Emperor Jin

Chapter 174 The Secret
She took advantage of the chaos to put the cloth into her sleeves, at this time everyone looked intently, and saw a shoe floating on the lake, which was exactly the same pair as the one on Aunt Ren's feet.

Zhang Xun's apprentice spat and said with a smile: "Do you think you saw a water ghost? You look like a woman in surprise."

Just now he said this, seeing Bao Jin beside him, he quickly apologized with a smile: "Miss, forgive me, I don't know the door with this mouth, what are you talking about!"

As he was about to slap his mouth, Bao Jinqiang stopped him with a relaxed smile, "Your mouth... will cause trouble for your master one day."

She followed the onlookers in a few perfunctory words, turned around and left without showing a trace, leaving behind Zhang Xun with a sad face, and didn't care about the nonsense of her apprentice, just stared at the corpse in a daze, "She fled without a trace. How did you die here?"

Bao Jin hurried back to the inner room, closed the door of the palace tightly, and did not roll up the curtain, looking at the half piece of cloth in his hand in the dim light.

This cloth is extraordinary, even in the dark, it is still silky and shiny, as if it is nothing.There was half an inch of embroidery on it, and she took a closer look—it was the dragon's tail!

This kind of fabric, this kind of pattern...is the emperor's dragon robe!
Baojin's heart tightened, and the hand holding the cloth was almost sweating coldly.

Aunt Ren's death was full of strange causes, yet she held a corner of the emperor's dragon robe in her hand!
She was at a loss for a moment, so confused that she didn't know what to think.

Ji Xin knocked on the door worriedly, "Miss...?"

"I'm fine..."

Baojin agreed, and then put away half of the fabric.

Her heavy eyes narrowed slightly, she just felt that the whole palace was full of storms, with a strange and sweet smell.

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Strange things happened in the middle of the night.

Bao Jin was sleeping soundly in the room, but he heard two rustling noises on the window paper, and when he opened his eyes vigilantly, he saw a distorted figure reflected on the window paper.

"Who's outside...?!"

Ji Xin, who was sleeping on the couch, also woke up suddenly, and shouted in a low voice.

The black shadow swayed for a while, as if panicked, but then, he still hesitated and refused to leave.

Baojin put on his clothes and got up, and ordered softly: "Don't make a sound, this person seems to want to lure me out."

Her voice was clear, without the laziness of just waking up, "Since you intend to meet, wait for me for a while."

Ji Xin said softly: "Miss, be careful of fraud."

Bao Jin nodded slightly, then put on his outer robe and went out without hesitation.

The man was wearing a black Zhaojun pocket, which hid his head and covered his face in a mysterious, but very old fashioned style. It looked like a woman, but she didn't look young.

Seeing Bao Jin, she coughed, "I have seen His Highness the Second Highness."

Then he didn't say much, just said: "Your Highness, come with me." He walked away.

The Qianqing Palace is an important place in the Forbidden Garden, but she seems to be very familiar with it. After wandering around in the apse, she finally found the keyhole from a hole sealed with waste gas, opened it with difficulty, and then led Bao Jin in. Ningbi Garden.

Ningbi Garden is the closest flower garden to the emperor. The trees are lush and towering. When Baojin’s father was around, he was fascinated by all kinds of novel handicrafts. He often used local materials here to make weird objects. I can also plant flowers and compose poems.

At this time, the night was dark, and the heat of the day was blown by the night wind, leaving nothing left. Only the stars twinkled in the sky, illuminating this world where all things were sleeping. Baojin closely followed the man in front, rustling through the forest, There was a burst of coolness in the breath he exhaled.

The man finally stopped and took off his cloak. She was a woman in her forties, with shrewd and familiar features in her pretty features.

"You are...Xu Shanggong?"

After Baojin looked at it for a while, he suddenly remembered.

Xu Shanggong smiled so charmingly, "Your Highness still remembers your slaves, it's a blessing."

She is a trusted female official beside Bao Jin's father, she has always been shrewd and agile, Bao Jin had inquired about it when she entered the palace, but no one knew the whereabouts of this Lord Shang Gong, she did not expect to finally see her today.

"Where have you been?" Bao Jin asked.

Xu Shanggong's smile faltered, "On the day of the palace change, I wanted to escape from the palace. I never thought that I would be surrounded. I served the late emperor, and I was afraid that I would end up in the hands of bandits. Fortunately, they only caught brocade The people around His Royal Highness Yuan didn't make things difficult for me, so they were transferred here from afar to get some flowers and plants, and they felt at ease."

Listening to Bao Jin, Bao Jin felt that she wasn't lying - the emperor father was mediocre, and those meanings hated his sister the most, but he didn't have the heart to get entangled with the old emperor who died, which allowed her to escape.

Xu Shanggong sighed, tears almost fell from his eyes, and without waiting for Bao Jin to ask, he said dejectedly: "My servant saw Your Highness from a distance, and dared not recognize you... Do you know that His Highness Jin Yuan died too soon?" Crap!"

She was choked with sobs and could not make a sound, her whole body was shaking like chaff, but she resisted and refused to make a sound.

Bao Jin felt a chill all over his body, and asked eagerly, "How did my sister die, is it the queen..."

Xu Shanggong was surprised, and hissed: "My lady, what are you talking about, my lady was killed by this wolf-hearted new emperor!"

She was so angry that her voice was hoarse, as if there was a kindling in her throat, and she was about to spit it out——

"This wolf-hearted man, the ungrateful Zhongshan wolf, is crossing the river and tearing down the bridge!"

When Baojin cried out, the hairs all over her body stood on end, her hands and feet felt cold, and her heart beat faster—is the truth about the downfall of the dynasty and the strangeness of her sister finally coming to light at this moment?

Only Xu Shanggong barely stopped crying, and said in a low voice: "Actually, His Royal Highness Jin Yuan is too confused... Although she is dressed as a man, she is a girl after all. If things go on like this, she finds it boring, so she began to sneak out of the palace to travel. .”

"First it was the capital, and later, it was Yunzhou and other places-there is the empress's mother's house. There, she met that man, that wronged person in her life..."

As Xu Shanggong said, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

(End of this chapter)