"Mother."

I specially ordered Shao Yi to invite General Ao to the study room of the side hall of the Tilting Casting Hall before the early court.

The eldest brother walked into the study, looked around, and bowed.

"You stand down first." I called back left and right, Shao Yi finally closed the door, and I continued, "I received a secret report last night that the Young Emperor of Beishao actually joined forces with Yuwen Che Palace to change, I don't know what the situation is now, and I asked the eldest brother to send someone to find out the news immediately." ”

"Yes." The eldest brother thought for a moment and responded, "I'll go now." ”

I thought that Yu'er would reconsider the change, but I didn't expect this kid to move so fast, and I don't know if he was really prepared or reckless, but according to the secret report I received last night, what surprised me was Yu Wenche.

Although the intersection between this person and me is not deep, there are many aspects of the relationship a few years ago.

Yu Wenche has always been an enemy of Yuan Ying, he is the son of the first emperor of Beishao, but when the first emperor was alive, he was taken away from the crown prince by Yuan Ying, and he was unwilling. I was surprised that it was him, but I wasn't surprised that he would do it.

But I'm only worried that Yu'er is careless, and I don't know how important it is.

After noon, Shao Yi rushed from the front hall to report, saying that General Ao had returned, and captured Yu Wenche, who had fled here, in Nancheng, and asked me if I wanted to see him.

I put down what I was doing, explained that I was careful to wait for Huangfu Xuan, and then went with Shaoyi to meet with my eldest brother.

Yu Wenche stood in prison with his hands tied behind his back. Grizzled and disheveled, with a haughty and uninhibited posture despite being controlled by others, he seemed to think for a moment when he saw me approaching, and suddenly laughed.

"You go and wait outside." I leaned sideways and ordered Shao Yi, not wanting him to hear too much. Shao Yi retreated in response, and I saw that Yu Wenche had probably laughed enough, so he deliberately pretended to be stupid and asked, "You, how did you end up like this?" ”

"Hmph." He glared at me with great disdain.

"Don't want to say? Never mind. I smiled and said to the eldest brother on the side, "Do you know who you captured?" This one is the Beishao royal family. Since this is the case, he sent a message to Shaogong and asked someone from Shaogong to pick him up. ”

"Wait a minute!" Yu Wenche stopped him.

"How?" I asked.

"Don't pretend to be stupid, this king knows who you are, and you can recognize you how many skins you change, aren't you the lord of the dead country next to you." Even if Yu Wenche is reduced to a prisoner, he still can't learn to keep his voice down, and his arrogant appearance makes people still want to smoke him so much, "Your subordinates tied up this king, don't you know?" Say what you want to do. ”

I'm not afraid that he will talk about the conditions, but I'm afraid that his mouth will be too strict.

"The fate of the prince has always been in his own hands, isn't it."

"Hahaha, it turns out that after all, you are not just for that wild seed and your son." Yu Wenche suddenly realized, and laughed more and more arrogantly, "This king also wondered where that little bastard came from. It turned out that it was really the illegitimate son of the dignified queen Nancheng! ”

"Actually, you and I know the things in our hearts, why pretend to be so surprised. It seems that the prince is extraordinarily pretentious. ”

There seemed to be a faint movement outside the cell, and at this time, any unusual accident made people become very careful, and I took advantage of the situation to pay attention to the source of the sound outside, even so, I could not force him too hard, so that he could realize that I cared too much and could not ask why.

"That little mongrel appeared at just the right time, it happened to be the disappearance of Yuwenzheng's wild species, your whereabouts are suddenly unknown, and the Shaogong Palace was quietly suppressed by the imperial concubine, if it was someone else, how could you and Yuwenzheng stop lightly." He looked at me with his head raised and looked at me with contempt. "But I don't know if it's retribution, you became the queen of Nancheng, he became the regent of Beishao, but that little bastard sat on the throne of the emperor. Yu Wenzheng didn't know whether it was true or fake, and even your mother and son forgot about it. ”

Yu Wenche clearly deliberately provoked me.

