A dedication caused a sensation in the capital, and even if the harem concubines couldn't go to watch, they couldn't help but pay attention to it.

"Rest assured, right?" Lu Ying listened to the news from outside, and her heart was relieved, and she asked Taohua with a smile, "The prince has nothing to do." Everyone has seen Shen Shu's heroic appearance, and it is obvious that he can't fake it.

Taohua thought about another thing, but looking at Lu Ying's smiling face, her heart was much more relaxed, and she nodded with a smile.

"Let's rest early." Lu Ying also felt tired this day, and kept calling people to inquire about the news outside, this gift was made from noon until it was dark at this moment, although the emperor and officials of the previous dynasty were very tired, and the concubines in the harem also had to worry about it because of their interests.

"Have the prince and the officials already left the palace?" Taohua asked.

Cherry hurriedly replied: "I heard that the festival has ended, and I should be leaving the palace." "After all, Zongmiao is not in the same place as the harem, and it is not so convenient to inquire about the news.

"Niangniang, Zhao Chongyi is here." The people from the palace outside hurriedly came in to report the news, and Lu Ying was stunned when she heard it: "It's so late, why is she here?" ”

"I'm afraid they came looking for me." Taohua immediately got up, "I'll avoid it." ”

At this time, there was already a commotion in front of him, Taohua avoided the apse, and Lu Ying went out, only to see that the palace people brought by Zhao Chongyi were entangled with the palace people of Qiuliang Hall in the front hall, and they were actually going to break in directly.

"Sister Chongyi, what are you doing?" Lu Ying's brows couldn't help frowning, "But do you think I'm too late?" Brother Hui went to bed early today, I'm just one step late, sister forgive me. ”

In the past, as long as Brother Hui was brought out, Zhao Chongyi would not say anything for a long time, but today as if he didn't hear it, he rushed straight to Lu Ying: "Lu Xiuyi, Princess Anjun is here with you?" ”

"What nonsense is my sister talking about!" Lu Ying was startled and immediately sank her face. Although the palace people who can enter the inner hall to serve in the Qiuliang Hall are also loyal, how can this matter be said in front of the palace people?

Cherry hurriedly made a look, and the palace people of the Qiuliang Hall rushed up and pulled out a few palace people brought by Zhao Chongyi. Zhao Chongyi didn't object, seeing that only she, Lu Ying, and Cherry were left in the palace, so he said: "Lu Xiuyi, I want to meet Princess Anjun, I know she is here with you!" ”

"I think my sister is confused." When the emperor sent Taohua over, he had already confessed to Lu Ying, how could Lu Ying admit in front of Zhao Chongyi, "Princess Anjun, doesn't my sister know?" Taohua was still alive, and she couldn't say the words "Princess Anjun is dead", so she had to be vague.

Zhao Chongyi's somewhat emaciated face, but a pair of eyes were frighteningly bright, as if the last few flames that burst out when the fire was about to be extinguished were always extraordinarily bright, but they were destined to be short-lived: "I'm not confused!" Lu Xiuyi, if you let me meet her, I must see her! ”

Since the victory in the northwest, Zhao Shangshu sent the news in from outside the palace, and Zhao Chongyi also fell into a panic - if the Yu family gains power again, how can she survive in the harem?

The Zhao family joined forces with King Anjun because they saw that the emperor also wanted to join forces with King Anjun to bring down the Yu family, but now that the emperor has taken the princess of Anjun, how can they join forces? If so, it doesn't matter if the Anjun Royal Mansion is finished, what should the Zhao family do?

In fact, if you really see Princess Anjun, what can you say? In other words, what facts can be changed, Zhao Chongyi doesn't know. She has been asking about it these days, but Lu Ying has prevaricated every time. Today's temple festival, the attendant who came back from inquiring about the news told her that Zhao Shangshu's face was very bad, and she suddenly couldn't hold it back.

Dedication is a major event in cultural governance and martial arts, and if the party is allowed to make meritorious contributions in one fell swoop, then the situation may be reversed. Under the domination of this impulse, Zhao Chongyi rushed to the Qiuliang Hall with a few henchmen and palace people.

