The snowy night in the palace was even colder than outside the capital. The snow in the corner of the courtyard outside the palace had already covered the palace wall. The cleared space in front of the store was covered with a thick layer of snow.
Even if the doors and windows are closed, the interior of the palace is still as cold as an ice cellar.
Xia Shang hid in the palace waiting for the queen. Naturally, he could not openly light the brazier inside. He could only endure the cold and look out the window miserably.
When Xia Shang came to the palace, he felt the same as when his family came to the palace before. He always felt a little strange in his heart. He felt that the heavy snow and cold in the palace were especially worse than outside.
Xia Shang was a person who believed in his own feelings, so he looked out the window and looked at the snowy night sky.
The night sky was just as cloudy and snowy, but it seemed no different.
But just when Xia Shang was about to look back, he suddenly seemed to see some shadow in the dark clouds.
Xia Shang was suddenly startled and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He doubted whether it was his hallucination and quickly rubbed his eyes to see more clearly.
But when Xia Shang was ready to take another look, he could no longer see anything unusual.
Although he only saw it once, Xia Shang didn't believe that he was wrong at all, because the shadows in the clouds he saw before were so real, so huge, and seemed to be faintly moving, like...like...
…a giant dragon hiding behind the clouds…
This inadvertent discovery almost made Xia Shang's scalp numb, and he thought back to the last time King Yong told Xia Shang about his memory of the magic pen when he was a child, and what Ye Liuyun just told him today.
Master Sanqing calls on all the masters in the world to come to the capital to slay the dragon!
Xia Shang thought it was all a joke before, but at this time Xia Shang seemed to see a shadow in the clouds.
Is all this true?
Is it really because so many masters rushed to the capital to slay the dragon?
Do dragons really exist in this world?
Is the current weird weather really related to dragons?
Suddenly, countless questions appeared in Xia Shang's mind, and they were all strange things that could not be explained by his own experience.
One thing happened after another, and before Xia Shang could figure it out, the lights in the palace suddenly turned on.
A panicked palace maid came in carrying a lantern.
Because Xia Shang was distracted, he actually didn't notice the palace maid at all. By the time Xia Shang reacted, the palace maid had already noticed Xia Shang and was so frightened that she froze in place.
The two looked at each other for a moment and reacted almost at the same time.
palace maid dreaming
He would never have thought that a man would suddenly appear in the Queen's palace, and he would be so frightened that he would scream.
Fortunately, Xia Shang's hands were quicker and he threw the palace maid to the ground and covered her mouth tightly.
The palace maid was very young, only thirteen or fourteen years old. She had probably never experienced anything like what happened in the palace at this moment. She was so frightened that she burst into tears, thinking that she was going to die soon.
Xia Shang lowered his voice: "Don't panic, I'm not a bad person!"
The little palace maid thought to herself: How can a bad person admit that he is a bad person? This is the opening line of every murderous devil.
It was okay for Xia Shang not to speak, but when he spoke, the little palace maid struggled even more!
Xia Shang also realized that what he said was wrong, and said viciously: "Don't move, or I will strangle you to death now!"
It was so good that the little palace maid immediately became honest.
Xia Shang breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his grip on the little palace maid, and released his hand covering the little palace maid's mouth.
The little palace maid did not yell. Instead, she closed her eyes even more nervously and covered her mouth to express that she had not seen anything and would not say anything.
"what's your name?"
"Xiaodie."
"Are you the queen's personal maid?"
Xiaodie nodded.
"Where is the queen now?"
"I...I don't know."
Xia Shang's expression changed: "If you don't know where the queen is, it is of little value to me."
After saying that, Xia Shang let out a bad smile, stretched out his hand and slowly clamped Xiaodie's neck.
Xiaodie turned pale with fright and quickly changed her words: "I know...I know! I know where the Queen is."
"Take me there!"
"We...we can't go there now."
"Really?" Xia Shang sneered again.
The younger girl just couldn't stand the threat and quickly gave in completely.
Under the guidance of the little palace maid, Xia Shang arrived at a remote side palace, which was quite far away from the queen's palace.
I don't know if it was some fate, but Xia Shang suddenly recognized this dilapidated side hall courtyard.
In this small courtyard, Xia Shang fought against the old eunuch who was a master. It was also here that Xia Shang killed a master with his own strength for the only time.
It was also after that that he broke into the queen's palace in a daze, and the current story came about.
However, now the story has returned to its starting point, Xia Shang once again
This time I came outside this small side hall.
There was a faint firelight in the house, and Xiaodie weakly told Queen Xia Shang that the empress was inside.
Xia Shang frowned and pushed Xiaodie into the house. The queen's weak voice immediately came from inside: "Xiaodie, is that you?"
"It's me!" The queen responded to Xia Shang's cold voice. Following the voice, Xia Shang quickly arrived at the small bed in the palace.
Next to the bed was a basin, a handkerchief, and there were obvious blood stains on the floor and bed. The woman lying on the bed was pale and extremely weak. How could she look like the queen in Xia Shang's memory?
"Why is it you?!" The queen was stunned when she saw Xia Shang.
Xiaodie ran over, knelt in front of Xia Shang, and summoned up her courage to say, "Please don't hurt the Queen."
Xia Shang didn't speak, and people in the room already told Xia Shang that he was a step late.
After a long silence, Xia Shang asked, "Has the child been born?"
The queen frowned and nodded.
"What are your plans with them?"
"You promised me to take good care of the child!"
"Is this what they told you?"
The queen felt that Xia Shang's words were a bit strange and asked, "Didn't they tell you?"
"I only found out about this today, so I came right away."
"But they said you promised that you would take good care of the child and raise him!"
Qin Huairou lied to her!
Xia Shang's heart sank and he whispered: "I'm leaving, I hope it's still too late."
After saying that, Xia Shang turned around and left.
At this moment, the queen also reacted, her face changed drastically, and she burst into tears: "They want to kill my child! They lied to me! My surname is Xia, if my child has any shortcomings, I, Qinzheng, will be a ghost."
I won’t let you go!”
Xia Shang did not look back and had already left at this moment.
Xia Shang's mood was confused again. He ran quickly while thinking about all the things that might happen next.
Xia Shang had already considered it before. From Qin Huairou's perspective, she would definitely make the right choice for this family.
But not everything requires a correct choice. If things really go to the worst, Xia Shang is not sure whether he can forgive the woman he loves most.
Even if he can really forgive her, this incident will inevitably become a wound that cannot be healed between the two of them, and their lives in the future will never be able to return to the simplicity and purity of the past.