The hero bends down

Zhong Su stood up in a little confusion. He was in the corner of Shenjing Palace. If he walked a few steps forward from here, he could see many men and women running back and forth in front of the palace.These people are all wearing vintage long clothes. The women's style is the same as the clothes that the woman named Xiao Xi put on her before. The men also have long hair in a bun and wear blue cloth clothes.

What is this place?

He looked at his hands, there were still dirt left on them from the dirt he had thrown on the ground just now, he thought about it, and rubbed it on his face.

Hearing that the woman was a concubine herself, subconsciously, she thought that many people might recognize her face.Xiao Xi said that someone wanted to harm him, Zhong Su's intuition told him that he should not reveal his identity.

His face was smeared, and his beautiful face was covered with mud and dirt.

A few men ran towards Zhong Su's position with basins in hand, apparently to put out the fire.After the leading man ran over, he saw Zhong Su standing alone in the shadow of the corner, glanced at her attire, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and put out the fire!"

The man's voice was a little high-pitched and sounded weird.

"Still want to stand and be lazy?" The man raised his voice sharply again.

Zhong Su reacted immediately, looked around, and walked quickly towards the crowd.He followed the flow of people to find the source of water supply.Not far from Shen Jing Palace, there is a well mouth, and someone is responsible for fetching water beside it.

He took a small wooden bucket from the side of the wellhead and handed it to the person who fetched water.The person who fetched the water was very fast, and poured a bucket of water from the well into a small wooden bucket.

Zhong Su lowered his head and followed the crowd to Shen Jinggong.

He was still afraid that others would recognize him, firstly to cover up his expression, and secondly, he really couldn't accept that he was actually living in a woman's body.

Although it was dark, he always felt that someone was watching him from somewhere, and even felt that someone beside him was constantly looking at him, which made him feel ashamed.

But as soon as Zhong Su lowered his head, he saw his two protruding balls, walking in a hurry, and could even feel them trembling.

Zhong Su closed his eyes again in despair, and then opened them again.

Still two lumps of meat.

"..." Zhong Su stared at the heels of the person walking in front.

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The fire was so fierce that it burned half the sky red, and even the night also turned a strange red.

Zhong Su didn't know how many times he walked with the small wooden bucket, but felt pain and soreness all over his body.When he came to Shen Jing Palace for the last time, the fire had almost gone out.The dormitory where he had stayed and slept was nothing but charred charcoal tiles and ashes of broken beams.

There were still traces of white smoke rising from the place that had been burned by the fire. Several guards searched among the remnants, and finally brought out a blackened person.

A few onlookers immediately backed away, Zhong Su stood in the crowd and looked at the man, his wreckage and black bones, his original handsome appearance was beyond recognition, and he couldn't help feeling pity in his heart.

That woman was still calling "Niang Niang" all the time, but now she has died in the flames and has become his scapegoat.

A few women around him turned their heads when they witnessed the tragic death, and two or three of them whispered to each other.

"Concubine Qi died a terrible death."

"Which one who was thrown into the cold palace didn't die a miserable death."

"Actually, I heard that the emperor still likes Concubine Qi, otherwise the Lou family would kill all the families, why would Concubine Qi be the only one left?"

"Shh, be careful not to be overheard by the imperial concubine."

"Bah, bah, bah, I'm talking too much."

Before the woman could finish speaking, a thin but loud voice came from the front of the palace.

"Emperor-go-drive to-"

The people in front of Shen Jinggong knelt down one after another when they heard this sound, their heads dropped to the ground.

Although Zhong Su didn't know the rules, he kowtowed to the ground when he saw the actions of the people around him.

There was a crowd of people outside the palace gate, someone in front opened the way and came with a palace lantern, and then someone stepped into the high sill of the palace gate.In Zhong Su's field of vision, he could only see that this person was walking on a pair of black cloud boots, on which gold silk embroidered auspicious clouds.

But this person stepped into Shen Jing Palace and only took a few steps before he stopped.

Seeing such signs in front of him, the emperor raised his voice and asked:

"Where is Concubine Qi?"

The voice is calm and elegant.

Although he asked this question, in fact, the emperor was only ten steps away from the body of "Concubine Qi".

Everyone didn't dare to look up, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.

"I'm asking you something!" The emperor's voice became even colder.

Zhong Su lowered his eyes.

"Back to the emperor, Concubine Qi... Concubine Qi is dead..." A eunuch chief stood up in the crowd, kowtowed in front of the emperor, and replied tremblingly.

The atmosphere became more gloomy.

Zhong Su saw the four fingers of the emperor's right hand slowly rubbing the white jade bloodshot finger on the thumb.The fingers moved once and for a while.

