This night was an unusual night after all.

A fire ignited unexpectedly in the Shao Palace, which was unsuspecting. Not long after, the fire in the Condensation Palace reflected the entire Shao Palace, and everyone knew that outside the palace, it was all boiling, nothing more than because the Condensation Palace where the Queen Mother lived was instantly engulfed by the fire.

I stood on top of the palace wall and watched as the fire burned the entire Condensation Palace, and the fire was so fast that I was caught off guard.

Jumping down from the wall, through the main hall of the palace, under the pavilion in the back garden, Yuan Ying heard my voice and turned back slowly.

I stopped and nodded to him. A qiē was just as he expected.

"What's wrong?" The Queen Mother noticed the moment of emotion hidden between his expressions, put down the teacup in her hand, and looked at him quietly.

As early as after dinner, Yuan Ying had already asked me to take the Queen Mother into the palace.

Yuan Ying acquiesced to let me come forward, and I took two steps over, "There is a fire in the Condensation Palace." ”

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned, and said with a generous smile, "Burn it." ”

She didn't care about the fire in the Condensation Palace, but she looked at Yuan Ying carefully with ulterior motives, and seemed to have seen through this qiē, but she sighed, and stretched out her hand to let the maid who was standing quietly on the side and had lost her mind to stand up, "Although the tea is good tea, you can't sleep if you drink too much." ”

Yuan Ying then got up, "Zheng'er remembers the teachings of the Empress Dowager. ”

"Okay, thanks to you, the mourning family can be regarded as having tasted the fragrant tea of the past again. It's time to show up, or they'll burn the mourning family to death. The Queen Mother trembled and leaned on the maid and walked over from the gazebo.

I kept my head down and waited for them to walk past me.

The Queen Mother walked up to me, but stopped. I took a deep breath, involuntarily even breathing still, lowered my head to avoid touching her sight, and I also felt that Yuan Ying, who was not far away, was also restrained.

The Empress Dowager stopped beside me for a moment, looked at me, looked back at Yuan Ying, sighed, but said nothing, and left the palace with the help of the maid.

What did she see? Or are you doubting something?

I looked up at Yuan Ying, and although he responded to me with a smile, it didn't seem like it didn't matter at all.

The Shao Palace caught fire, and the Condensation Palace was destroyed in the burning house. The imperial concubine thoroughly investigated the cause of the fire on the second day, but it was just a candlestick poured into the side hall of the Condensation Palace.

The emperor was in a coma, and Shaogong couldn't help but panic.

The imperial concubine's move seems to be self-exposed, but it really makes people can't help but think about pointing at the deer as a horse, she just took this opportunity to exclude dissidents, and wanted to prove it to everyone in Shao Palace and Beishao that this harem is her Zuo's world. escaped death, and the queen mother, who was originally buried in the fire last night in her plan, is said to have escaped because she went to visit the emperor.

A few days later, the Shaogong fire incident gradually subsided, mainly attributed to the Queen Mother, who personally admitted the candlestick in the side hall. The queen mother invited the prince to accompany her and go into the mountains to enjoy the flowers.

The turmoil that had just subsided became tense with this incident, after all, it was clearly giving the imperial concubine a dismissal.

Yuan Ying remembered to take me with him.

I was bored and leaned on the window of the carriage, looking at the trees that passed along the carriage. Tilting his head, he asked, "Why did I ride in the carriage with you?" ”

"You've got to protect me." Someone is becoming more and more brazen, and even these words can be said so grandly that his face does not change.

"Huh." I snorted coldly and ignored him, if there was an accident, I would have run away. "But why isn't the eldest princess with us?"

I poked my head out, and the Queen Mother's carriage was in front of us.

Yuan Ying reached out and pulled me back from the car window. "Be careful."

"Imperial Concubine, will you stop here?" I don't think so, but I can't figure it out, at such a juncture, it is really not a smart act for the queen mother to leave the Shao Palace, and it is easier to give her a chance to start in the mountains, isn't it, Yuan Ying sat solemnly, her eyes slightly closed, and her breath was relaxed.

When the carriage stopped in the mountains, it was already past noon, and the Queen Mother only brought a personal maid to help her old man into the pavilion in the mountains, with Yuan Ying in front and I following him.

The Queen Mother looked around and said, "I didn't expect it to be a little cold." ”

The maid beside her immediately reacted, "It's windy in the mountains, so the slave and maid will go to the car and get you a cloak." ”

The queen mother suddenly patted her hand, glanced at it, and said intentionally or unintentionally, "Zheng'er, you go and help the mourning family get the cloak." ”

Yuan Ying turned sideways, looked at me, nodded, and then replied. "Yes." He pretended to say to me, "Protect the Queen Mother." ”

Watching Yuan Ying leave, I still haven't figured out what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd. The Queen Mother sneered, "What do you pretend, really think that the mourning family has lived in vain for more than 70 years." She suddenly beckoned to me, "Come here." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned.

"Come here." She beckoned again.

