Chapter 278: Rebellion

On the fifteenth day of July in the twenty-third year of Tai Zheng, Yan Han was suddenly stabbed at the banquet, injured his lungs and almost died, and it happened that the Ice Kingdom sent an envoy to marry the princess with a dowry gift. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

A number of imperial doctors rescued day and night, and finally allowed Emperor Taihui to escape death and save his life, but he also cured the root of the disease.

As soon as Yan Han recovered from his serious injuries, he received the news that the prince had eloped with the princess of the Ice Kingdom.

In the year of not being confused, in just a few months, his sideburns have turned gray, described as decayed, and he has long since lost his high-spirited appearance.

On the third day of the third month of the third month of the new year, Zhao Gulan gave birth to the seventh prince, and the mother and son were safe.

The palace because of the dragon's poor health, has been silent for a few days, Yan Han is happy with the young son, for a while rushed away the depression in his heart, there is a little bit of return to the light of the image, early in the morning, he sat up from the bed, ordered to bathe and change clothes, and rushed to the Zique Palace.

Seeing the young son's heart, he was extremely happy, except for the prince, several princes under him were all unsuccessful, maybe it was the lard that blinded his heart, plus the officials and servants of the palace and the ministers of civil and military affairs competed for praise, and for a time the myth of this son was taken to the extreme, which made Yan Han more and more happy, and finally at the daytime banquet, the young son Yan Xiheng was crowned the prince, and at the same time Zhou Jiawan was abolished, and Zhao Gulan was appointed as the queen.

The Zhou family, which had been prominent for a hundred years, was at the end of the road, and survived for decades under the control of Emperor Yanwu after betraying the imperial family of the previous dynasty, and finally got karma.

As soon as the crown prince's canonization ceremony was completed, Yan Han fell completely ill, and he was unconscious for several days in a row, babbling nonsense, but he kept reciting an unfamiliar name in his mouth, muttering over and over again, as if he had fallen into a nightmare.

When Zhao Gulan came to the Rongde Palace, he saw such a scene.

The cold and terrible silence in the empty hall, not even a palace maid pouring tea and waiting, only the brocade yellow bed tent with dragons and phoenixes was heavily covered, and it was the man she once loved lying inside.

"Such a thick tent is covered, how can you catch your breath" Zhao Gulan sighed faintly, opened the tent, gently rolled it up, hung it with a jade hook, and sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the withered and blue face, the dry white lips were covered with layers of white skin, the dry wounds had been hidden by the wrinkles, and the sunken eyes were no longer as beautiful and full as they once were, only the towering cheekbones were still standing stubbornly, supporting the loose dry skin into the appearance of a tent.

"Yi Fei once said that you are golden and jade, but I didn't expect the years to portray you like this, if she comes back and sees you like this, she will be sad"

Zhao Gulan dipped the silk handkerchief in his hand with some cold tea, and gently wiped his blue and white lips until the old skin that was stuck together was wiped off, and a gap was revealed.

The low voice accompanied by gentle breathing, overflowing from the throat intermittently, Xu felt the delicate and gentle touch, Yan Han slowly opened his eyes that were already a little cloudy, and called hoarsely: "Gu.... Orchid"

Zhao Gulan was stunned for a moment, and then said softly: "I'm not Gulan, I'm Yuelan, Ziyuelan"

"Ancient.... Orchid"

Zhao Gulan was silent for a long time, and said with a little moistness in his eyes: "Why, only now did you recognize me?" ”

"I see.... Yan Han suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Zhao Gulan's wrist, looking extremely excited.

"If you think of her, why shouldn't I? This conscienceless person said that she would leave, and she would go for twenty years, lose you, and give up me, you say, is she ruthless? Zhao Gulan also held Yan Han's hand, touching the dry text with bulging green tendons, and his heart was desolate.

"I see ......"

"Did you see her? So where is she? Zhao Gulan smiled bitterly.

"Qur'an, I.... I'm sorry..... You" Yan Han gasped for breath, but unfortunately, the breath only went in but not out, puffing up his already flat forehead and chest.

Zhao Gulan suddenly burst into tears, it turned out that he had known her identity for a long time, and it turned out that in the years that followed, she was making up for it, but it was ridiculous that she was still stupidly kept in the dark and thought she was smart.

"You're doing this to me because of her"

"Gulan, I, I'm sorry, you, I, I, I........" Yan Han's eyes widened, wanting to say the last words, but he was stuck in his throat in one breath, and he finally swallowed the last breath, and his hand holding Zhao Gulan spread out weakly.

"What else can you say besides being sorry? Yan Han, Your Majesty, you have given the purest concern in your heart to the people who have gone away, so what am I? ”

In the empty hall of glory, a woman's whispering sigh floated, and even the candle flame in the cold night couldn't help but sway because of this sorrow and sadness.

Emperor Taihui returned to heaven, Han Miao, who was in charge of the power, established the throne of the infant prince Yan Xiheng, changed the name of the year to Xikang, Zhao Gulan should have been promoted to the queen mother, and ordered the prime minister Han Miao to assist the government, and once again crowned the crown prince Taibao, one person under ten thousand people.

