Chapter 24:

Chapter 24:

    Jun Linghuan was taken aback: "Huh?"

    She didn't know why Xue Yan suddenly asked this. Want it? She didn't even think about it. She just regarded the stars in the sky, looked at them a lot, and kept them in her mind, but she never thought of taking them off.

    But I heard Xue Yan say: "If you want, I will pick it for you."

    So high! Still on a lake, how can you pick it off?

    Jun Linghuan asked in a daze: "How do you pick this..."

    Xue Yan glanced at her.

    Although this is Jun Huailang's sister, he doesn't have much patience and explains a lot to a child. He saw that the little girl's eyes were full of love, so it was a very simple matter, and there was no need to elaborate.

    Xue Yan glanced at it, and the path leading to the lake was full of branches, and if he was not careful, he would stab children. In addition to the danger by the lake, I have to keep an eye on her and not let her fall.

    "Wait," he said.

    "Yeah!" Jun Linghuan nodded obediently.

    Xue Yan saw that although there were no people around, but the lights were bright, he responded with a sound and turned to the lake.

    As he was walking away, the second prince, Xue Yunsu, happened to pass by here with a few chattering sons and he was going to the imperial garden to enjoy the scenery.

    From a distance, Xue Yunsu saw Jun Linghuan standing by the roadside alone, looking into the plum blossom forest.

    He made a gesture to make the surrounding boys quiet down.

    Then, they walked in front of Jun Linghuan: "Hey, isn't this sister Linghuan?"

    Jun Enze was on the side, and he also pretended to say: "What about your brother? How can you stand here alone?"

    Jun Linghuan said honestly, "It was the fifth prince who asked me to wait for him here."

    Hearing this, the expressions of several people changed. Several people looked at each other and looked a little weird.

    Xue Yunsu suddenly thought of that day, Jun Linghuan even made a special trip and gave Xue Yan a lot of lychees.

    "You still call him brother?" Xue Yunsu asked with a sour tooth and a weird smile.

    "Huh?" Jun Linghuan didn't understand.

    Xue Yunsu continued: "Don't you know? He is a monster and can eat people."

    Then, he squatted down, smiled strangely, and frightened her: "I don't know? Your brother doesn't know either. He is a wolf demon, pretending to be a human, just to find someone Opportunity to eat all of you and improve his cultivation."

    Several young masters showed interest in seeing Jun Linghuan's hesitant and fearful appearance. One of them also smiled and said, "He asked you to wait for him here, just to wait for midnight. The wolf demons eat children at midnight."

    Jun Linghuan stammered: "But...the fifth prince is a good man..."

    Xue Yunsu snorted, stood up, pulled her wrist, half dragged and said, "You don't believe it? You can't stay here for long. You go farther with us, I will Tell you slowly."

    Jun Linghuan raised his head in dismay and looked at Jun Enze, the only one he knew in the crowd.

    This brother lives in his own house, and he greets him with a smile on weekdays, and is very kind.

    But I saw Jun Enze laughing: "Come with us, Ling Huan, what are you afraid of following my brother? It's better than that evil star who is unknown."

    Jun Linghuan is skeptical, but the six-year-old little brain can no longer handle such complicated information.

    —

    The gate of the cold palace is closed and not locked.

      Now it has been uninhabited for more than ten years, no one has repaired it, and no one has taken care of it.

    A team of well-trained Jin Wuwei pushed open the door and entered the cold palace to start looking for people. This cold palace covers a large area. The former emperor who built this palace was uneasy in the harem. When he died, there were nearly ten concubines living in the cold palace.

    A group of Jinwu guards spread out in the cold palace.

    "Where should we go to find it?" As soon as he entered, Xue Yunhuan was frozen by the oncoming wind. The cold palace is shaded, and there is no burning dragon, weeds are growing in the courtyard, and the snow has not been cleaned up at all.

    Jun Huailang lowered his head and searched the ground.

    Few people come here, there should be no footprints on the ground. Although the snow has melted and froze again, it is very hard, but if someone comes, there will always be some traces left.

    Jun Xiaowu knew what he was going to do when he saw his movements. There is no leader in this team of guards, so when they come, they will be ordered to search directly, but this search has no clue and will waste a lot of time.

    He took a lamp and lit it on the ground.

    Jun Xiaowu spent two years in Yumen Pass in the northwest, and is much better at this kind of thing than Jun Huailang, who grew up in Beijing. After a while, he found a hidden footprint, and immediately pointed it to Jun Huailang: "Brother, look here!"

    Jun Huailang looked over, but couldn't see clearly. Jun Xiaowu explained: "It's a new footprint, going to the corner tower on the northeast side."

    Jun Huailang hurriedly walked towards the corner tower in the direction he pointed.

    Xue Yunhuan looked at this direction and muttered: "No way..."

    He grew up in the deep palace and knew the secrets of the palace best. I heard that in the previous dynasty, a palace concubine could not bear the desolation of the cold palace, and hanged herself in the corner tower on the northeast side. After that, only the palace servants went to collect the corpse in a hurry, and Bai Ling was still hanging there and never took it down.

    The three hurried to the corner tower.

    This turret is old, and the door is covered with a layer of floating soil. But as soon as the lantern was lit, they saw that the floating soil on the door clearly had fingerprints.

