"Chu Qingchen ......"

The empress summoned Ren Xin to the imperial study, and when Ren Xin went, she happened to meet Chu Qingchen who came out of the imperial study, Chu Qingchen looked melancholy, and passed by Ren Xin, and even Ren Xin kept looking at him without noticing. Ren Xin glanced back at Chu Qingchen at the door of the imperial study, and was brought into the imperial study by the maid beside the empress.

Chu Qingchen felt in a trance that Fang Cai seemed to have heard Ren Xin's voice, and hurriedly turned around, but at this time, he could only see Ren Xin's back.

Ren Xin was playing chess with the empress, absent-minded, and his mind was full of Chu Qingchen's melancholy appearance. Since she entered the Literature Museum, she has stayed in the palace, and she has not been out of the palace for several months, and the number of times she has seen Chu Qingchen is even rarer, but every time Chu Qingchen is full of energy to tell her about things outside the palace and in the court, but it has never been like this...... What really happened to him? Speaking of which, she hadn't seen Chu Qingchen in the past month.

"If you make a mistake, you will lose everything, bachelor, you are not attentive." The empress's laughter pulled back Ren Xin's thoughts, she fixed her eyes and saw that the empress held the sunspot and fell gently, Ren Xin had no chance of winning, Ren Xin smiled and had nothing to say, the maid stepped forward to clean up the chessboard, and the empress saw that Ren Xin was still fugue, so she smiled and said, "With your chess skills, if you concentrate on this winner, it will be yours, but unfortunately, your heart is not quiet." ”

"Winning is winning, losing is losing, winning is in the state of mind, it has nothing to do with chess, Ren Xin does not have that state of mind, the heart of losing is convinced, this does not need any excuses." Ren Xin helped the maid divide and install the chess pieces in front of her.

Winning is in the state of mind, and has nothing to do with chess skills. The empress pondered Ren Xin's words, this girl really became more and more interested in her, "As long as you practice a little, when you have that kind of state of mind, maybe you will become the manipulator of the chess game." ”

Ha? What do you mean?

Ren Xin looked at the empress blankly, she didn't understand what the empress meant, could it be to let her play chess in a peaceful mood, and then win her once? Don't understand......

"Fang Cai, what is Master Ren worried about?" When Ren Xin was daunted, the maid had already packed up the chessboard, withdrew, and served tea for Ren Xin and the empress.

Ren Xin looked at the empress and hesitated, the empress is the empress after all, although the two coincide in many ideas, and they hate to see each other late, so that when the two are together, the empress has never taken any rules to restrain Ren Xin, but some irrelevant careful thinking can also be said?

"What's the matter, you still have something to hide from me?" Sometimes the change of title can instantly close the relationship between the two people, the empress does not call Ren Xin Ren Bachelor, she calls her heart with a smile, and when she holds her chin and asks her what she is thinking, Ren Xin has an illusion in a trance, they are sisters rather than monarchs, and the empress is only thirty ......

Realizing this idea of herself, Ren Xin immediately stopped her thinking, what do you think, she is only sixteen in this life, not to mention that the empress's age will be two years older and she will be the same generation as her godmother Rou'er...... No matter how laissez-faire the empress is to Ren Xin, the relationship between the monarch and the minister must not be surpassed.

The empress was still waiting for Ren Xin to speak, so Ren Xin told the truth, "When Fang just came, Wei Chen passed by Lord Chu Qingchen Chu, and when he saw Lord Chu's sad face and unruly appearance, he was a little curious, but what happened recently......

"It turned out that I was worried about Lord Chu." The empress sneered, looked at Ren Xin and smiled softly, "Lord Chu is not small, not only confusing Princess Di, but also seducing the heart of our bachelor Ren. ”

"Not really." Ren Xinxiao's face flushed, and he explained urgently, "I have known Lord Chu since childhood, and I have a friendship with classmates, so it is reasonable to care about it, so don't think too much about it." ”

"Holy Lord, Lord Xiangxun asks to see you."

Xiang Xun came, Ren Xin knew that she had something to discuss with the empress, so she stood silently and listened, without interjecting or bothering, I heard that the prime minister's recent move to eliminate dissidents was a bit big, and the empress and Xiang Kaoru discussed how to solve him, and the empress has endured the prime minister for a long time over the years......

"What is the best way to deal with this?" Seeing Ren Xin frowning secretly on the side, the empress suddenly wanted to hear what Ren Xin thought.

"Holy ...... The prime minister is the greatest force in support of the crown prince, if he falls, it will inevitably cause other crown princes to compete for the throne, and the future seems to be very troublesome......" Ren Xin frowned, she has not officially entered the government so far, she doesn't know much about these things, she can't figure out what the empress is thinking.

"If the crown prince succeeds to the throne in the future, assisted by the prime minister, do you think all that I have created can still be preserved?"

"After getting rid of the prime minister, will it be the crown prince who will succeed him?" The empress meant to get rid of the prime minister, but Fang Cai's words felt like it was certain that the crown prince would succeed to the throne, but without the prime minister, how could the competition for the throne be unpredictable?