"It seems that the prince is very afraid to return to Beishao." I paced around the prison for a week, looking nonchalantly. "Your provocative words are nothing more than hoping that I will kill you if I can't bear it, even if you die in my hands, you don't want to return to Beishao, just because you are afraid that if you fall into his hands, he will torture you in even more ways. If you die in my hands, Beishao is bound to ask for someone from me in Nancheng, even if you die, you will eventually provoke a war in Nancheng and Beishao, and it is inevitable that I will fight to the death with their father and son, this calculation is ...... It's a loss, right? ”

As if thinking of something, Yu Wenche narrowed his eyes slightly.

And I went on. "Even if the prince is not a smart person, he shouldn't be so stupid. Do you really think that Yu Wenzheng can let you escape to Nancheng? It has been nine years since the last battle between the north and the south, and I believe that now that the regent is ready, the Shao army will break through the gate of my Nancheng and enter, probably in the name of your Yu Wenche's death. ”

Yu Wenche's expression became hideous in my little by little narration. He did lose to Yuan Ying, thinking that he had escaped, but he didn't expect that it was still in the calculations of others, and even calculated to use his death to start a war, that feeling was far more unbearable than betrayal. "If Beishao sends troops to attack Nancheng, what you have now is bound to be unable to keep, if you help me, you will help yourself."

"Oh?" I'm glad he was so happy to work with.

It turns out that the force behind Yu'er has always been Yuwen Che, as I guessed, Yu Wenche wooed Yu'er to deal with Yuan Ying, also because he doubted Yu'er's identity. Yuan Ying suddenly fell ill for some reason, and it is said that he was bedridden, and Yu'er decided to overthrow the power of the regent at this time, so as to control the Empress Dowager, so he joined forces with Yu Wenche to jointly initiate a palace change. Yu Wenche's original wishful thinking was to use the name of the little emperor to eradicate Yuan Ying, and then abolish the empress dowager, and then he would not be stupid enough to keep Yu'er and continue to be the emperor, but if the incident failed, he could push all of them to Yu'er for self-protection.

But Yuwen Che would never have thought that Yu'er would abandon him at the most critical moment, and at some point he would join forces with Yuan Ying in private to defeat Yuwen Che in one fell swoop, and Yu'er would swallow all of Yu Wenche's original power and become his own power. And after this palace change, Yu'er was placed under house arrest by Yuan Ying in Shao Palace, Yu Wenche thought he had escaped, but he didn't expect to fall into Yuan Ying's trap.

Rather, he is truly my son.

When I heard what Yu'er had done, I felt relieved. However, after this incident, Yu'er will understand that if he wants to fight with Yuan Ying, he still needs to accumulate some Taoism.

"Mother." Shao Yi turned back and bowed down to report. "Your Majesty wants to see Yu Wenche."

Huangfu Xuan wants to see Yu Wenche?! I wondered, why did he suddenly want to see Yu Wenche? He hardly asks me when I do things, but what does he mean by seeing Yu Wenche now.

"Good. I'll go with you. I said.

"His Majesty only said that he wanted to see Yu Wenche." Shao Yi never raised his head.

When Huangfu saw Yu Wenche, he didn't allow me to accompany him. It's just that it's really hard for Yu Wenche to see the slightest clue now, so he has to endure it, "Okay, you can take him with you." ”

Shao Yi summoned the cell boss to untie Yu Wenche and led someone to escort him out.

I walked in the garden for a while, and it was getting dark before I returned to the palace. Shao Yi waited outside the door of Huangfu Xuan, and told me that after Huangfu Xuan chatted with Yu Wenche for a while, he imprisoned Yu Wenche in Nancheng Palace.

I said, "I see." Can you rest? ”

I thought he'd want to talk to me about his thoughts when he was done with all of this, but apparently I was wrong. Shao Yi still replied calmly and appropriately, "Your Majesty has already rested." ”

Before this moment, I thought I knew him well enough.

But suddenly, I found that I knew very little about Huangfu Xuan. If he hadn't taken the initiative to express it, it would have been difficult for me to guess what he was thinking, and my teammates who should have been in my camp suddenly became strangers, which made it a little difficult for me to adapt for a while.

For several days, I was unable to see Huangfu Xuan as I wished.

It's like they're deliberately avoiding me.

Every time I came back, Shao Yi stood outside his door and waited, telling me that His Majesty had rested.

It was so deliberate that I had no intention or power to ponder his mind.

