Seeking Immortals

It has been twelve years since Taikang.

"Mistress, slow down."

Li Qing carefully supported Concubine Qi for a walk in the cold palace.

Concubine Qi has been in the cold palace for three years, her cheeks are rosy, her complexion is good, and she is obviously living a good life.

Her day is coming.

Three years ago, after the Empress Dowager broke her bones overnight, although she still held power, her health deteriorated day by day.

Old man, don't fall.

At the beginning, the Empress Dowager received foreign officials on time every day, then every three days, and now she only sees foreign officials once every half a month.

According to rumors, the empress dowager collapsed within a few days.

After the death of the Empress Dowager, Emperor Taikang came to power and ruled in person, and Concubine Qi was able to leave the cold palace to meet the eldest son of the emperor.

Concubine Qi might not be able to win a queen. Although Emperor Taikang was established in the year of Emperor Taikang, she has never been established.

Emperor Taikang could have been the empress, but the empress can only be a puppet appointed by the Empress Dowager, it is better not to be established.

Emperor Taikang and Concubine Qi are waiting for the death of the Empress Dowager.

Li Qing is also waiting for the Empress Dowager to die.

If you die, you can practice Roushui Qiduanjin. After all, Roushui Qiduanjin is the method Mingwei used to assassinate the Empress Dowager. Li Qing really dare not practice it if the Empress Dowager is not dead.

All the funeral matters in the palace are well prepared, but it's a pity that he, a cold palace eunuch, can't go to the banquet.

In the twelfth year of Taikang, the month of Guimao, the day of Gengchen.

Yi, burial, sacrifice, encoffining, moving the coffin, don't take anything else, break the ground, plug the hole.

Bogey, everything is not appropriate.

At the next moment, in the direction of the Compassionate Ning Palace, a group of courtiers and eunuchs and court ladies suddenly cried bitterly: "Empress Dowager...Empress Dowager...Empress Dowager."

Then, the cry spread from the Palace of Compassion to Ning to the Six Courts of the Three Palaces, then to the Palace of Mental Cultivation, and finally to the Leng Palace.

Li Qing immediately took out the meals that he didn't eat at noon, arranged them on twelve plates, and ate them with big mouthfuls.

"Today's food is really delicious. The kitchen eunuch is good at cooking."

"The Empress Dowager collapsed, why are you still eating it?" Zhang Yong looked at Li Qing in puzzlement, stretched out his hand to grab a piece of chicken, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Li Qing smiled lightly. If he had the ability, he would even think of blowing the trumpet and playing the erhu in front of the empress dowager's coffin instead of simply having a table.

After finishing the meal quickly, he burped again.

comfortable.

It's a pity, if this meal can be eaten with Concubine Ming, it would be great.

This person, he had to endure it, and he just lay down without touching his hands.

Walking out of the duty room, the cold palace was full of tears.

Jimao wing room.

"Empress Dowager!" Concubine Chu burst into tears with snot and tears. She belonged to the Empress Dowager's faction. When the Empress Dowager is gone, Qingtian will also be gone.

Concubine Chu kicked Li Qing's ass five years ago, and then she was released from the cold palace, and she was thrown into the cold palace again a year ago, which belongs to the second entry palace.

Perhaps, it was time for Li Qing to take revenge.

Binghai Wing Room.

"Woooo..." Concubine Qi sobbed softly, and from time to time smeared some saliva on the corners of her eyes, but she couldn't hide the smile on her face.

Afternoon wing room.

"Dead? It's a good death. I didn't expect the old hag to die in front of me." This is a concubine who is free from power struggles, and she will not go out whoever is in power.

Li Qing walked carefully to a corner of the Lenggong garden, and took out the small box that had been hidden for seven years.

"Time flies by like a blink of an eye, seven years in the blink of an eye, and I'm already twenty-three."

"But fortunately, I have a hundred lifetimes of time, and time is my greatest asset, so I can afford to wait."

"Starting tonight, I will officially practice Roushui Qiduanjin!"

...

The empress dowager died, and the whole country observed filial piety on the 27th day.

Banquets are prohibited during this period, but vegetarian food is not required.

Lenggong meals as usual.

As soon as night fell, the cold palace was quiet, and all the chess and card games in the past were gone.

Li Qing specially separated a small single room in the corner of the dormitory, and in the single room was a full wooden vat that was one person tall.

The wooden vat is used for practicing Roushui Qiduanjin.