"Why does the successor have to be the crown prince?" The empress drank tea leisurely, Ren Xin couldn't see through her mind at all, sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy, no matter how similar the two were, some things still can't be seen through now.

"This ......" Ren Xin didn't know what to say, she was a little confused by the empress's thinking, and she couldn't sort out her thinking for a while.

"Xin'er, would you like to help me keep my deeds?" The empress suddenly approached Ren Xin, took Ren Xin's hand, and looked very serious, Ren Xin quietly looked at the empress's eyes, and blurted out without thinking too much, "Yes." "Ren Xin said firmly, like an oath, they are very similar, unwilling to give in to fate, the soldier dies for his confidant, why not?

"In this way, I recently heard that Min'er scared away a few more companions, and the angry Xu Fuzi resigned and was no longer willing to teach Min'er, so I will leave the matter of teaching Min'er to you." The Empress suddenly changed her tone, and the serious application was replaced by a look of cunning.

Huh? Why did you suddenly change the topic?

The empress glanced out the window, accidentally caught a glimpse of Chu Qingchen's figure, and casually picked up the teacup and took a sip, "If you have nothing to do, go down, go to Min'er to have a look, let you go out of the palace to rest today, don't let Lord Chu wait for a long time." ”

"Lord Chu?" Ren Xin looked at the empress strangely, and couldn't help but feel that his face was hot, was he really waiting for her?

"He's been waiting outside since you came, why, don't you want to go?" The empress joked to Ren Xin, and Ren Xin hurriedly saluted, "Ren Xin retires." "Trotted out of the run.

"It's good to be young." The empress watched Chu Qingchen and Ren Xin both leave, and sighed leisurely.

Xiang Xun watched silently, waiting for Ren Xin to leave her before speaking, "Your Majesty, haven't you already promised Princess Di that she will marry her and Lord Chu?" ”

"Well, not now, though."

"That'...... Why didn't His Majesty tell Miss Xin...... "What the empress is thinking, sometimes Xiang Xun can't guess it, she vaguely feels that the empress seems to be planning something, and she can't help but worry about Ren Xin."

The empress picked up the teacup, blew it gently, and did not answer Xiang Kaoru's words, Xiang Kaoru bowed, "Xiang Kaoru has overpassed." "The empress's honor for Ren Xin is not for everyone, she shouldn't ask so much.

"Go down and tell Mu Zihan that I will only give him three years." The Empress was tired and did not want to speak anymore.

"Yes." Although Xiang Xun was full of suspicion, he still left silently, Mu Zihan? He's not...... When, was there a connection with the Empress?

The empress walked everyone in the room, lazily fell on the chair, stroked her heart and coughed softly, "Nangong ......"

The bookshelf leaning against the corner of the wall was removed, and out of the back of the bookshelf came a man dressed in a single and a half, with a bare chest, and his ink-like hair fell on his chest at will, indescribably bewildering, he was Nangong in the mouth of the empress, Nangong Yu. The only man who has been with the empress for many years, the pet, and the legendary imperial doctor in the palace, all say that he is with the empress, but few people have seen his appearance.

Nangong Yu lit the incense burner, took it to the empress's side and let the empress smell it, the empress's slightly frowning brows gradually eased, Nangong Yu immediately put the incense burner aside, helped the empress to lean on his shoulder, "But it's better?" ”

"Hmm." The empress leaned on Nangong Yu's side with peace of mind, and the room was soon filled with the aroma of the incense burner, which made her whole person feel much more relaxed.

"Do you really think that Ren Xin will approve of what you do?" Nangong Yu put his finger on the empress's pulse and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The empress couldn't help chuckling when she saw his relieved expression, and it seemed that she would have a long time to live.

"Even if she can't see through it now, she won't understand me in the future, and I believe it, because we are so similar." The empress was tired, slowly closed her eyes, and murmured, "She will understand, she will." ”

"I don't understand why you're always so confident." Nangong Yu hugged her gently, in fact, he believed what she said. Just like back then, she said, Nangong Yu, I believe you will not watch me die like this......

Memories of the past lingered in his mind, and Nangong Yu dropped a gentle kiss on the empress's forehead, "If you had killed the crown prince and princess Di ruthlessly back then, you wouldn't have so much trouble now." ”

"After all, they are the blood and blood of the former emperor...... she couldn't bear it, they had the shadow of that man, the shadow of the man she loved and hated......

"But he has already done it to you......" Nangong Yu felt sorry for her kindness, back then, before the former emperor died of illness, he had ordered him to poison Concubine Mi, who is now the empress, and the first emperor wanted her to be buried together, and she could not escape from the hands of the former emperor for the rest of her life.

He still remembers the first time he saw her, she drank his medicinal wine calmly and chuckled, "What's your name?" ”

"Nangong Yu." He looked at her in amazement, and there was no fear of life or death in her eyes, as if they were friends for the first time.

"You're not afraid of death?" He asked.

She laughed, "I'm not going to die, and you're not going to let me die, are you?" I'm sure you're not going to watch me die like that, are you? ”