The matter in the palace of Nancheng has not been resolved, and there is another wind and rain in the sky. The regent of Beishao went to Nancheng in person to ask for Yu Wenche, the criminal minister of Beishao, which should have been expected, but the moment I saw Yuan Ying, I could only suppress the idea of asking him about Yu'er's current situation again and again.

"It seems that the county lord of Zhaohua does not plan to return Yu Wenche, the criminal minister of Beishao?" He blocked my way, and was in front of my eyes, and he was sure of my thoughts, but he still asked the question, and his tone was quite teasing.

I shook him off, I hated him like this, he couldn't remember the past, but it was exactly the same as the past. "Although I don't know what happened to you in Beishao, it's just that Yu Wenche is now the guest of my husband, Emperor Nancheng, and lives in my Nancheng Palace. If I entrust the guests of the Emperor Nancheng lightly, whether he will fall into danger before I know what the regent's intentions are, it will really damage the majesty of my Nancheng. ”

"Since the county lord of Zhaohua is curious about my Shao Palace, he went to check it out himself. I believe that with your ability, it is not difficult to find out the news. Yuan Ying deliberately retreated between words, but his body did not take half a step back, a pair of bottomless eyes looked straight at me at a distance of close range, without the intention of moving away, and the corners of his mouth were very playful smiles. Since the county lord of Zhaohua does not plan to release people, this king will also stay in Nancheng for a few days, so you can find out. I only hope that in a few days, the county lord can let the king take the people away. ”

His contempt for Nancheng exceeded my expectations.

The familiar Yuan Ying may also be so confident, but he will not be so public.

He was so close to me that he was aggressive.

I didn't move, he stopped in front of me for a long time, and I figured that even if I had to reach out and push him away, I would need to step back a little bit to have room for myself. But at such a distance, he looked down at me, and the breath he exhaled brushed my cheek with a fiery temperature.

He laughed again.

Then he turned and walked away.

As Yuan Ying said, he did live in Nancheng, not in the palace, but in an inn in the capital. Gave me the time and freedom to look it up, and I never bothered in between.

But even if the matter of Beishao seems to have breathing space, because Huangfu Xuan seems to be sick again, and he will not go out of Jinggong all day long. This time, I can't even see him if I want to, and Shaoyi has been passing the word left and right. The rest of the palace was even worse.

Rumors spread unscrupulously.

It is said that the emperor of Nancheng is critically ill, and the queen intends to take Nancheng alone.

Above the court, I was harassed by hundreds of officials in Nancheng, and the ministers jointly wrote a letter asking to see Huangfu Xuan. Shao Yi went to pass the word, but he still couldn't see it, and the hundred officials refused to give up lightly, which meant that I put Huang Fuxuan under house arrest and suppressed the news that he was critically ill, just to buy time to usurp the throne of Nancheng. Some ministers mentioned that the only son under the knee of Huangfu Xuan was over 12 years old, and he should be appointed as the crown prince in due time to succeed Nancheng.

The only son of Huangfu Xuan he said was born to Concubine Ning. My last impression of him was only four years ago, when the last time Huangfu was seriously ill, Concubine Ning wanted to take her young womb to change. It's just that after I returned to the palace, the palace change ended quietly.

Now that the old thing is brought up again, it is nothing more than asking me to give way.

"Wait, if you want to give way to the palace, you should ask for Your Majesty's will." I got up, and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu suddenly became silent from a piece of gossip just now.

I brushed my sleeves and left, and Shao Yi followed behind.

"Niangniang, according to the news from the spies, when the regent of Beishao stayed in Nancheng, he repeatedly contacted the ministers of Nancheng, and I am afraid that he has other intentions."

I stopped.

Yuan Ying contacted Minister Nancheng?! must have noticed Nancheng's abnormality. "Where is he at the moment?"

If he uses this opportunity to provoke it, it may be possible to capture Nancheng without spending a single soldier.

Yuan Ying was sitting by the window on the second floor of the restaurant, and Shao Yi led me upstairs, asking the restaurant owner to send away the diners and vacate the entire second floor, and during this time, Yuan Ying didn't even turn his head to look at one of them.

I sat down across from him.

Shao Yijing retreated downstairs.

"I heard that the regent has repeatedly approached my minister Nancheng, but I don't know what the plan is." I asked directly, without any embellishment.

