navy and dark blue. There are sword slots on the palace walls for hanging swords. The dusty books can vaguely be seen as political theories and tactics by the moonlight.

The word 'East Palace' is engraved on the inkstone at the corner of the table.

"East Palace?" Mei Xueyi stroked her chin, "Is this where he lived."

Speaking of which, she didn't know anything about Wei Jinchao's life.

All she knew about him was that he was very ill, acted crazy, and was fierce in bed.

She visited the entire East Palace and found nothing special. When he was the prince, he was very low-key and not out of line.

She couldn't help thinking of Wei Jinzao in the storybook.

Reading and martial arts. Honest and frugal.

The empty place in my heart seems to have fallen into a trace of sour and sweet spring water, causing subtle ripples.

Immediately, she shook her head and laughed.

gentleman. The lifespan of mortals is too short, and all that is left is beauty. In the Immortal Realm, cultivators have lived for too long and have had too many tests. Few people can stick to their original intentions. A gentleman is often equated with a sanctimonious appearance.

Anyway, she has never seen a true gentleman. In that place where the weak eat the strong, the real villains are more reassuring, because they only need to talk about interests.

Thinking like this, she no longer has any interest in the former Prince of the East Palace.

She left the East Palace and looked at the royal city in the dark.

On the southeast side is a huge silhouette, like a giant beast dormant in the dark night.

"The High Platform for the Stars." She strolled over.

When they got close, Mei Xueyi couldn't help but stunned again.

She didn't know how to evaluate this stupid man. The High Platform for the Stars is not an ordinary stone platform, but a Huatai carefully carved with the finest pure black granite. It has already occupied the range of three or four concubines' bedrooms.

Each wall stone is engraved with exquisite and dreamy star patterns, poured with gold and silver water, and inlaid with jade patterns.

The long steps built around the platform are made of black jade as a handrail. Mei Xueyi stepped on it and touched the jade railing with her hand, and found that it was actually warm jade. In this cold night with snow, the jade railing was shockingly warm.

It's really... extravagant to the point of no cure!

Mei Xueyi sighed as she climbed the ring stairs to the star-picking platform that had not yet been built.

This Huatai is only about one-fifth completed, but when you go to a high place, you can overlook the entire palace.

Mei Xueyi saw her own palace at a glance.

It is so eye-catching, like a jewel in the snow, the light is shining, and the splendor is reflected on the snow clouds in the air. It is really dreamlike and beautiful, like a fairyland.

She blinked her eyes, moved her eyes away, and said in her heart, 'Hunjun. ’

"Dark Lord!"

A voice filled with anger came from above.

Mei Xueyi: "?"

Who spoke her mind?

She hurried up a few steps and stepped onto the unfinished platform.

I saw a woman dressed in a complicated palace costume with her back to her, standing on the edge of the platform, looking at the morning and evening palace.

She wore a high bun, and her whole body naturally exuded majesty.

'This is…'

As soon as Mei Xueyi thought of it, the woman in the palace dress turned around.

A flying phoenix was lit on her forehead, her eyebrows were drawn between her hair on the forehead, and her lips were dotted with dark vermilion lipstick into a bead shape.

"Who is coming, and you still don't salute when you see Ai's family?"

It was the queen mother.

"My son has seen my mother." Mei Xueyi bowed her head and bowed.

"It turned out to be the queen." The queen mother frowned slightly, "Come here, Aijia look at you."

Mei Xueyi supported the black jade fence on the edge of the platform and carefully stepped on the sapphire brick.

From her 'resurrection' to the present, only twelve hours have passed. In such a short period of time, I have experienced too many things—Jinling people robbed him, Shen Xiuzhu broke his love, killed Xiao Shijun with a stick, solved Mei Qiaoqiao, and...was bullied by Shunjun four times. She really didn't have more energy to focus on other things.

So until now, she didn't know that there was an empress dowager in this palace.

As she approached, the Queen Mother looked her up and down.

Mei Xueyi also looked at the Queen Mother calmly. The complex palace costumes are layered on top of each other, the color on the face is exquisite and luxurious, and the hairpin rings are ringing.

The cold wind swept the flying snow, scattered thinly in the sky and the earth, and the nose was filled with the cold and fresh breath of ice and snow.

"The queen is really a graceful and lovely person!" The queen mother was heartbroken, "Why doesn't he know how to cherish King Wei!"

Mei Xueyi: "?"

