MTL - Little Cardamom-Chapter 105
"Now that the palace is surrounded by soldiers, how did you communicate with Shoukang Palace? I want to know how to leave the palace." In the firewood room, Ming Tan looked down from a high position, quietly looking at Mrs. Wang who was **** and thrown on the ground.
Mrs. Wang didn't seem to care about the dirtiness of the woodshed, she leaned half against the wall, looked up at her, and said with a sneer, "Being able to communicate with Shoukang Palace doesn't mean that the old slave has a way to get out."
"Forget it if you don't have one." Ming Tan didn't want to talk to her, so he turned around and wanted to leave.
But the old lady called her again: "Princess!"
Ming Tan stopped.
"I heard that there is a secret passage in the palace leading to the outside of the palace, but this old slave does not know where the secret passage is. Even if I know it, I can't get close to it, but the princess may be able to."
Ming Tan heard the words and went out without looking back.
Is there a secret passage in the mansion? Ming Tan immediately thought of Jiang Xu's study.
At that time, I only knew that there was a secret room in the study. Now that I think about it, the guards didn't seem to know that Jiang Xu was having a secret discussion with someone. If they knew, they should not have let her bring snacks in, at least they should have let them know first. is.
If the guards didn't know, how could the person discussing the matter appear in the secret room out of thin air?
She thought of something and went straight to the study.
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The night in deep winter was pitch black, and the moon was covered by thick clouds for several days in a row. When Ming Tan walked out of the palace through the secret passage of the study, it was very cold outside, and the wind was so cold that it seemed to be able to blow through the thick cloak.
She got into the gray-covered carriage and drove all the way to Bieyulou.
Passing the government office, she raised the curtain and looked out, and suddenly called out: "Stop."
She got off the carriage, walked straight to the bulletin board outside the government office, and slowly read the edict word by word.
When Suxin came to report before, she always felt that it was not true, but now seeing the several jade seals on the edict, she felt that the red color of the jade seals was particularly dazzling. What's even more eye-catching is that this edict is almost the same as what Mrs. Wang said.
The only difference is that King Dingbei did not lead his troops to attack Beihe in three days, but tomorrow.
She couldn't wait any longer, she had to see Jiang Qizhi tonight and listen to him explain in person.
That was her father, her elder brother, and her clansman. It seemed that she still couldn't believe in an illusory sentence, and sat peacefully in the mansion to gamble the lives of the Ming family.
The war in the Northland is about to start, and the capital is turbulent, but Bieyulou is still a dreamy and gentle town, soft jade and fragrant, singing and dancing are peaceful, and from a distance, it is a place of bright lights.
The time was too short, and Ming Tan didn't have time to make all the preparations, so he simply changed his clothes in the carriage and pretended to be a servant, and met his cousin Bai's family outside the building, and entered Bieyulou with him.
Going up to this building, she was still an unmarried little girl. She was begging for a coincidence on Qixi Festival. It was lively outside but empty inside. In the boudoir full of water, she nervously and curiously opened the fire escape album.
Now the hall is full of colorful colors, and as far as the eyes can see are the stunning ladies on the first floor of the capital. She also seems to see Shui Ying dancing down with ribbons, and some new dance is choreographed, and there are crowds of onlookers.
The Bieyu Building is as lively as yesterday, but the anxiety and embarrassment that once hid in the empty building seems to have happened a long time ago.
"Second cousin, you are here, I will go up." Ming Tan whispered.
"G, that's not acceptable! I'll accompany you, how can I let your girl's family go up alone."
"It's okay, I have a measure."
"That's not okay, I..." The second cousin of the Bai family was talking, his eyes glanced unintentionally, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure at the corner upstairs, and he murmured, "Mr. Zhou is here anyway, isn't he not?" Is it close to a womanizer?"
"Which Mr. Zhou?" Ming Tan followed his gaze, but couldn't find anyone for a while.