Of course, Han Miao knew that the crown prince was actually his own son, and he worked very hard to handle political affairs in the court, not only that, but also captured the waste prince and the princess of the ice country who had fled far away and put them in a cell in the palace.

In April of the following year, Han Miao destroyed the peace law signed between the two countries on the grounds that the Ice Kingdom sent an envoy to assassinate Emperor Taihui, borrowed the way from the Ice Kingdom, declared war on the Ice Kingdom, and ordered Lu Qian, who was nearly fifty years old, to take command of the expedition.

Lu Qian was invincible, all the way to the north, the once prominent and mighty ice country cavalry to beat the falling flowers, but counting a few months, it has won seven or eight cities one after another, especially on the Rose Mountain Fox King Ridge encircled tens of thousands of ice ****, set fire to the mountain, slaughtered 360,000 corpses, shocked the world, and was made up into a story by the storyteller, calling it a killing god.

Zhao Gulan listened to the government every day, and gradually became interested in the affairs of the court, and there were many decisions that were ostensibly asking her for advice, but in fact, Han Miao had already handled them privately, and he would not go directly to the holy hearing.

Zhao Gulan knew that he and his son were just puppets, but at this time, he could only endure it.

Just when the battle situation was good, Lu Qian suddenly died violently in the front military camp for no reason, and Cong Guo also suddenly sent troops to besiege the leaderless Yanwu soldiers in the area of the Changlong River, and after Han Miao received the military report, the army of more than 100,000 had already been wiped out, and there was little left.

Han Miao was angry in his heart, gritted his teeth, and focused on the generals, so he had no choice but to return to the Ice Country, unite together, and besiege the Kingdom of Cong Han Miao gritted his silver teeth, and was angry, so he had to make his daughter a princess, send it to the Ice Kingdom to rebuild the old good, and jointly fight with the soldiers to avenge the betrayal.

At the beginning of this protracted war, Han Miao entrusted all the affairs of the court to a few henchmen, and then rushed to the front line with enough soldiers, horses, food and grass.

Zhao Gulan took this opportunity to gradually and secretly promote and cultivate her own manpower to regain the power that should belong to her.

It's night, the cold wind is lonely, the night of this year has just passed, and the emperor has already babbled, and he is coaxed by the nurse and him, extremely well-behaved and cute.

After a short time, the emperor was full of milk and fell asleep, Zhao Gulan looked at the few sparse stars in the dark night sky, and said to the maid Xi'er beside him: "Prepare a sedan chair and go to the cold palace"

"Niangniang, it's freezing this day, your body is weak, it's better not to go out"

"Prepare the sedan chair," Zhao Gulan said expressionlessly.

When Xi'er heard this, she was frightened, so she ordered to prepare a sedan chair, a stove and a fox fur, and followed Zhao Gulan all the way to the cold palace.

After passing through several towering pavilions and vermilion walls, I finally came to the cold palace where the wind and flowers were withered, and the two rows of dilapidated houses were not as good as the appearance of twenty years ago.

"I just knew that you were going to give me one last ride"

When he turned the collapsed shadow wall, a faint voice came out of the empty window without a door, causing Zhao Gulan to stop involuntarily.

"I gave your son first, and then I came to you, so that my heart can be more balanced"

"Prince? What happened to the prince? What happened to the prince? Zhou Jiawan looked crazy, a pair of dry hands like old branches tightly grabbed the edge of the bed, revealing that terrifying face from the shadows, like a ghost.

"I gave a bottle of Heding Red and White Silk, I don't know which one he will choose" Zhao Gulan's expression was indifferent, and his tone was the same.

"You can't kill him"

"Why not? You killed me to give birth to a stillborn child, I killed your son, this is the best way to repay your wishes, the best way to settle the grudge, just as I was born in the cold palace at the beginning, and you also tasted the pain here, this is the consummation"

"You can't kill him" Zhou Jiawan cried sadly, the prince was not her biological child, but grew up beside her since childhood, well-behaved and cute, intelligent and abnormal, especially with her mother and son, especially after she gradually grew old and decrepit, he has been accompanying her, making her happy, and telling her some interesting folk stories.

Zhou Jiawan had already regarded him as his own son, pampering him in every possible way, and giving advice, but he didn't expect that he would end up in the hands of his henchman Han Miao.

"He's dead, just yesterday, it's your turn today, speaking of which, it's been more than 20 years, I also want to talk to you, I used to look up from above, and now I see your virtue, it's really a little uncomfortable"

"You killed Lu'er? You can't kill him, he's your child, he's your biological son, how can you be so vicious, my Lu'er" Zhou Jiawan suddenly rushed out of the room and ran towards Zhao Gulan, but was stopped by a kind of eunuch, she kept struggling, and finally fell to the ground, and finally cried uncontrollably.

"What did you say?" Zhao Gulan was taken aback when he heard this, and asked in disbelief.

"He is your son, I replaced your child at the beginning, and the stillborn child was born to me, Lu'er, it is your son"

"You are lying" stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, Zhao Gulan suddenly had a splitting headache, and his breath was stuck in his throat, and his face was blue and purple after being suffocated, and he fainted.