Chapter 543 Sleepless Night
On winter nights, the moonlight stretches out people’s shadows.
Gao Yang's back was pressed tightly against a paint pillar, his eyes staring at the shadow of the person falling on the ground, his heart pounding, and he was so nervous that he could not feel the cold wind at all. .
He carefully stuck his head out and looked into the distance.
There are guards guarding outside Renshou Hall day and night.
He may not be able to avoid their sight. If he is discovered, it will definitely reach the ears of the Queen Mother. By then...
Gao Yang withdrew his gaze, leaned his head against the pillar, and looked at the sky with his raised eyes. Half moon.
As the Queen Mother said, she had never restricted him from visiting the Imperial Grandmother in the Hall of Renshou, but the entire harem was under her control. Even if he did come to see the Imperial Grandmother, what could he do?
Today’s imperial grandmother is no longer the empress dowager she once was.
But she looks so confused, there is no way she has anything to do with Liang Han!
Gao Yang took a deep breath, poked his head out and took another look at the guard's office. Seeing the right moment, he ducked down and quickly hid behind another pillar.
Until he successfully entered the inner hall, he stroked his chest and let out a long breath. He did not dare to stay too long and tiptoed deeper into the inner hall.
The guards at Renshou Hall at night are indeed looser than during the day.
The bed curtain is hung low, and the person on the bed can be vaguely seen through the gauze curtain.
The palace was so silent that even his own breathing could be heard clearly.
Gao Yang squeezed his sweat and looked back to make sure no one noticed before gently lifting the gauze curtain.
As he expected, the person on the bed was sleeping deeply with his eyes closed.
Gao Yang bent down, pushed the sleeping person gently, and whispered in her ear: "Grandma Huang..."
No response.
“The Imperial Grandmother.”
Gao Yang called out again.
If an ordinary person is asleep, there is no way there will be no response to such pushing and calling.
He raised his eyelids and glanced at the door, took out a small white bottle from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and placed it under the Empress Dowager's nose and shook it.
This medicine was tricked by him from the Queen Mother on the pretense that he would keep it for himself to wake up. He was not sure whether it was effective or not.
Now I can only take the risk and give it a try.
Time passed little by little, and Gao Yang's heart grew higher and higher.
"Royal Grandmother..."
Seeing that she was unconscious, Gao Yang felt a sore nose and called out twice more, his deliberately lowered voice obviously trembling.
She is the only one connected by blood to him in this palace...
It's not that he doesn't want to trust the Queen Mother, but he is walking on thin ice in this palace. He really can't afford to gamble, so what gamble can he take?
Gao Yang pushed the person on the bed again.
Still no response.
He sighed and could only find another way to try again.
Just as Gao Yang was thinking, there was a sudden noise outside the hall. His heart tightened and he quickly stood up.
However, he quickly calmed down and walked around the bed to the back.
He had lived in Renshou Hall for a long time, and he knew everything about it. When he came, he had already imagined countless times how he would be bumped into and how to escape.
Gao Yang trotted all the way to the back of the palace before the people came.
He stopped in front of the window lattice and listened carefully for a while. No one was chasing him, and no one was outside. Then he quietly opened the window sash and went out cautiously.
The Hall of Renshou behind him was being pushed further and further away. Gao Yang turned around and took one last look. He couldn't tell whether he felt unwilling or something else.
He lowered his head and walked forward.
Before reaching Hanguang Hall, he saw the palace maid holding a lamp and looking around for something.
"Your Majesty! I have found you!"
Suddenly someone shouted, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on him.
Qian Mingquan rushed forward with his rolling body, surprised and happy: "Your Majesty, where have you been so late? You are so easy to find!"
Don't wait. In reply, he turned around and shouted to the people behind him: "Why don't you go and report to the Queen Mother? I just want to say that you have found the Lord!"
After Qian Ming finished speaking, he looked back at Gao Yang. Only then did he realize that it was such a cold day that the emperor ran out wearing only thin clothes and shouted for someone to get clothes.
