The crooked poem says: "If you ask how deep the palace is, you can't hear the chirping of spring orioles. The palace maiden's bare hand drawing of maple leaves is worthy of conveying sadness and tenderness."
Ye Ling pretended to be a eunuch and walked for a long time carrying a food box. He saw many palaces, but none of them were the queen's residence.
Just when he was wondering, the eunuch who looked like he was quite old stopped him with a wave of a whisk: "You little monkey, you are so unruly, why are you running around?"
Ye Ling hurried forward, lowered his head and said, "Back to father-in-law, I'm new here. I was assigned to deliver food boxes to the Queen, but I can't find the place."
The old eunuch smiled when he heard this: "I can't blame you for this. Who asked our queen to live in a side place? Come on, come on, our family will show you the way. Go east along the bridge and see a courtyard. Then This is the Queen’s residence, go quickly and don’t look around!”
"Thank you, father-in-law."
Ye Ling fled as if fleeing, not wanting to stay too long with the people in the palace.
After crossing the bridge and heading east, I saw a small courtyard. There were two willow trees in front of the door, but there were not many branches and leaves on the ground. It could be seen that it was cleaned frequently.
When I came to the door and looked inside, I saw that the courtyard looked like an ordinary farmhouse, with a well and a millstone, and a little yellow dog running and barking, reminding me of the stranger Ye Ling.
Not long after, a maid came out of the house, but she was also dressed in linen and coarse clothes, unlike the attire of a maid in the palace. She asked Ye Ling, "What's the matter?"
Ye Ling hurriedly said: "I'm delivering a food box to the Queen!"
"So that's it," the maid nodded and said, "Then you can send it in! Ah Huang, stop barking!"
The little yellow dog scolded him, closed his mouth and wagged his tail, but still kept a fixed distance from Ye Ling and ran back and forth, and the vigilance in his eyes did not relax.
Ye Ling stepped in and felt a sense of tranquility in the small courtyard. It was not as magnificent as the palace, but it was extremely reassuring.
The maid opened the door curtain and let Ye Ling walk in.
I saw that the hut was not big, and there were only some tables and chairs inside, with no decorations. There was a loom on the side against the wall, and a woman in plain clothes was sitting in front of the machine weaving.
The movements of bolting and weaving are natural and skillful, and can be done in one go. It takes some experience to be so smooth.
Ye Ling stood there, unable to believe that the weaver girl in front of him was the queen of the Daqian Dynasty.
Seeing Ye Ling standing there, the maid on the side said, "Why don't you pay homage to the Queen?"
Just as Ye Ling was about to speak, the queen stopped what she was doing, turned around and said with a smile: "No need to be polite, it's true. Who would have thought that the queen would live in a place like this, spinning and weaving?"
Ye Ling raised his head slightly and looked at the queen. He was immediately shocked, but he only saw the beauty in front of him: "
A sprig of cold jade dew is fragrant, so there is no need for pink and black makeup to be beautiful.
The clear water is clear and the waves are vast, and the flowing clouds are graceful and the moon is vast.
Bright eyes smile at the willows in the spring breeze, looking forward to the amber light.
The tenderness and fate are gone, leaving a broken heart. "
The person in front of her was none other than the Queen of the Daqian Dynasty, Meng Wan Palace.
Meng Wan Gong walked to the chair and sat down, and asked Ye Ling: "What did you give me?"
It took a while for Ye Ling to come back to his senses after being photographed by the maid next to him, and said quickly: "You just asked me to deliver the food box, nothing else."
Meng Wan Gong waved her hand, and the maid took the food box and walked out.
"You are not from the palace." Meng Wan Gong looked at Ye Ling calmly, with a pair of clear eyes that seemed to be able to see through all the illusions in the world.
However, as soon as these words came out, Ye Ling was shocked and said quickly: "I'm new here."
Meng Wan Gong smiled slightly: "You don't have to hide it from me, and you can't hide it. You are not a servant, you can recognize it at a glance."
Ye Ling straightened up and looked at the queen, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Not long after, the maid came back, and Meng Wan Palace asked the maid to continue weaving, ignoring Ye Ling.
Ye Ling didn't know whether to leave or stay. He didn't know what to do for a while.
Listening to the sound of the loom, Ye Ling couldn't help but ask: "The queen is the head of the harem, and her mother honors the world, why do she still do this?"
The maid on the side turned to look at him, her face full of confusion. Although there were a lot of discussions in the palace, this was not something a servant could ask face to face.
"Why can't you do this?" Meng Wan Gong said with a smile: "Even if you are in the harem, you are still a human being. What you do and what you don't do should not be decided by others. I am the queen, but I am also myself. People always It’s time to put yourself first, then others.”
Ye Ling was silent and turned to leave, but was stopped by Meng Wan Gong: "You can't move around freely in the palace, where are you going?"
Ye Ling didn't answer, and he didn't know where to go. He originally thought that after rescuing Qu Zhiyun, he would make what happened in the valley public. But he chose to leave it to others.
He came to Taiyue City just to find his third brother Wu Qing, but so far he has found nothing and doesn't even know where to go.
Coming to the palace was just a whim, and I almost fell into a trap. Now when asked by others, I really don’t know what to answer. After all, he never had an answer.
Meng Wan Gong said: "Go to the courtyard and fetch water for me."
Ye Ling nodded when he heard this, walked out, and came to the well in the yard. The water inside was calm and silent, which made Ye Ling sit by the well and think about things.
The little yellow dog in the yard was walking around Ye Ling, wagging its tail and sticking out its tongue. It seemed that he no longer regarded him as an enemy.