Did the queen mother misunderstand something?

"Queen!" The queen mother patted the railing heavily, "You are his bedside, you can't just watch King Wei being hooked by Hu Meizi! You should talk, persuade, and scold. You can't, let him become a stupefied king, and ruin the country's Jiangshan society and crops!"

She paced back and forth angrily and pointed to the Chaomu Palace: "Queen, you just deal with that demon concubine! If King Wei is dissatisfied, let him come to Aijia!"

Mei Xueyi: "…"

"Kill the demon concubine! You must not ask her to continue to harm the country!" The Queen Mother's fingertips trembled, she was angry.

Mei Xueyi: "..." For the first time in my life, I felt a little guilty.

"At the beginning, my son threw himself into the community, worked hard, and was praised by everyone. Aijia thought that he could close his eyes and go to the late king, but he suddenly changed. All day long, he was toiling the people, hurting money, and building construction. This is going to kill me, David! "The long fingernails pressed against the forehead, and the queen mother closed her eyes in anger, "Why did my son become a stupor!"

Mei Xueyi asked curiously, "When did that happen?"

"Ai's family can't remember. Ai's family is in his Yongshou Palace every day, and he can't get out. He can only watch the star-picking platform a little higher and a little higher, and watch the baskets of beautiful jade pearls being sent in and out. Go in and watch the Golden House and Jade Palace being built and built again! The Aijia is really heartbroken and heartbroken!"

Her voice became more and more shrill, and the long fingertips gradually pierced under the skin.

Mei Xueyi: "…"

She watched helplessly as the sapphire-based fake finger cots with gold threads pierced through the skin of the Queen Mother's forehead, and then pierced through an inch away. Not a drop of blood, but it's more frightening than bleeding.

The queen mother turned out to be a ghost too.

Her obsession must be the country of Wei.

"Queen..." The queen dowager looked at her faintly, "Do you promise to promise Aijia, and immediately eradicate the evil concubine in the jade palace?"

She forgot that the fingertips were still embedded under the skin, and when she raised her hand, it was like tearing a layer of silk paper, tearing a large piece of the skin on the forehead.

Mei Xueyi really didn't know how to tell this yin spirit, it seemed that it was the graceful queen in front of her who was bewildering the master.

"What?" The Queen Mother Yin Ling's expression turned cold. "As a queen, you don't care about the country and society, but you only want to please King Wei and condone him to spoil the enchanting girl Hu Lai?"

Mei Xueyi: "…"

"Incompetent!" Seeing her helpless look, the Yin Ling of the Queen Mother couldn't help but be furious, "What's the use of you, it's better to leave the post to a capable person! Go to hell!"

The gloomy wind howled, and Mei Xueyi felt in a trance that the surrounding environment had changed.

In a flash, she found that she had been hanging outside the jade fence at some point, and the abyss of ten thousand miles was under her feet.

In this situation, for anyone, the first reaction is to step into the jade fence and return to the platform.

Mei Xueyi knew that this was an illusion. I was standing in the jade fence just now. If I was confused by the illusion and climbed over the jade fence, it would be the real doom.

"Go to hell!" The Queen Mother Yin Ling approached step by step, posing to lift the hand she was holding on the warm jade railing.

Just as Mei Xueyi was about to move, someone suddenly grabbed her wrist tightly, causing pain.

She looked back and saw Jun Jun wearing a thin black robe standing beside her. The large shirt was raised together with his black hair, and his five fingers were like ice cubes, pinching her with great strength.

The cold wind swept through, and the ghostly illusion disappeared.

He lowered his black eyes in displeasure, and his voice was hoarse and low: "Queen, it's too rash."

"Your Majesty..." She shuddered when she saw that he was barefoot.

He raised his hand and stroked her hair: "I'm so absorbed in what I'm thinking, I don't even know when I walk to the edge of the table."

"Thinking of the Queen Mother," she asked. "When did the Queen Mother die?"

"Five years ago." He let go of her and walked to the edge of the high platform with his hands behind him, "died in Yongshou Palace."

The Star Picking Terrace was built on the site of the main hall of the Yongshou Palace.

"I know that my mother is going to die that day, so I can't do anything." He turned around suddenly, his eyes were gentle but cold, "I also know that you will follow Shen Xiuzhu eventually. So, when is the queen going to leave me?"

Mei Xueyi: "…"

Tell him to run around in the snow without shoes, he's sick again.

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