Yuan Ying, with a shallow smile, reached out and put a wine glass in front of me, filling it with wine. "Sure enough, if I want to meet you outside the Nancheng Palace, I still have to use this method," he paused, "It's just that Ayin, you seem to be too composed." ”

He called me the lord of Zhaohua in the Nancheng Palace, but he called me Ayin in this restaurant. "Who the hell are you?"

"I haven't quite remembered it yet, but the fragmented fragments can vaguely piece together something to recall. When I saw you, I realized why you are in every scattered memory. He gently pinched the glass to his lips with his slender fingers, and when he looked up, his Adam's apple trembled slightly, and he drank the wine in the glass. It's just that I can't remember why you became the queen of Nancheng. ”

"Really?" I raised my glass and swallowed it in one gulp. "I believe you won't sue me, you have repeatedly approached my minister in Nancheng, and you won't just bring me here to catch up with you."

For a moment, he raised his eyebrows slightly, his index finger curled slightly, and he could faintly see the subtle blue blood vessels. "What is the charm of Nancheng that can make you breathless? It's just a lingering breath, if you hadn't stayed with all your might, how could it be passed on to this day, even so, they still treat you as an outsider, and they want to drive you down, right? ”

"It's their business whether they dare or not, and it's my ability to keep Nancheng." I leaned forward slightly, "Yuan Ying in the past must understand why I did this, I never need the people of the world to affirm me, because they still surrender to me." ”

He was slightly stunned, but soon, the corners of his lips raised slightly, and he looked quite proud. "It's worthy of the apprentice I taught."

"How's Chengyu doing?" I asked him.

"Why do you care about him?" His voice sounded a little cold.

I'm not in a hurry to explain, "In that memory you haven't remembered, he and you and I are the most important people. ”

"...... you" Yuan Ying hesitated for a moment, as if he thought of something, but he was not sure, he was just about to ask me.

"Mother." Less to bother. "Your Majesty, please enter the palace with the regent of Beishao."

I looked at him and was a little skeptical.

Huang Fu Xuan was waiting for us in the side hall of the Jing Palace, and when I pushed open the door and walked in, I found that Huang Fu Xuan was sitting on the bed, dressed in bed clothes, draped in outer robes, and holding a book that looked like a piece of music. Yu Guang noticed that around him, there was a minister in court clothes kneeling in the corner, almost pressing his head to the ground.

I stopped and didn't walk towards Huangfu Xuan, but suddenly felt that the expression on Huangfu Xuan's face was terrifying.

I don't even know why I feel that Huangfu Xuan has become so strange after only a few days of not seeing him.

Yuan Ying still took two steps forward before stopping, with one hand behind his back and the other naturally half-hanging in front of him. It's just an extremely small move, and he stands in the way between me and Huangfu Xuan.

Huang Fu Xuan's attention was not on Yuan Ying, and he said to the minister who was kneeling on the ground, "Say it again." ”

The minister knelt still, his hands propped up on the ground, and his whole body trembled.

"Say!" Huangfu Xuan suddenly shouted angrily.

"Qi Yu Majesty xià......" The man swallowed and spat, trembling even more obviously. The queen took advantage of the serious illness of Her Majesty to suppress dissidents, exclude the ministers who made the crown prince and mention yì, and privately befriended the regent of Beishao, and the ministers thought that ...... Minister......"

It turned out that they came here to report me.

I pushed away Yuan Ying, who was in front of me, stepped forward, and took the Huangfu Xuan's hand. "Your Majesty thinks that what this lord has done should be handled."

"Majesty!" The minister suddenly cried, "The demon girl is in trouble with the country, you should protect your blood!" ”

"Everything the queen does, she acquiesces in. How dare you spread rumors about the queen! The Emperor was furious, calmed down for a moment, and said to me, "Leave this matter to the queen." ”

"陛xià! Ministers are heartily for Nancheng! The minister crawled over and leaned at the feet of Huangfu Xuan, "Nancheng should be inherited by His Majesty's bloodline, so that it can be unified!" The queen is unpredictable, and she will die in Nancheng!! ”

As soon as they were qiē, they all fell silent.

Huangfu Xuan looked at the person at his feet quietly, and then stood up a little awkwardly, he didn't look at me, but he was very serious as if he had sworn an oath.

He said, "I'd rather lose the world than live up to Zhaohua." ”