Chapter 434: Entering the Underground Palace
Walking forward in a grand manner, the two of them came to the underground palace next to the Forbidden Garden.
When I arrived at the entrance of the underground palace, I saw that the courtyard gate was closed, and Lu Junyi stepped forward and knocked on the door.
Zhang Lin looked around and found that the underground palace was really small, much smaller than the Cuiyang Palace before. There was no so-called palace, but just a small single-story house built with blue bricks and glazed tiles. It was similar to those houses in Shendu City. Unlike the houses, the roof of the house was carved with decorations such as dragon-headed and chubby kisses.
After a while, with a creaking sound, the gate of the courtyard opened. A white-haired eunuch appeared from inside and asked unhappily: "Who are you looking for?"
Lu Junyi asked, "Dadfather, may I ask, is Shangguan Wan'er here?"
"Who are you? Are you shouting here?" the old eunuch said unhappily.
"We are Shangguan Wan'er's friends, so we came here to visit Shangguan Wan'er specifically." Lu Junyi said in a calm tone.
The old eunuch shook his hand: "Shangguan Wan'er is a special prisoner. If you want to visit, you need the emperor's will."
Lu Junyi raised his hand and pointed at Zhang Lin: "This is Ganglie Gong! Can't he visit him?"
The old eunuch narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Lin carefully, and glanced at the corner of his mouth, showing a contemptuous smile: "What kind of Gong Gang Lie? Isn't it the one who was thrown into the cold palace with Shangguan Wan'er? He can't visit him!"
"How did you speak!"
Lu Junyi raised his hand and pointed to the old eunuch, saying angrily, posing as if he was about to hit someone.
The old eunuch glared at him: "That's how our family speaks. If you don't want to listen to our family, go away quickly!"
Lu Junyi wanted to argue with the old eunuch, so Zhang Lin pulled Lu Junyi aside and whispered: "Don't talk too much, give him a ingot of gold."
After hearing Zhang Lin's words, Lu Junyi was surprised and said in his heart, why would Zhang Lin bribe? It seems that he ignored anything in order to see Shangguan Wan'er. However, can gold work in this underground palace where orders are prohibited, in front of this dying eunuch? He was still a little suspicious.
Take out a ingot of yellow gold from the bag, Lu Junyi reached into the old eunuch and shook it: "Dadfather-in-law, look, can we go in now?"
Seeing the yellow and white thing, the old eunuch's eyes suddenly opened wide, revealing a voracious light. He reached out to grab the gold. The indifference on his face disappeared without a trace, and replaced by a bright smile. He looked at Zhang Lin with passionate eyes and said to Lu Junyi in a reproachful tone:
"Gang Liegong is here, why didn't you say it earlier? What kind of person is Gang Liegong? How can our family stop him?!"
Lu Junyi was very surprised. The change in attitude of this old eunuch was too big and too fast! Jinzi really has such great magic? Could it be that he had been a Liyuan actor before?
This old eunuch has never been a Liyuan opera actor, but has been an eunuch in the palace since he was a child. He had collected a lot of gold and silver before, but Mr. Lin was assigned here to guard the underground palace. The underground palace is usually empty. Where can he have the opportunity to collect gold? Today, he has a prosperous fortune. When someone goes out, he will give gold. Can you agree readily?
This gold was originally searched from the Linglang Headquarters, but was later sealed. Today, I received the emperor's will to build a crossbow cart, so I took it out again and used it to buy materials for the crossbow cart. Zhang Lin asked Lu Junyi to take some of it for purchasing Ganoderma lucidum treasure grass, but unexpectedly it came in handy in the underground palace.
"Ganglie Gong, please!"
The old eunuch's attitude changed by 180 degrees, and became very enthusiastic, very friendly, and completely opened the two courtyard doors, as if welcoming the VIP, bent over and bent his back and invited Zhang Lin into the room.
Lu Junyi looked at Zhang Lin with admiration and said in a low voice with a smile:
"It's still the master who is smart, even such a difficult eunuch can handle it!"
"Things that can be done with gold are nothing!"
Zhang Lin smiled proudly, and then he stepped into the gate of the underground palace.
The entrance to the dungeon is located in the side room on the right.
Through the step ladder paved with bluestone, Zhang Lin walked down the dungeon, stood on the last step, and looked around the dungeon environment.