The core of Roushui Qiduanjin is to transform the soft power of water into internal force. There are seven brocade appearances in total, and each brocade appearance is a special posture. Li Qing needs to pose the brocade appearance posture in the wooden vat, and then run the Roushui Qiduanjin mental method. Slowly transform the soft power of water into internal power.

"Xiao Lizi, those of us who can be assigned to the cold palace can be said to be poor in martial arts talent, and have no future in martial arts. The eunuchs who are still in charge of martial arts, they are as good as us for three years a year." Wang Li looked at the water tank, Puzzled.

Seven years have passed, and Wang Li, the oldest one, is already forty-five, showing signs of aging on his face.

"Come on slowly, martial arts is not for fighting and killing. Martial arts preserve one's health. I am weak and want to live a few more years." Li Qing slowly took off his clothes and prepared to enter the water.

"As you please." Wang Li shook his head and left.

The other eunuchs looked at it, lost interest, and fell asleep.

As for the source of Li Qing's skills, the others didn't ask, and most of them guessed that Li Qing's skills came from Concubine Qi, after all, Concubine Qi valued Li Qing very much.

Li Qing reported to the Martial Supervisor three years ago about his practice of martial arts, and he randomly filled in Yinshui Gong in his kung fu.

The eunuch in the palace only needs to report the realm after the realm breakthrough.

Li Qing didn't learn Roushui Qiduanjin before, not because he was worried about the Martial Supervisor, but because he was worried about the Empress Dowager.

Around the Empress Dowager, there should be someone who remembers Mingwei's skills. Now that the Empress Dowager is dead, the people around her will naturally fall down, and no one will pursue the past.

As for the Holy One, even if he knew that Li Qing practiced the Mingwei technique, he wouldn't care about it, and maybe he would think about others when he saw things.

Li Qing can practice with peace of mind.

Enter the water tank, arrange the brocade, and run the mind, and the water circles Li Qing's physical body.

After half a month of hard training, Li Qing finally condensed a wisp of internal energy.

"My qualifications..."

"Ming Wei said that for those who practice Roushui Qiduanjin, it is normal for ordinary people to condense a ray of internal energy in five days, for those who are talented, it is a ray of internal energy for three days, and for those who are extremely talented, it is a ray of internal energy for a day."

Generally speaking, talented people can get through a serious discipline after a year of hard work.

In other words, it is a hundred strands of internal force to get through a serious one.

Li Qing calculated that it would take five years for him to get through a serious path and be promoted to a third-rate expert.

"It's only been five years, so it seems pretty good."

It only takes thirty years to become a second-rate master if you master the six principles.

It has only been sixty years since he has mastered the twelve classics and was promoted to the first class.

"Days, there is hope."

...

Time is slowly advancing towards the end of the filial piety period.

The twenty-seventh day and night of the empress dowager's filial piety.

Lenggong, Binghai Wing Room.

"Your Majesty, the make-up is done, and the Holy Majesty will be very happy when he sees it." The palace maid Mingyue carefully painted Concubine Qi's makeup.

The empress dowager's filial piety period ends at You hour, and once the filial piety is over, the Holy Majesty will invite Concubine Qi out of the cold palace to get together as soon as possible.

Concubine Qi was pregnant when she entered the cold palace for the second time, so she specially brought along the maid of honor Mingyue to accompany her.

"The emperor is three years old, but I haven't even seen him face to face." Concubine Qi was a little sad at this time.

"I'll see you later." Mingyue said with a smile.

"Yes." Concubine Qi looked carefully at the bronze mirror, for fear that her makeup might look indecent.

only.

Concubine Qi waited from Youshi to Zishi, but she didn't wait for Emperor Taikang's imperial edict.

After a few minutes, there was a loud bang, which suddenly came from the direction of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the sound shocked the entire palace.

"Escort!"

"Escort!"

The palace became chaotic in an instant, teams of guards poured out from the gates of the palace, and eunuchs from the Martial Supervisor all dispatched.

"Open the door, open the door, open the door to our house."

Outside the cold palace, there was a fierce knock on the door.

The eunuch Wang Li and others were awakened from their sleep, and Li Qing was also interrupted by the chaotic sounds from all around him.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay:

"What happened?"

"have no idea."

"It seems that Master Gu is knocking on the door of the cold palace."

Director Gu, who has been in charge of eunuchs since the seventh rank, is also the real head of the Lenggong eunuchs. He usually does not come to Lenggong, and only serves as consul under the chief eunuch.