Something happened to Shuixiu?!

Hearing this sentence, I just felt a buzz in my head, and I hurriedly grabbed her. When I spoke, my voice changed: "Shui Xiu--Shui Xiu, what's wrong with her?"

"I don't know very well. I just heard someone outside saying that Shuixiu fell into the lake and was behind the cold palace. I don't know that she——"

Fell into the lake?

Could it be that Nangong Lizhu has already taken action?!

The shadow that had been weighing on my heart for a long time became a reality. I felt that the blood in my whole body was cold, and my voice was trembling: "You, please take care of me, I - I will go -"

When I said the last few words, I was almost trembling so much that I couldn't speak anymore, but Xing'er nodded and said: "Well, I will serve the Queen Mother and the eldest prince here. You go and have a look."

I nodded, turned around and rushed out.

Leng Palace is far away from Jingren Palace. It took me a long time to run over there non-stop. My body was already a little weak. After running so hard, I felt like I was out of breath.

, my chest was throbbing with pain from my heartbeat.

Getting closer...

I walked around the wall outside the cold palace and passed through a long corridor, which was the lake. I ran desperately in the corridor. There was no one here. It was so quiet that I couldn't even hear the wind. It was just me.

My breathing and heartbeat echoed in my ears.

My feet felt weak and I almost fell. I quickly held on to the wall and managed to catch my breath.

When I looked up, I saw the sparkling lake at the end of the corridor.

That is——

When you don't think about it, memories are dead, but once you touch a little bit, it's like throwing the smallest stone into a calm lake, and there will be no more peace. Ripples appear in your heart, turning all memories into

Alive.

That was the place that changed my life.

When I thought of this, I just felt my heart was in confusion. I felt cramps in my chest, which made it difficult to breathe. I could only bite my lower lip to hold on. I took a deep breath and stumbled.

Ran over.

Shui Xiu! Shui Xiu! Don’t let anything happen to you, don’t!

Finally out of the tunnel, a large lake immediately appeared in front of us. In the lake, there was a person struggling, causing a big splash.

"Shui Xiu!" I yelled and ran over quickly. She was not far from the shore, but she was struggling hard. I had just gotten closer and my skirt was already soaked by the lake water. I couldn't care less.

He reluctantly grabbed a small tree stump on the shore and stretched out his hand towards her: "Shui Xiu, grab my hand, grab my hand!"

She looked like she didn't know how to swim at all, burying her head and splashing in the water, making huge splashes.

"Shui Xiu, catch me quickly!"

This time she seemed to have heard my words, struggled twice, and stretched out her hand towards me.

Seeing her slowly flopping over, she was about to touch my fingertips. At this moment, a light suddenly flashed in my mind——

Wrong!

From the time Myolie returned to Jingren Palace and told me that Shuixiu fell into the water, at least one stick of incense has passed. Why is she still struggling in the water? Since someone told Myolie, someone else must have seen her fall into the water.

Yes; since someone saw it, why was there no one around here, and no one came to save her?

No, this is not a water show!

The moment I reacted and was about to retract my hand, the wet hand suddenly grabbed my hand and dragged it hard——

"Ah!"

I let out a scream and my whole body was dragged down into the water.

The cold lake water suddenly surged up and submerged me instantly. I was choked so hard that I couldn't breathe and struggled desperately in the water. But the next moment, the hand that pulled me into the water grabbed my ankle and dragged me down hard.

Pull.

"No! Uh-uh-!"

I struggled desperately, but there was no way to break free. The lake water was above my head. I could only see the ripples of water swallowing up the sunlight above my head. That hand seemed to be stretched out from hell, dragging me one step at a time.

I fell step by step into purgatory. I struggled hard but couldn't break free. Soon the strength in my body was exhausted and I was slowly dragged down.

Gradually, I lost the strength to struggle, the sunlight above my head disappeared, and I fell into darkness. I couldn't see any life, so I could only stubbornly stretch out a hand toward the sky.

It seems like that night many years ago, I once stretched out my hand like this...

Am I just going to die here?

No, I don’t want to die!