"Zhao Chongyi!" Although the grade is the same, when it comes to the title, now Lu Ying is still before Zhao Chongyi, and she is also a little majestic when she puts on her face, "The matter of Princess Anjun, the Zongren Mansion has sent an obituary, and even the funeral is ready, just wait for the King of Anjun to come back and do it." What is the purpose of you talking nonsense at this time, breaking into my Qiuliang Hall to make a fuss? You say that Princess Anjun is in my palace, what do you mean? Could it be that the matter of Princess Anjun is actually the news that I faked it? ”

When Zhao Chongyi came, his head was like a pot of boiling porridge all the way, and he had no other thoughts except to find Princess Anjun, and he was reprimanded by Lu Ying at this time, as if he poured a scoop of cold water on his head, and suddenly sobered up - yes, the matter of Princess Anjun, where can Lu Ying arrange it, it must have been done by the emperor! Now the emperor wants to cover up this matter, if she shakes it out, and the queen doesn't need the queen to clean her up after the party regains its foothold, the emperor in front of him is afraid that he won't be able to tolerate her!

"I, I'm not...... He didn't mean that...... "In any case, the matter of the king's taking of the wife's wife is unspeakable."

"If only you hadn't meant it." Lu Ying said coldly, and quickly made up her mind, "The people you just brought, bring two back, and the rest of the people have to stay here!" "What if someone goes out and talks nonsense?

Zhao Chongyi opened his mouth. She rushed over today, and I am afraid that the palace will also know about it. Tomorrow, I heard that she only brought back two palace people, and the rest were detained by the Qiuliang Palace, so where will her face go? But the matter is reckless, if it really leaks out, let alone face, I'm afraid that my life will be lost.

"Yes-" Zhao Chongyi could only bow his head in the end, and took the two henchmen who served him closely on weekdays, and walked out of the Qiuliang Hall with his head wilted.

"Mother, how is this-how is this?" The two henchmen also had no idea. In fact, when Zhao Chongyi wanted to come to the Autumn Cool Palace, they felt that it was inappropriate, but they couldn't think of any other way. It's even better now, even the people in the palace have been detained by the Qiuliang Palace, not to mention the future, how to face the ridicule of the concubines in the palace tomorrow?

Zhao Chongyi was about to speak listlessly, when she suddenly raised her head: "What voice?" ”

The night in the palace is always quiet, and the people who guard the empty room will never be in the mood to laugh, not to mention the palace rules. Therefore, every time it arrives at or so, the harem will be almost as quiet as if no one lives, if it were not for the lights everywhere and the patrolling guards, it would really look like a big tomb.

Because of this, whenever there is any movement in the palace, the sound will always travel far away, so that many people can hear it. Even the voices coming from outside the palace can sometimes be heard quite clearly.

"It seems to be a voice outside...... "a palace man listened with his ears pricked up, "it seems to be like thunder, like ......thunder," rolling in a dull manner, appearing and disappearing, but it has been continuing.

"What's going on in the capital?" Another palace man said in horror. There is a curfew in the capital, and although it will not be as silent as the palace at this time, there should not be such a big movement.

Zhao Chongyi couldn't help but take a few steps in the direction where the voice came from: "It seems to be Kaiyuanmen...... "Kaiyuanmen is in the northwest of the capital, not far from the palace, so the sound over there can be faintly heard in such a quiet night.

"Niangniang, there's a voice over there......" A palace man suddenly turned around and pointed to the south side.

It was true that there was a voice from the south, but it was clearer than it was from the northwest, and it was rapidly approaching.

"No, this is from the palace-" Zhao Chongyi listened for a moment, and just felt that something was wrong, when he saw a faint light in front of him, and it was dotted in a line, obviously a group of people were coming this way, "Quickly extinguish the lantern, let's hide!" ”

Fortunately, the Autumn Cool Hall is relatively remote, from there to the Chunhua Palace, there are rockery flowers and trees along the way. If it is in the daytime, it is naturally impossible to hide people, but in the night, it is okay to barely hide the three people.

