The days when I was imprisoned in the harem by the enemy monarch

Imperial Palace of Shang Kingdom, Imperial Garden

In the early morning, poplars hang down by the lake like smoke.Half of the lake water is reflected green by weeping willows, and half of the lake water is dyed bright red by koi.

Under the lakeside water pavilion shaded by willows, from time to time, there were voices of women's delicate discussions, sometimes accompanied by a few wailing.

"I asked someone to ask Eunuch Yuan, who was on duty at the entrance of the imperial study, and he said that the maid looks very beautiful, she looks like Chang'e descending to the earth, and I have never seen such a beautiful court lady in the harem..."

"Eunuch Yuan also said that when she came out of the imperial study, her clothes were disheveled, even her skirt was carried by her hands, and her majesty's clothes were still on her body, eh..." amidst the crying, a reflection appeared in the clear lake water. The face of a crying woman with makeup.

A concubine wearing a pink double-breasted skirt leaned in front of the railing by the water, and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "Your Majesty usually ignores us, but unexpectedly met an unknown court lady... Woo... "

"What is the background of that palace lady? Which room is it in? Why don't we know?" A concubine wearing a blue palace dress stepped forward and asked, "Didn't your majesty never allow harem women to enter the imperial study?"

"Your Majesty must have just been on a whim, and I will definitely not let her sleep next time, hmph!" A concubine in light yellow clothes sat aside, pouted her lips, tightly pinched her skirt with both hands, and pulled the silk skirt to the side. The embroidered pleated skirt was crumpled.

"Why have you been in the palace for so long, and it's not even our turn on a whim? Why is it just an unknown little maid?!" The pink-clothed concubine threw the handkerchief that she had just wiped her tears on the ground fiercely, pouted and cursed, " I can not be reconciled!"

"Sisters, calm down, crying won't solve the problem." The blue-clothed concubine stepped forward and took the pink-clothed concubine's hand, and pulled her to the side of the yellow-clothed concubine, and the three sat down side by side, motioning for the other two to come closer, mysteriously Xi Xi whispered, "Right now we haven't even found out who the maid is, but think about it..."

"Oh?" The concubine in yellow asked in a low voice, "I don't know what my sister thinks?"

"The harem concubines who dared to enter the imperial study all these years are either dead or disabled. Not to mention, even Concubine Li suffered so badly last night. And a little maid can not only be unscathed, but also be favored?" Lan Concubine Yi said, "If you want me to say, this court lady is not a good person in the first place. She has a bit of a charming way to confuse the Sacred Heart. She must have been prepared to fly to the high branches to become a phoenix. Your Majesty will really be fascinated by her in no time." Living……"

"Fuck!" Before the blue-clothed concubine could finish her sentence, the pink-clothed concubine's sharp voice immediately spurned, cursing coquettishly, "Which one of us is not going to risk our lives for the favor of the Holy One? It's her turn! No? Absolutely not! What is she!"

"That's the reason." The blue-clothed concubine said with a smile, "If your majesty is really tempted by that maid temporarily, if you want to give her a title, I think she will be canonized as a concubine in a few days... a little It’s no wonder the harem didn’t tear her apart for the maid of honor, and she still needs to wait until we do it? She’s really looking for her own death!”

"If your majesty just did it on a whim and didn't even give him a title, then we don't have to care about it. It's just a little maid. It doesn't matter how much she has to get a night of favor. Let's check the maids in each house—— The concubine in blue raised Liu Yemei, "Find her and teach her the rules."

The concubine in pink turned her tears into a smile, stood up and went to the lake, and said: "Sister is right, and His Majesty will not give her any title! Let's go to the rooms immediately and find that bitch. Give that bitch a good look!"

On the gravel path by the lake, a young eunuch carrying a food box passed under the willow tree. He could only hear the faint sounds coming from the pavilion.

"That little eunuch, come here." A voice suddenly came from the water pavilion.

The little eunuch raised his head.

"It's you." In the water pavilion, the pink-clothed concubine stared at the little eunuch by the side of the road, and said, "Come here, we have something to ask you."