This man's hands are very good-looking, with long finger bones. It can be seen that they are the hands of a pampered person, unlike Zhong Su's hands in the past, whose hands were calloused from touching the handle of the gun for a long time.

The emperor's eyes swept across the crowd, and then stopped on a kneeling person in the crowd.Although this man was dressed in the clothes worn by servants in the palace, with his head bowed and kneeling, his waist was very straight, and he stood out from a group of obedient servants who bowed their waists. He was very strong, and his appearance was somewhat familiar.

Zhong Su only felt his eyes wandering up and down his body, his heart tightened, and he lowered his head even lower.

Just when Zhong Su thought he was going to bow down for a long time, the emperor spoke slowly.

"Is Mr. Shang Fangsi here?"

Another person ran out tremblingly and knelt down in front of the emperor, saying, "Your servant is here."

"Leave this matter to Shang Fangsi." The emperor looked at the kneeling woman, raised his eyebrows, but said, "This concubine should be buried with honor."

After saying this, he turned around and strode away outside the palace.The guards, eunuchs, and maids who followed also turned around and followed, and quickly disappeared into Shen Jing Palace.

It wasn't until those people were far away that the group of people next to Zhong Su got up one after another.

The fire had already been extinguished, and the remaining eunuchs and maids were useless. They were recruited back by their respective fathers-in-law, leaving only a few heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Shangfang Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the investigation site.Zhong Su didn't know these people, he only knew that the emperor wanted to investigate the cause of Concubine Qi's death, and it was inconvenient for him to stay here, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and leave with a few court ladies.

The imperial palace was surprisingly large, Zhong Su walked with several maids for a while, but he didn't know where he went. He saw the maids entering through an arched door, and there were two men in blue cloth and blue clothes standing on both sides of the door.He was hesitating whether to follow in when a man's voice came from behind him.

"stop."

Zhong Su missed half a beat in his heart, but he didn't dare to stop.

"Stop." The people behind grabbed his shoulders firmly.

Zhong Su had no choice but to stop.

"Turn around and take a look." The man behind him said.

Zhong Su stayed where he was.

The person behind him didn't force it, instead he walked slowly to the front of Zhong Su.Zhong Su still hung his head and did not dare to make a sound. He only saw that this man was wearing military boots, his clothes were black and red satin, and he was holding a knife obliquely around his waist. He was holding it with his hand. Carved patterns, inlaid with pearls, gorgeous and cool.

The man with the knife looked Zhong Su up and down, and said, "I don't remember seeing you in Mucheng Palace, which palace are you from?"

Zhong Su was silent, he escaped from Shen Jing Palace, but he absolutely could not say.

"Raise your head up." Seeing that Zhong Su was silent, the man with the knife said again.

Zhong Su continued to maintain the original posture.

"Keep your head up," the man repeated.

Zhong Su thought about how to get away with it.

The man frowned, and stopped asking any more questions. He stretched out his left hand to pinch the woman's jawbone, and pulled it up violently.

His movements were quick and violent, Zhong Su only felt a pain in his jaw, and saw the face of the man with the knife, with sword eyebrows, straight nose, and handsome features.

The man with the knife squinted his eyes at Zhong Su, then Fang let go of his hand and frowned, "Why are you so dirty?"

"..." Should Zhong Su be thankful that he was dirty or that he was not recognized.

The man with the knife withdrew his hand, took out a silk handkerchief from his arms, wiped his hands and said, "Did you go to Shen Jing Palace just now?"

Zhong Su thought for a while, then lowered his head and let out a "hmm".

The man with the knife raised his eyebrows after hearing the woman's voice: "I thought you couldn't speak."

"..."

"Which palace do you work in?" the man with the knife asked again.

This time it is not good to be silent again, Zhong Su thought for a while, and slowly said: "Not long after I first arrived in the palace, I heard that the Shenjing Palace was flooded, so I went to put out the fire." He endured the unfamiliar voice: "Then If you want to go back to the palace, you don’t know the way.”

"..." The man with the knife couldn't help but glance at the woman again.

"..." Zhong Su wanted to sniff his nose, and what he said was really awkward.

"You don't even know which palace?" asked the man with the knife.

Zhong Su shook his head.

"..." The corner of the man's mouth twitched slightly, but when he thought of what the emperor had told him, he waved his hands and said, "It's okay, I don't remember Lu always remembers my name." He paused and said: " The Ministry of Internal Affairs has a brochure for this court lady, and I will take you to ask about it tomorrow morning."

Zhong Su was taken aback, but he was afraid of attracting suspicion, so he didn't dare to answer and refuse, so he nodded.