Don't help me, I can sit up by myself

"But."

"If the emperor shows favoritism, then this slave must be punished. If he can let the emperor change the palace rules for him, then such a slave will definitely not be retained." Wei Bin spoke righteously.

The emperor was in a daze.

The Wei concubine is like this, which is quite similar to the opera where the emperor is fatuous and the empress in the middle palace does her job and does not obey the strict laws.

Queen Wei Zhaonan has been sitting in the middle palace for many years, and has never spoken such bold words in front of the emperor. Wei Zhaoning is her younger sister. She has only been in the palace for a short time, but she can still be neither humble nor overbearing, and distinguish between public and private affairs. She is indeed better than her predecessors.

It was just the emperor's nonsense.

Gao Rang took the blame for no reason.

The emperor wanted to tell the difference for Gao Rang, but Gao Rang was so nervous that he kept coughing and shook the whisk in his hand faster than a dog's tail.

Gao Rang almost said it, Your Majesty, now that Concubine Wei wants to deal with the slaves, let her handle it. If the emperor stops her again, Concubine Wei will report it to the Queen Mother. Don't mention it as a matter of punishment. Even this eunuch's hat needs to be taken off. Your Majesty, please don’t stop me anymore.

Sure enough, Gao Rang was fined his salary.

Du Jiyan was smart and quickly resigned.

Wei Bin: "Du Changzai is tired after waiting all day. Go back and rest."

The Emperor: "Du Changzai——"

Wei Concubine: "Is there anything else the Emperor needs Du Changzai to deal with?"

The emperor thought about it again and again, but he really couldn't think of any reason. If Du Jiyan can do it, Wei Concubine can do it too. What's more, it's getting late and it's time for Wei Concubine to go to bed. It's really inappropriate to leave Du Jiyan here. Light bulb.

Du Jiyan also begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother in his heart, hoping that the emperor would drive her away as soon as possible.

Gao Rang has learned from the past, and she is not as good as Gao Rang.

After working hard these days, I only served tea and water snacks, and did no other serious things.

What's more, her small kitchen cannot be without an owner for a day. She also wants to go back and be the boss of the small kitchen. At this time, she can still provide the palace with a supper.

"Du Changzai has been waiting for you all day, thank you for your hard work." The emperor said in a tone of voice: "Du Changzai is thinking carefully about whether there is anything wrong with the service. After all, you are a concubine, and serving me is the first priority, but Don’t do anything inappropriate.”

What the emperor means is, Du Jiyan, please quickly find a reason to stay.

Du Jiyan naturally lived up to everyone's expectations: "Your Majesty, what I have to do has been done, the tea has been made, and the snacks have been served. I will not disturb you and the concubine Wei anymore. I will leave."

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Du Zhiyan disappeared into the night with a touch of green clothes.

Wei Concubine picked up the tea, tasted it, and said with a smile: "Du Chang is very dedicated to serving people. The tea she poured is very suitable for my concubine's taste."

"Of course. As soon as she heard that you were coming, she served you very attentively." The emperor tied his hands and sighed while looking at the faint moonlight outside the palace.

Du Jiyan, you ran away really fast.

It slipped under the moonlight and disappeared without even leaving a shadow.

The moonlight is very good this night.

Moon star.

The bright moonlight poured on the bluestone outside the hall, as if it were coated with a layer of silver frost.

The numerous palaces rise and fall in the silver frost, and the high and low roofs are majestic and solemn.

The sky is white, blue and green, like a woven net hanging at the end of the sky.

The emperor looked outside the palace, and the concubines looked at the emperor.

"With such beautiful scenery on such a good time, I suddenly remembered a poem, which is quite suitable for the occasion."

"What poem?"

"There is a bright moon on the sea, and we are together at the end of the world. Lovers complain about the distant night, but they miss each other at night. The candles are extinguished and the light is full, and the clothes are wet with dew. I can't bear to give them away, but I still have a good night's sleep." Wei concubine said eloquently, she She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and a few poems cannot trouble her at all.

Since then, a common topic has emerged.

The emperor's writing is like a spring, and he studied under Shi Yu. He naturally knows a lot about poems about the moon.

Unexpectedly, the emperor seemed a little uninterested: "Is the moon good tonight?"

"The moonlight is pretty good. The sky is high and the moonlight is like silver. Your Majesty, would you like to go out for a walk and take a look? I want to come to the Imperial Garden under the moonlight, which has a unique beauty."

That's a good idea.

The emperor has this intention.

"Then let Concubine Wei accompany me for a walk while the moonlight is still good."

The moonlight is so beautiful this night.

The long corridor does not look dark even without lights.

The gentle moonlight shines on the long corridor, which is all silver-white.

Pass through the Weeping Flower Gate, then pass through two corner gates, and you will reach the Imperial Garden.

The weather is getting warmer and the flowers in the imperial garden are blooming one after another.

