Chapter 1960 [Shangxie] Search
The night wind was cool. In this dim and peaceful area, someone silently passed over the layers of black tiles and finally stopped on a corner of the eaves.
Her hair was blown by the wind and then fell slowly, carrying a waterfall of snow-like moonlight and soaking into her light blue sleeves.
Xia Fuyi stood on the roof holding a sword, enjoying the breeze. Her dark eyes reflected the building complex that remained magnificent even in the night, but her mind was still thinking about the map of the palace that she had just looked at many times.
She got it from an old beggar.
The people who know a city best are often not the residents or the prefects, but the beggars who have lived in the city for a long time - this is the experience Xia Fuyi gained from being a beggar for so many years, so today she just took the candied haws and asked among the little beggars, and easily found someone who could solve her problem.
I went over the map in my mind again, and just then the night watchman rang the bell for midnight.
Amidst the lingering sound of the night watchmen's drums, the guards at the palace gate began to be replaced. Without having time to think about the map again, Xia Fuyi moved her fingers slightly, and a wind blew in the blink of an eye, extinguishing the two largest lights in front of the palace gate.
When the shadow fell, she passed over the high palace wall like a shadow, leaving behind the vigilant guards in front of the palace gate, and fell into the palace silently.
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It was not until she had climbed over several palaces that Xia Fuyi realized that achieving her goal was not an easy task.
Her most important goal tonight was not to find out the identity of Changsun Qingzhao, but to find the Zichen Palace where the emperor lived and confirm who she saw in the glimpse that made her uneasy during the day.
But the Purple Palace was not easy to find. First of all, as the emperor's residence, it was located in the very center of the entire imperial city. Secondly, although Xia Fuyi had a strong memory... she was not very good at reading maps. What's more, the palace was full of patrolling guards. It was not an easy task to avoid them and pass through half of the palace to reach the center of the palace.
It took Xia Fuyi a full hour before she finally saw a plaque for the Weiyang Palace.
The slightly tired spirit suddenly lifted at this moment. The palace on the map was already very close to the Zichen Palace.
The green robe swept down from the roof in an instant and disappeared around the corner.
She thought she would be able to find the Purple Palace soon, but when she came out of the Weiyang Palace and looked around cautiously, the sight of the magnificent palaces and the palace maids and eunuchs walking by in groups of three or two with their heads lowered made her heart sink.
Miss Xia silently retracted her head and began to think about the chances of being caught if she rushed out directly. In the end, the countless guards she saw along the way made her give up this simple and crude idea.
Perhaps the closer to the emperor's bedroom, the more lively it is.
Xia Fuyi thought silently in her heart.
But Li Chi is not a person who likes to be lively and bustling. Did I really see it wrong?
Although she was thinking this in her head, Xia Fuyi did not intend to give up halfway.
She hid in a small garden behind a palace to rest for a while, and then started playing hide-and-seek with the palace people.
Unexpectedly, the game lasted until dawn as soon as it started and never ended.
It was not until this moment that Xia Fuyi finally began to understand the difference between the imperial palace and other places.
She could pass through the palace complexes outside very easily, but the closer she got to the center of the imperial city, the more difficult it became to get close.
There were guards patrolling almost every road, and more and more palace maids and eunuchs were coming and going, making it almost impossible to move.
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