"The Queen Mother is calling you, and you are still stunned for what to do." The maid beside her saw that I was stunned and didn't move, and urged, I hesitated again and again, walked a few steps forward, she bent slightly to the Queen Mother, "I'm afraid that Your Highness doesn't know where the Queen Mother's cloak is, and the slave maid will help find it." ”

The Queen Mother nodded, and the maid had to order her to leave.

I haven't fully grasped the current situation, but I'm afraid that it is the temptation of the Queen Mother with ulterior motives, so I chose to remain silent.

"Hui'er's matter, the mourning family wants to thank you." The queen mother said like this, "You have helped Hui'er a lot, the mourning family is very grateful to you, the daughter of the mourning family is not angry, but she is a hard bone who refuses to bow her head, and the mourning family is a mother, and I don't know how to persuade her." ”

I was startled at first, but when she said it to the end, I realized that the Hui'er in the queen mother's mouth was referring to the eldest princess Yuwenhui, and I was faintly relieved.

"The mourning family doesn't understand, you have helped Hui'er repeatedly, whether it is for Zheng'er." The Queen Mother's words just rightly pointed out her intentions, but they were not hot, but they maintained the gap between dignity and inferiority.

The queen mother is the eldest princess's mother, she knows about me helping the eldest princess, did the eldest princess say it, or did she learn about it from someone else? What was the purpose behind her temptation? Why didn't Yuan Ying come back, she looked at me calmly, but she was undoubtedly giving me the strongest oppression.

I put my anxiety in my stomach, took a heavy breath, and stabilized my tone, "The Queen Mother is a person who has come over, and she is used to seeing open and secret battles inside and outside the palace, I" I raised my head and faced her, I knew that she knew my identity well at this moment, and paused for a moment, "I can't get an axe in front of the Queen Mother, I know, I can't hide it from you, but your conjecture about me is not all right." ”

I wasn't sure what she knew, so I didn't dare to say anything rashly, so I could only give such an ambiguous answer, and finally let her figure it out for herself.

She looked at me, didn't answer me directly, just stared at me, as if she wanted to see something.

"If everyone knows today, you are married to Huangfu Xuan, so why did you come to Zheng'er's side and meddle in my Beishao affairs." She threw out her hole cards before me and asked coldly. "Zheng'er actually conveyed Guò Hui'er's dictation to let the mourning family know about this matter, is it your idea behind this?"

It turned out that it was the eldest princess's relay, and the eldest princess would inform the queen mother of the matter, whether Yuan Ying knew or not, with Yuan Ying's personality, he would not do anything that he was not sure of, so he must know about it, but why did he let the queen mother know.

I suddenly understood, so I smiled mysteriously, "If I say no, you will definitely not believe it, since you believe that it was my idea, then it is fine." It doesn't matter what he's done, if he wants to use your power to protect me, why should I defend myself. ”

Since the eldest princess was able to inform the queen mother of this matter, it can be seen that the two of them are in the same boat after all. The Empress Dowager and the Imperial Concubine are incompatible, water and fire are incompatible, but she is the only one in the Shao Palace who can compete with the Imperial Concubine's forces, since Yuan Ying has concluded that the Imperial Concubine will know my identity sooner or later, then he has only one purpose in making this decision, hoping that when that day comes, the Empress Dowager can save my life.

She looked at me for a long time and asked, "What do you want, you greedy girl?" If you don't do it, Queen Nancheng, you can't do it because you want to be the future queen of Beishao. Do you know that if Zheng'er insists on making you the queen after he ascends the throne, he will definitely become the laughing stock of the world. ”

I know better what she meant by saying this to me.

"Queen Nancheng is just an identity, but between me and Huangfu Xuan, it is like a contract, I want him to help me collect Dongfu first, in the future, if he lives, I will not touch Nancheng a penny, but in the end, Nancheng and Dongfu are my worth, if there is no limit to the queen's identity, then what I have is half of the world. When the time comes, whether to marry Yu Wenzheng or not depends on my mood, regardless of what everyone in the world says. I heard that at the beginning of my birth, it was rumored that if there is a woman in the Fu family, it will be said that the world will be taken. ”

Now, it was the queen mother's turn to be stunned, seeing that she trembled unconsciously, and her body stepped back slightly, I couldn't help but laugh.

"Grandma Huang, the purpose of your words has already made this girl clear." Yuan Ying walked out from the side, looked at me, and said to the Queen Mother firmly, "You lost." ”

The queen mother's gaze wandered between the two of us, and suddenly realized, "Okay, the mourning family actually let this girl play tricks," she was not annoyed or angry, and said with a smile, "This girl is bold and careful, and she is very smart, and she is worthy of you." The two of you, a pair of spirits. ”

Yuan Ying didn't argue with her, but leaned into my ear and said, "I was also suspicious, but when I got to the carriage, the Queen Mother's maid chased after me, and I knew that it was the Queen Mother who wanted to test you, and it had nothing to do with me, so don't blame the wrong person." ”

In the next half a month, I met the Queen Mother three or four times, and I got to know more and more that this old man loves to play and make trouble, and her eyes are full of harem affairs, but she has a unique thinking, and she doesn't seem to value power. I heard that at the end of the Feng Dynasty, the Zhujia uprising established themselves as kings, and the emperor of Beishao, Yuwen Chenqi, was the lowest official in the four countries, and he was nearly forty years old when he was admitted to the court as an official, and he had no power, no power, no backer, and his mother was supporting him in the countryside.