Peonies, peonies, roses, gardenias, longevity flowers, and hydrangeas. Some flowers are blooming so enthusiastically that they are as big as the mouth of a bowl. Speaking of those hydrangeas, there are sky blue, pink, and red, one by one, and they don’t look like this. Flowers, like a blanket made of hydrangeas.

When I came to the Taihe Palace to serve, it was almost always at this time. This road and the fragrance of flowers could be smelled from a distance through the palace wall.

Du Jiyan could walk these roads with his eyes closed.

But this night, the night was very quiet.

Perhaps it was because Dafu had just died and died so tragically, and the haunting incident made everyone uneasy, so as soon as it got dark, the palace became quiet, and there were far fewer concubines walking around as usual. The eunuchs and maids who came and went to collect things also tried their best to complete their tasks during the day, so as not to be questioned by their masters when opening and closing the palace doors at night.

After a long walk, Du Jiyan was sweating.

The pomegranate in my sleeve almost fell out.

This pomegranate is still a monitor purchased in the system. At first, she put some in Changle Palace and left a few in her Wanru Palace. The pomegranates eaten by Meng Yuzhu could no longer exert their effects, and the remaining ones were still barely usable.

But after these days, the pomegranate slowly became dry.

Once it dries up completely, the pomegranate monitor cannot be used.

Take the opportunity to take another look at the surveillance.

Du Jiyan took out the pomegranate and took a photo from left to right, but there seemed to be no signal. Then she took a photo up and down, but there was still no signal. She walked to the corner door, stood on the threshold and raised it above her head to take a photo again. This time she could see clearly. Monitoring Here is Changle Palace.

Judging from the experience of monitoring, at this time, Meng Yuzhu is either combing her hair in front of the bronze mirror, eating bird's nest served as a midnight snack from the kitchen, or soaking her hands in warm water with cashew nuts waiting for her, and some flower petals floating in the basin. But the strange thing is that this night, Meng Yuzhu was not on the surveillance camera.

Not only was Meng Yuzhu missing, Tian Lingyue was also missing.

There is a big durian in Tian Ling's moon room.

The durian monitor has the clearest view and the highest pixels.

But from the angle of the monitor, no one could be seen in the room at all.

Du Jiyan was puzzled.

Why is there no chief in Changle Palace at this hour?

Could it be a problem with the angle of the monitor? They went to a place where the monitor couldn't see it?

Let’s take a look at Wanrudian’s surveillance. Du Jinyan was always at ease when Wan Rudian's servants were doing things. Therefore, no surveillance was placed in the temple, but a pomegranate was placed on the ridge outside the temple. Basically, people entering and leaving Wanru Hall can see clearly.

You can see Nijo carrying a basket of herring into the palace, Papaya coming back with the washed clothes from the clothing bureau, and other palace maids and eunuchs also performing their duties.

It's not that as a boss, she has to monitor the work of her eunuchs and maids.

It's just that there have been a lot of changes in the palace recently, and like Changle Palace, which is holding back bad things, it has to be guarded against.

Under the moonlight, Du Jiyan's green clothes were very eye-catching.

The emperor and the concubines followed her, watching from a distance.

"What is Du Changzai holding in his hand? He's photographing it from left to right." Wei Bin couldn't help but ask.

The emperor couldn't see clearly either, it was a bit far away.

"Perhaps it's a bronze mirror. You women love beauty." The Emperor felt pleased with himself and thought to himself, "You are still pretending to me, pretending that you don't care about me, but in fact, you can't wait to tidy up your appearance all the time." , even on the way back to the palace, she never forgot to dress up in the mirror, not just to please me.

"I don't think it looks like a bronze mirror. Bronze mirrors will shine. The things in Du Chang's hands won't shine." Wei Concubine was a little puzzled: "When I was a child, I saw a wizard calling the wind and rain. When he called the wind and rain, he also held something. , photo left and photo right."

Where can the emperor believe it?

He would rather believe that he can control the wind and rain than believe that Du Jianyan has such ability.

"Du Chang was born in a small family. She doesn't have that ability. I don't understand her yet." The emperor was proud.

He thought that even Du Jiuyan's little charade could not escape his fiery eyes.

Wei Concubine was obviously a little embarrassed: "Your Majesty, I have no intention of slandering Du Changzai. I just think her behavior is a little abnormal. She seems a little sneaky."

"Really?" The emperor's tone was not kind, and he almost told Concubine Wei, please stop falsely accusing my beloved concubine.

The concubine Wei could only say: "Maybe it's because Du Chang is in a girlish mood, innocent and lovely, but I think too much. Tonight, the empress invites all the concubines to the imperial garden to enjoy the moon and flowers. They are probably all here by now. Such a beautiful scenery on such a good day, If the emperor can enjoy the moon together, the sisters will be very happy."

The emperor's eyes stayed on Du Jiyan.

That touch of green, thin and small, like a pom-pom.

Du Jiyan was about to walk forward when suddenly a pale figure fell down from the roof.

Pale colored clothes with silver woven Ruyi patterns on them.