    Jun Huailang hurriedly pushed the door open and stepped in.

    "Ling Huan?" he called out.

    He called up a few times, and then heard a rustling sound, like the movement of a kitten. Jun Huailang was startled, and quickly took the two of them, all the way up the narrow, dark and damp stairs, and up two floors, only to hear a small whimper from the top floor.

    It's Jun Linghuan.

    Jun Huailang's heart was clenched together. He took three steps and two steps, and quickly went up to the top floor of the turret.

    Under the broken window, the moonlight shines brightly. Jun Linghuan was covered in dust, curled up under the bright light, sobbing sobbing.

    Jun Huailang took two steps forward and picked her up.

    "Huan'er? It's all right, my brother is here." As soon as he hugged him, he felt a chill in his arms. She must have been frozen here for a long time, her hands and cheeks were red.

    Seeing him coming, Jun Linghuan came back to his senses, buried his face in his arms, and finally dared to cry.

    But she was still speechless, she only whimpered, crying so much that Jun Huailang's heart trembled. At the same time, the nerves in Jun Huailang's forehead jumped, and a strange pain appeared.

    He had to follow Jun Linghuan's back and comforted softly: "Okay, it's alright."

    Behind him, Jun Xiaowu stepped forward, took off his heavy cloak, and wrapped the little girl in Jun Huailang's arms tightly.

    "Go back first, bro," he said. "It's too cold here."

    Then, Jun Xiaowu took the little girl wrapped in the cloak out of Jun Huailang's arms and comforted him: "It's okay, brother. I'm strong, I'm holding Huan'er ."

    Jun Huailang was still squatting in the same place, looking up at Jun Xiaowu's sister in his arms.

    As if something had been ingrained in his mind, struggling to break through.

    Besides, Xue Yunhuan saw his abnormality, thinking that he was too distressed, and quickly stepped forward to help him up. Before leaving, he did not forget to look at the beam with fear and trepidation. Unexpectedly, there was actually a broken white silk sash hanging, stained and pulling silk.

    Xue Yunhuan shuddered.

    Jun Xiaowu walked ahead, and the two of them followed, walking out of the wet and cold corner tower.

    The eldest lady of the Jun family finally found it. Jin Wuwei in the cold palace quickly brought the news to the emperor, and the busy harem finally calmed down.

    Then, it's time to ask for guilt.

    The three of them took Jun Linghuan and returned to the Yongle Hall under the **** of a group of Jinwu guards. It was really a shame to lose someone in the palace, so the emperor asked Lingfu to spread the news that Jun Linghuan had found to the ministers, so that they could continue to feast with peace of mind, and then ordered them to the apse.

    In the apse sits the emperor and his concubines, as well as the Duke and his wife Yongning who are anxiously waiting beside them. Xue Yan knelt down alone under the steps, and no one spoke.

    Seeing that Jun Linghuan was found, both of them were relieved. But seeing Jun Ling Huan shrinking into a ball again, Mrs. Shen shi suddenly burst into tears.

    The queen instructed from the side: "Go to Xuan imperial doctor. The cold palace is so cold, don't let the child get sick."

    The emperor looked at Jun Huailang and the others and asked, "Can we find out the reason? How could such a young child go to the cold palace alone?"

    Jun Xiaowu glanced at Jun Huailang. Seeing that his face was pale, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and he looked like he was still out of the situation, he quickly replied for him: "Report to Your Majesty, I haven't asked the reason yet."

    The Qing Emperor frowned and looked at Jun Linghuan: "Linghuan?"

    He was thinking about how to ask questions gently, but when he saw Jun Linghuan being called by him, he raised his head sobbing, and then suddenly saw Xue who was kneeling three steps away Yan.

    Suddenly, the expressions of everyone in the apse changed.

    "Xue Yan, is that you?" Emperor Qingping slapped the armrest and said angrily.

    He wanted to raise his hand to comfort Jun Linghuan, but his hand trembled and could not lift it.

    And over there, Xue Yunhuan and Jun Xiaowu both showed anger and looked at Xue Yan. Xue Yan knelt on the spot, with his eyes down, his face expressionless, without a word of explanation.

    The Emperor Qingping was so angry that his back was shaking.

    The inverse! From the moment of birth, that is, the death of the star, the only thing that has brought him for more than ten years is endless trouble. Up to now, it has cultivated such bad virtues and disgusting characters.

    A disgrace to him.

    "Come here, drag Xue Yan down! Put him on the stick for thirty times, put him in the Buddhist hall to think about it, and don't let me see him again!"

    Immediately, Jin Wuwei stepped forward to execute his orders.

    Xue Yan remained silent, but when he got up, he glanced at Jun Huailang.

    Jun Huailang raised his eyes in dizziness and pain, and met a pair of amber eyes.

    A bottomless amber color.

    Suddenly, the unbearable pain in Jun Huailang's mind disappeared, and it became an unprecedented clarity. A large segment of unfamiliar and familiar memories flashed like a revolving lantern and entered his mind without any disobedience.

    He finally recalled all of the nightmares that had tormented him these days with unparalleled clarity, repeating each night.

    He also found where the endless cold and loneliness in the nightmare came from.