The little eunuch hurriedly carried the food box to the water pavilion.

"Who are you delivering food to? Looking at the direction you are going, there is only Hengwu Hall over there. No one has ever lived in Hengwu Hall." The pink-clothed concubine lowered her face and said harshly, "Say! Yes! Didn't you steal something and plan to steal it somewhere no one is there?!"

"No, no, this servant is wronged!" The little eunuch knelt on the ground with a thud in fright, and said tremblingly, "You dare not steal it, it contains breakfast and soup medicine. The servant is in the Imperial Medical Bureau. The Imperial Physician is in the past, but today the Imperial Physician Zhang has something to do, so I let the slaves send it alone. Zhang Imperial Physician also told the slaves not to delay on the way..."

"Bold slave, how dare you use Doctor Zhang to suppress us?" Huang Yifei said, "What is Doctor Zhang? ?!"

"Yes yes yes... slaves deserve death, slaves deserve death..." The little eunuch was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly, "the three ladies, spare your life, spare your life..."

"Okay, two sisters, don't scare him, look to scare this child." The blue-clothed concubine helped the little eunuch up from the ground, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, we won't make things difficult for you. You just It is said that we will deliver medicine to the Hengwu Palace, but we have never seen anyone living there since we entered the palace, is there anyone living there now?"

"This..." The little eunuch looked up at the three concubines in embarrassment, hesitating to speak.

"Bold slave, what are you talking about?!" The pink-clothed concubine scolded, "Say it!"

"Back... back to the three ladies." The little eunuch faltered, "The Hengwu Hall is indeed... shutting up one person."

The concubine in blue raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? Who is it? Why are you locked up?"

"This matter, the people in the palace, except for Doctor Zhang, and our little servants who accompanied Doctor Zhang to deliver medicine...the others don't know about it." The little eunuch carefully glanced at the blue-clothed concubine and replied in a low voice, " The servant only knows that Doctor Zhang said that His Majesty brought the man back from outside the palace, and this matter must not be told to the outside world, it will kill his head."

"Heh." The pink-clothed concubine snorted coldly, and said sourly: "It's so well hidden, is it because I'm afraid someone will eat her? Your Majesty really loves her."

The concubine in blue asked: "Didn't you see her? What does she look like, and did you say anything?"

The little eunuch shook his head and said: "Even Imperial Doctor Zhang didn't know who he was, I only followed him in for a few glances, he was really good-looking, I have never seen such a good-looking person... He was in a coma for several days , it seems that I just woke up yesterday, I only said thank you to the servant, and didn't say anything else..."

"It really is her. She just woke up yesterday and went to seduce His Majesty. It seems that she is really a goblin who can't wait!" The blue-clothed concubine and the other two concubines exchanged glances tacitly, and pulled the little girl up with a smile. The eunuch took a gold bracelet from his wrist and put it in the little eunuch's hand, "Seeing that you have worked hard to deliver medicine every day, why don't you rest here for a while and let my maid help you."

"Your Majesty..." The little eunuch's legs trembled in fright, holding the gold bracelet in both hands tremblingly, he hesitated, "This..."

"Don't worry, it's just to help you run an errand, nothing will happen." The blue-clothed concubine smiled, "Qiu Tong, go and help him, and make sure to send his things to the Hengwu Palace. Just don't let him get away with it."

"Yes." A maid in a dark blue narrow-sleeved dress stepped forward and snatched the food box from the little eunuch.

This Qiutong is different from ordinary delicate maids, she looks like a maid who is close to defending the concubine, with a strong figure and extraordinary skill, she snatches the food box from the eunuch like a gust of wind, without any effort.

The little eunuch huddled in the corner and didn't dare to move around. He just looked at the food box in Qiutong's hand with his eyes, and secretly grabbed the corner of his clothes and shivered, but there was nothing he could do.

