When Xi Yunzhi returned to the palace, he personally took a few guards and went out of the palace.

Zhang Er's restaurant in Yanzi Hutong has long been closed for business at this time, but fortunately, the boss Zhang Er lives in the courtyard.

Xiao Hei jumped down from the carriage and knocked on the closed door of the restaurant, Xi Yunzhi was helped out of the carriage by two servants, quiet and beautiful, with a noble attitude that has been precipitated over the years, Zhang Er looked at the group of people at the door, and the fool could see that these people must be either rich or expensive.

Xi Yunzhi stepped forward and said to him personally:

"Boss, fry me a few specialty dishes, my friend asked me to buy them."

Zhang Er opened the door in a daze, his tongue seemed to freeze and did not speak, but opened the door to the maximum, bowed his body, and invited Xi Yunzhi and his party into the store.

After a while, Zhang Er cooked all the dishes that Xi Yunzhi asked for out of the pot, and said to Xi Yunzhi:

"It turns out that those two are your friends."

Xi Yunzhi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he said this, Zhang Er wiped his hand on his apron, and said: "These dishes used to be very popular with a young couple, and at first the husband and wife came together, but later only the woman came. ”

Xi Yunzhi understood what Zhang Er meant, hooked his lips slightly, smiled, looked a little lonely, got up and was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhang Er, only to see Zhang Er put a stack of peanuts and a stack of pickles from an old jar behind the counter, put them on the table, and said to Xi Yunzhi:

"Since you are their friend, let's say that these two plates were given to them by my Lao Zhang, and the current situation is not good, but I will still open this store in the future, so that they can come back more in the future."

Without Xi Yunzhi to say, Xiao Hei put the two plates of pickles into the food box again, only to see Xi Yunzhi staring at Zhang Er for a while, and said in a sad tone:

"They...... I'm afraid I won't be able to come......"

After saying that, he turned around and went out the door and got into the carriage.

The end of a relationship is easy to reach, the only thing she can do is to give them a ride, Zhen is her first friend after coming to the capital, I thought she would be the princess of Ji for a lifetime, and Lele, but people's expectations can't withstand the bumps of fate.

Back in the palace, Xi Yunzhi asked people to send things to the cold palace where Zhen and Xiao Luo were, and he couldn't muster up the courage to see them again no matter what.

Because, she asked herself that without Zhen's courage, she would not and could not release them out of the palace, let alone ...... Xi Yunzhi also clearly understood in his heart that Bu Tan was different from Xiao Luo, he would do whatever it took to love his family, but when he treated the enemy, he was a means to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never leave any troubles.

Even if she had the heart to let the Zhen family go, maybe she would let them out of the imperial city, but they would definitely not be able to get out of the capital, and Bu Qin's control over the troops was not comparable to Xiao Luo.

Bu Qin has not come to the palace where Xi Yunzhi lives for a few days, Xi Yunzhi does not feel lonely, after placing the two children in the side hall at night, she returned to the room, and saw Bu Qin standing in front of the jade screen to change clothes, and when she walked in, she no longer moved, but opened her hands widely, waiting for her to change for him.

Xi Yunzhi walked over and was about to reach out to unbutton his clothes, but he grabbed her wrists, pulled her into his arms, hugged her domineeringly, and did not allow her to move.

Bu Qin kissed her on the cheek and said, "I used to think that you didn't talk much, but now you are even more silent, are you unwilling to talk to me anymore?" ”

Xi Yunzhi was held in his arms, his lower abdomen was tightly pressed, and when he asked like this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't talk much, but now I just don't know what to say." ”

Bu Qin looked at Xi Yunzhi condescendingly, reached out and stroked her still smooth cheeks, stared for a moment, and then kissed it undoubtedly, making Xi Yunzhi enthusiastic with practical actions, after a long time, the two gasped and separated from the entanglement, Bu Qin held her face and said:

"You don't have to be afraid of whether you will say something wrong when you talk to me, you are my wife, no matter what you say, I will not be angry with you, the reason why I am here today is just to better protect you, and prevent you from following me to hide in Tibet and suffer hardships, but if the price of status is your ignorance, then what is the meaning of my status?"

