Empress Dowager + Spoiler

"What's the fuss?" Zhao Sansi got off the sedan chair, seeing that it was not far to go back to the palace, he ordered the sedan chair to be removed.

The little eunuch looked around, Gu Xizhao understood, let the others avoid, and beckoned the little eunuch to approach.

"There are people hiding in our Changle Palace." The little eunuch approached and lowered his voice before saying, "The side hall where the nobleman lived in the past has been vacant there. Miss Chan'er said that the sun is good today, so she sent her slaves to come with Tao'er. I went to sweep the cobwebs. When the servant and Taoer came out, they saw someone squatting behind the pillar and looking towards the courtyard. The servant was about to catch him from behind. Knocked the servant and Taoer to the ground and ran away. Now that our palace is full of people, those people who are jealous of the empress will take advantage of the loopholes, and the servant will not dare to make things big, Chaner The girl couldn't make up her mind, so she specially sent a servant to ask you what you mean."

Gu Xizhao lowered her eyes, "Can you see what that person looks like?"

"No, just looking at his clothes, it doesn't look like a eunuch's uniform, but the old and white style doesn't look like what a guard is wearing..."

It's really... What kind of fate is this all, she really hid in her own palace.

Gu Xizhao bit her bright red lips, and said after a while: "Okay, I understand, you go back first, don't say anything about this, let Chan'er stop looking for anyone, lest people see the clue."

"The slave will be right back."

Gu Xizhao waited half the time for the little eunuch to return to the palace. As if nothing happened, when he returned to the palace, he was passed on lunch first, and he ate it slowly, lying on the soft couch After taking a nap at home, I found a pool in the backyard to repair, and with the excuse of making too much noise, I waved off the man who repaired the pool, and after Chan'er said that the outsiders had all left, he locked the door and let Cicada ordered people to search for it all over the palace.

"It's not that you have to drag someone to see me. If you find out which room the person is in, you will come and inform me that I will be a thief in person today, remember?"

"Slave/servant remember."

Zhao Jin summoned the second prince today, except for her, only a few servants like Li Zhongxian knew about it. Now that the person disappeared, Zhao Jin would definitely not look for it with great fanfare.But if people find out, and the second prince panicked and hid in her palace, then she would not be able to wash herself away if she jumped into the Yellow River. Zhao Jin probably will have to re-examine her again. Let her be buried with her.

Therefore, the current plan is to find the person himself, and then send him away secretly. It is best that no one in the palace knows what the person who broke into the palace today looks like.

However, to Gu Xizhao's surprise, until it got dark, the maids and eunuchs almost turned the entire Changle Palace upside down, but no one was found.

"You searched in every corner?" Gu Xizhao just finished her dinner, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, rinsed her mouth, then got up, and pointed to the untouched meal on the table, "It's all removed, tomorrow Or do something light, greasy."

The maid got the order, and the little eunuch who came to sue replied: "I found it. The servant is only three feet away from digging the ground."

Could it be that people have already run out?Gu Xizhao turned her head to look at the palace wall, recalling the things she had seen a few times before, she shook her head lightly again, it is impossible, it is impossible for a person who has worked so hard to climb a window from the imperial dining room to climb out of this palace wall. High palace walls.

Gu Xizhao quickly reviewed the layout of his Changle Palace in his mind. After asking people about the places that were easy to hide one by one, he didn't have a clue for a while. This second prince is really a mouse who can sleep no?

"Perhaps he has already slipped out of the palace." Gu Xizhao paused, and then deliberately said: "You guys go to the storeroom, and each of you goes to have a look, but are there any valuable things missing?"

The palace servants were ordered to retreat, and Gu Xizhao was still sitting in the yard. The weather was fine, and there were a few late peach trees in the yard. The peach blossoms in the imperial garden had all unloaded, and these trees were in full bloom. , I don't think it's so beautiful during the day, but the moonlight is so beautiful, Gu Xizhao likes to sit under this peach tree at night when the flowers bloom every year.

However, today she obviously has no intention of admiring the flowers. Although her eyes are looking at the tree, her mind has no idea where she is. She is shaking a silk fan in her hand. The petals are like butterflies dancing.

Covered by the petals, Gu Xizhao came back to her senses. Looking at the fluttering peach petals, she simply stood up. After a few turns of her body, the silk fan leaf in her hand expanded and contracted, and the peach petals fell down.