"Qiu Tong." The blue-clothed concubine whispered in Qiu Tong's ear, "First inquire about the facts, and see what he looks like, his name, and his identity. Last night, it is likely that this little bitch seduced His Majesty. If you are uneasy If you're the master, set up a little rule for her, huh?"

Qiutong answered "Yes", and quickly walked down the water pavilion with the food box, turned around the garden, and arrived at a bluestone path shaded by verdant cypresses behind the garden.

This road is different from other places in the palace, usually the palace people don't go this way, the birds are turning and the warblers are singing, the leaves can be heard, it is very quiet.

At the end of the path, a few green maples half-covered the steps. On the steps stood a palace. In the seemingly quiet and desolate courtyard, there were guards with knives in front of the door, guarding the palace even more heavily than a concubine's bedroom.

The guards outside the door were all extra vigilant, they didn't recognize Qiutong's face, so they raised their hands to stop him.

Qiu Tong was stopped by the guards, so she had to explain: "The servants are sent by the Imperial Medical Bureau to deliver medicines. They have something to do today, so let me deliver."

The guard glanced at the food box in Qiutong's hand, opened it and inspected it, and confirmed that it was the medicine sent by the Imperial Medical Bureau, and checked to make sure there was no poison before putting the person in.

Qiu Tong held the food box and opened the door, only to see that the hall was clean and empty, and there was not even a trace of people living there.

Only through the layers of veils on the bed, it seems that a person can be seen lying on the inside of the bed.

This is also considered a spectacle in the palace.It's so high in the sun, and there are still people who can't afford to lie down.

Qiutong put the food box on the table, thinking that not only could she not say a word, she couldn't even see her face, she didn't know how to go back and explain to her mother, only to hear a muffled coughing sound from the tent.

"Cough...cough..."

Qiu Tong's hand, which was putting the food box on the table, froze, and carefully glanced over to the bed.

The person on the bed just coughed twice, then stopped moving, and continued to sleep. The sleeping appearance was very good, and he didn't move at all.

Qiu Tong made up her mind not to return without success, gently opened the food box, took out a bowl of soup and medicine from the food box, and lightly carried it to the bed, and said through the bed curtain: "This servant is here to give you Medicine, I heard you had a bad cough just now, why don't you drink the medicine first and then rest?"

The bed curtain moved slightly, and a white hand stretched out from behind the curtain, with slender five fingers grabbing the curtain and hanging it on the jade hook.

Qiutong quietly raised her eyes and almost suffocated for a moment.

A person in a snow-white singlet is sitting on the bed, his long black hair is splashed like a waterfall on his side, his long eyelashes are curled up, his eyes are bleary, ice and snow are gods and white jade is his bones, he is not like a person in the world, he is clearly a scroll of heavenly gods painted by famous artists .

Lin Jian slept very soundly last night, always feeling very at ease, as if she had a reliable person with her all the time, and accidentally fell asleep when she fell asleep.

He was obviously in a foreign country, and was forcibly brought back by the tyrant. It stands to reason that a person with a bit of moral integrity and fierceness should be unable to sleep at night and miss his homeland to the moon, but Lin Jian is so embarrassingly sleepy that he even symbolically There is no patriotic insomnia.

At this moment, when he was woken up in a daze of sleep, Lin Jian raised his head and saw that it was a maid holding a medicine bowl. He quickly raised his hand to grab a coat from the hanger beside the bed and put it on. He got up and took the medicine bowl with both hands, nodding slightly. He said "thank you", lowered his head and took a sip of the bitter medicine.

Qiu Tong was stunned for a while before recovering.

Although the person in front of him can be described as peerless, he is obviously...a man? !

Lin Jian had already taken the medicine, so he went to the table to put the medicine bowl on the table, and opened the food box to see what was for breakfast.

Luan Yunye really didn't have a conscience, he only had a bowl of bird's nest lily porridge for breakfast.But anyway, I gave him an egg more than last night, probably after the tyrant made the decision to cut himself into pieces last night, he decided to supplement himself with nutrition to hang himself.

Lin Jian took a sip of the porridge, and it's okay to drink only porridge, the porridge is still bland, with no sweet taste at all.