I want to survive. My daughter is still outside the palace, waiting for me to find her; I still have a lot of things to do and a lot of things I haven’t said to the people I want to say. I don’t want to die, and I don’t want to die here!<

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When I thought of this, I kicked down hard, but the owner of the hand seemed to have no strength, and he broke free when I struggled. I hurriedly tried to jump up.

At this moment, a hand suddenly reached out and grabbed my hand, pulling it up hard.

"Uh-?!"

I felt something, and I quickly grabbed the hand with my backhand, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and a strong force pulled me up.

I heard a crash in my ears and my whole body was dragged out of the water.

As soon as I came out of the water, I was breathing heavily and coughing non-stop. I was so weak that I almost collapsed.

The hand that dragged me out of the water originally let go, but now it held my arm again, supporting me so that I could barely fall. A deep voice sounded above my head: "Are you okay?"

I coughed a few times in panic, finally took a breath, and slowly raised my head.

In front of him was a tall and strong man, quite handsome, with sharp eyebrows. He stood in front of him like an unsheathed sword. There was some unshaven stubble on his angular lower jaw, which added to his appearance.

It means rough and crazy.

He is——

When I lowered my head, I saw the knife on his waist. It was a tiger's head. He was from the Imperial Guard.

After taking a breath, I realized that I was still holding on to his sleeve tightly. I quickly retracted it and said with uneven breathing: "No, it's okay. Thank you for helping me."

He frowned and looked at me, then looked at the gurgling lake and said, "What's going on?"

I looked back and saw a person swimming away far away on the lake.

That was the person who just pretended to be drowning in a water show, and then pulled me into the lake and dragged me down desperately.

At this time, I had almost understood it, but there was no point in saying so much to a stranger. I just turned around, gave him another light blessing, and said breathlessly: "Thank you, big brother, for saving my life. I will never forget it."

If you dare to ask your name, I will report back in the future."

The man was silent for a moment: "Sun Jingfei."

"Oh, Brother Sun, I——"

Before I finished speaking, the man looked at me again and suddenly said: "Are you Yue Qingying?"

I was slightly surprised and looked at him in amazement. I didn't expect that this person would call me by my name. But then I thought about it. I was also canonized in the palace four years ago. Since this person is a member of the Imperial Guard,

, maybe if you have seen me on some occasion, it is not surprising that you can call me by my name.

So I nodded: "Yes."

He didn't speak, but looked me up and down again, frowned slightly, and then said, "Goodbye." After saying that, he let go of my hand, turned around and left without looking back.

I stood there still unable to recover, and soon his tall figure had disappeared from the front.

This is behind the Leng Palace, close to the Shenqi Gate. The Imperial Guard patrols the palace three times a day, from the Meridian Gate to the Shenqi Gate. This Sun Jingfei should have been patrolling and rescued me, but I didn’t know he was affiliated with it.

Which team, I didn’t have time to ask just now.

While I was still thinking, a gust of wind blew by and I couldn't help but sneeze, which also interrupted my thoughts.

I looked back at the ripples on the lake surface, recalling the feeling of suffocating in the water just now, a chill came over me, and I couldn't help but hug my arms.

It’s already clear what happened just now. It was Nangong Lizhu’s trick. She deliberately asked someone to send a message back saying that something happened to Shui Xiu. I was worried that Shui Xiu must be upset and didn’t have time to tell who fell into the water. And that person dragged me

After entering the water, they still pulled me down, just to kill me!

It seems that my worries are not unnecessary. She did not intend to just swallow the loss she suffered at Jingren Palace that day.

It was always difficult for her to attack me until I left Jingren Palace, but after Shuixiu lured me out with the safety of Shuixiu, it became much easier!

When I thought of this, I didn't care about anything else and hurried back.

I look a little embarrassed now, my whole body is soaked, my hair is scattered, and it is hanging wetly on the back of my head. Fortunately, the empress and many concubines have left the palace, otherwise it would be another accident for me to be caught like this, but I still

I walked around as much as possible and soon returned to Jingren Palace. As soon as I entered the gate, I saw Myolie walking towards me.

When she saw my appearance, she was immediately shocked: "Miss Qing, what are you - why did you fall into the water too?"

"I'm fine." I thought for a while and then asked, "Where's Shuixiu?"

"She just came back, and like you, she was soaked all over."

"Ah?"
To be continued...