Xi Yunzhi looked up at the god in his heart, took a deep breath, and said:

"I went to the cold palace today and met the Zhen family."

Bu Qin nodded: "I know, they told me." So, are you trying to let Zhen go of them? ”

Xi Yunzhi looked at him quietly for a while, and then shook his head: "I don't want to." ”

Bu Qin took her hand, came to a noble concubine couch, pressed her on the couch, and said: "You don't have to feel guilty, the Zhen family will let us go back then, and she has some friendship with you, but she is more afraid that you will stay by Xiao Luo's side and endanger her status." ”

"I know it." Xi Yunzhi sighed lightly: "I just feel stuffy in my heart, and there is a heaviness that I can't fight against fate." ”

Bu Qin squatted down in front of Xi Yunzhi, grabbed her hand, and said:

"All things have a fixed fate, when you should get together, you should disperse, when the time comes, you don't need to stay, you just need to understand what you should do at the moment."

Xi Yunzhi looked at the person in front of him, and after being silent for a long time, he nodded and said, "Okay." ”

***

Early the next morning, Xi Yunzhi was eating for Yi'an, and Xiao Hei broke in and said to her:

"Madam, there's something going on in the cold palace."

Xi Yunzhi handed over the rice bowl to Liu's mother, and as Xiao Hei walked outside, Xia Hei told her the details:

"Dead, poisoned to death."

“……”

Xi Yunzhi closed his eyes, sighed deeply, waved his hand to Xiao Hei, and said, "I know the way, you go down first." ”

After Xiao Hei stepped back, Xi Yunzhi stood in the courtyard for a long time without moving, until Yi'an finished eating and fell when she ran out of the dining room to play, and her crying pulled her back to reality.

walked over, helped Yi'an up, patted the dust off her body, and let her crawl in her arms for a while before she was willing to follow Mother Liu to play.

Xi Yunzhi packed up and went to the cold palace, the inside was still depressed, no one in the palace had come to collect the corpses for them, the two people who used to sit high in the clouds were now lying on the dining table in tatters, more than half of the wine and food on the table, I thought it was very good, seeing a broken jade hairpin on the ground, Xi Yunzhi sighed silently.

This is the dove poison dedicated to the interior, since the beginning of the Taizu of Xiao Guo, the concubine on the occasion of the canonization, the dove poison hairpin containing the suicide will be given along with the clothes, in order to let the concubine die with dignity at the critical moment, and some concubines will not use this in their lives, and then they will be buried together.

Xi Yunzhi saw this in Zhen's yesterday, and the old man in the palace explained this to her, and she also guessed that Zhen would end the lives of the two in this way, because her attitude yesterday had clearly told her that she would not save her, just like Zhen was desperate to save her back then......

Find someone to make a shroud, use folk methods, transport the two out of the palace for burial, circle a small piece of land, dig a deep grave, and personally burn paper money for them, Zhen and Xiao Luo have no heirs, so this lonely grave is only them.

Standing high on a hillside not far away, looking at the grave with Xin Baifan and the woman kneeling on the side burning paper, Han Feng stepped forward and said:

"Madame is affectionate and righteous, and it must be uncomfortable for her to watch her friend die."

Bu Qin looked at the woman with a calm face and said, "Your lady is very smart, she knows what to do and what to do. This kind of death is already very decent for Xiao Luo. ”

Han Feng listened to Bu Tan's words, nodded, and felt in his heart that what the master said was very right, Madame is such a character. Silent, but always doing what she thinks she should do, she knows that she can't save Zhen, so she can only give her the most dignified way to die.

***

Xiao Luo's death shattered the hopes of those Xiao Guo's old ministers, and the time of his accession to the throne was calculated by the highly respected national teacher of the previous dynasty, and the ministers wrote to ask Bu Qin to ascend the throne as soon as possible.

Xi Yunzhi hadn't seen Bu Tan for many days, and when she sent someone to ask, she only said that there was something to do, and after asking twice, she didn't ask.

