When Zhao Ji just walked out of the cold palace, he saw Yueying, who was hurriedly walking towards him with a group of people.

"I have caught this man. Let's put him in jail first."

Zhao Ji handed the person over to Yueying, and Yueying quickly sent someone to take the person away.

Zhao Ji no longer cared about the assassin. You know, if the people in the prison were not powerful, they would have been out of the prison long ago.

It won't be long before the killer starts talking.

Zhao Ji has been a little distracted these days while handling official business. In fact, his mind always unconsciously thinks of the woman he met in the cold palace.

How could such a gorgeous and beautiful woman not have a name in this harem?

Zhao Ji specifically looked up the records of concubines who were sent to the cold palace.

It was discovered that many concubines were sent to the cold palace simply because the emperor disliked them, and a small number of them were framed and sent there.

There were no portraits in these records, so Zhao Ji naturally didn't know which ones were related to the beautiful woman.

Zhao Jiyou asked the eunuchs and palace maids who had been in the palace for a long time in a roundabout way, mainly to ask them if they knew which beautiful concubine had been punished to the cold palace.

However, the gains were minimal, because these palace maids and eunuchs naturally thought that all the concubines were beautiful.

After all, my emperor is lustful. If she really is not pretty, I am afraid he would not even visit her in the first place!

In desperation, Zhao Ji had to give up asking people.

It was because during this period of time, his mind was always thinking of that beautiful woman's frightened eyes like a deer, so Zhao Ji decided to go to the cold palace again.

The cold palace is as desolate as ever. Even the trees are scarcer than outside the cold palace. It seems that there is no one here, so even plants are unwilling to grow here.

Zhao Ji walked in. The cold palace was as quiet as usual, and it seemed that a group of women's voices were coming from a distance.

Zhao Ji followed the sound and saw a group of women in simple clothes changing clothes in front of a sink.

They have been punished to the cold palace, so naturally they no longer have the hordes of servants they used to have, so they have to take care of their own clothes and other things by themselves.

Fortunately, these women seem to be living quite well even without the emperor.

Zhao Ji looked at everyone's face carefully, but did not see the person he wanted to see.

Since he didn't find anyone, Zhao Ji didn't plan to go forward. He turned and walked in another direction.

The palaces nearby are dilapidated and some of them seem like no one lives there at all.

Zhao Ji was tired from walking, so he simply pushed open the door of a palace and wanted to go in and sit down to rest for a while.

As a result, when they opened the door, their eyes met. The person looking at him was none other than the beautiful woman.

This woman seemed to be having her face so close to that of a man for the first time, and her face turned red all of a sudden.

It is even more beautiful than the fiery clouds in the sky.

The two looked at each other for a long time before Zhao Ji took the initiative to say, "Can I go in and find a place to sit and rest for a while?"

The woman blushed and nodded shyly: "You can come in."

The reason why Zhao Ji chose this palace to rest was because it looked particularly shabby from the outside.

Not only was the wall paint peeling off, but even the gate of the palace was particularly dilapidated. There was even a big black hole on the lower right side of the gate, and no one knew which rat had gnawed it.

In short, this palace looks abandoned no matter how you look at it.

But I didn't expect that after pushing open the door of the palace, I would find myself in a completely different world.

When you push open the door of the original palace, you will see the blue tile floor that extends all the way to the entrance of the main hall.

But the yard that Zhao Ji saw now was not made of bricks and stones. Except for a small path made of irregular stones, the blue bricks in other places had been uncovered.

Revealing the brown soil underneath.

These soils are divided into grids like the fields in the folk.

Different green plants are planted in different grids.

In some grids, there are simply some flowers planted. Now the flowers are blooming, and the colorful flowers are very beautiful.

From such a small courtyard, it can be seen that the owner of this palace lived a good life to a certain extent, but also lived a bad life to a certain extent.

If this woman lived a good life, she would not cultivate the land and grow crops in such a respectable courtyard.

Although Zhao Ji didn't recognize most of the plants, he still knew the sweet potatoes and some other edible vegetables on the ground.

It is obvious that these are not planted here for viewing, but only to fill the stomach.

The fact that a weak woman has to farm her own food is enough to show how she is living in the cold palace.

But if you say that she was not living a good life, this woman planted some flowers and plants next to the grain.

There are also some beautiful unknown flowers planted beside this path.

Even under the eaves of the main hall not far away, there was a bunch of peppers and some unfamiliar things drying in the sun.

If you ignore the fact that this is a palace and only look at the crops and flowers on the ground and the decoration of the main hall in the distance, you will feel that the people here must love life very much.

Zhao Ji walked silently, memorizing all the furnishings in the palace in his mind.

This woman seemed to be unaware of the palace rules, nor the strict rules between men and women.

She took Zhao Ji directly to her bedroom, which was called a bedroom but was actually a side room next to the main hall.

There is a bed and some simple tables and chairs inside.

Zhao Ji originally wanted to sit in the main hall, but when he went in, he saw that it was completely empty. There was nothing there.

With no other choice, he had to follow the woman to the bedroom.

Perhaps because no one had ever visited this woman, she was very frightened when Zhao Ji sat down, and she didn't even know what to do.

Zhao Ji could see that the woman was at a loss, so he said very considerately: "I'll just take a rest and leave, you don't have to worry about other things."

After hearing what Zhao Ji said, the woman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and a relaxed look appeared on her face.

Taking advantage of this atmosphere, Zhao Ji took the initiative to ask: "When did you come to the cold palace?"

When the woman heard what Zhao Ji asked, she was slightly stunned, as if she didn't know how to answer. She was silent for a long time, and then she thought for a moment and said, "I came here fifteen years ago."

When Zhao Ji heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

Not to mention that in the files he had seen before, there was indeed a concubine who was banished to the cold palace fifteen years ago.

You have to know that the earliest time in the file is only twenty years ago. The next one is the one who was sent to the cold palace fifteen years ago, and that person's entry into the cold palace at that time also caused turmoil in the previous dynasty.