"It's my father's most trusted doorman. You know my father's temper. It's like a firecracker. It's crackling at one o'clock. Only Mr. Zhou can persuade him."
Ming Tan's eyes froze for a moment, focusing on a figure that was extremely difficult to notice in the dark, and after a long while, her hands were unconsciously clenched and clenched, until they were pinched into the flesh, as if she didn't feel the pain.
Mr. Zhou.
It turned out to be him.
She has never been able to figure out why the figure that she had a quick glance at the palace that time looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she saw it. Now she remembered that the day Shu Jingran came to the mansion, the third person in the study was him. .
The proud guest next to this uncle turned out to be one of Jiang Qizhi's people.
Many forgotten details suddenly came to my mind at this moment——
Ming Tan recalled that a long time ago, he and Bai Minmin were hiding in the study room flipping through the scriptures, and accidentally ran into his uncle rushing into the study room angrily, insisting on skinning Duke Ling's mansion. At that time, Mr. Zhou was the one who advised him with kind words, telling him to be calm and not to be impatient, and to wait for her father to return to Beijing to talk about it, so as not to let others talk about his uncle's family taking over.
If, if what the Empress Dowager Su said is true, then his planning started before she divorced the Duke of Linguo, right?
Thinking about it now, the cause and effect of many things in the past were indeed ignored.
How did the uncle find out about the private affairs and illegitimate children that kept the Duke's house a secret? Is there Mr. Zhou, or his Highness King Dingbei, among them?
Uncle helped her find out about the secrets of the residence of the Duke of Ling. Was it uncle who found out about it, or did he want her to know about it through Mr. Zhou?
And she obviously only knows one or two of them, so why did the various rumors in the Duke's Mansion cause such a commotion in the city that it was out of control?
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Was her divorce and marriage a foregone conclusion from a long time ago?
For some reason, Ming Tan didn't dare to think about it any further, even for a moment, she hesitated in a trance, a little afraid to step on the steps under her feet.
It seems that as soon as she steps on it, she will know whether the so-called love and liking really exist, or she just walked into it on her own wishful thinking... It's obviously not very delicately woven, but she is willing to enjoy it.
In fact, if you think this way, she once asked, and he also answered.
"Then you married me because you want to repay your kindness? Is it because you want to repay your kindness to me because of your kindness to me?"
"Not at all."
She looked up at the lanterns on the top of the Bieyu Tower, where the brilliance flowed, so dazzling that it hurt her eyes.
"...There is no need for soldiers to stay here. The situation is dangerous. It is best to drag out all the soldiers, horses, food and grass. The two armies on the left and right are ready to attack the Qiang and Yu, and the recovery of Rongzhou is the main purpose of this battle."
"Then His Royal Highness and his party will leave tomorrow via Qingzhou?"
"After the troops leave Beijing tomorrow, your troops will be divided into three groups and set off first. This king has something else to do."
"My lord wants to go back to the palace?" In the past few days, the affairs of the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion have been raging, and the inside is very strange. The lord has never expressed his position on this matter. He returned to Beijing yesterday and did not return to the palace. Those who have good things can't help it asked.
Jiang Xu was noncommittal.
Suddenly, his eyes paused, and he glanced outside the room.
Everyone in the room also noticed something, and became very quiet for a while.
Ming Tan hid all the way up to the top floor of the Bieyu Tower. When she knew that Bieyu Tower was the property of the royal family earlier, she asked Jiang Xu and knew that if he came here, he would probably be on the top floor.
It's just that the top floor is heavily guarded. She managed to come up, and before taking two steps, she was stopped by the guard with crossed sword scabbards, and shouted: "Who are you? You are not allowed to enter or leave this place at will, leave quickly!"
Ming Tan was silent, and suddenly took off the hat on her head, her hair was full of black hair, she raised her eyes and said calmly: "I am Princess Dingbei, come to see the prince, why, can't I?"
