C28 Part2

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As Murong Ci saw yesterday, Concubine An was wearing a gray-black cloth robe, with a long cloth scarf of the same color covering her head and face.

They noticed their movements and turned to look.Murong Ci and Shen Zhiyan walked over, and she asked indifferently:

"Are you ※Noble Lady, Concubine An?"

※ (N.B.) Noble Lady was the official rank of Concubine An as a consort. For a matter of clarity, I will refer to her as simply "Concubine An" from here.

"This old lady is not a Noble Lady, nor Concubine An...not anymore,...

I'm simply the commoner 'An'..."

Concubine An's voice was very low, rough and hoarse.

"I heard Lady An has been in the Spring Wuyuan Courtyard for fifteen years now."

Shen Zhiyan's elegant face was filled with a breezy smile.

"Indeed, it's been fifteen years."

Liu Mei, the maidservant, replied,

"The two nobles are...?"

He was about to show his identity, and Murong Ci preemptively said:

"We work for the East Palace.

We have come here for routine check.

If you have any needs, just tell us."

Concubine An's eyes were half-squinted,

"From the look of your robes, you don't look like the mere 'servants' of the East Palace..."

Shen Zhiyan smiled cynically,

"Lady An is really eye-catching.

In fact, we don't work as servants in the Palace, but we begged His Royal Highness for permission to let us come to the Spring Wuyuan Courtyard."

Liu Mei's face eased,

"This Spring Wuyuan Courtyard is isolated from the world.It's a hell on earth.

Don't the nobles waste time here?"

Murong Ci stared at the neat and clean Concubine An.

She didn't use any powder, but her forehead was smooth, her eyes were dark and deep like a thousand-year-old well, and her eyebrows were withered, as if she could see through the world, through the yin and yang of life and death, leaving only this calm and calm time...

The eyes of those in this place were filled with despair, death, and waiting for death, but in the eyes of Concubine An, Murong Ci saw calmness.

'Isn't it weird?'

"The Spring Wuyuan Courtyard is a terrible tomb. Many people have buried their youth, bloodline and tears of hope in here...

The two nobles should leave as soon as possible."

Concubine An's voice was hoarse and cool, like a venomous snake crawling up from the soles of her feet, and the cold air rushed into her back, making it creepy.

Murong Ci put her right hand on her knee and asked,

"Are Concubine An's legs...broken?"

Liu Mei's eyebrows were dyed with a slight anger,

"Not thanks to His Royal Highness..."

"Liu Mei."

Concubine An said in a low voice, preventing the maidservant from speaking.

Her eyes, as deep as an ancient well, dissolves the desolation and silence of life.

"This is my life, and I cannot blame anyone for it."

"I heard that Concubine An was exiled to the Spring Wuyuan Courtyard in the past."

Shen Zhiyan said,

"Concubine An must have suffered a lot in the past fifteen years."

"Human life in this world is originally a hard practice, mixed with bitterness and sweetness, sadness and joy.

And these can all disappear in a flash."

Concubine An's voice was indifferent, and her peaceful eyebrows were filled with the misery and extinction of this life.

Leaking from among the luxuriant branches and leaves, the sunlight reflected a ray of radiance on her pale eyebrows.

This radiance was like a dilapidated and rotting white brocade, depicting the beautiful beauty of the world.

But such a radiance, that is about to decay, cannot bear the weight of gorgeousness.

On the contrary, the splendor of the radiance sets off the desolation and loneliness of her eyebrows, deep into the bone marrow and thorough her soul.

'However, it's still calm...

Unparalleled calmness.

Amazing calmness.'

These thoughts were only momentary.

After that Murong Ci looked at her quietly.

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"The two nobles, if you'll excuse me..."

There was no need for Concubine An to say anything else that Liu Mei understood and pushed her master to leave.

Shen Zhiyan watched them fading into the house and whispered:

"His Royal Highness also thinks Concubine An is weird, right?"

Murong Ci nodded,

"I can't tell for sure...

Her legs are atrophied, and it's impossible for her to come out and do evil."

She looked around in the backyard, then walked to the courtyard wall.

The courtyard wall was an earthen wall, about half a meter high, which was easy to jump over. Across the courtyard wall was the Palace road, and the high Palace wall was close at hand.

"It couldn't be more convenient to get into and out of the Palace from here. Even if there were three guards nearby, people with extraordinary accomplishments could do it without being noticed by a soul."

She analyzed.

"And it seems quite convenient for the murderers who killed the Concubine Bai and Concubine Mo to come and go from here."

Murong Ci looked at the Palace wall thoughtfully.

In the end, no suspicious suspects were found this time...

Back in the East Palace, the two talked for a while, then Shen Zhiyan said goodbye to leave.

Concubine An's eyebrows were imprinted in her mind, lingering for a long time...

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END of CHAPTER 28 PART 2

.....................to be continued