It wasn't until the peach blossoms were almost bald that Gu Xizhao stopped. Looking at the peach petals spread all over the ground, she felt very proud. After all, these trees were picked by herself. Zhao Jin was going to be seriously ill. The sweet and juicy late peach leaves can't be cheap for the second prince's little beauty.

"Your Majesty, they all said that nothing was lost, only Xian'er said that in the small kitchen, Your Majesty seems to have lost some unused lunch..."

"Huh?" Gu Xizhao was taken aback for a moment, then the corners of her lips curled up, "Really?"

"My servant can't remember so clearly, but Xian'er has always been sensitive and suspicious."

Gu Xizhao handed her the silk fan in her hand, took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from her forehead, "It's been several hours, so it's not easy to pursue it."

Chan'er nodded, looking at the peach blossom petals all over the ground, she felt a little distressed, "It's very good, why is your mother venting her anger on this peach blossom tree again, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat a few peaches this year."

"Looking at them, they are so beautiful and unsightly, the itchy hands are gone."

Chan'er sighed from the bottom of her heart, seeing that the hair on her forehead was a little wet, she said as if thinking of something: "Your Majesty wants to bathe with milk today? The family of Mr. Yugui came to visit her today and brought her Some top-quality beef jerky, she knows that you love beef jerky for bathing, so she specially sent someone to send a small bucket over."

Gu Xizhao looked at the peach petals that had fallen all over the ground, "This time, you don't need to go to the Imperial Garden to pick flowers, just use these peach petals."

Just as the maid was helping Gu Xizhao to undress and was about to take a bath, someone knocked on the palace door outside.

"Cicada, what's going on outside?"

"Your Majesty, Guard Duan said that there are assassins in the palace, and now all the palaces are going to search."

While speaking, the guard had already come in with a torch. Gu Xizhao took the clothes on the shelf and was about to call Chaner to come over and redress her when she was sensitively aware that there was someone in her room. Hanging the clothes on the rack, he stepped into the bathtub in his untied clothes, and said to the outside: "Tell Guard Duan that I am taking a bath, as long as I don't disturb me to take a bath, Changle Palace will let them search."

"Your Majesty is considerate. I just acted according to orders, so I will not be rude to your Majesty."

"That's good."

Chapter 5

After about a stick of incense, the head guard Duan took the people away. Chan'er asked outside if he wanted someone to come in to take a bath. Gu Xizhao leaned on the tub and squinted at the veil behind the screen After a long while, he replied lazily: "No, I want to be alone and rest my mind, so you step back first."

"Yes."

After confirming that everyone outside had left, Gu Xizhao raised her hand to pick up some peach petals from the bathtub, twisted the petals into a ball deftly with her ten fingers, and then threw them towards the veil behind the screen. When she heard the sound, she lay on her stomach On the edge of the bathtub, he softly snorted toward the veil, "Come out soon?"

There was no movement behind the veil for a long time, Gu Xizhao took off the jade bracelet on her wrist again, played with it a few times, and then frightened her, "If you don't come out again, it won't be the petals that hit you..." said With that, the jade bracelet in his hand fell to the ground, and the crisp sound of jade shattering made the figure behind the veil tremble.

Immediately afterwards, a figure jumped out and knelt down behind the screen,

"Concubine Xi..."

"Tsk, so it's the second prince?" Gu Xizhao pretended to be surprised.

Zhao Sansi now hated himself for being so worthless. First, he hated himself for being stupid. He was usually bullied by court ladies and eunuchs a lot. He forgot his dignity as a prince and was chased for so long in a foolish way. He hated himself for being blind, and it was a coincidence that he hid in this Changle Palace; in the end, now, with so many rooms in Changle Palace, he just hid in the room where Concubine Xi was going to bathe.

She felt that if she had a sense of integrity, she should have hit her head to death when she saw her imperial brother's favorite concubine take off her clothes, or she could just bite her tongue and kill herself.

However, when she thought that she had worked so hard to grow up to such a big age, in just a few more years, she would be able to eat and drink, be free, marry a beautiful girl who is as beautiful as a flower and jade, and have a few rooms with a graceful figure. Coquettish little concubine, although she can't do anything openly, but listening to them sing a little song and watching them dance some ecstasy every day, it feels like wanting to be immortal|wanting to die.