The queen took off her palace clothes and wore only ordinary clothes. The eunuch in charge led her to the East Palace again.

On this trip, when she left the palace and headed to the East Palace, the queen deliberately avoided people's eyes and deliberately did not take the queen's car, but chose an ordinary car.

But when the Queen left the palace, she still couldn't completely hide the news. Even though she didn't use the Queen's special luan, she could only hide it from people outside the palace. The servants in the palace couldn't tell that the Queen had left the palace.

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In the corner of the palace gate outside the Queen's Hall stood a palace servant sweeping the palace. The palace servant looked at the Queen's Luan Jia as he walked away. He thought about why the Queen left the palace twice today. After making some guesses, he quietly left the place where he was on duty and went back.

The master who served him sent a message.

In order to avoid people's eyes, the queen specifically ordered to enter through the door of the backyard of the East Palace. When she came this time, she did not go to see Qi Zhen. Instead, she bypassed the entrance of the main courtyard and went to the Snow Courtyard a few steps away.

As soon as the eunuch in charge led the queen to the snow courtyard, he noticed something was wrong.

It's so quiet in this courtyard.

There seemed to be no one there.

Something is wrong.

The queen also noticed something was wrong. She frowned and walked towards the inner room of the snowy courtyard that she had just set foot on the day before yesterday.

From the gate of Xueyuan to the threshold of the inner room, I didn't see a single servant serving him.

"Where are the people serving in this courtyard?" the queen asked, frowning.

The eunuch in charge was also puzzled and replied: "I don't even know."

In order to prevent the servants of Xueyuan from leaking the news, they have all been knocked down by the secret guards and forced into the dungeon.

The situation in the East Palace today is urgent. Whatever important matters Qi Zhen orders, most of them are carried out by secret guards.

The eunuch in charge was not aware of the secret guard's actions. In addition, since he was a newly assigned person from the Queen's Palace to the East Palace, Qi Zhen's actions might not be fully known to him.

Eunuchs are no better than the secret guards who have been trained since childhood. They cannot completely guarantee their loyalty. After Qi Zhen was betrayed by the eunuch in charge three years ago, it is difficult for him to truly trust the current eunuch.

Seeing that the eunuch in charge could not answer anything, the queen had no choice but to walk into the inner room to see what was going on inside.

As soon as she stepped into the inner room, she was shocked by the mess inside.

Linglong left in such a hurry that she didn't clean up the broken mirror in the inner room, the lenses and jade bracelet fragments on the floor.

The queen glanced at the broken mirror and broken jade, but she still didn't understand. The girl from the Shen family must have known about the ridiculous thing Qi Zhen had done.

She raised her eyes from the broken jade and looked at the bed inside the screen in the inner room, but she saw no one. Instead, she saw a suitcase beside her, as if someone had just collected it.

Is it possible that Miss Shen lost her temper and went back to the Hou Mansion?

No, if she returned to the Hou Mansion, she wouldn't have heard the slightest news.

The Queen frowned in confusion and walked towards the table. When she reached the table, she inadvertently passed by the table and saw the remains of pastries on it.

Suddenly I remembered what the eunuch in charge said today.

"You said that Miss Shen Er sent a cake to the prince's study today?"

Hearing this, the eunuch in charge was a little puzzled by the queen's question, but he still replied truthfully: "Yes, Miss Shen Er sent a cake to the prince's study."

The queen lowered her eyebrows slightly and asked again: "Besides, what else did the prince eat today?"

The eunuch in charge did remember that today the nun in the dining room complained that the master had such a poor appetite and did not pass any food for most of the day.

So he replied: "Your Highness has lost his appetite today and has not been served. It must be because he has not eaten anything else."

The queen clearly remembered that Qi Zhen's eye disease was caused by poison from the assassin.

He only used the cakes sent by Miss Shen Er today. Where else could the poison be removed from the cakes?

The queen thought to herself that she had underestimated the concubine of the Shen family. Her expression was already filled with anger.

Qi Zhen and the secret guards said something about searching for the assassin, but they were probably looking for the escaped Shen Linglong.

She was filled with anger and scolded: "This Miss Shen Er is really bold!"

When I first met Linglong, I felt fondness for her cute and innocent look in her sleep, but now it has become complicated.

He even thought that it would be inappropriate for such a perverse girl to stay with Qi Zhen.

Otherwise, if you lose your temper today, you will be poisoned, and tomorrow your temper will hurt your hands. If things go on like this, no woman can be content in the back house.

Suburbs of Beijing, at the foot of Nanshan Mountain.

A carriage drove from the slope at the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. It stopped in front of a village halfway up the mountain.

"Second Miss, we're here." The coachman called from outside the carriage.

When Linglong heard this, the second young lady inside finally realized that she was being watched by her sister's people when she was at the shed where the carriage was rented.

She still looked a little awkward. Aunt Lan looked at her little appearance, shook her hand, and led her out of the carriage. As she got out of the carriage, she said: "This Zhuangzi, it took a lot of trouble for me." My thoughts are with the eldest lady, she will definitely be happy to live here."

As he said this, he pulled Linglong towards the village.

The courtyard door of the villa was open, and Linglong was pulled in by her nanny and walked in reluctantly.

As soon as she stepped into the villa, Linglong's originally stubborn and cold expression suddenly became filled with joy.

Shen Qinliu indeed put a lot of thought into this village.