Although this dungeon is located underground, the light is not dim, because in the four directions of the dungeon, there are iron windows opening to the ground, and natural light penetrates from the ground.
With this light that is not too dim or too bright, Zhang Lin saw the environment and layout of the dungeon clearly.
Connected to the steps is a long and winding corridor covered with bluestone slabs. There is a cell at each end of the corridor, which is opposite from each other through the corridor.
One of the cells was closed by a dense iron gate, and the situation inside could not be seen, and no one was closed inside. The other cell was equipped with a grille door, and the scene inside the cell could be seen from the outside.
Through the iron fence, Zhang Lin looked into the cell.
I saw a woman wearing a beige suit and a ponytail on her head, sitting cross-legged on the ground, dipping her hands with water, and writing something on the bluestone floor at a speed that was neither fast nor slow.
Perhaps the woman slowed down the writing speed when she heard Zhang Lin's dull footsteps, but instead of looking up, she said in an extremely calm tone:
"Qiu Shuang, you have got everything from me, and I have no chance to compete with you. Why are you here for? Isn't this a waste of time?"
From this familiar voice, Zhang Lin could hear that the woman was Shangguan Wan'er. He cleared his throat and said in an excited voice: "Wan'er, it's me."
Shangguan Wan'er suddenly looked up and looked outside the iron fence with her bright eyes. At the first glance of Zhang Lin, her eyes blurred.
"It's you?"
Just these two words contain thousands of words.
"It's me." Zhang Lin choked and walked to the door of the cell. The door was hung with an iron lock, so he could not enter the prison.
Shangguan Wan'er stood up and felt dizzy because she had been sitting for too long and her legs were sore. She raised her hand and rubbed her forehead, then staggered to the door of the cell, and said in a trembling voice, "Why are you here?!"
"I'm here to see you!" Zhang Lin stretched his hand into the gap in the fence and held Shangguan Wan'er's hand.
The two of them looked at each other silently through the gaps of the fence, crying and tearful eyes. They had thousands of words in their hearts, but they didn't know where to start.
After looking at each other in silence for a while, Zhang Lin spoke hoarsely:
"Wan'er, what did you do with Qiushuang just now?"
"Oh~" Shangguan Wan'er sighed to the sky, and her voice roughly told the story of Qiu Shuang framing her.
"So that's it!" Zhang Lin understood everything. It turned out that Shangguan Wan'er, who was close to him in Zhengyang Palace, was not herself, but was dressed by Qiu Shuang. In front of the emperor, he deliberately forced him to do such reckless behavior in order to fulfill the mission of Wu Li Zhang.
Qiu Shuang told him before that Shangguan Wan'er was a Snake Spy, and it turned out that they were all lies, and she herself was a Snake Spy!
No wonder when he first met Qiu Shuang today, he felt an inexplicable disgust in his heart. It turned out that his subconscious mind had already become wary of her.
At this moment, he felt a deep hatred for Qiu Shuang.
After opening the conversation, the two chatted a lot.
Zhang Lin briefly said to Shangguan Wan'er what he had done these days. Of course, he automatically omitted the period when his relationship with Princess Taiping was broken.
Shangguan Wan'er was very happy to hear that Zhang Lin was re-elected and made a great contribution as soon as she came back, and her beautiful eyes were shining with crystal tears.
"Wan'er, don't worry, I will definitely find a way to save you!" Zhang Lin whispered softly. At this moment, he could not enter the cell, let alone save her. He could only comfort her with pale words and give her hope.
"Well, I believe in you!" Shangguan Wan'er murmured in a low voice.
"Wan'er, I have to leave. You have to take good care of yourself." Zhang Lin's voice was hoarse and he vaguely reminded.
"You're leaving so soon?" Shangguan Wan'er said in a daze of tears.
"I have to leave. I will come to see you if I have the chance." Zhang Lin said.
Although he didn't want to be separated from Wan'er, the situation in front of him did not allow him to stay for a long time. Although he entered the underground palace to visit Wan'er with great fanfare, he was still afraid, so he had to control the time. This time must be short enough to only visit, making people unable to think about that aspect. Once Wu Zetian Dynasty thought about that aspect, it would make her unhappy, and it would take a minute to kill him.
The reason why he took the risk to visit Wan'er was just to make Wu Zetian hate him, rather than let her kill him.
Chapter completed!