Emperor Jin

Chapter 38 The Secret Path
The smell of ambergris was deep and strong, soaking into the heavy clothes and robes, and the cold skin seemed to feel the silence of this temple, and it became slightly hot.

Bao Jin knelt on the ground, lowered his head, let his hair hang down to cover his eyes, but looked gentle and helpless.

"Get up!"

The queen finally called her to get up, but Bao Jin didn't look up, only heard the sound of pages turning.

After a long while, the queen said: "Is there anything wrong with you accompanying the emperor?"

Bao Jin thought for a moment, then said: "The emperor hasn't eaten much these days, the rest is fine."

"Um……"

But the queen didn't seem to care about that, she responded with a long voice, and then asked an irrelevant question——

"When your father was here, did you ever talk about the affairs of the previous dynasty?"

Bao Jin didn't expect her to change the subject suddenly, and said somewhat vaguely: "Father is very sorry for the country's destruction..."

The queen didn't get angry, and continued to ask: "What else?"

"He didn't tell me, he just sighed often."

After the queen heard this, her complexion became more and more relaxed. She glanced at the woman under the steps, and saw that her clothes were a little messed up. After asking why, she ordered someone to bring her a new palace dress, and said a few words of comfort, and finally let her go. Someone sent her back.

After Bao Jin left the palace, Lin'er stepped forward and said, "She came back with Xu Jieyu..."

"Is Concubine Yun Xian's niece? That girl looks okay, she is very steady and introverted, and she doesn't seem to have any intention of competing for favor."

Thinking of her cousin again, the queen felt bored for a while, and ordered: "If the aunt at home comes to cry, just stop her!"

At this time, someone from outside the hall came to report again, saying that it was Wang Meiren who reluctantly got up and wanted to come to see the empress.

The empress looked displeased, and thought of how loyal she had served her for many years, so she was declared into the palace.

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When Bao Jin returned to the residence, her whole body seemed to collapse. She slumped on the bed and let Ji Xin change her clothes. She seemed to hear the sound of blood rushing in her ears. Pain.

"Miss, don't scare me!"

Ji Xin flickered anxiously in front of her eyes, and the overlapping figures finally brought back a trace of clarity in her.

"You go out first... I want to be quiet."

Baojin's spirit is like a gossamer.

Ji Xin was anxious and worried, but she had no choice but to push the door and retreat, leaving the room to Baojin in silence.

Bao Jin buried his head deep in the cotton quilt, his whole body was shaking, like the convulsions and sobs of wild beasts when they betrayed their relatives.

She wanted to cry, but she couldn't shed tears, her eyes almost burst into flames, but she finally fell into depression——

"Sister...what do you want to do?!!"

A heart-wrenching low drink came out from under the quilt, hoarse as if the strings of a piano were broken, making one's heart palpitate.

She didn't want to look at it, didn't want to think about it, but her thoughts still couldn't help but return to the night...

Withdrew from Muyu Courtyard, which became the fire site of Shura, and the prince left the secret contact information, and hurried back to the post house. Bao Jin was still suspicious, and despite Shen Hao's persuasion, she returned to the post while the fire was about to extinguish. Go to the courtyard and take a closer look.

She couldn't find any clues from the man in black later on. She glanced at the hilt of the sword, but saw that there were vague words on it, and when she looked closely, there was an engraved serial number.

This is used by the palace guards!

There was a sudden bang in her mind, and this thought came to her.

For this delay, there were already frequent voices from outside - the dawn was approaching, and the government office also heard the news, and the neighbors from left and right came to fight the fire together.

She didn't want to cause trouble, so as Shen Hao said, she lifted an inconspicuous bluestone slab in the courtyard, and planned to return to the green building separated by a wall from the secret passage.

The secret passage was full of dust—no wonder the prince was in such a mess last time, Baojin walked down in one go, and within ten feet, he saw the exit.

In front of the exit, there was an open space of more than ten feet, and there was no room. Some rocks were piled up in a mess, and it was also covered with spider silk and dust.

When Baojin saw these chaotic rocks, for some reason, it touched the hidden thoughts in his heart, and a burst of sadness came from his heart——

When she was young, her elder sister Jin Yuan liked playing with chaotic rocks the most. She arranged those strangely shaped rocks into various formations in the book of war, and they looked exactly the same. Once, she even trapped Xiao Baojin in it for two hours. , It was not until she wept for a long time that she was found.

From then on, Jin Yuan restrained himself a lot, even if he practiced formations, he would find a secluded place by himself. As a result, he suffered a headache from seeing his sister cry.

Thinking of this, Baojin felt sweet and sad at the same time, and almost shed tears in this dark and secret passage.

With trembling hands, she laid out the stones one by one according to the appearance in her memory. Thinking of her sister's words and deeds, she felt miserable again.

After she was done with it, she turned around to leave, but she heard a light squeak behind her, and suddenly turned back, only to see two dark portals exposed on the other side of the cave wall.

Among the secret passages, there is actually a secret passage? !

(End of this chapter)