Quietly stay in the Wanyi Palace arranged for her by Bu Qin, raise flowers, repair grass, and bring Yi'an, and the days are no different from outside.

A few days later, the female official of the Shangyi Bureau came to measure new clothes for her, Xi Yunzhi didn't say anything, just cooperated, but unexpectedly, Bu Qin returned to Wanyi Palace that night.

She heard the paging of the people from the night watch, and she didn't think anything of it, but the two grandmothers came in from the outside and said to her:

"Madam, the emperor has arrived, please go out to greet him, this is the rule of the palace."

“……”

Xi Yunzhi was on the bed, sleepy-eyed, Yi'an was sleeping sweetly beside her, and the two grandmothers saw that she didn't react, so they simply walked to her bed and said the previous words again.

Xi Yunzhi sat up from the bed, and the two grandmothers took her by the arm, pulled her off the bed, dressed her neatly with her hands and feet, and sent her to the door.

When Bu Qin walked in, what she saw was that she was wearing long and smooth hair, but she was standing by the door in a serious shirt, and looked at the two grandmothers behind her, and knew what had just happened.

touched Xi Yunzhi's cheek, leaned over to look at her:

"You go to sleep first, and I'll come after I've washed up."

Xi Yunzhi nodded habitually, and didn't plan to say anything about being called up in the middle of the night, and was about to turn around and go back to the room, but heard the two grandmothers behind her say:

"Madame go slowly, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to be so lazy, how can you let the emperor go alone......"

"Enough! Go down and tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs that there is no need to send someone to serve you in the lady's room in the evening. ”

Bu Qin's cold voice, which was obviously angry, made Xi Yunzhi completely sober up, turned his head to look at the two old women behind him who were kneeling on the ground and trembling with fright, sighed, and asked them to hurry out.

"It's all old palace rules, and they will be abolished in the future." After the two grandmothers left, Bu Qin was afraid that Xi Yunzhi would be angry, so he hurriedly explained, patted her cheek, and said, "You go to sleep first, I'll come in a while." ”

Xi Yunzhi blinked his eyes a few times, feeling that he had long been sleepy after being troubled by them, so he simply shook his head:

"Don't sleep, I'm awake anyway, I'll go fetch water for you."

was about to turn around, but was pulled by Bu Tan and circled in his arms: "Now your identity is different, don't do everything yourself, let people look down on it." ”

Xi Yunzhi looked at him, hooked his lips and said, "Did someone tell you to underestimate me?" ”

Bu Qin's eyes widened: "Who dares?" ”

Xi Yunzhi was amused by him: "That's it, what I do is nothing more than ordinary things, what is there to look down on for my husband?" ”

Bu Qin heard that what she said was reasonable, so he smiled and nodded, and decided not to say this to her, as long as she was happy.

Bu Qin sat on the soft couch, Xi Yunzhi sat on a small stool, carefully washing his feet, the quiet space made both of them feel very comfortable, Bu Qin grabbed a wisp of her soft black hair in his palm, and said:

"The enthronement ceremony is ten days later, your canonization ceremony is scheduled on the second day, and in a few days, someone from the palace will come to teach you the etiquette of the day of canonization, I have asked them to try to simplify those red tape, you don't have to learn too much, just eat and sleep well, and make sure that you look good that day."

Xi Yunzhi listened to his words quietly, and asked hesitantly: "In order to canonize me as the queen, I won't cause you much trouble." ”

She understands what her identity is, a businesswoman is not from a famous family, if she wants to be a queen, she must only rely on her husband's lift, and this lifting is like Mount Tai, and her husband has to bear criticism from all sides for her, which she can guess.

Bu Qin didn't expect her to ask this, but she didn't want to hide it, so she nodded: "Yes, there are some small troubles, but they can be controlled, you don't need to think about it, just be your queen with peace of mind." ”

“…… Good. ”

The night is as cool as water, and the two hug each other in the brightly lit palace lantern silhouette.

The author has something to say: I'm back. I went out of time two days ago, I'm sorry everyone. I'll make up for it.