As dusk deepens, the water tank is still empty.
The maid came out and saw Ye Ling sitting on the edge of the well in a daze. She said angrily: "I have never seen a servant like you in the palace. He turned a deaf ear to the master's words and came here to be lazy!"
Hearing this, Ye Ling came back to his senses, smiled sheepishly, turned around, picked up the bucket, and filled the bucket with several buckets of water.
Meng Wan Gong walked out of the house and asked Ye Ling to sit with her at the stone table in the courtyard. The maid came to bring tea and then went back to the house to rest.
Meng Wan Gong said: "It's a pity that I don't have good tea to entertain guests here."
Ye Ling smiled, picked up the cup and said, "Good things need to be matched by people who know the goods. I don't understand tea, and I can't tell the difference between good and bad."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Ling took a sip, then his face wrinkled, he suppressed the feeling of spitting out, and swallowed it bit by bit.
Meng Wan Gong smiled and said: "If you can't swallow it, there's no need to force it." As she said that, she also took a sip, but she was very calm.
Ye Ling was puzzled: "This is not tea at all, just ordinary leaves."
"It's just ordinary leaves," Meng Waggong said: "I just put the leaves in a teacup and brew it with water, and you think of it as tea. What is tea? Are you looking at the leaves or the bowl?"
Ye Ling didn't answer. He lowered his head and looked at the leaves in the cup, seeming to realize something.
Meng Wan Gong continued: "Are you Ye Ling?"
Ye Ling was startled and asked subconsciously: "How did the queen know?"
Meng Wan Gong smiled and pointed to the maid in the room: "Jing'er goes out to chat with people every day, looking for some interesting things from the outside world to tell me. You have made Taiyue City tremble, and everyone is in danger. I Even though I am in this courtyard, there are people who have heard about it.”
Ye Ling laughed at himself: "I didn't expect that I would be so famous. I didn't expect it. I don't know whether to cry or laugh."
"Cry if you want to cry, laugh if you want to laugh," Meng Waggong looked at Ye Ling and said, "At least you are free and don't need to be trapped in a cocoon."
"But who can be free?" Ye Ling looked at the willow branch at the door: "The catkins will go away with the wind, so what will happen in the human world?"
Meng Wan Gong laughed again: "I heard that you once became a minister of the DPRK, why did you leave again?"
Ye Ling smiled bitterly: "You are just a chess piece in the hands of others. Once you enter the chessboard, you can't help it. You think you are a charging general, but in fact you are just a bait for the next generation, a discarded piece, and someone who has never been taken seriously. It’s just a doll.”
Meng Wan Gong smiled and said nothing, lowered her head and drank "tea".
Ye Ling stood up and looked towards the north of the palace, frowning slightly. His spiritual consciousness was strong, and he vaguely felt a familiar Taoist charm from there, but this familiarity was something he didn't want to see again.
"If you want to take a look, go and take a look," Meng Wan Gong said.
Ye Ling looked away: "What's over there?"
Meng Wan Gong shook his head: "I haven't been out of this courtyard for a long time, and I don't know much about the palace."
Ye Ling was curious as to why Meng Wan Gong lived like this as a queen, but he did not ask, but said: "Baili Longteng, he..."
Meng Wan Gong waved her hand to stop Ye Ling's words: "I haven't seen him for a long time. I don't know anything about him, and I don't want to know."
Ye Ling nodded when he heard this and stopped asking. He reached out to pick up the tea cup on the table and drank it all in one gulp: "Maybe if I don't come back, I won't be able to drink."
After saying this, Ye Ling used Xuantian Afterimage, and his figure disappeared.
Meng Wan Gong looked at the door and smiled secretly: "The person you like is indeed very good."
At this time, the night had fallen, and most of the palace was quiet. Only an open space in the north is brightly lit, and many people are working overtime on construction.
This is exactly the practice formation that Baili Longteng invited the Mohist master craftsmen from the Artifact City to build for him. It is said that it can gather spiritual energy from all directions, making practice twice the result with half the effort.
Zhao Yu, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of etiquette, was guarding the work. He was working overtime and had to finish the work as soon as possible.
On a roof, Ye Ling stood on the tiles and looked down. The Tao charm that he was familiar with was fleeting, and then lost its direction, which brought him here.
Suddenly, Zhao Yu seemed to notice something, stood up and walked away, making Ye Ling feel like he was facing a powerful enemy and did not dare to make any move.
Fortunately, Zhao Yu did not go towards Ye Ling, but went in another direction.
But not long after, Ye Ling saw a person appear on the eaves next to him. The man also noticed Ye Ling and turned to look over.
Their eyes met, and the man's face was full of helplessness: "I owed him in my previous life? How come I can meet him everywhere I go!"
Ye Ling raised his eyebrows, this person was none other than Shifting the Sun, Yue Zhufeng.
Yue Zhufeng came to Ye Ling's side in a blink of an eye and said angrily: "Why can't I get rid of you? Now I can see you in this heavily guarded palace?"
Ye Ling smiled slightly and said, "Shouldn't we be happy to see old friends in this dangerous place?"
"Bah!" Yue Zhufeng said angrily: "I'm telling you, don't follow me anymore." After saying that, he left.
Ye Ling was suspicious at this moment. Yue Zhufeng and Ming Xuyu first came to Taiyue City to follow Wei Xunhuan to the valley outside the city, and now they ran into the palace. The reason may not be simple.
After all, Ye Ling had already discovered Baili Longteng's use of evil methods to cultivate, and he didn't know what he would gain this time.