In a matter of moments, the lights were in front of us. Zhao Chongyi stared over, and saw a group of palace attendants hugging a shoulder, bright and yellow under the lights, it was the queen who was wearing regular clothes and standing on it, and her face was full of madness.

This group of people didn't notice that there were still people hiding on the side of the road, in fact, they didn't look at either side at all, and went straight to the direction of Qiuliang Palace, and walked away in a blink of an eye, leaving Zhao Chongyi and the three of them in the dark.

"Mother, this, what's going on?" When the queen had passed a long way, a confidant asked in a trembling voice. Although it was just a glance, she also saw the expression on the queen's face, which made her back chill involuntarily.

What can Zhao Chongyi know? But in the direction where the queen went, only the Qiuliang Palace was lived, which was undoubtedly rushing to Lu Ying, maybe there was Princess Anjun?

As soon as she thought of this, Zhao Chongyi only felt that she was fighting all over her body. Since the news of Princess Anjun's death came out, everything seemed to be normal in this palace, and even the queen did not show anything unusual.

Originally, she felt that the queen was unwilling to turn her face against the emperor for the sake of a Jiang family and expose the scandal. But at this time, if the queen really went to Princess Anjun, why did she suddenly become abnormal at this moment? Could it be that tonight will be - something will happen so that the queen has no fear and no longer has to worry about the emperor?

"We, we-" Zhao Chongyi wanted to say go back to the Chunhua Palace to hide, but if there was really something, the entire harem was in the hands of the clan, so what was the use of hiding in the Chunhua Palace?

"If not—" The henchmen said with their teeth chattering, "Go, go to the emperor?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhao Chongyi seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly walked in the direction of Mingguang Palace, but she stopped again after only a few steps, "Your Majesty, where is the emperor now?" "The emperor is not in the harem!

At this moment, the emperor is in the east side hall of the temple.

This is the place where the gods of the emperors of the past dynasties are enshrined, and there are portraits hanging on the walls, and the spiritual seats and incense candles are enshrined in front of them, and the cigarettes are curling, so that the faces on the portraits look a little blurred, as if they are really some gods descending from the cigarettes.

Although this dynasty claims to be passed on to the Tang Dynasty, but the number of rituals is actually inherited from the Song Dynasty, and this temple land, except for the sacrifices that are presided over or participated in by the queen in some ceremonies, women are not allowed to enter on weekdays. And because the queen mother doesn't have any sacrifices that need to be involved, basically only the spiritual position can be enjoyed here with the first emperor after death.

However, at this moment, the Queen Mother was standing in front of the emperor.

Everyone in the palace knows that the Queen Mother has been sick intermittently for more than half a year, and the new Imperial Court Envoy's medical skills are far inferior to the previous Zheng Yuan Envoy, and the Queen Mother's condition has never improved. But at this moment, the Queen Mother standing in the East Side Hall did not look like the bedridden patient in the legend at all, but her face was a little red, her eyes were bright, and she looked more energetic than anyone else.

This scene was so strange and abnormal that the emperor couldn't help frowning: "Why is the queen mother here?" Taimiao - this is not the place where the queen mother should come. ”

The Queen Mother laughed briefly: "Yes, according to the rules of this dynasty, I have to die, and the spiritual position can come in to accompany the first emperor." Her voice was still as loud as before, but her voice was short, after all, she was not as breathy as before, and at the end of the sentence, she felt a little bit unbreathable. It is only this shortness of breath that makes people feel that she is indeed not in good health.

"It's the rule." The emperor turned his head to look, except for him and the queen mother, there was no one else in the hall, but there were two middle-aged palace people standing at the door, and it seemed that the strength of the big shoulders and round waist was not small.

The Queen Mother laughed again: "The emperor said the rules, then in front of the ancestors of the past dynasties, I want to ask, is this not a rule for the queen to get pregnant?" ”

"The queen mother came here today, is it specifically to ask the teacher about sin?" The emperor said and looked out again, "What about Du Yu?" ”

Du Yu is Du Nei Prison. Just now the emperor bowed to the ancestors in the east side hall, and naturally Du Nei was guarding outside the hall, but at this moment, the people were gone, and they were obviously taken away by the queen mother.