"Your Majesty, even if you come out, why don't you wear thicker clothes? It's freezing cold today. If it freezes, what will you do? How can you explain to the Queen Mother!"
Unable to bring something with me, I grabbed someone and hurriedly went to the side hall.
Gao Yang frowned and said nothing, only glancing at his hand holding his arm. As soon as they entered the side hall, there was someone standing at the front, with disheveled hair and a large robe wrapped around him, as if he was preparing to go out to look for him.
At this moment, she was looking at him with a faint eyebrow.
Qian Ming lowered his head and moved to one side. The palace servants had already knelt in two rows, bowing their heads and waiting for the Queen Mother's announcement.
Gao Yang was silent before speaking: "The Queen Mother."
"Where have you been?"
Her face was expressionless, and there was no emotion or anger in her voice.
Even so, his heart, which had been chilled by the cold night, started to feel hot again.
Gao Yang pursed his lips, and his face was stiff with the cold and could not express any expression: "The heating in the palace is so suffocating that I can't sleep. I want to go out and take a breath."
Qian Ming Upon hearing this, he immediately knelt down and said, "It's just a small oversight."
The palace servant who was on duty tonight even knelt forward and took the initiative to accept the crime.
Liang Huan nodded and took off his big robe, and someone immediately bowed to take it.
The palace was quiet for a moment.
Gao Yang was a little unpredictable and raised his eyes to look at her.
Liang Huan's voice was very soft: "Emperor, let's go and rest. In two hours, we will go to court early."
After saying that, he stopped looking at him. When he turned around, he said coldly. He said coldly: "Any servants who are not in good condition to take care of the palace tonight will be dealt with according to the palace rules."
Gao Yang felt anxious and hurriedly took two steps forward: "The Queen Mother——"
Liang Huan interrupted him, but did not look back: "Not everyone in the former harem can do whatever they want, including you, the emperor."
She left her words and returned to the main hall.
Gao Yang stared at her back and gritted his teeth.
In the side hall, he was lying on the couch without sleep, and Qian Ming tucked him in.
"Your Majesty, please take a rest."
Gao Yang responded, staring at the ceiling of the tent. He knew that someone was being tortured outside the palace at this moment, just because the emperor avoided them and secretly left the palace in the middle of the night.
Qian Ming blew out the lights and prepared to leave.
Suddenly, someone called him from behind.
"...Shizhong Qian, if my father were alive, would you listen to the Queen Mother or my father?"
Qian Ming couldn't help but be surprised. He looked back, but couldn't see it. Clear the little man on the bed.
Although he didn't know why the emperor asked like this, he still thought about it carefully and said: "Of course I will obey the late emperor."
Gao Yang turned his face sideways and looked at the shadow of the person in the darkness: " Is the Queen Mother good to my father?”
Qian Ming was a little surprised, thinking that the young emperor was asking whether he should listen to the Queen Mother or him...
Between the Queen Mother and the First Emperor Whether something is good or not, where is his turn to comment and comment?
In any case, at least the late emperor was very happy with it.
Qian Ming sighed secretly.
"Looking at me all the way, I just feel that the Queen Mother treats you better than the late Emperor."
Gao Yang smiled: "Qian Shizhong wants to say that you love the house and the bird? Treat it as your own?"
Love?
Qian Ming was stunned, and immediately twitched the corner of his mouth, his mouth was bitter and astringent.
"Your Majesty, you can think so."
Gao Yang closed his eyes and waved his hands.
In the Hall of Renshou.
Lu Wanying sat on the edge of the couch, looking towards the back hall, feeling that he heard some noise when he came in just now.
The palace maid didn’t care about yawning, and only stayed with him tremblingly.
"Why did the concubine come so late..."
Lu Wan greeted her and asked, "Has anyone been here before?"
The palace man shook his head in denial.
Lu Wan nodded and dismissed the person.
Suddenly, someone pinched my wrist.