Her Highness Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore

Hua Manman carefully unfolded the ball of paper.

On the palm-sized paper, a table was drawn, and the grid in the upper right corner was drawn with a red circle.

Both Hua Manman and Qinghuan looked puzzled.

What is this?

Hua Manman checked the note over and over again, wanting to see if there were any other reminders?

It turned out that there was nothing, there was only such a strange form on the paper.

Hua Manman studied the form all morning, but he didn't come up with anything. Instead, his eyes were sore and swollen.

Qinghuan reminded: "It's time for lunch."

Hua Manman rubbed his eyes, got up and went to eat.

When passing Bogujia, Hua Manman suddenly stopped.

She turned her head to look at the Bogu stand beside her, and asked a question abruptly.

"Do you think this shelf looks like a table drawn on paper?"

Qinghuan didn't understand what the form meant.

Hua Manman took out the small piece of paper and looked at the Bogu shelf in front of her. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that they were similar, but there were more grids on the paper than the Bogu shelf, so it must not be this Bogu shelf that was drawn on the paper. .

After finally getting some clues, she no longer had the heart to eat, and started looking for airs everywhere.

Eventually she found a bookshelf in the study.

The size and number of grids on that bookshelf are exactly the same as the table depicted on the paper.

Hua Manman asked someone to bring a ladder, and planned to climb up to see it himself.

Qinghuan hurriedly stopped her.

"This kind of thing... let... slave... come on, you stand... don't move."

Hua Manman touched her big belly, she was really not suitable for climbing up and down in her current appearance, so she nodded in response: "Then be careful."

Qinghuan climbed up the wooden ladder, took out all the books in the upper right corner of the bookshelf, searched carefully inch by inch, and found a gap between the wooden shelves.

She took the saber, inserted the sharp blade into the gap, and pried lightly,

Just heard a slight sound.

The wooden board was pried open, revealing a hidden compartment inside.

There is a metal ring inlaid in the dark compartment.

Qinghuan held the ring and pulled it out hard.

The bookshelf in front of her split into two, and began to move slowly to both sides.

Qinghuan immediately jumped off the wooden ladder and moved the ladder to the side.

When the bookshelf was moved away, an extremely hidden secret passage was revealed.

When Hua Manman was reading "Gong Mou", there was no mention of such a secret passage in the palace.

She was very interested in this secret passage and planned to go in and have a look.

Qinghuan clenched her saber tightly and walked ahead to open the way.

Hua Manman stuffed a letter written in advance into his sleeve, and walked behind with a lantern.

The warm glow of the lanterns illuminated the path beneath their feet.

They walked along the secret passage until they found a secret room.

There is an incense table in the secret room, with an incense burner and melon and fruit offerings on the incense table. A futon is placed on the ground in front of the incense table, and a portrait of a woman is hung on the wall behind it.

At this time, Mu Qing was kneeling on the futon, bowing to the portrait of the woman.

Seeing Hua Manman and Qinghuan appear, Mu Qing stood up, inserted the incense stick into the incense burner, and then spoke.

"My servant pays homage to His Royal Highness Princess Zhao."

Hua Manman looked at the woman in the portrait. The woman was born graceful and luxurious, and she was of extraordinary background at first glance.

Most importantly, her facial features gave Hua Manman an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Hua Manman couldn't help asking.

"Who is in the picture?"

Mu Qing: "She is the master of Chaoyang Palace."

Hua Manman was stunned for a moment before realizing that Chaoyang Palace was the residence of the first emperor's original wife, the empress.

In other words, the woman in the portrait is the first queen.

Hua Manman became more and more confused.

It stands to reason that she should not know the former queen, but she always feels that the former queen is familiar.

After looking carefully for a while, I felt that Empress Xian's facial features were somewhat similar to Li Ji's.

But there is no blood relationship between them at all, how can they be similar? Is it just a coincidence?

In Hua Manman's dazed effort, Mu Qing had already stuffed three sticks of incense sticks into her hands.

"Since the princess is here, let's offer incense to the former queen."

Hua Manman didn't understand what was going on, so he paid homage to the former queen in such a daft way.

Mu Qing watched her insert the incense stick into the incense burner, the expression on her face gradually softened.

Hua Manman asked belatedly.

"Why should I offer incense to the former queen?"

Mu Qing: "Respect the dead."

Hua Manman pointed to Qinghuan next to her.

"Then does she want to offer incense to the former queen?"

She was just talking casually at first, but Mu Qing actually stuffed three sticks of incense sticks into Qing Huan's hands, asking her to come and worship too.

Qinghuan didn't expect to be shot while lying down, so she had to follow suit.

Hua Manman has nothing to say now.

Mu Qing: "This secret passage was built by the empress, very few people know about it.

After the death of the first empress, the only people who knew the existence of this secret way were the slaves, and of course there are more of you now.

You go straight along this secret path, and you will lead to the flower garden.

There is a waterwheel behind the flower garden, you can hide in the waterwheel and sneak out of the palace. "

Hua Manman is full of doubts.

"Why did you tell us such an important secret?

Also, why do you know the existence of this secret passage?

Who are you? Why do you want to save me over and over again? "

Mu Qing avoided answering: "These are not what you need to know, now that no one notices that you are missing, you should leave quickly."

Hua Manman: "I won't leave, I still have things to do."

Mu Qing was puzzled: "What are you going to do?"

Hua Manman tells her plan.

"I'm going to see the queen mother and concubine Zhen. The queen mother wants to ask King Zhao to bring troops back to rescue him, but I don't want King Zhao to sacrifice his life for them in vain. I want to use this opportunity to negotiate with the queen mother and try my best to win the best interests for King Zhao."

Mu Qing looked at her stomach: "But you are pregnant now, if someone finds out, you will die twice."

Hua Manman pleaded: "So I need your help, can you send me a letter to Concubine Zhen?"

Mu Qing was moved by the determination in her eyes.

In the past, Mu Qing only thought that Hua Manman was a dodder flower that was attached to King Zhao. All the benefits she has now benefited from King Zhao. Only now did Mu Qing realize that she was wrong. Hua Manman is not just a weak dodder. Sihua, she is also doing her best to protect King Zhao.

They are two trees that accompany and depend on each other, standing side by side, no one is worse than the other.

"Give the letter to the servant."

Hua Manman took out a letter from his sleeve and put it in Mu Qing's hand.

"I'll leave this to you."

Mu Qing put away the letter: "You go back first, at the same time tomorrow, the slave will be waiting for you here."

"it is good."

Hua Manman walks out of the secret path with Qinghuan.

After the bookshelf was closed again, Qinghuan stuffed all the books back on the bookshelf.

Bring everything back to the way it was without leaving any traces.

...

I'm too sleepy, I'll go to bed first, and the remaining two chapters will be added at noon tomorrow.