Probably used to eating water and rice in the countryside in the past, so the old queen's temper and temperament were retained from the countryside to the Shao Palace, and it is no wonder that the imperial concubine would taunt her with the village woman at the palace banquet that day.

It's just that every day passes, the emperor does not wake up, and the atmosphere in this palace becomes more solemn.

Seeing that the cold winter is about to pass, and it is about to usher in the first day of the first month, under the initiative of the queen mother, this palace is arranged in pieces, although it doesn't look so deserted, it really doesn't play a role.

The eldest princess entered the palace to ask the queen mother for peace, Yuan Ying came back from the emperor, took me to the drug supervision to get medicine for the emperor, passed by the corridor, and met the eldest princess to support the queen mother to go to the imperial garden to enjoy the plums.

After a little exchange and a few pleasantries, we avoided them and waited for them to go first.

But suddenly an assassin was killed, and the long sword was pointed directly at the queen mother.

When it was too late, I leaped out, unsheathed my sword, and fought with him. I only felt that this assassin did not use his own kung fu, although the long sword was rusty, but it was really difficult, Yuan Ying's fingertips quietly popped out a stone, hit the assassin's waist, the assassin fell to the ground in pain, his movements were not as agile as just now, and he fell behind.

Seeing that he was about to be captured, he rolled over and jumped out and ran. The palace guards had just arrived, and Yuan Ying ordered everyone to go to the palace to find the assassin, but they did not make a noise.

After saying goodbye to the Queen Mother and the eldest princess, we walked to a remote place, and he stopped, "You just fought with him, did you recognize who he is." ”

I recalled, "That assassin deliberately avoided using his family's martial arts just now, he is not good at long swords, but his moves and speed are *** Takasaki. ”

Yuan Ying nodded, obviously he was the same person as I suspected. "Don't be so impulsive in the future, you jumped out just now faster than anyone else."

"Because you're slower just now, if you weren't sure you wouldn't be at risk, would you give me a chance to jump out?" It was a really urgent situation, I didn't feel like he could handle the big picture, I just knew him.

It's been almost a month since the horses led the troops to the battle. Hearing that at the front line, the horses had won a great victory and would return to the city in triumph before the first day of the first lunar month.

Approaching the first day of the first lunar month, I gradually felt that there was a New Year's flavor. Beishao sticks to the tradition, there are a lot more rules than Dongfu, the concubines in the harem are more walking, busy exchanging gifts, often see on the road, the people in a certain palace carry gifts to other palaces, leaving the palace is the prince's East Palace, and naturally it is indispensable to be "bribed". Whole boxes of rare ornaments, precious jewelry blocked the yard and couldn't pass people.

And Yuan Ying, that is, lazy and lazy on the side, said, pick some you like to keep and play, and let people put the rest into the library.

I'm not good at dealing with the people who give gifts in the palace, and I can't remember what it was like when someone gave gifts to King Ning's mansion in the past, but I clearly remember the misery of Menkeluo, so I hid out before the trouble continued on this day.

I have the impression that there seem to be a lot of different memories of the Spring Festival. For example, those who have been separated for thousands of years, in welfare homes, and in my father's house.

"Although you are guilty now, you have made meritorious contributions on the front line after all, if you want your Zhao family to be loyal to the ministers, you will not be willing to give it up, and the generational honor of the Zhao family will be ruined in your hands."

I hid in the cracks of the rockery to seek a clean, but suddenly someone disturbed my dream.

It's just that this voice is very familiar.

"Niangniang is now in charge of the six palaces, and the power is overwhelming, Zhao Yu is a sinner, and he is no longer worthy of being used by Niangniang." Zhao Yu?! Bridegroom? It turned out that the colt had returned to the city today, but he had never heard of it.

"This palace misses the old, the horse was originally a smart person, and now it is unbearable to fall into such a situation, but the horse, turning over is only in a thought, it is a victory or defeat in front of you, don't miss the opportunity."

Unexpectedly, the imperial concubine would dare to form a party in this harem in broad daylight now. But also, compared to her behavior of sending people to set fire to the Condensation Palace, this is nothing.

It's better for me to hide first, and in such a sensitive period, it's better to avoid the limelight.

I quietly got up, trying to sneak out from the other side. Seeing that the exit was about to arrive, a figure suddenly flashed, and when I stepped back slightly, I actually touched the falling rock, and the sudden sound startled me into a cold sweat.

The person standing in front of me at this time was none other than Takasaki.

"Who's there." The imperial concubine's charming voice raised the volume, and it immediately seemed much sharper.

I thought to myself that it was bad, and I was ready for the worst.

Takasaki just glanced at me and didn't say much, he walked around the rockery and walked over. "It's Wechen."

He didn't mention me to the imperial concubine, and when I saw that things had taken a turn for the worse, I turned around and walked away.

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