With her hair tied up and a black crown.

Under the black crown, there is a silver mask. The mask is engraved with the flower of the other side. It covers the entire face tightly, almost covering the eyes. You can't recognize who it is just by looking at the face. He just felt that the silver mask was on his face, and the moonlight shone on the mask, everything seemed so mysterious.

Du just said a word.

Her first reaction was that there was an assassin in the palace.

Being able to climb down from such a high roof is impossible without some effort.

If he is an assassin, he usually wears night clothes. This man is wearing pale clothes. The Ruyi pattern on the clothes shows that the workmanship is valuable. Naturally, it is custom-made. This is very easy to be found. Isn't this a cover-up?

Judging from his clothing, he is a man, but he is thinner than ordinary men.

Except for the emperor, no men were allowed in the harem.

Especially at night, a man was walking in the harem and then fell down from the roof. He was obviously not seeing the light, and he must not be a serious person.

Du Jiyan was already a little defensive.

Wei Concubine looked at all this from a distance and was frightened. However, she was born in the Fuguo Duke's palace, so she could withstand the wind and waves. Although she was scared, she still held the emperor's arm firmly, and her voice did not tremble: " Your Majesty, something seems to be going on."

It's like talking about someone else.

The emperor's heart was already aroused. He was a man, so he naturally understood that the person who jumped down had some skills: "I don't know where a thief has entered the palace and wants to kidnap my concubine."

"Do you want to call the guards?" The concubine held the emperor's hand.

"No need." The emperor composed himself.

If he is a small thief, he can do it by himself without calling for guards. If he is a powerful master, the distance between him and the concubine Wei has already been discovered by others, and it is impossible to leave. In this case, it is better to stay in danger. Don't be afraid to stay here, maybe you can watch the excitement if you get close.

The most important thing is that the emperor is surrounded by secret guards.

Although he couldn't see it at this time, the secret guards around him were like nighthawks, ready to protect the emperor's safety at any time.

This is the palace, so of course the emperor is not afraid.

It's just that the emperor didn't allow it. These secret guards were like the stars in the sky and the wind in their ears, unable to make any sound.

Du Jiyan held the pomegranate tightly in his hands.

The man in gray clothes was close to Du Jiyan. When his hand touched, the pomegranate in Du Jiyan's hand fell to the ground.

Du Jiyan's heart also skipped a beat.

This man was obviously taller than Du Jiyan. Du Jiyan tried his best to raise his head, but he couldn't reach his shoulders. In the face of the absolute height and strength, Du Jiyan's resistance was meaningless.

His shadow was so long that it almost completely covered Du Jiyan's shadow. Not even the shadow can escape.

Now that he is firmly in front of her, he must be targeting her.

"What do you want to do?" Du Jiyan put his hands on his chest.

"Cousin, are you okay?" It was Cui Zhen's voice.

Du Jiyan was in a daze.

Years later, Cui Zhen was ordered to serve as a frontier fortress and lead troops under the King of Yue. The frontier fortress was thousands of miles away. Why did Cui Yi come to the palace in the dark? He was wearing a mask and was sneaky, which was not like Cui Zhen's style. .

"After the year, I went to the frontier fortress. I offended the King of Yue and was rejected by the King of Yue. The King of Yue wanted to kill me. I escaped but could not go home. I was afraid that the King of Yue's people would ambush me at home, so I could only sneak into the palace to see you. Because people He was so talkative that I had to disguise myself, I hope I didn’t scare you.”

The last time I saw Cui Zhen, he saved the emperor and was promoted by the emperor. In such a short period of time, he was hunted down by the King of Yue?

This plot is a bit mind-boggling.

Du Jiyan still couldn't believe it, but Cui Zhen had already put his arm on her arm: "Cousin——"

"Just say what you have to say." Du Jiyan thought in her mind. If this matter was true, Cui Zhen would come to her to either borrow money to escape or beg her to plead with the emperor. Other than that, she couldn't think of anything else. reasons.

Cui Zhen directly hugged Du Jiyan in his arms: "I was childhood sweethearts with my cousin, and I was obsessed with my cousin. It's a pity that my cousin entered the palace and became the emperor's concubine. I can no longer be on good terms with my cousin in this life, right? I can't rest in peace until I die. Now I have gone through all the trouble to get into the palace, just to see my cousin, just for—"

"why?"

"Just so that I can leave a queen for the Cui family before I die." Cui Zhen begged.

Outrageous.

Du Jiyan almost jumped up.

After staying for the Cui family, I couldn't find myself even if I held a lantern. I am the emperor's concubine after all. Isn't this a matter of confusing the royal bloodline? The emperor's petty mind knows this, so he won't let it go.

No normal person could think of such a crazy thing.

Besides, his brother Cui Zhen was a reliable person. Even if he died, he would die with his head held high. How could he come up with such a bad idea?

Although this person's appearance cannot be clearly seen, he is definitely not Cui Zhen.