This villa is exactly the same as the courtyard where Linglong lived in Yunzhou.

The rockery and pond, the painted corners on the eaves, the wind chimes hanging inside the courtyard door, and other ornaments all resemble those of Linglong Yunzhou’s old residence.

As soon as I stepped into this courtyard, I felt like I was back in Yunzhou when I was twelve years old.

"Miss, do you still like it?" Grandma Lan looked at the joy on her brows and asked with a smile.

Linglong pursed her lips and said nothing, but her expression was filled with fondness.

"Since the young lady likes it, I feel free to stay here. It's not in vain that the eldest lady and I have put so much thought into it." Aunt Lan said as she straightened Linglong's slightly messy hair on her temples.

Linglong smiled brightly, looking at the courtyard that was similar to Yunzhou Haosheng, her eyes were bright and bright.

The servant at the villa led Linglong to the inner room of her dormitory. Linglong went there with Granny Lan. As soon as the group reached the threshold of the inner room, a snow-white cat rushed out of the inner room. .

"Hey, it's Xueluo!" Qiu Shui saw it and shouted hurriedly.

The big fat dumpling named Xueluo jumped on Linglong's body with a swish, his two front paws were on both sides of Linglong's neck, and he sucked hard at her face.

Xedong was Linglong's cat when she was living in Yunzhou. Shen Qinliu gave her a gift when she was twelve years old.

Linglong raised her from a little dot to a chubby snowy girl.

Later, she came to the capital. Because Mrs. Ning'an Hou didn't like keeping cats in her house and Linglong had no friends in Beijing, she had to return the cat to her sister and asked her to find a good owner for the cat.

Shen Qinliu did not give the cat away, but kept it in this village.

"This Zhuangzi was originally a dowry prepared by the eldest lady for you, young lady. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to give it to you. Now you can stay here with peace of mind. When the ban on Jinling City is lifted in the future, if you want to return to Yunzhou , just go back." Nanny Lan said from the side.

Linglong hugged Xueluu, with a smile on her face and tenderness in her eyes. She took a bite of Xueluu and replied softly: "Okay."

At the second prince's house in the capital, the mute groom was gesticulating hesitantly in front of the second prince.

Today, the groom was originally responsible for taking Shen Linglong out of the city, but Linglong sneaked away with Qiu Shui because she was afraid that these people were involved with the imperial concubine and wanted to take her own life.

The groom waited and waited, but no one came back, so he panicked and started looking for the person. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find him. He had no choice but to come back and report the matter to the second prince.

Qi Mo sat in a wheelchair and looked at the groom's gestures. After understanding what he was talking about, he frowned slightly.

The cronies waiting on the side looked at the groom's gestures and asked, "Are you saying that Miss Shen Er ran away on her own? You can't find anyone?"

When the groom heard this, he nodded vigorously.

Qi Mo opened his lips and said: "Arrange some people to keep an eye on everyone in Jinling City. If you meet someone, you don't have to show up. Just protect them secretly."

When he finished speaking, he waved his hand and told the coachman: "That's it, get out of here."

The cronies on the side looked at Qi Mo's expression and asked tentatively: "That Miss Shen Er has no power to restrain a chicken. She is just a delicate young lady raised in a boudoir. She looks very delicate and timid when she is born. I thought, She must be a very timid young lady who needs to be taken care of, but she didn’t know that this Miss Shen Er had the guts to run away on her own.”

Hearing this, Qi Mo thought of old things and felt a sense of confusion in his eyes.

He shook his head and smiled, thinking of her appearance when she pushed him out of the secret passage of the East Palace in his previous life when the city of Jinling was destroyed, and replied: "Miss Shen, you have always been like this. She looks so delicate and timid, but her bones are so fragile." He is so arrogant and the most courageous."

On the day Jinling City was destroyed in the previous life, the third prince defected to the Tatars. Before the emperor died, he asked Qi Mo to escape with the jade seal and go to Luoyang to find Qi Zhen.

The third prince had already blocked the secret passage from the palace to escape from the capital, so Qi Mo had no choice but to escape through other passages.

The emperor told him the secret passage of the East Palace. Qi Mo went from the palace to the East Palace, but he suffered from leg disease. He rolled from the palace to the East Palace and his legs hurt from the fall.

Struggling to climb to the secret passage in the east palace study, he bumped into Linglong coming out of the secret passage.

At that time, Linglong was originally at the Ning'an Marquis Mansion. She hurriedly rushed to the East Palace through the secret passage, hoping to break into the palace from the East Palace and take Queen Qi Zhen out of the palace.

Qi Mo told her that the emperor and empress in the palace had died for their country.

As the mountains and rivers shattered and the rain fell, Qi Mo thought that Shen Linglong, who should have been pampered in the boudoir, would probably break into countless pieces like the duckweed in the heavy rain.

But she didn't, not only didn't, she even forced him to send him out of the secret passage before returning to the Hou Mansion.

Later, both he and she were captured by the Tatars.

Even Qi Mo found the humiliation from being kidnapped in Jinling to Luoyang unbearable, but Linglong was able to resist it.

What Qi Mo remembered most was the scene where the golden hairpin was stained with blood under the gate of Luoyang City.

The shock at that time made him unable to forget it even after two lifetimes.

He died together with her under the hooves of a Tatar horse. When he was about to die, the most splendid and painful scene before his eyes was Shen Linglong's blood-stained golden hairpin and the trampled bones.
Chapter completed!