I always feel that things in the future are troubled and complicated, and I am going to get into this pool of troubled waters after all.

Although the pear blossoms had not yet bloomed, the air was filled with a faint smell, and I quietly closed my eyes and began to ponder, since I had returned to this murderous palace, I had to be strong again, and I could not be indecisive in everything.

Alas! Lingshuang, you have protected me so well in the past eight years, everything has been considered for me, and you have given me such a well-behaved and sensible daughter, as a result, your father and daughter have protected me into a rice worm who is clothed to reach out for food and open his mouth, and now it is good, so I forgot how to become strong.

People are like this, when you have nothing, you may only need a steamed bun that can fill your stomach, but when you have tasted the most delicious delicacies in the world, you will be unwilling to eat steamed buns.

Lingshuang, where are you, are you watching me from heaven? Can you tell me where Saya is? Why has there been no news of her in the gloom and gloom?

The corners of my eyes couldn't help but moisten, and the scenes of living in a small village appeared in front of me, clear and distant.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, I heard that you are back, Lan Ya has been waiting for you in the palace for a long time."

There was a cheerful and crisp sound in the courtyard, and then a light wind quickly blew around me, and before I could open my eyes, I heard the sound of blue buds whirring.

"Why are you in the palace?" I opened my eyes and looked sideways at the little girl with pretty eyebrows, remembering that the last time I saw her was in the Nanchen Army, I didn't expect to meet again in the Green Clothes Palace so soon.

"Lan Ya's mission was originally to protect the princess, if it wasn't for the last time the Lord asked me to go back to the palace in advance and wait for Her Royal Highness the princess to come back, Lan Ya would definitely not let Her Royal Highness the princess fall into danger."

Lan Ya said with a look of annoyance, a little sad that she didn't insist on staying with me in the first place.

I smiled slightly, in eight years, many people and many things have changed, and the only thing that has not changed is Lan Ya, who is still such a lively and cheerful little girl, who doesn't mind the suspicions I once had about her, and wholeheartedly wants to take care of me and protect me.

"Lan Ya, where is your master?"

"My lord has always been elusive, and Lan Ya doesn't know where he went, but if the princess wants to contact him, she can give it to Lan Ya, and Lan Ya has a special channel to contact him."

"It's okay, I don't have anything to do, I just haven't seen him all the time, and I feel a little curious. By the way, you have been in the palace for so many years, can you tell me briefly about the situation in the past eight years? ”

"Hehe, it's not that the princess doesn't know, I like gossip the most!"

The little girl ran to the corner of the yard with an excited face, moved a small stool out and put it next to the deck chair, and the sound sounded crisply in the yard, like beans poured into a bamboo tube, crackling, crisp and neat.

"After the princess left eight years ago, the emperor took the emperor out of the Green Dress Palace and handed it over to Concubine Jing Niangniang, who had no children under her knees, and is now raised by the imperial concubine Niangniang, who is the daughter of General Shen Yixian, the general of Beiyang Kingdom, General Shen Yixian is a veteran of the court who has been with the old prince of Beixue since the previous dynasty, and has been recuperating at home because of poor health. He has a total of one daughter and two sons, one daughter is Concubine Jing Shen Jing, the eldest son is called Shen Bi, and he is now the most powerful general under King Xuelan; The second son, Shen An, was sent to the temple by the old general to practice because he was weak since he was a child, and he has not returned until now, so no one has seen his true face. ”

"Wait, you said that the second son of the old general Shen Yixian is called Shen An?"

I interrupted Lan Ya's words, thinking of Shen An and his wife who saved me and Yexue, could it be that he is Shen Yixian's second son? But wasn't he sent to the temple to practice? And looking at Shen An, it doesn't look like he has been weak since he was a child? Could it be that the two just have the same name?

"Yes! Could it be that the princess knows Shen An? Blue Bud blinked a pair of dark eyes and looked at me curiously.

"Not really, it's just that I have a friend who happens to have the same name. Go on! ”

"Hmm." Lan Ya replied and continued, "Concubine Jing was not very favored by the emperor back then, but she was the daughter of the old general after all, and the emperor treated her with courtesy. The emperor was sent to Concubine Jing to raise, Concubine Jing also cared for the emperor, and although the old general was recuperating at home, most of the generals in the army still respected the old general very much, seeing that the emperor had become Concubine Jing's child, the old general's old departments slowly turned into the emperor's forces, plus His Royal Highness King Xuelan and Prime Minister Su Cheng have also been helping the emperor openly and secretly, and gradually most of the power in the court fell into the hands of the emperor. ”

"Blue Bud, how do you know in such detail? Now these things are easy to say, but after all, they are hidden in the shadows, and you feel like you are personally involved in them! ”

I looked at Lan Ya in astonishment, although she said it in as much detail as possible, but these things should be a secret when carefully calculated, and she actually said it here without any scruples, and she was not afraid of being heard by someone who wanted to punish her.

"Princess, please rest assured, the lord of my family has also participated in these things, and the reason why Lan Ya knows so much is because he has participated in these things with the lord, and the master has an order, when Her Royal Highness the princess returns to the palace, Lan Ya must tell Her Royal Highness the princess everything."

"Your master told you to tell me this?"

I looked at Lan Bud with some confusion and nodded, what the hell is this ink thousand shapes thinking? Why did you let me know this, I always felt that he had a lot of things to hide from me.

"However, Lan Ya admires the emperor's methods very much, it only took eight years for him to control more than half of the courtiers in the court from the hands of the queen and the prince, of course, there is also the credit of Lord Bo, those things that the emperor can't solve in private, almost all of them are solved by Lord Bo in secret."

When Lan Ya mentioned Bodhisattva in her mouth, her dark eyes burst with brilliance, but unfortunately she herself didn't seem to be aware of it, but I was sensitively caught, it seems that this little Nizi is Chun * heart moved, but I don't know what Brother Ming thinks. In the past eight years, he has borne the burden of avenging my father for me, and he has not married a wife and had children until he is almost thirty years old.

Thinking of this, I looked at Lan Ya with calculating eyes, Lan Ya obviously didn't expect that I was sitting in front of her and was calculating her life's events, and continued to talk: "A year ago, when the emperor was sick and sick, the major affairs of the court and the emperor were jointly handled by the prince and the emperor, and since then their battle has shifted from the dark to the light, and the emperor, who has the support of King Xuelan, General Shen, Prime Minister Su Cheng and Lord Boming, has deducted military rations through Lord Li Zhao, and it is shoddy. A series of charges such as accepting bribes and so on eliminated all the members of the Great Prince's Party, leaving the Empress and the Great Prince in a slump, and there was no longer a chance to compete for the throne. Later, the emperor's illness became more and more serious, and some old ministers in the court opposed the emperor's succession to the throne because the emperor was the son of the princess of the Western Liao Kingdom, coupled with his white hair and purple eyes, and his goblin-like face, but under the emperor's cold and decisive means, he finally obediently recognized the emperor and pushed the emperor to the throne. ”

Although Lan Ya said it simply, I was shocked when I heard it, the waves hidden under the plain language were unimaginable, and I could not imagine that one trick would lose all the games, which could be described as frightening step by step. When I left, Ye Xue was only ten years old, what he had experienced in the past eight years, and what methods he had been hurt by hostile forces, I couldn't imagine, now I finally understood why Brother Ming said that to me, yes! If I don't go back to the palace, how will I know what Yexue has done for me, and what should have been borne by me!