The eggs are also boiled, without any seasoning.

As soon as he drank the medicine in one gulp, his mouth was full of bitterness. Lin Jian didn't dislike the bland porridge, so he took the bowl and drank the whole bowl of porridge.

Qiutong turned her head and stared thoughtfully at the person who was drinking porridge seriously, her slender willow eyebrows were tightly twisted into a ball, and asked: "Before you woke up, this servant has been serving you with Doctor Zhang for many days. Know your name?"

Lin Jian put down the porridge bowl in his hand, bowed, and said, "I'm going to Lin Jian. Thank you for bothering you a few days ago."

"So it's General Lin, I'm disrespectful." Qiu Tong secretly clenched her fists, the veins on the back of her hands were bulging, she took a few steps forward, looked at Lin Jian and said with a smile, "I heard that you made great achievements in the Liang Kingdom, The servant girl is a little maid who has never been out of the palace, I wonder if I can listen to it? For example, the Battle of Beizhou that they all talked about?"

"Cough... how can it be." The great military exploits in Liang State, but the many crimes in Shang State, of course, Lin Jian couldn't talk about those in Shang State, and said to Qiu Tong, "I don't lead the army anymore, It doesn't have to be called that."

Although Lin Jian avoided talking about it, Qiutong still asked to himself: "I don't know if you still have any impression of General Qiu who defended the city in Beizhou? I heard that both his father and son were killed by you with one sword." Down?"

Lin Jian: "..." Those who would ask this question were either relatives or enemies of those two.

"Do you have any scruples?" Qiu Tong smiled and said, "The servant will not talk nonsense, but the servant is really curious, how did you do it?"

Naturally, Lin Jian didn't rush to make fun of it. While lowering his head to carefully peel the hard-boiled eggs, he said, "I don't have a good memory. I'm afraid I won't be able to satisfy the girl's curiosity."

"Is it because there are too many people who have been killed and I can't remember clearly? In the next life, I will have a better memory—" Qiutong's soft voice behind the person turned gloomy. With a flash of coldness, a dagger was held in his hand, and he stabbed at the back of the person.

"Keng-!!!"

Between lightning and flint, Qiutong's right hand suddenly hurt, and the dagger fell to the ground with a strong and rapid force.

Lin Jian had already turned around, knocked down the dagger in Qiutong's hand with one hand, and held a fat and round egg that had been peeled in the other.

Qiutong's eyes widened, as if she couldn't believe it.Obviously his martial arts are not weak, how could this defenseless and sick person in front of him be able to detect it so quickly and knock down his dagger with only one hand.

The sound of the dagger falling on the ground aroused the vigilance of the outside, and the guard's question came from outside: "My lord, inside...?"

Lin Jian said, "It's nothing."

Lin Jian heard from outside that nothing happened, so he didn't dare to rush in.

Lin Jian took a look at Qiu Tong, leaned over and picked up the dagger on the ground, handed it back to her, and said softly, "Go."

Qiu Tong stared at Lin Jian vigilantly, looked down at the dagger that was handed back in his hand, suddenly clenched his fingers tightly, and stabbed Lin Jian in the heart again.

"You are not my opponent." Lin Jian easily snatched Qiutong's dagger with one hand, put it in his sleeve lightly, and said, "Leave this to me, you go out."

Qiu Tong stared at Lin Jian with bloodshot eyes, his eyes were about to split open, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Lin Jian, you murderous monster, I will never let you go!"

The "devil who kills without blinking an eye" didn't speak, and turned a deaf ear to Qiu Tong's cruel words, lowered his eyes, carefully chewed the egg in his hand and ate it slowly.

Although the food Luan Yunye gave was not tasty, he couldn't starve himself to death, he had to eat everything, so that he would have the strength to go to the tyrant's mouth and continue plucking hair.

Lin Jian had just eaten half an egg, and before he could swallow it, he suddenly had a jolt and forgot to chew the egg in his mouth.

Just outside the door, a cold and deep voice sounded: "Who will you not let go?"