"Don't worry, I'm not in a hurry to kill him now." The Queen Mother dusted her sleeves and looked around the hall. However, there were no tables or chairs in this place, only yellow satin futons on the floor, which were used for prostration, not for sitting and resting. The Queen Mother couldn't find a place to sit, so she had to move her body and shift her weight to the other foot: "He's still alive." ”

"So what is the Queen Mother going to do?" The Emperor's brow furrowed even tighter.

"Naturally, I came to ask you." The Queen Mother stared at the emperor tightly, "From the moment the queen entered the palace, the emperor didn't plan to make her pregnant, right?" I worked hard to help you get to the top, and you are so guarded against the family? ”

The emperor looked at her for a moment, and the corners of his mouth slowly tensed: "I am the original Yuan and the princess." ”

"Sure enough, it's for the Xia family!" The Queen Mother nodded, "You are really an amorous seed, this is like the first emperor, he was the same back then, as soon as Concubine Xian died, he was discouraged......"

She seemed to be a little emotional, but then put away her emotions: "It's just that being an emperor is too long-natured." Just for a Xia family, you don't care about the overall situation, don't let the middle palace have a son, and would rather you don't have a son? ”

The emperor smiled coldly, and didn't seem to want to hide his emotions anymore, "As a middle palace, the queen persecuts concubines and mutilates the emperor's heirs, what kind of rules is this?" ”

"That's because you won't let her have a child!" The Queen Mother raised her voice, "If the queen gives birth to a concubine earlier, and the concubines give birth later, she will naturally not interfere." ”

The emperor smiled contemptuously: "Yes." At that time, the Yu clan will sit firmly in the wealth and power of the Third Dynasty, so it will naturally be more tolerant. ”

"So you're just jealous of your family." The Queen Mother looked at him for a while and shook her head, "You have been raised under my knees since you were a child, if you don't have me and your family, how can you get a big position?" I can't imagine that now, you are so wolf-hearted, are you worthy of my nurturing grace? ”

"If you want to be worthy of the Queen Mother's upbringing, you will be sorry for the fertility grace of my biological mother." The emperor said lightly, he didn't have any excitement and anger because of the queen mother's wolf heart, but he had already changed the title of the queen mother to the queen mother, and the two words of the biological mother were like thunder, which made the queen mother shocked: "You, you know?" ”

"It's also-" The Queen Mother just asked, and then smiled self-deprecatingly, "You even know about the Xia family, and you can not let the queen have a child for more than ten years, this Ercheng Mansion, it is not difficult to inquire about your biological mother." ”

"Then the Queen Mother admitted?" The emperor was still faint, "I just don't know how my biological mother died, and whether it is the same medicine used by the first concubine, just like the medicine that the queen used for the Yuan and Zhao families a few years ago?" ”

"Sure enough, you even know this." The Queen Mother nodded indifferently, "It was the Jiang family who helped you find out, right?" Jiang does have some skills, no wonder you have a crush on her. However, as I said earlier, it is not a good thing to be an emperor who is too childlike. Didn't you join forces with the fourth child, how dare you take his people? ”

The muscles on the emperor's cheeks twitched slightly: "I didn't take a wife. ”

"So it's my fault?" The Queen Mother sneered, "Yes, if I hadn't pointed out the Jiang family to the fourth child, you would have to admit her into the palace, so speaking of which, the fourth child took you first?" It's just that even if you want her, you should wait until the matter is done, what is the urgency? Are you afraid that if the fourth child returns to the capital, there will be no more chances? Or do you think that you don't have to tear your face in this way, and everyone still pretends that they don't know anything? ”

"I can give peace to the Anjun Palace." The Emperor said coldly.

The Queen Mother sighed: "The emperor thinks that the fourth child will be able to endure the hatred of taking his wife?" She stretched out a finger and shook it, completely ignoring the dignified and Yongrong image on weekdays, "It's a coincidence, the fourth child is also like the first emperor, he is an amorous seed, and for the sake of the Jiang family, it doesn't matter." Speaking of which, the Jiang family is really a disaster! ”

"What is the Queen Mother going to say when she comes today?" The emperor seemed to be a little impatient, "This matter has nothing to do with the Jiang family!" ”

"I'm still protecting it now." The Queen Mother sighed again, but in the end changed the topic, "Don't worry, Emperor, wait." ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows: "What are you waiting for?" ”

"Wait for that—" The Queen Mother pointed back to the northwest, "Just now, can the Emperor hear a noise over there, like thunder?" ”

"Oh-" the Emperor nodded unconcernedly, "it's about to rain?" ”

"It's not raining." The Queen Mother smiled, "That's the shouting of the Northwest soldiers and horses entering the city when the gate was opened." Oh, the two battalions have arrived, but they are locked out of the city, and they are now attacking the far gates. But come to think of it, they can't attack for a while. ”

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but suddenly a wind blew in the east side hall at this time, and the candle flame flickered, illuminating the emperor's face half bright and half dark, and he couldn't see what the expression was: "Northwest soldiers and horses?" Is it Shen Shu? ”

"It's not who he is." The Queen Mother took a moment to say, "Unless he ascends to the position of that great treasure, how can he recapture the Jiang family?" ”

"He is so bold that he is about to rebel?" The Emperor turned his head to look at the temple door, where a louder commotion was heard. From this direction, his face was completely hidden in the dark, and the Queen Mother couldn't see it clearly at all: "It's just that he has no enmity with the Yu family?" When he ascends the throne, will the Yu family continue to be rich and prosperous? ”

The Queen Mother smiled again: "Of course not." Although I failed to poison his biological mother, and in the end, Concubine Xian died on the pills stolen by the wife of Imperial Physician Jiang, but that was also the daughter of the Yu family, the fourth person holds a grudge, and if she gains power in the future, she will never let go of her family. ”

"In that case—" The Emperor still looked out of the palace gate, "I think he's just a knife from the Yu family?" ”

The Queen Mother smiled but didn't answer, only pointed out: "At this time, the officials are also back, shouldn't the emperor do something?" ”

The civil and military officials had already left the temple after the ceremony, and they should have gone home from the palace, but at this time, the queen mother said that they were all back, which was naturally wrong. The Emperor listened attentively to the movement outside and asked, "What should I do?" ”

"Naturally, it is abdication." The Queen Mother stood here for a while, she already felt very tired, her temples on both sides jumped up suddenly, her chest was also a little bored, and she reluctantly supported, "In the end, you and my mother and son, if you don't make trouble, I can't bear to kill you." ”

The word kill you came out of the Queen Mother's mouth so easily, as if she was saying to drop a cup and plate. The emperor glanced at her and smiled: "What about after that?" The country is dependent on Changjun, is the Yu family ready to let Brother Hui a doll ascend the throne, and Yu Ge Lao will be the Duke of Zhou? ”

The Queen Mother shook her head: "Let Brother Hui ascend the throne, thirty years later, it will be nothing more than another emperor, and it must be the bloodline of the Yu family to be reassuring." ”

"Yu's bloodline?" The emperor's face changed slightly, "Where did the Yu bloodline come from?" ”

"Naturally, he is the son of the queen's womb."

"The queen is not pregnant at all!" The emperor stared at the Queen Mother, "You are confusing the royal bloodline and usurping the throne!" Aren't you afraid that after a hundred years, you will have no shame to go underground to see the first emperor and the ancestors? ”

The Queen Mother laughed: "Don't have the face to see the first emperor? At the beginning, I worked hard at home to put the first emperor on the throne, but what was the result? He dotes on Concubine Xian, where does he leave me? I don't have the face to see him? He's the one who shouldn't have the shame to see me, right? ”

She shook her sleeves, and the two palace people outside the door immediately walked in, one supported the queen mother, and the other stared at the emperor: "Your Majesty, please go out and take a look." With her words, the figure outside the door shook, and several more attendants came out, saying in unison: "Your Majesty, please move!" ”

The emperor stood still: "What about the empress?" ”

"Naturally, I went to the Autumn Cool Palace." The Queen Mother really felt tired, "You also know that the Queen is an anxious person and can't wait." ”

The emperor's face changed, he looked around, and finally smiled: "I see the poor dagger." Well, I'll go out and see what you want. ”